Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1711, worthy of the name of Golden Continent
On a certain plain in Desa State, North Gold Island, the team led by Wen Yongzheng is drilling.

"Woooo~woooo~"

The boiling water in several steam engines was boiling hot, and a large amount of steam hit the whistle, making bursts of whistle sound. Driven by the steam piston, the drill shaft driven by steam power was constantly working, which was quite steampunk. in.

"Hey, hey~"

Beside the drilling machine, many strong and strong European white slaves are constantly busy shouting.

As slaves of the Ming people, they had despair and thought about rebelling, but in the end they had to accept this reality.

At least, the people of Ming Dynasty treated them well, the food was plentiful, and the food was much better than when they were in Europe.

Many people at the bottom of the European society can only eat horse bread and black bread every day, but here, they can eat corn, sweet potatoes, rice, noodles, and basically some vegetables and Fish, you can also open your belly to eat.

In the words of the Ming people, the emperor was not short of hungry soldiers, and the most basic thing was to have enough food.

Of course, this is also related to the extreme abundance of food on the Golden Continent. The food production here is too high and very cheap, so cheap that many people are unwilling to grow food.

As for fish, this is even more so. The large fish farm (Newfoundland fish farm) near the northern border is extremely rich in fishery resources. There are too many, too many fish produced. The meat is of good quality and the price is extremely cheap. Dried fish is sold all over the place, and his slaves can be fed for any money.

In addition to being able to eat enough, the clothing is not bad, at least it is much better than when they were in Europe. The cloth price of the Ming people is very cheap, and the price of ordinary clothes is cheap. Clothes and shoes hair.

Of course, no one wants to be a slave, but if you run away, the people of Daming will kill you unceremoniously, and you can work for the people of Daming with peace of mind.

If you perform well enough, you can be free after working for a few years, become a fifth-class citizen of the Ming Empire, and own your own land here. Even if your performance is average, if you can work until the age of sixty, you will definitely be free.

Daming people are extremely particular about respecting the old and caring for the young. Since ancient times, there have not been many elderly people over the age of sixty. They are worthy of respect. Even if you are a slave, if you can live to this age, you will be given freedom and let you be a free person. old age with dignity.

Perhaps it was because of the series of measures taken by the Ming people that even though there were a large number of European slaves in the Golden Continent, there had been very few major riots.

There is nothing wrong with being a slave. At least the Ming people will not interfere with their beliefs. You believe in God, and they all respect it. Some people even respect it. In their words, gods are all worthy of respect. Yes, whether it is Buddha or Taoist or the God that Europeans believe in.

Wen Yong is carefully inspecting the soil drilled from the ground, and according to the distribution of the soil, he can map out the underground terrain structure, and then find out where there is oil.

"If there is oil, it should be in this area!"

Wen Yongzheng finished his careful exploration, and said with certainty.

"It is indeed true. The soil drilled in this area shows that this is a basin structure. This structure is the easiest to store water. We have found several places where there is water in the places where we have drilled wells."

Wen Yongzheng's body, deputy Xiao Yan nodded and said.

"At these locations, try drilling two more wells. If not, we can evacuate here and go to the next location."

Wen Yong was quickly calculating on the map, then pointed to a place several hundred meters away and said.

"Yes~"

Xiao Yan nodded, and immediately shouted: "Everyone, move the equipment to these places, and drill two more wells in these places. If there are no ones, we will evacuate here and go to the next place."

Under Xiao Yan's arrangement, many slaves began to get busy quickly.

Although they don't understand why these Ming people are constantly drilling here and there, they don't know what they are looking for, but it doesn't look like they are looking for gold and silver. It is said that they are looking for a kind of black oil. Black oil, they are considered a success.

But as slaves, all they had to do was do what they were told.

In fact, it is quite good to go out to do things with the expedition team, you can go around, and these Daming people are all knowledgeable and knowledgeable, the working hours are strictly in accordance with the daily working hours, and they rest when the time comes. You can also take a rest.

This is much more comfortable than staying in the plantation working day and night, and I have been in the plantation, I have long been tired of watching it, but with the expedition team, I can walk around, travel around the mountains and rivers, and I am in a good mood. to be better.

Moreover, the expedition team also brought a lot of female slaves, some of whom were used to entertain these slaves, so everyone is very active in doing things. After finishing the work, they can sit under the tree and rest. They don’t care about you. Anyway, don't even think about running away.

There are also some Daming people, they have nothing to do every day, they just look at them slaves, all of them are riding horses, have bows, arrows, swords and rockets, and they are all retired soldiers, they can kill several of them casually .

"woooo~"

Soon, two brand new drilling wells were erected, and with the whistling sound of steam engines, drilling began again.

"Pfft~"

After a long time, when no one was paying attention, with a sound, a jet of black water sprayed out along with the drilling machine, spraying the surrounding slaves black all of a sudden.

"Black oil!"

When the people around saw it, they couldn't help shouting excitedly.

"Is there really oil?"

Wen Yongzheng and Xiao Yan, who were drawing, heard the sound and ran over in a hurry. When they saw the black liquid continuously spraying out from the wellhead, they also laughed happily.

"Haha, I found it, I really found it!"

"There is really oil here!"

"Quickly block the mouth of the well!"

Wen Yongzheng was extremely excited, and began to hastily collect the jetted black oil and compare them carefully.

Put some oil aside, turn on the fire, and immediately burn blazingly. Along with the burning of the oil, there is also a pungent smell.

"Haha, I found the first oil field!"

"Mobile the sample immediately and make a record!"

Wen Yongzheng quickly began to give orders.

"Yes~"

When the dozens of students who graduated from the geography major under him heard this, they quickly started to get busy. The people who collected the samples collected them, recorded them in detail, and even started to mark them on the spot and record them in detail.

It is not an easy job to be able to find the location of these oil fields through their records and marks when the commercial companies are mining later, because even if they have mastered the method of calculating latitude and longitude, the earth is really too big , which may not be very accurate in many cases.

Therefore, it is necessary to use many reference objects on the ground. Of course, the most important thing is to rely on the maps drawn by them. Later, the location of the oil field can be accurately found through the map.

Soon, oil was also discovered at the head of another well being drilled. Wen Yongzheng, Xiao Yan and others were busy for a while, until it was almost dark, and only then did they roughly estimate the size of the oil field.

In the days that followed, Wen Yongzheng and Xiao Yan's luck seemed to get better and better. Almost every few days, they were able to discover a new oil field.

In just half a month, they have already discovered oil fields.

"This area should contain a lot of oil. We have discovered several oil fields in this area, and according to our calculations, the reserves of these oil fields should not be small."

"Well, that's true~"

"Don't look at the barrenness of this area, but I didn't expect it to be rich in oil resources. When the time comes, we will buy this area with a radius of hundreds of miles. There must be more than these few oil fields."

"I want to buy it. Now the land price is extremely cheap. It is estimated that buying this large piece of land will not cost a thousand taels of silver."

"I just don't know what is the use of this oil?"

"Now it seems that apart from being able to burn, it doesn't seem to have much use, and when it burns, the smoke is too big and the smell is pungent, which is not ideal."

"We don't need to know what it's useful for. We can do our own thing well. It's not like you don't know who is behind our firm. There are some things that we don't need to know. We just need to follow the orders from above. OK."

Wen Yongzheng and Xiao Yan were constantly discussing the map.

"Hmm~"

"This Golden Continent really deserves the name of the Golden Continent. The resources are really rich. This kind of oil is very rare in our Ming Dynasty. I didn't expect it to be so rich here."

(End of this chapter)