Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1736, Yulin Petroleum

"Hey yo~ hey yo~"

On the high loess slope in northern Shaanxi, a group of shirtless men are chanting and struggling to lift the drilling equipment. The water in the steam engine boiler next to it has boiled, and they are waiting for the equipment to be installed and start to rotate. .

"Woooo~woooo~"

Accompanied by bursts of sirens and driven by the steam engine, the well began to drill crazily. Everyone expected that this well would produce the long-awaited oil.

"It's been more than a month, and I still haven't found a single ounce of oil."

"Is there any oil in this Luyan area?"

"Why do people from Daming Petroleum Company always find oil fields easily, but we haven't found any oil fields at all."

Fang Ming looked at the surveyed geological map. Logically speaking, there should be oil here, but several wells have been drilled, but no oil field has been found.

"Maybe we have to change places."

"There's news from the commercial firm that people from Daming Petroleum Commercial Co., Ltd. have discovered several large oil fields in Yulin, and now many drilling teams from commercial firms have followed suit to Yulin."

Qiu Kaiwen pondered for a long time, thought for a while and said.

Now the oil exploration in northern Shaanxi is very hot. The exploration team of Daming Oil Company, Sangong Oil Company, Sihai Oil Company, Zhang's Oil Company, Li's Oil Company, Guangming Company, etc., have more than a dozen oil companies. The drilling team of the firm came to northern Shaanxi to search for oil.

The demand for oil in the Beijing-Tianjin region is now increasing. Oil for lighting, oil for internal combustion engines, and oil for other uses make the supply of oil somewhat in short supply. And with the research on internal combustion engines and automobiles, everyone We all know the importance of oil.

This is followed by the fact that more and more people are looking for oil, exploiting oil, and refining oil behind the back of Daming Petroleum Company. At present, only powerful large companies are doing this. In the future, I am afraid that there will be more people. People came looking for oil.

Now in the entire Ming Dynasty, the only known oil places are Luyan, Yulin and Jiuquan in Gansu. At present, there are many oil exploration teams in these two places.

"Yulin?"

When Fang Ming heard this, he immediately turned over the map, looked at it and said, "It's just to the north of us, not far away. Should we hurry there, maybe we can find oil in the surrounding area."

"The commercial bank seems to be very anxious about oil."

"Well, if there is no result today, we will go to Yulin tomorrow!"

Qiu Kaiwen pondered for a while, then nodded after thinking about it.

The next day, without any results, Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming had to take their own drilling team to Yulin.

"Sangong Petroleum Company discovered a large oil field, Sangong Oil Company discovered a large oil field."

"Zhang's Petroleum Company has also discovered a large oil field, and Zhang's Petroleum Company has also discovered a large oil field."

Not long after arriving in Yulin, the news of another large oil field in Yulin spread quickly.

When Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming heard this, they also hurriedly rode their horses to the place where the oil field was discovered.

Majiagou, the place where Sangong Petroleum Company discovered the oil field.

When Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming arrived, the people from Sangong Petroleum Company were already working on oil extraction. As soon as the relevant equipment was installed and the switch was turned on, the dark oil surged out, and in a blink of an eye it filled a full tank. Bucket, this is the same as putting tap water.

Barrel after barrel of oil soon filled a full carriage, and the driver immediately drove the carriage to Xi'an, and then transported it to the Beijing-Tianjin area by train.

"How much does a barrel of oil cost now?"

Fang Ming looked at the black oil like running water, thought for a while and asked.

"It is said that in the Beijing-Tianjin area, the price of a barrel of oil has reached more than 100 renminbi, and smelted kerosene, gasoline, etc., can now sell for more than 50 renminbi for a 200-jin barrel."

"More than 100 cash per bucket, it's like running water, how many buckets can flow out in one day?"

When Fang Ming heard this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly.

Look at the black oil that is still gushing out in front of you. More than a dozen oil barrels are filled with oil at the same time, and it will be filled in a while. It will cost a tael of silver to transport it to the Beijing and Tianjin areas.

At the end of this day, can you easily earn hundreds or thousands of taels of silver?

Where is the oil flowing out? This is black gold.

Thinking of this, the two immediately understood why the big shots in the Beijing-Tianjin area are desperately looking for oil. If they find a sip of oil, they can make money lying down in the future.

"It's really profitable to extract oil!"

Fang Ming couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and an idea and idea came up in his mind unconsciously, whether he can also find oil alone and sell it to these oil companies.

The investment of an oil drilling team does not need to be too large. There are dozens of people and some equipment. As long as an oil field can be found, it can be called tens of thousands of taels or hundreds of thousands of taels. Businesses will also buy it.

In this way, the money will come in much faster, which is much more profitable than working for the Four Seas Commercial Bank.

If you work for the Four Seas Trading Company, you will receive dead wages. If you work alone, you will be your own boss. Risks and benefits coexist.

"Shall we go out and do it ourselves?"

Fang Ming looked at Qiu Kaiwen beside him, and asked in a low voice.

"It's not enough right now. We need to help the firm at least find one or two oil fields to accumulate experience, and it's also for our own reputation. In the future, we can really go out and do it alone, looking for oil."

Qiu Kaiwen is really excited at this moment.

The oil well in front of me is an oil well. This is a proper money printing machine. When the valve is opened, billowing silver flows out of it. This black oil is as charming as gold at this moment.

Both Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming realized that a new wave of wealth was coming.

In the past, gold and silver were mined for gold, but now oil is mined, and this black gold is mined.

"Go, go~"

"Hurry up to find oil, and find a few oil fields for the company. Let's accumulate experience first. This oil is profitable, but the investment is also large, and we don't know if we can find oil. If we can't find oil, the investment will be in vain. gone."

"That is to say, these big commercial firms have money, people, and strength, so they can afford it. If we want to do it alone, we must have enough experience and a certain amount of capital."

Qiu Kaiwen rode his horse and left without looking back.

Now that no oil field has been found, they have no confidence to come out and do it alone.

Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming came to Yulin with their own drilling and began to look for oil frantically.

At the same time, because of the emergence of oil, the entire Yulin area began to become very lively.

Originally, Yulin was the same as other yellow lands. A large number of people had migrated out, leaving only some old people who were unwilling to leave. There were very few people, and countless lands were barren. Even those landlords and rich people chose to leave here.

But with the discovery of oil fields one after another, people who heard the news gathered one after another, and the landlords and old fortunes who left also returned one after another, and began to dig holes in their own land continuously, wanting to see if there was any oil.

And the land of some landlords and wealthy families did not know that they had oil at first, so they were bought by the big commercial firms that discovered the oil.

Because these big business houses are big business houses with backgrounds, you simply can’t beat them. What’s more, when the land was first sold, these old landlords thought they had made a profit.

It's useless to cry now, I can only watch others make money, but I feel extremely regretful.

A large number of landlords and wealthy people returned to Yulin one after another. At first, no one cared about the barren land. Ten mu of land could not be sold for a tael of silver, but now it is like a rocket, and the skyrocketing.

Whenever someone comes to buy land, no matter whether they find oil or not, they open their mouths for tens of taels of silver per mu, and some even open their mouths like lions, asking for hundreds of taels of silver per mu of land.

All of a sudden, the land prices in Yulin also skyrocketed, and the rich landlords who haven't seen them for a long time are also patrolling themselves on their land again, for fear of being robbed.

Occasionally, one or two lucky landlords, Lao Cai, actually dug up oil in their own land, which would soon attract a large number of oil companies to come to buy.

The Daming Petroleum Company is the most wealthy and powerful, spending a lot of money, often buying an oil field and throwing away tens of thousands of taels, or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Such a heroic behavior also greatly stimulated the development of oil exploration here in Yulin.

In less than 2 months, not only the oil exploration teams of major commercial firms, but also local landlords and veterans in Shaanxi and Yulin began to organize manpower to explore oil.

If you find a mouthful of oil and sell it, you can easily get tens of thousands of taels of silver. It can be said that you will get rich overnight. If you have an oil field with a large oil storage capacity, you can sell it at a high price of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. For the northern Shaanxi area, which has always been poor, it is undoubtedly a feast of wealth.

(End of this chapter)