Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1746, Persian Gulf Oilfield
Chaling on the Persian Gulf, the colony of the Li family.

After the hard work of the Li family over the years, this Chaling has improved somewhat, and it has become quite large. From the original barren desert area, it has gradually become a small oasis. The population and scale have also broken through to the level of a small county. There is a good Tens of thousands of people.

Houses, ports, roads and other facilities are all available, the only thing missing is water.

In order to solve the problem of water sources, the Li family had to spend huge sums of money to customize several water transport ships to transport water from the Mesopotamia and Persia to solve the fresh water problem.

As for growing food, it is basically impossible. The cost of growing food is not as cheap and cost-effective as importing food directly from Tianzhu's vassal states and colonies.

Therefore, the colony of Chaling has always been maintained by trade.

During the war in the Mesopotamia, a large amount of arms, weapons and food had to be sold to the warring parties through Chaling, and at the same time, a steady stream of slaves could be obtained from the Mesopotamia, which gave Chaling a great benefit. Developed and gained a lot of profits.

However, the British Duke Zhang Mao also had a colony here in the Persian Gulf, and competition between the two parties also formed, which also caused the trade in Chaling to plummet, and the business became much worse.

As for the pearl fishing industry, the output of this thing is limited. Although the price is high, in general, it is better than nothing. There are many places in the world that produce pearls, and the price of pearls is also falling. This pearl industry cannot be counted on at all.

Food needs to be imported, fresh water needs to be imported, and it is difficult to even raise some flowers and plants. It can be said that this place is really the beginning of the hell mode.

That is to say, when Li Dongyang's stepson Li Zhaofan thought of coming here to set up a colony, no normal person would look at it.

Almost all the huge wealth accumulated by the Li family over the years has been poured in, and now it is still maintaining daily expenses, and there is not much income.

The land has expanded to a large area. There are almost no people in the entire peninsula. They are all tribes in the oasis. They are poor and miserable. How can they be the opponents of the Li family? Easily occupied a large area of ​​land.

Of course, now it seems that these lands are also deserts, and it seems that they are useless.

In the Governor's Mansion of Chaling, Li Zhaofan is overlooking Chaling.

After many years of painstaking management by the Li family, at a huge price, a lot of trees were planted here in Chaling, so that it would not look like a barren desert area, but it was limited to Chaling. Ten miles away, there is another vast desert full of sky.

"oil?"

"Is this thing really going to make a lot of money?"

Li Zhaofan thought about it.

Ever since half of the equity in Chaling Colony was sold to Daming Petroleum Company, Daming Petroleum Company sent people over and began to explore for oil everywhere in Chaling Colony.

With the continuous exploration, soon, we also got the encouraging news that the Chaling Colony has extremely rich oil resources.

Not only the Chaling colony, the Zhang family's colony here has also explored a large amount of oil reserves. The oil content here is extremely astonishing, and there is a large amount of oil in any piece of land.

This is something to be happy about.

However, Li Zhaofan always felt that this oil did not seem to have much potential for making money.

Now the price of oil is still very cheap, a barrel of oil is only more than 100 Wen, if it is in the local side of Daming, it is quite acceptable, more than 100 Wen a barrel, it is released like water, and it flows out It's rolling silver.

But here is the Persian Gulf, far away from the mainland of Daming. To transport the oil back to Daming, the freight alone is sky-high. Moreover, the oil is not easy to transport. Special oil barrels and cargo ships are needed for transportation. The traditional big ships are not suitable. used to transport oil.

All of these have been determined. Even though the Persian Gulf is rich in oil, if it is shipped back to Daming for sale, even if it sells for 200 Wen a barrel, it will be the same as tasteless to the Chaling colony. It doesn't make much sense. .

"Unless the price of oil can rise to 300 Wen a barrel, it will be really cost-effective for us."

Li Zhaofan silently calculated the current oil price and transportation costs, and finally came to the conclusion that unless the price of oil rose to 300 Wen a barrel, the oil in the Persian Gulf would not be profitable.

And the premise is to use a new type of large steam freighter to transport oil. If you use traditional sea ships to transport oil, there is still not much money to be made.

There is no way, the freight is too expensive, and the ships are running on the sea, and it is more profitable to bring some goods casually than to bring oil.

"Governor, the people from the oil company are back."

At this time, someone came to report.

"Yes, please come over here."

Li Zhaofan thought for a while and decided to ask about the situation of the oil company. They are playing with oil, and they must know more about oil than himself. The key is that Liu Jin and the prince are behind the oil company.

Who is Liu Jin?

He is the God of Wealth who can turn stones into gold. He is optimistic about oil, and even invested half of the shares in Chaling Colony, which shows that he is really optimistic about oil, otherwise he would not invest in it.

Soon, people from Daming Petroleum Company came to Li Zhaofan's Governor's Mansion.

"Team Wang, how about the oil reserves in Chaling Colony?"

Li Zhaofan looked at Wang Fan in front of him. He was the person in charge of the Chaling Colony dispatched by the Daming Petroleum Company, and his current main job was to explore for oil in the Chaling Colony.

"The reserves of oil here are astonishing. It is very rare that we can find oil fields with extremely high yields through casual exploration. When I was in Daming, I searched many places but failed to find oil."

"I didn't expect that in this desert, the reserves of oil are so amazing!"

Wang Fan sighed quickly: "It feels like there is more oil here than water, and the future is promising."

"Big future?"

Upon hearing this, Li Zhaofan said with a smile: "This oil is only more than 100 pennies now, and it is not easy to transport, and it is far away from the mainland of Daming. At this price, it is not even enough for transportation. What is the future?"

"Young Master Li, you may not know something about this."

"Now the Beijing-Tianjin area uses kerosene smelted from petroleum for lighting, and now all new cars burn gasoline and diesel, which are also smelted from petroleum."

"It may not be obvious now, but in the next few years, cars will be everywhere, and there will be more and more cars, and the demand for oil will increase. When it comes to oil, the price of oil will Naturally it will go up.”

"The more important thing is that we have very little oil in Ming Dynasty, and the oil reserves are very small, and the oil reserves in other parts of the world are not too high now."

"And the development of automobiles will become faster and more numerous. From now on, it will not only be us in the Ming Dynasty who will need oil, but our colonies and vassal states in Ming Dynasty will also need oil. Think about it, when the time comes, the whole world will need oil." How much oil will it take?"

"The oil reserves here in the Persian Gulf are amazing, and they will definitely become world oil fields in the future, and the oil produced will supply the needs of the world."

"At that time, Mr. Li can sit and collect money."

Wang Fan said with a smile.

People who are not in the oil industry certainly don't know the future of oil, but Wang Fan knows it. Like other oil people, he has seen the bright future of oil.

What flows out of the oil well is not black oil, but white silver.

If there is an oil field on the side of the Persian Gulf in the mainland of Daming, then you can lie down and collect money now.

"In that case, the price of oil will increase in the future?"

After hearing this, Li Zhaofan was all smiles on his face. It is good to make money, and it is good to develop if you have money. Otherwise, you will be rich in the year of the Chaling Monkey. As for living a hard life, if the immigrants went to other feudal states and colonies, they would have lived a comfortable life of landlords and riches.

"It will definitely rise, and the more cars are built, the more the oil price will rise. I believe it will not be a problem for the oil price to double in a few years."

"What we have to do now is to occupy as much land as possible in the Persian Gulf. There is oil everywhere, and occupying more land is equal to occupying more oil."

"I guess not only there is oil here in Chaling, but the oil reserves in other places will also be astonishing. Now, before everyone is aware of the oil, let's occupy some more places."

"If the Egyptians, the Ottoman Empire, and the Persians also know the importance of oil and find that there is a lot of oil in the Persian Gulf, then they will definitely not let us wantonly occupy land."

Wang Fan said with certainty.

"Well, what you said makes sense. We really want to occupy as much land as possible. Although it is a desert, we must occupy as much land as possible."

After listening, Li Zhaofan nodded solemnly, then looked at the map of the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, and began to think about how to occupy more land.

(End of this chapter)