Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1812, Oil prices soared

In Yulin, Shaanxi Province, oil wells stand on the Loess Plateau. With the rotation of the oil wells, billowing black oil is pouring out continuously, filling oil barrels, and then transported to Chang'an Mansion in four-wheeled carriages continuously. Get on the train and ship directly to all parts of Daming.

"The price of oil has gone up again!"

"Now you can buy more than 200 Wen a barrel."

On a hillside, Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming sat together, looked at the oil fields in the valley, and talked again about whether to start a business together to engage in oil.

Both of them are students majoring in geological exploration and resource exploration. In recent years, they have also specialized in searching for oil. They have accumulated a lot of experience and a certain network of contacts.

It's just that the two of them came from ordinary poor families and had no money for them to toss about, so they have always worked in oil companies.

"The increase is really fast, and it's more than 200 yuan a bucket in a while."

When Fang Ming heard this, he couldn't help sighing. In the past few years, he has watched the price of oil go up and become more and more expensive.

"Is it not expensive?"

"Nowadays there are more and more cars, motorcycles, and internal combustion engines are used everywhere, all of which use oil. I heard that Daming Petroleum Company has also researched some other uses of oil, and used it Lighting or something."

"The demand for oil in our entire Ming Dynasty is very strong. In the Beijing-Tianjin area alone, we don't know how many barrels of oil will be burned in a day."

Qiu Kaiwen said with a smile.

Now I have a fairly good understanding of the entire oil industry, including oil extraction, transportation, smelting, and uses.

"How about it?"

"Shall we come out and do it ourselves?"

Hearing Qiu Kaiwen's words, Fang Ming fell silent immediately.

If you work alone, you definitely want to do it alone. The exploitation of oil is very simple. It is rare to find oil. After the oil is found, it is easy to mine. After the equipment is installed, the oil will flow out like tap water. You only need to use a barrel It's enough to pretend, just sit and collect money.

They couldn't be more clear about how profitable it is to exploit oil. In the past few years, they have found a lot of oil fields for the commercial bank, and they have witnessed the rapid expansion of the commercial bank's scale, business, and profits.

It was just a business that didn't receive much attention before, but now it has been highly valued by the owner, and even the prospectors like them have won a lot of rewards.

"What are you going to do?"

Fang Ming looked at Qiu Kaiwen and asked.

"It's very simple. We first set up an oil exploration team to search for oil everywhere. After we find oil fields, we sell them to those big oil companies and earn our first pot of gold."

"When we have money, we are setting up our oil business, looking for oil fields, and extracting oil ourselves. In the future, we will have to smelt oil ourselves, so as to maximize profits."

"I have already inquired clearly. The smelting of petroleum is actually very simple. It is just distillation. Through distillation, kerosene, diesel, gasoline and other products can be obtained."

Qiu Kaiwen thought for a while and said that he himself wanted to come out and do it alone, but he had no money, so he couldn't do it alone.

"If it's just to form an oil exploration team, it's okay for the two of us to spend all the money, but it can only last for a few months. If we don't find an oil field within a few months, All the money we’ve saved over the years will be used up all at once.”

Fang Ming nodded, expressing his approval of Qiu Kaiwen's development ideas, but oil exploration is not an easy task, there are too many things to do, at least, an exploration team also needs dozens of people, and at the same time It is also necessary to purchase a large number of professional drilling equipment and the like.

Calculating the salaries of dozens of people, it would cost nearly 200 taels of silver a month. With the addition of various equipment, the silver that the two of them had saved over the past few years would soon be spent.

"You have to gamble in life. If you don't gamble, you won't even have a chance to win. You just spent all your money. If we don't have it, we can just make money."

"I don't want to work for others all my life and be poor all my life."

Qiu Kaiwen looked at the vast Loess Plateau ahead and said.

"Okay, I'll bet with you once!"

Fang Ming looked at Qiu Kaiwen, then nodded solemnly.

Soon the two found the managers of their own firm and resigned to them, expressing that they would come out to work alone in the future, and the manager of the firm also tried to persuade them to stay.

Fang Ming and Qiu Kaiwen are highly skilled and have rich experience in drilling and exploration. They have successively found several large oil fields for the company and brought a lot of benefits to the company.

This is going to go out and do it alone, which is also a loss for the business.

However, no matter how the firm tried to persuade them to stay, the two resolutely left the firm, and immediately began to form their own exploration team without stopping.

Recruiting people, buying exploration equipment, buying horses and four-wheeled carriages, etc., the money the two of them had accumulated over the past few years was like flowing water, and it was spent in a blink of an eye.

It's faster than they expected, because the prices of many things have also risen sharply, especially the price of oil drilling equipment has also soared along with the sharp rise in oil prices.

With no money in hand, the two of them had to start borrowing money from everywhere, scraping things together, and finally managed to get together a few hundred taels of silver, and then the exploration team was put into operation.

"There must be oil in this place!"

Here in a valley in Yulin, Qiu Kaiwen, who was all dirty, said very affirmatively to the drawn drawings.

The two have been busy on the Loess Plateau for 2 months, but they still haven't found an oil field, and the drilling team's funds are almost exhausted.

If they can't find any more oil fields, the two of them will really be desperate.

Not only did they spend all their savings for several years, but they also owe a whole lot of debt now. Thinking of these things, the two of them can't eat well, they can't sleep well, and they have lost a lot of weight. Where is the ease and comfort of the past.

Even when I was dreaming, I was doing things to find oil fields.

"Brothers, everyone, work harder, work hard, work hard, and try to drill another well today!"

After careful analysis, Fang Ming also felt that there must be oil fields in the land in front of him, so he hurriedly shouted to the guys of his drilling team.

"Boss, it's not that the brothers are lazy, nor is it that the brothers are looking for trouble on purpose."

"This cow has time to rest, right? This horse has to stop to eat grass after running for a long time, right?"

"How long have we guys been working with the boss? There is no bonus. We have been working hard every day for more than 10 hours a day. Anyway, let the big guy rest and rest, and drill this well tomorrow, right?"

"Yes, Master, it's already six o'clock, and we will have to work until eight or nine o'clock in the evening to finish drilling this well. We have been working all day today, so it's time for everyone to rest."

However, these guys under his hand quit.

The salary of the two of them is not high, 5 taels of silver a month, that is to say, in Shaanxi, if you are in the Beijing-Tianjin area, even women will not work for you, let alone doing physical work, which is very tiring, and there is no seven Eight taels of silver a month, you can't recruit people at all.

It doesn't matter if the salary is low, but the key is that the working hours are very long. In order to study more, Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming asked everyone to get up very early and let everyone go to rest very late.

Food is also very average. Other drilling teams and oil exploration teams slaughter sheep and pigs twice in three days, and eat meat with their stomachs open. With Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming, they are full of rice and noodles every day. The next one is cheap salted fish,

Everyone also complained about this, and some people didn't want to do it long ago, and wanted to go to other companies, drilling teams and so on.

"Brother Wang~"

"Brother Li~"

"Brother Liu~"

"Brothers, I know that you have suffered a lot and suffered a lot with the two of us, and the two of us have indeed wronged you."

"But we won't let everyone suffer for nothing. Now we don't make much money to reward everyone, but as long as we find oil."

"At that time, I promise that I will give 1% of the proceeds to everyone as a reward. In addition, as long as we recover, our wages, food, etc. will also keep up with other drilling teams."

"When I have money, I will buy a few female slaves for the big guys and come back to warm everyone's beds."

Seeing the workers getting emotional, Qiu Kaiwen smiled and said to everyone after a little thought.

Obviously, this is the technique and method of drawing a big pie.

Need money, they really don’t have much money now, and the end of the month is coming soon, everyone’s wages are still on the mend, and both of them are trying to find ways to raise money, almost all of what they have accumulated over the past few years has been spent Stripped down.

"Since the boss has said so, let's work harder and drill this well."

"Yeah, yeah, I'm tired anyway, try again~"

"Boss, are you really going to buy some female slaves for us?"

"Haha, I see your eyes are shining brightly, hurry up and work."

After listening to Qiu Kaiwen's words, everyone lost their emotions immediately. People are like this. Sometimes they just like to be attracted by the big cakes they draw.

Seeing that everyone was willing to continue working, Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming hurried over to get busy together, lifting equipment, setting up machines, starting machines, etc. They were so busy that the weather was completely dark, and they were busy until 10 o'clock in the evening. Very busy.

"Drill!"

Torches were lit around, Qiu Kaiwen ordered excitedly even though he was very tired.

Soon, with the roar of the machine, the drill began to drill down continuously, and everyone watched silently until a black liquid gushed out.

"It's oily! It's oily!"

Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming looked at the oil gushing out, and couldn't help roaring.

(End of this chapter)