Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1879, Daqing Oilfield

Liaodong in the spring is still full of chills. The land is covered with snow, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow, and the cold wind howling from time to time makes people wrap their coats tightly.

On a concrete road in the northwest of Ice City, dozens of cars are moving slowly on the road. Because of the snow and ice, even if the tires of the vehicles are equipped with snow chains, they still dare not drive too fast and can only drive slowly. Slowly drive in the direction of Daqing Oilfield.

After staying in the ice city for a few days, experiencing the ice fishing in the ice city, and tasting the unique food in the ice city, I originally planned to go south to Liaoyang and Tieling to see the spring farming in Liaodong.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Hongzhi thought of the matter of oil exploration, so he changed his itinerary temporarily, and planned to go to Daqing to see the oil extraction in Daqing Oilfield.

Fortunately, Daqing Oilfield is not too far from Ice City. If you drive there, a few hours is enough. The only troublesome thing is that there is a lot of ice and snow now, and the road is slippery, which is not safe.

Of course, one of the main tasks of the people in Liaodong in winter is to clear the snow and ice on the roads and houses. Therefore, this road is cleaned every day by a special person using machinery, which does not affect the traffic, but needs to be driven slowly. The vehicle tires are tied with snow chains, which is safer.

"In Liaodong, everything is fine, except that it is too cold in winter and there is too much snow and ice."

Sitting on the Mercedes-Benz, Emperor Hongzhi looked at the convoy slowly moving forward, and said helplessly.

"Your Majesty, it is precisely because the winter in Liaodong is very cold, with a lot of ice and snow, that makes Liaodong so fertile and rich."

"This ice and snow can not only freeze to death a large number of insect pests and insect eggs, but also can be turned into water in the coming year to provide enough water for crops."

Liu Jin explained with a smile.

"That's true."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded. He knew this truth, and he had heard Liu Jin say it many times.

Look outside again, in the open and vast wilderness, you can see immigrant villages one by one after a while. These immigrant villages are neatly planned, with smoke from the kitchen, where a large number of children are playing and playing carefree. , I had a great time playing in the snow.

Looking at both sides of the road outside, you can see a large number of granaries. There are a lot of these granaries and they are built on a large scale. They are all used by these farmers to store their own grain.

There is so much food that there is no room for it at home, so we can only build granaries on the side of the road to store food, and then sell the food when the time is right.

The prosperity of Liaodong can be seen only from here. The people here, every household has a lot of land and inexhaustible food.

You can also see a large number of various machines at this front door, and some farmers have already started to overhaul these machines, because the spring plowing season will soon be here.

Spring plowing in Liaodong can be roughly divided into two stages.

The first stage is to plow the land before spring begins. This time, the plowing pays attention to deep plowing, and the land is deeply plowed again.

The advantage is to turn up the fertile soil at the bottom, turn down the weeds and wheat stubble on the surface, and bury it in the soil, it can gradually rot and become organic matter, which provides fertility for the crops. There will be much less weeds in it.

Another advantage is that we can take advantage of the cold weather to turn up insect pests and insect eggs hidden in the soil, and they can freeze to death directly in a heavy snow or cold wave. It will be much, much less.

The second stage is to wait until after spring, when the weather warms up and start planting, then lightly plow the land once, and then sow again.

There are many benefits of double plowing, mainly to reduce pests and weeds, and it is also beneficial to the growth of the farmer. This is also a farming method that has gradually become popular in recent years.

Of course, this is still due to the large-scale promotion and use of agricultural machinery in Liaodong. Using machines to plow the fields is fast and labor-saving.

If a hoe is used to plow, even if you are exhausted, you will not be able to plow much land, and there is no way to plow deeply, the effect will be far from good, and the insect pests and eggs in the land will not be plowed out. If you don't freeze to death, the pests and diseases will become serious.

There is no way for weeds and wheat stubble to be buried deep in the ground, which will also affect the planting of crops in the new year.

The reason why Liaodong's agriculture is developed, with high output and good quality, is mainly related to the mechanized farming in Liaodong. There is more land, more machines, and more scientific farming methods are adopted. Naturally, the output is high and the quality is also good.

Now it is almost the first spring plowing, so the farmers in the Liaodong area are also getting busy, overhauling their machinery and preparing for the next spring plowing.

The convoy kept moving forward, getting closer and closer to Daqing.

After arriving in Daqing, everything here has undergone tremendous changes.

Here in Daqing, although some immigration spots can also be seen, they do not exist in the form of immigrant villages, but in the form of immigrant towns.

The number is small, but the scale is very large. Each town has a population of tens of thousands, and a large number of people gather together. The neatly planned towns are scattered all over the place, surrounded by vast fields, and in the middle is a lively town.

In addition, you can see large oil refineries one by one. Even in winter, the refineries are still very busy here.

The vehicles that come in and out are similar to the oil tank trucks of later generations, with a front dragging a large tank, which is filled with smelted kerosene, gasoline, diesel and other finished products.

These oil tankers transport the finished oil to Bingcheng, and then transport it to Beijing and Tianjin, the largest consumer market, through the train of Bingcheng, or directly to Liaohekou, and then transport it to the south of Daming and Nanyang by sea. etc., Japan, North Korea and other places.

The whole scene is very lively, there are a lot of oil tankers coming in and out, and at the same time, a large number of oil workers can be seen wearing neat work clothes, riding bicycles or motorcycles to and from get off work.

The people here in Daqing are different from other places in Liaodong.

Most of the people here are employees of Daming Petroleum Company. They followed the company's business and came here to work and live here. They did not immigrate to Liaodong Province in response to the call of the Ming Dynasty like immigrants.

People who immigrated to Liaodong Province can no longer easily immigrate to other places. They must live here for at least three generations before they can choose to immigrate to other places.

But the employees of Daming Petroleum Company do not have these restrictions. They like to work and live here, and if they don't like it, they can immigrate to other places at any time.

Of course, since you are here in Liaodong, in Liaodong where the land is vast and sparsely populated, the land will naturally not be missing you. You can reclaim it as you like, and it will be yours if it is reclaimed.

Therefore, many people have reclaimed a lot of land while working, and use these lands to grow food, vegetables, etc., to meet the needs of daily life, and there is a lot of surplus that can also be used to increase income.

Often men work in oil companies, while women plow the land, grow vegetables and so on.

For the employees of Daming Petroleum Company, their salaries are high enough, much higher than that of ordinary Daming people.

Because these people are often graduates recruited from major colleges and universities, and they are all cultured, educated, and skilled young people of the Ming Dynasty in the new era.

Often have their own skills and knowledge, are considered talents.

To recruit them and keep them, the salary must not be too low.

Of course, they entered an oil company again. People in later generations will know what the situation is about oil. This thing is pure local tyrants. They are all awesome, so everyone should know how profitable oil companies are.

After the oil well is drilled, when the switch is turned on, the silver will flow out continuously like running water.

This is just oil extraction. Daming Petroleum Company not only extracts oil, but also refines oil, sells refined oil, etc., to maximize its profit margins.

Although it is just a newly established commercial firm, it is developing rapidly and powerful. Now it holds a large number of oil fields, oil refining technology and factories, and the sales of refined oil. The development and rise of the oil trust.

Of course, because oil is highly profitable, more and more people are mining, refining, and selling oil. Everyone has seen the amazing potential and huge money opportunities in the oil industry.

It's just that oil is not so easy to find things.

Just like this Daqing Oilfield, its output and reserves are very amazing, it is absolutely a super big oilfield, but the Daming Petroleum Company only knows that there is an oilfield here, and no one else knows.

When they found out, the people from Daming Petroleum Company had bought all the land around Daqing, and it belonged to Daming Petroleum Company, so the others could only stare blankly and drool.

In addition, the most oil-rich Persian Gulf region, Liu Jin also laid out the layout early, and divided up most of the Persian Gulf area with the Li family and the Zhang family, and occupied the oil resources here. In the future, it can be slowly exploited. .

There is also the oil field on the Golden Continent, Daming Petroleum Company has also laid out its layout early, and a large number of oil fields and oil producing areas are all owned by Daming Petroleum Company. I have gone to other places to find oil, and where is the Daming Petroleum Company that is so advanced.

(End of this chapter)