Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2221, oil oil
"Returning to His Majesty the Sultan, it is true that a large amount of oil has been discovered in the Mesopotamia Basin, but we do not know how to mine or smelt oil, so we still need to rely on the people of Daming."

"But the people of Daming feel that the situation in the Mesopotamia is not stable. We and the Persians have repeatedly competed for this place, so they don't dare to really spend money to buy our oil fields, for fear that they will lose everything."

When Ibrahim heard this, he also said hastily.

Since the discovery of a large amount of oil in the Persian Gulf area, the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Egypt have launched fierce competition for the Mesopotamia.

Especially in recent years, with the popularization of internal combustion engines and the rapid development of the automobile industry in the Ming Empire, the demand for oil is increasing, and the oil production of the Ming Empire is far from being able to meet its own needs.

The price of oil is getting higher day by day. The oil in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf has naturally become the gold and silver mines in everyone's eyes. The river basin has also changed hands repeatedly.

"Can't we mine our own oil and sell it to the Ming people?"

Suleiman thought for a while and said.

He is very short of money now, he needs money everywhere, and urgently needs the oil in the Mesopotamia to bring him a steady stream of funds, but in this area, Persia and Egypt are eyeing, especially Persia, it is desperate I refuse to give up here, and I will fight if I can't win. In short, I have been repeatedly competing with the Ottoman Empire for this area.

"If we exploit oil ourselves, we need to spend a lot of money to buy related equipment and transportation vehicles from the Daming people. This investment is relatively large, and it is not stable anywhere. Once it is taken away by the Persians, it is tantamount to Made a wedding dress for the Persian."

Ibrahim re-emphasized helplessly.

"In this way, we can only watch where the mountains of gold and silver are, but we can't get any benefits?"

Suleiman immediately said extremely dissatisfied.

There is a large amount of oil guarded here, but it can only be watched, and there is no way to turn the oil into money. This feeling is really uncomfortable.

"Unless we can completely defeat the Persians and Egyptians and firmly hold the Mesopotamia in our hands, those Ming merchants will not invest in it."

"Here in the Persian Gulf, the Ming people have two colonies. Both of these colonies have discovered a large amount of oil. The oil is enough for the Ming people to use for many years. They are not in a hurry to exploit our oil now. .”

Ibrahim nodded helplessly.

There is really no way now, we have to rely on the people of Daming for everything. If we have the technology to mine, we can mine the oil ourselves and sell it to the merchants of Ming Dynasty. They are still willing to buy oil.

Petroleum can not only be used to smelt gasoline, diesel, kerosene, etc., but can also be used in the chemical industry, which has many uses. The market demand of the Ming Empire is very huge.

In addition, the demand for oil in the South African colony is second only to the Ming Empire, which is also very large, and no oil has been discovered in the South African colony so far, so all of them rely on imports. The main source of oil is tea from the Persian Gulf region. Ling colony and Zhang colony.

"Persians, Egyptians!"

Thinking of the Persians and Egyptians gave Suleiman a headache.

The Egyptians were fine. My father almost destroyed Egypt back then. If the Ming people hadn't intervened in the end and used the excuse of protecting the canal, Egypt would have perished.

The corrupt Mamluk dynasty has long been corrupted and extremely corrupt, and it is nothing to worry about.

However, the Egyptians rely on the Egyptian canal to bring considerable benefits. In addition to making the Mamluk nobles more decadent, they also used silver to buy a large amount of arms and weapons, making Egypt stronger and even more ambitious. Also got up.

The real headache is the Persians. The Persian Empire has a large territory, a large population, and a long history. The key is that Ismail I is also the current hero, with great talent, ambition and vision.

Persia is one of the few independent countries that has a good relationship with the Ming Empire and is not a vassal state of the Ming Empire, relying on its good relationship with the Ming Empire in all aspects.

The Persian Empire has always received a lot of benefits from the Ming Empire, such as low-interest and preferential loans, arms and weapons, and help in port shipbuilding and so on.

So that Persia not only competes with the Ottoman Empire for the Mesopotamia, but also has a colony with a good size on the West African side, and it is also fiercely fighting with the Spaniards.

In addition, Persia also has a very good relationship with Korea, a vassal state of the Ming Empire, and they are allies against Spain. Has a good relationship, trade is very close and frequent.

Although the Ottoman Empire has been suppressing the Persians since its ancestors, and defeated the Persians time and time again, it has never been able to completely defeat the Persians.

Especially in recent years, Persia has gradually become stronger under the leadership of Ismail I, and its foreign diplomatic strategy has also been successful. It has reached a consensus alliance agreement with the Egyptian Empire in the Mesopotamia, and has repeatedly Successfully robbed the Mesopotamia and drove the Ottomans back to the highlands of Asia Minor.

"How can we completely occupy the Mesopotamia?"

Suleiman thought hard.

On the other side, the northern part of the Persian Gulf belongs to the territory of the Persian Empire.

Ismail I rode a horse to a construction site where an oil field was being explored.

Ismail I attached great importance to oil, because it is currently his main source of income.

In the past, there were no special products in Persia, only lapis lazuli could be mined in exchange for some foreign exchange, and there was nothing else that could be exchanged for foreign exchange.

Therefore, the Persian Empire has always been poor, which greatly restricted the development of the Persian Empire, and also prevented Ismail I from realizing his ambitions.

Until recent years, as Ming started a new round of industrial revolution dominated by internal combustion engines, the demand for oil rose rapidly, and the price of oil became higher and higher. At the same time, a large number of oil fields were discovered here in the Persian Gulf. It made life easier for Ismail I.

The Persian Empire also discovered a lot of oil fields on the northern shore of the Persian Gulf. Relying on the exploitation of these oil fields, Ismail finally began to have some money at his disposal.

Therefore, Ismail I attached great importance to oil exploration and development, and he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hire professional exploration and mining teams from the Ming Empire to explore and exploit oil.

Unlike the discovery of oil in the Ming Empire, which was directly sold to oil companies, after the exploration of oil in the Persian Empire, they often spent a lot of money to buy the mining equipment of the Ming people to mine the oil themselves, and then sold the extracted oil. For the merchants of Ming Dynasty, even though the investment in the early stage was a bit larger, all the profits in the later stage belonged to him, and a steady stream of money flowed into his pocket.

Ismail I looked at the busy construction site in front of him. With the start of the internal combustion engine-driven drilling rig, the long drilling rig began to drill continuously into the ground to obtain underground information.

The Persians I sent over to assist were constantly busy, while those Ming engineers gathered together one by one, talking and laughing, looking very relaxed.

Thinking of these Daming people, Ismail I also felt a headache. These Daming drilling engineers are all uncles, and they are very difficult to serve. The Persian Empire offered them a high salary of several hundred taels of silver a month, which was not easy. Found some people willing to come to Persia and do things.

Hundreds of taels of silver a month, this kind of income is frighteningly high. My own Persian farmers can't earn a few taels of silver after a year of hard work.

However, these Daming people, even if they are given such a high salary, they are not very happy. They are reluctant to work for you because they are served by beautiful people who eat delicious food and drink.

In their words, their technology is popular everywhere, and a monthly income of a few hundred taels is nothing. Most people in Daming have such an income.

Ismail I knew that they were not bragging, because according to the latest statistics released by the Daming Morning Post, the per capita income of the Ming Empire last year had reached a terrifying level of around 240 taels of silver.

There are many Daming people who earn a few hundred taels a month and a few thousand taels a year. These people are not even bosses. They are all people with professional skills and skills, and rely on their own skills and skills to achieve such income.

It is not scary that a few people have such an income. What is really scary is that the Ming Empire still has a population of more than 5 million. This is the scariest place.

It's really scary to know how rich Daming people are by just doing a random calculation.

"Yashar, how many new oil fields have been discovered now?"

Ismail I shook his head slightly, and didn't think about the affairs of the Ming people. There is really no way to compare it. Compared with the Ming Empire, Persia is nothing at all, and the gap is really too big.

"Great Majesty, in the past six months, our family has successively discovered more than 30 oil fields, which is expected to increase the income of more than 50 taels of silver per month."

Yashar on the side also quickly replied that he was the Minister of Petroleum appointed by Ismail I, and he was in charge of petroleum affairs.

"Well, good, good!"

Ismail I nodded in satisfaction, then looked in the direction of the Mesopotamia and said, "It would be great if we could really occupy the Mesopotamia, where dozens of oil fields have already been discovered by casual exploration. It's all silver!"

(End of this chapter)