Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2222, the rich and oily Chaling Colony

Chaling Colony on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf.

The Qatar Peninsula of the later generations, the current Li family’s Chaling colony, the name of Qatar has long been unknown, because the surrounding Arab tribes have been wiped out by the Li family. He was sold as a slave by the Li family to all over the world.

Naturally, no one here remembers its previous name. Everyone only knows the current Chaling Colony, which is one of the richest colonies and vassal states outside the Ming Dynasty.

Here in the Governor's Mansion of the Chaling Colony, Li Zhaofan, stepson of the former Minister of the Ming Dynasty Li Dongyang, is sitting in front of the huge French windows, drinking tea leisurely, watching the bustling and lively Chaling Colony in front of him.

After calculating the time, almost 20 years have passed. Since the time I came here, this place is a barren desert.

Up to now, it has become the most prosperous, lively and richest area in the entire Persian Gulf region.

Thinking of the hard times before, Li Zhaofan couldn't help but sigh.

At that time, there was an upsurge in the Ming Empire to go overseas to occupy colonies and establish vassal states. The vassal kings of the Ming Empire went to sea one after another to establish their own vassal states overseas. own colony.

For various reasons, the Li family did not keep up with the trend of the times, so that the good places overseas were all taken up, and the Li family took action.

In the end, after jumping around, there was really nowhere to go, so I chose the Persian Gulf and established the Chaling Colony here.

When the colony was first established here, life was really hard at the beginning. There was very little fresh water to drink, and there was desert everywhere.

Not to mention gold and silver, they don't even have the most basic arable land. Many tribesmen are scolding themselves, saying that they chose a desert, a place where birds don't shit.

At that time, the fresh water for drinking had to be transported to Persia by special ships. The life was really difficult, so that half of the ownership of the colony had to be sold to Liu Jin, the chief assistant of the Ming cabinet, so that he could persist.

Later, a continuous war broke out in the Mesopotamia, and the Chaling Colony also relied on the transit trade, buying and selling slaves, food, and fishing some pearls from the Persian Gulf, so it slowly persisted.

But it is still impossible to become one of the richest colonies, and that little business is not enough to support it.

It was not until Liu Jin bought half of the ownership that he pointed out that a large amount of oil was buried underground here. After exploration, it was discovered that there are extremely rich oil resources under the desert.

Later, with the discovery of the internal combustion engine and the development of petroleum smelting technology, the demand for petroleum became more and more vigorous, and the price continued to rise. Only then did the Chaling colony really get out of the difficult days and began to become rich rapidly.

Today's Chaling Colony not only has a large number of oil fields, but even if it is sitting every day, the continuous flow of oil has brought a steady stream of wealth to the Chaling Colony.

There are many oil tankers coming here every day, and the oil produced here is mainly sold to overseas colonies and vassal states such as the South African colony, Ning State, and Chu State.

The huge oil income also made the Chaling Colony rich almost overnight, with a continuous influx of silver. Last year alone, the Chaling Colony earned more than 3000 million taels of silver just by selling oil.

The income of 3000 million taels of silver is of course nothing to the huge Ming Empire, but to the Chaling Colony, a colony with a population of only tens of thousands.

This is very scary, very scary, and it is an extremely huge number.

With such considerable oil income, Li Zhaofan has not forgotten to give back to his clan.

Of course, as far as the Chaling Colony is concerned, all the people here are related to the Li family.

When he came here to Chaling, Li Zhaofan received strong support from the Li clan. They not only contributed money and effort, but also contributed people. Almost the entire Li family moved from Huguang Chaling to Chaling.

In addition, there are a large number of fellow villagers, relatives and friends in the Chaling area. They believed in the Li family back then, followed the Li family to overseas, and believed that one day they would be able to live a good life.

Who knows that after coming to Chaling, there will be no good days. This hard life has passed for many years, and it was not until the emergence of oil that life became better.

So now that they have gained considerable oil revenue, they are also starting to give back to their clansmen.

In addition to regularly distributing money to his clansmen, Li Zhaofan also invested a lot in his colony.

For the Li family, this will be their land and home that they have inherited from generation to generation, and this colony is equivalent to an independent kingdom.

The Li family not only has their own governor's office here, but also has an army of thousands of people, and all the people can be soldiers when necessary.

This Chaling is the kingdom of the Li family, and of course the whole kingdom of the Li family must be well managed.

After getting rich, Li Zhaofan became more self-willed.

If there is no fresh water, then check the colony and build several large seawater desalination plants, and spend money to hire people to study this seawater desalination technology. Now it mainly relies on boiling seawater and then condensing to obtain freshwater.

This method is obviously inferior to the advanced desalination technology of later generations, and the efficiency is very low, and it requires a lot of energy.

But the rich and wayward Chaling colony doesn't care about these things now, it's just talking about money, they have plenty of money now.

There are several large seawater desalination plants for you directly. The desalinated seawater not only meets the needs of daily life, but also is used in large quantities to water the flowers and plants in the Chaling Colony.

The Chaling Colony, which was originally a desert, has already changed its appearance. There are birds and flowers everywhere, lawns and trees can be seen everywhere, and the level of greening is quite high.

Moreover, with the rapid growth of the population of the Chaling colony, it continued to extend into the desert, so that an extremely spectacular scene appeared.

A place irrigated by the tap water system of the Chaling Colony is an oasis, while a place without tap water irrigation is a desert and extremely hot.

In order to grow trees in this desert, the Chaling Colony even imported a large amount of soil from Persia, covered the sand with the soil, and then planted trees, which is not bad for money.

The wealthy Chaling colony was the first to truly enter into a social welfare system similar to that of later generations.

According to the oil income of the Chaling Colony last year, the Chaling Colony has introduced some related welfare systems. According to the population, everyone, regardless of men, women, old or young, can receive 300 taels of silver from the Colonial Governor's Mansion every year.

This figure is much higher than the average income of the Ming Empire, and it is enough for every family here to live an incomparably rich life.

You must know that regardless of men, women, old or young, this means that children in the family can receive this money. If a family has 10 people, they can receive 3000 taels of silver this year.

With such a huge and considerable income, everyone in the Chaling Colony can sit and eat without doing any work at all.

In addition, free medical care and education are implemented here in the Chaling Colony. There is no need to spend money to see a doctor here. All children can read for free.

If you can study and want to take the imperial examination or enter the higher education institutions of the Ming Empire, the Chaling Colony also provides a lot of subsidies, rewards and support.

The Li family had a famous minister like Li Dongyang, so they were naturally from a scholarly family, and most of the family's children mainly studied. Even if they went overseas, they could return to Daming to take the imperial examination.

As long as one can be admitted to Juren, not only will there be rewards here in the colony, but they can also hold important positions in the Governor's Mansion.

If one can be admitted to any college of higher learning in Daming or the South African colony, there will also be rewards. Support and investment in studies is what the Li family has always been most willing to do.

With such rewards, the Li family colony has produced a lot of talents, not only those who have been admitted to Juren, but also many new talents who are studying in colleges and universities in Daming and South Africa.

They are the future of the Li family, and the rich Li family can also develop in some technological fields in the future, investing in some industries in South Africa and the Ming Empire.

Compared with the richest local tyrants in the later generations who only know how to show off their wealth and spend money, the Li family in the Chaling colony understands the long-term way and pays more attention to education.

Of course, this is also because the Li family's colony is under the system of the entire Ming Empire and can be relied on by the Ming Empire. It does not mean that it is a completely separate country.

There are many welfare systems like this, and the entire Chaling Colony is considered to be the first place in the world to establish such a perfect welfare system.

This system is similar to the welfare system of later generations, taking into account all aspects.

Of course, this is also related to the special situation of the Li family's Chaling colony. Basically, here are the Li family's clansmen, relatives and friends. Everyone followed them to live a hard life and have a good life. Naturally, it is necessary to take care of everyone.

Other colonies may have a similar situation, but they don't have resources such as oil to get rich overnight. Even if they want to develop these benefits, they don't have enough funds.

"There is a lot of money, so we still have to find a way to invest continuously. Let money make money is the kingly way!"

Li Zhaofan looked at the prosperous Chaling colony, but he was thinking about long-term things in his mind.

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