The sun never sets in America

Chapter 269 Petroleum and Entrepreneurship

Jinshan City, Sanchuan Lane——

[Selling oil——]

[Selling oil——]

A middle-aged man wearing a straw hat and braving the scorching sun was riding a tricycle, shuttling through the alleys. Every once in a while, a high-pitched cry could be heard selling not cooking oil, but lamp oil for burning lamps.

This kind of oil is also different from the original kerosene. It is more flame-resistant, lighter, and has a clearer oil quality. Although it has an indescribable smell, it is much better than the original kerosene. Therefore, it is developing extremely rapidly in the current Han Dynasty. Under the distribution system, the lowest level is oil sellers like this.

The raw material of this oil is none other than the oil that is currently being speculated on the Xijing Exchange.

The largest oil company at present is the Ocean Oil Company of the Ministry of Government and Enterprise under the Cabinet. This Ocean Oil Company is currently the giant in the Han oil market. It controls one-third of the oil fields in the entire Hanzhou area, including the famous Xijing Oil Field. in the hands of the company.

[The Los Angeles Oil Field in later generations]

In the current Han oil market, Ocean Oil Company dares to claim second place, and no one dares to claim first place.

But even such a powerful company would worry about performance in the early days. Within two months of the initial discovery of oil, the entire oil industry in Han Dynasty was almost zero. It was not until last month that it gradually improved, and the current situation was roughly established. An industrial development strategy with lamp oil as the core.

But this step is easier said than done, especially in the Han market, which has been dominated by kerosene lamps for more than ten years. People will accept it only if the quality is good and the taste is lighter than kerosene.

After all, people are always path dependent. If you can use more adaptable kerosene, why should you use a foreign product like yours?

In response to this situation, the first solution that Ocean Oil Company thought of was subsidies, exchanging subsidies for the market.

Although this business model is very old-fashioned, I have to admit that it is indeed useful. With half-price subsidies, Ocean Oil has occupied most of the coastal market in just one month. For a time, it can be said that it stole the show.

But such behavior naturally angered those well-established kerosene companies. In just ten days, a kerosene alliance was born in Han. This alliance brought together half of the kerosene companies in Han. They unified their caliber and kept cutting prices. If we want to knock Han's oil industry to the bottom, it will be completely impossible to get up.

In less than a week, the entire Han market experienced an unprecedented impact. The most far-reaching commercial war took place, which shocked countless people.

In the end, it was the Han Dynasty court that personally set the industry prices, encouraged fair competition, and protected the interests of enterprises and consumers. Han consumers voted with their actions on whether oil or kerosene was better! !

The market has also made its choice based on reality. Oil can only be oil.

Especially in the coastal market, oil has basically swept the entire fuel market, and kerosene has been beaten back steadily. In the end, it can only survive in some marginal markets.

Even the northern inland areas are currently undergoing rapid expansion as oil production increases.

In the words of Zhao Xinglin, the chairman of Black Coal Company;

"In a fuel dispute, the one that suffered the most in the end was our coal company. I have to say that although it is nonsense, this is the reality!!"
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Whoosh, a strong wind blew by, making the signboards on the roadside roar.

"Wha—", the sign blew sideways, revealing the four characters "Ocean Petroleum" with red letters and a black background.

"Pull up, yes, continue-"

"Up, pull-"

Outside an oil well, several oil workers wearing protective clothing and stained with black oil were using the power of steam engines to dig out the oil.

wow-

Suddenly, a black water column spurted out and scattered all around/

"Oil is out, oil is out——"

"Come on, oil is coming!!"

When their bodies were covered with black oil, the reaction of the people present was not to avoid it, but to be excited. Some people even bathed in the rain of oil, venting their sorrow in the world to their heart's content.

For an oil well that has been dug for more than ten days and has not yet produced oil, there is actually a lot of pressure. Not to mention anything else, the pressure from people within the company is enough to crush them, and the thought of letting them The best way for those bastards to shut up is to show off.

[At this time, many of the oil layers dug out are shallow, so many people think that the depth of the oil is very low. If they dig for a few more days and cannot dig it out, they will think that there is no oil, and then the detection area will be abandoned. 】

It was the only way, and luckily, they did it.

In a small house, Professor Lu, who was still reading, heard the cheers outside and ran out immediately. He didn't even wear shoes. He ran barefoot in the mud, and his feet were covered with mud and rocks.

"Professor Lu is here——"

"Professor Lu is here——"

When the oil workers who were still celebrating heard Professor Lu's name, they immediately came up to express their congratulations:

"Professor Lu, congratulations, your deep oil theory is indeed correct, we have really produced oil!!"

"Professor Lu, we dug out oil this time. Look at these guys, what else can they say-"

"Professor Lu——"

Listening to the compliments and cheering words around him, Professor Lu pressed his hands down to signal everyone to be quiet.

Then he said: "Although we have dug out oil so far, we still don't know the storage capacity and depth of this oil field, so we have to work harder to get all these out-"

"As soon as I get it out, I will write a paper immediately and publish it in Xijing Daily. Then I will sign everyone's names and everyone will say, okay??" In order to continue to complete his petroleum project, Professor Lu could only continue to draw. Pie.

I have to say that as a professor, the first step is to learn how to draw cakes for others.

"Okay, Professor Lu, we will continue to work with you. At worst, we will work for another ten days!!"

"Yes, that's right, I support Professor Lu."

Seeing such an easy-to-deceive young man in front of him, Professor Lu showed a smile on his face.

A few days later, an article about the oil field appeared on the front page of Xijing Daily.

(Petroleum, a substance based on lighting fuel, but after a lot of research, it is found that the role of petroleum is far more than these. According to my own observation, the burning rate of petroleum is much higher than that of coal, which means that it has extremely high thermal efficiency, and very large energy. If we make a bold prediction and assume that we use oil as the driving fuel of the machine, its efficiency is likely to be doubled or even more, and if oil is used as a fuel similar to Coal is the power source of steam ships. I am sure that it must be the best energy source in this century, and even for hundreds of years to come...)

(During oil excavation, we discovered that a large amount of oil is actually hidden further underground. For example, the No. 36 oil field we recently excavated on the outskirts of Xijing was dug out at a depth of about 300 meters. This is currently Those oil fields that are hundreds of meters or even tens of meters are incomparable. This means that there is still a large amount of oil in the unknown underground, maybe in a corner...)

Signature: Lu Yifeng, professor of the Department of Energy, Imperial University.

Then underneath are the names of a group of students and workers.

From this point of view, Professor Lu is still extremely benevolent and righteous, unlike some professors who take advantage of your work and even do more shameless things.

These two articles aroused little public response, or even no waves at all.

After all, it’s none of my business how deep the oil is and how many tons an oil field contains! !

But for those companies related to oil and the power industry, it is no less than the sudden explosion of a time bomb.

Many steam engine companies even held meetings for several days to discuss the feasibility of replacing coal with oil. After several days of discussion, most companies gave up.

Why, because transformation is too troublesome and the burden is too heavy.

Apart from anything else, if you ask a steam engine company that has more than ten years of experience in the field of steam engines and has a large customer market to study petroleum power, it would be better to pray that God will truly come.

But for some startups, that may not be the case.

At least a few of them were very interested in the petroleum power mentioned in the paper.

Even if we take action for this, we still can’t see any effect.

It's just that the seeds have been planted, and the growth of the tree is already an inevitable outcome.

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woohoo...

Several clouds of black smoke gathered above the factory, and finally turned into a dark cloud, hovering around and unwilling to come down for a long time.

(Tornado Machinery Company)

The origin of this factory is engraved on the black signboard.

Click... click...

At this time, the Tornado Factory was completely different from a few months ago. It not only recruited a large number of skilled workers, but also purchased a large number of advanced machine tools. The sound of machines running was everywhere in the factory.

"Boss Zhou, don't worry, the oil drilling rig will be in stock next Friday!!" "Don't worry, I, Huang Shijun, will definitely..."

Huang Shijun was just about to continue chatting with Boss Zhou from Xijing when he heard a "bump", the door opened wide, and Hua Wenfeng ran in in a hurry.

He came in and shouted directly:

"Old Huang, don't sell it yet. Boss Li, who just came here, will give you 20% more...next time..."

Hua Wenfeng suddenly saw Boss Zhou standing next to Huang Shijun, and seemed speechless for a moment.

Huang Shijun turned around awkwardly, looked at Boss Zhou and said:

"Boss Zhou, don't worry, I'll give you what's due."

Boss Zhou looked at Hua Wenfeng next to him, then at Hua Wenfeng opposite, and said directly: "In this way, I will pay as much as the other side sells, and you will give me the goods on time."

"Don't worry, Boss Zhou, I will definitely keep it for you, keep it for you!!"

Hua Wenfeng became smarter at this time and kept echoing.

Before Boss Zhou left, he couldn't help but say: "Don't worry, I have money..."

After Boss Zhou left, Huang Shijun couldn't bear it anymore and shouted to Hua Wenfeng:

"Are you okay? Do you know who that person was just now??"

"That's the big benefactor who bought our 300,000 yuan complete set of equipment. If you offend him, what good will it do to you and me!!"

Listening to Huang Shijun's curse, Hua Wenfeng did not refute for the first time, but remained silent. It was not until Huang Shijun finished scolding that he spoke: "There is a problem with our financing plan."

"What, what did you say??"

"Can you say that again??"

Upon hearing this, Huang Shijun couldn't hold himself any longer.

On the opposite side, Hua Wenfeng continued silently:

"The other party said that we have financial problems. Our sales are so good but we can't see any profits. They suspect that we are doing something fishy, ​​so they want to review our financial status -"

"Didn't you tell them that we are studying how to deeply utilize petroleum energy?" Huang Shijun asked, with a hint of urgency on his face. After all, at their rate of burning money, they can only rely on long-term products such as current drilling rigs and oil storage tanks. It definitely can't be sustained.

Hua Wenfeng nodded helplessly, and then said;

"They said that all the big companies have given up, and small companies like us are still studying it. What's the use? It's still a waste of time."

Hearing this, Huang Shijun had a wry smile on his face.

Although the oil market in Han is currently booming, the situation inside the door is actually very complicated even though it looks lively from the outside.

If nothing else, let's talk about oil field exploitation. The most profitable ones are not the big oil companies, but the new companies, because only they need a large number of mining machines and storage equipment.

Considering the durability of most products in this industry except drill bits, it is normal in oil exploration to not replace them for a long time.

This situation is good for those oil companies, but it is not good news for manufacturing plants like Tornado.

After all, they are making large-ticket products, not fast-moving consumer goods like soda. And since they are not fast-moving consumer goods, it means that in addition to products, the real profits are in maintenance.

Many companies similar to Tornado in later generations relied on this to make money, and even became century-old enterprises.

But the problem is that it is still the early days of the oil industry. The products are all new and there are only so many oil fields. There is no such a big maintenance market.

Coupled with the large amount of funds flowing into the newly established Blue Light Laboratory, which recruited dozens of engineers and two Imperial University professors, the entire Tornado Machinery Company has actually been running intensively.

In response to this situation, all the three founders could think of was financing, and now there are problems with financing.

Finally, Huang Shijun asked:

"Does Mr. Dong know??"

Hua Wenfeng shook his head.

Huang Shijun gritted his teeth, and finally said to Hua Wenfeng in a consultative tone: "You also know the current situation. Our company has finally recovered, and we cannot risk everything for that illusory future. What I mean is -"

"You don't need to say anything. I understand what you mean. I will disband the laboratory when I get back. After all, as that person said, it is really not feasible for a small company like ours to engage in such high-end things." Although the Chinese Feng spoke very calmly, but anyone could hear the loneliness in his heart. After all, he had built this blue light research laboratory with his own hands, and now he had to destroy it with his own hands. Only he knew the pain.

"Well, raising a laboratory, it is really not that such a drilling machine can be raised by a small company!"

(Except for the drill bit, which is optimized by itself, everything else is assembled. This is what small companies in Han are doing at present)

After hearing Hua Wenfeng's words, Huang Shijun suddenly thought of something and immediately asked:

"what did you just say??"

"I said we can't afford to support this graduate student. What's wrong? Is there a problem? Don't tell me, can you afford it??"

Hua Wenfeng looked at Huang Shijun across from him with strange eyes.

"You're right, I can't afford it, but there are people who can!!"

Huang Shijun looked at Hua Wenfeng treacherously and said.

"What, you're not joking, or there's something wrong with your brain!!"

Hua Wenfeng looked at Huang Shijun as if he were a fool.

Huang Shijun said:

"Nerd, just wait, let me see what is awesome!!"

Hua Wenfeng still looked at Huang Shijun opposite with puzzled eyes.

A few days later, Blue Light Laboratory was spun off from Tornado Machinery Company and became an independent laboratory. It also took away a batch of patents related to oil exploration. It was also revealed that the laboratory had professors from Imperial University and a large number of first-class engineers in the industry. They were Tornados. The machinery company has grown to become a mainstay today. As soon as the news came out, this little-known laboratory immediately became popular in the financial market.

Soon the first batch of investors came to Blu-ray Laboratory. Under Huang Shijun's secret manipulation, these people saw the so-called experimental data, a large number of patents, and even a valuable patent fee. (paid by Tornado Machinery, among others)

When more and more people came, Huang Shijun appropriately held a product introduction meeting. At the introduction meeting, Huang Shijun said in an affectionate tone:

"Everyone, our Blue Light Laboratory is developing an epoch-making product. Once successfully developed, it will actually change the country of Han and even the entire world..."

"Of course, many people say that you are still spending money on things that big companies don't study. Are you mentally ill??"

"I want to say here that we are sick, we are a group of crazy guys, we are like a group of jaguars who are always waiting for prey. We crawl, expect, and suffer until we see the prey and pounce on it. , eat it!!”

"Although this technology will cost a lot, we, a group of young people, have already planned to use our youth in the next ten or twenty years as a bet. We represent tomorrow!!"

clap clap clap...

The audience burst into applause.

At this time, Huang Shijun also struck while the iron was hot and shouted: "Everyone, let us suffocate for our dreams!!"

clap clap clap...

The applause was several times louder than before.

When the introductory meeting ended, Huang Shijun's office was filled with letters of intent requesting investment.

When Hua Wenfeng and Huo Junling stared blankly at the letters of intent scattered all over the desk, Huang Shijun smiled and said to them:

"You two, let us welcome the bright future. From this moment on, we will truly change this era and this world!!"

Huo Junling and Hua Wenfeng looked at each other and could see two words: "Idiot!!"

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