The oil production in Suzhou oil fields began to be produced, and the amount of oil produced was hundreds or even tens of millions of times the oil springs produced in the past that were exploited by hand in the art.

This made Royal Oil Company ecstatic and decided to set up an oil refinery with a refining capacity of 100,000 tons per year on site.

This makes local officials in Suzhou happier again!

Oil fields have been released and oil refineries are about to be established, which means that Suzhou's oil industry is really about to start, and will then drive the industrial and commercial development of the entire Suzhou.

What's this?

This is a political achievement!

For political achievements, Suzhou officials went to the oil field site to see it, and then they were busy cooperating with the Royal Petroleum Company to lay oil pipelines, build oil refineries, etc.

In order to lay the oil pipeline and establish the refinery, Suzhou Magistrate personally led a team to set up a working group to cooperate with Royal Petroleum Company to carry out related construction and provide various supporting services.

The very important supporting service is naturally transportation.

Especially for transportation, this oil field is not in the suburbs, but in a very far place. The distance to the oil field naturally requires roads. There were some small dirt roads before, but the magistrate of Suzhou has already promised that the local government will build a gravel sand and soil road as much as possible so that the heavy-loaded four-wheeled carriage can pass smoothly.

At the same time, the Northwest Railway Company was also coordinated with the promise to build a railway branch line to provide railway supporting services specifically for oil fields and refineries.

In terms of hiring workers, they also provide great convenience. In addition to mobilizing local people to act as oil workers, they are also preparing to introduce a number of special policies to attract domestic immigrants.

Including immigration subsidies, education subsidies, etc.

Not only Suzhou local governments attach importance to it, but also the Gansu Governor's yamen. The Gansu Governor's yamen has decided to pull out a portion of the oil construction in Suzhou from the few financial funds in the province.

And provide certain tax preferential measures.

That's not counting. Not long after, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan sent an angel to Suzhou oilfield to inspect and condolence, especially to the workers and technicians who were surveying and exploiting oil on the front line.

This has further boosted local morale.

From the capital of the capital to the Gansu Governor's Yamen to the Suzhou local area, the importance of Suzhou oil field development even exceeds the Royal Petroleum Company's own estimates.

How to say, Royal Oil Company is just a commercial company. Even if it is a wholly-owned company controlled by Royal Assets and has a royal background, it is still a commercial company. What they value more is commercial interests.

However, in terms of governments, what they value is not simply commercial interests, but various benefits brought by them.

The four words of oil industry are enough to give the government strong support.

With the support of all parties, it took only two months to successfully produce oil in five oil wells, the largest oil well, with an annual output of 3,000 tons.

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At present, the annual output of these six oil wells has reached 10,000 tons.

At the same time, Royal Petroleum Corporation also optimistically estimates that within this year, the annual output of Suzhou oilfield will be estimated to reach 20,000 tons, and will be increased to more than 50,000 tons next year, because the development of Suzhou oilfield is just the beginning, and they will continue to drill and develop wells.

The supporting oil pipelines, petroleum storage facilities, oil refineries, and kerosene lamp manufacturing plants also quickly emerged.

With the dual support of capital and officialdom, everything has been on the fast lane.

Royal Petroleum Corporation reported that it is expected that the first batch of kerosene lamps will enter the market starting this winter, and it is estimated that they will be very large. By next year, kerosene lamps will gradually replace vegetable oil and animal oil to become the main lighting tools.

However, with the development of the oil industry and the popularization of kerosene lamps, it will inevitably cause turmoil in other industries.

For example, the whaling industry will be hit by certain blows

The whaling industry actually developed for about twenty years in the Tang Empire. Marine ships went to sea to catch whales and then sold various whale products.

The useful value of whales is very high. Whale meat can be eaten, but it is not delicious. Bone can be extracted from bone glue, and skin can be used as leather goods, but the most important thing is whale oil.

Because whales can not only act as industrial lubricating oil, they can also be used to make soap after a certain amount of treatment, or they can be eaten directly after special treatment.

However, the rapid development of the whaling industry in the Tang Empire was due to the fact that whale oil could act as lighting oil.

The traditional lighting oil used in the Empire was vegetable oil in the past. Later, after deep-sea ships began to whale, some whale oil was used.

As for kerosene, the Tang Empire had actually successfully extracted it from coal in the early years, but the process was complicated and the price was high, so ordinary people could not afford it.

Now that petroleum is industrialized, oil will be able to greatly replace the current whale oil. Kerosene can replace whale oil. At the same time, oil can also extract various lubricating oil and other by-products, which can also replace the industrial lubricating oil effects of whale oil.

This will inevitably lead to a recession in the whaling industry and affect the livelihoods of many people.

But then again, this is not a good thing in the future. The Tang Empire has only been a few years of large-scale whaling. The real large-scale fishing has actually happened in the past decade, but in the past decade, it has led to the disappearance of a large number of whales along the coast. Now whaling ships have to go to the distant sea to fish.

If this continues, it is estimated that the whales on Earth will become extinct in a large number of times in less than a few decades, just like in the original time and space.

Now, the Tang Empire has only started to catch large-scale fishing for more than ten years and has developed the oil industry. Naturally, the demand for whales is not so high. Without profit, people naturally will not spend all their time catching whales in large quantities.

At the same time, so many boats and sailors can also be converted to fishing other fish, especially various fish that can be eaten, providing a large amount of meat food for the empire.

Moreover, the empire almost controls the global ocean. It is not like later generations. Only a few small seas along the coast can be fished. If the fishing boats of the Tang Empire were willing, they could go directly to the Mediterranean to fish. No one dared to say a word of nonsense.

What kind of sea areas are your own territorial waters and the imperial fishing boats are not allowed to fish. The Tang Dynasty Navy will use naval guns to correct your view: all sea areas on the earth belong to the Tang Dynasty!

The Tang Empire did not have any concept of territorial waters, nor did it recognize the so-called concept of territorial waters of any other country.

However, even if we use the current concept of territorial waters of European countries, most of the seas on the earth currently belong to the Tang Dynasty's territorial waters!

Because the current concept of territorial waters in some European countries, whether the seas within the range of the 'terrain line of vision' belong to the territorial waters, or "if people who sail on a part of the sea can be forced by people on the shore, then this part of the seas belongs to this piece of land", and including the concepts such as the so-called territorial waters within the range of the so-called shore defense artillery, the core concept of these concepts is effective control.

There is actually no so-called concept of territorial waters in the Tang Empire.

After all, you cannot expect an empire that does not even have a national boundary line, and has any territorial sea boundary line.

In theory, the entire earth belongs to the Holy Emperor.

Of course, theory is theory, and practical operation is practical operation. The Tang Empire also uses actual control as the standard for territorial waters. For example, the Tang Navy can basically fully control the Pacific and Indian Oceans, so in the official documents of the Tang Empire, these two oceans are the empire's inner oceans.

Even in the Atlantic Ocean, the Tang Empire believed that it occupied at least half of it.

In addition, the Imperial Navy is strong enough to easily travel to and from the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and even the Persian Gulf. Basically, no one can stop the Imperial Navy's operations at present.

This has led to many people actually thinking that the warships of the Imperial Navy are located in the Imperial Territory Waters.

If the warships of the Imperial Navy can enter the Mediterranean and defend the overseas interests of the Empire, then the Mediterranean belongs to the Imperial Territory Sea!

But this statement is still too far-fetched, so the Tang Empire never discusses any territorial, territorial and sea with other countries in diplomatic channels. The Tang Empire's foreign policy has always been simple and crude: if you don't accept it, you will fight until you are obeyed.

This practice naturally made people from many countries or regions very dissatisfied, but so what if they were dissatisfied? When the Spanish realized that the Tang Empire's embassy in Cadiz was gradually being built into a small city, surrounded by city walls, built ports on the coastline, and built turrets to deploy shore defense artillery.

They raised objections several times, saying that this is still the territory of the Spanish, and you Tang people cannot do anything. You, Tang people, deployed shore defense artillery here, built naval bases, and deployed warships for a long time, which was beyond the agreement we signed back then.

But the Tang Empire never paid attention to their objections!

Later, the Spanish simply pretended that they didn't see it.

Otherwise, would it be possible that they really plan to mobilize the army to attack the city and send wooden sailboats to attack the port?

If this is the case, let’s not talk about whether their army can capture the embassy area, but their navy and coastal areas will definitely be over.

It took not long for the Tang Dynasty to drive from South Africa. Not to mention the Tang Dynasty's Navy to be deployed in the Seventh Fleet in South Africa, even the Tang Empire Navy deployed some warships in the port of the Tang Dynasty's embassy in Europe to protect the safety of diplomatic personnel.

These warships alone are not easy to mess with.

At first, the Tang Empire was relatively restrained, thinking that the Spanish were considered countries that had signed friendly agreements with them, so they were more shameful in doing things, so they just sent a small number of armed merchant ships to come.

But later, he became more and more shameless, from often sending warships to patrol and staying, to simply sending warships to stay in Cadiz.
Chapter completed!