In Penglai City, an expedition team of more than 200 people set out toward the north in a mighty manner. This huge expedition team was equipped with extremely luxurious equipment.
There are not only dozens of large four-wheeled carriages, but each four-wheeled carriage is pulled by several tall horses from Europe. The four-wheeled carriages also pull a variety of equipment, and there are even several machines. Large steam engine.
In addition to the experienced explorers that other expedition teams have, this expedition team actually brought dozens of European slave women along with them, so much so that many people couldn't help but laugh at them.
Are you going on an adventure, or are you going out to create humans? Taking dozens of female slaves with you, I guess all of them will be pregnant when you come back.
The convoy moved toward the north in a mighty manner, and even attracted the attention of many people. Many people followed curiously, wanting to see where this expedition team, which belonged to the oil company, was going. , Are you looking for gold, or are you looking for so-called oil?
Wen Yong was riding on a tall horse with a telescope hanging around his neck. On the horse were tools for surveying terrain, backtesting maps, and special paper and pencils.
Although I graduated with a major in geography, finding oil is still not an easy job. Oil is buried deep underground, making it difficult to explore and find it. Only professional people and enough luck can find oil.
The expedition team he led was always a professional expedition team, with more than a dozen geography students who had just graduated. As for the remaining people, some were responsible for the safety of the expedition team, and there were still some Yin people here. The Shang tribe did not recognize the Ming Dynasty, nor did they recognize the Ming Dynasty people. They felt that the Ming Dynasty people were invading their land, so they would attack the Ming Dynasty expedition team they encountered.
Others are slaves purchased by trading houses, and they are specially used to do hard work. When the time comes for oil drilling and the like, there will definitely be a lot of dirty work that needs to be done.
As for the dozens of female slaves, the main purpose of bringing them together is to be used as cooks, to cook, wash clothes, build barracks, and do some chores. Of course, they can also help the expedition team solve their physical problems.
As they moved forward, Wen Yongzheng also took out a map of the Northern Golden Continent.
"I don't know how the higher-ups knew there was oil in these places. Could anyone do the math?"
Looking at the places circled on the map and the circles drawn on it, Wen Yongzheng also fell into deep thought. Before coming to Golden Continent, he had obtained a map with many places drawn in circles. , these places are very likely to have oil.
What he needs to do is to conduct a detailed exploration, and after confirmation, purchase these lands from the Huangjinzhou government.
The work can be said to be so simple. There is no need to extract oil or consider other things. All that needs to be done now is to find those places where there is oil, and then buy these places.
"The closest one is Dessa Prefecture. It is said that Dessa Prefecture was named after the pronunciation of the descendants of the Yin Shang tribe. The largest tribe of Yin Shang descendants here is the Dessa tribe, with tens of thousands of people. It is very important to our Ming Dynasty. People are very friendly.”
Wen Yongzheng was thinking carefully.
Before setting off, he had a detailed understanding of the situation on Golden Continent.
There are many tribes of descendants of the Yin Shang in Northern Golden Continent. Tribes of all sizes are spread across almost every piece of land in Northern Golden Continent. However, they all exist in the form of tribes and are scattered everywhere. In places with good conditions, they are engaged in agricultural cultivation.
They are mainly nomadic, and in places with poor conditions, they are mainly nomadic.
It was completely different in the Central and South Golden Continent. The Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire were both countries that had formed feudal slavery, and their productivity and production levels had also been extremely improved.
The Dessa State that we are going to is a nomadic tribe descended from the Yin Shang. This is mainly because the land in Dessa State is relatively dry and is not suitable for the development of agriculture, but is only suitable for nomadic hunting.
The nomadic tribes in Golden Continent are very different from the nomadic tribes in other parts of the world.
Like the grassland nomadic tribes in Central Asia, they are nomadic, but they herd cattle and sheep and live in pursuit of water and grass. However, the nomadic tribes here in Golden Continent are different. They do not raise cattle and sheep themselves, but live in pursuit of water and grass.
The main focus is hunting. When the prey in one place is almost exhausted, they will move to another place to hunt, or follow the prey around.
To be precise, they are a hunting tribe, not a nomadic tribe. Gu Yan
This is the same as the indigenous people here in Australia, and the same is true for the original indigenous people here in Australia. They mainly focus on hunting, constantly moving from place to place, and after hunting in one area, they go to another area.
After several days of walking, the expedition team led by Wen Yongzheng also began to enter the territory of Texas.
Different from the division of state capitals in later generations, during this period, because the Ming Dynasty had very few people in Golden Continent, until now, after many years of efforts by the Ming Dynasty people to immigrate and create people.
Even if children are considered the largest proportion, the total number of Ming people in Golden Continent is only about 10 million. Even if this is a small population, the key is that the population is still concentrated in immigrant towns in coastal areas.
There are hundreds of large and small immigrant towns all over the Golden Continent, with a population of tens of millions spread out, making this place extremely sparsely populated.
Therefore, the division of administrative regions is quite rough. The entire Golden Continent is only divided into three provinces: North, Central and South, and the state capitals under each province are very large.
The current state capital of Texas is quite large, almost equivalent to the state of California in later generations, plus this large area in northern Mexico, all of which fall under the jurisdiction of Texas.
After arriving in Texas, Wen Yongzheng's expedition team began a boring exploration life.
The first step is to choose a place, set up camp on the spot, and then start exploring and backtesting the surrounding terrain maps to look for areas that may have water sources or oil.
After that, it was boring, constantly using the steam engine to drive the drill bit to drill in one place after another, looking for oil.
The whole process is extremely boring and tedious, because we know that we may not be able to find oil even if we drill 100 times, but we still have to drill over and over again to keep looking for oil.
They are busy during the day, and at night, others can relax with their arms around the slaves and have a good sleep, or if they meet the tribe of descendants of the Yin Shang, they can also spend a night as guests of the descendants of the Yin Shang tribe.
Leave some new seeds for these Yin Shang tribes.
But Wen Yongzheng couldn't do it. At night, he had to draw maps all night, sum up experience, and record every day's exploration records in detail. This was a requirement of the trading company and must be submitted.
What's more, if you work with a salary from a trading company, you must be loyal to the company. This is the most basic moral quality and professional ethics of Ming people today.
The commercial banks are constantly pouring out large amounts of money. If you don't discover even a few oil fields in the end, you won't be able to deliver the business, not to mention the possibility of losing your job and recruitment.
"What kind of terrain will have oil?"
"It stands to reason that, based on the terrain structure, this oil should be the same as water and would only be found in recessed areas of the geological structure."
"I have already explored the surrounding terrain and terrain clearly. If there is oil, it must be in this area. However, I have drilled several wells in succession, but still no oil has been found. That means that this area
There is no oil."
"I'm going to move to another place tomorrow and give it a try."
Wen Yongzheng kept summarizing that geographical exploration is not an easy task. There are many things that need to be done. Exploring every day, drawing every day, and not analyzing every day to prepare for the next day's exploration and drilling.
"Master, it's time to rest."
At this time, two young girls with blond hair and blue eyes wearing silk pajamas walked in and reminded them warmly that they were European female slaves bought by Wen Yongzheng. They belonged to Wen Yongzheng alone and were here to provide him with daily life, food and clothing.
It's a bit like the stand-in maids before the Ming Dynasty. They did a lot of things, but they didn't have any status.
Wen Yongzheng took one look at them, and immediately felt a surge of passion. He packed up his visiting notes and information, hugged them left and right, and went to have a good time.
