Chapter 1712, worthy of the name of the Golden Continent
On a plain somewhere in the North Golden Continent of Texas, a team led by Wen Yongzheng is drilling.
"Woooo~woooo~"
The boiling water in several steam engines is boiling hot, and a large amount of steam hits the whistle, making bursts of whistle sound. Along with the steam piston, the drill shaft driven by steam power is constantly working, which has a bit of steampunk flavor.
in.
"Hey yo, hey yo~"
Next to the drilling machine, many strong white European slaves were busy shouting slogans.
As slaves of the Ming Dynasty, they had despair and thought of resisting, but in the end they had to accept this reality.
At least, the people of Ming Dynasty treated them well, they had enough food, and their food was much better than when they were in Europe.
Many people at the bottom of society in Europe can only eat horse bread, black bread and the like every day, but here, they can eat corn, sweet potatoes, rice, noodles, and basically some vegetables and
Fish can also be eaten with your belly open.
In the words of the Ming Dynasty people, even the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. Having enough food is the most basic thing.
Of course, this is also related to the extremely abundant food here in Golden Continent. The food output here is really too high and very cheap. It is so cheap that many people are not willing to grow food.
As for fish meat, this is especially true. The large fish farms (Newfoundland fish farms) near the north are extremely rich in fishery resources. They produce too many fish. The meat is of good quality and the price is extremely cheap. When dried,
Dried fish is sold all over the place, and you can feed your slaves with just a little money.
In addition to being able to eat well, the clothes are not bad, at least much better than when they were in Europe. The cloth of the Ming Dynasty people is very cheap, and the price of ordinary clothes is cheap. As slaves, they have regular supplies.
Clothes, shoes and hair.
Of course, no one wants to be a slave, but if you run away, the Ming people will kill you without mercy, and you can work for the Ming people in peace.
If you perform well enough, you can gain freedom after working for a few years, become a fifth-class citizen of the Ming Empire, and own your own land here. Even if your performance is average, if you can work until you are sixty years old, you will definitely gain freedom.
People in the Ming Dynasty are very particular about respecting the old and loving the young. Since ancient times, there have not been many elderly people over sixty years old. They are worthy of respect. Even if you are a slave, if you can live to this age, you must be free and let you live as a free person.
to age with dignity.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this series of measures taken by the Ming Dynasty that even though there are a large number of European slaves in Golden Continent, there have been very few major riots.
There is nothing wrong with being a slave. At least the Ming people will not interfere with their beliefs. If you believe in God, they will respect it. Some people will even respect it. In their words, all gods are worthy of respect.
, whether it is Buddha, Taoist ancestors, or the God that Europeans believe in.
Wen Yongzheng carefully inspected the soil drilled from the underground. Based on the distribution of the soil, he could map out the underground terrain structure and then find where there was oil.
"If there is oil, it should be in this area!"
Wen Yongzheng finished the careful exploration and said with great certainty.
"It is indeed true. The soil drilled in this area shows that this is a basin structure. This kind of structure is the easiest to store water. We have discovered several places with water where we drilled wells."
Wen Yongzheng's body, deputy Xiao Yan nodded and said.
"Drill two more wells at these locations to try. If they don't work, we can evacuate here and go to the next location."
Wen Yongzheng quickly calculated on the map, then pointed to a place a few hundred meters away and said.
"Okay~"
Xiao Yan nodded and immediately shouted: "Everyone, move the equipment to these locations and drill two more wells in these locations. If not, we will evacuate here and go to the next place."
Under Xiao Yan's arrangement, many slaves began to get busy quickly.
Although they don't understand why these Ming people are drilling all over the ground, they don't know what they are looking for, but it doesn't look like they are looking for gold and silver. It is said that they are looking for a kind of black oil. As long as they can drill out Black oil, they are successful.
But as slaves, all they have to do is do what they are told.
In fact, it is quite good to go out with the expedition team to do things. You can walk around. Moreover, these Ming people are all knowledgeable and learned people. The working hours are strictly according to the daily working hours. They take a break when the time is up. You can also take a rest.
This is much more comfortable than staying in the plantation and working day and night. Moreover, I have long been tired of seeing the plantation. However, following the expedition team, you can walk around, enjoy the mountains and rivers, and your mood will be better. Be better.
Moreover, the expedition team also brought many female slaves with them, and some of them were used to entertain these slaves, so everyone was very active in doing things. After finishing the work, you can sit under the tree and rest, and they didn't care much about you. Anyway, just don't think about escaping.
There are also some people from the Ming Dynasty who have nothing to do every day. They just watch these slaves. They all ride horses, have bows, arrows, swords and rockets. They are all retired soldiers. They can kill several of them at will. .
Glutinous rice
"Woo~"
Soon, two brand new drilling wells were set up, and with the whine of the steam engine whistle, drilling began again.
"Pfft~"
For a long time, when no one was paying attention, with a sound, a black water column sprayed out from the drilling machine, covering several slaves around them in black.
"Black oil!"
When the people around saw it, they couldn't help shouting excitedly.
"Is there really oil?"
Wen Yongzheng and Xiao Yan, who were drawing, heard the sound and hurried over. When they saw the black liquid continuously spraying out from the well mouth, they also laughed happily.
"Haha, I found it, I really found it!"
"There is actually oil here!"
"Block the well!"
Wen Yongzheng was so excited that he hurriedly collected the sprayed black oil and compared it carefully.
Put some oil aside, use a little fire, and it will immediately burst into flames. As the oil burns, a pungent smell will permeate the air.
"Haha, we found our first oil field!"
"Call the sample immediately and make records!"
Wen Yongzheng quickly began to give orders.
"Yes~"
Upon hearing this, the dozen or so students who had graduated from geography majors quickly got busy. The people who collected the samples collected and recorded them in detail. They even started to mark the places and record them in detail.
It is convenient for later commercial banks to successfully find the locations of these oil fields through their records and marks. This is not an easy task, because even if they have mastered the method of calculating longitude and latitude, the earth is really too big.
, it may not be very accurate in many cases.
Therefore, it is necessary to use many reference objects on the ground. Of course, the most important thing is to rely on the map they drew. Later, the location of the oil field can be accurately found through the map.
Soon, oil was also discovered at the head of another well being drilled. Wen Yongzheng, Xiao Yan and others were busy again until it was almost dark, and then they roughly assessed the size of the oil field.
In the days that followed, Wen Yongzheng and Xiao Yan's luck seemed to be getting better and better. Almost every few days, they were able to discover a new oil field.
In just half a month, they had discovered oil fields one after another.
"This area should contain a large amount of oil. We have discovered several oil fields in this area, and according to our calculations, the reserves of these oil fields should be large."
"Well, that's true~"
"Although this area looks relatively deserted, I didn't expect it to contain rich oil resources. When the time comes, we will have to buy this area with a radius of hundreds of miles. There will definitely be more than just these few oil fields here."
"I want to buy it. The price of land is extremely cheap now. It probably doesn't cost more than a thousand taels of silver to buy this large piece of land."
“I just don’t know what the oil is used for?”
"Now it seems that apart from being able to burn, it doesn't seem to have much use. Moreover, when it burns, it smokes too much and has a pungent smell, which is not ideal."
"We don't need to know what its use is. We can just do our own thing well. It's not like you don't know who is behind our firm. There are some things we don't need to know. We just need to do it according to the orders from above.
That’s it.”
Wen Yongzheng and Xiao Yan kept discussing the map.
"Hmm~"
"This Golden Continent really deserves the name of the Golden Continent. It is really rich in resources. This oil is very rare in our Ming Dynasty. I didn't expect it to be so rich here."
