On the high loess slopes of northern Shaanxi, a group of shirtless men were shouting slogans and struggling to lift the drilling equipment. The water in the steam engine boiler next to it had already boiled, and they were waiting for the equipment to start rotating after it was installed.
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"Woooo~woooo~"
Accompanied by bursts of whistles and driven by steam engines, the drilling began to drill crazily. Everyone was looking forward to this well being able to produce the oil that everyone had been waiting for.
"It's been more than a month and we still haven't found any oil."
"Is there any oil in this Luyan area?"
"Why do people from Daming Petroleum Company always find oil fields easily, but we haven't found any oil fields at all?"
Fang Ming looked at the geological map that was surveyed. Logically speaking, there should be oil here, but several wells have been drilled, but no oil fields have been found.
"Maybe we have to change places."
"There is news from the trading company, saying that people from the Daming Petroleum Trading Company have developed several large oil fields in Yulin, and now many drilling teams from the trading companies have followed them to Yulin."
Qiu Kaiwen thought for a long time and then said after thinking about it.
Nowadays, oil exploration in northern Shaanxi is very popular. The exploration team of Daming Petroleum Company, Sangong Petroleum Company, Sihai Oil Company, Zhang's Petroleum Company, Li's Oil Company, Guangming Company, etc., there are more than a dozen oil companies.
The drilling team of the trading company came to northern Shaanxi to look for oil.
The demand for oil in the Beijing-Tianjin region is increasing. Oil for lighting, oil for internal combustion engines, and the demand for oil for other purposes have made oil in short supply. And with everyone's research on internal combustion engines and automobiles, everyone has
Everyone also knows the importance of oil.
There are more and more people looking for oil, extracting oil, and smelting oil behind the Daming Oil Trading Company. Now, only the powerful large trading companies are doing this. In the future, I am afraid there will be more
People came looking for oil.
Now in the entire Ming Dynasty, the only places known to have oil are Luyan, Yulin and Jiuquan in Gansu. There are currently many oil exploration teams in these two places detecting oil.
"Yulin?"
When Fang Ming heard this, he immediately opened the map, looked at it and said, "It's just north of us, not far away. Should we go there quickly? Maybe we can find oil in the surrounding areas."
"The trading house seems to be very anxious about oil."
"Well, if there is no result today, we will go to Yulin tomorrow!"
Qiu Kaiwen pondered for a while, thought about it and nodded.
The next day, without any results, Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming had to rush to Yulin with their drilling team.
"Sangong Oil Trading Company has discovered a large oil field. Sangong Oil Company has discovered a large oil field."
"Zhang's Petroleum Trading Company has also discovered a large oil field. Zhang's Petroleum Trading Company has also discovered a large oil field."
Not long after arriving in Yulin, news of another large oil field in Yulin spread quickly.
When Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming heard this, they quickly rode their horses to the place where the oil field was discovered.
Majiagou, where Sangong Oil Company discovered the oil field.
When Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming arrived, people from Sangong Oil Trading Company were already working on oil extraction. As soon as the relevant equipment was installed and the switch was turned on, the dark oil surged out, and in the blink of an eye it was filled with oil.
Bucket, this is just like putting tap water.
Barrels after barrels of oil soon filled a full carriage, and the driver immediately drove the carriage to Xi'an, and then transported it to the Beijing-Tianjin area by train.
"How much does a barrel of oil cost now?"
Fang Ming looked at the dark oil like running water, thought for a while and asked.
"It is said that in the Beijing-Tianjin area, the price of a barrel of oil has reached more than 100 Wen. The smelted kerosene, gasoline and the like can now be sold for more than 200 Wen per barrel of 50 kilograms."
"A bucket costs more than 100 yuan. It's like running water. How many buckets can flow out in a day?"
When Fang Ming heard this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly.
Look at the black oil that is still pouring out in front of you. More than a dozen oil barrels are filled with oil at the same time. They are full in a short time. It costs only one tael of silver to be transported to the Beijing-Tianjin area.
At the end of the day, you can't easily earn hundreds or thousands of taels of silver?
Where is the oil flowing out? This is dark gold.
Thinking of this, the two people immediately understood why the big shots in the Beijing-Tianjin area are now desperately looking for oil. If they find a sip of oil, they can make money in the future.
“It’s really profitable to drill for oil!”
Fang Ming couldn't help but swallowed his saliva, and an idea came to his mind unconsciously, whether he could also look for oil alone and sell it to these oil companies.
The investment in an oil drilling team does not need to be too large. Just dozens of people and some equipment are enough. As long as an oil field can be found, it can be tens of thousands of taels of silver or hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. These oil
The trading house will also buy it.
This way you can make money much faster, and you can make more money than working for Sihai Trading Company.
If you work for Sihai Trading Company, you will receive dead wages. If you work alone, you will be your own boss. Risks and benefits coexist.
"Should we go out and do it alone?"
Fang Ming looked at Qiu Kaiwen beside him and asked in a low voice.
"It's not possible now. We must at least help the trading company find one or two oil fields and accumulate experience. It is also for our own reputation. In the future, we can really go out alone and specifically look for oil."
Qiu Kaiwen was really moved at this moment.
The oil well in front of me is an oil well, a perfect money printing machine. Once the valve is opened, billowing silver flows out of it. This black oil is as charming as gold at this moment.
Both Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming realized that a new wave of wealth was coming.
In the past, gold and silver were mined for gold, but now oil and black gold are mined.
"Go, go~"
"Hurry up and find oil. Find a few oil fields for the company. Let's accumulate experience first. This oil is profitable, but the investment is also large, and we don't know if we can find oil. If we can't find oil, the investment will be wasted.
Already."
"In other words, these large commercial banks have money, people, and strength, so they can afford it. If we want to go it alone, we must have enough experience and a certain amount of capital."
Qiu Kaiwen rode his horse and left without looking back.
Not a single oil field has been found yet, so they don't have the confidence to go it alone.
Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming came to Yulin with their own drilling equipment and began frantically searching for oil.
At the same time, the entire Yulin area began to become lively due to the emergence of oil.
Originally, Yulin was like other yellow lands. A large number of people had migrated out, leaving only some old people who were unwilling to leave. There were very few people. Countless land was deserted. Even the landlords and wealthy people chose to leave here.
However, as oil fields were discovered one after another, people who learned the news gathered one after another, and the landlords and wealthy people who left also returned one after another and began to dig holes on their own land to see if there was any oil.
Some landowners and wealthy landowners did not know that they had oil at first, so the large trading houses that discovered the oil bought the land for the land price. This also made these landlords and wealthy landlords cry for the land, but they were helpless.
Because these big commercial firms are all big commercial firms with strong backgrounds, you simply can't compete with them. What's more, when they first sold the land, these landlords and old wealthy people thought they had made a profit.
There is no point crying now. I can only watch helplessly where others are making money, but I feel extremely regretful.
A large number of landowners and wealthy people have returned to Yulin. At first, no one cared about the desolate land. Ten acres of land could not be sold for more than one tael of silver. Now, it is like a rocket, with skyrocketing prices.
Whenever someone comes to buy land, regardless of whether they have found oil or not, they will ask for dozens of taels of silver per acre. Some even ask for hundreds of taels of silver per acre.
Suddenly, land prices throughout Yulin skyrocketed, and landlords and wealthy landlords who had not been seen for a long time were patrolling their own land again, for fear of being robbed.
Occasionally, one or two lucky landowners actually dig out oil in their own land, and soon a large number of oil companies will come to buy it.
Daming Petroleum Company is the most wealthy and spends a lot of money. It often buys an oil field for tens of thousands of taels, or even throws away hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
Such a heroic act also greatly stimulated the development of oil exploration here in Yulin.
In less than two months, not only the oil exploration teams of major commercial banks, but also local landlords and wealthy people in Shaanxi and Yulin also began to organize manpower to explore for oil.
If you find a mouthful of oil and sell it, you can easily get it for tens of thousands of taels of silver. It can be said that you get rich overnight. If the oil field has a large oil storage capacity, it can be sold at a high price of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. This
For the northern Shaanxi region, which has always been poor, it is undoubtedly a feast of wealth.
