In Yulin, Shaanxi, oil wells stand on the Loess Plateau. As the oil wells rotate, rolling black oil continues to gush out, filling the oil barrels, and then four-wheeled carriages are continuously transported to Chang'an Prefecture.
Get on the train and transport it directly to various places in Daming.
"The price of oil has gone up again!"
"You can now buy a barrel for more than 200 yuan."
On a hillside, Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming sat together, looking at the oil fields in the valley, and talked again about whether to start a business in oil together.
Both of them are graduates of geological exploration and resource exploration. They have also been looking for oil in the past few years. They have accumulated a lot of experience and have a certain network of contacts.
It's just that the two of them came from ordinary poor families and had no money for them to do anything for them, so they have always worked in the oil company.
“It’s rising so fast, it’s more than 200 yuan per barrel in one go.”
When Fang Ming heard this, he couldn't help but sigh. In recent years, he has watched the price of oil rise steadily, becoming more and more expensive.
"Can it be expensive?"
"Nowadays, there are more and more cars, and motorcycles are coming out. Internal combustion engines are used everywhere, and all of them use oil. I heard that Daming Petroleum Company has also researched some other uses of oil, and it is used for
Lighting and stuff.”
"The demand for oil in our entire Ming Dynasty is very strong. I don't know how many barrels of oil are burned every day in the Beijing-Tianjin area alone."
Qiu Kaiwen said with a smile.
Nowadays, we have a good understanding of the entire petroleum industry, including the extraction, transportation, smelting and uses of petroleum.
"How about it?"
"How about we go out and do it alone?"
After hearing Qiu Kaiwen's words, Fang Ming fell silent immediately.
If you want to work alone, you definitely want to work alone. The extraction of oil is a very simple matter. It is rare to find oil. Once you find oil, mining is simple. Once the equipment is installed, the oil will flow out like tap water. You only need to use a bucket.
Just go and pretend, sit back and collect money from the transaction.
They know very well how profitable it is to exploit oil. In the past few years, they have found a lot of oil fields for commercial banks, and they have seen with their own eyes the rapid expansion of the scale, business, and profits of the commercial banks.
Originally it was just a trading company that did not receive much attention, but now it has attracted much attention from the owner, and even their prospectors and the like have received a lot of rewards.
"What are you going to do?"
Fang Ming looked at Qiu Kaiwen and asked.
"It's very simple. We first form an oil exploration team and look for oil everywhere. Once we find the oil field, we sell it to the big oil companies and earn our first pot of gold."
"When we have money, we are setting up our own oil trading company, looking for oil fields, and extracting oil ourselves. In the future, we will also smelt oil ourselves, so that we can maximize profits."
"I have already found out that the smelting of petroleum is actually very simple. It just requires distillation. Through distillation, kerosene, diesel, gasoline and other products can be obtained."
Qiu Kaiwen thought for a while and said, He had long wanted to go out on his own, but he had no money and couldn't do it even if he wanted to.
"If we just set up an oil exploration team, it would be possible if the two of us spent all the money, but it would only last a few months. If we don't find an oil field within a few months,
All the money we have saved over the past few years will be used up all at once.”
Fang Ming nodded and acknowledged Qiu Kaiwen's development ideas. However, oil exploration is not an easy task. There are too many things that need to be done. At least, an exploration team needs dozens of people. At the same time,
You also need to purchase a large amount of professional drilling equipment and the like.
Calculating the wages of dozens of people, they amount to nearly 200 taels of silver a month. Coupled with various equipment, the money the two of them have saved over the past few years will soon be spent.
"You must gamble in life. If you don't gamble, you won't even have a chance to win. You will just spend all your money. If you don't have it, we will just make more money."
"I don't want to work for others and be poor all my life."
Qiu Kaiwen said while looking at the vast Loess Plateau ahead.
"Okay, I'll bet with you once!"
Fang Ming looked at Qiu Kaiwen, and then nodded solemnly.
Soon they found the managers of their own firm and resigned to them, saying that they would work alone in the future. The managers of the firm also tried to persuade them to stay.
Fang Ming and Qiu Kaiwen had excellent skills and rich experience in drilling and exploration. They successively found several large oil fields for the company and brought a lot of benefits to the company.
Now that I have to go out and work alone, this will also be a loss for the company.
However, no matter how hard the trading company tried to persuade them to stay, the two of them left the company resolutely and immediately began to form their own exploration team without stopping.
Recruiting people, purchasing exploration equipment, purchasing horses and carriages, etc., the money they had accumulated over the past few years was like running water, and was spent in the blink of an eye.
It was faster than they expected, because the prices of many things have also risen significantly, especially the price of oil drilling equipment has also skyrocketed with the surge in oil prices.
With no money in their hands, the two of them had to borrow money from everywhere and scrape together things. Finally, they managed to get another few hundred taels of silver to get the exploration team started.
"There must be oil in this place!"
In a valley in Yulin, Qiu Kaiwen, who was all dirty, said with certainty to the drawn drawings.
The two have been busy on the Loess Plateau for two months, but they still haven't discovered an oil field, and the drilling team is almost running out of funds.
If they can't find any more oil fields, the two of them will really be in despair.
Not only have they spent several years of savings, but they are now also in debt. Thinking of these things, the two of them can't eat well, can't sleep well, and have lost a lot of weight.
Where is the relaxation and comfort of the past?
Even when I was dreaming, I was thinking about finding the oil field.
"Brothers, please work harder, work harder, and try to drill another well today!"
After careful analysis, Fang Ming felt that there must be oil fields in the land in front of him, so he quickly shouted to the guys in his drilling team.
"My boss, it's not that the brothers are lazy, nor is it that the brothers are deliberately looking for trouble."
"The cow has time to rest while doing its work, right? The horse has to stop and eat grass after running for a long time, right?"
"We guys have been working with our boss for so long. We don't get any bonuses. We work so hard every day. We work for more than 10 hours a day. At least we can let you guys rest, rest, and come back to drill this well tomorrow, right?"
"Yes, boss, it's already six o'clock. It will take until eight or nine o'clock in the evening to finish drilling this well. We have been working all day today, so it's time for everyone to take a rest."
However, these guys under me quit.
The salary offered by the two of them is not high, only 5 taels of silver a month. That is to say, here in Shaanxi, if you are in the Beijing-Tianjin area, even women will not work for you, let alone doing manual labor, which is very tiring, and there are no seven
For eight taels of silver a month, you can't recruit anyone at all.
Even if the salary is low, the key is that the working hours are long. In order to drill more, Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming got everyone up very early and let everyone go to rest very late.
The food is also very average. Other drilling teams and oil exploration teams slaughter sheep and pigs every three days and eat meat openly. Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming have enough rice and noodles every day, and there is no leftover.
What I bought was cheap salted fish.
Everyone is also complaining about this. Some people no longer want to work, and want to go to other trading companies, drilling teams, etc.
"Brother Wang~"
"Brother Li~"
"Brother Liu~"
"Brothers, I know that you have suffered a lot and suffered a lot following the two of us. We have indeed wronged everyone."
"But we won't let everyone suffer in vain. Now we don't have much money to give everyone rewards, but as long as we find oil."
"When the time comes, I promise that I will give 10% of the profits to everyone as a reward. In addition, as long as we recover, our wages, food, etc. will also be on par with other drilling teams."
"After I have money, I will buy some female slaves for you guys to come back and warm your bed."
Qiu Kaiwen saw that the workers were in a mood, and after thinking for a while, he smiled and talked to everyone.
Obviously, this is the technology and method to draw a big pie.
They need money. They really don’t have any money now. It’s almost the end of the month. Everyone’s salary is still low. They are both trying to find ways to scrape together money. Almost everything they have saved over the past few years has been spent.
All gone.
"Since my boss has said this, we guys should work harder and drill this well."
"Yeah, yeah, I'm tired anyway, let's try again~"
"Master, are you really going to buy us some female slaves?"
"Haha, look at your eyes gleaming, hurry up and get to work."
After listening to Qiu Kaiwen's words, everyone suddenly lost their emotions. People are like this. Sometimes they just like to be attracted by the painted pie.
Seeing that everyone was willing to continue working, Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming hurried over to work together, carrying equipment, setting up machines, starting machines, etc. They were so busy that it was completely dark, and they were busy until 10 o'clock in the evening.
Very busy.
"Drill!"
There were torches lit all around. Although Qiu Kaiwen was very tired, he still gave orders excitedly.
Soon, with the roar of the machine, the drill began to drill down continuously. Everyone watched silently until a black liquid gushes out.
"It's oily! It's oily!"
Qiu Kaiwen and Fang Ming couldn't help roaring when they saw the oil pouring out.
