"Back to Your Majesty the Sultan, a large amount of oil has indeed been discovered in the two river basins, but we don't know how to mine or smelt oil ourselves, so we still need to rely on the Ming people."
Everyone, please go and try it soon.]
"But the Ming Dynasty people feel that the situation here in the Mesopotamia is not stable. We and the Persians have repeatedly competed for this place, so they do not dare to really spend money to buy our oil fields for fear that they will lose everything."
When Ibrahim heard this, he also said quickly.
Since large amounts of oil were discovered in the Persian Gulf, the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Egypt have launched a fierce competition for the two river basins.
Especially in recent years, with the popularization of internal combustion engines and the rapid development of the Ming Empire's automobile industry, the demand for oil has increased, and the Ming Empire's own oil production is far from being able to meet its own needs.
The price of oil is getting higher day by day. The oil in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf has naturally become a gold mine and a silver mine in the eyes of everyone. The competition has become even more fierce. As a result, many wars have broken out between the two sides.
The river basin also changed hands repeatedly.
“Can’t we extract oil ourselves and sell it to the Ming people?”
Su Laiman thought for a while and said.
He is very short of money now. He needs money everywhere. He urgently needs the oil from the Mesopotamia and Mesopotamia to bring him a steady stream of funds. However, in this area, both Persia and Egypt are eyeing it. Especially Persia, it is desperate.
They refused to give up here and fought even if they couldn't win. In short, they were constantly competing for this area with the Ottoman Empire.
"If we mine oil ourselves, we need to spend a lot of money to buy related equipment and transportation vehicles from the Ming people. This investment is relatively large, and it is not stable. Once it is robbed by the Persians, it will be equivalent to
Made a wedding dress for the Persians."
Ibrahim stressed again helplessly.
"In this way, we can only watch helplessly where the gold and silver mountains are, but we can't get any benefits?"
Su Laiman immediately said extremely dissatisfied.
There is a large amount of oil in the sky, but I can only watch it and have no way to turn the oil into money. This feels really uncomfortable.
"Unless we can completely defeat the Persians and Egyptians and firmly control the two river basins in our hands, those Ming merchants will not invest."
"Here in the Persian Gulf, the Ming people have two colonies. In both colonies, a large amount of oil has been discovered. This oil is enough for the Ming people to use for many years. They are not very anxious to exploit our oil now.
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Ibrahim nodded helplessly.
There is really no way now. We have to rely on the Ming people for everything. If we have the technology to mine it, we can mine the oil ourselves and sell it to Ming businessmen. They are still willing to buy the oil.
Petroleum can not only be used to smelt gasoline, diesel, kerosene, etc., but can also be used in the chemical industry. It has many uses. The market demand in the Ming Empire is very huge.
In addition, the demand for oil in the South African colonies is second only to the Ming Empire, which is also very huge. Oil has not yet been discovered in the South African colonies, so they all rely on imports. The main source of oil is tea from the Persian Gulf.
Ling Colony and Zhang Colony.
"Persians, Egyptians!"
Thinking of the Persians and Egyptians, Suleiman had a headache.
The Egyptians didn't have much. His father almost destroyed Egypt back then. If the Ming Dynasty hadn't intervened in the end and used the excuse of protecting the canal, Egypt would have perished.
The decadent Mamluk dynasty has long been corrupt, extremely corrupt, and nothing to worry about.
However, the Egyptians relied on the considerable profits brought by the Egyptian canal. In addition to making the Mamluk nobles more decadent, they also used silver to purchase a large number of arms and weapons, making Egypt stronger and more ambitious.
He got up too.
The real headache is the Persians. The Persian Empire has a large territory, a large population, and a long history. The key is that Yinsmayi I is also a heroic leader of the world, with great talents, ambitions and vision.
Persia is one of the few independent countries that has a good relationship with the Ming Empire but is not a vassal state of the Ming Empire. It relies on good relations with the Ming Empire in all aspects.
The Persian Empire has always received many benefits from the Ming Empire, including low-interest and preferential loans, arms and weapons, port and shipbuilding assistance, etc.
So much so that Persia not only competed with the Ottoman Empire for the two river basins, but also had a large colony in West Africa, and was also fighting fiercely with the Spanish.
In addition, Persia also has a very good relationship with Korea, a vassal state of the Ming Empire, and they are still allies against Spain. Persia also has good relations with some vassal states and colonies of the Ming Empire, including Hening State, Chu State, and the South African Colony.
We have a good relationship and the trade exchanges are very close and frequent.
Although the Ottoman Empire has been suppressing the Persians since its ancestors and defeated the Persians time and time again, it has never been able to completely defeat the Persians.
Especially in recent years, Persia, under the leadership of Yinsma'il I, has gradually become stronger, and its foreign diplomatic strategy has also been successful. It has reached a unanimous alliance agreement with the Egyptian Empire in the Mesopotamia.
Successfully plundered the Mesopotamia and drove the Ottomans back to the highlands of Asia Minor.
"How can we completely occupy the two river basins?"
Suleiman began to think hard.
On the other side, the northern region of the Persian Gulf falls within the territory of the Persian Empire.
Yinsmayi I rode a horse to a construction site where an oil field was being explored.
Yinsmayi I attached great importance to oil because it was his current main source of income.
In the past, there were no special products in Persia. They could only mine lapis lazuli in exchange for some foreign exchange. Other than that, there was nothing else that could be exchanged for foreign exchange.
Therefore, the Persian Empire has always been very poor, which greatly restricted the development of the Persian Empire and also prevented Yinsmayi I from realizing his ambitions.
Until recent years, as the Ming Dynasty started a new round of industrial revolution dominated by internal combustion engines, the demand for oil has increased rapidly, the price of oil has become higher and higher, and a large number of oil fields have been discovered in the Persian Gulf.
This made the life of Yin Simayi I easier.
The Persian Empire also discovered a lot of oil fields on the northern shore of the Persian Gulf. By exploiting these oil fields, Yinsma'i finally began to have some money at its disposal.
Therefore, Emperor Yin Simayi I attached great importance to oil exploration from the beginning. He did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hire a professional exploration team and mining team from the Ming Empire to explore and extract oil.
Unlike the Ming Empire, which directly sells oil to oil companies after discovering it, after oil exploration in the Persian Empire, they often spend a lot of money to buy Ming mining equipment to extract the oil themselves, and then sell the extracted oil.
To the merchants of Ming Dynasty, although the initial investment was larger, all the profits in the later period would go to themselves, and a steady stream of money would flow into their pockets.
Yin Simayi I looked at the busy construction site in front of him. As the drilling rig driven by the internal combustion engine started, the long drilling rig began to drill underground continuously to obtain underground information.
The Persians he sent to assist were constantly busy, while the Ming engineers gathered together one by one, talking and laughing, looking very relaxed.
Thinking of these Ming people, Yin Simayi I also felt a headache. These Ming drilling engineers were all uncles, and they were very difficult to serve. The Persian Empire offered them a high salary of several hundred taels a month, which made it difficult.
Found some people who are willing to come to Persia to work.
A few hundred taels of silver a month. This kind of income is really horribly high. The farmers in Persia, after working so hard for a year, can't even earn a few taels of silver.
However, these Ming people are not very happy even if they are given such high wages. They are reluctant to work for you because they are served by delicious food and beautiful women.
In their words, their technology is popular everywhere, and a monthly income of a few hundred taels is nothing. Many people in the Ming Dynasty have such an income.
Yin Simayi I knew that they were not bragging, because according to the latest statistics released by the Ming Dynasty Morning Post, the per capita income of the Ming Empire last year had reached a terrifying level of about 240 taels of silver per year.
There are many people in the Ming Dynasty who earn hundreds of taels per month and thousands of taels per year. These people are not bosses, they are people who have mastered professional techniques and skills. They rely on their own techniques and skills to achieve such income.
It is not terrible that a few people have such an income. What is really terrible is that the Ming Empire still has a population of more than 500 million. This is the most terrible thing.
With this casual calculation, you can know how rich the people of Ming Dynasty are. It is really terrible.
"Yashal, how many new oil fields have been discovered now?"
Yin Simayi I shook his head slightly and did not think about the Ming people. There was really no way to compare. Compared with the Ming Empire, Persia was nothing at all. The gap was really too big.
"Your Majesty, in the past six months, our family has successively discovered more than 30 new oil fields, which is expected to increase our monthly income by more than 500,000 taels of silver."
Yashar on the side also quickly replied that he was the Minister of Petroleum appointed by Yinsmayi I and was specifically responsible for petroleum matters.
"Well, not bad, not bad!"
Yin Simayi I nodded with satisfaction, then looked in the direction of the Mesopotamia and said: "It would be great if we could truly occupy the Mesopotamia. Dozens of oil fields have been discovered by casual exploration.
