Boss Yang's words immediately caused the Chinese workers to talk among themselves. People who can travel thousands of miles away to Australia to dig for gold will naturally not care about such trivial things as murder and arson. Anyway, gold mining is about making money, and being a mercenary is also about making money.
You can earn more, why not? Human life is not worth much these days. For Chinese workers like these who work hard all year round, it is good if they can have enough to eat on weekdays. It is not a big deal to risk your life if there is an opportunity to make a fortune.
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Therefore, except for a very small number, the vast majority of Chinese workers chose to become mercenaries.
Boss Yang nodded with satisfaction. Of course, he did not expect to obtain a loyal army in this way. This would have to be coordinated with the future brain and material desires. It would be best to create some miracles and establish a personality cult. In short, to deal with these
He has a lot of tricks up his sleeve for most of the little brats who don't even know their words.
Of course, he doesn't have the time yet. He must first train these scattered Chinese workers into an army. This job will be left to the security guards he brought from the UK. The combat effectiveness of the lobsters in this era is still very impressive, especially in
In terms of discipline, if there is no strict discipline, such work as queuing up and shooting is impossible. First, give them half a year to train these Chinese workers into machines.
As for the equipment of these people, this is easy to deal with. Each person wears a high imitation lobster suit. There is no need to fight anyway. The clothes are still very effective in bluffing people. The rifle is naturally a Lee Enfield. In fact, the British army used it at this time.
The Lee Metford rifle was made by himself in Bofors. As for the other items such as grenades, mortars, and Maxims, they were all indispensable. The artillery made do with those two first.
Mengrusen's 57 cannon, I will replace it with a new one after the 75 Miss from Bofors comes out.
In this way, his military base was officially established. The Chinese workers who did not join the mercenary army served as logistics personnel, building houses, building roads, grazing sheep, and even clearing wasteland for farming. The mercenaries of Umbrella Company were responsible for patrolling the territory.
and the smooth flow of transportation lines, and by the way, to clean up the few indigenous people nearby. As for the British security guards, except for the 100 people who protected him and continued to live happily in Western Australia, the remaining 100 people acted as officers and were responsible for leading the 500
A Chinese mercenary.
It was not until the merchant ship carrying arms arrived that Boss Yang sadly announced that his investment in Australia had failed. However, this did not affect his determination to develop in Western Australia. Employees of Yang's Mining Company will continue to stay here for prospecting. As for
How could he, with such a noble status, stay in such a remote place? Naturally, he wanted to return to Europe.
When the Nautilus arrived in London, the news that he had failed to invest in Western Australia and lost a large sum of money had spread throughout Europe. This made many people snicker, but their laughter did not last long, because immediately after this came from
China's mysterious upstart just got a big deal.
After a round trip of tens of thousands of kilometers, the British Admiralty finally determined the value of diesel engines. Swedish Young Power Systems Company and Armstrong Company jointly received orders for two diesel-powered destroyers, although they were only two small experimental ships.
destroyer, but this order is of great significance, because it also means that this company, which has just been established for more than a year, has officially entered the world's largest British naval weapons procurement market.
What's more important is that the British Navy is the weather vane of the entire world at this time. As long as the British Navy uses diesel engines, the navies of all other countries will be eyeing this kind of thing. When the time comes, orders will fly into Yang Feng's hands like a snowflake.
"Your Excellency, Baron, are you interested in cooperating in oil exploration?" On the deck of the Nautilus, Yang Feng, who was proud of the spring breeze, asked Baron Rothschild, who was invited as his guest, while basking in the sun.
The emergence of diesel engines has begun to reduce the original surplus oil production. At this time, the most important oil-producing areas are Baku and the United States, as well as Myanmar's Yan'anqiang, and the Middle East, the main supplier of oil to the world in later generations.
There were no real large oil fields at that time. The first large oil field in the Middle East was the Masjid Suleiman Oil Field in Iran, which was discovered in 1908 and has since been controlled by the British Petroleum Company.
The goal of this product is to make the oil in the Middle East a target of competition for various countries decades in advance.
"Yang, do you have any good investment targets?" Baron Rothschild said with a smile. This is a hot spot for investment now, especially since the Navy has begun to purchase diesel engines, which has greatly stimulated investors' confidence in the oil industry.
With the funding of countless wealthy British people, exploration teams one after another are traveling around the world. Even when Boss Yang went to Western Australia, many people speculated that he was looking for oil.
This is not surprising, considering that he had just built an oil refinery before he left.
"Of course." Yang Feng said lightly.
"Western Australia?" Baron Rothschild said with a knowing smile. It seems that this old fox is too smart.
"No, no, Your Excellency Baron, I think you have misunderstood me on this point. I really didn't harvest anything in Western Australia except a piece of wasteland for grazing." Yang Feng said with a bitter look, but then he
Then he said: "Although I didn't find anything I wanted there, I do know that there is a large oil field in another place. You should know my Jewish friend who died in Russia, right?"
This guy started making up stories again.
Rothschild nodded. The story of Boss Yang and his friend's family is almost known to everyone in the UK. How could he not know?
"Actually, my friend's death was not what I said. They didn't even die in Russia, but in Persia." Yang Feng lowered his voice and said mysteriously.
"Persia?" Baron Rothschild shouted cooperatively.
"At that time, he was leading an exploration team there to search for oil, and I was a member of the exploration team. We discovered a large oil field in Persia, but unfortunately we were attacked by a group of bandits.
He is the only survivor." Yang Feng wrote another version of the story in a very sad tone.
Baron Rothschild believed this. As for Yang Feng's previous story, except for those little girls who like to fantasize, no adult would believe it, especially after the large-scale launch of Jinyuan Company's other products.
No one even believes this story.
"Are you sure it's a big oil field?" Baron Rothschild said.
"Your Majesty, Baron, don't worry. This oil field is unimaginably large, but unfortunately I don't have the ability to develop it on my own. You have to know that opening an oil field there is not something you can do just by having money, but if
It will be different with your joining." Yang Feng said sincerely.
"What about the shares?" said Baron Rothschild.
"Half for each person." Yang Feng said.
"Yang, you have to know that what I invest is not just money." Baron Rothschild said calmly.
"Your Excellency Baron, I don't just invest money." Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Four six, I am six and you are four."
"Your Excellency, Baron, there is no need for people with our status to bargain like street vendors, right?" Yang Feng said.
"This involves an issue of management rights. If it's 50-50, who will make the decision in our company?" Baron Rothschild said.
"How about we try another way. If it's just you and me sharing such a treasure, I think it's a bit inappropriate and unfair to other friends. Why don't we bring His Highness Victor in, and each of us will have 100% of it?"
Forty or twenty percent belongs to His Highness Victor, so any differences in the future will be easier to resolve." Yang Feng thought for a moment and said.
Rothschild looked at him for a moment, shrugged and said, "Why not?"
Now that it’s determined, it’s natural to look for the fool. Of course, it’s better to look for him than to look for his housekeeper, the vampire! Eric is of course very interested in this investment. Who doesn’t know that investing in oil is a huge profit nowadays, as diesel and gasoline engines are popular
With such speed, cars will be everywhere in Europe in less than two years. If it is extended to the sea, the oil supply will increase crazily. It can be said that as long as there is an oil field, it is equivalent to a treasure.
However, he and Rothschild were not stupid. The condition of their cooperation was that Yang Feng must be able to find the oil field, otherwise he and Rothschild would have to pay for their losses.
"Of course there is no problem with this." Boss Yang said, patting his chest, but he also added that in the future, the security of Imperial Oil must be handled by his Umbrella Company of the United States.
Neither Rothschild nor the vampires have any objections to this. The British Empire’s trademark is the largest protective umbrella of Imperial Oil. The rest is nothing more than trivial matters such as fire prevention, theft prevention and banditry. Using American mercenaries is more expensive than recruiting them from the UK.
Much lower, and those Yankees are better suited for the job.
"Actually, judging from the geological structure, Persia will definitely not only have this one oil field. How about we simply buy the entire oil exploration rights in Persia?" Yang Feng put forward a new suggestion.
Baron Rothschild and Eric looked at each other, and then Eric said: "In that case, I'm afraid we will have to include the Persian royal family among our collaborators, otherwise it will be difficult to monopolize the entire Persian oil."
"Then let's give him some credit. Each of our three families will give up part of the shares and allocate them together to the Persian royal family. If it does not exceed 12%, I think we can consider it." Yang Feng said.
His main purpose in setting up this oil company is not to make money. Naturally, he hopes that the ingredients will be as complex as possible. When there are more people, there will be more disagreements! Without disagreements, there would be no war. Without war, what would his mercenaries be doing idle?
So an oil giant named Imperial Oil was born. The next step was the establishment of the company. Yang Feng did not need to worry about this. Rothschild had many talents. All legal procedures were quickly completed, and the office was set up.