The progress of the Allied air defense weapons has forced the Germans to consider improving their own airships. In fact, it is not difficult to improve. The key is to replace the hydrogen inside with helium. There is no need to completely replace it. A mixture of hydrogen and helium is enough. Of course
Then they have to buy helium from China.
Emperor Yang naturally fully supports the Germans' request to buy helium. He is now worried that William did not bomb London hard enough! In fact, the gains from the German airship air raid on London are not huge, and it has caused great harm to the British so far.
The casualties were less than 10,000, which is not worth mentioning for a megacity with a population of millions. In other words, it only increases the hatred of the British towards him and creates some psychological panic, which has little practical significance.
Compared with the grand occasion of the Republic of China when hundreds of missiles were fired at Xiaoxi every day, such bombings had long made Emperor Yang full of resentment. To be honest, sometimes he even wanted to sell hundreds of bombers to William. Until now, Kunpeng Company
More than 400 Thunder bombers have been produced for him in Yanliang, but they are all stored in warehouses. Only 50 of them are used to train pilots at the flight training base in northern Shaanxi.
Of course, he was just thinking about it. Such a good thing must not be exposed to the outside world. As for William, it would be good to play with airships. Isn't it helium? China's helium factories are now experiencing a bit of overcapacity.
After years of development, China's domestic airship market has become saturated. There are five hundred airships flying in China's skies, including passenger and cargo transportation. These things will become obsolete in a few years. Naturally, there is no need to build too many airships.
If less is produced, less helium will naturally be purchased. Now of course he welcomes people buying in large quantities.
And in order to allow William to continue building airships, he also kept the price of helium low enough, which made William truly feel his friendship.
There will no longer be a full-scale war on the European battlefield in the short term. Except for the Netherlands, the Isonzo River, and Odessa, which are still in fierce battles, other fronts have basically fallen silent, including the British and German navies.
After the First World War, they all retreated to their military ports to lick their wounds. Needless to say, the British suffered heavy losses. The battleships of the German High Seas Fleet were also all covered in bruises. They only did not sink due to their good protective performance. Once they returned to Wilhelm
The port is basically in the dock.
Only German submarines are still active on various routes around the UK, making bloody news from time to time. However, the Germans' strangulation warfare is also very ineffective. It is not that their submarines are not working hard. It is that they dare not attack at sea now.
There were too many merchant ships sunk. Those flying the flags of China, the Ottoman Empire, Spain, Sweden, the Confederacy, and Mexico were all covered by Emperor Yang. William had long given strict orders to the submarine force, strictly prohibiting attacks on the merchant ships of these countries, but
In fact, at least half of the merchant ships transporting supplies to the UK belong to these countries. The restricted German submarines naturally achieved limited results.
There is nothing to worry about in Europe for the time being. Emperor Yang will naturally focus on the two major projects of Indonesia and South America. With the cooperation of the Attendant's Office and the Yang's Consortium's Business Intelligence Department and Military Intelligence Department, Minas Oilfield will soon be established.
The plan was officially launched.
First, an American employee of Shell who was exploring for oil in northern Sumatra, after carefully studying the geological structure of Sumatra, came to an exciting inference. There may be reserves in the swampy area in central Sumatra near the Strait of Malacca.
Extremely rich and super large oil fields.
At the same time, a professor from the Department of Geology of Hangzhou University in China also published papers in some academic journals. He believed that from a geological structure point of view, both sides of the Malacca Strait should be the most important oil storage areas in East Asia, and it is absolutely impossible to be as large as North Sumatra now.
A few small oil wells. Of course, this was just his personal inference. But considering the reputation of the professor, Shell immediately paid attention to the analysis report of the employee of its own company. But at this time the problem came, there were Acehnese people.
It was the main battlefield with the British army. If you went there to explore, you would be shot.
Fortunately, the weight of scallops is heavy enough, and the British governor of the Straits Settlements also has scallop stocks. Although the troops are now tight, a regiment of British troops and a division of Ah San were specially mobilized to carry out a large-scale operation for the scallop company.
The raids temporarily eliminated the Acehnese guerrillas in that area.
Immediately afterwards, the Scallop Company quickly organized manpower to conduct large-scale exploration under the leadership of the employee. As a result, less than half a month after the exploration, black crude oil gushes out of a drilling well. This news almost made the manager of the Scallop Company almost
I was so happy, but unfortunately after reporting this news to the British headquarters, I received a reply immediately, asking him to immediately seal the oil well and stop further exploration. As for industrial mining, let alone this for the time being, including this
All news must be blocked, and the outside world can only claim that no oil fields with industrial extraction value have been found.
The British are not stupid. Their current military strength in Asia is not enough to kill Emperor Yang with his spit. Moreover, Sumatra has always been a disaster area for overseas Chinese. Chinese businessmen have been thinking about that place for a long time, just because of the original production.
Spices, rubber, etc. are not worth breaking up with Britain. Once the news of a large oil field spreads, you will know how the Chinese will react. Besides, the war between Britain and Aceh is still ongoing.
Discovering such an oil field in the same place is definitely not a good thing for Britain.
Although he felt regretful, but after understanding the stakes involved, the manager of Scallop Company in Singapore blocked the news according to the instructions of the headquarters. However, the exploration team did not withdraw and continued to explore there covertly. This oil field could not escape anyway.
, Now Britain can't take care of it. When the war is over, China will no longer have to worry about it, and large-scale mining will naturally be possible. Moreover, the current situation there makes it impossible to carry out industrial mining. The monkeys' resistance must be suppressed first.
But it is a pity that they did not keep this secret. Not long after, a Chinese newspaper in Singapore exposed it, which scared the British. They quickly stared at the north in fear, waiting for the Chinese reaction. It was unexpected.
What they did not expect was that China's major oil giant Gulf Oil responded calmly, which also relieved the British. After all, this oil company owns three major oil fields in Confederation, Mexico and Shandong, China, and looked down upon them.
It's not surprising to know what's true or false.
However, it didn't take long for the Scallop Company to realize that it was wrong. Emperor Yang's greed was no less greedy than any capitalist in London.
The level of weapons in the hands of the Acehnese people suddenly increased sharply, and even light machine guns and large-caliber mortars appeared. The Ah Sans who were caught off guard were bombarded by 150-heavy mortars during the battle and the entire regiment ran away.
, and the British traitor in Aceh spread the news that these weapons were donated by Gulf Oil, and Gulf Oil is currently secretly negotiating with the Sultan of Aceh for the oil franchise on Sumatra Island.
Now the Scallop Company was immediately frightened again. The Governor of the Straits Settlements even asked him to find out what Emperor Yang had to say through Sa Daoyi. As a result, the Emperor showed no clue about it and personally took Prince George there.
Seoul went to play with His Majesty the King of Korea, and now the Scallop Company is a little confused.
But soon, their commercial spies in Gulf Oil returned accurate information. Gulf Oil executives, or Emperor Yang, did not pay much attention to the news about the Sumatra oil fields in the newspapers, and Gulf Oil was currently busy expanding the interests of the Confederacy and Mexico.
Production capacity, for this kind of oil field that is not certain and whose specific reserves are not known, does not want to waste energy. Compared with the oil fields in the Confederacy and Mexico, they are real things, and the situation there is too complicated and involves too many things.
Especially involving Sino-British relations, Gulf Oil does not want to cause trouble for itself under the current situation.
The person who is handling this matter now is a senior manager of Gulf Oil. To a large extent, he wants to show his ability in front of His Majesty the Emperor and then gain a higher status internally. To put it bluntly, he is the senior manager of Gulf Oil.
Due to internal fighting, the Sumatra oil field is just a pawn in their struggle, so there are many people who are opposed to this project. Therefore, although this manager can mobilize a certain amount of the company's resources, it will not be too much.
After this information was delivered to the manager of Scallop Company, everything seemed to be relieved for him. This situation was not uncommon, and it often happened within Scallop Company. In a company as huge as Gulf Oil, even a senior employee would be
He has the ability to change the situation. But as long as it is not Emperor Yang’s intention, Scallop Company is still capable of dealing with such people. And judging from the current situation, Gulf Oil is nothing more than supporting agents and using the Sultan of Aceh to communicate with the British army.
I was entangled and didn't want to get involved directly. I thought that when the British could no longer bear the long war and withdraw from Sumatra, they would then take advantage. In this case, they might as well use their arms.
Isn't it just a war? Anyway, those who are on the battlefield are not British people. They are all Asans who don't have to worry about death. They just spend some money to recruit from India. Now India has a population of 200 million. Recruiting is not a trivial matter.
?In addition, apart from India, the Malays and Aceh also have old enemies. The Japanese now have money and can do anything. With these cannon fodder, they still care about fighting? As for the money to buy weapons, it is not worth it compared with a big oil field.
By the way, the exploration team has discovered the second oil well at this time. The daily production of these two oil wells alone is estimated to be over 10,000 tons. Such huge wealth must be fought for no matter what.
In this way, as ship after ship of cannon fodder was delivered to Sumatra, the war began to move towards the rhythm Yang Feng expected. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!