Kerosene is not new. The Royal Institute of Technology refined kerosene from coal a few years ago.
But kerosene extracted from petroleum is strange!
In fact, the R&D personnel at the Royal Institute of Technology did not take this thing seriously at first. The kerosene was just a by-product when a researcher was tinkering with asphalt and petroleum. However, kerosene was no longer a new thing, so they simply reported it.
In the end, the technology of refining kerosene from petroleum was only reported to Li Xuan on a regular basis together with other research results.
But when Li Xuan saw it, he took it very seriously.
What he valued was not the kerosene itself, but the technology of refining kerosene from petroleum.
Because this means that oil can finally be industrialized!
No one knows the huge role of oil better than Li Xuan, so no one knows more than Li Xuan how important this technology that oil refining does not have is.
With this technology, petroleum industrialization can be started naturally.
Once petroleum is industrialized, gasoline and diesel will definitely be produced in the future, and then there is hope for a fuel-fired internal combustion engine!
In addition, petroleum can not only refine these fuels, but also many chemical raw materials.
Why is oil the economic blood of future generations? It is not only used as fuel, but also as a chemical raw material.
As a result, Chang Yanghong, a researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology who inadvertently extracted kerosene from petroleum, enjoyed the feeling of winning a huge prize overnight.
On the day the report was sent, Chang Yanghong was taken to face the saint!
Chang Yanghong didn't even understand why Sheng Tianzi summoned him because of this oil refining kerosene technology. It was just a small refining technology, and it was nothing at all in the Royal Institute of Technology. After all, it was not the first time refining kerosene.
Bring out the kerosene.
But although he still didn't know why, he knew that he was going to get ahead. If it wasn't a big deal, the Holy Emperor would not have summoned him on the same day the report was sent.
As a person who entered the Royal Institute of Technology eight years ago, he successfully graduated from the Department of Chemistry in four years, obtained the qualification to teach at the school, and became a researcher.
He was relatively successful in the first four years, but not so successful in the next four years.
When he was still a student, he was one of the most outstanding ones, but after he stayed at the school to teach, all his colleagues were awesome people, and he was really not outstanding.
He has always been doing research with his professor, but he also conducts some small research experiments by himself on weekdays, such as playing with oil.
However, petroleum research is actually just a business hobby. He usually studies rubber!
However, today, he was summoned because of oil research.
At that time, he had no idea how important oil was or how important his research was!
After the Emperor Sheng summoned him, he asked him in detail about his research on petroleum. After asking him, he encouraged him to continue to make greater achievements in the petroleum field, and personally passed down an oral instruction to him to form a petroleum company.
Research room.
After returning home, he became an associate professor the next day, and then he got the biggest motivation that he had dreamed of in his life and engaged in scientific research for many years: a knighthood!
He received the title of Lord!
Although Lord is the lowest title, looking at the entire empire, there are not many people who can obtain the title of Lord. They are either meritorious soldiers or scientists who have made academic achievements.
If it weren't for the fact that he was relatively young, had relatively low qualifications, and had not made any achievements before, his title would not even be an associate professor, but a full professor.
Chang Yanghong received a knighthood for his petroleum research and became the head of the Petroleum Research Laboratory and associate professor at the Royal Institute of Technology.
At the same time, Emperor Sheng also personally instructed the Royal Assets Division to immediately invest in the establishment of an oil company to commercialize petroleum products.
Thus, the Royal Petroleum Company was established!
At the beginning of its establishment, when it didn't even have a single employee, the Royal Assets Division had already prepared a start-up capital of one million yuan for it.
This is one million yuan, and many large companies have less than one million yuan in total assets.
Subsequently, the Royal Assets Division mobilized elite personnel to form the company's management and middle-level backbone.
In the six months since its establishment, Royal Petroleum's main work has been to search for oil fields, design and improve equipment for detecting and extracting oil, and various technical solutions for refining oil.
Although we have also received help from the Petroleum Laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology, the research of the Petroleum Laboratory is actually more about the specific application of petroleum, such as trying to refine more products, etc., but it is not concerned with surveying, mining and quantity.
They don't care about production and refining.
The Royal Petroleum Company's search for oil fields went smoothly. After all, although the term oil is a new one, the ancients have seen oil for a long time.
In some places, oil is even directly extracted using indigenous methods.
Royal Petroleum Company looked for clues based on these clues, and soon found clues to oil in the Yanchang area of Shaanxi. The locals had long directly exploited oil using various indigenous methods.
However, the oil extracted by this kind of indigenous method is naturally far from enough to meet the needs of industrialization. What the Royal Petroleum Company wants is to exploit it in large quantities!
For this reason, in recent months, they have also been tossing oil wells in Shaanxi, but they have not yet developed mature and reliable exploration and production technology.
At the same time, Royal Petroleum is also developing oil refining technology, not the kind of laboratory refining, but refining technology that can be used for industrial large-scale production.
It has to be said that it is quite expensive to deal with oil. Half a year after the establishment of Royal Petroleum Company, apart from the oil mined by local methods, it has not succeeded in drilling a single industrial drilling well, let alone large-scale exploitation.
This refinery is also undergoing repeated demonstrations.
This was done over and over again, but still no results came out, which made the person in charge of Royal Petroleum a little anxious.
This was a royal enterprise established by the Holy Emperor himself, and its nature was the same as that of the Telegraph Company. Although the Telegraph Company had not yet built the first long-distance telegraph line.
But they are already under construction and are expected to be completed and put into use next year. Besides, they have already set up several short-distance telegraph lines in Jinling City, fully demonstrating their capabilities to the Holy Emperor.
But what about Royal Petroleum Company?
I haven't even gotten a single hair in half a year.
Even the petroleum laboratory in charge of Chang Yanghong at the Royal Institute of Technology doesn't pay much attention to them. Chang Yanghong is now bent on producing more petroleum products. How can he be interested in commercializing petroleum with the Royal Petroleum Company?
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In the end, they became ruthless and poached people in a big way!
They have nothing but a lot of money, and their superiors have already vaguely mentioned it when they see that they can't produce results for a long time.
It's been half a year and I can't even do anything. You guys are shameless and I still have to explain it to the Holy Emperor.
And why are you keeping this money? Waiting for this money to give birth to a son? If you don’t spend it, how will you have enough talents to build factories and extract oil?
To put it bluntly, people are not satisfied with the amount of money spent by the oil companies.
It was only one million yuan, and only about 100,000 was spent in half a year, and all of it was spent on hardware investment.
The superiors gave them so much money but told them to spend it hard and get results as soon as possible. Naturally, people are dissatisfied with this unrestrained behavior.
In the end, it worked out. They were ruthless and just spent money to recruit people. They first built up the R&D team and then talked about it.
They not only poached prospective graduates from the Royal Institute of Technology, they actually poached two working researchers, not to mention other mid-level and senior technical talents.
In just one month, they directly hired more than 50 people, all of whom were high-level talents and spent a lot of money.
But can we achieve results by poaching so many people?
Niu Yufei, general manager of Royal Petroleum Company, was a little worried!
Niu Yufei is not an official. Not only him, but also the heads of all the companies controlled by the Royal Assets Division are not officials. He is just a professional manager.
Of course, if you do well, you can also be transferred to serve in the Royal Assets Department and obtain official status. Almost all the presidents of the Royal Bank have taken this path to become officials.
Niu Yufei also has the ambition to be an official if he is good in business.
For senior executives of companies affiliated with the Royal Assets Division, it's okay if they don't join the official position. Once they become an official, they basically have a very high starting point. For example, the president of the Royal Bank, once they join the official position, they will basically directly serve as the financial department of the Imperial Assets Division.
Director, the rank of this official is not high, only rank six.
But if you stay for a few years and get promoted again, then there will be a very interesting promotion process. Within a month or even a few days, you will receive intensively various virtual titles from the Holy Emperor to increase your rank.
After the title reaches the third rank, he is directly transferred to the Finance Department to serve as the assistant minister of the second rank.
For more than 20 years, almost every president of the Royal Bank has been promoted in this way, without exception!
Of course, there is only one position for the president of the Royal Bank, and Niu Yufei is not a professional manager in the financial system, so naturally he cannot compete. However, if other large companies affiliated to the Royal Assets Division do well, they will also have the opportunity to become an official.
Once you become an official, as long as you don't make mistakes, you can complete a journey in just a few years that other officials cannot complete in a lifetime, and you can be at least a third-rank official.
However, it is not easy to become an official.
Niu Yufei wanted to make achievements in the oil company, but oil was not easy to deal with. It was easy to refine and so on, but it was not easy to find oil fields.
Although the oil field in Shaanxi is ready to be exploited, the survey report indicates that the oil field's reserves may not be too large, and it is not easy to exploit.
With the current oil extraction technology, which is still in its infancy, we still have to find shallow oil.
However, the people of the Royal Petroleum Company traveled all over the empire, but they could not find an oil field that was easy to exploit, had large reserves, and was convenient for transportation!
Later, Li Xuan couldn't stand it any longer, so he reminded them last month that the military had reported that there was an oil field near Yumen and asked them to check it out.