Suzhou Oilfield began to produce oil, and the amount of oil produced was hundreds or even tens of millions of times that of oil springs mined by manual methods in the past.
This made the Royal Petroleum Company so happy that it decided to set up a local refinery with an annual refining capacity of 100,000 tons.
This makes the local officials in Suzhou even happier!
The oil fields are producing oil and the refinery is about to be established, which means that Suzhou's oil industry is really about to take off, which will then drive the industrial and commercial development of the entire Suzhou.
What's this?
This is a political achievement!
For the sake of political achievements, Suzhou officials repeatedly went to the oil field site to visit, and then they were busy cooperating with the Royal Petroleum Company to lay oil pipelines, build refineries, etc.
For the laying of oil pipelines and the establishment of refineries, Suzhou Zhizhou Ke personally led a team to set up a working group to cooperate with Royal Petroleum Company in related construction and provide various supporting services.
One of the most important supporting services is transportation.
Especially for transportation, the oil field is not in the suburbs of the city, but quite far away. The distance to the oil field naturally requires roads. The previous ones were all small dirt roads, but Suzhou Zhizhou has promised that the local area will
A gravel and sand road will be built as much as possible to allow heavily loaded four-wheel carriages to pass smoothly.
At the same time, it also coordinated with the Northwest Railway Company and promised to build a railway branch line to provide supporting railway services for oil fields and refineries.
In terms of hiring workers, they also provide great convenience. In addition to mobilizing local people to serve as oil workers, they are also preparing to introduce a number of special policies to attract domestic immigrants.
Including immigration subsidies, education subsidies, etc.
Not only the local government of Suzhou attaches great importance to it, but the Gansu governor's office also attaches great importance to it. The Gansu governor's office has decided to allocate part of the province's few fiscal funds to support Suzhou's oil construction.
And provide certain tax incentives.
Not to mention this, not long after, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan sent angels to inspect the Suzhou Oilfield and express condolences, especially to the workers and technicians on the front line of oil exploration and extraction.
This boosted local morale even more.
From Gyeonggi Province to the Gansu Governor's Office and then to Suzhou, the emphasis on the development of the Suzhou oil field even exceeds the Royal Petroleum Company's own estimates.
How to put it this way, Royal Petroleum Company is just a commercial company. Even if it is a company wholly owned by the royal family and has a royal background, it is still a commercial company. What they value more is commercial interests.
However, what the government values is not simply commercial interests, but the various benefits it brings.
These four words "oil industry" are enough to get strong support from the government.
With the support of all parties, it took only two months for five oil wells to successfully produce oil. The largest oil well among them had an annual output of 3,000 tons.
ァ新ヤ~8~1~中文网www.x~8~1zщ.com
At present, the annual output of these six oil wells has reached 10,000 tons.
At the same time, Royal Petroleum Company is also very optimistic that the annual output of Suzhou Oilfield will reach 20,000 tons this year, and will increase to more than 50,000 tons next year, because the development of Suzhou Oilfield has just begun, and they still have
Drilling and development will continue.
Supporting oil pipelines, oil storage facilities, refineries, and kerosene lamp manufacturers also quickly sprung up.
With the dual support of capital and the government, everything is on the fast track.
The Royal Petroleum Company reported that it is expected that the first batch of kerosene lamps will enter the market starting this winter, and it is expected to be very large. By next year, kerosene lamps will gradually replace vegetable oil and animal oil as the main lighting appliances.
However, with the development of the petroleum industry and the popularization of kerosene lamps, it will inevitably cause turmoil in other industries.
For example, the whaling industry will suffer a certain blow
The whaling industry actually developed in the Tang Empire for about twenty years. Ships went out to sea to catch whales, and then sold and sold various whale products.
The usable value of whales is very great. The whale meat can be eaten, but it is not delicious. The bones can be extracted from bone glue, and the skin can be used as leather goods. But the most important thing is whale oil.
Because whales can not only be used as industrial lubricants, they can also be used to make soap after certain treatment, and can also be eaten directly after special treatment.
However, what directly led to the rapid development of the whaling industry in the Tang Empire was the fact that whale oil could be used as lighting oil.
The traditional lighting oil used in the empire used to be vegetable oil. Later, after deep-sea ships began to hunt whales, part of the whale oil was used.
As for kerosene, in fact, the Tang Empire had successfully refined it from coal in the early years, but the process was complex and the price was high, making it unaffordable for ordinary people.
Nowadays, after the industrialization of petroleum, petroleum will be able to greatly replace the current whale oil. Kerosene can replace whale oil. At the same time, petroleum can also extract various lubricants and other by-products, which can also replace the industrial lubricant function of whale oil.
This will inevitably lead to a decline in the whaling industry and affect the livelihoods of many people.
But then again, this is not a good thing in the future. The Tang Empire has only hunted whales on a large scale for a few years. The real large-scale fishing has only happened in the past ten years, but in the past ten years, it has
This has led to the disappearance of a large number of whales along the coast, and now whaling ships have to go to distant seas to catch fish.
If this continues, it is estimated that a large number of whales on the earth will become extinct within a few decades, just like in the original time and space.
Now, the Tang Empire has just started large-scale fishing and developed the oil industry more than ten years ago. Naturally, the demand for whales is not that great. Without profit, people will naturally not go to great lengths to catch large quantities of whales.
whale.
At the same time, so many ships and sailors can also switch to catching other fish, especially various edible fish, providing a large amount of meat for the empire.
Moreover, the empire currently controls almost all the world's oceans. It is not like in later generations, only a few small sea areas along the coast can be fished. If the fishing boats of the Tang Empire are willing, they can go directly to the Mediterranean Sea to fish. Absolutely no one dares to say
A nonsense sentence.
If you want to say that the sea area is your own territorial sea and that imperial fishing boats are not allowed to fish, the Datang Navy will use naval guns to correct your point of view: All sea areas on the earth belong to the Tang Dynasty!
The Tang Empire had no concept of territorial sea, nor did it recognize the so-called territorial sea concept of any other country.
However, even if we use the current concept of territorial waters of European countries, most of the sea areas on the earth currently belong to the territorial waters of the Tang Dynasty!
Because of the current concept of territorial sea in some European countries, whether it is the sea area within the "line of sight" that belongs to the territorial sea, or "if people sailing on a part of the sea can be forced by people on the shore, then this part of the sea
"It belongs to this piece of land", including the concept of territorial waters within the range of the so-called coastal defense artillery. The core concept of these concepts is effective control.
There was actually no so-called territorial sea concept in the Tang Empire.
After all, you can't expect an empire that doesn't even have national boundaries to have any territorial sea boundaries.
Theoretically, the entire earth belongs to the Holy Emperor.
Of course, theory is theory, and actual operation is actual operation. The Tang Empire also uses actual control as the standard for territorial waters. For example, the Tang Navy is basically able to fully control the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Therefore, in the official documents of the Datang Empire,
These two oceans are the inner oceans of the empire.
Even the Atlantic Ocean, the Tang Empire believed that it occupied at least half of it.
In addition, the Imperial Navy is powerful enough and can easily travel to and from the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and even the Persian Gulf. Basically, no one can stop the Imperial Navy's actions.
This has led to the fact that many people believe that the Imperial Navy's warships are located in the Imperial territorial waters.
If the warships of the Imperial Navy can enter the Mediterranean and defend the empire’s overseas interests, then the Mediterranean belongs to the territorial waters of the empire!
But this statement is still too far-fetched, so the Tang Empire never discusses matters such as territory and territorial waters with other countries through diplomatic channels. The Tang Empire's foreign policy has always been simple and crude: fight if you don't accept it, and fight until you are convinced.
.
This approach naturally made people in many countries or regions very dissatisfied, but no matter what the dissatisfaction was, when the Spanish realized that the Tang Empire's embassy in Cadiz was gradually built into a small city and surrounded by walls
rise up and build ports on the coastline, and also build forts and deploy coastal defense artillery.
They raised objections several times, saying that this is still Spanish territory, and you Tang people can't mess around. They have deployed coastal defense guns here, built a naval base, and deployed warships for a long time. This is beyond what we signed back then.
of the agreement.
But the Tang Empire never paid attention to their objections!
Later, the Spaniards simply pretended not to have seen it.
Otherwise, is it possible that they really plan to mobilize a large army to attack the city and send wooden sailing ships to attack the port?
If this really happens, let's not say whether their army can capture the embassy district, but their navy and coastal areas will definitely be destroyed.
It won't take long for Datang's large number of steel warships to arrive from South Africa. Not to mention the Seventh Fleet of the Datang Navy deployed in South Africa, even the Datang Imperial Navy is in the port of the Datang Embassy in Europe to protect diplomats.
Some warships were deployed for safety reasons.
These battleships alone are not easy to mess with.
At first, the Tang Empire was relatively restrained, thinking that the Spaniards were a country that had signed a friendly agreement with it, so it was more shameful in doing things, so it only sent a small number of armed merchant ships.
But later on, it became more and more shameless, from frequently sending warships to patrol and stay, to simply dispatching warships to be permanently stationed in Cadiz.
With the current technology and transportation conditions, it is naturally impossible for the imperial fishing ships to go fishing in the Mediterranean, but if they do go, the imperial navy is absolutely capable of providing protection.