Chapter 1720 We Datang people are very good at talking
Although Imperial Oil Company has just been established, its structure is extremely well-established. Whether it is senior management or middle- and lower-level employees, they are basically directly transferred from Imperial Oil Company.
To a certain extent, Imperial Oil Company was actually split from Royal Oil Company.
Not only personnel, but also many patents in the petroleum industry were authorized. Of course, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises also paid real money for this split.
Although some senior executives of Royal Petroleum Company have some opinions on splitting up their own company, there is nothing they can do about it.
The establishment of the Imperial Oil Company was considered a national policy, and the Holy Emperor Li Xuan personally approved it.
The Royal Petroleum Company is not an ordinary commercial company. Naturally, it needs to consider the political impact. It is also their task to support the development of the Imperial Petroleum Industry.
Imperial Oil Company, which was directly spun off from Royal Oil Company, has no shortage of talent and technology.
All they lack is oil fields!
Although oil was found in Damuanfu at the beginning and preparations were made to develop the Damuan Oil Field, the output of this oil field was too small and far from satisfying the huge appetite of Imperial Oil Company.
Under such circumstances, it was only natural that Imperial Oil Company would devote its efforts to the Nanyang region to search for oil.
Not to mention, this was actually instructed by the Holy Emperor Li Xuan.
Others don't know yet, but Lin Ziran himself knows that there is oil in China, and the reserves are not small. However, several large oil fields are relatively deep and cannot be developed with the current crude technology.
Can't find it.
Instead of messing around on the home continent, it would be better to go directly to Baku or Nanyang.
Baku is already doing it, but Nanyang has not started yet.
Lin Ziran knew that in the early oil industry of later generations, especially before World War I, there were four major oil producing areas in the world, namely the United States, Nanyang, Baku in Russia, and Romania.
As for the Middle East, South America, North Africa and other regions, they will be developed slowly in the future.
Considering the distance and actual control issues, currently only Baku and Nanyang can be developed on a large scale.
Other places are restricted by the Import and Export Commission and there is no way to develop them.
The Tang Empire had very strict restrictions on this. Let alone oil, even if a gold mine was found in an area controlled by indigenous people, it could not bypass the Import and Export Committee. If you wanted to mine it, you had to use indigenous manual mining locally, or you had to find a way to mine it.
This area is locally mined using mechanical equipment.
This is also why Imperial Oil Company focuses on places such as Luzon and Banten, because the localization of these places has already been completed. At the beginning, it was only Luzon and Mindao, but other islands
, it is almost localized, and only some finishing work is left before it can be declared localized.
People from the Imperial Oil Company heard that the indigenous people on Sidan Island used oil to play with fire and so on. They initially determined that there must be oil on Sidan Island, so they sent a survey team there.
The result was even smoother than they imagined. The survey team had not even gotten equipment to drill oil wells locally, but they discovered a dark pond there...
It's all oil!
What's this?
This is the most typical natural oil seedling!
In other words, due to limited technology nowadays, the search for oil is more about looking for natural oil seedlings first. After confirming that there is oil in this place, further exploration will be carried out, and then huge sums of money will be invested in drilling to find oil reservoirs.
The large and small oil fields previously discovered by Royal Petroleum Company basically came from this way.
Now Imperial Oil Company is no exception. After all, current technology is limited, and they cannot use a more complex and scientific way to infer that there is oil somewhere.
After finding the oil seedlings, the next step was easy. The survey team directly transformed into a drilling team and dug wells on the spot. Although the first well failed to produce oil, they changed the location and dug another well, and this time it produced oil.
Oily!
When the news came back to Shanghai, Imperial Oil Company immediately decided to invest huge sums of money in preparing to survey and exploit oil on Xidan Island.
At the same time, we are preparing to start building not one refinery, but four refineries as soon as it is completed.
They plan to build refineries in the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, and Tianjin to sell kerosene to various regions nearby. The last one will be built directly on Xidan Island to sell kerosene to Southeast Asia, India, and even Europe.
Export kerosene.
But here comes the problem!
Although Sidan Island is now an imperial territory, it still belongs to the category of overseas territories. The complete localization in the above-mentioned areas has not been completed. At most, it is only 50-60% completed.
This also limited Imperial Oil's investment.
However, although Imperial Oil Company was just established, they all came directly from Imperial Oil Company, and their style of doing things is also full of Imperial Oil Company style.
Not complete localization?
It doesn’t matter, just localize it!
Anyway, it’s not that the entire Banten Province has been localized, it’s just an island.
Even though the island is a bit big, as long as enough investment is made, localization can be done in minutes.
And Imperial Oil Company doesn't have much else, it just has a lot of money!
I have millions of cash lying on my books and no place to spend it!
On the one hand, they took the upper-level route and asked the only shareholder, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, to handle the top management, come up with several policies, and try to get the military to cooperate.
At the same time, they also take the middle-level route and directly support the Xidan government office to promote localization work. After all, the oil is on Xidan Island. If Imperial Oil Company wants to develop local oil, it will inevitably have to cooperate with the local government office to develop it.
local oil fields.
Just like Suzhou and Baku, the local local finance department directly uses local oil resources to invest in the oil field development company and cooperates with the Royal Petroleum Company to establish an oil field development company. Although the shares are not large, they are still
Shares are not.
Finally, they went to battle personally and found Spaniards who were in urgent need of labor.
The first thing you say is, now that there is an entire island of labor force, do you want it?
Spain said that they wanted people, but they were short of money and couldn't afford to buy so many slaves?
Upon hearing this, the representative sent by Imperial Oil Company said very seriously: Please note that we are not selling slaves, this is illegal!
We are just labor dispatch, and this is free, no payment is required.
Of course, the prerequisite for free is that you need to recruit locally.
The Spaniards were not so easily impressed. They made some calculations and went over to recruit themselves. The recruitment cost was not low. Organizing an armed recruitment team was a big expense, and they also had to transport the people there. This
But across the Pacific, transportation costs are not cheap.
Calculated in this way, the upfront cost is more expensive than recruiting indigenous people in Africa.
The result is still shaking my head!
Faced with this situation, Imperial Oil Company expressed its pettiness!
You don’t need to organize a recruitment team. We have Nanyang Labor Service Company. They are very good at recruiting free labor. As long as you pay a little hard work, they will be happy to help. It is far cheaper than organizing a recruitment team yourself.
As for the transportation issue, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have ships. We have a lot of ships. The transportation costs will be based on the freight price. It is cheap and sufficient. And if you really can’t afford the money, you can also directly use these laborers in the future.
The plantations developed are paid with mineral proceeds.
We Tang people are all very talkative!
When Spain heard this, he felt a burst of contempt. Who said you Tang people are easy to talk to?
The most unreasonable people on this earth are you Tang people. Even the Tatars are easier to talk to than you.
If the Tatars had not insisted on taking over Western Europe, maybe Spain would have ceased war with the Tatars long ago.
However, after complaining, I did some calculations and found that in this case, the upfront cost would be much lower, much cheaper than recruiting labor in Africa, so I immediately made a big move.
This matter is settled, we will take as much as you have!
As a result, it didn't take long before the manpower of Nanyang Labor Service Company began to enter Sidan Island on a large scale and began to recruit local workers.
The risk of going deep into this tropical rainforest island to recruit labor is not small, so even in the Nanyang Labor Service Company, there are actually not many people from the Tang Dynasty.
Except for a few management personnel who are from the Tang Dynasty, many employees, especially those in the recruitment team, are actually mostly indigenous people, mainly recruited from India.
The initiative taken by the indigenous people was naturally extraordinary. In less than a month, the Indian-dominated recruitment team successfully recruited tens of thousands of free laborers on Sidan Island at the cost of more than a thousand casualties.
, and more people are being recruited continuously.
These workers would gather at the port and board the Tang ships hired by the Spaniards.
In order to save money, the Tang Dynasty ships hired by the Spaniards were all old motor-driven ships with small tonnage, and they were also cargo ships. The most important thing was to carry as many people as possible, so they could be packed and raced.
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Usually a thousand-ton ship, if it is a passenger ship hired by the Immigration and Reclamation Division, or simply their own immigration ship, can only carry a few hundred people.
But in the hands of the Spaniards, thousands of tons of ships could carry thousands of people.
But this is the Spaniards' own business, and Datang has nothing to do with it.
The senior management of Imperial Oil Company saw that the number of indigenous people on Sidan Island was decreasing day by day, and they were in a good mood. They turned around and ran to the governor's office of Banten Province to push the local government to petition for partial localization of Sidan Island.
This partial localization also follows the previous precedents of Luzon Province, Luzon Island, Mindao Island and Baku.