The aim is to localize some of the overseas territories that are complex and relatively large in area first.
Of course, the requirements for this kind of localization are very strict. First, this place must be separated from other places to ensure that no indigenous people enter from other places.
Another example is to use forceful means to directly cut off contact with indigenous-controlled areas on land.
This is the approach taken by Baku. In order to promote the localization of Baku, after the local indigenous people were relocated, the Royal Petroleum Company directly sponsored the Baku County Yamen and built a dozens of kilometers long along the border.
Isolation zone.
This isolation zone is actually a city wall, but this kind of city wall is very thin and not high, with very low military value, and it only blocks the passage of ordinary people.
The Army was also very cooperative and directly stationed an entire regiment of troops in Baku, directly sealing the isolation zone tightly and not allowing any indigenous people to enter.
No matter which method is used, if you want to complete partial localization in a short time, the cost will be extremely high.
It would be impossible to accomplish this if we relied on the local government.
What the government can promote is only partial localization in places like Luzon and Mindao that have enough time to promote. They are powerless to complete localization in a short time like in places like Baku and Sidan.
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Without the generous support of oil companies, it would be difficult for both Baku and Sidan to complete partial localization.
When Shangzhezi of Banten Province applied for partial localization of Sidan Island, Emperor Shengtian did not stop him and quickly approved it.
The policy from above was about to come down, and then the Imperial Oil Company became cruel and directly sponsored the Nanyang Labor Service Company for a total of 200,000 yuan, allowing them to use more indigenous recruitment teams to recruit the indigenous people of Sidan Island as soon as possible.
Get up and send them to other places.
As a result, the recruitment team of Nanyang Labor Service Company has become even busier. Although they currently have more than 8,000 labor recruitment team members conducting recruitment work in various parts of Sidan Island, they still feel that the recruitment team is insufficient, and the casualties are relatively large. They are already
More than 5,000 team members were gradually added from India and other places.
In the end, they got help from their sister company, the Indian Labor Service Company, which transferred more than 2,000 Gurkha recruiters from India.
It is said that the army admires these Ronkha people, saying that they are not afraid of death, are simple-minded and easy to command, and are very loyal.
As for why the Army came to this conclusion, one can only ask the Army itself.
Even if you ask the Army, those in the Army will not say that when they entered Nepal, they fought against the Langkha people and suffered a small loss, so they looked down upon them.
Nanyang Labor Service Company didn't care about this. Once these people arrived, they immediately started recruiting on Xidan Island.
After using them, I found that these Langka people are really easy to use. They are stupid and can only rush forward, are not afraid of death, and are very loyal.
In a certain battle, a team of Langka people was ordered to protect two Datang employees of the Imperial Oil Company on their way to a survey site. They were ambushed by the natives on the way. When they fought their way out of the heavy siege by the natives, the team had a chance to escape.
There were only 13 people left in the recruitment team of the Langkha people of more than 100 people.
In this case, even the headquarters of Nanyang Labor Service Company was alarmed.
After the senior executives of Imperial Oil Company heard about this incident, they also expressed their admiration for the professionalism of the recruitment team under Nanyang Labor Service Company.
Being able to fight bloody battles to protect the people of the Tang Dynasty, regardless of their fighting ability or other aspects, was enough to quickly improve the status of the Langka people in the hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Nanyang Labor Service Company has decided to increase the recruitment of Donrk people. Not only them, but also several other labor service companies are also planning to recruit a group of Donrk people to give it a try.
After all, the recruitment team is not only needed by Nanyang Labor Service Company, but also by other labor service companies.
Several labor service companies in Datang had similar businesses. They all recruited young and strong indigenous laborers and then undertook government infrastructure projects.
It's just that most of these projects are projects in overseas territories, and the people in overseas territories are generally poor people, and the prices given are very low. They are unlikely to make too much money through these projects, and at most they can just maintain normal operations.
Therefore, they could not spend too much money to hire people from the Tang Dynasty to recruit and manage many workers.
Because of the insufficient number of employees and to save costs, almost all labor service companies use a large number of indigenous people to recruit team members.
For example, the recruitment team members of Nanyang Labor Service Company were mainly Indians before.
The team members recruited by the Indian labor service company are mainly Annan people.
The team members recruited by African labor service companies are mainly from West Asia.
The recruiters of the American Labor Service Company are mainly North Africans and Europeans.
Basically, it maintains the off-site recruitment model. For these recruited team members, Datang also specially opened a green channel for them.
That is, if you perform well during the service period, you can obtain a Datang temporary residence permit after the fifteen-year service period.
This is also the reason why so many people actively sign up to join the recruitment team and are willing to take only a very meager salary.
After all, labor service companies are actually quite poor and cannot afford high wages.
But even so, these labor service companies still have no idea of using labor to make money.
Because these labor service companies are not normal commercial companies. Although they have the name of a company, from the very beginning, these labor service companies have been serving localization.
Making money or anything else is completely out of their scope.
For example, the American Labor Service Company has continued to lose more than 300,000 yuan since its establishment. However, the general manager of this company was directly awarded by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, saying that its work in America is excellent and efficient.
As a result, when he turned around, he was promoted and returned to his country.
Why do you say you got promoted after losing more than 300,000 yuan?
That's because their labor service company gathered almost all the indigenous people from the east coast to undertake the project.
In the end, there were basically no natives in the entire coastal area on the east coast. Along with this, a large number of ports, roads, and rivers were built, and rivers were dredged.
Therefore, these labor service companies cannot use the methods and requirements of normal commercial companies.
A normal enterprise would not be like Nanyang Labor Service Company, with tens of thousands of recruiters under its command!
These tens of thousands of recruited team members actually suffer casualties every day. Disease attacks and indigenous attacks are the main reasons for their attrition.
However, there is nothing we can do about this. We have to go deep into the center of the island, and we will inevitably have to bear the price.
Otherwise, we don’t know how long it will take to complete the partial localization of Xidan Island.
If partial localization cannot be completed, Imperial Oil Company will not be able to officially exploit oil.
You know, Imperial Oil Company has begun large-scale ordering of various types of equipment from major domestic machinery manufacturers. Even Songjiang Refinery has started construction. Many equipment and materials have been transported to Malacca Port in advance and are ready at any time.
Entering Sidan Island.
Under such circumstances, the partial localization of Sidan Island is unstoppable.
However, no matter how fast it is, it will still take time for the partial localization of Sidan Island, and then it will also take time for large-scale oil extraction. Imperial Oil estimates that it will take at least more than a year for large-scale production and transportation of oil back to the mainland.
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But this year, they have other things to do, such as the very important oil transportation issue.
In the past, the transportation of Datang Royal Petroleum in the Suzhou Oil Field was directly carried by oil pipelines to the refineries on the outskirts of the city. After direct refining, the kerosene was initially transported using ordinary iron pipes or wooden barrels, but soon it was switched to specialized
Train tanker truck for transportation.
After arriving in Baku, in order to reduce costs and also because of political and military influence, in addition to the oil refinery in Baku, there is also an oil refinery in Kuri. The subsequent transportation of the kerosene refined by the Kuri refinery is naturally transported by rail.
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The maritime transportation from Baku to Kuri is carried out by oil tankers.
However, due to the relatively shallow waters in the northeastern part of the West China Sea and the technical capabilities of the Kuri Shipyard, they are only small oil tankers that are no more than a few hundred tons in size and only more than a thousand tons in size.
But the oil tankers that Imperial Oil Company plans to build are not these small ships with hundreds of tons or thousands of tons.
Because what they need is to transport oil from Nanyang to the mainland's coastal refineries for refining. All transportation is by sea. In order to reduce costs, it is necessary to use large-tonnage ships for transportation.
However, technical issues also need to be taken into consideration, so it is impossible to increase the tonnage without limit.
After Imperial Oil held several technical discussions with several domestic shipyards and consulted the opinions of some professional scholars from the Royal Institute of Technology, it finally decided to build a sail oil tanker with a load capacity of 3,000 tons.
In fact, Imperial Oil Company originally planned to build oil tankers of 5,000 tons or even 7,000 to 8,000 tons in one go. After all, in terms of ship technology, this is no longer a problem. Datang can now even build warships of tens of thousands of tons.
As long as funds are available, a 10,000-ton civilian ship can be built in minutes.
However, the reason why there is not even one private 10,000-ton ship is simply because the construction cost is too high, the use cost is even higher, and the supporting facilities such as ports cannot keep up, and many other reasons, not because the shipbuilding technology is not up to par.
Therefore, the tonnage of many civilian ships built by Datang in the past two years, especially the representative ocean-going merchant ships, is generally between 2,000 tons and 3,000 tons.
If it is smaller, the unit transportation cost will increase. If it exceeds 3,000 tons, it will be difficult to find a suitable port to berth overseas, and even many domestic ports will not be able to berth.
The same is true for oil tankers. It’s not a matter of lack of technology, but a matter of demand!