About five kilometers southeast of Qingshan Town, this place was originally just a wilderness called barren mountains, with no homes nearby.
But not long ago, a lot of people came here one after another. These people dug the ground and dug wells here, and built more than ten simple wooden houses.
In just ten months, this place has changed a lot, with houses and workers digging wells.
All these changes were naturally due to Lin Ziran's discovery of the oil here and his development of the oil here.
When Lin Ziran came to the oil field again, what he saw was such a lively scene.
Lin Ziran did not go to see other facilities in the oil field, but went straight to the No. 2 oil well!
Not long after, he saw the No. 2 oil well. Naturally, he couldn't see the well that was hundreds of meters away. What he could see was actually just the drilling well set up on the ground.
This is actually a very simple drilling well. There is a huge tower above and a wheel. This wheel is wrapped around a cable. The other end of the cable is connected to an iron drill bit. A small steam engine drives the wheel.
When the disc is driven, the drill bit will be pulled up, and then released, the drill bit will fall freely, and the well will be dug in this way repeatedly.
There are also iron pipes in the well to prevent mud, sand and gravel from clogging it and hindering the operation of the drill bit.
In Lin Ziran's eyes, this kind of drilling is naturally an extremely crude drilling equipment, but for this world, it is actually very good.
The steam engine was purchased directly from Zhoucheng. Although it is small, it is quite powerful.
Other scattered equipment is also purchased from outside and then assembled on site.
It was completely built by Qingshan Town itself, and probably only the tower and part of the external structure are left.
It's just that this drilling platform is still not the target of Lin Ziran's attention. He designed this thing himself, so naturally he has no curiosity about it.
Now he is more concerned about the oil that is continuously flowing out of the oil well!
Dark, sticky oil is continuously flowing out of the oil well, and then the construction workers on site are busy connecting pipelines and using oil barrels to collect the oil.
Even these ordinary workers know that this dark, sticky oil is money and cannot be wasted.
At this time, a young man in a short robe came over and said, "Sir, I finally dug out this oil!"
When he spoke, there was an excited smile on his face.
Lin Ziran stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "Well done!"
This young man's name is Ding Quankun, and he is also one of the old bandits like Lin Ziran, but he is different from the other bandits.
When other bandits encounter a fight, they will definitely run away if they encounter a tough opponent, but if they encounter a soft-footed shrimp, most bandits are still very brave.
In earthly terms, that is investing with the wind and against the wind!
But as for Ding Quankun, no matter whether it's a tailwind or a headwind, he always hides behind and never steps forward.
Standard investment against the wind and investment into the tailwind!
This is not caution, but a real fear of death. When he was defending the Guang'an rebels on the city wall, the Guang'an rebels had just opened fire, and he peed his pants...
However, this man is literate, and he was a high-level talent who attended elementary school in his early years. Among this group of bandits, his academic qualifications are considered to be among the top ten, so he is not useless. He usually settles accounts.
Write documents.
When the oil fields were being developed, Lin Ziran felt that this man was too afraid of death and was not suitable for joining the army. Even among the old bandits who could only fight with the wind, there was no room for this man to survive.
In addition, the oil field also needs trustworthy people to take charge, so Ding Quankun was transferred to the oil field as a manager to preside over oil field development matters.
Although this is just the role of a foreman with no technical content, judging from today's results, he is still very successful in his role.
When Ding Quankun saw Lin Ziran patting him on the shoulder and saying good job, his legs and feet suddenly felt a little weak.
In twenty years, no one had ever said to him, 'Well done!'
When he was young and studying, the teachers in the school thought he was dull. After he fell into the grass, he was often said to be greedy for life and afraid of death.
Never!
Never said good job to him!
This is a poor child who has never received any praise since he was a child!
At first hearing Lin Ziran's praise, Ding Quankun almost couldn't stand. With tears in his eyes, he murmured: "Sir, I...I..."
Lin Ziran patted his shoulder again: "Keep working hard!"
Ding Quankun nodded continuously: "I will, I will definitely do it!"
Lin Ziran smiled, then stepped over him and continued to observe the No. 2 oil well. He even squatted down and touched the oil flowing out. It was sticky.
At the same time, he asked: "How much can the output be?"
At this moment, Ding Quankun also calmed down and stepped forward and said: "Sir, I have made a small estimate. According to the current situation, we should be able to produce about 20 barrels of oil every day!"
After hearing this figure, Lin Ziran showed a satisfied expression. In fact, there was no need to ask. He could roughly estimate the size of the oil well's output by about twenty barrels.
Twenty barrels is enough!
In the past, the daily output of the No. 1 artificial well was only two barrels, but now the No. 2 well has twenty barrels, which is a tenfold increase.
This also means that after the oil is refined and sold at the current price of whale oil, it can be sold for more than 10,000 yuan a month!
More than 10,000 constant yuan!
Even after deducting costs, the net profit is at least tens of thousands.
These tens of thousands a month are enough to expand your army?
After hearing this output, Lin Ziran directly estimated how big the patrol camp could be expanded based on this income.
There are currently about 300 people in the patrol camp, and the monthly salary cost is about 3,000 yuan.
According to this calculation, 60,000 yuan can probably support a thousand people.
But in fact this is impossible, because many of the expenses of the patrol camp are not included in the three thousand yuan.
Just the newly equipped rifled guns and two five-pound artillery pieces of the patrol battalion, as well as the ammunition reserves, are worth more than 10,000 constant yuan in total.
This Fuyuan musket costs more than 20 hengyuan, and if it is rifled, it will cost another 8 hengyuan.
Six thousand guns, plus matching ammunition, there are not two hundred thousand guns that cannot be taken.
For an army of 6,000 men, you must have artillery, cavalry, etc. to cooperate with each other.
So you have to build an artillery battalion to provide long-range fire support, a cavalry battalion to provide reconnaissance and mobile firepower, and a transport battalion to maintain logistics.
And these technical arms are more expensive than infantry!
If Lin Ziran wanted to organize an army of a thousand men, the initial investment would definitely not be a matter of 10,000, but a matter of 100,000.
Lin Ziran naturally couldn't afford such a huge investment in a short period of time, so he didn't think about recruiting a thousand people in a short time. Instead, he planned to take it step by step, and now he would add another one or two hundred people to make up the total of five hundred.
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After a while, we will train hundreds of people, and after a while, we will train hundreds of people.
You won’t become fat if you eat it in one bite!
But if you keep eating that, you will become fat!
If we continue like this, an army of thousands of people will be just around the corner!