Lin Ziran supplies large-scale supplies to large channel merchants such as Hongxiang Trading Company, so the price of kerosene will definitely be relatively low, but even so, the price initially agreed upon by the two parties is still sixty yuan per barrel.
This price is still the price they would pay for picking up the goods themselves at Qingshan Town. Lin Ziran even saved the freight for transportation to Sanyang Ferry.
Sixty yuan per barrel, this is the price Lin Ziran supplied to Hongxiang Trading Company. This price was finalized after more than an hour of negotiation between the two parties. After all, it is 300 barrels a month. The difference of one yuan or two yuan is
It represents a price difference of several hundred or even thousands of dollars, which can amount to thousands or tens of thousands in a year, so the bargaining power between the two parties is quite strong.
After negotiating the price, Zhou Li was quite satisfied. The current wholesale price of whale oil at the port in Luohai City is sixty-five yuan per barrel. Plus shipping costs, it would be almost seventy yuan here in Luoan County.
It’s constant value.
This kerosene only costs 60 constant yuan, and there will be no subsequent shipping costs, because the kerosene will be sold directly in Luo'an County. Even if the retail price is lower than that of whale oil for the market, the profit will still be considerable.
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Moreover, this is a bulk trade, and the volume every month will be very large. If it is done well, the profit will be several thousand dollars per month, which is no less than the profit in the ordnance business.
Zhou Li thought he had taken advantage, especially when he heard from Lin Ziran that oil extraction was very troublesome, not only drilling wells, but also refining oil, which cost more than fifty yuan per barrel.
He didn't believe that a barrel of kerosene cost more than 50 yen, but he estimated that kerosene cost at least 40 yen a barrel.
He didn't know how to refine kerosene from oil, but he simply knew that oil had to be mined from the ground, and then a lot of equipment was needed to refine it. The cost was certainly not small, and he had heard of people using coal in the county before.
The cost of refining kerosene should also be very high.
But Zhou Li would never have imagined that the cost of Lin Ziran's kerosene was low enough to make him doubt his life.
Lin Ziran's kerosene cost consists of mining and refining. The mining cost is actually very low. On average, the mining cost of each barrel of kerosene is only about two constant yuan at most.
The cost of refining oil is a little more, but it is only about 3 constant yuan.
Lin Ziran himself has estimated that the current combined cost of his oil fields and refineries, evenly divided into a barrel of kerosene, costs a little more than 50 yuan.
This means that for every handful of kerosene Lin Ziran sells to Hongxiang Trading Company, based on the wholesale price of sixty yuan, he can make a net profit of fifty-five yuan!
Compared with the net profit of fifty-five yuan per barrel and the gross profit of a few yuan per barrel in the sales process, it is simply incomparable.
The cost is low, and the production capacity will be larger and larger in the future. These two factors are the reasons why Lin Ziran is so willing to cooperate with Hongxiang Trading Company!
It's a pity that Zhou Li doesn't know.
If Zhou Li knew the true cost of kerosene, he would probably directly drag their armed caravan from Hongxiang Trading Company over.
This is also the reason why Lin Ziran strictly keeps the relevant production processes of kerosene secret.
The oil field has been completely surrounded. The Fourth Chasseur Company has been stationed for a long time. The outer perimeter is a fence, but the inner perimeter has been built with a simple fence about two meters high and about three thousand meters in circumference.
A wall was built with earthen walls.
The Third Chasseur Company patrols the oil fields day and night, and outsiders are strictly prohibited from entering.
At the same time, the latest batch of refining equipment is no longer installed in the refinery in Qingshan Town. Instead, a sub-refinery has been set up directly in the oil field factory area. At the same time, preparations are also being made to relocate all the equipment of the refinery in the town.
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In this way, the separation of oil fields and refineries can be avoided, not to mention the five-kilometer transportation process of crude oil, and they can also be centralized for protection.
The entire relocation is expected to be completed within half a month. This is so as not to affect normal production. If the work is stopped, the refinery's equipment can be dismantled in just a few days with hundreds of manpower.
After waiting for half a month, Lin Ziran in Qingshan Town also planned to give up strategically. From now on, he will lead his troops to stay in the oil field factory area, and there will be no entry and no exit, and the secret of kerosene will be strictly kept.
At the same time, in conjunction with his rapidly expanding patrol camp, within a month, he was able to expand the total strength of the patrol camp to more than a thousand people.
Even if there are only two musketry companies that can barely carry guns in formation, plus an artillery platoon and a cavalry platoon, the rest is an old bandit's hunting company and hundreds of new recruits who have been trained for less than a month, but these
It's enough for new recruits to make up the numbers and scare people.
There are thousands of troops, even if they are all new recruits and a group of parallel imports, who dares to look down on him, Lin Ziran?
When the time comes, even if a big shot in the county is eyeing kerosene, he will dare to reward him with a bullet.
With this mentality, Lin Ziran devoted himself to training in the patrol camp every day.
With few soldiers and few guns, he felt very insecure.
In order to train the patrol camp, Lin Ziran did not care about anything.
Even when they sent troops north to Guang'an for the second time to escort the baggage, they did not take anyone with them personally.
Instead, he sent Wu Dajiang and Scar to go north together, and gave Wu Dajiang and Scar instructions: fight if you can fight, and run if you can't. Pay attention to safety. It's okay to lose the baggage if it really doesn't work, but you must do it.
Bring the troops back to me!
Wu Dajiang is an honest man, and he still listens to Lin Ziran's words. As for Scar, naturally he doesn't care about the life and death of the baggage, but only cares about the life and death of his own people.
As a result, they were attacked by Guang'an cavalry again on the road!
The two of them strictly followed Lin Ziran's instructions. When they saw hundreds of cavalry rushing over, they hid behind them and refused to show up.
Just watch helplessly as the opponent's cavalry rushes up, and then sets fire to the baggage vehicles!
The goal of those Guang'an cavalry was just the baggage, and they did not want to kill as many Luoan soldiers escorting the baggage, so they burned more than half of the baggage and ran away again.
A few days later, Wu Dajiang and Scar proudly reported to Lin Ziran: On this trip north, they did not lose even a single brother!
But after Wu Dajiang said this, he said with worry: "Sir, will the superiors blame you this time?"
Even Scar, who has always been bold, frowned, making his already terrifying face look even more terrifying. He only heard him say: "This time it was Tang Youfeng who came to respond. After seeing that more than half of the supplies were destroyed, his
He looked very ugly and said that he would report it to the headquarters!"
Lin Ziran also didn't expect that Wu Dajiang and Scar would carry out their orders so thoroughly, allowing them to fight if they could and run away if they couldn't.
As for them, they didn't even fight.
More than half of the hundreds of carts of supplies were burned down by the Guang'an cavalry, and now the higher-ups are probably going to go crazy.