Ding Quankun is currently appointed by Lin Ziran as the person in charge of Qingshan Petroleum Company, but in addition to managing oil affairs, his more core position is actually the accountant of Lin Ziran's gang.
The one who manages money!
At this meeting, I only heard him say one by one: "You can't pay less for ammunition. Hongxiang Trading Company always pays for it and delivers it with the same hand. If we don't pay, they will directly take what we ordered back and sell it to others!"
"It's hard to get this salary money out. The salary money after deductions is not much in the first place. If you give it all out, it will only be enough for the brothers to spend a few times. If you don't pay it or pay it less, I'm afraid the brothers below will cause trouble.
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"We also ordered two five-pound artillery pieces earlier. This order can be moved back!"
"The survey in the oil field can also be slowed down, but this will affect the progress of Well No. 5!"
Lin Ziran interrupted at this time: "The two five-pound artillery pieces are to be used to form an artillery battery with the original four artillery pieces. The order cannot be postponed. The survey, mining and refining work of the oil fields and refineries cannot be postponed.
Can’t stop, supply must be given priority!”
"Kerosene is the hen that lays golden eggs for us. We can't kill the goose to get the eggs!"
Hearing what Lin Ziran said, Ding Quankun was in a dilemma. After a long time, he could only hold back a sentence: "In this case, there will be no place to move the money."
Lin Ziran sighed after hearing this!
"That's it, let's let Boss Wang suffer for a while first, and then give it to him when we have more money!"
"Well, remember, I will give him one cent of interest when the time comes. I can't let others say that I, Lin Ziran, treat merchants harshly!"
Ding Quankun asked: "Is this cent a daily interest or a monthly interest?"
After hearing this, Lin Ziran stared at him: "Don't accuse good people casually, Boss Wang is not a loan shark!"
Ding Quankun said: "Then this is monthly interest?"
Lin Ziran remained silent!
When Ding Quankun saw Lin Ziran not speaking, he knew that his understanding was wrong. After thinking for a few tenths of a second, Ding Quankun tried in a low voice: "Annual interest?"
Lin Ziran nodded slightly this time.
Ding Quankun said: "This...isn't good. Banks in Zhoucheng provide loans. If there is collateral, the annual interest rate is generally 20%!"
Lin Ziran still didn't speak, and Ding Quankun himself reacted quickly, and quickly answered his own words: "Oh, yes, Boss Wang is a good person, and he is not one of those loan sharks. The two cannot be confused. An annual interest rate of one cent is normal.
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Lin Ziran smiled: Children can be taught!
At this moment, if Boss Wang heard the conversation between these two people, he would probably say a lot of swear words, and he would also say sadly: Can you not be so shameless?
If you do this, won’t your conscience hurt?
It's a pity that Boss Wang couldn't hear it. Even if he heard it and said a lot of words, it probably wouldn't make Lin Ziran and Ding Quankun change their minds and give the money to Boss Wang now.
Who told Lin Ziran and the others to be so poor now?
Although the income of Qingshan Oil Company has been rising steadily in the past few months, and there are military expenditures and military supplies allocated by the Third Division Headquarters, Lin Ziran cannot stop Lin Ziran from continuing to expand his army.
This army with guns and cannons is a big money hog. No matter how much money you have, it will not be enough to fill it.
A few months ago, Lin Ziran had only two to three hundred men under his command, but now, it has officially exceeded the thousand-man mark and reached a thousand-man scale.
Maintaining such a Qingshan patrol camp with a strength of 1,000 people is extremely expensive.
Even if you don't count the purchase of guns, all kinds of military supplies, and the war expenses of going north to fight, just raising so many people and letting them conduct daily training will cost more than 10,000 per month.
As for Qingshan Petroleum Company, its current monthly profit is only over 10,000 yuan.
Not to mention the need to purchase various types of military supplies, especially guns and ammunition, which can cost tens of thousands.
Not being able to make ends meet is the current situation of Qingshan Patrol Camp!
Lin Ziran didn't have a good way to deal with this. After all, there was only so much money, and he couldn't conjure money out of thin air.
The only way is to continue to let Qingshan Oil Company expand production.
However, oil companies also need to spend a lot of money to expand production.
Oil doesn't come out by itself; it requires money to drill wells.
At present, two mechanical wells have been successfully drilled in the Qingshan Oilfield, and there is also an original artificial well, but only the No. 2 well has a relatively high production, and the total production of the three wells is only about 40 barrels per day.
As for Well No. 4 and Well No. 5, the progress of Well No. 4 is one step faster, but it is only a few dozen meters deep. Even if everything goes well, there is still some distance before oil can be produced. As for Well No. 5, it is even more difficult in the past few days.
Construction has just started.
Now Lin Ziran is counting on Well No. 4 and Well No. 5 to produce a large amount of oil in the future.
Not only is it troublesome to extract oil, but it is also troublesome to expand the production capacity of refineries.
Because the extracted oil is of no use, it must be refined into kerosene before it can be sold, and now refining kerosene is a veritable asset-heavy project.
It relies on a large number of mechanical equipment.
And the continuous purchase of these machinery and equipment also consumes a lot of money.
According to Lin Ziran's own estimation, the funds on hand will not change much in the next two months. Even if there is an increase, it will not be too big.
If we want to see substantial growth, we have to wait two months.
By then, if the production capacity of Well No. 4 or Well No. 5 is sufficient and the refinery's production capacity is greatly increased in two months' time, the current financial dilemma can be changed.
As for now, of course I have to tighten my belt first!
Even in order to save money, he has stopped recruiting soldiers now. The current number of thousands of soldiers is already difficult to maintain. If he continues to recruit soldiers, he will not be able to support them.
Currently, Lin Ziran plans to train the hundreds of recruits he has recruited in the past month and let them form an army to form a preliminary combat effectiveness before considering expanding the army.
As long as the current thousands of people are trained, it will be enough to make Lin Ziran initially feel at ease.
A force of a thousand men is naturally nothing in the huge Nanhai Prefecture, and even in Luo'an County and Guang'an County, it is nothing.
Not too far away, there is the front line of Chongguang City, dozens of kilometers away in the north, where Luo'an and Guang'an have gathered a total of 40,000 to 50,000 troops.
However, if it is only used as a threatening force to ensure the safety of Qingshan Oil Company, it can still be done reluctantly.
The early stage is to train these thousand people and form combat effectiveness.
And this is much more difficult than simply recruiting troops!