Didn't fight.

Directly took over a city-state.

This is definitely good news for Wang Chen, saving a lot of money.

In the royal palace.

Wang Chen and Xiao Jianhua looked at the financial income of Gu Qinbang, and their faces were speechless, like the annual tax of Gu Mandalay City is about 13,000 mi, and there are only 3,000 mi, which is more than half of the loss, fortunately Qinbang is obtained by the other party's unconditional surrender, if it is really a military exercise, it will be a great loss.

Just finished reading the ledger.

It was already dark, and a maid of the palace lit a lamp.

At first, Wang Chen didn't pay attention, but after the lamp burned for a while, he sniffed several times, "Hmm, what does this smell like?"

Xiao Jianhua was stunned, "What does it smell like?"

Wang Chen sniffed hard twice, "Didn't you smell a very strange smell?"

"It seems to be. Xiao Jianhua also sniffed a few times and said with certainty: "It's strange, it's not like the smell of lamp oil." ”

Min Juekan, who was acting as a translator next to him, couldn't help but say, "It's probably the smell of lamp oil in our palace." ”

Xiao Jianhua was convinced: "The smell of lamp oil is not like this. ”

Min Juekan snorted, "You're talking about the lamp oil of your Heavenly Empire, our lamp oil here is made of black lacquer, and the smell is a bit strange." ”

What is black to make into lamp oil?

And the taste is still so familiar?

Wang Chen said with interest: "Take the lamp oil and I'll take a look." ”

"Okay. Min Juekan turned around and walked to a palace maid who was about to retreat, exchanged a few words, and then took a ceramic container from the palace maid's hand.

He came to Wang Chen with a ceramic container and handed it over.

Wang Chen took the ceramic container, tilted his head in, and then lost his voice: "Oil?"

"President, this is called black oil here. Min Juekan corrected.

Wang Chen rolled his eyes and said, "When I say it's called oil, it's called oil." ”

Min Juekan: "......"

Well, you're the boss and you have the final say.

In fact, in ancient China, oil had many names, such as stone paint, stone grease water, fierce fire oil, fire oil, naphtha, stone candles, etc., and the person who determined the name "oil" was a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, called Shen Kuo, who repeatedly studied oil and finally settled on this name, which has been used to this day.

However, the history of the discovery and use of oil is much longer, dating back to more than 3,000 years ago, and the earliest record of the discovery of oil is the Book of Changes, which records that "there is fire in Ze", "fire on fire and Ze" and so on, all of which say that oil.

Later, our ancient Chinese people exerted their wisdom, in addition to using oil for mechanical lubrication, but also for lighting and fuel, with the development of production practice, the ancient people of our country gradually deepened their understanding of oil, and the use of oil became more and more extensive. In the Song Dynasty, petroleum could be processed into solid products - stone candles, and the stone candles were lit for a long time, and one stone candle could hold three candles.

In addition, in ancient China, petroleum products began to be used in the formulation of gunpowder to control the burning rate of gunpowder. This technology is nearly a thousand years earlier than that of foreign countries.

Therefore, ancient China's science and technology were very developed, far ahead of other countries in the world.

It's just that Wang Chen didn't expect to see oil in the palace of Qinbang, so he was quite surprised and asked, "Where did you find this oil?"

"To the south, near the territory of the kingdom. Min Juekan seemed to understand quite well, and gestured with his hand, "There are about one million acres of land, and our Qinbang is short of materials, so we can only use black ...... Oil is used as lamp oil, and the former king has always let people extract it. ”

One million acres is equivalent to almost 650 square kilometers, which is a relatively small oil field.

Taking the Daqing Oilfield as a comparison, the oil-bearing area of the Daqing Oilfield is about 4,415 square kilometers, and the petroleum geological reserves are about 5.6 billion tons, so if the 650 square kilometers mentioned by Min Juekan are all oil-bearing fields, the petroleum geological reserves are estimated to be about 820 million tons.

Today, the lighter quality of oil crude oil is about 7.3 barrels, and the price of a barrel is about 68.58 US dollars, which means that 820 million tons of crude oil in Chin State is worth 410.5 billion US dollars!

No way!

Dude always thought that Chin State was a poor place, but I didn't expect such a huge wealth to be hidden!?

Wang Chen's heart was pounding, yes, according to his current strength in modern society, it is not enough to get involved in the oil business, but what if his strength will become stronger and stronger in the future?

Sent it.

I really made a fortune this time!

Wang Chen's whole person was immersed in great joy, unexpected joy, definitely unexpected joy, originally he wanted to take down Qinbang as a military stronghold, but he didn't expect that the oil resources here are quite rich!

The most important point is that where there is oil, there will also be natural gas, which is a huge wealth.

Wang Chen didn't even have the mood to continue to take stock of how many assets Qinbang had, and couldn't wait to say, "Do you know where the oil field is?"

Min Juekan nodded and said, "I know, it's about two hundred miles away from here." ”

Two hundred miles is equivalent to about one hundred kilometers.

Wang Chen thought about it, it was about six o'clock in the afternoon, if he drove a light armored car over, it was estimated that he would be able to get there at eight o'clock in the evening, and he would be able to rush back before eleven o'clock, he didn't say a word: "Okay, you show me the way, let's go to the oil field to have a look." ”

Min Juekan snorted, "It's so late, the road over there is not easy to walk, or I should prepare a carriage and horses before I know it." ”

Wang Chen waved his hand and said, "No, I have an immortal weapon, and it will take about an hour to arrive in two hundred miles." ”

Xiao Jianhua followed: "Let my second brother follow you, right?"

"Done. Wang Chen didn't talk nonsense, called Xiao Feng, took Min Juekan, got into the light armored car together, and then left Guqinbang City and drove all the way to the south.

……

The road was indeed bumpy.

The road to the south is mostly mountainous.

Even so, after Wang Chen drove out for more than 50 miles, the mountain road was so potholed that the light armored car could not drive.

To be honest, Wang Chen really regretted going to explore the oil field so late, but he had walked a quarter of the way, and he was unwilling to go back like this.

So halfway through, he put the light armored car into the mysterious space, and took out the M1 main battle tank as a vehicle.

Click.

The tank drove slowly through the mountains, about forty yards.

I originally planned to go to the oil field around eight o'clock, but I was stunned to get it to early nine o'clock.

Arrived at the destination.

It was pitch black ahead, with many tents, presumably where the miners slept.

Wang Chen jumped down from the tank and asked Min Juekan to call the person in charge here.

Min Juekan touched it blindly.

Standing next to the tank for about ten minutes, Wang Chen and Xiao Feng chatted.

After a while, there were voices of people talking in front of me, one was Min Juekan, and the other voice was a little old.

The next moment, in the moonlight, Wang Chen saw the faces of the people who came clearly, in addition to Min Juekan, another old man was about sixty years old, with a hunched waist and a cane in his hand.

Approaching, Wang Chen took the initiative to step forward and said, "Uncle, are you the main person in charge of exploiting this oil field?"

The person in charge heard the word Min Juekan for the first time, but it did not prevent him from knowing what it meant, and immediately translated it to the old man.

The old man coughed twice and replied in a hoarse voice, "Yes." ”

Wang Chen said again: "Can you show me the oil field?"

The old man hesitated: "There are many swamps in the oil field, and it is easy to fall into them if you are not careful at night......

Wang Chen, who has the magic skill of turning back time, is not afraid at all, he is eager to see the oil fields here, and waves his hand and says, "It's okay, let's take a look at the edge area." ”

"Alright then, the old man will lead the way. The old man agreed.

The three men followed the old man in the direction of the south.

After walking for about ten minutes, there was a faint smell in front of me.

The old man sniffed, pointed to the front and said, "There should be a swamp over there, there is evil gas, we must not light a fire, otherwise the evil gas will burn." ”

Evil spirit?

Is it methane?

Normally, methane has no smell, but the biogas in the swamp will have a more or less foul smell.

Wang Chen snorted, squinted his eyes through the moonlight, and sure enough, he saw a swamp with black oil floating on it.

"It's all oil?" Wang Chen asked.

The old man smiled and said, "Yes, there is oil in a million acres of land, and we will mine it here every day, and then transport it back to the city in wooden barrels to make lamp oil for the people in the city to illuminate." ”

Wang Chen bowed his head and said, "Yes, take me to see it again." ”

Then the old man took the three of them around the oil field for a long time, and it was all oil fields at a glance.

After visiting the oil field, Wang Chen was already so excited that he couldn't do it, and when he returned to the tank, he was about to leave, when he suddenly thought of something and asked, "How do you exploit oil?"

This time, Min Juekan didn't translate, he seemed to know, and replied directly with a smile: "President, you don't know, most of the oil floats on the swamp, we just need to use containers to salvage, of course, there is still some oil hidden underground, we drill an oil well out, and then slowly exploit it." ”

Wang Chen was quite interested and said: "Drilling oil wells?"

"Well, it is to use the drill bit at one end of the bamboo pole to drill wells, and the deepest can be two or three hundred zhang. Min Juekan said proudly, and then he seemed to realize something, and hurriedly explained, "We all learned these mining methods from your Great Song Dynasty, so it shouldn't be unusual for you." ”

Yes?

Our ancestors are so awesome?

More than 1,000 years ago, there was a way to extract oil, and it can go about a thousand meters underground?

Wang Chen was in awe of the wisdom of his ancestors, and at the same time he was so excited that he couldn't do it, this oil field is real, it is a million acres of land, and the reserves are likely to reach more than 800 million tons, worth more than 400 billion US dollars!

As long as buddies can get on the line of oil companies in modern society, this oil field can provide a steady stream of dollars in the future.

Wang Chen's heart was full of joy, and he couldn't wait to go back to the modern society immediately to see if he could contact his friends who were engaged in the oil industry, and then find a way to go back here to exploit.

However, he has more important things to do, and he can't return to modern society for the time being.

Wang Chen has thought about it, he must make enough jadeite in the Northern Song Dynasty to return to modern society before the Burmese public market, and make a lot of money first!

Said the Seventh Maniac

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