Soon.

Abel knew why Little Flying Shoes was here.

The auction continues.

Auction things range from jewelry to luxury properties to the right to use the New York dock to the Manhattan Tower, and more.

None of them are cheap.

On the contrary, the sapphire necklace of Queen Mary is cheaper.

Among them.

Xiao Fei has never moved, just smiling and looking very quiet.

Lampett made a bid to auction the ownership of a Manhattan building, but only once and then gave up.

to the back.

Franck Müller looked at the crowd with a smile on stage and exclaimed, "Everybody. The auction is in its advanced stages and we will be releasing our last lots...... This lot of lots is special...... They are the right to dig and explore some of the sea and land!"

"That's right! The last batch of auction items is the land parcel entrusted by the federal government to Goldman Sachs and Sotheby's for enterprises and individuals to push out, and there are a total of 11 plots of oil exploration and extraction rights......

"Because of the special nature of this batch of goods, we have packaged them into four auction rights according to the requirements of the federal government. The largest of these includes two marine parcels and two land parcels. The smallest auction right is a marine plot and a land parcel ......"

“……”

Frank Müller affectionately introduced the next things that were about to be auctioned, and Abel noticed that when he introduced these, the little flying shoes finally showed a different expression.

It seems that he is here for these things, for the exploration and exploitation rights of these potential oil fields that the federal government has just released, which may contain oil underground.

The Flying Shoes family has been involved in the oil industry since 1917, and Jeb Flying Shoes' great-grandfather, Samuel, was a steel and oil tycoon who served as president of the National Merchants Association and an adviser to President Hoover.

Prescott Flying Shoes first went into business and then politics, served as a federal senator for many years, and became acquainted with President Eisenhower, laying the foundation for future generations to enter politics.

George Flying Shoes served two consecutive terms as vice president during the Reagan administration, and became the president of the United States in 1989. Flying Shoes finally graduated from Yale after his dad donated almost $1 million to Yale University.

After graduating, he entered the oil industry, leaving the oil industry only 4 years ago to become the owner and manager of a team in Texas, but a year later, he went from the owner of a team to the governor of Texas, and became the governor until he became the commander.

The general manager of a team.

A year later, he became the governor of Texas, a large state of America.

Such a journey of life.

If he is just an ordinary person, it can be said to be a legendary experience in 1990 now.

But if you look at his family, you will know that it is actually very easy for him to do this. Because Texas, the oil continent, was originally the base camp of the flying shoe family.

In a sense.

Xiaofei was able to go from a team manager to the governor of Texas a year later, almost equivalent to the South China Tigers or the manager of the Evergrande football team in Huaxia, and suddenly became the provincial party committee of eastern Guangdong.

In Huaxia this is almost impossible.

But here, it did happen, and it happened more than once. Even in the future, there was a woman who was less than 30 years old who worked in a bar last year and became one of hundreds of members of the National Assembly in the second year!

Such a painful record.

It often happens in this country.

The little flying shoes classmate who will become the governor of Texas next year will come from Texas to New York for the purpose of the last auction items in this auction.

Exploitation rights and exploration rights of potential oil fields!

So that's it......

Abel groaned.

He couldn't help but turn on his plug-in again, and the small wrecking ball was activated to see if there was really a treasure of oil in the 4 auction rights packed into 11 potential oil fields tonight.

There is a fact that is often not noticed, that is, in the last century, that is, in the nineteenth century, and for a long time in this century, that is, in the twentieth century, the United States ranked first in the world in oil production, and John Rockefeller's standard oil is the most vivid proof, and in the end it was so strong that it was judged to be a monopoly by the United States Supreme Court and must be dismantled.

This situation illustrates at least two issues: the degree of development and monopoly of the oil industry in the United States, and the degree of government control over the oil industry.

The development and monopoly of the oil industry in the United States reflects from the side that except for a bitter cold place like Alaska, the oil fields on the land of this country have long been carved up by the traditional powers, and outsiders and latecomers do not need to worry about it.

For example, Texas, which is better known as the oil-rich state, began its boom at the beginning of this century, through the oil industry, from the Texas cowboy to the developed Texas it is today.

The Flying Shoes family took advantage of this shareholder to set sail, although their genealogy can be traced back to the 17th century, and it seems to be very noble and long-standing.

But just like the Huaxia people, any serious Huaxia person, if their bloodline and genealogy really want to be traced, they can often be traced back to those two emperors......

This kind of genealogical tracking is actually meaningless, and the same is true of the flying shoe family.

Now that we have experienced the oil crisis, the exploitation of oil fields within the United States must be subject to official decisions.

Bidding for potential oil fields is a bit like gambling. Bet right, if there is really oil in the ground, then it will be profitable. But if there is no oil in the ground, or the amount of oil is very small, or the extraction is very difficult, the other side will lose the bet, and you can only consider yourself unlucky.

There are many lessons to be learned from such things.

Not just today, the federal government of the United States has held at least 100 such auctions, and it was very popular at first.

But later, because there are too few oil plots dug up, at least 8 out of 10 people who get these plots at auction are losing money, and slowly in the future, such auctions will become less and less.

Until now.

It even has to be mixed in with other commercial auctions, and it needs to go through industry giants like Goldman Sachs and Sotheby's to be able to get anyone to want.

After all, this kind of gambling is casually smashed with hundreds of millions of dollars, and if you can get oil, you can become an oil tycoon all of a sudden. If you can't dig up the oil, you may really go bankrupt at a loss.

Therefore, this kind of game is destined to be played only by the strong, and if you buy more, as long as you win one or two, you can make a lot of money.

The Flying Shoes family is obviously such a powerful person, whether it is economic strength or political strength, they are very powerful.

It's for this reason that the flying shoes appear here.