Cheng Hongbin said: "Mr. Zhou, you have been friends with Lin Ziran for a long time, and you know him well, according to you, is he really sending an army for the kerosene business?" Or is it just an excuse? ”

Zhou Li picked up the teacup, took a sip and smiled: "This is naturally true!" ”

Hearing this, Cheng Hongbin was even more puzzled: "Why? ”

Zhou Lidao: "Master Cheng, do you know how much money we lose in a day?" If you knew, you wouldn't have asked! ”

"It's a troubled time now, it's normal to fight, but you have to live this day, you still have to do business, Master Cheng, don't you say?

When Cheng Hongbin heard this, he didn't speak for a long time!

He thought there was some conspiracy here, and he had made a lot of speculations, but he didn't think that it was really just for kerosene.

Cheng Hongbin didn't continue to ask, because he had already guessed that the kerosene business was estimated to be bigger than he expected, which was known from Lin Ziran's ability to raise an army of more than 2,000 people from the kerosene business.

It is not so easy to raise an army, just the maintenance expenses on weekdays, including people eating horses, training needs, office expenses, etc., more than 2,000 people have to pay tens of thousands of dollars every month.

And this is just the daily maintenance cost of doing nothing, but in fact, Lin Ziran's supplementary brigade frequently operates, even on weekdays, it needs to escort the caravan and guard the oil field area, and at the same time, in order to speed up the pace of forming an army and quickly increase the comprehensive combat skills of the soldiers, Lin Ziran also frequently engages in various live-fire training and exercises, which costs even more.

If there is any action, the maintenance expenses of the troops will instantly become larger, you have to let the soldiers march to maintain their physical fitness, this food cannot be pulled down, the level of supplies must be increased, just the food cost will be a lot more.

As for the time to fight, the money is well spent!

In a random battle with thousands of people, just the ammunition money that was fought out was casually over 10,000.

And these do not include the cost of all kinds of weapons and ammunition newly purchased and stockpiled.

A musket is more than 20 Hengyuan, more than 2,000 guns are 50,000 Hengyuan, and more than 10 artillery pieces are also tens of thousands, and they also have to reserve ammunition, ammunition is more expensive, and the standard five-kilogram metal disc fuse grenade and grenade are all starting from dozens of pieces.

Even if it's the ammunition used in a rifle, that little fire cap is very expensive.

And then there are all kinds of baggage wagons, horses, and war horses!

War horses are very expensive, even Shayang horses are not cheap, and horses are much more expensive than people.

Lin Ziran calculated that Lin Ziran would definitely not spend much less money than his sixth brigade to build a supplementary brigade of more than 2,000 people, and even more money because it was built from scratch.

Just relying on a small Qingshan Town, it is estimated that all the taxes paid by the entire Qingshan Town will be used to raise the army, and it is estimated that it is not enough for a fraction.

In the past, Cheng Hongbin wondered how Lin Ziran raised the army, and he guessed that it was estimated that Lin Ziran was scavenging money everywhere and getting a part of the military supplement from the Third Division to barely afford it.

But now it seems that Lin Ziran is still underestimated.

Now Feng Haozhong himself is a poor jingle ring, and he can't get money for several months, and Lin Ziran doesn't expect to get much money from Feng Haozhong.

He relied purely on the Tsingshan Petroleum Company to expand the army and raise the army.

I am afraid that this month's income will be no less than 100,000 yuan, otherwise it will not be possible to prepare and maintain such a large number of troops, and it is also a supplementary brigade of the Third Division with complete cavalry and artillery baggage.

In the past, I really underestimated this Lin Ziran, and even more so his Qingshan Petroleum Company.

If I can get through this time, I am afraid that I will have to suggest to my uncle in the future to take control of this Tsingshan Petroleum Company.

Although the monthly income of more than 100,000 yuan is not much for the Cheng family, it is enough for the Cheng family to maintain thousands of descendants.

Rao is Cheng Hongbin has magnified his speculation many times, but in fact, he still doesn't know how much benefit Tsingshan Petroleum Company can bring to Lin Ziran.

In fact, just now, the net income is more than 100,000 per month!

At present, the refinery of Tsingshan Petroleum Company has basically been expanded, and the refining capacity has reached 600 barrels of crude oil per day, well, in fact, this refining capacity is still not enough to meet the production capacity of the oilfield, because now the No. 6 oil well is actually producing oil, and the production capacity is also quite good, and there are more than 80 barrels of crude oil production capacity per day.

Based on the current refining capacity of 600 barrels of crude oil per day, and at a rate of about 35 percent, Tsingshan Petroleum will produce 210 barrels of kerosene per day.

According to the wholesale price of 60 Hengyuan per barrel of kerosene, the daily sales can reach more than 12,000 Hengyuan.

It's every day!

The cost of Tsingshan Petroleum Company is extremely low, and all the costs of each barrel of kerosene are estimated to be about 5 Heng Yuan, that is, the gross profit of Qing Shan Petroleum Company can reach 11,000 Heng Yuan per day.

In a month, the gross profit can reach at least 300,000 Hengyuan.

This is where Lin Ziran's confidence lies in the recruitment of troops during this time, even if he can't say that all the money will be used to expand the army, he has to leave a part of it for the operation and expansion of Tsingshan Petroleum Company, especially for the purchase of various machinery and equipment that will never be enough.

But it was enough for Lin Ziran to raise an army of at least a few thousand people.

Of course, it is a secret how much profit Tsingshan Petroleum Company has, except for a few high-level executives such as Lin Ziran and Ding Quankun, few people actually know.

Even if Zhou Li is a close collaborator, they can know the production capacity of Tsingshan Petroleum Company, but they also do not know how much Tsingshan Petroleum Company's specific profit is.

They speculate that Tsingshan Petroleum's profit per barrel of kerosene is between 15 and 20 constant yuan, and the net profit is estimated to be even less, considering the huge investment in equipment and other factors.

But he would never have imagined that for every barrel of kerosene Lin Ziran sold, he would be able to get at least fifty-five Hengyuan gross profits!

But that's not the point, they are channel partners, they don't care how much Lin Ziran makes, they just need to make money themselves.

Nowadays, whether it is whale oil or kerosene, it is still in short supply, and the market continues to remain high, and their sales profits are not low.

And the most important thing is that today's Tsingshan Petroleum Company is still in rapid expansion, which Lin Ziran himself knows, so he will continue to invest in expansion.

The channel providers represented by Hongxiang Commercial Bank and Nanzhou Bank know better, and they all know that this is just the beginning and will be more profitable in the future.

According to the potential and expansion rate of Tsingshan Petroleum Company, it will soon be tens of thousands a day.

At that time, tens of millions of turnover a year is possible, and this is already worthy of everyone's attention.