In the Jingshi Imperial Palace of the Great Heng Empire, Lin Ziran looked at the urgent report on the discovery of large-scale oil fields in the Republic of Kean!

"It seems that this world is still fair, not only to the Daheng Empire with a lot of oil resources, but also to other countries with rich oil resources!"

"But the discovery of a large amount of oil in the Republic of Ken will probably have a huge impact on the Empire's oil strategy!"

Lin Ziran put down the report and pondered in his heart.

Over the past years, the Daheng Empire has relied on rich oil resources and earned a lot of income through a large number of exports, which is worth hundreds of millions of Hengyuan in annual exports of petroleum products.

These petroleum products are not only products that earn foreign exchange for the Daheng Empire, but also important export products used by the Daheng Empire and many countries to balance trade.

Because of many countries, people will not import other commodities of the Daheng Empire at all, but the kerosene of the Daheng Empire is generally not too restrictive.

Especially in those industrial countries, Daheng exports a series of textiles, low-end industrial products, people can basically produce their own, Daheng's industrial products want to enter their market, but also need to pay tariffs, and after paying tariffs, it is often difficult to occupy an advantage in terms of price.

Therefore, many times, when trading with these countries that are more competitive with each other, the Great Heng Empire exports products that do not compete with them, such as agricultural products, primary industrial products, and specialty products, in addition to petroleum products.

The annual export of several constant yuan of oil is of great strategic value to the empire and cannot be easily shaken.

But now, with such large oil fields in the Republic of Kean, these oil fields are developed, which will inevitably have a serious impact on the oil trade of the Daheng Empire, which is currently the dominant one.

Among them, the fall in oil prices may become inevitable!

At present, under the control of the Daheng Empire, the price of oil is still very high, and the price of crude oil is maintained at about eight Hengyuan a barrel, which is very high compared to the contemporary per capita income and price level.

And the price of oil can maintain such a high price, naturally because the Daheng Empire deliberately maintains such a high price, anyway, with the current oil production of the Daheng Empire, it is in short supply for the global market, so even if the price is high, it can be sold.

However, if there are competitors, especially those with great production capacity, then after the oil production capacity is greatly increased all of a sudden, it may lead to oversupply, and then in order to compete, oil price reduction will become inevitable.

In addition to economic factors, once the oil on the Kean Republic's side is exploited on a large scale, it will directly declare the oil blockade strategy implemented by the Great Heng Empire for many years invalid.

The oil blockade strategy of the Daheng Empire was to adopt measures to restrict the export of crude oil and adopt measures to export refined oil such as kerosene for both economic and military purposes.

Economically, this is to get more profits, in addition to the profits on crude oil, but also to grasp the profits of oil refining and even transportation and other links, for this reason the oil industry of the Daheng Empire, from crude oil exploitation to transportation, refining, and refined oil transportation are controlled by the Daheng Empire itself, but in many countries, even the wholesale sales of kerosene in the local area are Daheng people's own enterprises.

This process can bring more profits, provide more jobs, and further stimulate the development of oil-related industries in the Daheng Empire, such as extraction, refining, and transportation of oil equipment, machinery, ships, etc., which can further stimulate the development of other machinery industries in the Daheng Empire.

In this way, the oil industry has brought more than just the benefits of selling oil to the Daheng Empire, but can be a leading industry, directly driving the synchronous development of machinery, shipbuilding and many other industries.

In the past ten years, the oil industry has only greatly stimulated the development of the empire's manufacturing industry, with a huge output value.

Such a huge interest and the huge number of jobs involved behind it have allowed the Daheng Empire to firmly control the profits and pricing power in the oil field.

In addition to purely economic gains, the oil blockade strategy serves military purposes with the very simple aim of limiting the mass adoption of oil-fired boilers by the navies of other countries.

On the one hand, it is the most direct increase in speed, the reason why the newly designed capital ships of the Daheng Empire rely on the steam engine to promote, and to be honest, the steam engine technology of the Daheng Empire is slightly inferior to that of the Krull people, and it can also make a vote of newly built battleships reach more than 20 knots, and battlecruisers reach more than 24 knots, among which the key point is that these new warships all use oil-injected combustion boilers to inject heavy oil into high-quality anthracite coalto improve combustion efficiency and thus increase speed.

In addition to the increase in speed, another key point is the increase in endurance, because to obtain the same amount of heat, less heavy fuel is required than coal.

The Navy has calculated internally that if other conditions are the same, the endurance of pure fuel-powered warships will be increased by more than 30 percent compared with purely coal-powered warships, and this figure can be further improved with the advancement of technology.

And these are enough to make the new warships of the Daheng Navy occupy a great advantage in speed and endurance.

Especially the speed!

In recent years, everyone's new warships have spared no effort to increase their speed, although everyone has adopted a variety of methods, but in the end they will return to the power system.

In terms of power system, although the technology of the Daheng Empire is not good, the Daheng Empire has oil!

Now the fuel injection combustion technology is widely used, and several newly built small and medium-sized warships have already used pure oil-fired boilers, once there is no major problem, then the follow-up battleships These capital ships will also fully adopt pure oil-fired boilers.

In order to maintain its lead in fuel, the Daheng Empire also banned the export of crude oil, and at the same time, heavy oil as refined oil was also restricted from export, although it was not completely restricted, but except for a few friendly countries, other countries should not expect to be able to obtain large quantities of heavy oil for warships.

But now, once the large oil field in the Republic of Kean is developed, it will have an annual production capacity of tens of millions of tons, which will directly lead to the failure of the oil blockade strategy of the Great Heng Empire.

What should I do in this case?

Seeing the Imperial Oil Industry hit hard, and the Imperial Oil Blockade strategy failed?

Surely it is impossible!

For this reason, at the Great Heng Empire Enlightenment Conference held on December 16, the 14th year of the Qiansheng Dynasty, the monarchs and ministers of the Great Heng Empire unanimously agreed: The independence and freedom of the Republic of Ken are inviolable!

And as a responsible world power, the Great Heng Empire has the responsibility and obligation to help the people of Kenn achieve their true independence and freedom!

To this end, the Empire has decided to increase the number of troops at the Beauva military base!

It is necessary to increase the number of ground troops stationed in the Imperial military base in Bova to 50,000 people, and at the same time transfer warships to form a second mobile fleet to go south to Bova for ocean-going adaptation training!