In the winter, several countries that were negotiating weapons procurement with Daheng all stopped negotiating, because now that countries have begun to supply breeching weapons on a large scale, they have begun to look for countries such as the Kingdom of Krull to purchase them.

And what is very embarrassing is that the rear-loading rifled weapons supplied by powerful countries such as the Kingdom of Krull are not bad or even better, and the price is moderate.

Especially in the field of warships, after the Krull Kingdom successively commissioned a number of warships equipped with rear-loading naval guns, many potential buyers went directly to the Krull Kingdom to order warships.

In order to compete for the battleship order, the Krull Kingdom was also very attentive, and even took out a series of advanced naval guns represented by the 250 mm and 32 times the caliber it had just equipped and put them on the shelves.

This artillery is also the most powerful naval gun in their Krull Kingdom at present, except for the 300 mm and 30 times caliber naval guns that are in a state of secrecy.

The performance is extremely strong, and when paired with their special steel conical armor-piercing shells, they are powerful enough to threaten the main armor belt of almost all modern warships.

And at the same time, the barrel life of this gun is very good and durable!

In all fairness, this artillery seems to be inferior in caliber to the 300 mm 25 times caliber naval gun currently promoted by the Daheng Empire, but its performance is actually stronger than this artillery!

Powerful naval guns and armor-piercing shells, combined with their excellent hull design capabilities, steel-faced iron armor, and strong pressure ventilation steam engine technology, all add up to make the Krull Kingdom's warship design and manufacturing capabilities undoubtedly rank first in the world.

When many countries buy warships, they will first order them from the Krull Kingdom.

Even the Olisa Empire has gone to the side of the Krull Kingdom, ready to order the main warship.

Faced with this situation, Lin Ziran was also a little helpless!

Their own industrial and technological strength is inferior to others, whether it is naval guns, armor or power, they are not as good as others, and there is no good way.

The only advantage is the price advantage!

Although the warships of the Krull Kingdom are good, the new warships with many new technologies are also expensive, and many countries do not have so much money.

Although the warships of the Great Heng Empire are a little scumy in technology, they are better at a cheap price!

For this reason, after the end of the second year of Qiansheng and at the beginning of the new year, Emperor Lin Ziran gave instructions to the relevant responsible persons that the arms trade, especially the business of warships, could not be stopped, and more orders must be continued.

If you can't fight for performance, you can fight for the price!

Geopolitics can also be used appropriately.

But not all countries can buy new warships from the Krull Kingdom, such as the golden country of the Orr Kingdom, even if they are willing to pay a lot of money, they can't buy a new type of warship from the Krull Kingdom, but the Krull Kingdom is bent on annexing them and plundering the gold.

On the side of the four countries on the east coast, there has been a conflict with the Krull Kingdom recently, and the previous use of this contradiction has been to win the order of two warships, and the follow-up can continue to work hard.

On the side of the Triple Alliance on the west coast of the South Continent, you can also work hard.

As for other countries, they can also fight for it as soon as possible.

In short, don't give up!

This warship is casually hundreds of thousands or even millions, and the capital ship has to be millions, and any orders for warships can get millions of Hengyuan in trade income, which is very important to the Daheng Empire, which is now in the stage of reconstruction and restoration of people's livelihood.

Since the purchase of a large number of advanced machinery and equipment last year, the empire has not stopped the pace of purchasing advanced equipment, and this year is ready to purchase a lot of advanced machinery and equipment.

The purchase of equipment costs money, and in order to avoid excessive trade deficits, it is necessary to expand the arms trade to earn foreign exchange.

In addition to earning foreign exchange, the more important point of arms exports is that a series of domestic heavy industry enterprises, represented by the three major arms companies, can take advantage of the opportunity to achieve sustained and high-speed development.

The order of warships not only feeds the workers in the shipyard, but also the workers in a series of industries such as naval guns and steel, and at the same time allows these enterprises to have enough funds to purchase machinery and equipment and carry out technological upgrades.

At the beginning of the third year of the reign of Qiansheng, Lin Ziran continued to emphasize the importance of the arms trade by holding two meetings in succession, so as to continue to promote the arms export trade.

However, the arms export trade has always been a relatively special kind of trade, which seems to have large added value and large profits, and it is okay to count on one or two in a short period of time, but it is somewhat unreliable to rely on the arms trade to earn foreign exchange for a long time.

After all, warships are not consumables, and many countries have only ordered a few capital ships for several years, and they are very cautious.

To be honest, the Great Heng Empire signed so many orders for arms trade last year, but the total export volume of weapons was far less than the trade volume of agricultural and livestock products.

Moreover, agricultural and livestock products do not even need to be marketed with much effort, grain is a hard currency, a product with strong demand, and some countries that lack food can not import weapons, but they cannot do without importing grain.

This is also why even though Lin Ziran wants to change the domestic agricultural structure in his heart, it is inevitable that the grain industry of the Daheng Empire is still the only advantageous industry in the Daheng Empire, and it is a pity to take the initiative to give up.

But Lin Ziran is also unwilling to rely on low value-added grain exports in exchange for foreign exchange, so he has been working hard to promote the grain processing industry, which is also exported, but the export of grain processing products such as wine can make money compared to direct export of grain.

At the same time, Lin Ziran is also continuing to promote the development of civilian industry, counting on the civil industrial products of the Daheng Empire in the future, such as textiles, daily chemicals, etc., to open up the international market, but Lin Ziran estimates that there is little hope, at least there is no hope within the year.

However, in April of the third year of Qiansheng, Tsingshan Petroleum Company brought him good news!

The Shayangwan Petroleum Company under the State Assets Committee has discovered a large oil field in Changnan County, a coastal area in the northeast of Ningyu Prefecture and near Qingyuan County in Nanhai Prefecture, and the oil reserves of Changnan Oilfield even exceed that of Qingshan Oilfield, and it is easy to exploit, and the first oil well of the survey team was drilled to a depth of only more than 300 meters, but the daily output reached 3,000 barrels.

That's great news!

Before the reunification, Lin Ziran relied on kerosene exports to make a lot of money, but after the reunification of the country, although the production capacity of Tsingshan Petroleum has gradually risen, the production capacity is getting higher and higher day by day, and it has reached three million barrels, but Daheng's domestic market is too huge, and the annual output of three million barrels of oil is not enough to supply the country, let alone large-scale exports, so the kerosene exports have stopped for a while.

However, Lin Ziran has not stopped the development of the oil industry, and instructed the Tsingshan Petroleum Company to continue to explore the Qingshan Oilfield, expand the production capacity of the oilfield, and look for oil fields everywhere in other places, and at the same time, he also instructed the State Assets Committee to directly set up a number of oil companies such as the Shayangwan Oil Company and the Eastern Petroleum Company, and invest heavily in oil exploration within the country.

In these years, it is difficult to say that it is difficult to find oil, and it is easy to say that it is simple!

Basically, they go to places where there is oil production, and then drill and survey to see if there are oil fields.

In the past year, in fact, oil has been discovered in many places, especially in Nanhai Prefecture and Dongding Prefecture, but the oil reserves found are very small, and it is useless to make a small fuss.

But the current Changnan Oilfield is different, the reserves of this oilfield are huge, even more than the Qingshan Oilfield.

After learning the news, Lin Ziran immediately instructed the Shayangwan Petroleum Company to immediately develop the Changnan Oilfield, and at the same time continue to explore the surrounding areas to see if there are any other oil fields.

Sure enough, the good news came that only half a month later, Tsingshan Petroleum Company reported that they had also found an oil field in the northeast of Ningyu Prefecture, which was unfortunately just north of Changnan Oilfield, separated by more than 20 kilometers......

It is even unceremoniously said that the oil fields discovered by Tsingshan Petroleum Company are estimated to be part of the Changnan oil field.

What does this mean?

This means that the area bordering the northeast of Ningyu Prefecture and Nanhai Prefecture is very likely to be a large oil field!

For a time, in addition to the Tsingshan Petroleum Company and the Shayangwan Petroleum Company, the oil exploration companies invested and established by the National Assets Committee also came here to continue the survey.

And after this expanded scale survey, a lot of oil has really been discovered one after another.

This place is 100% home to a huge oil field!

If summed up, the reserves are estimated to be ten times or even higher than that of the Tsingshan Oilfield!

The good news from the oil industry made Lin Ziran very excited!

Because he found the fist export commodity of the Daheng Empire: oil-related products such as kerosene!

As far as he knows, at present, in all countries in the world, except for Daheng, other countries have not found large-scale oil fields, or there are oil fields, but they have not found them, or they have not developed them.

This gives Daheng Empire an extremely important opportunity for the development of the oil industry!

For a time, Lin Ziran personally led a number of oil-related meetings and personally formulated a series of support policies for the oil industry.

This includes instructing the Imperial Bank and other national banks to give sufficient financial support to the oil industry, and instructing the industrial sector to give priority to ensuring oil extraction, refining equipment, and so on.

Driven by the double favorable profits and policies, the three state-controlled oil companies of the empire and the Qingshan Petroleum Company, which belonged to the private property of the imperial family, erected numerous oil wells in the area of Changnan County, and four super-large oil refineries belonging to the four oil companies were erected in just a few months, and a huge oil pipeline tens of kilometers long was completed and put into use in just a few months.

Not only official capital, but also private capital is pouring into the oil industry.

The empire does not prohibit private capital from investing in the oil industry, as long as it does business legally and compliantly, and does not try to adjust or control the energy industry by official capital, then the empire does not care that private capital follows behind and drinks some soup.

In a short period of time, the empire has appeared hundreds of oil companies, and then gambled to invest in oil everywhere.

However, it is not easy to find oil, and the right to explore and develop oil in many places, especially in places where there are oil seedlings, has already been obtained by the three major national oil companies and the royal private property Castle Peak Petroleum Company, and the oil companies with private capital can only go to other places to find oil.

Not to mention, it really made some companies find oil.

However, the oil reserves they found were not worth mentioning compared to the oil reserves in the Changnan Oilfield.

As the four major oil companies continue to explore in Changnan County and the surrounding areas, the oil reserves in the area also continue to rise, and there have been a number of high-yield oil wells in a row.

In August of the third year of Qiansheng, the No. 36 oil well under the Shayangwan Petroleum Company successfully produced oil, and tens of thousands of barrels of oil were spewed out on the day of the oil release, creating a record for imperial oil exploration and development, well, the previous record was also their company, with a daily output of 5,000 barrels.

Relying only on these high-yield oil wells, Shayangwan Oil Company surpassed Tsingshan Oil Company and became the largest oil company in the empire.

And with the development of the oil industry, the petroleum products of the Daheng Empire, mainly kerosene, have also reappeared in the international market!

Because in just three years of Qiansheng, the oil production capacity of the Daheng Empire has increased explosively by more than several times, and even because of the rapid expansion of crude oil production capacity, the refining capacity has not been able to keep up in time, but many oil cannot be refined and sold in the first time after it is produced, forcing many oil companies to build a lot of large oil tanks for reserves.

The crude oil production capacity of the Daheng Empire quickly broke through from 3 million barrels to 15 million barrels in the three years of Qiansheng.

Although the Daheng Empire has a large population and a huge market, such a huge oil production capacity is also a little indigestible.

After all, the price of kerosene is still relatively high, and the overall capacity of the market is limited, and the imperial oil industry does not intend to say that it will significantly reduce the price in a short period of time, and expand the consumer group by reducing the price of kerosene to expand the larger market.

In this way, the market seems to be bigger, but in fact, the money will not be made more, or even less.

Because kerosene has actually been in short supply all the time, a constant cent cheaper will earn a constant cent less!

Even if the oil production capacity in the Daheng Empire has skyrocketed, the production capacity of the end product kerosene has also increased significantly, so that the domestic kerosene market has a certain saturation without reducing prices.

However, compared to the vast lighting market of the world, kerosene is still in short supply.

At the same time, the four major oil companies of the empire are all under the control of the official and royal family, and they are at the same pace in the price of oil, and adopt a common way of advancing and retreating, so even if the oil production capacity has increased, the price of kerosene has not fallen too much, and on the whole it has maintained a relatively stable state.

In the second year of Qiansheng, the price of crude oil remained at about 10 Hengyuan after many years of continuous decline, and this year, the price fell to about 8 Hengyuan, but the price of oil at this price is already extremely competitive compared to other types of competitive products, so the four major oil companies of the empire have no intention of continuing to reduce prices.

Unless oil production capacity continues to skyrocket, or foreign competitors appear, the ductile kerosene market cannot maintain the current high price, and the consumer base needs to be expanded, then further price reductions will be considered.

After all, the price of kerosene now has a very obvious competitive advantage over various animals and plants such as whale oil!

Now that there are no foreign competitors, and kerosene is in short supply relative to the global market, at this time, the oil companies of the Daheng Empire naturally began to actively expand abroad, and they need a broader overseas market to digest the huge oil production capacity.

In November of the third year of Qiansheng, when the Shengyuan sailing ship under the Qingshan Petroleum Company arrived in the Krull Kingdom loaded with more than 2,000 tons of kerosene, it officially announced that the oil of the Daheng Empire had begun to conquer the city within the area!