In the first well in Taiwan during the Xianfeng period, the Ming "pit master" only dug down to a depth of more than 3 meters and began to produce oil, with a daily output of 40 kilograms.

Although the specific location of that well has long been lost in the long river of history, and it is not necessarily the well under the feet of Pan Mingzhong and his family, it doesn't matter: it is in the same oil-producing zone, and where there are already oil sands seeping out of the ground, oil can always be excavated.

It turns out that 3 meters is the critical point of the pressure of this oil layer: more than two hours later, with the surprise shout of a member of the exploration team coming from the bottom of the pit, everyone hurriedly rushed to the edge of the pit to take a look, and a fist-sized black liquid was pouring out of the bottom of the pit.

From the beginning of Tangzhuang's decision, to today's black gold unearthed, it took a full year and a month for the traversers to finally make their dreams come true.

And when Ning Wei saw this scene, he hurriedly threw down a few canvas folding buckets: "Full, full pull up." ”

Pan Mingzhong, who was holding his knees with his hands and pouting his ass and looking down, couldn't stop smiling at this moment, grinning and laughing.

The natives didn't understand why outsiders laughed. In their opinion, black oil is not a good thing. This kind of bubbling black water pit seeps out from a different place every few years, and sometimes gathers into a small oil pit, which smells bad, and the flora and fauna are kept away from this place, and usually the natives walk around this place: they always feel that it is a bad thing.

Today, however, is different. Today, the forest was filled with the shouts of outsiders in high spirits, and the natives watched in bewilderment as they filled a dozen buckets of viscous oil before they performed a strange ritual of worship: taking a group photo.

As a result, the historic scene of a group of exposed birds, carrying pike darts and exploration team members around the black oil pit was frozen on the photo after a few "clicks".

After taking photos, you have to break up, and you have a reason with graduation photos.

However, when Pan Mingzhong saw Ning Wei commanding everyone to quickly pack up and leave, he was still a little puzzled: "This is leaving?" ”

"Ah, why don't you spend the night here?"

"I mean...... It shouldn't be explored again, assays and whatever...... Feeling a little sloppy? ”

"Bullshit, the samples are already there, the coordinates have been recorded, what else is there to explore, and it is the right thing to hurry up and go home. Look at this ghost place, you can't see the sun, you can't see the foot of the mountain, you can't stay long, it's murderous. ”

"So what's next? Drilling into the equipment for oil production? ”

With a "poof", Ning Wei finally burst out laughing.

While directing the team members and natives to pick up oil drums and go down the mountain, Ning Wei preached to Pan Mingzhong: "Don't do anything next, call the contractor first." ”

"Contractor?"

"Well, Chen Dong's gang of people who are engaged in infrastructure construction will come to any of them." When Ning Wei said this, he turned his head and said to Pan Mingzhong: "If you want to get rich, don't you know how to build roads first?" If you want to extract oil, you must also build roads first, and don't think about anything else. ”

"I'll go." Pan Mingzhong was a little depressed when he heard this: "It's almost 1.8 kilometers away from the camp in a straight line, and if you build a road, you probably have to go around a little more, which is troublesome enough." ”

"Didn't you read the information before you came? At that time, the Japanese also built stone roads, and then relied on cable cars and ropeways to carry oil down the mountain. Ning Wei sighed when he said this: "We are not as good as the Japanese, I estimate that we will repair a convenient road in the early stage, and then we will have to rely on our shoulders." ”

"Can't you install a pipeline to transport oil directly down the mountain?"

After Ning Wei heard such an idiotic statement, he was forced to roll his eyes, and then stretched out a finger: "First, do you see that those goods in the kiln area that are tackling tap water valves seem to be able to produce oil pipelines and pressure valves?" ”

"Second, if you want to start the oil pipeline, then the annual output of the oil field should be at least 10,000 tons, right? Don't you think that our 100-ton nano oil field is a bit ...... on the pipeline?"

When Ning Wei said this, he pinched the tip of his little finger with his thumb and made a gesture of "small shrimp".

"I understand, I understand, this is a primitive workshop, and it can't be put on the table." Pan Mingzhong understands now.

"In fact, the Japanese also built pipelines in the later period, but at that time, the depth of the wells was below 500 meters, and the annual output was also tens of thousands of tons."

When Ning Wei said this, he showed an expression full of sighs: "We don't need to be so hard, because the whole world is in our hands." As long as our oil consumption can reach the thousand-ton level, is it not good to drive an ironclad ship to Borneo to dig up high-quality light oil? Who is still here to dig up oil, it's too inefficient. ”

"It seems to make a lot of sense."

"So, you don't need a big mess here, just two years to get around. When I turned around and waited for the big army to come, I would dig a few more 100-meter wells, and the output would be enough for the goods in the kiln area. ”

“...... I'm out of passion when you say it. ”

"What passion do you want for an explorer?"

"Then you don't have any passion for oil?"

"Nonsense, passion must be ejaculated, do you look at the well today, does it look like a little squirting?"

“......”

With the sound of the two chatting, the cheerful "Tuyang Joint Mine Exploration Team" began to return home. The radio waves emitted from the Yuandou soon after quickly attracted the attention of the officers - even during the preparation period with war clouds, the news of the discovery of oil still hit most of the G-points that crossed the public, so the big office immediately sent a second reinforcement ship.

This time, along with the ship came not only infrastructure workers, but also a key figure: the contractor foreman. As an authority on infrastructure, a certain person wearing gold-rimmed glasses came to Miao Su in person two days later: Feng Guanjie.

Feng Guanjie's arrival directly caused a change in Miao Su's existing pattern: Pan Mingzhong and Lei Jian, including their exploration team members and the Yuan Dou, retired after success and returned to the staff on the same day for another appointment.

As soon as Feng Guanjie landed, he served as the mayor of Oilfield Town, and Ning Wei, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Oilfield Construction Headquarters, was the commander-in-chief.

Things soon got on the right track with the arrival of Feng Guanjie. The day after he arrived, 150 construction workers began an operation to expand the camp. After the camp is expanded, these people will work with the natives who have reached an agreement to cut down the forest and build a dirt road leading to the oil well according to the drawings given by Feng Guanjie after field exploration.

And Ning Wei, who had nothing to do for the time being, became the security captain.

His daily task now is to patrol and resolve disputes with 50 soldiers — and the growing number of boats on Houlong Creek has attracted natives from other nearby villages. Ning Wei now had to stop the soldiers of the Snake Head Court from fighting in groups, but he was also responsible for arranging transactions and negotiating labor with the new natives.

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After Feng Guanjie got the temporary camp and dirt road, he quickly planned the design of the oil production town - the location was clear, and it overlapped with the town on the map of later generations.

In order to facilitate the docking of the ship, the Yuandou originally chose a foothold in a small river bay in the south. In fact, it was not the best place to set up camp: there was a tributary of the hill in the direction of the oil well that joined the Houlong Creek, and the estuary area where this stream and the Houlong Creek met was the most suitable place for civil construction.

Of course, in the 17th century, this small estuary plain is still under dense vegetation, puddles, and legions of terrifying leeches and mosquitoes: this is why some people dare not park their boats there. The oil town that later appeared on the map needed to be developed in the 17th century.

"Come 200 cannon fodder first." After exploring the small estuary plain with an area of less than 100 acres, Feng Guanjie sent a telegram to the senior officials in a concise and concise manner. As his words landed, the people who were desperate for oil did not bargain, but did not hesitate to send 200 extremely precious cannon fodder-Javanese.

As soon as the 200 slaves arrived at Miaosu, they were sent to the most dangerous estuary areas to clear the vegetation, puddles, leeches and mosquitoes......

In fact, the working conditions that these slaves are facing at the moment are quite good. For two days before their arrival, a rumbling sand boat had stopped at the mouth of the river. And the vegetation on this small plain has been bulldozed with chainsaws and shovels by some people wearing full-body protective suits.

So, what the slaves had to do now was, first of all, burning. When a large number of plants were set on fire, the slaves had to take advantage of the mosquitoes to fill in all the puddles and lay the foundations: it was the rainy season, and the town of the future would need to raise the foundations a little higher.

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Thus began the arduous pioneering work.

These 200 slaves would soon be consumed in a brutal environment. After conquering the estuary plains, they had to go ahead and clean up the banks of the river upstream and downstream, and get rid of all mosquitoes and leeches – a task that would continue until they were all dead.

So, to tell the truth, this time the oil field was opened, and the big office really made a lot of money: 200 Javanese slaves who could not live for half a year were priced at 50,000 taels of silver, which is really not cheap.

As for the origin of these new slaves......

Let's rewind the clock to the day after the Yuandou set off for Miaosu in search of oil.

In fact, in the evening of the day after the departure of the Yuandou, the screen of the radar station installed in the southeast corner of the Dayuan Merchant House showed a fleet of ships coming from the southwest.

Since someone who can travel through space is unwilling to take too much risk, the radar currently used by the traversal forces is a civilian version. As a result, the detection range will naturally be very different from the military version: less than 100 km.

Fortunately, it is the 17th century, and a warning range of 100 km is enough.

Therefore, when the captain learned that a fleet of no less than 15 ships was coming from the south, he immediately sent two destroyers that were resting to the sea to find out.

The news soon came back via telegram. The flag of the opposing flotilla is the VOC flag - the Dutch.