At the beginning, the kerosene business was in Zhou Li, and in the eyes of Hongxiang Commercial Bank, it was just an ordinary business.

Make money, the profit margin is also good, but this is just for ordinary business, for the huge Hongxiang Commercial Bank, the kerosene business with a profit of only a few thousand a month at the beginning.

If it is to make money, it is better to receive kerosene as currency.

Because Lin Ziran had no money at that time, he only had kerosene in his hands.

The main purpose of helping Lin Ziran sell kerosene is to let Lin Ziran buy more ordnance materials.

Relying on kerosene to make money, that is only incidental, belongs to the situation that is better than nothing.

However, it did not take long for the rapid expansion of the kerosene business to attract the attention of Hongxiang Commercial Bank, not only Hongxiang Commercial Bank, but even the attention of Nanzhou Bank.

Because in a short period of time, the amount of kerosene trade has increased dramatically, from no more than 10,000 yuan a month to tens of thousands, and people have seen broad prospects.

Although Zhou Li did not know the specific production technology of kerosene, he also knew that kerosene was refined from oil, and there were more oil fields in Qingshan Town than expected.

This means that with enough machinery and equipment, more oil can be extracted and more kerosene can be refined.

This means the future.

Because of this future, Luo Hai'an, who was within the original Hongxiang Commercial Bank, advocated direct control of Tsingshan Petroleum Company, and then invested capital and technology for larger-scale development.

But Lin Ziran strongly refused.

Later, it was the Nanzhou Bank that got the opportunity to obtain the right to purchase kerosene through the mode of issuing loans.

With a loan from the Bank of Nanzhou, Tsingshan Petroleum Company has dramatically expanded its refinery from less than 20 barrels of kerosene to 200 barrels now.

The production capacity has increased tenfold!

Due to the huge demand for kerosene in the vast market, even the 2,000 barrel market can be digested instantly, let alone 200 barrels, which means that the sales volume of kerosene trade has also increased dramatically.

Today, Tsingshan Petroleum Co., Ltd.'s wholesale kerosene sales can reach more than 300,000 yuan per month, and if this figure continues, it will be 4 million per year.

As for the retail sales of kerosene in the market, it is even higher, because the terminal retail price of kerosene in the market can reach more than 80 Hengyuan per barrel at the lowest, and even more than 90 or even hundreds of Hengyuan in a slightly farther place.

According to the internal estimation of Nanzhou Bank, just in Nanhai Prefecture, just based on the current kerosene production capacity, then the kerosene business is a huge business with market sales of more than 7 million!

What's more, the potential of the kerosene business is still huge!

The oil exploration and exploitation in Qingshan Town is still continuing, even if Lin Ziran has never taken the initiative to disclose the oilfield reserves and detailed technical details to them, but they can still guess that the oilfield in Qingshan Town can extract more oil, and it is much more than the existing production capacity.

This means that in the future, the kerosene business is a big business that can reach tens of millions in sales, but tens of millions.

In this case, Nanzhou Bank can be said to attach great importance to the cooperation with Lin Ziran.

Although for Nanzhou Bank itself, in fact, tens of millions of business is not very big, let alone only sales, the actual profit is less, it is estimated that it is millions at most.

But Nanzhou Bank is not alone, and the management inside is not just one, Zhou Li and the senior management behind him are only part of Nanzhou Bank.

For Nanzhou Bank as a whole, a few million profits are not much, but for a certain senior management behind Zhou Li, a few million profits are enough for him to gain more say.

Nanzhou Bank is a giant, this is everyone knows, otherwise a huge Nanhai State, people will not recognize the banknotes issued by other banks or feudal towns, but only recognize the banknotes issued by Nanzhou Bank, bank cashier's checks.

Without him, the strength of the people is strong!

Last year, the Bank of Nanzhou reached a loan agreement with Hetai County to provide a one-time loan of 50 million yuan to Hetai County.

However, even if it is Nanzhou Bank, it is actually nothing if it is placed in the entire Daheng.

It is said that during the Hengao War decades ago, the Daheng Dynasty spent tens of billions of military spending, where did the money come from?

It didn't rely on taxes, and at that time, Daheng's annual tax revenue was only hundreds of millions.

Most of this money is raised by the issuance of government bonds, and what collateral is used for government bonds? On the surface, this is collateralized with national credit, but everyone knows that Daheng is mortgaged with the territory of the Orissa Empire after winning the war and the huge war proceeds and is responsible for repayment.

The issuance of government bonds was carried out by the three major banks of the empire at that time.

And then......

Then the big three banks went bankrupt.

Because Daheng gained nothing after the war, it was unable to repay tens of billions of national debts, most of which were short- and medium-term national bonds.

Not to mention repaying the principal, the post-war empire can't even afford to pay the interest, and the interest is more than a billion this year.

As a result, the three major banks responsible for issuing the treasury bonds went bankrupt, countless investment institutions also went bankrupt, and then the Daheng economy was also finished, and the economy was finished, and all kinds of messy things such as taxes were raised, which led to intensive rebellions, and then the Daheng domain was suppressed.

In short, Daheng is finished!

Well, these are not important, the important thing is that the three major banks of the empire back then, that is the Big Mac, usually hundreds of millions are taken out without blinking, and with a little effort, billions can also be gathered.

Compared with the three major banks of the empire back then, the current Nanzhou Bank is just a child.

Money, whether it is paper money or gold as the carrier, it is just a kind of transaction intermediary, can not be eaten or used, to some extent there is no use of fart, ideally speaking, all the gold in the world is erased, and it will not cause any direct loss to the production and life of this world.

So, having money is not everything, well, to put it mildly, money is useless.

But, sometimes, this money is a weapon, it is food, it is stability, it is victory!

So, in most cases, money is everything.

Whether it is for people or countries, except for a few extreme cases, most of them can solve problems with money.

For Nanzhou Bank, for Tsingshan Petroleum Company, and for Lin Ziran, money is a good thing.

With money, Lin Ziran was able to expand his army and train his army, compete for more territory, and move towards the ambitious goal of occupying Luo'an County, Nanhai Prefecture, and even unifying the entire Daheng.

The kerosene trade of Tsingshan Petroleum Company is Lin Ziran's source of money, and it can even be said that it is the only source of money.

And now, the war between Cheng Hongbin and Jian Liangzhi has affected the kerosene trade of Tsingshan Petroleum Company, Lin Ziran's money, and Lin Ziran's plan to unify Daheng.

This kind of thing will never be tolerated!

So Lin Ziran led an army of 1,800 to the outside of Sanyang Town!

The troops lined up, and more than a dozen artillery pieces were laid out!

The guns were aimed directly at Sanyo Town!

In the rear of the army, countless horse-drawn carriages loaded with kerosene continued to enter the warehouse docks on the outskirts of the city!

This scene made Jian Liangzhi and Cheng Hongbin both see it.

And they're all in disbelief!