Chapter 467: Signing an Armistice with the Ottomans
Sun Caizhu asked his two eldest grandsons to accompany Sun Caixi to drink, and there were five people around a table, Sun Caizhu and his son Sun Youcai, his two grandsons, and the distinguished guest Sun Caixi.
Everyone chatted while eating.
Although the rich man Sun also had land when he was in China, after all, there were only dozens of acres of thin fields, and a big family of nearly 200 people could only live a poor life by living on these lands. Fortunately, their family also had a side business, and the rich man Sun had the skill of burning a kiln, and he could burn lime, bricks, and even porcelain, which were necessary to build a house, and their family made a fortune through these side jobs.
Now that he has come to the Americas, the country has given him 600 acres of land, after all, they are not experts in planting crops, in the face of how much land is worried, today, Sun Caixi came to his house to shelter from the rain, Sun Caixi is a person who has gone to school, is a master of farming, of course Sun Caixi will not let go of this opportunity to be close to Sun Caixi, and it is indispensable to ask Sun Caixi for advice on how to manage 600 acres of land at the dinner table.
Sun Caixi was not stingy, and sincerely thought about the rich man Sun, who was a disciple of Chongwen and the technical mentor of the reclamation corps, and was obliged to give technical guidance to the rich man Sun's family.
In view of the characteristics of the rich family's ability to do business, he suggested that the 600 acres of land should be divided into several plots for planting, and that tobacco, cotton, sugar cane, coffee beans, potatoes, and wheat should be planted.
Sun Caizhu asked: "The kiln factory is very smoky, will it be banned by the imperial court?" ”
Sun Caixi said: "The country is currently vigorously developing industry, all industrial production is supported, now that large coal mines have been found in the Americas, and we are close to the Hudson River here, as long as we build a wharf on the riverbank, our coal can be solved, and at the same time, it is convenient for us to transport our crops." ”
"May I ask Young Master Sun, what about the smoke?"
The rich man Sun was still worried about the problem of smoke, because when their family was in China, they offended many local squires because of the opening of the kiln factory.
Sun Caixi said: "We are not as good as the country here, you see, this radius of hundreds of miles is your Sun family, you make a little smoke on your own territory, no one will care about you." Now we all burn coal, and burning coal is very different from burning firewood, there is not so much smoke, you just make the chimney a little higher, a little bigger, and you can't get in the way of other people. ”
Of course, Sun Caixi is in favor of engaging in industry, and he himself is preparing to open a flue-cured tobacco factory in his own estate, does he want to stop others from opening a kiln factory?
After dinner, the rain stopped, and the rich man asked his two grandsons to bring Minnie guns to send Sun Caixi back, and told him that the two grandsons would come back at dawn tomorrow.
It is only thirty miles away from the manor of the rich man of Sun to the manor of Dewang, and it takes more than an hour to arrive at it, and after Sun Caixi settled the accommodation of the two grandsons of the rich manor of the rich manor, he returned to his small western-style house.
He asked Monday to go back to rest as well, and after a day's drive, he also had a hard time.
Fang Caihong hadn't slept yet, waiting for him in the hall on the first floor.
"Husband, has the equipment been shipped back?" As soon as she saw her husband, she asked anxiously.
"It's shipped back." Sun Caixi said while widening his clothes, "Things are finally going well, but when I went out of the city, I encountered heavy rain." ”
"Why did you come back so late? Got into trouble on the way? Fang Caihong asked with concern.
Sun Caixi said: "That's not true, I'm sheltering from the rain at the rich man's house next door." ”
Fang Caihong asked: "Their family is also willing to let you go to shelter from the rain?" ”
Sun Caixi yawned and said, "Don't ask so much about women, go to sleep!" ”
The little couple went up to the second floor, looked at their comfort nest, and thought of the desolate place of the rich man's house, so he was satisfied and hugged his daughter-in-law to bed.
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Sun Caixi is one of the many pioneers of Chinese immigrants to the Americas, he is a new generation of knowledgeable and cultured Chinese, after he came to the Americas, vigorously develop the tobacco industry, through years of efforts, and later became the tobacco predator of Long Island Province in the American region of China, and the steel predator, financial predator, rubber predator, automobile predator, real estate predator and called the Seven Heroes of the Americas, of course, this is all a later story.
During the same period, the Chinese people who immigrated to the oil city did not make a fortune as easily as the immigrants from the Americas.
There is a Bei'an City in the north of the Oil City, the name of the Bei'an City sounds like a city, in fact, at this time of development, the Bei'an City is just a village, it is called Bei'an City because it is located in the north of the Oil City. Originally, there was a place name in Bei'an City before, called Shegra, Cao Wenzhao followed Gao Junshan's instructions, and ordered this Shegra to be renamed Bei'an City, the purpose is to sinicize the place name here, so as to facilitate the rule of Huaxia.
Just as Riyadh was renamed Oil City, there is a Nan'an City to the south of the Oil City and a Dong'an City to the east of the Oil City, all of which were changed for the purpose of sinicizing the place name of this area.
There are more than 5,000 Chinese who have settled here in Bei'an, of whom 1,000 are newly recruited oil workers, and the rest are their families and children.
After the oil city detected the oil, it has now entered the actual exploitation stage, and the underground oil that has been proven is all over the large areas of the oil city, Dong'an city, Bei'an city and Nan'an city, that is to say, around the cities occupied by Huaxia, a derrick can be erected at will, and oil can be pumped.
Gao Junshan had already instructed that oil in the oil city could not be exploited at will, and that it was necessary to choose a good location and concentrate on exploitation.
The benefit of centralized mining is that it is easy to manage and transport.
After full discussion, the Petroleum Command decided to set up the first oil well in the vicinity of Bei'an City, and more than 1,000 oil workers in Bei'an City were recruited for the first oil well.
The start of the first oil well was scheduled for March 15, and the first oil well, which had to be drilled after the Spring Festival, was delayed because of the site selection.
And the first oil well was finally set in Bei'ancheng for a reason.
The Chinese army suddenly attacked the Saudi region of the Ottoman Empire, and forcibly occupied the oil city and some surrounding villages and towns, but the Ottoman Empire could not send troops to fight with the Chinese army, because the Ottoman Empire was at war with Willis at this time, and both sides invested a lot of troops, the Ottomans were not able to divide their troops to fight, King Ibrahim I was afraid that the Chinese army would make further moves and threaten their capital Constantinople, so he sent a negotiation mission to the oil city, After a month of consultations, the two sides finally reached an agreement and signed a "Peace Agreement on the Oil City", the main content of which was that the Chinese army stopped attacking the Ottoman army, and the Ottoman Empire agreed to give the area currently occupied by the Chinese army to the Huaxia, and the two countries would no longer fight each other.
For this reason, the Petroleum Command determined the location of the first oil well under the city of Dong'an.
The "Oil City Peace Agreement" signed by Cao Wenzhao on behalf of Huaxia was greatly appreciated by Gao Junshan, and it was ideal to be able to sign a peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire and control the oil city and the surrounding cities of Dong'an, Nan'an and Bei'an in the hands of Huaxia.
Gao Junshan values the oil in this area, and after the state-owned oil city in China, it will be among the major oil countries in the future, which is a good thing for the benefit of all generations.
As for the issue of the Suez Canal, Gao Junshan is not in a hurry to consider it now, he knows that it is impossible to eat a big golden doll in one bite, and the Ottoman Empire will inevitably collapse in the future, and the current China needs time to engage in oil development, coal mine development, and gold mine development, as well as the construction of eight railways in the country, especially the construction of railways, and only when the national railways are unblocked, can China's economy be truly revitalized.
There is also the most crucial factor that is the reason why Gao Junshan has suspended global military operations.