According to the plan that Gao Hongsheng came up with for Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary would use his help to replace the fuel of the Austro-Hungarian navy and small steam engines with oil-fired boilers and internal combustion engines in five or six years.

Replacing coal with oil as fuel for warships, and replacing those small steam engines on land with internal combustion engines, such as pumping engines used in coal mines, and steam engine power used in small processing plants, means that the Austro-Hungarian navy and other small power equipment should be built on the resources of oil, and although the oil resources have some output in Austro-Hungarian Finland now, the distribution of resources is still too small compared to the coal that can be supplied in large quantities and everywhere in the country. This meant looking for other oil resources overseas, and at the same time building large oil storage facilities and new refineries in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which required a lot of investment.

At the same time, Ferdinand may not know how big the oil industry is, and even no one in this world knows better than Gao Hongsheng how big this cake is, and how many interests will be involved in the end, think about the dirty things done by those multinational oil companies in later generations, as long as you think about it, you will feel a chill in your back, even if he is now pulling Ferdinand, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to do it together and control the oil industry of a country.

This kind of thing is very rich to think about, the reality is very cruel, this industry is not monopolized by the two of them at all, at the beginning, no one may pay attention to this industry, and once he and Ferdinand took great pains to build a framework and began to generate huge profits, then the people who share the cake will naturally appear, if they block the way of other people's money, then it is likely that the final result will be to be killed by others, as for what crown prince is not the crown prince in the eyes of those capitalists' money, It's not a problem at all, the crown prince is not a king, especially Ferdinand himself is not Joseph's own son, he is just an elected crown prince from a family, and it doesn't matter if you change one.

So the best way is to attract more people to join in at the beginning, and make the industry bigger quickly, as long as each person's share of the profit is large enough to make everyone cope with the pressure faced in the future, although it seems that the profits are diluted, but there are more people and more people, the cake can also be made bigger, then the profits have not decreased much, and a lot of trouble has been saved.

Seeing Gao Hongsheng ask about the oil industry, Ferdinand said with a smile: "We defeated Deutsche Bank to obtain 70% of the shares of Styva Romania, which owns the Campina oil field and oil refining unit near Buzeu, and the current annual production is estimated to reach more than 100,000 tons after additional investment, and the oil pipeline to the port is also being laid, or we will have a large amount of stable crude oil to supply our new new refinery in less than a year." ”

"No, that's not enough, Ferdinand, it's only 100,000 tons a year, and you're complacent, it's too low, and when your navy and tractors use a lot of petroleum products, you'll find that it's not worth mentioning. You'll want to continue to invest in Romania's oil-rich Plains of Valaqian, and when the annual production reaches millions of tons, it's time to slow down.

We must control it in our hands, we must find a way to draw Romania from the hands of Russia, don't be afraid to spend money, and put all the profits generated by our oil exploitation in Romania, except for the subsequent investment that remains, all the money to win over those high-ranking officials in Romania, as long as they are all invested in our arms, we will give them enough money to turn Romania into the most loyal little brother of Austria-Hungary, and here I can also help you, just pay 300,000 pounds for medicine, In the name of Austria-Hungary, you donate to the Romanian government to help the poor who are struggling on the death line, and you have to find a way to invest in the construction of a railway to the Romanian town of Wallachia, which will be built into an oil city.

Don't be stingy with the wages of the Romanian workers, raise their wages to more than twice their domestic wages, give the Romanians who work for us an incomparable sense of superiority over the native Romanians inside and out, and make the Romanians want to be subjects of Austria-Hungary from the heart, so that you can gradually incorporate Romania into the territory of Austria-Hungary. Whatever they want, we give them whatever we can provide. As long as Ferdinand masters the oil of Romania, every qiē we pay is worth it, that is the foundation of the strength of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whoever masters the energy, he will master the qiē. ”

"Is oil that important? Even if we replace all the ships of the Navy with oil-fired boilers that burn heavy oil, then we will not need too much crude oil, and the production of 100,000 tons is already very high, is it necessary to continue to invest? Ferdinand asked, questioningly.

How important oil is, Ferdinand may not know, but as a post-born Chinese, who does not worry about that bit of oil prices.

Sighing heavily, Gao Hongsheng shook his head slightly, and after thinking for a while, he said in a cautious tone: "Ferdinand, in five or six years, we will develop internal combustion engine products, that is, the use of petroleum refined products gasoline and diesel as fuel, that is not the current single-cylinder ball-burning internal combustion engine that emits earth-shattering movements once it is started, it will be a new type of internal combustion engine that is very small and has a small sound and strong power, which will be used to drag all kinds of vehicles instead of countless carriages galloping on the field, Pushing all kinds of ships to sail in the sea, driving propellers to send people into the air to fly, these are very lucrative new industries, and the profits generated by any of these industries can make people crazy, and this qiē has to be built on the damn crude oil.

Without cheap, abundant crude oil, then these are empty buildings, and our profits will be short-lived, like beautiful soap bubbles, just cut or raise the price of crude oil a little bit, and then we will be in a predicament.

Ferdinand, if you want to become a rich king in the future and have the right to decide, then you have to master the oil resources, and the neighbors of the Austro-Crarian Empire have the one you want, master it, control it, let it become your source of profit, the nineteenth century belonged to coal, but the twentieth century belonged to oil, the light and powerful internal combustion engine will inevitably replace the heavy and clumsy steam engine, which is the inevitable trend of scientific and technological development and progress. It's up to you whether you can seize the opportunity or not.

I warn you one last with caution. Ferdinand, master Romania and you have decisive resources. ”

After listening to Gao Hongsheng's words, Ferdinand fell into deep thought, and Gao Hongsheng did not bother him, this is a strategic change in the country, and it is not at all a decision that can be made in one or two conversations, only if they understand the importance of oil, they can really attach importance to Romania's oil fields.

Gao Hongsheng also has his own careful thinking, so that Austria-Hungary can master the oil fields of Romania can develop a large number of petroleum products, only by mastering the oil resources, can we continue to provide cheap and sufficient gasoline and diesel, only the price of gasoline and diesel is cheap enough, in order to make the automobile industry develop, this is a closed ring, without that link will not work, and crude oil plays a key role in it.

The development of the automobile industry in the United States is due to the fact that it has a cheap supply of oil, and without cheap crude oil, the automobile industry cannot develop at all. The automobile industry is an emerging industry, which can avoid the impact of traditional industries on the old capital empire and avoid their blockade.