Chapter 61: Traitorous Agreements and Oil
On the third day after Christmas, Chamberlain's emissary brought a traitorous agreement. It is divided into nine articles.
Except that there was no cession of territory, Hu Xiaoyan agreed in principle to these conditions. Among them are the extraterritoriality of the British, and so on.
Just as he was signing, Hu Xiaoyan found that the signature document read: Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain (not the later British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Hu Xiaoyan did not realize that he had confused the two Chamberlains until much later). Chamberlain's envoy also gave a list, and the list was all professors that Hu Xiaoyan found through Mr. Mike who had a certain reputation in the field of physical chemistry but were not enough to become frontrunners. With Hu Xiaoyan's strength, even with Chamberlain's endorsement, almost all of those famous professors rejected Hu Xiaoyan's solicitation.
However, the matter of the quilt equipment of the steel plant has been solved, including but not limited to the steel plant and coking plant, coal washing plant and so on.
Similarly, the equipment of the physics and chemistry laboratories was taken care of in the UK. With Chamberlain intervening, Britain did not put up obstacles in this regard. They even assisted a batch of old equipment for mining and prospecting.
In this way, Hu Xiaoyan has successfully recruited a team of foreign teachers including 500 people. Among them, there are only 50 teachers at the level of professors and associate professors, and 100 teaching assistants, all of whom are new graduates.
For this reason, Hu Xiaoyan's debt ratio has reached more than 10,000 percent. He had to borrow five million pounds like a British bank. For this reason, Chamberlain asked Hu Xiaoyan to guarantee iron ore and coal mines.
After the agreement was signed, Chamberlain also paid for it, and Hu Xiaoyan's trip to Europe basically reached the goal, and he spent almost three million pounds of five million pounds. More than 2.5 million of them were used to purchase various factory equipment and school equipment. The most expensive of them is not steel plant equipment, but laboratory equipment! Another £500,000 was the first settling-in allowance for the five hundred teachers. This does not include the cost of the group of teachers recruited by Hu Xiaoyan himself. Mr. Mike recruited fifty teachers for Hu Xiaoyan, including Henry and Nicholas. For these fifty teachers, Hu Xiaoyan paid 500,000 pounds again.
With the remaining £1.5 million to base upon. Hu Xiaoyan finally let go of the worries in his heart.
This agreement was temporarily stored by Hu Xiaoyan because it was a traitorous agreement, and once it was made public, Hu Xiaoyan's prestige would be devastated. Chamberlain also pledged confidentiality.
Although Hu Xiaoyan didn't believe it, there was no way.
In the days that followed, Hu Xiaoyan and his group of non-commissioned officers and rogue hooligans who had been lazy for a few days began to look for work in the jungle and wilderness.
What they're looking for is oil. Hu Xiaoyan used to play in this area when he was a child, when his mother was frail and sickly, so he was very naughty when he was young, and often ran into the wild to play crazy. As a result, he fell into a deep pit in an accident. It was full of black fluid. If it weren't for the help of the children, he would have been there.
He talked to his family about it afterwards. But no one in the village believed it.
In order to find the suspected oil place at that time, Hu Xiaoyan had to open a map and act alone with several of his most trusted non-commissioned officers and bodyguards.
The map has become even more powerful after the Thames River Rescue Incident. Not only does the area become larger, but it can also be operated at will, for example, it can observe the details of the specified location in more depth and detail, which is more effective than the GPS system. GPS seems to be able to see only about 0.5M objects, but it is difficult for GPS to clearly display small objects, such as 10CM objects.
On the mutated map, Hu Xiaoyan can see every inch of matter in every inch of place.
After following the direction and observation on the map, Hu Xiaoyan finally found the original pit.
The pit is actually not deep, but it is also deep compared to the young Hu Xiaoyan. The depth is 30 centimeters, and there is not much vegetation nearby. There are still some black marks in the pit.
Hu Xiaoyan laughed. He finally found the trace of oil.
"Dig!" Hu Xiaoyan gave an order, personally took the lead in excavation, and then dug a large pit with a radius of one meter, and when he dug a meter deep, oil began to slowly emerge.
Hu Xiaoyan immediately asked people to build a small wooden house nearby, leaving the non-commissioned officers and students, Zhang Yufeng and others to patrol nearby.
He himself took Chen Xin and the two of them away. Then he went to Mr. Mike and asked Mr. Mike to come forward and invite three oil exploration experts, so that these three experts could conduct oil exploration activities in the local area under the protection of non-commissioned officers.
Finally, after a month-long period of exploration, the three experts gave an approximate area of oil and possible reserves.
Probably enough. After Hu Xiaoyan bought the possible oil area in Angel's name, he began to lease oil extraction equipment. Drill deep into the pit where the oil is produced.
It worked so well that there was a spew of oil on the same day.
According to Hu Xiaoyan's fragmented memory, the Wichfam oil field was the largest oil field in Western Europe. Therefore, it was impossible for Britain to let it fall into the hands of a Chinese. Hu Xiaoyan instructed Angel to promise the village that in the future, the Wichfam oil field would hand over 10% of the oil shares to the village. This proposal was embraced by all the people of the village. When Hu Xiaoyan met Chamberlain again, the Wichfam Oil Company was officially established. Chamberlain did not come alone, he was accompanied by representatives of the Royal Shell Petroleum Shipping Company and Standard Oil. Chamberlain came forward and said that the Wichfam oil field had to be sold. If Hu Xiaoyan didn't know each other, then the whole village could be in danger, and DuPont's destruction of Nobel was a lesson from the past, and he didn't believe that the British would be more merciful than DuPont. Hu Xiaoyan offered 25 million pounds. This was a high price at the time. However, after half a month of negotiations, the final price of the oil field was 15 million pounds, of which the British government forgave Hu Xiaoyan 5 million pounds of loan debt. The buyer was Royal Shell Petroleum Company. At the same time, Hu Xiaoyan was guaranteed to spend at least another 5 million pounds in the UK. Hu Xiaoyan was furious and handed over 3.5 million pounds to Standard Oil for the purchase of some American goods. Chamberlain acquiesced. Since the price of the transaction was fifteen million pounds, Angel divided ten percent of it, or one and a half million pounds, equally among all the families in the village. So far, Hu Xiaoyan's mission in the UK has been successfully completed. Five hundred and fifty university teachers, as well as equipment for heavy industry such as steel mills and coking plants, and light industry equipment such as textile mills, have been procured and ready to be shipped. Hu Xiaoyan gave the work to Angel and the Russian girl named Elisa. Alyssa is Wang Wenyuan's wife. It's just that Hu Xiaoyan hasn't let Wang Wenyuan know about it yet. Wang Wenyuan has recently immersed himself in the gasoline and diesel engines he just bought. He spends his days eating and sleeping in an empty factory on the farm. It was originally a sleeping place for the hired farmers, but after the business deteriorated, Luo Jin, the housekeeper, fired most of the hired farmers and turned to hire the villagers of his own village, at least the villagers could save money on food and drink. After the oil company is sold, the small village will become one of the oil fields because of its proximity to the oil fields. Land prices and business here have improved. Mr. and Mrs. Hans brought up the marriage of Hu Xiaoyan and Angel again. Hu Xiaoyan agreed in principle. So the wedding of the two also entered the preparatory stage. Hu Xiaoyan didn't need to worry about these things, so he naturally left them to Luo Jin, a competent housekeeper. What worries Hu Xiaoyan now is the group of intelligence officers sent by Chamberlain. There were ten intelligence officers in total, headed by Lieutenant Louis. They have been serving Hu Xiaoyan since the day the agreement was signed. But at present, only Li Chen, Zhang Yunfeng and Jin Yunting are a mixture of intelligence officers and special forces. The three of them received a comprehensive training of ten intelligence officers. And Alyssa and Wang Wenyuan's son Jack Wang is now training and playing with them. This kid is very fond of the intelligence life. The wedding went on uneventfully. Only Chamberlain and the embassy sent servants to send gifts and gifts. This made Hu Xiaoyan very regretful. It seems that he does not yet have such a high prestige in England. At the same time, Hu Xiaoyan decided to leave for Germany. Germany is the world's largest army power. Although the British Army is powerful, it has not yet been able to match the British Navy. If Hu Xiaoyan wants to go to Germany, he must go secretly, because the relationship between Britain and Germany is still relatively stiff so far. Hu Xiaoyan does not want to offend Britain at this stage. Especially in the case of Chamberlain's unequivocal support for himself.