Gaonu County, Shangjun, near the Yellow River, on the wharf, is busy, buckets of dark brown grease water are carried onto the boat, down the river. After arriving at Hongnong, the fleet would turn westward, enter the Wei River, and sail upstream, bringing the fat water to the capital city of Chang'an.

These fat water called "oil" by the nobles from Chang'an, originally came out of the black water mountain in Gaonu County, gushing out like spring water, the mountain people could not afford to buy lamp oil, often took the fat water to light the lamp, but the smell was extremely smelly, and it was easy to get sick after smelling for a long time. Therefore, the fat water was not a valuable thing, but since last autumn, the nobles of Chang'an City with more than 1,000 soldiers surrounded Heishui Mountain, set up a barracks, recruited people to collect fat water, and after carrying it to the wharf, they gave a high price of ten yuan per stone, and the fat water became a treasure in the eyes of the people.

The best corn is only 80 yuan per stone, and even if the family has 10 acres of fertile land and works hard for a year, the income is only more than 1,000 yuan. Now, all you need to do is collect hundreds of buckets of grease water, hire some cars, and transport them to the wharf, and you can cover the income of the past year.

Last winter, after the Yellow River froze and ships could not be sailed, the nobles of Chang'an simply built a large courtyard in Gaonu County, and asked the people to send the fat water there, and then escorted by caravans to Chang'an by land. The nobles are kind-hearted, although the distance is a lot closer, but the silver money has not been cut off, saying that it is cold and freezing, let the big guy buy more food and clothes, and even put more than ten cauldrons in the yard, stew on the hot and fragrant broth, so that the people who send fat and water can use it by themselves to warm their bodies.

Such a compassionate and bold nobleman is rare, and now the people of Gaonu County, as long as they mention the nobles of Chang'an, there is no one who does not praise them. However, they still look forward to the early thawing of the Yellow River, so that the nobles can collect fat and water at the wharf, because the delivery in Gaonu County is more than the outside of the city to deduct a lot of commercial taxes, plainly less than a small half of the income, it is better to take a few more steps, to the wharf to deliver the goods, so that the taxes and fees will be less than half.

Although the county order of Gaonu County was very respectful to the nobles of Chang'an, the law could not be violated, and this commercial tax was not exempt. However, the nobles couldn't see the tax collectors beating and scolding the people, and now that the wharf is reopened, the tax collectors are smiling and setting up tables on the side of the wharf, waiting for the people to take the initiative to pay the taxes. The people were also smiling, as if they had never paid taxes so willingly in their lives. If someone evades taxes, the nobles of Chang'an will know about it, and they will not only be severely fined by the government, but also strictly forbidden to engage in fat and water trading. The people naturally know the importance of it.

Under the heavy profit, there will be wicked people. Many local powerful clans have tried to prevent the people from buying and selling fat and water, so that they can monopolize the profits. However, just after a few people were injured, the nobles of Chang'an took out silver money to let the injured live well, and then issued an order, more than 1,000 soldiers stationed at the foot of Heishui Mountain were fully armored, and dragged the most powerful family heads in Gaonu County from their homes to the county government.

The pale-faced Gaonu County Order, in accordance with the Han law, sentenced the public to show the public in the name of arson. Without the slightest hesitation, the soldiers nailed them alive to the wooden frame, placed them on the edge of the city gate, and let them go for a whole day. In the end, no head of the family could go back alive, and all of them died of anger, and the yellow earth next to the blood-stained city gate would soon be watered with lush flowers and plants.

As a result, the rest of the Haoqiang clans in Gaonu County were all silent, and they sent much-needed cattle, horses and carts to the nobles of Chang'an, so as not to kill the red-eyed soldiers and cut them. They had no intention of going against the officers and soldiers at all, and Shangjun was adjacent to Gyeonggi and was a border county, which was an important place for soldiers. If they dare to do something to the officers and soldiers, within a few days, the tens of thousands of border troops who came from the county will be able to slaughter them and crush them all into powder.

As for the several powerful families who died as the head of the family, they were divided up by the rest of the powerful families with the tacit consent of the nobles. But those who resisted became lonely ghosts in the mountains. The heroes obviously did not do these in the past, and their hands and feet were neat, which opened the eyes of the nobles of Chang'an, and they were really heroic and strong enough, worthy of the name of Haoqiang!

Don't fight or know each other, the powerful people gradually found that the nobles pay attention to the "fair trade" of Laoshizi, never buy and sell, and do things in a very orderly way, but they are also smart. Even if the money obtained by the extermination of Haoqiang, the nobles did not shy away from participating in the "sharing of spoils". This style not only did not arouse the resentment of the local heroes, but on the contrary, it was quite appetizing to them. The northern border counties are already fierce people, and these local heroes look down on the pretentious Sven people, but they are decisive in killing and taking by force to make them respect.

After the beginning of spring, the nobles planned to build some Raushzi oil workshops at the foot of Heishui Mountain to prepare some of the fat water on the spot. When the local heroes heard the news, they took the initiative to offer the land deeds and house deeds around Heishui Mountain, and they also deliberately stated that they would not take a penny. The nobles of Chang'an were not polite, they accepted all of them, exchanged gifts, and bought or leased a large number of slaves from the powerful at high prices to build workshops and roads.

The heroes were ecstatic when they heard the news, and secretly glad that they had not miscalculated, and the nobles of Chang'an were the bold God of Wealth. Shangjun is located in the northern Xinjiang, do not think that only the Huns will rob the Han border people, the Han border county of the powerful family, also recruit rangers, organize slave hunting teams, to rob the small Xiongnu tribes grazing around outside the Saiwai. As long as the soldiers of the border army are often treated, no one will come forward to stop them. There are more slaves than livestock in the local Haoqiang Mansion, and there are even a few Haoqiang who are slave traders in private. In short, when each takes what it needs, everyone is happy, and the two parties have a good expectation of relieving their past suspicions and building a harmonious society.

The prince's family Lingcheng (the housekeeper one level lower than the prince Zhan Shi) Xu Mao was sent by His Royal Highness the Prince to Gaonu County to supervise the construction of an oil workshop, and he was majestic and uncomfortable. You need to know that this is a fat errand, and there has always been a rich reward for doing errands for His Highness. The five oil workshops built this time, plus the dozens of miles of roads leading directly to Gaonu County, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince allocated a whole million dollars, and repeatedly stated that as long as the construction is completed in accordance with the regulations, without delaying the construction period and cutting corners, all the extra money will be distributed to the stewards and craftsmen sent to Gaonu County by Chang'an as rewards.

If you can bring the project forward, there are even more rewards. Of course, there are rewards and punishments, if the construction is completed, the special envoy sent by His Royal Highness for acceptance finds that there is any non-compliance, and Xu Mao will definitely be dismissed; If you are greedy for money and cut corners, I am afraid that you will not even be able to save your life.

Liu Che was once a headache for Liu Che, thinking that the state-owned oil companies of later generations dared to raise oil prices by a large margin in the face of the world's condemnation when international oil prices were plummeting. It is very horizontal and cold, and the momentum of bowing down to embezzlement and buying yachts. The most unforgivable thing is that the common people used such a high price of oil, which can be called a huge profit, and its market value has soared all the way, but the stock has plummeted, which can be called an economic miracle with Chinese characteristics.

After much deliberation, Liu Che decided to try to break up the oil industry, thus creating the imperfect oil industry of the Han Empire.

Liu Che first used the crude oil extracted from the Gaonu County oil field as the price, and handed over all the proceeds to the state treasury. He also issued an edict in advance that in the future, the ownership and exploitation rights of all oil fields in the Han Empire would be nationalized, and private ownership would never be allowed; On the other hand, it is strictly forbidden to run government-run oil workshops, and it is forbidden to compete with the people for profit.

As soon as this edict came out, the Han magnates were confused, and on the surface, this edict was really a bit contradictory. They don't know what oil is, let alone how vast the so-called oil fields are, so they don't raise any objections.

Many years later, the magnates were saddened by the hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil produced by the Middle East oil fields that were included in the territory of the Han Dynasty, and secretly scolded themselves for not having more eyes at the beginning, and let this big fat slipped out of their mouths. Fortunately, the Imperial Government. In strict accordance with the law, the government only enjoyed the ownership and exploitation rights of the oil fields, but never got involved in the oil industry, leaving a lot of profit margins, so that the profit-hungry Han magnates did not rebel in a hurry.

Today's Gaonu County oil fields, oil workshops and roads are jointly funded by the Royal Industrial Group, Tian's Commercial Group and Shaofu, in exchange for the exclusive right to purchase Gaonu County's crude oil for 50 years. Outside Chang'an, the original oil mill has also begun to expand in order to refine more asphalt in preparation for the upcoming road construction.

In the future, the "Imperial Oil Group", which has topped the global market value list for hundreds of consecutive years, has officially stepped onto the stage of history, and Shaofu has firmly controlled the business decision-making power with an absolute controlling stake of 60%. Even though the two groups have faced serious financial crises many times in the following hundreds of years, the group's top management would rather sell a large number of the group's assets than release half of the equity of the Imperial Oil Group.

With the continuous expansion of the Han Empire in the future, the exploration and exploitation of a large number of overseas oil fields, with the deliberate support of Liu Che, several large oil companies came into being, competing with the Imperial Oil Group, checking and balancing each other internally, and jointly suppressing externally. Within the oil industry of the Han Empire, the melody of cooperation and competition continued for nearly a thousand years, until the emergence of new energy, which led to the complete decline of the oil industry, and then slowly came to an end.

(Whew, the second one is hotter, enjoy it slowly.) ）

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