"This is it, isn't it?"

The man with a high nose stepped off his horse and asked, pointing to the small temple in front of him, which was only a few steps away from him.

Zhao Jianchu, the leader of the group, stepped forward and looked around casually, the middle-aged elder nodded and said, "It should be here!" ”

"Hey, where this bird doesn't, I can't find a second temple,"

The young cowboy hat, who was collecting horses and supplies for the team, pouted and said.

"If you want me to say, why don't we live in the county, doctor? Gotta look at this place, the house is broken, the temple is broken, and the ground is leaking...... Hmph, there's not even a place to shelter from the rain, alas~ I have to play a tent......"

"Alright, you don't have to complain! You have to be prepared to endure hardships when you come," Gao Nose reprimanded, "I forgot what I told you in Beijing, haven't I?" ”

seemed to be a little afraid of the other party, and after being reprimanded, the cowboy hat couldn't help but shrink his neck.

Watching him eat deflated, everyone around him couldn't help laughing.

That being said, along the way, everyone liked such a young man...... Although there are often complaints during the journey, when it comes to doing things, they are often the first to do things, in the words of the high nose bridge, that is, there is a tiger energy! Of course, I won't say it when I think about it, otherwise this kid will be proud again.

As he spoke, the crowd dismounted their horses one by one.

"Hey~ Look!"

Approaching the temple, a bespectacled young woman in the center of the team suddenly spoke up.

As she spoke, the surrounding expedition members gathered one after another.

Looking at the sand and gravel land under his feet that was constantly oozing black oil to the surface, Zhao Jianchu, the leader who stepped forward from behind, couldn't help but sigh softly.

glanced at the young woman with a slightly delicate temperament who was the first to discover this place. Zhao Jianchu nodded. praised. "Yes, very observant......"

"No, I accidentally stepped on the ...... It feels a little slippery before I found out. The bespectacled young woman waved her hand a little embarrassedly and replied.

Zhao Jianchu was dumbfounded......

Everyone laughed.

The cowboy hat on one side snorted and laughed, "Tong Tian, you can't give Dr. Zhao a little face, you are really!" ”

"Hahahaha......" As soon as the words fell, it unsurprisingly caused everyone to laugh.

looked at the cowboy hat colleague next to him who always made fun of himself. The young woman wrinkled the tip of her nose cutely, snorted at the cowboy hat and turned back.

"Hahahaha......" Now everyone laughed even more.

"Doctor, I think we can drill an exploration well here to test the water."

After laughing, a flat-headed man in a fur-collared vest in the team asked the team leader, Zhao Jianchu.

"Okay!" Zhao Jianchu nodded and replied, "Although it is also possible that it is just the oil foam that occasionally seeps out of the underground rock formation, it cannot be ruled out that it is a shallow oil layer on the surface......

The high-nosed man who had been listening to him listened to him heard the voice and said, "Then I'll arrange for someone to come over now......

"Don't worry!"

Zhao Jianchu shook his head and pointed to the small temple in front of him and said.

"Since you've come to the place, let's go first and take a look, worship the temple in the mountains, hehe. It's a good sign. ”

As he spoke, the middle-aged team leader had already walked over first......

Everyone looked at each other and had to follow along.

……

The temple is not big. There is a square red brick courtyard wall in a circle, and there is nothing else worth standing out except for the two bronze lions outside the gate. Above the gate supported by the blue bricks, the three big characters of "Laojun Temple" are impressively listed, this plaque is the work of a famous artist, Lu Runzhen, or a scientific research champion in the Tongzhi period of the late Qing Dynasty.

Walk into the courtyard wall, is facing the gate, a piece of marble inscription more than one person high has aroused the interest of many people present, the inscription is also made by a famous artist in the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the content is not very surprising, that is, the origin of the creation of the temple, see the cowboy hat and many other young members in the team is very boring.

It is said to be a temple, but it is actually a Taoist shrine dedicated to Taishang Laojun, but it is somewhat similar in appearance.

In general, the building in front of me is a "small temple" that cannot be smaller. If it weren't for the visit of villagers who knew about Lao Jun, a Taoist figure, they would not have aroused the slightest interest in it. In fact, there is really no incense here, of course, there are no cultivators such as Taoist monks and monks, but today there is such a "travel and visiting team" of Zhao Jianchu "specially".

Although the scene was a little unsatisfactory, Zhao Jianchu, who led the group, did not care about the mottled interior of the Laojun Temple in disrepair.

With a little awe, Zhao Jianchu solemnly put a stick of incense on the statue of Laojun in the temple.

The people behind him have learned the same, regardless of whether the spirit is ineffective, since they are here, they should bow to one of the legendary Sanqing......

After leaving the Laojun Temple, the group really did not go back, and after one of the expedition members in charge of communication and liaison sent his own relevant findings and requirements to the county, these geological expedition members from Beijing really set up tents outside the temple.

Looking at the cowboy hat that fulfilled his original words, he couldn't help but grin bitterly while helping the team build a bonfire.

……

For a long time, the East Asian continent was considered a region traditionally lacking in oil minerals. At that time, Westerners were often limited to about 500 meters of oil exploration, and unfortunately, many of the rich oil formations on Chinese territory at that time were located in formations that were more than 1,000 meters or even deeper.

At the same time, China's ancestors discovered oil as early as 290 A.D. in the area of Laojun Temple in present-day Yumen, Gansu Province, nearly 800 years earlier than Shen Kuo's record of oil in the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, the local people had already used Yumen's oil for production, domestic and military purposes...... Compared with the situation in other parts of the mainland where there is not even a single hair of oil, there is no doubt that this almost shallow formation oil mine in Yumen that can seep oil foam in the open air is more and more precious.

For this reason. Since the mid-19th century. The oil of Laojun Temple has attracted the attention of a large number of geologists around the world. And the footsteps of exploring Yumen oil have never stopped.

As far as Chen Zeyu is concerned, although the head of state as a modern man knows that there are several rich crude oil minerals on the Songliao Plain, not far from him. However, this shrewd leader is also at the same time with the wishful thinking of speeding up the development of the western region...... Although he knew how the production of those oil wells in Yumen was in the previous life, the total exploration reserves of 30 million yuan were less than a fraction of the later Daqing oilfield in the east. But at a time when the world's oil industry is still in its infancy, and at a time when the world's annual oil consumption has not even reached one million tons, the Yumen oil field will undoubtedly continue to play a vital role in Seris's oil development.

Of course, this alone still does not prompt Chen Zeyu to make up his mind to build the Yumen oil industry. The real reason for this is due to the abundant crude oil deposits in Xinjiang, Qinghai and other western border areas in the future. In fact, few people know that the Longhai and Lanxin railways that the Ceris government is now building are almost entirely designed to follow the specific sites of these future western oil fields.

Hami Oilfield, Turpan Oilfield, Karamay Oilfield, Yurdusi Oilfield, Qaidam Oilfield, Tarim Oilfield...... If we take a more long-term view, in the future, there is no doubt that these oil development areas in the western frontier of Seris will be "radiated" by the oil industry in Yumen, Gansu. Although the Yumen Oilfield's own reserves will not be able to support it for long, it will undoubtedly benefit greatly from the development of other crude oil minerals in the planned western region while building the refining industry in this area.

With that in mind. At the suggestion of Chen Zeyu, Tang Yuanzhan, minister of industry of the cabinet, submitted a bill to the National Assembly of the Republic on the development of Gansu oil in western Seris. Same in the same month. Under the leadership of Zhao Jianchu, a doctor of geology in the United States, Ceris officially established the country's first National Geological Survey under the framework of the Ministry of Industry.

After several months of intense preparation, the Geological Survey Bureau was quickly formed!

In early summer, the Beijing Geological Survey was commissioned by the government and the Avalanche Group to investigate the local oil deposits in the Yumen region in northwest China.

On May 5, the completed oil expedition team officially embarked on its journey under the send-off ceremony of the central government in Beijing......

On the eve of the journey, because they could enjoy the many conveniences of the domestic railway, the geological survey team had a relaxed journey on the train. However, after they arrived at Taiyuan Station in Shanxi, Zhao Jianchu's team had to say goodbye to the railway trip with regret for the time being - before the Longhai Railway was completed, the rest of the journey from Shanxi to Gansu would really begin to test the willpower of the geological survey team. In this way, after a short rest, the investigation team was equipped with dozens of mules, horses and equipment collected by the local government, and quickly hit the road again......

Putting aside the hardships along the way, after passing through Xi'an and Baoji along the way, on May 31, the geological survey team led by Zhao Jianchu, director of the Geological Bureau, finally arrived in Yumen as scheduled.

At the same time, after receiving the supreme instructions from Chen Zeyu in Beijing, the local provincial government in Gansu and the local government in Yumen County did not dare to slack off...... From the very beginning, the geological team in the local exploration and investigation activities and then the development activities of Laojunmiao Petroleum have been supported by them in an all-round way, workers, pump drilling, energy, logistics, etc., as long as Zhao Jianchu and they put forward, the local government will solve it in the first time, creating an excellent external environment for the development of Yumen Petroleum.

Under the leadership of the team leader, Dr. Zhao Jianchu, all the members of the national investigation team set up tents in the wilderness...... Sleeping in the open air, wearing the stars and the moon...... Surveying, drawing maps, and setting well locations...... The emperor lives up to his wishes! After the exploration of the geological survey team, it has been proved that the area around the Laojun Temple in Yumen is an area with industrial mining value!

As if fate was sealed, Laojun Temple, a historic Taoist building, was also destined to become famous all over the world because of oil extraction! (To be continued......)

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