Chapter 40: The Butterfly Effect
Historically, Mexico discovered a large oil field in mid-1908, but now Yan Guang did not find such news in the newspapers.
After waiting for three days, when Yan Guang left Charlie's office with a large stack of newspapers and returned to his room, he found that there was indeed no news about large oil fields in the newspapers, and because no large oil fields were discovered for many years, the oil fever in Mexico had begun to subside, and many businessmen who had invested heavily in Mexico committed suicide...
"What the hell is this..."
Yan Guang scratched his head, in his opinion, there are only two reasons for this result, the first is that there is no oil in Mexico, of course, this is impossible.
The second is the butterfly effect...
"A butterfly in the Amazon rainforest of South America, with an occasional flap of its wings, can cause a tornado in Texas, USA, two weeks later."
Yan Guang came to this world in January 1908, and the Dos Pocas 1 well, a large oil field in Mexico, began to blow out in June 1908.
It stands to reason that in such a short period of time, Yan Guang, a little butterfly, will not be able to fan much wind, but in the first month of coming to this world, Yan Guang made many things that should not appear in years, or even decades, to make a living, which in itself has disrupted the original historical process, and the subsequent London rubber stocks, Sichuan textile mills, etc., have made this process even more chaotic...
Of course, the wheel of history is still very strong, at least like the First World War, which has been prepared by both sides for decades, Yan Guang's little butterfly can't interfere with it, but if it's just an oil well in Mexico, let him produce oil a little earlier or later, or even let the drillers deviate from their original position for some reason...
Doesn't seem like an impossible thing to do?
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After figuring out this, Yan Guang began to gather information about Petroleos Mexicanos.
After getting the information he wanted, Yan Guang first went to HSBC and withdrew 500,000 silver dollars, and then returned to Sichuan on the last freighter carrying looms and spindles.
"Ding Han, I'll leave you for the time I'm leaving..."Yan Guang patted Song Dinghan on the shoulder, and said with a relaxed face, behind him were Wang Er and thirty members of the team selected by him.
“…… Rest assured..."
This time, Yan Guang only left 500,000 silver dollars for Song Dinghan as working capital, and then asked Wang Er to select 30 of the 50 security guards to go to the United States with him, as for what to do in the United States, Yan Guang did not explain to them.
Yan Guang didn't say to these team members that he was afraid that they would leak the news, and he didn't say to Song Dinghan because he was afraid that he would oppose it.
Spend millions of dollars looking for oil fields in Mexico? If Yan Guang said it, everyone would think he was crazy, and Song Dinghan would definitely oppose it, because doing so seemed to him as if he was throwing millions of dollars into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
In fact, Yan Guang also thought about what would happen if he failed, so he kept a small part of the funds in Sichuan, so that if he succeeded, everyone would be happy, and if he failed, he would have a chance to make a comeback.
Of course, Yan Guang didn't think that he would fail, and all he was worried about now was how to come back safely with the money after finding out the oil field.
That's why he took thirty people to the United States, who didn't speak English and were at least relatively less likely to be bribed than the bodyguards recruited in the United States.
Of course, he left with thirty people, and there were only twenty security guards left in the company, so Yan Guang could only let Song Dinghan rerecruit thirty people.
After arriving in Shanghai again from Yucheng, Yan Guang did not tell Charlie and Richard that he was going to the United States to find oil fields, because he did not like to be watched by Yan Guang, who looked at a madman, but Yan Guang still bought a batch of pistols in Charlie's foreign company.
This time, Yan Guang did not buy Mauser's shell gun, but the Browning M1903 pistol of the Belgian FN company, after all, this trip to Mexico was just for self-defense, and the price of the shell gun was indeed higher than that of Browning.
Of course, the most important thing is that you can get a discounted price if you buy a gun from Charlie, and he only has Browning here.
After making all the preparations, Yan Guang took Wang Er and thirty other people to board a cruise ship bound for the United States.
On the cruise ship, the thirty-odd Chinese with braids are quite eye-catching, and the thirty people brought out from Sichuan also look like curious babies, but...
Just as the cruise ship was departing, and the thirty people were looking at the sea with a curious baby, something quite shocking happened to them...
Right in front of them, Yan Guang took off his hat, of course, it was nothing, but then Yan Guang took off his braid again, revealing a very cleanly shaved bald head underneath...
It wasn't until this time that the group learned that their boss was wearing a fake braid...
"Second brother, did you already know that the boss was wearing fake braids?" After Yan Guang walked farther, a security guard who was familiar with Wang Er patted him.
Since Wang Er is Yan Guang's number one confidant, and there is another word in his name, other people usually call him the second brother, and the eldest brother is of course Yan Guang's boss. And when Yan Guang took off his braids just now, only Wang Er's expression did not change among the people present, so the others thought that he already knew.
"Yes." Wang Er nodded, how could he not know that Yan Guang had been by his side before boarding the ship, and he had accompanied Yan Guang to the barber shop to remove his head.
"Then why don't you tell us..."Another security guard said with some complaints, unlike Guangdong and Shanghai, which were turned blind by the Manchu political axe, Sichuan at this time would have to kill his head if he cut his braids, so he almost scared him to death after finding out that Yan Guang's braids were fake.
However, Wang Er didn't say anything, just glanced at them and left, leaving only thirty people staring at each other on the deck.
After a long voyage, the cruise ship finally arrived in San Francisco.
This voyage was very smooth, unlike Yan Guang's previous voyages, where he always encountered some racists, of course, he might have encountered them, but he didn't dare to find Yan Guang after seeing more than thirty people here.
After arriving in San Francisco, Yan Guang just got off the boat and went to Chinatown to visit Huang Lao again, but this time he did not see Huang Yihua.
After learning that Yan Guang was coming to meet Huang Lao, Huang Yihua pouted and took a few brothers who had joined the alliance with him to meet Sun Yat-sen, who had just arrived in San Francisco.
During this time, he was completely tired of the name Yan Guang.
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