The vast Pacific Ocean, with rapid waves. After crossing the Pacific Ocean and crossing Mexico, it arrived at Mexico City, which was rebuilt from the ruins of the Aztec Empire, an indigenous Mesoamerican civilization in the 16th century, after the Spanish conquistadors defeated the Aztec Empire, the capital of the empire.

Mexicity is an island city!

This is what Ji Li heard from the company's employees after coming to Mexico, and although it has been a month since she arrived in Mexico, this is her first time in Mexico City.

The carriage drove along the road to Mexico City, and Ji Li sat on the carriage and looked curiously at the city outside the car. The streets were dusty and uneven, lined with dirty, broken adobe sidewalks, and countrymen with large bags and small bags walked down the streets, and barefoot women watched from the black doorway as the two-topped four-wheeled carriage came from the black-hole doorway, drawn by four snow-white horses.

Although there were two carriages on the road, the eyes were drawn to the splendid carriage behind it, the coachman drove at a gallop, and two servants of the European court stood motionless at the back of the carriage, and then the crowd on the road pushed and shoved, and everyone watched as if the queen had passed there, and the streets were crowded with people watching the magnificent carriage, and the old man with long beards and flowing beards stared at the carriage, and behind the carriage were twelve healthy horses of black or maroon, The rider on horseback had removed the Winchester Model 1887 shotgun with a short-barreled butt in the saddle, and a rifle in a large cowhide holster.

The bodyguards wearing big Mexican hats looked around vigilantly from time to time, and the vigilance of the bodyguards and the gorgeous carriage convinced the passers-by on the side of the road that the absolute person sitting in the carriage was an extraordinary person.

The end is almost there. Endless fields appeared on both sides of the road, and from time to time a pleasant cool breeze blew through the large woods, blowing through the bright red caryophyllus flowers reflected in the morning sun, and huge clouds drifted towards the convoy.

"Madame, this is Mexico City! Are we going to the hotel now, or are we? ”

"No, let's go to the hotel first, we're going to have a banquet for me tonight with President Dias! As for Edward? Dohanni will take the initiative to find us. ”

Ji Li commanded, and when the carriage drove into the "island city" of Mexico City, you could clearly see the smoke from the volcano billowing over Mexico City. After entering the island city, the carriage ran from the Avenue of Uprising all the way to the center of the city. On the road, you can see some children in tattered clothes running and playing there, and the cheerful figure always kicks up a cloud of dust.

"This is the island city!"

The carriage drove on the Avenue of the Uprising, and with a sweet smile on her face, she knew that the carriage was driving in the "lake", but the lake had already been filled in.

A two-man high wall encircles the manor with a high, wide gate, and for more than 20 years since Díaz was elected president, he did not hesitate to sell land cheaply or give it away free of charge to large landowners and the Catholic Church who supported him. The price is that 95% of the country's farmers have lost their land, and the loss of land naturally brings social turmoil, and Mexico's rich people naturally need a large number of hired bodyguards to protect their safety.

Naturally, this place is no exception, and outside the gate of the manor stand several white bodyguards wearing cowboy hats with loaded guns. A black carriage drove to the gate and stopped, the white bodyguard outside the door looked at the people in the car, whistled, the iron gate opened, and the carriage drove into the manor.

After getting off the carriage, Edward? Dohanni, an oil entrepreneur from California, was sad and quietly accompanied his wife into the room. As soon as he entered the house, he saw his partner Canfield and muttered.

"That Englishwoman really knows how to pretend, writhing around, like a snake. Canfield, you didn't go, you didn't see him like that, she had only been in Mexico for a day, and not only did she win the affection of Dias, but the generals were also vying to get to know this Englishwoman one by one. ”

"Pretending - making a gesture! I think she's the most amazing woman in all of England! ”

Canfield replied, smiling and showing his snow-white teeth.

"Edward, why do you think this woman came to Mexico?"

"Gentlemen, I think it's all for oil, like you, isn't it?"

Mrs. Edward's words were spoken with a sour tone, and at the banquet, how could Miss Stirling, dressed in the latest French dress, and always speak with an aristocratic tone, not to make Emily jealous? Seeing such a radiant person, I just felt a little shorter.

Her Anglo-Mexican oil company, in the past month, has bought 200,000 acres of land in Tampico, and people in China tell us that her company has ordered more than a million dollars worth of drilling equipment in the United States, and has hired Captain Lucas to direct drilling in Tampico! Edward, she has only been in Mexico for a month, but President Díaz invited her to come to Mexico after hearing her name, but she didn't come, and now she is here I think ......"

Canfield, who was smiling at his cigar, smiled at his partner, the manager of Petroleos Mexicanos, who certainly knew the woman's every move when she came to Mexico.

"It's because you're here from California!"

"Is she trying to buy our oil company?"

Edward, of course, knew what Canfield meant.

"180,000 acres owned by oil companies, to be exact! I think that's why she came to Mexico City. ”

"Impossible! I'm not going to sell Petroleos Mexicanos! You know, there's definitely oil in the ground, and it's definitely beyond our imagination! ”

Edward? Dohanni's answer only made Canfield shrug his shoulders rather helplessly, and he stared at his partner and spoke slowly.

"We don't sell, but someone else does, doesn't we?"

"Miss Sterling!"

The obese Robinson leaned back and stared at the woman who had been known for her glamorous and noble pedigree since arriving in Mexico a month earlier, and Robinson knew that she would come to him, and as the owner of 55% of Petroleos Mexicanos, Petroleos would come to her door.

"As Mr. Morel said! In a year, I invested more than four million pesos in Petroleos Mexicanos, and the return was only 26 low-production wells that could not self-inject. ”

Robinson's fat shoulders shrugged helplessly.

Mexico is rich in oil resources, and there are many oil seedlings exposed on the ground. Hundreds of years ago, the local Indians collected asphalt and crude oil from the ground for religious ceremonies and to prevent leaks on the roofs of houses. Later, the Spaniards used it to fill the gaps in the wooden boats.

Half a century ago, after the oil production in Pennsylvania in the United States, many Mexicans also wanted to develop the local oil resources, but the proportion of crude oil produced there was large, and there was not much kerosene for lamps in a simple distillation kettle, and the last one failed.

In the past few years, the oil fever in the United States has stimulated Robinson, who is the president of the Central Railroad, and on the other hand, his Central Railroad needs fuel, and Mexico has gold and silver buried in the ground, but there are no large coal mines, so naturally he thinks of Mexican oil.

That's why he invited Edward to Mexico in search of oil, also to increase his wealth. Last year, Edward bought 180,000 acres of land for oil prospecting, and spent nearly a million dollars in the neighborhood to drill a large number of wells, all low-yielding wells that could not self-spew. Moreover, it is heavy crude oil, which is not suitable for refining kerosene.

Slimy, heavy crude oil simply cannot be used as a railroad locomotive fuel.

"Mr. Dohanni, it may be possible to start an asphalt road construction company and pave the roads with crude oil from your fields, which seems to work well, but Mr. Robinson, if you invest four million pesos in those wells alone, I'm afraid it will take the next century to recoup, right?"

After Morell's butler finished speaking, Ji Li, who was smiling lightly, smiled again, and looked at Robinson in front of her with those beautiful eyes.

"Mr. Robinson, Anglo-Mexican Petroleum is willing to buy your entire stake in Petroleos Mexicanos for four million pesos!"

"Can I say no?"

In front of him, he can only look at the pretty and seductive sweetheart, but Robinson sighed in his heart, a woman like this, unless she takes the initiative to give her a hug, she can only look at it.

"But I hope it's five and a half million pesos!"

The reason why it is so simple, in addition to the fact that the oil company not only did not bring him wealth, but even squeezed him like a vampire, and more importantly, the reason is that half a year, just before Miss Stirling came to Mexico, the director of the National Bureau of Natural Resources had invited two geologists to visit the Tampico region and the "Golden Belt" area respectively. In both places, there are many outcrops of oil seedlings.

The conclusions of the two men are diametrically opposed. The former was Odonis, who helped Dohanni find oil, and he thought that "since there are so many oil seedlings on the surface, it is not difficult to imagine that there will be a lot of oil in the underground traps", while another Villarillo said that "since there are so many oil seedlings outcropping, it is not difficult to imagine that there is not much oil left in the ground." "Angry, the director tore up their reports in front of them.

Although the report was torn up, the 26 low-production oil wells drilled by Petroleos Mexicanos since last year confirmed the correct surname of the Villarillo report, and there was no oil left in the ground, so naturally he did not mind selling his shares to this aristocratic lady from England.

"Robinson ......"

As Morel was saying something, Kiri stood up with a smile and stretched out her right hand.

"Mr. Robinson, I wish us a happy cooperation!"

After the transfer contract was signed in the presence of a lawyer, Robinson's request to stay for the meal was declined, and Ji Li and his party left Robinson's estate, but Morel looked curiously at the little lady in the carriage.

"Miss, why are you making so many concessions?"

"Uncle Morrell, you know that, don't you?"

Ji Li had a sweet smile on her face that was impossible to refuse.

"Robinson is the president of the Central Railroad, and our oil company will inevitably need his help in the future, so it's not a loss, and Canfield has reached out to us, Robinson has 52 percent of the shares, Canfield has 18 percent of the shares, and in the end Dohanni has no other choice but to sell the shares to us."

After saying this, Ji Li finally breathed a long sigh of relief, until now she finally felt a little more relaxed, Uncle Morel was a capable man, and without his help, it might not have been possible to go so smoothly.

"Only Dohanni turned us down, whether it was Robinson or Canfield, and he should pay for the over-budget part, don't you think? Uncle Morrell! ”

Morel feigned surprise and looked at the little lady.

"Miss Gilly, you have indeed become a qualified businessman now, and Miss Catherine would be very happy if she knew."

"Uncle Morrell, don't compliment me, I know, maybe you have a better idea there, don't you?"

Edward's old, somewhat cloudy eyes were furious by the moment. He stared fiercely at the photo of him and Canfield on the wall, and that gaze clearly conveyed a bastard: this ingratitude!

Only he knew why, the short-sighted bastard who sold his shares for how much money, and even told the English the inside story that only the two of them knew.

"Mr. Edward, I think you only have an hour to think about it!"

As he spoke, Morel glanced at his pocket watch and pushed a contract of assignment in front of him, next to which was a check, a check for only six hundred thousand pesos.

Looking at the check, Edward looked up at Morrell, his eyes spurting with overwhelming anger, he knew that he had no choice at all, to swallow Robinson's money of up to a million pesos in the name of drilling and oil production, and if they handed over the evidence to the Mexicans, even if he escaped from the court, he would not be able to escape the killers sent by Robinson.

Signing his name heavily on the transfer contract, Edward looked at the smiling Englishman, cursed in his heart, and then laughed again.

"I wish you all the best if you find the big oil wells, if there is oil in Mexico!"

"Are you sure you want to drill here?"

"I'm pretty sure."

"Oil, is it very precious in the UK?"

"That's right, there are no oil fields in Britain."

"There's a lot of work to do!"

"It's true that there's still a lot of work to be done. Drilling, gathering, laying pipelines and, of course, shipping. ”

"And wealth, isn't it?"

"That's after you drilled the oil well!"

Captain Lucas, who was standing by the oil well, couldn't help but think of the conversation he had with the lady a week ago.

The lady who could have driven the whole world crazy for her chose San Diegot? Although five wells over 500 feet have been drilled at the location of Rama, the location of the company's sixth oil is the same, but the same wells as the Petroleos Mexicanos well that it has acquired are only oozing some slimy, heavy oil that can only be used as asphalt paving.

"Captain Lucas, we've drilled five hundred feet, are we going to continue?"

"Yes! Mr. Thomas, Miss Gilly's request is very simple! She hopes to drill a well that spews out oil! ”

Lucas shrugged his shoulders helplessly at Thomas's question, looked at the drill tower and sighed helplessly.

"Even if you drill a thousand feet, you have to drill down!"

Surfacing Miss Gilly's affirmation, Lucas thought about the first experience he learned after entering the industry.

You can drill desperately. You can drill very good oil wells. You can drill wells in a place where oil should theoretically gush out.

But you can still fail.

Lose money and go bankrupt.

Now Miss Ji Li's stubbornness, is it repeating this bad luck? Although he did not want to see her repeat this bad luck, Lucas could only choose to obey and look for a suitable drilling location on the land of Anglo-Mexican Oil Company to find a company that could save the beautiful lady.

Glancing towards the rig, there was still no movement on the rig, and Lucas smiled helplessly, and then jumped on the horse tied to the pillars of the wooden house.

"Should go out and look for it again!"

On this wooden rig, Zhang Zhipeng learned very quickly, just like on the island, he was the fastest one in everyone's middle school, and after only a month and a half in Mexico, he learned how to have a simple conversation with those Mexicans, and even learned some English, and the more he was most interested in drilling, but when he first drilled the first well, he knew how to drive the boiler -- the rotating square shaft, which was mounted on the top of the drill pipe, and was responsible for making the drill bit extend 400 feet.

He also knew how to add a section to a drill pipe that had already reached into the ground, and how to deal with a large amount of excavated clods of earth and then extend the drill pipe again. He learned how to stack a 30-foot-long drill pipe on top of the rig as it popped out of the hole, then drag the bit out to replace it. He knew how to press liquid mud into the drill hole so that the stone chips would come out as the drill bit worked continuously.

In short, he learned to "dig holes", drill wells, look for oil.

"If you like to look for oil, go find it!"

With the consent of his wife, for the first time in so many years, Zhang Zhipeng felt what happiness was, perhaps it was the expectation in the drilling process and the moment when he found oil.

"Woo rumb...... Woo rumble...... Woo rumble......"

Suddenly, from the wooden rig came from the ground like the roar of a ground dragon, and Thomas, who was coming out of the wooden house, heard this voice and hurriedly shouted.

"Extinguish the boiler!"

As with any drilling platform, the people guarding the boiler often react the fastest, and when the sound like a dragon's groan came out in Zhang Zhipeng's ears, the stoker at the boiler was already desperately shoveling sand into the furnace, and another person was rushing water into the boiler.

"Tom......" The black spray column suddenly sprayed out from the derrick along the drill pipe, and in just an instant, Zhang Zhipeng felt like he had fallen into an oil puddle and his whole body was covered with oil.

Lucas, who was riding on the horse, was stunned by the blowout, and when he turned around, he only saw a black dragon nearly a hundred feet high erupting from the ground, and it seemed that there were raindrops on his hat, it was oil!

(To be continued)