Xiao Zhenlei and Ah Bing quickly rushed to the oil well, but the black oil that rose into the sky spewed out dozens of meters high from the wellhead, making it impossible for them to get close, and the drilling workers were also drenched in black oil.

Xiao Zhenlei squinted his eyes and said to Ah Bing: "Ah Bing, go and inform Williams and tell him that the oil well drilled by our drilling team is producing oil, and let him immediately find a way to notify the newspaper reporter to come over for an interview!" ”

"Okay, I'll go right away!" Ah Bing said yes and turned around and ran away.

Xiao Zhenlei saw that Grant and Massimo and others were discussing something, and immediately walked over, it turned out that the two were discussing how to find a way to block the oil wellhead, you must know that if the oil well has been spewing oil, the surrounding ground is full of oil, which is also extremely inconvenient for future exploitation, and more importantly, a large amount of oil is spewed out, which may flow into the English Channel in the south and cause a lot of pollution, and it will also be a lack of grass on the surrounding road.

After consulting with Grant and Massimo, it was decided to take immediate steps to plug the wellhead, but it would take time because the pressure in the wellhead was too great for the oil to be spewed tens of meters into the sky.

Leaving Grant and Massimo here to find a way to block the oil wellhead, and leaving Ah Cheng and the other five agents to guard here to prevent anyone from sabotaging and making trouble, he and Opiyin drove to the town with Ah Yang and rented a house, preparing to use this as an oil field office in the town, on the one hand, because the oil wellhead is too desolate and shabby, if there is an oil company that wants to buy this oil field, it is better to receive it here, and on the other hand, the office is located in the town. It is easy to get around, and it is also convenient to communicate with the local residents.

The other day, local residents heard that a company called White Penguin had hired a team of oil drillers to drill wells in the land to extract oil. The local residents laughed at the owner of the White Penguin Company, who must be crazy for money, how could there be oil near the sea? If there is oil, don't they know?

But it's only been four days. The drilling team literally drilled an oil well in that land, and oh my God, this joke is too big, why is that? God, why did the old man make an outsider rich instead of them, the locals?

Although the inhabitants of the town are full of envy and jealousy, but there is no way, who will let the ownership of that land already belong to someone else? What is even more unfortunate is that the original six owners of the land, they all moved away after selling the land to the White Penguin Company, and it is estimated that they did not know that oil was coming out of this land, if they knew. They will definitely regret selling the land at a low price.

Xiao Zhenlei considered a problem, if you want to sell the oil field safely during this time, you must also have a good relationship with the local residents, if someone secretly exploits the oil field will have a great impact on the lives of the local residents, so as to encourage these local people to make trouble, the matter will be troublesome, once more than a certain number of local residents make trouble or march, the local government may intervene, then it will be troublesome. In order to prevent this from happening, Xiao Zhenlei asked Opiyin to take the money and immediately buy a large number of gifts and send them to local residents to win their favor. He also hoped that they would take care of them, and said that the exploitation of oil fields can bring vitality to the local economy and bring benefits to local residents. Locals are not stupid, and of course they will benefit from knowing that there are such resources in their local area.

Meantime. In order to get the news in time, Xiao Zhenlei asked Opiyin to buy off a few idle ruffians in the town. Let them keep an eye on every move in the town, and report it immediately if anyone secretly instigates the local residents to make trouble, these ruffians are all money-seeing, as long as they have money, they will do anything, let alone spy on the townspeople.

When Xiao Zhenlei rented a house in the town, cleaned up with Ah Yang, simply decorated it, bought some office supplies, and hung the sign of the White Penguin Company at the door of the house, Williams rushed over, his actions were very fast, reporters from many newspapers came, and the reporters did not rest in the town, and rushed directly to the oil well for interviews, Xiao Zhenlei left Ah Yang on duty in the town's office, and he and Williams took the reporters from various newspapers to the oil well.

In addition to the reporters of the Times and the Daily Mail and other newspapers in the United Kingdom, there are also newspaper reporters from the United States, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and other countries, a total of more than 30 people, these reporters are well-informed, when Xiao Zhenlei arranged for Williams to find reporters to come to report on the matter, Williams immediately released the news in London, and the reporters of these newspapers flocked to London like cats that smelled fishy. Although these journalists were not convinced that the staggering oil reserves had been discovered in Dorset, they decided to rush over to see what was going on, knowing that if this news was true, it would have a big impact on the existing landscape of the energy world.

Why do you say that, when people found that oil was going to become the blood of the future industry, Standard Oil in the United States had developed into a behemoth, but the competition for this new energy source in Europe and other countries has entered a white-hot stage, and now the total personal assets of Rockefeller, the boss of Standard Oil, have reached a terrifying billion dollars, and other oil companies engaged in oil trading and exploitation in Europe and the Americas are far inferior to Standard Oil, in order to fight against Standard Oil, Royal Dutch Petroleum and British Shell Transport and Trading had to merge two years ago to become Royal Dutch Shell, and early last year an Englishman named Darcy founded a British Persian Oil Company, based in London, which was the predecessor of what would become British Petroleum. But now Standard Oil has become the number one target of U.S. government antitrust, and last year the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Standard Oil to dissolve, and now Standard Oil is in the stage of being split into 34 independent companies.

When the reporters rushed to the vicinity of the oil injection well one after another to see the black oil spewing out of the mouth of the oil injection well that had not been blocked dozens of meters high, the reporters were stunned, everyone did not expect that there was really oil storage in Dorset, southern England, and now the key to the problem is the oil reserves of this oil field, if the reserves are enough. Then this is definitely big news.

Xiao Zhenlei walked up to the reporters, raised his hands and shouted, "Everyone, fellow journalists. My name is Xiao Zhenlei and I am the owner and majority shareholder of White Penguin. This Mr. Opiin next to me is my partner, a native of Dorset, and the vast expanse of land where the oil well you see now belongs to our White Penguin Company! ”

A Times reporter hurriedly asked, "Mr. Xiao Zhenlei, may I ask what nationality you are from?" How do you have an estate in the UK? ”

Xiao Zhenlei said with a smile: "I am Chinese, and the dragoon cars that many rich people ride in the London market now are made by my Zhenhua Automobile Manufacturing Company!" ”

"Oh--" The reporters exclaimed, it turned out that the tall Chinese in front of them turned out to be the owner of the company that produced those beautiful cars.

An American reporter immediately asked, "Mr. Xiao Zhenlei, how did you know that there was oil here?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei said with a smile: "This time I came to the UK just to discuss with some businessmen the issue of the agent sales right of Dragoon in the UK, but then this Mr. Opiyin next to me, he and I are friends. He persuaded me to set up a breeding company, which is the White Penguin Company, and after the White Penguin Company was founded, we bought the land to raise cattle and sheep, and some time ago I was walking in the grass and found some black floating objects in the ditch, although I was very skilled, but I still found it, and I suspected that there was oil here, so I found Dr. Grant. He is an oil exploration expert at the Institute of Geological Exploration in London, and he came to this place for exploration and immediately determined that there must be oil here, so we brought in a drilling team, and the following reporters can ask Mr. Grant next to me if they have any questions! ”

The spotlight flashed continuously. There were puffs of smoke, and Xiao Zhenlei, Opiyin, Grant, Massimo and others were all taken by reporters with cameras, comparing how to put on a show. Xiao Zhenlei, who came from later generations, is obviously more experienced than anyone else, which is why he brought reporters in. He had to get the news of the discovery of a large oil field to spread quickly and get the attention of the oil tycoons. Entice them to come and buy. Selling the oil field is his only option at the moment, he can't exploit it himself, and the British authorities will definitely not allow him, a Chinese, to extract oil in their backyard, of course, if it is other oil companies.

The Daily Mail reporter asked, "Dr. Grant, according to your estimates and calculations, what are the reserves of this oil field?" Will it be big? ”

It's a question that all journalists are concerned about, and that's the crux of the story, Grant said: "I've calculated that there are about half a billion barrels of crude oil here, and it also contains a lot of natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas!" ”

The reporters exclaimed, "Oh God, is this true?" That's a huge amount of money! ”

You must know that many of the oil companies in Britain have only been established recently, and now due to the rise of automobiles, and warships have the tendency to use fuel engines to gradually replace coal-fired steam turbines, the demand for oil will be greater and greater in the future, and now a lot of oil in Britain is purchased from the United States, if Britain has oil in the country, then Britain will not have to be subject to the United States in this regard for the time being.

It was definitely explosive news, and reporters were writing down Trant's words in their notebooks, and other reporters began to ask Trant questions about the oil field, and Grant answered them one by one.

After the on-site Q&A, Xiao Zhenlei said loudly: "Everyone, reporters, ladies and gentlemen, now you can take a look and walk around the oil well, but please pay attention, you must not carry fire close to the oil well, otherwise the oil well will be ignited, not only will it cause unimaginable consequences, even you will be burned to death, for the sake of everyone's life, I hope to take out the fire I carry, such as matches and lighters, and store them around me The tall and mighty handsome guys here, In addition, our company has arranged dinner in the restaurant in the town, and we invite you to dine together at six o'clock, in addition, we have also chartered the hotel in the town, and if you are not in a hurry to go back, you can spend the night there. ”

The reporters thought about it, if they accidentally set the oil well on fire, it would really be over, and the fire in the oil well was a trivial matter, and it would be a mistake to lose their lives, so the reporters with matches and lighters on their bodies took them out and handed them over to Opiyin for safekeeping. I also heard that there is a free dinner and free accommodation, and I said that this Chinese boss is very good at being a person, and arranges everything so well, why didn't he encounter such a good thing when I interviewed before? It seems that there is some justification for the success of this Chinese boss.

Soon it was six o'clock in the evening, the reporters had come in a hurry, they didn't eat lunch, and now they were very hungry, and all the reporters went to the restaurant in the town with Xiao Zhenlei and others to eat, but before leaving, Xiao Zhenlei arranged for A Bing and others to start temporarily fence off this large area of land with simple materials, set up a cordon, prevent people from coming to do sabotage, and arrange patrols 24 hours a day.

In order to have a good relationship with the official people in the town, Xiao Zhenlei also invited several policemen in the town to come over for dinner and drink, and after he was full of wine and food, he asked Opiyin to wrap a thick red envelope for each reporter and policeman, and hoped that the reporters would have a few kind words when reporting, and asked the police and gentlemen to take more care of the safety of the oil field.

Although the reporters who took the money may not exaggerate or say good things when reporting the news, they will certainly not splash dirty water and deliberately report some false information to cause public resentment, and the policemen who took the money immediately said that the safety of the oil field was wrapped up in them, and swore that whoever dared to go to the oil field to make trouble, they would arrest him.

Although these things are trivial matters, Xiao Zhenlei knows that he must not take them lightly, if these small things affect his overall plan, the gains outweigh the losses.

In fact, none of the reporters stayed overnight in the hotel in the town, and they all rushed back overnight to write a press release, and the sooner the news was published, the better, and no reporter wanted to be left behind, not to mention the newspapers in England, the reporters of other countries' newspapers stationed in London were even more anxious, and it would be very beneficial for their own country to get the news back sooner. (To be continued......) R1292