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The $9 million that Situ Nan pledged with a 30% stake in PetroCal spent most of the money in this Texas saga, leaving only more than $2 million, giving Gedas $200,000 to continue to return to West Texas to buy or lease land and obtain oil exploration rights, and the remaining 2 million Stuart Nan is ready to meet an arsenal specializing in the production of mortars. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the biquge.info of Wèn Aishang Novel Network)

This weapon appeared in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, but the mortars at that time were still very cumbersome, difficult to operate, and not powerful enough, so they did not attract the attention of the military circles.

The technology of mortars is not high, Situ Nan saw a steel mill in Los Angeles, just produced a seamless steel pipe for cannon barrels, as long as the problem of cushioning and stability of the fuse and base of the shell is solved, I believe that the new type of mortar with greater power, easier operation and lighter weight will become a nightmare for the infantry under the ravine in the brutal European positional warfare. When the new mortar shows its skills, the order will not fly by then?

Well, the more people die, the bigger the arms dealer smiles. Although Situ Nan is not an arms dealer, it does not prevent him from smiling brightly.

Thinking of the outcome of the world war, Situ Nan felt a little sorry for the Germans, and he suddenly thought of whether to sell some oil to the Germans?

It seems that although the Entente and the Central Powers are now in opposition, but everyone does not want to fight, but they are detonated by a little spark that emerges from the Balkans, before that, first cooperate with the Germans, get benefits from him, and wait until the war starts, the Germans are defeated, aren't all his things American businessmen like himself? Situ Nan suddenly thought of a very obscene idea.

It's a pity that this thought is just a flash, although Situ Nan has obtained a lot of oil fields with his foresight, but except for a bunch of land transaction contracts that look good, he really has no bargaining chips, and he has no connections in the American business and political circles at all, and he can't even settle things in the United States, how can he be so long enough to reach the Germans in Europe?

Unrealistic!

Situ Nan came to a conclusion. To be a man, you must have lofty goals, but you must be down-to-earth in doing things, and you can't be ambitious.

Now Situ Nan is thinking about how to develop and grow his career in the shortest possible time, and how to develop that huge oil field has become a headache for Situ Nan.

What was the most expensive in the twentieth century?

In the past, Situ Nan may have said that it was oil, but now he must say that he is a talent! If you want to make your career bigger and stronger, it is impossible without a large number of talents, even if Situ Nan is very confident in himself, but even if he is covered in iron, he can't hit a few nails?

Although Situ Nan now has a small team managing his own industry, his strength is still very thin and he can't make decisions, and he is more used by Situ Nan for financial management. There are a few companies whose managers are good, but not enough to make Situ Nan trust.

Like this crazy acquisition of land in Texas, most of them are Situ Nan's own hands, although this matter is very important, Situ Nan must personally handle it to rest assured, but except for this, there is no reason why Situ Nan is weak.

Well, meeting a dogleg like Gedas is also a big gain of this operation, this once excellent farmer should be gambled and lost to nothing, when he was pulled by Situ Nan intentionally or unintentionally, in this half a year of land speculation, he did his best to help Situ Nan get a large number of oil fields in Texas.

Although it was not clear how much oil there was in those remote lands, at the beginning, he was rewarded with a large amount of favors, or commissions, from Situ Nan, and he fully demonstrated his talent for certain speculative ventures.

What's more, the shrewd Gedas is now also a member of Situ Nan's interest team.

Situ Nan didn't have much trust in Gedas, but Situ Nan had to admit that Gedas did a good job, in Situ Nan's words, "Gedas can't run a company well, but if you give him a plan, you can often get good results." Gedas also agreed with Situ Nan's words, he said: "If I want to take care of a business for a long time, I won't be able to stand it, I like some new attempts, but I don't want to repeat a boring job." ”

That's true, otherwise he wouldn't have lost the good farm he ran and went to gamble, didn't he know the dangers of gambling?

He knew, just stuffy, and he wanted to do something else. However, after trying to gamble, although Rigdas is still a risk-taking person at heart, he has now learned to think a lot about problems before acting, and to prepare more than to act rashly.

If Gedas is a talent, then Hayes, who has been following Situ Nan, is a mediocre talent, this guy is obedient and has a good drilling skill, and other things that use his brain really can't rely on him alone.

As for He Wenxiu, the silent old He is a competent bodyguard, and Situ Nan rarely asks him about other things, and he doesn't care much, what he thinks in his heart, no one knows except himself.

Headache, Situ Nan longs for someone who can help him develop the industry, although he can still deal with it now, but he has to work so hard for everything, and this boss has done too much!

In short, people have no worries and protection, and it is better to take precautions than to hold on to their feet temporarily. Since Situ Nan wants to develop in oil, he must control the industry in his own hands, like California Petroleum, Situ Nan only accounts for 30% of the shares, which is obviously not the result Situ Nan wants. This has nothing to do with his trust in Handar Brown, it's just that he has so many resources, and he can't do it without the corresponding distribution of benefits, so he can't let himself be attached to Brown and Bot all the time, right?

To Situ Nan's relief, after he wrote many letters and learned that Situ Nan had a good career, Robles finally came to Situ Nan's side.

After graduating from Harvard in the past two years, Robles Mellon began to work in a financial company in New York and engaged in investment, and less than half a year later, by chance, Robles Mellon joined Standard Oil, where he was responsible for planning a project in the Far East.

In the Far East, the oil companies in the United States, mainly Rockefeller's, competed fiercely with Shell oil in Europe, and as a result, Robles stayed in the Far East for two years.

After the end of the land speculation business in Texas, Situ Nan did not return to Los Angeles immediately, but stayed in Houston just to meet Robles, a friend at Harvard.

I haven't seen each other for two years, everyone has changed a lot, Robles Mellon has become more mature, and Situ Nan is not the observer who had nothing at the beginning.

"Robles, join us, I need a talented partner like you." Situ Nan said straight to the point that he didn't feel the need to go around in circles.

"Hey, Stoney, you've got to come up with something that impresses me." Robles only roughly knew that Situ Nan had made a fortune from oil in California, but he didn't know a lot of specific things, so he was curious about how much this guy had done in the past two days.

"Hey, hey. Look at this! Situ Nan showed Robles a stack of land deeds in North Texas and West Texas, of course, this does not include the Conroe Town oil field and the East Texas oil field, these two oil fields are too scary, it is better to keep them secret.

Even so, these hundreds of thousands of acres of land still scared Robles a lot, damn, he is not like those ignorant Texas ranchers, what is hidden in the land below Texas, he, who works at Standard Oil, knows how much Rockefeller covets Texas oil.

If it weren't for the conservative style of Texas, the local Texans would have been disgusted with Standard Oil, and Standard Oil would have been killed a long time ago, would it still be necessary to slowly annex local oil companies to enter the Texas oil market?

Situ Nan made his fortune in oil, and now these lands are also related to oil, even if not all of these lands have oil, but some of them are also a huge interest, taking a step back, not to mention oil, even if these hundreds of thousands of acres of land are worth hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.

Robles also spent some time on Wall Street, worked at Standard Oil for two years, and now his net worth is only tens of thousands of dollars.

I knew that this guy had been so lucky in the past two years, so I listened to him and came to the west with him.

Texas really has a lot of, and this guy Situ actually guessed the fattest and biggest piece! Cow luck coaxing!

Thinking of this, Robles was a little envious and regretful, Situ Nan asked him to go to the west to do oil business with Situ Nan more than once.

"You gave me a big surprise! I didn't expect you to find oil in California, you own 30% of California oil, and you have such a large area of land in Texas, I think if that's right, these should be oil fields! Robles said with emotion.

"Well, that's right! Some of these lands have not been explored yet, but I believe that where there is oil, some have already been discovered. You know? The other day, I received news that in the northern town of Buck Burnett, a cotton merchant who was cornered by creditors made a desperate gamble and drilled an oil well in his own land, and now the whole town of Buck Burnett is crazy, and those oil merchants are flocking there like crazy, but fortunately I hoarded a lot of land there half a year ago. ”

Situ Nan smiled and said that the big news in North Texas seemed to be normal in his mouth.

Man is better than man, more dead than man! If you have such a big oil field, you still don't want to jump up?

Robles can't be jealous of Situ Nan anymore, he knows that Situ Nan is looking for him to discuss such a big matter, obviously he values himself, although Robles has also participated in some heavy projects in Standard Oil, but the decision is not in his own hands, he dreams of having the opportunity to show his ambitions.

"I'm going to set up an oil development company to develop Texas oil, and the general manager has been found, Robles, how about you do it?"

Situ Nan looked at Robles Mellon sincerely. Although Robles Mellon is younger, isn't he also young?

The problem of experience can be accumulated slowly, the key is that Robles has a lot of ideas that coincide with himself, and he is in line with Situ Nan's taste! Situ is optimistic about Robles Mellon's potential and is confident that under his guidance, the new company will succeed even if there are some setbacks.

"Okay, I promised." Robles is not Chinese, there is not so much hypocritical modesty, and he bluntly agrees that he is very confident in himself. Is there anything better than being the managing director of a company that seems to have a lot of potential at a young age?

Seeing that Robles had finally "joined", Situ Nan smiled happily, and the two of them were discussing the new company for the next two days. Both Situ and Robles specialize in asset investment management rather than specific business managers, echoing Situ Nan's positioning as a company that provides solutions for oil development.

At the end of 1913, a company called the Texas Petroleum Development Company was established in Houston, abbreviated as the Texas Development Company. The chairman of the company, Stoney William, the general manager is Robles Mellon, in addition, the company has three employees, namely Gedarth Hughes, Hayes Chuck and a Chinese named He Wenxiu, and these five people are also shareholders of the company, the major shareholder is Stoney William, accounting for 93%, and the minority shareholders Robles, Gedas, Hayes, He Wenxiu their shares are 5%, 1%, 0.5%, 0.5% respectively.

He Wenxiu is completely a soy sauce character, but Situ Nan mischievously appointed him as the head of the company's security department, which is a single commander.

It's a whole leather bag company, with nothing but Stuart Nan's house in Houston, but it secretly controls more than half of the oil fields in Texas. No one could have imagined that all the heavy events about the oil industry in Texas in the coming decades would have the Texas oil development company behind the scenes.

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