The progress of the Allied air defense weapons made the Germans have to consider improving their airships, in fact, it is not difficult to improve, the key is to replace the hydrogen in it with helium, and there is no need to change it all, the mixture of hydrogen and helium is enough, of course, then they must buy helium from China.

Emperor Yang naturally fully supported the Germans' request to buy helium, and now he is worried that William will not blow up London enough! In fact, the gains from the German airship raid on London were not large, and the casualties caused to the British were less than 10,000 so far, which is not worth mentioning at all for a megacity with a population of millions, that is, to increase the hatred of the British against him and create a little psychological panic, which is of little practical significance.

Compared with the grand occasion of Xiaoxi's hundreds of missiles washing the ground every day in the time and space of the Republic of China, this kind of bombing has long been full of resentment, to be honest, sometimes he has the heart to sell hundreds of bombers to William, up to now the Kunpeng company has produced more than 400 Thunder bombers for him in Yan Liang, but they are all sealed in the Zài warehouse, and only 50 are training pilots at the flight training base in northern Shaanxi.

Of course, he just thinks about it, such a good thing must not be exposed to the wind, as for William, it's good to play with airships, isn't it helium? China's helium factory is now a bit of overcapacity, after these years of development, China's domestic airship market has been saturated, even passenger with freight, flying in the Chinese sky airship is enough to have 500 ships, this thing will not take a few years to become obsolete, naturally there is no need to build too much, airships are made less, helium will naturally be bought less, and now someone buys a large number of him of course welcome.

And in order to allow William to continue building airships, he also kept the price of helium low enough, which made William really feel his friendship.

There will be no full-scale major war in the European theater in the short term, except for the Netherlands, the Isonzo River, and Odessa, which are still in the midst of fierce battles. The other fronts have basically fallen silent, including the British and German navies after the last war, they also retracted their respective military ports to lick their wounds, the British suffered heavy losses, needless to say, the battleships of the German High Seas Fleet were all covered with bruises, but they did not sink because of the good protective performance, and most of them basically entered the dock as soon as they returned to Wilhelmshaven.

Only German submarines were still active on various routes around Britain, making bloody news from time to time, but the Germans were also ineffective in strangulation warfare, not that their submarines did not work hard. But now there are too many merchant ships at sea that they dare not sink. The flags of China, the Ottoman Empire, Spain, Sweden, the Confederacy, and Mexico were all covered by Emperor Yang, and William had already given a strict order to the submarine forces to strictly prohibit attacking the merchant ships of these countries, but in fact they were inside the merchant ships transporting supplies to the British. At least half belonged to these countries, and the German submarines, who were tied to their hands and feet, naturally had limited achievements.

There is nothing to care about in Europe for the time being, and Emperor Yang naturally focuses on the two major projects of Indonesia and South America, in the chamberlain and the business intelligence department of the Yang consortium. With the cooperation of the military intelligence service, the Minas oil field project was soon officially launched.

First of all, an American employee of Shell, who was exploring for oil in northern Sumatra, came to an exciting conclusion after carefully studying the geological structure of Sumatra. In the swampy area of central Sumatra, near the Strait of Malacca, there is the possibility of extremely large oil fields with extremely rich reserves.

At the same time, a professor in the Department of Geology at Hangzhou University in China has also published papers in academic journals. He believes that from the perspective of geological structure, the two sides of the Strait of Malacca should be the most important oil storage area in East Asia, and it is absolutely impossible to only have a few small oil wells in North Sumatra, of course, this is only his personal inference. But considering the professor's fame, Shell immediately paid attention to the analysis report of the staff member of its own company, but at this time the problem came, it was the main battlefield of the Acehnese and the British army, and if you went there to explore and get it badly, you would be shot.

Fortunately, the weight of scallops is heavy enough, and the British Governor of the Straits Settlements also has scallop stocks in his hands, although the troops are now tight, but a regiment of British troops and a division of Ah San were specially dispatched to carry out a large-scale sweep for the scallop company, temporarily eliminating the Aceh guerrillas in that area.

Immediately after that, the scallop company hurriedly organized manpower to run, under the leadership of the staff to carry out large-scale exploration, the result was just less than half a month of exploration, a drilling well of black crude oil spewed out, the news of the scallop company manager almost crazy, but unfortunately the news was reported to the British headquarters, and then received a reply, asking him to immediately seal the oil well, stop the next step of exploration, as for industrial exploitation, this is not to mention for the time being, including this news must be blocked, It can only claim that no oil fields with industrial exploitation value have been found.

The British are not stupid, now their military strength in Asia is not enough for Emperor Yang to spit to death, and Sumatra was originally the hardest hit area of overseas Chinese, and the Chinese businessmen are not worried about that place for a day, but for the original production of spices, rubber or something, it is not worth tearing the face with the British, once the news of a large oil field spreads, think about it to know how the Chinese will react, and besides, the war between Britain and Aceh is still ongoing, and such an oil field is found in this same place, Definitely not good for the UK.

Although regretful, after understanding the stakes, the manager of the scallop company in Singapore still blocked the news according to the instructions of the headquarters, but the exploration team did not withdraw and continued to explore there under the cover of people's eyes. Anyway, this oil field can't run, and now Britain can't take care of it, and when the war is over, there is no need to worry about China, so it can naturally be exploited on a large scale, and the current situation there is also impossible to carry out industrial exploitation, and the resistance of the monkeys must be suppressed first.

But unfortunately, they did not keep this secret, and it didn't take long for a Chinese newspaper in Singapore to poke out, which frightened the British and quickly stared at the north in fear, waiting for the reaction of the Chinese. To their surprise, China's major oil giant, Gulf Oil, reacted calmly, which also made the British breathe a sigh of relief, after all, the oil company has three large oil fields, Mexico and China's Shandong, and it is not surprising that they don't know whether it's true or not.

However, it didn't take long for the scallop company to know that it was wrong, and that Emperor Yang was no less greedy than any capitalist in London.

The quality of weapons in the hands of the Acehnese has increased dramatically, even light machine guns and large-caliber mortars have appeared, and the unprepared Asan was bombarded by 150 heavy mortars in the battle, and the news came from the British traitors in Aceh that these weapons were given by Gulf Oil, and Gulf Oil is currently secretly negotiating with the Sultan of Aceh for an oil franchise on the island of Sumatra.

At this moment, the scallop company immediately jumped in shock, and the governor of the Straits Settlements even asked him to probe Emperor Yang's mouth, but the emperor was completely ignorant of this, and personally took Prince George to Seoul to play with His Majesty the King of Korea, and then the scallop company was a little inexplicable.

But soon, their commercial spies in Gulf Oil sent back accurate information, and the Gulf Oil executives, or Emperor Yang, really didn't pay much attention to the news about the Sumatra oil fields in the newspapers, and Gulf Oil was currently busy expanding the production capacity of the Confederacy and Mexico, and they didn't want to waste their energy on this kind of oil fields that were not determined and did not know the specific reserves, compared to the oil fields of the Confederacy and Mexico, which were real things, and the situation there was too complicated, and there were too many things involved. Especially when it comes to Sino-British relations, Gulf Oil doesn't want to make trouble for itself in the current situation.

And now the person who is operating this matter is a senior manager of Gulf Oil, and he wants to show his ability in front of His Majesty the Emperor, and then obtain a higher status internally, to put it bluntly, it is the infighting of the senior staff of Gulf Oil, and the Sumatra oil field is just a pawn in their wrestling, so there are many people who oppose this project, so although this manager can mobilize a certain amount of resources of the company, it will not be too much.

After this information was sent to the manager of the scallop company, he felt relieved, such a situation is not unusual, and it often appears within the scallop company, a huge company like Gulf Oil, even if it is a high-level employee, it has the ability to turn the clouds and rain. But as long as it is not what Emperor Yang meant, the scallop company is still capable of dealing with such people, and judging from the current situation, Gulf Oil is nothing more than supporting agents, using the Sultan of Aceh to entangle with the British army, and does not want to be directly involved, thinking that when the British can't afford the long-term war and withdraw from Sumatra, then they will pick up the cheap, since this is the case, they might as well break their wrists.

Isn't it just a war, anyway, it's not the British who are on the battlefield now, they are all Ah San who don't have to feel distressed about how much they die, it's nothing more than to pay some money to recruit from India, now India has a population of 200 million, and recruiting soldiers is not a trivial matter? In addition, in addition to India, the Malays also have old enmities with Aceh, and the Japanese now have money to do whatever they want, and they still care about fighting with these cannon fodder? As for the money to buy weapons, it is not worth mentioning compared to a large oil field, and at this time the exploration team has discovered a second oil well, and these two alone are estimated to produce more than 10,000 tons a day, and such a huge wealth must be fought for anyway.

In this way, as boatloads of cannon fodder were sent to Sumatra, the war began to move towards the rhythm that Yang Feng expected. (To be continued......)