Of course, the Germans didn't want to, and now their biggest concern was how to solve the crude oil problem in the event of a war? The only land supply they can guarantee is the hundreds of thousands of tons of annual output of their good friend Austria-Hungary, although Romania produces enough, but the problem is that this country borders Russia, but it does not border Germany, and as a kingdom independent from Austria-Hungary, it is not friendly to its former suzerain, once Germany and Austria have a war with Russia, it is difficult to say which side it stands on!

As for the overseas oil fields, there is no need to think about this, unless the German Navy can completely defeat the British Navy, the oil of South America is not expected to be shipped back, the same is true of the crude oil of Turkey and Persia, there is more trouble on that line, the British Mediterranean Fleet, almost all the capital ships of the French Navy, the Russian Black Sea Fleet, regard the route from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to the dead, the only solution is for Germany to pull Russia to its side, this is certainly impossible, Nikolai is not a fool, Everyone understands the truth that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, two ambitious emperors are neighbors, and only one of them can fall.

Of course, there was a simpler solution, and now that Yang Feng had put it in front of them, Waldzer immediately sent the great news to Berlin via a telegram from the German embassy after the banquet.

William was naturally ecstatic, as for Yang Feng's conditions, they didn't need to be considered, as long as he exploited oil in Germany, let alone 30% of the shares, he would not give a cent of the shares, William had no opinion, as for the problem that the cost was too high and might need government subsidies.

Yes, as long as he can guarantee the supply of crude oil to Germany during the war, no matter how much he loses, it will be the German government.

Of course, the two sides are still only a cooperation intention, and the specific implementation will take some time, first of all, Yang Feng has to build the oil platform, and he has handed over the construction task of this thing to the Great Wall Heavy Industry, of course, he will not make a raft or a wooden shelf like those who are now extracting oil on the water. If you want to play, you have to play the self-elevating type, although this thing is more difficult, but fortunately, the oil fields in Germany are not in the deep sea, they are all on the shallows of the coast, and the requirements for the platform are not very high, in fact, you don't need this thing, but the requirements for drilling equipment are relatively high, after all, the mining depth is more than two thousand meters.

Of course, this depth is a trivial matter for the current Gulf Oil Company, even if his own technology can't solve it, Yang Feng can still buy a machine from Hyundai.

Another important significance of his use of the jack-up platform for Germany is to be practical. Once Great Wall Heavy Industries can really make this kind of platform that can be said to be more versatile according to the drawings and the equipment in his hands now, then his Gulf Oil can dominate the entire offshore oil at present. For example, the Gulf Coast, where there is almost an inexhaustible supply of crude oil, the original historical Americans just did not extract it, and when the crude oil in other places is used up, even if the United States only relies on the Gulf Coast and the oil fields sealed on its own soil, it can completely make all countries kneel in front of it. Otherwise, how could a single oil spill kill BP? The U.S. government has long seen it as unpleasant, and the oil spill is just an excuse, and the real goal is to get rid of this guy who undermines the U.S. strategy and let the oil of the Gulf Coast continue to sleep underground. Waiting for the day when the world runs out of oil.

Yang Feng's current goal is to use the Americas as his main resource plundering ground, especially the United States and Mexico. In these places of the Confederation, he is not ready to exploit any other oil fields in the country except for the Shandong oil field. It is enough to have this oil field to meet the needs of wartime, including the oil of the Middle East, he is not ready to import it again, and he will leave it to European countries to fight for, and he can run North America with peace of mind.

So far, he has started producing oil from three of his fields there: East Texas, which he owns entirely, Shreveport, which he owns half-ownership, and Veracruz, Mexico. Just the two oil fields in East Texas and Shreveport will supply the industrial needs of the whole of China in the future, and look at the satellite map of Shreveport to the east to Monroe, and to the west to the dense oil wells in Texas Tyler City, which is as dense as a galaxy. The entire oil belt is now occupied by Yang Feng's own Gulf Oil and the Louisiana Oil Company, which he partnered with local Confederacy capitalists.

As for the cost of doing this, Yang Feng is really not a problem, anyway, one of these two companies is all his, and the other he owns half of the equity, even if the cost of Chinese factories needs to pay, most of them will fall into his hands, and then it will be nothing more than subsidizing the domestic industry in various forms.

Of course, it is not possible at present, and there is another transportation problem that cannot be bypassed, even if the Panama Canal is opened in the future, this transportation distance will still be close to twice that of transporting oil from the Middle East, so the best way is to build an oil pipeline from Texas to the Pacific Ocean.

If you start at Shreveport and head west, the most labor-saving way is to take a basic straight line westward, across all of Texas, then through New Mexico, Arizona, southern California, and finally at the Port of Los Angeles or San Diego. The total length will not exceed 2,500 kilometers, plus some branch lines, even if it is 2,500 kilometers, the distance is not too long, the cost is completely acceptable, and there should be no difficulty in technology. Large-diameter carbon steel pipes can be built at the same time in three steel mills in China, Sweden and Texas, and engineering plastics are not a problem, and there are flat grasslands and deserts along the way, with almost no mountain barriers, and the number of rivers is also very small, and the construction difficulty is very small. Moreover, such an environment is also conducive to the corrosion of pipelines, and the famous aircraft cemetery in the United States is located in this area, which can be imagined.

Technology does not have difficulty, funds do not have difficulty, and workers also do not have difficulty, so it is not easy to recruit workers at this time? It is estimated that two years will be enough time to complete the work of getting 100,000 Chinese laborers from China and another 100,000 white laborers from the Confederacy, and as long as there is this pipeline, the transportation distance of crude oil from Texas to China can be saved, starting from Los Angeles through Hawaii and then transporting it to the port of Shanghai, the sea voyage is less than 13,000 kilometers, and if it is shipped from New Orleans, even if it takes the Panama Canal, it will have to be close to 20,000 kilometers.

Such an oil pipeline can be said to be imperative.

But before that, there is a problem that must be solved, the problem of control rights along the line, if such a plan is to be implemented, then the line must be firmly controlled in their own hands, especially Los Angeles as an outlet to the sea, or the whole of California, now San Francisco has been controlled in the hands of China, if Los Angeles is controlled again, it will be equivalent to the entire California has been taken.

There are also the states of New Mexico and Arizona, which are better, as long as they are not in the hands of the Americans, either the Confederacy or the Mexicans.

"Where did Santos hit?" Yang Feng asked Yuan Shikai.

"The U.S. military has been forced to Tampico, in fact, the Americans have lost in Mexico, originally when they entered Mexico, the Confederacy allowed them to use the railway to transfer troops through their own territory, but now seeing that the U.S. military has lost the war and is afraid of harming itself, so they are no longer allowed to use the railroad, and now more than 200,000 troops are pressed to this port, waiting for domestic ships to pick them up." Yuan Shikai said somewhat gloatingly.

There is nothing surprising about this, it would be strange if the Americans could win! The Mexican peasants, who were encouraged by the division of the land by the local tyrants, really dared to fight desperately in order to defend the fruits of their victory, and under the continuous supply of Chinese arms, both firepower and fighting will were incomparably strong. And those American soldiers who ran from their distant hometowns to this foreign country with hatred everywhere to be the aggressor interfered with the free choice of the common people, and their momentum was already a little weaker. In addition, the United States has been suffering in successive wars for five years now, and both the military and the civilian population are tired of wars.

In addition, up to now, the casualties have approached 100,000, and the morale is even low, and even a large number of deserters have appeared, anyway, they rely on Texas, and the US government can't control it, whether it is a job opportunity or salary level in the Confederacy, there are much more than the United States, and even a large number of deserters have appeared in the later period, and the military and police of the Confederacy have to guard the Rio Grande to prevent them from entering the country, and it would be a miracle if they could win in this state!

But then Santos can't go any further, and then Texas, the two of them can't fight, they have to let the Mexicans march north from the West Coast to California.

"Send a telegram to Santos warning him not to clash with the Confederacy, and their next target should be the West Coast." After thinking for a while, Yang Feng said to Yuan Shikai.

Santos, who received the telegram, agreed to the former very happily, in fact, he didn't want to provoke the Confederacy, everyone knew that it was Emperor Yang's forbidden concubine, and whoever dared to get involved would wait to bear the wrath of the dragon.

But he couldn't agree to the latter, for a very simple reason, transportation problems.

At this time, there were no railways on the west coast of Mexico, and they were all sparsely populated wastelands, even if the population of the west coast was a little larger, it was nothing more than small settlements, and the expedition to California, thousands of kilometers of transportation lines would drag the Mexican army to death. (To be continued......)