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The years 1913-1914 were an extraordinary period for Texas, when vast oil fields were discovered in the northern and western plains as if they were worthless, a large number of ranchers turned oil merchants, and the lucky early ones became millionaires, attracting more adventurers to join the industry. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the biquge.info of Wèn Aishang Novel Network)

There are not only private oil dealers but also a number of oil companies, the three largest of which are Humble Oil, Gulf Oil, Occidental Oil, and Texas Oil. The Humble Oil Company was originally formed by a group of local businessmen in Texas, and was gradually controlled by the Standard Oil Company in the east, and the Texas Oil Company also had a background in Standard Oil, and in his previous life he had a famous name called Texaco Oil Company. The remaining two, in addition to the Gulf Oil Company, which belongs to the Mellon family, are Situ Nan's Western Petroleum Company.

Because of their cooperative relationship, Occidental Petroleum has a good relationship with the Mellon family's Gulf Oil Company and the Rockefeller family's spokesman, Humble Oil Company and Texas Oil Company, and Situ Nan has gradually entered the sight of these oligarchic families.

For ordinary people, he may have heard of the Western Petroleum Company, and some people may have heard of the Texas Petroleum Development Company, but they don't know who Situ Nan is, and all along, Situ Nan does not appear in public, and he does not hold a position in the oil company.

For the big families, they were curious to see how the young over-the-top Stoney William had discovered the fields, as if he had a precognitive ability. However, now the oil industry in Texas is developing rapidly, and Texas is too big, even these giants can't completely control the oil here, so everyone lives a peaceful and comfortable life.

Some of the oil fields were sold under the name of the Texas Petroleum Development Company, which had nothing to do with Occidental Petroleum, so Situ Nan also had a huge sum of money in his hands, a full $10 million. As for how to spend the money, Situ Nan already has a plan.

Houston is now completely an oil city, the major oil giants have set up offices in Houston, Occidental Petroleum and Gulf Oil have built their own refineries and terminals in Houston, and have also laid long pipelines to transport oil from oil wells to railroads, docks, and guò trains, and oil tankers to transport black crude oil to the refinery, and then make barrels, and shiploads of various refined oil products to be sent around the world.

Situ Nan didn't expect that one of his obscene ideas might come true, because recently a German chemical company approached a Western company and wanted to import a batch of oil from Occidental Petroleum Company.

It's 1914, and the first world war in human history is about to begin. In Europe, the two camps confronted each other nervously, and the pace of war slowly walked in.

Shrouded in the shadow of war, the major military powers have recently frantically stepped up preparations for the war, with British and Dutch Shell oil ramping up their oil investments in Texas and their oil-laden tankers returning to Europe. Germany is an oil-deficient country, and if it wants to maintain the world's second-largest high seas fleet, it can't do it without enough oil, and once the war starts, all Germany's resource import channels will be cut off by the Royal Navy, which will kill the Germans. Although the Germans are famous for their ability to fight, there is no oil, no rubber, no iron ore, no other industrial raw materials, and the Germans have to get tired and lie down, except for coal and iron, Germany is everything! It is not difficult to think that these Germans have recently collected a lot of supplies and returned home.

In Texas, except for Shell, which does not sell oil to the Germans, other American companies are selling oil, and Occidental Petroleum is no exception.

In addition to selling oil, Occidental Petroleum also proposed a joint venture with Germany's Bavarian Chemical Company to set up a petrochemical company in Houston, with both parties holding 50 percent of the shares.

This time the head of the German side was von Hans Otley, who was said to be an aristocrat or something, and when he heard about the construction of the Western Petroleum Company, he immediately sent a telegram back to Germany, and such a big matter could not be decided by one of his assistant managers.

Two days later, there was a response from Munich, who was interested in the proposal made by Occidental Petroleum and decided to send a higher-level representative to discuss it. This time, not only did he complete the company's task of buying oil, but also established a joint venture company in the United States, which is equivalent to finding a raw material base for the German parent company.

For Occidental Petroleum Co., Ltd., cooperation with the German side is a rare opportunity, the German side has advanced technology and equipment, which is in short supply to Western Petroleum Co., Ltd., although they can buy equipment from Standard Oil or other American companies, but it costs a lot of money, and those companies do not study and sell core technology to Western Petroleum Co., Ltd., which is as uncomfortable as being strangled by someone's neck for Western Petroleum Company. Why not if you can work with the Germans to master some of the technology? Situ Nan thought that it would be possible to wait for Germany to defeat the war before annexing the joint venture!

It seems that the Germans seem to be quite stupid, but in fact, the most important thing for them now is to find enough oil, and they will get enough benefits by cooperating with American companies, if the war is lost, how can these technical equipment be taken away by others, and the joint venture company can at least keep part of the benefits, which can be regarded as a kind of cunning rabbit.

Besides, will the Germans think they have lost? Even if the High Seas Fleet could not defeat the Royal Navy, it would be more than enough for the German Army to defeat France and Russia! The proud Germans always think that their army is the best in the world and win the war in Europe, so will American companies dare to annex German joint ventures? In the eyes of the Germans, it is quite cost-effective to pay a little bit well, it is quite cost-effective to exchange some marks for advanced technical equipment and some marks in exchange for a large amount of oil, and besides, don't Western oil companies use marks to buy German chemical equipment? Speaking of which, the Germans don't have to pay a penny, and it's impossible not to do such a good thing.

In January 1914, the Bavarian Chemical Company of Germany and the Occidental Petroleum Company of the United States reached an agreement to establish a joint venture and signed a contract. The company was named Bavaria--- Petrochemical West, with a total investment of $20 million, and both parties have half of the shares. Handa Brown has been given another chairmanship, and the German representative Hans is the managing director of the joint venture. In fact, the whole company was American, except for the German sent in finance and some technicians.

Just do what you say, the Germans are in a hurry, but I didn't expect the Americans to be even more anxious!

Over the next year, the Germans finally moved the main equipment to Houston after being urged by the Western Petroleum Company hinted at by Situan, and by 1915 the first equipment of the joint venture was in production.

Some people are happy, naturally some people are unhappy, Shell Oil Company heard about the cooperation between Occidental Petroleum and Germany, they came to the door, they were very unhappy, but he couldn't deal with Occidental Petroleum Company, he could only be secretly angry, for the cooperation between Occidental Petroleum Company and Germany, Shell Oil wanted to replace it, but was pushed back by Hantec not hard or soft, these British, when they used to cooperate with him, they were always hidden, and the problems related to technology and equipment were always dragged on, and Hantec had long looked at them unpleasantly. Although the current Western oil companies can't deal with Shell, it is also a pleasure to make these British people deflated.

Oh, it seems that Situ Nan is still British, he still holds British nationality, and he also holds American nationality, and he doesn't have much affection for British Situ Nan, and the same is true for the United States.

Patriotism is worthless shit for a businessman who aspires to be an oil oligarch and a businessman who wants to be an arms dealer.

Now that anyone with a discerning eye knows that Europe is going to war, countless American businessmen are waiting for the outbreak of war? If they could, those eager American ** fire dealers would like to personally go on the field and fire two shots at the same time to the Entente and the Central Powers, let them fight, and then sit on a small bench and watch while peddling weapons, military rations and other useful things, until they earn the last copper plate on both sides!

"But that day is not far off, and the Americans are soon rejoicing!" Situ Nan thought maliciously. In Houston, Situ Nan spent 10 million US dollars to invest in land, and now the real estate in Houston is booming, and many of the land is several times the profit as soon as it changes hands.

Not only Situ Nan, but also the top management of Occidental Petroleum invested all their spare money in real estate in Houston. In just a few months, land prices in Houston have risen by half.

Situ Nan successively invested 10 million US dollars to speculate on land, and made 50 million US dollars during World War I, 5 times the profit, speculation, it is really crazy!

Now Situ Nan still has some land in his hands, all of which are relatively good locations, and he is not willing to sell them. There is no way, before the real estate fire, the land in Houston was still very low, and after Situ Nan acquired a large number of oil fields in Texas, there were more than two million dollars left, which he used to buy the land in the urban area of Houston. At that time, Houston did not have the bustle of various oil companies coming to invest and set up factories after the oil boom, in Situ Nan's words, that is, there was more cow, so Situ Nan bought a large number of cheap land at a low price. Now the headquarters building of the Western Petroleum Company and the factories in the suburbs, as well as the wharf, were originally all land bought by Situ Nan.

After selling a lot of oil fields, Situ Nan continued to invest part of his funds in land speculation in Houston, and in just a few months, he made a lot of money. Speaking of which, it is because Texas oil is also rising, and there are also local oil companies in other places have set up a large number of factories such as refineries and chemical plants in Houston, and a large number of oil merchants who got rich first have purchased land in Houston, and Houston has a port to the world, and the goods produced here can be shipped to the world, and many companies in the east have also come to Houston to invest, and banks have also come in, so that Houston's houses are in short supply.

Feeling this, Situ Nan set up a foundation, and he went to a very awesome name Soros Foundation. The foundation includes not only the Texas Petroleum Development Company, which is the holding company of Occidental Petroleum, but also a Houston Land Company. After Occidental Petroleum was on track, Robles was in charge of the speculation business of the Land Company, of which he was a shareholder. Well, Robles hasn't had a good rest since he got to a boss like Situ Nan, of course, he is now rich, and if he puts his stake in the Texas Petroleum Development Company, he can barely be called a multimillionaire, but unfortunately he can't cash out. In his words, the money is very good, but the work is tired to death, painful and happy.

Before I knew it, it was May 1914. At the beginning, the Situ Nantong Guò Texas Petroleum Development Company sold some oil fields and got 10 million US dollars instead of taking the accounts of Western Petroleum Company, and the 10 million US dollars made 5 million yuan from speculating in Houston real estate before it was fully cashed out. This did not satisfy Situ Nan, in order to raise more money, but decided to gamble on something bigger.

Although the price of land has been rising, Situ Nan couldn't wait, so he took all the land in his hand and mortgaged it to the bank, from which he borrowed a sum of 10 million US dollars. Not enough, this is not enough, Situ found out that he was going crazy, and even used part of the shares of the oil company under his name to mortgage a huge loan of 20 million US dollars, which was done in secret, and even Handar and them hid it.

Now Situ Nan has a plan for the use of this money.

Originally, before speculating in Houston real estate, Situ Nan had already made a plan to invest, but then he was busy speculating in Houston real estate and delayed, and now Situ Nan finally has time to realize the plan.

"Robles, leave your work to Guedas, and come with me to New York next week for a big deal!" In the evening, Situ Nan found Robles, who was busy talking.

"What? It's not a good idea! Don't you see how busy I am right now? Robles hurriedly shook his head, it's not that he doesn't want to let go, but there are many things that he handles by himself, and once he changes people, he will delay some projects, which is unacceptable to Robles, who has always done things from beginning to end.

"Really? All right! I'll take Gedas! That's a $30 million deal! It's a pity that some people can't catch up! Situ Nan shook his head.

"Nope! How can such a big deal be without me? Stoney, you must take me with you! Except for being a little clever, that guy from Guedas can't be an investment genius like me on Wall Street in New York! Robles hurriedly grabbed Situ Nan's arm and pleaded. He had always dreamed of doing a good job on Wall Street.

"Okay!" Situ Nan smiled in his heart, but he still pretended to be embarrassed and said, "But remember to hand over the work to Gedas!" ”

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