Chapter XXXVI Oil Companies
When Yang Xiaolin saw Jiang Zhiqing this time, he really felt that this kid might really be a character in the future.
Because he came to the Northeast with Du Yuesheng at the beginning, it can be said that he did not give Jiang Zhiqing any care after he made a promise to him. Jiang Zhiqing had never come to him through any means, and even if he hadn't called him when he had just called him in front of him, he would have passed in one fell swoop.
From this, it can be seen that he and Du Yuesheng are basically two kinds of people, and they seem to be gangsters on the beach, but if Du Yuesheng sees that there is not much hope for something, he will give up immediately and will find other ways by any means.
It can be said that Du Yuesheng knows how to be flexible, so he can become a different gangster, but a different gangster is still a gangster. And Jiang Zhiqing is different, this person can stick to that pursuit for a slim hope, he is better than Du Yuesheng.
And the most critical point is that Yang Xiaolin always feels that this person is more familiar the more he looks at it, and he believes that the people he feels familiar with in this era are the people who will leave their names in Chinese history in the future.
"Biaozi, when this kid comes to you, you have to pay attention to me, and find a chance to try his quality."
Li Debiao's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Alas. ”
Du Yuesheng is also in Beijing now, and Yang Xiaolin asked Du Yuesheng to assist Shen Xingshan in carrying out the work of the Youth Gang a year ago, and they did a pretty good job. With the secret support of the government, although Shen Xingshan did not complete the purpose of legalizing the Green Gang, now those people really no longer rely on collecting protection money in Shiliyangchang to make a living.
At that time, Shen Xingshan cooperated with the Japanese Black Dragon Society on the one hand, seeking mercy from the Japanese side, and on the other hand, he cooperated closely with the overseas Chinese gang Hongmen, which really gave Chinese merchants a respite under the noose of the British Empire.
It was at that stage that the Green Gang completed its own wealth accumulation and transformation, and the gangsters who fought and killed on the beach rushed out of the country and were surprised to find that they were so naïve before, and it was really not interesting to collect the protection fee.
At the beginning, the cooperation between the overseas Hongmen and the Youth Gang was purely the idea of those overseas Chinese to help the motherland. But as the war situation in China goes smoothly, the driving force of interests is becoming more and more obvious. Especially after China's victory in the Great Patriotic War, the domestic economic situation is getting better day by day, and most of those overseas Chinese come to China to invest and do business through the Green Gang, and the Green Gang can always find suitable projects for them and take care of them.
These people talk about righteousness, people like Shen Xingshan Jinrong may not know the rules of doing business, but no one dares to lie to them. The more they interacted with the merchants, and gradually they naturally developed the mind to do business, and the ways they created during the war were the best way for them to make money.
Du Yuesheng came to Yang Xiaolin to convey an idea for Shen Xingshan and the others. They want to set up a regular company, and it's a multinational company. Shen Xingshan's letter to Yang Xiaolin looks like a plan, and the organization and thinking are very clear.
They want to do the oil business all over Asia.
Although oil in this era is not a strategic material, it is already a very scarce commodity, people who make a fortune from oil are not one or two, in many industries oil has replaced coal and other fuels, not to mention that Japan and India also have a certain demand for oil in these markets, it is said that the construction of highways by Chinese will inevitably drive the development of the domestic transportation industry.
The Qinggang people saw this very clearly, and of course the foreign oil tycoons also understood it. In addition, there is news that China is going to promote agricultural machinery. This makes them very sure that China will become a major consumer of oil in the world in the near future.
This is a good thing for them, China's demand for oil will inevitably drive up the market, 400 million people. It is simply tempting to put the entire world in the world in short supply of oil. Their eyes were red with excitement, and they were waiting to occupy the Chinese position.
That guy is still bent on developing China's oil fields, and he always thinks that oil is something that is found in every piece of land. They want to build their own oil fields in Northeast China. But after nearly a year of tossing and turning, the Japanese said there was no oil, and the Germans said no. Later, British and French addressologists also concluded that there could be no oil fields in China, so he should have died now, right?
Since you don't have one, then you buy ours is your only option. There is no problem in selling it to you, but China is too far away, and of course the freight will be counted on your head, and we will decide how to calculate it. Of course, we don't ask for a random price, everything is determined by the market. When demand in China rises, prices will naturally rise.
Tycoons are very shrewd in business, and they certainly don't put on a posture of making a lot of money right away, and that's where they mature. They know that they must first occupy the Chinese market, and then raise this market, and then the money will be rolling in.
Many oil tycoons in Britain and the United States have approached China's Ministry of Commerce with a request to become a partner in China's oil supply. But a more shrewd American businessman approached Situ Meitang, the head of Hongmen in the United States, and contacted Shen Xingshan of the Green Gang through Situ Meitang, the oil merchant said that he did not ask for any partnership with China, but only hoped to cooperate with the Green Gang to build a perfect oil transmission network for China, and he was doing the same in the Philippines, and if the Green Gang wanted, they could build a company together to be responsible for the oil supply of the whole of Asia.
This really made Shen Xingshan and those people excited! They knew that this was a good deal, and the American businessman made it clear that if this matter was done well, not only would he make a big deal in terms of funds, but he could even help settle anything in the United States in the future.
Both Situ Meitang and Shen Xingshan knew that the person was fully qualified to say this, and they did not have the slightest suspicion about the person, because the name of the American businessman was Rockefeller.
By this time, Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company had monopolized 90 percent of the oil supply in the United States. I heard that the Japanese Black Dragon Society had already found Rockefeller and wanted to discuss the issue of Asian oil with him, but Rockefeller did not choose the Japanese, but chose the Green Gang, which really surprised Shen Xingshan.
He realized that this was a good opportunity not only to make money, but also to reinvent the Green Gang.
Yang Xiaolin, the name of Rockefeller, was also very popular, and later many people said that this oil tycoon was the greatest philanthropist in the world. And he was indeed enthusiastic about philanthropy, and Rockefeller famously said that many businessmen later took it as a creed: "Desperately make money, desperately save money." Spend money desperately, donate money desperately. ”
But Yang Xiaolin knew that this guy was not a good person, he donated a lot of money, but he was really desperate when he made money. At the beginning, I grabbed oil wells with others, and it was really a knife. Some people say that China's 21st-century developers are bloody in grabbing land, but that's because they don't see the methods used by Rockefeller and others to grab oil wells.
Don't look at what he said, just build an oil supply network. In fact, this is the same concept as your own department store. In this era when logistics is not developed. The perfection of the sales network can determine everything.
The department store imports foreigners' matches, two small copper plates in a box, of which the purchase cost is less than a small copper plate, and the rest is earned by the department store. And when Anhui's Anhui Lantern Flame Company was established, the department stores sold their matches were also two copper plates in a box, but buy a box and get a box free, so that the people would buy who they didn't have to think about to know the way.
When the sales network is in my hands, the rest of you can only eat what I have leftover, that's the law.
If he agrees to Rockefeller, then the American Standard Oil Company will soon monopolize the Chinese market.
Yang Xiaolin really intends to monopolize the oil thing. It is impossible for him to say that this market should be opened up and you businessmen should do it according to market demand. First of all, as the oil tycoons estimated, Yang Xiaolin also believes that the Chinese market is huge, and it is impossible for the money-making buying and selling countries to let go. Another reason is that because Commander Yang really can't get oil now, he must master this channel. Hoard enough for yourself to build a modern armored force.
One of the advantages of working with Rockefeller is that as long as the relationship between China and the United States can remain stable, the purchase channels will not be affected much in the future. The disadvantage is that this channel is in the hands of the Americans, which is really something that Yang Xiaolin can't accept.
So he immediately sent a telegram to Shen Xingshan. He said that he could now contact Rockefeller and convey to the other side that China is willing to cooperate. However, we must continue to talk about how to cooperate, and I would rather the Chinese side take a little more money out. We can't let this channel be completely controlled by the Americans, and we can't let Rockefeller wantonly squeeze out all competitors.
Yang Xiaolin clearly told Shen Xingshan that if Rockefeller was willing, the Chinese side would invite him to China for business negotiations and would receive him according to high standards. In addition, regarding the establishment of an Asian crude oil supply company mentioned by Shen Xingshan, Yang Xiaolin expressed his full support.
China must set up its own crude oil company, although we have not developed oil fields in our country now, but there are many oil fields in the world, although we are not yet in the conditions to compete with Britain and France for Africa and the Arab region, but once the crude oil company is established, China can use the model of business cooperation to allow China to obtain oil.
As I said earlier, the robbery of oil wells in the world now requires knives and guns, and those traditional businessmen in China really can't do this business.
The company must be formed immediately.
In this peacekeeping operation, Yang Xiaolin and began to try their own mechanized troops, China's peacekeeping troops are not as large as Japan's, the first batch of only 24,000 people went to Russia, of which the signal troops, medical troops, and engineering troops accounted for two-thirds of the entire troops, and the actual combat personnel were less than 8,000.
Yang Xiaolin's explanation for this was that the Chinese troops were not going to fight this time, they were there to rescue Russian citizens who were in the midst of war and hunger.
But the Chinese side has already prepared two thousand trucks, more than a thousand three-wheeled motorcycles, a hundred new tanks and more than two hundred armored infantry vehicles. In addition, the Chinese side also brought 200 medium artillery pieces, and now China's medium artillery is pulled by special gun trucks.
This is just an attempt by Yang Xiaolin, and it is impossible to build a modern army without a stable oil supply channel.
Even so, this time the peacekeeping troops do not need soldiers to walk, sitting in the car easily more than 200 kilometers a day, a month and a half to send more than 100,000 tons of supplies and more than 20,000 soldiers to Russia, Nogi Noshinori said let the Chinese not wait for him, he can catch up, if it were not for Yang Xiaolin this time to give the Japanese a stage, if not for the fact that he had secretly passed some agreements with Comrade Trotsky, he really wanted to see how Nogi Noshidena lap legs caught up with his own engines. (To be continued......)