When the Ming army crossed the Ural Mountains, the news of the discovery of oil in Tyumen was also transmitted back to the capital by the Ming army's fast horses.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Jie was quietly reviewing the chapters alone, and Liu Sili, the eunuch of Bingpen, rushed to the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Lord Yifan, Lord Li Yan, and Lord Gao Jie are asking to see ...... outside the palace gate."

Zhu Jie raised his head and said with a smile: "What, the three of them arrived together today?" Let them in. ”

"Ministers and others see the emperor!"

The three of them entered the imperial study and bowed.

"Okay, don't be so polite, sit down, what's the matter with entering the palace like this?"

Xu Yifan said with a smile: "Your Majesty, there is news from Mu Feng and Jiaxing, and the Tianwei Army sent back a few cavalrymen, ran all the way, ran back to the capital, and delivered the news. ”

"Oh?"

Zhu Jie was shocked and asked, "How is it, where are they fighting now?" ”

Xu Yifan's face was straight, and he replied: "Your Majesty, three months ago, their cavalry had already arrived at the Tyumen realm, the Tyumen realm, this place is really unfamiliar to the ministers, but Jiaxing specially sent someone back and brought back three barrels of oil for you, saying that the oil you had talked about at the beginning gushed out from the ground, this is the piece brought back by the cavalry!" ”

As he spoke, Xu Yifan took out the letter and handed it to Zhu Jie, what kind of chapter, it is the simplest letter written on a piece of paper, stuffed into the envelope, far away in the Western Regions, where is Song Jiaxing still so exquisite!

"Yifan, you said that place is called Tyumen?"

Zhu Jie's heart was shocked, yes, oil, in later generations, it is one of the largest oil fields in Russia, rich in oil, and the annual output is not much lower than the oil and grain production in China! I didn't expect to be met by Song Jiaxing and Qin Mufeng's westward expedition!

Zhu Jie hurriedly took the letter and opened it to look at it carefully.

"Haha, Yifan, thanks to you for sending Jiaxing, if you let Mu Feng go alone, that stunned young man will not care what oil is not oil, great, great! Jiaxing has already begun to order people to build military fortresses there, well, military fortresses must be built, not only military fortresses, but also garrisons there! Strengthen absolute control over there! ”

Zhu Jie exclaimed excitedly.

Li Yan hesitated: "Your Majesty, according to what the cavalry said, they galloped fast all the way, and they all walked for nearly three months, at least seventy or eighty days, ninety days, one hundred miles a day, that is already more than eight thousand miles, such a long distance, we have to station troops there and build military fortresses, but how can we control it?" After all, it is too far away from the Central Plains, and if we really want to control it, we will have to pay too much price......

"Hehe, Li Yan,"

Zhu Jie said: "Take a long-term view, maybe in ten or eight years, we will only have input there, and there will be no way to obtain output, but what about 50 years from now, 100 years from now? Do you know what the world will become? I can tell you clearly that at the current development rate of the Ming Dynasty, in 50 years, oil will bring us great value, and even change the face of the whole world, it will be our most important energy source, the most dependent energy, just as we need more and more coal in the next few years, more and more dependent on oil, these oils can provide energy, far more than coal! In that place in Tyumen, I have a little understanding, Jiaxing and they only dug down two or three zhang before they found oil gushing out of the ground like a spring, which means that the oil there is of high quality, and the content is huge, I am afraid that there are more than tens of thousands of tons! This oil is enough for our entire empire for a hundred years, and the value he brings us is only tens of thousands of taels of silver! You say, isn't it worth it for us to invest some money and food now? ”

Tens of thousands of taels of silver!

Not only Li Yan, but also Xu Yifan and Gao Jie all felt dizzy, tens of thousands of taels of silver, now the entire Ming Empire's annual income is only how much, but barely reached 40 million taels, last year because of the Nanyang War, the trade between the East and the West was cut off, so that the income of the Ming Dynasty only rose slightly by half, the value of a Tyuming oil is more than the Ming Empire's ten-year income, not to mention the annual investment of 100,200,000 taels of silver, even if it is invested in a million taels of silver, it is definitely worth it!

"Your Majesty,"

Gao Jie swallowed hard and asked, "Is that piece of land really so precious as you say?" The value of tens of thousands of taels of silver, I'm afraid that the output of the entire Ming Dynasty in a year is definitely not that high! ”

"Eigo!"

Zhu Jie replied: "Of course, it is so precious, oil will be too important in the future world, at least for two or three hundred years, it will be indispensable and the most important resource; Of course, there are more important resources, you know what they are? ”

Forehead......

Gao Jie smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, the minister is stupid, I really don't know what resources are the most important......

Zhu Jie laughed and said: "Naturally, it is talent, in the world, there is nothing more important than talent and knowledge!" Li Yan, Yifan, Mu Feng, and you, are all the talents I rely on the most, with you, I can sit on thousands of miles of splendid rivers and mountains, with you, the tens of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty can live and work in peace and contentment, isn't it? ”

Xu Yifan said with a smile: "Your Majesty, where is your globe, take it out and see where this Tyumen is and how far away it is from us......"

Zhu Jie nodded, took out the globe, turned his big hand slightly, Zhu Jie tried hard to recall the coordinates where Qiuming was, and after a while, he pointed heavily on the globe with his hand and replied: "Here!" Tyumen, from Kulen all the way to the west, a distance of about five thousand miles, if you pass through the Yumen Gate......"

Zhu Jie paused, and then said: "From Yumen Pass to the northwest, it takes almost seven thousand miles to reach Tyumen, and it is necessary to pass through the vast Western Regions back then, that is, the area controlled by the current Dzungar Khanate and the large, medium and small Yuz Khanate, to be able to reach Tyumen." ”

Xu Yifan couldn't help but gasp, the two roads are not close, from the capital to Kulun and then to Tyumen, this distance, I am afraid that it will not be less than nine thousand miles, as for from Yumen Pass to Qiumen, it will be even farther, from the capital to Yumen Pass, there is still a distance of four thousand miles, I am afraid that it is already more than ten thousand miles!

"Your Majesty, the Rakshasa Kingdom is much closer to Tyumen than us, we want to control it in our own hands, but it's not that simple, it's too difficult......"

Even Xu Yifan was a little worried, thousands of miles away, how to actually control it? How many troops were stationed in Tyumen? Thousands of people, under the attack of the Rakshasa Kingdom, not to mention, can't stop people at all, tens of thousands of people, how to solve the burden of grain and grass? 10,000 miles, the price paid for transporting from the capital to Tyumen is too great!

(End of chapter)