After the Renwu Dynasty, the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty were responsible for their own profits and losses, and at the same time regularly paid taxes in the name of tribute, according to a fixed proportion.

Some vassal states may be particularly wealthy, mainly because of resources that are easy to exploit, or because they are rich in agriculture and animal husbandry, and at the same time have a relatively large population.

Some vassal states may be very poor, mainly because the environment is extremely harsh, or there is nothing, and there may not be even people.

The big food country is the very poor kind.

With only a very limited number of inhabitants, living in scattered oases in the desert, it is very difficult to get around.

Liusha County is located in a small bay, surrounded by three relatively close oasis settlements, so the capital of the country was chosen here.

The Ming people are a farming people, and their favorite place is the fertile plains of Xintianfu, and they don't want to eat sand in this kind of place at all.

Xu Minghui, the judge of the Great Food Palace, was the highest-ranking official who stayed in the Great Food Palace, and was responsible for managing the daily affairs of the palace after Changshi left.

Xu Minghui received a message from Zuo Changshi Liu Zhixin a few days ago, and in two days, craftsmen who can create income for the big food country will come.

There is also the future Xianbei Guogong family passing by here, and they want to visit the capital of Prince Dashi.

Liu Zhixin reminded Xu Minghui to get ready for a reception.

Xu Minghui is more welcoming to the former, creating income, whether it can be achieved or not is good-intentioned, you can try it.

But for the latter, Xu Minghui is not in a good mood, you pass by and pass by, what do you stop to visit?

See how poor our palace is?

The key is how much does it cost......

But no matter what he thought in his heart and how he deducted it, Xu Minghui still had to be patient to come out to receive him. @精华\/Shuge Error-free Debut~~

Although the other party is still just a Xiyi, he will be the Duke of Daming in the future.

Regardless of the thoughts of the passengers and the people who received them, the two large passenger ships carrying guests from different directions completed the docking.

Due to the relatively small wharf in Liusha County, and there is no clear distinction between freight and passenger transportation, the distance between the two large ships is very close.

When Luo Yashan's family disembarked, they could see that the migrant boat on the opposite side was also disembarking, and at the same time, it soon began to unload the cargo.

Xu Minghui and his entourage first greeted Luo Yashan's family.

Looking at the other party's image, it is obvious that he is mixed-race, but the whole family is dressed in the Ming style, the wife is completely Ming, and the children basically can't see the image of Xiyi.

The unhappiness in Xu Minghui's heart was slightly alleviated:

"The trial of the Great Food Country is Xu Minghui, and I have met Prince Alexander."

Luo Yashan returned the gift with a very standardized return gift from the family, so that Xu Minghui and other officials could not find any fault.

The accent is also very standard, which won a few praises from the other party.

After a few polite words between the two sides, Luo Yashan took the initiative to talk to each other:

"Excuse me, is the other ship docked here here here here to provide supplies or repairs?"

Xu Minghui waved his hand directly and said:

"No, it's a migrant ship from Daming, and this is where they end.

"I'm also about to receive guests over there, and Guogong can take a carriage to the pavilion to rest first."

Luo Yashan and his wife and children behind him were stunned:

"Immigrants here?"

Xu Minghui didn't continue to explain, casually confessed to Luo Yashan, and then left directly.

He went directly to the team to receive the craftsmen on the other side.

Luo Yashan, the prince of Lucia and the future prince of Xianbei, was just hung on the side of the road and handed over to a few ordinary reception staff.

Luo Yashan was a little uncomfortable, but he quickly got used to it.

After all, he is only a "barbarian" prince, at most he can only be the son of the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and at most he will be a Xianbei prince of a foreign domain.

The Great Food King is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and the official who is second only to the long history of the Zhengda Food Kingdom is judged.

Although he can only be regarded as a six-rank official in the Ming Dynasty, he will not be inferior to the foreign feudal and barbarian monarchs in places outside the mainland.

The other party took the initiative to come over and be polite for a while, which was already considered to have given himself face.

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of the prince......

Not to mention the princes and grandsons, even if he is just a Ming earl, the other party will definitely welcome him into the city in person.

When his title of Duke of Daming is confirmed, the situation may be slightly better.

Luo Yashan sighed secretly in his heart, and thought of the other party's answer just now, so he subconsciously looked back at the surrounding environment.

It is still impossible to believe that the Ming Dynasty wants to emigrate to such a place.

However, Luo Yashan soon remembered that when he got off the boat, he saw that the opposite side was unloading mechanical equipment.

"Is it to mine some minerals here?"

Zhao Xinlian subconsciously shook her head:

"I haven't heard of any minerals here......"

The family here can't see why.

Xu Minghui over there had already greeted Zheng Fuguang, and said hello with a smile on his face:

"But Zheng Fuguang, Zheng Gong? This official is the trial of the Great Food King's Mansion. ”

Zheng Fuguang is a graduate of the Craftsman University, has a Zhengqipin Intermediate Craftsman Certificate, and is the person in charge of the aviation fuel raw material exploration project. Initial Update@

Zhu Jingyuan's mother, Liang Yunying, at the suggestion of Wang Zhenyi, went to the Craftsman University to find it.

This kind of large-scale project cannot be carried out without high-level craftsmen.

Zheng Fuguang's name was also specially written on the telegram, and Xu Minghui was specially notified.

But now Zheng Fuguang himself is in a complicated mood, and oil exploration is a bottomless matter.

I don't know how long I'm going to eat the sand in this big desert.

Zheng Fuguang cheered up and returned the salute to Xu Minghui:

"It was here that I saw the trial of Master Zheng."

"You're welcome......"

Xu Minghui agreed with a smile, and then the other craftsmen bowed together, and at the same time beckoned them to get on the car and enter the city:

"You have been tired all the way to the saddle horse, please go to the dormitory with the official to settle down and rest, and tomorrow the Japanese official will set up a banquet for you to receive the wind and wash the dust."

Xu Minghui and Zheng Fuguang sat in the same carriage, and chatted with Zheng Fuguang on the way.

Luo Yashan took his wife and children in another carriage.

Sophia watched Xu Minghui receive Zheng Fuguang through the window, and asked with some confusion and curiosity:

"Dad, mother, who are those? Why did the official of the Great Food Country accompany them personally, and not us? ”

Zhao Xinlian could see that a few people over there should not be officials, otherwise they should change their official uniforms when they get off the boat.

Looking at the clothes, they don't look like aristocrats, but like craftsmen, and they are so young, at most they can only be intermediate craftsmen.

The treatment of a group of craftsmen is higher than that of their own husband of the prince of Lucia.

The discrimination of Ming officials against the Taixi people is still so serious.

Zhao Xinlian touched her daughter's hair helplessly, and did not tell her daughter the truth:

"It should be a noble person from the Ming Jingshi."

Although Liusha County has been established for hundreds of years, there is still only a rammed earth city wall, which looks very simple.

The houses and palaces in the city are the level of the native towns of the Ming Dynasty.

The houses in the city are relatively dilapidated, and the potholed streets are deserted, and there is no popularity at all.

Whether it was Zheng Fuguang and the craftsmen, or Luo Yashan's family, they were all shocked by the scene in the city again.

Xu Minghui's expression was quite embarrassed:

"We ...... The country of big food, the land is barren and sparsely populated, it is really ...... Distress.

"So I really ask Zheng Gong and all the craftsmen to drill oil in my big food."

Zheng Fuguang was also a little embarrassed, and at the same time hurriedly corrected and said:

"No, no, no, we're not here for oil, we're here for raw materials for aviation fuel.

"Although we have a map from His Highness and identified several drill sites that may be useful, there is no guarantee of such a thing.

"All we can say is that we want to be able to play with oil as well...... No, the raw material for aviation fuel comes. ”

Xu Minghui was stunned when he heard this:

"Isn't jet fuel just fuel? Isn't the raw material for fuel refining oil? ”

Zheng Fuguang immediately corrected:

"No, no, no, according to the Royal Flying Machine. (This chapter is not finished!) )

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According to the owner of the company, oil is the monopoly of the royal consortium, but aviation fuel is not.

"At the very least, the business scope of our Daming Airlines includes the production and sales of aviation fuel, but does not include oil."

Xu Minghui finally reacted, this is a loophole in the policy.

If it were someone else, even if they found this loophole, they wouldn't dare to drill it, and they wouldn't have the ability to drill it.

But the Prince of Great Food is no problem, even if he is discovered by his father and grandfather, at most he will be trained.

The point is that it is impossible for others to get the right to operate aviation fuel, so there is no chance to take advantage of the loopholes.

Xu Minghui originally thought that the big food country would drill out the oil by itself, and it could only be handed over to the royal consortium to operate.

Now it seems that this big food country can do it on its own, drilling, mining, smelting and even selling it by itself.

Xu Minghui nodded hurriedly after comprehending it:

"Yes, yes, yes, the raw materials for aviation fuel, we must find this for our big food country.

"The iron ore and coal mines have been determined to be gone, and we can only ask for this in the big food country."

Zheng Fuguang agreed reluctantly, and could only repeatedly say that he tried his best and hoped to ship.

The two chatted like this, and then arrived at the dormitory that Xu Minghui had prepared for them in advance, a three-story simple tube building.

The former king of Quicksand County was ready to rely on his status as a king to open a machinery factory in China.

As a result, after the start of construction, I realized that there was basically no local market.

All raw materials are imported, the production cost is relatively high, the level of workers is low, and the product quality is relatively limited.

Whether it is in the Ming Dynasty or other feudal markets, it is impossible to compete with the royal consortium.

In the end, he lost a lot of money, leaving a few factories and several dormitory buildings.

Now it's time to pack it up and give it to the newcomers from the aviation fuel company.

Using dormitories in a failed factory may not bode well, but there's nothing you can't make do with in Liusha County.

I have to thank this former king of quicksand county, otherwise Zheng Fuguang and his party could only borrow to live in the people's homes, and even set up tents.

Xu Minghui settled Zheng Fuguang and other craftsmen, and immediately went to the post house to accompany Luo Yashan's family to dine.

The inn is a two-story enclosed garden, and it is for both public and private purposes, otherwise it will be difficult to raise maintenance fees.

A restaurant like a small factory cafeteria has very rough food on several large plates on simple or even rough wooden tables.

When Xu Minghui was with Zheng Fuguang, he kept complaining about the poverty of Da Shiguo.

But when facing Luo Yashan's family, he seemed to be very generous and extravagant, and kept persuading Luo Yashan's father and son to eat and drink.

It's just that poverty is visible at a glance.

After all, Luo Yashan is the prince of Lucia, and the family has never eaten any delicacies from the mountains and seas, and now it feels like going to the house of an ordinary squire.

Although there are many types of meat, melons and fruits, and vegetarian dishes, the amount is also very large, and the diners will definitely not be able to eat them all.

But those were obviously not anything of value, so the family frowned as they listened.

Sovia leaned into her mother's ear and asked in a very confused whisper:

"Mother, why is the Great Food Country so poor, but these officials and servants are still very proud?"

Zhao Xinlian looked around, and sure enough, whether it was an official or a servant, she was in good spirits.

At least he was very energetic in front of his family.

So he lowered his voice and replied in a low voice:

"Because they are all Ming people."

Sophia said with some confusion:

"No, they're just people from the Great Food Country, people from the vassal country of the Ming Dynasty, not the real Ming people."

Sophia spoke a little louder, which caught the attention of an official who was not far away.

The other party's face suddenly became more difficult to look at.

For the people of the Ming Domain, directly calling each other the Ming people can get their friendship the fastest.

Clearly saying that the other party is not a Ming person is also the easiest way to provoke the other party.

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Zhao Xinlian hurriedly stretched out a finger:

"Shh......h Don't say it, eat, it's time for us to leave after eating......"

Luo Yashan's family patiently finished eating, and after a little stroll in Quicksand City, they took their leave.

This time, Xu Minghui was sent to the dock and watched them get on the boat before leaving.

Then he began to feel sorry for today's expenses, and began to look forward to Zheng Fuguang and his party digging out oil.

Luo Yashan's family felt that what they ate and drank was not something of value, but they ignored one point.

This is the quicksand city of the Great Food Country, an oasis city on the edge of the desert, and the local products are very poor.

There are endless melons and fruits, vegetarian dishes, and meat here, which is really luxurious.

Xu Minghui returned to the palace, calculated the expenses with the book again, and carefully calculated for a long time.

The food that was entertained to the family of Luo Yashan was distributed to the servants and could not be wasted.

The next morning, Xu Minghui entertained the craftsmen again.

This time he was his own person, so he didn't show off, and he began to cry desperately again, and Zheng Fuguang, who was crying, was a little speechless. Initial Update@

Zheng Fuguang also wanted to complete the task as soon as possible, so he led the team out of the city to investigate the next day.

As a result, Xu Minghui followed very curiously.

Zheng Fuguang asked very helplessly:

"Lord Zheng, why did you come outside the city with you? Don't need to deal with official business? ”

Xu Minghui shook his head with a wry smile and waved his hand:

"There is no time to deal with it, and the matter of finding raw materials for aviation fuel now is the most important thing for our big food country.

"Zheng Gong, where are you going to drill wells? Go find ...... Fuel raw materials? Is it just outside this quicksand city? ”

Zheng Fuguang could only patiently explain:

"According to the map left by His Highness, first drill wells on the seashore around Liusha County, and then expand to the surrounding area.

"This small bay where Quicksand City is located, on the island in the middle and on the peninsula to the north, will also try it later.

"Finally, I will go inland, about 80 kilometers southwest of Liusha County, and finally go to Baku."

The location of the county seat of Liusha is almost the Dammam Port of Saudi Arabia in the later generations, which is the largest oil export port in Saudi Arabia.

It was originally a small settlement, but it developed rapidly after the discovery of oil.

Therefore, it is likely that there is oil underground in the county seat of Liusha County.

There must be a place around the small bays around the county seat where oil can be drilled, so find it here first.

As for the eighty kilometers southwest of the county seat, that is the location of the largest oil field in Saudi Arabia.

Zhu Jingyuan only knew the approximate location of these places, and it was impossible to remember the latitude and longitude coordinates, so he could only draw a circle on the map.

Let Zheng Fuguang look for them in and around this circle.

Xu Minghui nodded lightly:

"If oil is drilled just outside the city, then it can be shipped directly on the ship, which is really convenient, but how deep does this well have to be drilled?"

Zheng Fuguang once again conveyed the words left by Zhu Jingyuan that he saw:

"Drill 1,500 meters first, and then deepen to 2,000 meters ......"

Drilling is an advantageous industry in Daming, because Daming people have long had a tradition of mining well salt.

In the historical agricultural era of the Qing Dynasty, a thousand meters of salt wells were dug out with traditional tools and animal power.

Yanjing produces both brine and gas, the brine is the ancient seawater that is pressed into the ground, and the gas is the natural gas used in modern times.

The ancients boiled brine directly with gas to obtain edible well salt.

In Zhu Jingyuan's last life, the salt in the market was still dominated by well salt.

In this life, the Ming Dynasty completed industrialization ahead of schedule, and drilling-related technologies have also been greatly developed.

It is now possible to drill wells more than two thousand meters deep.

As for the depth of the oil layer in the Persian Gulf region, Zhu Jingyuan remembers that it is no more than 1,500 meters.

Zhu Jingyuan has already made Zheng Fuguang lenient to the enemy.

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