When Zheng Fuguang arrived in Liusha County, Zhu Jingyuan received Liu Zhixin's report.

Among them is Zheng Fuguang, who is engaged in oil exploration and smelting, as well as sales under the name of Daming Aviation Fuel Company.

This suggestion was made by Wang Zhenyi, the treasurer of the Daming Royal Flying Machine Company.

Zhu Jingyuan was very confused by this suggestion.

Wang Zhenyi, as the treasurer of a company under the royal consortium, took the initiative to remind Zhu Jingyuan's company that there was such a plan to exploit loopholes.

This is not like Wang Zhenyi's personal behavior.

So Zhu Jingyuan immediately sent a telegram to ask about his father and mother.

Zhu Jianyan's reply came soon:

"That's what your grandfather meant."

The telegram that came back only had one sentence, and Zhu Jianyan did not make any explanation to the west.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at this sentence, frowned and thought about it for a long time, before slowly tasting some possibilities from it.

The oil industry has great prospects, and it is impossible to run a single company, and it will gradually be split up within the royal consortium.

As the grandson of the emperor and the future prince, the nature of his own industry is not much different from that of the royal consortium.

Then, there is the last possibility......

When your own industry expands, if you want to steadily absorb it into the royal consortium, there is only one way to take it for granted.

It seems that the same logic is true for the big food country that is getting bigger and bigger.

Is this a guarantee of one's own status?

But it's also a bomb, right......

Zhu Jingyuan felt speechless about the old emperor's arrangement.

Dig an oil well and hand it over directly to the royal consortium to operate, how easy is it for me to lie down and count the money?

Why stand when you can make money lying down?

Do you have to let me stand?

If you want to make money standing up, you can use the extremely low local oil price to attract petroleum smelting-related industries to settle in.

Automotive and Aviation Industry Expo?

It was originally a land of two oceans, three continents and five seas, and after the opening of the Xihai Canal, it was an absolute transportation artery.

It is suitable for a wide range of tourism and cultural industries.

Actively cultivate racing culture, aviation flight culture, and attract people to settle in.

On this basis, there can also be attempts to develop the automobile manufacturing and aviation industries locally.

But this is the future, and what needs to be done now is to drill the oil wells.

At the same time, large oil storage tanks will be built ahead of schedule, enough standard oil tanks and oil drums will be purchased, and the existing rudimentary terminals will be upgraded.

Others could not have imagined how outrageous oil production would be in the Persian Gulf, and how quickly it would soar.

Zhu Jingyuan once again sent messages to his mother and treasurer Liang Yunying, Zheng Fuguang, the person in charge of exploration in the Dashi area, and Xu Minghui, the left-behind guard of the Dashi Wangfu.

Hurry up to build a big project, hurry up to buy and buy, go to the loan, all the current investment, sell oil once can earn back.

Communicate with the Royal Refinery in advance, and the early fuel oil will definitely be sold to them.

The big food country will take care of the oil smelting industry by itself, and that will at least be after the end of the peace talks.

…………

Zheng Fuguang took a few workers who had drilled oil wells to simply explore outside Liusha County for three days, and then directly started drilling.

At this time, the theory of oil exploration was completely fragmented, and even skilled craftsmen did not have a very clear method.

Either find a place where there is an oil and gas leak directly on the surface and drill a well directly.

Either refer to the topography and environment of the existing oil field, and find other places with similar environments to drill wells.

A lot of the time it's by feeling.

Since the Great Food King has finalized the place outside the city of Liusha County, let's first find a suitable place to start construction here.

Including Zheng Fuguang and a few veteran craftsmen, they didn't have much hope for the first drilling.

In the past, Daming's oil wells were mainly in the Nanyang region, which was full of humid and hot islands and dense rainforests.

Now I suddenly drill in a place full of sand, and the previous experience is not of much value.

With such a nervous mood, everyone drilled down step by step.

The trial of the Great Food Country is Xu Minghui, and he comes to the construction site to check every once in a while, anyway, the construction site is not far outside the city, and he usually has nothing to do.

The water from the barrels that came with the ship was poured into the reservoir, and a large oil tank was built according to Zhu Jingyuan's requirements, and more oil tanks and oil drums were ordered.

All that's left is to wait and see if the oil can be produced here.

In such a complex atmosphere of doubt, apprehension, and anticipation, the drilling depth is deepening day by day.

Zhu Jingyuan demanded to drill to 1,500 meters, and even to 2,000 meters.

But most people think that if there is oil, it should not be used so deep and it should come out.

Twenty days later, drilling to a depth of a thousand meters, and still no oil has been seen.

The workers' already low sense of expectation has come close to zero.

Xu Minghui also became more apprehensive.

After another eight days, drilling reached a depth of 1,300 meters, and there was still no oil at all.

The artisans have largely given up.

Hu Biao, an old worker who drilled oil wells in Borneo, has been talking to himself from time to time in the past few days:

"If there was oil here, it would have come out so deep......"

Zheng Fuguang saw this emotion in his eyes, and he actually didn't have any expectations in his heart, so he could only take out Zhu Jingyuan's request to give an order:

"The money from His Highness and the chief treasurer, we will do it according to His Highness's requirements.

"Drill 1,500 meters first, then try 2,000 meters, and hit the depth required by His Highness first.

"If you can't get out of anything, then report to Your Highness."

What Zheng Fuguang said was reality, anyway, the money was paid by the boss, and he just worked according to the requirements.

The workers had nothing to say but lamented the waste of money by His Highness......

Xu Minghui was also in a complicated mood, and in the past few days, he began to sit in the palace account room again, carefully calculating the cost of this drilling.

Machinery and equipment and people's wages are paid by Daming Airlines, and there is no need to spend on the big food country, but the accommodation and meals are provided by the big food country.

In fact, the craftsmen don't know, and Zhu Jingyuan himself doesn't know, and now they can't drill oil is actually a good thing.

Liusha County is on top of an oil field, and the large-scale oil reservoir of this oil field is at a depth of about 1,500 meters.

If the oil had been released earlier, it would have been drilled into the small and scattered reservoirs above the reservoir.

As a result, either the daily production is low, or it is gone within a few days.

But now that the oil has been produced, it can cause the craftsmen to stop drilling and think that there is only a little oil here.

Historically, the Standard Oil Company of California has drilled seven wells here in a row.

The first few wells were either such sporadic reservoirs, or turned into water wells, or there was nothing.

Until the seventh well, which was drilled to 1,370 meters, still nothing was seen.

At that time, the funding supply for the drilling team was almost broken, as California's Standard Oil Company was ready to abandon further drilling in Saudi Arabia.

It wasn't until Texas Oil participated in the partnership that drilling continued.

As a result, when the seventh well was drilled to more than 1,440 meters, the drill bit directly penetrated the large oil layer.

A large amount of crude oil is spewed out, like an artificial high-pressure fountain.

It was a natural high-pressure self-blowing well.

On the same day, 250,000 liters of crude oil gushed out, and after that, the daily output reached 580,000 liters, or about 600 tons.

Then they went back and continued to deepen the previous wells to similar depths, and all of them turned into high-pressure self-blowout wells.

The great oil development in the Persian Gulf began, and the No. 7 well started an era.

So, Zheng Fuguang and Xu Minghui, along with all the workers, continued to suffer for five days before they were shocked by the surging crude oil.

For the first time, the pressure in the underground of the oil layer that had never been exploited was released, and the surging oil column rose into the sky.

Several craftsmen were directly sprayed to the ground by the splash of crude oil, and then their bodies were covered with the crude oil falling from the sky.

On June 20, the 34th year of Daming Taiping, the first oil well of Dashiduo was officially released.

Xu Minghui, who came to the construction site to inspect again, rode on his horse and looked at the crude oil fountain in front of him, and immediately widened his eyes and exclaimed loudly:

"Oh my God......"

The drill site has also erupted in unusually enthusiastic cheers.

Several old workers were stunned:

"This is fucking amazing!"

"Labor and management have never seen crude oil sprayed like this in their lives......"

"This is a fucking self-blowout!"

Natural self-blowing wells are also found in other areas, but they are far less common and less intense than in the Persian Gulf.

Ordinary workers who had never seen such a thing were completely dumbfounded.

A large crowd just watched where the crude oil was spraying.

Xu Minghui, who was still the most distressed about money, was the first to react, and shouted loudly while pulling his horse to run this way with all his might:

"Don't be stunned! Hurry up and fill up the gas! It's all money! ”

Zheng Fuguang also reacted:

"Drillers go cementing! Others go to fill the oil! ”

Xu Minghui rode to the construction site, jumped off the horse, ran to Zheng Fuguang's side, grabbed his arm and asked nervously:

"Zheng Gong, tell me, how much can the crude oil from this well be sold?"

Zheng Fuguang was accustomed to the feeling of Xu Minghui drilling into the eyes of money, and turned his head to look at the gushing oil column and estimated:

"According to the shopkeeper Wang, the crude oil transferred by the Royal Oil Production Company to the refining company last year was calculated on the basis of three silver bills per stone.

"Now that the number of internal combustion engine vehicles and ships is increasing, the price of fuel is continuing to rise, and the price of crude oil will continue to rise.

"If this well continues to spray at this rate, it is estimated that it will be able to spray 2,000 stones, or 200,000 liters, in a whole day......"

After the Renwu Dynasty, in the metric units of the Ming Dynasty, liters, buckets, and stones were clearly defined as capacity units.

The volume of a square container of one decimeter each in length, width, and height is determined to be one liter.

Ten liters is one bucket, ten buckets are one stone, and one stone is one hundred liters.

Xu Minghui listened to Zheng Fuguang's explanation, and his eyes widened again:

"Three silver dollars with one stone? Two thousand stones is six thousand yuan? Six thousand silver dollars a day! 180,000 a month! Two million a year!

"My God! My big food country is now developed! ”

At this time, the purchasing power of one yuan of silver dollars and silver banknotes was almost equivalent to one hundred yuan in later generations.

Six thousand silver banknotes are 600,000, and two million silver banknotes are 200 million, which is the top 20 Ming princes.

This is only the first oil well drilled by Zheng Fuguang.

Zheng Fuguang didn't think anything about it, but he was taken aback by the data calculated by Xu Minghui casually:

"This ...... The current price of oil is indeed the same, and the gushing speed of the oil well in front of me is indeed very ...... Outrageous......

"And...... This is only the first well, according to the introduction of the shopkeeper Wang, an oil field can usually drill several wells, or even dozens of wells......"

"Dozens—"

Xu Minghui exclaimed, took a deep breath, and almost didn't catch his breath, and coughed hard:

"Ahem—"

Seeing this, Zheng Fuguang hurriedly helped Xu Minghui, patted him on the back, and continued to explain and comfort him:

"Don't be so excited about the trial...... That's just the sales price, we don't count the mining and transportation costs.

"We don't have a market for big food, we have to transport it to Shenzhou mainland, and this ship and oil drums are all money......

"And this well can't be sprayed like this all the time, the speed will slowly decrease......"

Xu Minghui also reacted, but he was still very excited, and he twitched and chattered:

"Yes, yes, yes, I have to calculate the cost, the cost, I have to calculate it well, and ...... Calculate ......"

Xu Minghui rested for a while before his spirit barely recovered.

After looking at the gushing oil column for a long time, he reluctantly left the construction site and rode back to the city again.

After returning to the palace, Xu Minghui asked people to send the oil tanks and oil drums to the construction site quickly, and ran into the account room to start calculating the costs and benefits.

Craftsmen and workers continued to work on the site, and by the evening the well was largely secured.

After installing the derrick oil guide pipe, the crude oil began to flow under the constraints of the pipeline, and was successively loaded into a large number of oil tanks and oil drums.

Zheng Fuguang watched the oil well blow out on the construction site for a whole day, and felt that its strength showed no signs of abating.

When the time came to the afternoon of the next day, Zheng Fuguang counted the output of the whole day.

Although he had expected it in his heart, the result still made Zheng Fuguang startled.

The daily yield is not two thousand stone at all, but five thousand stone!

In this way, the theoretical income of one day may reach 15,000 silver bills, or at least 5 million silver bills in a whole year.

According to the purchasing power, it is converted into 500 million yuan in later generations.

Zheng Fuguang swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva in a row, and after carefully calculating the data three times, he asked people to go to the city to report Xu Minghui.

Let Xu Minghui continue to build large oil storage tanks and order more standard oil drums at the same time.

Zhu Jingyuan repeatedly reminded this side to prepare oil tanks and oil drums, and Zheng Fuguang felt that Zhu Jingyuan's expectations were too high a few days ago.

I am also worried that Zhu Jingyuan will be disappointed in the future.

As a result, it now seems that His Royal Highness was prescient.

Their own pattern is still small.

Xu Minghui didn't sleep much last night, and he was always planning how to sell oil and how to make money for the big food country.

After receiving Zheng Fuguang's new report, Xu Minghui almost pulled it over again.

After relieving himself again, Xu Minghui immediately asked the book to write a formal report and report the good news to Zhu Jingyuan and Liu Zhixin at the Western Cape.

…………

More than 20 days ago, Luo Yashan's family left Liusha County, the Great Food Country.

After leaving the Persian Gulf, the passenger ship sailed southwest along the Da Shi Peninsula and the east coast of Mo Chau.

Along the way, they stopped at two piers, and a few children such as Sophia and Peter couldn't help but sigh every time they went:

"It's also better than the big food country......

"The big food country is really too poor."

After half a month of sailing, the ship finally arrived at the Western Cape.

The children came to the bow of the ship again, and as the passenger ship slowly sailed towards the pier, they watched the city in front of them cheer one after another:

"This is the Cape of Good Hope!"

"The city here is so beautiful, is that what the city in the East is like this?"

"The port and the dock are so lively!"

"This port is busier than all the ports in Lucia!"

"No, it's more lively than all the cities of Lucia."

"A thousand times more prosperous than the Great Food Country!"

Luo Yashan and Zhao Xinlian and his wife were also quite fascinated to look at the city that was getting closer and closer.

The Western Cape is the Cape of Good Hope for Tessie, the most important port city captured by the Ming from the Dutch.

Sophia still remembered the matter of the big food country, and at this time she couldn't help but ask her parents:

"Since Prince Dashi is the favorite grandson of Emperor Daming, why did he give him such a barren fief?"

Zhao Xinlian smiled and explained:

"The title of Prince Dashi is the only title of the two princes of the Ming Dynasty.

"So he is the royal prince of the Ming Dynasty, and he can get the normal salary of the Prince of the Ming Dynasty.

"He is also the king of the Great Food Country, and he can get the tax share of the Big Food Country.

"Although the Great Food Country is barren, for the Great Food Prince, it is completely additional income, and it doesn't matter how much.

"The other Ming princes don't want it yet.

"So you don't have to complain about the poverty of the Great Food Country anymore, and quickly forget about that place in Liusha County, the Great Food Country.

"Neither Prince Dashi nor you need to rely on it for your future life."

Sophia nodded her little head gently:

"There really isn't a need for ...... there"