When external troubles are determined, internal affairs will be secured.

Looking back on the bumpy and difficult journey since the 5th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Richard is still difficult to calm down.

If there was no superhuman personal force, Richard would not have been able to deal with Lin Zhanyuan, the young master of the Chamber, or would have been bloody in the streets under the guns of the killers hired by John Sartre.

This Tang Kingdom is a product of the birth of a dragon, rooted in the North American plains, struggling in the ensuing storms, and finally surviving and developing into a towering tree.

Without the blessing of the system, without the 800 pairs of bulletproof cuirasses produced in the system store, without the skills given by the system and the high-end equipment produced, Richard doesn't know how many times he died in the rain of bullets, let alone others?

Today

As the society of the Tang Kingdom has entered the track of rapid development, operating in accordance with the market principles and the potential laws of social division of labor, the prestige system has been very small in helping the entire kingdom, and many times it can be ignored.

Richard opened the prestige system panel and browsed it, and looked at the progress of the "Prestige Quest Known" list, which showed 7.8355 million/10 million, and the task completion progress was 78.36%, which was not completed.

He sighed softly and turned off the system panel.

In today's era of unsmooth information exchange, if you want to complete the "task of knowing the prestige of tens of millions of people", it is extremely difficult, and you can only take your time slowly.

Don't say anything else

The vast majority of European immigrants who have immigrated to the United States in recent years do not know who the "Demon King Richard" is.

There are 4 million black slaves in the southern United States, how many black slaves who can read and write know the "Demon King Richard" of Sonic Boom North America?

I'm afraid this number is pitiful, most of the black slaves don't know a single big character, and they live in the dire and high-intensity labor every day, how can they be in the mood to care about what "Demon King Richard"?

If it weren't for the Tang-Mo War, Richard's prestige task would have hovered below 5 million for a long time, with an annual growth rate of hundreds of thousands and less than 1 million.

This figure is almost the average annual population growth of the Tang Kingdom plus some spillover effects.

If you put the time in 2~3 years, it is very difficult to complete this prestige task, but it is not hopeless.

Clearing out the clutter of his thoughts, Richard put his mind on the stack of papers high in the royal eucalyptus and began to concentrate on it.

Early 1852

After more than a year of preparation, the University of California, which was invested and built by the Tang royal family, began to enroll students at the end of last year, and this comprehensive university located about 10 kilometers west of Fangcaodi brought together many prestigious scholars from Europe and the Tang Kingdom, and is the highest university in the Tang Kingdom today.

A series of colleges and universities, such as Chang'an Lecture Hall, Los Angeles Institute of Technology, and Taoyuan School of Administration, have also been established, forming the initial higher education system of the Tang Kingdom.

Among the royal holding industries, there are five companies with the most dazzling performance, namely Texaco Petroleum Company, American River Gold Rush Company, Morunch Mining Company, General Heavy Industry Holding Company, and Grape Valley Light Industry Company, which have developed into industrial giants that affect the economic performance of the Tang Kingdom.

First of all, the Texaco Oil Company was founded in late 1849 after the discovery of the abundant oil and gas resources in California and North Dakota.

The company was established in Yinshi

It was valued by King Richard, and he dispatched elite soldiers and a large amount of funds to promote the development and utilization of resources, and successively imported various oil drilling equipment and three sets of petroleum refining equipment from Europe, catching up with and surpassing France in oil development and utilization, and becoming an advanced country in the petrochemical industry after Russia and Britain.

In 1850, when the Texaco Oil Company began to produce and process 78 tons of kerosene, it was very well received when it was put on the market, and by course sparked a boom in kerosene lamp sales.

After the initial success, 1851 was a year of great success for the Texaco Oil Company.

His Majesty personally took charge of the research and development of petroleum refining equipment, and the domestic iron and steel enterprises vigorously cooperated with the development of large-scale reactors and other related refining equipment, and in May 1851 achieved great success, and the new equipment was successfully put into operation.

As an important equipment in petroleum refining, the design of the reactor imported from Europe is seriously unreasonable, the output is small, and the refining capacity is poor, the separation of petroleum products is single, and it has the characteristics of one pot and one pot.

That is, the petroleum raw materials entering the reaction kettle, after the refining of a pot, the residual impurities must be removed, i.e., asphalt, heavy oil, etc., before the next pot can be carried out.

The newly designed reactor has been revolutionized, no longer a bulky equipment like a pot, but a circular tower, using the principle of different boiling points of each component in petroleum to produce various chemical products through heating reaction.

Gasoline, diesel, kerosene, lubricating oil and heavy oil have different boiling points, and after being heated at high temperatures, a layered petroleum product is formed in a high-tower shaped reactor.

After reaching the boiling point, kerosene is lightest above, diesel is in the middle, lubricating oil is below, and the bottom is heavy oil, and then it is transported to the oil tank through pipeline condensation and transported in barrels.

Such petroleum refining equipment has been 50 years more advanced than the current ridiculous and cumbersome petroleum refining equipment, and has the prototype of large-scale petroleum liquefaction equipment in later generations.

The technical principle is the same, but there are process gaps, design gaps and production capacity gaps in petroleum cracking equipment, which require time to slowly precipitate and polish.

go without saying

This is Richard couldn't help but open the golden finger, from the system store to exchange the United States at the end of the 19th century oil production equipment drawings, after in-depth research, personally guided a group of engineers to develop and produce.

This set of petrochemical science and technology equipment leading the world today, although it is quite similar, but compared with the original petroleum production equipment, its production capacity has been reduced by more than 6 percent, and there are still many deficiencies, which need to be improved in practice in the future.

Even so

Texaco Petroleum has become the most powerful oil company in the world with the strongest oil production capacity, the most advanced production technology, and the new petroleum refining equipment.

In June 1851, the first month after the new equipment was put into production, 517 tons of kerosene were produced, more than 650% of the previous year's production.

In July, 855 tons of kerosene were produced, and the output increased by more than 5%.

In August, 1,220 tons of kerosene were produced, doubling compared to June.

In September, 1,466 tons of kerosene were produced, and one step further.

In October, monthly kerosene production exceeded 2,000 tons for the first time, reaching 2,063 tons.

In November, the production of kerosene was 2,189 tons, a slight increase.

In December, 2,371 tons of kerosene were produced, and the output continued to increase.

After being put into trial production, the new petroleum refining equipment has been continuously explored, summarized, and improved the production process and methods, and the production capacity has increased rapidly with the naked eye.

The huge increase in production has enabled kerosene, a popular product that is just in demand, to be exported, and it has been quickly sold to the United States and European countries, becoming a new pillar industry for the export of the Tang Kingdom.

The large export of kerosene and lubricating oil products has rapidly led to the development of the barrel industry in the Tang Kingdom, and the strong demand has led to the emergence of dozens or hundreds of new barrel factories and barrel workshops across the country, which has also fully driven the economic development of Seattle and Vancouver, which are widely forested and rich in timber.

Truckloads of empty barrels traveled from the north to the south, filled with kerosene and lubricants at the California refinery, and sold to the United States and other European countries in exchange for large sums of pounds, francs, Spanish gold pesos, marks, guilders, and dollars.

In these countries

There is a strong demand for kerosene, and the more the better.

The aristocratic palace was brightly lit and sang every night, middle-class families could light a few more kerosene lamps, the man had his own quiet moments in the study, the hostess watched the children frolic in the brightly lit living room, and the young master flirted with the maid in another room.

Thousands of pubs in the British Isles don't have to worry about lighting a few more lights, and families at the bottom of the society can also light a lamp at night and have a heartwarming dinner surrounded by warm lights.

And before that

Poor families even have to eat in the dark at night, and the sound of chewing in the dark is far from warm.

Human beings' need for light is a hard need of society, and only a candle to dispel the darkness in the dark night can make people feel peaceful and warm.

Before that

Europeans continue to use soybean oil or olive oil that has a history of thousands of years, in the era of low productivity and no chemical fertilizers, in the era of artificial soybean oil, soybean oil is destined to be expensive.

Families at the bottom of society can't afford to eat soybean or olive oil, let alone use it for lighting.

The birth of kerosene, only 1/3 of the price of soybean oil and 1/7 of the price of olive oil entered the market, which quickly won the recognition of consumers in Europe and the United States, stimulated the consumption enthusiasm of ordinary families, and the sales volume soared like a rocket.

Let's put it this way, how many sell how much.

In just seven months in 1851, the Texaco Oil Company produced more than 10,000 tons (about 70,000 barrels) of kerosene and sold a staggering 1.4 million Tang Yuan (Note; The value is equivalent to US dollars), and the net profit is more than one million Tang Yuan.

On this basis

Texaco Petroleum Co., Ltd. is ready to throw off its arms and make a big move, and has successively ordered 4 sets of improved tower petroleum refining equipment from Chang'an Petroleum Equipment Co., Ltd., and reserves the priority procurement right to add 8 sets of production equipment in the later stage to further expand production capacity.

This year, Texaco Petroleum Company's production target is to produce more than 100,000 tons of kerosene, with a profit of more than 10 million Tang Yuan, and the production capacity and profit will be increased by more than 7 times.

By next year, it will double on the basis of this year, maintain a rapid momentum of growth of 200% ~ 300%, and fully occupy the European and American refining and chemical markets.

In addition to kerosene, the lubricant and gasoline produced by Texaco Petroleum Company have gradually opened up sales and become one of the indispensable bulk products in the social economy.

The industrialized UK is the most important market for lubricants, with an annual demand of more than 4,500 tonnes and a steep demand curve with a market growth rate of more than 200%.

Gasoline was not found to have a market for its application, and was dumped into the sea as waste in its original history, and it was not until the invention of the gasoline engine at the end of the century that gasoline was used on a small scale.

It's different now

As a cheap combustion product, petroleum refineries dump gasoline and diesel on coal, which can be fully stirred to help the coal burn more vigorously and with more firepower.

As an excellent accelerant, the Tang Kingdom developed a gasoline furnace, which was widely used in the burning and reclamation of the western frontier.

As an excellent solvent, gasoline is further used in the production of rubber, paints and greases, broadening the range of use.

In the laboratory of the University of California, the research and development of the gasoline engine, sponsored by Texaco, follows the working principle of the steam turbine, and is progressing step by step.

In Richard's view, the large quantities of gasoline and diesel that are dumped because they are not used are not only polluting the environment, but also wasteful.

Therefore, by supporting the research and development of gasoline and diesel engines and marine steam turbines at the University of California and Los Angeles Institute of Technology, respectively, the industrial development process of this world line will be greatly improved.

As a matter of fact

Nowadays, on the golden migration route across the North Pacific, the old-fashioned steam turbine transport ships used by the Tang Kingdom have been added to the fuel tanks with heavy oil tanks.

Its purpose is to add heavy oil when burning coal, which can make the steam turbine run more efficiently, the power is stronger, and the coal is greatly saved and the cost is saved.

Because heavy oil is so cheap that it is almost free, hundreds of steam ships in the Tang Kingdom have improved and installed heavy oil tanks in shipyards, and used coal to increase oil to burn boilers.

So

It makes heavy oil the second most popular product after kerosene, because it is cheap and large, suitable for medium and large ships, and can greatly save costs.

As a by-product of refining, lubricants are in third place.

The final dross of petroleum refining is petroleum asphalt, a viscous substance that has been used in road construction hundreds of years ago, so it is not wasted.

In California, the first asphalt highway was a 43-kilometer road from a petroleum refinery to a port, which was widely used in road construction because of its flat, durable, high-quality and inexpensive advantages.

According to the Ministry of Transport;

The Tang Kingdom will spend 5~10 years to harden and asphalt the country's main roads, which will greatly enhance the transportation capacity of horse-drawn carriages, with an increase of 50%~80%.

This is invisibly equivalent to the transportation of tens of thousands of horse-drawn carriages, which plays an immeasurable and important role in the overall economic development.

Due to the limitations of the times, the Ministry of Communications has not yet realized the importance of asphalt roads to urban transportation construction, and the cities of the Tang Kingdom are still dominated by stone roads and dirt roads.

Richard also had no intention of reminding him that with the popularization of asphalt roads throughout the country, sooner or later, these people in the Ministry of Transportation would deeply realize that asphalt roads have incomparable advantages over stone roads.

The sparkling rise of Texaco Petroleum has dealt a devastating blow to the fledgling world petrochemical industry, with oil refineries in the United Kingdom, France and the United States closing their doors and bankruptcy, leaving the entire industry in a difficult situation.

Compared with the annual production capacity of less than 100 tons of kerosene refining capacity, the petroleum refining equipment developed by Texaco Petroleum Company of the Tang Kingdom is hundreds of times more efficient, and the corresponding refining cost can be diluted to the minimum.

In this way, it blocks the road to the development of the petroleum refining industry in other countries.

This gap is too far, and it is not a star and a half, how can we compete?

Britain and France didn't care, because they didn't have much oil resources in the first place, and the little oil field produced by the colonies was too expensive to refine themselves, and it was better to import a lot of kerosene.

The United States has discovered a large number of rich oil fields in Texas, but based on the serious backwardness of technology and the high cost of extraction and refining, it has now become a chicken feather, and almost all of them have stopped working.

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