Chapter 156 Oil, Oil
Oil, one of the main objects of geological exploration, is a viscous, dark brown liquid known as the "blood of industry". There are oil reserves in parts of the upper crust. The main ingredient is a mixture of various alkanes, naphthenes, and aromatic hydrocarbons. Petroleum, which is mainly used to produce fuel oil and gasoline, is also used to produce many chemical industry products such as solutions, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, it can be said that whoever controls oil controls wealth.
Pearl knew a place that was very likely to have rich oil reserves, and thought that he could escape Xiao Lin's punishment, but he didn't expect that he had just returned to the first town of the starting town (the first town of the Yanhuang Trading Company after the renaming), and was caught by Xiao Lin and cleaned up. Pearl also had no choice, along the way, the wounded soldiers and old people and children of the alliance of the Wolf Warrior tribe seriously slowed down the speed. By the time Pearl returned to Start, Shoren had been back for days.
As soon as Xiao Lin came back, he was ready to find Pearl and arrange for people to transport all the equipment to the waterproof and dustproof warehouse specially set up in the starting town. But after looking for a long time, I couldn't find anyone. Xiao Lin called all the officials he had arranged to assist Pearl in handling government affairs, and scolded him for half an hour. These officials are also aggrieved, after all, they are powerful bosses, and they still have strong enough troops in their hands, and if Pearl wants to go out, they can't stop it if they want to.
Fortunately, Lafayette rescued them before their brains exploded by Xiao Lin's roar. There was no way, my mother said that she agreed to go out of the pearl, and Xiao Lin had no place to send it if there was a fire. Xiao Lin is also worried about the safety of this little wife, and he does not have any power to be offended, or the idea that women cannot interfere in politics. After all, it was said before that Xiao Lin gave all the power to Pearl, and allowed her to lead the troops.
Originally, it was only because I wanted to be lazy, and in order to protect the safety of the starting town, I gave so much. Unexpectedly, it caused a big mistake. As soon as Pearl returned to Starttown, she was caught by a gloomy-looking Shawlin. Apache knew that Shoren was not a woman beater, and he would definitely not do anything to Pearl, and as for those shameful punishments, it was a family matter of his brother-in-law's family, and he couldn't control it. In fact, he is also difficult to protect himself, and next to Xiao Lin, standing is an eagle with a more gloomy face.
Apache is his brother-in-law, and Xiao Lin is not easy to punish, but his old father-in-law, Eagle, has always been on his side. After stepping into the right track from the company, the eagle basically didn't care about anything, carrying cages and birds every day, living in the best bungalows and villas of the whole company, eating the most delicious food, and living a cool little day. And these were all brought by his son-in-law Xiao Lin. Back three years ago, he was still dragging his already overwhelmed body to carry the burden of the entire tribe.
The eagle cherishes his current life very much, and he has been urging Pearl to conceive Xiao Lin's child, so that the position of the eagle's tribal lineage cannot be replaced. Pearl and Shawlin didn't want to have a child early, which already annoyed the eagle. When Pearl set off, he was taking some old fellows into the forest to experience the fun of hunting, so he didn't know. When I came back, I was so angry that I jumped up and down when I heard about it. If something happens to the pearl, or even dies, how long can the Eagle Tribe's current position be maintained.
And Apache, who agreed to Pearl to fight, was remembered by the Eagle. An arm-thick wattle with thorns on it. When Apache saw that his father took out the murder weapon, a thirty-year-old man, he was as frightened as a rabbit, and jumped up and ran. Pearl could only be carried home by Xiao Lin in despair, and first a bloody beating punishment made people blush, and then he was beaten off and turned into rubbing. After being sent to the top of the clouds by Xiao Lin for the seventh time, Pearl signed an unequal treaty, promising not to take risks again, and told the story of the oil, so that he could sleep peacefully.
Shoren has long wanted to find the location of North America's oil deposits. However, all he could get his hands on was the location of the rice oil factory, which had been completely built on it three hundred years later. In 1719, it was impossible to find the exact location on a map. Even if there is no crustal movement for hundreds of years, oil is in the corresponding position. But in 1719, these places were largely deserted. There is no GPS, no street signs, and even all the terrain features that can be referred to have been changed by later people, and it takes too much manpower and material resources to find them.
The company now occupies only a small part of the North American continent and is not in any of the oil-producing areas that will be determined for the future. Those places were either in the hands of the Indians or in the hands of the whites. There are even places where it is still barren and cannot be mined at all. And the Wolf Warrior Tribe, which is very likely to exist, is the only place that Xiao Lin knows of that can occupy and drill for oil extraction under the company's conditions.
Without enough oil resources, it is impossible to build an oil refinery. Fertilizers, pesticides and plastics, which are made from petroleum, can also be found to solve the problem of raw materials. But fuel oil and gasoline, without enough oil can not be produced. Without fuel and gasoline, the company would not be able to enter the era of mobility. Motorcycles, cars, trucks, and even armored vehicles, tanks, and airplanes are powered by a variety of fuels and gasoline.
You can't just have a battery car by yourself, even in 2019, the electric drive technology has just been used in cars, and it still lacks enough stability. It is even more unlikely that it will be the first to be used in the 18th century, and Shawlin does not have this technological power in his hands. This time, Pearl led the troops out and basically crippled the Indian tribes near the Wolf Warrior Tribal Alliance, and it was impossible to threaten anyone. The Spaniards, however, will certainly take advantage of this opportunity to occupy this place in search of their so-called treasures.
With the insight and know-how of the Spaniards of this era, Chaulyn was not worried about finding and extracting oil. It's just that if they don't get the treasure and are beaten out by the company's army, the Spaniards won't give up. Historically, the Spaniards did not finally end their colonial rule in the Americas until their defeat in the Spanish-American War in 1898, which left them in Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.
Chauel was not afraid of the Spanish army, but the more powerful British army and Hessian mercenaries of this era, which he had defeated several times. It's just that, in this sensitive period, offending an old powerhouse again doesn't seem to be of much benefit to the company's development. Xiao Lin thought about it for half the night and decided to leave it alone. For the time being, the company army does not have the need to equip cars and tanks with aircraft. The fuel needed for the motorcycle, after the space-time gate is upgraded, it will not waste too much space by relying on him to cross and carry.
Besides, the oil refinery has not been established, and the drilling platform and oil production platform have not been contacted for the time being, let alone procurement. Even if it occupies that place, there is no more than seven months of equipment procurement, installation and commissioning, plus more than four months of professional worker training time, which is enough for the army to defend for more than a year. With so much time, I don't know how much will happen. The distance is so long, if there is a problem to make up for it, if the combat effectiveness of the army cannot be maintained, the company will lose its troops.
However, he was also extremely reluctant to let Xiao Lin completely abandon this place. It just so happened that the emergence of the Wolf Warrior Tribal Alliance gave Xiao Lin an idea. What Kaniehtítí said at the beginning was good, but in fact, there are still many people in the Wolf Warrior Tribal Alliance who do not understand that the God of War has to be merged into the company, and after this crisis, there are still many old stubborn elders who are "highly respected" in their own clan who retain this idea. Pearls have been seen along the way. Shoren was also told by Pearl.
Rather than having these people who cling to the so-called idea of maintaining tribal inheritance forcibly merge into the company, causing all kinds of conflicts and becoming a destabilizing factor in the company, it is better to arm these people and put them back. As long as there is a company behind it, anyone who wants to occupy that place will not have a good time. When the Spaniards did not discover the so-called treasure, and were annoyed by these people, they would naturally retreat.
At that time, Xiaolin equipment was also bought in place, and the workers were trained. Perhaps, the company's strength has expanded to a stronger point, and the number of troops will become larger, and there will be no problem in sending a few thousand men to hold there. The next day, Xiao Lin began to secretly count the number of these people. In total, there are still 4,000 people, and there are not a few fighters. However, many of them are men who are almost old and have not yet reached adulthood, and it is not a problem to train to form a guerrilla unit.
Naturally, the other 5,000 people, under the leadership of the god of war, began to register with the company's Ministry of Civil Affairs and officially joined the company. 5,000 people is not much, but it is also one-twentieth of the company's 100,000 people. There is another craft in the Wolf Warrior Tribal Alliance that is about to be lost, and that is wolf taming. The warriors of the Wolf Warrior tribe used to have their own wolf companions. Proficient in wolf training, they can tame unruly wolves into loyal warriors.
It's just that, with the massive landing of whites, the wild wolves were either hunted or driven away. Coupled with the blockade and targeting of the surrounding hostile forces, the Wolf Warrior Tribe has not obtained enough wild wolves for decades. Even if you get one or two occasionally, you can't breed as a breeding wolf. Xiao Lin deliberately looked at their beast taming method, which was actually very similar to the technique of domesticating war mastiffs he had seen. In this era, whether it is a dog or a wolf, it is more effective than a human in many cases.
Not to mention anything else, it is the help to solve the case, which is not something that Xiao Lin can ignore. Xiao Lin gave the people of the Wolf Warrior Tribe a task, combined with the police dog training technology he brought before, to sort out a complete war dog or wolf warrior training technology.