The Rise of the European Emperor

It is not without reason that kerosene lamps can quickly become popular all over the world. In the era when there was no flashlight, horse lanterns, kerosene lamps that were not afraid of wind and rain, were the only lighting tools that could be used around the clock. Of course, if you say you have Ye Mingzhu, then we can't agree...

Not only for underground mining, but also for other fields, horse lanterns are also widely used. For example, the fishermen in the hometown of the previous life that Marin thought of used lanterns to illuminate fishing boats in the middle of the night, and used lights to attract fish.

In fact, after Marin returned to Aurich from Goslar with a lantern, he was entangled by Columbus and Amerigo. The two insisted that the lantern was of great significance to the night navigation of the ship. Therefore, ships must be equipped with a large number of lanterns.

But where can Marin promise them? Because, Marin has too little kerosene in his hand!

He still used the newly refined kerosene from dozens of barrels of oil in Galicia, which was not enough at all. Even if it's just a mine in Goslar, this amount of kerosene is far from enough!

Fortunately, Marin has sent a ship to contact Persia. In the future, if he has hundreds of ships of oil from Baku, he will be able to extract enough kerosene. At least, there is no problem supplying Goslar's mines.

However, the feeling that this energy is in the hands of others is too uncomfortable. After much deliberation, Malin decided to find a way to extract oil by himself.

However, even the oil wells in the Galicia region of Poland are now in other countries, which makes Marin feel very uncomfortable. Even if Poland has a good relationship with Marin now, what about the future? Therefore, it is best to have oil wells in your own territory.

However, for now, Marin has limited information. It's not that he doesn't know a few oil fields, but even if he knows some famous oil fields, so what? Those large oil fields in later generations are often hundreds of kilometers deep. With the level of technology currently mastered by Marin, oil wells with a depth of up to 100 meters can be exploited at most. Because, with the Zhuotong well technology that can be obtained, the excavation depth is only about 130 meters. No matter how deep it is, there is no way.

According to this restriction, the only ones that can be mined at the moment are the pit oil field on Taiwan Island and Titusville in northwest Pennsylvania. The main reason is that in these two oil fields, there are oil seedlings exposed on the ground, which is very convenient to find. This was the case in the early oil fields. Only when the oil seedlings were exposed, would they attract attention and be developed.

As long as the oil seedlings are found, and then the Zhuotsu well technology of Daying County in Sichuan is introduced, the preliminary development can be carried out. I dare not say anything else, the oil developed can barely meet the key lighting needs of the North Sea. As for civilians wanting lighting, forget it, it’s not enough...

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In fact, before that, Ma Lin planned to introduce bamboo from Daying County from Sichuan, plant it extensively on Taiwan Island, and then wait for the bamboo to grow up in a few years, and then introduce experienced craftsmen from Zhuo Tsutsui to mine it in Chusulkeng. oil.

However, plans cannot keep up with changes. Because in order to facilitate the silver mining of Goslar, Marin actually made the fighter in the kerosene lamp-the lantern in advance. As a result, the demand for oil has increased significantly. Even if hundreds of ships of oil can be imported from Persia right now, it is not a long-term solution after all.

So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to write to Kong Tai, asking him to hurry up and immediately start introducing Zhuo Tongjing's well-opening masters. As for the bamboo equipment made of Nanzhu, Marin didn't want to wait any longer, and planned to buy the finished products directly from Daying. Then, it was shipped to Taiwan Island and Titusville in Northwest Pennsylvania for use.

However, Northwest Pennsylvania is not yet under the control of the North Sea State. So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to inform Albert—priority to attack the northwest of Pennsylvania, and take a break in other directions. When they found this legendary area with oil seedlings out of the ground, they began to dig oil wells with Zhuo Tsutsui technology and equipment to produce oil and refine kerosene for use.

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When it comes to extracting kerosene, Marin suddenly thought of a joke-in the late Qing Dynasty, it seemed that some officials of the Qing Dynasty planned to extract kerosene from coal on a large scale in order to produce kerosene themselves, based on the name of kerosene.

However, it cannot be said that this idea is all wrong. Because, from coking coal, a small amount of coal tar can indeed be extracted. And some ingredients in coal tar can indeed be barely used as lamp oil. However, this content is too low, the cost is too high, and there is no economic value.

Of course, this statement is quite cool to use to fool others. If there are really fools who want to "squeeze oil" out of coal like the people of the Qing Dynasty, Marin will definitely die of joy.

In fact, coal tar can indeed be extracted from bituminous coal, and kerosene can be produced. But the problem is that this coal tar is distilled at high temperature, not squeezed like soybean oil. The joke made by the people of the Qing Dynasty was not that they wanted to extract kerosene from coal, but that they wanted to import oil extraction equipment from abroad to extract oil from coal...

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In fact, the introduction of a large amount of oil from Persia can meet certain needs. What Marin is most worried about is not whether he can get enough oil from Persia, but the monitoring of the Portuguese.

The Portuguese regard Persia as the meat in their own bowl and do not allow others to get involved. Therefore, before Marin and the Portuguese reached an agreement, the North Sea country's trade in Persia needs to be supervised by the Portuguese. In this way, the oil trade must be exposed to the sight of the Portuguese.

Although there is an excuse to buy oil to treat livestock skin diseases, it is no problem to buy hundreds of ships of oil. If you buy thousands of ships every year, the Portuguese will be ghosts if they don’t suspect it. Coupled with the appearance of kerosene lamps, it will definitely attract attention in the future. Coupled with the introduction of oil in Persia, after the Portuguese knew about it, they would definitely be able to guess the connection between the two.

It would be fine if the two countries lived in peace, but if the two sides turned their faces, the Portuguese would definitely send a fleet to block the oil trade route. At that time, all the kerosene lamps in Beihai will be caught blind.

Therefore, Marin would rather give up importing oil from the Baku oilfield in Persia and choose to extract oil himself. In this way, there is no danger of leaking secrets and being choked by someone.

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Moreover, in fact, Marin may not have to adopt Zhuo Tongjing's stupid method to dig slowly at the moment. Because, he has a steam engine!

In the 19th century, at the very beginning, people used steam engines to drill wells to obtain oil. After all, there were no internal combustion engines in the mid to early 19th century. The Titusville oil well in Pennsylvania was the first industrial oil well in the world by relying on the steam engine equipment at that time.

Therefore, Marin plans to learn this way and use steam engine equipment to dig oil wells in Titusville. Driven by a steam engine, Marin can completely abandon the original pile-driving drill and change it to a rotary drill, which is the model of the impact drill of later generations.

At that time, Marin can use high-carbon steel to make the roller cone bit commonly used in later generations, that is, three wheel-shaped heads full of steel teeth are stacked together to crush any rock formations that block the drill bit. This kind of steel tooth is somewhat similar to the "wolf tooth" on the outside of a mace. When it is rotated, it is very conducive to drilling through those rock formations, which is better than the original drilling method. Because it is difficult to get through the hard granite layer with a drill.

And at the beginning, maybe this rotary drilling method is not as good as the original drilling like Zhuotong well. However, as long as it accumulates over time and develops gradually, it is only a matter of time before the rotary drill surpasses the sudden drill. By then, there will be a sufficient supply of oil to develop the oil industry...