Valley Emperor

Zuo Chengsheng was completely unaware of the situation in front of him.

They are here to do business, so how can they do business after the war.

The navy has bombarded the port. Will the Ottomans still do business with them?

If no one accepts your own goods, wouldn't it be a big loss!

An old businessman next to him saw Zuo Chengsheng like this, and kindly explained to him: "Brother Zuo is doing business with the natives for the first time, don't worry, it's alright!"

"I've seen this kind of thing a lot. I think that when I went to Nanyang, I didn't bombard the port of the natives. Most of those natives were cheap. If they didn't bombard their ports in advance, they didn't know what business was!"

A middle-aged man next to him interjected: "Chen Lao, you have run to Nanyang before, I used to run to Nanyang, brother, you are right, those natives in Nanyang are shameless, and I will buy them for a while. Spices, only half a boat of spices, those natives still want money, what a joke, when I, Hu Laoliu, went to Nanyang to buy goods from the natives and gave me money!"

"In the end, it took a lot of cannonballs to let them know the rules!"

After that, he suddenly sighed and said, "Unfortunately, there are not many natives in Nanyang to do business after that!"

Zuo Chengsheng was speechless after hearing this. According to the way you do business, I am afraid that all the natives are dead, and you are still doing a **** business.

Moreover, the empire has been developed in the South China Sea for many years. Most of the important islands, such as Luzon Island, Mindanao Island, Dongdan, Xidan and a Malacca Peninsula, are basically localized, even if they are not completely completed. Seven, seven, eight, eight, where did the natives do business with you?

Chen Lao was also interested in chatting at this time, so he turned his head and asked, "I didn't expect Boss Xu, you used to do business in Nanyang!"

Boss Xu sighed: "That's all in the past. Later, when I was running to India, I encountered a storm on the road and the ship sank. I managed to swim to the shore myself. I was rescued by passing ships, but it was only money. I’ve lost everything, and I haven’t gotten up after being proud for many years, so now I can only go to Curry to see if I can make a comeback!”

Hearing this, Zuo Chengsheng couldn't help but sigh that Shang Hai was ruthless!

Their Zuo family was not very beautiful before, and their family was considered a veteran gentry in Chang'an. When the country was newly established, one of his cousins ​​also used to be an official. Although he said he didn't achieve a high position, he retired. .

Later, the country carried out land reforms, unified agricultural tax, and the use of rent-to-purchase orders and the issuance of farmland orders directly led to a significant drop in land income, and the subsequent agricultural tax tiered tax rate hit the big landlord class hard.

In the past, the very smart landlords who could live on hundreds of thousands of acres of land also changed their investments one after another. They raised funds to enter industry and commerce by selling land or other methods.

Their Zuojia also sold a lot of land in this wave, and then entered the industry and commerce, and reached its peak a few years ago, owning a textile factory and other parts of the industry.

It is a pity that the good times did not last long, and the poor management of the factory directly led to the dilapidation of the family.

Their Zuo family is like this, and the middle-aged man in front of them is probably the same.

And in the early years, this middle-aged man, Boss Xu, was probably a wealthy businessman before.

None of the people who were able to go to the South China Sea to do business in the early years had a simple role, because in the early years, the empire was established, the naval strength was average, there were many pirates in the South China Sea, and the Portuguese were still in the South China Sea at that time.

The ships that sailed to the South China Sea were all armed merchant ships, and at that time, the risks were high and the benefits were high.

Unlike now, the entire Nanyang has become the back garden of the Tang Dynasty. Although there are still many natives in the area, it does not hurt. Now doing trade in Nanyang, as long as you don’t foolishly go to the islands controlled by the natives, and land deep. In the mainland, there is basically no need for any armed merchant ships.

Moreover, with the development of ship technology, the risk of navigation has been rapidly reduced, so the ships running the South China Sea route are actually not many armed merchant ships of overseas trading companies in the traditional sense, but have become ships of shipping companies.

Those who were able to run the Nanyang trade in those days were not simple characters!

It's a pity that this Boss Xu seems to be unlucky. The ship encountered a storm while running the Indian route, and everything will be rested when the ship sinks.

Now, he has gone to the West Sea to try to make a comeback, but he doesn't know if he will succeed.

His situation was very similar to his own.

But, can they succeed in the West Sea trade?

Zuo Chengsheng doesn't know yet.

However, the two businessmen, Boss Xu and Chen Lao, were very confident. They said that these natives are cheap bones. Let the navy shell them for a while, so that they can do business honestly.

These businessmen, naturally, do not know the official plan.

Officials don't care about a little trade at all, they care more about directly controlling this important city on the coast of the West Sea, and then controlling the oil resources here.

And as the Datang Oil Company behind all of this, there are naturally people present on occasions like today. Of course, it is impossible for them to appear in the official team aboveboard.

There is only a small team of seven or eight people from Datang Oil Company here, and their main task is not to intervene in official affairs, but to prepare for a more detailed survey of this place in the future, so as to make plans for the company's subsequent oil exploration in this place.

Zhu Tongen, who led this small team, was a strong man in his thirties. He was the captain of one of the many oil exploration teams under Datang Petroleum Corporation.

In fact, this is not the first time he has come to Baku. Not long after Datang took Curry six months ago, he came to Baku by boat and made a simple survey of local oil resources.

And found in the local easily exploitable and abundant oil resources, and finally reported to the head office.

Later, only then did Datang Oil Company promote the pursuit of the occupation of Baku through upper-level official relations.

But even Zhu Tongen didn't know that the matter was actually reported all the way to the desk of the Son of Heaven. After all, after the oil and the Ottomans were combined, the people below did not dare to make decisions without authorization.

The importance of oil, Son of Heaven has affirmed it many times, even if the kerosene produced by Datang Oil Company can only be used as a lighting raw material, even if Datang Oil is still losing money.

Oil is not yet a lucrative commodity!

However, many high-level people have already received some gossip. The Royal Institute of Technology has already extracted many products from oil, and kerosene is just one of them.

And many of them have very magical characteristics, and many professors from the Royal Institute of Technology have already joined the research on petroleum.

Of course, the findings in these laboratories can only tell people that many products of petroleum have great utilization value, but how to use it, especially how to carry out large-scale refining and production, and apply it to the industry, this is still nothing. breakthrough.

The attention of officials is not because of the role of oil, but purely because of the attention of the Son of Heaven.

What’s good for the top, what’s good for the bottom, the Son of Heaven has paid so much attention to oil, and they naturally need to follow the steps of the Son of Heaven and pay attention to oil.

Although the vast majority of officials who attach importance to oil do not even know what oil looks like or what it is useful for.

The Son of Heaven attaches great importance to it, and the Royal Institute of Technology has published several professional papers showing that petroleum has great industrial value, so even if you don't know what it is useful for.

But officials also take oil seriously.

And more importantly, after years of investigation by Datang Oil Company, it was tragically discovered that there were not too many oil resources found in the mainland mainland provinces of the empire, at most only a few small oil fields, even Suzhou The size of the oil field is not really that big.

When Datang Oil Company developed the Suzhou Oilfield many years ago, it used to be optimistic that as long as the oil wells continued to be drilled, there would definitely be more and more oil, but it turned out that the Suzhou Oilfield was just that big~www.wuxiaspot.com ~Production is very limited.

Up to now, the second phase of the refinery plan in Suzhou has slowed down.

No oil fields have been found in the home province, and Datang Petroleum has naturally set its sights overseas. Overseas exploration and exploitation of oil is actually very troublesome for the current Datang.

Not to mention the trouble of surveying. Finding oil is not that simple. Today, when Datang Petroleum is looking for oil, it is often based on existing clues to find oil springs.

Drilling surveys are then carried out and oil reserves are estimated, among other things.

But there is no way to estimate it by relying on a large amount of scientific data like the later generations.

Finding oil overseas in unfamiliar places is troublesome, and so is shipping it.

Transportation requires costs, especially oil, which is a bulk consumable. The quantity is not enough for hundreds or thousands of tons, but tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of tons.

This will result in expensive transportation costs, and the expensive transportation costs will drive up the price of oil, making it unusable for ordinary people.

And the goods that can't be used have no value!

In addition, there is a more important point, and that is the mining problem.

As far as mining is concerned, surveying and transportation are less of a problem.

Because oil extraction requires a lot of machinery and equipment, if oil is discovered in a native province such as Beihai Province, then it is naturally very simple, and the equipment can be directly transported to the mining area.

But if oil is discovered in provinces such as Luzon and Banten that have not yet completed localization, then even the extraction will not be possible!

Because the Import and Export Council prohibits the export of any machinery and equipment to these overseas territories that have not completed localization.

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