Valley Emperor

Although the Curry Shipyard is an official enterprise, it is also a joint venture established by the financial institutions subordinate to the Haidong Governor Yamen and the Curry Prefecture Yamen.

If such a shipyard is placed on the eastern seaboard, it must be a behemoth.

However, this is not the eastern coast. This is the westernmost province of the empire. The population of the entire Haidong Province is only a few hundred thousand, and all of them have been newly immigrated over the past few years.

The entire population of Curry State is just over 10,000.

And most of the industrial raw materials and living materials need to be transported from the central and eastern provinces of the empire by rail, resulting in high prices.

In this case, it is actually very difficult for Curry State to develop industry.

Now the only hope in Kurizhou is to engage in the oil industry and shipbuilding industry.

The shipbuilding industry is due to the existence of the West Sea, and the oil industry is naturally due to the existence of Baku, and these two industries can complement each other.

The survey team of Datang Oil Company in Baku has already very optimistically estimated that the oil reserves in the Baku area will be more than that of the Suzhou Oilfield.

If it can be fully developed, it is also possible to extract 300,000 tons of oil a year.

And this is still their preliminary judgment, but there is no judgment when conducting large-scale drilling surveys.

Only the Holy Emperor Li Xuan, who is far away in Jinling, the reserves of Baku oil field far exceed people's imagination. What is 300,000 tons of barrels? After the Russians developed Baku oil in the late 19th century, it took only ten years. That is to increase the annual output to more than one million tons.

The rich reserves of Baku oil, coupled with the characteristics of easy exploitation, even if it is far away from the main consumer market of the empire, that is, the central and eastern regions of the empire, but it still cannot stop Datang Oil Company's exploration of Baku oil and mining.

If all goes well, their first investment is to establish a large-scale oilfield production area with an annual output of about 300,000 tons.

At the same time, supporting refineries will be established in Baku and Curi. The refinery built in Curi is a large oil refinery, naturally to supply kerosene to the vast home provinces of the empire.

The small refineries in Baku, of course, produce kerosene to open up markets in the Ottoman and Safi dynasties.

The export of kerosene is not prohibited by the Datang Empire.

After all, this thing is only used for lighting, and it is not on the list of banned or restricted exports by the Imperial Import and Export Council.

It is a pity that today's Datang Oil Company cannot even satisfy the domestic kerosene market of the empire, and naturally it cannot export.

Over the past few years, Datang Oil Company has successively established more than ten oil production areas in various parts of the empire, with an annual output of 120,000 tons per year.

But one of the Suzhou oilfields has an annual output of 100,000 tons, and the other dozen or so small oilfields together have an output of only 20,000 tons.

If Baku Oil can be successfully put into production, and initially reaches the annual output of 300,000 tons estimated by Datang Oil Company, plus some other small oil fields, the oil output of Datang Oil Company can reach 40 million tons per year. About 50,000 tons.

However, even this data is far from enough to meet the huge demand for oil in the empire.

At present, the oil market of the Datang Empire is very broad. At present, the two major oil products are kerosene and industrial lubricants. According to Datang Petroleum's own estimation, the current domestic provinces of the Empire can consume at least millions of dollars every year. tons of oil.

In fact, at present and even in the next two or three years, Datang Oil Company cannot meet the supply demand for the market.

Otherwise, Datang Oil Company would not make a big effort to engage in Baku Oil.

With the presence of Baku Oil, the development of many industries will be driven accordingly.

For example, the West Sea Shipping, Baku is a very typical enclave. Although the empire has already included this place in the ranks of the mainland, the army is even planning to station a regiment of troops here to protect the oil resources here. To put a sharp knife in the Caucasus.

But this still cannot be changed. The fact that Baku is an enclave, the connection between the rest of the empire and Baku can only be done through the West Sea.

Therefore, the ship is very important.

There are many people who can see this, but not only the West Sea Trading Company, but other businessmen, even the military and officials, etc., but they are not as decisive as the West Sea Trading Company. Just buy it.

They chose the more traditional way, placing orders with shipyards to buy ships.

This has also caused the current embarrassing situation at the Curry Shipyard.

They have many orders, and they have already received more than 20 orders for ships of more than 100 tons. This refers to civilian ships.

In addition, there are a number of oil tankers ordered by Datang Oil Company. Although these oil tankers are not big guys with tens of thousands of tons, they are more than 1,000 tons. In fact, Datang Oil Company originally wanted to build a large number It's a thousand-ton oil tanker, but it's a pity that the Curry Shipyard can't build such a large ship!

In addition, neither Baku nor Curry have such a large wharf and port facilities.

Especially on Curry's side, in fact, this place is not a good port city, because Curry is located in the northeastern part of the West Sea, and the average water depth here is only four to eight meters, which is not suitable for large-tonnage deep-water ships.

It was only because this place was the terminus of the Central Asian Railway and was close to the front of the Ural that it was more important to the empire.

If it is purely a port perspective, this place is not suitable for building a port city.

It's just that the current Datang Empire doesn't have a better choice.

On the coast of the West Sea, generally only the central and southern water depths are relatively deep, and the bays in the northeast are not acceptable. However, although there is a large area in the eastern and southeastern waters of the West Sea, which is also under the control of the empire, there is no railway there.

Not to mention the railway, there are no people, and many places are just a piece of sand...

Therefore, choosing to build a port in Curry, or even a shipyard, is just a helpless choice, not even a long-term choice.

In the future, when the army continues its westward expedition, captures the Ural River, and enters the Volga River, then the empire will be able to have a relatively good port city, such as Astrakhan.

Now, I can only make do with Curry first!

Many of the above factors, especially the shipbuilding capacity of the Curry Shipyard, have also led to the fact that even the oil tanker of Datang Oil Company can only be more than 1,000 tons.

Not only the oil tankers of Datang Oil Company, but other ships, including military ships, are generally small and mostly shallow-drafted.

For example, in the navy, they directly moved the Type A-6 gunboat over, and produced the main spare parts at the shipyard in the east, and then transported it to Curry by rail, and let the Curry shipyard assemble it again.

Basically, the Curry Shipyard is just building a hull, and other things are packaged and sent directly by the navy.

The Type A-6 gunboat was specially designed by the Imperial Navy for inland warfare. The draft was very shallow and could be used in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Now it is more than enough for use in the West Sea.

It's just that the navy is not satisfied with the A-6 type. After all, this thing is only a 200-ton little guy. Although the waters in the northeastern part of the West China Sea are a little shallow, they are still between four and eight meters. Second, it is also possible to build a thousand-ton warship.

No matter how bad it is, we have to build a five or six hundred-ton ship, otherwise, a dignified squadron will use a river gunboat of more than two hundred tons as its flagship, and the navy will not be able to save face.

People in the navy are shameful, so they are already preparing to bring the 500-ton Guanghai-class offshore patrol ships and the larger tonnage Suqian-class shallow-water heavy artillery ships to the West Sea Fleet.

The Guanghai-class offshore patrol ships and the Suqian-class shallow-water heavy artillery ships are all newly designed new-generation warships after the Navy is equipped with rear-mounted guns.

Among them, the Guanghai-class offshore patrol ship is positioned as the flagship of the offshore patrol fleet. It has a displacement of 550 tons and is equipped with a 120 mm rear-mounted naval gun. It has a relatively shallow draft and is flexible and is mainly deployed along the coast. Sea areas and some deep inland rivers.

The Suqian-class shallow-water heavy artillery ship, from the name, knows that it is a warship designed by the Navy to provide heavy fire support for ground combat troops for inland river operations.

With a displacement of 800 tons, its draft is shallower than that of the 500-ton Guanghai-class, and its firepower is stronger. The main gun is a 150mm rear-mounted gun, and even the secondary gun is 120mm.

This thing ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ can be said to be the largest inland warship with the largest tonnage and the most powerful firepower ever designed by the Navy. Well, it is only limited to inland warships.

Get it over and swing to the Volga River, you can basically declare that there is no Tatar in the Volga River Basin.

The Navy attaches great importance to the West Sea Fleet, or the Volga River Basin. At present, it is preparing to equip the West Sea Fleet with four Guanghai-class and six Suqian-class ships. As for ordinary river gunboats and small-tonnage offshore patrol ships, then more.

All in all, the West Sea Fleet is scheduled to have thirty-two combat ships, including various auxiliary ships, I am afraid that the number will exceed a hundred, which is no less than that of the Yangtze River Fleet.

After all, the Yangtze River Fleet has no threat of war, and in addition to the Navy's Yangtze River Fleet, other large ships in the Yangtze River Basin can also enter, and then the Army also has many inland water vessels, as well as many other official law enforcement vessels.

But this side of the West Sea is different. This side is fighting, and it will definitely continue its westward expedition in the future, and the navy will finally give up when it has a chance to gain military exploits.

The construction of the West Sea Fleet is inevitable. The problem now is that these ships are still on paper...

The huge order of dozens of civilian ships and dozens of warships facing the Curry Shipyard could not be completed in time.

In particular, the navy is very urgent, and even the **** of the navy sent marines directly to the Curry shipyard in order to let the Curry shipyard complete their warship orders first. There are only a few docks, so that these docks can only build warships.

And it's time and again to let the Curry shipyard expand the scale of production, otherwise the Navy will want them to look good!

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