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The West Sea Trading Company accepted by Zuo Chengsheng was actually incomplete. First of all, the two ships were gone.

Then most of the employees were gone, because these employees were subordinates of other shareholders, and they ran after the shareholders ran away.

As for the cash on the books, it's actually not much. These shareholders are also guarding against others. Not to mention a month, in fact, they pay dividends every half month.

Therefore, the accounts of the West Sea Trading Company are now empty.

The shares that Zuo Chengsheng purchased directly were actually an empty shell, so it didn't cost much.

But even if it is an empty shell, the current West Sea Trading Company is entirely his Zuo Chengsheng trading company.

However, even though it was his own company, it was not easy to get this empty shell to operate again.

The first is the transportation problem, because before he bought the West Sea Trading Company, all the two ships had been sold, and now the new West Sea Trading Company has no cargo ships.

So he still had to find a ship, but this time he didn't buy the ship directly, but directly cooperated with the West Sea Shipping Company.

The governor of Haidong Province has invested in the establishment of the West Sea Shipping Company three months ago. This shipping company has an official background, has ships and people, and the freight is not expensive, so Zuo Chengsheng found them to cooperate.

In fact, the two ships of the West Sea Trading Company were sold to this shipping company.

The main route operated by this shipping company today, that is, the route from Curry to Baku, occasionally goes to several small ports in the Safi dynasty. Their main business is to transport various materials for the Datang Royal Oil Company. It is to transport materials to various traders.

After finalizing the transportation contract, Zuo Chengsheng was busy with the continuous purchase channel again.

As for the sales channels, there is no need to worry about this, because Zuo Chengsheng was in charge of the Baku branch before, and he established the sales channels of the West Sea Trading Company in the Baku area.

Whether it's the Ottomans or the Datang Royal Oil Company, Zuo Chengsheng can eat it all.

What is lacking now is just the supply.

However, it is easy to buy goods. There are many factories these days, and the goods he buys are ordinary goods, not special goods. As long as you have money on hand, you don’t have to find them yourself. can come to the door.

Zuo Chengsheng stayed directly in Kuli, and did not even return to the central province, he had already initially connected the source of goods.

It's just that passively waiting for the source of contact, the price is not low, it is always cheaper to go directly to the central provinces to buy directly.

As for the goods in the eastern provinces, they are more complete and cheaper, but the freight is also more expensive. It is better to buy directly in Shaanxi and other provinces.

After initially stabilizing the purchase channel and solving the transportation problem, his West Sea Trading Company can be considered to be back on the regular.

Although it was said that with the departure of shareholders, the business volume was inevitably affected. There were only 60 to 70% left. At the same time, a large number of people were taken away. He had to temporarily recruit many employees, but it was stable.

This made Zuo Chengsheng heave a sigh of relief.

Even if there are only six or seven layers of business left, the profit is not high, but the victory is stability.

The most important thing is that all the money will be owned by him in the future, and no other shareholders will share it with him!

After all, it's even more than what you've earned before!

After the West Sea Trading Company stabilized, he did not lie still, but continued to look for expansion plans!

Although he had previously opposed directly entering the Ottoman and other indigenous control areas to do business, and also opposed the seemingly promising textile industry, it did not mean that he did not want to expand his business.

It's just that he felt that they, a trading company based in the West Sea, moved their headquarters to Shanghai to engage in Indian trade and factories, and they were purely mentally ill.

In the West Sea, we must make full use of local resources.

For example, the oil in Baku, in his opinion, is very interesting!

As the kerosene produced by Royal Petroleum Company is sold to various places, it occupies a large market share of traditional lighting oils such as whale oil, candle oil and vegetable oil.

And crucially, because the price of kerosene is cheap and affordable to ordinary people, it has indirectly opened up many lighting markets that did not exist before.

Many people are very optimistic that according to the current market conditions, even millions of tons of oil can be easily consumed a year.

However, the current annual output of Datang Royal Oil Company is only 200,000 to 300,000 tons, which is far from meeting the huge market demand.

It's an open secret that oil makes money.

But oil is not something that ordinary people can do.

Because this industry has been officially included in the national defense and people's livelihood industry, it also means that the government will directly intervene and restrict it by means of licenses.

Just like the weapons industry.

In theory, private enterprises can also apply for corresponding licenses and then set foot in the ordnance industry, but now they will not be approved even if they apply.

The same is true for the oil industry. Currently, Datang Royal Oil Company is the only oil company that has obtained licenses for oil exploration, extraction and refining.

In other words, they are the only ones in the Empire who can survey and extract oil.

Even refining, only they can refine it.

Without the relevant licenses, other companies simply cannot enter the oil industry.

According to the government's strict management and control situation, even if new oil companies appear in the future, it is estimated that they will be enterprises with official capital, not private capital.

And this is indeed the case. With the capture of Baku, the Royal Oil Company estimates that oil production will be greatly increased, and may even exceed the million-ton mark in the next few years.

The huge profits, and the fact that this industry is related to people's livelihood, naturally the government will not sit back and let the Royal Assets Section do it by itself.

The Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises is already promoting the establishment of an oil company wholly-owned by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to compete with Royal Petroleum, and at the same time to avoid Royal Petroleum's dominance.

Zuo Chengsheng didn't know the layout of these upper layers, nor could he interfere.

He thinks that the oil here in Baku has a head start, and it doesn't mean that he is planning to survey and extract oil. He doesn't have this license at all, and now the oil exploration and extraction rights in the Baku area are all owned by the Royal Oil Company and Haidong Province. The official joint venture of the Baku Oil Company.

He doesn't want to explore and mine.

Refining is not good either. This thing needs to improve the technology. The investment in the refinery is too high, and there is no crude oil. The most important thing is that he still does not have the corresponding license.

What he wants to do is still his old business, that is, trade!

Although it is said that the kerosene of the Royal Petroleum Company is now sold locally, no one has said that it is not allowed to buy Ottomans.

He dined with a few managers at Royal Oil and asked if they had any plans to sell kerosene to the Ottoman region.

And that is exactly what Royal Oil had in mind.

They originally planned to export kerosene to the Ottoman region and the Safi region. For this reason, they have already started the construction of a small oil refinery in Baku. The production capacity is only about 20,000 tons.

It's just that the refinery has not been completed before, and most of the crude oil produced in Baku is still being transported to the Kuri refinery for refining, and then transported by rail to other provinces for sale.

However, opening up the Ottoman and Safi markets is their stated goal!

Especially with their oil exploration in Baku, they found that the oil reserves here are beyond imagination. If it is fully developed, it is possible to produce millions of tons per year. This is even more so. .

After all, the oil production in the future is getting bigger and bigger. Although the local market is big enough, no one will dislike the small market.

It would also be a good thing to be able to sell kerosene from the West Sea to the Ottoman and Safi regions.

Even if the output is not high now~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the market cannot be too large, but after slowly cultivating the market for a few years, their output will keep up, and it will just happen to distribute goods on a large scale to seize the lighting oil market.

Zuo Chengsheng has mature sales channels on the Ottoman side, and Royal Oil Company wants to cultivate the market, and the two sides hit it off.

Immediately, Zuo Chengsheng signed a relevant sales agency agreement with Royal Petroleum Corporation.

Looking at this agency agreement, Zuo Chengsheng was very happy!

This is the kerosene sales agency for the entire Ottoman Empire.

Of course, this agency is also limited. For example, it needs to achieve a certain sales volume in the past few years. However, considering that the current production capacity of Datang Royal Oil Company is limited, it is impossible to supply too much kerosene to the Ottoman Empire, so Just limited to a relatively small number.

However, the sales price of the Royal Oil Company is set, and this price is not cheap. It is near the edge of Baku, but the supply price of the Royal Oil Company is the same as that of other parts of the Empire. The supply price is about the same.

How to put it, their kerosene is already in short supply, it is impossible to say that it is expensive to buy it in the country, but it is cheaper to buy it in Ottoman.

However, Zuo Chengsheng is confident, so the purchase price is as high as other places, but the key is that he is directly shipped to the Ottoman Empire for sales!

If it is transported to Ottoman for sale, even if the transportation cost is higher, the final retail price of kerosene will still be lower than that of vegetable oil and animal oil, and it is much lower.

There must be money to be earned, and as for how much he can earn, it is up to him.

The Royal Oil Company has already revealed to him that as long as he can open up the market in the Ottoman region and the momentum is good, then the market in the Safi region will also be handed over to him.