The first well in Taiwan during the Xianfeng period, the "pit master" of the Ming Dynasty only dug down to a depth of more than 3 meters before oil began to come out, with a daily output of 40 kilograms.

Although the specific location of that well has long been lost in the long river of history, and it may not be the well at the feet of Pan Mingzhong and the others, it does not matter: it is in the same oil-producing belt, and there is already oil sand seeping out of the ground.

It is possible to dig out oil.

Facts have proved that 3 meters is the critical point of the oil layer pressure: more than two hours later, as an exploration team member shouted in surprise from the bottom of the pit, everyone rushed to the edge of the pit to take a look, and saw a black fist-sized

Liquid is pouring out from the bottom of the pit.

From the very beginning when Tangzhuang made the decision to today when the black gold was unearthed, it took the time-travelers a full year and a month to finally make their dream come true.

When Ning Wei looked over and saw this scene, he hurriedly threw down several canvas folding buckets: "It's full. Pull it up when it's full."

Pan Mingzhong, who was leaning on his knees with both hands and looking down with his butt sticking out, couldn't stop smiling at this moment and burst out laughing.

The indigenous people don't understand why outsiders laugh. In their opinion, black oil is not a good thing. This kind of pit with black water will seep out from different places every few years, and sometimes

It gathers into a small oil pit, has a bad smell, and keeps animals and plants away from this place. Usually the indigenous people walk around this place: they always think it is an ominous thing.

But today was different. Today, the dense forest was filled with the cheerful shouts of outsiders. The indigenous people first looked at them in confusion as they filled a dozen cloth buckets with sticky oil, and then these people started doing strange things.

Worshiping ceremony: group photo.

As a result, the historic scene of a group of naked birds, primitive people carrying spears and exploration team members surrounding the black oil pit was frozen in the photo after a few "clicks".

The group must break up after taking photos, just like graduation photos.

However, when Pan Mingzhong saw Ning Wei commanding everyone to pack up and leave quickly, he was still a little confused: "Let's go now."

"Ah, otherwise, stay here for the night."

"What I mean is that there should be no more exploration, laboratory testing and so on. It feels a bit hasty."

"Bullshit, the samples are already there and the coordinates are recorded. What else is there to explore? It's business to go home as soon as possible. Look at this damn place. You can't see the sun above and you can't see the foot of the mountain below. You can't stay too long. It's murderous."

"Then what's the next step to get the equipment to drill and produce oil?"

"Pfft", Ning Wei finally burst out laughing.

While directing the team members and the natives to carry the oil barrels down the mountain, Ning Wei preached to Pan Mingzhong: "Don't do anything next, call the contractor first."

"Contractor"

"Well, come on, any of Chen Dong's infrastructure construction guys." After Ning Wei said this, he turned to Pan Mingzhong and said seriously: "If you want to be rich, you must first build roads, don't you understand? If you want to extract oil, you must also build roads first, and the rest

Don’t even think about it.”

"I'll go." Pan Mingzhong was a little depressed when he heard this: "It's almost 18 kilometers away from the camp in a straight line. If we build the road, we will probably have to go around a little longer, which is troublesome enough."

"Didn't you read the information before coming here? Back then, the Japanese also built stone roads, and then relied on cable cars and ropeways to transport oil down the mountain." Ning Wei sighed at this point: "We are not as good as the Japanese. I guess in the early stage

Build a short road, and then you have to carry it on your shoulders."

“Can’t we install a pipeline to transport oil directly down the mountain?”

After Ning Wei heard such an idiotic statement, he was forced to roll his eyes and then stretched out a finger: "First, look at the people in the kiln area who are working on water valves. They seem to be able to produce oil pipelines and pressure valves.

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"Secondly, if we want to launch an oil pipeline in Malaysia, then the annual output of the oil field must be at least 10,000 tons. Don't you think it's a bit difficult to install a pipeline for our 100-ton nano-oil field?"

When Ning Wei said this, he pinched the tip of his little finger with his thumb and made a "little shrimp" gesture.

"I understand, I understand, this is just a primitive workshop and cannot be put on the stage." Pan Mingzhong understood now.

"In fact, the Japanese also built pipelines in the later period, but at that time the well depth was less than 500 meters, and the annual output was over 10,000 tons."

When Ning Wei said this, he showed a sighing expression on his face: "We don't have to work so hard, because the whole world is in our hands. As long as our oil consumption can reach 1,000 tons, then we can drive an armored ship to Borneo to dig

If high-quality light oil is not good, who would bother digging for oil here? It’s too inefficient.”

"It seems to make sense."

"So, you don't need to set up a big stall here, just survive for two years and it's done. When the army comes later, I will drill a few more 100-meter wells, and the output will be enough for the gang in the kiln area."

"What you said made me lose my passion."

"What kind of passion do you need for a prospector?"

"Then none of you who work in oil have any passion."

"Nonsense, if you have passion, you must ejaculate. Look at the well today. Does it look like it's ejaculating at all?"

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Accompanied by the chatter between the two, the cheerful "Tuyang Joint Mine Exploration Team" began to return home. The radio waves emitted from the Yuandou shortly after quickly attracted the attention of the officials, even under the clouds of war.

During the preparations for the war, the news of the discovery of oil still hit most of the people across the world, so the Grand Office immediately dispatched a second reinforcement ship.

This time, not only the infrastructure workers came with the ship, but also a key figure: the contractor. As an authority in infrastructure construction, a certain guy wearing gold-rimmed glasses came to Miasu in person two days later: Feng Guanjie.

Feng Guanjie's arrival directly caused a change in Miaosu's existing structure: Pan Mingzhong and Lei Jian, including their exploration team members and the Yuandou, retired after their achievements and returned today to have other appointments.

As soon as Feng Guanjie landed, he served as the mayor of the oil field town, and Ning Wei, the deputy commander-in-chief of the external oilfield construction headquarters, was the commander-in-chief.

Things soon got on track with Feng Guanjie's arrival. The day after he arrived in Miasu, 150 construction workers began to expand the camp. After the camp expansion is completed, these people will join those who have reached an agreement

Together with the indigenous people in the agreement, they cut down the forest and built a dirt road leading directly to the oil well according to the drawings given by Feng Guanjie after field exploration.

Ning Wei, who had nothing to do for the time being, became the security captain.

His daily task now is to lead 50 soldiers to patrol and resolve disputes. More and more boats on the Long River have attracted indigenous people from other nearby villages. Ning Wei now not only has to stop the soldiers from the Shetou Garden Society in the local area and the

The other party is also responsible for arranging transactions and negotiating with the new indigenous people on labor issues.

After Feng Guanjie secured the temporary camps and dirt roads, he quickly planned out the oil production town. The location of the design was very clear, and it overlapped with the town on later maps.

In order to facilitate the parking of the ship, the Yuandou chose a small bay in the south. In fact, it was not the best place to set up camp: there is a tributary on the hilltop in the direction of the oil well that merges into Houlong River. This stream

The river mouth area where it meets Houlong River is the most suitable place for civil construction.

Of course, this small estuary plain in the 17th century is still under the control of dense vegetation, continuous puddles, and terrifying legions of leeches and mosquitoes: this is why some people dare not park their boats there.

The oil town that appeared on the map in later generations required lives to develop in the 17th century.

"Come 200 cannon fodder first." After on-the-spot exploration of the small river mouth plain with an area of ​​less than 100 acres, Feng Guanjie sent a telegram to the senior officials in a concise and concise manner. As his words fell, it was rare that the senior officials who were extremely eager for oil did not respond.

Instead of bargaining, he sent 200 extremely precious cannon fodder Javanese without hesitation.

As soon as these 200 slaves arrived at Miaosu, they were stationed in the most dangerous estuary area to clean up vegetation, puddles, leeches and mosquitoes there.

In fact, the working environment faced by these slaves at the moment is already quite good. Because two days before their arrival, a rumbling sand boat had already parked at the mouth of the river. And the vegetation on this small plain was covered by some

Men in full-body hazmat suits bulldozed it with chainsaws and shovels.

Therefore, what the slaves have to do now is to burn them first. When a large number of plants are ignited, the slaves will take advantage of the mosquitoes being fumigated to quickly fill up all the puddles and raise the foundation: it is the rainy season.

, the future town will need to raise its foundation a little higher.

Thus the arduous pioneering work began.

These 200 slaves will soon be exhausted in the cruel environment. After clearing the small plain at the mouth of the river, they will continue to clean up the river banks upstream and downstream to eliminate all mosquitoes and leeches. This work will continue until they are all dead.

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So, to be honest, the big office really spent a lot of money on this oil field development: 200 Javanese slaves who could not survive more than half a year were priced at 50,000 taels of silver, which was really not cheap.

As for the origins of these new slaves

Let us rewind time to the second day when the Yuandou set off to Miasu to search for oil.

In fact, in the evening after the Yuandou departed, the screen of the radar station installed at the southeast corner of the Da Yuan Commercial Building showed a fleet coming from the southwest.

Since someone who can travel through space is unwilling to take too many risks, the radars currently used by the time-traveling forces are all civilian versions. As a result, the detection range will naturally be very different from the military version: less than 100 kilometers.

Fortunately, this is the 17th century, and a 100-kilometer warning range is sufficient.

So when the officials learned that a fleet of no less than 15 ships was coming from the south, they immediately sent two destroyers that were resting to go to sea to find out.

The news was quickly sent back via telegraph. The flag of the opposing fleet was the Dutch flag.

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