industrial overlord

Chapter 382 Ignition Ceremony
In the following days, Lin Zhenhua, Li Hui, Chen Tian, ​​Lao Dao and others formed a goodwill delegation and launched shuttle diplomacy.Accompanied by Ori and Vahir, they visited more than a dozen surrounding tribes, talked about friendship with the leaders of these tribes, and met to form a cooperative alliance.

Of course, making people willing to form an alliance with you is not something that can be achieved by just saying some pretty words.What Lin Zhenhua relies on is the economic strength of Hanhua Heavy Industry and the ability to provide equipment.These tribes in southern Sudan are very backward economically, completely in an agricultural society.Lin Zhenhua promised to provide them with industrial equipment and help them establish fertilizer factories, machinery factories, etc., which solved their urgent needs and made them come here convinced.

Under Chen Tian's initiative, these allied tribes formed a joint armed force, with Chinese personnel responsible for helping with training.Those veterans brought by Lin Zhenhua have transformed into military advisors, enjoying the treatment of being saluted wherever they go.

The military literacy of the veterans really impressed the tribal militiamen.Ori once let his militiamen fight against Chinese veterans, and they were all brought down within three strokes without exception.Ori also personally went to see the field fortifications built by the veterans outside the Woheni tribe. Han Zhiyong personally explained to him what ring fortifications are, what is called backward firing points, and what is called forward firing points. Got to get dizzy.

Li Hui was very happy with Lin Zhenhua's promise to build a hospital in the tribal area, but was very angry that he sent people to help train the tribal militia.In her view, Lin Zhenhua's move is all about cultivating his own agents locally and participating in regional hegemony, which is no different from the behavior of Western countries.

In front of the Africans, Li Hui did not contradict Lin Zhenhua, but in private, Li Hui questioned Lin Zhenhua Xingshi and asked him why he wanted to establish an armed force locally.

Lin Zhenhua chuckled and said, "Sister Li, you should remember a saying, that is, without the people's arms, there is no people's everything. Do you think this sentence is correct?"

This sentence is very familiar to Li Hui. As a former soldier, she also believes in this sentence very much.When Lin Zhenhua asked such a question, Li Hui was a little stunned. She hesitated for a while before answering: "But, this is about our domestic affairs and cannot be used in international affairs."

Lin Zhenhua said: "Sister Li, look, after the completion of the Siya Oil Refinery, the lives of the local people will be greatly improved, and this will inevitably lead to the peeping of some people with ulterior motives. If they don't have a strong armed force, How can you protect the fruits of your labor?"

"Who would spy on them?" Li Hui didn't understand.

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "Chairman Mao said that imperialism will never die. Seeing that the people of southern Sudan are living a happy life, won't international imperialism interfere in destroying it?"

"I really don't understand what you guys want to do." Li Hui couldn't reason with Lin Zhenhua, so he could only ask to himself: "What kind of director is your director Chen? ?”

Lin Zhenhua felt like he was sweating profusely. Chen Tian was working on the secret front, so wasn't he just a little ulterior motive?Li Hui is indeed poisonous enough to see people.However, he couldn't explain this to Li Hui, so he could only promise: "Sister Li, don't worry, what we have done must stand the test of history."

"If you do anything wrong here, I won't let you go." Li Hui threatened viciously.

After more than ten days of busy work like this, it finally ushered in the day when the Siya Oil Refinery was ignited and put into operation.

On this day, lights and festoons were decorated inside and outside the oil refinery, and black people from various tribes gathered outside the designated safety zone, singing and dancing, and joyfully waiting for this exciting moment.

Although the Siya Refinery is only a small refinery with an annual output of 50 tons, it is still extremely spectacular after it is built.The factory area covers an area of ​​more than 2000 acres, with various process pipelines as long as more than 100 kilometers. Various large-scale containers such as desalination tanks, heating furnaces, primary distillation towers, atmospheric towers, stripping towers, and vacuum towers are densely packed. Crude oil tanks, finished products Oil tanks and so on are dotted around.In addition to these production equipment, there are office buildings, dormitory buildings, parking lots, sewage treatment plants, hospitals and other facilities in the factory area, which looks like an industrial city.

The technicians and workers sent by Hanhua Heavy Industry have conducted a joint test run on various equipment in advance to confirm that the equipment is installed in good condition and has the conditions for ignition and production.

At 10:[-] in the morning, Birm, the chief of the Siya tribe, and Zhu Tiejun, a representative sent by Hanhua Heavy Industry, cut off the red ribbon in front of the atmospheric and vacuum heating furnace, announcing the official start of the ignition ceremony.

The workers in the workshop began to operate step by step. They pressed the button to start the heating furnace.Fuel is injected from the nozzle and burns in the furnace.Subsequently, the crude oil passes through the oil pipeline and enters the tube in the heating furnace, where it is heated into high-temperature oil, and then transported to distillation, catalytic cracking and other devices, where it is decomposed into diesel, gasoline and kerosene.The workers who are responsible for the operation here are all experienced petrochemical machinery workers in the past, and they are now the backbone talents of Hanhua Heavy Industry.

Industry Minister Vahir has been waiting anxiously outside the stripping workshop. When the news came out in the workshop that the first batch of gasoline had been successfully refined, he rushed into the workshop and asked workers to load a barrel for him. The gasoline that had just been refined, and then carrying the oil barrel, ran out in stride, beyond the safety line.He raised the oil barrel high and announced loudly to the onlookers: "Look, this is our own gasoline! We have our own gasoline!"

Several subordinates pushed a car with an empty gas tank to Wahir's side, and then filled the car with the gasoline in Wahir's hand.Vahir got into the cab himself, turned the key, and the car's ignition rang cheerfully.

"Success!"

"It's our own gasoline!"

"We've got gas!"

The onlookers reveled, and Vahir drove the car and walked slowly around the factory area. The black people who came to watch the ignition ceremony ran with the car powered by the Siya tribe's own gasoline, running back and forth. Shouting various slogans loudly, the factory area suddenly became a sea of ​​joy.

In addition to those who just watched the excitement, there was another special group of people who participated in the ceremony, that is, representatives of oil companies from various places in South Sudan and several surrounding countries.

In the past, the gasoline and diesel oil in Central African countries all came from other places, and some were even transported across the ocean from the United States, Europe and other places.Due to the high transportation costs and the price increases by middlemen, the price of local refined oil products has remained high. In these countries with a per capita GDP of only [-] to [-] US dollars, the price of gasoline is twice as high as that of the United States with a per capita GDP of [-] US dollars. many.

Today, the Siya Oil Refinery is put into operation, using locally produced oil, which is low in cost and convenient in transportation. Who wants to sign a supply agreement with the Siya Oil Refinery first.

For the representatives of these oil companies, Vasil has already made arrangements.He explained that the person specifically took out samples of gasoline and diesel oil and handed them over to various oil product companies for testing.After the technicians of the oil product company inspected it with their own equipment, they agreed that all the indicators of the oil products refined by the Siya Oil Refinery were qualified and reached the level of imported oil products.

As a result, everyone no longer had doubts, and flocked to the signing room prepared in advance by Vasir, and began to order various oil products, and checks flew to the finance of Siya Oil Refinery like snowflakes.Afterwards, according to Vasir's statistics, in just half a day, Siya Oil Refinery received an order of 7000 million US dollars, and the advance payment alone was as high as more than 2000 million US dollars.Vasil couldn't close his mouth with joy. He has been the Minister of Industry for so many years, and he has never even taken $500 million in his hands.

"Mr. Zhu, Mr. Lin, thank you very much for bringing prosperity to our Siya tribe." Bilm stood on a high place, witnessed the grand occasion in front of him, smiled and extended his hand to Zhu Tiejun and Lin Zhenhua.

Zhu Tiejun and Lin Zhenhua shook hands with Bilm respectively and expressed their congratulations to Bilm.

The chiefs of more than a dozen other tribes also arrived, and they stepped forward one after another to congratulate Birm and express their desire to build a harmonious society with the Siya tribe.Everyone knows that after those dark oils are refined, what flows out of the pipeline is white silver.Everyone was filled with all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred, but there were smiles on their faces, as if their own family had made a fortune.

The Siya tribe was originally a big tribe in the local area, but now with a cash cow like an oil refinery, its strength has doubled immediately.The surrounding tribes have only two options, either to join the Siya tribe and become a member of the alliance, or to join a foreign power and become an enemy of the Siya tribe.

After the mediation of Lin Zhenhua and others some time ago, these tribes have chosen the former and are ready to defect to the Siya tribe.Everyone is forming an alliance in name, but in fact everyone knows that this alliance is centered on the Siya tribe led by Bilm, and other tribes must follow Bilm's leadership.

"Mr. Bilm, the refinery has already started production. I hope you can keep your promise and maintain our friendship." Lin Zhenhua said to Bilm.

Bilm said: "Mr. Lin, don't worry, I can tell who is a friend and who is an enemy. People from so many countries are here to sell their peace plans, but only you Chinese are building for us in a down-to-earth manner. This incident made me believe even more that the Chinese are good friends of our Africans."

"Thank you Chief Bilm for your trust, and I look forward to our next cooperation." Lin Zhenhua said.

　…I have been at home these two weekends and did a lot of housework, including dredging the kitchen sewer pipe and removing many old grease stains.Now I have time to sit down and code, and there should be an update tonight.

　　
　
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