Daming 1805

Chapter 492 The Great Food Country and the Status Quo of the World Petroleum Industry
On the morning of July 15, [-], Liu Zhixin, Xu Minghui, and Wang Yinzhi arrived at Yingtian Mansion.

Like Pan Shien, the three of them went directly to see Zhu Jingyuan after taking a bath and changing clothes.

After the three saluted and said hello, Zhu Jingyuan asked the three of them to sit down, and then asked about the situation in the Dashi area.

The three of them, together with Pan Shien who arrived yesterday, are the four important officials in the Dashi area.

All four of them have official positions in the Great Food Kingdom.

Liu Zhixin, the long history on the left, Wang Yinzhi, the long history on the right, Xu Minghui on the left, and Pan Shien on the right.

However, the specific situation of the four people is actually very different.

Both Liu Zhixin and Xu Minghui were full-time officials of the Great Food Kingdom from the beginning to the end.

Before Zhu Jingyuan gave the appointment, the two of them always had only two official positions in the palace, Changshi and Trial.

Pan Shien is mainly an official of the Great Food Kingdom, and is also the chief political officer of the Eastern Mozhou region, the actual core area of ​​the Great Food Kingdom.

But at the same time, he also holds the official position of the Ming court, and has been promoted to the chief envoy of Dongmozhou.

Wang Yinzhi was mainly an official of the Ming court, starting from the first prefect of Kezhou (Crete), he was promoted step by step to the official position of Zuo Duhu of Dashi Dayu.

He has never held a special post in the Dashi Kingdom, but he has always been in charge of the Dashi Kingdom's official position.

But these four officials with very different actual positions are the four most important officials in the Dashi area.

The current Dashi area can be roughly divided into three parts.

The first is the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Dashi Kingdom, which is the large desert inside the Persian Gulf.

Then there is the direct-administered area of ​​the Great Food Kingdom East Mozhou, including Zhu Jingyuan's privately owned Great Lakes area, as well as the surrounding large tracts of land.

Finally, it belongs to the territory of the Great Food Kingdom, but the overlapping jurisdiction of the imperial court provinces has been established.

Including Dashi Peninsula, Mesopotamia, East Mozhou Peninsula, the east coast of Daqin Sea, the northern part of Mozhou, Crete and Cyprus and other islands.

That is to say, apart from Egypt, most of the east and south coasts of the Great Qin Sea belong to the Great Food Kingdom.

Among Liu Zhixin, Wang Yinzhi, Xu Minghui, and Pan Shien, Pan Shien was the "trial" judge in name, but in fact he was the governor of Dongmozhou arranged by Zhu Jingyuan.

The actual responsibilities are very clear. He is directly and specifically responsible for the large and small affairs of Dongmozhou, as well as the industrial park, railways and highways, and the development of the Great Lakes area.

The affairs of other areas in the Dashi region are not under his control, and in fact they are not involved in judicial affairs at all.

Wang Yinzhi is now the Protector of Dashi Dayu, that is, the head of government affairs of the entire region, so he is familiar with the situation of the entire region.

Liu Zhixin is actually in charge of the government affairs of the areas directly under the jurisdiction of the Great Food Kingdom, as well as the indigenous affairs in all areas of the Great Food Kingdom.

Xu Minghui is in charge of the judicial work among the natives of the Dashi Kingdom, the East Mozhou region, and other regions. He is the de facto supreme judge of the entire Dashi Kingdom.
According to Zhu Jingyuan's original plan and order, the mainland of Dashi Kingdom, that is, the area around Liusha City, will focus on oil exploration.
Except for those who are used for exploration and development, there is no large-scale immigration to the local area.

Initially, the local population was limited to 10, but it was gradually relaxed over the next ten years.

Up to now, there are only more than [-] people. In addition to workers, it is an industry that serves oil workers.

The oil refining and chemical industry originally planned to develop properly locally, with the main force placed in the southern part of the Dashi Peninsula, near the Gulf of Aden.

However, after the development of the East Mexico region is mature enough, the refineries near the Gulf of Aden are mainly used for direct export.

The production capacity required by various industries in Dashi Country has gradually been transferred to places with better surroundings in Dongmeng County.

Today, the total population of the areas directly under the jurisdiction of Dashi Kingdom, excluding Dongmozhou, is only over 20.

Most of them are still directly managed by various factories and commercial firms.

Therefore, the main task of Liu Zhixin and Xu Minghui is actually to deal with the aborigines in the entire Dashi area.

Cooperate with Wang Yinzhi and other political officials in other areas to educate, screen and clean up the local aborigines.

Doing this job in the Dashi and Beimozhou areas was definitely a big problem in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

It is definitely not easy in this world.

But in this world, the methods Liu Zhixin, Wang Yinzhi and others can use are much richer than Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

At the same time, the identities of "minority", "alien" and "heretic" in any country are not gold medals for immunity.

Instead, it is the object of focus and severe rectification.

The officials of Ming Dynasty can use all kinds of harsh means to achieve their goals as a matter of course.

The ability of Wang Yinzhi and other Ming professional bureaucrats, the discipline and combat capability of the local Ming garrison are also much stronger than the rulers and armed forces in those areas of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

They are now, without a doubt, the most powerful political and military personnel in the entire world.

They have the ability and means to screen, control, educate, and clean up these aliens.

People who cannot be absorbed, such as local full-time religious personnel, can be sent to Ottoman, a neighboring country.

Osman never refuses these people.

People who are difficult to absorb, such as the obvious Mo people, are sent to the inland to mine and build roads. After the main project is completed, they are sent to the black nobles as slaves.

For fanatics who refuse to convert, send them to mines and farms as slave labor, and prevent them from having the opportunity to reproduce.

For those who are likely to assimilate, for example, shallow believers are sent to work in factories of Daming people, for example, women are introduced to Daming immigrants as concubines, and children are sent to farms and factories as apprentices.

Daming's cultural and institutional influence, Daming's technological advantages and financial advantages are all stronger than any country in the previous life.

Except for those who live entirely by faith, very few people can completely refuse Da Ming's absorption.

In the richer, safer, and more civilized environment built by Daming, most outsiders will spontaneously work hard to learn the culture of Daming and integrate into this group.

According to Liu Zhixin, from the first year of Ankang to the present, after 15 years of unremitting efforts, most areas in the master area have completed a comprehensive general education examination certificate system reform.

The Dashi Peninsula, the Shuanghe Basin, the east coast of the Daqin Sea, Cyprus (Cyprus) and Crete (Crete), the northern part of Mozhou, etc., the local social environment is not much different from the remote areas of the Ming Dynasty. up.

The social transformation of the master area has achieved great success.

Zhu Jingyuan also fully understands this, because these 15 years have already been a generation.

The hardest ones have basically died in the mines.

Even if they are not dead, they will be in a state of centralized labor for life, with no chance to go out at all, let alone leave offspring.

A woman who became a concubine basically accepted the new world after giving birth to her own child.

After a child grew up with Daming's master and learned the language and technology of Daming for a few years, they naturally integrated into the world system of Daming as they grew up.

In Zhu Jingyuan's view, the most important reason why Liu Zhixin, Wang Yinzhi and others were able to succeed in the master's place is because the world is not "civilized" enough.

In this world, Ming people are definitely civilized people, at least more civilized than Taixi people.

Ming people can accept other races, except for the Mo people whose image gap is too huge, other ethnic groups have the opportunity to "Minghua".

But Daming people are also very tough.

The people of Ming Dynasty have no logic of seeking common ground while reserving differences, and it is now a matter of course for people of Ming Dynasty to keep common ground and reject differences.

If you want to be civilized and be treated as a civilized person, you must fully accept the existing system and rules of Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, they will be treated explicitly and publicly differently.

If you can't get a certificate of passing the general education exam, you will be paid less for the same job.

Zhu Jingyuan expressed very straightforward appreciation for the work of Liu Zhixin, Xu Minghui, Wang Yinzhi and others.

While there are circumstances involved, they did, and that's to their credit.

After learning about the situation of the local people, Zhu Jingyuan asked about the situation of the oil industry.

Liu Zhixin was directly responsible for this matter, so Liu Zhixin specially introduced it to Zhu Jingyuan.

Today, the world's annual oil production has reached 64 billion shi, which is about 4000 million tons in weight.

Zhu Jingyuan recalled it for a while, and couldn't remember how the historical oil output changed in his previous life, but it should not have reached this amount before World War II, at least it must be at the level after World War II.

However, Zhu Jingyuan knows that China's total oil production is basically around [-] million tons, and Lucia's is around [-] million tons.

Lucia, the United States, and Saudi Arabia are the most important oil-producing countries. Since the 70s, their annual output has fluctuated around [-] million tons for a long time.

It's just that the magnitude may be slightly larger...

In other words, the current oil production in the world has basically reached the level of the most important oil-producing countries in the previous life.

Moreover, according to Liu Zhixin, the production capacity of large oil fields in many regions continues to climb.

In the foreseeable future, the total oil production should maintain a rapid growth momentum.

It is estimated that in ten years, the total output will be doubled.

At the same time, most of the total production of 64 billion stones and more than 5 million tons is produced by Daming.

Daming's current oil production has reached the level of Lucia, the United States, and Saudi Arabia from the 70s to the new century.

And of the total output of 64 billion shi, the nominally big food country accounted for almost [-]%.

That is 38 billion stones per year, or about 3000 million tons.

However, another 18 billion stones, or nearly half of the output, were produced by companies affiliated to the Daming Royal Consortium.

The main oil fields of the royal consortium are in Shuanghe Province, which is later known as Iraq and Kuwait.

A formal province has been established here, and it no longer belongs to the area directly under the jurisdiction of the Dashi Kingdom.

Basically all the oil extracted by the royal consortium will be transported to the mainland of Daming to supply the local petrochemical industry of the Ming Dynasty.

The annual oil output of Dashi Kingdom's self-exploitation is about 20 billion stones, or about 7000 million tons.

In the early days of Dashiguo oilfield development, the oil from Dashiguo was also mainly supplied to the mainland of Daming.

However, in the past 15 years, the output of the oil fields developed by the royal consortium has soared rapidly, and the demand for oil in the Thai and Western countries has also continued to grow.

Currently, only one-third of the oil extracted in the Great Food Country continues to be sold to the mainland.

Most of the rest are sold to Western countries.

The petrochemical industry in Dashi Country has also digested a small part by itself.

The area around Mozhou has also digested a small part.

Apart from the Dashiguo region, the place with the highest oil production is the Petroleum Lake in Nanyinzhou.

The current annual output has reached 12 billion shi, or about [-] million tons.

The oil from Nanyinzhou Oil Lake is mainly supplied to the northern and southern Yinzhou regions.

Outside of these two places, the oil production in other regions is no longer an order of magnitude.

The oil fields in and around Daming are mainly those in the Nanyang Islands.

Although the development time is relatively early, before the North Sea oilfield was developed, the quality of crude oil was the best in the world.

However, the local oil reserves are relatively low compared to the big food country, and the production cost is much higher than that of the big food country.

But the advantage is that it is close to the mainland of Ming Dynasty, and now it is even directly in the mainland, and it is the most mature technology.

After years of continuous development, it now has an annual output of 400 million stones, or about [-] million tons.

The Qiuming Oilfield in the Xianbei Principality has very large reserves and great potential in the future.

However, it has only been five years since it was put into production, and it has just entered the stage of ramping up production capacity.

The current annual output is only about 500 million stones, or about [-] million tons.

It mainly supplies the local Xianbei Principality, the Kazakh Principality, the Xianbei Principality, and the northwest region of the Ming mainland.

Then there are the Baku oil fields.

Baku Oilfield and Dashiguo Oilfield started development simultaneously, and now they have reached the stage of stable production.

However, the scale of the Baku oil field is much smaller than that of the big food country.

The current annual output is 3000 million shi, or almost 2000 million tons.

Apart from this, other Thai and Western countries have worked hard for more than ten years in their own land and colonies.

Most countries have found some oil fields one after another.

The one who gained the most was of course Lucia.

The Volga-Ural oilfield jointly developed by Lucia and Daming was put into production earlier than the Xianbei Principality's oilfield, and now it has an annual production capacity of [-] million shi.

Next came Prussia.

Prussia’s new German colony in Mexico, which is the Nigerian region of Zhu Jingyuan’s previous life, discovered a large oil field in the Niger Estuary Delta along the coast.

The development of oil fields in New Germany began after the end of the World War. However, the Prussians lacked technology, and so far they have only reached an annual production capacity of [-] million stones.

Lucia and Prussia have considerable oil reserves, but the current output still cannot meet the needs of the two countries.

Moreover, the cost of mining these two oil fields is also higher than that of Dashiguo.

At present, the price of ten knots of oil is relatively low, and has always remained at the level of two to three yuan per stone.

Therefore, Lucia and Prussia still need to import a large amount of oil from the big food countries.

Other Thai-Western countries are no exception.

If we say that the oil from Lucia and Prussia has already played a certain role in the country's oil industry.

Then the oil industry in other Western countries can only be regarded as better than nothing.

And among these countries, Ottoman has the highest oil production.

Romania, controlled by the Ottomans, is the only oil-producing area of ​​a certain scale on the western continent.

In the Mexico region, in addition to Nigeria in Prussia, the oil fields at the mouth of the Congo River are also Ottoman territory.

It's just that Ottoman's technical level is really low, and the output is only slightly higher than that of Austria, France and other countries.

Now it is also necessary to import oil from big food countries, as well as a large amount of petrochemical products.

The British and French searched all over their homeland and colonies, but they couldn't find a large-scale oil field.

According to Liu Zhixin, the British are trying to find oil at sea and are studying offshore oil extraction technology...

Hearing these reports, Zhu Jingyuan was quite emotional. If nothing unexpected happened, the British would eventually discover the Beihai Oilfield.

The discovery of oil fields in the North Sea once made Britain and Norway on both sides of the North Sea the largest oil-producing countries in western Thailand.

Of course, it is the result of excluding Lucia, an outsider.

The oil production of the two countries once reached the level of [-] million tons, but the good times did not last long.

The oil reserves of the Beihai Oilfield are not of the same order of magnitude as places like Dashiguo, Nanyinzhou, and Xianbei.

Now the world's most important oil producing areas are all under Daming's control.

Even if other countries rummaged through their own land and sea areas, they still had to import Daming's oil in the end.

It is mainly from the big food country, where the cost is the lowest, the output is the largest, and the transportation industry is the most convenient.

It can be shipped directly by sea, or can be transported by pipeline.

(End of this chapter)