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Chapter 67 Flaming Mountain

On the wall of Zhou Changfeng's value room, there is a medium-sized map of China with a scale of 1:500 million.

After He Cheng left, he stood in front of the map and began to examine it.

This map bearing the title "Huangming Panorama Map" is basically consistent with the so-called begonia leaves, but there are still some differences in the long northern border.

For example, there is no Tannu Tuwa in the northwest direction, and a small piece is missing; in the due north direction, there is another piece protruding, which is bounded by Beihai Lake, Lake Baikal, with Tsarist Russia; Ergan Dusi agrees, where there is a small-scale oil exploration base.

There is a strange argument in later generations, saying that "if it were not for the Qing Dynasty, it would be impossible for the Han Dynasty to take over Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang", in order to promote the achievements of the Qing Dynasty.

However, this is very absurd, because what he did was essentially to maintain the rule of the dynasty, and the integration of Manchu and Mongolian was the foundation of the Qing Dynasty.

And because of the profound influence of Tibetan Lamaism on Mongolia, Tibet must be mastered.But if you want to securely occupy Tibet, you must also take down the land sandwiched between Tibet and Mongolia.

All three are intertwined, all or nothing.

And this point is also applicable to the Han Dynasty. The border troubles in the north are contrary to maintaining the rule. If you want to solve it once and for all, you must also win Tibet and Xinjiang.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty has made great efforts in this regard, and even found the right method.The alliance flag system implemented in Mongolia by the Qing Dynasty can actually find its shadow in the Ming Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Mongolian tribes were organized as guards for easy control.

The factor that seriously restricted the Ming Dynasty's external expansion was actually the population problem. Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, there have been endless wars, and the population in the early Ming Dynasty has shown great imbalance.

When the Northwest was recaptured in the early Ming Dynasty, there was almost no man's land there. For example, there were only 830 households in Ganzhou; and such a rare population was mixed with Hu and Han, so that the Ming army needed to hire guides and translators to move forward.

Until more than 20 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the total population of Shaanxi-Gansu was only 160 million, and the population density was only seven people per square kilometer.

[Population density distribution map of the Ming Dynasty]

This seriously affected the Ming Dynasty's management and expansion of the Northwest. After the population of the Northwest gradually recovered to the level of tens of millions, the Ming Dynasty was already in the late stage of decay.

So the Qing Dynasty, and today's post-Ming Dynasty, are actually standing on the shoulders of their predecessors in this respect.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, despite continuous natural and man-made disasters, the population of Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces still exceeded 2000 million. The huge army did not need to worry about the loss and risk of marching in the desolate no-man's land.

At the same time, because there was no influence of the San Francisco Rebellion, the progress and efficiency of the recovery of the Western Regions in the Later Ming Dynasty were faster than those in the Qing Dynasty.

Because the Junggar Khanate reached its peak in the early eighteenth century, the Qing Dynasty missed the best time to kill it in the bud due to the San Francisco Rebellion.It would be troublesome to solve it after its rise, so it took a total of 70 years of procrastination, and it was not until the Qianlong period that it was settled.

Then Ming launched a strategic offensive in 1684 AD, launched three conquests successively, and fought steadily. After 11 years, it was resolved before it grew into a nomadic empire with both firearms and riding and shooting.

As for Tibet, that is a matter of course. The Heshuote Khanate could hardly organize effective resistance, and soon fell apart.

At this time, Zhou Changfeng's thoughts returned to oil.

In his memory, Kuyi Island, which was called in ancient times, is now called Kuyi Island, where the annual oil production is about 20 tons.

This output is not much, not comparable to the Yumen Oilfield with a million tons, let alone the Karamay Oilfield which is close to 200 million tons.

In fact, what is interesting is that Zhou Changfeng couldn't find Karamay after searching on the map for a long time at the beginning, and his memory was also vague about it. It was only later that he learned that Karamay in Daming was named "Yanzhou".

The first test well drilled here by the exploration team of the Ministry of Industry successfully produced oil. Everyone called this place "Xuanzang", which means black treasure.However, in the process of word of mouth, it was mistakenly spread as "Xuanzang". Therefore, after being hooked up with Tang Seng, the folks quickly spread the rumor that there is the Flame Mountain, and various newspapers rushed to report it.

After initially confirming that there was a large oil field there, the emperor was also very happy, and named it with the word "Yan", and this seemed to be considered as a verification from the side that this is the Flame Mountain?

"If the Daqing Oilfield can be exploited and put into production, probably we can really close the door and watch the world fight with a smile." Zhou Changfeng's eyes fell on the northwest side of Anning Mansion.

Anningfu is also Harbin, and the location of Daqing Oilfield is 150 kilometers northwest of it.

But Zhou Changfeng knew that this was his own wishful thinking, because the difficulty of mining and refining in Daqing Oilfield is second to none—the average depth is 300 meters, and the quality of the oil is not good. It is highly paraffinic acidic heavy oil, and refining is very difficult. big.

Historically, more than a thousand experts, [-] workers, and [-] tons of equipment were used to develop the Daqing Oilfield.

In fact, with the large-scale industrial construction of Ming Dynasty after the constitutional government, the demand for energy has also increased. Although coal resources are quite abundant, the more important oil is very poor.

The currently accepted geological theory holds that oil is produced from the remains of marine organisms buried underground under high temperature and pressure in ancient times, so large oil fields can only be found in strata that were once oceans in ancient times. This is the theory of marine oil formation.

And many places in China belong to continental facies, so it is theoretically believed that China's oil reserves are pessimistic.

Nevertheless, the Ministry of Industry continued to send exploration teams to Northeast China, and some foreigners who supported the theory of continental oil formation also came to investigate.

The year before last, an exploration team of Daming Chongsheng Petroleum Company discovered oil-bearing sandy soil in a depression near a village in Anningfu. This discovery immediately ignited the world's public opinion—is this the rhythm to subvert the existing geological theory?
However, Daming National Oil and Gas Company and Chongsheng Petroleum Company successively drilled seven test wells in half a year, with depths ranging from 400 meters to 1000 meters. However, none of the wells successfully produced oil, and only one 800-meter-deep well discovered viscous oily sandy soil.

As a result, the news that "continental terrain is suspected to have discovered an oil field" suddenly became popular.

After Chongsheng Petroleum Company returned home, several engineers and geologists of Daming Oil and Gas Company believed that success was only one step away.So after negotiations, the US Sun Oil Company and Nobel Drilling Company offered themselves, hoping to take over the project.

In this era, it is quite difficult to drill wells exceeding a kilometer. Most countries have relatively weak technology in this area, and Americans have relatively rich experience.

In short, after several twists and turns, in the late spring of this year, the joint drilling team successfully broke through the oil layer, and the No. [-] well with a depth of [-] meters gushed industrial oil flow, thus announcing the subversion of the theory of marine oil formation .

(End of this chapter)