Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 296 Titanic’s debut journey
Following Wang Shouliang's words, Brian and several other Yalun ghost guys who came for aircraft technology were all greatly shocked.

oilfield? oilfield! It’s the oil fields again! !
It has to be said that as the situation in the Balkans becomes increasingly heated, the European War may break out at any time. Yalun's all-round preparations for war are really deliberate and diligent.

Although they have a large stake in the oil fields in Sumatra, and the two oil fields in Java are exclusively owned by Yan Lun, who would object to having too much oil?
Thanks to Wang Shouliang's butterfly effect and fanning the flames, in this plane, Yalun also broke out the battleship power of fuel power instead of steam turbine earlier and faster.

Not to mention coal-burning steam engines and steam turbines, which are mixed with diesel power.

The original track, the Queen Elizabeth super-dreadnought, was basically powered by oil, and they had already acquired the car and truck manufacturing technology.

It must also be explained that after Yan Lun acquired this technology and obtained the equipment, the production capacity that he could unleash in order to prepare for the war was beyond the reach of Wang Shouliang's Zhujiang Automobile Factory.

Zhujiang Automobile Co., Ltd. started to produce most of the parts by hand in the early days and was semi-mechanized. Later, it produced more than a dozen vehicles a month, then twenty or thirty vehicles a month, and then reached a production capacity of hundreds. How long did it take?

The first Zhujiang T was launched in February 1904. It was not until 2 that the main factory and Shanghai branch combined could produce 1908 cars per month.

Ying Lun, it’s really different!
Now Yan Lun has already produced 4,000 to 5,000 Pearl River T sedans per month, with an annual output of 60,000 to 70,000. Don’t think this is Wang Shouliang deliberately showing off his strength, but the Sihai Group he leads, even the screw and spring production lines have to start from Genesis plane transfer.

However, the most powerful old industrial empires such as Yinglun and North America can produce as well as dumplings.

Yalun built super-dreadnoughts, and the first Queen Elizabeth was finalized. It took two or three years to build a large ship, but they built five super-dreadnoughts at the same time in one go!

Made in five different shipyards!

What is the result of tens of thousands of cars and thousands of trucks a year accumulated over several years? So the question is, the more cars you have, the more oil, oil, oil you need!
There are also more and more fast torpedo destroyers, torpedo boats, etc., which are faster with oil power and easier to charge to the death, but they are still short of oil...

The output of those oil fields only prevents them from being choked by North America and the woolly bears, and prevents them from being choked by energy sources. It allows the boss empire to afford oil power for its own sea, land and air.

In addition to exploring the earth's oil resources from land, we can also try to explore and develop coastal areas. Don't expect people in the 21st century to understand this truth.

To put it bluntly, when Wang Shouliang exchanged technologies such as Pearl River T and light trucks for territory, large ship manufacturing technology, etc., the established powers obtained the technologies to increase production capacity and easily surpassed China, which had a poor industrial foundation.

This is the first project in the world’s shallow water to deep sea oil and gas development!
The next step was in 1920, when Venezuela in Latin America set up a wooden development platform on Lake Maracaibo to use the lake oil fields created by drilling.

At the beginning of the 20th century, China really didn’t have that kind of industrial foundation.

It was 1936 when it was the turn of the huge and rich oil fields in Mexico Bay to be developed.

Even white Europeans and Americans in 1912 understood.

If you want to mechanize on a larger scale, including experimental crawler tractors converted into armored vehicles, military crafts of tanks, etc., you will have to burn oil.

Lake Maracaibo, also known as the Oil Lake, was the beginning of North America's colonization of South America and Venezuela's emergence as an oil giant in the early 20th century, as wealthy as the Arab countries of the 21st century.

Just like the Liberty Truck, when North America exploded, parts orders were placed with one to two hundred factories. Hundreds of factories and companies worked together to produce and finalize the assembly.

As in the original trajectory, from 1908 to 1917, 200 million Ford Model T cars were produced in North America.

North America can produce 200 million vehicles in ten years, but now it has to vehicles a year... This is still the problem of the big empire's difficulty in turning around, as well as the problems of various large ships, aircraft, submarines and truck series that are exploding production capacity at the same time.

Using the wealth and industrial base to build multiple dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts at once was the only way to build the confidence to launch a combined fleet of twenty or thirty giant ships at the beginning of the Yinlun War.

Brian took another sip of red wine and said, "Wang, offshore oil fields? This is not easy to develop, right?"

The same goes for building dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts, and the same goes for building cars.

The world's first offshore exploration well was discovered in North America 1887 years ago on the coast of California in 25. The offshore oil field was only a few meters deep under the water.

Then, in 1922, the new regime used the corpse of the Tsar's bear to carry out offshore drilling using trestles near the Caspian Sea.

Don't look at the fact that Yin Lun took advantage of Wang Shouliang and got three oil fields.

It was not until 1947 that North America continued to open offshore oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico, and then officially relied on new technology to usher in the era of modern offshore oil development.

Shallow water artificial island development, fixed oil and gas production platforms with deeper water, floating oil and gas production platforms with water depths of more than 300 meters, etc.

These ocean mining technologies officially entered the modern scientific stage after World War II.

Wang Shouliang raised his glass and clinked it with Brian, "I just think the oil fields a few meters deep in the shallow waters of California are quite promising."

"I asked my subordinates to do more research. The world's coastline is so long, and California's shallow oil fields are definitely not an exception, so..."

"Fortunately, I had some breakthroughs and gains!"

"No one can guarantee anything until the well is drilled and the oil is produced, but according to scientific predictions, as long as it is done, the shallow-water oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico will still have great potential."

"It should be no worse than the Sumatra oil fields."

Why did he do Black Mexico Bay? Because that’s the land of North American chrysanthemums!

As we all know, Black Mexico Bay is a bay shared by Mexico and North America.

From the beginning of the U.S.-America War to World War I, the two countries had a lot of friction and trouble. Until the 21st century, Black Mexico was a mecca for Chinese people's kidneys and drug lords.

The United States has committed too many sins.

Of course, Ying Lun also coveted and acquired a large number of oil fields in Latin America after the First World War. Whether it was Mexico, Venezuela, or Colombia, Ying Lun Capital always went to trouble with North America.

But North America, which had made a fortune from the First World War and became stronger, could no longer be easily controlled by Yin Lun after the war.

The Yalun before World War I and the one after World War I are indeed two different things!
World War I and World War II directly made the sun never set a dog leg. This is the influence.

Brian exchanged excited glances with several of his colleagues, then took the initiative to go out and pour himself a drink, "Wang, for oil, let alone the 20 young island workers, there is a lot to be done for 30 or 50 workers in the next two years!"

Again, it’s not that Yan Lun cannot see the island advantage of North America.

If the European continent is destroyed, it will definitely not be a good thing for North America to stay out of the situation.

The problem is the original trajectory. They can no longer influence the overall situation. In what year did North America declare war? Before the declaration of war, even Hans Cat could hardly bring North America into the ally camp. The two had clashed many times in the Pacific.

But Ying Lun will not forcefully push North America to stand on the opposite side. It's different now. The Sihai Escort Bureau can restrict the development and growth of North America in the Pacific, and then it can dominate the world and send hundreds of thousands of young Japanese soldiers to the chrysanthemum land of North America...

In serious situations, they can only fan the flames. The real thing is Wang Shouliang's fleet sending people away, but for the oil fields, that's different!

In 1912, there were more than 9000 million people in North America. With such a huge landmass and population base, hundreds of thousands of young Japanese devils in the island country could at most be sickened by scabies and leprosy. I believe North America would think the same way.

Wang Shouliang smiled and raised his glass, "Happy cooperation, cheers!!"

Hundreds of thousands of young Japs are in the Chrysanthemum Land of North America, near the Gulf of Mexico, watching the huge amount of oil being produced there. However, the Japs in this plane are just the navy being bombed by the Four Seas Escort Bureau time and time again.

He even defeated the bear ghost guy on land! !
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Wang Shouliang came to the capital this time to buy some courtyard houses and support the development of education. Whether it was Qing, Bei, or others, he came to help and donated some money.

In the end, Bai Xiuzhu was satisfied to watch the blind date of Jin Meili.

After more than ten days of busy work, when he left the capital with the spring breeze in early April, he sat in a large motorcade and looked back at the ancient buildings. Wang Shouliang sighed with emotion, "I have gained some experience in Beijing this time. It’s a waste of time.”

Bai Xiuzhu complained with a sweet smile, "What do you call a long-term experience? It's because your hands are weak after receiving gifts."

Now that he has come to the capital, he will naturally encounter a lot of things.

For example, Wang Shouliang just revealed a little bit about his hobbies and wanted to buy some antiques. In more than half a month, he collected valuable antiques and cultural relics from various dynasties and could be hauled by truck.

Even the list of gifts, as well as the antiques given, are filled with many books. Those lists are packed in boxes and can be piled up in many boxes. This is still a registration book of fountain pens, not writing brushes.

It can only be said that this capital city that lasted for hundreds of years during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties was home to so many dignitaries that even old witches did not dare to live there a few years ago, not to mention how many evils were caused by the allied invasion of China in 1900.

But when Wang Shouliang arrived in the capital in his impression, he still made a lot of money by taking a chance and almost went to bed.

Not to mention his strong support and donations to education, his emphasis on students will affect how many things have been rewritten.

In terms of antiques, it is true to say that it has greatly enriched my knowledge.

Gao Mingyue didn't dare to tease Wang Shouliang. After all, Bai Xiuzhu cared about food and not fights, or she just liked being teased and then severely tutored.

Mingyue glanced at the huge convoy and changed the subject, "Yalun's Titanic is about to be launched and sail to Shanghai. Will it arrive in May or June?"

"How do you plan to use this ship then? You won't really start a passenger transport company, right?"

This big ship still made a deal with Yin Lun at the price of 200 million pounds of counterfeit banknotes, and it was still a win-win result.

But this ship is really too big and luxurious for a passenger ship from the Far East.

Compared with the crew ships that Sihai Group has been transporting to Nanyang in recent years, it is not the same dimension.

An eight-story luxury hotel, ten decks, indoor swimming pool, gym, bathroom, library, etc. are built on the big ship.

Wang Shouliang smiled and opened a bottle of Coke, "We'll see then. We often travel between Hong Kong Island, Shanghai and Nanyang. It's not a bad thing to use it as our own family's exclusive passenger ship in the future."

At least the Kunlun and other dreadnoughts are far from the accommodation environment of the Titanic.

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Another half year passed by in a hurry, January 1913, 1, the Laba Festival of the Lunar Calendar.

Three dreadnoughts, the Kunlun, the West Queen Mother, and the East Prince, escorted the ship, plus a group of destroyers and cruisers. The core of this fleet was the Titanic, where many members of Wang Shouliang's family lived.

When the Grand Fleet was getting closer and closer to Jayapura Bay, Wang Shouliang stood on the eighth deck of Titanic in the wind and rain, with a relaxed look on his face, "It took nearly two years to build the city of Jayapura Bay."

"It's almost completed. Starting this year, we can send young people and their families here on a large scale. We strive to make it a new super city within this year."

Jayapura is the capital and capital of Papua Province with a total area of ​​31.90 square kilometers.

This bay city is very close to the territory of Papua New Guinea, which belongs to the United States. In 1913, Papua New Guinea was still in a period of competition between the United States, Australia, and Hansel cats, and it was not peaceful.

As for why Wang Shouliang set the capital of Papua Province here? In addition to the original capital of the 21st century being here, the Dutch also started building the city in 1910.

Another important factor is that the largest freshwater lake in Papua Province is located near Jayapura Bay.

The Sentani Lake basin covers an area of ​​about 750 square kilometers, nearly one-third of the area of ​​Taihu Lake. What is the nature of Taihu Lake? There are Wuxi, Suzhou, Huzhou, etc. around Taihu Lake...

A huge freshwater lake is self-evidently important to survival and daily life.

In the stormy weather, Cao Yun walked out of the cabin holding an umbrella in his left hand and a cup of hot coffee in his right hand. "How is the hydroelectric power plant you planned?"

Wang Shouliang smiled and said, "Is Xinxin asleep?"

Seeing Cao Yun nodding, he looked at Jayapura Bay again, "This can be regarded as the beginning of hydropower generation. It will be enough to stably produce hundreds of thousands of kilowatt hours of electricity this year. It will be increased annually in the future."

In the future, under Yinni's command, the hydropower generation in the Sentani Lake Basin will be able to produce more than 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. How can we talk about the output of this project controlled and operated by the Chinese?
100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity... If a family consumes 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, this is enough to supply million households and millions of people.

Don't think it's too little for a family to have 100 degrees of electricity a year. How many people use electricity in this day and age? Just light bulbs, telephones, and radio stations.

What air conditioners, induction cookers, refrigerators, washing machines, TVs, etc.? How many have been born?
Just electricity for lights and phones? That family only has a few electricity bills a year.

Even if this future Great Bay City does not build large-scale thermal power plants and only uses hydropower from natural freshwater lake basins, it can support early urban electricity consumption.

As for the Xinxin he is talking about, it is the eldest daughter Xinxin that Cao Yun gave birth to in 1912. She is only more than three months old now. She traveled across the ocean when she was more than three months old?
First, Wang Shouliang's own genetic transformation has been strengthened many times, and his descendants are much stronger than normal children. Secondly, this is the Titanic journey...

He is also a master-level Chinese medicine practitioner and doesn't worry about trivial matters at all.

This time was also his family's trip to Jayapura from Cao Yun to Wang Wufang, Wang Xin, Bai Xiuzhu, Gao Mingyue and others.

(End of this chapter)