Chapter Thirty-Three Petroleum

  Go Yang left Seoul that night and headed to the African mining area. At the wine party, Zheng Xiujing and Xu Xian explained what had happened, but it didn't matter who was right or wrong. What mattered in this circle was who had more power and who was more important.

  As for Jin Xinyang, the president of Jinsa Group said that he will definitely give Gao Yang a satisfactory explanation. When leaving the venue, Zheng Xiujing obviously wanted to go forward and say something to Gao Yang, but Gao Yang didn't notice it.

  Dr. Will of the mining district of Gaoyang and the petroleum exploration team went to the oil field, where the first commercial oil well had just come in a few days ago.

  "On the road, Dr. Will excitedly introduced to Gao Yang: "At present, more than 1.5 million tons of oil reserves with commercial exploitation value have been explored in the valley, and according to our calculations, there will definitely be more reserves near the valley. The first oil well produced oil a few days ago, it's light crude oil! More than 100 tons of oil are produced every day! Boss, we need an oil pipeline now."

  "150 million tons of reserves, building a pipeline hundreds of kilometers long through complex terrain? It's not 1.5 billion tons. Build it to the riverbank and construct a cargo wharf there for transshipment by boat to Libreville."

  "We'll all follow the boss's arrangement," said Dr. Will somewhat gloomily.

  Gao Yang is now thinking that he can use petroleum for time-space trading. After obtaining a large amount of petroleum in the 1925 time-space, he can store it and bring it to the modern time-space to sell. Now that he has his own oil field, he can perfectly disguise the source of the petroleum. The petroleum from 1925 can be exchanged for advanced industrial products in the modern time-space, which is a truly huge profit. Gold is not only difficult to obtain but also closely watched by many people.

  "But if the news gets out, I'm sure the President will be very interested in this oil field too? What if the President sends troops to seize it? I heard there are many anti-government armed forces in this country? Hehe." High Yang's mouth slightly curled up as he thought about it.

  Returning to the manor in the mining area from the oil field, Gaoyang activated the time-space shuttle and arrived at 1925. When he arrived at the Sixth Division headquarters set up on the shores of Xuanwu Lake, he saw Jiangsu Province's acting governor Zhang Qian anxiously waiting for him.

  "General, news has come from Beidu. Mr. Sun passed away this morning at the Concord Hospital in Beidu." Zhang Qian hastily approached Gao Yang and said.

  Gao Yang stopped in his tracks and was taken aback. The news had come too suddenly. "What's the date today?" Gao Yang asked abruptly.

  "The Republic of China, 14th year, March 12." Zhang Qian said.

  "All right, I know. Send a condolence telegram in my name and organize some memorial activities in the two provinces. That's it." After finishing speaking, Gao Yang walked into the command center.

  Sitting in front of the military map, Gao Yang thought about Mr. Sun's affairs with some melancholy. No matter how later generations evaluate him, Mr. Sun's perseverance in overthrowing the colonial rule of the Qing dynasty is a meritorious act! Other things are unimportant. Whether he was an American or had several wives, his character and other matters are nothing compared to this achievement. Mr. Sun, who represented an era, has passed away.

  "This is my era!" Gao Yang clenched his fists.

  In the afternoon, Wei Ke reported to Gao Yang on the military work of this period. Local security teams and rural militia teams have been established in various cities. Although they are basically just a framework, they have been set up after all.

  After a few years, the regular army will be able to fill up with a large number of demobilized soldiers returning to their hometowns. These are also the best reserve troops. The Army Officer Command College on the banks of Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing and the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School in Anqing have been completed, and are currently taught by excellent officers from the mercenary army. After the recruitment of German military school instructors arrives, they will start recruiting students nationwide.

  In addition, the new plant area of Jinling Ordnance Factory has started construction and will be installed and debugged after the equipment purchased from Germany arrives.

  "Send all soldiers with actual combat experience to the military academy for further training, and from now on, the military academy will only recruit from the army. Strive to make every soldier in these two divisions an officer. New recruits must participate in frequent live-fire training exercises. There are still many bandits in the two provinces, so send new recruits to suppress them, let them see blood and not just wet their pants when they hear gunfire. Send all captured bandits to work in the mines. Soldiers who have never fought, no matter how good their training is, will always be just new recruits." Wei Kes said before leaving Gaoyang.

  "Yes." Vecks saluted and turned away.

  Back at his residence, Gaoyang activated the time-space shuttle and returned to modern times in a small town. After showing his face and having dinner, he shuttled away to 1925's Magic Capital.

  "Mr. Jung, when will your country's general election have a result?" Gao Yang sat on the sofa and accepted the cigar handed over by Mr. Jung.

  "Unless something unexpected happens, it will be over by the end of April," Jung said to Goyo sitting across from him. "The possibility of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg being elected is very high."

  "Because all of you young masters support him." Gao Yang said with a smile.

  Jung lit a cigar and said slowly, "The great German nation should not be like this now."

  Gaoyang nodded and said, "The Chinese nation shouldn't be like this either."

  The two fell silent. After a while, Gao Yang said, "Now that your country's unemployment rate is so high, I want to help alleviate some of the burden. Please ask Lihe Yanghang to assist in recruiting a batch of teachers, including elementary, middle school, and university levels. Mainly science subjects, but also some physical education, music, and art. Professional technical personnel are also welcome, as I plan to establish some professional technical schools that will need them as instructors. As I said before, money is not an issue."

  Jung smiled and said, "No problem, the military personnel Mr. Gao requested last time have set sail with the arsenal production line. Lihe Trading Company hopes to continue our friendship with Mr. Gao." Gao Yang stood up and extended his hand towards Jung.

  Wang Dashan rested today, but he didn't want to leave school and go to the city to have fun. For the 10 yuan military pay every month, Wang Dashan didn't want to spend a single cent, saving it all up for when he retires from the army to marry a wife.

  It's said that after graduating from this military academy, each month will receive an additional 500 yuan. Wang Dashan was overjoyed. His old father at home asked someone to deliver a letter to Wang Dashan, which stated that because of Wang Dashan joining the army, not a single cent of taxes were collected for the family this year! The old father told Wang Dashan to take good care of Gao Dashi, who is a great benefactor. Many households in the village have hung up portraits of Gao Dashi and pray every day for his longevity.

  Now every household in the village wants to send their own children to join the team, you must do a good job, if you make Gao Dashi unhappy, don't come home, he will definitely break your legs.

  When he saw this, Wang Dashan sighed and thought that Gao Daxiao would never know about him, a small potato. But heaven must bless Gao Daxiao to live forever.

  Because Wang Dashan was a veteran who had participated in many battles and had read for two years at home when he was young, he knew how to read and write. This is a very important point, so Wang Dashan came to Anqing Military Academy as the first batch of selected students for further study.

  Most of my classmates at that time were old soldiers from the Sixth Division who had participated in the Battle of Xuzhou. Every day, when chatting idly, I would hear them talk non-stop about how fierce they fought back then and how brave they were, as if each one was a heavenly soldier or general descended to earth.

  Wang Dashan was envious of the Xu Zhou Campaign Participation Medal hanging on their chest, shining brightly and looking great! Next time he must fight well for Gao Da Shuai and get a medal like this too! Wang Dashan thought to himself quietly.

  A large quantity of food, meat, cement and construction machinery ordered years ago has arrived in Libreville. Gaoyang transported most of the goods to 1925, and with the remaining goods, Gaoyang recruited local workers under the name of SC Trade to build a cement road from Libreville to the mining area. The local government was very supportive of this matter, after all, they didn't have to spend any money. There were many people who had nothing to eat.

  Very soon, in 1925, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces recruited a large number of workers to build cement roads connecting major cities. Gaoyang came to the construction site of Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant to inspect the progress. The main part had been installed, and various supporting facilities had also been built. The blast furnace frame and refractory wall had been completed, leaving only some finishing work.

  What's lacking now is professional technical personnel. China was originally scarce in this aspect, and Gaoyang couldn't recruit outsiders to prevent the secret from being exposed. Helpless, he could only spend a large amount of energy points to instill steel mill technology knowledge into the biochemical warriors. The consumed energy points made Gaoyang's eyes twitch slightly.

  A cement road was built from the nearby iron ore mine to the steel mill, with over 200 Dodge trucks coming and going, transporting iron ore. The same was true at the cargo terminal on the riverbank, where coal transported from Feng County via the Tianjin-Pukou Railway was then transported by numerous trucks to the steel mill. Wei Kesite complained about this to Gao Yang, saying that trucks were important military supplies! Gao Yang promised to buy him twice as many trucks, and only then did the talkative Wei Kesite let Gao Yang off.

  Gaoyang came to the US Consulate again and found Consul John. Gaoyang proposed to order 15,000 Dodge trucks from the Dodge Company again, but required the Dodge Company to provide a truck maintenance line as a gift. In addition, Gaoyang expressed his hope to have a meeting with the representative of Mobil Oil Company.

  The consul-general said he would arrange for representatives of Daimler and Mobil to visit Gao Yang as soon as possible.

  The next morning, representatives from both companies arrived at the SC Trading Company's office building in the French Concession to visit Gao Yang. Gao Yang first negotiated with the representative of Dodge Company on the purchase and repair of trucks. Gao Yang had no requirements for the price, and the two sides quickly reached an agreement. As for why they didn't buy cars from modern times, it was because the technical gap was too large, and even if only one car was leaked out, the black technology would be exposed. Moreover, maintenance is impossible, and many parts cannot be bought every time in modern times.

  Afterwards, Gao Yang received Andrews, a representative of Mobil Corporation, in the reception room.

  After the pleasantries, they sat down on the sofa. Gaoyang got straight to the point and said, "I really like your company's products, so I'd like to purchase a large quantity of light crude oil from your company in the long term. Does your company have such intentions?"

  Andrews said "We sell our products to any customer in the world, I don't know what you mean by a large quantity?"

  Gao Yang smiled and picked up a cigarette, lit it and took a slow drag before saying "I need 500,000 barrels every month."