Chapter 806: Oil Prices Are Consistent
When the diplomats of the empire began to argue with the seven great powers, repeatedly arguing over whether the more than 1,000 armed convoys were legal and whether to withdraw their troops, the intelligence department of the empire was already secretly contacting the opposition faction of the Republic of Kean, especially several large tribes in the western region of the Republic of Kean, which belonged to the Riej, and were different from the people of the Gafia group in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Kean.
Of course, I won't forget the joint series of people.
When those opposition people saw the people of Daheng coming to their door, they said that they were willing to help them gain independence and become a real country.
Even if they knew that the Great Heng Empire was using them, they didn't mind!
Being able to be used by a world power like the Great Heng Empire is also where their value lies, and what is even more tragic is that they don't even have the value of use, and in the end they can only mold and rot on their own.
With the current situation in the Republic of Keen, there are strong contradictions between the East and the West in the country, and there is also a Emperor Gafia Empire who has also adopted a not very friendly and predatory policy on weekdays, so that the Republic of Kean is already full of violent contradictions.
It only takes one spark for this contradiction to explode completely!
As a result, soon there were rumors in the Republic of Kean: some of the surrenderers wanted to take the oil belonging to their Kean people to curry favor with the big powers!
The Kean oil field is the oil field of their Kenn people, this is a gift from God to their Kenn people, and the only hope for the future rise of the Kenn people must not fall into the hands of traitors and major empires.
After receiving feedback from the intelligence department that everything was going well, Lin Ziran said: "In this case, let the mission proceed according to the plan, and tell the mission that even if it is to give up the share of oil, it must also strive for the greatest interests of the empire!" ”
"The most important thing is the share of oil, the more we have, the less they have!"
"Also, contact the Gafia Empire as much as possible, and make sure that they are in line with us in terms of oil prices!"
The oil blockade strategy of the Great Heng Empire, in addition to controlling the supply of oil in the power field, was also to maintain the oil price system.
Nowadays, the price of oil on the Blue Star is generally based on the price of the Luohai oil trading market of the Daheng Empire, and the price of crude oil in the Luohai oil trading market is about eight Hengyuan per barrel, which has been maintained for more than ten years, with occasional ups and downs, but basically maintained between seven Hengyuan and ten Hengyuan.
This price is actually relatively high for the price level of contemporary Blue Star.
The Great Heng Empire took advantage of the high price of oil to make huge profits, which are not only limited to the high price of crude oil itself, but also the profits in the field of oil processing and transportation.
After all, what the Daheng Empire sells is not crude oil, but refined oil, which has to be based on the cost of crude oil, plus the necessary refining and transportation costs and profits.
The Daheng Empire relies on the monopoly of oil supply, and has made a lot of money in the past ten years, and the Daheng people themselves, even several other oil exporting countries in the world, have made a lot of money because of this, and the Orr Kingdom has gained a lot of benefits because of oil every year.
Even the Mongol Khanate made a lot of money every year because of oil exports.
However, it is undeniable that the current price of oil is seriously inflated, and it is a deliberate price raised by the Daheng Empire, and the cost of oil exploration and exploitation itself is actually very low.
This means that if other countries produce oil on a large scale and compete with Daheng Oil, it is easy to bring down the price of oil, which is not what the Daheng Empire wants to see, nor is it what the Gafiya Empire wants to see.
Although the Gafia Empire gave up its complete control of the Kean oil field early on, and sat back and watched Daheng and Krull and other countries compete for oil shares, they didn't say that they didn't want money!
When other countries come to extract oil, they have to pay money, which is part of the direct profits, and another big part is the relevant taxes of the oil industry.
Just like Daheng people, the price of oil is expensive, but most of the costs are taxes, and then it goes to Daheng's finances, not to say that it stays in the oil company.
With high taxes, it is impossible for the oil companies of the empire to lower the price of crude oil.
With the Great Heng Empire taking the lead, and countries such as the Orr Kingdom and the Mongol Khanate also followed suit, the oil taxes were very high.
Now this Gafia Empire will not easily give up this part of the money, this is not a small amount, really get started, with the oil reserves of the Kean oil field, after large-scale development, it can contribute at least hundreds of millions of Hengyuan in taxes every year.
Therefore, in terms of maintaining high oil prices, the Gafiya Empire has a basis for cooperation with the Daheng Empire, as for whether other countries agree or not, nonsense, they must not agree, whether it is the Krull Kingdom or the Kekel Empire, their representatives expressed a strong protest against the issue of oil taxation at the meeting of the ministers of the eight countries.
But the minister of the Gafia Empire said that the oil tax rate of the Republic of Kean was set in accordance with international practice, what are you against, don't you see that the Great Heng Empire has agreed!
Although the other six countries all expressed strong protests, when they saw that the Gafia Empire and the Great Heng Empire were both standing together on this issue, and they looked like they were conspiring to collude, they were also a little worried, if the Heng Barbarians colluded with the Gafiya people, then it would be a big trouble.
Gafia is a landlord after all, and the people's territory is here, and the barbarism of the Heng Barbarians is known to everyone, once they are united, they are prone to unnecessary incidents!
The Krull Kingdom and Kekel and other countries turned around and pondered, yes, this oil tax revenue will not be taken into account first, the oil will be exploited first, the share will be divided, and the security of oil supply will be initially guaranteed.
As for oil taxes!
Hmph, at least hundreds of millions of Hengyuan a year, you Gaphians want to swallow it? Think beautifully!
So, during the day, the countries were talking about the share of oil, and at night, the diplomats of the other six countries turned around and began to secretly discuss how to give the people of Ken independence and freedom.
As an independent country, the Republic of Kean has a Supreme Emperor Gafia Empire above its head, and its national defense and even finances are not autonomous, which is absolutely abnormal, and this is an infringement on the people of Kean!
As the big country in charge of the Blue Star, they have the responsibility and obligation to help the Kenn region completely realize independence and freedom, well, and give oil tax exemption as they like.
After having an idea, they also began to contact the opposition in Kean, by the way, and the Lej, they have always wanted to recover the Kenn region, this time they can contact one or two, and see how to do it when the time comes.