Lin Ziran supplies a large channel business like Hongxiang Commercial Bank on a large scale, and the price of kerosene will definitely be relatively low, but even so, the price initially agreed by the two sides is 60 constant yuan per barrel.

This price is still the price at which they picked up the goods in Qingshan Town, and Lin Ziran even saved the freight for transporting them to Sanyang Ferry.

Sixty Hengyuan per barrel, this is the price that Lin Ziran supplied to Hongxiang Commercial Bank, this price was also finalized after more than an hour of negotiation between the two sides, after all, it is 300 barrels a month, and the difference between one yuan and two yuan represents the difference of hundreds of thousands of Heng Yuan, which is tens of thousands of dollars in a year, so the negotiation between the two sides is relatively dead.

After this price was negotiated, Zhou Li was still quite satisfied, the current wholesale price of whale oil at the port of Luohai City is 65 Hengyuan per barrel, and if you add the freight, it will cost almost 70 Hengyuan to Luo'an County.

And this kerosene only costs 60 constant yuan, and there is not much freight in the future, because these kerosene will be sold directly in Luo'an County, even if the retail price is lower than that of whale oil for the market, but this profit will be quite rich.

Moreover, this thing is a large trade, and the amount will be very large every month, which is a profit of thousands of Hengyuan a month, which is no less than the profit of the ordnance business.

Zhou Li thought that he had taken advantage, especially when he heard Lin Ziran say that this oil exploitation is very troublesome, not to mention drilling wells, and oil refining is also very troublesome, and the cost is more than 50 Hengyuan a barrel.

He didn't believe it at more than 50 Hengyuan a barrel, but he estimated the cost of kerosene, at least more than 40 Hengyuan a barrel.

He didn't know how to refine kerosene from oil, but he simply knew that oil was to be extracted from the ground, and then there was a lot of equipment to refine it, and the cost was definitely not small, and he had heard in the county town before that someone used coal to refine kerosene, and the cost should be very high.

But Zhou Li would never have thought that the cost of Lin Ziran's kerosene was cheap enough to make him doubt his life.

Lin Ziran's kerosene cost is composed of extraction and refining, and the mining cost is actually very low, on average, the mining cost of each barrel of kerosene is about two constant yuan at most.

The cost of refining is a little more, but it is only about three constant yuan.

Lin Ziran himself estimated that the total cost of the oil fields and refineries under his command is evenly spread over each barrel of kerosene, and the cost is a little more than five constant yuan.

This means that every time Lin Ziran sells a poke of kerosene to Hongxiang Commercial Bank, he can make a net profit of 55 Hengyuan at a wholesale price of 60 Hengyuan!

The net profit of 55 Hengyuan is simply incomparable compared with the gross profit of a few Hengyuan per barrel in the sales link.

The cost is low, and the production capacity will be larger and larger in the later stage, these two factors are the reason why Lin Ziran is so happy to cooperate with Hongxiang Commercial Bank!

It's a pity that Zhou Li doesn't know.

If Zhou Li knew the true cost of kerosene, it was estimated that he would directly pull the armed caravan of their Hongxiang Commercial Bank to kill him.

This is also the reason why Lin Ziran strictly keeps the relevant production process of kerosene confidential.

The oil field has been completely surrounded, and the Fourth Chasseur Company has been stationed for a long time, and the outer perimeter is a fence, but the inner perimeter has already built a simple earthen rampart wall about two meters high and about 3,000 meters in circumference.

The 3rd Chasseur Company patrolled the oil fields day and night, and outsiders were strictly forbidden to enter.

At the same time, the latest batch of oil refining equipment has not been installed in the refinery in Qingshan Town, but has directly set up a sub-refinery in the oilfield plant, and is also preparing to relocate all the equipment of the refinery in the town.

In this way, it is possible to avoid the separation of the oil field and the refinery, not to mention the five-kilometer transportation of crude oil, and it can also be concentrated for protection.

The entire relocation work is expected to be completed within half a month, which is still in order not to affect the normal production, if the work is stopped, the equipment of the refinery, hundreds of people can be dismantled in a few days.

After waiting for half a month, Lin Ziran on the town side of Qingshan Town also planned to give up strategically, and in the future, he would take people and horses to stay in the oilfield factory, and then he would be allowed to enter but not leave, and strictly keep the secret of kerosene.

At the same time, with his rapidly expanding patrol battalion, within a month, he was able to expand the total strength of the patrol battalion to more than 1,000 people.

Even if there are only two musket companies that can barely carry guns, plus an artillery platoon and a cavalry platoon, and what is left is a huntsman company of an old bandit and hundreds of recruits who have been trained for less than a month, but it is enough for these recruits to make up a number to scare people.

Thousands of troops, even if they are all recruits, a group of parallel goods, but who dares to despise him Lin Ziran?

At that time, even if the big man in the county town is eyeing kerosene, he will dare to reward him directly.

With this mentality, Lin Ziran threw himself into the training of the patrol camp every day.

There are few soldiers and guns, which makes him very insecure.

In order to train the patrol camp, Lin Ziran didn't care about anything,

Even the second time he sent troops north to Guang'an to escort the baggage, he did not personally bring people there.

Instead, he sent Wu Dajiang and Scar to go north together, and gave instructions to Wu Dajiang and Scar: if you can fight, you will fight, and if you can't, you will run. , pay attention to safety, it's really okay to lose the baggage, but you must bring the troops back to Lao Tzu!

Wu Dajiang is an honest man, and he still listens to Lin Ziran's words very much, and Scar naturally doesn't care about the life or death of the baggage, only about the life and death of their own people.

As a result, they were attacked by the Guang'an cavalry again on the road!

The two of them strictly followed Lin Ziran's instructions, and when they saw hundreds of cavalry rushing over, they hid behind them, not daring to come out.

Just watch the opposing cavalry rush up and set fire to the baggage vehicles!

The goal of those Guang'an cavalry was only to carry the baggage, and they did not want to kill or injure as many Luo'an soldiers who escorted the baggage, so they burned more than half of the baggage, and ran away again.

A few days later, Wu Dajiang and Scar reported to Lin Ziran very honorably: This time they went north, they did not lose even one brother!

But after Wu Dajiang said this, he said worriedly: "My lord, will you blame the boss this time!" ”

Even Scar, who has always been bold, frowned, so that his already terrifying face looked even more terrifying, and he only listened to him: "This time it was Tang Youfeng who came to answer, and after seeing that the materials were destroyed more than half, his face was very ugly, and he said that he would report it to the headquarters!" ”

Lin Ziran also didn't expect that Wu Dajiang and Scar would execute their orders so thoroughly, so that they could fight and run if they couldn't.

As for them, they don't even fight.

More than half of the hundreds of truckloads of supplies were burned by the Guang'an cavalry, and now I am afraid that the upper authorities are going to go crazy.