After the loan agreement was signed, the next thing was simple, and Tsingshan Petroleum began to wave cashier's checks everywhere to purchase all kinds of machinery and equipment.

Because of the large number of equipment purchased, and the amount is not small, even Ruder Finn Machinery Company personally sent a business manager to Qingshan Town to negotiate business.

In fact, for Rhodes Machinery Company, Tsingshan Petroleum Company's order is not too big, even if Ding Quankun in order to increase the bargaining chips, in addition to the steam engine required by the oil company itself, he also added a set of steam units that Boss Wang's iron workshop is going to purchase, and at the same time, some other equipment purchases are also purchased from Rhodes Machinery Company.

In addition to the production of steam engines, Ruder Finn also manufactures a wide range of other mechanical products.

But in the end, it was only a purchase quota of 20,000 Hengyuan.

20,000 Hengyuan may be a large purchase for Tsingshan Petroleum Company, but for Ruder Finn Machinery Company, this amount is still not large.

People casually sell a set of shipborne steam units for large ships, which are tens of thousands or even more than 100,000.

Last year, the Luohai Naval Force purchased a steam engine power system from Ruder Finn Machinery Company for their first large ironclad ship, and the cost of this steam unit system alone exceeded 200,000 Hengyuan.

Tsingshan Petroleum Company's order of 20,000 Hengyuan is really not big.

However, Ruder Finn Machinery Company feels that the development potential of Tsingshan Petroleum Company is good, and it has only been a few months, and it has ordered more than 20 steam units of various types from their company, and hundreds of pieces of various machinery and equipment.

Considering the expansion potential of Tsingshan Petroleum Company, Ruder Finn Machinery Company also attaches great importance to it, and wants to build a good relationship in advance and strive to completely attract the customer of Tsingshan Petroleum Company.

Therefore, not only did they send a business manager to negotiate, but they also agreed to send a technical team to assist Tsingshan Petroleum Company in assembling and maintaining steam engines and other equipment.

In addition to Ruder Finn Machinery Company, many other suppliers of Tsingshan Petroleum Company have sent middle and high-level executives to negotiate, and even a few of them attach great importance to the machinery companies that are relatively small in scale, and they are all bosses who come to the door in person.

This situation made Lin Ziran cry and laugh.

On the one hand, it feels quite cool to be a boy with scattered wealth, and in the case of buying, buying, buying, buying, those suppliers can't wait to provide Lin Ziran as a parent.

But on the other hand, he lamented that the money was not spent, and after signing more than ten purchase orders, he had already spent seventy or eighty thousand Hengyuan.

But if you can't afford a child or a wolf, the refinery can't be expanded without spending money on equipment, and the crude oil produced in Well No. 5 can't be refined.

Today, the No. 5 oil well can produce oil stably every day, and 500 barrels a day is not discounted at all.

But almost all of this crude oil can only be stored, even if the refinery is now working overtime, and all the refining equipment is running day and night, but it can only refine more than 50 barrels of crude oil.

Even if everything goes well, it will take at least a month for the current batch of equipment to be installed and commissioned, and it will be at least a month before it can reach the refining capacity of 100 barrels per day.

Naturally, such a refining capacity cannot consume such a huge crude oil production capacity as it is now.

Therefore, after the crude oil is extracted, it can only be stored first, and it is not simply stored in wooden barrels as in the past, but directly built a huge oil storage tank for storage.

There's no way around it.

In the past, when Tsingshan Petroleum Company stored and transported oil or kerosene, it directly imitated the whale oil industry in Nanzhou County and used standard whale oil drums as a means of transportation, each barrel could hold about 159 liters of oil.

In the past, it was possible to use this standard barrel when the production was small, but now that the production has increased by at least ten times, it is definitely not possible to use the barrel.

On the one hand, wooden barrels also need to be costly, although it can be reused, but this thing also costs money.

In addition, the current production capacity is too large, and there are not so many barrels available in the short term.

Therefore, Tsingshan Petroleum Company simply built several large oil pools for reserves, and began to use oil pipelines to reduce internal transportation costs for oil transportation in the oil field.

In the next step, Lin Ziran also considered building some oil tankers to transport the produced kerosene to Sanyang Ferry.

The huge and simple oil reservoir pipes are filled with crude oil waiting to be refined, and more oil storage tanks are being built.

This crude oil reserve needs to be costed, not to mention, and it cannot be refined and sold, which is equivalent to digging up gold and can only be kept at home, but it cannot be taken out and spent, which makes Lin Ziran helpless.

He knew that the monopoly on kerosene production left for him in the market was not long left!

After all, there can be no such oil field in this world as Qingshan Oilfield, this is not a thing, the world is so big, there are more oil fields, there are more places with oil seedlings, in the past, people just did not pay attention to it, once it is paid attention to, it is estimated that it will not be long before a large number of oil fields will emerge.

It is estimated that I don't know how many people are looking for oil all over the world, anyway, Lin Ziran heard that people in several nearby towns have started to dig wells to look for oil, but they haven't found it yet.

At the same time, the technology of refining kerosene cannot be kept secret forever, although Lin Ziran has blocked almost the entire oilfield area, and the core technical backbone has been protected by him, such as Nangong Hou!

However, the employees of Tsingshan Petroleum Company are hundreds of people, and some middle-level technicians know a little bit about it, and they only need to know the basic principles, and other businessmen will definitely be able to discover the real mystery of distilling oil by asking a few chemical experts to do experiments.

In a year and a half, all of this technology will be leaked.

Once the oil fields are found and the refining technology is cracked, there will be a steady supply of kerosene to the market.

As soon as the supply is large, the price of kerosene will definitely plummet.

At that time, even if the profits are still huge, they will definitely not be able to make huge profits compared to the present.

Therefore, Lin Ziran must take advantage of this period of time to squeeze the profits of kerosene as much as possible, and it does not take too long, there is a monopoly period of one and a half years, which is enough for Lin Ziran to raise the strength of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion under him to another level.

And the strength of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion is directly related to Lin Ziran's status and future in this world.

Therefore, Lin Ziran is more concerned about the production of kerosene than anyone else.