The current kerosene business in Qingshan Town. Although there are some costs in the process of extracting crude oil, refining kerosene, and transporting and selling kerosene, these costs are not worth mentioning compared to the money obtained from selling kerosene.

According to Lin Ziran's own estimation in recent days, according to the current output, the current oil field, refinery and Tsingshan Commercial Bank combined, its operating costs are at most 2,000 Hengyuan per month, most of which are labor costs, machinery and equipment losses, coal and other costs.

As for this cost, it is still just starting, the investment in all aspects is relatively large, and the channel has just been laid, etc., the initial operating cost is relatively high.

When the follow-up stabilizes, then the cost can be reduced by a large margin.

However, according to the current kerosene production capacity, they can at least return more than 10,000 Hengyuan per month, compared to more than 10,000 Hengyuan, the operating cost of 2,000 is nothing.

If 10,000 Hengyuan is not too much, then when a few more oil wells are drilled in the future, the refinery's production capacity will be raised again, and the profit will be able to increase again.

At that time, it will not be a matter of tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands.

Even in peacetime, money is enough to move people's hearts, let alone in this troubled world.

Ordinary businessmen don't have the courage to trouble Lin Ziran, but what about those powerful people?

If the powerful can also ignore it, then what about the official of Luoan County directly intervened?

It's not impossible, it's very possible.

Since decades ago, the Daheng Dynasty has been mired in an era of feudal separatism.

The feudal towns everywhere are trying hard to expand their territory, and then compete for hegemony in a state or even the entire Daheng.

As the saying goes, it is the deer that is lost, and the world chases it.

To expand their territory and unify the world, what do these feudal towns need?

A stronger army is needed!

And what does a strong army need?

People, equipment, training, and all other things, and these need money to support.

Most of them rely on the development of the local economy and people's livelihood, and then collect taxes to raise the army, and at the same time, in order to directly reap the profits of economic development, these feudal towns often still directly invest in industry and commerce to make money.

Fuyuan Ordnance Factory is a very typical example, the big owner of Fuyuan Ordnance Factory is not a businessman, but a Yamen of Luohai County.

In addition, it is known as the largest factory in the entire Nanhai Prefecture: Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, which is also a government-run enterprise in Luohai County.

This is not only the case in the state capital, but also in the counties, and many large enterprises are basically government-run enterprises, especially the more important or profiteering industries such as arms and machinery, which are either government-run or powerful enterprises.

Pure commercial enterprises, not to say that there are none, but there are many, but the scale is generally not large, and they are concentrated in the light industry.

And the current oil industry, the core product kerosene.

This thing, like whale oil and candles, is almost all ordinary civilian consumer goods, so it is not very important.

But it's too profitable to stand this thing!

Therefore, Lin Ziran is also worried that after it is done, he will be noticed by others, especially by the Luo'an County Government.

Considering the risks in the future, Lin Ziran also decided to speed up the implementation of his plan.

The first is the expansion of the army, which was previously said to be an increase of 150 people, but now it seems that it is not enough.

Although constrained by the lack of funds, Lin Ziran still thought about expanding three more platoons, so that with the addition of the four infantry platoons of the original patrol battalion, the two infantry platoons that he ordered to expand two days ago would be able to make up nine infantry platoons.

Nine infantry platoons were organized into three infantry companies.

Then we can build two artillery pieces, plus the existing two five-pound guns, and we will be able to get together four guns, and we can train a platoon.

At the same time, the existing more than 20 passenger horses can be gathered together and trained into a cavalry platoon.

Then we will carry out a heavy arrangement of transportation logistics.

This adds up to twelve platoons with four five-pound artillery pieces under its jurisdiction.

With the addition of Lin Ziran's guards, there are more than 600 people.

Although more than 600 people seems to be a small number, it is not a small amount for the small place of Qingshan Town.

After waiting for the last two months, the funds are not so tight, then he will expand the number of people by another five or six hundred, making up for a thousand people.

In another two or three months, he would dare to expand the number of people by another thousand.

Strive to get a force of about 2,000 people within half a year.

In this way, even if someone is jealous of his kerosene business, he will have to weigh the 2,000 people under his command at that time.

After having a plan in his heart, Lin Ziran found Wu Dajiang over!

"You keep recruiting, recruit another two hundred."

"It's still the old rule to recruit people, and after recruiting people, the training must also keep up!"

Wu Dajiang naturally said: "I understand my humble duties!" ”

Wu Dajiang has always been the character of Lin Ziran to do whatever he says, and there has never been any doubt.

Lin Ziran is also at ease with him, if someone else comes, Lin Ziran is really not at ease.

Since people have been recruited, this ordnance naturally has to keep up, so Lin Ziran urgently asked people to go to Sanhe Ferry to find Zhou Li of Hongxiang Commercial Bank, and directly renew the ordnance according to the price of the last time, and purchase another batch of ordnance.

However, the agreed delivery time can be later.

Because there is no money on hand for the time being, and now that it has been shipped, Lin Ziran has no money to give them, and Hongxiang Commercial Bank, these ordnance dealers, have always paid money with one hand and delivered goods with the other, so don't expect them to allow credit or installment payment or something.

When Lin Ziran urgently arranged these affairs, Luo Mazi also acted according to Lin Ziran's orders.

That night, a fire broke out in the town guard's house, and the fire was extremely fierce.

The skyrocketing fire reflected almost half of the night sky.

Lord Lin Ziran, the commander of the town patrol battalion, urgently took the soldiers of the patrol battalion to put out the fire after hearing the news, but the town guard mansion is a wooden building, and the fire is extremely fierce, even if he struggles to put out the fire, but it cannot prevent the town guard mansion from being burned down.

After dawn, leading the soldiers to fight in the middle of the night, Lin Ziran, a battalion officer with red eyes, had to announce a bad news: the venerable town guard Lord Wang was unfortunately killed in the fire.

Lord Wang, the town guard, unfortunately died, and Lin Ziran, as the battalion officer of the patrol battalion, was temporarily responsible for the follow-up aftermath.

This included quickly determining the funds to be raised to rebuild the town guard's mansion, and at the same time sending people to report to the county town to inform them of the tragic death of Lord Wang.

The next day, a number of sheriffs in the town also jointly reported that the fire in the town guard's mansion was caused by candles and was purely accidental.

After dealing with such a bunch of things, Lin Ziran can be regarded as calming down.

After such a fire, Wang Jinqian is considered dead if he doesn't die, and even if he comes out and says that he is Wang Jinqian, who dares to say that it is Wang Jinqian who guards Qingshan Town? And not a bandit?

Besides, the people sent out by Lin Ziran to search for him are still in action, as long as Wang Jinqian dares to come forward, what awaits him is a dead end.

It's just that Lin Ziran didn't know that Wang Jinqian had already become a wealthy businessman, and took a few henchmen to take a southbound passenger ferry to Luohai City, the city of Nanhai Prefecture.

The fool went back to that place in Qingshan Town!