Chapter 672: Side Effects of Discovering Oil Fields

If the Japanese really start to frantically look for oil in the Northeast, Liu Lang sincerely blesses them in Southwest China, devils, look for it! Don't think of any other way。。。。。。

That's because, in the past time and space, although the Japanese did not find raw oil in China, they still took a lot of "oil" from Northeast China, but it was not raw oil, but "artificial oil".

Northeast China is extremely rich in iron ore and coal resources. The open-pit coal mine in Fushun has a high-quality coal seam with a slope of about 30 degrees and a thickness of up to 300 meters, and the coal seam is covered with an oil shale layer about 200 meters thick. During an investigation at the Fushun Coal Mine, the South Manchuria Railway Company discovered that the oil shale blocks that rolled down from a high place sometimes caught fire due to friction during the fall, and the Japanese speculated that they contained a large amount of oil.

At the beginning of 1921, the Manchurian Central Laboratory began to study the development of oil shale in Fushun coal mine. In December 1929, the Fushun shale oil processing plant was completed with a daily output of 4,000 tons, and was immediately listed as Japan's "national defense industry".

By the beginning of the full-scale war in 1937, Japan began to store large quantities of oil, and due to the discovery of oil shale mines in northeast China, coal resources were abundant, and half of the factories of Japan's artificial oil project were located in northeast China.

However, when Japan began large-scale processing, it was found that the original purification method not only affected the quality of the oil, but also could not be used by warships at all. In the end, the head of the Fushun oil shale plant, Kiyoji Hasegawa, committed suicide.

As a result, Japan turned to coal liquefaction, which has "a precedent for success".

Which synthetic oil is stronger? The answer is the Third Reich.

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, they adopted the development of liquefied coal to produce "synthetic oil" when solving the problem of the power of the war machine. Hitler told the chemists: "It is inconceivable that an economy without oil is now unthinkable, and the project of liquefied coal will continue at any cost to Germany, which demands independence." ”

By the time the Third Reich began its invasion of Poland in September 1939, the production capacity of synthetic oil had reached 72,000 barrels per day, accounting for 46% of the Third Reich's national oil supply. At the beginning of the war, the Third Reich was in full swing.

Seeing the favorable situation brought about by the success of the Third Reich in synthetic oil, Japan naturally strengthened its determination to develop artificial oil. However, the Third Reich regarded this technology as a defense industry secret and refused to divulge it to Japan. The Japanese, who had nothing to gain, had to delve into it themselves.

By July 1939, Japan's coal liquefaction operation was successful, producing the first batch of coal liquefied oil. However, it was only filled with three glass bottles, one of which was dedicated to the Imperial Palace, another to Ise Jingu, and the third to Abe's alma mater, Karusugu Elementary School in Hokkaido.

The Japanese had ambitiously committed to producing artificial oil, but by 1943 they had produced 1 million barrels, only 8% of the 14 million barrels they had originally planned to produce that year. With more than half of China's production coming from northeast China, in late 1944 and 1945, Japan's offshore shipping lanes were blocked by mines that made it impossible to bring those artificial oils back home.

The project exhausted so many resources and manpower that the Manchurian Railway Investigation Department later drafted a very harshly worded report, warning that Japan's energy prospects were not bright, and that the artificial oil industry "will not be able to produce millions of tons in a hurry when Japan needs a lot of oil."

Judging from the technical level at that time, even if the Fushun oil shale and artificial oil industry were fully launched, the annual oil output would not exceed 100,000 tons. Combined with local and Kitabata oil production, it is estimated that Japan's oil production capacity could reach up to 670,000 tons per year. In 1931, the Japanese Navy made a conservative prediction, inferring that within the next five years, Japan's domestic oil demand could be reduced to a minimum of 2.5 million tons per year; Even so, Japan still has a huge gap of 1.83 million tons per year, which needs to be made up by obtaining oil from abroad. Otherwise, the Japanese Navy would not have regarded Britain and the United States as imaginary enemies, and for the sake of oil, they would have set their sights on Southeast Asia.

For a long time after that, Japan's "artificial oil plan" never made a big difference, and finally had to declare the plan bankrupt. As a result, the situation in Japan is even more tense. In order to obtain oil, it must open up new channels.

In the past 20 years, Japan has obtained a total of 2.1 million tons of artificial oil from the Fushun oil shale, a large part of which has become light gasoline and has become an accomplice of the Japanese army on the battlefield in China.

If we can take advantage of the opportunity that there can be oil fields in the Chinese mainland, let the Japanese top management give up continuing to vigorously develop the artificial oil industry and reduce the plundering of the resources of Northeast China, which is also what Liu Lang is happy to see.

Of course, the discovery of an oil field in Sichuan, China, has attracted the attention of all parties at home and abroad, and the Chinese government's gain is not limited to having a small oil field to prove that it is not an oil-poor country, even if that small oil field simply cannot meet the needs of a large number of cars and planes.

It is a fact that Japanese spies are flying all over China, but the Chinese are not stupid, and before the 40s, China's largest secret service agency, referred to as "Central Unification," had long been eyeing the Japanese, and had been stern since the news of the oil fields was released.

In a short period of half a month, five high-ranking Japanese spies were captured, more than 10 liaison offices related to them were destroyed, and one of them was even the personal maid of a high-ranking official of the Kuomintang, and even the close people of such a high-ranking official were Japanese spies.

The furious bald boss ordered a strict investigation, and if he couldn't get rid of the Japanese spies on China's territory, then the spy leader of the Central Union could really hit the wall. Following the clues exposed by the senior spies, I don't know how many Japanese spies were mistakenly hit in the auxiliary car in this spy purge war, and I am afraid they are still wondering before they die, Baga, buddy has not received any orders and has not done any action, okay? is honestly being a Chinese "civilian"!

Obviously, this is not a good excuse.

A small piece of news about the oil field caused a heavy loss to Japan's spy structure in Nanjing, the capital of China, which is estimated to be a small Smurf on the other side of the sea and a mountain on the other side, oh no, a small ambition that Hirohito did not expect.

However, China does not intend to hide the fact that small fields are producing. It can even be said that the symbolic meaning of small oil fields is far greater than the significance of oil production for its own use, anyway, China still has to continue to import crude oil, and that little oil is really not enough.

If the output is more than 500,000 tons or 1 million tons, and the bald guy dares to spread it all over the world, it is really a fool. Making a fortune in a muffled voice is the king.

Clearly, China's current supreme leader is not so mentally retarded.

After all, the high-level spies dispatched by the Japanese obtained the real output of the Sichuan oil field from Chinese experts, and the rock formation was extremely thick, and the oil output was too small, and the annual output of 350,000 barrels was already the limit.

What is the reason for a small garbage oil field? The Japanese high-level leaders collectively relaxed their minds and continued to immerse themselves in their armament war plan and continue to build their super-battleships that would be turned into flying planes flying around like flies by US GIs.

Lovely Japanese people are always so fond of being fooled by Americans. You know, the industrial production capacity of American GIs is more than ten times that of theirs, and several aircraft carriers can be launched in a year.

As for the battleship, hehe, buddy has stopped playing for a long time, lie to you!

The Japanese only understood this truth a few years later, otherwise they would have been very angry with the American GIs! If you don't agree with each other, you will play sneak attack and stab you in the ass.

And during this time, Langtuan is naturally not idle, and he is also very busy.

Huashang Group's miracle drug---- Baixiao tablets, was quietly listed in Sichuan.