Feng Yunshan still roughly knew about the situation of this onshore oil field called Seriya in Brunei. When Brunei's offshore oil fields were not developed and put into production, the onshore oil fields already had a daily output of 100,000 barrels of crude oil, and this Seriya was the largest onshore oil field, accounting for at least half of the production, that is, this oil field alone, if the technology can be reached, can have the capacity to produce more than 50,000 barrels per day. Feng Yunshan can produce 7,000 tons of crude oil a day if he converts it slightly. This is a thousand times higher than the Xiangzhou Oilfield in Baise, Guangxi, which produces six or seven tons of crude oil per day!

It's horrible, it's amazing!

Even if it can't be mined like the Shell company in later generations, there will always be one-tenth of it, which is nearly 1,000 tons per day. It is equivalent to a year's production of Xiangzhou Oilfield in Guangxi in one day!

Moreover, although today's oil production technology is not good, but I happen to know this line very well, the principle of kowtow insect oil extractor is still known, and now it has entered the industrial age, the basic principles of mechanical power are there, and they organize craftsmen to develop and develop with the power of a country, even if it takes a few years, it can always be made, because this itself is not a difficult thing, and the 19th century has come out. In this way, the crude oil production of this oil field can be increased to four or five thousand tons a day, as in later generations.

In that case, Feng Yunshan couldn't help but fantasize about the Chinese Empire becoming the largest producer of crude oil in the mid-19th century. It can not only meet the needs of the people of the country for night lighting, but also be exported to European and American countries and other countries. What an interesting thing it is to turn the "foreign oil" of the original time and space into "Chinese oil"!

Moreover, they can further consume gasoline and so on, and use it to develop napalm incendiary bombs, which are extremely destructive weapons even in the 20th century, once used, the Chinese Empire can be said to have a nuclear bomb in the 19th century, invincible in the world, but this kind of is easy to be imitated by foreigners, which is a disaster for the world.

The most useful thing is actually the invention and application of the internal combustion engine. Once gasoline and diesel appear in large quantities, it will inevitably lead to the emergence of internal combustion engines. It seems that the gas internal combustion engine will be developed by the French next year, but Feng Yunshan has long forgotten who it is, and he only remembers that a mechanical engineer named Otto in Germany will invent the four-stroke internal combustion engine in 10 years. Regardless of who invented it, as long as the oil industry develops on a large scale, the era of the internal combustion engine will be accelerated. Prior to this, Feng Yunshan felt that he had an obligation to help the Chinese nation occupy these precious oil resources. After all, in today's era, the entire Chinese people account for more than 30 percent of the world's total population, and they must occupy so much in terms of the territory they live on or the resources they occupy, especially the precious strategic resources that are destined to rank first in later generations. Otherwise, China will become the world's largest importer of crude oil in the future, and the annual loss of wealth and military strategy will be subject to the embarrassment of others, and this situation will not be able to occur again.

"We must lay out in advance and seize the world's oil and gas resources!" Feng Yunshan said to himself fiercely!

As a person who has worked in the petrochemical industry, Feng Yunshan naturally knows the importance of petroleum in the future! It can be said that the future twentieth century is called the century of oil. Feng Yunshan did not remember who said something like that, but he felt that it made sense: "Whoever owns the oil will own the world, because he can rule the sea (ships) with diesel, the sky (airplanes) with highly refined oil, and the land with gasoline and kerosene." In addition to this, he was able to rule his compatriots economically, as he could make unexpected fortunes from oil. "Until the era before Feng Yunshan's crossing, there was no resource that could effectively replace oil resources on a scale.

From the perspective of the distribution of oil resources, the world's oil resources are mainly distributed in the Middle East to North Africa, Central Asia to Russia and North America, and the Middle East accounts for more than two-thirds of the world, of which Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, that is, the Arabian Peninsula, is really the world's oil predator, with reserves accounting for more than a quarter of the world. Occupied by Saeed, the tenth son of Ali. It's just that Britain, the number one power today, has set its sights on the whole of Egypt, and with the opening of the Suez Canal, the Arabian Peninsula will inevitably escape the clutches of the British.

It seems that this Middle East should not be counted on for the time being, at least until the navy of the Chinese Empire can compete head-on with the British Atlantic Fleet and the Mediterranean Fleet. For the rest, Western Siberia, Russia's main oil-producing region, is too close to Europe to snatch it from the stomach of a fighting people, and can only occupy the oil fields on Sakhalin. As for the oil fields in Southeast Asia, they can basically be grasped now. In addition, it is only North America.

The oil fields in North America, with the exception of Alaska, are now all occupied by the United States. Alaska is still in the hands of Tsarist Russia, after the end of the Crimean War, Tsarist Russia was afraid that this barren land like chicken ribs would be occupied by the British, and had the idea of selling it and buying it for a little money, but Feng Yunshan originally wanted to occupy the entire Outer Northeast region, and by the way, he naturally occupied this enclave of Tsarist Russia.

As for the other major oil fields in the Americas, they are none other than the southern and western basins of Texas in the present-day United States, California, Oklahoma, and North Dakota, and other places such as Pennsylvania naturally have oil fields, and oil fields will be discovered in a year's time, but these are small oil fields.

Thinking of the hegemonic United States, which would act as the world's policeman in later generations, Feng Yunshan had an impulse to curb it. Among them, in addition to its territory, oil energy is also an important target.

The reason why Feng Yunshan was willing to talk with the French minister Bourblon about cooperation on the Mexican issue, and would rather pay some price to say that the seven states in northern Mexico were assigned to the overseas territories of the Chinese Empire, the fundamental purpose was naturally to use this as a springboard to invade the United States, especially in some states in the western United States at this time, the gold rush had only arisen, and it had not yet been completely mastered, and the American Civil War was coming soon, Feng Yunshan naturally laid out in advance, just waiting for the war to start. He took the opportunity to annex all the western states. Ideally, there would be no better way to get a few states west of the Mississippi River. It is really not good, at least let the two sides of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Northern Federation continue to confront each other for a long time after they are weakened, and then cultivate a puppet regime in the west of the United States of America, so as to prevent the emergence of a unified and complete United States of America. This is the goal not only of France, but also of England. Without directly sending troops, the old world powers like them do not want to see a new and powerful country emerge. The rise of the Chinese Empire was not for the fact that East Asia was not the main interest and target area of the Western powers, and the new regime established by Feng Yunshan fully opened the treaty ports to facilitate trade, of course, the most important thing was that Britain was mired in the quagmire of Indian rebellion.

In any case, these major oil-producing areas in the United States must be controlled by themselves. Even if it can't be forcibly occupied, it can still be controlled by exporting capital, and it's a big deal to cultivate agents early. By the way, in addition to business partners such as Big John and political allies such as Marshali, it is also necessary for Nanyang to find more Americans with backgrounds to act as business partners, just like the acquisition of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. With the help of stakeholders like Lang Feng, it is much easier to do things. Through these means, first, we can bring in some outstanding technical personnel, advanced machinery, equipment, weapons, and so on, and second, we can take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune, and at the same time, we can strike at the capital businessmen of the United States, killing two birds with one stone. At that time, even if Nanyang cannot directly buy US oil assets, it can at least be controlled by proxy.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan suddenly remembered two figures in American history closely related to oil: Edwin Drake and John Wesson Rockefeller.

The latter Rockefeller is naturally familiar, and the previous Drake, known as Colonel Drake, is known only to people in the oil industry, and this person is actually the pioneer of the world's oil industry. In a little over a year, in the middle of 1859, this man would be drilling the first oil well in the United States by machine in Titusville, and it was early 1858, and they were a very small company, with only two or three workers, and it took a little more than a year to drill the well, so to speak, in a few months, this man would be in Titusville, join a small oil company, and start drilling the well?

I still have at least a year to prepare and cope. Think about the Rockefeller, when the world's first oil well was dug in Pennsylvania, countless people frantically poured in, and thousands of oil wells were dug out indiscriminately. In fact, he was right, and within a few years, crude oil plummeted, and because the refining rate was so much lower than the rate of drilling, many drillers had to sell crude oil at a cheap price to avoid bankruptcy. Later, Rockefeller's accurate judgment and bold debt investment brought him rolling profits, and within a few years, he had become the boss of the world's largest oil refiner.

Since I know this history, I will not let go of this huge opportunity to make a fortune. And, before the preparations are ready, send someone to the United States to stop that Drake from continuing to drill, if not to prevent others from drilling the well, but at least to delay the drilling of the first well. After their own people have arranged everything, they will make public the news of drilling oil wells, which is very room for operation.

Feng Yunshan thought about it while taking the imperial ship "Hong Kong" to catch up with Shengjing.