Chapter 18: Profiteering

A few people went to Hongmen to visit the meeting, sent a post, wrote Mr. Xiusheng's name, and waited for a few days to really see Situ Meitang. That Situ Meitang was disdainful of others, but he valued Wang Maoru very much. However, when it comes to the domestic form of the Kuomintang and Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang and the second **, Wang Maoru has a critical attitude towards the second **, which makes Situ Meitang's enthusiasm for several people cool down, and just said words such as being in a foreign country and helping each other, and then he snubbed it. Everyone wondered why this Situ Meitang looked cold to a few people first hot and then cold, Fang Hongxin smiled: "Mr. Situ is from Guangdong, and we are all northerners, alas." Thinking about it, these years, the relationship between fellow villagers is much more iron than the relationship between compatriots, but Wang Maoru shook his head and said: "Because Situ Meitang is Sun Wen's biggest supporter, I don't like Sun Wen's approach, Situ's predecessors are naturally angry, but you are affected by me." "A few people were busy saying that everyone was talking about the same thing, and what to talk about was not involved, Jin Xiushan said that this Situ Meitang didn't look down on us at all, so why bother with him. After a few days of visiting San Francisco, the friendship between the two deepened, but it was time to separate, Fang Hongxin left first to seek wealth, and Jin Xiushan then took his servants to Boston, USA to study, leaving only Zhao Jiacheng and Wang Maoru. Zhao Jiacheng promised: "Now I am a member of the Los Angeles Consulate, and I have to deal with local overseas Chinese. ”

"Brother Liangyan wants to visit again?"

"Yes."

Wang Maoru shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I don't think the effect is good, you are an official in Beiyang, and you will not befriend you if you are a Cantonese person." Unless ......"

Zhao Jiacheng asked, "Unless what?" ”

"Unless you leave the Beiyang government and live on the side of the People's Party."

Zhao Jiacheng shook his head and said bitterly: "How is that possible, my whole family is in Beijing." ”

Now the Chinese government is the Beiyang government, and the southern provinces and the Kuomintang people do not agree, in the San Francisco, if something happens to the Chinese, the first thing to find is Hongmen instead of the Chinese consulate, which shows that the differences between the Kuomintang and the Beiyang government are very serious.

After several failed visits, the two saw that the people of Hongmen were not interested in them, and they did not fall in love with other people's cold butts, so they left San Francisco and came to Los Angeles. Los Angeles is very prosperous, but there is also a hidden evil under the prosperity, they did not go to the consulate to report on the first night they came to Los Angeles, and when they were looking for a hotel, they encountered a robbery on the way, probably thinking that the Chinese were easy to rob, and several white robbers surrounded Wang Maoru and the three.

But where is Wang Maoru those honest Chinese workers in the local area, he immediately shot the robbers away, and Zhao Jiacheng said gratefully: "Brother Xiusheng's life-saving grace, I Zhao Liangyan can't repay it." Wang Maoru shook his head and said, "You and I don't need to be polite. ”

The Los Angeles police came very quickly, and when they saw that it was a few Chinese, they immediately stopped doing it, and you Chinese still dare to resist? and they will blackmail them. Zhao Jiacheng immediately took out his consulate official letter, Wang Maoru said: "This is a diplomatic envoy representing China, we want to see your police chief, your governor, we want to protest" When the police saw that they were really envoys, they did not dare to embarrass them and let them go, but asked not to tell the governor about police blackmail, otherwise they would find trouble in private. After scaring away the police, Wang Maoru and his subordinates accompanied Zhao Jiacheng to the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles, which is not big, just an ordinary residence in the United States, where more than ten years of old people accepted the letter, and after going through the formalities, Zhao Jiacheng was also thrown lukewarmly to the general affairs department, managing the tea boiler, and really became an unpopular clerk. Zhao Jiacheng was also speechless about this ending, and while Wang Maoru accompanied him for a few days, he left Los Angeles and went to find oil.

He thought of the Texas oil field in the United States, although the Texas oil field has much lower oil reserves than the Mexican oil field, but the Mexican oil field was discovered and exploited by Mobil. Just after Fang Hongxin finished purchasing, he came to the consulate to find out if there were any fellow villagers who had returned to China together, and met Wang Maoru and Zhao Jiacheng, who discussed with the two of them to take risks to develop oil. This Zhao Jiacheng saw that he was ostracized in the government, and saw that he had no hope of becoming an official, so he resigned and went to Texas with Wang Maoru.

After Wang Maoru came to Texas with his subordinates, Zhao Jiacheng and Fang Hongxin, a total of eight people, he bought a large piece of land in the name of Jaden Collins, and then spent money to apply to Texas for the right to mine a qiē mineral deposit in the wasteland. Before and after, Wang Maoru spent all the 300,000 US dollars, and only then did he get the full right to use this desert land and resources. Wang Maoru hurriedly approached an employee of Mobil Oil Company and paid for oil exploration in the area.

At first, the Mobil employees laughed at them, saying that not everyone can become a Rockefeller, and this Jaden Collins also wants to be a Rockefeller. So they weren't very enthusiastic. Wang Maoru saw that these people were too inefficient, so he hired several exploration teams from other American oil companies, all of which he paid to survey local mineral deposits. The Mobil Oil exploration team reported to him that it had found a few hematite mines, but there were no coal mines nearby, which made the hematite useless. Seeing that Wang Maoru and several Chinese lost money every day, and the people of the exploration team ridiculed several Chinese in private, Wang Maoru also knew about it, and according to the anger of Hongxin and Zhao Jiacheng below, he asked them not to make a noise.

Wang Maoru has spent a lot of money to buy land, lease oil production equipment, and hire workers, and has already spent $500,000. Four wells were drilled, three of which had no oil, and one of the wells had oil, but it was a poor oil loss. So Zhao Jiacheng and Fang Hongxin hurriedly persuaded him not to mine, the more wells he opened, the more he lost.

Wang Maoru was so willing that he said: "It doesn't matter how much you lose, it doesn't matter if you lose everything, such a large piece of land, even if you don't extract oil in the future, let's graze here." ”

Fang Hongxin looked at the vast and desolate Gobi, shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly, since Wang Mao was the boss, he could only listen to his nonsense.

Unexpectedly, within a few days, a group of explorers actually discovered an oil field here, and after careful exploration, this is a huge oil field, with an estimated oil storage capacity of one billion tons. The news shocked oil companies across the United States at once.

Immediately approached the landowner, Jaden Collins, to ask if he wanted to sell the land, and offered him to buy the land. Wang Maoru was naturally self-aware, and in the name of Jaden Collins, he directly told reporters that I could not exploit this oil field, that I had no ability or technology, and that in many American societies dominated by conglomerates, he could not protect his land, so this land and this resource would definitely be sold.

However, this land will not be negotiated directly with any company, I will auction it, and the land use rights include resource use rights, and the starting price will be as high as 5 million US dollars.

After that, Wang Maoru successively invited more American experts to discover the reserves, and published them in the newspapers at any time, and with the continuous renovation of oil reserves, the amount increased from one billion tons to 1.9 billion tons, and this news made the whole United States go crazy. Even a large piece of desert next to the land that Wang Maoru bought actually discovered an oil mine with a storage capacity of up to 200 million tons, and several companies even fought for it.

Of course, the biggest cake is the land with oil reserves of 1.9 billion tons, and it is preparing to be auctioned.

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