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"More cowboys in Texas, more cowshit in Houston!"

The first stop of Situ Nan and his entourage came to Houston, an important city in the southern United States. biquge.info It is located in the upper Gulf Plain of southeast Texas, 80 kilometers from the Gulf of Mexico, at an altitude of 49 feet (14.94 meters) above sea level. the greater Houston area (including the surrounding 7 counties), which covers an area of 6,304 square miles and has a population of about 4.3 million; The Houston metropolitan area is 617 square miles. Predominantly white, black, and Mexican descent. Among them, the Mexican population has grown rapidly in recent years.

The city has a subtropical climate, with an average annual temperature of 20.7 degrees Celsius and an average annual rainfall of 1,224 mm. Summers are hot and humid, with temperatures above 33 degrees Celsius for 94 days. The annual sunshine period is 188 days, and there are many hurricanes from July to November every year.

The area around Hugh, especially along the Gulf coast, is rich in oil and natural gas, as well as barite, gypsum, magnesium, salt, timber and freshwater.

With its abundant oil resources, Houston became the oil center of Texas in the United States and the oil center of the United States.

Situ Nan's previous life Houston was amazing, as the fourth largest city in the United States, it has an energy center, a space center,

The world's largest port, trade and financial center and so on. Situ Nan had been to Houston several times in his previous life, but a hundred years later, Houston was full of high-rise buildings and a prosperous city, so he didn't want to see it like what he saw now.

Coming out of the train station, what Situ Nan saw was just a dirty town, without many high-rise buildings, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Situ Nan didn't expect that a hundred years later, the people walking on the street here were neatly dressed white-collar workers, and now the streets are full of arrogant cowboys.

The folk style is really strong! It's no wonder that the frenetic rodeo of the previous life was popular in Texas, but the venue was Dallas, which was also part of Situan's itinerary this time.

The vicissitudes of life, a hundred years is enough to change a lot of things, and now Situ Nan is not used to seeing it, but he is a little depressed about the cow that he doesn't know what to step on under his feet.

"Stone, I don't even know why I'm here in this place!" Hayes complained. Since following Stuart, Hayes is no longer the embarrassed oil worker he used to be, and he now has a little money, of course, which is a small amount of money for Stuart, but for most Americans, Hayes is already a propertied man. When people have money, their tastes are more or less high, so after spending the night in a modest hotel in Houston, Hayes couldn't help but complain.

Even Hayes, an honest man, complained, it can be seen that although Houston has developed to a certain extent, it is not comparable to the eastern cities, nor is it comparable to Los Angeles, but isn't this backward situation exactly what he wants? If Houston is doing well, what opportunities are there for it? So complaining to Hayes, Situ Nan just smiled: "Here's what I need." ”

"Oh!" Since Situ Nan said that he would do whatever he wanted, anyway, if there is a benefit, he will have to have his own share. Hayes scratches his head, like a chimpanzee, grinning, showing white teeth, kind of cute.

Situ Nan didn't tell Hayes that he was looking for oil, but only said that he would do some ranch and lumber business, and people like Hayes would not think too much about it, which is one of the reasons why Situ Nan brought him here. The other self is that this guy is strong enough to make a cameo appearance as a bodyguard if he has something.

As for He Wenxiu, he has been with Situ Nan for two years, and he has been silently following behind Situ Nan's back, and he will not pay attention to other things even if he knows.

Situ remembered that a major oil field in Texas was in the town of Conroe, not far north of Houston, but several people didn't know about it.

"Did you remember wrong?" Situ Nan thought to himself, "Probably not, maybe the place is very remote or now it's not called a town but a certain river or hillside in Conroe." Look again! ”

The effort paid off, and finally they heard from a down-and-out farmer about a place called Conroe, a small village 28 miles north of Houston.

It cost $5 for the bankrupt farmer to read and agree to be Situ Nan's guide, and Situ Nan spent another $10 to hire a horse-drawn carriage for convenience. Although the guide fee of $5 is a bit expensive, without this guy, Situ Nan, they really can't find this remote village called Conroe!

After crossing a small river, the bankrupt farmer pointed to a village in front of him and said, "That's Conroe." Welcome to Conroe, and thank you for your generosity. ”

He smiled and pointed to a house in front of him and said, "Do you want to come and sit with me, that's my house." ”

"Okay!" Situ Nan said briskly, and he didn't mind being cheated by the guy in front of him for $5. When you reach the goal, your plan is half successful, what is a little $5!

Along the way, Situ Nan found that the agricultural harvest here was not very good, and a lot of farmland was lost, so he asked curiously: "Is all that land uncultivated?" ”

"Hey, it's all because I lost my heart and eyes for a while, ran to gamble, and wasted the land!" The farmer in front of him said regretfully.

It turned out that his name was Guedas, Mexican, and the farm he used to run had a good harvest, but unfortunately he was tempted by people to get hooked on gambling and lost all his savings for several years.

Gamblers are like this, the more they lose, the more they can't extricate themselves, and they always want to fight again and win back with interest.

So in order to win back, the unwilling Gedass secretly took out the title deed and mortgaged it from his wife, but he lost a mess, and his wife was very angry when she found out, and then ran away with someone.

Poor fellow, his family was ruined because of gambling. For people like Gedas, Situ Nan felt that he was completely self-inflicted and did not deserve much sympathy.

But isn't this your chance? Situ Nan then asked, "Whose hands are those lands now?" ”

"In the hands of the casino, they couldn't find anyone to take over the farm, so it has been abandoned to this day." Gedas said with a wry smile.

"Well, I want to take over your farm, I'll give you the money, and you can get the title deed back and sell it to me, how about it?" This way you can settle your debts too. Situ Nan said sincerely, it felt like a wolf grandmother full of temptation.

"Really? Are you sure you want my land? That's 2,000 acres, that's a lot of land! As if grasping at a life-saving straw, Gedas asked excitedly.

Damn, such a large piece of land has been lost, it's really a loser! Sure enough, it's selling Yetian, don't feel distressed!

"Yes, I'm going to run some land deals here." Situ Nan said.

With Situ Nan's help, the next day Gedas got back the title deed from the casino, and then sold 2,000 acres of land to Situ Nan at a price of $80 per acre, a total of $160,000, in addition to settling the debt, Gedars still had a lot of money left.

Situ Nan also got what he wanted, but it wasn't enough! He wanted to buy the entire area of the oil field, so he said to Gudass, "Can you do me a favor?" I have taken a fancy to this piece of land, in addition to your land, I want to buy all the nearby places, at the price of $80 per acre, you receive an acre and I will give you a benefit fee of $1, how about it? Situ Nan said.

However, in order to dispel Gudass's suspicions, Situ Nan could not be too enthusiastic, so he continued: "This promise is valid until I leave Houston, you have a month. Of course, because I am not in a hurry to use the land, the original owner does not have to move out immediately after the sale, and the farmer in the field can wait until the harvest. ”

"Okay, you wait for my good news!" Guedas said, as if he wanted to act immediately. People are like this, they have been decadent for a long time, and once there is an opportunity, they will seize it tightly. Guedas is also such a person.

When he returned, Hayes asked puzzled, "Stoney, are you going to be a farmer?" Otherwise, what are you buying so much land for? I don't think it's a very good land, but I worked on my uncle's farm, so I can't hide it. ”

“bingo！ You're right, that's what I'm going to think, you know? Europe is about to go to war, when the price of good crops will rise. Situ Nan thought he had found a good excuse.

However, He Wenxiu, who was behind him, disagreed, he saw Situ Nan doing the same thing in Santa Fenquan in Los Angeles.

After following Situ Nan for two years, He Wenxiu knows what a shrewd guy Situ Nan is, and he has always been unprofitable.

Only a rough man like Hayes believed such nonsense as a farmer.

These things are related to Situ Nan's secrets, he can't leak them lightly, in fact, there is a book in Situ Nan's Los Angeles home, which records a bunch of messy gibberish, which records the important events of historical development that Situ Nan has been recalling in the past two years, and there are also some very small things, in short, you can remember as much as you can, because as time goes by, people's memories will slowly disappear. It's just that the book is too important, so Situ Nan hid him very well, and even He Wenxiu didn't know that there was such a thing. (I guess he didn't know what he saw it!) ）

Then, as he walked around Houston, he slowly discovered that Houston was not very good, but there was a lot of vitality in the chaos, and in some ways, it was no less than Los Angeles. This is the cotton trading center in the southwest, with developed transportation, abundant resources, and convenient ports, which will definitely develop over time. It's a pity that I don't have enough strength now, otherwise Houston is also a good place to invest.

On the fifth day, Gedas finally came to Situ Nan. This guy really has some ability, and with his incorruptible tongue, he actually persuaded other landlords in Kangluo to sell nearly 4,000 acres of land to Situ Nan, and judging by his excitement, he should make a lot of the difference.

After another ten days, Guedas came to the door again, and this time he finally got all the remaining 6,000 acres of land in Conroe.

Now most of the land in the entire town of Conroe is owned by Situ Nan, for which he spent 960,000 US dollars, and of course the 10,000 US dollar benefit fee from Gedas, well, this guy is a good dogleg, he is an expert in this area, Situ Nan decided to bring this dogleg with him in the next land purchase.

Since then, the Conroe Field, the second largest oil field in Texas after the East Texas oil field, has fallen into the hands of Situ Nan.

960,000 US dollars to win a super large oil field, it is really a cabbage price, although the method is not bloody, black! It's so dark that it can't be worse!

However, no one except Situ Nan studied and spent millions of dollars to buy such a large piece of land, and if there was no oil, the million dollars would have been almost lost. In fact, the price given by Situ Nan is much higher than usual, which is why so many landlords are happy to sell their land to Situ Nan, and they can buy bigger and better land elsewhere to start over after getting the money from the land sale.

In a word, everyone is not stupid, they just take what they need, the only difference is that Situ Nan has memories of his previous life and knows that there are oil fields in this place.

Taking a step back, these landlords would sell to other wildcat explorers or other oil companies, even if they didn't sell to Situ Nan, and the price they gave was about the same amount.

In order to avoid wasting land, Situ Nan later also sent people to run the farm and grow some crops, which also made a lot of money in the First World War.

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