Kalimantan, as Westerners call it, is Bo Ni and Borneo recorded in ancient Chinese books. This tropical island country is as large as one would imagine, being as large as 21 Taiwans, making it the third largest island in the world.
The Chinese people's understanding of this island actually began in the Jin Dynasty. At that time, eminent monks crossed the sea from India to China, passing by Borneo on the way. Later, during the period of Emperor Wu of Liang, there were already ships in the Central Plains that could sail here.
In the following years, as long as the Central Plains civilization regained stability and emerged from the shadow of war, all the native kings of Borneo had contact with the Central Plains dynasty, let alone the later Sanbao eunuchs who went to the West.
Until the era when Portuguese colonists began to conquer Southeast Asia, the Chinese country Lanfang Republic and some other small Chinese city-states appeared on this island.
However, it is a pity that the Central Plains maintained its mainland policy and the concept of isolation from the country was deeply rooted. As a result, the Chinese in this land did not receive support from the mother country. In the end, these small republics disappeared in the long river of history.
Xiao Letian will never allow such a tragedy to happen again. The Chinese who grew up here must have their own country. Don't expect other indigenous peoples to coexist peacefully with the Chinese. If you want peace, you must have the protection of force.
Not to mention that the northern part of Borneo, the Brunei region, under the control of the kings and sultans, has the most critical resource of the second industrial revolution, oil!
Oil is the core of all Xiao Letian's strategies. In the era of internal combustion engines, a country without oil would be disabled. Unfortunately, China has been an oil-poor country since ancient times.
It’s not that China really has no oil, but that China lacks shallow oil fields and rich oil fields. For example, the well-known Daqing Oilfield in later generations was explored for oil here when Japan was at war with Manchukuo but failed.
An important condition that restricts exploration results is depth. The final successful exploration of Daqing Oilfield was after drilling more than 1,200 meters before oil was discovered. However, most of the oil fields developed by humans before World War II were shallow oil fields of several hundred meters.
From here we can see the importance of technology. The United States’ petroleum technology at that time was the first in the world. There are unofficial records that American geologists have long known that there are rich oil fields in the Daqing area, but they know better that besides the United States, It cannot be mined by any country outside of technology.
As expected in the end, the Japanese couldn't even find it, let alone mine it.
Japan's militaristic tanks cannot lack oil. At that time, Japan relied heavily on the United States for oil imports. A large part of the wealth plundered from China was sent to the United States in exchange for oil.
This is a big strategic bottleneck. In order to break through Japan, we can only focus on areas in Southeast Asia where oil has been discovered.
The rich shallow oil fields in Brunei and Sumatra have become Japan's only choice, especially Brunei, which is almost the Kuwait of East Asia. The entire country is located on a large oil field, and oil wells of four to five hundred meters can produce oil. .
Such an oil field is what Xiao Letian must have, because he knows very well that the foundation of his scientific researchers is far behind that of Europe and the United States. Even if Xiao Letian stood in Daqing and told those children that there is oil down there, they would not be able to exploit it. come out.
If technology can't reach it, it just can't be reached. This is very helpless and we can only rely on the accumulation of time.
Today, Xiao Letian didn't want to hide his secrets from these direct relatives. He pointed at the cabin door. Wang Huaiyuan immediately understood and walked to the door to listen and then locked the cabin door.
Xiao Letian said sternly, "What I am talking about now is related to the life and death of the Chinese nation for a hundred years in the future! I can tell you that just under the earth of Brunei, the most precious wealth of the future, black gold, is flowing, and that is oil!"
"I have never been shy about my ability to predict. Now I am going to give you the boldest prediction!"
"After humans entered the rational scientific world, in fact, all technological explosions were based on the use of energy... There is no doubt about this. Primitive humans did not know how to use fire. They could only eat their hair and drink blood like wild beasts to resist the cruel planet. nature!"
"Later, smart humans learned about the power of fire and knew that wood and hay can burn. Now science has proven that what wood and hay plants store is actually the energy of the sun!"
"It is very clear when we look at our lives. Plants store the energy of the sun and convert it into solids, and humans collect and store this solid to obtain energy... The indigenous people of the Far East cut down a large amount of wood every autumn to chop firewood. , the heat released by these woods can sustain people’s production throughout the winter!”
"This is a scientific way of using solar energy, which we commonly call life experience!"
Xiao Letian poured himself a glass of rum with ice and drank a swig, letting the cold wine slowly flow down his chest. He said comfortably, "Later, Europeans began to upgrade this way of using energy. They suddenly felt that wood The firepower is a bit insufficient, and now the age of coal has arrived!"
"The era of the steam engine actually used the steam engine as a medium to extract the energy stored in coal in the earth's crust. This energy is more powerful and domineering, and it is stored in the form of mineral deposits and is not affected by the seasons!"
"The British Jenny textile machine can get sufficient power all year round. The steam locomotives on the rails roar and run 365 days a year. If the steam engine ships on the sea carry enough coal, they don't have to worry about the monsoon climate!"
"Even the Zhiyuan under our feet relies on the energy provided by the black coal to travel across the ocean... Remember, what we are burning now is the solar energy stored billions of years ago!"
Xiao Letian banged the glass and squatted down on the table. "What about the future? Isn't there any more efficient energy source to replace coal? Yes, of course there is. It's the black gold I'm talking about, oil!"
"I firmly believe that the energy of this liquid will definitely change the appearance of the human world in the future. Whoever is at the top of this industry will dominate the world!"
"Now I tell you, there is enough black gold under this land for our Chinese people to use for a hundred years. Do you want it or not?"
Now even Sima Yun, who had been thinking calmly just now, became enthusiastic, "Yes! Of course I want it! Since the head of state said that this land has the lifeblood of our Chinese nation for the next hundred years, then even if Chi Guoguo invades, we will still go to war. !”
Luo Huo punched the table, "Yes, that's right! Although I don't know how to use which oil, but the head of state said it is a good thing, so we have to grab it!"
Wang Huaiyuan was even more excited: "Yes, yes... Since it is so important, we might as well build more than a dozen universities here in the future and start researching around this oil industry... Asking people to give money to people, give money to people, study ten In the past eight years, I don’t believe that we Chinese people can’t understand this kind of thing!”
Xiang Ying stood at attention and saluted, "I'm going to check the cannonballs. I will personally select the three gifts for those earth kings tomorrow!"
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