"How's it going? Did you get oil today?" Fatty Liu asked.
The workers below shook their heads. They had been digging for several days, but there was no sign of oil.
You must know that at the Tang government, the third wellhead drilled on the first day began to spray oil outside.
The stills were built in advance, and now they are refining oil there.
Fatty Liu and the others don't have the technology for the distillation kettle yet, but the government has said that as long as oil comes out here, they will buy Fatty Liu and his oil at a high price.
However, dozens of wells have been drilled in the past few days, but no oil blooms have been seen at all.
Will your money go down the drain?
Fatty Liu was walking beside his construction site a little depressed, and suddenly felt something sticky under his feet.
When he looked down, he saw that his feet were black and oily.
"Yes?? Yes!!" Fatty Liu shouted excitedly: "Someone, come quickly, I'm out of gas!"
The workers all looked at Fatty Liu curiously. His employer didn't have well drilling equipment, so why did oil come out?
When they come over and take a look, hey, it's really oily.
The area where Fatty Liu was standing was not sure whether it was because there were too many wells drilled here in the past few days or something else, but oil began to gush out from the cracks in the soil.
Especially since he is heavy enough, if he jumps on it now, the oil on the ground will bubble up.
"Don't be stunned! Drill a well for me right here!" Fatty Liu said with a grin. They all said that he was a blessed person, and that was indeed the case.
He took off his oily boots, and the attendants around him would take them to clean them.
"Don't move!" Fatty Liu shouted: "You can't wash these shoes. Seal them properly and hang them in the lobby when you go home. Let everyone in the future know that the first barrel of oil in our Liu Family Oilfield was Fatty, I stepped on it with these boots."
Soon, in addition to Fatty Liu, other companies that bought oil began to produce oil. Although the output was not high, everyone was relieved now that there was output.
The price purchased by the Tang Dynasty government was indeed not low, at least much higher than that of coal.
Barrels of oil were hauled to the Tang government's refinery for refining.
Currently, Datang's refineries basically use atmospheric pressure diversion.
Atmospheric pressure fractionation can refine petroleum gas, gasoline, kerosene and diesel.
Liquefied petroleum gas is not easy to store at this time, so it is directly exported and burned as fuel.
Gasoline, kerosene and diesel are loaded separately.
Gasoline and diesel will be used by Datang's imitation gasoline and diesel engines.
Kerosene can only be used for lighting now.
Datang had already imitated some gasoline engines in Chang'an using the engines bought by Tang Ping.
Just because of the craftsmanship, it is much larger than the engine Tang Ping bought.
At this time, the refined gasoline is added directly to a car equipped with a gasoline engine.
"Doo doo doo doo!"
"Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
A Tang soldier turned the key on it several times but failed to ignite the engine.
Just when everyone thought he failed, he screwed again.
This time it actually started successfully.
To start a steam engine car, you have to burn the boiler for twenty minutes to half an hour in advance. Only when the pressure is sufficient can you start the car.
But this gasoline engine is different. After it is successfully started, you can start driving directly. The onlookers burst into loud cheers. Although they still didn't understand the real meaning behind it, at least what they were doing was successful now.
Gasoline refining was successful, and so was the imitation of gasoline engines.
Tang Ping was also very excited. Once the gasoline engine and diesel engine can be put into use, the diesel generator will be put into use immediately.
The electricity currently used by Datang is the small hydroelectric generators and solar panels that he moved from modern times bit by bit like ants moving.
The electricity generated is enough for nearby living needs.
But if diesel generators are built, the electricity production capacity can be greatly increased.
He believed that in the near future, Chang'an would be able to see electric lights on Zhuque Street at night.
"Congratulations to Duke Ping!"
"Is this gasoline engine ready?"
There were many wealthy businessmen and aristocratic families who came to watch the ceremony and offered their congratulations.
This is sincere. Tang Ping said that after the gasoline engine matures, steam engine technology will be opened to them.
"Thank you very much!" Tang Ping responded with a smile: "It is considered a success for the time being. We still need to study some large-scale ones."
Datang now has a demand for large diesel engines in addition to its demand for diesel generators.
After all, the Tang Navy had to constantly replenish fuel when burning coal.
But if it is replaced by a diesel engine, the range of the Tang Navy will be much longer.
Tang Ping was still thinking of occupying the beautiful land as soon as possible.
So many people came to congratulate and they were happy today, so Tang Ping planned to treat them to dinner.
Just then the elder of the Wang family came over.
"Ping Guo Gong, we are in trouble."
"What's wrong?" Tang Ping asked. The Wang family had already arranged the land they would reclaim, and now they had recruited a lot of people to dig the Suez Grand Canal.
Now he is coming to find me. Is there something wrong with the Grand Canal?
"The canal construction site has just started today, and half of the statues were dug out of the ground. Then many workers who were recruited quit their jobs and said they would not dig deeper, saying that it would blaspheme their gods."
"Huh??" Tang Ping didn't expect this to happen: "The statue has always been buried underground? Wasn't it temporarily buried?"
Tang Ping wondered if someone had temporarily buried the statue and encouraged the workers to cause trouble.
During this period of time, the people around the Tang Dynasty have figured out the temper of the Tang Dynasty. As long as you do not violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty, they will not attack the people at will.
Moreover, they also agreed that people believed in different sects, so some people became bolder.
Especially when the Arab Empire fell, some nobles continued to have a different identity in the Tang Dynasty.
Some nobles were beaten to the end for various reasons.
Therefore, Tang Ping knew that there must be people who were dissatisfied. In addition, hundreds of thousands of soldiers died in Tianzhu, and the relatives of these soldiers were also very resistant to the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that many of them were distributed to the neighboring countries that were recovering, and there was nothing they could do against Datang.
But there are still some who stay on Bozhou Road, so Tang Ping has been paying attention to these people to see if they will jump out and cause trouble.
"Probably not!" The elder of the Wang family shook his head: "The people below them didn't know the route of digging the canal at first. They had only just drawn it, and after it was drawn, we would have our guards even at night. They had to bury it. It’s not that easy to make a statue of a god, and the statue is not small.”
Tang Ping touched his nose and said, "Okay, let's go and see which god is trying to stop us from digging the canal."
