On the morning of July 9, the fifteenth year of Ankang, Liu Zhixin, Xu Minghui, and Wang Yinzhi arrived at Yingtian Mansion.
Like Pan Shien, after the three of them took a bath and changed clothes, they went directly to see Zhu Jingyuan.
After the three people saluted and said hello, Zhu Jingyuan asked the three of them to sit down, and then asked about the situation in the Dashi area.
The three of them, plus Pan Shien, who arrived yesterday, are the four important officials in the Dashi area.
All four of them hold official positions in the Dashi Kingdom.
Liu Zhixin, the chief historian on the left, Wang Yinzhi, the chief historian on the right, tried Xu Minghui on the left, and Pan Shien on the right.
However, the specific situations of the four people are actually very different.
Liu Zhixin and Xu Minghui have been full-time officials of Dashi Country from beginning to end.
Before Zhu Jingyuan made the appointment, the two of them had only held the official positions of chief historian and judge.
Pan Shien is mainly an official of the Great Food Country, and he is also the chief political officer of the Dongmozhou area, the actual core area of the Great Food Country.
But he also held an official position in the Ming Dynasty, and had been promoted to the chief envoy of Dongmozhou.
Wang Yinzhi was mainly an official of the Ming Dynasty. Starting from the first magistrate of Kezhou (Crete), he was gradually promoted to the official position of Zuoduhu of the Dashi region.
He has never held a special position in the Great Food Country, but he has always held official positions in the Great Food Country.
However, these four officials, whose actual positions are very different, are the four most important officials in the Dashi area.
The current Dashi area can be roughly divided into three parts.
The first is the area directly under the jurisdiction of the Great Food Country, which is the large desert inside the Persian Gulf.
Then there is the direct jurisdiction of Dongmozhou, a big food country, including Zhu Jingyuan's personal private Great Lakes area and the surrounding large tracts of land.
Finally, it is within the territory of Dashi Kingdom, but the overlapping jurisdiction of the imperial provinces has been established.
Including the Dashi Peninsula, Lianghe Basin, the East Mozhou Peninsula, the east coast of the Great Qinhai Sea, the northern area of Mozhou, islands such as Crete and Cyprus.
That is to say, except for Egypt, most of the areas on the east coast and south coast of the Great Qin Sea belong to the Great Food Country.
Among the four persons Liu Zhixin, Wang Yinzhi, Xu Minghui, and Pan Shien, Pan Shien was nominally the "trial" judge, but in fact he was the general manager of Dongmozhou arranged by Zhu Jingyuan.
The actual responsibilities are very clear. He is directly and specifically responsible for the large and small affairs of Dongmozhou, as well as the industrial park, railways and highways, and the development of the Great Lakes area.
Affairs in other areas of the Dashi area are not under his control, and in fact he does not participate in judicial affairs at all.
Wang Yinzhi is now the Protector of the Great Food Region, that is, the chief political officer of the entire region, so he is familiar with the situation in the entire region.
Liu Zhixin is actually responsible for the government affairs of the areas directly under the jurisdiction of Dashi Country, as well as the indigenous affairs in all areas of Dashi Country.
Xu Minghui is responsible for the judicial work among the indigenous people in the Dashi Country, the East Mozhou region, and other areas. He is the de facto highest judge in the entire Dashi Country.
According to Zhu Jingyuan's original plan and order, the main territory of Dashi Country, that is, the area around Liusha City, focused on oil exploration.
There will be no large-scale immigration to the local area, except for personnel involved in exploration and development.
The local population was initially limited to 100,000 people, but was gradually relaxed over the next ten years.
So far, there are only more than 200,000 people. In addition to workers, it is an industry that serves oil workers.
The petroleum refining and chemical industry was originally planned to be developed locally, with the main focus being placed in the southern part of the Dashi Peninsula, near the Gulf of Aden.
However, after the development of the Dongmozhou area matured enough, the refineries near the Gulf of Aden were mainly used for direct export.
The production capacity required by various industries in the Big Food Country has been gradually transferred to places with better surroundings in Dongmeng County.
Nowadays, the total population of the areas under the direct jurisdiction of Dashi Country, except Dongmo Continent, is only over 200,000.
Most of them are directly managed by various factories and trading houses.
Therefore, the actual main task of Liu Zhixin and Xu Minghui is to deal with the indigenous people in the entire Dashi area.
Cooperate with Wang Yinzhi and other political officials in other areas to educate, screen and clean up the local indigenous people.
Doing this job in Dashi and Beimozhou areas was definitely a long-standing problem in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
It's definitely not easy in this world.
But in this world, the methods Liu Zhixin, Wang Yinzhi and others can use are much richer than Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
At the same time, being a "minority," "foreigner," or "infidel" in any country is not a immunity card.
Instead, they are the targets of focus and severe rectification.
Officials of the Ming Dynasty were able to use various harsh means to achieve their goals as a matter of course.
The abilities of Wang Yinzhi and other Ming professional bureaucrats, as well as the discipline and combat capabilities of the local Ming garrison, were much stronger than those of the rulers and armed forces in those areas in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
They are now arguably the most powerful political and military personnel in the world.
They have the ability and means to screen, control, educate, and clean up these aliens.
People who could not be absorbed, such as local religious personnel, could be sent to the neighboring country, the Ottomans.
Osman was open to these people.
People who are difficult to absorb, such as the obvious Mo people, are sent inland to mine and build roads. After the main projects are completed, they are then sent to the black nobles as slaves.
Fanatic believers who refuse to convert are sent to work as slave labor in mines and farms, and are prevented from having the chance to reproduce.
For those who are likely to be assimilated, for example, shallow believers are sent to work in the factories of the Ming people, for example, women are introduced to Ming immigrants as concubines, and children are sent to farms and factories as apprentices.
Ming's cultural and institutional influence, Ming's scientific and technological advantages and financial advantages are stronger than any country in previous generations.
Except for those who live entirely by faith, few people can completely reject Ming's absorption.
In the richer, safer, and more civilized environment built by Ming Dynasty, most outsiders will spontaneously work hard to learn Ming Dynasty culture and integrate into this group.
According to Liu Zhixin, after fifteen years of unremitting efforts from the first year of Ankang to the present, most areas in the master area have completed a comprehensive reform of the general education examination certificate system.
The local social environment of the Dashi Peninsula, the Shuanghe Basin, the east coast of the Great Qin Sea, Cyprus (Cyprus) and Crete (Crete), and northern Mozhou is not much different from the remote areas of the Ming Dynasty. .
The social transformation in the master area has achieved great success.
Zhu Jingyuan fully understood this, because these fifteen years have been a generation.
The most die-hard people have basically died in the mines.
Even those who survived would be subject to centralized labor control for life, with no chance to go out, let alone leave any descendants.
A woman who became a concubine basically accepted the new world after giving birth to her own child.
Children have followed Ming's master since childhood. After learning Ming's language and technology for several years, they naturally integrated into Ming's world system as they grew up.
In Zhu Jingyuan's view, the most important reason why Liu Zhixin, Wang Yinzhi and others can succeed in the master's place is because the world is not "civilized" enough.
In this world, the Ming people are definitely civilized people, at least more civilized than the Thai people.
The people of the Ming Dynasty can accept foreign races. Except for the Mo people whose image gap is too huge, other ethnic groups have the opportunity to "Ming".
But the people of Ming Dynasty are also very tough.
The people of the Ming Dynasty have no logic of seeking common ground while reserving differences. People of the Ming Dynasty now take it as a matter of course to retain similarities and discard differences.
If you want to be enlightened and be treated as a civilized person, you must completely accept Ming's existing systems and rules.
Otherwise, they will be treated clearly and publicly differently.
If you don't get a general education certificate, your wages for the same job will be less.
Zhu Jingyuan expressed very straightforward appreciation for the work of Liu Zhixin, Xu Minghui, Wang Yinzhi and others.
Although there are environmental factors involved, they did it, and this is their credit.
After understanding the situation of the local people, Zhu Jingyuan asked about the situation of the oil industry.
Liu Zhixin was directly responsible for this matter, so Liu Zhixin made a special introduction to Zhu Jingyuan.
Today, the world's annual oil production has reached 6.4 billion stones, which translates into a weight of approximately 540 million tons.
Zhu Jingyuan recalled it and couldn't recall how the historical oil production in previous lives had changed. However, it should not have been able to reach this amount before World War II, at least it would have been at the post-World War II level.
However, Zhu Jingyuan knew that China's total oil production was basically around 200 million tons, and Lucia's was around 500 million tons.
Since the 1970s, the annual output of Lucia, the United States, and Saudi Arabia, the most important oil-producing countries, has fluctuated around 500 million tons for a long time.
It's just that the magnitude may be slightly larger...
In other words, the world's oil production now has basically reached the level of the most important oil-producing countries in previous generations.
Moreover, according to Liu Zhixin, the production capacity of large oil fields in many regions continues to climb.
In the foreseeable future, total oil production should maintain a rapid growth momentum in the next ten years.
It is expected that total output will double in ten years.
At the same time, most of the current total output of 6.4 billion stones and more than 500 million tons was produced by the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty's current oil production has reached the level of Lucia, the United States, and Saudi Arabia from the 1970s to the new century.
And of the total output of 6.4 billion stones, the nominal scope of the Great Food Country accounts for almost 60%.
That is 3.8 billion stones per year, equivalent to about 330 million tons.
However, 1.8 billion stones, or nearly half of the output, were produced by companies affiliated to the Ming Dynasty Royal Consortium.
The main oil fields of the royal consortium were in the Twin Rivers Province, which later became the areas of Iraq and Kuwait.
A formal province has been established here, and it is no longer under the direct jurisdiction of Dashi Country.
Basically all the oil mined by the royal consortium will be transported to the mainland of Ming Dynasty to supply the local petrochemical industry of Ming Dynasty.
The annual output of oil produced by the Big Food Country is about two billion stones, which is equivalent to about 170 million tons.
In the early days of the development of the Dashiguo oil field, the oil in the Dashi country was mainly supplied to the Ming Dynasty.
However, in the past fifteen years, the production of oil fields developed by the royal consortium has soared rapidly, and the demand for oil in the European and Western countries has also been growing.
Currently, only one-third of the oil produced by the food-producing countries continues to be sold locally.
Most of the remainder was sold to the European and American countries.
The local petrochemical industry in the big food country has also digested a small part of it on its own.
The area around Mozhou also digested a small amount.
Apart from the Dashiguo region, the place with the highest oil production currently is the oil lake in Nanyinzhou.
The current annual output has reached 1.2 billion stones, which is approximately 100 million tons.
The oil from Nanyinzhou Oil Lake mainly supplies the northern and southern Yinzhou areas.
Outside of these two places, the oil production in other regions is no longer of the same order of magnitude.
The oil fields in and around the Ming Dynasty are mainly oil fields in the Nanyang Islands area.
Although it was developed relatively early, before the North Sea oil fields were developed, the quality of crude oil was the best in the world.
However, the local oil reserves are relatively low compared to those in big food countries, and the production costs are much higher than those in big food countries.
But the advantage is that it is close to the mainland of Ming Dynasty. Now it is even directly the mainland, and it is the most mature technically.
After years of continuous development, it now has an annual production capacity of 400 million stones, equivalent to approximately 34 million tons.
The Qiuming Oil Field in the Xianbei Principality has very large reserves and great potential in the future.
However, it has only been five years since it was put into production, and it has just entered the stage of ramping up production capacity.
The annual output is currently only about 300 million stones, which is approximately 25 million tons.
Mainly supplied to the Principality of Xianbei, the Principality of Kazakhstan, the Principality of Xianbei, and the northwest region of the Ming Dynasty.
Then there are the Baku oil fields.
The Baku Oilfield and the Dashiguo Oilfield began development simultaneously and have now reached a stage of stable production.
However, the scale of Baku's oil fields is much smaller than that of Big Food Country.
The current annual output is 230 million stones, which is almost 20 million tons.
In addition, other Thai and Western countries have worked hard to review the situation in their own territories and colonies for more than ten years.
Most countries have gradually discovered some oil fields.
The one who gained the most was of course Lucia.
The Volga-Ural oil field jointly developed by Lucia and Ming Dynasty was put into production earlier than the oil field in the Xianbei Principality, and now has an annual production capacity of 300 million stones.
Next is Prussia.
Prussia's new German colony in Mexico, the Nigerian region where Zhu Jingyuan lived in his previous life, discovered a large oil field in the coastal Niger Estuary Delta.
The development of oil fields in New Germany began after the end of the World War. However, the Prussians' technology was lacking, and so far they have only reached an annual production capacity of 300 million stones.
Lucia and Prussia have considerable oil field reserves, but current production still cannot meet the needs of the two countries.
Moreover, the mining costs of these two oil fields are also higher than those in Big Food Country.
The current price of ten knots of oil is relatively low, always at the level of two to three yuan per stone.
Therefore, Lucia and Prussia still need to import a large amount of oil from the big food countries.
Other Thai and Western countries are no exception.
If we say that the oil from Lucia and Prussia has already played a certain role in the country's oil industry.
Then the oil industry in other Thai and Western countries can only be regarded as better than nothing.
And among these countries, the one with the highest oil production is Ottoman.
Romania, controlled by the Ottomans, was the only oil-producing area of a certain scale on the western continent.
In the Mexican region, in addition to Prussian Nigeria, the oil fields at the mouth of the Congo River were also Ottoman territory.
It's just that Ottoman's technical level is really low, and these outputs are only slightly higher than those of Austria, France and other countries.
Now we also need to import oil from big food countries, as well as a large number of petrochemical products.
The British and French have searched all over their homeland and colonies, but they have not found large-scale oil fields.
According to Liu Zhixin, the British are trying to find oil at sea and are studying offshore oil mining technology...
When Zhu Jingyuan heard these reports, he felt quite emotional. If nothing unexpected happened, the British would eventually discover the North Sea oil fields.
The discovery of the North Sea oil fields once made the United Kingdom and Norway on both sides of the North Sea the largest oil producers in western Europe.
Of course, this is the result of excluding Lucia, an outsider.
The oil production of both countries once reached 100 million tons, but the good times did not last long.
The oil reserves in the Beihai oil fields are not at the same order of magnitude as those in places like Dashiguo, Nanyinzhou, and Xianbei.
Now the most important oil-producing areas in the world are all under the control of Ming Dynasty.
Even if other countries plunder their own land and sea areas, they will still have to import Daming's oil in the end.
Mainly from big food countries, the cost is the lowest, the output is the largest, and the transportation industry is the most convenient.
It can be transported directly by sea or pipeline transportation can be constructed.
(End of chapter)
