Chapter 1027 Hope Oilfield (1)

It was already late April when the fleet led by Bai Kesi arrived in Miaoli. According to the information Haihan knew, the rainy season on Taiwan Island should be between April and May. However, this climate data comes from several

No one knows how much the statistics will deviate in this era after a century. And after the short rainy season ends, it is difficult to make an accurate estimate to what extent the navigation capacity of Houlong River will be affected.

It is expected that we must use this period of time to ensure that the water flow in Longxi can ensure the navigation of barges until they leave the Shankeng Oilfield, and seize the time to organize transportation capacity to transport some large materials into the mountainous area.

Under the constraints of such objective conditions, plans such as the extermination of indigenous tribes must be slowed down. After all, the huge amount of materials that need to be transported into the mountains and the navigation of Houlong River that may be interrupted at any time are the urgent problems that need to be solved at present.

The main contradiction is that the indigenous tribes are currently only hidden dangers, and the urgency of starting a war is not that high. Moreover, because of the unfamiliarity with the local geographical conditions, the plans formulated by the military in advance are based on armed escort as the main means, and do not take the initiative.

Be fully prepared for the attack.

After determining the direction of action, everything can be implemented step by step according to the plan. Morgan had already planned the general steps of action before, and everyone discussed and determined the division of labor during dinner, rested one night, and started to work tomorrow.

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Although Miaoli is a relatively unfamiliar place, and only two prior on-the-spot investigations were conducted, Haihan has become very familiar with carrying out surprise colonial resettlement in a short period of time in the past few years, and he has concluded that

A set of relatively efficient action plans has been developed, and only certain adjustments need to be made according to the specific target environment.

The next day, it was just getting dark, and the coastal camps were already busy. The cooking team started preparing breakfast for the more than a thousand people at three o'clock to ensure that they could start work as soon as possible. Although the breakfast was only rice porridge and pickles, the cook was in the porridge.

Adding a lot of fresh seafood, these cheap fish, shrimp and kelp immediately greatly improved the quality of breakfast. Many people woke up automatically after smelling the aroma of this seafood porridge in their sleep.

The food provided by Bai Kesi and others is naturally better. There are also fresh meat buns and white flour steamed buns to choose from, as well as eggs and milk that only the chiefs can enjoy. The travelers have always enjoyed better treatment in life.

Even in a remote place like Miaoli, there won't be a big gap. They came to this era just to enjoy the treatment of superiors, and they would not deliberately do any tricks to get along with their subordinates, and in this era

East Asian civilizations are still in feudal dynasties where superiority and inferiority are clearly distinguished, and differential treatment is one of the necessary means to maintain the dignity of the ruling class.

However, everyone had tasks to do today, and there were a lot of things waiting to be done, so they were not in the mood to enjoy breakfast slowly. After eating it in a few seconds, Bai Kesi called everyone to start work.

The fleet led by Bai Kesi arrived here yesterday and still had a lot of supplies that had not had time to be unloaded on the shore. On the other side, the unloaded goods had already begun to be loaded onto flat-bottomed barges for inland navigation. However, most of the flat-bottomed barges departed from Penghu.

The cargo has already been packed and arranged in formation. When the first trip from the coastal camp along the Houlong River into the mountains, the cargo can be directly attached to the back of the tugboat for shipment.

Due to the need to seize the time during the rainy season, Baikes decided to invest all six steam tugs. Each tugboat can tow four fully loaded barges and transport dozens of tons of materials upstream at one time. Considering that two more places will be built on the way

At the stronghold, two of the six fleets will be responsible for transporting supplies and personnel to these two locations, while the remaining four fleets will focus on transporting supplies to the Chusangkeng Oilfield area. In terms of military defense, Yu Yao and Morgan

They will be stationed at the Coast Camp and the Chulunkeng Camp respectively, while a platoon of troops will be deployed at each of the two armed strongholds in the middle, under the command of lower-level officers.

Bai Kesi, Liu Shanxia, ​​Tian Yeyou and Morgan were all going to the Chushuangkeng area, and it happened that one person was responsible for commanding a fleet. After eight o'clock in the morning, several people boarded the boat separately and commanded the fleet to set off. Each fleet filed from the coastal camp

After sailing out, with a distance of more than half a mile from end to end, the scene looked spectacular. It should be regarded as the largest fleet on Houlong River in history.

Because it is necessary to transport a large number of armed personnel to various strongholds along the way while transporting supplies, almost a dozen soldiers with live ammunition are sitting on the cargo of each barge. One fleet can almost transport a platoon of troops. Considering that

Due to safety issues, a large number of migrant workers basically have to wait until the second trip to board the ship.

The fleet arrived at the first stronghold on the way more than two hours after setting off. The river beach here was still deserted. It seemed that Haihan's plan to set up a stronghold here would not encounter any resistance. After the fleet unloaded its cargo, it

We will return to the coastal camp. If everything goes well, we should be able to transport personnel and supplies here today. At that time, migrant workers and logistics personnel equal to the number of the garrison will be stationed here, and it will take about two to three days to build a civil engineering building here.

The prototype of the armed stronghold structure.

In the future, after the initial cleanup of the surrounding areas, more immigrants will soon move in here and gradually control this area through colonization, and the armed strongholds built in the early days will serve as administrative offices here. At that time,

This township formed by two river bends in the south and north will also provide food and part of the labor force for the oil fields in the adjacent mountainous areas.

Due to time and safety reasons, the fleet did not stop for meals midway. Everyone had lunch on the boat with dry food, even the travelers. At around two o'clock in the afternoon, the fleet successfully arrived at the first destination.

The location of the two river bend strongholds. A fleet of boats slowly approached the shore. The only thing left to do was to unload the materials on the ship to the shore as soon as possible and then start building the stronghold. If the soldiers moved quickly enough, then this ship

The team still had time to return to the coastal camp before dark.

After passing this river bend, the terrain began to gradually rise, and the speed of the barge fleet carrying heavy materials also slowed down significantly. After entering the mountainous area, the only sounds from the steam engines on a few tugboats were heard in the entire forest.

The loud noise made any attempt to hide their whereabouts come to naught. Although it was only a few miles away from the sulfur pit, it still took more than two hours to reach the destination.

"This is our oil field!" Bai Kesi raised his hands in the air, unable to conceal his excitement: "Our internal combustion engine era will start from this place!"

"Old Bai, don't be too excited. We haven't determined where the oil is buried in the ground yet, and we haven't even figured out the horoscope yet!" Tian Yeyou poured cold water on him without hesitation from the standpoint of an expert.

Bai Kesi chuckled and didn't take it seriously. In fact, based on the mining location known to later generations, the approximate location of the oil field has already been determined. However, the mountain geography has inevitably changed over the past few hundred years, so it is still necessary to conduct on-site exploration to compare with the data.

Confirmation. And he is not the only one who is anxious about this matter. Most people in the executive committee are full of expectations for this. Even the name of the oil field has been decided early. It is called Hope Oil Field to represent the time travel.

Public expectations for the coming era of internal combustion engines.

Of course, the wish is beautiful, but it is not that easy to realize. The initial expenditure on material preparation and personnel mobilization alone has already cost Haihan hundreds of thousands of yuan to go out, and then he was stationed in the Miaoli area.

, the construction funds are by no means a small amount. Even if oil can be successfully mined and refined in the future, the cost will be astonishingly high, at least for a foreseeable period of time in the future, high-end goods such as gas turbines will not be used offshore.

It has been widely used in the Han industrial system.

But even if this is a low-cost-effective project that seems to be thankless at this stage, the traversers will still spare no effort to promote its implementation. The leading advantages in the field of industrial technology are worth investing money to develop. This is the consensus of everyone, not to mention this

This advantage has become so great that it is two centuries ahead of the earth's civilization at the same time. And from the perspective of the history of civilization development, the rise of industrial civilization will inevitably be accompanied by the competition for energy production areas. The sooner Haihan masters the development and utilization technology of oil, the better

It will leave the competitors of the same era further and further away.

In addition to food and daily necessities, the dozen or so ships of supplies arriving at the Hope Oil Field were almost all drilling tools, building materials and various prefabricated components used to build prefabricated houses. The soldiers were divided into two teams, with one team responsible for

After unloading the goods on the river bank, the other team began to clear out the open space on the river bank as a foundation for building a camp later.

The last time Morgan came here for an on-site inspection, he had roughly selected a flat area about 500 meters long and 200 meters wide on the south bank of Houlong River as a camp site. After Liu Shanxia got off the boat, he reviewed the area Morgan selected.

This area is also very affirmative. The terrain here is relatively flat. If you go up the slope, the amount of work required to transport building materials and level the foundation will be doubled.

Before Haihan arrived, this area was an undeveloped virgin forest. Although the trees were not as dense as tropical rain forests, it still took a lot of effort to clear this area. In terms of the amount of work, this place

The manpower required is much greater than the three strongholds outside the mountain. Those places are alluvial plains on the coast, basically only low shrubs, and it is relatively easier to clean them up.

"Mr. Bai, you should call in your subordinate Cai Hongzhan for this job. This logging is his specialty." Liu Shanxia joked with Bai Kesi while directing the work on site.

Cai Hongzhan was an employee of Bai Kesi before time travel, and his specialty was carpentry. After the Time Travel Group landed in Yulin Bay, the leader of the logging team was Cai Hongzhan. Until now, he is still in charge of timber-related matters.

All the forest farm directors on Hainan Island are under his command. In the field of logging, he definitely surpasses Liu Shanxia in terms of professionalism.

Baix looked at the soldiers using axes to cut down the thick trees, and felt that the pre-planning was a little bit wrong. In an uninhabited ravine like this, a professional logging team may be more useful than an armed force.

In the midst of the busy work, the sky gradually darkened before I knew it, and the cleared area was only a few hundred square meters. It was definitely too late to build a wooden house. I could only put up the marching tent first and deal with the first night.

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In addition to the basic defense line, Morgan also set up five groups of hidden sentries in an area about 200 meters outside the camp as a temporary defense method. Morgan knew very well that there was an indigenous tribe across a ridge to the east.

However, he was not too worried that the natives would invade the camp at night. This kind of action that required strict maintenance of combat discipline was not something that non-professional civilian armed forces could handle.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to have dinner together, several leaders also gathered together to discuss the current progress of camp construction.

"Three-quarters of the supplies we have transported have been unloaded so far. It will take about one to two hours to unload tomorrow morning. However, the fleet that has unloaded the goods has already returned downstream, and it is expected that it will be unloaded tonight on the first day.

Rest for one night at the second base. If we hurry up, we will return to the coastal camp at noon tomorrow, so that the second trip should be sent the day after tomorrow." Morgan, who is responsible for supervising the unloading, took the lead in reporting the progress of his work.

Liu Shanxia shrugged and said: "Everyone must have seen the situation here. The progress of clearing the ground will be slower than expected. There is nothing we can do about it. The only logging tools we have on hand are saws and axes. I made a rough estimate.

At a glance, it will take about five hundred trees to clear this area. Even if we don't sleep, it will take about five days at the current speed of progress. This is already the ideal result."

"Tomorrow I will designate an area. You cut down the trees there first. I will instruct the drilling rig to be set up and drilling can begin." Tian Yeyou's progress is undoubtedly the fastest among these people. He seems to have found the

After seeing the location of the oil field, he looked calm and relaxed.

"How sure are you?" Bai Kesi asked immediately after hearing this.

"It's hard to say, 60% to 70%. I think we've found the right place, but we still have to wait until we drill down to see." Tian Yeyou's attitude was still more cautious and he didn't speak too fully. But this was in Bai Kesi's ears.

It sounds like oil has been drilled out of the ground.

"Then tomorrow the logging team will give priority to ensuring the needs of the exploration team and clear out the mining area first." Baikes made a prompt decision and decided to invest limited resources in oil field drilling first. It is not that the internal combustion engine has been built and is waiting for this.

Oil comes to start, but if oil can be drilled successfully, everyone will feel more relaxed. Moreover, the goal that the Executive Committee hopes to achieve at this stage is not how many thousands of barrels of crude oil the oil field can produce per year, as long as

Just make sure that oil can be drilled out of this place. After all, in order to turn oil into fuel, you have to build a refinery first.
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