1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 325

August asked Liang Yao for a sample of kerosene, and soon, Connie brought a small bottle of kerosene sample.

"Excuse me."

After thanking Coney, August carefully observed the pale yellow transparent liquid in the glass bottle, and even sniffed it.

The pungent smell forced him to quickly move his nose away from the mouth of the bottle.

"What a strange and disgusting smell. The smell of whale oil is much stronger than this shit kerosene. The smell of inferior whale oil with fishy smell is better than it."

Hills frowned even more, and said with a look of disgust and disdain.

"Compared to this stinky oil, I think people are more willing to choose better-tasting whale oil, even low-quality whale oil is more comfortable to use than this stinky oil.

With all due respect, this oil is rubbish, there will never be any market for it, and if my servants buy this stinking oil, I will not hesitate to dump this stinking oil down the drain. "

Sears devalues ​​kerosene for nothing.

Sears originally thought that Liang Yao came to him today to discuss gold, banking, securities, and finance, which are decent businesses that the Bahrain family is good at.

Unexpectedly, Liang Yao actually asked him to discuss this kind of dirty business, this is simply an insult to him!
Kerosene blowing the sky is nothing more than a daily necessities. What kind of future can a small daily necessities business have?
Can this thing have a market worth hundreds of millions of dollars?

Hills lost his patience and angrily threw up his sleeves and left.

"Mr. Liang, I thought you would have more taste than those old hats in New York, but I didn't expect you to be more old-fashioned than them. How can you make money selling this kind of daily necessities? It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous."

Before leaving, Hills did not forget to taunt Liang Yao.

"Mr. Sears is really impatient."

Liang Yao cast a disdainful glance at the leaving Hills, then turned his head, looked at August and said.

"I think the Rothschilds must be more discerning and patient than the Barings."

Sears thought Liang Yao was ridiculous, Liang Yao also thought Sears was ridiculous, not only ridiculous, but also sad.

Only by selling daily necessities commonly used by the public can we make money. Kerosene is not only very popular in industrial countries such as Europe, but also in agricultural countries in East Asia.

Both people in industrial countries and people in agricultural countries have needs for lighting.

After the Second Opium War, kerosene was one of the first industrial products that the West successfully dumped in China.

The high taxes imposed by the Qing government on kerosene failed to prevent kerosene from making a bloody way among the local vegetable oils in China.

There is no other reason than that it is cheap and easy to use.

1871年，广州茶油每担的价格是5两4钱，豆油每担5两5钱，大麻油每担5两5钱，花生油每担5两三钱。

In contrast, the price of kerosene is only 2 taels and 8 yuan per load, which is only one-third of the price of local vegetable oil.

Moreover, the combustion process of kerosene is stable, it will not stop burning, and the brightness is higher. The lighting effect is not a little stronger than that of traditional vegetable oil.In the end, even the oil farmers near Guangzhou stopped using vegetable oil and switched to kerosene for lighting.

August shrugged, but he was secretly delighted in his heart.

He wished that the Bahrain family would withdraw from this project, so that there would be one less competitor in the European market in the future.

So Hills left, and August didn't even bother to get up and put on a show to keep Hills back.

"The Bahrain family is not a group of short-sighted people, but this Mr. Sears, who does not eat the fireworks of the world, is."

August put down the glass bottle of kerosene in his hand, and gave the Balin family a pertinent evaluation.

"If Thomas were sitting here today to discuss this business with you, I think the communication process would be much more harmonious. I would like to ask, is this oil vegetable oil or animal oil?"

If the children of the Bahrain family were all ignorant and short-sighted people like Sears, it would be impossible for the Bahrain family to maintain such a large influence in the British Empire today.

Rothschild wished that the children of the Baring family would be like this Hills, and the banking industry was also a key industry for the Rothschild family.

After all, the rich man of the Rothschild family, Old Meyer, made his fortune in the banking and financial industry.

Their two families also have frequent business contacts, especially the third son Nathan Rothschild, the third son arranged by the old Meyer to develop in London, has the most intersection with the Bahrain family.It can be said that the two are both partners and rivals in competition.

"Mineral oil." Liang Yao answered August's question.

"What kind of mineral?" August continued to ask with his eyes wide open.

"Business secrets, no comment." Liang Yao said with a smile, "Mr. August, you have asked too many questions."

"This is a big business, and the more you ask, the more you will understand, and the Rothschild family will be able to cooperate with you with more confidence." August also smiled very kindly, "Since it is mineral oil, The output must be high, right?"

Kerosene is selling well in the Crystal Palace shopping mall today. Consumers in the United States like high-quality and cheap kerosene, and European consumers will also like it.

The market prospect of kerosene is unquestionable, and the issue that August is most concerned about now is the production of kerosene.

If you want to earn huge wealth by relying on cheap daily necessities, production is the top priority.

"Last year's output was 800 million liters, and this year's output will exceed 1500 million liters. If the Rothschild Bank is willing to provide me with a loan to expand production capacity, I am sure that the annual output will reach 5000 million liters within two years. More than that!" Liang Yao said proudly.

In 1852, the assets of the Rothschild family reached an astonishing 953 million pounds, and the funds they controlled were tens of millions of pounds. There must be a large amount of liquidity in their hands.

If he can get a loan from the Rothschild family, Liang Yao can also alleviate the current shortage of liquidity.

The construction of the Pacific Railway will take up a large part of his working capital. The California Coal and Steel Alliance has not yet achieved profitability, and it still has to spend money in it to increase steel production. Even if he has gold mines in California and Australia, it may not be possible. It can guarantee to feed the two gold-eating behemoths of railway and steel.

But the heavy industry in California has to be done again. Right now, Liang Yao wants to expand the oil production capacity in Los Angeles. He needs more working capital for turnover.

Now only current financial giants like the Rothschild family and the Baring family can meet his needs.

"The production has increased from 800 million liters to more than 5000 million liters in two years. Did you find an oil lake in California?"

The annual production of 800 million liters of kerosene was enough to shock August, and within two years the production of kerosene increased from 800 million liters to more than 5000 million liters
If it were someone else, August would definitely treat the other party as a lunatic and a fool, thinking that the other party must be bragging.

After so many years of immersion in shopping malls, August, a financial scammer, has seen many of them.

But Liang Yao is not someone who only knows how to brag. When Liang Yao signed a gambling agreement with him and Backhouse two years ago, August thought Liang Yao was crazy, stupid, and out of his mind. Nouveau riche who are stupid and rich.

Not only he thinks so, but many New York nobles, and even the citizens who watch the excitement, think so too. Most people are not optimistic about Liang Yao's New York business district plan, until the opening of the Crystal Palace shopping mall today.
If California really has such a terrifying kerosene production capacity, the market of hundreds of millions of dollars mentioned by Liang Yao is still very conservative.

That is to say, the evil businessman in front of him who speaks wildly with him is still a very modest and conservative person.
At this moment, Auguste only felt his mind buzzing, a little messy, and even a little out of control with excitement, every cell in his body was boiling with excitement.

Damn, with such a horrible kerosene production, any lighting fuel will instantly become unscented in front of kerosene.

"It's not that I found an oil lake in California, but an oil field." Liang Yaoyun said calmly.

August couldn't sit still any longer, he jumped up excitedly from his seat, and crazily sniffed at the bottle of kerosene sample, not paying attention to the strange eyes of the people around him.

"It smells so damn good, it smells so good."

Now August didn't feel the pungent smell of kerosene at all.

Ordinary consumers will not feel the smell of low-quality kerosene that is not pure enough. The price of a liter of kerosene in Crystal Palace is 30 cents, which is a full 20 cents lower than whale oil.

A difference of 20 cents is equivalent to one or two days of food expenses for the working class, who cares whether it smells good or not.

Besides, the fish smell of ordinary whale oil is not necessarily much better than the smell of kerosene.

"The smell of money is of course very fragrant." Liang Yao said.

(End of this chapter)