1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 340

An oil well produces about 6-7 tons of crude oil per day, and the annual output is at least 2000 tons.

In other words, the oil wells directly under the Standard Oil Group alone can produce at least 74 tons of crude oil every year.

This is only an oil field directly under the Standard Oil Group. Counting the oil wells of other retail investors, the annual output of crude oil in Los Angeles may exceed 150 million tons this year.

Such a huge crude oil production made James and others excited. No wonder Liang Yao dared to boast to them that he would increase the production of kerosene in Los Angeles to 5000 million liters within two years.

有如此庞大的原油产量支撑，不要说5000万升的年产量，5000万加仑的年产量詹姆斯等人也愿意相信（美制加仑1加仑约合3.78升，英制1加仑约合4.54升）。

As expected, August was right. This young American rich man is indeed a relatively conservative person.
"How much do you earn in dollars per month?"

Liang Yao asked about the monthly income of the oil workers by the way.

"Those of us who work hard can earn about 35 dollars a month." The oil worker answered Liang Yao's question with a smile while scraping off the wax stains on the sucker rods and putting them into a small wooden barrel beside him. .

Another oil worker pointed to the mechanic who was overhauling the steam engine and said: "We who work hard don't earn much. These masters who understand machinery can earn at least 50 dollars a month, and the masters can earn [-] dollars a month." More. I heard that our Standard Oil masters can easily earn a hundred dollars a month.

I have sent my child to the mechanical school in the holy city to learn skills from the masters in the school. After he learns the craft from school, he will come to Standard Oil as a mechanic to fiddle with these machines.

Compared with the Qing Dynasty, this place is heaven. My son told me that the school not only does not need to pay tuition fees.Regardless of the food, eggs and meat that are not necessarily available during the Chinese New Year in the Qing Dynasty can be eaten at least once a day at school.

Days like this were never dreamed of before. "

At $35 a month, that's on par with industrial workers in San Francisco and Sacramento, and three times the per capita income in New York City.

This kind of income is placed in the eastern region, and it can be regarded as half a foot into the threshold of the middle class.

You must know that Los Angeles was the place with the lowest income and the most hated dog in California before. The first choice for immigrants was San Francisco and Sacramento, and they would go to Nevada no matter how bad they were.Few people would choose to settle in Los Angeles without any advantageous industries.

Looking at the entire United States, only industrial workers in California can enjoy such high wages.

This is why, in addition to the immigrants from the Qing Dynasty, there are also industrial workers from the eastern United States and even the continent of Europa who went to California.

"Is it better here or Daqing?" Liang Yao continued to ask the oil workers.

"Of course it's better here!" the oil worker said without thinking.

"When I was in the Qing Dynasty, our family of seven or eight people only pointed at the harvest of four or five acres of land. Once the wind and rain were not smooth, the whole family would have to go hungry. As for saving money, we dare not expect extravagantly. .

Here, I live frugally every month, and at least I can save about 20 dollars. Now I am thinking about making sure that my relatives in my hometown will also take over, so that the whole family can take care of me here, so that I don’t have to worry about it. The Qing Dynasty had its last meal but never its next meal. "

"Compared to the Qing Dynasty, this is the paradise in the book. As long as you are not a lazy person, you will not starve to death." Another oil worker echoed, "I am from Jiangxi, and I only came to Los Angeles two months ago. At that time, Shaggy came and took all the food and stuff from our house fucking away, and I heard it was filled into some kind of holy treasury.

Fortunately, this guy Changmao is kind-hearted, Chief Changmao saw that I was pitiful, and left me five buckets of rice as rations.Relying on these five buckets of rice, I took my whole family across the mountains and fled to Fujian, and then came to Los Angeles by boat. "

"It's very lucky for you to meet a long hair with a conscience. I heard that some long hairs fill women into the holy library." Another oil worker sighed.

"I thought that Changmao would be able to live a peaceful life for a few days after he left, but I didn't expect Xiangyong to come back as soon as Changmao left. These Xiangyongs are nothing compared to Changmao. They not only grab things Forcibly conscripting peasant husbands to work for them and robbing peasant daughters, killing people and burning houses if they don’t comply.”

"Bah! Xiangyong, who suffered a thousand knives, Zeng shaved his head, what a piece of shit, Xiangyong is just a bandit in the skin of a villager." Another oil worker said, "I was originally a small businessman. When I went to Ganzhou to sell some goods, I once sent someone to set up a card to collect likin at Xunkou, saying that it was a likin, but in fact it was an open robbery, and they robbed all my goods!"

Liang Yao was quite surprised that there were so many Jiangxi immigrants in Los Angeles.

Due to the unstable situation in the Mainland, Liang Yao did not have any familiar magistrates in the Mainland. Before that, he basically immigrated from Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.

"The recent immigrants are all immigrants who suffered from military disasters, not only from Jiangxi, but also from Hubei, Anhui, and Zhejiang." Deng Wenshun added.

"How about the wages of workers in other oil companies?" Liang Yao nodded and asked Deng Wenshun.

"It's lower than that of our Standard Oil Group. The treatment of our Standard Oil Group is the best." Deng Wenshun thought for a while and said, "But it's not much lower. Thirty dollars are always available, and you won't die of hunger."

"What are these wax deposits?"

While Liang Yao was talking, James stared at the wax stains in the barrel and asked, his intuition told him that these wax stains were not waste.

Since this dark liquid called petroleum can be extracted from kerosene, it is naturally possible to extract other valuable things.

"This is the dirt that crude oil has condensed on the sucker rod. It must be removed in time, otherwise it will cause mechanical failure." Deng Wenshun explained in a serious manner.

Regarding Deng Wenshun's explanation, James was skeptical. After visiting the oil field, James and others said that they would go to the refinery now.

Deng Wenshun led the crowd to the heavily guarded oil refinery, which is a factory that produces kerosene.

James and others were not surprised that there were so many soldiers guarding the refinery. If he found such a business opportunity, he would send heavy soldiers to guard the factory to prevent competitors from stealing his production secrets.

After entering the gate painted with the sign of strictly prohibiting fireworks, it is the inside of the refinery.

"The black viscous liquid you saw on the oil field just now is crude oil, which is a semi-finished product. Crude oil is refined into kerosene in the factory here." Deng Wenshun introduced to everyone.

The current oil refining technology is very backward. Kerosene is the most economically valuable product that Liang Yao can distill from crude oil.

In addition, some lubricating oil, oil wax and asphalt can be extracted, but the market prospects of these products are not as broad as kerosene at this stage.

Deng Wenshun intentionally took James and others to skip the production distillation and secondary fractionation, and came to the end of the production line.

Workers were seen filling kerosene finished products into empty barrels, and then pushing wooden barrels filled with kerosene into the warehouse.

James noticed that many unknown liquids similar to kerosene were discharged as waste, and pointed to these liquid wastes and asked curiously: "Why aren't these liquids sealed in barrels?"

The waste James is referring to is liquid waste containing gasoline or diesel.

Liang Yao also wants to use these things, but now there is no internal combustion engine, these things are useless and can only be discarded as waste.

Moreover, the internal combustion engine, a cross-age product, is not something that skilled craftsmen in California can fiddle with in a while.

"These are useless scraps." Liang Yao replied.

"Can it be burned?" James continued to ask.

"Yes, crude oil can be burned." Liang Yao replied.

"Since they can be burned, why not package them and sell them as low-quality kerosene?" James' eyes lit up.

"The burning of kerosene is controllable and safe, but the burning of these waste liquids is uncontrollable. Have you smelled their smell?" Liang Yao asked back.

"Yeah, it's something I've never smelled before," James replied.

"The gas produced by these waste liquids, as long as there is a spark, it will explode and send us all to the sky. Are you going to sell this flammable and explosive liquid as kerosene?" Liang Yao asked rhetorically.

James was speechless. He didn't expect this waste liquid to be so dangerous. Liang Yao's answer also cut off his idea of ​​reusing this waste liquid.

Kerosene is the most brand-new product, and the most feared thing is that it will be boycotted due to safety accidents.

Liang Yao is not stupid enough to sell these waste liquids as kerosene. Once an accident happens, not only will his reputation be affected, but whaling industry practitioners will also use this incident to hype up and attack and boycott kerosene.

After walking out of the factory, Liang Yao breathed in the relatively fresh air, feeling refreshed a lot.

"You have visited the oil field, and you have also visited the refinery. I don't think you should have any worries about our cooperation. You should know now that I am not bragging to you." Liang Yao went straight to the point.

"To tell you the truth, the kerosene plant in Los Angeles needs to be expanded to increase production capacity. I have other projects to do, and the funds that can be transferred to the refinery are limited. I hope that the Rothschild Bank can obtain a loan to expand the kerosene plant. The more kerosene produced in Los Angeles, the more profit you get, and I think you understand better than I do."

There are many oil companies in Los Angeles that can extract crude oil, but the only chemical company that can refine crude oil into kerosene is Liang Yao Standard Oil.

The current status of the chemical industry in Los Angeles is that the refining capacity cannot keep up with the mining capacity, and the crude oil in the warehouses of many oil companies has even exploded.

After discussing for a while, Lionel and James reached a consensus that Liang Yao was a very good business partner.And have enough ability to repay their loans.

At the same time, they also felt that Armstrong's arsenal was not in vain.This explosion has bought them a very reliable business partner, which is very worthwhile.

"As long as you agree to some of our small requests, the Rothschild family is willing to provide you with a low-interest loan of 100 million pounds." After finishing speaking, Lionel did not forget to emphasize, "This is Rothschild The largest loan ever made to a private individual by the Alder family bank."

(End of this chapter)