my wife is a consul

Chapter 645
A few tens of kilometers away from Soroston is the free city-Bhadhara.

Soroston Airport, when Lu Ming's special plane landed, Brooks, the general manager of Soros Petroleum Company's Bhatra branch, Russell, the mayor of Soroston, Satato, the chieftain of Bhatola, and a group of people had already been waiting at the airport. .

Soros Petroleum Company's management of Soroston is more like the East India Company of Lu Ming's previous life. Brooks, the mayor of this small oil town, is elected by the western residents of the town. Ross Company recommends, and only recommends the staff of the company.

Compared with the newly emerging West Black Mountain Fort in the north, Soroston has a much smaller population. It is a small town of more than 1 people. Most of them are Westerners, half of whom are blue-collar workers. The rest of the Westerners only come here to do oil-related work. , came to pan for gold, unlike Xiheishanbao, which has all kinds of investment, and more people migrated here, forming an important town in the Western Regions.

The main reason is that the crude oil extracted by Soroston is transported through pipelines, which requires much less manpower.

The oil extracted from the Soroston oil field goes northeast through the pipeline, joins the Lafite oil pipeline, and then goes east together, ending at the Luxon Heavy Industry Zone.

Luxon is rich in coal resources. It has gradually formed the industrial center in the western part of the empire a hundred years ago, and is now one of the heavy industrial areas in the western core area. It was incorporated into the territory of the Kingdom of Sonia a year ago.

The oil pipeline from the Western Regions to Luxon was completed just before the outbreak of the Imperial Civil War, with a total length of more than 2.5 kilometers, a cost of 41 million yuan, and [-] tons of steel.

The pipeline is a joint venture between Soros Petroleum and Fira Petroleum, with Soros Petroleum holding 60.00% of the equity.

In fact, the transportation route from Xiheishanbao to Hanzhou is also being planned. Of course, the premise of this planning is that Hanzhou must be in the future territory of the principality.

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Although the town of Soroston is small, the Soros Building is [-] stories high, and nearly one-tenth of the town's people work in it.

In the conference room on the top floor, Wang Jincai, the general manager of the Western Regions Branch of Yellow River Trade, was the chief person who came to receive them.

Lu Ming was introduced as Representative Li, who seemed to be just one of the entourage.

Brooks, Russell, and Satato just received a secret telegram from their boss yesterday. The boss donated the two oil fields, which are actually Soros Petroleum Batara Branch, to the Prince of Montenegro, and the Prince of Montenegro entrusted it to Yellow River trade agency operation.

During this period of time, the three of them have been in panic. The boss is missing, and the head office is in disarray. The tax issue is being investigated by the imperial capital, and the property in the Kingdom of Sonia is directly confiscated.

The "Justice City-State Alliance" supported by Punke Trade notified Chieftain Sata Tuo a while ago that he would be admitted as a member of the alliance.

Of course Chieftain Sata Tuo knew that the opponent's goal was the oil field of Soroston.

His city-state is weak, and when he entered the alliance, he became a plaything and a puppet of others.

But now, Soros Petroleum pays him a lot of money every year. As the emperor of this area, how happy is that?

Brooks and Russell were even ready to run away. If they were caught by the natives supported by the punk trade, the outcome would be hard to say.

In order to occupy the oil field once and for all, the punk trade may instruct the natives to execute all the influential management in Soroston, and they will be the first to bear the brunt.

Now that the oil field has a normal receiver, Brooks and Russell are relieved. Moreover, they are backed by the Principality of Northern Montenegro, and they have roots. Although their former boss is rich, in troubled times, he has become a man A fat sheep that people want to plunder.

"Here, everything will continue as usual. Tomorrow, Mr. Soros will officially publish the news that Soros Oil has been sold to the Yellow River Trading Company, so there will be a lot of things for us to do." Wang Jincai said, looking at Chieftain Sata Tuo, "Representative Li is mainly in charge of the company's armed defense department. You can talk more."

The Yellow River Trading Company has been authorized by the Principality to form armed forces outside the territory to protect its commercial interests.

This is the normal state of some official trading companies operating outside the territory since the civil strife in the empire.

Chieftain Sata Tuo immediately looked at Lu Ming with a smile on his face, "Representative Li, you..."

Lu Ming has already waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go to your place to talk!" Wang Jincai and the others are mainly talking about business operations, and they won't change anything. Stable, and firmly grasp the Thoroston area as soon as possible.

In the city-states around Xiheishanbao Petroleum City, Zhongzhou language is very popular now, and the nobles must learn Zhongzhou language from childhood.

The nobles of the Bhadhara city-state are all proficient in Western languages.

Moreover, the Westerners in the Bhadhara area came earlier, the railway was built earlier, and the civilization was earlier, and it was more prosperous than many city-states.

In the city of Batara, there are many buildings of various Western styles, and even the mansion of Chieftain Sata Tuo is also a small Bavarian-style palace.

"Prince Baoyue, do you have any contact?" In the reception room of the chieftain's mansion, Lu Ming got straight to the point.

Chieftain Sata Tuo was stunned and said, "His younger brother once came to this place and wanted to seek help from the Griffinians."

King Baoyue was originally the lord of the most powerful city-state in the southern region of the Western Regions. You can know that he can be called a "king". When the country was destroyed, the Griffinian Empire was established.

In the later years of the first generation of Baoyue King, the heavy armored knights of Griffin went to the Western Regions and defeated the Baoyue King's army that was expanding northward.

From then on, the Western Regions entered the era of free city-states, and under the mediation of the Griffinians, they became an imperial confederation in the form of an alliance of free city-states.

However, dozens of city-states in the south still serve King Baoyue as the main one.

More than 300 years ago, there was another hero in the Baoyue King system. He once conquered the central and northern city-states, and finally the empire sent envoys to order him to retreat. Some southern city-states were separated from Germany and broke away from the Baoyue King system.

Until last year, the punk trade supported the "Fair City-State Alliance", mainly the city-states in the central part. Some city-state owners still remembered the hatred 300 years ago, so they issued an ultimatum to ask the Baoyuewang family to remove their titles, and a war broke out between the two sides. King Baoyue was defeated and lost a lot of money, and although he didn't get rid of his title, from Punk Trade to the city-state alliance in the middle of the country, he was called Baoyueluo.

At this time, Lu Ming heard that King Baoyue's younger brother had come here to ask for help. It seems that King Baoyue's family still has wise men, who somehow knew that the Westerners were also split, and they knew about the dispute between the Griffinians and the Sonias.

Lu Ming smiled: "I'm going to go to the southern city-state to take a look. You can write a letter and introduce me."

It is naturally the best choice to keep the war as far away from this place as possible so that there is enough time to build up defensive forces here.

(End of this chapter)