The journey starts from the Titanic

This is the time when oil exploration is booming in the West. From Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma to California, the footprints of oil adventurers are everywhere.You can buy equipment for tens of thousands of dollars, and you can start work by recruiting a few people to form a team.

Drilling a well may cost tens of thousands of dollars, which doesn’t sound like much, but if calculated by multiplying the price by 100, the phone bill is also a lot.The result may be nothing, or it may become rich overnight. The reason why some people are keen on taking risks is because once they succeed, they will be rewarded a hundredfold.

Among them, there are countless losers and many successful ones, but the rise of the petroleum industry has driven the development of these places, which in turn has generally improved the local living standards.

Situ Nan had been to Davos in his previous life. There were a large number of oil refineries gathered there, and there were many oil pipelines everywhere. It was shocking. So later, he found a lot of information and learned the process of many people’s success. At that time, he thought, if he had one What a great opportunity like this.Human nature is often like this. He obviously looks down on the nouveau riche, but he is very envious.

Situ Nan didn't expect his momentary sigh to become reality.Now he is ready to become an oil merchant.This is the best way to make a fortune he thought of.

"Robos, I'm leaving!" When Situ Nan and Robles got together in the evening when they came back, Robles is already a senior and he is now busy graduating and looking for a job.

"Oh? Really?" Robes asked.In the past six months, Robles and Situ Nan have often discussed economic, philosophy and political topics. The two can talk about everything.

Robles knew that Situ Nan was actually an auditor, not a Harvard student, but sometimes Situ Nan's unique economic insights were even worse than his own famous university student.Now suddenly I heard that Situ Nan was leaving, which was a bit strange, so he asked, "Do you have any plans?"

"Go to the west. The weather there is vast and promising. I heard that there is an oil fever during the week, and I want to try my luck." Situ Nan smiled sincerely.

"No? What do you want to do? I know that with your knowledge, if you pursue a financial career in New York, you will soon be able to invest in the land." Robes asked, it seemed a pity for Situ Nan.

"Hahaha. I know what you said. Staying in the east, as you said, I should have a good income for more than three to five years, but it is still far from my goal. I am pretty sure that it is the most The quick way makes me angry." Situ Nan smiled and said, "When the time comes, when I send it back, you will work for me. Haha!"

"Think beautifully! Let's talk about it when you post it!" Robles didn't expect Situ Nan to be so ambitious, but he still respected Situ Nan's personal choice.

"Why don't you come with me? Let's make a fortune!" Situ Nan joked.

"Fuck off. Ask Lao Tzu to tell the Harvard students to go mining with you, are you crazy!" Robles was dumbfounded by Situ Nan's proposal.With the recommendation of his mentor, he is ready to go to Wall Street to pursue a financial career after graduation.

"Don't regret it then!" Situ Nan smiled.

This sentence really became true later, Robles later teased and said, I had known that this kid could make a great deal here, I should have followed to drill the west.

The little squabbles dispelled the two people's unwillingness when they parted. After the two left their contact information, Situ Nan got on the west train that night.

The rumbling body kept ringing, and the train had been walking along the railway all the way to the west for three days and three nights. The front was still endless, and Situ Nan really wondered if the road would end.

Is Situ Nan working on a train for the first time?I’ve been busy in my previous life. I took airplanes, which was convenient, fast and comfortable. At this moment, after sitting on the train for a few days and nights, I felt uncomfortable. Although he bought a first-class ticket, he had a separate room with a bed. The long journey is still boring.

I stretched my head and looked out of the window. There was a vast wilderness outside. In this inaccessible place, you could even see herds of cattle and horses. They galloped in the wilderness, and the primitive wildness was reflected in them, making Situ Nan. This person who rarely comes into contact with the wild is curious.

After the train gradually left the eastern city, through the vast wilderness, through the hot and dry desert, through the gloomy jungle, through the rushing river, through the high mountains, Situ Nan had never seen such a magnificent landscape in his life. , Desolate, the primitive impulse from the west rushed towards his face, and Situ Nan was shocked.

Along the railway, the vast west is full of vitality. Situ Nan discovered that many big cities a hundred years later are now just towns that can't be found on the map, even just a small logging yard, coal station or something.Decades have passed since the Westward Movement in the United States in the last century. The primitive west has finally gained some popularity. Townships and villages are slowly becoming lively, but big cities are still in their embryonic form, or they are gradually emerging. All this is full of vitality and business opportunities.

Sitting in the train restaurant, Situ Nan listened to a well-dressed "gentleman" on the opposite side and said triumphantly: "After the news of the discovery of a gold mine in California was confirmed, the United States was boiling and the world was shocked. First felt the impact of the gold rush. Almost all businesses were shut down. Seamen abandoned their ships in San Francisco Bay. Soldiers left their barracks. Servants left their masters and flocked to the gold mines. Farmers. Pawn farms, pioneers abandon the land for reclaiming, workers abandon their tools, civil servants leave their desks, and even missionaries abandon their missions and head to California."

Perhaps it was a lonely journey. When I found that the young man Situ Nan listened to his brag, the middle-aged man with a little gratitude on his head continued: "In June 1848, half of the house in San Francisco was occupied. Going to the empty building, the two newspapers had to cease publication due to the departure of typographers and the separation of subscribers, and there were only six sailors on the USS Anita. This craze then swept the northern part of San Francisco. Oregon and southern Mexico. In Oregon, in the summer of 1848 alone, half of the adult men, about 3,000 people, left behind the grains to be harvested in Baja California. At the same time, there were more than 4,000 Mexicans. Go north to California. Indeed, gold makes people crazy! No one can resist the temptation of gold."

The man swallowed his throat as if he had picked up a lot of gold from the ground. He said with joy, "This is all great, I love gold, I love America! You know? My grandfather was on the ship Anne at the time. On the Tower, he was an officer. He heard that California had found gold and took the sailors on the ship to pan for gold. Of course, my grandfather was one of the best. Now our family in the west has not only gold mines but also ranch, real estate, etc. A large number of industries." Said his respect here, for his beloved grandfather Old Fort Laws!His head lifted slightly, unspeakably proud.

"Oh, I heard such a wonderful story the first time I came to the West. It's great. Meet me, my name is Stoneny William. I'm a newbie who wants to work in mining."

Situ Nan stretched out his hand and introduced.

"Bot Fort Laus. Young man, maybe I can give you some advice. Our old Fort Laus family is an expert in mining in California." Bot said somewhat reservedly.

"Oh. That's great." Situ Nan seemed to say excitedly.Situ Nan didn't think that this man named Bot could be of much help to him, but he still had to show gratitude on his face.

"Can you tell me about the oil exploration in California? I heard that someone has opened a lot of wells?" Situ Nan asked.

"Oh, you said oil, that's a good thing, although there is no gold to be practical. California has discovered a lot of oil wells, a group of adventurers are engaged in this industry, but very few successes, the ghost knows they drilled so deep Is there any oil in the underground of China, bad luck, the investment is lost, there is nothing, and now many adventurers are bankrupt. Young man, do you want to do this? Be careful! I did it last year. I’ve lost a lot of my stupid thing, and now that rotten ghost rig has cost Lao Tzu a lot of money, I really want to throw him away. It’s better to open coal mines and iron mines if you have money, it’s actually too much.” Bot disapproved of it. Shaking his head, the risk of diamond oil is too great.

Seeing Bot shook his head, Situ Nan smiled secretly. Under the current technical conditions, sometimes diamond oil is really a matter of luck, but can you give up such an opportunity?

"Mr. Fort Laws, can you give me a suggestion? Since you have given up the petroleum business, can I rent your equipment? Or I can buy it, but now I am a little tight. Can I pay in installments? I promise. The interest rate is higher than that of the bank!" Situ Nan intends to climb up the pole. Now that Bot gave up his oil business, why not buy his equipment at a low price?

"Oh? Are you serious?" Bot looked at the young man in front of him carefully, as if trying to tell the truth from what he said.

After taking a look, well, this young man still has a calm face with a gentle smile on his face, which makes people feel good.

"Hey, young people nowadays have become wild when they see others get rich. They always want to get rich overnight, thinking that they had worked in the mines at home for more than ten years." Bot thought to himself that he didn't know the oil reserves. Fortune, once was excited about the oil produced, but those wells did not produce much oil, the quality of the oil was not good, and the cost was not enough. This made Bot disappointed. After the investment in diamond oil failed, Bot retreated. The remaining equipment Throwing it aside, I was thinking about going back to dispose of these machines this time, so I was a little moved by Situ Nan's words.

"Okay! In two days, the train will arrive in Los Angeles. Let's talk about it then!" Bot said.

They talked about this meal for more than two hours, and the journey was lonely. Bot told Situ Nan a lot about the customs of the west.In return, Situ Nan also said a lot about his previous experience of running boats, but he never mentioned the Titanic. This is Situ Nan's sad thing.Speaking of the wonderfulness of the sea, Bot was fascinated.

Although there is a difference in age, it does not prevent Situ Nan and this cheerful western mine owner from becoming a new year friend.Bot had already planned to sell the drilling machine to Situ Nan at a low price.Of course he didn't think Situ Nan could succeed.In his mind, drilling for oil is a matter of luck, depending on God's will.

Chapter 4 Uninvited Guest

When the train passed the Rocky Mountains, the tunnels opened in the steep mountains and the railway bridges erected by the steep valleys made Situ Nan feel how difficult it is to build such a railway project, and how huge the manpower and material resources have been.

When the technical conditions are not as advanced as later generations, many cliffs and cliffs are excavated by manpower. If you are not careful, you will die.

"Under every railway track are the corpses of Huagong!" It was a young man standing next to Situ Nan. He was twenty-five and six years old, tall and strong, with black glasses, black hair and yellow skin, telling others that this should be a Chinese!

That's right, this Chinese is the uninvited guest who annoys Situ Nan!

I saw him angrily said: "We Chinese came here like piglets, and we were like pigs and dogs, making cattle and horses, planting, mining, and building railways. The hardest part was all that we did, but the white people didn’t do it. We treat it as human beings.

In the construction of this railway, the flesh and blood of our Chinese workers were laid under the rails, but when the whites were white, our contributions were wiped out in every possible way.Chinese people are discriminated against everywhere, is there really justice in the world?"

He shook his fist vigorously, but accidentally pulled the bandage on his arm, pulling the wound on his arm, and the blood slowly leaked out.Perhaps it was painful, he frowned and said nothing.

"Haha! Axiom?! Then you have to have the strength to be axiom!" Situ Nan said disapprovingly.

Although Situ Nan's soul is a Chinese, he is a Chinese after a hundred years. The injustices that the Chinese have suffered can only be found in historical data, so the feeling will not be too deep.

Rebirth in this world inexplicably, Situ Nan still retains half of the Chinese blood, which is more intuitive for the low status of the Chinese in the white world.

Non-my family, its heart must be different!

This sentence is not only spoken by Han Chinese, but also by foreigners, and they have done it even more excessively.

Don't you often encounter surprised eyes?In essence, most of the discrimination or prejudice in the world stems from the strong's contempt for the weak, and the skin color is not too essential.

Situ Nan was sometimes grateful for the blood of the half of the foreigners in his body, otherwise the mixture would be worse on this white-dominated planet.

This is a real problem.There is not much to do with patriotism, party and family.

In the United States, the status of the Chinese is not as good as the blacks!Because there has never been a nation that has been discriminated against like the Chinese, and it has been written into the laws of a country.

This almost broke the dream of all Chinese in North America, and all the extravagant dreams about gold, about getting rich, about returning home after getting rich, have gone with the wind.

And when we opened the historical picture scroll, what we saw was that even in a place where Chinese people are extremely unwelcome, there are still countless Chinese who risk their lives to smuggle to the United States.

Is this still a Chinese who loves family and land?What kind of motivation drove them to embark on this journey of no return?