The journey starts from the Titanic

At the same time, Situ Nan finally got the Yates Oil Field, one of the largest oil fields in Texas, at a price of $500,000 after a long negotiation.

At this time, since Situ Nan and the others arrived in Houston, Texas, they had spent four months unconsciously, and Situ Nan had to travel almost every piece of land in Texas.The 9 million dollars they brought has cost more than 3.5 million dollars.

In order to maintain this combined hundreds of thousands of acres of land, Situ Nan had to set up a special agricultural company-Texas Agricultural Company to manage the land. Some planted corn and wheat and other grains, and some planted cotton and potatoes. Cash crops, and of course most pastures.Oh, in 1915, California meat products giant California Meat Products Company established a super-large meat processing base in Texas. More than a quarter of the canned meat in World War I came from the Texas meat product base.

It's simple to say, but it is really annoying to run it. Fortunately, Situ Nan's management team has been trained, and in 1914, it was finally able to integrate these temporarily undeveloped land.

At this point, things have almost come to an end. Only the last step is the East Texas Oilfield, Situ Nan’s super-large oil field that has attracted worldwide attention in his previous life.

The eastern part of Texas is a dense pine forest sandwiched in a triangle between Dallas, Houston and Shreveport, Louisiana. In the 1920s, this area was extremely backward.

How far behind?Except for a dense pine forest, nothing else.There are very few people here. Except for a small local logging farm, there are no "wild cat prospectors." Those wild cats are now and even in the next 20 years exploring for oil in the north and west of Texas, so here is "safe."

Situ Nan repeated his old skills and set up a timber company to obtain the 45-mile-long, 5-12-mile-wide East Texas oil field between Gregg County and Lasker County under the name of logging.

It's crazy. Including this East Texas oil field, Situ Nan bought nearly 400 square hectares of land for almost 3 million US dollars.

400 square hectares, what a big area!Situ Nan thought that he might be the most powerful landlord in America now!

This is the largest oil well in the United States, so it was taken down by myself?Situ Nan can hardly believe that all of this is true. With the East Texas Oil Field, even if other oil fields give up, Situ Nan will become a billionaire!Of course he would not do this, people are always greedy, and this super fat piece of East Texas Oil Field cannot be swallowed by Situ Nan.Only the stronger one's strength, can oneself keep more interests.

If Rockefeller now knew that he had such an oil field, what would the result be?The benefits that exceed everything make people crazy and unscrupulous. Once Rockefeller reaches out, can he stop it?If I refuse, will I be killed?Thinking of here Situ Nan shuddered!So he immediately came to two conclusions: the first is not to monopolize, at least find two partners to develop, but to keep the largest possible share, this seems to be how strong he is by then; the second is to try to hide this News from Kuai Oilfield.

Regarding the last point, Situ Nan admired his foresight a little. He sent different people and under various names, and it took more than a year before and after all to get the East Texas Oilfield in secret.

Fortunately, this place is remote enough that no one will pay attention to it for a while. Situ Nan still has time to slowly grow his strength. He is confident that with his preparedness, Situ Nan's strength will be even greater after World War I. Going up one floor, there is a qualitative leap.

Situ Nan stepped on Texas for half a year, and almost seized more than half of Texas's oil reserves into his own hands. However, Situ Nan can only be happy and worried in his heart for this undisclosed secret. .Even so, with an expression of excitement on his face, he said to Gudas: "You have worked hard in the past six months. I toast you. I hope we continue to cooperate happily."

"It's really atmospheric and exciting to follow the boss. If I didn't say it, I will do my job well." Gadas said.In the past six months, according to the agreement of USD 1 per mu, Gedasi helped Situ Nan to purchase two to three million acres of land, and obtained two or three million US dollars in benefits from Situ Nan, but the shrewd Gedasi was taken by Situ Nan. The crazy dumping, proposed to convert his money into a part of the oil field, according to the agreement, if the oil field is extracted, Gadas can share part of the benefits.Such a witty eye view made Situ Nan look at him with admiration, and he regarded Gudas more highly in his heart.

In fact, in addition to Gudas, Situ Nan also intends to allocate some oil fields to Hayes and He Wenxiu. He can get so much, and it is inseparable from the help of these people. Of course, most of the oil fields are still in Situ. Even in Nan's hand, even if it was so, the little bit of his fingers exposed was enough to make Gudas, Hayes, and the others become millionaires.

Chapter 12 Robes

Situ Nan spent most of the US$9 million mortgaged with 30% of California Petroleum’s shares in this Texas Spread, leaving only more than US$2 million, and gave Gudas US$200,000 to let him continue to return. Go to West Texas to buy or lease land and get oil exploration rights. The remaining 2 million Situ Nan is going to see an arsenal that specializes in the production of mortars.

This weapon appeared in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, but the mortars at that time were still heavy, difficult to operate, and not powerful enough, so they did not attract the attention of the military.

The technology of mortars is not high. Situ Nan saw a steel plant in Los Angeles, which just produced seamless steel pipes for gun barrels. As long as the problem of buffering and stability of the shell fuze and base is solved, I believe that the new type is more powerful and more convenient to operate. , A lighter mortar will become a nightmare for the infantry under the ravine in the cruel European battle of positions.After the new mortars show their talents, the orders will not fly over?

Well, the more people die, the brighter the arms dealer smiles.Although Situ Nan is not an arms dealer, it does not prevent him from smiling brightly.

Thinking of the results of the World War, Situ Nan felt a little sorry for the Germans. He suddenly thought of whether to sell some oil to the Germans?

It seems that although the Allied Powers and the Allied Powers are facing each other, they don’t want to fight. As a result, they were detonated by a spark that emerged from the Balkans. Before that, first cooperate with the Germans to get benefits from him. When the war starts, Germany Guy is defeated, aren't all of his things belonging to American businessmen like himself?Situ Nan suddenly thought of a very wretched idea.

It’s a pity that this idea just passed. Although Situ Nan got a lot of oil fields with his foresight, he really didn’t have much bargaining chips to come up with except for a bunch of land transaction contracts that looked good. There is no network at all, and even things in the United States are unbalanced. How can the hands be so long that they can reach the Germans in Europe?

unrealistic!

Situ Nan came to a conclusion.To be a man, we must have lofty goals, but we have to be down-to-earth in doing things, and we can’t go far.

Situ Nan is now considering how to develop his career in the shortest possible time. How to develop those huge oil fields has become a headache for Situ Nan.

What is the most expensive in the 20th century?

In the past, Situ Nan might have said it was oil, but now he must say it is talent!To make his career bigger and stronger, it is impossible without a large number of talents. Even if Situ Nan is confident in himself, even if he is full of iron, he can't beat a few nails?

Although Situ Nan also has a small team that manages his own industry, his strength is still very weak, and he can't do decision-making things. Situ Nan is more involved in financial management.Although the managers of several companies are good, they are not enough to convince Situ Nan.

Like this crazy acquisition of land in Texas, most of it was done by Situ Nan himself. Although this matter is important, Situ Nan must handle it personally to be relieved, but apart from this, there is no reason why Situ Nan is weak.

Well, encountering a dogleg like Gudas is also a small gain from this action. This once excellent farmer should be gambled and lost when he was unintentionally pulled by Situ Nan. During the six months of land speculation, he tried his best to help Situ Nan get a large number of oil fields in Texas.

Although Guadas himself still doesn’t know exactly how much oil there is in those remote lands, at the beginning, he paid a large benefit, or commission, to Situ Nan. Guadas fully reflected his in some speculative undertakings. talent.

What's more, the shrewd Gudas has now become a member of Situ Nan's interest team.

Situ Nan couldn’t talk about trusting Gadas, but Situ Nan admitted that Gadas did a good job. In Situ Nan’s words, “Gadas does not manage a company well, but it has planned If you leave it to him, you can often get good results."Gudas agreed with Situ Nan's words. He said: "If I need to take care of a business for a long time, I will not be able to stand it. I like some fresh attempts, but I don't want to repeat a tedious job. ."

It is true. Otherwise, he would not have lost his well-run farm and went to gamble. Doesn't he know the dangers of gambling?

He knew it was just boring, he wanted to do something else.But after trying gambling, although Gudas is still a risk-taking person in his heart, he now learns to consider many issues and make more preparations instead of acting rashly.

If Guadas is a talent, then Hayes, who has been following Situ Nan, is completely mediocre. In addition to being obedient and having a good drilling technique, this guy really can't rely on him for other things that use his mind.

As for He Wenxiu, the silent Lao He is a competent bodyguard. Situ Nan rarely asks him about other things, and he doesn't care much. He doesn't know what he thinks in his heart, except for himself.

Headache, Situ Nan is eager to have someone who can assist in the development of his industry. Although he can still cope with it now, he has to work so hard on everything. This boss is doing too much!

In short, it is better to take precautions than to hug the Buddha's feet.Since Situ Nan wants to develop in oil, he has to control the industry in his own hands. Like California Petroleum, Situ Nan only holds 30% of the shares, which is obviously not what Situ Nan wanted.This has nothing to do with his trust in Hengda Brown. It's just that he has so many resources and it is not enough without the corresponding distribution of benefits. You can't let yourself be attached to Brown and Bot all the time, right?

To Situ Nan's comfort, after he wrote many times, after learning that Situ Nan had a good career, Robles finally came to Situ Nan.

After graduating from Harvard in the past two years, Robes Mellon began to enter financial companies in New York, engaged in investment business, less than half a year later, by chance, Robes Mellon joined Standard Oil Company, he was responsible for planning A project of the company in the Far East.

The oil companies in the Far East are mainly Rockefeller’s oil companies and the European Shell oil companies compete fiercely. As a result, Robles stayed in the Far East for two years.

After the land speculation business in Texas ended, Situ Nan did not return to Los Angeles immediately, but stayed in Houston, just to meet Robles, a friend at Harvard.

I haven't seen each other for two years, everyone has changed a lot, Robes Mellon has become more mature, and Situ Nan is not the original student who had nothing to do as an observer.

"Robos, join our business, I just need a talented partner like you." Situ Nan said straightforwardly. He felt that there was no need to go around in circles.

"Hi, Stonney, you have to come up with something that impresses me." Robles only probably knows that Stuart made his fortune in California with oil, but he still doesn't understand many specific things, so he is very curious about this in the past two days. How much did the guy do.

"Hey. Look at this!" Situ Nan showed Robes a stack of land deeds in North Texas and West Texas. Of course, this does not include Conroe Town Oilfield and East Texas Oil Field, these two fields are too scary, so it is better to keep them secret.

Even so, these hundreds of thousands of acres of land still scared Robes, damn, he is not like those ignorant Texas ranchers, what is hidden in the land under Texas, he, a man who works at Standard Oil But know how much Rockefeller covets Texas oil.

If it weren’t for the conservative style of Texas, the locals in Texas hated Standard Oil, which had already entered the market. Wouldn’t it be necessary to slowly enter the Texas oil market by annexing local oil companies?

Situ Nan was a fortune in oil. Now these lands are definitely related to oil. Even if not all of these lands have oil, some of them are huge interests. They are taking a step back, let alone oil, even these dozens. Ten thousand mu of land is worth hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars.

Robles also spent some time on Wall Street. He spent two years in Standard Oil. Now his total net worth is only tens of thousands of dollars. Among so many classmates, he is already a leader, but when he compares with Situ Nan, he is really insufficient. Take it all together.

I knew that this guy was so lucky in the past two years, so I just listened to him and went to the west with him.

Texas really has a lot of shit, and this guy Situ guessed the fattest and biggest piece!Bullshit luck is coaxing!

Thinking of this, Robles was a little envious and regretful. Situ Nan asked him to go to the west to do oil business with Situ Nan more than once.

"You gave me a big surprise! I didn't expect you to find oil in California, own 30% of California oil, and still have such a large area of ​​land in Texas. I think if you are right, these should be possible. It's an oil field!" Robles said emotionally.

"Well, that's right! Some of these lands have not been explored, but I believe where there is oil, and some have been discovered. Do you know? A few days ago, I received news that there is a small town in the north of Buckburnett. The cotton merchants who were forced by their creditors to desperately made a desperate move and made an oil well in their own land. Now the whole town of Buckburne is crazy. Those oil merchants flocked there madly. Fortunately, I stocked up there half a year ago. Less land."

Situ Nan smiled and said that the big news in North Texas seemed to him normal.