The journey starts from the Titanic

What Situ Nan did not expect was that Standard Oil Company and Shell Oil Company also came here!

These are all giants that Occidental Petroleum cannot offend, especially Standard Oil Corporation!In many cases, because Occidental Petroleum was the original California oil company with limited processing capacity, it had to sell the remaining crude oil to these large companies.

Since he can't afford it and can't hide it, he can only wait carefully. The shrewd Hengda has to sell a small part of the oil fields to Standard Oil Company and Shell Oil Company in exchange for funds and technology to build its own refinery.

Only selling crude oil can not develop a big business. Refining crude oil into high value-added refined oil is the king!In this way, Occidental Petroleum, which has capital and technology, and has no worries about crude oil reserves, will soon develop its own petroleum business in Houston and California.Taking advantage of the east wind of World War I and rising oil prices, Occidental Petroleum ushered in a golden period of development.

Although Houston still has a lot of bullshit, it is more of the rising oil refineries, chemical plants, and the increasingly busy docks, and the expanding city.At the current rate of exploitation, Occidental Petroleum's oil fields in Texas can be exploited continuously for 100 years.

And Situ Nan secretly holds the two major oil fields in Texas, the East Texas Oil Field and the Conroe Oil Field in the north of Houston. These two big guys Situ Nan doesn’t want to hand it over to Occidental Petroleum. Can't eat it now.

Hayes was sent to the company's mining department by Situ Nan. In addition to being a small shareholder of the company, he is now a foreman in the company's oil field!

This is what this simple-minded guy likes most.Gudas is now a head of the new oil company, and he fights with those oil merchants all day long.

As for Robles, as the company's deputy general manager, he assisted Hengda to implement the company's plan step by step. He was so busy that only Situ Nan was idle.

Now Occidental Petroleum Corporation has completed the integration of the oil industry chain step by step as planned. The big decision has been made, and the rest is to implement and lay the foundation.

After working hard for half a year, the matter finally came to an end, and Situ Nan could finally relax physically and mentally.

In the past two days, he took He Wenxiu to be a cowboy in Texas, but the marksmanship was still very stinky, which made He Wenxiu frown.

Chapter 14 Lively Texas

For Texas, 1913 to 1914 was an extraordinary period. In the past two years, a large number of oil fields were discovered in the northern and western plains as if they were worthless, and a large number of ranchers and farmers turned into oil. Businessmen and a group of early lucky people have established millionaires. This result attracts more adventurers to join the industry.

There are not only private oil merchants but also many oil companies. The three largest oil companies are Humble Oil Company, Gulf Oil Company, Occidental Petroleum Company, and Texas Oil Company.Humble Oil Company was originally formed by a group of local businessmen in Texas, and was gradually controlled by Standard Oil Company in the east. Texas Oil Company also has a background of Standard Oil. He had one in his previous life. The famous name is Texaco Oil Company.The two remaining Gulf Oil companies, which belong to the Mellon family, are Situ Nan’s Occidental Petroleum.

Due to the cooperative relationship between Occidental Petroleum and the Mellon family’s Gulf Oil Company and the Rockefeller family’s spokesperson, Humber Oil Company and Texas Oil Company, the relationship is good, and Situ Nan has gradually entered the sight of these oligarchs. Scope out.

For ordinary people, he may have heard of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, or some people may have heard of Texas Petroleum Development Company, but who is Situ Nan is not known. For a long time, Situ Nan has not appeared in public. Do not hold positions in oil companies.

For those big families, they are very curious about how this young and excessive Stoneny William discovered these oil fields, as if he had a predictive ability.But now the oil industry in Texas is developing rapidly. Texas is too big. Even these giants can't completely control the oil here, so everyone is living a peaceful and comfortable life.

Some oil fields in Situ Nan were sold under the name of Texas Petroleum Development Company, which has no direct relationship with Occidental Petroleum Company. Therefore, Situ Nan still has a huge sum of money in his hands, which is a full 10 million US dollars.As for how to spend the money, Situ Nan already has a plan.

Now Houston is completely an oil city. The major oil giants have set up offices in Houston. Occidental Petroleum and Gulf Oil have built their own refineries and terminals in Houston, and have laid long pipelines to transport oil from oil wells. To railways, docks, trains, tankers transport the black crude oil to the refinery, and then make barrels of oil, and ship all kinds of refined oil to all over the world.

Situ Nan didn't expect that one of his own trivial ideas might come true, because recently a German chemical company approached a Western company and wanted to import a batch of oil from Western Petroleum.

It is now 1914, and the first world war in human history is about to start this year.In Europe, the two camps faced each other nervously, and the pace of the war slowly entered.

Shrouded in the haze of war, the major military powers have recently frantically stepped up their war material preparations. Shell oil of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands has increased their oil investment in Texas, and their oil tankers filled with oil one after another. Ship back to Europe.Germany is an oil-starved country. If you want to maintain the world's second-largest high seas fleet without enough oil, you can't do it. Once the war starts, all German resource import channels will be cut off by the Royal Navy. This will kill the Germans.Although the Germans are famous for being able to fight, there is no oil, no rubber, no iron ore, no other industrial raw materials. The awesome Germans have to get down too tired. Except coal and iron, Germany is nothing but coal!It is not difficult to think that these Germans have recently returned to China to collect all the materials.

In Texas, apart from Shell not selling oil to Germans, other American companies have sold oil, and Occidental Petroleum is no exception.

In addition to selling oil, Occidental Petroleum also put forward a proposal, hoping to establish a petrochemical company in Houston as a joint venture with the German Bavarian Chemical Company, each with 50% of the shares. Occidental Petroleum will produce crude oil and land. The company has insufficient technical equipment and some funds.

This time, the person in charge of the German side is von Hans Otley, who is said to be a nobleman or something. After hearing Occidental Petroleum’s suggestion, he immediately sent the telegram back to Germany. Such a big matter is not his deputy manager. It can be decided.

A response came from Munich two days later. They were very interested in the proposal made by Occidental Petroleum and decided to send a higher-level representative to discuss it.This time not only completed the company’s task of buying oil but also established a joint venture in the United States, which is equivalent to finding a raw material base for the German parent company. Hans received praise from the German side. I heard that someone suggested that he join the board of directors. Too!

For Occidental Petroleum, cooperation with Germany is a rare opportunity. Germany has advanced technology and equipment, which Occidental Petroleum lacks. Although it can buy equipment from Standard Oil or other American companies, That would cost a lot of money, and those companies were reluctant to sell their core technologies to Occidental Petroleum, which was as uncomfortable for Occidental Petroleum as being strangled.If you can master part of the technology through cooperation with Germany, why not do it?Situ Nan thought it was possible to wait until Germany was defeated before annexing the joint venture!

It seems that the Germans are stupid, but in fact it is not. The most important thing for them now is to find enough oil, and they will get enough benefits from cooperating with American companies. If the war is defeated, how can these technical equipment be affected by others? Taking it away, the joint venture company can at least retain part of its profits, and it can be regarded as a kind of cunning rabbit three caves.

Besides, do Germans think they lose?Even if the High Seas Fleet cannot beat the Royal Navy, it is more than enough for the German Army to beat France and Russia to the ground!Proud Germans always think that their army is the number one in the world and won the war in Europe, so do American companies dare to annex German joint ventures?In the opinion of the Germans, it pays a little bit. It is quite cost-effective for the advanced technology and equipment and part of the mark to exchange a large amount of oil. Besides, doesn't Occidental Petroleum use the mark to buy German chemical equipment?After all, the Germans don't need to pay a share, and it is impossible not to do such a good thing.

In this way, Lang had the intention of his concubine, and the two sides hit it off. In January 1914, the German Bavarian Chemical Company and the American Occidental Petroleum Company reached an agreement to establish a joint venture and signed the contract.The company was named Bavaria-Western Petrochemical Company, with a total investment of 20 million U.S. dollars, each with half of the shares.Henda Brown has another chairmanship, and the general manager of the joint venture is held by the German representative Hans.In fact, apart from the financial and some technicians sent by Germany, the entire company is American.

Do what you say, the Germans are anxious, but the Americans are even more anxious!

In the following year, Occidental Petroleum, which was hinted by Situ Nan, continued to urge that the German side finally moved all the main equipment to Houston. By 1915, the first batch of equipment of the joint venture had been put into production.

Some people are happy, and naturally some people are unhappy. Shell Oil Company came to the door after hearing about the cooperation between Occidental Petroleum and Germany. They were very upset. However, he could not deal with Occidental Petroleum and could only be secretly angry. Shell Oil wanted to replace it, but was pushed back by Hengda. This group of British guys used to hide behind him when working with him. Problems related to technology and equipment were always delayed. While pulling, Hengda had long seen them not pleasing to his eyes.Although the current Occidental Petroleum Company can't deal with Shell, it is also a pleasure to let these British guys cripple.

Oh, it seems that Situ Nan is still British. He still holds British nationality. He also holds American nationality. He doesn't have much affection for British Situ Nan, and the same is true for the United States.

Patriotism is worthless shit for a businessman who aspires to become an oil oligarch and a businessman who wants to be an arms dealer.

Now that the discerning people know that Europe is about to fight, countless American businessmen are waiting eagerly for the war to break out?If possible, those eager American arms dealers would like to personally go on stage to shoot at the Allies and Allies at the same time, let them fight, and then sit on a small bench and watch while peddling weapons and rations and other useful things. Until the last copper plate on both sides is earned!

"But this day is not far away, and the Americans are happy soon!" Situ Nan thought maliciously.In Houston Stuart spent 10 million US dollars to invest in land. Now the real estate in Houston is booming, and many land are sold for several times the profit.

Not only Situ Nan, but the senior executives of Occidental Petroleum put all their spare money into Houston's real estate.In just a few months, land prices in Houston have risen by half.

Situ Nan successively invested 10 million U.S. dollars to speculate on land, and he made 50 million U.S. dollars during World War I, 5 times the profit, speculation, really crazy!

Now Situ Nan still has some land in his hands. They are all relatively good locations, and they are not willing to sell.No way, before the real estate fire, the land in Houston was still very low. After Situ Nan acquired a large number of oil fields in Texas, he still had more than two million dollars left, which he used all to buy Houston. The land of the district.At that time, Houston hadn't had the excitement that various oil companies came to invest and set up factories after the oil boom. In Situ Nan's words, there were more cow shit, so Situ Nan easily bought a large amount of cheap land at a low price.Now the headquarter building of Occidental Petroleum and the factories in the suburbs, and the docks were originally land that Situ Nan had bought.

After selling off a lot of oil fields, Situ Nan continued to invest part of his funds in land speculation in Houston. In just a few months, he made a lot of money.Speaking of this, it is because of the rise of Texas oil. Foreign and local oil companies have set up a large number of refineries and chemical plants in Houston. A large number of oil merchants who got rich first have landed in Houston. Ports leading to the world, commodities produced here can be shipped all over the world. Many companies in the east have also gone to Houston to invest, and banks have also come in. As a result, the supply of houses in Houston is in short supply. Next, can real estate not become popular?

Feeling this, Situ Nan set up a foundation, and he went to the Soros Foundation, which is a very powerful name.This foundation has not only Texas Petroleum Development Company (which is the holding company of Occidental Petroleum), but also a Houston Land Company.After Occidental Petroleum was on track, Robles was responsible for the speculative business of the land company, and he was also one of the company's shareholders.Well, Robles hasn’t had a good rest since he got a boss like Situ Nan. Of course, he’s also making a fortune now. If he releases his shares in the Texas Petroleum Development Company, he will barely be worth tens of millions. Rich man, but unfortunately can't cash out.In his words, the money is very good, but the work is exhausting, painful and happy.

Time came unconsciously to May 1914.When Situ Nan sold some oil fields through the Texas Petroleum Development Company and got 10 million US dollars without going to Occidental Petroleum's account, this US$10 million speculative Houston real estate made 5 million before it was fully cashed out.This could not satisfy Situ Nan, in order to raise more funds, but decided to gamble on a bigger one.

Although the land price has been rising, Situ Nan couldn't wait, so he took all the land in his hand and mortgaged it to the bank, and borrowed a sum of US$10 million from it.Not enough, this is not enough. Situ found out that he was going crazy, and he even took part of the shares of the oil company under his name and continued to borrow a huge sum of 20 million US dollars. This was done in secret, even Hengda and the others. I have concealed it.

Now Situ Nan has plans for the use of the money.

Originally, Situ Nan had made an investment plan before he speculated in Houston real estate, but later he was busy speculating in Houston real estate and delayed. Now Situ Nan finally has time to realize the plan.

"Robos, hand over your work to Gudas, and go to New York with me next week. There is a big deal!" Stuart found Robes who was busy talking about it in the evening.

"What? It's not a good idea! Didn't you see how busy I am now?" Robles shook his head quickly. He didn't want to let go, but he did a lot of things by himself. Once he changed individuals, he would delay certain projects. This is unacceptable to Robes, who has always done things from beginning to end.

"Really? Okay! I'll take Gudas! This is a $30 million deal! It's a pity that someone can't keep up!" Situ Nan shook his head.

"No! How can such a big deal lose me? Stoneney, you must take me! Apart from being a little clever, the guy Gudas can't be an investment genius like me in New York on Wall Street! "Robos quickly grabbed Situ Nan's arm and pleaded.He has always dreamed of doing a beautiful business on Wall Street.

"Okay!" Situ Nan smiled in his heart, but still pretended to say with difficulty, "but remember to hand over the work to Gadas!"

Chapter 15-Meeting Rose Again

This chapter may not be very well written.Lack of professional knowledge, quite fictitious, and personally obsessed, just forget it if you have seen something wrong.Don't be too heavy.

On the streets of Wall Street in New York in May 1914, Situ Nan pointed to the gate of the New York Stock Exchange in front of him and said boldly to Robes: "This is where we are going to fight next! Are you ready? Man!"

"Yes, I can't wait!" Robles said confidently.

"Hey, where are we going to eat later? I haven't eaten anything after getting off the boat for so long, aren't you hungry?" He Wenxiu said.This crude man unceremoniously interrupted the lust of Situ Nan and Robles, two self-proclaimed investment geniuses!

"What an atmosphere destroyer!" Robles whispered in a low voice.He didn't dare yell He Wenxiu.

It's quite interesting. When the two met for the first time, He Wenxiu never gave Robes a good face. It should be said that He Wenxiu is cold to any white man.Oh, he has a good relationship with Hayes, I don't know if Hayes is a rough person, straight-minded, and easier to deal with?Apart from Hayes, Situ Nan is surrounded by resourceful and cunning foxes, which is incompatible with He Wenxiu.

Of course, Robles didn't have a good impression of He Wenxiu. Why did Situ Nan's attendant treat himself coldly?However, Robes didn't care about Situ Nan's face.However, after getting along, Robles discovered that He Wenxiu was a bit uncomfortable, and there was nothing bad about him, but he just couldn't get used to his cold look.Once when Situ Nan was away, the two of them were finally consumed, and Robles actually wanted to make a gesture with He Wenxiu.The result is terrible!Robles, an amateur boxer who has beaten Harvard's invincibles, confronted He Wenxiu, who was born in a Chinese gangster who knows martial arts. The Harvard talent "returned with hatred" and the Chinese gangster easily won.Fortunately, He Wenxiu's shot is very measured. Robles only suffered a bit of skin injury. Since then, Robles, who is so smart, is no longer willing to face He Wenxiu.