The office of the Mexican Petroleum Company is located in a deserted port town of San Diegot. After Song Biao arrived, a local manor enthusiastically invited Song Biao and his entourage to him due to his special relationship with the president.

Living in the manor.

This is a grape-growing estate, which is very common in this coastal hot area, and this estate also grows agaves on a large area.

Interestingly, this manor was built by a French merchant during the French occupation period. It has a very typical French Lolorian style, exquisite and beautiful. After the French were expelled by Mexican heroes such as Poferio Dias.

, a local estate owner bought it very cheaply.

After a busy year and a half, Song Biao regarded this trip to Mexico as a very good vacation trip. He was very interesting and visited the vineyards and tequilas in the manor with Miss Shu Xuan and Secretary Li Enfu, and also tasted it.

Homemade tequila.

Even when he was on vacation, Song Biao had an infantry company unit beside him responsible for the defense.

After Song Biao rested in the manor for two days, Rong Kui hurriedly came over and invited Mr. Mike Norton, the company's general consultant, to come over. At this time, Song Biao and Miss Shu Xuan were in the corridor with the manor.

The Lord’s wife and daughter sat together and chatted, tasting wine and Mexican food.

Seeing that guests came to visit, the owner's wife politely took her daughter away. Shu Xuan also walked out with the owner's daughter of the same age. The two young girls happily took the plane to go alone in the vineyard.

Pick fresh grapes.

Song Biao ordered a local Mexican cigar for himself. Sitting on a white lounge chair to enjoy the sun, Rong Kui walked over sweating profusely and greeted Mike Norton and Song Biao.

Mike Norton, an American, is not old because the rise of the oil industry has only happened in the past decade. Most practitioners are very young, especially those with education, who usually only joined in the past decade.

Into this industry.

"hello!"

Song Biao greeted Mike Norton enthusiastically, invited him to sit down with Rong Kui, and pushed the box of cigars to them so that they could do whatever they wanted.

After Rong Kui sat down, he couldn't wait to say to Song Biao: "There should be oil here. But unfortunately, Mr. Norton didn't think there would be a lot of oil available for mining here. Even if there were, it was just like the Mexican Petroleum Company.

The heavy oil mined is like that. Kerosene cannot be extracted at all. Maybe it is a bit too risky to buy the 460,000 acres of mining rights in one go."

While saying this, Rong Kui was also looking at Song Biao curiously. He was not familiar with Song Biao. He believed that if it were not for both Chinese, Song Biao would definitely not have hired a foreigner like him.

Menhan serves as the deputy general manager of the oil company.

The General Manager of Petroleum is still held by Mr. Bill Reis Junson Canfield, who, in this special place in Mexico and the Tampico area, is still the reason why Mr. Canfield still owns a small stake.

It is still a very difficult and complicated thing for people. Mr. Canfield has lived here for three years. He has sufficient experience.

In Rong Kui's eyes, Song Biao is a very strange person. A governor of the three northeastern provinces actually went to Mexico to invest in oil. This is like Kang Youwei went to Mexico to invest in real estate. It is all very strange.

In happening.

Rong Kui was also more complicated when hiring from Song Biao. On the one hand, he was very happy and on the other hand, he was very suspicious. As for what his classmates told him in the past, he still held a very complicated view.

Song Biao could feel this, but he didn't care.

For Song Biao, almost everyone is insignificant and replaceable, and the world will never stop operating because of the lack of anyone.

He didn't even mind Rong Kui and Mike Norton's skepticism, and replied simply: "Who knows, I don't know if there is oil here, I just said it casually, and President Dias was also very

I just agreed. Simply put, one million and two million dollars are not a lot, and it is worth my bet."

Rong Kui said: "The problem is that the expenses for us to continue to explore and drill wells may be greater. Dohani's Petroleum Company has already spent more than $3 million on drilling, but it turned out to be nothing. The only production is heavy oil, so it can only be

It is used to produce asphalt to pave roads. It is precisely because all the investment has turned into a bubble that Dohany, the oil colonel, was forced to flee here in a panic and sell all his shares.”

Song Biao nodded.

He only knew that Tampico must have oil. Anyone who has read a few novels in the Republic of China knows this kind of thing. As for whether it was the initiator who quoted the wrong information, he couldn't explain it clearly, but he also knew Mexico.

It is a major oil-producing province, and it is easy for oil to be produced throughout the Americas.

There is definitely no problem with investment.

The key is how to find oil.

Song Biao thought for a while and said, "I always have a premonition that it will be very strange here. Maybe my premonition is wrong, it is just a beautiful fantasy, but no matter what, since it has already spent 1.2 million US dollars, I can't do it anymore.

Save three million dollars. Find a way to find some engineers as good as Mr. Norton, find experts as much as possible. If one says no, then find another one until it is found. Everything needs to be taken. If oil can be produced,

That will solve many of my difficulties. If oil cannot be produced, the situation will not be bad. Although I have limited knowledge of oil, I have seen many asphalt lakes in the past two days. If there is no oil in this kind of place.

, Where else do we have to take risks?”

Rong Kui reminded: "This is hard to say."

Song Biao replied indifferently: "As an investor, you as the person in charge, I give you the authority to invest 5 million US dollars here to organize the best oil company. If there is no return in the end, everything will not be without results.

Because I hope to train some Chinese oil workers and technicians here, and then return to China to explore oil. Even if there is a low-yield oil well here, we will make money. China makes money, and China is so big. I don’t believe it.

There is not even a high-yield oil well.”

Rong Kui had nothing to say, so he could only translate Song Biao's words to Mike Norton.

Mike Norton shrugged indifferently and replied: "If I had to look for oil here, I would probably not be able to deal with it. The geological conditions here are too complicated. Please ask experts from the Federal Geological Survey to take a look.

Maybe there will be good results. I know some friends, and they may be able to introduce some suitable gentlemen to come."

Song Biao immediately made a decision: "That's the decision."

Rong Kui could only agree helplessly, feeling that people who have not received modern higher chemistry and geology education are really terrible. They can actually make such a crazy decision. Even if they want to cultivate their own team, it would be relatively good to find a mine in New Jersey.

It is easy to mine oil, but it is difficult to use Chinese workers due to the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Song Biao was so convinced that Tampico was able to produce oil, that he rejected Rong Kui's plan to issue stocks in New York from the beginning. Within the scope of funds allowed, he tried to put every point.

All shares are controlled in their hands and do not intend to share success with anyone.

To this end, he also applied for a special approval with Poferio Dias, allowing him to build a small-scale self-defense armed force in Tampico to avoid various other unexpected situations.

Suddenly, he thought of Kang Youwei. Song Biao also turned the topic and asked Rong Kui with curiosity: "I heard that you met Mr. Kang Youwei before, how do you feel?"

"oh!"

Rong Kui also thought of this and said, "It's really better not to see you. I used to think that this is a cultural person, but now I find that he is basically the leader of a community organization. The royalist party has always had special characteristics among Chinese in Mexico and California.

I feel that Mr. Kang Youwei completely regards himself as the leader of overseas Chinese and requires all overseas Chinese to be loyal to him and the royalist party he leads. This is really incredible to me

, How could he do this? Even when I asked to invest in Mexico, he asked to invest in their company, but refused to pay, which obviously wanted to force blackmail. Really, I really saw this person

The true face is actually just like that. Fortunately, his royal family is declining and not many Chinese are willing to support them."

Song Biao sighed and said, "So that's how it is, it's really disappointing."

Rong Kui Xun said: "They also opened a Huamo Bank. What's strange is that all Chinese people save money there, but there is no interest at all. The Royal Society is said to have unscrupulously used Chinese deposits to operate the industry directly. It's really incredible.

”

Song Biao thought for a while and said, "It's really disappointing. Although the 1898 Reform Movement was largely due to this person's stupidity and conceit, he tried to reform it after all, which is a pity.

Now.”

Rong Kui said: "He heard that you were coming before, so he asked to meet you, but I didn't know what he was going to talk about, so I refused to recommend him. I wonder if he would do anything extreme?"

Song Biao didn't care and said, "Let him go, is his life and death glory still something we need to care about?"

Actually, it's really a pity that Song Biao had really planned to meet Kang Youwei when he came to Mexico, because he guessed that this gentleman still has value in making use of it, and since he had the opportunity to meet, he still wanted to see Kang

What kind of person is Mr.

The result is that hearing is worse than seeing at first sight.

At this time, there were about 20,000 Chinese in Mexico, most of whom lived in northern Mexico. Many of them were forced to move south to Mexico under the US Exclusion Act. They worked in Mexico in the early days as miners, railway construction workers, laundry, etc.

A part of the occupation gradually began to accumulate wealth, engaged in trade and retail, mainly concentrated in Torreon, the city of Lagona cotton planting center in Mexico, because it is a transportation hub, with copper or silver lead and zinc ore nearby.

The Chinese gathered again here.

In addition, Port Mazatlan and nearby towns of Union, Mexico City are also places where Chinese people gather.

Today, Torreon is not the later Mexican textile center. There were about 1,000 local Chinese workers and they gathered for a long time. On May 13, 1911, in the early stages of the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, led by Francisco Madero.

**The armed and peasant army entered the city of Torreon, which was controlled by Dias. It caused more than 300 Chinese to be killed, while the Chinese killed in various parts of Mexico were difficult to count.

In fact, during the tenure of President Boferio Dias, Mexico has always held a very free policy of foreign investment and immigration and colonization, and even signed a friendly trade treaty with the Qing government in 1899. No anti-China incident occurred, but unfortunately, Bo

President Ferrio Dias's only unfreedom was to prohibit free elections, which were violently overturned.

During his time with President Boferio Dias, Song Biao also discussed the idea of ​​establishing the Tang Dynasty City in Mexico, and was recognized by President Boferio Dias. Citizens in Mexico can hold on their own freely.

Those with weapons are consistent with the United States, and it was not allowed to possess military-controlled weapons until the later period.

This means that Chinese people can also hold weapons semi-legal in Mexico.

During the days of Tampico's vacation, Song Biao kept thinking about these things. In the end, he decided to invest in some industries in Tampico and Torreon. In order to allow Chinese people to operate here for a long time, he even considered opening a Mexico

Commercial Bank.

As for Tampico's oil industry, he decided to sell it at the most appropriate time. After all, nationalization of Mexican oil is an inevitable major trend and no one can stop it unless President Boferio Dias can rule forever.

If you go down, how is that possible?

Therefore, long-term investment should still be concentrated in banks, copper mines and textile industries, and it is necessary to establish some relatively closed defensive fortresses in areas where Chinese people are concentrated, such as Tampico and Torreon, to avoid being massacred by the so-called peasant army.

It is best to park several warships in Mexico and Central America at critical moments. Didn’t the Qing government at that time use a heavy cruiser to force Mexico and Cuba to stop anti-China and demand an apology from the other party, and still provide compensation?

This matter is almost the last imperial dignity of the Qing government.
To be continued...