Chapter 2867

"If it hadn't happened like Qingyang Fort, I would have taken you to visit Damintun in the northwest of Shenyang. There is a large oil field buried underground there, and it may become one of the important mineral resources in Liaodong in the future!"

After returning to Shenyang, Chen Yixin expressed regret that the itinerary was affected by the Qingyangbao incident. However, Bai Kesi was not fooled by his words, because he happened to know something about the situation of the Damintun Oil Field, and this matter was not Chen Yixin put it so simply.

"Regarding the oil field in Damintun, I happened to read the report of the Mining Department. Isn't that place too easy to exploit?" Bai Kesi asked with a smile.

After being exposed by Bai Kesi, Chen Yixin smiled awkwardly and said: "Although the current mining technology does not meet the requirements, it is always right to make preparations first. When the technology is mature, you can take action."

Bai Kesi shook his head and said: "Most people of our generation will never see it. The treasures in that place should be left to future generations to solve!"

Damintun is only seventy miles away from Shenyang. According to the information in the big database, there are underground oil fields with considerable reserves. After Haihan captured the Shenyang area, the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry sent people to the area to conduct exploration and sampling. And the exploration The subsequent report submitted by the personnel to the Mines Division was mixed.

The good news is that there are indeed underground oil fields in the local area, which fully confirms the information stored in the big database. But the bad news is that with the technology Haihan currently has, we can only hope for oil for the time being, and cannot implement industrial exploitation of the local oil fields. .

The reason is also very simple. The local crude oil has a high wax content and is a high-condensation oil. It is also solid at room temperature. It is impossible to drill a well and let the crude oil underneath flow down like ordinary oil fields. The pipeline comes up on its own. If it is mined by force, the pipeline will soon be blocked by solidified crude oil.

According to Tian Yeyou, director of the Mining Department, it will be difficult for Haihan to master a series of complex technologies required for mining in the foreseeable period. And even if the relevant technologies are mastered a hundred years later, the mining cost will be lower than that of ordinary oil fields. It is much higher. Instead of sticking to the oil fields here, it is better to invest funds in oil fields that are easier to exploit. For example, in the Panshan area located in the lower reaches of the Liao River, the local oil fields are relatively less difficult to exploit.

When the Mining Department held its annual summary meeting last year, Bai Kesi also attended it and discussed it specifically with Tian Yeyou. As for the situation of the Damintun Oilfield, Chen Yixin cannot be ignorant of the situation. The reason for taking this oil project that cannot be implemented temporarily Talking about the project, Bai Kesi believes that this is because Chen Yixin wants to obtain more technical resources from the Ministry of Industry.

Bai Kesi's attitude towards this is "understandable, but not recommended." If every local official operates like this and proposes some ambitious and temporarily unachievable goals to the executive committee to obtain resource investment, it will inevitably cause a large amount of resources. Waste, and this is not a scene the Executive Committee is happy to see.

However, taking Chen Yixin's face into account, Bai Kesi would not say anything too harsh. He believed that if he had enough points, he would be able to convince Chen Yixin to retreat.

This was just a small episode in the trip to Shenyang, and their attention quickly returned to the follow-up investigation of the Qingyang Fort incident.

The troops led by Sun Zhen arrived at Qingyang Fort five days after the incident and sent a report back to Shenyang as soon as possible.

According to Chen Yixin's instructions, the local area closed the official entry and exit channels after the incident and strengthened border patrols. However, this move was mainly aimed at regular border trade activities. There will still be some border residents who use the cover of night to cross the border. The local garrison Due to limited manpower, there is no way to completely prevent this phenomenon. We can only turn a blind eye and do it.

Because the caravan needed the border road diversion from Qingyang Fort to normally pass through the official road between the two countries, it had to temporarily stay at Qingyang Fort. Fortunately, the local reception facilities were complete, the supplies were sufficient, and the Liaohai Guards The city sent troops for reinforcements in time, and the mood of the caravan members was relatively stable, and there was no confusion as a result.

When Sun Zhen arrived at Qingyang Fort, six to seven hundred people were already stranded there. Detailed inquiries and investigations were conducted on several caravans that arrived at the border at the time of the accident, but no problems were found.

The Manchu and Qing Dynasty's demand for reopening border trade was obviously stronger than that of Haihan. After hearing that Sun Zhen came from Shenyang to deal with the matter, the Manchu and Qing border affairs officer even went to Qingyang Fort to ask for a meeting, hoping that he could come as soon as possible. Open official channels to allow caravans to enter and exit normally.

However, Sun Zhen has received instructions from Chen Yixin. Until the truth of the incident is found out, the Qingyang Fort border will be temporarily closed. This is not only to prevent the gangsters involved from entering and exiting the Haihan border from Qingyang Fort, but also to take this opportunity Put pressure on the Manchu Qing Dynasty to investigate this cross-border robbery as soon as possible.

The Manchus and the Qing Dynasty actually attached great importance to this case. One day after Sun Zhen arrived at Qingyang Fort, the special envoy Suksaha who came from Hetuala City also arrived.

Suksaha was appointed by Shunzhi to handle the matter with full authority on behalf of the Qing court. However, the consensus reached through negotiations between Geng Jimao and Chen Yixin had not yet reached him, so regarding the conditions for reopening the border crossing, Suksaha and Sun Zhen still couldn't reach an agreement.

Of course, Suk Saha also understood the key to solving the matter, so while contacting Sun Zhen, he was also trying to investigate the truth of the case.

With the resources that the two countries' officials can mobilize, coupled with the high reward, it is actually not too difficult to find out such a robbery involving hundreds of people. It is just a matter of visiting more places to collect information.

On the third day after Suksaha arrived at the area where the incident occurred, someone reported to him that the perpetrator was a certain Niulu belonging to Xiangbai Banner.

Suksaha did not dare to neglect, and immediately sent a letter to Qingyang Fort, asking Sun Zhen to send people across the border to participate in the operation as observers. Then he ordered two battalions of men and horses with red flags, plus a group of troops he had brought from Hetuala City. The battalion personnel personally led the troops to attack the location pointed out by the informer.

It is said that the gangster's base camp is in a town about 150 miles away from Qingyang Fort. This town is under the jurisdiction of a certain Niulu in Xiangbai Banner. Almost all the residents in the town are the family members of this Niulu. Since the two Niulu was stationed there only after the armistice between the two countries, so this town was actually a settlement built after the war.

The armed personnel to whom Niulu belonged were actually part of the Manchu and Qing border defense forces. Once war broke out between the two countries again, this Niulu would definitely be one of the first troops to go to the battlefield.

The Qing army led by Suksaha quietly surrounded this town with a population of more than 1,000 people at night, and then launched at dawn, entering the town and conducting house-to-house searches.
Chapter completed!