Wan Lei was successfully re-elected, and major officials from the central ministries and local provinces were undergoing a major reshuffle. At the same time, a group of old people were about to retire, represented by Zhao Hongru and Xu Huizu. These two guys were not too old, but they were old at political affairs and did not want to work in
He was mixed up in the officialdom, so he handed Wan Lei a letter of appointment.
Being an official means actually retiring. The Republic of China is very humane towards retired officials. Officials who retire can enjoy the same level of treatment and can also receive a monthly pension. Although the amount is one-third of the original salary, it is already very generous.
, enough to provide for worry-free retirement.
People like Zhao Hongru and Xu Huizu, even if they don't have a pension, they still have no worries about food and clothing. After all, they have family backing. After Zhao Hongru retired from officialdom, he went to work as a director of Huihuang Petroleum Company and concentrated on his work.
Petroleum Industry. Although Xu Huizu no longer works in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he still works in the Chinese Publishing House and continues to edit "Huadian".
Since the two major ministers Zhao Hongru and Xu Huizu left, Wan Lei not only did not re-appoint the ministers of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, especially the Ministry of Finance, which is the country's money treasurer, many people were watching. After a lot of compromises and trade-offs, Wan Lei
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Lei transferred Liu Wenfa, the general manager of Huayuan Company, to the central government and put him in charge of finance. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had relatively little power, so Wan Lei only promoted Deputy Minister Liu Jing to minister, and then transferred a person from Huayuan Company who was good at foreign affairs.
Someone comes back to fill the deputy position.
A major personnel change occurred. Five years of the Huali calendar passed by in a flash. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the sixth year of the Huali calendar, Wan Lei was officially sworn in and began to serve as the second president. After the annual parliament at the beginning of the year, the central ministries and local provinces
Normal offices resumed one after another.
In the new year, Wan Lei focuses on the research and promotion of internal combustion engines. The most important thing is to increase the amount of oil extracted. After all, internal combustion engines burn oil, whether it is diesel or gasoline.
It is extracted from crude oil. Moreover, if diesel locomotives are to be promoted, roads must be built, and the asphalt used for road construction must also be extracted from crude oil and the latest chapter of the Female Elf's Life on Earth.
In short, oil will become the blood of industry. Without it, it will not develop.
In order to increase oil production, it was natural to develop new oil fields. Zhao Hongru abandoned politics and went into business to continue to run Huihuang Petroleum Company. The first thing he had to do was to send people around to explore and find new oil fields.
In fact, there are some oil fields in the Beiping and Shandong areas, but Zhao Hongru also knows that sticking to this small oil production is simply not enough to meet the ever-expanding market requirements. New and larger oil fields need to be found. Among them, the Western Region has historically produced
Oil, he set his sights on the Tianshan area, sent an exploration team to visit, and discovered a place called Youshan. There was always some "oil and water" pouring out of the ground, and local people often came to extract oil.
"Rich enough to ooze oil." Needless to say, there must be large oil fields underground in this area, but there is a problem, that is transportation. Due to technical problems, the Pingxi Railway only runs to the Chencang area of Shaanxi, and the terrain further west is too complicated.
, tunnels need to be dug through mountains and ridges to directly connect to the Hexi Corridor and further connect the Tianshan Mountains and the Great Gobi.
Without trains, how can the crude oil produced in the Western Regions be transported back? Zhao Hongru was worried about this matter. In fact, Wan Lei had long been interested in building a direct railway to the Western Regions and Tianshan Mountains, not only to facilitate the transportation of oil, but also to facilitate various military supplies.
Materials were used in the Western Region. After all, tens of thousands of soldiers in the Northwest Military Region there needed to eat and drink, and the cotton, wool, grapes, cantaloupe and other specialties produced there had to be transported to the Central Plains. A railway was a lifeline.
However, to build this railway requires not only the technology to build tunnels, but also a large amount of investment. Now the Republic of China's finances are tight, and a lot of construction funds are prioritized to build roads in the interior and plain areas, such as the Pinghai Railway directly to Guangnan.
On the Southern Line, such as the Pingchuan Line connecting Sichuan, these projects have long used up the limited construction space.
The government currently has no money left to build this railway into the Western Regions, so Wan Lei had to find another way. His original intention was to let the Huihuang Petroleum Company undertake the construction. For this matter, he had several closed-door discussions with Zhao Hongru, just because
The amount of investment is too large and it has been difficult to negotiate a feasible plan.
Wan Lei's opinion is that Huihuang Company will fund the construction of roads for the country, and the oil fields in the Western Regions will be transferred to Huihuang Petroleum Company for development free of charge. Zhao Hongru thinks that this may result in losses, so he still wants half of the railway operating rights. In this regard, Wan Lei naturally
If they cannot agree, the two parties will naturally be unable to reach an agreement.
After several days of wrangling, Wan Lei finally came up with a trick: to bundle the oil areas in the Western Regions with the oil areas in northeastern Liaoning Province. If Huihuang Petroleum Company was willing to build a railway to the Western Regions and a railway to Heilongjiang, what would happen to these two areas?
The oil areas will be mined by them.
Building roads in exchange for oil exploration rights has more advantages than disadvantages for Huihuang Petroleum Company. After all, oil is owned by the state, and whoever the country is willing to let develop can exploit it. Now many oil areas are exclusively owned by Huihuang Petroleum Company. In the future,
We can still monopolize the oil industry, and as long as we raise the price slightly, we can earn back these investments.
However, Zhao Hongru was indeed an owner who refused to suffer losses. When he heard that a large silver mining area had been discovered in the Hexi Corridor, he roped in a large miner and asked for a joint venture to share the road construction costs. Wan Lei was completely speechless about this.
In the end, the silver mine had to be transferred, but he added one more condition: the railway should be built to Alimari City, because a base camp of the Northwest Military Region was there.
Alimari City is located to the west of the Tianshan Mountains. It is located at a traffic hub. It is a line of defense to prevent the Turks and Mongols from the Western Regions from advancing eastward. It is an important stronghold for the Peiping Army to control the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions. It has tens of thousands of troops stationed and transports a large amount of military supplies every year.
In the past, transportation costs were huge. If the railway is opened, transportation costs can be reduced a lot.
Although it was necessary to build nearly 100 kilometers of more railways, Zhao Hongru finally accepted this request. Of course, Wan Lei could not say anything about building roads in exchange for oil exploration rights. He symbolically invited bids from the society, but except for the Huihuang Petroleum Company,
There was no other reason to bid, and in the end it fell into the hands of Huihuang Petroleum Company.
But it’s no wonder that Huihuang Petroleum Company is a large consortium with huge financial resources. It is the only company with the financial resources to establish an oil monopoly. The small business groups outside are simply incomparable. On the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, in public, the industry and the
The Ministry of Mineral Development and Huihuang Petroleum Company formally signed a ten-year contract.
The contract stipulates that Huihuang Petroleum Company will open a direct railway to Kelimali within five years, and all oil fields in the Western Region will be fully exploited. The contract also stipulates that Huihuang Petroleum Company will build a railway directly into northern Liaodong within the remaining five years.
The railways in the Heilongjiang Basin and the oil fields in Dongping, Liaoning are also fully exploited.