Yang Yan looked at the boss in confusion and asked: "Asphalt? Your subordinate has never heard of such a magical thing?"
Jiang Lun said with a smile: "The asphalt will turn into liquid after heating, mix it with gravel and pour it on the ground. It will dry after cooling. Walking on the asphalt ground is much smoother and more comfortable than dirt roads!"
Yang Yan tried hard to imagine, but couldn't imagine what an asphalt road looked like.
His boss was very knowledgeable and had profound insights into financial, taxation and economic matters. Yang Yan didn't know which elite family he came from to have such talent and knowledge.
The only thing that bothered Yang Yan was that Jiang Lun always said things he couldn't imagine.
Jiang Lun saw Yang Yan's confused eyes and said with a smile: "It's not just asphalt, there are oil fields in the vast sea, but no one has mined oil yet."
Tarim Oilfield is the third largest oilfield in China after Changqing Oilfield and Daqing Oilfield.
This is an oil field with rich oil reserves. There is a group of players in the game who have never forgotten the oil field.
What is petroleum? It is not only fuel, petroleum can also separate a variety of industrial raw materials, and it is the blood of industry!
Asphalt in petroleum is an important raw material for infrastructure construction. The roads in the player's hometown when he was a child were paved with asphalt. They were also called asphalt roads at that time. Although they are not as comfortable as the current prefabricated cement board floors, they are still better than those in Datang.
The dirt roads are much better.
It is not difficult to find out the location of the oil field. The Tarim Oil Field is a large oil field, and it is not a confidential military project. You only need to check a few papers online to find the location of the oil field.
But the location of the oil field is the first step. The Tarim Oil Field is located in the vast Taklimakan Desert, which is also called the Hanhai by the people of the Tang Dynasty.
The vast sea is enough to understand how vast this desert is. In later generations, this is also a no-man's land that is notorious.
When the game was being tested, a player disappeared in Lop Nur and lost his life in vain.
This lesson has always been kept in the minds of players. It is equally difficult to explore the desert, and only some players with high [wild survival] skills dare to enter the vast sea.
If the vast sea alone is not enough to stop greedy players.
Another problem is that players lack hard enough drilling materials.
Jiang Lun was in charge of the Salt and Iron Bureau, so he naturally knew how these players pestered Jian Xia to develop high-strength alloys for drilling.
The petroleum industry is quite complex. Human beings can make full use of various substances in petroleum. This is a scientific and technological achievement in recent decades.
But extracting oil is an old craft, and the technical difficulty is not high. In the United States in 1900, many ordinary people with oil dreams dared to drill oil with a drill bit. As long as they could drill an oil well, they would be fine.
Get rich overnight.
The most important thing for drilling is wear-resistant high-strength alloys, but Jianxia lacks a variety of ores to make high-strength alloys. It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without straw!
If high-strength alloys for drilling oil could be made, Jian Xia would have made a safe and reliable rifle long ago.
Without qualified steel, drilling tools cannot be manufactured and oil cannot be extracted.
Jiang Lun sighed and said: "Sure enough, steel is the backbone of industry. Without qualified steel, many technology trees cannot be lit."
Yang Yan couldn't understand what his boss was lamenting, so he could only nod blankly.
The group of people followed King Jianning and headed towards Gaochang City in a mighty manner.
King Jianning was happily inspecting the territory.
Liangzhou, in the middle of Wuwei City.
Fang Guan, the governor of Hexi Province, was not in such a good mood.
He did not follow the advice of his subordinate Dou Shen and promptly mobilized the Tianshan Army to enter Zhangye to suppress the bandits, completely losing the land of Suzhou and Ganzhou.
Hexi originally governed four states: Shazhou governed by Dunhuang, Suzhou governed by Jiuquan, Ganzhou governed by Zhangye and Liangzhou governed by Wuwei.
But now Fang Guan, the dignified Hexi Jiedu envoy, only has Liangzhou left.
What is even more distressing is that there are not many horse farms in Liangzhou. Fang Guan has to implement the conversion of horses into mulberry trees, and there is not much land available for horse farms.
Those high-ranking officials who had established relationships with Fang Guan a long time ago and offered bribes and gifts to Fang Guan saw that Fang Guan was the only state left in Hexi Jiedu, so they all came to urge Fang Guan to quickly change horses into mulberries and sell the mulberry fields to them.
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Recently, the door of Fang Guan's family has been broken through. The land in a state like Liangzhou alone cannot satisfy these land-demanding wolves.
Fang Guan was so scared that he hid in his house every day and did not dare to go out, for fear of being entangled by these crazy land buyers.
Only then did Fang Guan remember why Dou Shen kept saying that Zhangye was the key to changing horses into mulberry trees, and why he had been persuading Fang Guan to sit in Zhangye and personally take charge of changing horses into mulberry trees in Zhangye.
Unfortunately, Fang Guan was having a lively chat with the scribes in Liangzhou at that time, and the local gentry in Liangzhou were also busy licking Fang Guan, so Fang Guan just issued a few decrees and let Wu Chudao, the governor of Ganzhou, handle the matter on his own.
In the end, bandits broke out, and King Jianning was asked to use the excuse of suppressing the bandits to send troops and occupy Suzhou and Ganzhou.
It was too late now. The Tianshan Lord was an army of the imperial court. How could he let the Tianshan Army attack Zhangye City occupied by King Jianning?
What's more, the imperial court originally ordered King Jianning to take charge of Longyou, and Fang Guan also knew that he could not command these military leaders at all.
Fang Guan had no choice but to use memorials to start a lawsuit. He wrote a eloquent memorial, accusing King Jianning Li Yan of sabotaging the work of converting horses into mulberry trees.
Then they tried to find some culprits of King Jianning and brought the case before the emperor.
Fang Guan's plan was very loud. He came to Hexi to promote the conversion of horses into mulberry, and to sell land to make money to raise troops and horses for the imperial court.
Nowadays, the war in the Central Plains is fierce, and the consumption of troops and horses is also high. As long as the court still relies on itself to raise troops and horses, then His Majesty will definitely rely on himself.
But Fang Guan didn't know that the Uighur merchants would never bring their war horses to Liangzhou to sell them like before.
Outside the Baowen Mountain Chou Shou Mansion, a huge market has been established.
This is the Tea Horse Market established by King Jianning and the Uighur Prince in a secret agreement. The Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs traded goods in this market, and the largest trade content was horses.
The best Uighur horses were snapped up by the merchants. Those Uighur merchants who got the money turned around and paid the money to the merchants of the Tang Dynasty to buy various commodities from them.
The most popular commodity in the Tang Dynasty was naturally tea.
Tea plays a vital role in the meat-rich eating habits of the grassland people. Whether they are nobles or ordinary herdsmen, they consume a large amount of tea every day.
After the Hu merchant Hu Bayi heard about the tea and horse market in Baowen Mountain, he decisively purchased a batch of novel goods from Shazhou and went north to the tea and horse market in Baowen Mountain.
As soon as Hubay's goods entered the market, many Uighur merchants gathered around to watch. He introduced the goods eloquently, which aroused great interest among the Uighur merchants.