Chapter 2479
The reason why Tian Yeyou chose the Star Island Colonial Zone to cooperate was because the mountains here are high and the emperor is far away. The executive committee pays limited attention and has more space to operate some mineral mining projects. This is indeed something Roger had not thought of beforehand.
No matter what Tian Yeyou's true thoughts were, the Star Island Colonial Zone would definitely not be able to resist the cooperation conditions he proposed, so the two parties happily reached a cooperation agreement. All three of them are actual investors of the South China Sea Development Foundation, so this kind of internal cooperation is a situation where God knows and you know and I know, and there is no written agreement.
Since Tian Yeyou has expressed his attitude that he will stay in Dumai permanently, Roger and Tan Juren will not treat him badly. They immediately arranged a construction team to build a private mansion for Tian Yeyou locally as soon as possible. As for the service staff such as attendants, coachmen, and cooks, Tian Yeyou was well prepared. He had already brought an entire team here by himself, including his personal doctor. There was no need to trouble Tan Juren to transfer people from Xingdao. Tian Yeyou also plans to bring his family back from Sanya to live there for a while, and it seems that he is ready to live here with peace of mind.
Speaking of which, Tian Yeyou has traveled extensively over the years due to work, and has visited almost all of Haihan's colonial areas at home and abroad, and has acquired many more properties to his name. Wherever he has stayed for more than half a year, he has basically purchased real estate there, which is also extremely rare among the traveling public. If Tian Yeyou didn't have many children, he would need to consider the distribution of his property in the future, and he wouldn't have to travel around like he does now.
Situations like Tian Yeyou's are not uncommon among the upper echelons of Haihan these days. The vast majority of time-travelers were between the ages of 20 and 40 when they participated in the operation. Now more than 20 years have passed, the older ones among these people have become grandparents, and the younger ones, such as Chen Yixin, are in their early 40s. , the eldest son is in middle school.
At this period, everyone will inevitably consider the future arrangements for the next generation, and what is more, they will also think about the issue of power transfer at a higher level. Most of the elites currently in charge of the country are in their fifties. Although normally they can stay in their posts for at least ten years or even longer, they must start to consider the issue of choosing and training successors.
How to conduct an orderly transfer of power? In the first two decades after time travel, few people put this issue on the table for discussion. After all, most people in the group are in their prime and don't want to consider these seemingly distant things so early.
But when some people's children begin to serve in government offices at all levels, or become prominent in the military, or become upstarts in the business world, it will inevitably cause other people to feel a sense of crisis. Arranging a higher starting point and a better development platform for children has become the consensus of most time travellers. If we work hard now, maybe in another twenty or thirty years, our own children will be the ones in charge of the country in the Haihan Executive Committee.
Children of time-travelers can basically enjoy the best educational resources. Their status in this emerging country is no different than that of children of aristocrats, but it is not certain whether they can become the pillars of the country in the future. However, the higher the starting point provided by their parents, the greater the chance of success in the future.
In such a small interest group, if you want future generations to stand out, connections are naturally a very important factor. However, Tian Yeyou travels overseas all year round due to work and does not spend much time in Sanya. As a result, most of the connections he has made are overseas. Therefore, when it comes time to pave the way for future generations, most of the connections he can draw on are Senior military and political officials in various overseas colonial areas.
Tian Yeyou has many children. If he wants to arrange a good way out for everyone, it is estimated that it will be difficult for him to settle down and enjoy happiness in the next few years. At the moment, we can only do our best, and we can arrange as much as we can. After the Dumai Oilfield is officially put into production, Haihan no longer needs to worry about the supply of crude oil for a long period of time. The link that needs to be strengthened now is the construction of refineries and the downstream petrochemical industry chain.
The equipment required for these production links has high technical requirements, and naturally cannot be manufactured in the Xingdao Colonial Area, which has a weak industrial base. Basically, all of them have to be shipped from Sanya by shipping. At the same time, Sanya needs to send a large number of engineering and technical personnel to install and debug these production equipment and train operating workers to achieve normal production.
Due to the large size and weight of these professional equipment, it is difficult for ordinary cargo ships to ship them. Currently, this type of highly professional shipping business is undertaken by Yu's Shipping Company. One of the main business sources of this shipping company, founded by husband and wife Yu Feng and Liang Liping in 1639, is the transportation of production equipment and petroleum products from several overseas oil fields.
At that time, Haihan only had one oil-producing area, the Miaoli Oilfield. In order to monopolize the local petroleum product transportation business, Yu's Shipping Company set up a regular route between Sanya and Miaoli at the beginning of its establishment, and specially customized several ships. A large cargo ship carrying fuel products was an extremely bold investment at the time.
After all, the Miaoli Oilfield had not yet increased its production capacity at that time, and its monthly output was not much. Relying on that little shipping volume to maintain a dedicated route would definitely result in losses. Based on the inside information provided by Lu Zhanpeng, a friend in the petrochemical department, Yu Feng grabbed the business before the second phase of the Miaoli Oilfield project was put into operation. As a result, he became the only professional petrochemical product carrier in Haihan, and in the following more than ten years, Gradually expanding its business scale, it became a shipping company specializing in bulk commodity shipping.
The related transportation business of the Dumai Oilfield and the Sriya Oilfield that was put into production before that was also taken over by Yu's Shipping Company. Next, Yu's Shipping Company will invest in at least four oil tankers on the route from Sanya to Dumai to ensure that the petrochemical products produced in Dumai can be stably transported to the country.
This is also the first fixed route connecting the country since the development of Dumai Oilfield. To this end, the Star Island Colony also provided a two-story building for Yu's Shipping Company near the dock in Dumai as its office and temporary residence for the crew.
Due to the special nature of the Dumai area, there is a high probability that it will not be able to develop into a prosperous business area. Therefore, for a long period of time in the future, a fixed route ship line may be built between Sanya and Dumai. It is estimated that only Yu's Shipping Company has established itself, which is equivalent to objectively monopolizing the shipping market here. The unpopular route chosen out of desperation at the beginning of the business has now become a magic weapon for monopolizing operations in the petrochemical shipping field. This is a development that Yu Feng and his wife could not have expected at the beginning.
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