Chapter 2867
"If things like Qingyang Castle hadn't happened, I would have taken you to visit Damintun in northwest 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!"< br>
After returning to Shenyang, Chen Yixin expressed regret that his schedule was affected by the Qingyangbao incident. However, Bai Kesi was not fooled by his words, because he happened to know something about the situation in the Damintun Oil Field. This matter was not as simple as Chen Yixin said.
"Regarding the oil field in Damintun, I happened to have read the report of the Mining Department. Isn't that place too easy to exploit?" Bai Kesi asked with a smile.
Chen Yixin was exposed by Bai Kesi, and he smiled awkwardly and said: "Although the current mining technology does not meet the requirements, it is always right to prepare 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 large database, there are underground oil fields with considerable reserves in the area. After Haihan captured the Shenyang area, the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry sent people to the area to conduct exploration and sampling. The subsequent report submitted by the explorers to the Mines Division was mixed.
The good news is that there are indeed underground oil fields in the area, which fully confirms the information stored in the large database. But the bad news is that with the technology currently available to Haihan, we can only hope for oil production and cannot carry out industrial exploitation of 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 pipe comes up on its own. If mining is forced, 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 technology is mastered a hundred years later, the cost of extraction will be much higher than that of ordinary oil fields. Rather than 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 Liaohe River, the difficulty of local oil field exploitation is relatively low.
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 in the Damintun Oilfield, it is impossible for Chen Yixin to not know about it. The reason why he talked about this oil project that could not be implemented for the time being was because Chen Yixin wanted 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 sight the Executive Committee likes to see.
However, considering Chen Yixin's face, Bai Kesi would not say anything too harsh. He believed that once his point was reached, Chen Yixin would be able 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 government closed official entry and exit channels after the incident and strengthened border patrols. However, this move is mainly aimed at regular border trade activities, and there will still be some border residents who use the cover of night to cross the border. Due to limited manpower, the local garrison had no way to completely prevent this phenomenon and could only turn a blind eye. Because the caravan needed the border road of Qingyang Fort to normally pass through the official road between the two countries, it had to temporarily stay in Qingyang Fort due to this impact. Fortunately, the local reception facilities were complete, supplies were sufficient, and Liaohai Acropolis sent troops for reinforcements in a timely manner, so the mood of the caravan members was relatively stable and did not cause chaos.
When Sun Zhen arrived at Qingyang Fort, six to seven hundred people were already stranded there. Detailed inquiries and investigations have been 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 had received instructions from Chen Yixin. Until the truth of the incident was found out, the Qingyang Fort border crossing would be temporarily closed. This was not only to prevent the gangsters involved from entering and exiting the Haihan border from Qingyang Fort, but also to put pressure on the Manchu Qing Dynasty and force them 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.
Suk Saha was appointed by Shunzhi to handle the matter with full authority on behalf of the Qing court. However, the consensus reached through the negotiations between Geng Jimao and Chen Yixin has not yet reached him, so Suksaha and Sun Zhen have still not been able to agree on the conditions for reopening the border crossing.
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 nothing more than 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 someone across the border to participate in the operation as an observer. Then he ordered two battalions of men and horses with red flags, plus a battalion of people he brought from Hetuala City, and personally led the army to the place 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. This Niulu was only stationed there since the armistice between the two countries, so this town was actually a settlement built only after the war.
And the armed personnel to whom Niulu belonged were actually part of the Manchu border armed forces. Once war breaks out between the two countries again, this Niulu will definitely be one of the first troops to go to the battlefield.
The Qing army led by Suksaha silently surrounded this town with a population of more than a thousand people at night, and then launched at dawn, entering the town and conducting house-to-house searches.
(End of chapter)