Chapter 89 Resources x Reform
The oil reserves are more than 3 million liters and the natural gas reserves are about 107 billion cubic meters, mainly distributed in the west of Hushan and Diaoshan and near the north of the island.
When Xia Jieren first heard the news, he was ecstatic.
After calming down a little, I felt bored again.
"Damn, what's the use of oil and natural gas now?" Xia Jieren cursed after coming back to his senses.
Afterwards, Xia Jieren consoled himself: "Forget it, I am now a wealthy man."
Ha ha!
He laughed at himself twice to ease his mood, and then he started to think about a very practical problem again: "How to transport the minerals to the Kingdom of the Netherlands."
Transport by ship.
Stop being funny!
A large sea vessel can only transport about 500 tons of goods at a time. Even if the metal is smelted on Yanhuang Island, the efficiency of transportation is still very impressive.
Not to mention, this might expose the location of Yanhuang Island and attract malicious attention, which is contrary to Xia Jieren's idea of hiding to the end.
After thinking carefully for a while, Xia Jieren had an idea.
"Kerrigan, do you think the fungal creep can be used to transport these metals?"
Before Kerrigan could respond, Xia Jieren said to himself, "Of course it can be done. Fungal mats can transport energy liquid, so there's no reason why they can't transport metal."
Kerrigan was also surprised for a moment, with a stream of data flashing in her eyes, and then she smiled playfully and replied: "No~"
When Xia Jieren heard this, he immediately became dejected.
Unexpectedly, Kerrigan didn't finish the second half of his sentence, "The current fungal blanket won't work."
Xia Jieren looked up at Kerrigan's shadow speechlessly and said with a wry smile, "Can you please stop playing next time? My mood is easily affected by external things, which is very bad for my body."
Kerrigan smiled softly, neither agreeing nor refusing. She changed the subject and said, "I will immediately start to deduce the optimization plan for the fungal blanket."
“Results are expected soon.”
Bang!
Kerrigan's shadow suddenly exploded, scaring Xia Jieren. Looking in the direction where Kerrigan disappeared, Xia Jieren shook his head helplessly, "Kerrigan is getting more and more naughty. She really needs to be disciplined."
"When she has a real body, I will definitely..."
As he thought about it, Xia Jieren revealed a perverted smile.
All in all, after so much trouble, the metal raw materials were finally found.
The Netherlands Kingdom’s demand for metal is still relatively small at present, and the metal in stock can fully meet the demand in a short period of time.
However, for the development of heavy industry, it is just a drop in the bucket, and only the hardware industry can be developed.
Moreover, even if there are sufficient metal materials, heavy industry is not so easy to develop, which requires a large number of talents.
Given the current talent base of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it is even more difficult.
By the way, if you really count them, industries such as oil, natural gas mining, coal mining, metal mining, non-metallic mineral mining and timber logging all fall into the category of heavy industry.
However, this type of heavy industry has been completely handled by the worker bees, and we will consider returning part of it in the future.
After Xia Jieren's hard work in publicity during this period, a wave of learning craze swept across the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
All children of school age were sent to school, whether they wanted to or not.
Similarly, adults also carry out literacy activities in their spare time.
This was something that was unthinkable in the past, but now that we have the opportunity, most people are still very enthusiastic about learning knowledge.
Knowledge changes destiny!
Most people have this understanding. As for the other small number of people, Xia Jieren didn't care anymore. After all, everyone has the right to choose their own life.
As long as they don't affect Xia Jieren's overall situation, he doesn't bother to care about them.
After all, to Xia Jieren, they were just a group of irrelevant people, not his compatriots.
Xia Jieren was so good to them and didn't ask for anything else. He just wanted them to have some outstanding scientific research talents after training.
After temporarily putting aside the troublesome issue of heavy industry development, Xia Jieren began to reform the commerce of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
No matter how big a monopoly group is, it is impossible to take care of everything, and certainly it is impossible to completely monopolize a country.
The Netherlands Group founded by Xia Jieren has not been established for a week, but it is about to undergo a large-scale adjustment.
The main purpose this time was to open up those small and miscellaneous projects to large and small merchants in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
A whale falls into existence!
The fall of so many top dignitaries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands should have strengthened the strength of the middle and lower class citizens.
After seizing power, Xia Jieren took control of everything and controlled the entire country's business and politics in order to quickly stabilize the domestic situation. Except for the citizens at the lowest level of society who received enough benefits, the interests of other classes were damaged to a certain extent.
Now in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Dutch Group controls 98% of the country's commercial activities, and the remaining small part is made up of some struggling merchants and small vendors.
This model is not perfect. The reason why there are no problems in the Kingdom of the Netherlands now is that the people who directly or indirectly control most of the commercial activities are insect people.
If it were the citizens of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, there is no doubt that the vast majority of them would become corrupt quickly in a short period of time.
Few people can remain rational enough when faced with huge wealth.
It was good that the insect man was in charge of the business activities of the Netherlands Group, which made Xia Jieren feel at ease. However, this was a huge waste of the insect man's ability.
With the abilities of the insect man, even if he is placed in a poor country, I believe he can lead the country to become prosperous quickly.
But now they can only deal with some trivial matters, and their talents are not being used.
Such a waste!
After receiving the request from the Zerg people, Xia Jieren thought about it for a while and decided to release more Zerg people by streamlining the organizational structure of the Netherlands Group.
From now on, the insects will only be responsible for the management and supervision of the Netherlands Group, and other positions can be handled by ordinary people.
I believe that there are insect people watching them, and they will not cause any trouble.
After making the decision, Xia Jieren began to make arrangements quickly.
First, some less important factories and sales channels, such as paper mills, food processing plants, flour mills, various small stalls and shops, were all handed over to domestic businessmen or self-employed individuals for operation.
In the future, the Netherlands Group will only retain some more important factories and sales channels, and its main task has become regulating domestic price levels.
In the future, most of the products of the Netherlands Group will be exported to earn more resources and profits, and a small part will be supplied domestically.
Secondly, we will introduce some more advanced machines and technologies to support the development of domestic manufacturing industry.
Most of these technologies were researched by the intelligent insect people led by Chong Er. Combined with Xia Jieren's memory and the current production technology of the Netherlands Kingdom, they can greatly improve existing productivity.
