Rebirth 1912 starts with people on the Titanic

Chapter 23 New Millionaires

"Co-development?Handa, can you tell us about your company's plans?" Bruce muttered.

Setting up an oil company is not a simple matter.

The work that needs to be done in the early stage and the money required are not simple to achieve with a touch of the upper and lower lips.

Bruce knew that Hantec had a lot of business, but not necessarily compared to the oil industry, which is definitely an asset-heavy business.

Bruce didn't easily agree to Handa's offer.

Friendship is friendship, business is business.

This is the same whether it is Bruce himself or in the United States, which has a strong business atmosphere.

If Hantec's proposal was to make himself work with the entire field as an investment, then Bruce would have to make some trade-offs.

What he lacks most now is money, and cash.

"I and the shareholders of the company have already planned it. What do you think about the plan to use your oil field as a stake and the Western Mining Company as a stake in cash and the corresponding supporting facilities to set up a California oil company?" said Handar with a serious expression.

In business, Hantec does see it very thoroughly.

He didn't give any imitation of Bruce because of his relationship with Bruce.

Handa's words, as Bruce expected.

He hesitated and said, "Handa, your proposal is indeed very attractive. However, I am in dire need of money now, and it is cash. "

"So, what kind of conditions can you accept, Bruce?" Hender was not in a hurry when he heard this.

Bruce didn't rush to answer, but politely invited Hantec to come into the house.

After entering the room and sitting down, Bruce said, "What is the valuation of my oil field by your company?"

"About four million dollars!" Handar said very simply.

It seems that they did have a very in-depth study of Bruce's oil fields, otherwise, Hantec's promise would not have been so fast and accurate, without any delay!

Bruce calculated.

I am quite satisfied with the price given by Hantec.

He carefully calculated according to the impression in his memory and the current situation.

The oil field on the farm under his name is estimated at a price of 4 million yuan based on the current market, which is indeed a very generous price.

However, this price is certainly not the ideal price for Bruce.

You must know that the oil production of the oil field on his farm is much higher than that of ordinary oil fields, and the value of it naturally cannot be calculated as an ordinary oil field.

He shook his head slightly, and said apologetically: "Handa, the price you gave is quite reasonable, but it still hasn't reached the height I expected." "

Handar shrugged, not discouraged by Bruce's refusal.

Obviously, Bruce's reaction was already expected by him.

"You can talk about your psychological valuation. If appropriate, we can take charge of your offer. Handar said unhurriedly.

Bruce groaned, "Four and a half million! That's only two-thirds of that oil, and I'll put the remaining third out for auction." "

Bruce laid out his final plan.

In Bruce's opinion, this offer is still a bit low.

However, for the sake of Handa's face, Bruce still tried to make concessions.

If Hantec's company couldn't agree to this condition, Bruce would have to sell all the oil fields to other big oil companies in exchange for more cash.

Anyway, there are still many oil fields in his mind.

These fields are still undiscovered.

Moreover, the quality and reserves of these oil fields are far more than several times, or even more than ten times the scale of the current San Fanta Springs Highland Oilfield.

Handa obviously didn't expect Bruce to come up with this kind of plan to talk about cooperation with him.

The shareholders of Western Mining Company are indeed very interested in the fields of Bruce.

But if you do what Bruce says, it's clearly not friendly to the current Western Mining Company.

"It's hard to choose, Bruce!" Handar shook her head, "the difference is over our budget, I'll have to think about it."

Bruce nodded and said, "Well, no problem. However, please believe that the production of this oil field is definitely worth the price. "

Handar's expression was not as relaxed as before.

He was lost in thought.

Western Mining is not well funded.

In the same way, they are very keen to buy up the entire field of Bruce and develop it, rather than share the pie with other foreign oil companies.

Everyone knows that foreign oil companies are oil giants with strong financial and technical support, and they are not at all comparable to their newly established California oil company.

For example, the local Standard Oil Company of California is one of the seven major oil companies in the United States.

In front of it, the Western Mining Company is much smaller.

Once California's Standard Oil Company is involved, Hantec believes that Western Mining has no chance of competing at all.

The only result is that in the case of unwillingness, it is slowly encroached upon by the other party step by step.

This is not the outcome that Hantec wants to see, nor is it the outcome that Western Mining wants to see.

It's just that Brusti's conditions are too harsh, making it difficult for Hantec to draw conclusions for a while.

On Brusti's terms, it was a huge challenge for the Western Mining Company.

Seeing that Handar was hesitating, Bruce couldn't help but remind: "Handa, it is true that as you said, the era of oil is coming. If you want to get involved in the oil industry, you have to be prepared to gamble everything. "

Hearing this, Hengda nodded thoughtfully.

Then he shook his head and said, "Your conditions are a bit harsh. With the financial strength of the western mining company, I am afraid it will be difficult to bear it alone. "

"Why do you have to let Western Mining do it alone?" Bruce chuckled, "Actually, I didn't intend to make Western Mining the absolute majority shareholder of the new company. "

"What do you mean?" Hendar furrowed, suddenly interested in Bruce's words.

"I want the new company to be relatively even, Hantec. Bruce said.

"In addition to Western Mining, you can also join in privately, isn't it better for you?"

Handar fell silent again.

Bruce was no longer in a hurry this time, just sipping tea while quietly waiting for Heng Xiao's answer.

He had gone to great lengths to buy the tea from an Asian American.

For Bruce today, he still can't get used to something bitter and unpleasant like coffee.

Henda pondered for a moment before saying, "Do you remember that guy named William Clauster?".

Bruce nodded slightly, motioning for Henda to continue.

"The Clauster family also has some strength in Los Angeles, which is not much worse than our Brown family. Handar said.

"Handar, are you planning to bring that fellow William into the gang?" Bruce said calmly.

"If not, what else. The conditions offered by this guy are too high, and I have no choice but to do it," Hengda said helplessly, knocking on the table.

"No problem, as long as you can trust that guy. "I don't trust anyone but you, Handar!"

"Thank you for your trust, Bruce. I am very honored and delighted by your words. Handar said with a happy smile.

Handa's expression lightened again.

Things were resolved in this way, albeit somewhat out of the way originally planned.

But Handar can also understand Bruce's concerns.

If it were him, he might not easily hand over all his belongings to a shareholder who doesn't know about it.

"So do you have any calculations for our new company, I mean how big a new company you plan to set up. Handar asked.

"Ten million! If you want to do it, make it bigger. Bruce said brightly.

"Ten million, isn't that a little too aggressive?" said Handar worriedly.

Hantec is not worried.

That's 10 million meters at the beginning of the 20th century.

Such a large sum of money is an astronomical amount that is hard to ignore wherever it is placed.

There is no shadow of the new company yet, and Bruce is 10 million as soon as he opens his mouth.

Let Hantec also feel a little unconfident.

Who can guarantee that Bruce's oil field will really be as valuable as he promised.

What if the initial self-eruption was just an illusion?

Bruce seemed to see the worry in Henda's heart.

He got up and patted Henda on the shoulder and comforted, "Henda, trust me, you will definitely be proud of your decision today in the future." "

Handar didn't understand where Bruce's confidence came from.

But seeing that Bruce was so confident, he had no choice but to believe Bruce.

"How are you going to divide the company's shares?" asked Handar with a noncommittal nod.

"I bought a two-thirds oil field for 4 million yuan, accounting for 40% of the shares, and you watched the rest of the arrangement. What do you think?" Bruce relented again.

"Deal!" Handar decided after only a moment of thought before slapping his thigh.

Seeing that Handar had finally made a decision, Bruce immediately opened his hands and gave Handar a hug.

Handa also happily hugged Bruce and congratulated again, "Haha...... Congratulations, my friend. You are now the new millionaire of the United States. "

"Thanks, Henda!" Bruce patted Henda lightly.

After thinking about it, Bruce finally couldn't help but remind Hantec in his ear: "I still hope that you can take a wholly-owned stake in Western Mining, or directly put aside Western Mining and take a private stake in our California Petroleum Company." "

"Okay, Bruce, I'll consider your proposal. Hengda smiled after a pause.

The cooperation has been reached, and Hantec will not stay any longer.

He and Bruce walked out of the humble inn and shook Bruce's hand at the door to say goodbye.

"Okay, you don't have to send me. I'll have to go back and have a good chat with the shareholders. I am sure they will be interested in the new cooperation program. "Hantec seems to be very pleased with this collaboration.

"Yes, I also believe that our California oil company will get better and better, and give the whole country a huge surprise. Bruce smiled mysteriously.

A few days later, news broke that the oil field on the St. Daven Springs Highland Farm had been acquired by a newly formed Cal oil company for 4 million meters.

What Bruce didn't expect was that the news spread and did not reduce the number of adventurers who flocked here, but because of Bruce's success, it had a greater stimulus for these adventurers.

Four million rice yuan, even in the eyes of the people of the United States, is a huge fortune that is enough to make people crazy.

After hearing this transaction price, countless people are looking forward to becoming the next blues.

Soon, the flow of people in the Golden Town was filled with a swarm of adventurers.

The population of the golden town, which was originally only a few hundred people, has once again reached a staggering 50,000.

The

explosion of people has made housing in the golden town extremely scarce.

Many of the people who saw the opportunity to bring in a lot of tents from other places and then rented them to adventurers and wildcat prospectors, and made a lot of money from them.

Compared to the greedy adventurers and wildcat prospectors, they are lucky.

Because not everyone can dig oil out of the land near St. Daven's Springs.

A lot of people are mining because they have bought too much land for oil exploitation and have nothing to gain on that land.

When Bruce's farm is bought by an obscure California oil company, another group of people is deterred from coming to the Golden Town to make a test.

That's the guy that Standard Oil of California sent out to contact Bruce.

The news of a new oil company in California came as a surprise to

the giants more than the news that oil had been dug up in the heights of St. Dafen Springs.

So these giant companies changed their purpose and directly shifted their probing direction from Bruce to the newly established Petro-Cal.

The emergence of new competitors has forced these giant companies to pay more attention.

Let's see if we can buy the oil field directly from Petro-Cal.

When they learned that PetroCal was nothing more than a fledgling oil company, and that the company's shareholders included oilfield owner Bruce, they quickly pulled their attention away.

In the eyes of these giants, California oil is too young to pose a threat to them.

Of course, after knowing that Bruce had taken a stake in California Petroleum, they also understood that the oil field could not be purchased from California Petroleum.

So it didn't take long for Standard Oil of California to quickly turn its attention elsewhere and stop focusing on PetroCal.

With this time and energy, they might as well pay more attention to the other wildcat prospectors, maybe the next St. Dafen Springs oil field will appear?

What they don't know is that the now-unknown Petro-Cal company will rapidly grow into a terrifying presence that can match them, or even surpass them, in the next few years.