Rebirth 1912 starts with people on the Titanic

Chapter 46 Crazy Texas Oil

After briefly dealing with the Conroe oil field, Bruce left Houston without stopping.

Bruce's second target was the small town of Ranger in West Fort Worth.

With Conroe Agriculture as a cover.

This time Bruce was transformed.

He became an agricultural tycoon from California with a large farm and land in Los Angeles, as well as a large food company that mainly engaged in agricultural processing and canning of meat products.

The

reason I came to Texas was to invest in farms and livestock.

In any case, Texas is vast and sparsely populated, but livestock and agriculture are extremely developed.

In addition to this, cotton cultivation is also good.

In addition, there is a large forest area in the southeast bordering the Straw Hat Country, which is rich in timber resources.

In short, the whole of Texas is a treasure trove waiting to be developed.

Texans generally prefer agriculture and animal husbandry to industry.

Bruce's slogan of investing in agriculture and livestock is a good cover for his behavior and his land purchases.

It makes all his investments reasonable and legitimate.

This isn't Bruce's overkill.

It's because there are so many super oil fields in Texas.

Among Bruce's goals, any one of them can make those oil in the United States go crazy with jealousy.

As we all know, once the capitalists of the United States start to go crazy, it is a terrible existence that even their president dares to attack.

Before he grows into an equal existence with these people, Bruce doesn't dare to tease their sensitive nerves at will, lest he inexplicably expose their bodies one day.

Another reason is.

Since the self-eruption of the "spindle top" oil field in the Botmont area.

Oil has become a buzzword in Texas.

Wildcat explorers from all over the country once appeared in all corners of the land of Texas.

Even if it's been ten years.

These people have never found a single oil field in Texas as shocking as the "spindle top" oil field in Botmont.

But there are still many crazy and persistent wildcat explorers all over Texas who haven't given up yet.

Although Texans are still conservative in their thinking.

Oil still changed Texas.

Many large Texas landowners have also begun to run for oil control.

They don't mind digging up crazy oil beneath their vast expanse.

The final reason was that Bruce didn't want the news of his big purchase of land to be too ostentatious.

Otherwise, if someone preaches that there is a big boss from Los Angeles, there is a lot of money here, people are stupid, and they come quickly.

The big Texas landowners who got the news will definitely take the opportunity to raise prices.

Bruce didn't want his acquisition costs to increase for no reason.

Even if the return on his risky investment this time is already so high that people are angry.

Bruce didn't want to spend even a meter more.

This is the instinct necessary to be a qualified capitalist.

In short, keeping a low profile is king.

To use a movie line that Bruce hates very much: quietly drip into the village, don't shoot drip!

To be on the safe side.

After leaving Houston, Bruce was separated from Barudo and Hibier.

The soldiers are divided into three groups, and they act separately according to the goal that Bruce has confessed.

After parting, Bruce's first stop was the small town of Range, west of Fort Worth.

The situation in Lanjie is even worse than that in Conroe, where people are largely uninterested in what is going on outside, unaware that there is a large field of oil buried beneath their feet.

Bruce easily bought thousands of acres of land from the landlords in Langer for less than half a million yuan, and he also leased large tracts of land for 50 years from locals who were unwilling to sell the land.

The

cost of leasing land is lower than the cost of buying it outright.

If you are not afraid that leasing land will bring unnecessary trouble to the subsequent development of oil fields.

Bruce even wanted to change it all to a lease.

Got rid of the town of Lanjie.

Bruce took He Wenbin to the small town of Buck Burnett in northern Texas.

Here, Bruce re-engineered and bought a lot of land again.

It's just that Buck Burnett is obviously more prosperous than the previous two towns, so he didn't buy a lot of land here, but rented a lot of land.

The stubborn Texans did not want to lose the land in their hands, but also wanted to make money lying down, but they were very happy to rent out the land in their hands.

From Buck Burnett, Bruce travels from Mejía in the east of Waco to Louling in the east of Austin, and from Monaghans at the end of West Texas to Great Lakes - 2oo miles west of San Antonio, Goshan County, and so on.

Their footprints have spread almost all of West Texas, and even to the open plains.

Along the way, Bruce acquired a vast land area of more than 20,000 acres in total, either by buying or renting.

And the price he paid was only more than a million meters.

But the reward he will receive in the future is something that even Bruce himself can't calculate.

All in all, it's a crazy acquisition.

Even Bruce, a futuristic man, couldn't help but lose his mind when he looked at the thick land contract he was holding in his hand.

On the other hand, Barudo was smart enough to find a white agent, and after a long negotiation, he also successfully obtained Yates, one of the major oil fields in Texas, for less than 500,000 meters.

Hebiyeh also gained a lot along the way.

Everything went as Bruce had expected.

The operation was very smooth, but the money was spent a little quickly.

In just a few months, Bruce had to throw out three million meters for it.

For more than three months, Bruce and his companions traveled almost to the first corner of Texas.

The results are brilliant.

In order to better maintain the hundreds of thousands of acres of land that he had purchased, Bruce had to consider expanding the original Conroe Agricultural Company to specifically manage the land.

Some of these lands are still very fertile and suitable for growing cash crops and grazing cattle and sheep and other livestock.

There are some slightly inferior ones that can also be used to grow food.

For example, corn, potatoes and other staple foods in the West.

To do this, Bruce had to recruit Billy from Houston and instruct him to form the new Texas Agricultural Company.

And Billy, a rotten gambler who had nothing to do, also rose to the sky and became the first general manager of Texas Agricultural Company.

Because agricultural production in Texas was so developed, Bruce's Texas Agricultural Company built a meat factory and grain processing plant here to get bigger and bigger.

Later, with the advent of World War I, these factories that he started directly earned a lot of wealth for Bruce in World War I.

Then the Texas Agricultural Company further expanded, once monopolized the meat processing and grain processing industry in Texas, and became an important agricultural and animal husbandry product base in Texas and even the whole country.

After all of this is done, the matter is basically over.

Bruce takes He Wenbin to meet up again with Baludo and Hebier in Greg County.

Here, there is the ultimate goal of Bruce's trip - the East Texas oil field.

The East Texas oil field is still very backward.

How backward is it?

It can be said that apart from a pine forest of cats, there are almost no people.

The abundant timber resources are not exploited by many people.

It's really because Texas is so rich in timber resources.

There is no need to travel far and wide to Greg County to extract timber resources.

With the exception of a small local lumber mill, even the ubiquitous wildcat prospectors are reluctant to come here.

It was precisely because it was so backward that it took little time for Bruce to easily acquire a huge 45-mile and 5 to 12-mile-wide piece of land from Greg County to Lasker County from the local government in the name of investing in a lumbermill.

Even the small local lumber company was bought by Bruce.

The

owner of the lumber company, who had received double the price, took the money given by Bruce and danced happily, and moved out of Greg's poor "country" with his family that day.

It's crazy.

When Bruce took the contract for more than 400 hectares of land, his heart almost skipped several beats.

3 million meters, got the largest oil field in the United States - East Texas oil field.

If future generations knew that the largest and most influential oil field in the United States was easily obtained by Bruce, I don't know how they would feel.

I guess I don't even have the heart to jump to my feet and scold Bruce for being shameless.

After all, this can no longer be explained by a simple business industry.

I don't know if Rockefeller knew that he had only spent 3 million yuan to get hold of one of the largest oil fields in the United States, and whether he would send someone to kill him overnight.

The madness of capital was not at all what Bruce could have predicted.

Thinking that he would be regarded as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the heart by the oil giants of the entire United States in the future, Bruce's initial excitement gradually extinguished.

Instead, there were bursts of regret.

"No, I have to try to hide the East Texas oil fields. Bruce muttered to a small note with dry lips.

"Boss, you're not really going to change careers, are you?" asked Bruce grumblingly.

Hearing this, Bruce angrily retracted his chaotic thoughts and glared at Barudo fiercely.

"Which eye did you see that I was going to change careers?" said Bruce angrily.

"You're not going to change careers, what are you going to do with so much land?" Barudo was glared at a little aggrieved.

"Yes, boss!" exclaimed Hibiyer incomprehensibly, "my God, four hundred hectares of land, I really can't think of any other private landowner in the United States who has as much land as you have." "

"You have forgotten the hundreds of thousands of acres of land that we bought elsewhere before. Barrudo added.

"You two, give labor now, go to Buck Burnett now, and dig an oil well there. Bruce gritted his teeth.

"Ah, boss, are you crazy? Can you get oil there?" said Barudo and Hibier, stunned.

"I'll let you go, don't talk so much nonsense. "Bruce is about to explode.

Seeing this, Barudo and Hibier were at a slurp, and they didn't dare to say anything more, so they left without saying a word.

was crossed by these two fools, and Bruce's originally heavy mind was not so pessimistic.

In any case, he had already done the work, and he had already bought the land.

As for how much trouble it would cause in the future, Bruce didn't expect it.

Instead of dreaming here, let's take action.

Before the results become bad, eliminate all the terrible hidden dangers in advance.

The first step in Bruce's plan was to scatter all the land in his hands.

Eating alone has never been a good thing, so Bruce wants to bring others into the mix.

At least bring in a partner who can compete with a capital oligarchy like Rockefeller.

Of course, his old friends Handar and Fa Lian cannot be forgotten.

After thinking about it, how did Handar know that he had almost wiped out several super oil fields in the United States in a few months, how wonderful his expression would be.

"Let's not care so much about it, let's talk about it first, let's throw bricks and lead the way and muddy the waters of Texas. Bruce grinned grimly.