Happy Tycoon

That afternoon, Zhao Meng also learned that Yang Jing made a little money. Of course, when Zhao Meng heard the news, his expression was almost the same as that of Lin Dan.

While driving along the famous Highway 1 from San Francisco to Los Angeles, Lin Dan explained Zhao Meng's mood in one sentence.

Damn guy! A guy who makes people envious and jealous! This is the last sentence Uncle Zhao said. Lin Dan said to Yang Jing imitating Zhao Meng's tone while shifting gears and refueling quickly to pass a car in front of him. .

Yang Jing, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, laughed loudly, I didn't expect that even Uncle Zhao could lose his composure. Should I be proud, or should I be proud?

Lin Dan rolled his eyes, and passed another car while thinking about it.

Wow, Xiao Linzi, you'd better slow down, we're going too fast. Xiao Linzi's address made Lin Dan roll his eyes again, but his speed slowed down.

Yang Jing squinted slightly, and clearly saw in the rearview mirror that the car driven by Chris and John was closely behind, and behind Chris and John's car was a Chevrolet full-size SUV of the same model. Sitting in the car were two other newly hired bodyguards.

Yang Jing already had two bodyguards, Chris and John, when his net worth was less than 30 million US dollars. Now that he has become an out-and-out billionaire, it is reasonable to add two more bodyguards. middle.

Originally, Yang Jing didn't want to engage in such a big battle, but Zhao Meng didn't say anything. In Zhao Meng's words: You are now a billionaire with a net worth of over 100 million. Even if you look at the entire United States, you can have more There are not many people with money, so you must pay attention to your own safety. This is the United States, not China, and with your current wealth, I think four bodyguards are too few.

Yang Jing thought about the same thing, so he agreed.

In Zhao Meng's words, Los Angeles is not San Francisco, and the Chinese are not popular in Los Angeles. Moreover, Chinese people usually carry cash with them when they go out. This is something known throughout the United States, so in big cities such as Los Angeles and New York, Chinese people have always been the primary targets of those damn robbers.

The most important thing is that most of the robbers are addicts. It would be better if they didn't become addicted when they committed crimes. If they happened to be addicted, they would easily cause more harm to the victims.

Those addicts really don't care about their addiction. If Yang Jing meets such a person, he must have bodyguards to protect him, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable.

So, when Yang Jing and Lin Dan drove to Los Angeles the next day, Chris and John introduced their partners from the same team in the Titan organization.

When Chris and John were in the Titan organization, they had an operation team. Clark McCann was the team's fire support man. He was tall and thick, wearing a black suit and sunglasses. He was the standard meat shield bodyguard in the movie. The other guy is George Bruce, who is also a very sturdy man.

With the joining of these two, Yang Jing's itinerary in the United States will become safer. Four people can form two teams to protect Yang Jing 24 hours a day.

The famous Highway 1 is 460 miles long, connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco at the north and south ends. It is known as the most beautiful road in the United States.

Yang Jing and the others set off from San Francisco at nine o'clock in the morning. At noon, they had lunch in a residential community outside Vandenberg Air Force Base, the largest air force base on the west coast of the United States. Unfortunately, Vandenberg Air Force Base does not allow tourists to enter, otherwise Yang Jing would I really want to visit this famous air force base.

But standing in the distance, you can also see the fighter jets that are constantly taking off and landing. It seems that the base is conducting some training missions, and the fighter jets are taking off and landing more frequently.

Boss, do you see these two fighters that just took off? That is the famous F22 Raptor fighter, which is currently the most advanced fighter in the world and the most powerful fighter. These two fighters form a standard two-aircraft formation , It should be a routine offshore patrol training. Clark McCann, who was five big and three thick behind him, said with certainty.

Before this strong man joined, Chris once introduced Clark McCann. This guy is tall and burly, and he also serves as a fire supporter in the team, but when it comes to military combat capabilities, Clark is He is the best in the whole team and even in the entire Titans organization. Don't look at this guy's size, but this guy can play from the F22 Raptor to the Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarine, and he can play it very well.

Yang Jing put down the binoculars, turned to Clark and asked, Clark, do you understand these things?

Clark nodded, and George Bruce beside him said with a smile: Before Clark retired, he was the elite of the SEAL (Sea Seal Commando) elite. He had contact with many high-end weapons of the US military. When he was on mission in Afghanistan, He once drove an F22 to carry out an aerial precision strike on a terrorist base

Clark seemed reluctant to bring up the previous incident, smiled and waved his hand to stop his friend from explaining, appearing very humble.

Wow! Yang Jing gave Clark a thumbs up in surprise. Although George didn't finish speaking, Yang Jing could understand the meaning behind these explanations, so he gave this new acquaintance without hesitation A big compliment to Mr. Bouncer.

So, after we get to Los Angeles and finish our business, can we find a gun shop and let's shoot a few shots for fun? Clark, you know I'm from China, and I've never touched a gun. I want you to Taught me.

Clark smiled and said, Boss, just a gun shop is not enough. We need to find a gun shop with a shooting range. I happen to know that there are several gun shops with shooting ranges. If you want, I can take you there to have fun. .”

After the conversation was over, several people continued to drive on the road, but it was not Lin Dan who drove Yang Jing's car at this time. Clark took over the steering wheel controlled by Lin Dan and drove Yang Jing and Lin Dan himself.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, they arrived in downtown Los Angeles in three cars.

In fact, Los Angeles sits in the Los Angeles Basin. The basin is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces the sea on one side. Except for some hills, the ground is flat. The average altitude is only 84 meters, and the highest point, Elsie Peak, is 1548 meters high.

But in this wide basin, there are extremely rich oil resources. Even now, this huge basin is known as half city and half oil field, which is enough to explain the rich oil resources in the Los Angeles Basin.

In fact, California has long been known for its abundant oil seedlings—referring to the outcropping of oil in the earth’s crust on the ground, which is one of the important signs of finding oil deposits—and the local Indians have always used this do business.

By the 1850s, some people had done special research on the oil seedlings in the Los Angeles Basin, but these people never connected the abundant oil seedlings on the surface with the huge oil reservoirs underground. It was not until more than two decades later that the first commercial oil well in the Los Angeles Basin was drilled in Pico in the northern part of the Los Angeles Basin, and the basis for the drilling of this oil well was the oil seedlings exposed on the surface.

The successful drilling of this oil well has made the exploration and drilling of commercial oil wells in the Los Angeles Basin a golden rule, that is, never drill without seeing oil seedlings!

In fact, this golden rule really played a huge role in the early survey process. The first large oil field in the Los Angeles Basin, the famous Los Angeles City oil field, was discovered in 1892 following this golden rule.

In Los Angeles, whose total population was only 50,000 in 1890, a large number of oil workers came to this small city because of the discovery of this oil field, which played an inestimable role in promoting the future development of Los Angeles.

Just as San Francisco was built because of gold mines, Los Angeles actually thrived because of oil.

With the discovery of the oil fields in Los Angeles, more capital was rapidly transferred from the east coast to the west coast. The economic giants represented by the Rockefeller family all made enough money from oil in California.

During the three years from the discovery of the Los Angeles City Oilfield to 1895, the daily production of 300 oil wells in the oilfield increased to 792,000 barrels, which attracted a lot of money to Los Angeles.

With the help of huge funds, people discovered the Midway Sunset Oilfield with a reserve of 250 million tons in 1894, and the Kern River Oilfield with a reserve of 85 million tons in 1899.

The discovery of these oil fields further stimulated the influx of funds and accelerated the development of Los Angeles.

In the first two decades of the 20th century, huge amounts of funds and a large number of manpower turned the entire Los Angeles Basin into a steel jungle full of oil derricks. The La Haveniu oil field with a reserve of 170 million tons, the Montebello oil field with a reserve of 120 million tons, the Huntington Beach oil field with a reserve of 150 million tons, and the Elk Hills oil field with a reserve of 180 million tons.

And now the famous Los Angeles Long Beach was actually an oil field a hundred years ago, because there, people discovered the famous Signal Hill oil field!

Yang Jing once saw what Long Beach, Los Angeles looked like in 1937 in a black and white photo. If Yang Jing hadn't seen that black-and-white photo with his own eyes, he really couldn't believe what the picturesque Long Beach would have looked like eighty years ago.

Have you ever seen the scene when bean sprouts sprouted? That's right, Long Beach in 1937, in that black-and-white photo, seems to be the scene of bean sprouts. It's just that what grows on the ground is not bean sprouts, but dense steel oil derricks that are as dense as bean sprouts.

Not only Long Beach, but also Venice. The dense forest-like steel oil derricks extend from the beach to the inland, and you can't see the beautiful scenery eighty years later.

It can be said that at that time, from Venice in the north to Huntington Beach in the south, the entire coastline of Los Angeles was almost entirely occupied by such densely packed oil derricks!

This is Los Angeles eighty years ago! A city completely occupied by oil derricks made of steel!

In fact, even now, in Los Angeles, from downtown to the beach, and even on the four islands in San Pedro Bay, you can see kowtower pumps and some old oil derricks everywhere, of course, More camouflaged oil derricks.

What is even more surprising is that even after more than 80 years of exploitation, these old oil wells are still producing dark oil continuously.

It's safe to say that the old oil wells near Los Angeles have very, very potential. This is true for any oil merchant.

Yang Jing also thought so before.

But there is always a gap between facts and ideas. When Yang Jing arrived in Los Angeles and inspected for a few days, he felt that his previous ideas seemed to be taken for granted.

Without him, although there are many old oil wells in downtown Los Angeles, and even many old oil wells have been shut down for a long time, it is still very difficult to restart those old oil wells here for production.

Los Angeles was developed because of oil, and you can see kowtow oil pumps still working everywhere in the streets and alleys of the urban area. But also, with the continuous development of society, Los Angeles people are very concerned about these ubiquitous old oil wells. The level of patience has almost reached a limit.

Many working oil wells are even located in residential areas. When the oil machines are working, the noise generated makes the surrounding residents miserable. Moreover, people have been criticizing that the production of oil wells will cause a certain degree of pollution, so many people are now Those oil wells in opposition to downtown Los Angeles continue to work, and there are even proposals to shut down these working oil wells.

As for secondary or even tertiary exploitation of old oil wells, it will be even more difficult.

In 2006, St. James Petroleum Company in Los Angeles injected high-temperature steam into an oil well in order to extract oil. This is a more commonly used method of oil extraction. Steam is used to heat thick oil to make it flow and facilitate extraction.

However, things didn't go the way the company envisioned. According to the Center for Land Use Interpretation, a Los Angeles-based NGO, the pressure deep underground sees viscous oil to the surface, gurgling from sewers, basements and even highways, emitting a toxic gas.

The old oil well of St. James Petroleum Company is located on Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles. Relevant departments urgently closed the street and evacuated more than 130 surrounding residents. It took several weeks to pump the oil that had seeped into the basement of the residence and resurface the road.

Because of this incident, the St. James Oil Company was sued in court.

The working oil well is still opposed by the residents. If you want to reopen an old oil well, wouldn't you be asking for trouble for yourself?

If it was before the 1950s, let alone opening a well, even if you re-drilled a well, no one would care.

But now, the entire Los Angeles basin is occupied by cities, and there is almost no open space in the huge basin. How do you open a well?

This is the greater Los Angeles area, the second largest metropolitan area in the United States after New York!

In such a prosperous metropolitan area, if you want to reopen old oil wells, the difficulty is definitely not ordinary. Now it’s not the past. In the past, Los Angeles pointed to oil. Now people don’t expect this kind of black and smelly liquid. They have finance, they have movies, they have travel, and they have ways to make money. Huge oil is no longer welcome here!

After several days of investigation, Yang Jing and Lin Dan came to such a fact that people had to accept.

It is very easy to find old oil wells in Los Angeles, and there are a lot of old oil wells waiting for you. But if you want to open a well and start mining again, it will be more difficult than reaching the sky!

So after several video calls with Zhao Meng in San Francisco, Yang Jing and Lin Dan had to return to Beaumont, Texas.

Compared to Los Angeles, Beaumont is better! The land here is sparsely populated, and it also has a world-class Spindle Top oil field. The most important thing is that the old oil field that was reopened last time is here.

If you can continue to find one or a group of old oil wells here, it will be quite convenient to exploit.

After the group arrived in Beaumont and rested for a day, Yang Jing boarded the leased helicopter.

In Yang Jing's words, the buddies should perform the Great Hope Technique in the air, and strive to find another old oil well or a group of old oil wells located in the Shengmen!