Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 955 Preparation

The Tiger Roar Base has changed a lot. This is the feeling Lu Shaohua had after taking a tour around it. Not to mention the buildings, there must have been changes. What Lu Shaohua felt changed was the atmosphere inside, which is the most important thing.

When Lu Shaohua came to the Tiger Roar Base in the past, he felt that the base was rigorous, but underneath this rigorousness there was looseness. But now it is different. Although Lu Shaohua still feels rigorous, the looseness behind the rigorousness is gone.

It's becoming more and more like a secret military restricted area.

This was Lu Shaohua's final evaluation. No matter from which aspect, the Tiger Roar Base was a force, but this force was a bit loose before. However, it is gone now, and Lu Shaohua feels nervous every moment.

As the base of a force, you must always be prepared for incoming enemies. If you are loose and disorganized, how can you face the enemies?

All in all, this change is good and Lu Shaohua is quite happy.

Although he was happy, Lu Shaohua did not forget the purpose of his visit. That night, Lu Shaohua asked someone to make a CD with the records of the underground oil warehouse, and then he inserted it into the computer and began to check all the records of the underground oil warehouse.

Lu Shaohua had only one purpose in checking the records in the warehouse, which was to obtain accurate data. This data was related to Lu Shaohua's ultimate plan, and more importantly, to some detailed arrangements after Lu Shaohua officially launched the plan.

Lu Shaohua already has a scale in his heart. This scale measures the amount of crude oil, which is actually a price in Lu Shaohua's heart. If the amount of stored oil reaches Lu Shaohua's psychological price, then Lu Shaohua will store the oil at a normal speed next time.

If the number cannot reach Lu Shaohua's mind, then he will concentrate funds to speed up the development of oil fields and increase the number of underground oil storage. If it is more than the number in his mind, then he will slow down.

Obviously, whether it is Li Zhijie, Qian Qian, or Xie Jianwei, they all know the importance of crude oil to Lu Shaohua and dare not be careless. The speed of purchasing and developing oil fields has not stopped and continues, which has also caused the storage capacity of underground oil warehouses to rise steadily.

However, climbing is one thing, and consumption is another. Don't forget that Lu Shaohua asked Liu Mingzhang and others to speculate in oil futures, and speculation in oil futures manipulates the price. Underground oil warehouses will bring consumption, because sometimes they will ship out and lower the price.

Furthermore, the entire Tiger Roar Base is constantly running, and it also requires a certain amount of fuel, so a portion of the crude oil must be refined to form fuel. With the vigorous development of the Tiger Roar Base, this consumption is obviously increasing. If it used to consume one barrel of crude oil a day, now the consumption has reached ten barrels, or even dozens of barrels.

Consumption became a headache for Lu Shaohua. Looking at the final storage quantity, Lu Shaohua was even more depressed. It was not for anything else, but because the quantity did not reach Lu Shaohua's ideal price.

"Hey……"

Lu Shaohua sighed deeply, and then muttered to himself, "It seems that we need to increase our efforts."

Indeed, it is obviously not possible not to increase the intensity of oil field exploitation. After all, this consumption will continue and may increase with the vigorous development of the base. If the intensity of exploitation is not increased, it may affect Lu Shaohua's ultimate plan in the long run.

With a plan in mind, Lu Shaohua did not hesitate and went to the base of the Tiger Roar Mercenary Group in person to find Qian Qian and ask him about the oil field exploitation in the Middle East.

It is right for Lu Shaohua to increase the mining intensity, but how can Lu Shaohua give orders before the situation is clarified? What if the mining intensity over there has reached its limit?

Fortunately, Qian Qian's answer was that the oil was at a medium to low level, not fully operational, which made Lu Shaohua feel relieved. However, Lu Shaohua did not rush to issue orders, but asked for some information about the oil fields that were being mined, took them back for research, and then gave a feasible plan.

Lu Shaohua spent the entire afternoon in his residence, studying the development of the oil fields belonging to the Tiger Roar Base. He found that two medium-sized oil fields had suspended production due to excessive oil production.

This made Lu Shaohua feel strange. It looked so depressing that the production was suspended due to excessive oil production. After all, what he needed was to store a large amount of crude oil. But now, Qian Qian and others actually stopped production temporarily.

However, Lu Shaohua also knew that Qian Qian and his team must have had reasons for making such a decision. Otherwise, knowing the importance of oil to Lu Shaohua, they would not have easily issued an order to temporarily stop development.

However, Lu Shaohua didn't quite understand. In order to make the next plan more perfect, Lu Shaohua called Qian Qian again to ask what was going on.

Qian Qian also quickly gave the answer. It turned out that there were two reasons for temporarily stopping the development of the two medium-sized oil fields. One reason was that the environment where the two oil fields were located was relatively harsh and the transportation routes were not very good. After the crude oil was extracted, it was very troublesome to transport it back to the dock for loading, and it consumed a lot of manpower and material resources.

With this first reason, and because the production speed of other oil fields has increased due to the upgrading of machines, and the crude oil production of each oil field has reached the normal speed, Qian Qian and his team temporarily stopped the production of those two oil fields. Anyway, those two oil fields are permanent and have been bought out.

After understanding the reason why the mining was suspended, Lu Shaohua did not say anything, but fell into deep thought. Since the number of underground oil storages did not reach the number in his mind, Lu Shaohua was thinking about how to increase the mining intensity. Now the suspension of high-yield oil fields was placed in front of Lu Shaohua. As long as Lu Shaohua started mining, all problems would be solved.

However, at the same time, Lu Shaohua still felt that something must be done. For example, when purchasing an oil field, he must plan the transportation route. Otherwise, like these two medium-sized oil fields, the cost from mining to transportation back to Africa will increase exponentially.

It's true that Lu Shaohua is rich, but he still needs to save where he can. Unnecessary expenses like this should be avoided if possible.

With a plan in mind, Lu Shaohua wrote down his ideas one by one in the plan, forming a document to be used in the meeting tomorrow.

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The day passed quickly. Lu Shaohua stayed in his residence until after dinner in the evening. Then he went to the Tiger Roar Mercenary Group base to exercise and then went to the secret base.

It has been two days since Lu Shaohua set foot at the Tiger Roar Base. During these two days, Lu Shaohua spent one day looking up the data of the underground oil warehouse and then making a plan. He has never been to the secret base to take a look. Now that he has time, Lu Shaohua decided to go there.

Lu Shaohua came to Africa with a purpose. It is impossible for him to spend all his time inspecting the base. There are still many important things that Lu Shaohua needs to do. As the core of the Tiger Roar Base - the secret base, Lu Shaohua naturally cannot turn a blind eye to it.

Don't forget that the entire Tiger Roar Base is operated around the secret base. Like the Tiger Roar Mercenaries, it is just a smokescreen set up to deceive people. In addition to gathering intelligence for Lu Shaohua, the rest of the intelligence network is also serving the secret base.

In addition, the secret base is also the economic source of the entire Tiger Roar Base. The sale of arms generates money. In addition to investing most of it in the research and development of new arms, the rest is all handed over to the Tiger Roar Intelligence Network and the Tiger Roar Mercenary Group for use.

It is worth mentioning that the Tiger Roar Mercenary Group can also create wealth. After all, if you want to retain the world's number one mercenary group, the cost is extremely high. With the development, the current Tiger Roar Mercenary Group will not accept any missions other than large-scale ones or missions that are not challenging.

To put it in common terms, the route that the Tiger Roar Mercenary Group is taking now is the high-end route. They only make high-end goods and disdain to make mid-range and low-end goods.

Perhaps it was because the value of the mission was extremely high, which provided a huge amount of wealth to the entire base, and also resulted in a lot of funds on the books of the Tiger Roar Base, allowing Lu Shaohua to withdraw them frequently.

However, Lu Shaohua no longer needs to transfer funds from the Tiger Roar Base. At least in the next six or seven years, Lu Shaohua will not take a penny from the Tiger Roar Base. If possible, Lu Shaohua will make additional investments in the Tiger Roar Base.

Of course, that is impossible, because in the next few years, all the industries under the Phoenix Group will have to develop. Lu Shaohua's ambition is so big that the profits of the group's industry are destined to be unable to support rapid development, and it will need to continue to invest money.

Originally, Phoenix Group is so large, and each of its products occupies a large part of the market share. The entire group should be able to be self-sufficient. However, Phoenix Group is different. It cannot be self-sufficient, and Lu Shaohua needs to continue to make additional investments.

Why is this?

The answer is simple. Lu Shaohua emphasizes speed.

Everything must be done quickly. For example, if a company is just established today and the framework is just set up and it is just getting started, others would do it step by step to form a cycle. But Lu Shaohua is not like that. Lu Shaohua wants to keep pouring money into the company to make it grow quickly and become a medium or large company in a short period of time.

Some people may ask, isn't this just forcing things to grow? If the foundation is not solid, it will become shabby in the future.

However, this problem does not exist in Phoenix Group. Not to mention that every employee in Phoenix Group is an elite, just looking at the overall strength of Phoenix Group, even if it is forced to grow, the foundation will be solid and there will be no corruption.

It is precisely because of this that Phoenix Group cannot be self-sufficient. But then again, if Lu Shaohua hadn't desperately invested money, would Phoenix Group have been able to develop into what it is today in just a few years?

The answer is also obvious, no.

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