Siheyuan: Punch Shazhu at the beginning, intercept Yu Li

Anyway, this place is a small private kingdom, and Zhang Weiguo can do whatever he wants with it.

After nearly a year of construction, Zhang Weiguo has built a modern industrial park on the Carlyle Islands.

Since there is a lack of battery industry at present, Zhang Weiguo directly transferred the complete production line to the factory and immediately started research and development and production.

At the same time, Zhang Weiguo also did another thing.

Zhang Weiguo's offshore oil field project has also entered the construction stage.

……

Imperial Palace.

Prince Kailei went to see King Sasi and reported some of the situation.

"Your Majesty, our people have discovered a large amount of oil resources near the Carre Islands. We implore Your Majesty to send people to mine the oil immediately!"

"oil?"

Sassi is also a big fat man. After hearing the news, his old face instantly cracked with smile: "This is good stuff!"

"Kai Lei, when did you become so generous? You found such a great benefit, but you didn't just keep quiet and make money?"

Kai Lei hurriedly explained: "I am loyal to His Majesty the King. I beg Your Majesty to understand this!"

Sassi asked again: "Tell me your conditions!"

Carlyle then continued to reply: "The oil field was discovered in the sea!"

"Exploiting offshore oil fields requires advanced equipment and technology, which I cannot afford!"

"Your Majesty the King will invest in the development, and if there is any profit in the future, just give half to my subordinates!"

Sasi's face suddenly became gloomy!

You've already said it, it's extremely difficult to mine offshore fried dough sticks. You spent money to invest and let me do it, and you just want to share the money, right?

However, Sassi did not refuse. After a moment of contemplation, he nodded and said, "Prince Kaire is indeed a model of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism!"

"Just cooperate as you wish. I will send someone to inspect the site right away."

After Kailei retreated, Sasi immediately went to find Prince Inman.

What Sasi meant was to let Prince Inman organize people and go to the Carlyle Islands to exploit for oil.

After learning about the situation, Prince Yingman immediately explained: "Father, you may not know!"

"Carlyle had already leased out the right to use the Carlyle Islands a year ago!"

"It's that Zhang Weiguo. We had a conflict with him half a year ago!"

"Oh, I remembered!"

Sasi nodded: "At that time, three of our soldiers died, and the other party compensated us with a sum of money. It ended peacefully, right?"

"Yes!"

"Then there's nothing to worry about!"

Sasi said in a deep voice: "Oil resources are very valuable and precious resources!"

"If we can develop these oil resources and turn them into cash, we can buy some advanced weapons and equipment to enhance the strength of the imperial army!"

Yingman explained: "But the Carlyle Islands have been leased as a whole by Zhang Weiguo!"

"That's why Kailei invited His Majesty the King to develop the area. Otherwise, he would have done it himself!"

Sassi still maintained a tough attitude: "The land leased by Zhang Weiguo is an island and our oil is extracted at sea. There is no contradiction."

Yingman's originally handsome face was now twisted into a big bitter gourd.

"Father... do you think Carlyle has the ability to explore for oil resources deep under the sea?"

"Ok?"

Sassi was slightly stunned: "Who discovered these oil resources?"

"Of course it was Zhang Weiguo who discovered it!"

Yingman continued: "And Zhang Weiguo has already started building a drilling platform offshore!"

"Should we go over there now and seize the resources directly by force?"

At this point, Sasi finally came to his senses.

"I wonder why this guy Kailei suddenly became so generous. He was waiting for me here after all this fuss."

After thinking for a moment, Sassi continued, "Even if Zhang Weiguo discovered oil, those oil resources belong to our Yingyun Kingdom!"

"This Zhang Weiguo is nothing more than a petty scoundrel. How can we just hand over the empire's assets to him like this?"

Yingman explained: "Father, Zhang Weiguo came to our Yingman Kingdom to make business investments through legal means after all."

"Father had publicly praised him before. Now that others have invested and found benefits, if we directly seize it by force, I'm afraid it will have an adverse impact on Father's reputation!"

"Uh...cough cough cough!"

Sassi's face turned red, but he still continued to say, "Yingman, you are right!"

"It is indeed inappropriate to directly seize resources by force. It will cause great damage to the image of our royal family!"

"But the resources belong to our empire. How can we give them away so easily?"

Yingman said in a serious tone: "This problem is easy to solve!"

"All resources in the Empire's territory belong to the Empire. Anyone else who exploits the Empire's resources must pay a resource tax!"

“Resource tax?”

Sassi frowned and replied: "The resource tax rate is probably 20%, which is still too low!"

"The profits from oil and gas resources are huge, the Empire must get at least half of it!"

"Otherwise, if we allow Zhang Weiguo to devour the empire's assets and strengthen his own strength, wouldn't that be like raising a tiger to cause trouble?"

Yingman said in a serious tone: "Father should know that even if we have discovered oil and gas resources now, we cannot mine them alone with our capabilities!"

"Even if we take back the oil and gas fields by force, we still need to find foreign companies to cooperate in exploitation!"

"And if my father really uses force to plunder resources, I'm afraid no foreign businessmen will be willing to continue cooperating with us."

"Ahem..." Sassi's face turned red as he continued, "Inman, can you please say something useful?"

"If the empire wants to grow and develop, it will definitely not work without money!"

Inman continued: "My advice is that we should do it step by step!"

"First give Zhang Weiguo a certain status, and then bring up the resource tax issue with him!"

"The initial investment in oil and gas fields is huge, so we can give them some tax concessions!"

"Later, when the oil and gas fields gradually start to make profits, we will not only collect the full amount of resource tax, but also Zhang Weiguo's personal income tax, resource monopoly tax, etc."

"In addition, we must make standard requirements to let Zhang Weiguo hire our Yingyun Kingdom workers and give them higher salaries."

"This way, we can prevent Zhang Weiguo from becoming too powerful and bring unlimited prestige to my father!"

"Hahahaha!"

Sassi was immediately delighted: "Yingman, you are such a good boy!"

"I can't wait to make you the crown prince now!"

Yingman bowed hurriedly and said, "Thank you for your appreciation, father."

In fact, Prince Inman is not a friendly dove at all. To be more precise, he is a profit-seeking person.