Gao Bufan visited the oil refinery in his previous life and was exposed to crude oil. It can almost be concluded that the black-brown liquid stained on Liu Qiusheng's clothes was oil. However, in order to further prove, he went down to the bottom of the well again without carrying a torch to avoid accidents. After all, oil is not a joke. Once it is ignited, it is difficult to extinguish conventional means.

It was night now, and the bottom of the well more than ten meters deep was so dark that it could not be seen with five fingers. However, Gao Bufan's eyesight was different from ordinary people. With the faint firelight shining above the well, he could see the situation at the bottom of the well clearly.

The bottom of this well is not large, with a diameter of only about one meter and no water. However, judging from the color of the surrounding well walls, the well originally had water, but later it dried up for some reason.

Gao Bufan used his feet to push a layer of dead branches and leaves spread at the bottom of the well and found that there was a crack below, about three fingers wide and twenty or thirty centimeters long. You could see that the crack was filled with a dark brown viscous body. Obviously, this thing was stained on Liu Qiusheng's corpse clothes.

Gao Bufan's heart moved, and he tore off a strip of cloth from his sleeve and stuffed it into the crack, sucking the black liquid inside. But after a moment, the black liquid in the crack of the rock slowly filled up again. It was obvious that there were probably an oil field under the ground, and it was an oil field that was extremely easy to exploit. Gao Bufan was so excited that he thought that the Sui Dynasty, which was almost zero in industrialization, suddenly calmed down again.

Oil is called the blood of industry. In later generations, it was the main energy substance and the most important industrial raw material. Almost all industries cannot do without it. However, in the feudal farming society more than 1,400 years ago, this thing was a piece of chicken rib. It was tasteless to eat, but it was a pity to throw it away, and its value was almost zero.

In fact, there were first records of oil in my country during the Eastern Han Dynasty. The "Book of Han" mentioned that "Gao Nu had fermented water that could flammable", while Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty described it as follows: "There is fertilizer on the water, which can be used." The ancients called oil fermented water, fertilizer, stone fat and stone paint, etc., until Shen Kuo, a native of the Song Dynasty, gave it a name called petroleum.

Although oil was discovered very early in ancient my country, it was almost useless. Because this thing produced little, it was choking when burned, which was extremely bad and was also smoky. It was also thick and smoke was rolling, so people would rather use vegetable oil and animal roux to illuminate than use oil.

However, an open-air and extremely easy-to-explore oil field is still very useful in Gao Bufan's opinion. Unfortunately, it is in Goguryeo. If it is in the Sui Dynasty, he will definitely try to get this land and then find a way to refine kerosene and gasoline. In the future, just selling lamp oil can make a lot of money.

As for now, it is okay to get some oil for marching lighting and make simple rockets and incendiary bombs, so Gao Bufan plans to make some clay pots and tiles tomorrow to fill hundreds of pounds. Maybe it will come in handy next time.

Since there was oil in the well, Gao Bufan probably guessed the reason for the abandonment of this village. It was obvious that this was not a man-made disaster, but a natural disaster. It was very likely that an earthquake changed the structure of the underground rock strata, causing the well that originally had water to dry up, and the shallow oil below emerged.

If this were to be a good thing in the future, the whole village would make a fortune, and the country's demolition compensation alone would be a big sum, and there would be resettlement housing. However, in the Sui Dynasty, even fewer people know oil, so demolition and resettlement are even more of a dream.

Just imagine, the well in the village suddenly dried up and dark and smelly liquid emerged. If the villagers cut off the water source, they might be suspicious, and it would be normal for the whole village to migrate.

Let’s talk about Gao Bufan climbed up the well again and put the strip of oil soaked with a torch, and it immediately started to burn. The black smoke rolled and the smell was extremely choking. It smelled a bit like a rotten egg. It was definitely oil, and it had a high sulfur content.

Dou Xianniang covered her nose and said in surprise: "Brother Gao, the oil you said really can burn, but the taste is too choking."

Gao Bufan nodded and said, "There are too many impurities in oil here. Direct combustion is not only very polluted, but also very wasteful. It is simply a waste of resources and needs to be processed and refined to be easy to use."

"Oh!" Dou Xianniang nodded in a vague way. Since Brother Gao said the word "squandering resources", this kind of black and dirty thing must be very useful.

"By the way, my wife, please go back and prepare more containers, preferably clay pots and urns, etc. I'm useful." Gao Bufan ordered.

"Does Brother Gao use it to load oil? Well, yes, this oil can be used to ignite fire and light, and may also make rockets."

Gao Bufan couldn't help but lit up and praised, "My mother is getting smarter and smarter. It turns out that those who are close to vermilion are red, those who are close to ink are black, and those who are close to wise are smart."

"Isn't they stupid?" Dou Xianniang pouted her little mouth like a horn, and quickly gave Gao Bufan a glance. She felt an indescribable little charm, which made the soldiers and young boys around her stunned.

Gao Bufan coughed lightly and waved his hand, "It's all gone, go whatever you should do."

The soldiers and villagers all dispersed in a sensible way, alerting themselves, making supper, and resting.

Snap...

A pale lightning blew through the sky, and a thunder sounded, and raindrops as big as beans fell down, and everyone scattered in a row. In the heavy rain, the strip of oil stained cloth was still burning until it turned into ashes.

The rain came quickly and went quickly. It stopped in about half an incense stick. It seemed like it was specially used to send "water" to cook dinner for everyone. Those soldiers used the next Tianshui to cook rice, so they didn't have to go to the outside of the village to find water, which saved some effort.

Soon, the entire village was filled with the tempting fragrance of food and meat. Just as the soldiers and villagers were having dinner happily, the cavalry led by Pei Xingyan finally returned and remanded the troops under Lao Zhao's command. However, the number of people was very different from the fifty people mentioned by Lao Zhao. There were as many as two hundred people, which was more than four times more.

Looking at the crowd in front of him, Gao Bufan finally understood why Pei Xingyan had been there for so long before he came back. It was obvious that the bastard, Old Zhao, was foolish. They had more than 200 people, but only fifty people were reported. Fortunately, he also took more care of Pei Xingyan and asked Pei Xingyan to take fifty cavalry with him, otherwise he would be afraid that he would not be able to suppress these two hundred people, otherwise the consequences would be really unpredictable.

The more than 200 Sui army defeated soldiers were obviously very hungry. At this moment, when they smelled the fragrance of the food, their eyes were green, salivating, and even ready to move, as if they were a group of hungry wolves. If it weren't for the fear of Pei Xingyan and other cavalry riding tall horses, they would have pounced on them and started to snatch them.

The soldiers and villagers who were holding their rice bowls to eat supper were so annoyed and alert when they saw this. They picked up their weapons and stared fiercely at the newly arrived two hundred defeated soldiers while eating. His grandmother, everyone was crawling out of the dead. Who is afraid of whom? I finally had a good meal for two days. What kind of big-tailed wolf do you newcomers pretend to be big-tailed wolf? You have the courage to try it out, and you can't kill you bastards!

People are most likely to lose their minds when they are hungry, and those who lose their minds are no different from wild animals. At this time, let alone compatriots, even fathers and sons may kill each other for a bite. "Eating a son" is not just a word in history books, but a cruel reality.

"Squat down, don't move rashly, whoever moves will die!" Pei Xingyan's horse spear flashed in his hand and shouted loudly. The defeated soldiers squatted down obediently, but his eyes were reluctant to move away from the bowls of the people and kept swallowing their saliva.

Pei Xingyan controlled all the defeated soldiers, then came to Gao Bufan and turned over and dismounted, bowed and said, "Brother Gao, the guy who was old Zhao really acted sloppy and was less reported. Fortunately, we were prepared."

Gao Bufan nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Brother Pei!"

Pei Xingyan licked his lips with a grim smile and said, "What's the hard work? It's just over 200 tired soldiers. It's not enough to see our cavalry. After killing a few, they all became honest."

Gao Bufan was not surprised by this. Although everyone was a Sui army, everyone was fighting on their own. There were more than 200 people on the other side and they were not weak. The leader of the other side would definitely not easily rely on others to be his younger brother.

"Their leader is not Lao Zhao, right?" Gao Bufan felt that since Lao Zhao had personally come to the front to find the way, it should be unlikely that he would be the leader of this defeated soldier.

Sure enough, Pei Xingyan shook his head and said, "Old Zhao is not their leader. The leader of these defeated soldiers is a brigade commander. This guy is very arrogant. Not only did he order me to release people, but he also wanted to steal our horses. I was so angry that I stabbed him in a daze. That guy still had more than a dozen personal soldiers who wanted to do it, and I slaughtered them all."

Gao Bufan was secretly sweating, Pei Xingyan was indeed fierce. No wonder he was a powerful general in history books who was known as the enemy of thousands of people. He was determined. It seemed that his decision to hand over the cavalry to him was extremely correct.

"Well, my brothers are tired after running all night. Let's take them to have a meal and rest. I'll deal with the rest!" Gao Bufan ordered.

Pei Xingyan bowed and led the brothers of the cavalry team to go down for dinner. As for the newly arrived defeated soldiers, they were not afraid of causing trouble.

Gao Bufan walked forward, and the newly arrived defeated soldiers subconsciously looked at him, looking shocked and suspicious.

Gao Bufan pulled out a waist knife, bounced his fingers gently on the blade twice, making a thud sound, and suddenly he used a force to hit the blade. The iron-made waist knife was broken in response to the sound. The new defeated soldiers were shocked. This kid's strong finger power, what is the origin?

Gao Bufan then snapped the broken knife into several pieces, and then he clapped his hands and said: "I am Gao Bufan, Qing County, Bohai County, and the name is Changqing. I have the final say here. I will listen to me and have food to eat!"
Chapter completed!