Beaumont is close to the Gulf of Mexico, so even in December, it's quite warm, and Yang Jing feels comfortable in the winter sun.
And Chris Barton and John Bruno wore a T-shirt directly.
The four of them were laughing while waiting for the arrival of the person Lin Dan was looking for.
Chris Barton and John Bruno told Yang Jing about their missions in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Africa, but they didn't feel that time was slowing down.
After about twenty minutes of waiting, a pickup truck drove in along the farm's road.
After the driver got out of the car, he said to Yang Jing and the four of them, "May I ask which one is James Lin?"
I'm David Parker. ” Lin Dan quickly greeted him, and after some greetings, he introduced everyone to David Parker.
This David Parker is an engineer at a local oil company in Beaumont, he usually works at sea, and he happens to be at home on a few days off, but he heard a friend say that there is some business here that he wants to consult, so he comes over to make some extra money.
"Mr.
Parker, how long and how much will it take if this well is to be reopened?"
Yang Jing went straight to the topic.
David Parker shook his head slightly and said, "Mr.
Yang, if I were you, I wouldn't spend my hard-earned money on this oil well."
This well is older than my grandfather, and almost all of us Beaumont locals know about the wells in the vicinity, including this one.
To be honest, there is really no need to reopen this well. ” Yang Jing smiled and said, "It's okay, Mr.
Parker, I just want to open this well and see what's going on inside."
You know, now that I've bought the well, I need to get a definite answer. ” David Parker shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, you're the boss, you have the final say."
But what I want to tell you is that this well has been sealed for a long time, and the second time this well was sealed, it was permanently sealed, so if you want to reopen the well, you will need a lot of money.
Because the well was sealed with cement for a long distance, it needed to be redrilled with a drill bit. ” After a pause, David Parker continued: "And after opening this well, if you think it is not possible, in order to protect the environment, this well still needs to be resealed, and because of the damage caused by the opening of the well to the casing, it is estimated that a section of the casing will need to be replaced when you seal the well, and it may even be necessary to replace all the casing, otherwise there is no guarantee that the well can be completely sealed." ” "How much money and how long will it cost?"
David Parker thought for a moment and said, "It won't take long to open the well, about two or three days to reopen the well.
As for resealing the well, it depends on the casing condition in the well.
However, the well was not very deep, only more than 600 meters deep, and even if all the casing needs to be replaced, the cost of materials and labor would not exceed 300,000 US dollars.
If the casing inside is in good condition, this number will drop by about half. ” Yang Jing thought about it for a while and said, "Mr.
Parker, do you have any workers to do this small project?"
” "Of course, that's what I'm doing, and I have a lot of skilled workers under my hands to handle this small project." 、 "Okay, we can sign the contract today, and after signing the contract, I will give you a part of the advance payment."
After a pause, Yang Jing continued: "Funding is not a problem, but I have a request, that is, I must see the situation after the well is opened within three days.
How's it going, Mr.
Parker, can you do as I ask you to do this?
” Parker smiled and said, "That's fine, I can guarantee it." ” You may say Texans are rude or grumpy, but Texans do have the virtue of being particularly contractual.
When Lin Dan signed the construction agreement on behalf of Yang Jing and David Parker, David Parker immediately began to call, and then it took less than an hour to gather all the people, and at the same time, all kinds of tools and materials used in the construction were almost ready.
After lunch, electricity came from the oil well, and David Parker immediately led the workers into the construction site.
As for the farmer, Yang Jing asked Lin Dan to write a cash check for $10,000 to the farmer, which immediately sealed the farmer's mouth.
After all, it is working on other people's land, and there are only advantages and no disadvantages in having a good relationship with the owner.
As far as Yang Jing is concerned, things that can be solved with money are not a problem.
As for David Parker, because Yang Jing gave money happily, this typical Texan also seemed to be particularly happy, and it was also a hot time when he worked.
The old oil well has those old oil workers working, so naturally there is nothing to do with Yang Jing and Lin Dan, so the two young people plan to go to Houston for two days as soon as they add up.
As a result, as soon as he arrived in Houston and was about to rest after dinner, Lin Dan knocked on Yang Jing's room again excitedly.
Yang Jing was about to take a bath and sleep.
"Damn, why are you still here at this point?
Is there anything you can't say tomorrow?
Yang Jing yawned and asked Lin Dan.
Lin Dan smiled and didn't think he was angry, "Brother Yang, do you want to make some extra money tomorrow?"
” While pouring tea for Lin Dan, Yang Jing asked suspiciously, "Earn extra money?"
How to earn?
” "Brother Yang, I don't know if you have watched an American drama in China?"
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"American drama?"
Yang Jing shook his head, "I'm not very interested in American dramas, I've watched two seasons of "Prison Break" before, and I also watched a few episodes of "S.H.I.E.L.D.", but it didn't make much fun, so I didn't watch it." ” "Oh, Brother Yang, if you like to watch American dramas, you know that there are actually many things in American dramas that contain some business opportunities.
For example, the American Discovery Channel broadcast "Warehouse Treasure Digging", this show is a very interesting live-action American drama, and I also started to be a treasure picker in my spare time because I watched this film.
Hehe, I'll tell you the truth, I made a lot of extra money in my spare time in the treasure picking industry.
If Uncle Zhao hadn't always valued me very much and wanted to train me as a successor, I would have really wanted to do the treasure picker industry professionally. ” Yang Jing brought the tea to Lin Dan, and said with a smile: "Then tell me what kind of industry this treasure picker is." ” Seeing that Yang Jing was interested, Lin Dan said: "Brother Yang, you are coming to the United States for the first time, you must not know much about the storage culture of the United States, right?"
” Yang Jing shrugged his shoulders and said, "I definitely don't understand." ” "Brother Yang, in fact, warehousing culture is a major feature of the United States.
The warehousing industry in the United States is very developed, because Americans like to travel and like to walk around, so Americans like to rent a small warehouse as a temporary storage place when they go out.
But when these people finished traveling, they either felt that the things stored in the warehouse were not of high value, or they simply forgot that they had rented a warehouse to store things, so they patted their heads and left.
When the lease period of the warehouses expires, because these warehouses are not cared for, they will be repossessed by the storage company and then auctioned at a later date. ” Yang Jing nodded, he had heard of this.
"Similarly, the United States has a very strict "garbage disposal law", so it is also a headache for ordinary people to dispose of garbage.
At this time, in order not to pay a lot of garbage disposal fees, many Americans often rent a warehouse from a storage company and put their own garbage and unused things in it.
When the lease period expires, if you do not continue to pay the storage company, the warehouse will be confiscated by the storage company and then auctioned. ” "It is precisely because there are a large number of unpaid warehouses in the United States that there are about 10,000 unmanned warehouses in the United States that are auctioned every day.
That's why the U.S. warehousing culture is thriving. ” Yang Jing shook his head in disbelief and said, "Brother, you also said just now, there are many Americans who rent warehouses just to simply dispose of unwanted garbage, what is the value of such a warehouse?"
Besides, even those forgotten warehouses, those storage companies don't go in to take a look after they take it back?
Pick out those valuable things, and when the time comes, you go to auction, what other valuable things can you auction?
” Lin Dan said with a smile: "Brother Yang, don't forget that the United States also has a "Privacy Act", which stipulates that even if the storage company takes back those private warehouses, it cannot enter the warehouse at will, and the storage culture in the United States does not allow the storage company to do this.
Because once the warehousing companies do this, we treasure pickers will always not be able to auction any good warehouses, and after a long time, no one will definitely participate in the warehousing auction again, how do the warehousing companies deal with those private warehouses?
If nothing else, the garbage stored in the warehouse alone is enough for the storage company to have a headache. ” "Therefore, except for a very small number of warehousing company staff without professional ethics who will play a side ball, enter those private warehouses in the name of maintaining the warehouse, and then sell the news inside to treasure pickers to earn extra money, most of the warehousing companies are strictly forbidden for staff to enter the private warehouses that are about to be auctioned without authorization."
Lin Dan shrugged his shoulders and said as if he remembered something: "Of course, there is no way to say about the warehousing companies that are controlled by the gangsters, and the warehousing companies that are controlled by the gangsters are often the channels used by the gangsters to launder money, and the gangsters can launder money through this form of warehousing auctions."
However, such a storage company is very rare, especially a relatively large storage company, and it will not happen that this kind of staff enters the warehouse in advance without authorization, or is controlled by the gang.
Therefore, the vast majority of warehousing auctions in the United States are still very formal. ” As soon as Lin Dan said this, Yang Jing understood a little.
"Xiaolin, you mean to say that this kind of formal warehousing auction is actually a process of picking up leaks, right?
Is it better than whose eyes are better, whose luck is better, who can shoot a better warehouse?
” "Well, Brother Yang, it's not wrong for you to think so.
Many treasure hunters rely on this to make a living and even make a fortune. ” After a pause, Lin Dan continued: "In fact, not only in the United States, but also in many European countries, the warehousing culture is also quite developed.
The year before last, I saw the news that a retired Portuguese had used his pension to buy a warehouse in Portugal, which had been empty for fifteen years, and even the former owner and wife of the warehouse were no longer alive, and there were no heirs, and the doors and windows of the warehouse were welded shut, and even the locals needed to spend a certain amount of money to open the warehouse.
As a result, the warehouse has not been touched for 15 years, and in desperation, the local government auctioned off the warehouse. ” "As a result, the Portuguese bought this warehouse, and the Portuguese bought this warehouse to repair it for other purposes, but when he opened the warehouse, he was surprised by the contents of the warehouse."
"There must be a treasure hidden in there, right?"
Yang Jing's interest was also suspended.
"It's more than a baby!
This guy is just shit lucky!
Because in that dusty warehouse for fifteen years, there are dozens of classic cars parked!
Including Aston Martin, Mercedes-Benz, Lotus, BMW V8, Chrysler and other famous car brands of classic cars, there is even an F1 car, of course, it is also a classic car from the sixties and seventies of the last century. ” "Holy!
To put you like that, this guy is really shit lucky!
Yang Jing was also a little emotional.
"Of course, after these classic cars are cleaned out, after the evaluation of experts, how much do you guess these classic cars are worth?
Three and five million dollars!
Take out any of these classic cars, and they're worth more than a million dollars!
The classic cars in this warehouse are worth a total of 35 million dollars!
” When Yang Jing heard this number, he also swallowed involuntarily.
If this is in China, it will definitely be the rhythm of picking up big leaks!
I was able to pick up such a big leak by going back to 1994, otherwise it would be really difficult to pick up such a big leak now, even if I have a holy ring, it is impossible.
Looking at Lin Dan's excited face, Yang Jing said, "Did you just say that making some extra money was referring to the warehousing auction?"
” "Well, it's a warehouse auction.
Brother Yang, although I only participate in warehouse auctions in my spare time, and most of them participate in warehouse auctions in San Francisco and nearby, I am also a registered treasure hunter in the American Warehouse Treasure Picking Association, so I have the way to know some news about warehouse auctions.
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This time in Houston, the day after tomorrow to be exact, in the Port of Houston, there is a large warehouse auction held, so I came over and asked you, should we participate in it?
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