That afternoon, Zhao Meng also learned about Yang Jing's "making a little money". Of course, when Zhao Meng heard the news, his expression was almost no different from Lin Dan.

On the way to drive along the famous Highway 1 from San Francisco to Los Angeles, Lin Dan explained Zhao Meng's mood at that time in one sentence.

"Damn guy! A guy who is envious and jealous! This is the last thing Uncle Zhao said." Lin Dan quickly changed gears and refueled over a car in front, while imitating Zhao Meng's tone.

Yang Jing, who was sitting in the passenger seat, burst into laughter, "I didn't expect that even Uncle Zhao couldn't hold back anymore. Should I be proud, or should I be proud?"

Lin Dan rolled his eyes and passed another car with a silly thought.

"Wow, Kobayashi, you'd better be slower, we're going to speed up..." Kobayashi's name made Lin Dan roll his eyes again, but his speed slowed down.

Yang Jing glanced slightly and clearly saw from the rearview mirror that the car driven by Chris and John was following closely behind. Behind Chris and John's cars, there was a Chevrolet full-size SUV of the same model. Two other newly hired bodyguards were sitting in the car.

Before, when Yang Jing was worth only 30 million US dollars, he already had two bodyguards, Chris and John. Now he has become an absolute billionaire, so it is reasonable to add two bodyguards.

Originally, Yang Jing didn't want to build such a big battle, but Zhao Meng didn't do anything. In Zhao Meng's words, "You are now a billionaire with a net worth of over 100 million yuan. Even if you look at the entire United States, there are not many people who are richer than you, so you must pay attention to your own safety. This is the United States, not China. With your current net worth, I think there are fewer four bodyguards."

When Yang Jing thought about this, he agreed.

In Zhao Meng's words, Los Angeles is not San Francisco, and Chinese people are not popular in Los Angeles. Moreover, Chinese people usually carry cash when they go out, which is something that the whole United States knows. Therefore, in big cities such as Los Angeles and New York, Chinese have always been the primary targets of robbers.

The most important thing is that most of the robbers are addicts. It would be better if they don’t get addicted when committing crimes. If they happen to get addicted, it will easily cause greater harm to the victims.

Those addicts really don't care about their addiction. If Yang Jing meets such a person, he must have a bodyguard 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 Titans.

When Chris and John were in the Titans, there was a work team, Clark McCann, the team's firepower supporter. He was big and thick, wearing a black suit and sunglasses, which was the standard bodyguard in the movie. Another guy was George Bruce, who was also a very tough and strong man.

With these two people joining, Yang Jing’s itinerary in the United States will become safer. Four people can form two teams and divide the shift to protect Yang Jing for 24 hours.

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

Yang Jing and the others set off from San Francisco at 9 a.m. and had lunch at noon in the residential community outside the largest air force base on the west coast of the United States. Unfortunately, tourists were not allowed to enter the Vandenberg Air Force Base, otherwise Yang Jing would really want to visit this famous air force base.

However, standing in the distance, you can see the fighter jets that are constantly rising and falling. It seems that the base is carrying out some training missions, and the fighter jets take off and land more frequently.

"BOSS, have you seen these two fighter jets that have just taken off? That is the famous F22 Raptor fighter, which is currently the most advanced fighter jet in the world and the most powerful fighter jet. These two fighter jets form a standard dual-aircraft formation, which should be routine offshore patrol training." Clark McCann, who was big and thick behind him, said with great certainty.

Before this strong man joined, Chris introduced Clark McCann. Although this guy is tall and big, he also serves as a fire supporter in the squad, in terms of military combat capabilities, Clark is the best in the entire squad and even the entire Titan organization. Although this guy is very big, this guy can play from F22 Raptors to Los Angeles-class offensive nuclear submarines, and he plays very well.

Yang Jing put down the telescope, turned his head and asked Clark, "Clark, do you understand these things?"

Clark nodded, George Bruce beside him said with a smile: "Before retiring, Clark was an elite among the elite SEAL (Nepton Seals). He had been exposed to many high-end weapons of the US military. When he was on a mission in Afghanistan, he had driven F22 to conduct air precision strikes on a terrorist base..."

Clark seemed reluctant to mention what had happened before, and smiled and waved his hand to stop his friend's explanation, looking very modest.

"Wow!" Yang Jing gestured to Clark in surprise. Although George did not finish speaking, Yang Jing could understand the meaning behind these explanations, so he gave the newly recognized bodyguard a great appreciation without hesitation.

"So, after we get to Los Angeles and finish the work, can we find a gun shop and then we can shoot a few shots? Clark, you know I am from China and have never touched a gun. I want you to teach me."

Clark smiled and said, "BOSS, gun shop alone 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 ended, several people continued to drive on the road, but at this time, Yang Jing's car was not driven by Lin Dan. Clark took the steering wheel controlled by Lin Dan and drove for Yang Jing and Lin Dan himself.

At around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the group and three arrived in downtown Los Angeles in three cars.

In fact, Los Angeles is located in the Los Angeles Basin. This basin is surrounded by mountains on three sides and sea on one side. Except for the local hills, the ground is flat, with an average altitude of only 84 meters. The highest point of Elsie Peak is 1,548 meters high.

But in this wide basin, it contains extremely rich oil resources. Even now, this huge basin is known as "half urban and half oil fields", which is enough to show the rich oil resources in the Los Angeles Basin.

In fact, California has long been famous for its abundant oil seedlings on the ground, which refers to the outcropping of oil in the earth's crust on the ground, and is one of the important signs of finding oil mines. Local Indian natives have always used this to do business.

By the 1850s, some people had conducted special research on oil seedlings in the Los Angeles Basin, but these people never linked the abundant oil seedlings on the surface to the huge underground reservoir. Until more than 20 years later, the first commercial oil well in the Los Angeles Basin was drilled in Pico, the northern part of the Los Angeles Basin, and the basis for the holes of this well was the oil seedlings that exposed the surface.

The successful drilling of this oil well has given the golden rule of the survey and drilling of commercial oil wells in the Los Angeles Basin, that is, no drilling will not move without oil seedlings!

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

In 1890, Los Angeles, which had a total population of only 50,000, also caused a large number of oil workers to come to this small town due to the discovery of this oil field, which played an immeasurable role in promoting the future development of Los Angeles.

Just like San Francisco was built because of gold mines, Los Angeles actually flourished because of oil.

With the discovery of the Los Angeles City oilfield, more capital was rapidly shifting from the East Coast to the West Coast, and economic giants represented by the Rockefeller family made enough money on California oil.

In the three years from the discovery of the Los Angeles City Oilfield to 1895, the daily output of 300 oil wells in the oilfield increased to 792,000 barrels, which attracted a large amount of funds to come to Los Angeles.

With the help of huge funds, people discovered the Midway Sanset 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.

By the first twenty years of the 20th century, huge amounts of funds and a large number of people had completely turned the entire Los Angeles Basin into a steel jungle with oil derricks. The La Aveeno Oilfield with a reserve of 170 million tons, the Montebello Oilfield with a reserve of 120 million tons, the Huntington Beach Oilfield with a reserve of 150 million tons, and the Elke Hills Oilfield with a reserve of 180 million tons...

The famous Long Beach in Los Angeles was actually an oil field a hundred years ago, because there, people discovered the famous Signal Mountain Oil Field!

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

Have you ever seen the scene of bean sprouts? Yes, in the black and white photo of Longtan in 1937, it seemed like the scene of bean sprouts. However, what grew on the ground was not bean sprouts, but dense steel and oil derricks as dense as bean sprouts.

Not only Long Beach, but also Venice. The dense steel and oil derricks that look like forests extend from the beach to the inland, and there is no way to see the beautiful scenery eighty years later.

It can be said that in that era, the entire coastline of Los Angeles, from Venice to Huntington Beach in the north, was almost entirely occupied by such dense 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 beaches, and even on the four islands in San Pedro Bay, kowtow worm pumps and some old oil derricks can be seen everywhere, and of course, more camouflaged oil derricks.

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

It can be said very seriously that the old oil wells near Los Angeles have very, very potential. This is true for any oil businessman.

Yang Jing thought so before.

But there is always some gap between facts and ideas. After Yang Jing arrived in Los Angeles and inspected for a few days, he felt that his previous thoughts seemed to be a bit of apology.

Nothing else, although there are many old oil wells in downtown Los Angeles, and even many old oil wells have been sealed for a long time, it is still very difficult to open and mine those old oil wells here for re-explosion.

Los Angeles is emerging because of oil. Kowtow worm oil pumps that are still working can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of the city. But similarly, with the continuous development of society, Los Angeles people's tolerance for these ubiquitous old oil wells has almost reached a limit.

Many oil wells that are working are even in residential areas. When the oil engine is working, the noise generated makes the surrounding residents miserable. People have been criticizing that the production of oil wells will cause a certain degree of pollution, so many people are now opposing the continued work of those oil wells in downtown Los Angeles, and even propose to shut down these oil wells that are working.

As for the second or even third mining of old oil wells, it would be even more difficult.

In 2006, in order to extract oil, St. James Petroleum in Los Angeles injected high-temperature steam into an oil well. This is a common method of oil extraction. It uses steam to heat the thick oil to make it flow and facilitate mining.

However, things didn’t go as the company envisioned. According to the Los Angeles NGO “Center for Land Use Interpretation”, the pressure deep underground caused viscous oil to seep into the ground, gurgling from sewers, basements and even roads, emitting “toxic gases.”

This old oil well of St. James Oil Company is located on Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles. The relevant departments urgently closed the streets and evacuated more than 130 residents around it. It took weeks to extract oil that penetrated into the residential basement and repave the pavement...

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

The oil well that is working is still opposed by residents. If you want to open an old oil well again, wouldn’t you cause trouble for yourself?

If it were before the 1950s, let alone opening a well, no one would care if you drilled a well again.

But now, the entire Los Angeles Basin is full of cities, and there is almost no open space in the huge basin. How can 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, it is absolutely difficult to open an old oil well again. It is definitely not the same. Now it is not the case. In the past, Los Angeles pointed at oil, but now people don’t expect this black liquid that emits a strange smell. They have finance, movies, travel, and some ways to make money. That kind of black oil is no longer popular here!

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

It is very simple to find an old oil well in Los Angeles, and there are a lot of old oil wells waiting for you. But it is harder to open a well and re-explore it than climbing the sky!

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

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

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

After the group arrived in Beaumont and rested for a day, Yang Jing boarded the helicopter helicopter he had rented.
Chapter completed!