To make his own officers and soldiers have a spirit of dedication, it is necessary to give them sufficient sense of honour.
Therefore, Hamid imitated the army structure of great powers, preparing from now on to implement the military merit system in the troops. Every officer promoted in the future must have clear and explicit military merits as support. This not only makes everyone convinced, but also enhances everyone’s enthusiasm to eagerly make contributions.
The awarded soldiers and officers not only received cash US dollars, but also received the “Victory Medal” awarded by Hamid. This Victory Medal, imitated from the Iranian army, was called the highest honour medal by Hamid.
The three injured soldiers received the relatively lower-level “Courage Medal”, and at the same time each received fifty thousand US dollars in reward, with their military rank promoted one level on the spot, and their monthly salary also rising one level accordingly.
This measure made the officers and soldiers realise that as long as they perform well, even if they do not play a decisive role in a war, just showing commendable courage can gain the appreciation and recognition from the higher-ups.
Once recognised, it is not just verbal praise, but real benefits. This made the soldiers under him begin to long for the next war.
Even ordinary soldiers hoped to charge at the forefront next time. Even if injured, they could get the commander’s recognition and reward.
Morale was thus raised to the highest point.
Immediately after, Hamid selected an officer who made contributions this time, and announced on the spot the establishment of a new team, named the Oil Field Guard Team.
The Oil Field Guard Team consisted of three hundred soldiers in total, under which there were five reinforced platoons, each reinforced platoon fully staffed with fifty people. In addition, there was a transport platoon, also with fifty people.
The five reinforced platoons were responsible for the guard work of the entire oil field, immediately stationed in the oil field that Hamid had newly acquired. The transport platoon was responsible for armed escort of the petroleum produced by the oil field.
According to the daily production of about five thousand barrels, the daily output of crude oil was at least seven hundred tons. Using heavy oil tankers, it would also need to fill at least thirty or forty trucks, requiring a medium-sized convoy to transport non-stop day and night without rest.
Hamid established the transport platoon to armed escort these petroleum, continuously transporting these petroleum to the station of the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall.
However, the current problem was that the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall could not set up its own refinery for a while. If designed and built on a scale of one million tons per year, it would require at least an investment of hundreds of millions of US dollars, and at least two years.
Before that, the oil field had output every day. How to sell it became a thorny problem.
Hamid was just a small warlord, without the ability to engage in global trade. If he wanted to sell these petroleum for cash, then selling at ultra-low prices to local small workshop-style refineries, or smuggling to Turkish merchants, were the only two choices.
Local refineries had low capacity, and the prices given were also very low, with too little profit margin. But if smuggling to Turkey, although the price was a bit higher than selling to small workshops, it still had to bear the risks and costs of smuggling. On the Syrian side, it was easy to say, as the opposition operated chaotically anyway, with border inspections and customs almost nonexistent. But Turkey was after all a medium-large scale country, their border inspections and customs definitely could not easily let Syrian black oil enter.
Fortunately, Ye Chen had his own Yisu Shipping. He could provide Hamid with a third choice, which was to transport the crude oil to the station of the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall.
The station of the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall was right by the sea, with its own simple dock, and the dock was still being continuously improved and upgraded. It could completely transport from here to the oil tankers of Yisu Shipping, then transport back to China by these oil tankers. After the refinery is put into production in the future, directly transport the heavy oil here to the nearby routes. On the routes, it could refuel the cargo ships of Yisu Shipping.
With the scale of Yisu Shipping’s fleet, this amount of production was not enough for the fleet’s annual heavy oil consumption. So at that time, all crude oil could achieve self-production and self-sales.
