Episode 130: Super big mine

There was a huge "Mineral and Energy Distribution Map of the Ming Empire's Minerals and Energy" on the table, which was several square meters in size. The bottom signature was "Drawn by the Ministry of Minerals and Energy of the Ming Empire". Xiang Xiaoqiang pressed his arms against the table and focused on "a bird's eye view" of this huge map. Zheng Gongyin stood behind, looking at him diligently and suspiciously.

Zheng Gongyin had a "Zheng Mineral Exploration and Mining Co., Ltd.", which mainly mined non-ferrous metals. The so-called non-ferrous metals are all metals except ferrous metals, that is, iron. Later China regarded manganese and chromium as ferrous metals, but at this time, the Ming Dynasty was considered non-ferrous metals.

Zheng's Mineral mainly mines tungsten ore, manganese ore and copper ore, and also mines other associated non-ferrous metals. It is also considered a relatively large scale among many mineral companies in the Ming Dynasty. However, the mineral industry requires huge investment and is still a very technically professional industry. Mineral companies are not the main business of the Zheng family's enterprises, so they cannot compete with those specialized mineral companies. In addition to the Great Depression, Zheng's Mineral has been losing money these years.

Zheng Gongyin was about to sell it, and the world economy began to improve slowly again. Moreover, after the Nazis came to power in 1933, the situation in Europe became more and more tense year by year. In addition, Italy invaded Abyssinia in October 1935, the Ming and Qing wars in the early 1936, the Ming and Qing wars in the Ming and Dutch South China Sea wars, and now the domestic situation in Spain is tense. There are several "good stimulus" and various international strategic materials, especially "war metals" such as iron, copper, tungsten, and manganese, have begun to become popular again.

So now, as soon as Xiang Xiaoqiang told him that he had several good mining sites, Zheng Gongyin's greed was immediately lifted up. Xiang Xiaoqiang wanted to see the mineral map, so he immediately sent someone to retrieve the large map from his mineral company. Please see Xiang Xiaoqiang.

Now, under Xiang Xiaoqiang's eyes, all the minerals that had been discovered in the Ming Empire at this time. As long as they have been discovered, they are all on it.

This picture gave Xiang Xiaoqiang the first feeling - sparse. It was much more sparse than the marks on the Chinese mineral map in later generations in his memory. In other words, most of the mine sites in later generations had been discovered in China, but the Ming Dynasty has not discovered them now. Of course, it is not ruled out that this picture is larger and sparse. But even so, the marks on it are still much less than those in later generations.

Xiang Xiaoqiang first looked for the first major war metal - iron ore.

However, there are only two of the three largest iron ore belts in southern China. One is the Daye Iron ore belt in Hubei, and the other is the Wuhu-Ma'anshan-Nanjing Iron ore belt. These two are traditional old ore mined for thousands of years in history. Xiang Xiaoqiang repeatedly searched and only found some sporadic small and medium-sized iron ore in other places.

His heart thumped, and he felt the blood boiling all over his body.

——Panzhihua.

The super large iron, titanium ore discovered in later China in the 1930s, is not on the picture.

China's iron ore is mainly in the north. Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that the steel smelting in Nanming had strong processing capabilities, but iron ore was seriously insufficient. It was not enough to rely solely on two traditional old iron ore, and it was imported in large quantities from Australia every year. Now, he has Panzhihua in his hand. As long as he takes out this super iron ore, the iron ore reserves in Nanming will immediately double. Judging from the iron used by industry in this era, the iron ore of the Ming Dynasty may not have to rely on imports.

Of course, it is just not "relying on" imports. Because the disadvantage of China's iron ore is that it is not high in grade and the cost of mining and smelting is high, so even if the total amount is sufficient, it is still necessary to import some high-grade ore. However, once the sea transportation of the Ming Dynasty was blocked, it could still be supported by local iron ore, which is nothing more than a problem of higher costs.

More importantly, Panzhihua is the only super iron ore in the rear of the southwest. If the Northern Expedition fails, just what if... If the Northern Qing Dynasty attacks and occupy the East and South China of the Ming Dynasty, after the Ming Dynasty lost Ma'anshan and Daye, the iron ore production will be enough to support the long-term war with just Panzhihua, Sichuan.

Moreover, Panzhihua not only has iron ore, but also has a large number of titanium ore. Titanium was also an expensive war metal in later generations. Xiang Xiaoqiang remembered that Panzhihua's titanium ore reserves were the first in China. However, in the 1930s, the era of titanium had not yet arrived. It was a pity.

Not to mention anything else, just presenting Panzhihua to the Ming Dynasty, the contributions are probably enough to be granted the title of marquis.

But Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled slightly when he thought of this. Now that he just needs to marry Zhu Yourong, he will not be a marquis, but a prince.

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Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that the name "Panzhihua" started in the 1950s, and it must not be found on the map now. But the problem is that the location of Panzhihua in later generations is nothing on the mineral map now. Apart from the mountains, it is also a mountain. After seeing the "myself" Panzhihua has not moved, Xiang Xiaoqiang felt confident.

However, now is not the time to throw Panzhihua out. Such a big cake cannot be taken out from the beginning. It is too eye-catching and you will reach the forefront of the storm. Moreover, such a big cake is definitely not worth eating, and it is of little significance to the Zheng Family.

When you start working together, you should first take out a few small cakes and try it out. When the cooperation between the two parties and the profit distribution is mature, you will then throw out "super big cakes" like Panzhihua.

On the other hand, this is iron ore. The unit price of iron ore is low, the mine is invested in large amounts in the early stage, and the preparation time is long, so the money is too slow. Especially the super giant mines like Panzhihua are in the mountains and ridges, and there is no road. If the preliminary preparation is not available for one or two years, it will not generate any benefits.

Xiang Xiaoqiang is planning to first point out a few small and medium-sized mining sites in areas with relatively mature mining conditions, such as Jiangxi, Hunan, and Hubei. This is equivalent to giving Zheng Gongyin some sweetness to let him know that what he said is true. In addition, Xiang Xiaoqiang is really a little tight and needs to make some "big money" soon.

His original property, not counting Zheng Yuchang's stocks, had a total of about 7 million. But now he spent more than three million to buy 20% of Yuhua Cong's equity. Although the money he earned by himself and was legal, he now bought the bearer stocks of Yuhua Cong and was shameless. Now he only has more than three million in his possession, of which two million still swallowed Zheng Yuchang's bearer bonds and diamonds. Now Xiang Xiaoqiang's "legal property" is one million.

Now he needs to create a few mines that can see money quickly. First of all, the mineral species itself is more valuable, such as gold, silver, tungsten, manganese, copper, etc. Secondly, the location of the mine site cannot be in an uninhabited place, so he has to build roads and infrastructure like Panzhihua, and it has been a year or two for a year or two.

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"Prince, this is better," Xiang Xiaoqiang said simply, "Will your Zheng family mineral open a gold mine?"

Zheng Gongyin heard the word "gold mine" and was excited and excited suddenly came up. He rubbed his hands gently and said with a smile:

"Why, Xiao Xiang, have information about the gold mine in his hand?"

Nodded to Xiaoqiang, selected on the map, and said:

"Well, there is, there is more than one place. How about it, your company is fine for mining gold mines, right?"

"No problem!" Zheng Gongyin immediately said firmly, "The gold mine is absolutely fine!... But I don't know what the reserves and grades are like? If it is too low, even if it is a gold mine... it will lose money."

Xiang Xiaoqiang said:

"You have no problem, so I have no problem."

He glanced at the map and thought in his mind that the first mine would be thrown out of the Xiangxi Gold Mine. The Xiangxi Gold Mine is in Taoyuan County, Hunan, and there is no current Daming mineral map. The Xiangxi Gold Mine was also discovered during the Republic of China in formal history. It is normal that the Ming Dynasty has not yet been discovered.

Xiang Xiaoqiang remembers that the mark size of the Xiangxi gold mine on the picture in the later family was medium, which means that its reserves were medium, that is, the reserves were more than ten tons or dozens of tons. And if he remembered correctly, the grade of the ore marked next to it seemed to be eight o'clock, which means that each ton of ore contained 8 o'clock grams of pure gold. This is also a relatively high among gold mines. Such gold mines produce hundreds of kilograms to more than one ton of gold a year, which should be very realistic. In that case, it would be one or two million Mingyang a year.

What is more convenient is that because it is located in Hunan, there are many tungsten ores in the near and near the map. In other words, the mining industry here has been relatively developed, and various conditions are relatively mature. Transportation, mining machinery, relevant personnel, etc. are all relatively complete. From the beginning of entering and out of gold, it will take only a few months at most.

Like Panzhihua, Xiang Xiaoqiang also has a super big cake with gold mine. It is the Yunnan Boka Gold Mine discovered in 2006 in later generations. This is a world-class big gold mine with an estimated gold reserve of 150 tons. After discovering it, it was known as "China's No. 1 gold mine". Xiang Xiaoqiang also kept this super big gold mine first and did not take it out for the time being.

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Xiang Xiaoqiang studied the copper ore of the Ming Dynasty again. The copper ore was the second-largest war metal and was directly used as bullets and shells. In addition, all industries related to electricity are indispensable. Moreover, copper is relatively valuable. Xiang Xiaoqiang is more clear about futures speculation. At present, the international pure copper price is US$125 per ton, which is 179 Mingyang. China is very short of copper, and both the south and the north are short of it. Copper is very important. Whether it is later China, or the current Southern Ming and Northern Qing, copper must be imported in large quantities.

Every time I go to war, copper is always one of the most powerful materials to rise internationally. In addition, copper mines have another advantage. There is often a gold mine with it. A certain amount of gold mine can be often mined when mining copper mines. Therefore, it is very profitable to invest in copper mines, and it is not only beneficial to oneself, but also to the empire.

Xiang Xiaoqiang discovered that the main copper mining areas of the Ming Dynasty are the Daye Copper Mine in Hubei, the Dongchuan Copper Mine in Yunnan, and the Tongling Copper Mine in Anhui. They are also traditional copper production areas in history. However, there is also a super large deposit - the Dexing Copper Mine in Jiangxi, and there is no mark on the mineral map of the Ming Dynasty.

Dexing Copper Mine... This is not a joke. Dexing Copper Mine later proved its reserves of 8 million tons, which is China's largest copper mine ore or Asia's largest copper mine. Like Panzhihua's meaning, by the industrial copper quantity of this era, once the Dexing Copper Mine is thrown out, the Nanming copper mine will no longer have to rely on imports.

Then, Xiang Xiaoqiang made a concerted effort and looked for tungsten, manganese, and several other most important strategic metals on the mineral map... and they also found the "super big cake" that Daming didn't know at this time.

Xiang Xiaoqiang felt that it was almost done, so he turned around and said to Zheng Gongyin, who was already waiting a little anxiously:

"Your Majesty, I have many veins in my hand. Now, for the first time we cooperate, I will provide you with a medium ore, such as gold, copper ore, and tungsten ore, and we will make a fortune first. If we cooperate happily, I will have a large number of large veins, giant veins, and super veins here. At that time, we will make a fortune seriously. How about it?"

Zheng Gongyin looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang and was a little stunned. He heard that the mineral veins he mastered were like supermarkets, with a complete variety, numerous numbers, and high, medium and low-end...

Just as he was in a daze, he said to Xiaoqiang:

"That's it, I'll give you a rough explanation first. A gold mine has a reserve of more than ten tons, with a grade of 8 to 10 grams of gold per ton of ore. A copper mine has a reserve of hundreds of thousands of tons, with a grade of 1 percent. A tungsten mine has a reserve of tens of thousands of tons, with a grade of 100,000 tons, with a grade of 100,000 tons.

As he said that, Zheng Gongyin, who was suspicious, sat down at the table, grabbed the paper and pen, and forgot it. After a while, he raised his head and looked at Zheng Gongyin and said:

"Your Majesty, this gold mine produces 1 ton of gold every year, that is more than 1.6 million Mingyang. The copper mine, even if 200,000 tons of ore is mined every year... The international price of copper ore of this grade is about 15 Mingyang 1 ton, and that year is 3 million Mingyang. This tungsten ore is not too big, but it is 2,000 tons of tungsten concentrate every year... The international price of tungsten concentrate is 475 Mingyang 1 ton, so it is 950,000 yuan a year, nearly 1 million Mingyang.

"Prince, these three mines can produce about 5.6 million Mingyang every year. In this way, I will draw their detailed locations for you, and we will ask for 20% of each mine as agreed. In addition, you can give me 5 million Mingyang again."

Jung Kung-in's eyes widened. He almost shouted:

"Xiao Xiang, you are too outrageous, right? Don't say that I haven't explored it on the spot, even when you say it yourself, it's 'ten thousand tons' and 'ten thousand tons'. It's extremely vague. It can be seen that you haven't explored it seriously. Why do you have to produce 5.6 million Mingyang a year when you open your mouth?"

"Oh," Xiang Xiaoqiang said with a smile, "It's not much different... The maximum deviation is about 1 million Mingyang."

Zheng Gongyin was so angry that his face turned purple and red, but he still held back and did not get angry. He took a breath and said:

"Okay, take a step back, even if these mines can produce 5.6 million Mingyang in a year, then these 5.6 million Mingyang cannot be all mine, right? You have to pay a tax of tens of percent? Xiao Xiang, don't you think it's too much to ask for 5 million if you open your mouth?...Okay, you said you want 20% of the dry stocks, and that's fine, I can agree, because what we agreed at the beginning was to give you 20% of the dry stocks. But you have to remember that the price you wanted was in addition to 20% of the dry stocks, a mine only costs 10,000 Mingyang at one time. Now you have increased from 10,000 Mingyang to 5 million Mingyang, which has increased by 500 times. Do you think this is appropriate?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang remembered that when he negotiated the conditions before going to Peking and Qing dynasties, the accompanying "mineral terms" was really a mine that only costs 10,000 Mingyang.

He smiled embarrassedly, still laughing:

"Prince, this is the same time... At that time, I was poor and jittery, and I didn't have a penny in my pocket... Think about it, I was able to go to Peking and Qing dynasty for 500,000 Mingyang... But now, I can't sit still, and the annual pension is 500,000 yuan. And I sit at home and make hundreds of thousands of dollars in the international market with just a few phone calls. Think about it, is there any little attraction for me now?... My prince, put yourself in your shoes, if it were you, would you like this Wan Mingyang?"

Zheng Gongyin still shook his head like a wave drum, indicating that he would not listen to his tricks.

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Your Zheng's Minerals are not the largest among the Daming Minerals Company, and their exploration and mining capabilities are not the strongest. But I considered that we are always in love, and... hehe, Feng Feng and I... hehe... no matter how you say, the fat and water cannot flow to outsiders' fields... Besides, I have to occupy a lot of shares in the mine... So, you should consider these two points: Can I make you suffer? I will make you suffer by myself.

"Besides, you only give me 5 million at one time now, but from now on, you can get millions of Mingyang from these mines every year... Even if you give half of it to the country, you will still be 250 miles!...Ahem, there are 2.5 million miles left!"

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The two confronted each other for a while, and finally took out their killer moves to Xiaoqiang, reiterating that he had a lot of minerals here, and these three mines were just tests. If everyone was satisfied with their cooperation, then it would not be a 5.6 million Mingyang mine a year in the future, and 56 million was also very realistic.

Zheng Gongyin's greedy nature finally gained the upper hand again. He thought about it over and over again and agreed to give Xiang Xiaoqiang 1 million Mingyang first. But his company would go to these three mines to explore on-site. If it was true as Xiang Xiaoqiang said, then he would give Xiang Xiaoqiang another 2 million Mingyang. However, each mine could only give Xiang Xiaoqiang 15% of the dry shares.

Xiang Xiaoqiang agreed. On the one hand, he is short of money now, and on the other hand, he feels that he can only stay in the Ming Dynasty for five years, so millions of Mingyang are more cost-effective than more than ten percent of the shares. And this time he just played a former stop and had more cards in his hand. Next time he threw out a more attractive "cake", as long as he is happy, the proportion of shares is not up to him.

In this way, when he came out of the Yanping Palace that day, Xiang Xiaoqiang's suitcase added 1 million more Mingyang cash.

At the same time, the "mineral plan" that I had dreamed of but had never had the opportunity to carry out finally began to be implemented.

He was planning to double the proven reserves of various strategic minerals in the Ming Empire within one year. In other words, he would raise the war potential of the Ming Empire to a new height.
Chapter completed!