Chapter 492 The beggar holding the golden rice bowl
Rather than calling it a cable car, it would be more appropriate to call it a tram car. The rail car is about one and a half meters wide and has a big belly. Three or four people can stand side by side inside. Hu Rong, accompanied by two professors Feng and Chen, went first.
After getting on the car, the electric switch below was closed, and the rail car slowly ascended up the mountain.
Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei were the second wave to go up. They were the only two people on this car. It was very spacious when they stood inside. Although the speed of the rail car was not fast, after a few minutes, it reached halfway up the mountain and looked down the mountain.
The figure has become smaller.
"Brother Zhuang, about thirty kilometers from here is the place where the gold is buried on the map..."
Peng Fei's words made Zhuang Rui stunned for a moment, and he quickly looked up and down. The two rail cars were still dozens of meters away from him, and then he looked in the direction of Peng Fei's finger.
"Is that Savage Mountain?"
In the direction of Peng Fei's finger, Zhuang Rui could only see the continuous mountains, lush forests, and towering trees, giving people a mysterious and quiet feeling.
"Yes, that's the direction, it can't be wrong..."
The people in front and behind him were far away from him, and Peng Fei was not afraid of being heard by them. He pointed to a mountain in the distance and said: "If my visual inspection is correct, thirty kilometers is almost the distance from here to that mountain..."
"hiss……"
Although Zhuang Rui had been mentally prepared for a long time, he still took a breath of air after looking at the mountain. He didn't think that he could easily find it if he could see it from here. As the saying goes, you can run to death if you look at the mountain.
Ma, this thirty kilometers distance is much more difficult to walk than I imagined.
"Actually, this is already considered Savage Mountain. You can get there from the bottom of the mountain, but I don't know if there is a trail. Otherwise, I'm afraid it won't be enough to go back and forth in three or four hours..."
Peng Fei also frowned. Going from here are all mountain roads, and there are jungles everywhere. Peng Fei is not afraid of getting lost, but the wild beasts, poisonous snakes and miasma in the jungle can kill people.
Taking Zhuang Rui with him, he really didn't have much confidence that he could protect Zhuang Rui's safety.
"Let's see if we have a chance, maybe we can go back in the evening..."
Zhuang Rui felt half cold after hearing Peng Fei's words. Although gold is attractive, life is more important. Zhuang Rui is not a person who is short of money. The reason why he found this place is purely out of curiosity.
Now that I see this situation, I am already giving up.
Peng Fei nodded silently. He only cared about Zhuang Rui's safety. Although he was curious about the gold, he was not greedy. Imagine that he had never been tempted by heroin worth hundreds of millions before.
The rail car ascended very slowly. It didn't look like a very high mountain, but the slope was very long. It took half an hour before it reached the top of the mountain.
The entire top of the mountain has been razed to the ground and turned into a huge platform. Thousands of people are busy working here, and there are actually seven or eight "weird" excavators. I really don't know how Hu Rong used it.
Good luck.
There are several types of work on the mountain. Some people are following the excavator to inspect the jadeite rough, some are drilling holes and blasting on the mountain, and some are going up and down in several deep pits. Anyway, apart from just
Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei who came up, as well as Hu Rong and the two professors, were all busy.
The two professors were squatting on the ground and looking at the excavated rocks to determine the age of their formation and the conditions of the earth's crust at that time, so as to analyze whether this was the environment where jadeite grew. Go to the mine and check it out.
"How about it, brother, this is the jade mine, this is our territory, you can look at it as you like, no one will stop you, help me see if this is an abandoned mine?"
After Hu Rong saw Zhuang Rui coming up, he asked a person in charge on the mountain to accompany the two professors, and then walked towards Zhuang Rui himself.
"Brother Hu, I'm just here to have fun, but I don't have the ability to see the mineral veins..."
"It's okay, you can wander around as you like, the most you can do is close this mine..."
A wry smile appeared on Hu Rong's face. This sentence is simple to say, but if it is really turned off, Hu's vitality will be seriously damaged.
"If you don't invest much, it's not a bad idea to close it down..." Zhuang Rui said casually.
Hearing this, Hu Rong almost jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. He stared with no grace and said: "Not much investment? Brother, I invested a total of 80 million US dollars in it. In addition to paying the government Money, even these infrastructures, have cost almost 20 million US dollars. If we can't produce jade anymore, I will be in trouble this time..."
Zhuang Rui was one of his own, and Hu Rong was not afraid of exposing his own shortcomings, and said all the things that had been on his mind for a long time.
"Eight...eighty million dollars? That much?"
Zhuang Rui was shocked when he heard this. According to the current market exchange rate, 80 million US dollars is almost equal to 650 million RMB. This number is really not small. The total value of his Xinjiang jade mine is only about 1.5 billion. The investment It's only tens of millions. I didn't expect the investment in this jade mine to be so huge.
"Oh, brother, I made a mistake this time..."
Hu Rong sighed and told Zhuang Rui the whole story.
It turns out that this new mine was jointly explored by Myanmar's major jade companies and the government. Various exploration results at that time showed that this mine contains extremely rich jade veins and can be regarded as the largest mine in Myanmar. Therefore, bidding was invited at a later stage. At that time, major companies were attracted to bid wildly.
Since the old mines of the Hu Rong family had almost been mined, they continued to use new mines to expand their business. When the mine was being explored, people from the Hu Company also participated and agreed that it was a rich mine, so Hu Rong spent a lot of money at that time. At a great cost, we obtained the mining rights of this mine.
In addition to paying the total exploration costs of nearly 20 million US dollars for all the original companies, a further 30 million US dollars in deposits were paid to the Myanmar government.
Coupled with the initial investment here, the total cost has reached 80 million US dollars. If there is no profit, Hu's company will suffer a huge loss this time.
Because the Myanmar military government still owns 10% of the shares, the minimum standard amount of dividends is clearly written in the tender document. Even if there is no output, Hu's company will still need to pay money to the government unless it changes hands and sells the mine. Get out, but in this situation, no one is stupid, no one will take over.
"Brother Hu, the price you paid for buying this mine is too high, isn't it? It's understandable to pay the exploration fee, and it's normal to pay the deposit, but the government's 10% stake is waiting for dividends. This condition is too harsh. Well, the jade has not been mined yet, who can say that it will be profitable?"
After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, Zhuang Rui shook his head repeatedly. The jade mine he cooperated with Lord Jade had nothing to do with the government at all. However, I heard that a document was recently issued and the government was about to start rectifying it. But for the early stage
Mines that have already been mined will not be moved.
"Well, the competition was too fierce at that time. If I didn't add this condition, I wouldn't be able to win this mine..."
Needless to say, Zhuang Rui, Hu Rong has long since regretted it. However, the contract has already been signed. If he unilaterally breaks the contract, he will be suppressed by the Myanmar government and all mining companies. The consequences will be greater than the annual payment to Myanmar.
A little money from the government would be much more serious.
"Brother Hu, didn't the government pay for your upfront investment?"
"Asking them to pay? What a joke, they are so poor that they expect to take money from our pockets..." Hu Rong said angrily.
To put it bluntly, Myanmar's military government does not care about anything. In Myanmar, there is no such thing as taxation. Therefore, the Myanmar government is as poor as a beggar. In order to support the army, it can only sell resources desperately.
The main source of fiscal revenue naturally comes from these resource companies. If you want to mine new mines, you must obtain the consent of the government and there are enough benefits to proceed. They only want money and don't ask anything else. You just
The whole of Myanmar was hollowed out, and they didn't ask a single question.
"This...is this okay?" Zhuang Rui was dumbfounded.
"This is nothing. When it comes to trade between Myanmar and China, it is even more outrageous. Do you know what the trade distribution model between the two sides looks like?"
Zhuang Rui shook his head.
"That is, China took everything and the Burmese people got nothing..." When Hu Rong spoke, he didn't know whether he should be proud of his motherland or feel sad for the Burma where he lived.
Zhuang Rui was already dumbfounded. Is it okay to do this kind of business?
As mentioned before, Myanmar is basically a semi-divided and anarchic country. The central government’s annual fiscal revenue is only 2.5 billion yuan. This amount of money can be used in China to build half a university or a 20-kilometer high-speed railway. In short
, for a country, this amount of money is equivalent to nothing.
Therefore, the Myanmar government neither has the ability to quell the separatist regime. For the Myanmar government, war is an unimaginable luxury, nor does it have the ability to deal with disasters. The Chinese government often pays for an earthquake with hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Myanmar is even less capable of safeguarding economic sovereignty. Any large Chinese company is richer than the Myanmar government.
At the same time, because Myanmar has traditionally had no tax burden, the military government did not dare to levy various taxes for the sake of political stability. As a result, the tax law was ineffective and the national treasury had no source at all.
Under the specific national conditions of Myanmar, the government has problems even with the financial resources to maintain the country's formal existence. Therefore, the only way out for governments at all levels, from the central to local governments, is to sell resources.
