Winter in Myanmar is the dry season, and it usually doesn't rain for several months. At this time, the sun sets in the west, and red fire clouds appear on the horizon. Half of the sky's clouds seem to be ignited by fire, which is extremely beautiful.
Standing on the rail car, Zhuang Rui found that the bodies of Peng Fei and Hu Rong beside him were all reflected in golden color. Even the rocks in front were bright red, and the lush forest in the distance was also covered in gold.
A golden coat.
The fire cloud didn't last long, and disappeared after a few minutes. The rail car was still driving down the mountain. It didn't last for 20 minutes, and it was difficult to get down to the foot of the mountain.
Due to the mineral vein, Hu Rong was in a bad mood. Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei did not speak, and there was only the sound of the mountain wind blowing in their ears.
Out of boredom, Zhuang Rui looked at the four balanced rails. The four rails were about four meters wide. Including the cleared area around them, the total width was more than six meters. The total length of this slope should be nearly one thousand meters.
about.
The trees along the way have been cut down, and some small stones are paved under the railway track. Being able to drive such a track on such a steep mountain shows how much Hu Rong invested in the early stage.
"Is there any jade in this mountain?"
An idea suddenly came to Zhuang Rui's mind. When he was at the top of the mountain, he didn't seem to be observing the attachments of the rail car. Maybe he was actually here.
Thinking of this, Zhuang Rui paused for a moment and looked at the rocks that looked dark due to the getting late.
Zhuang Rui shook his head and looked at a depth of nearly 20 meters. Although the inside of the rock he saw was all pyroxenite, there were no lumps of jade. The occasional flash of green in Zhuang Rui's eyes was also the same color.
It's very light, with scattered jade stones all over it.
Zhuang Rui looked ten meters further in without giving up. This was the maximum distance that his spiritual energy could reach now, but there was still no sign of jade veins. Zhuang Rui was slightly disappointed and moved his gaze downwards.
I'm ready to take back my spiritual energy.
"Isn't it?"
Who knew that just when Zhuang Rui's eyes moved down, a group of cold breath was suddenly sensed by the spiritual energy, and this spiritual energy was very pure. Zhuang Rui had only felt it in ice jade.
"Fei...Peng Fei..."
Zhuang Rui almost blurted out, but luckily he caught the opportunity quickly and called out Peng Fei's name.
"Brother Zhuang, what's the matter?"
Peng Fei, who was standing nearby, thought something was wrong with Zhuang Rui.
"It's okay. Let's get some sleep tonight. We won't go up the mountain tomorrow and will go hunting in the forest..."
Zhuang Rui had no excuses, so he simply brought up the matter. Although he was a little discouraged at first, thinking about the yellow and orange gold, it would be a pity not to go.
But when Zhuang Rui was talking, his eyes were still staring at the rock wall opposite. Fortunately, the sky had darkened, and the people next to him didn't notice anything wrong with his expression.
If it were during the day, Peng Fei and Hu Rong would definitely be able to see that the muscles on Zhuang Rui's face were twitching slightly, and the hands holding on to the rail car's armrests were so hard that the veins on the backs of their hands were exposed.
, it can be seen that he is extremely nervous now.
"Brother, if you don't want to go to the mine tomorrow, I'll ask Zhubanpo to accompany you to the mountains. He is very familiar with the surrounding environment, but don't go too far. Although this Savage Mountain is full of treasures, there are still many treasures everywhere.
Murderous..."
Hu Rong will not have time to accompany Zhuang Rui on hunting tomorrow. He has to accompany the two professors to continue exploring the mine, which is related to his future decisions.
"Well, okay, okay, we won't go far..."
Zhuang Rui replied absently, and Peng Fei on the side couldn't help but touch him with his arm. He didn't know why Zhuang Rui agreed to Hu Rong and went into the mountains with that sissy. Peng Fei also couldn't stand that one.
"Well, what's the matter?"
Zhuang Rui turned his head and looked at Peng Fei. He actually didn't understand what Hu Rong was saying just now.
"Brother Hu said that we should let that "cook lady" accompany us to go hunting in Savage Mountain..."
"What?!"
Zhuang Rui felt uncomfortable when he heard the name, and said quickly: "Brother Hu, give us two guns, and we can just wander around the edge. We don't need that person to accompany us, right?"
"That won't work. Looking at you two like this, you might get lost after walking a few hundred meters into the mountain. If there's no one to accompany you, I won't worry..."
Hu Rong rejected Zhuang Rui's words. Although Zhuang Ruisheng was tall, he was not familiar with the jungles of Myanmar. And Peng Fei had a pretty face. He must be a kid from a rich family.
If something goes wrong in the mountain, Hu Rong can't explain it to Qin Haoran.
"Then... let's talk about it tomorrow..."
Zhuang Rui was uncharacteristically not insistent, which made Peng Fei beside him a little strange.
How did Peng Fei know that Zhuang Rui's thoughts at this time were all focused on this mountain.
When Zhuang Rui sensed the aura just now, he also saw the scene inside the rock wall. It was difficult for Zhuang Rui to describe the scene in words. Everywhere he saw it was completely green, just like being on a spring field.
In the grassland, there is nothing else to see except green.
The clumps of jadeite contained in the stone skin exuded a moving fluorescence in Zhuang Rui's eyes. At first, Zhuang Rui even wondered if it was the previous fire cloud that caused him to have an illusion, but as the rail car moved,
The strips of emerald veins clearly appeared in his eyes.
This vein is about 267 meters deep into the rock from where Zhuang Rui's rail car is now, and about 200 meters from the top of the mountain.
So far, the length of the jadeite vein has extended down more than sixty meters from the place Zhuang Rui first saw. He could not predict the width, but it would be at least four meters, because within the distance that his spiritual energy could reach.
On the edge, there is still jade.
Since the rail car was always moving, Zhuang Rui could not stop to observe the quality of the jade in detail, but the cold breath he felt in his eyes showed that the jade grade of this vein should not be too bad, and he intuitively
The few pieces of jade I saw were all above the bean green species and were mid-range jade raw materials.
"Gone?"
After the railcar drove another hundred meters down the mountain, the mineral veins in Zhuang Rui's eyes suddenly disappeared.
"One hundred, sixty-seven meters of jadeite vein, my God..."
Zhuang Rui was so excited at this moment. It was 1,670 meters long and at least four meters wide. How much could such an jadeite mine be worth? One billion? Two billion? Zhuang Rui simply couldn't imagine it.
The data mentioned above do not mean that a piece of jadeite is more than 100 meters long, but that within the length of more than 100 meters, the jadeite growth is relatively concentrated. Every distance, there will be jadeites. This is because
Mineral veins.
Hu Rong's previous statement that he learned through exploration that this is the largest mine in Myanmar is not a lie. It's just that he has not found the right direction now and has made the place where the veins come out into a track for transporting rough stones. If he digs out from here
Go in a few dozen meters and the veins will immediately appear.
However, Zhuang Rui's idea was a bit simplistic. The slope of this mountain reached nearly 1,000 meters long, and the place where Zhuang Rui discovered the vein was about 600 to 800 meters away.
Since the mountain is all rocky, it is difficult to drill down hundreds of meters from the top of the mountain using drilling methods. Therefore, it is very difficult to accurately find mineral veins on such a vast mountain.
Yes, it’s almost like finding a needle in a haystack.
Although some experts and scholars in the world have inferred that jadeite is formed in a low-temperature and high-pressure environment, there has never been a conclusion. As for the growth environment of jadeite, there is still no generally accepted statement, and in actual mining, jadeite is
Mineral veins are also erratic and difficult to figure out.
Take the mineral vein that Zhuang Rui just saw. It is actually halfway up the mountain. In terms of low temperature and high pressure, it should be at the foot of the mountain or the top of the mountain. But it happened to be halfway up the mountain. I don’t know about those geological experts.
What kind of inferences will we make when we learn about this situation in the future?
In the mountain wall hundreds of meters down the mountain, Zhuang Rui no longer found the existence of jade veins. Zhuang Rui also regained his composure. He now began to think about how he could tell Hu Rong the news.
Whether he can see it or not, this has always troubled Zhuang Rui. He can't drag Hu Rong to the mountain with the ore veins and directly tell him that there is jade more than 20 meters deep inside, right? This is purely courting death.
the behavior of.
Moreover, the rocks exposed on the surface of the mountain are all normal, and there are no signs of jade. I can't fool the Jade Prince in Xinjiang, saying that I can see there is jade in it from somewhere. There is really no basis for it.
nothing.
The forty or fifty people who live at the foot of the mountain are all fully armed mine protection teams. The workers on the mountain usually do not come down. They have simple accommodation on the mountain, and there are also master chefs who cook. Except for the strong wind at night.
, there are much fewer mosquitoes than at the foot of the mountain.
Coming down behind Zhuang Rui were the foreman Zhu Banpo and a young man. They didn't have to go down the mountain originally, but Hu Rong used the walkie-talkie to call them down specifically to accompany Zhuang Rui into Savage Mountain tomorrow.
Two bonfires have been lit at the foot of the mountain. In the afternoon, some people from the mine protection team went into the mountain to hunt a wild boar. There were also some birds, which had already been skinned. They were pierced with iron forks and put on the fire.
On top of another small bonfire, a pot was set up, and something seemed to be cooking in it.
Although Hu Rong was thoughtful, he still pulled himself together and invited Zhuang Rui and the two professors to sit on the paved floor. There was a long, low table in front of them. From time to time, people would bring grilled food to the table.
.
The wine they drank was brought out by a mine protection team member. It was bulk spirits and was placed in a large transparent glass container. However, the colorful spotted snake inside, which was as thick as a baby's wrist, made Zhuang Rui
Startled.
"Come, let's have this drink to thank the two professors..."
Hu Rong stood up and toasted the two professors with a glass of wine. The working attitude of the two old men after they arrived here is very admirable.
"Brother Zhuang, it's okay to drink this wine. Poisonous snakes soaked in wine can cure rheumatoid arthritis. The more poisonous the snake, the better the effect of the wine. It's not harmful to the body..."
Peng Fei saw Zhuang Rui's eyes and glanced at the wine container from time to time. He didn't know what was going on. Although Peng Fei didn't drink, he ate snake gall frequently and knew it was a good thing.
Zhuang Rui took a sip after hearing this. Apart from a slightly sweet feeling, he didn't seem to have any discomfort. He immediately started eating and drinking. After a bumpy afternoon today, he was already hungry.
Many people came up to propose a toast, and the two professors soon became overwhelmed with alcohol. Hu Rong asked people to help them go to the wooden house to rest. Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei suddenly became the target of public criticism. The men who protected the mine were carrying their
Wine Bowl approached Zhuang Rui.
This wine is said to be strong wine, but it is actually rice wine brewed by the Burmese people. The alcohol content is not high. Zhuang Rui drank a small amount of two kilograms and did not fall down. However, he was also a little confused. But Peng Fei was quick to see the opportunity and had already
He hid far away.
"Boss Zhuang, I offer you a toast, but you must drink it..."
A voice reached Zhuang Rui's ears, which immediately made him sober. When he looked up, the Thai gentleman was looking at him lovingly. In the temperature of more than 20 degrees, Zhuang Rui couldn't help it.
Had a chill.
"Drink, drink..."
Looking back, I saw that Peng Fei's loyal boy had gone somewhere long ago. Zhuang Rui picked up the bowl, drank it, and fell on the table. If you can't run away, you can always pretend to be drunk, right?
Who knew that this rice wine tastes good and the alcohol content is not high, but if you drink too much, its stamina is no worse than Erguotou. Zhuang Rui fell on the table and immediately felt the world spinning and fell asleep in a daze.
Fortunately, Hu Rong asked the mine protection team to carry him into the wooden house. Otherwise, if the "cooker" had taken advantage of him, Zhuang Rui would have suffered a big loss.
After a few hours of noise, calm returned to the mountains, and the blazing bonfire was extinguished. Only a few light spots lit up from time to time in the darkness, and it was the night watchmen of the mine protection team smoking.
It goes without saying that Hu Rong attaches great importance to this mine. Just in the passage of more than one kilometer into the mountain, he has arranged seven or eight light and dark sentries. Whenever there is any trouble, the people here will immediately
I can make it there.
In the middle of the night, Zhuang Rui woke up. His headache had been relieved, but his mouth was extremely dry, and he had a strong need to pee. He opened up a blanket that someone had covered him with, and Zhuang Rui followed the instructions.
He sat up on the bed.
There is a fragrance in the house, which is mosquito repellent incense made from mosquito repellent, a specialty of Myanmar. One stick of incense can make a room free of mosquitoes.
"Who? Brother Zhuang, are you awake?"
Peng Fei's voice rang out from a corner of Zhuang Rui's wooden house.
"Well, I'm fine. You continue to sleep and I'll relieve myself..."
After groping for his shoes from the ground and putting them on, Zhuang Rui opened the door of the wooden house and walked out along the six or seven wooden stairs.
In order to prevent flash floods in summer, the wooden houses built by the Burmese people are often one or two meters above the ground, using thick wood as the pillars, on which a mixture of bamboo and wood is used to build the frame of the house, and then the roof is laid.
That's it, there will be a wooden staircase between the door and the ground.
When flash floods pass by in the summer, they will not be able to destroy these wooden houses if they hit the wood as the base. Such buildings can be seen everywhere in Myanmar, Laos and Thailand.
Basically, these wooden houses do not use nails, but are tied with oil-soaked ropes. They are very strong. The bark on the wood has not been shaved off. Looking at it under the moonlight, they look very rough.
After Zhuang Rui purred heartily behind the wooden house, he was about to find some water to drink. He saw a man sitting in the open space surrounded by wooden houses, smoking silently. Looking carefully, it was Hu
Honor.
"Your mouth is dry, come on, drink some water..."
Hu Rong saw Zhuang Rui coming over, picked up a green military kettle from beside him, and handed it to Zhuang Rui.
"Gudong... Gudong..."
Zhuang Rui was very thirsty. After taking the kettle, he drank the whole pot of water in a few mouthfuls. The pot was filled with spring water from the mountains, which was very sweet.
"Brother Hu, why don't you sleep?"
Zhuang Rui also sat cross-legged on the ground and put the kettle aside.
The dense and tall trees in the distance look dark and gloomy. In Myanmar at this season, there seems to be no insects chirping. The surroundings are very quiet, so quiet that it makes people feel a little depressed. It seems that I am the only one left in the world.
"I can't sleep. I imagine you are like you. When you're drunk, you don't care about anything and fall asleep. But there are a bunch of people who have been following our Hu family for decades. I can't let go..."
Hu Rong took a long drag on his cigarette, the cigarette butt flashed brightly in the night, and then he put it out on the ground, with a trace of sadness on his face.
"Brother Hu, you don't need to be too anxious. This mine has been surveyed by so many people. There should be veins of minerals. As long as you dig deeper, you will definitely find jade..."
Although Zhuang Rui knew the location of the jade vein in his heart, he was unable to express it clearly. When Hu Rong heard this, it was more comforting.
"Keep digging? Haha, it's okay to say two or three months, but I won't be able to hold on for a long time..."
Hu Rong smiled bitterly. These depressions had been pressing in his heart for a long time. Now he finally found an outlet to vent his frustrations and continued talking to Zhuang Rui.
It turns out that the Hu family seems to be prosperous now, but in fact, it is difficult to maintain it. It is because this jade mine has almost wiped out all the funds of the Hu family, and now the expenses of hundreds of workers every day are
It's a huge amount of money. If Hu Rong hadn't made some gains in Myanmar's public offering, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to support it now.
The skyrocketing price of jade only started in the 1980s, and Hu has accumulated the equivalent of more than one billion RMB in these 20 years. Of course, in Myanmar, this figure is already
Quite a lot.
It’s just that Hu Rong has made some investments in Southeast Asia in recent years, spending hundreds of millions. In addition, the current expenditure on this jade mine has almost wiped out all the Hu family’s capital. Therefore, the Hu Rong family’s capital chain is now
It is almost unsustainable. If the mine no longer produces jade, the consequences will be quite serious.
Even if Hu Rong gives up this jade mine now, there will not be any improvement in terms of funds. When his investments in Southeast Asia and Taiwan see results, it is estimated that the Hu family will no longer be able to support it.
In this public sale, the reason why Hu Rong wanted to smuggle a batch of jadeite rough stones to Qin Haoran was because he wanted to raise funds. Although it would not be a lot of money, it could relieve Hu Rong's pressure to some extent, but because Zhuang
Rui stepped in and helped Qin Haoran get a few good pieces of money from his bet, but the matter did not work out.
After Zhuang Rui heard this, he asked puzzledly: "Brother Hu, even if the veins are discovered in this jade mine, aren't you still unable to turn these jade into cash in a short time?"
Now the Myanmar military government strictly controls the export of jadeite rough, so even big jadeite merchants like Hu Rong can only rely on the jadeite market to sell large amounts of jadeite rough.
As for the smuggled rough stones, the price is low and the quantity is not very large. It will not fundamentally help Hu Rong's current economic situation, so Zhuang Rui asked this question.
Hu Rong shook his head and said: "It's different. As long as this mine is not an abandoned mine, this situation can be reversed immediately..."
Zhuang Rui didn't know that in Myanmar, jade is money, and major jade companies also have business dealings with each other. It is a normal business behavior to use jade as collateral to turn around a sum of funds.
It's just that no veins have been found in Hu's mine. Many jade companies are waiting to see the joke and are unwilling to accept the jade from Hu's company, or they have kept the price extremely low.
As a result, Hu Rong has jade in his hands, but cannot turn it into cash in a short time. However, if this jade mine starts to produce jade rough stones in large quantities, it means that Hu is out of trouble. Those companies
Naturally, the strategy against Hu's company will be changed.
"Brother Hu, how long can your current funds last?"
"If you save a little, you should be able to wait until the next Myanmar public sale. However, if no mineral veins are discovered by then, then... just..."
Hu Rong did not continue, but Zhuang Rui understood that this was a bottomless pit. As long as it could not find the mineral veins, it would continue to swallow up a large amount of funds. Hu Rong wanted to quit now, but he was reluctant to part with the early stage.
Investment is a time of dilemma.
Thinking of the more than 100-meter-long mineral vein, an idea suddenly came to Zhuang Rui's mind, and he immediately said: "Brother Hu, can Myanmar accept foreign capital investment?"
"Yes, some of Myanmar's jade companies are foreign-funded, but there are more restrictions. In the past few decades, they have only brought in 560 million euros of foreign investment. Brother, you don't want to invest in this mine, do you?"
As Hu Rong spoke, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhuang Rui in surprise.
