"Liu, can you be sure? Where are there really tens of billions of tons of high-grade iron ore? This investment is not a trivial matter. Although there is desert everywhere, the funds for purchasing land mining rights alone are an astronomical figure. In comparison,
The policies of the cowboy government are not a big deal. After all, David is still the earl of the British Empire, isn't he?" Although Schneider had doubts, he had obviously believed Liu Fu's statement, and he was in a particularly good mood now, actually asking
David made a face and joked.
"Putting aside government matters for now, Liu, how do you know for sure where there are iron ores? I've always been surprised. You seem to know many things in advance. I've heard that there are many gods in China, although I didn't know much about them before.
I believe it, but since I met you, I have some faith in those gods, and I
When I was serving in Hong Kong, I heard from the locals that in China there is a kind of god called the "earth father-in-law". He can see what is under the ground and can even get under it to see." David was not affected by anything.
He was completely attracted by tens of billions of tons of iron ore, but was very interested in Liu Fu's special abilities.
"And I heard that these gods can live very long lives. Can you teach me how to live an extra two hundred years? I'm not greedy." David felt that he had missed the point, so he immediately added.
"Father-in-law...hahahahahaha...hahaha...two hundred years...hahahahahaha..." After listening to David's words, Liu Fu was stunned for several seconds and suddenly laughed.
, I even shed tears, and finally couldn’t sit still. I lay on the sofa, and as soon as I could hold back my tears, I started laughing.
"Your uncle!!!" This was the only curse word in Chinese that David and Liu Fu had learned. At this time, David's face turned purple, and he cursed hatefully at Liu Fu, who was still laughing wildly. He felt a little bit in his heart.
It was clear that I had been tricked by this person again.
"Return to my father-in-law... Hahaha..." Liu Fu just suppressed laughter and started laughing again after saying half a sentence.
"%￥#3..." David had a livid face, holding a bottle of fruit juice and muttering in his mouth without knowing what words to use.
"Hey...hey...don't use your hometown dialect to curse people..." David muttered in a low voice, but Liu Fu still heard it. He knew that when David was angry, he liked to use his emphatic words.
Weird curse words in the dialect of somewhere back home in England.
"I didn't mean to laugh at you. The years you served in Hong Kong were really wasted. What do you mean by a father-in-law? Then you are a father-in-law. It's a shame that you are still a Christian. You still want to live another two hundred years. Look.
Look at my hair, I have to have that ability. How can I be like this?" Liu Fu knew that David was really angry, so she stopped laughing at him and pointed to her already gray temples and asked David.
"It's done, it's done. Seriously, God will punish him as a traitor. Liu, are you sure there is as much ore as you mentioned? It doesn't need to be so much. Just half of it will be enough. Ten billion tons will be worth it."
." Schneider doesn't like to talk business and joke at the same time, which will put his mind in a state of confusion.
"There must be, 30 billion tons, I can't guarantee 100%. If we can't reach 20 billion tons, I, the president, will leave it to you two." Liu Fu stopped laughing at David and said very seriously.
said.
"David, what do you think? I plan to join." Schneider got a positive answer and had a clue in his heart. Brick turned to the angry David.
"Then I'll join in, but Liu needs to apologize to me. He has deeply hurt a friend's self-esteem just now." David, who was a few years older than Liu Fei, became more and more twitchy, and he actually still felt bad about the joke just now.
Yu Huai.
"Okay, okay, I apologize, father-in-law... hahaha..." Liu Fu just said half of his apology, and couldn't help but laugh. David was so angry that he walked around the room with a livid face.
, but can't find the target of anger.
In early December 1920, a company called the South Pacific Oil and Mining Company was registered in Los Angeles in the western United States. This company was jointly funded by Sandro Electric, Schneider Oil Company, Standard Oil Company and the First National Bank controlled by the Morgan family.
, its registered capital reached US$100 million, and after its establishment, the company regarded Australia as the main base for its future development, and set its headquarters in Perth, the capital of the Commonwealth of Western Australia.
Most of Western Australia is a desert and Gobi with arid and hot climate, but near the city of Perth is a rare treasure land in Western Australia. It is located in the southwest corner of Western Australia and the southwest corner of the entire Australia.
It has a Mediterranean climate, with plenty of sunshine and mild temperatures.
Perth was founded in 1829 as a colonial settlement. Because it is close to the Swan River and there are a large number of black swans living in the river, it is also called the "Black Swan City" by the locals.
Although Western Australia occupies almost one-third of the entire Australian land area, covering 2.5 million square kilometers, its population only accounts for one-tenth of the national population, and among this one-tenth of the population,
85% of them live in Perth, about 400,000 people, mainly white Europeans.
In order to launch exploration work faster, David and Schneider took separate actions. David was based in Melbourne, directing the company's public relations team, traveling between London, New York and Melbourne, giving full play to his network advantages in the UK and the United States.
, constantly putting pressure on the Australian federal government, and at the same time, forming a public relations team, waving pounds and dollars to lobby the Australian federal government.
Schneider is sitting in Perth, waiting for the exploration permit from the Australian federal government, while preparing a large-scale prospecting team. Because the geographical environment and climate environment of Western Australia are really harsh, and there are no railways in most parts of Western Australia,
There are no roads, and the transportation problem cannot be solved in a short time. Therefore, according to Liu Fu's plan, the first step is to obtain a mining exploration license from the Australian government, then invest in purchasing as many mining areas as possible, and then proceed with the following steps.
Although Liu Fu has a world travel brochure, which also has precise topography, place names, longitudes and latitudes, the specific locations where there are mines and where there are no mines are not on the map, because it is just a travel brochure. If even the mines are marked,
Then it becomes a military map.
According to the story in the travel brochure about Hancock, who discovered the iron ore in Australia, the location where he discovered the iron ore and eventually discovered the iron ore is called Pilbara. This place is located north of Perth, nearly 1,000 kilometers away.
According to locals in Perth, tornadoes blow in that ghost place seven months out of the year. Apart from ravines and deserts, there are not even many animals, let alone residents.
If you want to mine iron ore from this barren land, you must build a railway, otherwise the massive iron ore cannot be transported from the mine. Building a railway in this geographical environment not only requires huge capital investment,
We also need to have enough manpower, but in Australia, the biggest shortage is manpower.
This time Schneider brought 3 exploration teams. These 3 teams are the best exploration teams from Schneider Oil Company and Standard Oil Company. Coupled with several mineral experts recruited with heavy sums of money, they are the main force of this exploration.
, In addition, there are more than 50 Chinese in each exploration team. These
They are all geological researchers recruited by Liu Fu from the federal government and agents from the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The researchers mainly follow Schneider's exploration team to conduct field exploration and gain some exploration experience, while those agents use their identities as exploration personnel as a cover.
Collect various intelligence on the Western Australia region and draw military maps.
Schneider was not interested in how many people Liu Fu sent or what they were doing. He was only concerned about the progress of the three exploration teams. However, he was not in a hurry to send out these exploration teams. Instead, he rented a piece of wasteland on the outskirts of Perth.
, and recruited hundreds of local people to start building an airstrip.
Half a month later, at noon one day, when the airstrip had just been leveled and the tower had not yet been fully built, three planes flew neatly over from the horizon. After circling the airstrip twice, they flew one by one.
Landed on the only runway of the airport. (To be continued...)
