In a conference room at the headquarters of Shagang Group.
"Mr. Shan, our space smelting factory will be completed next month. We can finally breathe a sigh of relief."
Xu Aiguo, the financial director of Shagang Group, is also an old man who survived Shan Ying's grandfather's era. He now feels that the burden on his shoulders has been relieved a lot.
Shagang Group invested all its funds and spent nearly 2 years finally building a space smelting factory in space.
In the past nearly two years, as the company's treasurer, Xu Aiguo has really worked hard and thought hard to build a space smelting factory in space. The amount of money spent is unbelievable. It can easily be dozens of dollars.
Billions, tens of billions were invested.
Although Shagang Group is one of the parts suppliers of Galaxy Technology Group and has made money by supplying parts to Galaxy Technology Group, the construction of the space smelting factory still consumes the group's funds completely.
Even the group's capital chain was cut off for a time, and Shan Ying had to go around begging his grandfather and grandma to raise funds. In the end, even the employees in the company were persuaded by Shan Ying, and each of them had hundreds of thousands.
, millions of dollars were invested in the company, and it has managed to survive until now.
The space smelting factory is about to be completed, and there will be less money to spend next, and the funds will be more abundant, and his finances can also be easier.
"It's still early. The space smelting factory is being built, but we don't know where to raise the money to buy asteroids. Any asteroid is worth hundreds of billions, and selling our group won't be enough.
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Shan Ying smiled and shook her head.
In fact, he is also looking sad now. The space smelting factory has been built and will be officially put into use next month, but he doesn't know where the money to buy the asteroid will come from.
"We don't need to buy asteroids. We can smelt asteroids for others."
The always wise Fang Sixian thought for a while and said.
"Now those who own spacecraft and can mine asteroids are very powerful consortiums or simply countries. These people mine asteroids not just to sell asteroids for profit, but they actually value asteroids.
resource."
"The space industry is very popular. There are many places where steel is needed. The price of steel has tripled. This is especially true for steel in space."
"Currently, the only factory in space that can smelt asteroids is the factory of Galaxy Technology Group. Our space smelting factory will start construction next month. It is the second one."
"As for other space smelting factories, they are still under construction. It will take at least several months before they are put into use. This short period of time is enough for us to make a good profit."
Fang Sixian is really a talent, and all aspects have been investigated clearly.
"As far as I know, Galaxy Technology Group processes and smelts asteroids for people. Calculated based on mass, the processing and smelting fee for a 100 million-ton asteroid is about 50 billion. In other words, it takes 1 ton of smelting to smelt an asteroid.
The cost is about 500 yuan.”
"The space smelting factory can smelt asteroids very quickly. It doesn't take long to smelt an asteroid with a mass of hundreds of millions of tons. The cost is very low and the efficiency is very high."
"But even so, Galaxy Technology Group doesn't seem to have much interest in smelting asteroids for people. They are more interested in directly acquiring asteroids and then smelting steel for their own use."
"Because Galaxy Technology Group is starting to build the second Dragon's Nest Space Factory, and the first Dragon's Nest Space Industry is also in full swing. More than ten spacecrafts are being built at the same time, and the demand for steel is very strong."
Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard Fang Sixian's words. They were still worried about the money to buy asteroids, but now they see that there is no need to worry. They can do OEM work and help others smelt asteroids and still make money.
"Of course, these people smelting asteroids only earn a little bit of hard work. The most profitable thing is to buy asteroids. It is even more profitable to smelt and sell steel by yourself."
"Currently, countries around the world have a very strong demand for steel in space. The rising price of steel is enough to illustrate this point. Now some mining groups on the moon have begun to mine iron ore. It was unprofitable before, but now it is not.
It’s the same.”
As Fang Sixian spoke, he played back the data he had collected and compiled.
"And I estimate that in the next few years, the demand for steel in space will grow explosively. Galaxy Technology Group is said to be researching a small spacecraft."
"They call this small spacecraft the Milon-class spacecraft. The Milon-class spacecraft is different from the Qinglong-class spacecraft. Its thrust is much smaller and it can only drag asteroids with a mass of several million tons.
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"But its price is also very cheap. When the Milon-class spacecraft comes out, I estimate that there will be a lot of people going to mine asteroids. Once that time comes, our business will be very busy."
Fang Sixian is very optimistic about the future, and he also sees the arrival of a new era in the steel industry.
"Back to the present, our space smelting factory will be completed in a month, and we must start looking for business now."
"But I think we don't have to worry at all, because I believe someone will definitely come to us."
Then Fang Sixian made a very confident conclusion.
"Are you so sure?"
Jiang Tao, the technical director of Shagang Group, said with some disbelief.
"Of course, because that's the situation."
"Our space smelting factory is the second space smelting factory in the entire space. Someone will definitely come to us for cooperation."
Fang Sixian said very confidently.
As soon as he finished speaking, Shan Ying's secretary walked in and said, "Mr. Shan, there are Japanese people visiting."
"Japanese?"
When Shan Ying heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, he smiled and said, "Business is here."
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In the reception room of the Shagang Group headquarters building, Shan Ying, Fang Sixian, Xu Aiguo and others met with guests from Japan. After some polite greetings, they got down to business.
"Mr. Yamashita came all the way, presumably for something important?"
Shan Ying looked at Yamashichiro in front of him. He seemed to have a good background and held the title of deputy director of the Ministry of Space Affairs of Japan.
"Mr. Shan, it's like this. I know that your company's smelting factory in space is about to be completed. This time I came here to entrust your company to help smelt an asteroid, and I also asked Mr. Shan to help me."
Yamashichiro said to Shan Ying very respectfully, his attitude was still very good.
There is no other way. The Japanese have not yet built their own space smelting factory. They feel a loss if they sell the mined asteroids to Galaxy Technology Group. If they need steel or something, they will have to turn to Galaxy Technology Group.
Every purchase and return makes Galaxy Technology Group make money.
Shagang Group's smelting plant in space has attracted global attention for a long time. Naturally, the Japanese have also paid attention to it early. They even counted the time. When Shagang Group's space smelting plant is completed, their asteroid has just arrived.
Mined back.
Everything was calculated carefully, but there was really no other way. The purchase of the Galaxy Technology Group's spaceship almost emptied Japan's foreign exchange reserves, and it also owed a lot of debt, borrowing the foreign exchange reserves of many small countries.
I collected enough money to buy a spaceship.
"Of course there is no problem."
Shan Ying and Fang Sixian looked at each other, with joy in their eyes. They made the right choice. Business had already come to the space smelting factory before it was built.
"Great. The asteroid we mined this time contains 110 million tons of iron. I wonder how much smelting fees your company needs to charge?"
When Yamashichiro heard this, he immediately smiled. He didn't expect how smoothly it would go, but he also played a trick. He didn't say the mass of the asteroid, but the amount of iron it contained.
"Mr. Yamashita, the cost of smelting asteroids is calculated based on the mass of the asteroid. You must have had relevant cooperation with Galaxy Technology Group in the past, right?"
When Fang Sixian heard this, he immediately smiled and said.
"Yes, yes, the asteroid we mined this time has a mass of 150 million tons. If your company is willing to help me smelt it, I am willing to pay you 50 billion Chinese dollars for smelting it."
Yamashichiro saw that people from Shagang Group were not easy to mess around with, so he smiled and said directly.
"Mr. Yamashita, I think you are very insincere. As far as I know, the cost of smelting asteroids at Galaxy Technology Group is 500 yuan per ton. For your asteroid with a mass of 150 million tons, contact Galaxy Technology Group
If it is smelted here, it will cost at least 75 billion Chinese dollars."
"You are now quoting us 50 billion. The prices are really far apart."
Fang Sixian looked at Yamashichiro. Thanks to his hard work, he had done enough work in advance to find out the price of smelting asteroids from Galaxy Technology Group, otherwise he would have suffered a loss.
Smelting an asteroid can earn tens of billions. Such a good business was something I would have never dared to think about before. If I didn't know the market price, I would have agreed immediately, and would have lost more than 20 billion in one fell swoop.
"Mr. Fang, you also know that this is the quotation from Galaxy Technology Group. Galaxy Technology Group is Galaxy Technology Group after all. There is still a gap between your company and them. I think the quotation of 50 billion is already very sincere."
"It doesn't cost you anything to smelt asteroids, and it's very fast. You can easily earn 50 billion, so why not do it?"
After being pointed out by Fang Sixian, Yamashichiro's expression didn't even change.
"Easy?"
"Mr. Yamashita is really joking. In order to build this space smelting factory, our group has put everything into it, but we can't say it's easy."
"If it were really easy, you Japanese would be able to smelt asteroids yourself and save tens of billions of smelting costs."
Shan Ying spoke, and immediately hit the Japanese's vital point.
"Mr. Shan, please tell me a price."
Yamashichiro sighed in his heart. He was very helpless. He had no choice. He didn’t have his own smelting factory or his own spaceship factory. He couldn’t do anything in space without asking the Chinese people for help. He was like fish on the chopping board. He had no choice but to ask for help again and again.
Send it to the Chinese people's knives and let them slaughter you.
ps: I’m in such bad shape lately, I’m going crazy~