The surrounding Gobi Desert is like a primitive wilderness, full of desolation and lifelessness.

However, in search of water, the ephedra grass dug its roots deep into the coarse gravel. This unremarkable plant, with very narrow and yellow foliage, raised its head and glared at the moor, showing no compromise or begging for alms.

People tend to escape the desolation of the Gobi Desert without realizing that there is a treasure beneath its barren exterior, and it has been proven that this basin alone is rich in oil and gas, and that the Gobi Desert is supposed to be a rich kingdom.

On the vast Gobi Desert, the heart is open-minded and comfortable. Soon, however, there was a strong desire for water, and in spite of the jug and mineral water, the lips were chapped and bleeding from the bright light and the excessive dryness of the air, and in this Gobi desert, the slightest lack of water would make you feel restless, your mind swelled, and your eyes gray.

Su Jian and Qin Fan, together with the local leaders who came with them, as well as a few invited prospectors, hid behind a section of the ruined wall to avoid the raging wind and sand on the Gobi Desert.

"It used to be a small town, a small village, which has been slowly abandoned since the eighties, and it became like this after the last group of people left last year, and they all lived in tents before they left. The bearded uncle continued to explain.

"Mr. Su, this is mainly because there are still a lot of resources around Ichicreek. I might as well tell you, one kilometer to the north. There are a lot of coal mines stored underground, but the coal mines here have a lot of water and are easy to collapse, so they have not been mined. To the east, there are oil and gas fields, which are natural gas with oil. Finally, even under this Ichicreek, more than 5,000 meters, there are oil resources, but it is not very economical to exploit it at the current level of technology......," the invited explorer interjected.

"Wow, there are so many resources underground, is this ours, if we contract this piece?" Su Jian asked with some surprise.

"No, this is only possible for the state-owned enterprises specified above, and to put it bluntly, even the exploration must be carried out by the state. If you want to explore privately. Unless the state first after small-scale exploration. The option was made to transfer the exploration rights. Only then can the exploration right be transferred in a limited way. As for the mining rights, this is also only available to the state-designated units, and they cannot be bought and sold privately......" The leader who came hurriedly shook his head.

"In our case, Sinopec has transferred the mining rights to the local government, and the local government will establish a joint venture with you, which is equivalent to using the mining rights as shares, and then taking millions of dividends every year as contracting costs......," the accompanying secretary and director then explained.

Hearing them explain this, Su Jian understood that things were not as simple as he thought.

And Qin Fan also understood, no wonder that in later generations, some coal bosses in Jinxi and the like said that they contracted coal mines, but they did not buy coal mines.

According to them, the coal mines should be owned by the state, but in order to improve the economy, the local government gets some of them from the large coal companies, and then contracts them to individuals to earn some contracting fees, otherwise they will be poached by the large state-owned enterprises, and the local government has no oil and water at all. The country eats meat, and the local people can't even drink some soup.

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After the wind and sand gradually subsided, everyone jumped into the off-road vehicle and drove towards the abandoned oil well, sitting in the cab, only to hear the "rustling" sound of countless fine sand and gravel, and listening to the local master say that the wind and sand would peel off the paint of the car.

The area of the ruins is quite large, about a kilometer long and wide, and there are scattered stone house wrecks everywhere, which look like bungalows, which should have been similar to a village in the past, and can probably accommodate a thousand people......

It would be nice to build an oil storage warehouse here. Oil from the surrounding 300 wells is transported directly through pipelines, where it is then separated into water and oil. In this way, it will also prevent the people below from stealing oil and selling it - it is all too common for the most basic people to steal things!

To put it bluntly, all the people who know this industry are state-owned enterprise workers. And it is all too common for workers in state-owned enterprises to steal things.

Su Jian, Qin Fan, and Yang Xiong can't see anything good or bad, after all, they are all laymen, but there is Yang Xiong's relationship there, who dares to lie to him!

Qin Fan looked around like an outing, and learned about the waste oil wells in front of him, the waste oil wells were all plugged by large cement plugs like bathtub plugs, it is said that if this thing is uncovered and installed on the machine, you can directly extract oil, and you don't even need to hit the well.

The local leaders also told them not to dig wells or open mines by themselves, otherwise they will compete with Sinopec, and Sinopec will sue the above, which in principle belongs to the state, and private individuals are never allowed to mine!

From the words of the local leaders, Qin Fan heard their dissatisfaction, so he asked Su Jian in a low voice: "Does the contradiction between this oil company and the local government really seem so big?"

Before Su Jian could answer, the explorer on the side interjected with a smile: "It's not ordinary, the local government thinks that the meat is eaten by the state, and they have no benefit, so they have been arguing for more than ten years, but the current economic situation is not very good, and the country wants to retreat and advance the people, so the country acquiesces to hand over a small part of the oil wells in various places to the local government." It is expected that next year, maybe all localities will start to attract investment or something, mainly for money! Isn't it a bit of soup to drink if the local government and all kinds of money from investment promotion jointly set up oil enterprises for exploitation, and then make money for the local government?"

Qin Fan and Su Jian glanced at each other, and they both felt that the explorer in front of them was not an ordinary character.

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returned to Garage County and signed a contract in the county, according to the contract: Su Jian will pay the local 5 million yuan every year for six years. But only if they produce 80,000 tonnes of oil per year.

After signing the contract, the two parties agreed to set up a "joint venture", and the county shared the mining rights with Su Jian and Qin Fan's Tongsheng company in Gangcheng at the price of a fixed dividend of five million per year, and then agreed on the issue between shares and dividends, as well as the distribution of net profits in the end.

After the contract is signed, it is necessary to purchase and install equipment, recruit oil production workers and technicians, and so on.

According to the original agreement here, Yang Xiong is responsible for the early stage, after all, most of them are his relationships, and according to Su Jian's ridicule, he should also be allowed to exercise.

When Yang Xiong was busy, Qin Fan asked the local area to match him with a guide and drove around the Gobi Desert, Su Jian persuaded disapplausively: "What is there to turn around in this barren world?"

Qin Fan just smiled and didn't explain. Just took a small hammer, a small flashlight and a few sacks on the road.

When I came to the Gobi, it was a pity not to come and explore.

On this desolate Gobi Desert, there have been two treasures of hundreds of millions of years ~ golden silk jade (Gobi colored jade) and raisin agate (vein stone), a few years later, it has received the attention and sought after by many archaeologists, artists, scholars, investors, travelers, and collectors, and there are all kinds of jewelry and art collections that show exquisite carving and inlay!

It is said that the Gobi Desert produces good quality gemstones, at this time no one has followed the trend to find, there is no shortage of weathered materials on the Gobi Desert: Hetian jade, golden silk jade, agate and other weathered materials, these gems due to long-term exposure to the air, coupled with the polishing of sand and gravel, its skin shell has seed-like pores, it is also the fundamental reason for the pursuit of this quality by later generations of players.

Along the vast Gobi, the off-road vehicles stopped and stopped, first the guide watched Qin Fan carrying his pocket to pick up stones, some big and some small, and felt very strange, the stones on the wall were commonplace for their locals, and they never thought that this thing was valuable.

When it was dark, when Su Jian saw Qin Fan again, he saw him and the guide carrying two sacks of stones and returning to the room of the guest house.

When he saw Qin Fan carefully observing the stones he picked up, he couldn't help but smile and said, "What kind of treasure is this?" I thought you were going to look for jade. ”

Qin Fan replied with a smile: "Pick up some beautiful stones and bring them back for the children to play with." ”

Yang Xiong picked up a stone and said: "There are treasures on this Gobi Desert, and I liked to pick up these stones to play with when I was a child." ”

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When they ate local lamb, dried apricots in the garage, and big naan in the garage at night, Su Jian suddenly smiled and said: "You are so rich, tomorrow I will find a dozen people here to help you pick up stones, and each person will give a dozen yuan a day, which is much faster than you alone." ”

Qin Fan suddenly felt that he was so stupid!

However, when he asked the guide to find someone, early the next morning, in front of the door of the guest house, there was a large area of men, women and children, and Qin Fan and Su Jian were a little dumbfounded.

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"Where is he now, what is he doing?" Xue Mei asked anxiously, not hearing clearly for a while.

Dong Min said again with a strange face, "Running to the Gobi Desert to pick up stones?" Xuemei was also dumbfounded after hearing this, and she scolded angrily for a while: "We are all busy to death, and he is still in the mood to pick up stones for the children to play!"

Dong Min couldn't help but smile and persuaded: "Meimei, let him relax first, even if he comes back, it won't help you much." ”

"I don't need any help from him. Xuemei suddenly whispered: "I just want him to come back to accompany me." ”

Dong Min sighed, why didn't he want him to come back and accompany him.

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At sunset, the stone pickers come to perform their rituals and face the west in prayer in the hope that Allah will grant them good luck.

Abd al-Habar chewed a few slices of mohe tobacco in his mouth to refresh himself, then stuffed a piece of naan and water into his mouth to ward off the hunger that was already coming.

"Almost. When Su Jian first came, he was still quite interested, but now he feels bored.

Qin Fan was carefully looking at the selected stones, nodded and replied, "Well, it's almost, let them all get in the car." ”

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