Gu Kun is actually not very interested in mining other than oil, because these are dead profits, hundreds of years of mature industries, how much money is too transparent.

Therefore, the exploration rights that the Malays can sell are also more valued by the copper mine Gu Kun, because the copper mine is now in the extremely low valuation range due to the Southeast Asian financial crisis and the decline of OEM, and the cost of acquiring the copper mine is very cheap.

Historically, steel has been too cheap and fluctuates with the economic cycle, and copper is the most suitable non-ferrous metal deposit to speculate with the economic cycle.

After the collapse of the Internet bubble in about 01 years, the global economy shifted from virtual to real estate, copper prices began to soar, and 20,000 pieces of copper per ton in 03 years can rise to 780,000 tons between 06~08 years. After the financial crisis swept again in '09, it fell back to 30,000.

At the height of the 98 financial crisis, the current copper price in the international market is only more than 10,000 tons, and the discount price calculated by the Malays for him is even lower, and a few billion ringgit can circle the vast majority of unmined copper mines in Sarawak.

Gu Kun's arbitrage space is in this underestimation and future upside.

Borneo is also the third largest copper mine in Southeast Asia, far less than the Philippines and Java, but it is enough to accommodate the scale of investment that Gu Kun wants to offset - heavy metals such as gold, silver and copper have to be in the joints of the earth's crust plate with more frequent volcanic earthquakes, because these places are easy to eject heavy metals deposited in the deep mantle, or at least squeeze into the shallow crust.

Therefore, the gold and silver in the Philippines are so rich, and the copper mines in the Philippines are so rich, and they are all places where the Asian plate and the Pacific plate are squeezed and earthquakes are often used. Similarly, the world's largest silver mines are in Mexico and Bolivia, and the largest copper mines are in Chile, both of which are seismic zones on the edge of the Rocky Mountains-Andes Mountains, where the American continent and the Pacific plate are squeezed.

This is also why the best durian producing areas in the tropics are often associated with copper and gold mines, because growing durian also requires rich sulfur-containing soil, and places with active volcanoes are suitable for growing durian and heavy metal mines.

There are gains and losses, and Borneo has many fewer earthquakes and volcanoes than Java and the Philippines, and is suitable for the development of other industries, so you can no longer expect more veins to be abundant.

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In the busy negotiation process, the Spring Festival is coming soon.

As for the use of those resources to offset the contribution, there has basically been a lot of talk, and there is still a little bit of sweeping details that have not been finalized.

Although I am in Malaysia, we are Chinese after all, and we still attach great importance to the Spring Festival. Around the end of the year, several of the main Malay negotiators were on leave, leaving only a few Malay employees to work on the details.

January 30, the third day of the Lunar New Year. Gu Kun specially took off from Lanfang and flew to Kuala Lumpur to greet his new partner, Boss Li, for the New Year.

"Wishing you prosperity and Happy New Year. ”

These polite words are the same everywhere, and the two sides are vain and wronged.

Li Jingshen recently felt that Gu Kun was quite good, and he was more sincere in cooperating with Gu Kun. After all, Gu Kun's young advantage is there, and those senior entrepreneurs in the family business style, after cooperating with Gu Kun, will have some ideas to promote Gu Kun and sell personal favors.

This is very normal, because they know that they will have to retire after a dozen years at most, and their life expectancy is there.

And if it is a modern company in the West, which does not engage in family management, then there is no problem for the founder to retire, as long as the ability of the professional manager team can keep up and stand the test.

But the Chinese are more inclined to pass on the management of the company to their sons, rather than just inheriting the shares. This requires giving his son a few more external allies to help watch a little bit and support each other. Because the son's ability is definitely not as good as those professional elite managers.

Li Jingshen is obviously a rich generation with serious traditional Chinese thinking, so he invited Gu Kun to visit his house as a guest in the New Year, and let his son call Gu Kun a brother and give a generous gift.

"More than ten years later, if I die, you can keep your business in peace. Look at what Gu Xian's nephew is doing, you follow behind to drink some soup and make a match, it would be good if you could keep the foundation of our Gongyang Group and make steady progress, I don't want you to expand the territory again. ”

This is a kind word that Li Jingshen said in front of his son and Gu Kun.

Li Jingshen is a middle-aged son, with a total of two sons. The eldest son, Li Yao, is five years older than Gu Kun and has just finished his MBA job. The second son, Li Sheng, is younger than Gu Kun and is still studying at Cambridge University.

It can only be said that Gu Kun's youth has won him an additional advantage in friendship. If he was the same generation as Li Jingshen, Li Jingshen would not be able to guard against him, how could he dare to be so confident.

Li Jingshen's current assets, after all, are more than twice that of Gu Kun, and he is qualified to rely on the old and sell the old, and give Gu Kun a few words.

The two sides chatted, and naturally asked what mines Gu Kun had taken from Governor Li to pay off his debts.

These are all public information, and Gu Kun told the truth.

Hearing that Gu Kun was only interested in copper ore for the mineral deposits, Li Jingshen felt a little incomprehensible, and persuaded him: "You want all copper mines?

Borneo's gold and diamond mines have been mined since the late 19th century, and I've always heard that it is the second largest diamond mining area in Asia, after India. I'm not interested in mining, so I don't do it. Since you have already been involved in the mining industry, why don't you take a few hundred thousand tons of copper mining area and occupy that small piece of gold and diamond mines. ”

Gu Kun said with a smile: "The total amount is too small, and it can't be worth a lot of trouble, so it's better to just use copper mines, which is easy to manage." The so-called second in Asia is a gimmick, who makes Asia have no diamonds at all except India. As for the gold mine, the output value is even less, and I have asked people to estimate that the output is at most tens of millions of dollars per year, and this is only output, not profit. ”

The broken gold mine in Borneo is not as good as Zhaoyuan in Ludong Province in China.

To put it mildly, in the 21st century, people from Guixi Province in China went to sea to pan for gold, and went to the Gold Coast of Ghana, Africa, but they were unwilling to come to Borneo, which shows that this place has no potential.

The gold output of Ghana in the whole country will be at least 10 tons per year in later generations, and the gold mines in Sarawak will only last one ton a year, and if the harvest is not good, it may be only a few hundred kilograms a year.

Therefore, it can only be used as an additive, the food is tasteless, it is a pity to abandon it, the mining and management costs are a lot, and a set of anti-theft management system must be developed specifically for the mining of gold mines, otherwise the local workers and management collude to embezzle most of the profits, and it is good to give you a small profit. This was the original intention of Gu Kun's reluctance.

It's a pity that Li Jingshen persuaded him with good words: "Virtuous nephew, there are some things that I don't want to say, I think this matter is a deal between you and Governor Li, and I want you to win-win."

I can also roughly see that your business path in the past two years should be similar to that of those local tyrants in the Middle East, rendering Lanfang a wealthy country, and using the concept of 'rich' itself to stimulate the luxury cultural tourism-related industries, right?"

Gu Kun smiled slightly: "This is true, I didn't expect Uncle Shi to see it." ”

Li Jingshen waved his hand and shook his head slightly: "There are many people who can see it, but I can see it, it doesn't mean that I am also optimistic." Even if I'm optimistic, it's not necessarily suitable for me to follow up, so no one has imitated you so far. ”

People who can achieve billions of dollars in family property will not have a bad vision, and after others have done something, most of them can see what the purpose is.

The point is that if you understand it, you may not be optimistic.

Li Jingshen just knew that Gu Kun wanted to be a local tyrant, but he didn't think that Gu Kun could succeed.

He paused for a moment and continued: "However, since you have made up your mind to do it, you can't turn back when you enter the sandwich road, I have a sentence of advice to you, holding gold mines and diamond mines in your hands is conducive to improving your rich personality, and it is also more enviable for laymen and ordinary people."

When the world sees those high-tech companies making a lot of money, they actually have inferiority complex rather than envy in their bones, because they know that even if they are given the opportunity, they will not be able to make this money. For coal bosses, oil tyrants, and gold and diamond mine owners, it is easy to resonate with envy and jealousy.

If you want me to say, if you really want to create a propaganda offensive of a local tyrant country, the most effective thing is to find someone from Shell to dig into the corner, or even contract a small oil field at a high price, which is more effective than relying on hard work.

Especially after the rendering of the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War, the concept of "oil equals the rich" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the Chinese people, and you have two billion-dollar tycoons there, one is engaged in industry, and the other is digging oil fields, and the illusion of the Chinese must be that their knees are softer when they see the owner of the oil field. ”

Just like the illiterate will think that a pound of iron is heavier than a pound of cotton, this deep-rooted stereotype itself does not know that it can be used until the year of the monkey.

Gu Kun's eyes lit up, and he had to admit that Jiang was still old and spicy, and Li Jingshen's words made some sense.

Even if his future mining income in Malaysia is only one or two percent, or even lower, gold and diamonds, mainly due to copper mountains. But the publicity effect of the gold and diamond mines cannot be ignored.

Gu Kun's expression suddenly became a little serious, and he thanked him with a straight face: "Uncle Li pointed out yes, but I was negligent." In this way, even if the gold mines in Sarawak are not profitable, or even lose money slightly, I should slap my swollen face and become fat and mine it. ”

Then, the key is to force the tour guides to introduce the question "why is Lan Fang rich" in all the tour guide training courses that are licensed in Lan Fang in the future, because the Lan capitalists not only control the oil fields in Lan Fang, but also control most of the gold mines, diamond mines, and copper mountains on the neighboring island of Kalimantan. ”

The little white tourists who like to worship the domineering president for nothing are the most admired by this brainless way of making money.

It's not enough to have money, you have to have money without effort. The so-called more money and less life close to home, it is better to go to work and paddle and with pay.