The nearest diamond mine is more than 200 kilometres away.

It used to border the Ensuka district, and it was also the source of Ye Qing's coincidental acquaintance with General Mopu.

Because in that diamond mine, a rare giant diamond weighing more than 300 pieces was mined. Later, this diamond was purchased by Ye Qing and used to recruit the legendary hero Dianjing.

In the first place to fight for ownership of the diamond mine, General Mopu and the ruler of the Ensuka district almost beat the dog's brain.

It's good now.

One-third of the entire state of Nicanya belongs to General Mopp.

Three Land Rovers, a bulletproof version of the Mercedes-Benz G65, galloped side by side on a concrete road that could accommodate two cars in parallel.

The mine was one of the most important sources of finance for General Mopp, and it was also the only way to reach another of his districts, Sunca.

Therefore, General Mopu deliberately spent a lot of money to build a cement road that could meet the standard of [village to village] in the backward provinces of China.

General Mopu sat in the back seat of the Mercedes-Benz G65 with Ye Qing.

Along the way, you'll occasionally meet locals carrying baskets on their heads.

Even if these people didn't know General Mopp's convoy, none of them dared to linger in front of these four steel beasts. Wherever the convoy passed, these people quickly retreated to both sides of the road.

The few who recognized General Mopp's convoy were dancing and shouting.

"Hmm~ It's a lot more different than the first time I came. Ye Qing looked at the scenery outside the car window with great interest, and after passing by a village, he gave a positive evaluation.

"In addition to the economic changes, the mental outlook of your local people has also changed quite a lot. ”

Ye Qing casually pointed to the local pedestrians outside the car window, "The first time I came, these people living in the brown land all showed a taste of numbness and ignorance in their eyes. ”

"Now they have expectations in their eyes, and I've noticed that a lot of people have fruit and handicrafts in their baskets, which means they're doing well. ”

General Morp nodded excitedly.

The affirmation from Ye Qing made him even more excited than being named by the President of the United States.

"Mr. Ye, these people you see are all small traders who have gone to the city to do business. They bring fruit and handicrafts to the city to sell, and the employees in your factory are the main consumers in it. ”

Ye Qing said with a smile: "This shows that the most basic commercial economy has appeared here in your place. ”

"I am impressed by your governance ability, and you are also one of the rear of the giant beast industry, your economy is up, and our employees can live more comfortably here. ”

General Mopu immediately straightened up, patted his horse and said, "This is all Mr. Ye's care." ”

"Without you, we would not have today's economic achievements in the West, and you are the sun of our West. ”

Ye Qing laughed, just as the convoy came to the corner of the intersection, and the speed of the car slowed down.

On the side of the road, a few local women stood carrying baskets, and they filled the baskets with a bunch of yellow, orange, and orange fruits that looked like papayas, which looked very delicious.

Ye Qing motioned to stop and lowered half of the thick bulletproof glass.

General Mup gladly handed a bill to one of the women, who happily wrapped a pile of fruit in leaves.

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At around 5 p.m., the convoy arrived at the edge of the Nsuka district.

"Mr. Ye, do you see the forest at the end of that fork in the road?"

"Our mine is right on the edge of that forest. ”

"Have you sent anyone to explore in the forest next to the mine?" Ye Qing got out of the car and moved his hands and feet, and now the convoy stopped at a three-way intersection, one leading to the edge of the forest, and the other leading to a town not far away.

The sun hung obliquely in the sky, and the golden light hit the reddish-brown land under his feet, hitting the small town like a fort in front of him, and what Ye Qing saw in front of him was full of exotic and wild style.

"They've been explored, but there's not much value in the forest. Generations of residents have never picked up diamonds from the forest. General Morp waved his hand as he spoke, telling his henchman Buzz, who was in the other car, to hurry to the mine to prepare for the reception.

"That's a pity, the company is in urgent need of a large number of ultra-high-grade rough diamonds. But the scale of the mine in front of me looks very ordinary. ”

"Yes, Mr. Ye, this diamond mine in the Nsuka district is the smallest of the three diamond mines. General Mopu cautiously followed behind Ye Qing, "However, this diamond mine is easy to produce high-grade rough diamonds, and forty percent of the rough diamonds supplied to you are produced in this mining area. ”

When Ye Qing and General Mopu came to this mining area, the mining area was still in full swing.

General Mopu had already replaced the original guards in the mine with his own personal guards in advance. Ye Qing stood on the lookout and overlooked the entire mining area, and found that many of the workers working here had ropes tied to their arms in pairs.

General Mopu was afraid that Ye Qing would misunderstand, so he didn't take Ye Qing to ask, so he quickly explained that these workers with ropes were all those sentenced to labor reform.

"Labor re-education?"

"Hehe~ This method is good. Ye Qing once again affirmed General Mopu's governance plan.

However, the affirmation of the treatment plan cannot hide the reality that the mining area is extremely backward.

After overlooking the mining area, Ye Qing, accompanied by General Mopu, went deep into the mining area to investigate.

This diamond mine is a typical surface mine, and the source of the raw ore is a light yellow bare mountain in front of everyone.

More than a dozen excavators are constantly digging the ore under their feet that has been blasted into crushed soil. Excavators pile the ore aside, and dozens of shirtless, sun-exposed laborers pile it into trolleys with shovels.

The trolleys were pushed to the edge of a reusable artificial ditch, in which hundreds of people stood with ropes on their arms and their eyes full of fear and pain.

Dressed only in tattered trousers, the laborers mechanically washed piles of mineral soil in water with screens.

The fine sand and mud are carried away by the current, and at the same time, the water in the ditch is dyed a thick earthy yellow.

Gravels with a diameter of more than five millimetres were screened out, and they were able to wash an average of one rice bowl of grit and several pieces of black gravel of various sizes.

The gravel, mixed with gravel, was sent by another group to a long row of straw huts not far away.

Dozens of workers sat in the hut, their arms untethered, their expressions relaxed and neatly dressed.

These are local workers hired by General Mopp to hand-select rough diamonds from the gravel.

Ye Qing stood in front of the ditch where the earthy yellow water flowed, bending down to grab a handful of sand from the ground that had just been washed and sifted out by the laborers.

The laborers who were working below were subconsciously afraid of retreating, and they did not dare to raise their heads, for fear of angering this young foreigner who had a great future at first glance.

Ye Qing spread out the handful of gravel and aimed it at the setting sun.

The gravel is now filled with water, which wraps around the gravel and some of the other mineral particles in the gravel.

As the sun sets, they immediately shimmer with brilliant sparkles that shatter into countless flowers.

Ye Qing handed the gravel to the hand of the delicate master next to him, who crushed it with his fingers, and then sprinkled it in the artificial ditch.

"Most of it was quartz, silicate, corundum, amphibole. ”

"Boss, dig this mine hundreds of meters deeper, and you should reach the rock layer. ”

Ye Qing nodded, most of the handfuls of gravel just now were rock associated minerals, and they were all common minerals with no mining value. Theoretically, diamonds don't just appear in such mountains.

If it does, it probably means that there are rocky belts under the dirt mountain.

Ye Qing asked General Mopu to stop the excavators, and then came to the dirt mountain that had been split a small part.

The earthen mountain in front of you is about 30 meters high, and the soil is compact, mixed with a large number of small broken stones.

"Mr. Ye, the easiest thing to find diamonds in this diamond mine is these small broken stones. When the workers on the hut sifted through the rubble, they would use a hammer to break the stones. ”

"This smash can occasionally smash out diamonds. ”

General Mapp introduced as he pulled out a black stone the size of a matchbox from the soil.

Coincidentally, a stone randomly pulled out by General Mopu actually had a flash the size of a soybean in the corner.

General Mopu hurriedly shone into the sun, and it was a diamond.