Chapter 492: The Beggar Holding the Golden Rice Bowl

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Rather than calling it a cable car, it is more appropriate to call it a rail car, the rail car is about one meter and five wide, the body belly is very large, and three or four people can stand side by side, Hu Rong accompanied Feng Chen and the two professors, first got on a car, closed the electric brake below, and the rail car slowly rose up the mountain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei went up in the second wave, there were just two of them in this car, standing in it was very spacious, although the speed of the rail car was not fast, but after a few minutes, it also rose to the halfway up the mountain, looking at the figure under the mountain, it was already smaller.

"Brother Zhuang, about thirty kilometers past here, it is the location where the gold is buried on the map......

Peng Fei's words made Zhuang Rui stunned for a moment, and quickly glanced up and down, the upper and lower two rail cars were still dozens of meters away from him, and then he looked in the direction of Peng Fei's finger.

"That's Savage Mountain?"

In the direction of Peng Fei's finger, Zhuang Rui could only see the continuous mountains, lush forests, and towering trees rising from the ground, giving people a mysterious and quiet feeling.

"That's right, it's that direction, you can't go wrong......"

The people in front and behind him were far away from him, and Peng Fei was not afraid of being heard by them, so he pointed to a mountain in the distance and said: "If I'm not wrong by sight, thirty kilometers is almost the distance from here to that mountain......"

"Hiss......"

Although Zhuang Rui had already been mentally prepared, but after looking at the mountain, he still gasped in his mouth, he didn't think that he could see it from here, and he could easily find it, as the saying goes, Wangshan ran a dead horse, this thirty kilometers distance is much more difficult to walk than he imagined.

"Actually, this is already a savage mountain, and you can get there from the bottom of the mountain, but I don't know if there is a path to walk, otherwise, I'm afraid three or four hours will not be enough to go back ......and forth."

Peng Fei also frowned, from here, all of them are mountain roads, and there are jungles everywhere, Peng Fei is not afraid of getting lost, but the beasts, poisonous snakes and miasma in the jungle can kill people, take Zhuang Rui with him, he really doesn't have much certainty, he can protect Zhuang Rui's safety,.

"Let's see the opportunity, maybe I'll go back in the evening......"

Zhuang Rui heard Peng Fei's words, his heart was also half cold, although gold is attractive, but life is more important, Zhuang Rui is not a person who is short of money, the reason why he found this place is completely because of the curiosity in his heart, and now seeing this situation, his heart has retreated.

Peng Fei nodded silently, he only cared about Zhuang Rui's safety, although he was curious about the gold, he was not greedy, just imagine that hundreds of millions of heroin was placed in front of him before, he was not moved.

The speed of the ascent of the rail car is very slow, and it does not look very high, but the slope is very long, and after half an hour, it rises to the top of the mountain.

The entire top of the mountain has been razed to the ground and become a huge platform, where thousands of people are busy working, and there are still seven or eight "strange hands" excavators, I really don't know how Hu Rong used to transport them.

The work on the mountain is divided into several types, some people are following the strange hand excavator to inspect the jadeite rough, some people are drilling holes and blasting in the mountain, and some people are going up and down in several deep pits, anyway, in addition to Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei, who have just come up, even Hu Rong and the two professors are busy.

At this time, the two professors squatted on the ground and examined the excavated rocks to determine the crustal conditions at which they were generated, so as to analyze whether this was the environment where jadeite grows, and after a while, it is estimated that they will have to go down to the pit to check.

"How about it, brother, this is the jade mine, this is our territory, you can look at it casually, no one will stop you, and help the old brother to see, is this a waste mine?"

After Hu Rong saw Zhuang Rui coming up, he called a person in charge on the mountain to accompany the two professors and walked over to Zhuang Rui himself.

"Brother Hu, I'm just here to play, but I don't have the ability to look at the ore veins......"

"It's okay, you can just go around, the most you can do is to shut down this mine......"

Hu Rong's face showed a wry smile, this sentence is simple, but if it is really turned off, then Hu will be greatly injured.

"If you don't invest much, it's okay to turn it off......," Zhuang Rui said.

When Hu Rong heard this, he almost jumped up like a cat with his tail stepped on, and said with a blank glare: "Not much investment, brother, I invested 80 million US dollars in it, in addition to the money paid to the government, it is these infrastructures, which cost almost 20 million US dollars, if you can't mass-produce jadeite, this time my brother will be miserable......

Zhuang Rui is his own person, and Hu Rong is not afraid of blowing up his shortcomings, and he said all the words that have been suppressed in his heart for a long time.

"Eight...... Eighty million dollars? That's it?"

Zhuang Rui was taken aback when he heard this, according to the current market exchange rate, 80 million US dollars is almost equal to 650 million RMB, this number is really not small, the total value of his Xinjiang jade mine is only about 1500 million, and the investment is only tens of millions, I didn't expect the investment in this jade mine to be so huge.

"Alas, brother, I made a mistake this time......"

Hu Rong sighed and told Zhuang Rui the ins and outs of this matter.

It turned out that this new mine was jointly explored by Myanmar's major jadeite companies and the government, and various exploration results showed that this mine contained extremely rich jadeite veins, which can be called the largest mine in Myanmar, so when bidding in the later stage, it attracted major companies to bid frantically.

Because the old pits of the Hu Rong family had been almost mined, and the new mine was continued to expand its business, and when the mine was explored, the Hu company also participated and agreed that it was a rich mine, so Hu Rong spent a lot of money to win the mining rights of this mine.

In addition to paying nearly $20 million in exploration costs for all the companies combined, a deposit of $30 million was paid to the Myanmar government.

Coupled with the initial investment here, the total cost has reached 80 million US dollars, and if there is no income, Hu's company will lose a lot this time.

Because the Burmese military government still owns 10 percent of the dry shares, the minimum standard amount of dividends is clearly written in the bidding documents, that is, there is no output, and the Hu company also needs to pay money to the government, unless the mine is sold off, but in this situation, no one is stupid, and no one will take it over.

"Brother Hu, the price you paid for buying this mineral flower is too big, right? It is understandable to pay exploration fees, and it is normal to pay a deposit, but the government's 10% shares are waiting for dividends, this condition is too harsh, and the jadeite is not mined, who dares to say that it will be earned?"

After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, Zhuang Rui shook his head again and again, the jade mine he cooperated with the Jade Lord had nothing to do with the government at all, but I heard that a document was recently issued, and the government was also going to start rectifying, but for the mines that had been mined in the early stage, it would not be moved.

"Alas, the competition was too fierce at that time, and if I hadn't added this condition, I wouldn't have been able to take the ...... of this mine."

Needless to say, Hu Rong has long regretted it, but the contract has been signed, if he unilaterally tears up the contract, it will be suppressed by the Myanmar government and all mining companies, and the consequences are much more serious than paying a little money to the Myanmar government every year.

"Brother Hu, didn't the government pay for your early investment?"

"Let them pay? Joke, they are poor and expect to take money out of our pockets......" Hu Rong said angrily.

The military government of Myanmar, to put it bluntly, does not care about everything, in this part of Myanmar, there is not even such a thing as taxation, so the poor of the Burmese government is similar to that of a flower child, in order to support the army, it can only sell resources desperately.

The main revenue of the treasury is naturally on these resource companies, and if you want to mine new mines, you have to get the consent of the government, and there are enough benefits to do it, they just ask for money, and they don't ask anything else, you just hollow out the whole of Myanmar, and they don't ask a word.

"This ...... Is this okay?" Zhuang Rui was dumbfounded.

"What is this, if you want to talk about trade between Myanmar and China, then it is even more outrageous, do you know what the trade distribution model between the two sides looks like?"

Zhuang Rui shook his head.

"That is, China takes everything, and the Burmese people have nothing...... "Hu Rong did not know whether to be proud of his motherland or to feel sad for the Myanmar in which he lives.

Zhuang Rui was already dumbfounded at this time, can he dare to do this business?

As mentioned earlier, Myanmar is basically a semi-divided anarchic country, with an annual revenue of only 2.5 billion yuan, which is about the same as nothing for a country to build half a university or 20 kilometers of high-speed railways in China.

Therefore, the Burmese government has neither the ability to quell the separatism, for the Burmese government, war is an unimaginable luxury, nor is it capable of dealing with disasters, and the Chinese government pays for an earthquake, which is often calculated by more than 100 billion dollars.

Myanmar is even less capable of asserting its economic sovereignty, and any large Chinese company is richer than the Burmese government.

At the same time, because Myanmar has traditionally had no tax burden, the military junta did not dare to levy various taxes for the sake of political stability, and as a result, the tax law was in vain, and the state treasury had no source at all.

In this specific situation of Myanmar, the government has problems even maintaining the formal financial resources of the state, so the only way out for all levels of government, from the central to the local level, is to sell resources.