Chapter 115: A Top Diamond Worth $100 Million
When he came out of the airport police station, it was already twelve o'clock at noon, and Zhou Xuan was also a little hungry. When Zhou Xuan wanted to invite Song Xiang and Fan Yixuan to dinner together, they were rejected by the two of them.
Zhou Xuan thought about it, Fan Yixuan had just encountered the unspoken rules on the plane, and he was in the mood to eat. And this time I got the son of the second shareholder of the company into the police station, it is estimated that there are many things to do next, and now Fan Yixuan must be a little anxious.
In addition, Brother Song Xiang Song should also have his own affairs, and if he rushes to deal with them, Zhou Xuan will be even more difficult to say anything.
Therefore, Zhou Xuan didn't force it, made an appointment to eat together later, and then went back to the hotel alone.
After lunch, Zhou Xuan sat in the room to summarize the recent situation, and then began to plan for the future.
In addition to the maintenance of the Internet café management system and the hao123 website, Huanyu Software is now actively developing the cash register system and striving to promote it in September.
As for the top priority in the coming year, it is the nationwide expansion of the global chain of Internet cafes. According to Zhou Xuan's plan, by the end of 1999, the Huanyu Internet café chain needed to open at least 500 large-scale Internet cafes, covering all municipalities directly under the central government, provincial capitals, and most prefecture-level cities.
Some counties and districts along the eastern coast should also be explored. Of course, the planning will be based on the economic situation, geographical location, and flow of people in each area.
If we look at the range of 100 to 200 computers per Internet café, we need 70,000 or 80,000 computers. Coupled with rent, decoration, labor, salary and other expenses, the entire project investment is more than 500 million yuan.
Of course, the expansion of Internet cafes must be a gradual process, and tens of millions of funds are enough at the beginning.
Because it only takes two or three months for the Internet café to withdraw funds, with the opening of the Internet café, the follow-up financial pressure will definitely become less and less.
Judging from this investment amount, even if the funds of Huanyu Software are added to the 20 million shares given by Sister Yu later, it is still at least half short.
Therefore, Zhou Xuan needs to raise some funds as soon as possible, and then invest in the big expansion of Internet cafes across the country.
This year's wave of Internet cafes has just risen, and since 99 or 2,000 years, many bosses with heavy money have entered this industry, making the competition fierce.
In the last life, I often heard that many coal bosses took money to invest in the Internet café industry, and the cost was recovered in less than half a year.
Therefore, Zhou Xuan will take advantage of the beginning of the golden age of 98 years to seize the opportunity to make the chain Internet café bigger and stronger. Prioritizing a good geographical location, forming a word-of-mouth effect, and attracting repeat customers is the key.
Even if there is a large amount of capital investment later, the geographical location is not as good as Huanyu, and the price of Internet fees is about the same, Huanyu Internet Cafe can be said to be invincible.
When he went to the imperial capital this time, he encountered Sister Yu's difficulties, and when he knew that Sister Yu ran a jewelry group, Zhou Xuan thought about digging a pit for Sister Yu and planting a bomb.
Now that I think about it, in addition to planting a bomb and letting Sister Yu cast a mouse trap, I can also get a lot of development funds.
In the last life, with the development of science and technology, man-made diamonds were no longer created by large companies under harsh conditions. And the quality of the production is on par with that of natural diamonds.
Therefore, when many companies were able to make man-made diamonds that were comparable to natural diamonds, the price of diamonds went down, almost the same price as silver, which was simply the price of cabbage.
And Zhou Xuan naturally knows this method, although it can't be manufactured in batches now, it is still easy to make a few by the soil method.
Of course, this soil method does not use high temperature and high pressure synthesis method, but high temperature and high pressure except in the laboratory. With Zhou Xuan's ability now, he can't find such a place for the time being.
Zhou Xuan used the chemical vapor deposition synthesis method, which can heat natural gas and nitrogen at room temperature and pressure.
In a confined space that does not require much pressure, a chemical reaction is generated to form a thin section of the diamond, and finally precipitates to form the rough diamond.
Of course, Zhou Xuan used a chemical method decades later, which required a pressure-sealed container close to a vacuum. Several special catalysts are then prepared, including chemical catalysts, precipitation catalysts, polishing catalysts, and finally crystallization solutions.
Needless to say, chemical catalysts and precipitation catalysts catalyze chemical reactions that give the resulting diamond flakes a complete octahedral structure like natural diamonds. Moreover, through the catalysis of catalysts, man-made diamonds can be comparable to top natural diamonds in terms of purity and color.
The polishing catalyst is the addition of a change in the fluorescence of the diamond, which on the outside appears to be a different color. Logically speaking, diamonds can display a variety of colors such as blue, pink, red, and green. However, it is more common for blue diamonds to change the fluorescence effect.
As for the final crystallization solution, the resulting rough diamond is soaked, and after a few days, the diamond looks like a natural diamond that has been formed in the ground over billions of years, even with the most advanced technology today.
Of course, in another twenty or thirty years, it should be detected.
Since you want to do it, you have to do it well, Zhou Xuan can't wait to plan it.
First of all, Zhou Xuan drew a pressure vessel on the drawing, which can pump the internal space into a vacuum, introduce gas, and heat it internally. There are also several built-in catalyst boxes, which can be placed in advance and then released inside.
The other is to purchase various chemical raw materials, modulate catalysts, and crystallization solutions. The recipes were all in Zhou Xuan's mind, and he remembered them clearly, Zhou Xuan wrote them down on the paper one by one, and then bought them separately.
After thinking about it, Zhou Xuan went to find a hardware factory, and then said his request.
Zhou Xuan said that he wanted the best materials and made them as quickly as possible. After reading the drawings, the factory director gave a price of 15,000 for materials and 2,000 for processing.
Zhou Xuan agreed without saying a word, compared to diamonds, these are just drizzles.
Of course, buying dozens of raw materials for catalysts is a troublesome thing. However, this is not difficult to Zhou Xuan, Zhou Xuan finally ran to more than a dozen places and found more than forty kinds of materials. Then I asked a few material dealers to help me go to other places to buy the remaining ten kinds of materials.
Of course, some of the materials in this are not used, and Zhou Xuan also purchased them just to confuse.
This matter can't be done in a hotel, so Zhou Xuan rented a bungalow in the suburbs. The sparsely populated neighborhood also reduces the chance of being spotted.
After the materials arrive in two days and the sealed container is ready, you can start the big business of man-made diamonds.
As for sales, of course, this should be used to harm foreigners. He had robbed so many treasures in Huaxia before, and if he had the opportunity, Zhou Xuan wouldn't mind getting it a few more times.