After talking about this matter, it was already noon. Jiang Songling asked the county government guest house to prepare a table of wine banquets to entertain Qin Hai and Deng Shiheng and his party. Qin Hai was not hesitant and gladly attended. At the wine table, the guests and hosts chatted happily and speculated. In the name of blocking the wine for Qin Hai, Heizi successfully put down four or five officials in Xinshan County, and it was not until Jiang Songling raised his hand with a smile and begged for mercy that the melee at the wine table ended.

Seeing Qin Hai's expression on the wine table, Jiang Songling's heart was full of surprise, he didn't know which one of this approachable Qin Hai or the aggressive Qin Hai just now was real. However, Qin Hai's ability to drink with the officials of Xinshan County at least proves that he does not want to embarrass the officials, and what he is doing is only for rare earths. Jiang Songling thought like this, and his heart became much calmer.

After eating, Qin Hai refused Jiang Songling's retention, and together with Heizi and Deng Shiheng, he left Xinshan County by car and went to another neighboring county with rare earth resources. Over there, the same play was played again, and in the end it still ended with Qin Hai winning. Jiang Songling only heard about these things after the fact.

Sending Qin Hai away, Jiang Songling came to the office of the county magistrate Jia Xiaodong and reported to him in detail the situation of Qin Hai's trip. Jia Xiaodong listened carefully, frowned and asked, "Old Jiang, what do you think of this Qin Hai's plans?" ”

"I can't see it." "He just asked us to issue a notice to close the small mining sites, but he didn't ask the county to send law enforcement officers to enforce it." I secretly asked Deng Shiheng at the wine table, and he said that this Qin Hai ran from the capital by himself, and even his follower arrived later. In this way, he has no law enforcement officers at all, does he really think that a single notice can solve the problem of small mining sites? ”

"Could it be that he wants to use this matter to make things difficult for the county, and then force the county to send law enforcement officers to enforce the law?" Jia Xiaodong guessed.

In fact, Jia Xiaodong thought in his heart. It's not just a question of law enforcement, it's whether Qin Hai has other ideas. The difficulty of rare earth management is so great that the central and local governments know it, Qin Hai is facing the difficulties, is it Xiang Zhuang dancing the sword, intended for Pei Gong?

There have been such things in the past. A small official came down from above, under the banner of a certain task, and made things difficult for the county. When the county felt unbearable, the petty officials would take the opportunity to make various demands to save the county from disaster. Perhaps, this Qin Hai is such a character, but he doesn't know what he is drawing.

Jiang Songling also thought of this, he thought for a while, and said, "We don't have any handle in his hand." How can he make things difficult for the county? He asked us to send a notice, and we sent it, as for whether the following will be followed, this is a matter for small mine owners, and it has nothing to do with our county. He's just the deputy head of a rare earth work leading group, and he doesn't have much say in the county's affairs, right? ”

"What level is this deputy team leader?" Jia Xiaodong asked a question worth paying attention to.

Jiang Songling was stunned for a moment. said: "I don't know what level it is. During the meal, I asked Director Deng. Director Deng said that he did not know either, and also said that the group was set up under the leadership of the State Development Planning Commission, and that the senior director of the Planning Commission was the leader of the group, and that there were also seven or eight deputy leaders of ministries and commissions serving as deputy leaders. ”

"So, isn't this Qin Haimo a deputy ministerial-level cadre?" Jia Xiaodong asked in surprise.

"Won't it?" Jiang Songling was also a little surprised, he said with a frown. "How can there be such a young deputy ministerial-level cadre? I think his age is in his early 20s, even if he is promoted quickly in the ministry, he is at most a deputy department, right? At the level of deputy ministers in their 20s, isn't that going to be a satellite? ”

The "so-and-so office" or "so-and-so leadership working group" in the Chinese government is a very strange organization. There is no fixed establishment of such a body. Nor does it correspond to a specific level. The leaders of many leading working groups are often named by ministers, provincial governors, mayors, and other high-ranking officials, and at the level of deputy leaders, they are officials who do specific things, and it is enough to appoint a department-level cadre or section-level cadre to serve as the leader.

I am afraid that even the top leaders do not know how many such leading working groups there are at all levels of government across the country. In later generations, the "Mantou Office", which was used as a joke on the Internet, is an institution like this. The powers of such a body can be large or small, and depend entirely on the importance that the superior attaches to the matters involved.

The most maddening thing is that these institutions were formed improvised, at the beginning, to deal with a specific matter, but once they were formed, they were stored for a long time. Sometimes things are done, and the people who have been put together temporarily are also disbanded, but the official seal is still locked in someone's drawer, and it may suddenly take out the next article at any time, leaving the local government at a loss.

Jia Xiaodong also understood the above things, he sank and said: "No matter what level he is, in short, he represents the central government, so we have to be respectful." When we do things, we must try to be as thoughtful as possible, and don't let him find any flaws, otherwise after he returns to the capital, he will hand an internal reference to it, and we will be in trouble. ”

"So, county magistrate, do you want to let those small mining sites be temporarily closed for a while, and wait for the limelight to pass?" Jiang Songling asked. Saying this kind of thing, he is also a little painful, after all, every mining site is the tax source of the county, and every day it is closed will be less tax for one day.

"You don't have to, do you?" Jia Xiaodong said, "This year, the shape of rare earth exports is very good, and the price has also risen. It's really not good, let a few points around the county not produce for the time being, and the remote towns and villages will not be left alone, I don't believe that this young man will be willing to go to the remote towns to check. ”

"Okay, I got it." Jiang Songling said, "There is one more thing, the county magistrate, when Qin Hai came, he took out a detailed list, which clearly listed the situation of each mining site in our county. As a foreigner, he can grasp so much information, I suspect that someone from the relevant departments of the county has leaked the situation to him, should he investigate this matter? ”

"Is there such a thing?" Jia Xiaodong's eyes widened, this is a tolerable matter for uncles and aunts, and he ordered: "Of course this kind of person who eats inside and crawls outside, of course he must find out." …… However, don't be in a hurry now, wait for this Qin Hai to leave Yunjiang Province. It's not appropriate to check his inside line in front of him. ”

"I understand, I'll let someone investigate privately first to see who made the name." Jiang Songling replied.

Coming out of Jia Xiaodong's office, Jiang Songling immediately called Qiu Weiguang and arranged for him to print out the notice of the closure of the small mining site as much as possible. Sent to various mining sites. Since Qin Hai has explained this matter, Jiang Songling has to do it, and he can't let Qin Hai find fault. As for saying that if Qin Hai wanted to force the county to self-check, Jiang Songling would not be so obedient, and he would have a fight with Qin Hai no matter what.

Several versions of the article regulating the production of rare earths have been preserved in the Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources. Qiu Weiguang found the best writing personnel in the bureau, and quickly prepared a manuscript according to the original version, plus a few precautions explained by Qin Hai. Then let the typing room type out, send it to the county government to be stamped with the official seal, and send it to all townships in the county.

The Bureau of Geology and Mining is also familiar with this kind of thing, and the office prints the notice, and immediately arranges for the whole department to dispatch personnel, or take a car or a bicycle, to each mining point to issue the notice. Qiu Weiguang told Qin Hai that the Bureau of Geology and Mining did not know the situation of private mining sites, but it was just an excuse. In fact, they know this very well.

When the staff of the Bureau of Geology and Mining came to Xujiawan Township with the notice, Xin Jinlong, the largest mine owner in the township, was directing the extraction of rare earths in front of the mine.

Xujiawan Township is the township with the richest rare earth reserves in Xinshan County. According to experts, every hill here is a rare earth, and as long as it is dug up, it can be sold for money. However, not all villagers are qualified to dig and mine, and most of the rare earth mines here have been contracted by the township to the local miner Xin Jinlong a few years ago.

Xin Jinlong was originally a farmer in Xujiawan Township, and his family had a large population. The burden is heavy, and a few acres of thin fields can't support the whole family at all. So, he borrowed money to buy a tricycle and went to the county seat to work as a coachman to solicit customers to earn money and barely survive.

A few years ago. He accidentally pulled a Japanese merchant who came to Xinshan County for inspection. I don't know which of his qualities won the favor of this merchant, who secretly gave him a good opportunity and gave him a large sum of money, so that he could sign an agreement with the township to charter the right to manage all the hills in the township.

At that time, rare earth mining in Xinshan County was still in its infancy, and most people didn't know what rare earths were or where they could be mined. Seeing that Xin Jinlong auctioned a contract fee of hundreds of thousands of yuan to ask for the contract of barren mountains, the cadres of Xujiawan Township were shocked at first, but then delighted. They didn't ask Xin Jinlong what the origin of the huge amount of money he took out, and directly assigned dozens of mountains to Xin Jinlong's name.

Since then, Xin Jinlong has embarked on his rare earth gold mining journey. He hired a group of villagers to cut the vegetation off the mountain, then dig up the soil and send it to the leaching pond, from which the rare earth solution was separated and converted into rare earth oxides. Every once in a while, the mysterious Japanese merchant would reappear, carrying away the rare earth oxides with a large truck, while leaving Xin Jinlong with a large amount of banknotes.

In less than a year, Xin Jinlong replaced his tricycle with a Blue Bird sedan, and his family's adobe houses have been demolished and turned into small three-story western-style buildings. It turned out that he wore a homespun coat with patches all year round, but now he changed into a full-body designer suit and a colorful "one-pulled" tie, no way, he really couldn't learn how to play the tie, so he could only use this most trouble-free solution.

In order to show that he was rich, he wore six or seven gold rings on his hands, and a large gold chain weighing half a pound around his neck, which could blind the eyes of the audience when he went out. All those who see him will have a compliment in their hearts: Zhente Meow is a nouveau riche!

Xin Jinlong doesn't care what others call him, in his opinion, having money means having status, and the more gold he has, the more respect he can get from others. It turned out that when he rode a tricycle in the county seat, anyone could yell at him, and when the women sat on his tricycle, they would cover their noses in disgust, disgusted with the smell of sweat on his body. But when he got on the blue bird car, all he harvested were envious eyes, and the young women in the township government who still had charm would take advantage of his car from time to time, and they could get a dip in the aroma of Xinzong.

Christopher Columbus said that gold can send a man's soul to heaven. Xin Jinlong didn't know who Columbus was, but he had the same feelings as Columbus, except that what sent his soul to heaven was not gold, but rare earths.

"Changgen, baby, turn on the mixer, pour another bag of fertilizer into it, and it will be discharged soon."

Standing on the edge of the leaching pond, Xin Jinlong commanded his workers in a loud voice. Although already a millionaire, Xin Jinlong is still accustomed to leading by example and personally participating in the extraction of rare earths. He worries that others won't be able to do as well as he does, which will mean that the money that belongs to him will be greatly reduced.

In the southern rare earth mining area, the methods of extracting rare earths from various private mining sites are similar, and these methods are surprisingly simple.

Miners build a cement pool the size of a basketball court halfway up the mountainside of the rare earth mine, connect it to a water pipe, and buy a few tons of a specific fertilizer to extract rare earths. The specific process is to put the raw soil dug down from the mountain into a cement pond, then sprinkle fertilizer and water the original soil with a water pipe. The rare earths in the raw soil in the ionic form will be replaced with the elements in the fertilizer, and the resulting rare earth compound-rich stock solution will flow out from the bottom of the cement tank. After some simple treatment of these stock solutions, the rare earth oxides are separated.

Of course, there are also some mines that do not carry out such rare earth extraction work, but directly transport the mined rare earth raw materials abroad for extraction. As the state has become more and more strict in controlling the export of rare earths, large-scale raw material exports are easy to detect, so miners have adopted the method of local extraction.

This rare earth extraction process, known as the "pool leaching process", is characterized by low investment and quick results, which can be called the golden finger of poverty alleviation and prosperity in backward areas. Xin Jinlong first learned this craft from the Japanese merchant, and in the past few years, he has used his ingenuity to carry forward this craft, which has made his wealth myth.

Most rare earth miners in Shinshan County learned this craft from him and applied to their own mines. In the whole of Xinshan County, there are no less than 100 such extraction ponds, which can be found in all the villages. (To be continued......)