"If you don't invest much, it's okay to turn it off......" Han Chong said aside, suddenly.

In Han Chong's opinion, Wu Gang seems to have some little confidence in this mine, and he has seen this vein, at least from the current situation, he is not particularly optimistic.

"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 me almost 200,000 US dollars, and my investment has been called me... Ahem, if we can't mass-produce jadeite, this time my brother will be miserable......"

Han Chong is his own person, and Wu Gang is not afraid of blowing up his shortcomings, and he said the words that have been suppressed in his heart for a long time.

"Eight...... Eighty million dollars? So many? ”

Han Chong was taken aback when he heard this, according to the current market exchange rate, this number is really not small, equivalent to five or six hundred million. Five or six billion yuan was invested, and if there were no two billion outputs, it would really not be worth the painstaking effort.

But if you think about it, the total value of your jade mine in Lantian is about twenty or thirty billion, and the investment is also seven or eight billion, of course, this includes the money to buy the country's mines, which is not exactly a concept.

All in all, Han Chong still felt that Wu Gang's investment was too big.

"Alas, speaking of which, I made a mistake this time...... Wu Gang sighed and told Han Chong the ins and outs of this matter.

It turned out that this new mine was jointly explored by major jadeite companies in Myanmar and Zhengfu, and various exploration results at that time showed that this mine contains extremely rich jadeite veins, which can be called the largest mine in Myanmar. Therefore, in the later stage of bidding, major companies were attracted to crazy bidding.

Because the old pits of the Wu Gang family have been almost mined. When the new mine continued to expand its business, and when the mine was explored, Wu's company also participated and agreed that it was a rich mine, so Wu Gang spent a lot of money to win the mining rights of the mine.

In addition to paying for the exploration costs of all the original companies combined, nearly 200,000 US dollars. and paid a deposit of $6 million to the Burmese government.

Combined with the initial investment here, the total cost has reached 80 million US dollars. If there is no profit, Wu's company will lose a lot this time.

Because the Myanmar military and government still have to own 10% of the cadre shares, the minimum standard amount of dividends is clearly written in the bidding document, that is, there is no output. Wu's company also needs to pay money to the government. Unless the mine is sold out, but in this situation, no one is stupid, and no one will take over at all, so as long as it doesn't go out of the mine, it's over.

"Brother Wu, in my opinion, the price you paid for buying this mineral flower is too great. In fact, it is understandable to pay exploration fees, and it is normal to pay a deposit. However, the 10% of the shares of the government are waiting for dividends, which is too harsh. If the jadeite is not mined, who dares to say that it will be earned? ”

"Yes, at that time, I only blamed myself for being dazzled by public opinion, and I always thought that it must be a bonanza."

"You can't blame Angkor for this, if I were you, in that case, it would be difficult to make an inaccurate judgment."

After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, Han Chong shook his head again and again, his own mine, there was nothing to do with the government at all, and he gave the government seven or eight hundred million with a rod, which was good to think about.

Needless to say than Han Chong, Wu Gang 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 the mining companies, and the consequences are much more serious than paying a little money to the Myanmar government every year.

"Brother Ang, let me ask you more, didn't you pay for your early investment?"

"They pay? Joke, they are poor and expect to take money out of our pockets, Myanmar's military and political fu, to put it bluntly, doesn't care about everything, in this part of Myanmar, there is not even a tax statement, so the poor in Myanmar are similar to those called Huazi, in order to support the army, they can only desperately sell resources.

Naturally, the main revenue of the treasury is in these resource companies. If you want to mine a new mine, you have to get the consent of the government and have enough benefits to do it, they just ask for money, and nothing else. You've hollowed out the whole of Myanmar, and they don't even ask a word. ”

"This ...... Is that okay too? Han Chong was dumbfounded when he heard this.

"Why not? Anything can be done with money. ”

"Then they're a little too overbearing with the money."

"Overbearing? They are not domineering, this is the loss of power and humiliation of the country. It's really ugly. Not to mention taking money to sell resources at home, it is really excessive, then it is even more outrageous to say that Myanmar and China trade, this trade distribution model between the two sides, do you know what it looks like? ”

Han Chong shook his head, he really didn't know.

"That is, the Chinese side takes everything, and the Burmese people have nothing...... Wu Gang did not know whether to be proud of his motherland or to feel sad for the Myanmar in which he lives. Han Chong was already dumbfounded at this time. Dare to do this, is it okay to do business?

As mentioned earlier, Myanmar is basically a semi-divided and governmentless country, with an annual revenue of only 4 to 500 million yuan, which can probably be used in China to build two universities. In short, for a country, this amount of money is about the same as nothing.

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 maintaining its economic sovereignty, and any large Chinese company is richer than the Burmese government.

At the same time, because Burma has traditionally had no tax burden, the military and government 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 national treasury had no source at all.

Under such specific conditions in Myanmar, the government itself has a problem with maintaining the financial resources that exist in the form of the state, so the only way out for the government at all levels, from the central to the local level, is to sell resources.

It is only by selling resources that Myanmar will be able to survive with difficulty. When the resources are sold well, the government can live a little better.

Han Chong did not expect that Myanmar, which had always been a vassal state of China in ancient times. will be poor to this point.

Myanmar has few people and many lands, but its resources are extremely rich, especially the reserves of precious wood and underground gems, which can rank among the top few in the world.

According to Wu Gang, the main content of the current Sino-Burmese border trade is that the Burmese dig up the jadeite ore from the depths of the mountains, cut down teak, yew and other precious trees, and sell them to Chinese merchants waiting aside. The Chinese shipped it back to China to make jewelry and furniture, and then used the money they earned to help the Burmese build roads and help the Burmese introduce good mining tools. One by one, the excavator was able to dig deeper into the mountain and cut down more trees.

As a result, the Burmese use their own labor to dig up their own resources. Given to the Chinese. In the end, only one road and some mining tools were obtained, and it was said that there was a road, but this road was probably still controlled by Chinese businessmen, and the future generations of the Burmese would take this road, and maybe they would have to pay all the time!

And those excavators, mining machines, technology did not let the Burmese people know.

"Brother Wu, what you said isn't true, right?"

These things that Wu Gang said. Han Chong never dreamed that his country would be so powerful. Of course, this method is a bit unacceptable.

"How is it not true? Just ask your friends who do border trade, in fact, Chinese is quite kind......"

Wu Gang has grown so big, maybe he sighs the most today, speaking of these things, his psychology is also more complicated, after all, one country is his roots, and the other country is the place where he was born and raised, and he can't tell which side he is heading.

"Kind?"

Han Chong was confused by Wu Gang, making other people's money and using other people's things, why doesn't it match the word kindness?

After Wu Gang's explanation, Han Chong understood that it was really kind to dare to love China's trade method.

This is not ironic.

Why?

Because China has finally left some tangible things in Myanmar, which will help Myanmar gradually achieve economic integration with China, and perhaps in a few years, Myanmar will be able to rely on China's big ship and get some more tangible benefits.

Compared with this trade method between China and Myanmar, the United States has even more severe means of controlling Latin America, and has actually made Brazil, a super-resource-rich country, half-dead, taking away other people's resources for nothing, and making Brazilians incur a lot of debt.

From Wu Gang's mouth, Han Chong heard something that seemed almost fantastical: Brazil was once forced to use more than 50 percent of the country's tax revenue to repay the interest on American loans...... Well, it's just enough to pay off the interest.

Compared with the economic aggression of the United States, the economic aggression of Latin America and even Asia. Then China is indeed kind, and Han Chong also understands that he dares to love Lao Mei and wants to be an international policeman all day long, and he fights in the east and sends troops in the west, which also has interests to occupy.

At present, the military and political governments of Myanmar can only make decisions from these domestic resource companies, and they have very tight control over domestic resources, because it is related to whether the political government has something to eat. Han Chong couldn't imagine that a country's politics were mixed up to such an extent.

It's sad enough to think about it.

This jadeite mine has been mined for almost three months. Wu Gang did not eat and sleep well during this time. Because so far, the amount of jadeite rough excavated contains jadeite is quite small, although it is not ruled out that the vein has not been found, but it is very likely that it is a waste mine.

In recent years, Wu Gang has founded jewelry companies in Southeast Asia, China and Taiwan, with a large amount of investment, and because the company has been in business for a short time, it has not yet begun to make profits, and after the 80 million US dollars were taken out, he has become a little stretched in terms of funds.

The Wu family can have a place in Myanmar. It also requires money, not to mention anything else, the annual expenses of Chinatown alone are an astronomical amount.

You look magnificent, but it's really not that easy to be in the middle of it and raise these people.

In fact, Wu Gang's idea now is very simple. As long as the people in the family can live well, it will be done.

However, the current situation is very bad, if this mine is really a waste mine, Wu Gang is ready to break the wrist of the strong man and return it to the Burmese government, the previous investment, it is better to lose it, than to continue to throw money into it like a bottomless pit, and then emigrate, and the Burmese government will not be able to control it.

With the financial resources of the Wu family, it is too simple to invest in immigration, but they have been rooted in Myanmar for hundreds of years, and there are many followers, so they really can't leave.

Therefore, Wu Gang was disappointed with this mine.

After talking to Wu Gang, he also went to see the ore vein, thinking, maybe he hadn't completely given up.

That's fine, Han Chong can't be killed with a stick. For this mine, Han Chong also wanted to take a look.

Approaching those who were working, Han Chong began to take a closer look at the quarried rough stones, he was following behind this team, and this team followed behind the excavator, using iron drills or eyes to identify whether the stones shoveled out by the excavator were jade rough stones.

The way they identified it was actually very simple, that is, to poke it with an iron drill, and after poking, look at the marks left on the stone and listen to the sound, maybe this mine is really a waste mine, Han Chong followed behind them and watched for more than half an hour, and with his pupils, there was no jade rough stone that appeared.

And these people also have some real skills, at least for half an hour, they did not put a stone on the cart, presumably using their unique method to identify.

After Han Chong looked at it for a while, he felt a little bored, because he really didn't find anything, so he went around in another direction, with his back to Xu Guang, Han Chong looked into the ground with his eyes.

Han Chong's eyes, once in Mandela's temple, have been inexplicably improved, presumably because of the Buddha's light there, now Han Chong can see through objects that are nearly 100 meters away, he wants to help Wu Gang to see if there is a jade vein within the range of 30 meters underground.

After looking at several places in succession, Han Chong shook his head and left, the rock layers here are basically all pyroxene rocks, and it stands to reason that there should be ore veins, but Han Chong did not see relatively concentrated jade veins except for a few scattered jadeite ore.

Although this mountain is not small, after wandering around for more than an hour, Han Chong has basically looked at the underground that is being mined, and there is no such exciting vein.

In the eyes of outsiders, Han Chong was just picking up stones all over the ground, and not many people paid attention to him, and when it was almost six o'clock in the afternoon, there was still no harvest, and Wu Gang and everyone were ready to go down the mountain. (To be continued......)