Chapter 138 Digging for Americans' Rare Earths
Yang Feng's silver sales were carried out in small batches in secret, and little by little they were put on the market, trying not to attract too much attention from the outside world, and of course it was impossible not to attract the attention of the outside world.
In the New York futures market, it soon became clear that this high-profile Chinese was selling a lot of silver, in addition to him, there was a mysterious seller, who shot fiercely, but this did not prevent others, the US government will absorb hundreds of millions of ounces of silver, this cake is big enough, one or two more to share is not a big deal.
Yang Feng didn't need to care about this, and this kind of transaction didn't need him to go out personally, Lu Yongnian led several overseas Chinese employees from JY to take charge, and it took half a month to recover a total of more than 50 million US dollars.
Among them, 30 million were injected into the quantum fund, because Yang Feng did not have enough information for the time being, so they are currently only responsible for paying attention to the changes in the stock market, collecting all kinds of information about major American companies, and officially entering the army requires Yang Feng to go back and find out the history of the United States.
The other 10 million is used to buy a large number of jewelry in the European and American markets, not that Yang Feng does not want to buy more, first, it is easy to attract the attention of others because of the large amount of money sold in modern times, and because of his continuous purchase, it has caused market fluctuations at this time, and the price of jewelry in Europe and the United States has risen a lot recently.
"We must open up new areas, jewelry is close to the limit, and the price of medicinal materials has recently increased a lot, and the domestic supply is already a little tight." Like a true capitalist, Yang Feng paced his lavish living room, said to have been built in the 18th century, bare-chested in slippers and big trousers.
"Looking for a place to dig for oil? No, no, if you don't get it right, you'll lose your life in the United States. He didn't want to be dragged out of the game by Rockefeller, he had to find a safe and secure area to make money.
What about rare earths? Now it seems that no one takes rare earths seriously, and the United States has rare earth mines, and people just don't dig them. Waiting for the day to let the Chinese sell out their rare earths, and then let the Chinese return a hundred times the rare earth money they used to earn from the United States, this is the play of smart people.
Not only rare earths, but people don't even extract oil, they all store it under their own ground, and when they run out of oil. At that time, you could sell as much as you wanted? You can sell not a single drop.
But no one minds how to dig it now, the United States, Canada, Australia, these guys have rare earths in their hands, and now they dig them out of their homes at the price of cabbage, and then ship them to China for refining, and then take them to modern times and sell them to European and American countries.
Ah, I'm so smart. Yang Feng thought proudly in his heart, estimating that Roosevelt would have to thank himself for providing more jobs for his country and promoting economic development.
In fact, it's not just rare earths, but titanium doesn't seem to be very popular now.
As for the difficulty of refining, is there anything to care about? Isn't it easy to buy from modern times without technology, buy from modern times without machines, and then get a group of scientists from Europe and the United States to go to China to circle them, and want to build factories?
All that remains is to provide a little labor. And rough sorting can also be carried out in mines, which seems to be quite serious to environmental pollution. Fortunately, Americans nowadays don't think about environmental protection, and the pollution point is the pollution point.
It is necessary to have a suitable place to build a rare earth processing plant, first of all, the transportation can not be too difficult, the transportation of bulk ore and sand must be considered traffic, and they must also build a supporting power plant, so that the transportation of fuel must also be considered. But it can't be placed in Beiping, it's too close to the Japanese to be safe, and now it seems that there is only Chongqing, but you can go back and pull Lu Zuofu to play together.
Chongqing still seems to be the territory of the Sichuan army, but these Sichuan people are indeed very tough. If you can hook up with the princes of Sichuan, it will be of great benefit to yourself, first of all, there will be places for domestic aircraft factories and automobile factories.
The rest is to buy rare earth ore in the United States, California's Paz Mountain rare earth mine seems to be not very far from Los Angeles, that kind of poor rural land is not worth much, it doesn't cost much to buy dozens of square kilometers, just do it, it just so happens that Yang Feng also wants to go by the way to see his aircraft factory, Wang Zhu has rushed to the United States, but did not come to New York, and went directly to Burbank, where Lockheed is located.
The design of his special pickle girl airliner has been completed, according to the paper data in the range of 4,000 kilometers, the passenger capacity is 30 people, with four pilots in a group of two to take turns driving, plus four stewardesses, the fastest speed is close to 400 kilometers, just all the data are pressed DC3 at one end, the increased 600 horsepower power, and two modern aluminum alloys are not given in vain.
Of course, this is just design data, and the specific ones have to wait for the prototype to be completed, and it will be finalized through test flights little by little, which is a long time, and it is estimated that Yang Feng will not be able to see it this year.
Yang Feng hugged his lover, took his personal secretary, and got on the train to the West Coast again, Lin Yin was full of resentment about her current identity, especially the two shameless dog men and women who had to face every day, but unfortunately she has no freedom now, either being confined at home by her uncle, or using work to enrich her life, I think I still choose the latter, so that I can live a life that is not so good.
A week later, Burbank, compared with Hollywood, which is a stone's throw away, this town is much more ordinary, and the king of the arms industry in the future world is just an ordinary small factory at this time, and it is also a semi-shutdown factory, because Yang Feng has no interest in their previous business, so Kelly Johnson, who is the actual person in charge here, simply turned all his energy to the development of new aircraft.
At present, there are a total of four senior executives of Lockheed, Kelly Johnson as general manager and chief engineer, the newly arrived Wang Zhu as deputy chief engineer, and two managers sent by the original JY company, financial director Xu Liang, business director He Bin, one of these two is a Chinese studying in the United States, the other is a local overseas Chinese, and they are also Hongmen Chinese.
"Mr. Yang, you see that this is an aircraft designed according to your requirements." Kelly Johnson took Yang Feng to a wooden model.
It looks similar to the C130 that Yang Fengxin painted on him, it also uses an upper single wing, two propeller engines are hung on both sides, a retractable landing gear, and a huge tail at the back, which looks much more handsome than DC3.
"Not bad. It's made like this! Yang Feng felt very satisfied.
"So are you going to give it a name?" Kelly Johnson asked, this kind of good opportunity to tie up with the boss should not be missed.
"Name? It's called Airbus, the model starts with an A, it can carry 30 passengers, and now it's the thirties, so use the A330! "Yang Feng shamelessly even took the name of Airbus.
A group of minions naturally praised the boss for his bold name. Yang Feng also felt that he was talented, and when he was looking forward to self-pity there, Lin Yin next to him said: "Then what should I call if I build an airplane that can carry 100 passengers in the future?" A3100? ”
"When the boss decides something, the secretary should not intervene!" Yang Feng said viciously.
Now part of the fuselage is already being manufactured, according to this progress, the prototype can be built in three months at the earliest, and then it is the test flight, but the aircraft test flight period at this time is not as perverted as the later aircraft, and it is estimated that there is no problem with the completion of Yang Feng's requirements in the middle of next year.
In fact, the airplane is just a front for him. He didn't believe in the safety of the planes made in this era, his real purpose was to take the plane, and then take the shuttle with him as a backup, in case there was a real emergency, he would just drive the shuttle and run away, as for those companions, it would not be in his consideration, and it would be a big deal not to take his own wives with him when he took the plane in the future. Lovers.
"Boss, Mr. Wang thinks. Our Lightning fighters can travel well over 500 kilometers to ensure that there won't be some unforeseen trouble, so the time you require for mass production may not be met. Kelly Johnson brought him to the model of the twin demon again.
"You don't need to worry about this, our laboratory also has research in this area, and we will give you research results in the future." Yang Feng waved his hand and said that what he gave was the drawing of the later model of P38. These troubles at high speeds have long been resolved, and now he is worried that the engine is too small.
After looking at the twin demon, I came to the model of the bomber again, which was already exactly a B24 Liberator, and even the engine was exactly the same. But because of the reduced structural weight brought by high-performance aluminum alloy, it will definitely surpass the performance of the Libertarian.
"We have formally tendered the U.S. military's long-range bomber program, but because of who our company is, it is likely to be treated unfairly." He Bin, who is in charge of business, said.
"It's not a big deal, the U.S. military doesn't want us to sell it to China, I'm looking forward to this thing taking off from Beiping and then going directly to bomb Tokyo." Yang Feng said with a sly smile.
"Of course, we can't be discouraged, after we build it, we can get a few planes, take off from California, and then simulate the bombing of Washington, for example, throw fireworks from the sky, and then fly back without refueling, I don't think there is a better advertisement, right?" The thing said insidiously.
A few guys around immediately laughed, according to their calculations, this kind of bomber, which was named the Liberator by Yang Feng, has a maximum range of more than 5,000 kilometers, and if you don't bring bombs and more fuel, it will be no problem to fly directly from California to Washington, and then fly back.
If the military does not purchase such aircraft, then it is completely possible to do it, and it is not illegal to throw fireworks from the sky anyway, but the stimulation to ordinary people is huge.
After the inspection of the aircraft factory, Yang Feng went to Hollywood nearby, and now he is far more popular here than before, when he was just a passing guest, but now on this land, he has taken a claw hard, everyone knows that this product is the largest shareholder of Twentieth Century Fox, and Fox's salted fish turn is basically due to him, so now he is in Hollywood, that is also a crocodile, and a character like Meyer can also be compared, countless female stars line up and look forward to sleeping with him, It's a pity that Yang Feng doesn't seem to be very interested in this.
He is very interested in men, after staying in Beverly Hills, for a few days, Yang Feng always likes to go to Los Angeles, and always likes to make friends with some local government officials, and soon the Hollywood entertainment circle began to spread the news that Yang Feng actually established a mining company, and is preparing to buy a piece of land in the deserted San Berdino County, a large piece of land, it is said that there are dozens of square kilometers.
Although the West Coast has always been not very friendly to the Chinese, the big bosses who come to invest are different, especially the big bosses who are interested in poor ravines, so whether it is the California state government or the Berdino county government, Yang Feng is warmly welcomed.
Not only did he be allowed to buy ownership of the land. And also granted him the right to prospect, even including the right to mine in the future, anyway, it is a barren mountain on the edge of the desert, and it is too windy to herd sheep.
So it didn't take long for Yang's Mining to officially set up an office in the most prosperous area of Los Angeles. And the person in charge of the office is still a young girl, and it is said that this girl is also one of the lovers of Boss Yang.
Surprisingly, however, the company did not rush to explore the mines, but threw a stone at a pond and then never moved again, the only thing they did was to fence off their territory and then recruit a group of Chinese from San Francisco. Armed with weapons, buggies, horses, and as if asserting sovereignty, they patrol the territory every day, and no one is allowed to enter.
As for their boss Yang Feng, he hugged his little lover of Hollywood stars and returned to New York to continue his happy life.
When Yang Feng returned to New York. His patent for the penicillin production process has been approved by the U.S. Patent Office at the speed of a rocket. Some family members of patients waiting for the price of penicillin to be reduced have begun to march in the streets, and even some medical societies have openly urged the patent department to speed up in the newspapers.
"Your procrastination is a crime, and for every day you delay, there will be more patients. Died because he didn't have the money to pay for his medical bills! The president of the American Medical Association even described it so.
Yang Feng was very strange, why didn't he describe penicillin, it was too expensive?
In this case, it took the U.S. Patent Office less than two months to complete the approval process, which would normally take two years, along with several other patent applications from Yang. These include oxytetracycline and polypropylene.
"Mr. Yang, I heard that you are going to Europe?" The boss of Dow Chemical once again approached Yang Feng.
"Yes, I've been away from China for too long, and you know that I have a lot going on in China as well, so I'm going to go to Germany to see my two fiancées before returning to China." Yang Feng said.
He didn't just go to Europe to see Xin'er and Yang Jing, Scotts Shipyard has completed his yacht refit, but because the British side has never given him the answer he wants, there is still a little trouble to be solved in the way of trading.
"And what about your patented production of polypropylene?" The boss of Dow asked cautiously.
"No problem, now we can sign the contract, everything will be done in the polyethylene way." Yang Feng said very happily.
"I still hope that you can give us an exclusive license, and we can pay 20 percent of the royalties." The boss of Dow Chemical still wants to fight for it, and the polypropylene packaging materials displayed by Yang Feng have proved the future of this thing very well, and if it can be exclusively licensed, then the 20% patent fee is absolutely cost-effective.
"It's impossible, really, it's not that I don't want to make money, but I don't dare to make this money, there is a word in Chinese characters called momentum, and taking this word apart is the force of the force, the force of grasping, the powerful Japanese army, is the force of grabbing me, I have no choice but to give in, unless someone can drive them out of China, but our army can't do this at all, they can't even defend their own land.
To tell you the truth about the embarrassing situation you are facing, I have a certain responsibility, and the Japanese have asked me to provide them with technical support first, including the production technology of downstream products, and I must first provide them with free of charge.
Do you understand? It's free, they don't need to pay me royalties, from polyethylene to downstream products for machines, they don't need to pay me a penny of royalties, that's why their costs are lower than yours. Yang Feng said with a sad face.
Of course, the huge fees that the Japanese paid him at one time to buy these techniques were selectively forgotten by him.
"It's not fair, Mr. Yang!" The boss of Dow Chemical immediately stood up excitedly and shouted,
"It's unfair, there is no fairness in the face of force, when the muzzle of the gun is on the head, who dares to care about what fairness? Not only that, but this injustice has to continue, and I have to give them extra help in the production of polypropylene, because if I don't, they will talk to me with cannons.
Not only is it the cooperation between us, but they are also greedy in other fields, do you know what I have to do this time, do I only bring a few inventions? Because other Japanese people forbid me to bring it, if I don't give it to them, then they won't allow me to give it to anyone else. Yang Feng said with a sneer.
The boss of Dow Chemical did not hesitate to curse a swear word.
"Fuck up, indeed, but what can I do? The cannon isn't aimed at your home, but it's aimed at mine. ”
"Mr. Yang, why don't you transfer all your industries to the United States?" The boss of Dow Chemical asked with a moment's hesitation.
"Because it's my homeland, because there's my compatriots there, if one day the United States is invaded, will you choose to run away?"
Before the other party could speak, Yang Feng first blocked the words: "You are a patriot, so you will not make such a choice, and I can't abandon my motherland!" ”
After Yang Feng finished speaking, his face was awe-inspiring.
Hatred needs to be sown, irrigated, and then it will be seen which day it will sprout and bear fruit, Yang Feng thinks that he is now a hard gardener, looking at the other party's gloomy expression, he seems to see the joy of a good harvest.
Compared with his high-profile arrival, his departure was quiet, of course, mainly to Europe, he and Principal Wu, then his bodyguards, and then Margaret, who traveled around the world, compared with the mighty half-boat people when he came, the scale was too small.
Yang Feng, who was standing at the stern of the boat, put his arm around Margaret's tender waist with one hand and his cane with a hundred carats of diamonds in the other, looking at the departing American continent with a pretended face. (To be continued......)