Great Chu World.

A silvery-white swordfish-shaped craft, nearly 200 meters long, soars above the clouds, and far below the portholes is the blue ocean, dotted with occasional islands.

“…… Is this what flying feels like? ”

The demure and elegant, light-skinned queen Lu Qingyao sat by the porthole, her bright and dark eyes were full of excitement and excitement, and she looked incredulous.

"This thing, it's really amazing......"

Yun Qijun looked at the layout of the cabin, even with her identity as a true immortal, it was difficult to figure out the principle and structure of this flying machine, she had the experience of flying in the sky, but with such a fast speed and flying for such a long time, it was also not an easy job.

They can fly tens of thousands of miles in an hour, and they can easily cross the entire continent, fly across the vast ocean, and arrive at another continent far away.

Zhang Qiuyun presented the jade cup full of spiritual wine to Qin Feng, and said coquettishly: "Husband, can you often take us out to play in the future?" ”

"Well, no problem." Qin Feng took the jade cup and took a sip.

"Master Husband, this immortal artifact won't fall halfway, right?"

Zhao Xinyue's slightly childish question made Qin Feng shake his head and smile: "No, don't worry." ”

This is a large luxury air and space private plane brought back from the apocalyptic world, which can cruise at five times the speed of sound for a long time, can freely travel to and from low-earth orbit when needed, and is far safer than the aircraft of the main world.

When he returned to the Great Chu World three months ago, Qin Feng brought one over for his own convenience.

The apocalyptic world has come to an end for the time being, so he has come back to arrange resource development, using the mirror realm to train thousands of technicians before sending them to the mega mines around the world in flying machines.

All mining robots, as well as related refining and purification equipment, are brought from the apocalyptic world, and are technologically advanced, efficient, and highly automated, requiring very little manpower to ensure their normal operation.

Qin Feng initially selected ten mines to start construction, including silver mines in North America, rhenium mines in South America, titanium mines in the central part of the Asian continent, uranium mines in Central Asia, gold mines in South Africa, etc., as long as these equipment play a normal role, they can mine tens of billions of resources for themselves every year.

It didn't take long for the aircraft to begin to lower its altitude and land vertically on a newly opened flat ground.

"We're here, let's go down and have a look."

Qin Feng stood up as he spoke, and the four women took out their veils one after another and put them on, and then followed him out of the cabin and walked down the gangway.

Outside, Wei Mingyuan had already led a group of attachés waiting on the side, and not far away stood two rows of powerful black-armored guards, all of whom were armed with new-style firearms.

The flat ground is paved with thick stone slabs and reinforced concrete, and a hundred meters away, you can see several newly built mansions, rows of barracks, neat roads, and an orderly layout. It's a brand new town.

Located hundreds of meters away, the huge basin is the world's largest gold mine, which belongs to South Africa in the main world, called the Rand Gold Mine, which has been mined since its discovery in 1866, and has mined a total of 35,000 tons of gold.

According to the analysis of scientists, the stratum where the gold mine is located has a history of 3.5 billion years, and after a long period of geological changes, coupled with the action of multiple volcanic eruptions, the gold mine with rich reserves has been formed. Even more astonishingly, there are at least 18,000 tonnes of gold waiting to be mined.

The Rand Basin is 400 kilometers long from north to south. The gold-bearing conglomerate layers are distributed in the surrounding areas of the basin, with a total length of 480 kilometers and a bearing area of 20,700 square kilometers, and the largest main ore belt is 190 kilometers long. There are more than 130 mines in the area, and there are still 38 mines in production, of which 9 have an annual output of 3 million tons of gold-bearing ore, 21 have an annual output of 100-3 million tons of ore, and other mines are smaller, with an average annual production of 20-30 tons of gold.

The remaining gold reserves of the Rand gold mine still account for 52% of the world's total gold reserves, and 1970 was the year of the most gold production, with 1,000 tons of gold, which is comparable to the total reserves of two ordinary large gold mines. The ore also has a high gold grade rarely seen in the world, with mining still maintaining 7-20 g/t gold and an average of 10 g/t.

Of course, in this parallel time and space, the Rand Gold Mine had just been found and mined by Qin Feng at the moment, so all the gold here belonged to his private property. And with the advanced technology and equipment of the Doomsday World, the efficiency of mining and purification is much higher than that of the Overworld.

"Lord, please inside." Wei Mingyuan said respectfully.

"Looks like you're putting a lot of effort into it."

Qin Feng glanced at it casually and said with a smile.

"This is the duty of a minister." Wei Mingyuan said solemnly.

Everyone flocked to the national teacher into the mansion, although these houses are made of local materials, they are still built in a grand manner, the furniture inside is transported from the capital of the Great Chu State by flying machines, and there is no shortage of maids, servants, guards and cooks.

In the study, Wei Mingyuan waved away the outsiders, and then motioned for the four guards to come in with a heavy Nanmu box and open it in front of Qin Feng.

On the red brocade background, there are neatly arranged gold bricks, each weighing five kilograms, a total of thirty gold bricks, which is the current output of the mine in a day.

"The ministers have already made a preliminary exploration, and the gold ore reserves here are very rich, if the lord can send more equipment and manpower, it will not be a problem to increase the output tenfold." Wei Mingyuan said, his eyes could not hide the look of reverence.

When he first arrived in this wild place, he was a little unimpressed, but after hearing the news from his subordinates one after another, he was really shocked.

With such a huge gold mine, he had never heard of it in China before, and he never imagined that there would be so much gold buried in the ground, and the gold mountain that is not enough to describe with a cornucopia, how did the national teacher discover here?

Qin Feng nodded and said, "This is no problem, I will bring it next time." ”

In addition to a wide range of industrial uses, another important function of gold is to serve as a hard currency reserve to stabilize the value of the currency and the financial order. The overworld nations have varying amounts of gold in their coffers, including a few large corporations.

The so-called gold reserves refer to the gold held by a country's monetary authority to balance the balance of payments, maintain or influence the exchange rate level, and be held as a financial asset. Needless to say, its importance to a country is needless to say.

Especially in times of war, when prices are soaring and banknotes are like waste paper, sufficient gold reserves are particularly important for maintaining financial stability and the social price system.

According to the statistics of gold reserves of central banks around the world in previous years, the United States undoubtedly dominates, with more than 8,100 tons of gold in the treasury, followed by Germany, which is more than 3,300 tons, while China's public reserve figures are only fifth, with a total of less than 1,700 tons.

Compared with China's foreign exchange reserves of trillions of dollars, this gold accounts for less than 2% of the amount of foreign exchange reserves, as the world's largest economy whose GDP has just surpassed that of the United States, which is seriously out of practice.

In particular, if the country is facing a large-scale foreign war, the significance of gold reserves will be further highlighted, and countries with insufficient reserves can suffer in many ways.

According to international practice, China's gold reserves should reach at least 5,000 tons, preferably the same as that of the United States, in order to be in line with its own economic scale, but also conducive to the sustained and stable development of the economy in the future.

Therefore, as early as 2013, China surpassed India to become the world's largest gold buyer, and has been buying gold in the international market all year round with the help of various public or non-public channels.

Of course, according to the latest statistics this year, the scale of China's gold reserves is still not ideal, even if it is added to the part that may be hidden and not announced, it will not meet the expected requirements.

Therefore, Qin Feng pondered that if he could get more gold and sell it to the Central Bank of China through some safe and secret channel, it would be regarded as helping the country.

Moreover, since he has decided to create an unprecedented super consortium in the Overworld, if conditions permit, various rare resources can also be appropriately stored in case of emergency.