Al Farouk shook his head and said, "It's not about the captives, it's about the money." The country of Boudin is very poor, and the billion dollars cannot be taken out at all. They want to pay off their debts with ore, and they also want to establish long-term trade relationships with space bases. Here is a list of the ores they offer, and the corresponding quotes. ”

After that, Al Farouk handed Jiao Bai a stack of A4 paper, on which a pile of dense ore information was printed, including ore name, category, purity, presence or absence of associated minerals, physical and chemical properties, and a large number of professional data.

Jiao Bai took the information and looked at the above ones, to be honest, he didn't understand it very well, after all, he didn't specialize in studying minerals, or chemicals and materials. But that's okay, he also has a bunch of zombie engineers under him, and if you give them the information, you'll definitely be able to find something good out of it.

Jiao Bai retracted his gaze, reorganized the information, put it back on the table, and said: "How can the Budan people learn to be smart this time, if they can't beat it, they will cooperate with you, and they can still share the benefits, and the person who came up with this idea saw it very thoroughly." Fortunately, I was worried about how to solve the problem of raw material supply for the space base, but the Boudin people gave me a good idea.

Prince El, after you go back, say hello to several countries around us, and say that the space base here buys all kinds of high-grade ores at a high price, and if they are interested in selling, they can send representatives to negotiate. I'll make you a list and send it to them. In order to provide a stable surrounding environment for the space base, it may also be a good way to win over interests. ”

Al Farouk nodded in agreement, then rubbed his hands a little embarrassedly, and said, "Mr. Jiao, since you agreed to Boudin's request, how do you think these things should be distributed for their compensation?" ”

Jiao Bai thought for a moment and asked, "Where is the land they ceded?" ”

"Just north of the space base, south of Kapodica, the area is basically desert terrain, and the hair is not long. If it was good land, Boudin would not be willing to cede so much at once. ”

In order to make Jiao Bai see more clearly, Al Farouk also took out his mobile phone, opened Google Maps, and used his finger to roughly draw the general location of the ceded area.

Jiao Bai took the phone, carefully studied the land, and said: "This land is okay, flat enough, and it can save a lot of effort in the later development." In particular, it is next to the space base, and some supporting facilities are being built on it. In this way, 5,000 square kilometers of land will be mine, and $1 billion will be yours. As for when the billion dollars will be in hand, it depends on when Boudin will be able to transport enough ore. ”

Al Farouk rubbed his hands a little embarrassed and said, "This is not good, that land is a desert, nothing grows, there are no mineral deposits underground, it is not worth anything at all. You only need that desert, isn't it a big loss? ”

Jiao Bai pointed his finger at Al Farouk's somewhat reddened cheeks and said, "Al, you can't be a king like this, as an ambitious crown prince, the first thing you have to learn is to be thick and black." We have a book called "Thick Black Studies" in Huaxia, you can find it when you have time, it should be helpful to you. As for whether that piece of land is worth a billion dollars, you don't have to worry about this, I say it's worth a billion dollars, it's definitely only a lot more. ”

Al Farouk didn't seem to be interested in "Thick Black Studies" and was more interested in the land, and he asked suspiciously, "Oh, Jiao, can you tell me what you want to do on that land to make it rise to the point of a billion dollars?" ”

"It's actually very simple, I want to build a city on it, a city built in the middle of the Sahara desert.

Now a number of factories have been built in the space base, and my team of engineers is already installing the equipment. As soon as the installation is complete, production of the first aerospace aircraft will begin. As long as the aerospace aircraft is produced and successfully tested, the space base will be the center of attention for people all over the world, and it will be the bridgehead for entering space, the moon, and the universe.

Once the number of space planes reaches a certain number, space tourism, lunar tourism, lunar mining, asteroid mining, space agriculture, space factories, and so on can be carried out. Once these projects are launched, it will certainly not be a problem for the space base to gather a large amount of talent and funds to support a large-scale city. ”

Al Farouk swallowed with some difficulty, looking at the scorched white gaze with something extraordinary. Al Farouk found that he had seriously underestimated Jiao Bai's ambitions, that this guy wanted to build a city in the Sahara Desert on his own, and that anyone who had this idea was either a madman or a fanatic.

Las Vegas, which is similar to the city in Jiaobai's planning, is also a city built out of thin air in the desert, and it is also a leading industry to drive the development of the entire city. The difference is that the leading industry in Las Vegas is gaming, while the leading industry in Jiaobai's envisioned city is aerospace. But how was Las Vegas built, it was the Stars and Stripes that issued a call in the name of the country, and gathered a large number of wealthy people to invest in the past, which led to the creation of the world casino.

And what does Jiao Bai have, he is alone, oh, maybe he has to count a Xingchen Group with assets of hundreds of billions, but this amount of money is tantamount to a drop in the bucket for a city with a huge area and built in the desert.

Such a ridiculous plan just makes Al Farouk feel feasible, because according to the steps Jiao Bai said, step by step, as long as Jiao Bai's mastery of aerospace technology is advanced enough to reduce the cost of entering space to a very low level, then this desert city construction plan is likely to succeed.

If this desert city can really be built successfully one day in the future, the biggest beneficiary is of course Jiao Bai and his Xingchen International, but the second most beneficiary will definitely be Mauria. At that time, Mauria will not only be an important seaport country in Africa, but also the most important airport country in the world. Think of the rolling stream of people gathered from all over the world, think of the mountains of cargo waiting to be transported into space, and think of the huge amount of money rolling in, it is impossible to think that Al Farouk is not crazy and fanatical.

Al Farouk felt that inviting Jiao Bai, the richest man in China, to invest in Mauria was the wisest thing he had done in his life. He thought that he had invited Star International to invite a hen that could lay golden eggs for Mauria. Who knows that he still underestimates the potential of Xingchen International, where is this hen, this is a golden phoenix that is flapping its wings and soaring for nine days! ：，，，