Qingyuan County produces copper, because the copper price has been falling in recent years, no investment can be found, Qingyuan County itself has no funds to mine, so it has been shelved.

Because Meng Tao did not understand the specific situation, he naturally could not agree, but he did not refuse, he asked Lu Changhui to send him a copy of the information about copper mining, study it and then reply.

In recent years, the country has been more stringent in the approval of mining for the protection of the environment and resources, and China's copper resources are poor, but due to development needs, copper consumption has reached 40% of the world's total consumption. Therefore, the import demand is particularly large, just in recent years, China's annual copper imports have basically remained at about 2.3 times of its own output.

The copper production process is mainly to smelt the refined copper ore into blister copper, and then use blister copper as raw material, which is refined by fire method and cast into anode plates, and then generated anode copper. In addition, the main by-product of copper is sulfuric acid.

In the pyrometallurgical process, the flue gas produced by copper sulfide concentrate usually contains a certain concentration of sulfur dioxide, and in order to meet the principle of resource recycling and environmental protection requirements, the preferred recycled product is industrial sulfuric acid.

Meng Tao learned from the Internet that Qingyuan copper reserves are about 700,000 tons, and the annual mining volume is about 20,000 tons, which can only be regarded as a small copper mine in terms of scale, which is also an important reason why Longhua City, a subordinate of Qingyuan County, cannot attract investment.

Another reason is that mining is difficult, in the mountains, if you want to mine you must first build the road, because the government is widespread, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge from time to time, first give you preferential policies, wait for the road to be repaired and then find a way to kick you away, take the contract and don't go, right?

The decline in government credibility has made many companies intimidated by cooperation with the government and government projects.

The price of copper has been less than half of 08 years ago, but the cost of smelting has not fallen but increased, a few years ago was about 2,000 yuan per ton, in recent years with the increase in labor costs, has reached 2,004.

Because Ding Changgui was arrested, the danger caused to Meng Tao was lifted, and the guards naturally did not have to follow Meng Tao from time to time.

In the past year, the Wei Jun has not rested for a day in the wind and rain with him, so the Wei Jun asked for leave Meng Tao did not hesitate at all, afraid that he needed money, so he took 200,000 yuan, and the Wei Jun tried his best to refuse at first, and finally Meng Tao forcibly gave it to him.

Now in the vegetable base, waste processing plant and chemical plant, the only people who can make Meng Tao really trust are Sun Shouwang and Wei Jun and his brothers. In Meng Tao's heart, this has gone beyond his subordinates and become partners, for these people, Meng Tao usually gives enough respect, except for the guard Meng Tao is still called Lao Wei, such as Ning Wei and Zhao Hai, Meng Tao is commensurate with Brother Ning and Brother Zhao. Meng Tao is not harsh in terms of salary, everyone is 10,000 yuan, and the bonus is calculated separately.

In fact, Meng Tao always had a doubt in his heart, how could people like Wei Jun have such great ability, how could they live so down? Meng Tao clearly remembered that when he first saw Wei Jun, he couldn't even pay his father's hospitalization fee.

It's not good to say, just rely on their skills, go to the south and find a random boss to be a bodyguard, and the life will definitely be very nourishing, Meng Tao also tried to ask Wei Jun, but Wei Jun seems to be very reluctant to mention this issue. Everyone has privacy, and Meng Tao didn't dare to ask again, he was afraid of asking people away.

Everything is normal, Meng Tao's life has returned to calm, he found that his eating habits have not changed much with and without money, in the morning it is still millet porridge and pickles, and he must eat lo mein once a week, and when he is hungry in the middle of the night, he still has a bucket to pay for it.

Speaking of lo mein, Meng Tao suddenly remembered his mother's hand rolling noodles, the noodles were soft and smooth, put a big bowl, pour tomatoes and scrambled eggs, diced peppers, pick up a roll with chopsticks, and stuff it into his mouth, which is called a fragrant.

Thinking about it, I haven't seen my parents for more than three months in the blink of an eye, and I went back once in early July, but I only stayed for four days and put 200,000 yuan at home.

Meng Tao has always thought so before, making money for his parents at home will be at ease and happy, but now that he thinks about it, maybe he takes it for granted, every time his mother calls him, he always eats and dresses well, takes care of himself, pays attention to safety, and he has become accustomed to it, and even a little impatient, is this a kind of indifference and selfishness?

My original intention of making money was to make my family live well, but now that I think about it, maybe all I brought to my parents was that small piece of vegetable land, and as for the money I gave, my parents must have saved it for themselves.

There is more and more money, but the time to accompany his parents is getting less and less, it used to be a summer vacation, but now it is only a few days, it is conceivable that his stall is getting bigger and bigger, and he will be busier and busier in the future, and the time with his parents may continue to be compressed, will he see him twice a year, once a year, or even once every two years in the future, so how many times can he see his parents in this life? Meng Tao thought about it, and couldn't help but shiver.

So, a young man worth more than a billion yuan turned out a number in the middle of the night in late autumn and dialed it out.

Someone once said that the fastest people in the world to answer your phone are always your parents, because they never think about what you are looking for them, but worry about whether something is wrong with you.

The phone was connected as soon as it rang twice, and his mother's voice was a little anxious: "Xiaotao, why did you call back so late?"

Meng Tao's nose was sour, he took a deep breath to calm down his emotions, and said with a smile: "It's okay, Mom, I just suddenly want to eat the lo noodles you made." ”

Meng Tao obviously felt that his mother was relieved, and Sun Feng'e scolded on the phone: You dead child, this scared me in the middle of the night. Immediately afterwards, Sun Feng'e said again: "It's okay, go to sleep, the child wants to eat lo mein." Meng Tao knew that his phone call had woken up his parents.

After scolding, Sun Feng'e's voice softened: "Xiaotao, come back if you want to eat, Mom will do it for you, Mom dreamed of you last night, I dreamed that you brought back a white and chubby grandson to Mom, you don't know, wake me up laughing, by the way, Xiaoliang of the old Zhao family upstairs is about to have a banquet, he is only two years older than you, and your cousin Sun Yang ......"

"Mom, I'm on the phone, I'll hang up first, I'll go back in a few days, ......" said that, Meng Tao couldn't wait to hang up the phone, recently his mother seemed to be stimulated by someone else's marriage, and eight of the last ten calls were about this, and Meng Tao was looking for a girlfriend.

Qingyuan County, Meng's bedroom, "Hey, hey...... This dead kid is hanging up on me again!" Sun Feng'e said hatefully into the phone.

"Old Meng. ”

"Huh?"

"I want to go and see Xiao Tao!" leaning on the head of the bed, Sun Feng'e said with a frown.