Chapter 405: A Bold Choice

Lu Li never thought that the metal block he picked up casually in the magma would be an extremely rare rhenium on the earth. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

It is important to know that there are almost no high-purity ores for this metal, most of which are associated with ores such as tears, copper, zinc, and lead, with a ratio of about 0.16 to 0.001, and the refining process is extremely complex.

At present, the vast majority of rhenium in the world is monopolized by the United States, and the remaining part is also divided by Japan and the developed countries of Western Europe, and the market hardly leaves too much share for the newly rising China, which can basically only rely on the purchase of bits and pieces at a high price, and the reserves are pitifully small, and they cannot meet the growing military defense needs at all, especially the turbine blades of supersonic jet fighter engines, which must use a large amount of rhenium.

If the aviation industry is compared to the crown of modern industry, then the crown jewel is the aero engine, and the rare metal rhenium is the basic element that constitutes the pearl, and its importance is self-evident.

But what about the reserves of another world?

According to his estimates, the number of volcanic eruptions from the Elemental Heart alone was almost more than two hundred tons!

Will also said that this thing is called volcanic silver, and if you need it, you can easily get one or two hundred tons in the area around Kempera, which shows that the reserves are rich, at least much richer than on earth!

But the problem is that the sale of rhenium is a very risky risk, at least the US government knows that someone sells hundreds of tons of rhenium into the country, and it will inevitably take corresponding investigation and blockade.

After hesitating for a long time, the patriotic education Lu Li received when he was a student began to tilt the scales, and finally made a bold choice.

"Please help contact you when you go back, and be as hidden as possible so that too many people don't know. In addition, I think there may be other elements in this alloy, and it is best to send it to a professional institution for testing. ”

When Zhao Lao heard this, he instantly breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded vigorously: "Don't worry! I will personally make a trip and contact the old superiors directly to ensure that there will be no leaks." ”

As a former geological exploration worker, he knows all too well what a large amount of rhenium means for the domestic aerospace industry.

This is a more precious strategic material than gold, and the lack of gold reserves can also be replaced by foreign exchange, but the lack of rhenium reserves will make military aircraft unable to build excellent engines.

In order to get rid of the blockade and dependence on raw materials, China has to invest a lot of money and manpower to research rhenium alternatives, but so far no breakthrough has been made.

"Except for rhenium, you're helping me ask them if they want gold. ”

As the saying goes, if you don't bother the two masters, Lu Li even sold the strategic metal rhenium, so he didn't care about bringing some gold with him.

After all, as the business in Kempera grew bigger and bigger, the amount of gold he had on hand also increased exponentially, and the gold bars alone had already piled up into a small mountain, and he had to find a way to dispose of it, otherwise it would not be a problem to pile it on the other side of the gate all day.

"Oh, how many do you have?!" As soon as the gold was mentioned, Zhao Lao immediately became interested.

The more than 40,000 gold coins last time made his gold shop make a lot of money at once, so he plans to eat them all.

Lu Li smiled and shook his head: "You better give up, all the gold I have in hand is a three-no product, and there is no way to pass through formal channels, and the amount is very large." ”

"How big is it? Don't underestimate me! I can still get a ton or two by connection. Zhao Lao touched his chin and said.

"No, you can't figure it out, I probably have more than thirty-five tons of gold on hand!" Lu Li calmly reported a number that was enough to make people's hearts explode.

"Poof!"

"Ahem, cough, cough, ......"

Zhao Lao, who had just picked up the cup and was about to take a sip of juice, was accidentally choked, kept patting his chest and coughing violently, and it took a while to calm down, and his eyes widened and asked in a slightly trembling voice: "You say it again, how ...... How much?"

"More than 35 tons! The purity may be less than 99 percent, but 923 percent is there. Lu Li repeated what he had just said.

To be honest, he didn't expect the gold reserves in the other world to be so abundant, and it took Will less than three months to get a mountain of golden sand from the mines near Kempera and smelt them into gold bars.

Zhao Lao was unintentionally frightened by this number, so he quickly took a few deep breaths and cautiously probed: "Rhenium again, gold again, you shouldn't have found a super bonanza somewhere, and then secretly mined it, right?"

Lu Li naturally couldn't tell the truth, so he pretended to be a mysterious nonsense and said, "Since you have guessed everything, then I will tell the truth." Actually, I didn't find that place, but another group of people, I just worked as a middleman like before, and they were very vigilant, so I didn't know the exact location. ”

"I see......" Zhao Lao nodded thoughtfully.

Judging from his experience, this super rich ore is likely to be produced by the impact of foreign meteorites in ancient times, otherwise it would not be possible to explain such a large amount of rhenium and gold.

According to the investigation of some scientific research organizations, in fact, many rare metals on the earth, including platinum, nickel, tungsten, iridium, etc., come from meteorites in outer space, so it is not surprising that the occasional super bonanza of rare metals is found somewhere, because these places were the landing points of meteorites a long time ago.

Just when Zhao Lao wanted to say something, the door of the private room was suddenly pushed open.

I saw an old man in a white chef's uniform, walking in with a large pot full of pork bones and tofu stewed cabbage, placing it in the middle of the table, and then greeting the waiter behind him, and placing the rest of the blood wang, fried kidney flower, fat sausage, palace fried meat tendons, etc., in order, and finally there was a small hot pot, next to the cut meat slices.

All of a sudden, the aroma is overflowing, and people can't help but drool.

As the farmer described, the meat quality of pigs from another world is really standard marbling, and it is no worse than high-grade beef.

"It's so fragrant—" Zhao Meimei took a deep breath and exclaimed.

"Hehe, eat more incense. You must know that I have been a chef all my life, and it is the first time I have seen such good quality pork, which is simply many times stronger than the Laiwu black pig that is being cultivated in China, and it is definitely not those pigs that grew up eating feed. The old man commented very professionally.

Zhao Lao, who was suspicious of the letter, picked up the chopsticks, put the meat slices in the hot pot and soaked them, without dipping any sauce, he put them directly in his mouth, and nodded quickly: "Yes! It is better than the Laiwu black pig, not fed to grow up." Lao Zheng, get some liquor, let's have a drink. ”

"Okay, wait, I just have a bottle of Fenjiu from someone else. With that, the old man named Lao Zheng turned around and left, and came back with a bottle of liquor in less than five minutes.

In the next half hour, the two old men chatted while eating, and from time to time mentioned some interesting stories from their youth, as well as the hard life of that era, and unconsciously drank a little too much......