Asmara, in a yellow building.

Zhao Jiao looked at Nie Yonggang with a smile: "Leader Nie, in the next negotiation, you can just talk to the other party, I will only be an audience throughout the whole process, and I will not make any requests." ”

Qin Feng said that he wanted to send someone here to negotiate the contract together, Zhao Jiao was the best candidate, after all, this city was much more comfortable than the wild, and Zhao Jiao was still a little girl, so she didn't have any opinions at first glance.

"Well, Secretary Zhao, although we have been subcontracted in the middle, we still have to thank Mr. Qin, by the way, we will give you one percent of the profits to the Pacific Group, and we can't let you do it in vain."

Generally speaking, a dealer is the most profitable, and it is normal to get a contract from the relevant unit, directly eat half of the funds, and use the rest of the funds as subcontracting fees, but now, the Pacific Group is very polite.

"No need, we don't need profits, we just sign it, Brother Feng said, we don't want any interests, if it weren't for their strong request, we wouldn't have this need at all."

"Okay, thank you Mr. Qin." Nie Yonggang was only moved in his heart, and originally thought that it might be that Mr. Qin had played some tricks from it, but now it seems that there should be no need for that.

At this moment, a group of people walked in outside, led by Mulatu, this was his first key project after accepting the appointment, he valued it very much, today, he deliberately wore a new suit, and the tie was also neatly tied.

After the two sides exchanged pleasantries, they sat down, and the meeting officially began.

"Yesterday afternoon, under the leadership of He Lao, we have seen the mining area, and we have formulated a mining plan according to the situation of the mining area, which is expected to put in 20 Carter excavators, 100 Steyr trucks, and an annual mining capacity ......of 2 million tons," Nie Yonggang introduced his plan.

Muratu on the other side was listening.

By the time the introduction was over, two hours had passed, Nie Yonggang took a sip of water, and then continued: "As for the way we cooperate in development, we hope that you can directly contract the mine to us, such as twenty years. ”

The Pacific Group uses the method of direct contracting, and he doesn't know how much the contract costs, in short, he is fully responsible, and now, under the banner of the Pacific Group, he naturally has to contract all of them, which can be called his own mines overseas.

"If you contract directly, then you need to pay us in a lump sum......" Mulatu picked up the document he had brought, opened it and looked at it: "Ten billion dollars." ”

Of course, direct contracting is also possible, and it can be sold for a lot of money at one time, and with this money, you can develop the country's economy!

Billion!

Hearing this figure, Nie Yonggang was stunned for a moment, do you know what the total amount of foreign exchange in our country is? How could the state allow us to pay so much at once?

"Now, the expected reserves are 20 million tons, and at $500 per tonne, that's the number." Muratu said: "Actually, considering the inflation in the future, it is normal for this number to double again, but we are friends, so we will give you this friendship price." ”

"Can we pay on an annual basis?"

"If we pay annually, then we have to sign the contract every year, after all, the price of ore in the international market changes every year."

Nie Yonggang's mind is a mess, it's not okay to change it once a year, this year it is signed, what if the other party wants a high price next year, or is robbed by other international ore dealers at a high price?

I can't talk about it anymore! Nie Yonggang's eyes looked left and right, and then looked at Zhao Jiao: "Secretary Zhao, do you have any better plan?" ”

"I'm just here to listen, but I don't have a plan."

"Secretary Zhao, you often come out with Mr. Qin, you have a lot of knowledge and ideas, so you can think of a way to get the best of both worlds?"

"Leader Nie, then let me say a few words casually, according to international practice, if you can't contract alone, then cooperate in development." Zhao Jiao said: "The usual international practice is that the owner of the mine occupies half of the shares, and the company that comes to mine occupies half of the shares, which is responsible for all the investment, and the mined minerals are also divided according to their own shares. ”

"Then don't we have to spend money to buy the other half of the minerals?" Nie Yonggang asked.

At this time, hearing Nie Yonggang's question, Mulatu lay on a chair and looked up at the ceiling: "Mr. Nie, this mine is not yours, so you will have a mining labor, and then you want to take away all the minerals?" ”

Nie Yonggang reacted at this time, and smiled embarrassedly: "That's right, we can get half of the minerals just by mining, which is already very good." ”

This condition is already the best condition that Zhao Jiao has fought for them! As long as you invest, you can occupy half of the ore share, which is a pie-in-the-sky thing!

For Kuroko, the minerals are there, and they can't get anything if they keep them, and now they are handed over to the Orientals for mining, and they don't have to spend any money, and they can get half of the ore, as long as they sell this half of the ore, it is also a huge income!

I just said that I will contract all of them for 10 billion, and only take half of them, and the income of 5 billion dollars is not a lot! This is something to be taken lying down.

Half of the share is very content, and the remaining half, if you have money, you will buy it, and if you don't have money, let the sunspots deal with it themselves and sell it to other mineral import and export companies! Nie Yonggang was in a good mood.

"Your Excellency Mulatu, we are willing to use this international practice."

"Well, let's talk about investment first." Muratu sat back: "At present, our railways can only meet the transportation needs of iron ore, and if we want to transport other metallic minerals, we have to build a road from the capital to the port, which is also included in your investment. ”

What, build roads?

Nie Yonggang's eyes widened again, how much does it cost to build this road?

"If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and this sentence in the East is also true for us." Mulatu continued: "If we want to develop the economy, we need to start by building roads, and we will take advantage of this mining to build a modern road so that the whole of Africa and the whole world can see the results of our economic construction in Eritrea!" ”

The traffic conditions in Africa are extremely backward, and most of the roads are concrete.

This cement road is not a road built with cement, but a road composed of water and mud, that is, a dirt road, usually a sunny day is good to say, if there is a wind and rain, this kind of road is too difficult to walk, just watch the documentary, dozens of kilometers of road, you can walk for a day or two, and even the car will break down many times on the way.

Now, take this opportunity to build a road, a modern highway, that will be the envy of all of Africa!

"It costs a lot of money to build this road!" Nie Yonggang frowned.

"The East has always been very friendly to us in Africa, I remember that in the 60s, the East gave us Africa to help build the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, and later, in Ethiopia, we also helped build the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia, and we are also very grateful to the East, so I hope the East can help us build this road, even if it is an aid construction."

This money does not need to be paid by the mineral import and export company, and it can be reported to the superior and carried out as an aid project.

Eritrea is a long country, the capital Asmara is located in the south of the country, from here, 70 kilometers to the east, is the second largest city in Eritrea, Massawa, is also the main port of Eritrea.

Eritrea's only 306-kilometre railway is located here, passing through Asmara, reaching the Massawa estuary in the east, and connecting to Ethiopia in the west by the Agodat railway line, all of which are narrow-gauge railways and are not very efficient. The railway has to transport goods from Ethiopia, iron ore, copper ore and zinc ore, so there is not so much capacity.

However, the railway already exists, and if the railway is built again, it is a duplicate construction, which is a bit wasteful, and the distance is not far anyway, and road transportation is OK, or it is more important to build a modern highway.

On the surface, the distance of 70 kilometers is not far, and it does not take much to build a road, but as long as you look at the topographic map, you can know how difficult it is, and the altitude of this 70 kilometers in a straight line has been reduced from more than 2,400 meters to zero!

It's a mountainous area! It is quite difficult to build roads in mountainous areas. After it is built, it is also quite dangerous to drive, you can refer to the Badaling in the west of the capital, Badaling not only has the Great Wall, but also the highway, one of which is called the death zone, within five kilometers, there is a drop of several hundred meters.

Some people scoff at the 60 speed limit on the highways in the mountainous areas, but in fact, these speed limits were paid for with blood and lives, and the death zone in Badaling was not eased until later, when the ban on large trucks was banned.

Now, it is very difficult to build such a road, and it costs a lot of money.

Muratu came up with a solution: you guys help build it!

Aid construction is already a thing of the past, and now, who still says aid construction! Nie Yonggang frowned, not knowing how to answer, so he could only look at Zhao Jiao again.

"Secretary Zhao, do you have any suggestions?"

"Me? How do I know this, but I know that the construction of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway has made Africa and us friends, and we like to make friends in the East, especially African friends, if I want to give advice...... This road, we built it! ”

Nie Yonggang's heart trembled, Secretary Zhao, you promised quickly, do you know how much it will cost? This is to be counted in the investment of mining, and we have to come out of our mineral import and export company!

However, Secretary Zhao agreed, what else could he do? At this moment, Mulatu spoke again.

"When the minerals are mined, the port of Massawa will become our main port for exporting ores, and we don't have much experience in port management, mainly for you, so how about you help us manage the port by the way?"

In later generations, when it comes to aiding Africa, some people will always scoff at it, look at how many people in our country still have no jobs, and how well this money is spent on us! In fact, there is no free lunch in the world, and we help build it, and it is all for a purpose.

With the completion of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, Zambia's copper mines can be easily transported, and even ore purchased from other countries can be transported through this railway, and at the same time, the port city of Dar es Salaam has also become the first port in Africa and a strategic fulcrum of the Maritime Silk Road.

Later, Djibouti built a Jibouti railway, the trade volume of Djibouti port soared rapidly, and the local government felt the tangible benefits, so that they felt that the East is a real friend, so the United Arab Emirates company canceled the right to operate the port for the reason of commercial disputes, and handed it over to the East Company to take over, and the Djibouti port has become an important logistics support base, and it is much more convenient to escort ships in the Gulf of Aden.

When you come to Africa to do business, you have to make friends first! Unleash kindness first! This is still the best in the East, and Westerners will plunder when they come, and only pay attention to immediate interests.

At this time, hearing Muratu say that he would help manage the port, Nie Yonggang's eyelids began to beat violently.

The port, an important port on the west coast of the Red Sea, is actually entrusted to us to manage!

The East has been developing its economy in recent years, and maritime trade is also increasing! Among them, almost all European trade takes the route of the Suez Canal, the Red Sea is the only way, and there is a port here, which is self-evident!

And these can be obtained with the assistance of only a seventy-kilometer road, which is simply too cost-effective! Thinking of this, Nie Yonggang no longer hesitated: "This highway is also part of our agreement, and we will negotiate with the relevant domestic departments and go through the assistance procedures!" ”

"Well, then let's move on to the next project." "To mine a mine, we need a lot of electricity, and we in Eritrea don't have enough electricity to meet the needs of mining, so we want to build another power station," Mulatu said. ”

In Africa, electricity is a luxury, many villages have never seen electric lights, even in the capital of Eritrea, electricity is not guaranteed to be available 24 hours a day, this time with the help of mining needs, simply solved the power station.

With roads, with electricity, Eritrea can develop! Muratu went to school in the East, carefully studied the four modernizations of the East, and now that he can apply what he has learned, he is already looking forward to a bright future for Eritrea.

Nie Yonggang knows that this condition must also be agreed, and the mine cannot be opened without power supply, but how should this power station be built?

There is a river near here, and you can build a hydropower station, which does not require additional energy, and there will be a continuous supply of electricity after completion, and at the same time, it can also irrigate, store floodwater, etc., but the construction of a hydropower station is too large!

They need solutions with low investment and quick results!

Nie Yonggang looked to the side again.

"Secretary Zhao, you have a lot of knowledge, tell us, if you want to help build a power station, what type of power station will be built?"

"I don't understand that." Zhao Jiao shook her head.

"It's okay, you know what to say." Nie Yonggang said: "After all, this is a project that your Pacific Group came up with, and you have to give us advice!" ”

"Eritrea lacks coal, but there is an abundance of oil on the other side." Zhao Jiao spoke: "In the industrial products of petroleum fractionation, the cheapest is heavy oil, we can help build a set of heavy oil boilers to drive steam turbines to generate electricity, it does not take too much, twenty megawatts of power is enough." This can meet the needs of industrial and urban development here, and can also reduce the cost of use. ”

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draft, the opposite side is the world's main oil producing area, it should be easy to buy some heavy oil from there, and even the opposite side does not need money, just send it over!

There is a lot of coal in the East, mainly relying on firepower to develop, as long as the boiler is replaced with a heavy oil boiler, it can be regarded as a full life.

"That's right, heavy oil boilers!" Nie Yonggang's eyes also lit up, why didn't he think of it?

Although domestic power stations do not use heavy oil boilers, the warships of the Navy burn heavy oil boilers!

Take the famous 051 destroyer as an example, it uses four oil-fired boilers, with two sets of steam turbines, a warship with a total power of 72,000 horsepower and a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, and the power of this level is quite strong, the French Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, with a displacement of 40,000 tons, is only 76,000 horsepower, so the 051 can fly out of a high speed of 36 knots at sea, and individual factories are built with high quality, such as those produced in Shanghai, and they can also fly to 38 knots in sea trials. The 051 is also known as a large maritime high-speed missile boat.

20 megawatts sounds like a lot, which translates to 27,000 horsepower, and if you move two boilers from 051, you can output 38,000 horsepower, and 30 megawatts of electricity supply is no problem!

The boiler of the warship can be used on land, and the area is still small, but the boiler on land cannot be used at sea, because the volume is too large, just like the domestic gas turbine with 110 megawatts, many people are blowing that it can be used as aircraft carrier power, in fact, this thing is too large to move the aircraft carrier at all, and it cannot withstand the shaking of the warship and the salt at sea.

"Okay, we've got this project covered." Nie Yonggang nodded: "The power plant is built in Massawa, next to the sea, and the fuel transportation is convenient." ”

Asmara is at a high altitude, transporting minerals is downhill, and it will not particularly consume energy, and there are sunspots to drive, no matter how big the slope is, you dare to pick up the neutral slope, and come back is an empty car, if the power plant is built in Asmara, the return journey is also a heavy car, and it will burn a lot of fuel.

Delivering electricity is as simple as having a high-voltage line. As a result, new power plants are being built in many energy producing areas.

Muratu showed a hearty smile, Qin was really his best friend, and the meeting he planned was a success!