Since Qin Di has made a move, he will not end it easily. At least for a hundred years, the price of rare earths will not come down!

He will sell all the assets of the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, along with all the calligraphy and paintings, antiques, and artworks, and use them to store rare earth resources.

In 2019, China's rare earth output was 132,000 tons, and if Qin Di bought half of it, it would be 70,000 tons. The specific gravity of rare earths is between 4.4 and 5, and 70,000 tons of rare earths is equivalent to 15,000 cubic meters, which is only equivalent to a cube with a side length of 25 meters. Qin Di's Naxu gourd can hold tens of thousands of such cubes.

Of course, he can't buy all the rare earths, otherwise every country, including China, will be in a hurry.

In recent years, China's industrial scale has surpassed that of the United States, and it is the country with the most complete industrial chain. Rare earths are used in large quantities in permanent magnet materials, catalysts, polishing materials, metallurgical materials, new energy and other fields. China's consumption of rare earths is about 56.5% of the world's total, and China's demand for rare earths is growing rapidly.

It is precisely for this reason that China cannot easily cut off global supply, otherwise how can it import rare earths from abroad? In the future, with the development of China, the number of imports will only increase!

Due to Qin Di's intervention, rare earth prices have skyrocketed, causing a few joys and sorrows, and those rare earth manufacturers have laughed, but rare earth consumer companies have been complaining bitterly.

For example, new energy vehicles, 2 million new energy vehicles, about 15,960 tons of NdFeB.

For example, industrial robots have an output of nearly 230,000 units and consume 6,900 tons of NdFeB.

Another example is energy-saving elevators, with an annual output of 800,000 units, which need to consume 3,200 tons of NdFeB.

There are also inverter air conditioners, with an annual output of 70 million units, which requires the consumption of 8,400 tons of NdFeB......

The rise in rare earth prices has greatly increased the production costs of these manufacturers, making them cry unbearable!

They jointly wrote a letter to the "Rare Earth Office of the Department of Raw Materials Industry", calling on the state to regulate the price of rare earths and be sure to lower the price.

At the same time, the U.S. military industry is even more uncomfortable, because rare earths are used in many places in aircraft, missiles, and aircraft carriers, and Japan also needs rare earths to produce magnetic materials, catalysts, and batteries. These countries are asking China to increase supply.

In this case, Director Jia of the rare earth office called Zhang Mopin and asked him to come over to attend the meeting.

At the same time, there were many heads of manufacturers attending the meeting, representing different interests, who were noisy and almost fought.

Many people asked Zhang Mopin: "Why did the Qin family buy so many rare earths, and did they leave us a way to live?"

Zhang Mopin said: "Since rare earths are called rare earths, they should be rare and expensive, shouldn't the price increase?"

"Please tell us, after the Qin family bought rare earths, what products did they produce, and what did they do to benefit the country and the people? I think you want to hoard Juqi, but you are out-and-out profiteers! You should be severely cracked down!"

"I don't know what products are produced, this is what Mr. Qin Di ordered, I am a clerk. You attacked the Qin family as profiteers, so have you wiped out the Qin family's past contributions?"

"These are two different things!"

"Mr. Qin is to resist foreign suppression and make contributions to the country! Can't you see that US planes and warships are showing off their might? This is a serious provocation to our country! That's why Mr. Qin has made up his mind to raise the price of rare earths...... He has only bought half of the rare earths, and what will happen if he is ruthless and increases the purchase volume to 80 percent?

Everyone argued, but in the end they did not find a solution, the Qin family should buy and continue to sell, and the price of rare earths continued to rise.

Director Jia also received instructions from above, telling him not to suppress rare earth prices and maintain high prices, which is beneficial to China as a whole. So he didn't care.

Qin Di mixed a batch of rare earths with gold, silver, copper, tin, lead and other metals, and after refining, poured more flying swords and inserted them on the "Seed Sword Peak". The material of this batch of flying swords is relatively good, and a small number of Lingbao flying swords may be born in the future.

Before you know it, in mid-September, the harvest of the first season of Linggu begins.

Except for a portion of the seeds, the rest were hulled and turned into white shiny lingui. The output was even lower than Qin Di expected, only 80,000 catties.

Qin Di gave each technician two catties, and told them to plough the spiritual field, bury the stems in the soil, and then take a holiday after finishing it, and come back in February next year.

These people are very happy, because the salary is very high, there are year-end bonuses and Linggu benefits, plus a long vacation, it is simply a dream job! Now that you have money, you can take your family and go out on vacation!

On the website of the Spring and Autumn Palace, the fairy spirit valley began to be sold again, and the price was raised to 150,000 yuan a catty.

This is also no way, because the fairy valley is too sought-after, many people are reluctant to eat it after they rush to buy it, and they can sell it to others for 300,000 yuan, or even 500,000 yuan!

The Spring and Autumn Palace sells Linggu once a quarter, selling 10,000 bags each time, and each bag weighs one catty.

China's population of 1.4 billion, although the majority of them are poor, but there are also many rich people, and 10,000 bags is equivalent to a drop in the bucket.

In addition to these auctions through the website, a small number of leaders privately sent people to Kunlun Mountain to contact Yan Xue and ask if they could provide some additional "special offerings to the Fairy Spirit Valley"?

Yan Xue and Qin Di discussed it and decided to open the net: give a bag to the "high-ranking officials" for free, provide a bag to the "high-ranking officials" at a discount of two percent of the market price, and provide a bag at a five-percent discount to the market price for the deputy minister-level and the department level where Lop Nur and Kunlun Mountain are located. The rest of the leaders don't care, no matter who they are, there is no preferential treatment.

In fact, there are only a few high-ranking officials, about 300 high-ranking officials, and about 2,700 at the vice-ministerial level.

This preferential system was posted by Yan Xue on the website of the Spring and Autumn Palace, and it was clearly pointed out that the Qin family would not take the initiative to bribe, and only if the other party sent someone to contact him, it would provide Immortal Spirit Valley, which was an upright sponsorship, and the list of personnel would be announced.

In this way, most of the leaders will not contact the Spring and Autumn Palace because of their self-respecting identity, and they will lose face for no reason.

A real high-level person, naturally someone will send good things to the door.

Yan Xue set up the system, and then found two people to deal with this matter.

One of them is Dai Qing, who became the housekeeper of the East and West Courtyards of the Spring and Autumn Palace, and the other is Li Zhen, who is the son of Li Feifeng, who specializes in online auctions.

Dai Qing took out the things that needed to be auctioned, handed them to Li Zhen to take pictures and posted them on the Internet. When the auction is completed, it will be sent to the post office by a "security guard".