Chapter 153: Visit
Chapter 153: Visit (Additional Update)
For more than a week.
Jiang Miao wandered around Zherim City and several surrounding cities, especially the Greater Khingan Range and the Horqin Desert, all of which he swept.
After eliminating the mineral veins that are too deep underground.
He picked out five mineral veins that were more worthy of development, including the gold-silver composite vein previously discovered in the eastern part of Jiayuan County and the other four mineral veins.
These mineral veins are:
A lithium, potassium, sodium and cesium mine was discovered near Miaoshan in Lindi City, northeast of Zhelimu City. The content of cesium garnet ore is 2.4 tons, and the average grade of cesium oxide is 19.7%. There are also a lot of potassium and lithium. The distribution is quite peculiar because the vein extends obliquely underground. After the surface layer of soil is peeled off, mining can start from a depth of 33 meters.
One is located in Zhaowuda City, west of Zhelimu City, near Yezhugou Township. It is a sedimentary hard manganese mine with a depth of about 144 to 157 meters. It is not large in scope and is a medium-sized vein.
Another one is also in Zhaowuda City, but this vein is located to the west of Yangjiazi Town in the northern part of Zhaowuda District. It is a rhenium mine with a burial depth of 338 to 346 meters, and it is a very rare high-purity elemental rhenium ore. If all of it is mined, 76 tons of rhenium gold can be extracted.
One is located in the east of Xinglongshan Town, Tongyu County. It is a gold, silver and copper composite mine with a depth of 214 to 233 meters. The only problem is that the mine is located under the river.
Just when Jiang Miao was about to continue heading west.
Lu Weibin called.
After listening to the call, he did not continue his journey westward, but drove quickly back to the main base in Home County.
That afternoon, Jiang Miao and his team returned to the main base exhausted.
Several waves of people came into the base at this time.
One of the groups of guests was special, so Lu Weibin notified him to come back.
In the temporary office specially reserved for Jiang Miao.
Jiang Miao saw the person who came, Gao Meng, the general manager of Mo Nan State-owned Assets Operation Company. When the other party saw him knocking on the door and came in, he immediately stood up with a smile on his face:
"Hello, Mr. Jiang. Nice to meet you. I am Gao Meng, the general manager of Mo Nan State-owned Assets Company."
"Hello, Mr. Gao." Jiang Miao stretched out his hand and shook hands with the other party: "Please take a seat."
Others from both sides also took their seats.
After Li Zixuan poured Jiang Miao a cup of tea, Jiang Miao asked, "Mr. Gao, I heard that your company plans to invest in our company?"
Gao Meng didn't expect Jiang Miao to be so direct, but it was fine this way. She smiled and nodded: "Yes, we have learned about your company before coming here. If possible, we are willing to purchase 40% of your company's shares at a price of 49 times the price-earnings ratio."
"Sorry, I have no intention of selling the company, but if it is a cooperation with a subsidiary, it is possible." Jiang Miao had expected this.
Gao Meng didn't feel surprised, because she had learned about Jiang Miao's character through some channels. He was not someone who liked other shareholders to interfere in the company. Moreover, Hailufeng Company was a well-known company. This time she came to invest, she just wanted to give it a try, and it didn't matter whether it succeeded or not.
"Mr. Jiang, I wonder what exactly the subsidiary cooperation you are talking about is?" Li Chongdao, head of the investment department of Mo Nan State-owned Assets Operation Company, asked with concern.
Jiang Miao expressed some of his ideas: "Our company intends to develop the rich phosphate resources and gold and copper mines in the southern part of the desert, so we plan to set up a subsidiary responsible for mining."
Zhao Shuisheng, one of the deputy managers of the State-owned Assets Investment Department who has studied local minerals, had a puzzled look on his face: "I understand gold and copper mines, but phosphate mines? It seems that we haven't found any large mines that can be mined industrially in Mo Nan, right?"
"Haha." Jiang Miao laughed: "Everyone, if it is a large mine with industrial mining value, it would have been developed long ago. The remaining ones are either small mines or the burial environment is too harsh."
"In that case, what is the phosphate mine that Mr. Jiang mentioned?" Gao Meng asked curiously.
“Our company is currently researching biomining technology.”
Zhao Shuisheng, who had just spoken, frowned slightly: "I know this, but as far as I know, biological mining is inefficient, and the cost is probably difficult to compete with traditional phosphate mining methods, right?"
"We are currently at the laboratory stage, and can achieve a refining cost of 2470 yuan per ton of pure phosphorus." Jiang Miao tripled the cost as soon as he opened his mouth.
"The cost is too high." Zhao Shuisheng shook his head, not very optimistic about this technology.
Gao Meng was also not optimistic about this technology: "Is it still in the laboratory stage? Large-scale application should be able to reduce the cost a little, but as Deputy Manager Zhao said, the cost is still too high. It is difficult for us to promote investment in a technology that cannot compete in the market."
Jiang Miao did not think that the other party was blind. After all, as an investment company, they must look at the feasibility analysis and future profit expectations. This is what a qualified investment company management should do. Otherwise, if they just invest casually because of being fooled by others, then this investment company will be finished sooner or later.
He took a sip of hot tea and explained: "The high cost mainly comes from two aspects: one is the efficiency of bacteria absorbing phosphorus, and the other is water consumption, but these can be gradually improved."
"Mr. Jiang, I have learned about your company's development in biotechnology, but I still think the expectations for this project are too poor." Gao Meng shook his head.
"How about this? We will jointly establish a mining company, but the research and development project of bio-mining technology will still be our Hailufeng Company, and the investment will also be made by our company. If there are high-value results, our company will authorize the mining company to use them. At that time, we will charge a certain amount of patent fees in proportion to the production volume each year. How about that?"
Jiang Miao's true intentions are revealed.
He had long predicted that the other party would not invest in the bio-mining technology project, which was exactly what he wanted.
In this way, Jiang Miao can separate the technology from the mining company, register the technology under the name of Hailufeng Company, and then license the technology to the mining company for use. Moreover, if other mining companies want to use the technology, they can only cooperate with Hailufeng Company instead of the joint venture mining company.
Gao Meng and others did not realize the deeper meaning behind Jiang Miao's proposal. They discussed it in a low voice for a while but did not make a decision immediately.
Instead, he continued to ask about other things.
Zhao Shuisheng was the first to speak: "Boss Jiang, I have a question, I hope Boss Jiang can help me solve it."
"Please say."
"Besides bio-mining technology, does this mining company have other ways to make money? You can't just rely on luck to explore for minerals in the south of the desert, right? I'm afraid that's not appropriate."
"That's inevitable. We have other profit plans." Jiang Miao took a document from Li Zixuan and handed it to him: "This is the mining company's other profit plan."
Zhao Shuisheng quickly flipped through the pages.
【Artificial nutrient soil development plan...】
【Artificial Desert Farmland Development Plan...】
After reading these two plans, Zhao Shuisheng was confused, because he found that his brain was overloaded. He knew each of these words, but when they were combined together, they became incomprehensible.
Gao Meng, who was standing by, saw Zhao Shuisheng staring blankly, and coughed slightly: "Ah, Deputy Manager Zhao? Have you finished reading it?"
"Well, I've finished reading it. General Manager, please come in." Zhao Shuisheng was startled and quickly handed over the document.
Gao Meng took the document and started looking through it.
Zhao Shuisheng quickly asked, "Boss Jiang, why do the two profit plans provided by your company seem to be more difficult to achieve than the biological mining technology?"
Gao Meng, who was already confused, also raised his head and said, "Boss Jiang, this nutrient soil plan? Are you sure? We do have black soil in some areas in the eastern part of Mo Nan, but it is illegal to mine black soil now."
"Mr. Gao, the artificial nutrient soil I'm referring to is naturally truly artificial, and does not require the consumption of natural black soil."
"Can this really be profitable?" Zhao Shuisheng certainly knew about nutrient soil. There were many places in Monan that produced nutrient soil, such as nutrient soil made from fermented cow and sheep manure.
Gao Meng flipped to another plan and was equally confused: "Also, this desert farmland plan is also difficult to implement, right?"
"We'll know whether it will be successful or not in October this year." Jiang Miao opened the curtains of the window, from where he could see the leveled sand not far away.
"In other words, this is also an experimental project of Hailufeng Company?" Gao Meng was a little undecided, because she had learned through local connections that Hailufeng Company had contracted 35 acres of Taminchagan Desert.
If the other party is not sure, they will not invest in this way.
Although the local contracting fee is very low, 1750 million yuan still has to be paid every year. In addition, when I came here today, I saw more than pieces of engineering equipment of various types transported by Sany Heavy Industry. The engineering equipment here alone has invested several hundred million yuan. This project is not a project subsidized by the state, but a private project paid for by Hailufeng Company out of its own pocket.
In this situation, Gao Meng had no choice but to believe it.
As for whether Hailufeng Company came to deceive them into investing and then took the opportunity to abscond with the money, she estimated that it would not happen.
After all, Hailufeng can collect more than 3 billion yuan in patent fees every year in the feed industry, so there is really no motivation to do this. If those real estate companies come to do such a project, Gao Meng will really suspect that the other party is here to cheat money.
Gao Meng immediately made a decision: "Mr. Jiang, although I don't know where your confidence comes from, we will invest in this project."
"General Manager?" Zhao Shuisheng hesitated to speak.
In fact, Gao Meng is not worried that there will be any major problems with this investment.
Because whether it is the nutritious soil plan or the desert farmland plan, the initial start-up capital does not require much.
At this stage, the main task of this so-called mining company is to grab land and first enclose the entire southern region of the desert, all the contiguous sandy land, deserts and saline-alkali land that can be developed.
That's right, Jiang Miao's plan was to enclose the land first, but this kind of thing could not be done by Hailufeng Company alone without local cooperation. Since Mo'nan State-owned Assets Operation Company came to him, he came up with this plan.
He knew very well that once the Senzu Bean series was successful.
The deserts, sandy lands and saline-alkali lands in the southern part of the desert will instantly become popular.
Not to mention 50 yuan per acre, you may not even be able to rent it for 500 yuan per acre.
You should know that the local irrigated land contracting or sublease fees can generally reach 600 to 750 yuan per mu per year.
The desert transformed by Senzu soybeans, even where there is no water, can be used as pastures and forage fields by mixing Senzu soybeans with other drought-resistant forage grasses.
In other words, now that the land has been fenced off, all that’s left to do is wait for the money to be collected.
Therefore, Jiang Miao had no intention of controlling this so-called mining company, because the local interests involved were too huge, and this was not an industry that a private company could control.
In order to compensate Jiayuan County for the low rent of the 35 acres of desert and to avoid any unexpected problems in the future, Jiang Miao also decided to give Jiayuan County a small portion of shares in the mining company.
We chatted for an afternoon.
The two parties reached a preliminary cooperation intention.
That night.
Gao Meng and others who stayed in Jiayuan County reported the situation to the chairman and other senior executives of the headquarters through video conference and discussed cooperation matters.
Ma Haoran, chairman of the Mo Nan State-owned Assets Operation Company, did not express his opinion, but asked: "Mr. Gao, please tell me your own judgment."
"No problem. I think Hailufeng Company would not do something without a purpose. They dare to invest so much and contract 35 acres of desert in Jiayuan County. They must be very confident in their own technology." Gao Meng talked freely.
Another executive who usually didn't get along with her sneered, "General Manager Gao, are you so sure that Hailufeng Company can succeed? No one in this world can guarantee 100% success. Don't let the company suffer unnecessary losses. Can you bear this responsibility?"
"Deputy Manager Jin, you said that investment has risks. If there are no risks, can it still be called investment?"
The man said sarcastically, "Haha, I'm just reminding General Manager Gao to pay attention to risk assessment and not be too ambitious. The investment strategy of our state-owned asset operation company is to win in a stable manner, not to take risks and speculate."
Gao Meng smiled and replied: "I don't think this investment has any huge risks. First of all, our first investment is only 3 million yuan, and this money is used to contract land, not for scientific research and equipment purchases. If there are unexpected risks along the way, we can sign agreements with various places and terminate the contract at any time."
As a state-owned enterprise in the southern part of the desert, their company naturally has a special ability to resist risks in this kind of cooperation.
Chairman Ma Haoran opened his eyes and said slowly: "I agree with this investment. General Manager Gao will sign a cooperation agreement with Hailufeng Company on behalf of the company! However, we must have the right to financial supervision, and this point cannot be compromised."
Seeing that the chairman had agreed, even if others had some ulterior motives in their hearts, they had to give up.
However, a small number of senior executives, including Deputy Manager Jin, secretly cursed Gao Meng in their hearts, hoping that this project would fail so that they could use this as an opportunity to attack Gao Meng's influence in the company and even bring her down.
Ended the video conference.
Li Zhongdao, the investment manager who is one of Gao Meng's confidants, became a little worried: "Boss Gao, is this investment a bit too risky?"
Gao Meng shook his head: "Like I said just now, how can an investment be 100% guaranteed to succeed? And even if this investment fails, the loss won't be too big. At most, we'll have to pay tens of millions in liquidated damages to various places."
"Okay!" Li Zhongdao certainly knew that the risk was not big, but he was mainly worried about other senior executives of the company. Those guys were not easy to deal with.
"Everyone, let's go to bed early! We will continue this discussion tomorrow." After saying this, Gao Meng took his laptop and briefcase back to his room.
...
Jiang Miao also didn't sleep.
After dinner, he was listening to Lu Weibin, Liu Zhiben and Wu Song reporting on the other three groups of guests today.
Liu Zhiben first talked about the group of guests he was responsible for receiving: "The visitors I received were from Xiyu Jingtian Landscaping Engineering Co., Ltd. in Liangzhou City, Gansu Province. Their chairman Yang Zijun sold us the equipment that was just put into production two years ago."
"What equipment?" Jiang Miao really didn't know this company. After all, it was a small company that people who were not locals would not know much about.
Liu Zhiben explained: "It is a device for laying out grass grids, called the Moyun fully automatic desert sand control vehicle. Their company heard that we had purchased ten grass grid laying vehicles from the Ganke Group, and also heard that we had invested in 35 mu of desert in the south of the desert, so they took the initiative to come to our door to sell it."
“How does this device perform?”
Liu Zhiben took out the brochure Yang Zijun gave him and said, "Although it meets our requirements, some of its functions are useless."
Jiang Miao flipped through it:
The vehicle body is 6 meters long and 2 meters wide. The carriage can load 2 tons of grass at a time and can lay 8 acres of grass grid sand barriers. 70 acres can be laid in one day.
It is equipped with an intelligent control system and only requires one operator. Grass production, grass pressing and sowing are controlled by the central control platform. The vehicle is equipped with a 1-degree panoramic Beidou satellite navigation system, which can observe the grass pressing effect and construction quality in real time, realizing full intelligence.
Stable driving performance, suitable for desert environment, with good off-road performance and stability in sand driving, can ensure smooth operation in complex sand dune terrain.
These features are pretty good.
It was not until Jiang Miao saw the life support function that created a mobile home for the driver, where workers could solve life problems such as bathing, cooking, and sleeping in the car, meeting their life needs for long-term operations in the desert.
He finally understood why Liu Zhiben said that some functions were useless.
Adding such fancy functions not only sacrifices the core functions of the equipment, but also increases manufacturing costs and increases maintenance costs of the equipment.
After all, if you really use this kind of grass grid to arrange your car, who would sleep, cook or take a bath in it? If you have the free time, you might as well go home at night or buy a small RV as a complement.
“Can they remove this part of the life support function?”
"I proposed this to them, and they said yes, we can just keep the air conditioning, and remove all other functions like cooking and bathing, and add another ton of fodder inside the car, so that the area for arranging grass grids every day can be increased to 1 mu."
"How much is the offer?"
"12."
Jiang Miao stroked his prickly stubble and asked, "How efficient is the equipment we ordered from Ganke Group?"
"20 acres per day, the price is 3."
"How is the purchasing department arranging the replacement order?"
Liu Zhiben replied: "The purchasing department has ordered another 30 units from Ganke Group and they are on the way."
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Miao made a decision: "Then order 10 units from this Xiyu Jingtian company to give it a try. If the failure rate is relatively low and the operability is relatively good, continue to purchase."
"Okay." Liu Zhiben wrote this down in his notebook.
(End of this chapter)