At this time, Dulin was chatting with Mr. Fedeli about the gold mine.
Gold mines are always the most eye-catching thing here in the West. A newly discovered gold mine first represents not wealth or luck, but disaster. Every time a new gold mine is discovered, it means the beginning of a bloody and cruel fight. It is difficult to stop the fighting until the predators enter the scene, but predators do not always enter the game on time and join the game. They also need to consider whether the things in their hands are too big. If there are too many, will it cause people to backlash
This is the western part of the empire, synonymous with barbarism. Even if the capital tycoons cause public outrage here, there are still people who dare to touch it in the middle of the night and do something. Whoever wants to wrap up the business here, the simple people in the west will tell them that money is put into one pocket, and eventually the pocket will be burst.
Therefore, even if a new gold mine appears, those predators will not show too much possessiveness. This is not the south, not the east, not the north, or a place with a large number of civilized people.
Mr. Fedeli has a gold mine and a gem mine here. He is the supplier of Dulin's Ilian jewelry store. The jewelry store in Ilian has been using Mr. Fedeli's gold and gems. Both parties also have Not a bad partnership. With the help of Fedeli, a formal channel of gold, Dulin was able to clean his batch of gold.
When Dulin came to the west this time, the first person he met was Fedeli.
Mr. Jack has a certain understanding of the West, but he does not live in the West. His knowledge of the West comes from the people under him. It seems that he knows a lot of things, but these things may not be feasible in the West. . So Dulin came to meet Fedeli first and talk about some specific things in the west. This topic started with the mines.
"If I want to talk about the more interesting news recently, it must be what happened over Mount Yagur..." Mr. Fedeli is in his fifties and has a very ordinary appearance. The only thing that makes people feel regretful is his hair, which is in the middle. That piece has fallen off, leaving only the shiny bald head that can reflect the shadow of the lamp, "Last time the West Mining Club... Oh, by the way, you didn't know much about things here when you first came here. The abbreviation of the West Mining Club is its full name. It is the Western Mining Development Committee, which is composed of large and small mine owners. It mainly solves some nonsense. "
"It is said that a few tourists picked up a piece of iron ore in a river that had dried up and weathered for many years outside Yagur Mountain, and then brought it back. When they took it out at the market, they were discovered. After inspection, they found that it was The news of the oxidized silver mine and the silver mine in Yagul Mountain spread immediately, and almost the vast majority of free gold diggers and forces of all sizes ran away to Yagul, which they had never paid attention to in the past. A huge silver mine was discovered near the mountainous area. According to the exploration results of the Western Mining Association, the Yagul Mountain Silver Mine is a rich ore, with a stock of finished products ranging from 120,000 tons to 200,000 tons.”
"Some copper mines have also been discovered around it. Geologists believe that due to topographic changes, some underlying fractures have occurred. Yagul Mountain should have huge and rich mineral resources. The emergence of copper and silver mines means that there may still be Some other mineral deposits and associated mineral deposits, so everyone rushed over. ”
Du Lin listened with great interest. Although he didn't understand it at all, it didn't hinder his curiosity. "No one wants to take over there?"
"Take it?" Fedeli laughed loudly, "You're kidding, Dulin, the 120,000 tons of silver mine, even if the empire forces the mine to occupy it, I'm afraid it won't last long, which means A huge treasure, and anyone who tries to take it will only be bloodbathed by others."
At present, the price of silver in the Western world is very stable. According to the empire's exchange rate, one empire star dollar can buy four grams of finished pure silver. If a silver mine with a reserve of 120,000 tons is excavated and purified into finished products, the total price will be about three hundred. 100 million!
This is a number that makes everyone crazy, so any individual or group that wants to monopolize this mineral source will be wiped out under the attack of some crazy thugs who are blinded by wealth. Thirty billion, from the time the New Party came to power to So far they have not collected so much tax!
Moreover, there is a good chalcopyrite mine next to it, and there are some other small mining areas nearby. It is very likely that other types of huge rich ores are hidden. Under the auspices of the Western Mining Association, Yagul Mountain has become a "public mining area" where anyone and any group can go mining.
The term "public mining area" originally came from some depleted mineral deposits. After many low-reserve mining areas were completely exhausted, the mine owners would give up, and they would also give up the ownership rights of the area where the mining area is located. It is very unreasonable to buy land in the west if there are no mines. What a bargain. According to the current land use regulations in the empire, non-agricultural and residential land needs to be built for commercial construction after being purchased privately, and a certain number of jobs need to be created in accordance with some local standards.
If there are no mineral deposits in their land and they do not give up, these mine owners will have to spend money to feed a group of people. Regardless of whether they have something to do or not, they must pay the designated "salary" into the designated account every month. , otherwise you will face fines and other issues.
Therefore, once most mines run out of minerals to dig, the mine owners will immediately give up the ownership of the land and change it from private land to public land. At this time, the mines on that land will also become public mining areas. Mineral deposits are sometimes very magical. It doesn't mean that there is nothing left at all. Maybe you can dig out something if you dig here and there. In the past, there were many cases where mine owners gave up their depleted mines and found new veins of mines.
Once it is owned by the public, it is not easy to buy it back.
The huge silver mine discovered this time in Yagur Mountain finally became a public mining area because of its huge reserves and no one dared or could afford to occupy it. It is said that the number of people seeking a living on Yagul Mountain has exceeded 400,000. In just three months, the growth rate from zero to 400,000 is definitely a terrifying growth rate. And because the news is not spread enough and the weather is too cold, many people have not gone there. After the spring starts, I am afraid that the number of people there will exceed one million, or even more!
After chatting for a while about things on Yagur Mountain, Mr. Fedeli changed the subject and asked Dulin why he went to the west to develop. He and Du Lin have known each other for three or four years, and the cooperation between them is quite pleasant. It can be said that they know enough about Du Lin. In his opinion, Du Lin's development in the west is purely a thankless thing. With the various businesses Du Lin currently operates, he can make money much faster than mining, and the prospects are also much greater.
Mr. Fedeli's gold mine can produce about 400 to 500 pounds of pure gold every year, with a market value of about 1.2 million. After excluding all costs, including daily losses such as purchasing slaves and setting up a mine protection team, as well as wages, his income was only over 800,000 yuan. Of course, he also had a gem mine. This money does seem to be a lot of money, much higher than the profits brought by some businessmen's good industries, but compared to those tycoons and compared to Dulin's smuggling business, this money is actually nothing at all.
Dulin's current private wine trade can bring him a net profit of more than 400,000 yuan every month. His various incomes in Odis City exceed one million yuan a month on average. This does not include other income, so in Mr. Fedeli came to see Dulin going west to mine. It was a stupid investment. The biggest dream of these individual or collective mine owners in the West is to make a lot of money, and then leave the West, a poor place full of sand and dust, and go to the South to enjoy it.
Dulin did not give him a direct answer to Mr. Fedeli's doubts, because he himself did not have an accurate answer. He came here not to make money, but to have a career.
"I don't have the time or energy to hire an exploration team to go around looking for ore veins for me. I plan to buy some directly and look for new mines at the same time. Speaking of which, there are several places that I think are good that are not too far from you.", Dulin. When Fedeli talked about the several mines he planned to buy, Fedeli's face became more and more strange. Dulin quickly noticed this. He stopped talking and looked at Fedeli, "If you have any experience, you want to It would be my honor to teach it to me.”
Fedeli struggled a little, and after a while he sighed, "For the sake of our good cooperation in the past, Dulin, I have to remind you that those who are willing to sell their properties to you, either have financial resources." They are in trouble, or they have found a new way. If it is the latter, the problem will not be too big, but if it is the former, there may be some trouble. You have to know that this is the west, and you use it in the civilized world. That doesn't work very well here."
“Here, people believe that ‘the dead will never tell’. They will steal your money and then make you disappear forever. This has definitely happened here more than once!”
It is not impossible to encounter those mine owners who have accepted money but will not give up the mines. These bloody mine owners and their subordinates are all owners who dare to shoot for profit. If it really gets to the point where a war is necessary, the state government will also intervene, and this is not a good thing. When the time comes, if you are labeled as an illegal trader, you will not only not get your money back, but you will also face fines or even eviction. The state governments of the three western states have always been such bastards.
Oh no, this is not a bastard, it is a local protection policy!
Those unscrupulous mine owners made money, and the state government received hundreds of thousands or millions in benefits through fines. Only outsiders were unlucky.
So there is a famous saying here - bullets are more effective than money.
(End of chapter)