What has Jiang Chen been doing these days
To sum it up simply, it costs money.
And it’s still in billions.
The military camp on Crescent Island, a 2,300-meter-long dual-runway airport, a simple radar base station, and an offshore platform the size of two football fields connected by a dam were completed one after another. After the project funds were delivered to the "Mammoth" company, Jiang Chen's account was Another 1.4 billion in cash instantly disappeared. Counting the 4 billion US dollars spent in the past few days, he spent 5.4 billion in just three days.
But this is not over yet.
In order to prepare for the mining of molybdenum ore, Jiangchen invested US$1 billion in Futureren Mining and through bidding, planned to build two semi-submersible offshore platforms in the southern waters of Anga Island.
This kind of semi-submersible platform is often used in deep sea areas. Its main application area is the extraction of petroleum gas. Its principle is similar to that of a submarine. The platform is built on large floating barrels, which are embedded below the water surface and fixed to the seabed through anchor chains. The bottom of the leg below the floating barrel is designed with a balancer similar to a fishing lead sinker, which falls into the seawater under the platform to prevent the platform from losing balance due to seawater surges or wind.
The advantage of this kind of offshore platform is that it is movable. After the minerals at the bottom are mined, it can be anchored and towed away by ship. Jiang Chen’s plan is for two soldiers and three staff to be permanently stationed on the offshore platform to control the mining machines located on the seabed through electronic equipment. A ship comes every once a week to replenish the offshore platform with living supplies and take away the mined manganese nodules rich in molybdenum ore.
Although the technology of mining robots is still under development, Jiang Chen believes that it won't be long before there will be results in Shelter 27. Before that, it is a good choice to build the offshore platform first.
These mined manganese nodules will be pulled to Anga Island, because in addition to molybdenum-rich oxides, more than 50% of the structure is composed of iron oxide and manganese oxide. In order to deal with these manganese nodules, Jiang Chen once again invested US$200 million in Futureren Mining to build a manganese nodule treatment plant, a molybdenum ore refinery, a steel plant, and an aluminum plant on Anga Island.
The manganese nodule treatment plant crushes the ore and performs preliminary sorting to produce metallic manganese and molybdenum-rich slag. The slag will be sent to a molybdenum ore refinery for secondary processing to produce the molybdenum ore needed to manufacture virtual reality helmets.
The steel plant and aluminum plant are mainly used to process iron and aluminum ores purchased from H Mining Group. At the same time, the slag remaining from the refined manganese nodules is also processed.
The entire production line is expected to be completed after March. By then, Anga Island will take the first step in industrial transformation. The abundant mineral resources will not only meet the needs of the island, but can even be exported to make a profit!
After finishing the matter of Futureman Mining, Jiang Chen then started working on the matter of Futureman Technology Headquarters.
The headquarters is located on Koro Island. In order to ensure the safety of quantum computers, Jiang Chen spared no effort to spend 100 million US dollars to build this headquarters building, striving to make this headquarters building strong enough.
In addition, Jiang Chen plans to locate the virtual helmet production line here in the real world. After all, these are billions of helmets, and he wouldn't be able to move them all even if he was exhausted. What's more, he has to transport food to the end of the world. Transport steel and arms to this world.
Since it is decided to produce it here in the real world, the safety and confidentiality issues of virtual helmet production must be carefully considered.
However, Jiang Chen had already considered this. The offshore platform he built next to Crescent Island was tailor-made for the factory that produces this virtual helmet!
There is no safer place than next to a military base. Under the scanning of the wide-area radio life signal detection device, no agent can escape the eyes of dozens of staff at the radar station. Once an infiltrator whose identity is not logged is discovered, the drone will arrest or drive him away. For those who resist arrest, drones will initiate attack procedures to eliminate them.
Jiang Chen plans to adopt an automated production model for the production process of this virtual helmet. That is, except for the transportation of raw materials. In addition to the output and other aspects of the product that require manual participation, the production process that needs to be kept confidential is completed in a "black box". Although the cost of this kind of automatic production line is a bit high, it is absolutely necessary for confidentiality reasons.
Jiang Chen used the blueprints designed by Lu Huasheng to build the factory building, and hired a modern construction company to undertake the construction. There are three factories in total, occupying three corners of the triangular offshore platform. The total construction cost is two million US dollars, which is just a drop in the bucket compared to the previous projects.
After a series of purchases, Jiang Chen spent more than 6.7 billion of the 30 billion US dollars in loans. But he didn't feel bad at all because he knew he would make the money back soon.
Putting aside the matter of spending money, Jiang Chen also made a lot of money these days.
Tao Ming lived up to his expectations and signed supply orders for a total of 400,000 boxes of nutritional mixtures for Future Human Creatures. Calculated based on profit of US$500 per box. The profit from these 400,000 boxes is US$200 million.
On the other hand, Emma Watson's agent readily agreed to the spokesperson contract proposed by Future Life and immediately arranged Emma's trip to Koro Island to shoot advertisements and promotional posters. The reason why he agreed so quickly was partly because of the US$1 million in endorsement fees. On the other hand, I heard that I would have the opportunity to appear in the push advertisement of Future People 1.0.
Considering the terrifying installed capacity of Futureman 1.0, there must not be many people who would refuse to show their faces there.
Once the sales matters are taken care of, the production matters cannot be left behind.
In order to expand the production of nutritional mixtures, Jiang Chen made several trips to Doomsday and brought in five newly built organic synthesis furnaces and a full 10 tons of induction reagents. To expand the planting area of DH seaweed.
Since then, the workers in the nutritional mixture production plant have begun a nightmare life of overtime work. In order to complete the production task, the technicians responsible for inducing and differentiating Sargassum even slept on the floor in the laboratory. Planting ships on the sea also shuttle around day and night. Workers work in three shifts to plant DH seaweed from the factory, fertilize the sea fields, and harvest the newly grown algae leaves...
Of course, Jiang Chen would not miss out on overtime pay for them. Compared with the US$200 million order, the overtime pay of less than US$100,000 is simply not worth mentioning.
In order to prevent workers from "death from overwork", Jiang Chen ordered Zhan Shujie to recruit 60 more employees to fill the vacancies. Jiang Chen generously rewarded Zhan Shujie and Tao Ming for their contributions to the future development of human biology.
Each person’s 1% dividend right will be used as their year-end bonus. The two of them were happy to accept it and worked even harder.
Anyone can see the future prospects of human beings. Although this dividend is only 1%, if this trend continues, the money they get in their hands every year will be at least tens of millions of dollars!
In the past half month, Jiang Chen finally felt busy. He almost wanted to split himself in half, one half on Anga Island, and the other half traveling between Crescent Island and Coro Island.
But after half a month of busy work, everything is finally on track.
However, just when Jiang Chen thought he could finally have some free time, new problems soon appeared.
Not counting the independent Star Ring Trading Company, Futureman International alone has 400 employees in the new country. Although this person does not seem to have many people, the total population of the new country is only 20,000, and the total labor force is only about 10,000.
Nowadays, there are basically no fishing boats on the sea in New Zealand, and people are being used everywhere. Infrastructure construction has boosted local employment, and Anga Island, which originally had a high unemployment rate, suddenly had difficulty finding workers.
What's more, once tourism resources are developed, the labor gap will become larger and larger. Jiang Chen made a rough estimate that when the Dutch construction company completes the development of tourism resources, it will have at least 2,000 more employees and create at least 5,000 jobs!
There simply aren’t that many people working in the new country.
Ever since, Jiang Chen set his sights on a large country that was brewing a wave of immigrants.
However, his gaze was not directed at the wealthy people running away with their heads sharpened, but at the laborers with a high school diploma or above. (.)