Zhao Yi is not sure whether synthetic gemstones can be sold as gemstones or whether they will be recognized by consumers.
Although he has exclusive control over the source of goods and pricing power, when things are rare and expensive, even if the products he produces are gorgeous and beautiful, they may not be treated as gems.
Therefore, he will not put all his hopes on these artificial gems. These artificial gems alone cannot support a jewelry industry.
Fortunately, he is planning to mine the gold mines from the seabed. Even if he sells all the gold, he will still achieve great success. However, if he wants to transport these gold mines back to the country and put them on the market, it will be difficult and difficult to detect them. Very big.
If a small amount of gold comes in, there won't be much of a problem, but if such a large amount of gold comes in, measured in tens of thousands of tons, then I don't know what will happen.
After all, gold is hard currency wherever it goes, and it is still used as a preservation object for foreign exchange reserves. Although Zhao Yi has great influence, he may not be able to get it done.
Therefore, we must make an agreement with senior government officials in advance that it is very necessary to reach a tariff agreement under unclear circumstances. When the agreement is signed, no one can regret it.
In the evening, Lin Hexia helped Wang Huilan prepare all the dinner ingredients before she got up and left and returned to her parents. If it hadn't been New Year's Eve, she would probably have stayed to finish the meal.
The New Year's Eve dinner in the evening was very sumptuous. Zhou Zhigang and his wife brought a lot of cured fish and bacon from their hometown. Zhao Yi liked it very much. These are rare to eat.
Of course, based on his conditions, he can still eat if he wants to, but there is still a different feeling between eating all year round and eating occasionally. This is just like in the previous life, where there was delicious and fun food every day, and the New Year is not as good. Attractive.
These cured fish and bacon are all meat products raised by Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company that Zhao Yi mailed. Whether they are domestic or foreign, they are high-end products, and the taste is naturally better.
After dinner, according to the rules in my hometown, I set off fireworks and firecrackers. However, the population of Kyoto has increased significantly in recent years. There were fires due to fireworks in the past two years, so this year it is completely banned.
To be honest, if fireworks are set off in a city as big as Kyoto, there will indeed be many problems. In addition, with more and more high-rise buildings, the air flow will not be very smooth, and the air pollution will last for a long time.
Not to mention big cities like Kyoto, but also in the rural areas of his hometown, there are a lot of firecrackers set off during the New Year. Severe white fog will basically form on the first day of the new year, but it will dissipate quickly after the sun comes out.
It's just that staying at home quietly after dinner really lacks the flavor of the New Year. Zhou Zhigang's family and Zhao Yi don't like to play mahjong, so they can only gather around the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
Although the Spring Festival Gala has entered the mainland with ATV, it has brought richer and more diversified experience in organizing gala events, making the Spring Festival Gala more and more successful, with ratings rising steadily and gaining huge influence.
And not only mainland audiences can watch CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala, but overseas audiences can also watch CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala through ATV’s global channels, bringing greetings from home to overseas travelers.
But like Zhao Yi, future generations have watched the Spring Festival Gala for who knows how many years, and have become familiar with various forms of entertainment. They really have no interest in watching the Spring Festival Gala, but they cannot be alone or work alone. .
This made Zhao Yi feel that it was necessary to develop a new type of gunpowder that could be used to make firecrackers and fireworks without causing fires and environmental pollution.
Setting off fireworks and firecrackers during the New Year has been our millennium tradition, and it has been a memory of many people since they were young. Suddenly it disappeared, and the taste of the New Year has become very weak. In addition, as the economy becomes rich, there is no need to take advantage of the New Year to eat. delicious.
The only purpose of the Chinese New Year is to reunite, but after the reunion, apart from playing cards and playing with mobile phones, no one knows what to do.
Zhou Zhigang and Wang Huilan are in high spirits during happy events, but they don't feel bored. They also discuss the wedding with Zhou Jinjue and Zhou Jinyu, and occasionally urge Zhao Yi and Zhou Jinyu to get married as soon as possible, and they are not too young. .
After the boring but heartwarming New Year's Eve, Zhao got up early on the first day of the new year, bringing gifts that he had prepared long ago to visit some of the connections he knew.
If he doesn't celebrate the New Year in Kyoto, it doesn't matter if he keeps these relationships. Since he celebrates the New Year in Kyoto, he has to move around, especially the old man who has helped his career a lot, and he needs to go there.
The local products in Zhao's area are all local specialties from his family. Although they are very high-end to the outside world, they are commonplace to him, such as Maowusu beef and mutton, Baiwei fruit wine, etc.
This was a pure visit, and nothing specific was discussed. However, when visiting the counselor, he mentioned that he wanted to establish a company specializing in mining marine minerals. The specific matters still need to be discussed later.
In principle, Zizheng agrees with Zhao Yi's request. After all, our country is developing rapidly, and infrastructure and urban construction require a large amount of mineral resources to support it.
In the past, we could only rely on imported resources from abroad. Although there seems to be no problem now, if the dependence is too serious, our autonomy will be much weaker and it will be easy to be manipulated by others.
Although there are a large number of minerals in the country, the per capita ownership is not high. Especially iron ore, the grade is generally not high. It is more difficult and costly to smelt it, so it is not as good as importing.
Moreover, balancing international trade is also a set goal. The large sums of money obtained from foreign trade must be useful, otherwise it will not be of much use if left in hand. Even if it is used as foreign exchange reserves, it does not require a lot.
The past life was different from today. In the past life, our country's foreign investment was relatively high. If we did not have sufficient foreign exchange reserves, once foreign investment withdrew, it would be easy to drain the foreign exchange, leading to economic instability.
In this life, most of the foreign exchange was created under Zhao Yi's banner. It is a completely reliable foreign exchange reserve. Even if it is reduced by a moderate amount, there will not be a big problem.
Therefore, it is very cost-effective to use these foreign exchanges to purchase basic raw materials needed domestically from outside, and it is also an important means to maintain stable prices in our country.
However, this does not mean that it is unnecessary to exploit high seas minerals. First of all, it shows that our country has the ability to exploit deep sea resources. With this card in hand, other countries do not dare to make a big fuss about basic resource products and increase their investment unlimitedly.
The second is the need for technological exploration. The deep sea is still very unfamiliar to humans. The utilization of deep sea resources is not needed now, but it does not mean that it will not be needed in the future. Related technical reserves are necessary.
As for Zhao Yi's desire to get involved in this area, they have no objection. First, Zhao Yi's capital and technical strength are sufficient, and the probability of success is much higher if he does it.
Second, high seas resources and domestic resources are not the same thing. In the final analysis, domestic resources belong to the whole people. It is more suitable for state-owned enterprises to exploit them. Private large-scale exploitation is easy to be criticized.
The only thing Zhao Yi is involved in in the country is the mining of rare earths. He almost monopolizes all aspects of rare earth mining and processing. He has no involvement in other mineral resources at all.
The main reason why he got involved in rare earths was that he didn't want them to be sold as cheaply as in his previous life. At the same time, he also had the technical strength to carry out fine processing, which could reduce waste.
More importantly, the demand for rare earths in his industry is very large, and he is the most important demander of rare earths domestically and internationally. He is not particularly comfortable letting others control it.
Moreover, in this generation, the domestic economy does not need to rely on the export of rare earths, and the country has never thought of conducting rare earth export trade, which reduces the chain of interests above.
Zhao Yi plans to upgrade the mining company responsible for rare earth mining and expand its business to high sea resource mining. He does not plan to adopt a fully submersible mining model from the beginning, but plans to adopt an offshore mining platform model.
The main reason for doing this is that the technical difficulty is relatively low. It does not require a set of efficient submarine communication technology like the fully submersible mining model. It can be achieved with the existing technology of Tianshu Machinery Company.
Moreover, they openly exploit ordinary mineral resources, such as iron ore, copper ore, etc. Although they are also of high value, they do not have strategic value and are not enough to make people jealous.
However, in order to reduce unnecessary troubles, if you want to build the first offshore mining platform, you still need to wait until the domestic naval construction has a certain foundation.
As for the mining of precious metals such as seabed gold, he is going to do it quietly, using a fully automatic mining and refining integrated submersible. Although the mining speed is slow, the precious metal mines themselves are not very big, and it will not be too big if it is slower. relation.
The consultant can only treat it as an ordinary mining business. If he knew that it was tens of thousands of tons of gold, he would definitely not be so arrogant. It can be regarded as a major national strategic resource.
If a country has enough gold, then there is no need to reserve any other foreign exchange at all, it can be enough to maintain the stability of the domestic currency, and many financial risks can be avoided.
If we go one step further and link our own currency to gold and implement the gold standard, then this currency will have a very high reserve value and will definitely serve as one of the foreign exchange reserves of many countries.
More importantly, our country's scientific and technological strength is not weak. If other countries reserve our currency, they can purchase the high-tech products they need to develop their own economies and people's livelihood.
If the two are combined, it will be a sure thing that our country's currency will become the main international currency reserve. But to be honest, if the gold standard is really implemented, there is no need to pursue the currency's international reserve status.
The reason why modern countries attach so much importance to the international status of their currencies is because the decoupling of modern currencies from gold can transfer domestic financial risks to the outside world and plunder the external economy.
If this role is gone, the motivation to pursue currency internationalization will be greatly reduced, which will not only bring no benefits, but may also bring about many new financial problems.
Therefore, even if we have a large amount of gold, we will only use it as our own foreign exchange reserves and will not really change our currency to the gold standard. Because there is no benefit, there is no need to do it.
As for the gold mine, let's wait until later. Let's talk about a small mine first. After the relevant agreement is reached, the rest of the matter will be much simpler.
After spending two days visiting the people who needed him to visit, he was completely free. However, Zhou Jinjue's wedding was not far away now, so he didn't plan to spend it in the laboratory.
While there was still time, he also started to prepare everything he needed, especially Zhou Jinjue's courtyard house. He also personally visited it and modified some small designs to make it more comfortable to live in.
Time passed in such a busy manner, and finally it was the day of Zhou Jinjue's wedding. Zhao Yi became the best man of the man. As for the bridesmaid of the woman, Zhao Yi had never seen it.
Early in the morning, Zhao Yi got ready to go, and all the invited bands arrived. They went to the woman's home to pick up the bride, beating gongs and drums along the way, and it was so lively.
Zhao Yi didn't know how to pick up a bride in Kyoto at this time. Anyway, just follow the instructions from his hometown. Because the long line of cars to pick up the bride were very luxurious, and they were beating gongs and drums at the same time, they attracted the attention of all the people along the road. .
When they arrived at He Siyu's house, there wasn't much trouble here, and the bride was picked up very smoothly, which made Zhao Yi, the best man, breath a sigh of relief.
After finishing the banquet at the bride's side, it was noon and it was time to pick up the bride and go back. Then the gongs and drums were played again to pick up the bride and return.
According to Zhao Yi's rules, when picking up the bride, you also need to pick up an uncle from your natal family. If there are several uncles, you only need to pick up the youngest.
The one who came with him this time was He Siyu's younger brother, who was only 10 years old. Fortunately, the child was not naughty and was very well-behaved. He followed the instructions of the master of ceremonies and did whatever he was told.
After the bride was picked up, the groom's side officially held a banquet. Zhao Yi originally thought of bringing Zhou Zhigang's relatives over on a special plane, but Wang Huilan vetoed it.
Therefore, the relatives and friends here are all Zhou Jinjue's former colleagues and leaders in Beijing. The relatives back home will wait until the wedding here is over and then go back to have a banquet, which only saves the step of picking up the bride.
Originally, according to Zhao Yi's suggestion, it should be like ancient rituals, with the bride and groom worshiping heaven, earth, high hall, etc., but Wang Huilan rejected it on the grounds that it doesn't have to be too out of the ordinary and just follow the current rules.
Previously, Zhao Yi wanted to restore traditional marriage customs, but it turned out that there was a long way to go. It would take a long time to popularize it, and it would take a long time until the trend became more open.
Despite the rapid economic development in recent years, it takes a long time to change something, especially ideological things, which will be difficult to change in a short time.
However, the wedding clothes worn by the bride and groom were designed and provided by Hualong Clothing Company. They combined modern and ancient styles. They were very beautiful and attracted the attention of many guests. His enthusiasm was not in vain.
The groom had already drank a lot of wine at the bride's side, so the job of accompanying the wine was naturally handed over to Zhao Yi. When the bride and groom were toasting, Zhao Yi followed him to block the wine, making Zhao Yi really drink. few.
Fortunately, everyone was polite and no one deliberately made things difficult. Zhao Yi was not drunk after all, but the smell of alcohol could be smelled from afar.
In fact, according to the rules of my hometown, after the banquet, there is also the wedding ceremony, but these are all with very good meanings. For example, putting two eggs in the quilt means that you will have a baby early, etc.
Because I was afraid that the bride would not be used to it, all these steps were omitted, and since they were all respectable people, they would not deliberately cause trouble, so it was relatively peaceful.
However, Wang Huilan still asked several boys and girls to come back to accompany her on the bed, which was more acceptable. He Siyu also liked having these children accompany her.
In fact, Zhao Yi’s hometown does not have the habit of making marriages with bad intentions. Anyway, in his previous life, Zhao Yi has never seen such exaggerations as those on Douyin. At most, he just made the groom drink more. After all, the trouble was too fierce and everyone’s faces were not good-looking. , completely unnecessary.
Since Zhou Jinjue had just gotten married, Zhou Zhigang and Wang Huilan had to live here. Zhao Yi had no choice but to go back to his own home, but Zhou Jinyu came with him instead of staying at her brother's house.
After returning home in the dark, Zhao Yi's bones seemed to be falling apart. Even though he hadn't done much, he still felt tired at the end of the day.
Seeing Zhao Yi like this, Zhou Jinyu quickly asked someone to pour him a cup of strong tea to wake him up. After drinking the strong tea, Zhao Yi finally felt much more relaxed and his stomach was not so upset.
"Jinyu, you should go back and rest. I'm fine. I'll just take a shower later." Zhao Yi said to Zhou Jinjue.
"Then let me put the bath water for you first." After Zhou Jinyu said that, he went to Zhao Yi's room and started to put the bath water.
Zhao Yi smiled when he saw her virtuous look. Although Zhou Jinyu always liked to argue with him, she was not a bad-hearted person, but she was just not used to taking care of others.
Being able to perform like this now can be considered an improvement. Maybe she learned something from following Lin Hexia, or maybe her mother talked more during this period, which affected her behavior.
After putting the bath water, Zhao Yi returned to his room. When Zhou Jinjue saw Zhao Yi enter the bathroom, she did not forget to say: "Take a bath later, don't fall asleep, or you will catch a cold."
"Okay, I know, you're not drunk enough yet, so get out quickly." Zhao Yi said, pushing Zhou Jinyu out of the door and closing the door.
It was so comfortable to take a bath after drinking. Zhao Yi, who had promised to take a good bath, actually fell asleep while taking a bath. Fortunately, when the water got cold, he was woken up by Zhou Ling, otherwise, he would have really fallen asleep. To catch a cold.
Early the next morning, before Zhao Yi got up, Lin Hexia came over. She also helped out all day yesterday and was so tired that she didn't follow Zhao Yi here and went directly back to her parents' house to rest.
I came here so early just to see how Zhao Yi was doing. After all, he drank a lot yesterday. Lin Hexia had no idea before that he could drink so much wine.
After all, Zhao Yi had always behaved like a drunkard outside. If Zhou Jinyu hadn't told her that Zhao Yi could drink, he just didn't like to drink, otherwise she would have followed him to take care of him.
Seeing Lin Hexia coming over, Zhao Yi quickly got up. After washing up, he started eating breakfast. However, there were three people missing all of a sudden, and he felt a lot more deserted.
According to the rules, Zhou Jinjue will no longer live in his place permanently, so even if Zhou Zhigang and Wang Huilan come to Beijing, they will not live in his place permanently, but will only return to Zhou Jinjue's residence.
These are old rules. Even if Zhao Yi invites Zhou Zhigang and his wife to live here, they will not stay there permanently. They will only stay for one or two nights at most. It will be impossible to celebrate the New Year with him like this in the future.
Fortunately, Zhou Jinyu doesn't have so many taboos. As long as he wants to live, he can live here forever, unless Zhou Jinyu also gets married.
This is why people become more lonely as they grow up. Many former friends have to go their separate ways and are no longer as unscrupulous as before. Even when interacting, you need to pay attention to the scale, maintain a certain distance, and avoid disturbing each other's lives. (End of chapter)