I originally thought that the matter about the iron ore would end here, but the counselor asked curiously: "Was this iron ore discovered by the ocean resource exploration satellite you launched?"
Satellite launches must be reported to the relevant departments. It was not surprising that the government knew about this matter, but he did not expect that the senior government officer, who was busy with everything, would actually know about this matter.
"You are right. The reserves of iron ore on the seabed here are so large that they are easier to detect." Zhao Yi replied.
To be honest, he doesn't really want to show the outside world how powerful this ocean resource satellite is. Others are better off. If he doesn't want to sell it, he won't sell it. But if the government wants to buy it, he has to sell it.
Hearing Zhao Yi's answer, the senior advisor nodded and said nothing, which made Zhao Yi secretly relieved. However, after thinking about it in the blink of an eye, he became worried about the next issue of the undersea gold mine.
However, he is not overly worried. Anyway, he doesn't fully expect the gold to make a fortune. He has a relatively calm mentality, but he just doesn't want to conflict with the government.
"Actually, in addition to the seabed iron ore, there is one more thing I want to discuss with you. This matter is relatively important, and the confidentiality level should be very high." Zhao Yi emphasized the importance of the matter.
When Zhao Yi said this, he said to him directly: "There is no one else here, just say so."
"Then let me tell you, in addition to detecting this iron ore, the Marine Resources Exploration Satellite also detected a seabed gold mine. Preliminary estimates indicate that the reserves have reached 10,000 tons, which is very huge." Zhao Yi said.
When the counselor heard this, he felt incredible and quickly said: "Is this conclusion accurate? Is there really such a big gold mine?"
"It should not be much different, but the location is rather tricky. It is located in a volcanic crater in the Mariana Trench. Mining is very difficult. However, the gold content is very high, and it still has high mining value." Zhao Yi said.
Hearing this, the interest that the counselor had just mentioned was instantly extinguished. The Mariana Trench is not an ordinary place. It is very difficult to dive so deep, not to mention the mining of minerals below. It's more difficult.
With the current level of technology in the world, it is basically impossible to mine this gold mine. Although these 10,000 tons of gold reserves are very tempting, they are fat meat that cannot be eaten.
Seeing the expression on the counselor's face, Zhao Yi continued: "We are conducting targeted research on deep-sea submersibles specifically used to mine this gold mine. It is expected that the implementation phase will begin in the second half of the year."
Hearing this, the counselor's interest, which had been slightly low just now, was revived. Although gold is just a metal, its role is not just as simple as a metal.
If all the gold from this gold mine is mined, our country's gold reserves will directly rank first in the world, and it will further ensure the stability of our currency exchange rate.
Moreover, gold is also a very important industrial raw material. If there is more gold, the prices of some high-end industrial products will naturally be reduced a lot, which can effectively reduce the cost of high-end industrial manufacturing in our country.
"If this gold mine is mined, what do you plan to do with it?" asked the counselor.
Currently, only Zhao Yi has this kind of mining technology, and Zhao Yi didn't directly say where the gold mine is located just now, only that it is in the Mariana Trench.
Therefore, the government departments cannot get involved in this matter and can only rely on Zhao Yi. Moreover, this gold mine is still located on the high seas and the country has no ownership. Even if it is mined and not transported back to the country, it cannot say anything.
Therefore, it is natural that the counselor wants to know Zhao Yi's specific thoughts. Of course, the government hopes that all the gold will be shipped back to the country.
"As a Chinese, of course I have to transport this gold back to the country. Otherwise, I would not talk to the government about this matter. However, I hope to sign relevant agreements with the government to avoid subsequent disputes and troubles." Zhao Yi said.
After hearing this, the counselor finally felt relieved. As long as it is transported back to China, it will be easy to deal with. No matter who owns the gold in the future, it will be on our soil. Under this premise, many things will be much easier to negotiate.
"What agreement do you want to sign?" asked the counselor.
“I don’t plan to place this gold deposit under the umbrella of Tianxing Mining Company, but under my own name. First, this can play a very good role in keeping it confidential and will not cause international trouble.
Second, I plan to establish a gold jewelry company. The jewelry intends to use technology to manufacture artificial gemstones. I already have detailed planning and technical reserves for this aspect of work, and the rest is a lack of gold.
The reason why I care about this agreement is because the relevant laws in this area are relatively vague. If unnecessary disputes arise, it will be very troublesome and annoying for me. " Zhao Yi said.
Hearing this, the counselor knew what Zhao Yi was thinking. His worries were not groundless. If a small amount of gold came in, he would only need to pay customs duties. But with such a large amount, it would definitely cause a lot of trouble.
Moreover, this kind of thing cannot be cleared. Once cleared, it means that the information may be leaked, which will cause him great personal trouble.
Since he cannot clear customs, he will not be able to explain the specific source of the gold in his hand. If it is confiscated, he will have no place to explain, and it may also involve illegal crimes. Unexplainable sources of property are all illegal income. .
"I know what you are thinking. You go back first. I need to discuss with the relevant departments before I give you an answer." The counselor said.
Since the counselor said this, Zhao Yi naturally agreed. This question cannot be answered clearly right now. Anyway, he is not in a hurry and can just wait.
After returning home, Zhao Yi put this matter aside, got into his laboratory, and continued to play with his robot. This will be his main job for a long time.
It is still in the stage of research and development of related materials. Only when the materials are ready can we consider the issue of assembly and production. However, large-scale production is impossible in a laboratory environment.
Therefore, he wants to develop a 3D printer with very high technical content, which will be able to print a robot directly. However, if he wants a 3D printer that meets this requirement, the technical difficulty is also very high.
Zhao Yi only stayed in the laboratory for four days when the senior government office called and asked him to come over to discuss the matter. Zhao Yi felt that it was most likely about gold.
When he came to the counselor's office, the counselor handed him a document directly. After reading it, he felt that the above terms were acceptable.
The main agreement is the tariff part. According to the agreement, after the gold comes in, a 20% tariff will be charged, and the gold will still be levied at a rate of 20%.
Because the amount of gold this time is huge, Zhao Yi himself would not be willing to collect it based on currency, because more gold means that the price will fall. According to the current currency measurement, he will naturally suffer a loss.
Moreover, Zhao Yi currently does not have that much cash to pay taxes. Although he has huge assets and abundant cash flow, the money has specific uses, and he does not have much to use himself.
More importantly, it is impossible for him to sell all such a huge amount of gold in a short period of time. Doing so will only accelerate the depreciation of gold and harm his interests.
Therefore, the government has also taken this situation into consideration. Anyway, the government also needs these gold as reserves, but the demand for currency is not high.
As for the other terms, there is no need to go into details here. Zhao Yi readily agreed and signed the agreement on the spot in the counselor's office, and the government left the signature to the counselor.
After getting this fresh agreement, he finally had a good solution to the gold matter. No matter how much gold he gets in the future, he will just follow this agreement.
Previously, he only said that there were 10,000 tons of reserves, but the actual situation is that the reserves have reached 100,000 tons, or even more. Even if calculated at 100 yuan per gram, the value of each ton of gold has reached 100 million yuan.
By then, the amount in his hands will reach 80,000 tons, and the total value will reach 8 trillion yuan, which is an astronomical amount of wealth. With this gold in hand, he will have a lot of confidence, and There is no need to be as cautious as before.
Although Zhao Yi's wealth is huge, he is actually seriously insecure. His industries are developed using his own funds and rarely borrow from banks.
Even though he owns Minsheng Bank, he has never received a payment from this bank so far. The main reason is that his company is a sole proprietorship and has unlimited liability. If there is a problem in one link, problems will follow in other links. .
In order to develop his own business, he could only keep exploring the market and raising more funds for himself. It was against this background that Yadai Company was born.
Of course, he considers himself an ambitious person. Otherwise, as long as he sticks to his high-tech industry safely, he can basically live a prosperous life.
It's just that he felt that after rebirth, he had to do something different, so when the conditions were met, he excitedly entered into urban construction.
Urban construction is a huge and expensive project, and the rate of return is very low. The only advantage is that the income is quite stable and the competition is not strong.
It is precisely because if he consciously delays time, even with his wealth, he will not be able to carry out this task, so he must still race against time.
If he has a huge gold reserve in his hand, he no longer needs to be so cautious. His industries can be developed with a large number of loans from banks. Even if something goes wrong, he can use the gold to repay it.
As for whether gold will sell at a cabbage price, he is not worried. Even if gold does not have a reserve function, it still has huge industrial value and the price will not become a cabbage price.
And he has already factored in the depreciation factor based on 100 yuan per gram. The actual situation is that the current gold price is much higher than this.
After getting this agreement, Zhao Yi felt relieved, especially at the annual meeting, when he asked China Housing Corporation to spend 1 trillion yuan specifically to acquire land, which brought a bit of uncertainty to the follow-up plans.
With this gold, these uncertainties are no longer a problem, and they will not affect the follow-up plans of the China Housing Company. Naturally, the pressure in his heart will be much less.
Moreover, the scale of its industries is very large, but if it does not lend money all year round, it will be a great pressure for domestic banks. As a result, bank interest rates have become lower and lower in recent years.
There is no way around this. His industries are very profitable and a huge amount of profits are deposited in the bank every year, and the people in the country are not used to loans for consumption.
As for private enterprise loans, the uncertainty is very high, which puts banks in a dilemma. If local governments had not made large amounts of loans for infrastructure construction, banks would have been even more difficult.
As mentioned before, the government will begin a larger-scale monetary expansion this year, and the expanded currency cannot be directly issued to individuals, but can only be circulated to social construction through loans.
In the past, the government could only increase the scale of loans for infrastructure projects and speed up the construction of domestic infrastructure, especially the construction of high-speed railways, which has become a national-level project.
But if we want to fully commence construction, we still need to wait until the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway is completed and there are no problems with the technology before it can start.
According to the current construction speed of the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway, it will basically be completed and operational by June this year. The construction time will be about 7 months, which is quite a long time.
Even if the construction of high-speed railways is fully rolled out by then, the overall scale will still be limited by many factors and cannot be expanded indefinitely. As for other infrastructure projects, the scale will be much smaller than this.
After all, the scale of loans directly determines the scale of monetary expansion in our country. If the scale of social loans is limited, the scale of natural monetary expansion will also be limited.
Now Zhao Yi plans to let China Housing Corporation borrow large-scale bank loans for construction. The initial plan is to borrow one trillion yuan to comprehensively speed up urbanization and shorten the previous planning time.
This data is not just mentioned casually. The gold content of the gold deposit is very high. In addition, the automated mining submersible he designed and developed is very efficient and can mine 2,000 tons of high-purity gold every month.
Even if mining starts in the second half of the year, this year's output will reach about 12,000 tons. After deducting the 20% tariff, he will have more than 10,000 tons in his hands, which is enough to serve as a guarantee for this huge loan.
To be honest, the bank is actually eager for his properties to get loans from the bank, because they are not worried that Zhao will not be able to pay back the loan soon. For the bank, this is a very high-quality loan project.
Moreover, these loans are still used for fixed asset investment. Even if there is an accident in the future and the loan is not repaid, these fixed assets are still very high-quality assets, enough to make up for the bank's losses.
It's just that the scale of monetary expansion is larger than what he expected. The judgment made at the annual meeting may have serious shortcomings and need to be further corrected.
Although these additional currencies are used to participate in domestic economic construction in the form of loans through large economic entities, the final flow is still distributed to workers in the form of wages.
This has caused a substantial increase in workers' wages. If there are not enough goods to absorb these extra wages, it will naturally cause inflation, which is equivalent to the depreciation of the money in people's hands.
Zhao Yi's previous judgment was that by the end of this year, the average social salary will reach about 1,000 yuan a month, but according to the current situation, it may exceed this value. As for how much it is, it remains to be seen.
Therefore, the previous production expansion plans of various companies under his banner may be a bit small, and at the same time, they need to actively increase the supply of new commodities to achieve the purpose of digesting the social monetary surplus.
Zhao Yi then had a phone call with Qin Hongqi, the president of China Housing Corporation, and told him the plan. He did not talk about gold. He just said that he would be allowed to take appropriate loans from banks based on the size of his assets to speed up the progress of the plan. .
Qin Hongqi was naturally overjoyed when she heard that Zhao Yi allowed him to borrow money from the bank. In this way, their financial difficulties would be solved, and the Chinese housing company would usher in a stage of great development.
Feeling Qin Hongqi's excited tone, Zhao Yi had to remind him that he must act within his ability and the debt ratio must be controlled below 50%. If it exceeds, it will bring huge repayment pressure.
What Zhao Yi builds is low-rent housing, with the purpose of allowing all people to obtain a very friendly living environment within their own affordability, and completely end the previous dilemma of real estate kidnapping their lives.
This means that it is impossible to raise the rent too high. If the debt ratio is too high, the rent will have to be raised in order to repay the debt, which defeats his original intention.
And it is not just China Housing Corporation that needs to accelerate its expansion this time. Each of its companies needs more investment to expand production capacity and develop new products.
This means that they themselves consume more funds and the profits they can turn over will be reduced. Then the funds that China Housing Company can obtain from Zhao Yi will be correspondingly reduced than expected.
Moreover, the increase in wages brought about by monetary expansion will also increase the operating costs of his various enterprises. If the original prices are maintained, the natural profit rate will decrease, and the total profit scale will also be reduced in the short term.
After calling Qin Hongqi, Zhao Yi sent an email to the presidents of all his first-tier companies, telling them about the current changes and asking them to make corresponding preparations.
In fact, Zhao Yi is not particularly worried now, because in June, smartphones will go on sale on a large scale, and wealthy people will definitely be willing to spend money on smartphones.
This will bring a big wave of mobile phone replacements. After all, the gap between traditional mobile phones and smartphones is really too big, and most of them can afford them.
Secondly, smart products built around smartphones will also prompt people to replace various traditional home appliances and electronic products on a large scale, which will also consume a lot of money.
Polaris Company is fully prepared for this, and the price of such high-end smart products is naturally relatively high, at least in the short term it will not be significantly reduced.
In addition, the low-end electric vehicles of Shenlong Automobile Company will also consume a large amount of people's funds, and will be the bulk of this economic cycle. Other technology companies will also launch replacement products this year. (End of chapter)