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Wage City is very rich in mineral resources, but the local government has no exploration statistics at all, not even a rough data report. The truly complete exploration data has never been provided to the Wage Municipal Government by Wage Mining, but Sima Zhi, the leader of the working group, has now obtained a copy.

Compared with the rough exploration data of this area by the New Alliance scientific expedition team, there is no doubt that Wage Mining has more comprehensive data.

The total area of ​​Wagebang District is approximately 50,000 square kilometers, one-third of which is the Gobi desert. The Gobi desert stretches into the national park in the northwest, which covers about a quarter of the state.

In the state area of ​​​​50,000 square kilometers, the main mineral resources currently exploited are copper ore and aluminum ore. Many high-grade ores were exported directly. Later, a pit-head power station was built here. Rough processing and smelting was also carried out locally, and some refined copper and aluminum ingots were exported.

Huazhenxing certainly knows how important copper and aluminum are strategic resources and indispensable basic materials for establishing a modern industrial system. Without them, not even a single wire can be produced.

There are also large-scale talc mines in Wagebang District, mainly serpentine, which is also an important industrial raw material and is rare in other parts of the Black Wasteland. Wage Mining once mined for a period of time, but later stopped production due to economic reasons, and the original mining site was temporarily sealed.

There are also coal and iron mines here. The location of the coal mine is close to the edge of the national park, in the hilly terrain adjacent to the mountains. Wage Mining has specially built a pit-head power plant with a total power of 150,000 kilowatts. After the power plant was completed and generated electricity, they began simple rough processing and refining of copper and aluminum ingots.

Speaking of power supply, Wage City also has a 50,000-kilowatt heavy oil power plant. The 50,000-kilowatt heavy oil power plant supplies the electricity needs of one million citizens in the entire Wage City; and the 150,000-kilowatt Kengkou power plant here is specifically designed to ensure the production needs of Wage Mining. Between the two Not connected to the grid.

As for the iron ore, it is located further west, at the foot of the rolling mountains to the west. The reserves are very rich, but Wage Mining has not mined it, mainly because its value is not great.

The quality of the iron ore here is higher than most of the iron ores in Dongguo, but there is still a gap between it and several famous iron ore producing areas in the world. There is little local demand for it. If it is used for export, with the backward infrastructure here, including mining and transportation costs, it will be uncompetitive in the international market.

Mining cannot be done wherever there is a mine, especially modern large-scale mining, which is a typical capital- and labor-intensive heavy industry. It must pay attention to the most appropriate economic scale and is restricted by many conditions.

The coal here is only suitable for pit-head power generation, because the production of Wage Mining requires electricity. The current main industries of Wage Mining are copper and aluminum ores and copper and aluminum ingots. The total annual export volume is about RMB 200 million.

The two hundred million yuan is just the number reported by Wage Mining to the Wage Municipal Government. The resource tax paid every year is based on this number, but in fact it is far more.

According to the internal materials obtained by Sima Zhi, its output is equivalent to the price of similar products in the international market, and the total export volume should be around 500 million Romanian yuan. Wage Mining has concealed 60% of its mining volume. The local authorities of Wage have never grasped this situation, let alone anyone to take charge of it.

During the mining process of copper mines, there are also associated gold and silver mines. The quantity of these products is not large, but the cumulative amount is actually quite considerable.

In addition, there are many other mineral deposits within the territory of Wage City, many of which are valuable for mining in Sima Zhi's eyes, such as tungsten and manganese. In the early years, someone organized a comprehensive exploration, and now the most detailed information is in the hands of Wage Mining.

However, Wage Mining currently only mines three products: coal, copper, and aluminum. Among them, coal only meets the needs of its own pit-head power plants, while copper and aluminum are all exported, and the scale of production is very limited.

This is not because they do not want to exploit other mineral deposits, but from a benefit perspective, the existing production scale and production methods are the most economical. If you want to open a mine, you need a qualified labor force. They have hired nearly 20,000 local workers, which is already the limit, and they also need special training.

This is a limitation of population size and education level. It is impossible for Wage Mining to invest resources in this area and can only use existing resources. From an infrastructure perspective, without the transportation guarantee of railways and ports, more mined ores cannot be transported, and there is no local processing capacity, let alone digestion.

Therefore, under the current conditions, concentrating resources to exploit the most profitable copper and aluminum mines is already at the peak of the benefit curve based on the current production scale. As for the mining rights of all minerals in the state, they can only be regarded as reserve reserves and reflected in the asset valuation on the financial statements.

There is still oil in the uninhabited Wage Desert. When the oil was first discovered, the Yimaile Group was ecstatic for a time. However, after many cost calculations, they decided not to exploit it for the time being and could only use it as a reserve.

The reason is also very simple. Not far to the north of Kilili Country is the largest oil-producing area in the world. The crude oil there is not only of high quality but also has extremely low mining costs. It has already had the most mature industrial scale.

Not far from the outer sea of ​​Kilili Country, there is one of the busiest waterways in the world. Large oil tankers pass by every day. It is very convenient to import crude oil and petroleum products. Why did the Port of Africa first build a heavy oil power station to solve the power supply gap? Because importing heavy oil for power generation is indeed convenient and cheap.

If everything were to be started from scratch, building a new oil field in the Wage Desert would be a huge upfront investment that would require profit output over many years to amortize the cost.

The comprehensive cost of transporting the crude oil extracted here to the nearest terminal is much higher than the CIF price of crude oil imported from several northern oil-producing countries. In the final analysis, the infrastructure here is too backward. As long as it falls behind one step, it will fall behind step by step.

In Wali Xi's office, Sima Zhi not only obtained detailed information about Wage Mining, Hua Zhenxing, who appeared as Wali Xi, also obtained another exploration report from Sima Zhi, about the northern part of Fiso Port. Distribution of mineral resources in wasteland areas.

In the early years, Mo Shangtong led the members of the Straw Shoe Gang to explore in that area. Later, the new alliance organized a special geological exploration expedition team, of which Sima Zhui was a member.

The first phase of the scientific expedition team's work has been completed. Since the New Alliance immediately launched an action to liberate Wage City, the detailed summary of information has not been finalized until now. Hua Zhenxing got it as soon as possible.

Hua Zhenxing has purchased more than 100,000 square kilometers of wilderness and mountains north of Fesuo Port through Huanxiang Industrial. It is also the territory where he will build Zhenxing State in the future, so he will send such a scientific expedition team.

There are also various mineable mineral deposits in that area, including copper ore, aluminum ore, non-ferrous metal ore, coal mine, iron ore and oil. The specific reserves and quality need to be further explored.

The distribution and types of mineral resources in the future Zhenxing State are highly similar to the current Wage City, but it is still a wasteland, and at least Wage Mining already exists here.

Therefore, a comprehensive understanding and mastery of the situation of Wage Mining is not only a guarantee for the future industrial development of Kilili Country, but also a way to accumulate experience and cultivate talents for the plan to build Zhenxing State.

Why did Sima Zhi end up in Wallich's office? Because the working group he leads has been fully stationed in Wage Mining, his dedicated office is diagonally opposite Wallich's office, making it easier to communicate at any time if there are any problems.

This was a decision made by Warich himself, rather than an arrangement made by Hua Zhenxing pretending to be Warich. Of course, it seemed impossible for Warich not to make this decision, because this was Feng Zibin's suggestion.

So where is Wallich now? He was on the construction site and had an Eastern Mandarin name - Wagliang.

Are there any surnames in the Eastern Kingdom with the surname Wa? After all, this is the country of Jili. The New Alliance has recently implemented a resident registration system. Locals can use a Dongguo character as their surname. Hua Zhenxing arranged a new identity for Warisi, and his surname was Wa.

When Vaglian appeared on the construction site, many workers had great sympathy for him. Some people directly asked: "Poor guy, how much money did you lose?"

Loba faces with lighter skin can often be seen on construction sites, but most of them are managers or technicians, and at the last they are security team captains or something like that. Some of them were sent from Luobazhou, and some were hired locally.

There are residents of various colors and ethnicities in Jili State. Otherwise, where would Sima Zhi have collected the "Three Lakes and Twelve Hairpins" from in the first place?

According to incomplete statistics, there are millions of Chinese people of Eastern descent living in the Black Wasteland.

These people are either here for business or construction, and many more are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from various eras for various reasons. Many of them do not have local nationality, but once they start a family and start a business and adapt to the living environment and lifestyle here, it is not easy for them to leave.

As for the immigrants or remnants of Luoba origin, the number here is even greater. Except for a small number of stationed personnel, most of them are leftovers from the colonial era.

When their ancestors came to such a dangerous and remote place, except for a small number of noble leaders, most of the rest were exiled criminals, bandits who committed murder and swindled goods, and civilian servants who could not survive in their place of origin, etc.

After they came here, they transformed themselves into the superior civilized people of the overlord country... These are all things of the past, but many things are still left behind today.

The first-line miners in Wage Mining are almost all local indigenous people, and faces like Wallis rarely appear. So everyone followed the usual thinking and thought that this poor guy must owe a lot of money to the gang, so he was sent here to work as a miner.

As for the outside world, which has changed and the new alliance has eradicated all gangs, how could something like this still happen? Their minds still didn't turn around immediately.

Unfortunately, Wallich didn't understand what the workers were asking, so it was impossible to answer or explain. Wallisy masters several languages. His native language is Lansi, and he can also speak English and Chinese. He can even speak a few simple sentences in Panya and Goya, but he cannot understand the local dialect.

Fortunately, the foreman who led their team of workers could speak a few simple words in English, and at least he could communicate with Wallich, otherwise the job would have been impossible.

Wallish's arrival was like a white crow among a group of black crows, making everyone excited and even surprised. Although language communication was not smooth, Wallisi could still detect that the workers had a feeling of "it turns out that people like you are just like us." Seeing him seemed to have regained some self-esteem.

The co-workers often find troubles to bully him for fun. Seeing their happy faces, Wallisi can actually feel that these people are very envious of him. The reason why they like to bully him is partly due to this reason. Human nature is so real. So complicated!

One time, his co-workers went too far in bullying him and robbed him of his mobile phone. Finally, he received criticism and education from the work committee member sent by the New Alliance, and the mine also cooperated with the working group to punish them.

Wallich came to work as a miner and didn't bring anything else. Even the clothes were prepared by Feng Zibin and he only kept a mobile phone. Because the headquarters may contact him if something happens, so he should hold his mobile phone to deal with the situation at any time. Anyway, the miners around him can't understand Lanxi.

Wallich was not wearing makeup, but no one here knew him. Even if a company executive happened to pass by and glance at him, he would be completely unrecognizable with his dirty body and face, and his messy hair and beard.

In the first few days after arriving at the construction site, his only entertainment in his free time was to use his mobile phone. The co-workers were very envious of this, and some people couldn't stand it. Why was he the only one who could use his mobile phone? That's why the phone was taken away.

In fact, even if you take away his mobile phone, it seems to be of no use. Do you want to read the news and at least be literate? Even if it is a lot of audio and video content, it must be understood.

Another function of Warisi's mobile phone is that he can report the situation to Feng Zibin at any time and make various suggestions...

In short, the most difficult first week was finally over. The thing that Wallis looked forward to the most was the arrival of the working group in Wage Mining. Working groups were set up in each mining area and special working committee members were assigned.

The new alliance working group is investigating the working and living conditions of the miners and is preparing to establish various activity organizations. Due to various factors, Vaglian actively signed up. This would at least be good for his current situation, and he also knew that Lord Feng Zibin would definitely want him to do this.

A week later, Wallis finally saw Feng Zibin again, in his own office, and was quietly brought here in the middle of the night. Feng Zibin smiled gently and asked: "Mr. Wa, you have called me several times this week, and you have complained every time. Do you plan to complain today?"

Wallich held his cell phone this week and did not receive any calls from the headquarters. He once said that there are many things here that he cannot decide, but there are many things that are completely up to him. As the saying goes, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. As long as the Yimailei Group's production tasks are completed without causing trouble, the headquarters will not bother to care about what is happening here.

As for the subordinates here, they usually don't call Wallich's personal mobile phone. Wallisy's habit is to talk about work during working hours and at the working place. He has seemed very lonely in the six months since he came here. So he only called the number left by Feng Zibin this week, mainly with various complaints.

Wallisy replied: "I'm not complaining, I'm stating the facts!"

Feng Zibin: "Let me sum it up for you. You first want to improve the food, and then you want to improve the accommodation and sanitation conditions. You also want to strengthen the education and management of workers and organize more leisure activities..."

Wallich: "Yes, I have been sleeping in a doghouse this week and eating pig food! Also, the construction site I am at is too dangerous and there are many safety hazards. I'm afraid you haven't cured it yet. My illness will kill me first!"

Feng Zibin: "The working group entrusted by Wage Municipal Government will conduct a major inspection of production safety and propose rectification suggestions. How about starting from the mining area where you work?"

Wallich: "Of course, as soon as possible!"

Feng Zibin: "Then you sign this letter of commitment and memorandum, as well as the several opinions you just mentioned. I have also compiled specific implementation measures. You can also sign. Your staff may not know How to implement it, but the various working groups will assist.”

Wallisy took the two documents and read them carefully for a long time. His eyes were a little red for no reason, and he signed his name with a long sigh. Feng Zibin took out a Five Qi Pill and said, "This treatment can begin. It may take a long time, so you have to be mentally prepared."