Chapter 1000 We Don’t Eat Alone

Cooperation with Huaguo Guodian is an important part of the global power grid plan. I am not afraid that Jia Zhengrong is timid and will not buy enough, but I am afraid that he does not dare to open this hole. Jiang Chen didn't believe it. He refused to buy electricity that cost less than 10 cents, but insisted on spending tens of billions to respond to the central government's call for zero-emission thermal power.

Do you think thermal power pollutes a lot? Do you also want to add a filter behind the chimney? It just so happens that we still think the cost of thermal power is high!

Importing oil to generate electricity is not importing? Wouldn't it be better if we just buy the electricity directly? Once this transmission line is signed, there will be no need to worry about energy subsidies. The thermal power station will be closed directly. The freed-up power generation quota will be used to import, and a large amount of the budget for purchasing coal and oil will be saved.

If you have this spare money, you might as well give more benefits to your employees, organize more study tours abroad, and update the means of transportation for leaders who come and go through thick and thin. These are all good things that benefit the country and the people!

After signing the letter of intent, Jia Zhengrong was particularly concerned about this undersea power transmission line. He first took a boat to the sea to inspect the power transmission and distribution station, and then took the initiative to talk with people from Starlink Trading. Jiang Chen saw that the matter was almost settled, so he entrusted Xia Shiyu with full authority.

We can make appropriate concessions on transmission lines and strive for more power export quotas in the first year. China's national power generation exceeded 6 trillion kilowatt-hours last year. This market is larger than the sum of the countries Jiang Chen had visited before, and it must be developed with priority.

Putting aside the matter of delineating the global power grid for now, during the time when Jiang Chen returned to the apocalypse recently, a major event happened in this world.

With the cooperation of the New China Space Administration, Halo Trading promulgated the "2019 Halo Trading Outer Space Resource Development Plan". With a stroke of a pen, it directly listed a total of 9 asteroids closest to the Earth-Moon system. for mining purposes.

No one doubts whether the Star Ring trade will succeed. After all, the Bennu asteroid has proven their strength. The size of the remaining nine asteroids is smaller than Bennu, and their mineral reserves are unknown. Maybe there's just a bunch of broken rocks on it, or maybe it's a diamond a hundred times the size of the Star of Africa.

Developing the universe is a gamble. The important thing is not what is on it, but that Star Ring Trade has the ability to develop space resources on a large scale. But this involves another problem. Although there are many asteroids in space, there are not many that are easy to mine.

When NASA saw it, it was immediately unhappy. Although the resources in outer space belong to all mankind, and the default rule is that whoever picks them up belongs to whoever picks them up, but you have now "planned" a few asteroids that are easiest to mine. , are we still having fun?

It's your ability to get ahead of everyone, but it's your fault to be a solitary eater.

I am not happy about it, but no one jumps out to object. Why? It’s not because Xinguo has great reputation,

It's because Star Halo Trade announced a plan in a "very sensible" way, explaining the previously announced "2019 Star Halo Trade Outer Space Resource Development Plan" and willing to transfer these 9 asteroids. All contracted out.

A spacecraft without mining? It doesn’t matter, Star Ring Trading will lend it to you! No transport ship? It doesn’t matter, don’t borrow it, I’ll sell it to you directly! As long as the minimum production value stipulated in the contract is mined within the contract period, the contracting rights for this asteroid will still be yours.

Occupying the latrine and not pooping? Then substitute someone else! There are still many people queuing up behind!

On the surface, Starlink Trading contracted out these nine asteroids, and it seemed that it could not withstand the pressure and gave up part of its profits. But if you think about it carefully, anyone with a little discernment can see that Jiang Chen's move is simply bad.

It's best not to eat alone. If you build a bridge to collect tolls, no one may blame you, but if you put the bridge here and don't allow others to walk on it, then you will be hated by others. But Jiang Chen was not satisfied with just collecting tolls. Not only did he collect the tolls mercilessly, he also planned to let these people crossing the bridge help him work on the other side of the bridge.

Regardless of whether the asteroids are buried with gold or slag, even if you mine them back, you can't throw them directly into the atmosphere, right? If you can't build your own space elevator, you still have to pull it to Halo City.

This isn't the end of the story, just transport the ore and the stone back to the surface, thank you!

After getting to Star Ring City, it is best to process it on the space station of Star Ring City. Iron ore can be smelted into steel, and titanium ore can be smelted into titanium ingots. We won’t cheat you either. It’s up to you whether you want to use the space station for future mining industry processing or the space station processing for foreign companies. Anyway, they are all connected to the Star Ring City. But after all, we are on the territory of a new country. It’s not too much for us to charge a transaction tax, right?

Settled in US dollars?

Sorry, the law has stipulated that there is only one currency recognized here in Star Circle City, and that is the New Dollar.

Whether you bring the produced ingots back to the ground and sell them to the international market, or sell them directly to local factories in Star Circle City, no one will care about you. The export of mineral ingots is the same as the export of ore. There is no need to pay export taxes in the new country. At most, you have to pay a space elevator transportation fee and port management and usage fees on the ground.

After calculating the expenses, the money basically went into the pockets of Star Ring Trading. However, the cost of these mineral ingots is still lower than the average price in the international market. These have nothing to do with the relationship between supply and demand, purely because the taste of space ore is too high, and the impurity composition is relatively simple. With the mining equipment and transportation equipment of the Star Ring Trade, the mining cost of these ores is also pitifully low.

There is no need to worry about the environmental issues of mining, and there is no need to pay a series of additional taxes such as mining taxes, education, and urban construction. There is no such thing as a "local government" for asteroids in outer space. Whoever mines them belongs to them. Although they had to pay various fees to Star Ring Trading, in general they got some benefits.

We don’t want to eat alone, so you have to give us some benefits, right?

As for renting equipment and selling transport ships, Jiang Chen had other concerns.

Aren't you jealous of my skills? It's easy to say, I'll sell it to you directly. Anyway, it's impossible to transport this thing to the ground in a space elevator. Although I sold it to you, you can still only use it at the port of Star Circle City.

If you insist on making a hard landing with your head on the ground, fish out the parts from the wreckage and study it, that's up to you. Your safety qualification certificate will be revoked. If you want to buy it in the future, we won't sell it. Just build a factory and produce it yourself. As for reverse engineering, when the technological gap reaches a certain level, even if I sell you a prototype, you still have to have the theoretical foundation to do research.

Jiang Chen felt that his trick was really amazing!

Star Ring Trade does not have to pay a penny, and all risks are borne by international friends. Future People Heavy Industries is doing its best to increase production capacity and produce transport ships, mining ships, and space stations that are ordered by various countries. Future People Mining is not idle either. Various countries mine enough ore to keep its ore processing units running.

If all these nine asteroids are developed by mining companies in the future, ten more hands will not be able to develop them this year. But if other countries are dragged into the water, nine more asteroids the size of Bennu will not be enough.

Even though Star Ring Trade gave up some of its profits, what it gained was far more than what it would have been like to eat alone. Not only that, but you can also use other people’s money to improve your own production capacity. Where else can you find such a good thing?

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