Chapter 0492 The Beggar with the Golden Bowl

Rather than called a cable car, it is more appropriate to call the electric railroad car. Rail car is about a meter and a half wide like, car bucket belly is very big, inside can stand up side by side three or four people, Hu Rong accompanied Feng Chen two professors, first on a car, below the electric gate closed, rail car slowly to the mountain up.

Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei is the second wave to go up, this car on the two of them, standing in the inside is very spacious, railroad car speed is not fast, but after a few minutes, but also rose to halfway up the mountainside, look at the silhouettes of the mountain, is already becoming small.

“Brother Zhuang, about thirty kilometers past here is the location on the map where that gold was buried.”

Peng Fei’s words made Zhuang Rui froze for a moment, and he hurriedly looked up and down, the upper and lower two railcars were still a few tens of meters away from him, and only then did he follow the direction of Peng Fei’s finger.

“That’s Savage Mountain?”

In the direction of Peng Fei’s finger, Zhuang Rui could only see the rolling mountains and lush forests. The sky-high trees that rose up from the ground gave people a mysterious and secluded feeling.

“Yes, it’s that direction, it can’t be wrong.”

The people in front and behind were far away from themselves, and Peng Fei wasn’t afraid of being heard by them, pointing to a distant hill and saying, “If my visual inspection isn’t wrong, thirty kilometers, that’s almost the distance from here to that hill ……”

“Hiss ……”

Although Zhuang Rui had long been psychologically prepared, but after looking at that mountain, his mouth still sucked in a mouthful of cold air, he would not think that if he could see from here, he could easily find his way over, as the saying goes, looking at the mountain, this thirty kilometers of distance is much harder to walk than what he had imagined.

“In fact, this place is already considered a savage mountain, from the bottom of the mountain can lead there, just don’t know if there is a path to go, otherwise, I’m afraid that three or four hours are not enough to go back and forth.”

Peng Fei also frowned, from here to the past, all are mountain paths, and there are jungles everywhere, Peng Fei is not afraid of getting lost, but the beasts in the jungle, poisonous snakes as well as that miasma, all can be fatal. Bringing Zhuang Rui with him, he really didn’t have much certainty that he could protect Zhuang Rui’s safety.

“Let’s see the opportunity! Maybe we’ll go back at night.”

Zhuang Rui heard Peng Fei’s words, his heart is also half cool, although the gold is attractive, but the life is more important, Zhuang Rui is not a person who lacks money, the reason why he found this place, it is the curiosity of his heart, now he sees this situation, his heart has already beaten the drum of retreat.

Peng Fei nodded silently, he only cared about Zhuang Rui’s safety, on those gold although curious, but not greedy, imagine the previous value of hundreds of millions of dollars of drugs in front of him, he did not move.

This railroad car rising speed is very slow, look not very high mountain, but the slope is very long, after half an hour before rising to the top of the mountain above.

The entire top of the hill, has been leveled, became a huge platform, thousands of people here busy working, actually still seven or eight “strange hand” excavator, really do not know Hu Rong is with what way to transport it up.

The work on the hill is divided into several kinds, some people are following the strange hand excavator behind the inspection of jadeite raw stone, some people are in the mountain perforation blasting, there are some people in a few deep pit up and down, anyway, in addition to just come up Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei, even Hu Rong and the two professors, are busy.

The two professors are squatting on the ground to look at those excavated rocks, in order to distinguish their generation age has been the crustal condition at that time, in order to analyze whether this is the environment for emerald growth, and so on a little while, it is estimated that they also have to go down to the pit to check.

“How, old brother, this is the emerald mine, this is our territory, you casually see, no one will stop you, also help old brother to see, here in the end whether the waste mine?”

After Hu Rong saw Zhuang Rui come up, he called over a steward on the mountain to accompany the two professors, and walked over to Zhuang Rui himself.

“Brother Hu, I just came with to have some fun, but I don’t have the ability to look at the veins!”

“It’s fine, feel free to turn around! The most you can do is to shut down this mine ……”

A bitter smile appeared on Hu Rong’s face, it was a simple statement, but if it was really shut down, then Hu’s would be greatly injured.

“If the investment is not much, shutting down is also not bad ……” Zhuang Rui said with conviction.

Hu Rong heard like being stepped on the tail of the cat in general, almost jumped up, the style of the whole stared at the eyes and said: “Investment is not much? Buddy, I have invested 80 million dollars into it! In addition to the money paid to the government, is that these infrastructures, have spent almost 20 million U.S. dollars, if not energy output emerald, this time the old brother will be miserable.”

Zhuang Rui is his own people, Hu Rong is not afraid of exposing himself to the short, the pressure in the heart for a long time words are said out.

“Eight …… eighty million dollars? There are so many?”

Zhuang Rui heard was startled, according to the current market exchange rate, 80 million U.S. dollars is almost equal to 650 million yuan, this number can be really not small, their own Xinjiang jade mine, the total value of the jade mine, but in the fifteen billion or so, the input is just a few tens of millions of dollars, I did not expect that this emerald mine investment is so huge.

“Alas, old brother I this time is a mistake.”

Hu Rong sighed and gave Zhuang Rui the ins and outs of this matter.

It turns out that this new mine, is a major jade company and the government of Myanmar joint exploration, at that time all kinds of exploration results show that this mine contains an extremely rich jade veins, can be called the first big mine in Myanmar, so in the late bidding, attracted the major companies crazy bidding.

Due to Hu Rong family original those old pits, have been mined almost, continue the new mine to expand the business, and exploration of this mine, Hu’s company is also involved in, agreed that it is a rich mine, so Hu Rong at that time spent a lot of money, took the right to mine the mine.

In addition to pay all the original company’s combined, nearly 20 million U.S. dollars in exploration costs, and to the Burmese government paid 30 million U.S. dollars in deposits, plus the first seven or eight of the investment here, the total cost has reached 80 million U.S. dollars, if there is no income, Hu’s company this time on the loss of a great deal of money.

Because the Burmese military government also possesses ten percent of the dry shares, in the tender is clearly written in the minimum standard amount of dividends, that is, there is no output, Hu’s company also need to pay money to the government, unless the hand to this mine to sell out, just now this situation, no one is stupid, there is no one will take over.

“Brother Hu, the price you spent to buy this mine is too big, right? Pay the exploration fee is understandable, pay the deposit is also very normal, but the government of this ten percent of the shares to sit and wait for dividends, this condition is too harsh, the jadeite is not mined, who dares to say that will certainly earn?”

Understand the ins and outs of the matter, Zhuang Rui is shaking his head, he and the Jade Prince cooperation of the jade mine, pressure on the government is nothing, but I heard that recently introduced a document, the government is also to begin to rectify, but for the previous has been mined mine, is not going to move.

“Alas, the competition was too fierce, if I do not add this condition, simply can not take down this mine.”

No need to Zhuang Rui said, Hu Rong has long been remorseful, just the contract has been signed, if he unilaterally tear up the contract, then it will be suppressed by the Burmese government and all the mining companies together, the consequences of this is to be more serious than paying a little bit of money to the Burmese government every year.

“Hu, didn’t the government pay for this upfront investment of yours?”

“Let them contribute? Joke, they’re so poor they’re counting on taking money out of our pockets!” Hu Rong said without any humor.

Myanmar’s military government, to put it bluntly, does not care about anything, in this part of Myanmar, there is no such thing as taxes, so the Myanmar government is poor and the callow, in order to support the army, it can only sell resources to the death.

In order to support the army, can only be dead to sell resources. The main income of the finance, naturally, in these resource companies, want to mine new mines, it must be through the government’s consent, and there are enough benefits to be able to carry out, they only care about the money, and other things are not asked, you are the whole of Burma are dug up, they do not bring more than a question.

“This …… is also OK?” Zhuang Rui heard is dumbfounded.

“This is nothing, to say that Burma and China trade, that is more called outrageous it, the trade distribution model between these two sides, do you know what it is like?”

Zhuang Rui shook his head.

“That is the Chinese side to take away everything, the Burmese people get nothing ……” Hu Rong in speaking, do not know whether to be proud of their own motherland, or should be for their own living in Burma feel sad.

Zhuang Rui at this time has long been listening to stupid eyes, dare to do business like this is also OK?

As I said earlier, Myanmar is basically a half-divided anarchic country, the central annual revenue is only 2.5 billion yuan, this money is used in China, probably able to build half a university, or build 20 kilometers of high-speed railroads, in short, for a country, this money is equivalent to nothing.

As a result, the Burmese government has neither the ability to quell secession, for which war is an unimaginable luxury, nor the ability to cope with disasters, while the Chinese government’s buyout for an earthquake is often measured in hundreds of billions of dollars, nor does it have the ability to maintain its economic sovereignty, with any random large Chinese corporation having more money than the Burmese government.

At the same time, because Myanmar traditionally has no tax burden, the military government, for the sake of political stability, is even more afraid to levy all kinds of taxes, and as a result, the tax law is virtually null and void, and the national treasury has no source at all.

Under the specific circumstances of Myanmar, the government even has problems in maintaining the formal existence of the country, so the only way out for the government at all levels, from the central to the local level, is to sell its resources.