Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 225, Yumi Xiaofu Boddington Gold Mine

August 1960, Zhao Mancang’s home on Zhongguancun South Street.

The house is particularly lively today, with many more little kids coming to play. Dahei and Xiaohei are squatting at the door of the living room, grinning and watching with their tongues sticking out.

The capital city during the dog days of summer is no different from the south, it is extremely hot.

Zhao Huijun, Hu Xiaohua and other children were playing games in the yard, chasing and fighting, and were already sweating profusely.

But for these children, being happy is the most important thing, and whether the weather is hot or not doesn’t matter much.

If it's really hot, take a break.

"Huijun, your father is back."

While playing, when Yu Shumeng saw Zhao Mancang appear at the gate of the courtyard, she immediately spoke.

The greedy little cat immediately left her little friend and ran over.

"Dad, you're back."

At present, she is the eldest child in the family and the one who is most attached to Zhao Mancang. As long as Zhao Mancang returns home, she will stick to him and not let go.

"Well, I'm back."

It is now mid-August, and Zhao Mancang has resumed training. He goes to get off work and comes home as usual at No. 8 Guozi Lane during the day, and then goes home after get off work.

The interrogation of Yang Xingtang and the other four has ended, but no further clues were found, so the matter remains as it is.

Zhao Mancang had no complaints about this.

The higher-ups took this matter very seriously and sent several more guards to the front and back yards of Zhao Mancang's house. They also asked the nearby police station to set up a special patrol team.

There is no way. Zhao Mancang is too important to the leaders above and he must not be allowed to fail.

Therefore, Zhao Mancang no longer needs to hide when he goes out, and there is no way to hide.

There were people at the door and nearby, so Zhao Mancang drove in and out openly. Even if he went out at three or four in the morning, no one said anything.

"Look at you. I told you not to play so wildly, but you just wouldn't listen. Now you're sweating all over, right?"

Lin Wan pointed at Zhao Huijun and scolded her, but the little girl just smiled foolishly and didn't explain.

Zhao Mancang did not say anything. After all, educating the children was Lin Wan's responsibility. It was not appropriate for him to interrupt at this time because it would easily undermine her dignity as a mother.

After a while, Lin Wan discussed with Zhao Mancang that they might as well send her to school in September.

"This is a good suggestion. She is over six years old now, and it's time for her to go to school." Zhao Mancang said with a smile.

He is in kindergarten this year and first grade next year, which is just right.

Other children go to kindergarten at the age of three or four, and kindergarten teachers teach them some basic preschool knowledge such as literacy and arithmetic.

Of course, Zhao Huijun has learned something before. She can read and even recite the multiplication table.

"Really? Then can I really go to school?"

When the little kid heard that he could go to school, he was very excited and looking forward to it, and had no intention of not wanting to go to school at all.

Because going to school means she can get to know more children of the same age.

Zhao Mancang and Lin Wan looked at each other and really hoped that the little greedy cat could always be so happy.

When she goes to school, she will find that attending classes is not that easy, because there will be a lot of homework. School is not a huge playground. Her happy childhood will probably only last one or two years.

The next day, Zhao Mancang came to the Oncology Department of the PLA General Hospital. There was an operation going on today, and he was there to supervise.

After more than a month of study and practice, Yan Shirong, Sheng Lixiang and others finally learned several surgical methods, including the bundled pancreaticojejunostomy proposed by Zhao Mancang.

Now that you have learned it, you must put it into practice.

Of course, in order to ensure the success rate, the supervisor Zhao Mancang must watch from the side, otherwise, Yan Shirong and the others would probably have no confidence.

The person lying on the hospital bed was none other than Lian Qiufang, and this was one of the reasons why Zhao Mancang came to supervise in person.

Lian Qiufang still lives in Caoyuan Hutong, and she still needs her help to "guard" that house. After all, her second uncle Xu Pingxiu is the director of the street office, and only such a person can deter villains.

Everything is ready and the operation officially begins.

Zhao Mancang wore a mask and stood aside, watching Yan Shirong's movements. As long as the other party did not make any mistakes, he would not speak.

Today's round of surgery will take a long time.

Compared with Zhao Mancang's previous operation which only took five and a half hours, Yan Shirong and his team spent more than eight hours this time.

Standing for eight hours at a time and requiring long periods of concentration is a huge adjustment for all doctors.

During this process, Zhao Mancang reminded Yan Shirong twelve times, each time a very fatal point.

Some tissues that he did not remove could easily cause accidents after the operation.

Even though Lian Qiufang's pancreatic cancer was only in the middle or late stage, not the late stage, Yan Shirong might still have missed something during the operation.

It is understandable that so many mistakes occurred when performing such an operation for the first time, but for the patient, it is extremely irresponsible and unforgivable.

Zhao Mancang didn't say anything on the spot. Anyway, someone would come to talk to Yan Shirong afterwards.

After eight hours, the operation was not over. After confirming that all the operations had been completed in Lian Qiufang's abdominal cavity without any omissions, Zhao Mancang asked Yan Shirong and others to perform routine sutures and end today's operation.

It lasted for nearly two hours before it finally ended.

In other words, Zhao Mancang stood in this operating room for a whole day.

After it was over, Zhao Mancang felt very tired. When he returned home, he sat down to rest.

Being a doctor is not a job that most people can stick to.

In the blink of an eye, it was September and Zhao Huijun was going to school.

She had to go to school, but Zhao Mancang only had to go to work and did not go out on any mission.

In the short term, Zhao Mancang will stay in the capital and will not need to travel around.

After Yuan Zuliang, Qiu Shigui, Zuo Changsheng and others came back for vacation, they were sent out one after another.

The excavation in Mindanao can still be continued. It depends on our luck whether we can really dig up some gold treasures.

"Are you happy on your first day of school?"

Today, Zhao Mancang came to pick her up at the elementary school gate. He didn't drive or ride a bicycle, but just walked.

Because the total distance is only more than 500 meters, there is no need to drive, you can just walk.

"happy!"

Zhao Huijun was carrying a small army green schoolbag, with a happy smile on her little face. She held her father's big hand and skipped around while talking about the happy things that happened today.

On the first day of class, she met many children of the same age, which of course made her very happy.

She was so happy that she exploded at the thought of having so many children to play with in the future.

On the first day of school, the school does not assign many learning tasks, or even no learning tasks at all. It just hands out some textbooks and asks them to bring hoes, sickles, brooms and other things back to school the next day to do a thorough cleaning.

There is no way. After two months of summer vacation, the school is overgrown with weeds, and we must deal with these weeds.

Zhao Mancang had seen the campus of this school and found it to be quite good.

If it is on a campus in the south, the weeds can grow very tall in just one summer vacation.

Even before summer vacation every year, a thorough cleaning is needed, and after school starts in September, a thorough cleaning is also needed.

Even so, small animals such as snakes often appear in overgrown areas, scaring the students to death.

Only the male students in the upper grades, such as fifth and sixth grades, are relatively brave and dare to catch snakes.

However, the school where Zhao Huijun and her classmates attend does not have such a problem. They only need to deal with the weeds on the playground, and their respective classrooms also need to be cleaned.

When she got home, Zhao Mancang prepared a broom for her and placed it behind the front gate, waiting for her to take it directly to school the next day.

On her first day of school, she was more active than anyone else.

Lin Wan, Zhang Dongyue and the others all looked at the scene with smiles on their faces, and each guessed how long she could maintain such a positive attitude.

Zhang Dongyue said half a month, Lin Wan said twenty days, and Zhao Mancang thought for a moment and gave a month.

Regardless of whether it is one month or half a month, it is a very rare experience for Zhao Huijun, so let her continue to maintain this mood.

I go to school with great anticipation every day and come back happily.

Half a month later, Zhao Huijun was still as positive, or even more positive.

Because she found the content in class too simple, the teacher praised her several times.

All I can say is that when she was at home, her parents made her learn and practice a lot of words and math in advance, so she was much ahead of other classmates.

"Do you want to continue to be praised by the teacher?"

"think?"

"Here, this is the calligraphy copybook I bought for you. Practice five pages every day, and write each word carefully. After you finish, don't refer to the copybook. Continue writing in your own exercise book to see how you do."

In order to cultivate Zhao Huijun, Zhao Mancang also "patiently and kindly guides" the little guy to learn actively.

As long as she is trained well, Zhao Mancang will have one more person to help train children like Xiao Taozi, Xiao Baozi, and Xiao Shitou.

It’s not that Zhao Mancang will not help tutor Xiao Taozi and the others in their studies in the future, but Zhao Mancang knows very well that there will always be times when he is not at home, so the task of tutoring Xiao Taozi and the others will fall on Zhao Huijun.

"Okay, Dad!"

At this time, Zhao Huijun had a very positive attitude towards learning. She ate well, had something to play, and was praised by her teacher. Her parents also praised her when she came back, so she was so positive.

As for whether this positive attitude can be maintained, no one knows.

As of now, Zhang Dongyue’s previous guess about the time of half a month was definitely wrong.

For Zhang Dongyue, guessing wrong is actually better.

Even Zhao Mancang hoped that he was wrong and hoped that Zhao Huijun could hold on a little longer.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Mancang appeared in the right lane of Ji'anso and went to the ghost market with Tong Debin and others.

The Ghost Market was introduced to this place by Tong Debin and others, and Zhao Mancang just went there to take a look, satisfy his curiosity, and gain some experience points, that's all.

Otherwise, he would probably have gone there alone instead of with Tong Debin and the others.

After arriving at the place, Zhao Mancang was greatly disappointed.

Because the ghost market is smaller than places like the pigeon market, and there are even fewer people, only about a dozen people or so, which is really very small.

I really don’t know how a city of this scale can be called a city?

Although disappointed, Zhao Mancang still observed carefully.

However, there are very few precious antiques here, and it is likely that he came at the wrong time.

In addition, Zhao Mancang did not see any acquaintances, and he did not know whether the tomb raiders he knew before would appear here.

Two years ago, he had several dealings with tomb raiders such as Li Jiping, Luo Haidong, and Zheng Wanyong.

However, the gold bracelets and other things he had obtained from them had already been sold by him.

He also replaced the gold bracelet that Lin Wan had worn before. Antique gold jewelry was not suitable to be worn, and Zhao Mancang was not short of gold, so when he was in Hong Kong and Kowloon, he specially asked someone to remake an identical gold bracelet for her.

After staying in the ghost market for more than half an hour, Zhao Mancang still didn't see Luo Haidong and the others. He guessed that these people really left the capital, or he just happened not to meet them.

After spending a little money and getting two pretty good antiques, Zhao Mancang left the ghost market.

Tong Debin and his friends were fleeced by him again. They didn't gain much experience points, but it was worth the trip.

In the morning, Zhao Mancang returned to No. 8 Guozi Lane, and Wei Huayong gave him a task, which was to go to Mindanao.

It has been such a long time since Yuan Zuliang and his team came back, but there is still no good news. Especially for Lu Guangyuan and Xi Wenrong who have been staying in Mindanao since May and June. It has been more than four months, and there is still no good news.

Wei Huayong was worried that Xi Wenrong and the others would stay there forever.

This is not good news, so Zhao Mancang must take action.

Of course, this is not the only reason.

Zhao Mancang has been resting in the capital for a long time. It takes a thousand days to train an army and only a moment to deploy it. We can't let him stay in the capital forever, right?

And the purse above is actually almost empty now.

It shouldn't be like this. After all, there is still some gold left from the 20 million ounces of gold that Zhao Mancang brought back before, and the 8,000 tons of rutile transaction completed last time also brought in less than 900 million US dollars in gold and US dollar cash.

So even if the money is spent quickly, there should still be hundreds of millions of dollars in gold and US dollar cash, right?

But in fact, the government still needs to repay Moscow a lot of money, a total of 5.743 billion yuan, of which more than 3 billion yuan is the arms debt owed during the Korean War and some naval equipment debts in 1955.

The remaining two billion or so are the funds invested by Moscow in heavy industries, as well as the money owed by Moscow to our East Asia due to its trade surplus.

A few months ago, in May and June, before withdrawing the Moscow experts, Khrushchev sent a telegram to the I-building on Ministry of Foreign Affairs Street and other units, declaring that the total debt we needed to repay was 35 billion new rubles.

To a certain extent, this telegram is actually a debt collection.

And this amount of money is definitely not right, because the total debt is RMB 5.743 billion, and before 1960, we had already paid off RMB 3.3 billion by swapping assets for debts.

There is still 2.443 billion yuan left to be paid off.

According to the current exchange rate between RMB and USD, 2.443 billion RMB is approximately 1.162 billion USD.

Therefore, in order to relieve themselves, the authorities planned to pay off these debts before the end of this year.

At the beginning of September, we had stopped repaying debts with pork and other supplies, which resulted in the director of the Moscow Supply Department being sent back to Moscow directly.

Precisely because of this plan, Zhao Mancang of course needs to take action.

Just as he was accepting the order, in Moscow, in his office in the Kremlin, Khrushchev was furious.

"Where did they get the money? Are you guys in the KGB all idiots? Why didn't you gather such important intelligence? And who's the guy left behind in the capital? Andrei Razov, right? Does he sleep all day? How come he doesn't even know this little bit of information?"

In fact, it is not surprising that Khrushchev was so angry, because the University of Tokyo suddenly repaid a debt of more than 500 million US dollars, and repaid it in the form of gold and US dollar cash, which completely caught Moscow off guard.

Especially Khrushchev, who had already issued an order in June to withdraw all Moscow experts. This move was intended to force the University of Tokyo to surrender.

But no one expected that the University of Tokyo was too stubborn and couldn't kneel down at all.

It is obvious that the whole country is experiencing severe drought at this time, and there was not much rain last year, which had a huge impact on the grain harvest.

In other words, the University of Tokyo was already "crumbling", but it still insisted on persevering and even increased its efforts in developing atomic bombs, which was simply overestimating its own capabilities.

To borrow a counter-dialogue from Louis Cha in the original time and space: I would rather have pants than a nuclear bomb!

Khrushchev agreed with what Cha Liangyong said, but the University of Tokyo did not think so, because we have been threatened since the Korean War.

That's why the teacher insisted on developing the atomic bomb, and it had to be developed.

It didn't matter that the University of Tokyo wanted to develop an atomic bomb. In any case, in Khrushchev's opinion, the possibility of success was very low.

Instead, he hoped that the University of Tokyo would agree to approve the construction plan of the long-wave power station.

However, from the current perspective, Khrushchev's cards have already been played, but he was confused by the king bomb of the University of Tokyo.

In early September, the University of Tokyo directly issued a trump card: "Repay 500 million US dollars in gold and US dollar cash", which made Khrushchev so angry that he was confused.

"Could it be their own gold reserves? We've already collected a lot of information on this. Many banks in the East are buying gold. The gold they returned this time is most likely gold recovered from the public, right?"

Sholokhov, the head of the KGB, explained. Khrushchev gave him a cold look.
"Don't use your stupidity to cover up the truth. You, the KGB, haven't done your job properly. It's fine if you don't reflect on it, but you still want me to be fooled by you?"

"Are the people of Todai University stupid? Will they take out all their hidden treasures? Huh? Use your brain? Forget it, you don't have any brains, so what are you still standing here for? Why don't you go and investigate this for me?"

To be honest, Khrushchev's cerebellum was atrophied just now. He didn't expect Sholokhov to explain it this way.

Is it possible that Todai has suddenly become prosperous, so they are so eager to repay their debts?

You actually want to use such a poor excuse to fool him?

It’s lawless!
Looking at Sholokhov who left in embarrassment, his personal adjutant Granitov did not say a word, but he was also frowning at this time, obviously wondering why the University of Tokyo could do this?
After a while, Khrushchev finally calmed down and said to Granitov:
"How is our grain import situation this year? Especially corn. I need good news!"

Hearing this, the latter quickly said:
"Comrade Heru, as of a week ago, our total grain imports have reached three million tons."

Khrushchev's nickname was Corn Xiaofu, and the reason was very simple. He wanted to promote corn planting and wanted to plant corn on the moon.

why?
For practical reasons, Sam's provocations have continued since Khrushchev entered the Kremlin office.

And at this time, one of Sam's plans against Moscow had already begun.

Let’s talk about what happened before Khrushchev. At that time, the owner of the Kremlin was Vissarionovich, who did a great thing.

That is to let Moscow's agriculture feed back into industry and give priority to the development of Moscow's industry.

How to develop?

That is, the grain grown and produced in the East European Plain is sold at extremely low prices, and then Moscow's industrial products are sold at high prices. The difference earned is used to subsidize the development of Moscow's industry.

Based on this policy, Moscow's industry developed rapidly. After Khrushchev entered the Kremlin office, Moscow's industry, aerospace industry, etc. became the only superpower in the world that could challenge Sam.

At this time, Khrushchev suddenly discovered that the international oil prices were very high, but the food prices were very low.

Therefore, starting from the mid-1950s, Moscow's annual grain imports from abroad increased year by year, from hundreds of thousands of tons at the beginning to millions of tons now.

Why did Khruyukin grow corn?
This needs to start from his visit to Sam last September. At that time, when Khrushchev went to Sam, he saw that people there were planting corn on large tracts of land and using a lot of modern agricultural production equipment for farming, which greatly increased the production efficiency.

Seeing this scene, Khrushchev was of course very envious, so after returning to Moscow, he immediately asked Moscow to grow corn as well.

As a result, many people raised objections at that time. Why?
Because corn is for livestock, not for humans. What is the point of growing corn on such a large scale?
You know, in Moscow in 1960, their per capita grain output reached more than 700 kilograms. This figure was not achieved even in the first 20 years of reform and opening up at our Tokyo University in the original time and space.

The East European Plain has the most fertile black soil in the world. It is the second largest granary in Europe after Gaul. This shows how high the grain production of Moscow is.

To this end, Khruyukin also explained that the purpose of growing corn is to improve the living standards of all people and provide industrial raw materials.

Because meat, eggs, milk, wool, etc. all come from livestock, they must be raised well in order to produce more meat, eggs, and milk.

There was enough food in Moscow, but surely one couldn't live on bread and beetroot soup alone?
When Khrushchev visited Sam, he found that corn was a very good thing and was very good as feed.

Although cattle and sheep can be fed grass, and chickens and ducks can be raised by digging for insects in the soil, this will greatly extend their growth cycle and will not increase the demand for meat, eggs and milk among the people of Moscow. Therefore, industrial breeding is necessary.

Under Khrushchev's strong opposition, the entire Moscow began to promote the policy of large-scale mechanized corn production.

That is why Khrushchev is so concerned about Moscow agriculture and food imports.

While Khrushchev was busy working and dealing with these important matters, Zhao Mancang had already returned home.

"Wan'er, I have to leave in two days and will be gone for a while. During this time, you have to take good care of yourself and the children."

When Lin Wan heard this, although she was already used to his sudden departure, she still couldn't help pouting, her face full of unhappiness.

This home does not belong to her alone, but Zhao Mancang is often absent. It is good enough for her to stay at home half of the time throughout the year.

In fact, this year is much better than last year. At least Zhao Mancang is at home most of the time, and this time, Zhao Mancang has been resting at home for more than a month, which is not a short time.

After Lin Wan gave birth to Xiao Shitou, Zhao Mancang also took a leave of absence for more than a month during the confinement period. All together, it was almost three months.

Compared with colleagues such as Qiu Shigui and Yuan Zuliang, Zhao Mancang's vacation time is long enough.

"Dad, when will you be back?"

Zhao Huijun also hugged her father's thigh and asked with her little head tilted up.

She is very attached to her father and doesn't want him to leave.

But there is nothing that can be done about this. Perhaps it is the separation and reunion that makes family love more priceless. After all, if he stays at home all the time, I am afraid that it won't be long before Zhao Mancang will scold the child.

It is inevitable that children will be naughty. As parents, we hold our children in our hands when they are the cutest for fear that they will fall, and put them in our mouths for fear that they will melt. But when the children are naughty, we wish that the children are not our own children so that we can beat and scold them at will.

Especially for parents who have high expectations for their children, they may be driven to death by their children when helping them with their homework.

Anyway, Zhao Mancang had noticed in his previous life that there was indeed a mother who tutored her child at 4:30 in the morning and got so angry that she almost died. As a result, at 5:00 in the morning, she actually died of anger because of this.

It can also be seen from here that keeping a happy mood is the best attitude towards life. Don't force things that cannot be achieved, otherwise you will get angry and something big may happen.

"I don't know when I will be back, but I promise you that I will come back early." Zhao Mancang said with a smile.

The little guy was very happy to hear that, and asked expectantly, "Do you believe that I will come back next month?"
"Why come back next month? You might as well stop letting me go on business trips."

Zhao Mancang burst out laughing.

It is already mid-to-late September. If he comes back next month, wow, he has been away for more than a month and is back. I am afraid Wei Huayong and others will doubt whether he has obtained the golden treasure map. Otherwise, why would he come back so soon?

"Because I'll soon know 500 words, and then I'll be able to..."

Seeing the little girl's impatient look, Zhao Mancang smiled and nodded, encouraged her, and said that he would definitely check it when he came back.

At the same time, he also promised the little guy that he would come back as early as possible.

After explaining everything to his family, two days later, Zhao Mancang was ready to set out from Baiyun City to the sea and headed straight for Hong Kong and Kowloon.

After arriving in Hong Kong and Kowloon, Zhao Mancang stayed there for a week as usual.

He has many industrial layouts in Hong Kong and Kowloon, but these layouts are still very messy and have not yet formed a scale.

Of course, companies such as Changda Properties Group, Causeway Bay Auto Parts Factory, Wharf Holdings, and Dairy Farm will all make progress together under the linkage of the Island Development Bank.

The Island Development Bank has a large amount of funds, with gold reserves alone exceeding 100 million ounces. Of course, these are just Zhao Mancang's personal assets.

However, Island Development Bank itself is also a personal enterprise wholly owned by Zhao Mancang, although it is not directly controlled because Zhao Mancang registered several companies to separate the holdings.

Although the Island Development Bank will not be listed, Zhao Mancang is still used to developing quietly, so he hides it like this.

What's more, many of the branches of Island Development Bank were acquired, not directly established.

Only the subsequent few new stores were slowly established by talents trained by the banking system.

Zhao Mancang’s requirement for the bank is to cultivate enough talents after the end of this year, because a branch must be established in Great Britain and New York next year.

Regardless of whether it is London in Great Britain or New York, both cities are global financial centers, so we must reserve enough talents before we can successfully establish branches in these two cities next year.

A week later, Zhao Mancang went to Mindanao to check in, and then went to Europe to trade rutile with Baptiste of the Gallic External Security Bureau.

Why not continue trading in the Kimura waters?
Because the other party simply did not have enough gold and US dollar cash, and after three transactions, Zhao Mancang still had more than 20,000 tons of rutile in his hands. With so much rutile, he just wanted to ship it all out at once this time.

After selling this batch of goods, Zhao Mancang will not continue to deal in rutile, and he probably won’t be able to get it anymore.

I definitely can't go to the Avisma magnesium titanium factory in Moscow anymore. If I go there again, I'm afraid Khrushchev will be furious.

Moreover, now that Zhao Mancang has so much gold and US dollar cash in his hands, he can invest in a mine on his own and then arrange miners to start digging.

When I returned from Europe, ten days had passed.

After returning to Hong Kong Island, Zhao Mancang routinely gained experience points first, and this time, he went all out, using up all the experience points he had accumulated over the past period of time to upgrade the system space.

After the upgrade, the system space is now able to store 10 billion kilograms of grain at a time.

Such a huge space capacity is unprecedented for Zhao Mancang.

Assuming that the density of grain is 0.5 tons per cubic meter, one billion kilograms of grain is equivalent to a volume of 10 million cubic meters. This volume is equivalent to the volume of a hill of several hundred meters, or a cube with an area of ​​a football field. A two-kilometer-high cube is about six hundred stories high.

This volume is already very exaggerated.

With such a huge system space, it would be much easier for him to rotate some of his goods in the future.

However, once a larger system space requirement is encountered, 10 million cubic meters is still not enough.

After completing this task, Zhao Mancang set off for Tuao.

Australia is very rich in mineral resources, so when Zhao Mancang came in September, he had already ordered Hong Kong Island to recruit troops and explore the way to Australia in advance.

Led by the Island Development Bank, a team went to Australia to investigate the relevant mines.

"Boss, we've found that the main Australian mining companies are Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. These two companies are the largest in the country and own large mines."

While listening to his subordinates' reports, Zhao Mancang nodded from time to time, but his eyes were fixed on the investigation report in his hand.

The report is very detailed, but it also has some flaws.

The information of large group companies is of no use to Zhao Mancang, because he would not acquire such a large enterprise, at least, it is not appropriate now.

And it may not be possible to buy shares, because it is still a barbaric era, not an era of global free trade, so many investments may not be protected.

Therefore, what Zhao Mancang has to do now is to spend money to acquire two small mining companies.

Then gradually acquire those mines, such as the Boddington gold mine which has not yet been discovered.

In the original history of time and space, the Boddington gold mine was not developed until 1987. Before that, it had been open to the public and had not been discovered.

Because Australia is so large and has so many mineral resources, there is naturally no shortage of gold mines like the Boddington Gold Mine.

The gold mine has a gold reserve of 35 million ounces, making it one of the largest gold mines in Australia.

In addition, there are also a lot of rutile mines here, with about three million tons of rutile reserves. It may not seem like much, but it is actually a lot.

After learning about the two small mining companies, Zhao Mancang decided to spend a huge amount of money to acquire them.

At a premium of 25% over the market price, the two mining companies were successfully acquired for less than 50 million US dollars.

After taking it over, Zhao Mancang started a series of actions, which in short was expansion!

"We are recruiting a large number of workers from Hong Kong Island. First of all, they must be workers with families. We will not recruit single people."

Zhao Mancang gave several suggestions on recruiting mine workers.

Why don't you be single?

Because workers with families can settle down in Australia after arriving there, they will not easily cause trouble.

But if they are single, to be honest, they have no scruples and are most likely to get into trouble.

Zhao Mancang’s purpose is very simple, that is, mines such as the Boddington Gold Mine must be firmly controlled in his own hands and cannot be leaked.

Because it is a barbaric era nowadays, no one knows what vicious means the competitors will use, and Zhao Mancang cannot stay in Australia forever.

Therefore, he could only adopt relatively conservative management methods to manage these mines.

Zhao Mancang stayed in Tuao for about twelve days in total, and he got to appreciate the scenery here.

How to say it, for the first time, the four words "vast land and sparse population" were presented in front of him with a very concrete picture.

Although Zhao Mancang had seen it in Moscow before, it was a primeval forest after all, while this side of Australia was a plain area. Even a big city like Sydney had a small population.

It's so desolate.

Zhao Mancang is more accustomed to crowded places, such as Beijing, where the streets are full of people, especially during rush hour, when the streets are so crowded that it is simply too lively.

In Australia, you may not encounter many cars even if you drive for dozens of kilometers.

There are very few vehicles on the road.

He was the only one who could appreciate the beautiful scenery of blue sky and white clouds.

However, for the big family of three brothers Song Yajun, Song Yanjun and Song Jianjun, they were shocked the moment they arrived in Australia.

They didn't expect that the scenery in Tuao was so beautiful, and the vast area and sparse population made them feel strongly uncomfortable.

However, when they arrived at the dormitory of the Nolinasun Mining Company, they were stunned.

"These rows of makeshift houses are the temporary dormitories the company has built for you. They're just for temporary use. There's a major project next door, and the company will be building small villas with gardens here. If you perform well enough, the company will reward you with one for free."

The supervisor who was responsible for bringing the newcomers here said in a loud voice:

"The major shareholder of our Nolinasun Company is the Hong Kong Development Bank. I'm sure many of you locals in Hong Kong know that the Development Bank is not short of money. They have a large amount of gold stored in their vaults."

"And our company, Nolinasun, is here to mine more minerals."

"So you just focus on your work and don't worry about anything else."

"We will also give you one day off every week so you can reunite with your family. The scenery here in Tuao is beautiful, and you can also drive around and explore the surrounding area."

Song Yajun and his three brothers were stunned, and their wives and children were also listening in astonishment, with expressions of complete disbelief.

Zhao Mancang will not exploit these miners, and will definitely give them enough rest according to the current market conditions.

(End of this chapter)