Accompanied by the roar of the turboprop engine of the Fokker F-27, Yang Xing and Rong Mingyou and their group of passengers, the old guy produced in the 1950s who could ride 32 passengers, soared into the sky. Although it has been invented for half a century, the old aircraft is still in good condition. Australians even modified the electronic cockpit for it, allowing Shi Meiheng and Xiao Qin to control it to fly freely in the sky without much effort.

The best way to get from Perth to the two iron ore and coal mines owned by the China Chang Group is to fly, because Western Australia is vast and the rich mining areas near the seaside port have been divided up by the two Tuo, leaving no place for latecomers. If you want a good mine, you can only go deep into the more remote and desolate inland. The main ways to enter and exit the inland in Western Australia are roads, railways and flights. At this time, most of the railways and ports that transport ores are controlled by the two Tuo, and the rest are maintained by the Japanese and Korean consortiums. Yang Xing and the others do not want to alarm the enemy, so they simply booked the plane, and even the pilots replaced Yang Xing's people and flew directly over the mining area for a field investigation.

On the plane, Yang Xing listened to Brightman and Jiao Bailing with a serious face and talked about the difficulties they encountered here. At this time, the Australian central government was ruled by the Conservative Party led by Prime Minister Howard. Although it was called conservative, Howard government accurately predicted Australia's future in Asia and first proposed the strategy of Brexit and entering Asia. Not long ago, he returned with a huge delegation to China and returned with a full load, so he welcomed Yang Xing and his investment.

However, Australia's political system, like most Western countries, implements a federal system, and the central government's authority is not strong, while local governments hold real power. This time their investment was blocked because the Western Australian government took action to stop it. The reason behind it is that although the Western Australian government is dissatisfied with the monopoly status of the two expansions, it does not dare to easily offend the economic pillars of the region.

This time, the two Tuo and the Japanese consortium jointly put pressure on the Western Australian government, demanding that they delay or even reject investments from the two Chinese-sized groups in the Pilbara area. Japan lacks local resources, and the Japanese consortium gradually expands overseas after World War II, and Australia's coal and iron resources are extremely rich. They took the method of participating in various Australian mining companies to ensure the stability of the mine sources.

For example, the Mitsui Consortium, the boss of Japan's largest steel group, quietly owns a certain share of the world's major iron mine groups. The so-called loss in the dike is compensated outside the dike. Even if there is a big boom in the iron ore price, they can still make it back from stock returns. Therefore, in the past life, when participating in the long-term iron ore price negotiations between Japan and South Korea Iron and Steel Group against Gangtao and Brazil's Vale Company, they were always led by Japanese and Korean companies, and there was an embarrassing situation where the country with the world's largest iron ore procurement volume could not control the pricing power.

Yang Xing and Rong Mingyou have a unique vision. They actively buy when the entire iron ore production in Western Australia is only more than 80 million tons. When the domestic steel output exceeds the 500 million tons in a few years, the iron ore production here will double continuously. They will lie on the mine and do nothing, and they can count the money for their whole life.

Moreover, Rong Mingyou now wants to build a 10 million tons-level port in China. If he wants to build a port at a high speed and make money with the port throughput, he will undoubtedly launch major projects such as Steel and Chemical Engineering in the port. In their planning, it is for sure to build a steel plant with a production of more than tens of millions of tons in the port area. The quality of iron ore and coal mines in Australia is excellent, as well as rich metal resources such as bauxite and copper. At that time, it is not impossible to use these mineral resources in the port industrial area to reproduce the efficient industrial chain from smelting to making industrial products in Japan's Ishikawashima Soda Heavy Industry.

After the incidents such as Yakone, Yamaichi Securities, Fuji Bank, etc., no one in Japan dared to underestimate Yang Xing's ability. So when he learned that Xingwei Resources and China Chang Group jointly purchased iron and coal mines in the Australian inland, the Japanese immediately joined forces with the two Tuo to put pressure on the Western Australian government behind the scenes. The Western Australian government had to suspend Xingwei Resources and China Chang Group's plan to expand mineral exploration rights in the Pilbara area, so Brightman and others had to ask Yang Xing to come forward to solve the problem.

After listening to their report, Yang Xing whispered with Rong Mingyou for a while and said, "We are about to arrive over the Pilbara area. You can first point out the location of our investment area and the places where there are disputes with the two Tuo."

Jiao Bailing came here for dusty Europe and realized that his career was about to take off, so he did his homework. She introduced that the Pilbara region was bordered by the Indian Ocean, mainly including the Hammersley Mountains and its surroundings. The climate is hot and dry all year round and the rainfall is unstable. Except for a few sheep farms in the marginal areas, large areas are red lands unique to Australia, and even traces of creatures are difficult to see.

Liangtuo was the first company to develop this place. She analyzed the exploration results of the Pilbara area announced by them as listed companies. The iron ore here has rich reserves and is mainly distributed in four major mining areas: Central and South District, Aersley District, North Pilbara District and Kiberly District. These iron ore are thick, large in scale, good in continuous and stable ore grade. However, areas that are easy to develop are occupied by Liangtuo, and only some border areas in the middle of the mining area of ​​the two major companies were abandoned because of their low ore grade.

While comparing the marks marked on the map, Yang Xing and Rong Mingyou compared the real scene beneath them. Soon, Rong Mingyou pointed to several lonely buildings on the red wasteland and said, "It's that, it's our mine."

When the plane landed, the powerful air current blew the red clay on the surface, causing a small whirlwind to destroy the appearance of their group. However, when Yang Xing saw the representatives of the workers who were greeting them, who seemed to crawl out of the red paint bucket, especially the familiar face of the person who led the person, Yang Xing couldn't help but feel funny and felt much more relaxed.

The man's skin was tanned by the scorching sun in Western Australia, and his face was painted with Australian red clay, just like the local native of Australia. It was Rong Xinyou who had caused a lot of trouble for him. But now seeing his appearance, I am afraid no one would associate him with the romantic nobleman, but instead regard him as the "bāngbāng Army" who is the most famous coolie in the mountain city.

He didn't care about the resentment in Rong Xinyou's eyes when he saw him. The rabies barking the sun could not hurt the sun, and Rong Xinyou no longer had lethality. He was considering another thing. He tried his best on the plane to insist on investing in mining in Australia, a place that many people regard as remote areas, for five years.

Gu Yu Sheng was grateful to Rong Mingyou for his trust. Although he had passed the age of retirement, he came to work with a large group of young men in the iron ore called "Full View No. 3" for several years. Rong Mingyou introduced to Yang Xing that he was the actual person in charge of this iron ore.

"You are here for several years. What do you think of the prospect of mining here?" After a greeting and introduction, there were no outsiders here, so I was afraid that the news would be leaked. Yang Xingkai asked this question with a clear answer. Gu Yusheng frowned. Obviously, he knew some of the difficulties encountered in Australia, which was much more complicated than he had imagined at the beginning.

"Now the iron ore produced in 'Full-Open No. 3' can meet sales needs. The biggest problem is not mining, but transportation. The existing mining railways and deep-water terminals in Western Australia are almost all for Rio Tinto. BHP and the chaebol forces behind these two miners have been controlled. Ores of more than 10,000 tons can usually be bought from them. And I understand from the side that Liangtuo companies deliberately compress the output of the mining area and have extremely strict control over the logistics system. They can only meet their transportation needs and do not expand the railway network or port. Our iron ore is only for nothing because they cannot be transported out."

After listening to Gu Yusheng's introduction, the conference room was silent, and it was obvious that the current situation was even more serious than they thought. Only Yang Xing sneered, "The two Tuo really covered the sky with one hand, but in this world, people died for money and birds died for food, they didn't know that as long as there was enough price, they could talk about anything. The so-called darkness under the lamp, they didn't know that they had missed a big gold mine."

He asked Yeterina to spread a high-resolution map of the Pilbara area on the table and said, "What we are talking about today is top secret. I don't want anyone to leak it out." After saying that, his eyes swept over Rong Xinyou. Rong Xinyou was furious, but before he could attack, Rong Mingyou handed him a look, and he had to leave angrily.

However, no one cared about his emotions, because Yang Xing's next words attracted them. Yang Xing pointed to a large blank area in the center of the Liangtuo Mining Area and said, "I know there is a large high-grade iron ore with a reserve of more than 3 billion tons. The source of information is inconvenient, but it is absolutely reliable. With this chip, our current dilemma is solved. There is no fish in this world that does not eat bait, but the price we offered before was not enough to impress the Western Australian politics. In fact, they are also dissatisfied with Liangtuo's domineeringness. I think we will increase the total investment to 5 billion US dollars, and they will definitely support us in turn. There will be no problem at that time..."
Chapter completed!