What did Jiang Chen do in the past few days?
To put it simply, it was spending money.
And it was in the hundreds of millions.
New Moon Island's military camp, 2300 meters long dual runway airport, simple radar base station, and two soccer field-sized platforms connected by dams were completed. After he paid the construction fee to Mammoth, Jiang Chen's account instantly lost another 1.4 billion. Including the 4 billion dollars he had spent in the past few days, he had spent 5.4 billion dollars in just three days.
But it wasn't over.
To prepare for the mining of molybdenum, Jiang Chen injected 1 billion USD into Future Mining. Through bidding, he planned to build two semi-submersible platforms south of Ange Island.
The semi-submersible platforms were commonly used in the deep sea with the main application of liquefied petroleum gas. The principle was similar to a submarine. The platforms were built on large buoys that were embedded in the water and connected to the seabed by anchor chains. The bottom of the legs below the buoys was designed with a counterweight similar to a fishing pendant. It dropped into the water below the platform to prevent the platform from losing balance due to the impact of the waves or wind.
The advantage of the platform was that it could be moved. Once the minerals at the bottom were extracted, they could be towed away by a boat. Jiang Chen's plan was to have two soldiers and three workers stationed on the platform to operate the mining machine on the seabed through electronic equipment. A boat would come every week to resupply the platform with supplies while also hauling away the molybdenum-rich manganese nodules.
Although the mining robot technology was still under development, Jiang Chen believed it wouldn't take long for Fallout Shelter 027 to have results. Before that, it was a good choice to build the platform first.
The mined manganese nodules would be hauled to Ange Island. Because other than the molybdenum-rich oxide, more than 50% of the structure was composed of iron oxide and manganese oxide. To process the manganese nodules, Jiang Chen injected another 200 million USD into Future Mining to build a manganese nodules treatment plant, a molybdenum refinery, a steel plant, and an aluminum plant on Ange Island.
The manganese nodules treatment plant would break up the ores and do preliminary sorting to produce manganese metal and molybdenum-rich slag. The slag would be sent to the molybdenum refinery for secondary processing to produce molybdenum for the virtual reality helmet.
The steel plant and aluminum plant would mainly process the iron and aluminum ores purchased from BHP as well as the residual slag from the refined manganese nodules.
It was estimated that the entire production line would be completed in three months. At that time, Ange Island would take the first step of industrialization. Not only would the abundant minerals satisfy the needs of the island, but they could also be exported for profit!
After taking care of Future Mining, Jiang Chen began to work on Future Technology's headquarters.
The location of the headquarters was on Coro Island. To ensure the safety of the quantum computer, Jiang Chen spent 100 million USD to build the headquarters building to make it sturdy enough.
Also, the virtual reality helmet production line was planned to be located in the modern world. After all, this was a helmet worth more than a billion. He wouldn't be able to move it all even if he died of exhaustion. Moreover, he still had to transport food and steel to the apocalypse, as well as firearms to the modern world.
Since they decided to produce in the modern world, they had to carefully consider the safety and confidentiality of the virtual reality helmet production.
But regarding this point, Jiang Chen had already considered it. The offshore platform he built next to New Moon Island was made for the factory that produced the virtual reality helmet!
There was no safer place than next to the military base. Under the scanning of the wide-area life signal detection device, no agents could escape the eyes of the dozens of workers at the radar station. Once an intruder whose identity was not logged in was discovered, the drone would arrest or drive him away. For those who resisted arrest, the drones would initiate an attack program to eliminate them.
Jiang Chen planned to automate the production of the virtual reality helmet. Other than the transportation of raw materials and the output of the product that required human participation, the confidential production process would be completed in a "black box." Although the automatic production line was expensive, it was absolutely necessary for the sake of confidentiality.
Jiang Chen used Lu Huasheng's blueprint to find a construction company in the modern world to build the plants. A total of three plants occupied the three corners of the triangular offshore platform. The total cost was two million USD. Compared to the previous projects, it was peanuts.
After a series of purchases, Jiang Chen used 6.7 billion of the 30 billion USD loan he had. But he didn't feel heartache at all because he knew he would soon earn the money back.
Putting aside the matter of spending money, Jiang Chen made a lot of money in the past few days.
Tao Ming didn't let him down as he signed an order for 400,000 boxes of nutrient supply for Future Biology. Based on the profit of 500 USD per box, the profit from 400,000 boxes would be 200 million USD.
On the other hand, Emma Watson's manager readily agreed to Future Biology's endorsement contract and immediately arranged for Emma to shoot advertisements and posters on Coro Island. The reason why she agreed so quickly was because of the one million USD endorsement fee as well as the opportunity to appear on Future 1.0's advertisement.
With the terrifying installed base of Future 1.0, not many people would reject the opportunity to appear on it.
Now that the sales were settled, the production could not be left behind.
To expand the production of nutrient supply, Jiang Chen made a few trips to the apocalypse and moved five newly built organic synthesis furnaces as well as ten tons of inducer to expand the DH seaweed plantation.
Therefore, the workers of the nutrient supply plant began a nightmarish life of overtime. To complete the production mission, the technician responsible for inducing the Sargassum even slept on the floor in the lab. The plantation boats on the sea also shuttled around the clock. The workers worked in three shifts to plant the DH seaweed, fertilize the seaweed fields, and harvest the newly grown algae …
Of course, Jiang Chen would not skimp on the overtime fee. Compared to the 200 million USD order, the less than 100,000 USD overtime fee was not even worth mentioning.
To prevent the workers from "overworking", Jiang Chen ordered Zhan Shujie to hire 60 more workers to fill in the gaps on hand. For Zhan Shujie and Tao Ming's contribution to the development of Future Biology, Jiang Chen generously offered them a reward.
Each of them would receive 1% of the dividend as their year-end bonus. The two of them happily accepted it and worked even harder.
Anyone could see the future of Future Biology. Although the dividend was only 1%, if the trend continued, they would receive at least tens of millions of USD each year!
In the past half a month, Jiang Chen finally experienced what it felt like to be busy. He wanted to split himself into two halves and put one half on Ange Island and the other half to New Moon Island and Coro Island.
However, after half a month of work, everything was finally on the right track.
But just when Jiang Chen thought he could finally relax, a new problem quickly appeared.
Not counting the independent Celestial Trade Company, Future International alone had 400 employees in Xin. Although there were not many people, the total population of Xin was only 20,000, and the total labor force was only 10,000.
There were no fishing boats on Xin's sea, and people were everywhere. The construction of infrastructure increased local employment. Ange Island, which had a high unemployment rate, suddenly experienced a labor shortage.
What's more, once the tourism resources were developed, the labor shortage would only continue to increase. Jiang Chen roughly estimated that once the construction company in the Netherlands completed the tourism resources development, his employees would increase by at least 2000, and the resulting jobs would be no less than 5000!
Xin did not have that many people to work.
Therefore, Jiang Chen set his sights on a country that was preparing for an immigration wave.
But his eyes were not on the rich people who were trying their best to leave, but the workers with a high school diploma or above.
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