Cooperation with Hua's National Power was an important part of the Global Power Grid Plan. Jia Zhengrong was not afraid to buy too little, but he was afraid to make the offer. Jiang Chen didn't believe that he wouldn't buy electricity that cost less than 10 cents. Why would he spend tens of billions to respond to the central government's call for zero emission of thermal power?
You think thermal power is too polluting? You want to add a filter at the back of the chimney? Perfect, we also think the cost of thermal power is too high!
Importing oil to generate electricity is not an import? Wouldn't it be better to just buy the electricity? Once the transmission line was signed, forget about energy subsidies, the thermal power station would be shut down, and the power generated would be replaced by imports. There would also be a large amount of money left to buy coal and oil.
With this extra money, it would be better to give more benefits to the employees, organize a few more overseas study trips, and upgrade the transportation tools for the leaders. These are all good things that benefit the country and the people!
After the letter of intent was signed, Jia Zhengrong was particularly concerned about the submarine transmission line. First, he took a boat to the sea to inspect the power transmission and distribution station, then he took the initiative to negotiate with Celestial Trade. Jiang Chen saw that this matter was most likely settled, so he delegated full authority to Xia Shiyu.
They could make appropriate concessions on the transmission line and strive for more electricity export quotas in the first year. Last year, Hua generated more than 600 billion kilowatt hours of electricity. This market was larger than the countries Jiang Chen personally visited, so it must be developed.
Putting aside the drawing of the Global Power Grid, during the time Jiang Chen returned to the apocalypse, a major event happened in the modern world.
With the cooperation of the Xin Space Agency, Celestial Trade promulgated the "2019 Celestial Trade Outer Space Resources Development Plan" and directly listed a total of nine asteroids closest to the Earth-Moon system as mining targets.
No one doubted whether Celestial Trade would succeed. After all, the Bennu asteroid had proven their strength. The size of the nine asteroids was smaller than Bennu, and the mineral reserves were unknown. Maybe there was only a pile of broken stones, or maybe it was a diamond a hundred times the size of the Star of Africa.
Developing the universe was a gamble. The important thing was not what was on it, but that Celestial Trade already had the ability to develop space resources on a large scale. However, this involved another problem. Although there were many asteroids in space, there were not many that were easy to mine.
When NASA saw this, they were not happy. Although the resources in outer space belonged to all of humanity, and the default rule was that whoever picked them up owned them. But if you "planned" the easiest asteroids to mine, what else could they do?
It's your ability to walk in front of everyone, but it's your fault to monopolize everything.
No matter how unwilling they were, no one jumped out to object. Why? It was not because of Xin's influence, but because Celestial Trade immediately announced a plan. It explained the previously announced "2019 Celestial Trade Outer Space Resources Development Plan" and was willing to contract out all nine asteroids.
No mining spacecraft? No problem, Celestial Trade will lend it to you! No transport ships? No problem, don't lend it to me, I'll sell it to you directly! As long as the minimum output value stipulated in the contract is mined within the agreed time limit, the right to contract this asteroid will still be yours.
Occupying the manger but not taking a shit? Then let's substitute someone else! There were still a lot of people waiting in line!
On the surface, it seemed that Celestial Trade contracted out the nine asteroids because it couldn't withstand the pressure and gave up some of the profits. But after careful consideration, anyone with a little bit of insight could see that Jiang Chen's move was simply terrible.
It was best not to monopolize everything. No one would blame you if you built a bridge and collected tolls, but if you put the bridge there and didn't allow others to use it, you would be hated. But Jiang Chen was not satisfied with just collecting tolls. Not only did he not hesitate to collect tolls, but he also planned to let these people cross the bridge to work for him on the other side of the bridge.
Not to mention whether these asteroids were buried with gold or slag, even if you mined the asteroids, you can't just throw them directly into the atmosphere, right? If you can't repair your own space elevator, you have to take it to Celestial City.
That's not all. If you directly transport the ore and stones back to the surface, it would be a huge loss!
If you transport it to Celestial City, it would be best to process it on Celestial City's space station. Iron ore would be refined into steel, and titanium ore would be refined into titanium ingots. We won't take advantage of you. It's up to you whether you want to use Future Mining's space station or local companies' space station. Anyway, they are all connected to Celestial City. But after all, it's on the territory of Xin. It's not too much to charge a transaction tax, right?
Settle in USD?
Sorry, the law already stipulated that only one currency was recognized in Celestial City, and that was the Xin New dollar.
The ingots produced, whether you bring them back to the surface and sell them to the international market, or directly sell them to local factories in Celestial City, no one would care. The export of ingots was the same as the export of ores. There was no export tax to be paid in Xin. At most, there would be a space elevator transportation fee, and port management fees and usage fees on the surface.
After a few fees were calculated, the money basically went into Celestial Trade's pocket. But the cost of these ingots was still lower than the average price in the international market. This had nothing to do with supply and demand. It was purely because the taste of space ores was too high, and the impurities were relatively simple. With Celestial Trade's mining equipment and transportation equipment, the mining cost of these ores was also pitifully low.
There was no need to worry about the environmental issues of mining, and there was no need to pay a series of additional taxes such as mining tax, education, and urban construction. The asteroids in outer space did not have a "local government", and it belonged to whoever mined it. Although they had to pay various fees to Celestial Trade, in general, they still got some benefits.
[We don't want to monopolize it, but you have to give us some benefits, right?]
As for renting equipment and selling transport ships, Jiang Chen had a different plan.
[Aren't you jealous of my technology? That's easy, I'll sell it to you directly. Anyway, this thing can't be transported to the surface by the space elevator. Although I sold it to you, you can only use it at the port of Celestial City.]
[If you want to make a hard landing on the surface and fish out parts from the wreckage to study, that's up to you. I'll revoke your safety qualification certificate. If you want to buy it in the future, I won't sell it to you. You can build your own factory to produce it.] As for reverse engineering, when the technology gap reached a certain level, even if I sell you a prototype, you must have the theoretical basis to study it.
Jiang Chen felt his move was too ruthless!
Celestial Trade didn't have to pay a penny, and all the risks were borne by their international friends. Future Heavy Industries only focused on increasing production capacity and producing transport ships, mining ships, and space stations. Future Mining didn't idle either. The ores mined by various countries were enough for its ore processing unit to run non-stop.
If all nine asteroids were developed by Future Mining, it wouldn't be able to develop them even if it had ten hands. But if other countries were dragged into the mess, another nine asteroids the size of Bennu wouldn't be enough.
Although Celestial Trade gave up some of the benefits, what it gained was far more than monopolizing everything. Not only that, but it could also use other people's money to increase its own production capacity. Where else could it find such a good thing?
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