Around five o'clock in the evening, Ye Qing returned to the company by car.
On the way, Ye Qing called General Maups in Nigeria and asked about the details of the three diamond mines in his territory.
Ye Qing was going to take over the three diamond mines and mine them himself.
General Maups would not disagree with this, or he had no ability to object.
Of course, Ye Qing did not think that General Maups was a warlord raised by Monster Industries.
In Ye Qing's eyes, he was a partner, and the two sides had been working happily. Monster Industries had obtained enough rare earth metal elements and a large number of high-quality raw diamonds from Nigeria. General Maups had also obtained a number of money from Monster Industries that he had never dreamed of before.
Hundreds of millions of dollars a month.
This was the life of General Maups now. He only needed to give the high-quality raw diamonds in the diamond mining area to Monster Industries and receive a fixed mineral mining dividend from the rare earth metal purification plant set up by Monster Industries on the edge of the rainforest. He could earn more than 100 million dollars a month.
What could he buy with this money?
If he bought food, he could buy a full 350,000 tons of wheat. This food was enough for a city of 700,000 people to eat for a whole year.
If he bought firearms, he could buy 300,000 brand-new AK assault rifles or hundreds of millions of well-made general ammunition.
This was nothing in Monster Industries before, but in Nigeria, a country with a national annual gross output of only a few billion dollars, General Maups was the "King of Gold."
With the money in his hands, General Maups had developed the territory under his rule into the most prosperous economic zone in Nigeria in less than two years.
Now under his rule, there were not only mines that made a lot of money, but also the most prosperous harbor ports within thousands of kilometers, and a primary road network across the entire Western Region.
All of this was given by Monster Industries.
So even if Ye Qing did not think so, General Maups took it for granted that he was a warlord raised by Monster Industries.
After tasting the marrow, he craved for more.
After learning that Monster Industries was extremely short of WS1-grade raw diamonds and ultra-high quality IF-grade raw diamonds, General Maups immediately said that he would give up the three raw diamond mines under his control.
Ye Qing's development plan was very simple. Raw ores of WS1 grade and above would belong to Monster Industries.
Anything below WS1 would belong to General Maups. If Monster Industries needed these low-quality raw diamonds, they would still be able to purchase them at the original price.
Neither side would lose out in this cooperation. High-grade raw diamonds were rare, but their value was high.
The large quantity of low-grade raw diamonds and the low price could be made up for by quantity.
However, when Ye Qing asked about the reserves of the three mines, General Maups hesitated.
It wasn't that he was deliberately hiding it, but that he couldn't be sure of a number.
Diamond mines were non-metallic minerals. Unlike metallic minerals, they could first measure the strength and area of the magnetic field in an area through magnetic measurement. Then, according to the proportion of metallic minerals contained in the ore, they could more accurately calculate the reserves and mineral distribution of a mine.
Diamond mines could only be roughly multiplied based on the weight of the mined raw diamond ore in a certain area.
General Maups could only give a reserve number of about 50,000 to 100,000 carats, or even 150,000 carats.
Of course, most of these raw diamonds were low-grade raw diamonds.
"Won't we know the exact reserves if we mine them all?" This was Ye Qing's answer.
After letting General Maups complete the handover of the three diamond mines, Ye Qing returned to the company and started working on the first movie in the virtual world.
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This was a revolution in the history of human film development. It was also a road sign that marked the decline of the traditional film model.
This road sign would appear on the road of the history of film development at six o 'clock in the evening.
When Ye Qing arrived at the company, the company's newly established virtual film and television department was already on standby.
Because the production of their own movie had not yet been completed and only Qingyu Media's movie was present, the scale of the virtual film and television department was still relatively small. The general manager of the department was temporarily Yang Baihe, the general manager of the publicity department.
When Ye Qing arrived at the department's new office, he saw that most of the staff were transferred from the network department and the technical and programming department to help.
There wasn't a single experienced person in the world who knew how to promote a movie in the virtual world.
Therefore, they could only copy some real-life experience and leave the rest up to the staff's imagination.
When Ye Qing walked into the room responsible for the statistics of the virtual movie ticket box office, he realized that not only were Yang Baihe and the other general managers there, but even the boss of Qingyu Media, Dong Mei, was there.
When Ye Qing greeted Dong Mei with a smile, he also noticed that there were a few young men and women standing behind Dong Mei with a reserved expression.
Dong Mei's makeup today was a little simple. Compared to the flirtatious beauty in the past, she had more of the "big sister" vibe of a neighbor.
"These are the protagonists of our movie." Dong Mei smiled and pulled the young men in front of her. She briefly introduced them to Ye Qing.
"Mr. Ye, you know that in less than an hour, our movie will be shown to the audience."
"I'm really … really unsure."
Dong Mei sighed and whispered, "Now, it's definitely not just those old guys. The entire Chinese film industry must be paying close attention to our new movie like me."
"So, I think that when the new movie is released later, if the audience's feedback is okay, I'll take these protagonists to bow to everyone and thank them."
"Just treat it like it's your first movie premiere and make it look beautiful."
Ye Qing waved at the young men and women behind her, indicating that they should not be too nervous when they saw him.
"Sister Dong, but I don't think you're happy at all." Ye Qing was not as worried as Dong Mei. In Ye Qing's view, with the current user base of nearly ten million holographic glasses, with the gimmick of "the first virtual movie", the box office of the new movie would not be bad.
With a one-month screening period, if the box office of Qingyu Media and the film and television industry was predicted to be one billion, then the box office of this movie would be at least two billion.
This was still limited by the number of holographic glasses users. If there were more holographic glasses users, the box office could be higher.
This was also the reason why Ye Qing put Qingyu Media's new movie first. At this time, all the holographic glasses users had not been cultivated yet.
When the user base reached a certain size, the sci-fi war masterpiece shot by Monster Industries would stand up and challenge one box office miracle after another in the history of movies.
Ye Qing's confidence came from the technological innovation of the holographic glasses, but Dong Mei did not understand this. She could only analyze it from the user's interest in watching the movie and the audience.
Strictly speaking, Dong Mei was not very confident in her own movie.
Because it was just an urban comedy movie, there were no special effects and no big scenes.
If it was the kind of special effects blockbuster with serious money and put it in the virtual world, Dong Mei's confidence would definitely increase by at least two times.
She had placed all her bets on this movie.
Once it lost, let alone her, the film and television companies that chose to wait and see might hesitate and greatly delay the step of putting their latest movie copyrights into the virtual world.
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