The nearest diamond mine was more than two hundred kilometers away.
It used to border the Nsukka District, and it was also the source of Ye Qing and General Maups's coincidental acquaintance.
Because in that diamond mine, there was once a rare giant diamond that weighed as much as three hundred pieces. Later, this diamond was purchased by Ye Qing and used to recruit the legendary hero Dian Jing.
In order to compete for the ownership of the diamond mine, General Maups and the ruler of the Nsukka District almost fought with each other.
Now it's all good.
One-third of the land of the entire Nigeria belongs to General Maups.
Three Land Rovers and a bulletproof Mercedes-Benz G65 galloped side by side on the cement road that can accommodate two cars side by side.
The diamond mine is one of General Maups's important sources of finance, and it is also the only way to Suenka District under his other jurisdiction.
Therefore, General Maups specially spent a lot of money to build a cement road that can reach the standard of "every village" in the backward province of Hua Xia.
General Maups happily sat in the back seat of the Mercedes-Benz G65 with Ye Qing.
Along the way, from time to time, they encountered locals carrying baskets on their heads.
Even if these people didn't know General Maups's convoy, no one dared to stay in front of these four steel beasts. Where the convoy passed, these people quickly retreated to both sides of the road.
A few people who recognized General Maups's convoy were dancing and shouting there.
"Well, it has changed a lot since I came here for the first time." Ye Qing looked at the scenery outside the window with great interest and gave a positive evaluation after passing by a village.
"In addition to the economic changes, the spiritual outlook of your local people has also changed quite a lot."
Ye Qing pointed to the local pedestrians outside the window. "When I came here for the first time, these people living in brown land had numbness and ignorance in their eyes."
"Now there is hope in their eyes, and I noticed that many people's baskets are filled with fruits and some handicrafts, which shows that they are living a good life."
General Maups nodded excitedly.
The affirmation from Ye Qing made him even more excited than when he received the name of the American president.
"Mr. Ye, these people you see are all peddlers heading to the city to do business. They transport fruits and handicrafts to the city to sell. The employees in your factory are also the main consumers. "
Ye Qing smiled and said, "This means that the most basic embryonic form of a commercial economy has already appeared here."
"I have a whole new level of respect for your management skills. Your place can be considered one of the backlines of Monster Industries. If your economy improves, our employees can live more comfortably here."
General Maups immediately straightened up and flattered, "This is all thanks to Mr. Ye's care."
"Without you, the Western Region would not have the economic achievements it has today. You are the sun of the Western Region."
Ye Qing laughed out loud. Just then, the motorcade came to a turn at the intersection and slowed down.
On the side of the road stood a few local women carrying baskets. Their baskets were filled with a pile of yellow fruits that looked like papayas. They looked very delicious.
Ye Qing signaled for the motorcade to stop and lowered half of the thick bulletproof glass.
General Maups tactfully handed a bill to one of the women, who happily wrapped a pile of fruits with leaves.
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At around five o 'clock in the afternoon, the motorcade arrived at the edge of the Nsukka District.
"Mr. Ye, do you see the forest at the end of the fork in the road?"
"Our diamond mine is on the edge of that forest."
"Have you sent people to explore the forest by the diamond mine?" Ye Qing got out of the car and stretched his arms and legs. The motorcade was now parked at a fork in the road. One road led to the edge of the forest, and the other led to a town not far away.
The sun hung slanted in the sky, and the golden light shone on the reddish-brown soil under their feet and on the small fortress-like town in front of them. Ye Qing's eyes were filled with the wild charm of a foreign country.
"We sent people to explore, but there is no mining value in the forest. The residents who have lived here for generations don't have a history of picking up diamonds from the forest. " General Maups waved his hand as he spoke, telling his confidant, Bartz, who was in another car, to hurry to the diamond mine to prepare for the reception.
"That's a pity. The company urgently needs a large amount of high-quality raw diamonds. But the diamond mine in front of us looks very ordinary. "
"Yes, Mr. Ye. The diamond mine in the Nsukka District is the smallest of the three diamond mines." General Maups carefully followed behind Ye Qing. "But this diamond mine easily produces high-quality raw diamonds. Forty percent of the raw diamonds supplied to you are produced in this mine."
When Ye Qing and General Maups arrived at the mine, work was still in full swing in the mine.
General Maups had already replaced the original guards in the mine with his personal guards in advance. Ye Qing stood on the observation deck overlooking the entire mine and found that many of the workers working here had ropes tied to their arms in groups of two.
General Maups was afraid that Ye Qing would misunderstand and didn't ask Ye Qing, so he quickly explained that the workers tied to the ropes were those sentenced to reform through labor.
"Re-education through labor?"
"Haha, that's a good idea." Ye Qing once again affirmed General Maups' management plan.
However, the affirmation of the management plan couldn't hide the extremely backward reality of the mine.
After overlooking the mine, Ye Qing, accompanied by General Maups, went into the mine for inspection.
This diamond mine was a typical surface mine. The source of the raw ore was a light yellow and bare mountain in front of everyone.
More than a dozen excavators were constantly excavating the mineral soil that had been blasted into fragments under their feet. The excavators piled the mineral soil aside, and then dozens of bare-chested laborers, who had been exposed to the sun for many years, used shovels to pile the mineral soil into wheelbarrows.
These wheelbarrows were pushed to the side of a man-made ditch that could be recycled. In the man-made ditch, hundreds of laborers stood with ropes tied to their arms, and their eyes were full of fear and pain.
These laborers only wore tattered underpants, and they mechanically used screens to put piles of mineral soil into the water to wash and sift.
Fine sand and soil were carried away by the water flow, and at the same time, the water in the ditch was dyed a thick yellow.
Gravel particles with a diameter of more than five millimeters were screened out. On average, they could wash and sift out a bowl of gravel and several pieces of black gravel of different sizes at a time.
The gravel mixed with gravel was sent by another group of people to a long row of straw huts not far away.
Dozens of workers sat in the straw huts. Their arms were not tied, their expressions were relaxed, and their clothes were neat.
These were the local workers hired by General Maups to hand-select raw diamonds from the gravel.
Ye Qing stood in front of the ditch with the yellow water flow and bent down to grab a handful of gravel from the ground that had just been washed and sifted out by the laborers.
The laborers who were working below subconsciously retreated in fear, and none of them dared to raise their heads, for fear of angering the young foreign man who looked like he had a great background.
Ye Qing spread out the grit and aimed it at the setting sun.
The gravel was now filled with water. These water droplets wrapped around the gravel and some other mineral particles in the gravel.
After being illuminated by the setting sun, they immediately flashed into countless brilliant flashes of light.
Ye Qing handed the gravel to the Master Craftsman next to him. The Master Craftsman crushed it with his fingers and then sprinkled it in the man-made ditch.
"Most of it is quartz, silicate, corundum, and hornblende."
"Boss, dig this diamond mine a few hundred meters deep, and you should reach the rock layer."
Ye Qing nodded. Most of the gravel just now was rock associated with minerals, and they were all common minerals that had no mining value. In theory, diamonds generally wouldn't appear in such a mountain.
If they did, it probably meant that there was a rock belt under the mountain.
Ye Qing asked General Maups to stop the excavators and then came to the mountain that had been split open.
The mountain in front of him was about thirty meters high. The soil was in the shape of a plate and was mixed with a large number of small stones.
"Mr. Ye, the easiest thing to find diamonds in this diamond mine is these small broken stones. When the workers in the straw hut sift through the gravel, they will use a hammer to smash the stones open. "
"With this smash, you can occasionally smash out diamonds."
General Maups introduced as he pulled out a matchbox-sized black stone from the soil layer.
Coincidentally, a stone that General Maups casually pulled out had a bean-sized flash in the corner.
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