Wu An didn't need Ye Qing to teach him how to kill people, set fire, and steal money. He had been playing this game for many years.
But what he couldn't understand was, wouldn't it be nice if I exchanged gems for your arms?
Why do you choose these worthless copper ores?
Ye Qing looked at his confused eyes and felt helpless.
Myanmar is God's favorite, but northern Myanmar is God's illegitimate child.
It not only produces gambling stones, precious stones, tree-turned jade, diamonds, but also gold, silver, copper, iron ore and various precious trees.
The industries of all ethnic groups are concentrated in gambling on stones, gems, and even gold and silver minerals. The worst can be done by cherishing trees.
For example, teak, red rosewood, and huanghuali, as long as these things are shipped to Jiegao, the profit can be hundreds of times when resold.
Even Daozhai's main business is logging, with murder, arson, robbery and robbery as a side business.
But they dismiss the copper-iron-nickel ore that cannot be sold at a high price.
"Do you know why old Sangji is eyeing limonite?"
Wu An shook his head blankly.
"Although there are dozens of stone gambling sites in the Hpagan area, over-exploitation will lead to depletion sooner or later." Ye Qing sighed: "With the strength of the Kachin Independence Army, it is unable to expand outward. From then on, Government forces seized several areas of the field.
Therefore, Lao Sanji was prepared for danger in times of peace and wanted to leave a long-term source of wealth for the Kachin people.
This financial source is limonite. Although the unit price of limonite is not high, its reserves are large. Even if modern mining machinery is introduced, it can be mined for hundreds of years.
Moreover, although the unit price is not high, the quantity is large. One ton of ore sells for 200, and mining 10,000 tons per day is equivalent to 2 million. The most important thing is that this financial source is stable. "
Wu An was shocked when he heard this.
Don't look at the mine owners in the Pagan Field area who invest huge sums of money every year in crazy mining of gambling stones.
However, more than 50% of the markets are losing money, 30% are able to maintain breakeven, and only 20% are profitable.
But is it profitable to gamble on stones?
Money is made, but it is not the mine owners who make money, but the military government who opens the market makes big money, and the Chinese jade merchants make small money.
This is also the real reason why the military government uses all means to control the production of gambling stones, creating the illusion that rare things are more valuable, and constantly pushing the price of gambling stones higher.
In this way, he can make a lot of money from Chinese jade merchants on the public market.
The military government makes money by betting on stones, and the most profitable item is taxation.
One hundred percent high taxes.
These taxes have nothing to do with the major mine owners.
However, the military government still has to peel off a layer of gambling stones that are traded on the public market.
If you express even a little dissatisfaction, the military government will close your account and confiscate your trading proceeds.
This is the real reason for the successive years of war in northern Myanmar.
Not only is the distribution of interests unbalanced, the military government also uses war as a means to suppress all kinds of dissatisfaction.
“Now, Old Sanchi lacks an opportunity to legitimately occupy the Pagan limonite. After occupying the limonite, he only needs to purchase a few sets of mining machines to mine normally.
Then there is the problem of transportation, which is not difficult for Lao Sanji to solve. "
Wu An finally understood: "The most important thing is the recipient!"
"I am in Jiegao's Red Star Group, and I have a non-ferrous metals company under my control." Ye Qing said with a smile: "No matter how much iron ore or copper ore you mine, I will buy it at a high price."
"You are just watching the fun and don't think it's a big deal!" Wu An was not stupid. He knew very well that if Ye Qing's words were heard by old Sangji, the intensity of the war would definitely increase several times.
"Then tell me, what is the purpose of buying arms?" Ye Qing asked with a sneer: "Is it to go hunting in the mountains or to block the road and rob?"
"You really don't want the gem!"
"Yes, but I have to find an expert to do the gem business." Ye Qing chuckled and said, "But what I like most is the business of limonite and copper ore. This kind of business has no technical content and can be done by hand. The money is delivered right away, and no one is deceived."
"However, it is not easy to obtain mining rights from the military government." Wu An was not stunned by the pie he drew.
Although the military government has long released the mining rights for gold, silver, copper and iron, it still has to pay a high contract fee.
But this condition is for the Bamar people.
In addition to the Bamar people, there are more than 100 other ethnic groups who cannot even hope to obtain mining rights.
The Bamar people position more than 100 ethnic minorities as cheap miners.
"Let's fight!" Ye Qing chuckled and said: "If one war can't solve the problem, then fight two. The Kachin Independence Army and the Collapse Dragon Army are already this miserable, so what can it be worse? .
But the military government is different. If it cannot hold a public meeting this year, it will lose a large amount of tax revenue, and the army will also lose a large amount of military expenditure. Without military expenditure, it cannot buy guns and bullets. Government troops without bullets are just a bunch of people to you. Sheep carrying fire sticks...
When the military government is unable to afford the high military expenditures, they will take the initiative to negotiate with you. At that time, how big a piece of fat they can eat depends on the ability of old Sangji. "
It is impossible for old Sangji and Duqin Maidan to put aside their prejudices and hatred and join forces to mine.
However, it is possible to have the Kachin Independence Army and the military government join forces to develop mines.
The military government does not operate the mines itself, but charges contracting fees.
Facing ethnic groups like the Kachin Independence Army and the Benglong Army that are too immature to be defeated, the only way is to win-win cooperation.
Anyway, who is charging the contracting fee?
After being enemies for so many years, in that stone betting fair, the stone betting area in the Pagan area was missing?
Since stone gambling can cooperate, why can't limonite and copper mines cooperate?
However, this is only possible after the government troops have run out of ammunition and food and are unable to support the war.
In Jie Le's cabin in the forest, Wu An saw Ye Qing's fierce and domineering nature, but tonight, during a conversation in the light rain, he learned what it meant to be scheming.
What consumes the most in fighting?
It's a bullet!
Where did the bullet come from? Of course it was bought from Ye Qing.
But the problem is that they don't take credit, so you can exchange it for stones, gems, ores.
Although he knew it, this guy dug a bottomless pit for the Kachin Independence Army and the Collapse Dragon Army.
However, they have to jump for future benefits.
Although the jade comes from Kachin State, there is only a narrow strip of land that is thirty-four kilometers long and twelve kilometers at its widest point.
The main venues are located in Hpakant, Bhamo, Myitkyina, Longkeng, Kemaying...
However, hundreds of years of competition and separatism have also given each major venue its own master.
The owner of each field has his own army, and expanding outward is a task that is simply impossible.
It is precisely because of this that every field area is filled with mine pits, riddled with holes, and terrible to look at.
But even so, fewer and fewer gambling stones are dug out, and high-quality gambling stones are even rarer...
