Tang Songyuan smiled and said: "Brother Yang, don't worry, I'm free now anyway."
"Why don't you take me to those two gold mines to have a look? What do you think?"
Of course Yang Zhicheng had no objection to this, and just said: "Now there are many small groups of Burmese troops infiltrating in. I will order a company of guards to come over first, just in case."
Tang Songyuan nodded and said, "That's okay. Brother Yang will come and let me know when he's ready."
Half an hour later, Tang Songyuan called Li Qingying and joined the escort convoy brought by Yang Zhicheng, heading out of the city in a mighty manner.
The two gold mines in Kokang are both located in the Red Star District, which is an area in northwest Myanmar, close to the border between Shan State and Yunnan Province.
Before Peng Daoren raised his troops, he was hiding in mountainous areas such as the Red Star District, building up strength while fighting guerrillas.
These two gold mines are the few things he relies on.
After more than four hours of journey, Tang Songyuan and his party finally arrived at their destination.
The first gold mine was located in the mountains and was called the Red Star Gold Mine.
Looking from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain in the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, the entire mine was about five kilometers long and covered an extremely large area.
The mining method of this gold mine is open-pit mining, but it lacks the support of modern equipment and relies mostly on manpower.
Therefore, the mining efficiency here is very low. Miners can only use simple hand tools, hammering, explosives and other methods to mine.
There are almost no large modern mining tools in sight.
As Yang Zhicheng said, mining conditions are backward and resource utilization efficiency is low.
The guards dispersed and carried out simple defense and vigilance around the area.
Yang Zhicheng took Tang Songyuan and Li Qingying into the gold mine.
"Due to the lack of advanced mining technology, the mining conditions of this gold mine are very backward."
Yang Zhicheng raised his hand and pointed forward and said: "These mining workers can only use simple tools and manpower to mine, and can only dig a small amount of ore in a day..."
Even if there are wind cannons to drill holes and explosives to blast mountains, more and more arduous work of crushing and transferring ore is still done by ordinary workers.
Even if a worker tries his best, he can only collect about a thousand kilograms of ore in a day.
One ton of gold ore is expected to produce about 50 to 300 grams of gold.
In the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, the vision of perspective was opened, and a one kilometer radius was under control, and a range of 200 meters underground could be clearly seen.
Including the underground gold mine veins, the general direction can also be vaguely seen.
Overall, this Red Star Gold Mine is considered a rich ore, and the gold content contained in the veins is very high.
And the further down you go, the higher the gold abundance.
Tang Songyuan said: "Will the efficiency of mining be greatly improved by introducing some large-scale mining machinery?"
Yang Zhicheng smiled bitterly and said: "I originally thought the same way. I tried to refer to Pagan's mining model and introduce a large number of construction machinery."
"But we still have a big constraint. There is no oil in Kokang, although Lao Cai has certain oil reserves."
"But now we don't even have enough for fighting, and we simply can't supply so much construction machinery..."
Tang Songyuan chuckled and said: "Haha, Brother Yang has a good plan. Are you afraid that you want me to raise money to purchase machinery by myself, and prepare to bring in the oil myself?"
Yang Zhicheng sneered and said, "I knew that my little tricks couldn't be hidden from Brother Tang,"
"Originally, I also tried to contact the northern Shan State, but they also encountered many difficulties and made some excessive demands."
"So I simply thought that instead of giving others an advantage and letting the northern Shan State take advantage, it would be better to let Brother Tang take care of it..."
Tang Songyuan said: "I don't think it's a big problem with large machinery. There should be ready-made machines in this area in China."
"But for oil, I need to consult the relevant departments."
Yang Zhicheng said: "It doesn't matter. I trust Brother Tang's ability to do things. Let's go to Dafu Gold Mine to have a look..."
Dafu Gold Mine is more than 30 kilometers away from Hongxing Gold Mine.
The transportation here is slightly more convenient, but there is also a lack of advanced mining technology and the mining conditions are also very backward.
Mining is done in open pits and shafts, but the depth of mining is only more than 20 meters at most.
In general, although these two gold mines have large reserves and high grade, due to the limitations of mining conditions and the harsh environment, mining is very difficult and the mining efficiency is very low.
Yang Zhicheng said: "Frankly speaking, the proven gold reserves of Dafu Gold Mine are as high as more than 100 tons,"
"But now we can produce more than 7,000 grams of gold in a month at most. We only have a treasure mountain that cannot be used..."
According to the current international gold price, the output value of a gold rich mine is only more than 3 million yuan a month, which is indeed not worthy of its name.
Tang Songyuan said: "Brother Yang, don't worry, I will start preparing for this matter after I go back."
"If oil can be imported from China, I expect to invest 100 million to purchase mining machinery and oil reserves."
"We must let these two mines operate at full capacity."
"After all, who doesn't love such a cute thing like gold..."
Yang Zhicheng laughed and echoed: "Brother Tang is right!"
"Then we can talk about ways to cooperate."
The corners of Tang Songyuan's mouth turned up slightly and he said, "I don't care about Brother Yang talking to Miss Li."
Matters involving interests and negotiations were usually left to Li Qingying in Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties.
This was also the reason why he specially wanted to bring Li Qingying with him.
And Li Qingying's action will definitely satisfy the interests of Tang, Song and Yuan to the maximum extent.
Half an hour later, Li Qingying and Yang Zhicheng negotiated a preliminary contract agreement.
Generally speaking, the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties had to pay annual contracting fees to Kokang.
This fee will be slightly higher initially, but will begin to be halved after three years.
A minimum production tax of eight percent is then required each quarter.
Secondly, Yang Zhicheng wanted to send troops to be responsible for the safety of the gold mines. However, in the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, existing workers in the gold mines could not be fired without special circumstances, and it was best to provide them with professional training.
Improve their working ability and life security, etc...
It was almost evening when we returned to Lao Cai, and Peng Daoren's forward headquarters came back with great news:
The Lagwa Corps detoured for more than ten kilometers, broke through the Burmese army's blockade, and successfully raided two Burmese army logistics warehouses.
A large number of firearms and ammunition were seized and destroyed.
In the short term, the two Burmese armies responsible for attacking Kokang will face a situation without logistics.
There were no supplies except what was carried with the army, and eating was a problem.
"Great!" Yang Zhicheng was overjoyed when he took the battle report, looked at Tang Songyuan and said happily: "Brother Tang has made a great contribution this time!"
"Lao Peng has probably never fought such a smooth battle in his life..."
Tang Songyuan chuckled and said, "I don't dare to take credit. This is all the credit of Miss Zhou Muning."
"In the future, she will also integrate the intelligence network system to provide you and me with more information support!"
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