A lagoon is a special seaside topography that is connected to the ocean at high tide and disconnected from the sea water at low tide.
What we are currently investigating is a floating island that has risen from the seabed and is not suspended in the air. Even if there is no lagoon, based on the average size of the current survey area of 15,000 square kilometers, even if only a layer of seawater with an average depth of five centimeters is left when it is lifted out of the sea , there will also be more than 750 million tons of water, which means that there will be at least 20 million tons of salt after being exposed to the sun!
Of course, it is even more difficult to actually collect a thin layer of salt over 15,000 square kilometers, mixed with sediment and coral. But as long as this floating island is indeed a salt farm, we can wait and think of a solution after taking flight, instead of being so anxious to grab the coastline now.
Now there are lagoons forming natural salt fields, which is the best expected situation.
The natural salt field will be repeatedly flooded by sea water, but the evaporation of sea water will not be replenished after each ebb, which will lead to an increase in salinity in the lagoon.
Seawater with high salinity is denser and will sink to the bottom in the seawater. The structure of the lagoon will protect the bottom, so that even after the tide rises, only a small part of the sea will have an average salinity, and the overall salinity will become higher and higher. When the sea level tidal height drops below the mouth of the lagoon, the lagoon will become a natural salt mine with a certain thickness.
Through direct observation from the air, the island has a total of five to seven lagoons, the number is uncertain, because two of them seem to have been completely disconnected from the sea water, and the white crystals on the edges of these two lakes are more conspicuous.
After flying in a circle, Wang Qixuan's heart was relieved. With so many lakes, regardless of depth, the combined area of several lakes exceeds a thousand square kilometers. The water in the lakes will not be only a few centimeters. After drying, at least It is a salt mine with a scale of hundreds of millions of tons. Even if it is later discovered by Wengji, it is still enough.
And judging from this situation, there may be deeper seabed that has not been lifted out of the sea. There will not be only one such salt field.
"Go directly back to Phoenix City." Without any worries, he put the two teams of prospectors on the ground and the fleet went straight home.
A plane was sent to pick up the exploration team later. An administratively arranged wooden glider was still too weak to hold eighteen people. It was too torture for the personnel to have no place to rest.
After more than ten hours on the plane, we finally returned to the city.
There was a meeting right after I got back, because this operation was a temporary arrangement and the departments were not well prepared, so there was a backlog of matters.
He held meetings from morning to night without taking a break, and began to make arrangements for salt mining.
As the floating island process advances, refugees and immigrants are entering the country faster and faster. The kingdom does need labor for development, production, and research, so there needs to be some room for material reserves, calculated based on one million people.
The per capita annual intake is 1.8 kilograms. A scale of one million people consumes 1,800 tons per year. The current reserve in the region is about 3,000 tons. Now we need to increase the reserve to a scale of one million people in five years. Do we need to continue to increase it in the future? look.
The official warehouse reserves will be increased by 6,000 tons. Based on the national treasury salt price of 1 yuan per kilogram, 6 million yuan of liquidity will be released to the society, which is equivalent to 6 yuan per capita.
There is no need to worry about hitting prices, because most of the money will flow overseas in the form of cash after circulation, in exchange for overseas raw materials, and the money outside is never enough to digest and process finished products, and part of it will be turned into precious metals when the money is returned.
Back to the salt issue, Wang Qi does not plan to officially operate salt, but will lease routes and let private forces handle it. The official price will still be one yuan per kilogram.
When the small kingdom was first established, the surrounding salt prices were low, mainly due to the import of sea salt. At that time, the price was one yuan per kilogram. The profit ratio was quite high for small traders, and the city's reserves would be given priority.
However, with the Luna River partially drying up and water depth problems in most sections of the river, the salt price outside is now close to the inventory price. After the route affairs are prepared for a period of time, it may exceed the official purchase price.
Opening one yuan at this time is purely an administrative task.
There’s no need to worry about no one coming. After all, there are no official routes. It’s a waste of time to get low-cost salt. Even if you know the target point, what if you know the target point? There’s a gap of more than ten meters between the plates now, and there are no planes to transport it back. How many magicians are needed, the cost is probably already higher than the current market price.
Someone must do the business. What Wang Qi needs to prepare is to set rules and spread the profits to as many people as possible. Only when everyone has enough spare money can there be room for the development of light industry.
Wang Qi is very partial to the development of heavy industry among light and heavy industries. This is not because he looks down on light industry, but because all types of heavy industry require huge amounts of capital and industrial chains, and rely entirely on private initiative. The proportion of investment in this field with too high a threshold will be low, and the self-evolution cycle It will stretch very long.
For example, Fenggu’s complete set of incandescent lamp automatic production lines was manufactured by Xincheng Heavy Industries. The total investment in equipment including queue jumping was only more than 400,000 yuan. After the nationwide power grid was rolled out, residential and industrial light bulbs were sold for hundreds of thousands of yuan. You can make your money back even if you don’t buy any electric lamps overseas. With the damage rate and luminous flux conversion rate of incandescent lamps reduced, after it is fully installed, there is an expected sales of at least 100,000 light bulbs per year. As long as you can see this prospect, invest in the production line It's a foregone conclusion.
An enterprise like Caihong Chemical requires a start-up capital of 6 to 7 million when it is first established, including mechanical equipment, container equipment, chemical waste treatment, etc. There are more than a dozen equipment providers involved, and further investment will be continued. For various new production devices and updated equipment, the total investment in equipment will exceed hundreds of millions over twenty years. If there is no basic guarantee of product sales, no one will touch it.
Therefore, heavy industry needs to be promoted from the top down, while light industry is closer to the people, and the threshold for predicting profits and purchasing equipment is much lower. As long as the people have spare money, people will naturally join it, and Wang Qi does not need to spend much effort to guide it.
Moreover, in order to promote light industry, the people’s spare money must not be too concentrated. The money in the hands of large households can only promote the development of craftsmen, but cannot achieve scale. Only projects such as light bulbs, board games, and clothing for ordinary people can promote the development of the industry. Industrial progress.
Following this idea, Wang Qi finally decided to hire a security company to act as an intermediary and provide security services, and organized a small group to develop Yandao.
Small groups can be family units, or small construction teams that usually build a small building for one household. Anyway, the threshold for drying salt is low enough and they can work hard.
Of the purchase price of one yuan, the security company takes 40% and 60% to the hands. As for how the 60% is divided, the government really has no control over it.
Forty percent is not much, but according to the official purchase volume, this is 2.4 million. Even if a security officer earns 1,000 per month, it is enough to support the salary of 240 people for ten months. In fact, it is difficult for safety officers who are not lawyers to earn such a high salary. The information in Wang Qi's hand shows that the average salary of a safety officer with a third-level vindictiveness is only 400, which is equivalent to four times the amount of an ordinary skilled worker. The lowest About five times the salary standard.
Security companies will definitely use more senior personnel for large projects, but Samsung and Sanhuan personnel are still the main force, and a big business of 2.4 million is definitely profitable.
Moreover, the full supply of official warehouses is not the end. This process also requires the stabilization of salt prices to ensure that the salt prices in surrounding areas are not higher than those in official warehouses.
It is impossible to determine how long the whole process will last, but one can be added. If the task is completed well, the official treasury will be allowed to continue leasing routes after reaching the reserve requirement.
Calculating it this way, I'm afraid it would be too rich for the agency to hand it over to a security company.
Arrange two security companies in different cities, so that they can supervise each other and avoid some nasty things happening.
It took two days to straighten out the regulations, send people to do it, and had Akeem make a trip to South Town to unlock the growth limit of the wooden man.
Changes are quite drastic during this period. It is too late to wait for Manniu to complete testing and trial production. It is more reliable to go directly to Wooden Man. Slower is slower. However, those who go to Yandao to work can build temporary residences locally and will not waste their time. Wasted on the road.
As mentioned earlier, the power loss of air transportation is very large, and there will be problems in the supply of magic power. However, this time it is not the daily logistics of the two domestic sectors, but the flow of a single product. The total volume is about 10,000 tons, which will bring the market price back. Original shape. When the reserve is completed and the route fees are calculated, and intermediary profits continue to decline, they will retreat, and the relative pressure will be much less.
