"Brother Zhao, how are you doing here..."
After a while, everyone was sitting around the bonfire, except Zhang Kai, who was holding the kumiss in his hand and looking around and couldn't help but be speechless.
"Haha! Brother Zhang, you can say what you want, it's a bit rough here. But it's pretty good.
I moved south from Outer Mongolia, and now it’s not easy to have a place to live, even if you have a stutter. Even if the brothers are new here, no matter how good the conditions are, I can't meet them for the time being. "
Zhao Ming smiled and shook his head with a wry smile.
Zhang Kai was silent when he heard this. He had heard about Zhao Ming's achievements here before coming here, and thought that Zhao Ming had already led a popular life of drinking spicy food here. I never imagined it would look like this.
But at this moment, Zhao Ming smiled casually, "Hahaha, but Brother Zhang, I have a big deal here! I wonder if you... are interested?"
As he spoke, Zhao Ming turned and looked at Boss Guo, who had returned from a temporary escape with him.
When things like this happen, it is impossible for Boss Guo to return to Rehe and the Northeast. There are only three guards left with him, so he can only stay here temporarily and wait for the situation to get better before making plans.
Zhao Ming looked at him at the same time and asked with a smile, "Boss Guo, what do you think?"
"Business? What kind of trade?"
Zhang Kai was the first to ask, feeling his head buzzing. Why did he suddenly get involved in business when he arrived?
Also somewhat unexpected was Boss Guo. Boss Guo was also quite surprised. Hasn't the next business deal been concluded? Could it be another business?
Zhao Ming was not in a hurry to answer, but waved to Ah Fu in the distance and asked him to bring over some horses.
"Let's go, I'll take you to see some good things!"
As he said this, Zhao Ming got on his horse. Seeing this, Boss Guo and Zhang Kai followed him on horseback suspiciously.
Passing through the interior of Huozhongtun and coming directly to the rear, a few hundred meters further is the peak that rises straight up. It is impossible to have nothing to do after eating. Zhao Ming will take them to climb the mountain?
However, Zhao Ming never said a word from the beginning to the end, and the two of them had no choice but to suppress their doubts and continue to follow.
When we arrived at the foot of the mountain, we could already see a lot of gravel, some of which had fallen down from the top.
This mountain cannot be said to be very steep. It has a gentle middle and lower section and a towering and steep top.
Therefore, you can still see green grass covering the lower part of the mountain.
Zhao Ming turned over and dismounted. Seeing this, the two of them still followed the instructions in confusion.
Then they discovered that Zhao Ming was rummaging around for something on the ground. They pushed aside a thin layer of snow and the first thing they saw was some gravel. But after searching, they found that Zhao Ming had picked up a stone.
"Brother Zhao, you didn't bring us all the way to see the rocks, did you?" Zhang Kai couldn't help but grinned.
"What kind of stone! Chief Zhao, can you show it to me?"
Boss Guo was a discerning man, with a hint of excitement in his tone as he stepped forward and asked.
"Take it, it's just for you to see."
Zhao Ming threw it away, but Boss Guo took it very seriously, held it in his hand and began to look at it carefully.
Not only did he look left and right, he also rubbed it carefully with his hands and bit it with his teeth.
At this time, Zhang Kai also saw clearly what it was, and a look of surprise and uncertainty flashed in his eyes.
"Zhao...Brother Zhao, are there many of these here?"
Zhang Kai couldn't help but lick his lips that were dry due to the cold. However, just after licking, his tongue and lips almost stuck together due to the cold.
"many?"
Zhao Ming seemed to have heard a big joke, and he burst out laughing and pointed at the large mountain col not far away and said with a smile, "You can easily pick these up here, what do you think?"
Gudong!
Two swallowing sounds sounded almost at the same time, and both Zhang Kai and Boss Guo looked at Zhao Ming dumbfounded.
Coal mine!
A natural open-pit coal mine!
Boss Guo thought for a while and then lay down on the ground and rummaged carefully. He found a lot of black and shiny ores after a casual search. He also deliberately went to a place a little further away to fiddle with the snow again. The same thing happened here. Similar ores have also been found.
But he calmed down.
Looking at Zhao Ming, his eyes regained his composure, and he couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, "Sir Zhao, I roughly understand what you mean. There is indeed a natural open-pit coal mine here, and the coal content in it should not be low.
But the situation here is a bit special. First of all, it is manpower and transportation. Even if there is a coal mine here, I feel that the value will not be too great. "
Boss Guo is very good at doing business, and he can immediately see the details here.
As long as a natural open-pit coal mine is not located in some extremely complex terrain, it is of great mining value and can quickly attract a large amount of investment.
But that was in later generations. In these days, the value of coal was not very high, and the price of oil did not rise to the sky.
This is mainly because the current domestic industrialization is not that high and the utilization rate cannot be improved. Naturally, the value cannot be said to be high.
Of course there is value, but it depends on where it is.
In today's era, without the existence of a large number of mining machinery, mining requires a large number of laborers. Secondly, it also requires a certain amount of transportation nearby. It is best to have a railway nearby.
However, Zhao Ming has neither of these two here. Even if the transportation is less convenient and there are more workers, this place can still develop.
It's a pity that there are not many people on the grassland. It's okay to be responsible for raising cattle and sheep. If the excess population is used for mining, the production capacity created may not be able to afford everyone's food and drink.
Zhao Ming fully recognized Boss Guo's vision.
Some novels from later generations describe the situation of sudden wealth in a coal mine in ancient or modern times.
So next, Zhao Ming had to rely on deception.
The smile on his face remained unchanged, Zhao Ming continued to smile, "Boss Guo, you are right, indeed coal mines are valuable, but they require a lot of manpower and material resources.
Secondly, there is good transportation.
Putting these aside, let’s talk about the value of the coal mines here. "
Zhao Ming knows a truth well. If you want to deceive... to attract investment, the most important thing is to throw out a bait first. If there is not enough benefit, it is estimated that others will be lack of interest if it is said to be so exciting later.
He only discovered the situation in Huo Zhong Tun in the past few days. He had only had a quick glance at Huo Zhong Tun before, but recently he was planning to settle here for a long time. Zhao Ming naturally wanted to go out and inspect the situation to check the situation.
At this glance, he noticed something unusual. Although the herdsmen in the village still burned mainly animal dung, he also found that many people also added some black ore.
When this thing burns, it emits a pungent rotten egg smell, which is emitted by the sulfur material that has just been mined.
The newly mined ore that has not been processed will emit toxic gases, so Zhao Ming immediately ordered people to stop burning the materials.
At the same time, I went out to investigate and got a rough guess about the size of the Huozhongtun open-pit coal mine.
