"Also..." Yang Jing pondered for a moment, and Commissioner Zhu, who was full of smiles, immediately said: "Mr. Smith, I just said that you can ask me if you have any requirements. As long as we can do it, we will do our best."

What Yang Jing said made him feel embarrassed, but after thinking about it, Yang Jing decided to express his request.

"Commissioner Zhu, I do have a small request, that is, I plan to build the Yulong Kashgar River embankment for the Hotan government for free, and at the same time clean the riverbed of the Yulong Kashgar River..."

Yang Jing was really embarrassed when he said this request. In this era, people only knew that when the Yulong Kashgar River entered the dry season in autumn and winter, people could occasionally find some seed materials in the riverbed, and the quality was quite good. The jade pickers who entered the mountains to pick jade could also find seed materials in the upper riverbed of the Yulong Kashgar River, but compared with the downstream riverbed, there were more seed materials found in the upper riverbed.

In other words, in this era, people have not realized that the dozens of kilometers long river channel between the Yulong Kashgar River has just rushed out of the Kunlun Mountains and the Great Desert is the area that is rich in Hetian jade seed material.

But now, one is that people do not realize the true value of Hetian jade, and the other is that in this era, people would go into the mountains to pick jade, and the Jade Dragon Kashgar River in the dry season is in autumn and winter. In this era, no one was idle and went around the riverbed in the autumn and winter with the fierce cold wind.

Therefore, people nowadays do not realize that this section of river that is dozens of kilometers long is actually a huge treasure house.

In fact, in 2003, most people in Hotan did not know the value of Hetian jade. Since 2004, the Hotan Regional Government took the lead in holding the Hetian Jade Tourism and Culture Festival, and then held two more Hetian Jade Culture Academic Seminars in the following two years, popularizing the basic knowledge of jade, which triggered the signs of Hetian jade fever.

In the years before 2002, the government was not strict in the excavation and management of jade. It only required a certain fee to obtain jade mining qualifications. After 2002, the Hotan area adopted the auction form for part of the land producing jade, with the auction price per mu of land ranging from 2,000 to 6,000 yuan.

At this time, people discovered business opportunities in Hetian jade. Local farmers would dig jade during the slack farming period. Many people who have jobs in the city will also do jade business, which also attracts people from all over the country who want to get rich.

In 2005 and 2006, there were scenes of millions of people digging jade on the riverbed at the same time and 3,000 large excavators working at the same time on the Yulong Kashgar River. That kind of scene can only be described as "crazy".

Before 2006, on the banks of the Yulong Kashgar River, the story of making a big splash by digging beautiful jade was circulated every day. The myth of getting rich overnight attracted thousands of people to dig, pour, and process jade on the riverbed all year round. Large excavators turned the riverbed one by one, and all the sand and soil were sifted countless times. The seed jade the size of a fingernail could not escape.

In those two years, in one sentence, it is "there are more people digging jade than the stones in the riverbed!"

It was not until October 2007 that the government issued a ban on the Hetian jade, and all large machinery were withdrawn from the riverbed. The local government has since begun to implement various bans on the mining. The Hotan government and the top ten functional departments launched a "special action to prohibit random mining and digging", and carried out a series of rectifications on the disorderly mining phenomenon, which restricted this crazy mining operation.

But at this time, the riverbed that was dozens of kilometers long had been dug several times, and even the ecological environment around the river was greatly damaged.

If you don’t dig in advance in a planned manner, then in 16 or 17 years, the place will be destroyed by those crazy people. It’s better to start early.

Of course, in order to avoid causing too much time and space paradox, Yang Jing decided that if Commissioner Zhu agreed to his request, he would dig the riverbed to only one meter deep. Anyway, most of the materials were within this range. As for the deep, let's leave it to those crazy people later.

If it weren't for the worry of the paradox of time and space, Yang Jing really wanted to dig all the dozens of kilometers of rivers in more than ten years, so that the descendants could destroy the surrounding natural environment when they dig jade.

only......

Yang Jing thought about choosing the sword of Damocles above his head, and he couldn't help feeling a little sad.

As the highest leader of the Hotan government department, Commissioner Zhu knew very well about the situation in the Yulong Kashgar River. Of course, he also knew that there were some seed materials in the Yulong Kashgar River.

But compared to people building a large embankment for the Yulong Kashgar River for free and cleaning the river channels, that little seed material is nothing.

So Commissioner Zhu said happily: "Mr. Smith, I understand what you mean, I agree. You can repair the embankment, clean the river channel, and all the seed materials found in the river channel belong to you. Do you think this is good?"

Yang Jing was overjoyed, why is this not good?

Although the cost of building a large embankment and cleaning the river channel is also very high, and a large number of construction machinery is also required to transport in from abroad, which may even cost more than the value of seed materials harvested from the river channel, Yang Jing himself did not make any money by making money here.

Get some rare kilogram-grade seed material, and then build a dam for the local area for free and clean the river. Even if the cost is much higher, Yang Jing is willing to do it. The fertilizer and water will not flow to outsiders' fields.

Whether you say Yang Jing is aware of his own or stupid, Yang Jing feels that there seems to be nothing wrong with using the money he earned from abroad on his motherland.

It’s like investing in the construction of the Grand Canal Leisure Park for free in Tianqu. If you are poor, you will be safe and you will be able to help the world. Yang Jing believes that he has not yet reached the level of helping the world, but he thinks it is still very necessary to make some contributions to Hotan. After all, this place can provide himself with a large amount of precious Hetian jade.

This is also a kind of exchange. Although it is a bit of a loss, Yang Jing doesn't care.

In fact, Yang Jing knew very well that if he made such a request to the local leaders twenty years later, he would have to drive him out. But now, this is a win-win result!

So, Yang Jing planned to invest 50 million US dollars to acquire a large local jade carving factory and establish a wholly-owned company; he searched for jade mines in the southern Kunlun Mountains for contract mining, with a contract period of 70 years; he built the Yulong Kashgar River embankment for free and cleaned the Yulong Kashgar River channel and agreed on the three negotiation projects in the joke.

As for Yang Jing’s money for the acquisition of information and ornaments, it is calculated separately, not within the scope of this 50 million US dollars.

Commissioner Zhu's purpose is to keep the dollars brought by Cole Smith in the Hotan area.

If we only acquire a jade carving factory to establish a wholly-owned company, of course it will not cost 50 million US dollars, and it will not cost even 500,000 US dollars. Commissioner Zhu is still very clear about this.

Therefore, the investment of 50 million US dollars is mainly based on the contract fee for the jade mine. According to the terms agreed, Yang Jing promised that the total contract fee for 70 years would be 20 million US dollars. After finding the new jade mine, he would also invest 20 million US dollars to build the mining area and simple roads, and hire workers to pick jade in the local area.

The contracting fee of 20 million US dollars is simply a sky-high price in this era. Commissioner Zhu did not dare to think that there would be such a high contracting fee, but Yang Jing insisted on this number and Commissioner Zhu could only secretly enjoy it behind his back. As for the 20 million US dollars he invested in the mining area, it was almost the same as the one he had picked up for free.

Because Commissioner Zhu knew very well that even if Yang Jing found the jade mine, it would be impossible to build roads under such harsh conditions, so whether it was the contract fee or the construction of the mining area, it was actually a joke.

However, Commissioner Zhu would not say that. As long as the foreign capital can be kept, it would be a great contribution. As for whether they can find jade mines and how they build jade mines, we will not care.

This is not that Commissioner Zhu cheated on Yang Jing. The situation is really here. If you insist on investing, I can’t do anything about it? I can’t just see there is an investment, right?

As for the seventy-year period, it doesn’t matter. As for the current situation, let alone seventy years, even if it is one hundred years, I’m afraid the conditions for picking jade cannot be improved.

In this way, this negotiation was a joy to everyone.

Although Yang Jing knew that his "big-handed" investment would definitely be said to be stupid by many people. But if you are not a fish, how can you know the joy of a fish?

Yang Jing was a little angry. When he was poor, he wanted to earn money from foreigners and then return to his country to serve his motherland, but he could not realize this dream at that time.

Later, he obtained the holy ring and all his previous dreams were realized. Now he earned hundreds of billions of dollars of profits from foreigners. So why don’t you turn back and serve the motherland? After all, Yang Jing himself also knew that in the original time and space, as his wealth continued to grow, although some people might covet their own property, it was more from the protection of the upper class.

Just like when the Russians learned that they had brought some precious treasures, if the country had not protected them, they would have been tricked by the Russians long ago.

The ancients also knew that "a drop of water should be repaid with a spring of water". In fact, he also received a lot of favors from the country. For this reason, Yang Jing had to find a way to repay his motherland more.

In the original time and space, I do not have much ability to give back to the motherland for the time being, but in this time and space, if conditions permit, Yang Jing is willing to make more contributions to the motherland.

That's why Yang Jing's trip to Xinjiang Province was this time.

Of course, as for the exact investment agreement, Wu Dawei needs to work hard. The big aspects have been decided, and all the remaining trivial matters can be agreed upon as long as they are not too excessive.

Anyway, the water will not flow to outsiders' fields...
Chapter completed!