The cooperation with Hua Power Group was an important part of the Global Power Grid Plan. Jiang Chen was not afraid that Jia Zhengrong only purchased a limited quantity, he was afraid that he couldn’t commit to buying. It was difficult to believe that that the government would push for zero-emission for thermal power when the cost of electricity was a few cents.
You think thermal power’s pollution is too high? You need to add a filter at the end of the chimney? Perfect, we think the cost of thermal power is too high!
Importing oil to generate electricity is not importing? Isn’t it better to buy it directly? When this transmission line is signed, you don’t have to worry about energy subsidies. The power station can be directly shut down and a large amount of money can be saved.
With this spare cash, it was better to send more benefits to employees, organize study abroad trips and, upgrade the vehicles of the leaders. This is a good thing for the benefit of the country and its people!
After the letter of intent was signed, Jia Zhengrong paid extra attention to this submarine transmission line. First, he headed onto the sea to inspect the transmission and distribution station, and then he took the initiative to discuss the project with Celestial Trade. Jiang Chen thought it was a done deal, so he entrusted the rest to Xia Shiyu.
Jiang Chen was ready to make the appropriate concessions on the transmission line. In the first year, the goal was to increase the amount of power imported by Hua. Last year, Hua’s national power generation exceeded more than 6 trillion kWh. This market was bigger than all the countries that Jiang Chen had personally visited combined and he must focus on this market.
The matter of Global Power Grid aside. Recently, during the time Jiang Chen was in the apocalypse, a major event happened in the modern world.
With the cooperation of the Xin Space Administration, Celestial Trade promulgated the “2019 Celestial Trade Outer Space Resource Development Plan”, which aggressively and decisively listed a total of nine asteroids in the Earth-Moon system for mining purposes.
No one doubted the fact whether Celestial Trade will succeed or not, after all, the Bennu asteroid proved their strength. The size of the nine asteroids are smaller than that of Bennu, and the mineral reserves are unknown. Maybe there are only stones on it, but maybe there are tons of diamonds hundred times bigger than The Cullinan (1).
Developing the universe will always be a gamble. What matters the most is not what is on the asteroid, but the fact that Celestial Trade already possesses the ability to develop space resources on a large scale. However, this also creates a problem. Although there are many asteroids in space, there are also mining challenges to solve.
When NASA became involved, it was not happy at all. Although the outer space resources belonged to all of mankind, the default rule is it belonged to whoever got to it first. However, if Celestial Trade “planned” the few asteroids that are the easiest to mine, how are we going to compete?
You can be ahead of everyone, but it’s not right to not get everyone involved.
While unwilling, no one directly opposed this. Why? It’s not because of the face of Xin, but because Celestial Trade also added a “timely” announcement of a plan to explain the previously published 2019 Celestial Trade Outer Space Resource Development Plan. Celestial Trade is willing to contract all 9 asteroids out.
Without mining spacecraft? It doesn’t matter, Celestial Trade can lend it to you! No transport ships? It doesn’t matter, don’t borrow it, Celestial Trade will sell it to you directly! As long as the minimum output value specified in the contract is mined within the contractual deadline, the asteroid’s contractual right is still yours.
If you don’t produce, there are still many people waiting to do it!
On the surface, Celestial Trade contracted the nine asteroids seemed to be a move to divert pressure and give up part of the profits. However, thinking about it carefully thinking, Jiang Chen is simply a bad man.
It is best not to monopolize the market. No one will blame you for building a bridge and charging a toll. But if you don’t allow anyone to cross the bridge, you will be hated. However, Jiang Chen is not happy to just charge a toll, he wants people who crossed the bridge to work for him.
Let’s not talk about whether these asteroids are filled with gold or slag. Even if you mine the asteroid, you can’t throw them directly into the atmosphere. Without a space elevator, the product must be shipped to Celestial City
This is not the end of it. Directly transporting the mine and the rocks back to the surface is simply not worth it!
Transported by Celestial Trade, it is best to process it on Celestial City. Iron ore is refined into steel, and titanium ore is refined into titanium ingots. They are not scamming you, as you can process these things in your space station or Future Mining’s space station since they are all connected to Celestial Trade. But after all, since it is in the territory of Xin, it is not too much to charge a transaction tax, right?
Settled in US dollars?
Sorry, the law already stipulates that only one currency is recognized in Celestial City, and that is the Xin New dollar.
The ingots that you produce, whether you send them to the surface and sell them to the international market or sell them directly to the local factory in Celestial City, no one will intervene. The export of mineral ingots is the same as the export of ore; there is no need to pay export tax. At most, a space elevator transportation fee is charged, and port management and usage fee are also charged on the surface.
After several taxes and charges, all that money will basically enter the pockets of Celestial Trade. The cost of these ingots is still lower than the average price of the international market. These have nothing to do with the relationship between supply and demand. It is purely because the quality of space ore is too high, and the impurity composition is relatively low. With Celestial Trade’s mining and transportation equipment, the cost is extremely low.
You don’t have to worry about environmental protection, and you don’t have to pay a series of additional taxes such as mining tax, education, and urban construction. The asteroids in outer space don’t have “local governments” associated with them. It belongs to whoever mines it. Although they have to pay various fees to Celestial Trade, you are still saving in the end.
Celestial Trade is not monopolizing the market, but you have to give us some of the profit?
As for renting equipment and selling transport ships, Jiang Chen had other plans.
You want my technology? Easy, I will sell it directly to you. Since it is impossible to transport this down the space elevator. Although I have sold this to you, you can only use it in Celestial Trade.
If you want to try hard landing, take out the parts from the wreck and study it, that’s fine too. Celestial Trade will revoke your safety qualification certificate. If you want to buy it later, I will not sell it to you. As for reverse engineering, when the technology is separated by a large enough gap. Even if I sold the prototype to you, you must have that theoretical foundation to study it.
Jiang Chen thought he was a genius!
Celestial Trade will not need to pay a single cent and all the risks are borne by his international friends. In the future, Future Heavy Industries will only increase its production capacity, producing transport ships, mining ships and space stations. Future Mining will constantly process the ores mined in its ore processing units.
If these nine asteroids are all developed by Future Mining, then even with ten times the size, Future Mining will not be able to develop all of them. But if other countries joined, nine more asteroids as big as Bennu will not be enough.
While Celestial Trade gave up some, it gained more in return. Not only that, Celestial Trade can use other people’s money to improve its own production capacity. Where could Celestial Trade find a better deal than this?
(1) The Cullinan Diamond was the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found
