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Chapter 987: Chapter 866 Total Amount of Gold
Being used and using others.
The swift identity switch.
It comes so quickly.
Lang Cai was very satisfied with his move, finally having schemed against Deputy Leader Ling’s people so closely, bringing in large investments, the return flow of money to Myanmar indirectly weakened Ling’s economic influence.
Although it was small.
It was better than nothing.
The enormous loan in Myanmar Kyat from a few days ago.
He had cajoled like coaxing a child, persuading earnestly and tirelessly, even mobilizing other deputies to join the effort, and it took great effort to make Ling "reluctantly" agree to loan to the Myanmar government.
Because of this, Lang Cai was truly frustrated, being a prominent national leader borrowing from a local bank was so difficult it required putting on a smiling face, which was infuriating to think about.
Now, as soon as someone stepped forward, he went with the flow.
Ready to regain some face.
The effect was quite good.
However, many things that are done must not be spoken of.
The play that was supposed to be performed.
Was not over yet.
...
Propagated deliberately by four people.
The news of the large-scale investment was immediately picked up by "interested parties."
In Neipyidaw.
A tea house.
Six people gathered around a table, two young, four older, at this moment, each of their faces looked ugly; they hadn’t made their move yet, and already they’d been sabotaged, it was downright disgusting.
Their three families were like jumping clowns.
Jumping was already bad enough.
But after just a couple of leaps.
Upon opening their eyes.
They found the springboard was gone, who was it that pulled it out from under them.
"Do you think it’s possible President Lang Cai leaked it?" one person speculated, deducing from the principle of maximizing interests, Lang Cai’s motive topped the list.
"It’s likely him, the purpose is to keep the profits from the fruit wine in Myanmar, now that his objective is met, he surely won’t care about our interests," another person said angrily.
"Damn, this cunning old fox.."
"Shut up." an elder with a white beard immediately silenced his junior, no matter what, Lang Cai was the president, and speaking carelessly could have a cost none of them wanted to bear.
The person shrank back, whispering, "So what do we do?"
This huge profit project having been divided up by one Thai and three Chinese was something they truly resented.
"The original plan is definitely no good now, perhaps, we could start from one person," the white-bearded man mused.
"Who?"
"Tang Liang."
"Tang Liang? Why?"
The others looked at the white-bearded man, puzzled.
The white-bearded man spoke softly, "Among the four distributors, Tang Kai must have been one of the first business people to deal with Ling, at that time both Tang Kai’s and Ling’s businesses passed through the border port managed by Wangsa, the two of them relatively secure in their distribution rights.
As for Wei Jun, he is the son of the former leader from the place Ling started, probably Ling intended to look after him, which is why he was given this distribution right, but Tang Liang, what about him?"
"Exactly, why don’t we start with Tang Liang, not from redistributing all distribution rights, the other three all have more or less connections to Ling, but Tang Liang is different."
"But now, Tang Liang has also joined the investment ranks, just moving against him alone won’t be easy," someone pointed out.
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way, this insignificant man without any background, can’t we handle him?"
"True, I think we can start with him, but, still, we need to consider President Lang Cai’s stance."
"..."
...
Three days later
In Neipyidaw.
Ling came here for a routine meeting.
In the vast meeting room, everyone’s faces beamed with smiles, without a doubt, they had recently made a fortune, the rapid increase in assets deeply impressed upon them how delicious the cake of economic reform could be.
Originally.
Making money.
It was possible to enrich oneself through national debt, bearing the responsibility as debtor nations, shouldering the risk as creditor nations, enjoying the benefits. But of course, the premise was that the nation was always willing to sustain this long-term debt.
The meeting was drawing to its conclusion.
When the head of the business department announced the short-term results of attracting investment.
Lang Cai suddenly spoke up.
"Deputy Leader Ling, I fully support the actions of those four fruit wine distributors. However, regarding the qualification of fruit wine distributors, I want to ask, how long is the authorization for, and what’s the reason for the authorization?"
"Their character, I think they are quite good. I also planned to promote them. It was decided during a meal," Ling responded indifferently.
"..." Lang Cai opened his mouth.
Character.
This reason.
Blinded quite a few people.
"How many years is the authorization for?" Lang Cai asked again.
"It’s tentatively set for five years," Ling answered.
"Will there be a re-bidding after five years?" Lang Cai asked curiously.
"No, if there are no issues during the cooperation, it can be renewed unconditionally," Ling said.
Lang Cai said, "Isn’t that too rash? Fruit wine is a hot-selling product worldwide, and distributors are powerful. It would also benefit the promotion of the brand. Allowing just anyone to sell it could make it look trivial."
"That shouldn’t be the case, as there are currently no substitute products for fruit wine."
"..."
The two went back and forth.
Arguing over trivial matters.
Lang Cai became very engaged.
Ling was just playing along with him.
Twenty minutes later, Lang Cai felt he had ’tried his best’, justifiably representing those families, and nobody could accuse him of not having made an effort. Today, he had spent twenty minutes "jostling" with Ling.
Indeed.
When this news was relayed back.
The families were furious and could only prepare a backup plan.
...
May 15th.
Evening.
Tang Qing returned to the Underground ’Solitary Island’.
The island was now truly solitary.
After half a month of round-the-clock excavation, the gold ore grains along with the sediment below had all been excavated. In the end, ten medium-sized dredger ships were teleported over to remove all the gold-containing sand grains from the entire underground space.
At this moment.
The whole underground space was completely submerged in water.
The water was about twenty meters deep.
In the middle of the ’large pool.’
A large float was drifting on top, composed of individual one-meter by one-meter hollow plastic boards connected by fasteners, secured by four iron chains, with the other ends tied to concrete blocks weighing one ton at the bottom of the water.
Several exits.
All had filtration devices installed.
The hourly gold collection fluctuated around one hundred twenty kilograms, a bit more than expected, with the daily gold collection totaling around 2.5 tons, given the current price of RMB 160 per gram of gold.
A day’s revenue was RMB 400 million.
Absolutely insane.
And the total gold refined from the entire underground space now reached one thousand nine hundred tons.
A lot?
Yes.
But.
Tang Qing remained calm.
Because this money, he estimated, was only enough for the Research Area’s expenses for two years; this year’s budget was covered, and there was no need to worry about the next year or year after. Beyond that, he couldn’t be sure.
The money was certainly enough for his own use.
But if in the future, several million subordinates depended on him for their livelihood, that would mean millions of mouths to feed. Even hundreds of billions in funds thrown in wouldn’t make much of a splash. Thinking of this, Tang Qing felt a headache coming on.
Was he on the wrong path?
