Chapter 75 Mining Rights Interstellar Transport Company
A few days later, the spacecraft arrived at the Horned Dragon Planet.
Jiang Chen first accompanied Luo Feng to apply for citizenship, then opened an account at the Universe Galaxy Bank, and transferred 6 billion black dragon coins to Luo Feng. After that, the two temporarily separated.
Luo Feng went to purchase the resources needed to improve his strength, while Jiang Chen returned to the administrative building of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.
After checking the directional map in the lobby, Jiang Chen arrived at the 88th floor and was guided to an office by the waiter.
"Hello, sir, what business do I need to handle?" A staff member with four arms looked at Jiang Chen with a gentle and polite attitude.
"Four arms? That's interesting."
Jiang Chen glanced at the staff and said directly: "I want to buy some 'resource stars', or obtain the mining rights of resource stars. ”
“Purchasing resource stars requires the qualification of a 'third-level group company' and obtaining the license If you want to acquire the rights, you only need to have enough funds."
The staff looked at Jiang Chen and introduced: "Of course, some special resource stars will have additional requirements. I said this is the minimum. Requirements. If you want to purchase the ownership of Resource Star, please present the corresponding certificate first. ”
"Third-level group company?"
Jiang Chen knows something about this. It is the evaluation level within the Black Dragon Mountain Empire for companies registered in the empire.
A comprehensive score based on multiple perspectives such as registered capital, scale, assets under the name, industry, number of employees, etc.
The scale of the third-level group company is not small anymore.
At least Jiang Chen’s base on Bailan Star is far out of reach.
Jiang Chen shook his head slightly and said: "I don't have a third-level group company, so I'd better just buy the resource mining rights. I hope to obtain the mining rights for some A- and B-level metal veins, and they need to be located in the galaxy. The cheaper the better. "
The staff reminded: "The mining rights of Class B metal veins need to be paid. A deposit of 10 billion Black Dragon Coins is required for the mining rights of Class A mineral veins. As for the fee, after the mining is completed, or when you want to terminate the contract, it will be deducted according to the number of years, and the remaining deposit will be paid in the original way. Return."
This number has exceeded Jiang Chen's expectations.
But it is still within the acceptable range.
Jiang Chen nodded slightly and said: "I can accept this condition. For B-grade metal, I need the mining rights of 'Red Copper Essence'. As for A-grade metal, I need 'Xuan Iron', 'Xingchen' Gold', 'silver tungsten metal', and 'threaded titanium' are the four metals. Please help me find the relevant information. ”
"Please wait."
The staff began to operate on a machine. After a while, a projection was displayed in front of Jiang Chen, listing a large amount of information.
"The Milky Way, 'Red Cloud Star', 'Red Copper Essence' veins, proven reserves of 22.8 billion tons, low grade B quality, medium to high mining difficulty. Status: Unmined. Annual contract price: 2.5 billion Black Dragon Coins"
"The Milky Way, 'Tianxuan Star'..."
"..."
The planet where the mineral veins are located, the reserves, quality, mining difficulty, etc. are clearly listed one by one, waiting for Jiang Chen's selection.
“The price is so expensive!”
Jiang Chen’s heart skipped a beat when he saw the contract price.
The 'resource contracting system' introduced by the Black Dragon Mountain Empire is to contract out the detected mineral veins and hand them over to professional mineral mining companies in the universe for mining.
The mined minerals are completely owned by the mineral company. The Black Dragon Mountain Empire only charges a fixed annual ‘contracting fee’ based on the number of years.
Of course, this contracting fee is by no means cheap.
If the mining technology is not strong enough and the quantity of ore mined is not enough, there is even the possibility of losing money.
However, Jiang Chen has no such worries.
At least for grade A and B grade ores, SCV’s mining capabilities are very powerful, and the cost can be kept low enough.
Compared with the mainstream model in the universe that relies on powerful slaves and workers for manual mining, the average cost of SCV mining of ore veins is lower, but the efficiency is higher.
Of course, with the performance of SCV, it can only mine B-grade veins at most.
No matter how high it is, the SCV probe cannot drill at all.
Unless Jiang Chen creates more powerful mining machinery in the future, or significantly upgrades the SCV.
"Jarvis, calculate the mining and transportation costs and prices, and see how to choose the most cost-effective option." Jiang Chen ordered Jarvis in his mind.
After upgrading, Jarvis also has the ability to communicate with his master through ‘consciousness’ like the mainstream intelligence in the universe.
Of course, in fact, it only adds a reading module similar to a consciousness input device, allowing Jarvis to read Jiang Chen's thinking information with Jiang Chen's permission.
Jarvis's voice quickly sounded in Jiang Chen's mind: "The calculation has been completed, and the optimal plan is to choose the 'Dark Iron', 'Star Gold', and 'Threaded Titanium' veins of 'Aurora Star'. As well as the 'Red Copper Essence' and 'Silver Tungsten Metal' of 'Raven Star' Ore veins. Taking into account the comprehensive costs of mining, transportation, and base construction, the expected costs of these two planets can be kept to the lowest and the expected profits are the highest."
Jiang Chen nodded and followed Jarvis's instructions. As a result, report your choice.
The staff calculated for a moment, looked at Jiang Chen, and said: "The total annual contracting costs for these two planets and five mineral veins are 2.958 billion Black Dragon coins, and the total deposit is 1.4 billion Black Dragon coins. Your local mining activities will be protected by the dual protection of the planet lord and the Black Dragon Mountain Empire. "
'Aurora Star' is a planet directly controlled by the Black Dragon Mountain official.
But ‘Raven Star’ has a lord.
The lords of most planets, after discovering resources on their own planet, prefer to mine them themselves.
However, some lords do not have the corresponding skills, or are too lazy to bother, so they choose to contract out.
The Lord of ‘Raven Star’ belongs to the latter.
Jiang Chen felt a little distressed, but thinking of the expected profit calculated by Jarvis, he gritted his teeth and said, "Let's draw up a contract. I have prepared the money and can transfer it at any time."
Finding your own resource extraction channels is also a suggestion from the ‘steward’.
On the one hand, it can reduce the cost of raw material procurement and increase profits.
On the other hand, it can also prevent any problems from upstream channel vendors from affecting Jiang Chen's interests.
When making this suggestion, the 'steward' was not sure whether Jiang Chen could accomplish this with the resources at his disposal.
However, after Jiang Chen asked Jarvis to calculate, he made the decision without hesitation.
Sign the contract, pay the deposit, handle the voucher procedures for mineral vein mining, etc.
After spending several hours, Jiang Chen took a stack of mining license certificates, left the administrative building, and went to meet Luo Feng.
——"You bought a group of slaves?" Jiang Chen saw at a glance the group of strong men behind Luo Feng who exuded powerful auras but whose postures were extremely respectful.
With such characteristics, he is obviously a slave.
"I sold the 'Arc Cutter' and bought a group of slaves." Luo Feng did not deny it and expressed his thoughts: "In the future, I may have to travel to the universe frequently and leave some strong people to protect my family. I can rest assured. , I can’t always rely on you for help.”
It’s not that Luo Feng doesn’t trust Jiang Chen, but that he doesn’t want to cause trouble to Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen could also see this and couldn't help but nod: "The one you are most familiar with is the 'Tiansuo'. Keeping the 'Arc Cutter' is really useless. It's better to replace it with something you need."
"A Chen, do you need to buy anything else? I bought a batch of cultivation resources and slaves. After spending them, I still have nearly 10 billion black dragon coins left. I have nothing to spend for the time being. Place." Luo Feng looked at Jiang Chen.
He did not mention returning the six billion black dragon coins to Jiang Chen, but if Jiang Chen needed money, Luo Feng would not hesitate.
Hearing Luo Feng's words, Jiang Chen's heart moved and he said: "If you won't use this money in a short time, just buy a batch of spaceships. From now on, my industry in the universe will be in the transportation sector. Here you go.”
Interstellar transportation is one of the industries with the lowest threshold.
As long as you buy a batch of spaceships, hire a batch of employees or buy a batch of slaves, you can start work.
Of course, precisely because of the low threshold, the profits of this industry are very low, and they also bear the risk of being attacked by interstellar pirates.
However, for an interstellar transportation company, as long as there are enough orders, it will definitely be no problem to make money.
Although the return period is a little longer, the advantage is stability.
As it happened, Jiang Chen was able to provide enough orders.
If Luo Feng doesn't want to do this, Jiang Chen doesn't care. The worst he can do is set up his own transportation company or cooperate with other transportation companies.
This industry has reached its peak. As long as you have enough orders, you don’t have to worry about no one taking them.
"Transportation company?" Luo Feng was a little confused. He knew nothing about business.
"Our factory on Bailan Planet requires a large number of transport spaceships. I have bought the mining rights for a batch of mineral veins, and there will also be a large demand for transportation. Instead of letting others earn this money, it is better for you to open a transportation company. It's just a waste of money." Jiang Chen explained, and then reminded: "But the transportation company is not profitable. It’s high, and the payback period is not short. It’s up to you whether you want to do it or not.”
“In the transportation industry, profits are indeed not high. Of course, you are a small business now. It’s no big deal, you won’t lose much, you can try to have some fun.”
Babata also made suggestions.
With tens of billions of black dragon coins, this is just a 'small fight' in Babata, and it's not worth mentioning at all.
But this is normal.
Tens of billions of Black Dragon Coins may be a lot for a star-level player, but with just one universe-level player, you can easily make dozens or hundreds of times as much money.
In this universe, every time you cross a level, the resources you absorb increase exponentially.
In Babata's eyes, universe level and domain lord are nothing.
At least you have to reach the realm master to get Babata to treat him differently.
At this level, the funds in hand are all in cosmic coins or even Hunyuan units.
Compared with that, the "small business" of tens of billions of Black Dragon coins can indeed be described as "a small business".
“But I’m not good at business, and if I spend my energy here, will it affect my cultivation?” Luo Feng hesitated.
Jiang Chen could see that Luo Feng was a little moved, but he still had concerns, so he immediately said: "There is no need to run it by yourself, you can learn from me and buy a group of slaves who are good at management to take care of the industry for you. . You just need to control the overall situation.”
It is very troublesome to hire employees and worry about employees being corrupt or not doing their best.
But slaves are much easier to use.
Of course, the cost of slaves is also expensive. The cost of buying a slave is enough to hire a large group of employees for dozens or hundreds of years. However, Jiang Chen and Luo Feng didn't mind spending more money on this aspect, just to have peace of mind and save trouble.
After listening to Jiang Chen's suggestion, Luo Feng no longer hesitated and said directly: "Then do as you say, Chen. I will use the money to set up a transportation company to run errands for you."
With that said, Luo Feng contacted the director of the slave market and prepared to purchase a group of slaves who were good at business and management.
This kind of slave is neither expensive nor cheap. It is at least much more expensive than ordinary planet-level slaves, but compared with star-level slaves, it seems to be a good deal.
Anyway, to Luo Feng and Jiang Chen, this is just a small amount of money and they won’t care too much.
Because Luo Feng wanted to buy slaves, the two of them stayed at the Horned Dragon for half a day.
After the slave was delivered to the docking port and recognized as the owner, the spacecraft started again and headed for Bailan Star.
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Nine days later, Bai Lanxing.
The huge warehouse base has now been transformed into rows of large factories. Under intelligent control, various parts of the 'Goliath Giant' are continuously produced and assembled to form a batch. Then it is loaded onto the transport ship and sent to the delivery location designated by the buyer.
"Master."
The four slave leaders No. 1, No. 3, 'Steward', and 'Brewmaker' had already heard about Jiang Chen's arrival and were waiting at the place where the spacecraft landed in advance.
When he saw Jiang Chen walking out of the cabin door, he immediately stepped forward and saluted.
"Nothing special happened recently, right?" Jiang Chen looked at several slaves.
Although Jiang Chen has never met them in reality since he bought them back, but with the control of the biochip and the occasional contact through the virtual universe, the loyalty of several slaves is still there Guaranteed.
"Master, nothing happened on the security side." Number 1 said immediately.
The 'Butler' also said: "Master, the factory area is expanding steadily according to the original plan, and the upstream and downstream partnerships are also very strong. There are currently no major events that require special reporting. This is where the master left after he left last time. Until the end of last month, the owner can take a look at the development status report of the factory when he is free."
As he said that, the 'butler' respectfully handed a memory card to Jiang Chen.
"Master, this is a report on the wine brewing situation in the past year or so. I am not good at making reports. Most of the content was introduced by me and then compiled by the 'butler'." The 'winemaker' also He took out a memory card and handed it to Jiang Chen respectfully. At the same time, he said: "Master came just in time. In two days, a batch of new wine will be brewed successfully. Master can taste it."
Jiang Chen took the two memory cards, nodded slightly and said: "One I will take a look at it when I can.”
After a pause, Jiang Chen stepped aside slightly, allowing Luo Feng and his slaves to come forward, and introduced: "This is Luo Feng, my good friend, and a shareholder of this factory on Bailan Star. This is Luo Feng's Under his command, he will establish an interstellar transportation company. From now on, our destiny will be Leave the business to them, and the settlement will be based on the normal market price. "Butler", please leave your contact information with each other, and I will leave this to you in the future."
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