Chapter 1114

The night is blurred, and the faint wall lamps shed soft light.

After a long rest, Zhai Danqing propped up his body and complained, "I came to talk to you about work. I didn't say anything, so I broke the frame for you," he said coquettishly, "I don't have strength. You take me to the bathroom..."

"Let's talk about work in the bathroom..." Zhang Ke stopped, copied Zhai Danqing's thin waist, held her in his arms and walked towards the bathroom.

At night, Zhang Ke and his team left the main camp in the exploration area and stayed in Christmas Creek town.

Christmas Creek town is unknown in the territory of Australia, but Joyce, a big man in the town, is a member of the Australian Senate, which makes Christmas Creek town often appear in the newspapers.

Fortunately, Senator Joyce is not an extreme environmentalist; On the contrary, he was very indignant that Rio Tinto, bito and BHP Billiton controlled the mining industry in Western Australia and controlled the logistics system in Western Australia, so that the mineral resources in Western Australia could not be fully developed.

Australia has nearly 8 million square kilometers of land, and its population is only one sixtieth of that of China. There is no irreconcilable contradiction between man and nature.

In the final analysis, the private land of Joyce family is not within the development scope of the key mining areas of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. When the economy of Western Australia depends on mineral development as much as 90%, once it is not radiated by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, the interests of Joyce family will not be fully reflected.

Australia's land is divided into state-owned and private. The federal government and local governments control about 90% of the land, but the remaining 10% of the land is privately owned, but most of it is fertile and convenient offshore land.

The Joyce family owns a large area of private land not only in Christmas Creek, but also in henderland. Even if Jinhu builds a deep-water harbor in handeland, a railway system between handeland and Christmas Creek, and a large processing plant in Christmas Creek does not occupy the land of Joyce family, the prosperity of iron ore development and trade, railway and port transportation will attract a large number of outsiders and increase the economic activity of small towns to an unprecedented level, It is bound to bring great benefits to the Joyce family.

When Zhang Ke visited Christmas Creek Town, Senator Joyce himself failed to come back from Melbourne, but other members of the Joyce family gave a warm reception and invited Zhang Ke to stay in their family's vacation villa at night.

Zhai Danqing and Zhang Ke hugged each other and sat in the luxury bathtub. Looking at the charming night outside the window, Zhang Ke, an annoying guy, asked her to sit across him, afraid that water would enter his body, and dared not let him move.

"The geological discovery of Christmas Creek exploration area is amazing, but Jia Zhiyi, Huang Mingsheng and others are surprised enough, but there are not many surprises!" Zhai Danqing sticks her greasy jade cheek to Zhang Ke's lower jaw, and her body is bulging to the hard object. She doesn't feel particularly uncomfortable, but she has just been pushed into the cloud and has no strength to move, The feeling of sitting in this way is even more intoxicating.

"At present, the offshore base price of iron ore is only $26 per ton. In addition to the mining area and beneficiation and processing plant, we also need to build almost all infrastructure including power plants, water plants, railways, roads and deep-water seaports. The annual output of Christmas Creek mining area needs to reach 40 million tons in order to reduce the offshore cost to less than $26 per ton and make actual profits... The plan we announced earlier It is an annual output of 10 million tons, and the shared cost will be as high as $36 and $37 per ton, "Zhang Ke said solemnly." they may be worried that we will retreat. "

With a reserve of 1 billion tons and an annual output of 40 million tons, it is almost saturated mining. Rio Tinto, bito and BHP Billiton have developed their main mining areas in Western Australia for 30 years, and their annual output is only 45-5000 tons.

The production scale of Jinhu is small, the cost remains high, and there is a net loss every year. However, who knows how long it will take to develop an annual output of 40 million tons?

The best choice is to connect to the existing logistics system in Western Australia, save the huge construction funds of the logistics system, and the unit cost of a mining area with a scale of tens of millions of tons can be reduced to about $26 to make a profit. Unfortunately, the logistics system of existing railways, highways and seaports in Western Australia has been tightly controlled by Rio Tinto, bibon and two big mining companies and the Japanese and European chaebol behind them. How can they agree that Kumho's investment in mining areas will connect with their logistics systems when they are too late to suppress the awesome Kumho?

In 1988, Zhongzhi company and Rio Tinto jointly developed the Chana iron mine in Western Australia, and has a 50% interest in the Chana iron mine. As it is a joint venture project with bantuo, the iron ore of Chana iron mine can go to sea through the existing logistics system and transport 3 million high-quality iron ore to China every year. Even so, Chana iron mine has not brought much revenue to Zhongzhi company for so many years.

In addition, the price of ocean shipping from Western Australia to China is only $3.6 per ton of iron ore, and hundreds of millions of dollars are invested to build a deep-water seaport dedicated to the offshore of iron ore. The port revenue is far from enough to pay financing interest, let alone recover the capital collection cost.

No wonder Jia Zhiyi, Huang Mingsheng and others worry that Jinhu will retreat.

"You are full of confidence!" Zhai Danqing thought of turning around to talk to Zhang Ke, afraid to give Zhang Ke a joke.

Zhang Ke put his head on the head cushion on one side of the bathtub. Zhai Danqing moved twice. His heart was also very beautiful.

Seeing that the momentum was too strong, Zhai Danqing was also a little embarrassed. He sat on Zhang Ke and twisted his waist. After twisting for a while, he refused to move again and said, "I'm too tired. I still like to listen to you talk about work..."

"Why did I find a workaholic?" Zhang Ke complained.

"You still have the face to complain. If every woman won't squeeze you dry?" Zhai Danqing said angrily.

"The word 'squeeze' is very vivid... Ow... Ow..." before Zhang Ke smiled proudly, he pinched Zhai Danqing to "ow" and shouted to surrender.

After bathing, Zhang Ke stood in front of the window in his nightgown. Zhai Danqing hugged him from behind and put his face gently on Zhang Ke's shoulder.

"Don't talk about the outside world. There are also great doubts about iron ore investment in Western Australia in Jinhu?" Zhang Ke said softly, looking at the charming night outside the window.

"You are the king of the golden lake. As long as your confidence is firm, there is a sea of knife mountains and fire ahead, and we will all rush forward with you..." Zhai Danqing said softly with closed eyes.

"My reason is very simple. The purpose of the establishment of Jinhu commercial is to balance the development of the industrial chain with the power of capital, and to care about the industrial layout and profit gains and losses. If it takes ten years as a unit, you can never only consider the immediate interests," Zhang Ke said faintly. He can say that the reason for export is also very legitimate. Jinhu has extended its tentacles to all corners of iron and steel smelting, It is impossible not to extend to the supply side of raw materials. "It is precisely because it is a trough period that the cost of large-scale entry can be reduced to the lowest. Even if Mitsui's financial closure, which has always regarded Jinhu as a thorn in the flesh, it may be expected that the mineral investment in Western Australia will eventually bring down Jinhu. If it were at other times, Mitsui chaebols would have frequently set up stumbling blocks for us..."

At present, the iron ore market is at a low ebb and there seems to be no sign of recovery. In order to balance the global iron ore price level, the two major miners have compressed the iron ore output of Western Australia, which has greatly affected the local finance, taxation and employment of local residents in Western Australia, which is completely dependent on mining.

With the exception of Perth, other small towns in Western Australia have been declining for more than a decade due to the lack of employment opportunities and low fiscal revenue. Young people from Christmas Creek and handland have gone to big cities to find jobs and settle down.

For local governments, increasing local finance and taxation, ensuring the employment of local residents and preventing the continued decline of small towns have become the primary task, and the main means is to attract investment. Even for the purpose of attracting investment, there is a vicious competition between local governments and local governments, and investors can often obtain excess benefits.

In the late autumn quarter of last year, Jinhu announced a $1 billion mining investment plan through the Consulate General in Perth, which immediately received a positive response from Western Australia. Otherwise, how could there be such an easy or even nearly 100000 square kilometers of exploration area controlled by foreign capital in Auckland and Kyrgyzstan?

On the other hand, the iron ore market is at a low ebb. The massive invasion of Jinhu has also dispersed the resistance of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. They may expect the cruel market competition to teach Jinhu a huge lesson, rather than rush to create more obstacles for Jinhu to invest in mining industry in Western Australia.

Zhai Danqing gently put his face on Zhang Ke's shoulder. Although the high-level lineup of Jinhu is very gorgeous, it does not affect Zhang Ke's prestige in Jinhu. Whether to invest in Western Australia mining at this time is still in Zhang Ke's hands.

"After deducting the reserved funds for other projects, Jinhu commercial still has more than 500 million US dollars," Zhang Ke gently tapped the glass window with his fingers, "enough for a year and a half here..."

Zhai Danqing hugged his tense waist and said with a smile, "there are many people waiting to see a good play, but I look forward to the facts that will happen in the future to slap them in the face..."

"Have faith in me." Zhang Ke pulled Zhai Danqing forward and held her in his arms.

Of course, even if the global iron ore market is depressed, there is no sign of recovery at home.

The increase of domestic steel output since it entered the trough period in 1996, the total output increased by more than 10% until the end of 1999. However, with the strengthening of domestic macro-control and investment in infrastructure, the reform of urban workers' housing welfare system will promote the increase of commercial housing consumption, the domestic steel market demand has become increasingly vigorous, and the steel price has risen again and again, The tension between supply and demand in the steel market will sooner or later be transmitted to the upstream iron ore supply relationship.

On the other hand, in 1999, the state greatly liberalized the restrictions on private capital entering the field of heavy industry, and local large and medium-sized state-owned iron and steel enterprises also started the restructuring process dominated by privatization, which provided more possibilities for a substantial increase in domestic iron and steel production in the future.

Only the major investment institutions in the world are too conservative in their prediction of the future influence of China's economy and the prospect of the iron and steel industry. Who can predict that the demand for iron and steel in the domestic real estate industry will exceed 300 million tons in another seven or eight years. At this time, the global iron and steel output is only more than 600 million tons.

Once China's steel production and demand for overseas iron ore become the leading factors affecting the supply price of the global steel market and the global iron ore market, Zhang Ke made a positive judgment at this time that the offshore benchmark price of overseas iron ore will not be less than US $60 per ton.

China is not short of iron ore resources, but it is relatively rich. However, the iron ore in China is dominated by lean ore, and the mining cost is very high. To achieve large-scale iron ore mining that basically meets the needs of the domestic iron and steel industry, the average mining cost is about US $60 per ton.

Once Jinhu's iron ore mining in Western Australia reaches a certain scale, the total cost of transportation to China can be controlled at about US $30 per ton, which means that it can obtain at least US $30 gross profit per ton of iron ore in the future, and the actual possible profit may be much higher than the benchmark of US $30.

Zhang Ke remembers that in the past, the offshore benchmark price of iron ore in Western Australia once soared to nearly $200 per ton, and the ocean voyage price from northern Australia to China soared from less than $4 per ton to $50 per ton. Even based on the benchmark of $60, the additional cost paid by the domestic iron and steel industry for iron ore import each year will be as high as tens of billions of dollars.

It is the development of China's steel industry that has led to a small listed company in Australia with a market value of less than 20 million Australian dollars, with a maximum market value of 30 billion Australian dollars in just three or four years.

If Zhang Ke is a man who is easy to get rich, he can secretly buy the company's shares with a maximum ceiling of 5%, and then pray that everything will develop according to the historical track. If everything goes well, he can make a profit of up to a $1.5 billion.

Of course, Zhang Ke is not a person who is easy to get rich. Especially at this time, he has the ability to change this historical process. The miracle created by that listed company can be replaced by Jinhu. Once successful, it means billions of excess profits every year.

Most importantly, once the international iron ore price soars too far and the central government lacks more effective means, Jinhu, which has become a major international iron ore supplier at that time, will become the main bargaining chip for the central government to fight against international mining giants and stabilize international iron ore prices.

Zhang Ke thought that at this time, there is the least resistance in all aspects, that is, to dismantle the bed and sell the cabinet, we should also establish the logistics channel between Christmas Creek and handeland first, not to mention that Jinhu commercial can squeeze out $500 million or $600 million. After one or two years, as long as the international iron ore market improves slightly, financing will become simple.

In the next few days, Zhang Ke made field trips in Christmas Creek, handeland and other places, and did not return to Perth until January 20. The exploration data of Christmas Creek area is enough for Jinhu to make a decision on the large-scale development of Christmas Creek iron ore resources. The preliminary preparations are quite satisfactory.

Zhang Ke stayed in Perth for another four days. Until the 24th, ye Jianbin, sun Shangyi and others arrived in Perth and officially signed a series of cooperation and development agreements in Perth with the local government of Western Australia and business partners such as MCC, China railway construction, China Hong Kong construction, Hongyuan construction, Nanyang shipping and Singapore Port Group on behalf of Jinhu commercial. At the same time, they announced their commitment to Jinhu commercial (Perth) the company's capital injection was increased to US $600 million, and the first US $200 million was remitted to Australia on the day when the decision was announced, so that the outside world no longer had to guess Jinhu's determination to invest in iron ore in Western Australia.

In Hokkaido in late January, there was snow and ice. Chizuo xiuzang returned to RB during this period. Mitsui products was holding an annual senior manager meeting in Hokkaido with snow and ice. Chizuo xiuzang attended the senior manager meeting as the successor of chizuo family and the head of Mitsui products in China.

One day after the meeting, ikezuo xiuzang heard the news that Jinhu had officially invested in the iron mine in Western Australia in the hot spring soup bath. Without delay, he quickly got up from the soup pool and planned to find the people of Nippon Steel and ask them what they thought about the matter.

Chizuo xiuzang rushed to the room of Tanaka Minzhi, President of Nippon Steel Co., Ltd. and found that at this time, he was not the only one to visit Tanaka Minzhi, but also the senior executive of Prince papermaking, Yasuo Mitsui, and a senior staff member of Nippon Steel participating in the meeting. Chizuo xiuzang looked familiar, sat down and looked at the nameplate on his chest. Only then did he know that he was called because of the Fuchun Pavilion spring purchase event Back RB to dalongjifu.

Nippon Steel is one of the core member enterprises of Mitsui consortium, also RB the largest and the fourth largest iron and steel enterprise in the world. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan in the late 1970s, Nippon Steel has actively penetrated into China. Not only Baoshan Iron and steel and Wenzhou iron and steel can see Nippon Steel's deep presence, but even Donghai United iron and Steel Group has introduced complete sets of technical equipment from Nippon Steel, the main nuclear power Almost all the technical management of Donghai United iron and Steel Co., Ltd. were trained with the assistance of Nippon Steel. The cooperation in the second phase expansion project of Donghai United iron and Steel Co., Ltd. in 1995 once made the relationship between the two sides develop to a degree of deep affection.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. On the eve of the signing of the cooperation agreement for the second phase of the East China Sea joint iron and steel project, that is, during the most critical negotiation, the members of the Japanese negotiation team led by Da longjifu made a fuss about buying spring in Fuchun Pavilion in Jianye, which suddenly brought the relationship between the two sides to a valley low. The East China Sea provincial government under the auspices of Xu Xueping had a hard attitude and even did not hesitate to overturn the previous agreement with Nippon Steel The outcome of all negotiations.

Nippon Steel eventually had to replace all the members of the negotiation team and provide low interest yen policy loans to Donghai United Steel to promote the smooth progress of the negotiations. Although the second phase project was launched as scheduled, the Donghai provincial government chaired by Xu Xueping began to make efforts to eliminate the traces of new Rb in Donghai United Steel. This trend was still not maintained during the administration of Li Yuanhu, so that Jinjin The influence of Nippon Steel can not be seen at all when lake and Donghai United Steel prepare to build a ten million ton steel industry base in Xinting.

"From the perspective of industrial layout, the decision of Jinhu is the most important step," Tanaka Minzhi likes the tea ceremony, wears RB's traditional kimono and pours tea for ikezuo xiuzang. "At present, the only question is whether the little snake of Jinhu can swallow the whole elephant..."

Chi Zuoxiu is worried. Even if Jinhu's iron ore investment in Western Australia loses $100 million every year, Jinhu can make up for the loss of $100 million from other links of the industrial chain (Jinhu holds more than 25% of the shares in Nanyang shipping, more than 70% of the shares in Dongshan iron and steel, more than 20% of the indirect shares in Donglian iron and steel and more than 20% of the compound shares in Dongshan port), It's a pity that he still can't control Mitsui's power. Otherwise, he would never prefer to see Jinhu live and die there like Tanaka Minzhi.

Dalong Jifu had long recognized that ye Jianbin, CO president of Jinhu commercial, was one of the people who appeared at the scene of the Fuchun Pavilion spring buying event. Chizuo xiuzang left Tanaka Minzhi's room, he followed him and shouted to chizuo xiuzang: "Hello, chizuo Jun, I'm Dalong Jifu of Nippon Steel..."

"..." chizuo xiuzang looked at dalongjifu in doubt, nodded and said, "dalongjun of Nippon Steel, what can I do for you?"

The Fuchun Pavilion spring buying incident was not very glorious. Dalong Jifu still said, "I remember that ye Jianbin, President of Jinhu commercial, was also present at that time. Perhaps it was not as coincidental as it seemed?"

"You mean they had this grand plan five years ago?" asked chizuo xiuzang.

"It should be possible," said da longjifu. "It's not like the first step in implementing this plan to weaken the influence of Nippon Steel in the East China Sea United Steel?"

"Eh!" chizuo xiuzang wondered again. According to the information he collected, Zhang Ke was more like the leader of Jinhu, but if Jinhu had made a careful plan five years ago, Zhang Ke could not have been the leader at that time. At that time, the member enterprises of Jinhu didn't have any scale. Even if Zhang Ke's talent in business had been fully reflected at that time, without strength, it was naturally impossible to persuade others to implement the plan mainly by him. "What's the matter?" Chi Zuoxi Tibet also felt more and more headache.

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