Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 336 Iron Ore Deposit
Chu Qianqian silently calculated that the 4400 experience points did not include the new animals that might appear in the north and west of the village.

He gathered up all the cattle and sheep, rode a red rabbit, held a bow and arrow, and ran quickly to the hills to the west of the village.

The aperture has expanded by more than 200 meters, and the actual area has indeed expanded geometrically.

Chu Xiangqian calculated carefully and found that the total land area exposed outside Novice Village at this time was approximately 0.524 square kilometers.

Equivalent to 5240 acres.

Although it sounds big, it is actually only one-fifth of the size of Donglong Island.

Chitu ran for several minutes before running from the outermost edge of the south of the village to the middle of the hilly area in the west of the village.

In the past, if you walked in a few minutes, you could cover the entire area outside the Novice Village.

When Chu Qianqian rode his horse and walked deeper into the hills with a bow and arrow, Titmouse also explored it first in the air.

It was just that the chickadee flew around for several times, but no new beasts were found. Chu Qianqian suddenly frowned.

Without a new source of experience, your upgrade speed will naturally be slower.

Fortunately, after the tit flew around again, through its sight, it actually saw a red area of ​​about 10 square meters under a hill.

Riding a red rabbit and running over quickly, I saw that this generation was full of red and dark red stones, and there were basically no plants around, even very little grass.

Chu Xiangqian's heart moved, he jumped off his horse and grabbed a gray stone with a lot of dark red in it.

After watching carefully for a long time, I suddenly felt that the stone in my hand seemed to be similar to the iron ore I saw in the video in my previous life.

He quickly collected all the stones he could pick up around him.

He rode the red rabbit and ran towards Novice Village.

When you get to the blacksmith shop, click on the dialogue window, put a piece of ore in, spend 1 gold coupon, and click on Refining.

In an instant, the ore turned into a piece of iron weighing four or five kilograms.

Chu Xiangqian was immediately overjoyed. The iron content of good hematite has always been about 7%, and the area was more than ten square meters.

If all this is collected, maybe more than ten tons can be produced in one day.

Just wanting to refine it into iron blocks and get 1 gold coupon at a time, Chu Xiangqian would definitely not do that.

It is better to store it and sell it to the outside world every month.

But Chu Qianqian didn't understand the weight of iron ore at all. He rode a red rabbit and ran back to the iron ore area. Facing the completely red rocks on the ground, he used dozens of collection operations to remove more than ten square meters of iron ore. All the rocks were collected.

A pit measuring more than ten square meters in size and about 2 meters deep also appeared on the ground.

And the weight is actually 200 tons.

Chu Xiangqian was overjoyed, but what he didn't know was that the price of iron ore in 60 years was only US$11.42 per dry ton at its highest.

By 04, it was only US$39 per thousand tons.

And from 60 to 74, the price of iron ore per thousand tons fluctuated between 10 and 15 US dollars.

In this era, iron ore is a real cheap industrial raw material.

But this is actually normal. A few decades later, China will import 8-9 million tons of iron ore a year.

Even more than one billion tons, that's 5000 billion tons every year.

Fortunately, Chu Xiangqian didn't know this yet. Commander Ti Qiao continued to look for iron ore nearby, while he used the collection technique again around the tunnel more than ten meters away.

Unexpectedly, there were actually iron stones buried under the soil.

It took half an hour to collect 800 tons from the portable storage compartment.

When Chu Xiangqian was overjoyed, there was another movement from the tit.

When his eyes were on the tit, he saw a dark red rock band appearing again outside the two mountain tops.

He hurriedly retracted his sight, rode Red Rabbit, and ran quickly along the flat land between the hills.

Even more ore was collected this time.

A full 1100 tons.

For most of the night, Chu Xiangqian simply tried the collecting technique on every mountain top from time to time.

All the way from the west of the village to the north of the village, we searched dozens of hilltops and determined that 4 hilltops contained iron ore, and a total of 3000 tons of hematite was collected.

According to Chu Xiangqian's thinking, so much iron ore could be sold for one or two thousand dollars.

But in fact, 3000 tons is only 34 US dollars, and it is only 1000 US dollars in one month.

If it were transported by ship, it might cost thousands of dollars for a 5-ton ship to travel from Hong Kong Island to Tianjin.

But if it were given to the mainland for free, 9 tons a month and 108 million tons a year of high-quality iron ore with an iron content of 70% would definitely increase the mainland's annual steel production by about 5% to 10%.

In 57, the mainland's steel production was only 540 million tons. By the current 60 years, it should not reach 2000 million tons.

Chu Xiangqian's guess was actually correct. The mainland's steel production in 60 years was 1368 million tons.

Moreover, domestic iron ore has always been poor iron ore, and there are not many mining areas with an iron content of 40%.

Otherwise, the issue of 8% imports will not happen in the future.

Of course, iron ore itself is also considered a strategic material. If foreign iron ore can be purchased, the less iron ore is mined at home, the better for the future.

At the same time, China has always maintained an attitude of "I make money but I won't let you suffer" in its business with other countries.

Therefore, China has been trying to maintain a balance of trade surplus with various countries. Otherwise, you will make money, and in the end, no one will have any business.

After discovering seven wild boars in the woods to the north of the village, which were slowly showing signs of forest, Chu Qianqian couldn't help but have a bright smile on his face.

Drawing the bow and pointing it at a wild boar weighing about 300 kilograms is like an arrow.

The arrow was like a meteor, easily penetrating the wild boar's head and killing it with one blow.

The other two wild boars that appeared together turned to look at Chu Qianqian and immediately rushed over.

Fortunately, Chu Xiangqian's agility was not low, and with the trees as a cover, he could easily kill the two wild boars like he was pulling a kite.

When you reach another wild boar spawn point, kill 4 of them using the same method.

Chu Xiangqian's experience also came. Level 11, 11/15 experience.

The experience gained every day has also surged from 2900 points yesterday to 5100 points.

It only takes 8 days to upgrade to level 12.

Moreover, 7 new wild boars appeared in the north of the village today, plus the 3 that were refreshed every day before, which means that 10 wild boars will appear every day in the future.

Chu Xiangqian immediately decided to break down the wild boar into pieces of wild boar as little as possible in the future, and then sell them in the market.

Otherwise, ten heads a day would equal 3650 heads a year.

There's no way to take it all out.

After riding the red rabbit out of the forest, Chu Qianqian looked at his watch. It was only around 10 o'clock in the evening, so he simply rode on the horse to practice his riding and shooting skills.Half an hour later, he replaced the bow and arrow with a Garand rifle and began to practice marksmanship on horseback.

After another half hour, I felt that the rifle could hit a tree trunk dozens of meters away.

Chu Xiangqian then put away the Garand, dismounted and took out the AK. He first made a long table with wooden boards and began to disassemble and install the gun.

After I felt proficient, I loaded a magazine and fired a single shot at a tree 30 meters away.

Fortunately, when I was in Beijing before, I had practiced 56 semi-automatic and 56 fully automatic.

The 56 fully automatic is actually an imitation of AK.

The appearance of the two is basically the same, the biggest difference is the front sight.

The AK-47's front sight guard is half-covered on both sides, while the Type 56's sight is changed to a full-covered ring sight with an opening at the top.

There is also a non-detachable triangular spur on the 56, which is highly lethal, but the weight of the muzzle also increases, which means that the stability is affected to a certain extent.

But for Chu Xiangqian's strength and physique, this change was nothing.

If it weren't for the fact that there were only 5 magazines, 150 rounds of ammunition would be just an appetizer for him.

After firing a magazine of 30 rounds, Chu Xiangqian became familiar with the AK in his hand.

He put the gun away, took out his revolver and Browning pistol and fired hundreds of bullets.

Then he rode the red rabbit back to the novice village. He planned to put his clothes in the fountain to wash them.

But then I thought about it, I had fired more than 200 rounds just now, and my clothes must have the smell of gunpowder smoke.

I immediately decided not to wash my clothes, so I lay down in the fountain and soaked for twenty minutes. All the smell and fatigue were immediately gone.

After 12 o'clock, I refreshed all the new things in the game. It was already past 1 o'clock in the morning.

This time, Chu Xiangqian didn't go to take a bath. Instead, he left the Novice Village directly and released his tits to patrol around to make sure there was nothing wrong.

Then he lay down in the cab and fell asleep.

At around 7 o'clock in the morning, Chu Qianqian woke up and took out a salmon, and then used the cooking tools on the fishing boat to fry two large pieces of fish.

He took out a few fresh coconuts and cut them with a knife while drinking and eating them.

The remaining residue was not cleaned up, and the fishing boat owner or someone with ulterior motives was deliberately left to look at it.

Then we drove the fishing boat back to Xiangjiang.

At around 11 o'clock at noon, when the fishing boat was still a few nautical miles away from the dock in Kowloon, Ti Que had already discovered Sanjiang Shui and several of his men who had been waiting on the dock.

There are also Zhang Tianzhi, Tony and Yuan Hua.

Moreover, Dakou Ying, who was next to Fei Bo, was also sitting in the dock smoking and chatting with several plainclothes men.

When the fishing boat was only a few hundred meters away from the dock, someone shouted to Dakouying and Sanjiangshui, "It's back, Master Chu's boat is back."

Sanjiang Shui, Zhang Tianzhi and others were overjoyed and ran towards the cargo terminal with their men.

Dakou Ying also looked happy and ran quickly to the duty room to call Fei Bo.

After Fei Bo heard the news, he hung up the phone and called Norton again.

After the fishing boat entered the pier, Fei Bo, who had been waiting at the Yau Ma Tei Police Station, and Norton and his bodyguard, who were staying at the Peninsula Hotel, also arrived at the pier.

The Yau Ma Tei Police Station is only a few kilometers away, and the Peninsula Hotel is even closer. It only takes about 10 minutes to walk.

Chu Qianqian parked the boat. When he got off the boat, he saw that Norton was so excited that he wanted to hug him.

Chu Qianqian subconsciously held his shoulders, but at such a close distance, Norton could easily smell the smell of gunpowder on Chu Qianqian's clothes.

My heart tightened, and I secretly wondered if the master had a gunfight with someone last night, right?
Otherwise, how could he have such a strong smell of gunpowder?
When he met Chu Xiangqian's gaze, Norton was immediately frightened by the faint fierce light in his eyes.

Fortunately, Chu Qianqian was just pretending, and when he saw Norton's face tightening, he immediately laughed.

Patting Norton on the shoulder, "Don't worry, it's okay."

Norton nodded subconsciously and frowned when he saw Chu Qianqian chatting with Sanjiang Shui, Zhang Tianzhi, Fei Bo and others.

I had a vague feeling in my heart that the master might not have gone to Heaven.

Otherwise, with his relationship with the Celestial Empire, how could a gunfight happen?

Does that mean that the batch of antiques, bronzes, and European and American oil paintings from China yesterday were not sent to China?

Norton immediately thought, maybe he went to Wanwan all day and night, right?
Calculating the distance, a round trip of more than 300 nautical miles really only takes about 20 hours.

It's just that Chu Xiangqian deliberately didn't pump out the oil on the ship, or ran the ship more and consumed more, just to leave a loophole.

If someone really checks the oil to figure out where he went last night, the British guy will probably spend countless hours exploring the various small islands outside Xiangjiang in the future.

And the less you can find it, the more likely you are to believe that you have a safe house or a place where treasures are buried on a certain island.

After letting Sanjiang Shui, Fei Bo, Tony, Yuan Hua and others leave, Chu Xiangqian took Zhang Tianzhi, Norton and others directly to the Peninsula Hotel.

Outside the hotel, Chu Xiangqian whispered a few words to Zhang Tianzhi. Lao Zhang took the 5 pounds given by Chu Xiangqian and left the hotel calmly.

Go buy him a small yacht and a trawl net by the way.

After washing up in the hotel, I just came out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel and saw Margaret waiting in the living room with Nata.

Seeing him walking out shirtless, the two women's eyes suddenly lit up. Margaret even took the initiative to step forward and slide her fingers on Chu's chest and abdominal muscles.

Chu Qianqian couldn't help but roll his eyes, grabbed Margaret's arm, stretched out his hand, picked her up and walked to the bedroom.

As he walked, he turned back and said to Nata, "Take the clothes I changed to the hotel to wash them clean. Then come over and help Margaret."

Nata's face turned red, but she had no intention of refusing at all.

Half an hour later, when Nata entered the suite, Margaret had been beaten to the ground by Chu Qianqian, who no longer had to retain her strength.

Seeing Chu getting up and walking out of the bedroom and walking towards Nata, Margaret just cursed a few times and ignored the two of them messing around in the living room.

By the time Chu Xiangqian was fully dressed and appeared in the hotel restaurant to meet Norton, it was already past 1 p.m.

One of the two women was in the bedroom and the other was on the sofa, covered with blankets and fell asleep.

The clothes Chu Xiangqian wore before were also carefully inspected.

While Chu Qianqian and Norton were having lunch in the restaurant, Margaret's bodyguard chief Arthur appeared in front of the housekeeper Turner and the housekeeper Countess Breen.

"It is certain that Mr. Chu must have had a fierce gunfight with someone last night. And based on my experience, the bullet types should be 7.62×39 mm rifle bullets and 7.62×63 mm rifle bullets."

Turner was stunned, then thought for a moment and said, "You mean, in addition to using American weapons, he also used AK series weapons?"

Arthur nodded, "There's nothing much about the Aka series of weapons. There are too many of these guns leaked to the outside world.

And there are many countries producing it, so there is no way to find out anything.

However, the 7.62×63mm rifle ammunition can also prove that the group of people who killed the men nicknamed Laihao a few months ago were indeed related to Mr. Chu. "

(End of this chapter)