Northeast of Ganzhou Bajing Tai and on the Ganjiang River.

There is a large shallow-water gunboat made in Germany docked here, and there are many transport cargo ships next to it. Armed sergeants can often be seen moving on the deck. The nearby fishing boats are so scared that they have left the water far away to avoid getting into trouble.

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This is the Bajingtai deep-water port area in Ganzhou.

On the riverside about one kilometer away from the central port, the sound of pickaxes, iron drills and hammers can be heard one after another. The crackling sound is non-stop, and a large group of masons are busy working on the project.

This is Gannan Fengzhong Tungsten Gold Mining Corporation, which has newly built a large deep-water terminal here.

This is a natural sheltered harbor that can accommodate large cargo ships, barges and other large vessels of 2,000 tons. The water depth reaches more than ten meters.

After more than a year of investment and construction, the rail tracks from the Ganzhou Tungsten Mine to the Bajingtai Deepwater Terminal have been laid in place, and the construction of the new terminal is imminent.

As the mining area continues to be explored and expanded, production is increasing rapidly, and the original transportation lines and temporary docks can no longer meet the needs of development.

At the foot of the hillside near the dock, a military camp has long been built, with a large warehouse next to it. The nearby land has also been planned, and a wide road made of lime sand slurry leads directly to the dock.

The Pangu Mountains, about six or seven kilometers away from the deep-water terminal, is one of the largest tungsten mining areas in Ganzhou. In several large mines here, miners are digging with large hand-operated pneumatic drills.

This is a pure old American product, which is a relatively advanced mining equipment. If there is electricity here, you can use an electric drill to mine, and the efficiency will be increased countless times.

The previous exploration team found that there are tungsten mines in the low-lying areas of Pangu Mountain, as well as tin mines, copper mines, and coal mines nearby. Therefore, building railways and deep-water docks is a more reasonable choice.

Driving north from the Gan River, entering Poyang Lake, and then entering the Yangtze River, this is currently the most economical and labor-saving transportation solution for waterways.

When Fengzhong Company previously negotiated with the Jiangxi Provincial Governor's Office, it mainly focused on the development area designated for the development of tungsten mines and spent huge amounts of cash to expropriate land.

At that time, Chen Tianhua chose three places, namely Daji Mountain, Pangu Mountain and Xihua Mountain, all on the line of Luoxiao Mountain Range.

These are the areas where the most tungsten ores were discovered in later generations.

According to the agreement, the mining resources in these three places belong to Fengzhong Tungsten Gold Mining Corporation.

This mountain range is nearly 50 kilometers long, and the corresponding mountain resources belong to Fengzhong Company, which has a thirty-year management right after purchasing it.

This mountain range has been granted development and management rights for thirty years. It can neither be used for agricultural development nor mining development. It is all about losing money and making money. Of course, Chen Tianhua cannot do it.

The only thing that can be done is the exploration of specific locations.

Engaging in geological exploration is like betting on big or small in a Las Vegas casino. If an ore is discovered, whether it is tungsten ore, tin ore, copper ore, or even iron ore or coal, as long as it is an ore, then the bet will be right.

Yes, if the storage capacity is large, it is a big deal.

If the exploration results show nothing, then nothing is gained and the loss is huge.

Although Chen Tianhua knows that Ganzhou is the tungsten capital of the world, it is hard to say whether it can be explored with the current level of exploration and equipment.

Although compared with Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places, the price of land in mountainous areas here is cabbage, but if there is nothing, then the initial investment will be in vain.

Not only that, Chen Tianhua hired mainly foreign experts and a high-level exploration team. The commission, equipment and daily personnel expenses are really not a small amount.

Exploration is divided into shallow and deep layers.

If there is no shallow exploration, does it mean that you are willing to stop investing in deep exploration?

impossible!

It's like gambling. A lot of money has been put into it before. You must follow up to find out more, and you won't hesitate to take off your pants if you lose.

What if this bet hits the mark!

Chen Tianhua's luck is really off the charts!

After two months of hard work by the exploration team, the large tungsten mine was first discovered in the southwest of Pangu Mountain.

Listen, the big tungsten mine is still in the shallow depths of the depression at the foot of the mountain. The one you draw is really the one chosen by the king of heaven, bringing great blessings to the sky.

You need to know that the input-output, risk factor, and operating costs of drilling deep wells in flat land or at the foot of mountains are simply incomparable to those in deep wells.

The money spent on deep drilling or drilling wells on the mountainside, and surface drilling and excavation, is like building a twenty-story high-rise building in one, and only building a one-story house in the other.

Chen Tianhua was very worried about the security of this area. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, bandits were rampant in the Luoxiao Mountains. Youdao was a country where unruly people came out of poor mountains and rivers. In order to protect his own resources, he believed that he must have a strong and deterrent military force here.

strength.

Chen Tianhua's expansion of the military strength of the Meiguang Autonomous Region is not limited to use within the jurisdiction. That would be too wasteful. The army cannot be easily maintained.

He had long thought about using force.

When he arrived in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, one of his assault battalions became a mining area security team. It was very simple. They just wore an armband with the security team logo, and everything else was the same.

Moreover, the commander of this security brigade is his trusted confidant Song Xiaoniu.

Now, Song Xiaoniu has been entrusted with the important task of taking charge of the entire mineral management and security in Ganzhou, Jiangxi. Under his command is a security brigade of more than 500 men and guns, which is the original second assault battalion.

Now that the scale of the garrison in the autonomous region has expanded, it has been promoted from Biao to Xie, Chen Er and Jiang Wu have both become chief and deputy Biao commanders, and Song Xiaoniu has naturally been promoted to battalion commander.

Earlier, Chen Tianhua sent people to negotiate with the Ganzhou Yamen and set aside a few square kilometers of land on the outskirts of the city. It was a permanent lease and an appropriate amount of rent was paid every year.

The local government didn't want to give it to him, but considering his powerful background, the two sides got into an awkward stalemate and gritted their teeth and agreed to Chen Tianhua's conditions.

This became the location of Fengzhong Tungsten Gold Mining Corporation and the location of the security brigade.

One squadron is permanently stationed here, and the other two squadrons go to Pangu Mountain, Daji Mountain and Xihua Mountain respectively.

Although it is a mining security force, the weapons and equipment here are several times stronger than those of the local Green Camp and City Defense Battalion Qing troops.

Such firepower can turn Ganzhou's capital city into ruins in an instant.

The First Squadron of the Security Brigade carries light machine guns and grenade launchers and is stationed in the Pangu Mountain area. It is responsible for the construction of the base here and the security of the mines.

There is no need to equip heavy firepower there.

In addition, the Third Squadron originally had nearly 700 mountain battalion officers and soldiers here responsible for the protection of the Daji Mountain and Xihua Mountain exploration teams, along the railway lines and deep-water docks.

The second squadron left at the company headquarters on the outskirts of the city is a mobile force in the entire mining area, equipped with two machine gun platoons, dedicated to encircling and suppressing bandits.
Chapter completed!