Bright Sword: Start with Ding Blast Bridge, Homemade Sweet Potato Cake

Anyone who is not a fool, has some channels, or has some inside information knows one thing.

Manchuria has a large amount of high-quality rare earth materials with low prices, high quality and abundant reserves.

200 million tons of rare earths, worth tens of billions of dollars, are now in Ding Wei's palm.

The money these days is still relatively real, in the form of gold and silver. Converted into the current price of inflation, it would be at least hundreds of billions.

From the 10s to now, inflation has increased several times, at least 10 times. The purchasing power of one dollar at that time was much higher than that of dollars now.

Ice cream used to cost one or two cents, but now it’s rare to find ice cream that costs fifty cents.

The smell of the cake is enough to attract a lot of capital attention. Moreover, the rare earth ore in Beihouzi is as much as 2000 million tons, which is ten times more than what Ding Wei has.

If it is mined, it will form a monopoly in the market and its value will be immeasurable, at least hundreds of trillions of dollars.

Since capital is interested in it, Ding Wei is also interested in using rare earths as collateral to obtain loans from squid and other capital.

Let’s use the rare earth mines in hand and those in Northern Monkey as collateral and see how big a cake we can package.

In the past six months, the rare earth factories on the market have been in a downturn, and have been hit hard by the price cuts. Only a few with strong financial resources are losing money and struggling to hold on.

Most factories simply stopped rare earth refining and switched to other businesses.

Capital always flows to where money can be made. If there is no money to be made, who would stay and wait to die?

In terms of rare earth reserves alone, China ranks first, accounting for 47% of the world's total rare earth reserves, which is 4400 million tons.

Eagle sauce ranked seventh, with only 150 million tons. It was not as much as the rare earth ore in Ding Wei's hands. Ding Wei got 200 million tons in one go, purchased at a low price, and mined in large quantities.

The rare earths he alone holds rank sixth in the world.

The other countries with relatively rich reserves are Mao Xiong, Soccer Ball, Monkey, and Mengjiang, all of which have reserves of tens of millions of tons.

White Elephant and Kangaroo do have some reserves, with the reserves amounting to several million tons.

It is impossible for the Russian bear to provide rare earths to the Eagle Sauce. Mengjiang and Monkey King are basically within Ding Wei's defense range, so it is impossible for them to provide them to the Eagle Sauce either.

The only country left is the football nation, which may be able to hold up the scene. There are many tropical rainforests, a lot of rain, and mining is difficult. It is impossible to form a scale.

The kangaroos are a headache, but with the support of the Eagle Sauce, they can continue to supply minerals.

In any case, Ding Wei wants to form a monopoly in the rare earth sector in advance.

There is no need to rush for the domestic and Inner Mongolia regions. We can explore the reserves and slowly mine and use them for our own use. The rare earth belts with the richest reserves are all under Sun Desheng's garrison area.

Except for Manchuria, which consumed a lot, the industry in other places was just starting out and the demand was not great.

With tens of millions of tons of rare earth ore in hand, Ding Wei can easily sell the 200 million tons of primary ore in his hands at a low price, crushing the rare earth market and forming an absolute monopoly.

Increase the refining efforts, build more factories, and increase the output of rare earths. Use your own strength to compete with the whole world.

There is no other way. Buying from Beihouzi is like picking up something for free. There is almost no purchasing cost. Who dares to compete with him? Who can compete with him?

Zhong Zhicheng once again went to the autonomous prefecture and presented a headache-inducing situation. We have plenty of rare earth mines, but unfortunately the mining equipment is insufficient, the factory smelting is insufficient, and the production capacity cannot be increased.

Everyone works together to monopolize the rare earth market, which is the glue of future industry. Without it, no one can succeed in industry.

It's profitable, very profitable.

Ling arranged for people to attract investors from Hansmao and Jiaobenji, set up a special investment route, and attract the influx of money from the chaebols.

As long as the loan funds come in, Ding Wei can produce in large quantities and increase the production capacity of warships.

It is entirely possible to consider nuclear-powered submarines and nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

At the very least, nuclear-powered destroyers can still be considered.

The launch of any ship requires an investment of tens of millions of dollars.

Ding Wei is also under a lot of pressure.

The military funds that Longguo actually receives must take into account the air force, the army, the navy, and more importantly, economic development.

Military spending can only be kept as low as possible.

In this case, the army needs tanks, the air force needs planes, and the navy needs warships.

Every expenditure is tight and requires application and approval.

Open source and reduce expenditure.

The only way is to find a way to open source and earn some money from outside.

Borrowing is the most effective, quickest and most comfortable way.

With rare earth mines in his hands and the guarantee of Manchuria Industry, Ding Wei's credibility is top-notch.

Except for the Mao Xiong who didn't trust him, the squids were more trusting of him.

The two previous loans were repaid smoothly, and at high interest rates.

If you borrow something, you must repay it. It’s not difficult to borrow again.

Most of them came to them eagerly, offering to provide large sums of money for Manchuria.

There are so many rich people.

Large consortiums are so wealthy that they can rival a country. Zhong Zhicheng obtained a loan contract of 37 billion US dollars in one go, which was to be repaid in 3, 5, and 10 years.

In addition, it also raised 5 million yuan in formal investment from Jiaobenji and Hansmao.

Mu Liancheng can invest large sums of money in his fisheries, shipyards, and heavy industries.

The steel mills, automobile factories, electronic and electrical appliance factories, machinery manufacturing plants, etc. on Hanscat's side can also directly come to Daluo for joint venture construction.

If we introduce foreign investment into Manchuria, some people might say something, but if we go directly to Daluo to set up a joint venture and build a factory, no one will say anything, right?

Mr. Gu wanted to say something, but he didn't have much chance.

On this side, Ruan Jun and Ding Wei have already gained the right to speak.

The influx of large amounts of funds made Manchuria's shipbuilding industry flourish again, expanding production lines, expanding docks, and speeding up the production of large warships, fishing boats, merchant ships, transport ships, etc.

Orders will naturally stimulate the prosperity of the shipbuilding industry.

At the end of 56 and the beginning of 57, Ding Wei honestly enjoyed a rare period of peace.

I stole a little time to relax and spend some time developing myself.

It was not until May that two brand new large shield destroyers were launched, completing the four sacred beasts.

In addition, four upgraded versions of conventional missile destroyers were launched, using a combination of gas turbines + diesel turbines, with a full load displacement of 4 tons. They were launched and put into service as main warships.

Su Liguang's Eastern Fleet received the Qinglong-class Large Shield destroyer as the fleet's lead ship and began seaworthiness training.

The Xuanwu of the Southern Fleet returned to the Northern Fleet, while the Suzaku and Byakko served in the Southern Fleet.

Two other conventional destroyers were assigned to the Southern Fleet.

At one time, Rory added a Large Shield destroyer and two conventional missile destroyers.

Money makes the world go round. As long as the funds are in place, the time to build a warship can be greatly reduced.

According to the production capacity of the shipyards in Lianlugang, Hucheng and Yuefu, if the funds are in place, 8 months is enough to build and launch a destroyer.

In addition, 10 new frigates with a full load displacement of 1500 tons and 20 medium-sized coastal defense ships were launched.

Needless to say, the rest of the small ships, such as torpedo boats, minelayers, minesweepers, etc., can be produced in parallel by any shipyard.

In the future, we can consider producing missile frigates to enhance missile strike capabilities and use them in conjunction with Large Shield destroyers.

The 10,000-ton destroyer that Ding Wei has been dreaming of is still under design and will definitely be launched within the next five years.

It is really comfortable to have money. You can build whatever you want.