Homo sapiens.

Whether it is food, energy, chemical fertilizers, or minerals, a complete set of strategic reserve systems has been established to deal with possible external blockades in the future.

Wu Cong, who had inspected the mining area for two days, was about to take someone back to the company, but he didn't want to meet the person in charge of another company.

"Mr. Wu, your mining company is well developed this time." Archindo, the person in charge of Mandalay Special Smelting Company, greeted him with a smile.

Wu Cong smiled and shook his head: "It's just hard work, and this mine is estimated to be used as a strategic reserve."

Archindo doesn't make a fool of himself. After all, they are all his own people. He directly stated the purpose of his visit: "I read the exploration report. I don't need iron ore for the time being, but I need titanium, vanadium, molybdenum and rhenium urgently. Especially It's rhenium."

Wu Cong, who knew a little about the uses of metals, immediately guessed: "Steam turbine blades? Or aero-engines?"

Archindo nodded: "Our metallurgical technology is not very good, and some special parts have very high performance requirements. In order to meet the requirements, we can only work hard on the materials."

Wu Cong did not expect this statement, he replied with a smile:

"It's all for the company. We keep these rare metals as a reserve. Since you need them, we will naturally cooperate fully. Originally, we also need to deal with these associated mines."

"That's great." Archindo was overjoyed.

Recently, he has been smelting special alloys and looking for imports of rare metals, making one head and two big.

Fortunately, titanium, vanadium and molybdenum are not only comparable to gold in price, but also have very few purchase channels, which are basically monopolized by Europe and the United States.

Among lightweight superalloys, rhenium has the finishing touch.

Rhenium is an important raw material in many jet aircraft engines and ultra-high temperature resistant parts.

Although high temperature resistant alloys can be produced without rhenium, the performance will be much worse.

Homo sapiens company, which is already very good at special alloy technology, if it cannot use good raw materials, the performance of the alloy will be even worse.

Obviously, the discovery of vanadium-titanium magnetite in Mount Lungerang and the reserves of more than 300 tons of rhenium, for Mandalay Special Smelting Company, it is like discovering a freshwater lake in the desert.

After discussing for a long time, the two decided to return to Mandalay together.

On the other hand, Weng Xuehai, Ba Kang and others led the exploration team to continue to explore the entire Longerang Mountain.

After all, this mountain range is about 370 kilometers long from north to south, and 50-80 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of ​​2.4 square kilometers, which is roughly equivalent to about 0.4 Tongliao.

With such a vast area, and a large part of it unexplored, the prospecting potential here is very large.

The exploration team stimulated by the vanadium-titanium magnetite in Mount Longerang planned to conduct a thorough investigation of the entire Mount Longerang.

Although they say they don't care who discovers the super-large mineral vein first, they actually care very much in their hearts.

Mining prospecting is their specialty. In their own professional field, they are not as good as other blind cats and dead rats. They are always unconvinced and unwilling.

Chapter 182 Another Choice ([-])

mandalay.

In the production base of Qingye Aviation Branch.

Wang Haoran, Mu Ziying and others, who had just finished their three-month internship, finally came to the time to make a decision.

Compared with Wang Haoran's worries, Mu Ziying submitted the naturalization application on the same day, and at the same time asked for leave to go back to her hometown, intending to take her mother and sister over in person.

In the lobby of Mandalay Airport.

Wang Haoran looked at Mu Ziying: "Have you really decided?"

"What's there to hesitate about?" Mu Ziying replied calmly, but added in her heart: "I have no other choice. '

Wang Haoran changed the topic: "I have never heard you talk about the situation at home. Is your family really that difficult?"

"You don't understand even if you say it, don't say it, my plane is here."

"Alright then! Have a good trip." Wang Haoran patted him on the shoulder.

After the two said goodbye, half an hour later, the plane flew to the far north.

In the far north.

Jizhou Province.

A small town with no reputation.

It was snowing thousands of miles at this time, and on the snowy street, a white-haired old woman was pushing a small cart with steaming hot spicy soup and donkey meat.

"Aunt Li, here's a bowl of Hu spicy soup and two donkey meat on fire." A taxi driver said while breathing whitely.

"It's Xiaomin!" Li Suqin recognized the face under the mask at a glance, then quickly made a bowl of spicy soup, and took two donkey meat to burn.

Taxi driver Zhang Weimin found a shop door that could shelter from the wind, and began to feast on it.

And Li Suqin continued to do business.

When it was getting dark, she had sold out the spicy soup, and there were three donkey meats left, so she planned to take them home for dinner.

Zhang Weimin, who had been driving for half a day, appeared at the door of Li Suqin's rental house again. A skinny little girl around sixteen or seventeen was helping to move things.

"Brother Min."

"Xiaoyu, have you packed everything?" Zhang Weimin asked with a smile.

"Okay, I don't know when my brother will come back?" Mu Ziyu asked with some miss.

Zhang Weimin shook his head: "He may not make it through, I will take you and Aunt Li to Beiping to see him tomorrow!"

"Uh oh..." Mu Ziyu was a little depressed.

"The south is better than the north. It won't be too cold in winter, and you can meet many new friends." Zhang Weimin comforted.

Zhang Weimin, who came to help pack things, only asked the mother and daughter to bring some clothes and valuables, and nothing else was needed. After all, many things are not allowed to be carried on the plane.

After hastily eating dinner, Zhang Weimin also went back.

Li Suqin was sitting in the leaky small kitchen outside, watching the flames of the briquette stove while heating the bath water.

Tears suddenly couldn't stop falling down.

From the old woolen sweater, she took out a small book with layers of notes on it, and she opened it tremblingly:

"Jiaming! The child has grown up, is promising, and the debt has been paid off..."

"This is the 6000 owed to Zhang Lao Wu..."

After speaking, Li Suqin, with tears in his eyes, put the IOU into the briquettes, and the flame burned the yellowed IOU to ashes.

"This is the 2 owed to Ma Datou..."

"This is……"

One by one IOUs were put into the stove, and the big rock that had accumulated in her heart was gradually removed.

13 years, exactly 13 years.

She finally paid off the 27 loan owed by her husband to buy a large truck back then.

As the last IOU burned out, she covered her mouth, her tears bursting like a bank, not daring to let her daughter hear her crying.

In the dead of night, the north wind is blowing.

The next day, early in the morning.

Zhang Weimin drove a taxi over.

Li Suqin packed the photo frame and urn into a special suitcase.

"Xiaomin, I have troubled you again."

"Auntie, you're welcome. Ziying and I are good buddies, and we're both on our own." Zhang Weimin helped put a few suitcases into the trunk.

Before getting into the car, Li Suqin turned her head and took a look at the rental house. It was an ordinary farmhouse in the suburbs, but it sheltered her family for 13 years.

Putting away the reluctance in her eyes, she had already handed over everything about the rental house to the landlord.

A puff of white smoke spewed out from the exhaust pipe of the taxi, and then sped away.

There was no one else at the scene except a few neighbors who came to send them off.

Zhang Weimin, who was driving, comforted: "Ziying has made a lot of money, and life will definitely get better and better in the future. I heard that the south is like spring all year round."

"Really? Doesn't it snow in winter?" Muzi also asked curiously.

"Yes!"

Zhang Weimin and Mu Ziyu chatted without saying a word.

And Li Suqin quietly looked out of the car window.

It wasn't until she passed a village intersection that a trace of complexity flashed in her eyes.

Seemingly aware of Li Suqin's change, Zhang Weimin slowed down: "Do you want to go in and have a look?"

Looking at the village in front of her, which was her husband's hometown and the place where their orphans and widows were sad, she shook her head: "No, everything is over."

Zhang Weimin didn't say anything, and just accelerated to leave.

After a lot of twists and turns.

In the end, the Hongshawadi Embassy came forward, and Mu Ziying met her mother Li Suqin and younger sister Mu Ziyu.

However, he still held back the excitement of the reunion, and arranged for his good buddy Zhang Weimin first.

"Weimin, thank you! This is a little kindness." Mu Ziying gave the other party 1 yuan.

Seeing the pile of money, Zhang Weimin refused without thinking: "Ziying, I can't take it!"

"No, you will stay in Beiping for half a month, and you will have to rest for another half month when you go back, and your sister-in-law will take care of the baby again, so you must accept it!" Mu Ziying's expression was very firm.

The two argued for more than half an hour, and Zhang Weimin finally accepted 1 yuan. After all, he is a small taxi driver and has to support his family.

In a hotel specially arranged by the embassy.

When Mu Ziying looked at her white-haired mother, her eyes turned red all of a sudden. The 47-year-old mother looked as haggard as an old man in her [-]s or [-]s.

"mom!"

"Xiaoying, is your work going well?" Li Suqin didn't seem to want to make her son sad, so she deliberately changed the topic.

Mu Ziying, who was full of words, calmed down a little, and showed a smile on his face: "The work is fine, I rented a house over there, and I will arrange a school for Xiao Yu."

"Brother, I can already work..." Mu Ziyu on the side said with a pout.

But Mu Ziying immediately put on a serious face: "No! You are only 16, and it is too early to work now. Only after studying can you find a good job."

Li Suqin didn't want her daughter to regret for the rest of her life, so she took out the passbook: "Xiao Yu, don't worry, mom can still work, and with your brother's money, you can still study at home."

Then she gave the passbook to her son: "Xiaoying, put this money on you!"

Mu Ziying took the passbook, on which was the 20 security deposit given by Qingye Group before, and there were still more than 13 at this time, except for the more than 6 that was used to repay the debt, the other mothers did not move at all.

According to the agreement, if the internship period is over and the whole family is determined to immigrate here, the company will not take back the money, but will use it as a settling fee for the skilled immigrant employees.

If the whole family does not immigrate, or does not continue to work in Qingye Group, then the money must be returned intact.

Obviously Mu Ziying had already made up her mind at that time, without any hesitation at all.

The mother and son chatted about their family's problems, and finally fell asleep with a good vision for the future.

Especially Li Suqin, after more than ten years of ups and downs, at this moment her heart has gained a little peace.

Chapter 183 Another Choice ([-])

the other side.

Wang Haoran, who returned to his hometown in Jincheng, was also facing the problem of persuading his parents.

Seeing his mother with inconvenient legs and feet busy in the kitchen, he secretly made up his mind. In fact, Wang Haoran is not the boss of the family, but his elder brother was forced to commit suicide by jumping into the river because of online gambling a few years ago.

And the mother's leg was injured by the debt collector.

It is precisely because of this that his family is impoverished.

His mother cooked a large table of meals and kept serving him food, while his father sat aside and smoked silently with a small cigarette stick.

After eating half full, Wang Haoran put down his chopsticks: "Dad, Mom, I plan to take you to the south in a few days."

"Why are you in such a hurry? Don't wait until the end of the New Year?" His mother picked up another piece of pig's trotter for him.

Wang Haoran has already found an excuse: "I need to stay in the local area for more than a year for work, plus the fact that my girlfriend is getting married, you must be there at that time, if you go back and forth, it will affect your work."

"At that time, we can take a car and go there by ourselves?" My father muttered disapprovingly.