Until he returned to Hotan, Wang Changyou did not ask a satisfactory answer from Cole Smith. This made Wang Changyou feel uncomfortable, but when he returned to Hotan, Wang Changyou could not follow the foreign boss's butt all day long, otherwise, let alone foreign guests, even the leaders of the region would not be spared.

However, Liu Changchuan gained a lot this time. At least after his on-site survey, it was fine to build a third-class highway from Luopu to the mining area. Of course, after entering the Achik Valley, some dangerous areas could only be built into a single-lane fourth-class highway, but there were not many dangerous areas, only one or two places, and the combined length was only two or three kilometers.

According to Liu Changchuan's estimate, if a road is drawn from National Highway 315 outside Luopu County, the road extends to the mouth of the Achik River Valley, which takes about 40 kilometers. Then the road extends inward along the Achik River Valley, including a location where the winding mountain road needs to be built. The length of the road in the valley is about 19 kilometers. The road from the Achik River Valley and then to the mining area needs to be built because it needs to bypass the mountain.

In other words, from National Highway 315 outside Luopu County to the mining area, the total length of the road that needs to be built is 64 kilometers.

Liu Changchuan not only calculated the total length of the highway, but also calculated the general budget for building this highway.

Because the construction of this highway is not difficult. Although it is in the mountainous area, the 40-kilometer highway from National Highway 315 to the entrance of the Achik River Valley is actually easier than building roads from the plains. This section of roads is all flat Gobi Deserts, and the most expensive foundation in the road construction has become the best one.

The most difficult part of this highway is from the entrance of the Ask River Valley to the mining area. However, among the twenty-four kilometers of highway, the slightly difficult one is only 11 kilometers. Because most of the other roads are built in flat areas in the valley, the cost is not very high.

The most important thing is that even the most difficult section of 11 kilometers requires mountain excavation and slope protection. Therefore, even if the entire road is built into cement roads according to the standards of a third-class highway, the average total cost of one kilometer is only about 170,000 yuan. This is because the twenty-four kilometers section raises the average cost. If the entire road is on the Gobi Desert, the cost of one kilometer is at least half the price.

In other words, if this road is calculated based on the current price, it will take about 11 million national coins to complete the construction, which is converted into US dollars, about 3 million...

Even Yang Jing couldn't help but be surprised by the low prices of this era. You should know that the same level of third-class asphalt road, even in the plains thirty years later, the construction cost of one kilometer will not be less than 700,000 national coins. Now, this cement road in the mountains only costs so little money, which is really cheap.

Since the mining area has been determined and the cost of roads to the mining area is generally calculated, then the next step is to start working.

However, there is no need for these things to do by Yang Jing, the big shopkeeper, to do them personally. Pete Wu was called here by Yang Jing from the prosperous Yanjing, and more than a dozen staff members gathered by Peter Wu Xin were accompanied by him.

Now the stalls in the Huaxia branch are getting bigger and bigger, and there are some things that only count on Pitt. Wu and Lao Na are too busy at all, so it is inevitable to expand their manpower.

Most of the people who came to Hotan with Pete Wu this time were recruited recently, and five or six of them were top students who just came out of the university campus last year.

According to Yang Jing's instructions, Pitt Wu has established a foreign-funded company called "Pacific Mining Company" in Yanjing some time ago. The conditions offered are very generous. Even those top students who have just left the campus have many of them who can't help but tempt this high-paying and are involved in the arms of Pacific Mining.

Although college graduates in this era still have distribution, as the concept of reform and opening up continues to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, many college graduates now do not just choose jobs assigned by the state after graduation. Many of them also choose to go to joint ventures or even foreign-funded enterprises. For these college graduates, being able to enter foreign companies is actually a good thing to have the opportunity to go abroad. These five college students entered Pacific Mining in this way. With the joining of these employees, Pitt Wu will be much more relaxed.

This time, Yang Jing called Pitt and Wu here to make him responsible for his affairs. Of course, once the jade mine is opened normally, he can arrange for someone to stay here to preside over the work, and he will return to Yanjing.

In fact, there are quite a lot of things in Hotan. Building roads, clearing rivers, building levees, and mining in mining areas all require a large number of construction machinery. When Peter Wu came here this time, in addition to being responsible for signing contracts with the local government and presiding over the work here, he also needed to accept some construction machinery specially customized by Yang Jing from abroad.

Thirty years later, China's engineering machinery defeated the old foreign engineering machinery companies, but in this era, domestic engineering machinery is still far from comparable to foreign products, and the natural conditions here are relatively harsh, so Yang Jing simply customized a batch of engineering machinery from abroad and brought it to Hotan. Although the freight is very high, the construction of jade ore and river cleaning are really inseparable from these engineering machinery.

Since Pete Wu came with the large army, all these jobs can be left to him. Over the years, Pete Wu has grown into a self-contained general. At least in the past few years, the Huaxia branch has done a good job under his leadership, and Yang Jing is at ease to leave the matter to him.

Yang Jing explained all the things he should have to explain to Pitt Wu and confirmed that he understood what he wanted to do. Then he took five bodyguards to return to Wu City on a military transport plane specially arranged by the Hotan Prefectural Committee, and then transferred from Wu City to a civil aviation passenger plane and flew back to Yanjing.

Because after coming to Hotan, Peter Wu told Yang Jing that the arms dealer Nicholas Ballmer, who had been active in Myanmar for the past two years, also came to Yanjing to meet Yang Jing.

Yang Jing still admires this arms dealer I know from Myanmar. Moreover, Mr. Ballmer has not disturbed him much in the past two years. Now he suddenly proposed to meet him. I guess he had encountered something, so Yang Jing seized the time to rush back to Yanjing.

A line that was finally established was not wanted to be broken just like this. Yang Jing also wanted to know what was going on with this arms dealer who had not seen for a long time.

It was two days later when we returned to Yanjing from Hotan. This was mainly because there were not so many flights from Wucheng to Yanjing at this time. Yang Jing and his group waited in Wucheng for a day before boarding the plane.

After getting off the plane from the Capital Airport and leaving the gate, Yang Jing found that the tall and thin Nicholas Ballmer was waiting outside the gate with a smile...
Chapter completed!