When others come here, just like Ye Jianbin, Sun Shangyi and others come to Perth. As long as time allows, they will invite all the staff and their families to be stationed in Perth to boost morale lively. Zhang Ke does not hold a formal position within Jinhu, and in addition to contacting senior management, he can be lazy in giving employees morale work such as encouraging work.

The first dinner in Perth was held in the Poding Seaview Villa where Zhai Danqing and Wei Lan lived. They had a complete set of tableware and a fixed cook and nanny. Liang Jun, Sun Li, Fu Jun, Li Mingyu, Tang Jing, Chen Feirong, Wei Lan and three little girls. Zhai Danqing delayed something in the company and appeared very late. After dinner, he also said that Zhang Ke and Chen Feirong had a day's plane and had to rest early on the journey and let them go back to the villa to rest.

Zhang Ke didn't know how Tang Jing got along with Zhai Danqing in Perth for the past ten days, so he couldn't just ask these questions directly. He was not a pure vacation in Perth. There were many things, but he didn't have a very intuitive impression of reading the report, so he still needed to take a walk on the spot.

It rained again at night, drizzling, hitting the glass and dripping among the foliage and clovers in the courtyard, making the room particularly quiet. The window was open and the wind blew in. It felt a little cold in Perth's hottest season. Zhang Ke walked out of the study and wanted to find a piece of clothing to put on.

"What's wrong? I don't have the time to read the materials?" Tang Jing and Chen Feirong curled up their legs and sat on the sofa in the living room chatting. They watched Zhang Ke push the door and walked out, and asked him with his head raised.

Zhang Ke sat over with a smile and said, "Just just saw that I was looking for a piece of clothing to put on. At this time, I really didn't have the time to look at the materials..."

Chen Feirong pulled her skirt to cover her face with embarrassment, stood up and said, "I'm going to go to bed, I'll ignore you..." She squeezed at Tang Jing ambiguously again, hid back in the room with a smile.

"I'll sleep with you, you are not allowed to lock the door..." Tang Jing said in a while, and then she heard the sound of the lock inside lock being locked.

Zhang Ke sat over, reached out to caress Xiao Jing's long hair like a waterfall, and smiled and said, "I don't have the time to read the materials now... You are so beautiful now."

"I just knew to deceive the little girl," Tang Jing smiled sweetly, leaned over, resting her head on Zhang Ke's shoulder, looking at the starry night sky outside the north window, "When I first arrived in Perth, Zhai Danqing took us to drive deep into the desert. After driving for a day and a night, I couldn't see any people..."

"Are you worried about throwing it into the desert for her?" Zhang Ke asked jokingly by holding Tang Jing's soft body in his arms.

"Don't interrupt," Tang Jing stretched out her hand to pinch Zhang Ke's lips and continued, "The scenery is so beautiful, but I can't see the crowd, so I can truly feel that Perth is a lonely city... Do you think that life is like a lonely city, and when you walk far away, you can't see the crowd. Occasionally pass by other people's cities, or occasionally passers-by pass by your city, you will feel that you are particularly cherished. Once you miss it, there is no possibility of keeping it?" He raised his head against Zhang Ke's chest and looked at his face, and said, "It's not the kind of good girl you think who doesn't know anything. She's mature enough..." Seeing that Zhang Ke's hand was about to touch her chest, he pinched him, "Can you not think that you are too lustful? I'm not saying that this place is mature."

"I just think you are more attractive," Zhang Ke said with his face against Tang Jing's soft long hair, "Tomorrow, go to the Christmas Creek mining area, you can accompany you to experience the feeling of no one in the world..."

"I will ignore you tomorrow. We agreed to ask for Shanghai Island," Tang Jing raised her hand and touched Zhang Ke's cheek. "I love you, but I don't feel unhappy. I always feel that I should know you better... You are not allowed to treat me as a little girl."

Zhang Ke knew that Tang Jing was giving him the opportunity to be alone with Zhai Danqing.

The Christmas Creek Mine is the farthest exploration area from Perth. After preliminary exploration, it is likely to be one of the iron ore-rich areas in the entire Western Australia. I drove by tomorrow morning. In less than two or three days, I could not finish the important drilling points in the entire exploration area.

"Okay, I won't treat you as a little girl," Zhang Ke hugged Tang Jing in his arms and asked softly, "Are we doing what little girls cannot do now?"

"..." Tang Jing moaned, and lay in Zhang Ke's arms with a weak body, and he did not refuse since he agreed.

"Zhang Ke, Zhang Ke..."

Hearing Zhitong yelling downstairs, Zhang Kegang separated from Tang Jing, and then he heard the sound of climbing the stairs. After a while, Zhitong, Xirong and Xiyu came in with three little heads.

"We slept with Tang Jing every day, and we can't sleep when we parted tonight," Xirong and Xiyu sisters looked at Zhang Ke with their heads tilted from left to right, and asked in unison, "Zhang Ke, what do you think you should do?"

"Why don't you play cards with us?" Zhitong suddenly raised the two poker decks behind her, "Whoever loses will go to the entrance of the community to learn to bark at the door of the community tomorrow!"

Of course, Zhang Ke wanted to throw these three little girls out of the window on the second floor, thinking to himself: Could they be the right time to ruin his good deeds, right?

"We don't take Zhang Ke to play. What if he is fooled?" Xirong said to Zhitong carefully, "If you call Sister Wei Lan over, it really doesn't work. Sister Fei Rong can do it too. They are embarrassed to beat the three little girls, right?"

Zhang Ke hid back to the study in shame and continued to read the materials. It was not until eleven o'clock that Li Mingyu came over to deceive the three little girls away.

As soon as the three little girls left, Zhang Ke immediately dragged Tang Jing to his room so that she would not be embarrassed to run over and sleep with Chen Feirong first.

"Do you like bad guys..."

"I am a good girl, so I won't like bad guys..." Tang Jing murmured in a silly manner...

After the passion, Tang Jing fell asleep peacefully, but Zhang Ke was surprisingly awake and had no sleepiness. She wore her pajamas and turned off the bedroom lights. She walked to the terrace outside. She vaguely saw someone standing on the terrace next door, and couldn't see whether it was a Danqing or Wei Lan.

When she walked to the corner of the terrace, she still couldn't see clearly when she got close. At this time, the porch lights on the terrace were lit up. Zhai Danqing was also standing on the terrace wearing clothes. She held the phone in her hand and pressed the phone to her ears, signaling Zhang Ke to talk to her on the phone. The terraces on both sides were nearly twenty meters away. The voice was less, and neither of them could hear what the other was saying. The voice was louder, and the people in the two villas, including the nanny in the workers' room downstairs, could hear it.

"Can't sleep?" Zhang Ke went back to the house and took out his cell phone, and talked on the phone with Zhai Danqing twenty meters away.

"Yes," Zhai Danqing nodded and said with a smile, "But don't think I'm jealous because Tang Jing is jealous. You have the ability to eat up both girls in your room..."

"..." Zhang Ke smiled and asked, "I'll come to find you?"

"No," Zhai Danqing shook his head, "I'll go to bed in a while. If you want to come over, I will think you are in trouble. You should go to bed earlier, and you will have to get up early tomorrow."

When she woke up in the morning, Tang Jing was not by her side. She looked at her watch and thought that she had not had enough sleep. She probably ran to Chen Feirong's room to sleep in the early morning. The outdoor wind was sunny, and the breeze blew the light golden gauze curtains. Zhang Ke stayed on the bed and thought about the contents of the exploration area to visit today, then got out of the bed. He pushed open the door and saw that the door of Chen Feirong's room was covered with thin quilts and his head was exposed. Two black handfuls of hair were piled on the snow-white pillows. If it weren't for the two bright and beautiful faces exposed outside, they wouldn't be able to tell who was whose hair.

The wind was running smoothly, and the strong aroma of coffee came from the window. Tang Jing stretched out her arms like a snow-rooted lotus root, yawned, stretched, and said, "Breakfast is ready..." She lifted the quilt. Without Zhang Ke's expectation, the two girls were neatly wearing dresses under the quilt.

"..." Zhang Ke blew up and ran to wash.

After breakfast, Tang Jing and Chen Feirong asked three little girls to ask for Shanghai Island, so Zhang Ke asked Fu Jun to stay and take care of them. He, Zhai Danqing and Liang Jun, and joined Huang Mingsheng, the economic counselor of the Chinese Consulate General in Perth, Jia Zhiyi, general manager of Zhongzhi Australia, and other officials took six off-road vehicles to the Christmas Creek exploration area for field inspection.

"When we met last year, it was still late autumn in Perth..." Jia Zhiyi, general manager of Zhongzhi Australia, sat in the same car with Zhang Ke. He did not feel any contemptuous about such a legendary figure because of the age gap. He said, "What Mr. Zhang said at the Consul General banquet last year was really shocked..."

"It should be both shocked and suspicious, right?" Zhang Ke said with a smile, "This is inevitable. Even now, there are still people who doubt our determination to invest in the mining industry in Western Australia..."

Jia Zhiyi smiled and said, "I believe in Kumho's determination..."

In late autumn last year, at a banquet held by the Consul General in Perth for visits to senior officials of Kumho, Zhang Ke made a surprise announcement that Kumho would invest $1 billion in the iron ore industry in Western Australia, shocking all Chinese iron ore traders in Perth.

Zhongzhi Company and Kumho have cooperated with the domestic rare earth industry in foreign monopoly trade. As the general representative of MCC in Australia, the general manager of Zhongzhi Australia Company, and the representative of Zhongzhifang of the joint exploration company established by Kumho and MCC, Jia Zhiyi is quite familiar with the situation of Kumho.

Even so, Jia Zhiyi still cannot fully understand Kumho's decision. As Zhang Ke said, even if he knows Kumho's strength and background more clearly than ordinary people, he is also surprised and doubtful about Kumho's decision.

After a period of rapid development, China's steel industry has exceeded 100 million tons in 1996. However, from 1996 to the end of 1999, due to the impact of the Asian financial crisis, the increase in domestic steel production was extremely limited, and the total increase in output in three years has just exceeded 10%.

The steel industry and downstream manufacturing industries in developed countries and regions around the world and other emerging countries and regions are somewhat sluggish, and there is no sign of recovery.

The rise and fall of the steel industry directly determines the demand for iron ore.

Major iron ore manufacturers around the world have even demanded to continuously reduce production in the past two years, so that the benchmark iron ore price has maintained above US$26 per ton.

The two major miners, Rio Tinto, Bi and Billiton, have even saved transportation costs by increasing the output of mining areas near the port and reducing the output of mining areas far away from the port.

Even though it is expected that although the domestic liberalization of private capital is pouring into the steel manufacturing industry in a concentrated manner, spending a billion dollars to invest in the iron ore industry in Western Australia is still regarded as a gamble for the industry.

From Perth to the north, there are flat and spacious highways all the way. Along the way, you can see the mining areas and transportation lines of Rio Tinto and Bihe Billiton. Apart from the living areas of the mining areas, there are few people living in it. This land of about 3 million square kilometers has less than two million people living in, and there are large areas of unmanned areas everywhere. When you drive away from the mining areas of Rio Tinto and Bihe Billiton, the highway will immediately turn into a bumpy gravel road, and it will be bumpy all the way and the speed cannot be raised.

"The Christmas Creek Exploration Zone is not on the main traffic line in Western Australia. There are still gravel roads to walk on now. If you drive for a while, the last section of the road will be directly on the desert..." Jia Zhiyi has been to the exploration zone many times and is very familiar with the situation. He is responsible for introducing the local situation to Zhang Ke along the way.

Jia Zhiyi and even the senior management of MCC did not understand Kumho's investment decisions very well, but the joint venture joint exploration company was purely business-based. Kumho funds purchased exploration equipment and provided exploration funds. The actual exploration business was sent by MCC. The exploration fee was collected from the completion of the exploration business. Zhongzhi Company can obtain millions of dollars in revenue every year.

This is a big deal that MCC has received overseas. The most important thing is that Kumho will eventually invest in minerals in Western Australia, with an investment scale of billions of dollars. Although such a large-scale investment will account for a considerable portion of the infrastructure construction such as ports, railways, and highways, it will not be less funds directly distributed to the construction and development of the mining area. This is all fat that is so fat that MCC can bear. If the entire mining construction and development business can be undertaken, it will be the largest business that MCC can even be said to be the largest overseas.

Not to mention Jia Zhiyi, even the senior MCC executives who rarely come to Western Australia have come to Perth for inspection during this period. After all, they are attracted by this huge contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars or even hundreds of billions of dollars.

In addition to mining areas development and construction, the heavy responsibility of railways, highways and port construction is not something that Hongyuan Construction can bear alone at the moment. Considering the construction costs, it is bound to cooperate with domestic construction companies and a large amount of imported labor from the country to dilute the construction costs. Currently, those who have rich experience in railways, highways and large seaport construction companies are still large and medium-sized state-owned construction enterprises, including China Construction, China Railway Construction and China Overseas. They are actively engaged in order to obtain large business orders for Kumho, and even actively assist Kumho to enter Western Australia to invest in mining.

The off-road vehicle first visited the periphery exploration point for inspection, and arrived at the main camp of the Christmas Creek exploration area at about dusk.

The main campsite is located in a piece of Australian bush, with painted white iron fences surrounding several blue simple houses, divided into office areas and living areas.

There is a narrow asphalt road on the north side of the main camp. Zhang Ke read the information and knew that from which road goes north, it is the only small town in the nearby area, Christmas Creek. Christmas Creek passes through the middle of the town, winds into the northwest, and goes through 140 kilometers into the sea. There is the Handland Deepwater Channel in Kumho, and there is also a port town nearby. Some residents are engaged in fishing salvage, and the port is very small.

If the iron ore resources of Christmas Creek are worth developing, Kumho will build a deep-water harbor pier in Handland and build a railway line from Christmas Creek to Handland Port.

The main exploration areas of Aokegee in Western Australia are within 300 kilometers of the Christmas Creek area. If there are important geological discoveries in other areas, the mining area can be connected to this transportation line and out of the sea after the development of the mining area.

The temperature in the desert is very high, and I am walking on the road in an off-road vehicle. It feels better when I pass by the wind. Only after getting off the bus can I truly feel the scorching summer heat in Western Australia, which is completely different from the feeling of arriving in Perth yesterday.

In more than half a year, Kumho has done a lot of work. After applying for an exploration area of ​​nearly 100,000 square kilometers in the area under the name of Aokeji Mining Industry Company, it quickly established a joint exploration company with Zhongzhi, mainly recruiting a group of experienced explorers from China to Western Australia to conduct iron ore resource exploration work. The Christmas Creek area is a key exploration area.

Humuqiao, the leader of the exploration team, is an Australian overseas Chinese. In 1988, MCC and Rio Tinto jointly developed the Chana Iron Mine in Western Australia. As an engineer at MCC, Humuqiao went from home to Australia. In his own words, he tricked an Australian girl after he arrived in Australia. However, Jia Zhiyi helped a lot to be able to become an Australian citizen and continue to work in the Chana Iron Mine.

Humuqiao now works directly for the United Exploration Company and is the main technical management backbone.

If Kumho wants to invest in Western Australia, it is impossible to completely import labor services from the country, and it also needs to solve the employment problems locally. It has to hire a certain proportion of employees from the local area. Zhongzhi Australia Company has been rooted in Western Australia for more than ten years and has indeed helped a lot in local resources.

Zhang Ke and his group got out of the car, along with officials from the Consulate General in Perth. Humuqiao and the backbone members of the Christmas Creek exploration team had been waiting for a while outside the hot outdoors.

It was hot outside, so I didn’t say much to greet me when I got off the bus and walked straight into the room. Although the conditions in the office were simple, I had to use air conditioners. It was just an exploration camp, and the water and electricity had not been taken from Christmas Creek Town. I used a diesel engine to generate electricity. The air conditioners were only used for the hottest period.

"This month, the exploration of anti-cyclic drilling and diamond drills is mainly concentrated in the layered Brookman deposit. This work has come to an end. Judging from the existing results, the potential iron ore resources of Christmas Creek are much higher than the 300 million to 400 million tons we expected. The new resource will take some time to finally calculate it. I estimate that it will not be less than one billion tons of storage. Except for a small number of its own debris ore, the vast majority of resources are layered iron ore formed in the Brookman iron ore, and the phosphorus content level is low..." Humuqiao reported on behalf of the exploration team to report on the exploration results over the past period.

Jia Zhiyi was also worried that Zhang Ke might not be familiar with the geological nouns. Seeing his strangely solemn expression, he didn't know whether to rush to explain the significance of Brookman Iron Mine to him.

"Didn't Rio Tinto and Bihe Billiton claim to have taken over all the low-phosphorus Brookman mines that can be found in northern Western Australia with development value?" Zhang Ke looked through the geological exploration data and said with a smile. "If we immediately announce the exploration results, the low-phosphorus Brookman iron ore with a reserve of one billion tons will probably make Rio Tinto and Bihe Billiton's senior management jump to the fore.

Jia Zhiyi laughed and said, "It is indeed possible that the senior management of Rio Tinto, Bi and Billiton are eager to jump. The reserves of high-quality iron ore in the Christmas Creek area alone are five times that of the Channa Iron Ore. It is initially appropriate for Kumho to set up the main mining area in Christmas Creek..."
Chapter completed!