I am farming in the real world

Chapter 241: Spectacles Mislead the Nation! President Chen!

Ji Xian's eyes lit up when he heard the high standards of treatment proposed by Chen Jue.

Leaving aside the 2% sales commission on ship sales, the 24-hour all-round security team was invaluable in Africa.

After all, no matter how much money you make, you have to be alive to spend it in some chaotic places in Africa.

In addition, when waiting at the gatehouse of the Cube Factory, Ji Xian personally witnessed those tall, strong, and energetic Iron Golem security guards.

As a young man who often hangs around in Africa playing with guns, he admitted that he couldn't beat any of the Cube Group's security guards.

If he could be equipped with such security forces, not to say that he could guarantee 100% safety in Africa, even taking them out to show off would be very impressive.

When he goes to Africa to talk business with the local chamber of commerce bosses, relying on the Cube Group's support behind him, he can also make the other party weigh his own strength.

So, after communicating with Chen Jue for nearly 1 hour, and after the two parties finalized some cooperation details, Ji Xian immediately agreed to the exclusive sales contract for a total of 1 million tons of second-hand ships.

Of course, the volume of 1 million tons of second-hand ships is a huge amount in the eyes of ordinary people.

After all, an active aircraft carrier weighs only about 80,000 tons, which is equivalent to 12 aircraft carriers.

However, in the face of China's huge shipbuilding market, this tonnage is just a drop in the bucket.

Just take the information Chen Jue learned from Manager Zhang of Hongyu Shipping Brokerage Company when he did several second-hand ship renovation businesses to transfer MC soybeans.

China's shipbuilding business has developed by leaps and bounds in recent years, ranking first in the world with an annual launch volume of 40 million tons.

Under the stimulation of such a large-scale construction of new ships, the scrapping or retirement of second-hand ships in the shipbuilding industry is also in full swing.

The number of old ships scrapped each year reaches more than 800, with a total tonnage of more than 30 million tons.

Because according to China's mandatory regulations on old ships, Category 1 to Category 5 seagoing ships must undergo regular inspections after 18 to 29 years of service, and must be compulsorily scrapped after reaching 25 to 34 years of age.

Although a subsidy of 1,500 to 3,200 yuan/gross ton will be provided at the time of scrapping. Taking a 2,000-ton seagoing ship as an example, the maximum cash received for compulsory scrapping after 30 years of service is 5 or 6 million.

However, if it is renovated into a second-hand ship and sold to backward shipbuilding areas such as Africa, a ship can be sold for at least 8 million or even tens of millions.

After all, some backward areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America do not have such strict mandatory scrapping standards as China.

In the waters of Bangladesh and some African regions with zero industrial base, there are even old ships built in the early 18th century running operations.

In the eyes of sailors in underdeveloped areas, as long as the bottom shell of the ship is not rotten and the engine can still turn, a ship can be repaired and run for hundreds of years!

It is conceivable how great the supply and demand here is.

Of course, the biggest difficulty in selling old ships to poor places is getting the money back.

Don't look at the black uncles in Africa, each guarding a gold mine to beg for food. In fact, in terms of business reputation, the black uncles are not as good as the Indian Asan.

A large number of giant domestic companies went to Africa to mine, and incidentally invested in the construction of various infrastructures. After decades of continuous cultivation, they have only made a little progress in Rwanda, South Africa, and other more developed regions.

Like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola where Ji Xian stayed, there are tribal conflicts and warlords staging coups every three days.

Anyone who goes to these places to invest without any strength or background is almost throwing money into a black hole.

Don't talk about spending money to hear the sound, even people will be sucked in.

However, the more chaotic the place, the more opportunities there are.

In addition, Chen Jue has the MC system and the super bodyguard service provided by the Iron Golems, so he wants to extend his business territory to Africa.

"There are also many underground minerals in Africa."

"Especially copper mines. Several world-class large copper mines are in Africa. It seems that the largest high-grade Kamoa-Kakula copper mine is in southern Democratic Republic of Congo. In the future, to develop the new energy vehicle industry, copper is indispensable."

Chen Jue watched the ambitious old Ji and his son leave, and had a clear idea and direction in his mind for the next area for the Iron Golems to mine.

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After finalizing the second-hand ship export exclusive sales agreement with old Ji and his son.

Chen Jue began to instruct the procurement department of Cube Group to contact second-hand ship suppliers in coastal areas in a broad-based manner.

Whether it is fishing boats, transport ships, or bulk carriers, all old ships that are nearing the end of their service life are taken in.

According to the current domestic market conditions, 1 million tons of displacement old ships will only cost 1 billion at most.

Originally, Chen Jue himself would never have looked down on this kind of 'small order' business.

If it wasn't for going to the mines in Africa, he wouldn't even want to get involved in this kind of middleman's business.

After all, he had received many large orders at the Robot Conference before. Several workshops of the Cube Factory were already working three shifts to rush to produce Cube Arms and subsequent Flying Cube orders.

At this time, if a bunch of old ship renovation businesses are stuffed in.

Even if the MC system recruits another 100 Iron Golems to supplement the manpower, it may not be enough.

"Forget it, no matter how small a mosquito's leg is, it's still meat."

"This single order can make several hundred million in profit, just consider it as training the internal staff of the group."

Chen Jue thought to himself.

After issuing instructions to the procurement department, he asked the infrastructure department to come up with a plan to expand the Cube Factory.

Because the factory will receive a large number of old ships for renovation business, and there are also large orders for hundreds of Flying Cubes. The original 200×200 meter dock workshop has become somewhat crowded.

In addition, with the continuous growth of the business of Cube Group's machinery, construction, aviation, and car manufacturing fields, Chen Jue simply did it once and for all.

The original cubic Cube Factory with a side length of 200 meters was expanded according to the specification of enlarging the side length by 4 times.

Anyway, MC prefabricated materials + cubic shapes are used for superposition, and the expansion speed can be compressed to within 2 months.

As long as it can be completed before the Spring Festival, then the Feiyun River estuary in Ruixian County can be regarded as erecting a world-class landmark building.

After all, the tallest building on Earth at present, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is only 828 meters high.

Chen Jue's super Cube Factory has a floor height of 800 meters, and the internal volume reaches 512 million cubic meters. In terms of space alone, it is much larger than some medium-sized industrial parks.

In this way, whether it is solving the subsequent dock berthing spaces, or fully producing Cube Arms and Flying Cubes, these fist products, there is a bottom line.

It's just that Chen Jue had just sent the expansion plan sketch he hand-painted on A4 paper to the group's large group, and black question mark emoticons similar to '???' popped up on the screen.

Including Feng Zhiqiang, the director of the park who often pops up in the large group and has been stationed in the Binhai Industrial Park, specializing in serving the Cube Group, also issued a question mark at the first time: "Floor height of 800 meters? Occupying an area of 640,000 square meters?"

"President Chen, are you sure this plan is not a joke?"