However, the negotiation process was unexpectedly smooth. After Yang Jing met with the commissioner of the Hotan District Administrative Office and agreed on the time for the contract negotiations, on the day of the negotiations, it took only one day for Pacific Mining Company to renegotiate a new contract for the jade mine with the Hotan Municipal Government.

Yang Jing didn't care about the minor details of the contract. What he cared about was the contract period of the Aqik Jade Mine. Yang Jing didn't even pay much attention to the contract funds.

It is precisely because of this that Yang Jing feels very gratified about the contract to contract the Aqik Jade Mine, which cost him US$840 million to negotiate.

The contract fee of US$840 million will allow Pacific Mining to continue to contract the Aqik Jade Mine for a full 70 years starting from 2021. In other words, the Aqik Jade Mine will continue to be a jade mine under the name of Pacific Mining from this year until 2090.

The contract fee of 840 million US dollars sounds like a lot, but don't forget that this is a 70-year contract. The annual contract fee is only 12 million US dollars, which is about 80 million national currency.

This is a jade mine. The contract fee is only about 8,000,000 national currency a year. Although it is not low, it is definitely not high.

This price is somewhat different from the price of jade mining in the Gobi Desert downstream of the river contracted by Hotan. In the past two years, the land contracted to mine jade in the Gobi Desert downstream of the Yulong Kashi River has cost 50,000 yuan per mu, and about 75 million yuan per square kilometer. Those Gobi Deserts used to be the old riverbed of the Yulong Kashi River, and they also contain mountain streams or seed jade, also known as jade mines. However, how much jade can be mined from such jade mines really depends on the will of God.

After all, these Gobi Deserts are not the original jade ore. We can only see how much jade material the Yulong Kashi River washed down. So mining jade in such places is just a matter of luck.

Although the Aqik Jade Mine is a jade mine that specializes in mining mountain materials, it is a real jade mine after all, and its exploitation potential is far higher than those Gobi deserts downstream of the river. And don't forget that the Aqik mining area is a huge mining area with an area of ​​more than four square kilometers. Even if it is contracted under the same contracting conditions as those Gobi deserts, the annual contracting fee will not be less than 300 million yuan.

Although mining jade in mountainous areas is much more difficult than digging jade in the Gobi Desert, and the contract price for jade mines in mountainous areas is unlikely to be 300 million yuan a year, the contract fee of more than 80 million yuan a year is really not high.

Yang Jing was also very curious about why the negotiations went so smoothly. He quickly asked Wang Jian, the chief representative of the negotiations, and Wang Jian gave a very unexpected answer.

"Mr. Yang, at the end of the negotiation, I was also wondering how this negotiation could go so smoothly, and the price was not too high, so I made a special effort to find out. Finally, I learned that when Mr. Smith contracted the Aqike Jade Mine, the then senior officials of Hotan and the Commissioner of the Hotan Administrative Office unexpectedly said something in unison, which was of course in our favor, so this negotiation went so smoothly."

"The high-ranking officials and commissioners of the Hotan administrative office thirty years ago?" Yang Jing muttered to himself, and the appearance of the two people appeared in his mind.

When I first traveled to the late 1980s and came to Xinjiang in the avatar Cole Smith, I met Secretary Xing, a senior official in Hotan, and Yang Jing, the commissioner of the Hotan Administrative Office, but they were already in their fifties. If they were still here now, wouldn't they be almost ninety?

Yang Jing asked this question, and Wang Jian gave a very affirmative answer: "Mr. Yang, you are right. Secretary Xing and Commissioner Telsu are indeed still alive and in good health. Secretary Xing and Commissioner Telsu were promoted very quickly because they did an excellent job in attracting investment in Hotan Prefecture. Secretary Xing was transferred to Xihai Province as a senior official and executive senior official, and eventually retired from the senior official position. Although Commissioner Telsu has been working in Xinjiang Province, he was also the vice chairman and deputy secretary of Xinjiang Province before retiring. He is also a respected old leader in the entire Xinjiang Province."

"I don't know if the two old leaders knew that you wanted to restart the contract negotiation for the Aqike Jade Mine this time, so they called Commissioner Liu of the Administrative Office and said a lot of good things, so the negotiations went so smoothly this time."

"Alas, I didn't expect that the officials my master had met back then could still be of use to me. Forget it, when I go back, I must make a special trip to visit them. My master is gone, so I must pay a visit on his behalf."

Gege and Liu Zhentao also deeply agreed with Yang Jing's statement.

So, after leaving Hotan, the group made a special detour to Urumqi and visited Commissioner Telsu who was recuperating at home, and then made a special trip to Xihai Province to visit Secretary Xing who was also at home enjoying his grandchildren.

The two old leaders were also very happy about Yang Jing's visit. Although they didn't know Yang Jing and his group, the heroic Mr. Smith really left a deep impression on them. Moreover, the reason why they were able to rise so high later was directly because of this young man's master.

Because of visiting two old leaders, Yang Jing's schedule was delayed for two days, but that didn't matter.

After leaving Secretary Xing's house, Yang Jing and his companions took a private plane directly to Yanjing. Yang Jing still had some things to take care of in Yanjing.

After Liu Zhentao arrived in Yanjing, he broke up with Yang Jing and Gege. He had to rush back to Jinling to discuss with Gege's aunt about the change of business route after their lifelong love. After all, this trip to Xinjiang Province allowed Liu Zhentao to thoroughly see the jewelry material resources under the control of his nephew and son-in-law.

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