Chapter 626 Leaked Information
“But this is a national project. Why should they be holdouts? Cooperating with the country is the duty of every citizen,” Qi Minglin said, frowning.
“If they were all as reasonable as you, would there still be such a troublesome problem?” Chen Feng couldn’t help but roll his eyes at Qi Minglin.
"What's the point of being a holdout? I'll just give you money, that's all." Qi Minglin simply couldn't understand these people's thinking.
"Everyone has greed. Let alone prospecting for minerals, even in key national highway projects, there are always people who stubbornly hold out and force the highways to be rerouted."
"What I fear most is that someone will try to raise the price on the spot. What could be solved for 500,000, they will ask for 5 million or 50 million. Will you pay them then?" Chen Feng sighed and said.
"Could someone really be so outrageous as to ask for such an exorbitant amount?" Qi Minglin said in disbelief.
“If one family asks for money like this, we can hold our noses and give it to them. But if the whole village asks for money like this, let alone the country, no one, including you, could afford it.”
Li Guanghao had already realized a more serious problem, and his eyes were full of solemnity.
If one household makes an exorbitant demand, and you give in, then you'll definitely have to give in to the others as well. If you don't give in, then they won't move out.
But a village must have at least several hundred households. If they were all given money like that, how much money would that cost?
But if you don't give it to me, then you can just keep at it and see who can outlast whom.
Chen Feng and his team had a mission, but the villagers didn't; they were already living there.
Don't even mention one year, they can afford to wait ten or twenty years.
"What should we do?" Qi Minglin was immediately at her wit's end.
"When we get back tonight, I'll tell them to keep their mouths shut. No matter who asks, they can't say we're looking for rare earth mines. Just say it's normal geological exploration."
"As for the rest, we'll just have to deal with it as it comes and take it one step at a time." Chen Feng dusted off his hands and walked back to the car.
Upon hearing this, Qi Minglin immediately took out her phone and sent a notification in the group chat.
Why wait to go back? Let's inform them now. If anyone dares to tell anyone about this, I'll break their legs!
Soon everyone received the news, and they were all full of questions, unable to understand why it had been kept hidden like this.
But since Qi Minglin has given the order, they must obey. Don't worry about what he's going to do, just listen to him.
Upon seeing this message, Zhang Richeng's eyes flickered, and his mind raced.
Although he couldn't figure out why Qi Minglin said that, he was certain it was related to what happened that morning.
He vaguely guessed that this might be related to the land expropriation compensation; otherwise, Qi Minglin wouldn't have needed to give such instructions.
If someone wants to take your land, one reason is to build a house, and the other is to mine gold. Do you care which one they want more? Even a fool could figure that out.
A smile slowly crept onto Zhang Richeng's lips as a plan took shape in his mind.
"Drive a little further ahead, I feel like there's something interesting up there," Chen Feng said, patting the driver's seat.
The driver drove a little further and stopped at the location Chen Feng had indicated.
After getting out of the car, Li Guanghao took the detector and searched around. Since they had never been here before, Li Guanghao was particularly careful in his search.
Chen Feng leaned against the car door, looking at the surrounding scenery, while the system in his mind kept giving him results.
"It still doesn't work. Could the mine be deep in the mountains?" Chen Feng raised his head slightly and looked at the distant mountain peak.
If that's the case, then things will actually be much simpler.
Even if someone rents out the entire mountain, it's fine. They'll only compensate you. What difference does it make if it's a little more?
"Chen Feng, have you found anything? I don't have anything here." Li Guanghao's voice came from the side.
"It seems not, let's go." Chen Feng said as he got back into the car.
Li Guanghao walked over, got into the car, and continued fiddling with his instrument.
The car continued driving forward, and then stopped again after a few minutes.
Chen Feng and Li Guanghao got out of the car, while Qi Minglin, with drooping eyelids, leaned against the passenger seat and fell asleep.
Qi Minglin didn't get out of the car, and no one called her. Chen Feng and Li Guanghao wandered around on the ground for a few minutes before returning to the car.
"Huff...huff..."
Chen Feng opened the car door and heard Qi Minglin snoring. He subconsciously closed the car door quietly.
He waved to the driver, signaling him to keep going.
The driver nodded, understanding.
Chen Feng always slams car doors shut, including his own van and his Porsche.
This bad habit can be blamed on Huang Fei.
Sometimes the passenger door of his van wouldn't close properly, so you had to slam it shut.
Chen Feng developed this habit because he often rode in his car, and he never broke it.
On one occasion, when he was out with Xia Yingying, Chen Feng slammed the car door shut as soon as he got in, startling Xia Yingying.
Xia Yingying looked at Chen Feng with a wronged expression and weakly asked, "Why did you suddenly yell at me..."
When those words were spoken, Chen Feng felt a lump in his throat. He quickly hugged Xia Yingying and explained that it had nothing to do with her and that it was just his bad habit. Only then did Xia Yingying understand what was going on.
Seeing that they had driven far enough, Chen Feng reached out and patted the driver on the shoulder, and the driver stopped the car.
Li Guanghao and Chen Feng got out of the car, and Chen Feng left the car door ajar.
Speaking of which, when Chen Feng woke up this morning, Qi Minglin had probably been arguing with the old lady for a long time. He might as well sleep for a while.
As for Li Chunlai, he was sandwiched between Chen Feng and Li Guanghao in the back row and didn't move at all.
"Based on experience, the terrain and topography here are not good, so it is difficult to find rare earth minerals. Of course, with you here, those rules and regulations on the wall are useless."
Li Guanghao looked at the instrument and walked over to Chen Feng, saying...
"Just wander around and take a look. Finding minerals isn't something to rush. What's meant to be will be." Chen Feng handed him a cigarette, and the two of them smoked together.
Li Chunlai was watching with longing from the car, but Qi Minglin was asleep, and he was too embarrassed to get out and disturb her, so he could only endure it and plan to sneak out when the two of them got out of the car later.
"What do you think? If we really find a mine here, could we contact the higher-ups and get the authorities to force us to cooperate?" Li Guanghao was still thinking about this.
"It's difficult. There are thousands of people in that village. Can you forcibly demolish their homes and arrest them all?"
"We'll just have to see how things go. As long as they don't know what we're up to, they won't ask for too much. At most, they'll ask for 300,000 for a plot of land that's worth 100,000."
"We can still afford to triple the price," Chen Feng said, taking a drag of his cigarette.
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