Chapter 1506 Chaos! ?

It’s November, and it’s almost summer in the Southern Hemisphere here in Australia.

The closer you get to the beach, the better the weather is.

In Wickham, a small fishing village in the northwest of Western Australia, a big thing happened today.

That is the port donated by Wankang Company. It has been built and can be used!

With it, fishermen have a stable and reliable port to anchor their fishing boats. The tall indicator lighthouse in the port also allows fishermen to see the direction of their homes from a distance.

The most important thing is that although this port is small, it is not crude at all. The materials used are very solid, and the quality and layout are very good. It is better than what the fishermen in Wickham have seen in the small ports hundreds of kilometers around. .

In order to express his gratitude to Wankang Company, Charles, the mayor of Wickham Town, specially invited Mr. Wei Li, the president of Wankang Company, to attend the opening ceremony of the port on behalf of more than 100 households.

Wickham is only about the size of a palm. He usually makes a living as a fisherman, and his life is not very rich.

Therefore, this opening ceremony was just a temporary open-air tent set up in the open space in front of the port, with some fruits, salads, meats, wine, etc., which was equivalent to a buffet, which was also grand.

Willie didn't care about such simplicity. He spent at least a quarter of his time in Wickham in the past few months, drinking wine with Charles and talking and laughing.

"With this port, our fishermen can increase their income by at least 30%, and save a lot of money on repairs and maintenance of fishing boats." Charles said happily, "In addition, not far away It is your Wankang Company's farm that produces cheap and good crops, which greatly reduces our cost of living. In addition, their improvement in water, electricity and other living facilities has also benefited our town, and everyone's life will definitely be better. The better, the better!"

What Charles said was the beauty deeply felt by the residents of the small town of Wickham.

There is no need to mention the fishing aspect for now, the benefits have not really been revealed yet.

But in terms of daily life, the town of Wickham has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to two or three years ago.

The reason is that Wankang Company was built on a nearby farm.

After two or three years of development, Wankang Company's farms have spread across the northwest and central regions of Western Australia.

The farm mentioned here is not only a planting base for vegetables, meat, fruits and vegetables, but also the breeding of chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, and fish. It also represents a residential scale of at least 500 people.

These 500 people are not only engaged in agricultural production. Usually agricultural production is done by women. The young labor force generally has various skills, such as forklifts, plumbers, carpenters, masons, electrical appliance repairs... etc., etc. Someone will.

As a result, the quality of life of the people of Wickham has really improved by more than ten times.

Unlike in the past, when a light bulb broke at home, you had to wait for an electrician from a larger town dozens of kilometers away to repair it.

It can take two days at the earliest.

Don't doubt it, this is no joke.

In Australia, it is illegal to change light bulbs on your own!

Once Wankang Company comes here, they can repair anything for you and provide you with all daily necessities.

Moreover, their products and services are not expensive, and their people are very enthusiastic. They can repair the water pipes in your home after changing the light bulbs.

Another benefit of Wankang Company is that they do not take away Australian jobs at all. They do agricultural and sideline products and some municipal engineering work.

What a wonderful person who can help with things without taking over his job!

Therefore, the people of Wickham, like the people in other parts of Western Australia, strongly agreed with the Wankang Company to settle in their surrounding area.

Wickham's luck was even better. Wankang Company actually helped them repair the port for free, spending no less than millions of Australian dollars.

That's why Charles was so emotional.

Wei Li had other ideas.

He echoed a few words, and then slowly began to turn to his own topic, "But even so, fishing is still very hard for everyone, right?"

"Who says it's not hard work?" Charles nodded. "The two fishing periods every year last for more than three months. Basically, they can't get off the boat, and they have to encounter various extreme weather such as storms. Every time after doing it, people will lose a lot of weight."

"But after working hard for a while, everyone's income should be pretty good, right?" Wei Li said.

"It also depends on the year." Charles said, "If the year is good and the quality of the fish is good, then the income will be more... But it is not necessarily true. Even in the peak harvest season, if everyone catches more, it will make more money. The price of fish is down.”

After a pause, he added, "Anyway, there is no problem in supporting a family, but it is still difficult to make a fortune like the mining group! So you see, more than half of us are young people here , I have left the town a long time ago and have gone to work in various mining areas. There is more money to be made there and the work is not tiring. It is better than fishing."

Because there are a large number of mines, the welfare of Western Australia is still good, and the medical education of ordinary people is well guaranteed.

As for the various subsidies given by the government every year, they are enough to feed poor people.

But people's pursuit is not just to fill their stomachs, so people in Wickham who have made a living by fishing for generations are still doing the fishing work that their ancestors have done for generations.

However, in recent years, the situation has changed a lot.

Since the 1960s, the Pilbara mining area in Western Australia has been the largest open-pit iron ore area in the world. Many monopoly giants have settled in and started mining. In addition to bringing a large amount of tax revenue to Western Australia's finances, it has also attracted Many young people went to work.

Although it is much harder there than in the city, the salary is very high, so younger people are willing to work for three to five to seven or eight years. After making enough money, they will quit and return to the city or hometown. A slow life.

The more people live in these small villages and towns, the more they have this idea.

What Charles said was not very accurate. In fact, because Wickham is located near the Pilbara mining area, almost all young people under the age of 30 here have left the town to work in the mining area.

Those who stay here to fish are people in their thirties to fifties.

They can only work on it while waiting for the young people to come back and take over ten years later.

Overall, Wickham is a very undeveloped town.

Villages and towns like this are everywhere in Western Australia.

That's why Wankang Company is so popular, because only they have the most abundant young workforce to help do many things that older people cannot do.

"Have you ever thought about using Wickham's good position to benefit everyone?" Weili tilted his head and asked.

"What position? What benefits?" Charles was stunned.

He is just an ordinary fisherman who has not received a very good education. He is just a native of Wickham and has certain organizational and coordination skills, so he took the position of mayor.

In Australia, officials are generally smart people, but a low-level official like Charles is not very stupid, but his vision and ability are definitely not very good.

At least, it is much worse than a smart person like Wei Li, a company doctor.

Weili smiled and said, "That's right, you know our Wankang Company is affiliated to the Kirin Group in Xiangjiang. Now our boss has established a new Kirin Mining Company to develop mining business in Australia. We have applied for 100,000 square kilometers of mining prospecting rights, approximately 210 kilometers from Wickham.

You must also know that our boss, Mr. Yin Jun, is a genius. Geniuses naturally think more. Before we even started detecting it, he was already thinking about how to transport the ore after it is mined and sell it to Japanese and Korean steel plants in East Asia. "

Charles was stunned.

Of course he knows Yin Jun and the Qilin Group.

This talented young man, a super rich man with a net worth of over 3 billion US dollars, is actually so impulsive.

Not only did he apply for such a large piece of mineral exploration rights in one fell swoop, but he even thought about how to transport the ore out of Australia?

Doesn't he know that there have been as many as 70 or 80 companies that have applied for exploration rights in Western Australia, but many have failed in vain?

Even in the Pilbara mining area where iron ore is concentrated, many companies failed and lost a lot of exploration rights fees.

Yin Jun applied for 100,000 square kilometers of exploration rights in one breath, and his heart seemed too big. This was an expenditure of tens of millions of dollars!

Wouldn't it be a pity if it was all in vain?

What’s even more ridiculous is that you haven’t found the mining area yet, so you dare to think about transportation?

Not to mention whether you can find the mining area, even if you find it, if it is not large enough, how can you mine it?

Even if you are qualified to mine, can the ore you mine support a major transportation road?

Opening a transportation thoroughfare for transporting people abroad cannot be accomplished with tens of millions of dollars. It will cost at least one billion or more than a billion dollars!

If you want to support transportation construction costs of more than one billion US dollars, the value of the mining area should be at least more than 10 billion US dollars!

How many years has it been since Western Australia had such a large mining area?

You randomly selected 100,000 square kilometers of land and thought you could dig out a big mine?

Do you really think you are God?

100,000 square kilometers!

This will take at least several years to complete, right?

Judging from this series of steps, Yin Jun is completely messing up!

This young man is still too young. Once he has achieved something in a certain area, he feels like he can do anything. He really doesn’t know what is good or bad!

I hope his reckless decision will not affect Wankang Company!

Otherwise, if Wankang Company goes bankrupt, the people of Western Australia will be seriously unaccustomed to it!