Chapter 999 - Sharing is Caring (2/2)

Let’s not talk about whether these asteroids are filled with gold or slag. Even if you mine the asteroid, you can’t throw them directly into the atmosphere. Without a s.p.a.ce elevator, the product must be s.h.i.+pped to Celestial City

This is not the end of it. Directly transporting the mine and the rocks back to the surface is simply not worth it!

Transported by Celestial Trade, it is best to process it on Celestial City. Iron ore is refined into steel, and t.i.tanium ore is refined into t.i.tanium ingots. They are not scamming you, as you can process these things in your s.p.a.ce station or Future Mining’s s.p.a.ce station since they are all connected to Celestial Trade. But after all, since it is in the territory of Xin, it is not too much to charge a transaction tax, right?

Settled in US dollars?

Sorry, the law already stipulates that only one currency is recognized in Celestial City, and that is the Xin New dollar.

The ingots that you produce, whether you send them to the surface and sell them to the international market or sell them directly to the local factory in Celestial City, no one will intervene. The export of mineral ingots is the same as the export of ore; there is no need to pay export tax. At most, a s.p.a.ce elevator transportation fee is charged, and port management and usage fee are also charged on the surface.

After several taxes and charges, all that money will basically enter the pockets of Celestial Trade. The cost of these ingots is still lower than the average price of the international market. These have nothing to do with the relations.h.i.+p between supply and demand. It is purely because the quality of s.p.a.ce ore is too high, and the impurity composition is relatively low. With Celestial Trade’s mining and transportation equipment, the cost is extremely low.

You don’t have to worry about environmental protection, and you don’t have to pay a series of additional taxes such as mining tax, education, and urban construction. The asteroids in outer s.p.a.ce don’t have “local governments” a.s.sociated with them. It belongs to whoever mines it. Although they have to pay various fees to Celestial Trade, you are still saving in the end.

Celestial Trade is not monopolizing the market, but you have to give us some of the profit?

As for renting equipment and selling transport s.h.i.+ps, Jiang Chen had other plans.

You want my technology? Easy, I will sell it directly to you. Since it is impossible to transport this down the s.p.a.ce elevator. Although I have sold this to you, you can only use it in Celestial Trade.

If you want to try hard landing, take out the parts from the wreck and study it, that’s fine too. Celestial Trade will revoke your safety qualification certificate. If you want to buy it later, I will not sell it to you. As for reverse engineering, when the technology is separated by a large enough gap. Even if I sold the prototype to you, you must have that theoretical foundation to study it.

Jiang Chen thought he was a genius!

Celestial Trade will not need to pay a single cent and all the risks are borne by his international friends. In the future, Future Heavy Industries will only increase its production capacity, producing transport s.h.i.+ps, mining s.h.i.+ps and s.p.a.ce stations. Future Mining will constantly process the ores mined in its ore processing units.

If these nine asteroids are all developed by Future Mining, then even with ten times the size, Future Mining will not be able to develop all of them. But if other countries joined, nine more asteroids as big as Bennu will not be enough.

While Celestial Trade gave up some, it gained more in return. Not only that, Celestial Trade can use other people’s money to improve its own production capacity. Where could Celestial Trade find a better deal than this?

(1) The Cullinan Diamond was the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found