Chapter 404 (1/2)

What is Jiang Chen doing these days?

In a nutshell, it's spending money.

And it's still in billions.

The military camp of crescent Island, 2300 meter long double runway airport, simple radar base station and two football field sized offshore platforms connected by the dam were completed successively. After the project funds were delivered to mammoth, the cash in Jiang Chen's account instantly went to 1.4 billion yuan. He spent 5.4 billion dollars in just three days, including the 4 billion dollars he spent on smallpox.

But it's not over.

In preparation for molybdenum mining, Jiang Chen injected US $1 billion into the future mining industry and planned to build two semi submersible offshore platforms in the southern waters of ANGA island through bidding.

This kind of semi submersible platform is commonly used in deep sea area, and its main application field is the exploitation of petroleum gas. Its principle is similar to that of submarine. The platform is built on a large floating bucket, which is embedded below the water surface and is fixed to the seabed by anchor chains. The bottom end of the leg below the pontoon is designed with a balancer similar to a fishing plumb. It falls into the sea water under the platform to avoid the platform losing balance due to sea water surge or wind influence.

The advantage of this offshore platform is that it can be moved, and the bottom of the mine can be pulled away by anchor and boat. Jiang Chen's plan is to have two soldiers and three staff stationed on the offshore platform to operate the mining machinery on the seabed through electronic equipment. Every week, a boat comes to replenish the living materials for the offshore platform and pull away the manganese nodules rich in molybdenum ore.

Although the technology of mining robots is still under development, Jiang Chen believes that it will not be long before there will be results at refuge 27. Before that. It's a good choice to build offshore platforms first.

These mined nodules will be pulled to ANGA Island, where more than 50% of the structure is composed of iron oxide and manganese oxide, in addition to molybdenum rich oxides. We injected 200 million US dollars into the mining industry in the future. On the island of ANGA, a manganese nodule treatment plant, a Molybdenum Ore Refinery and a steel and aluminum plant were built.

The manganese nodule treatment plant breaks up the ore and makes preliminary separation, producing metal manganese and molybdenum rich slag. The slag will be sent to a molybdenum refinery for secondary processing to produce molybdenum ore for virtual reality helmets.

Iron and steel plants and aluminum plants are mainly to deal with iron and aluminum ore purchased from BHP mining group, and at the same time, the slag left in refining manganese nodules is also treated.

The entire production line is expected to be completed in March. By then, ANGA island will take the first step of industrial transformation, and the abundant mineral resources can not only meet the demand of the island. Even export profits!

After the future mining business is finished, Jiang Chen starts to work on the future people's science and technology headquarters.

The headquarters is located in Koro island. In order to ensure the safety of quantum computers, Jiang Chen spared no effort to build the headquarters building with 100 million US dollars, striving to make the headquarters building strong enough.

In addition, Jiang Chen, the production line of virtual helmets, intends to be placed on this side of the world. After all, it's a billion helmets. He couldn't finish moving even though he was exhausted. What's more, he has to transport food, steel and arms to the last world.

Since it is decided to produce in this world, the security and confidentiality of virtual helmet production must be carefully considered.

However, on this point, Jiang Chen has long considered. The offshore platform he built next to crescent island was specially designed for the factory that produced the virtual helmet!

There's no safer place than a military base, scanned by a wide area radio life signal detector. No agent can escape the eyes of dozens of radar station staff. The ID of the drone will be detected, but will not be detected. For those who resist arrest, the UAV will launch an attack program to eliminate them.

This virtual helmet production process, Jiang Chen plans to make automatic production mode. That is to say, in addition to the manual participation in the transportation of raw materials and the output of products, the production processes that need to be kept secret are all completed in the ”black box”. Although the cost of this kind of automatic production line is a little high, it is absolutely necessary for the sake of confidentiality.

The workshop was built by Jiangchen with the drawings designed by Lu Huasheng and contracted by Shishi construction company. There are three factories in total. They occupy three corners of the triangular offshore platform. The total cost is two million US dollars. Compared with the previous projects, it is just a drizzle.