It can be said so. Jiang Ye affirmed, as long as that mountain has sufficient shale, it can definitely be developed on a large scale by leveraging the situation.
I'll bring the construction team there tomorrow to survey the mountain. I'll give you a complete development plan then. Xu Yan asked directly, how much funds do you have available now?
Six hundred million, and besides that, there's a daily cash inflow of over fifty million. Jiang Ye touched his forehead, I don't plan to invest all of it unless the development plan you can come up with is sufficiently tempting.
Absolutely tempting, your money might not even be enough. Xu Yan smiled.
Jiang Ye stood up, it's getting late, I'll take my leave, see you tomorrow morning.
Let me see you out. Xu Yan stood up.
No, no, you're busy, it's just a few steps to home, why see me out?
Xu Yan still insisted on escorting Jiang Ye downstairs and watched him drive away in his spider.
Back in the base vehicle, Jiang Ye sat down, opened the chat channel, and posted an announcement on the planet's public channel:
[Hello everyone, I am Commander Jiang Ye. We may be recruiting personnel in the near future. Our settlement is located near the mountainous area, and our work includes mining, forestry, and agriculture. Those who are interested in joining our community, please send your resumes to me. Thank you.]
More than half of the colony administrators on the planet were still scattered and unorganized. Jiang Ye needed manpower to develop the shale mine, so he had to recruit in advance.
There are always people who want to join collective life. Within seconds of the announcement being posted, the background private messages started dinging.
Fifty, a hundred, a hundred and fifty.
Jiang Ye went to the restroom, and when he returned, over eight hundred resumes had already been submitted.
Since I have nothing else to do tonight, I'll screen them first.
Jiang Ye leaned in front of the panel and opened them one by one. Everyone's resumes were very interesting, and each person's writing style was different. They were basically self-introductions written in short essays of a few hundred words, with a few perfunctory ones having only a few sentences.
[My name is Yamada Kotaro. My dream is to kill a tiger with my bare hands like Wu Song, but I haven't encountered a tiger yet. I am really strong. I have lived on this planet for so long, doesn't that prove my excellence? Let me join!]
Jiang Ye thought to himself, the name matches the person, this resume is truly fierce.
Neither deleted nor selected, temporarily retained.
[Respected Commander, hello! My name is Marta.
Drowsily, it was noon when the communication tablet rang.
He answered, and Xu Yan's face appeared in the center of the screen, with red mountains in the background. Many spacecraft were flying around the mountain rocks, spraying linear blue beams.
I sent you the plan, why didn't you reply? Xu Yan asked, are you still sleeping? It's already twelve o'clock!
Oh dear, I was so busy with things this morning, I was dizzy. I took a nap. Jiang Ye quickly apologized, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll look at the plan now.
The call ended, Jiang Ye got up and went downstairs, sat in front of the base panel, and indeed, there was an unread file from Xu Yan.
The file was very large, a full 23GB, and took at least two minutes to load.
Complex topographical images appeared on the screen, it was actually a structural map of the entire mountain range. The entire mountain range was shaped like a Y, with a length of twenty kilometers. Within the mountain, more than ten different colored blocks were marked, clustered together like small tumors. Among them, light yellow blocks were the most numerous. If the mountain range were considered an animal, the yellow blocks would almost be the muscles on the animal's body, present everywhere.
Jiang Ye moved the mouse to the yellow block, and small text information popped up:
[Explored mineral: Suspected shale]
Jiang Ye moved the mouse to other colored blocks. Chromite, galena, chalcopyrite, each colored block represented a different colored ore.
As expected, this mountain was a giant mine with astonishing reserves. It would take at least several years to mine!
In addition to the colored blocks, there were also some things circled in red.
Jiang Ye zoomed in, and the circled items were buildings that were planned to be built.