Chapter 41: Chapter 40: "Interdimensional Economic and Trade Cooperation Aid Agreement" (Part 2)
On the city wall, Lin Li was explaining the situation ahead to Elder Wang and others such as Wei Fan:
"This time leading the survey of the Spirit Stone mine vein is Deputy Director Lei Wenjun from the Modu Geological Research Institute.
Deputy Director Lei is also a seasoned geological expert, and it’s expected that his name will appear on the list of the next academicians.
Although the coordinate constants of this other world differ from Earth’s, Deputy Director Lei has unparalleled firsthand experience in terrain and landforms.
The survey team set off three hours ago, aboard the AC311A that brought us here, with a total of eight people apart from the pilot.
Based on instructions and beacons left by Comrade Wei Siming, Deputy Director Lei and his team located the concealed mine entrance twenty minutes ago.
Currently, Deputy Director Lei has already delved into the mine for investigation. Due to the poor signal within the vein, we can only get detailed information once he comes out."
Elder Wang nodded and turned to ask Wei Fan:
"Patriarch Wei.
Generally speaking, how many units of Spirit Stone can be extracted from a small Spirit Stone vein?"
Wei Fan pondered for a few seconds and said:
"The scale of a small Spirit Stone vein is usually not large. You might not know, but after the Spirit Stone forms, it is wrapped in a very thick layer of rock.
In the Cultivation Realm.
This whole rock body along with the Spirit Stone has a name, called the ’mater-seed’.
Generally speaking.
A mater-seed about a foot in diameter can yield one to three standard units of Spirit Stone—meaning one to three pieces.
And a small Spirit Stone vein usually contains no more than 400,000 mater-seeds, with a total Spirit Stone count around one million pieces."
Elder Wang rubbed his chin:
"One million pieces... At six thousand a piece...
So the value of a small Spirit Stone vein is about six billion?"
A standard unit of Spirit Stone weighs about 2.3 grams.
If we calculate according to Wei Fan’s words.
The total number of Spirit Stones from a small vein is one million, so the total weight extracted would be approximately 2.3 tons.
Not too much, but definitely not too little.
After all, Spirit Stones and common goods like iron ores are entirely different matters.
According to the consumption rate of ten Spirit Stones per year for a primary cultivator, the Spirit Stones shared between the bunnies and Chixian City can support the cultivation of fifty thousand warriors.
Accounting for the additional 20% in exchanged goods between the Wei Family and the bunnies, it can support the daily consumption needs of seventy thousand warriors.
In the short term, this Spirit Stone vein should suffice for the bunnies’ requirements.
While Elder Wang was mulling over this, Lin Li had exchanged a few words with the receiver station, then turned to him:
"Elder Wang, Deputy Director Lei has exited the mine entrance."
Elder Wang quickly walked to the receiver station and saw the image of a middle-aged man appear on the screen.
The image on the receiver station was transmitted both ways, so Elder Wang first waved at the screen:
"Vice Director Lei, you’ve worked hard."
Lei Wenjun happened to have just removed his gas mask and, hearing Elder Wang’s words, his face, long darkened from fieldwork, immediately showed a flush.
He strutted out of his protective suit in a few steps, standing proud like a soldier:
"Reporting to Elder Wang, it isn’t hard to contribute to the motherland!"
A smile appeared on Elder Wang’s face; Lei Wenjun’s complexion showed he was practically a field expert who rarely stayed in a lab, making Elder Wang have a positive impression of the man:
"Deputy Director Lei, we can chat about other things upon your return. Can you first introduce the situation inside the vein to us?"
Lei Wenjun took a camera from an assistant and said:
"Elder Wang, I’ve recorded the scene inside the vein. Let me tell you some key points.
First.
The entrance to this vein is a bit narrow and concealed, surrounded by piles of boulders and not easy to navigate.
Next.
The entire vein is about two hundred meters long, seven to eight meters wide, shaped like a straight line inserted obliquely underground.
While exploring the mine, I had high-frequency short-distance positioning equipment with me, and when I was one hundred and twenty meters straight in the tunnel, the ground only moved about one hundred meters — this indicates that the vein and the ground have an angle of about negative 30 degrees.
The most crucial point is that this vein shows no signs of leakage or collapse; it’s apparent that traces of human maintenance are visible.
Likely, this is Comrade Wei Siming’s handiwork.
Elder Wang.
Based on my knowledge of local mining technology, the equipment can be fully in place within 2-3 days — considering the limitation of the Light Gate, while the specific output needs to be judged by the personnel from the Ministry of Resources’ mining division then."
After disconnecting the communication, Elder Wang sighed deeply:
"Comrade Wei Siming is truly considerate...."
Then he looked at Wei Fan and the Patriarch Wei behind him:
"Clan Leader Wei, Patriarch Wei.
Now that the exchange rate between Spirit Stone and Huaxia currency is settled and the mine vein’s location is found, let’s sign the agreement."
Wei Fan and Patriarch Wei exchanged a glance, and Patriarch Wei nodded:
"Sure."
Half an hour later.
Elder Wang, with two generations of patriarchs from the Wei Family, heads of four branches, and a few clan leaders of the Transmigrators’ descendants, gathered together.
In front of the ancestral temple of the Wei Mansion, they signed the epoch-making "Cross-Border Economic Trade Cooperation Assistance Agreement," referred to as the "agreement."
The agreement stipulates:
Chixian City acknowledges that the origin and nationality of founders such as Wei Siming, Cheng Shiqing, Zhao Wangyun, Lin Lijiao, Chen Ping, Ma Pengtao, Tan Hao, Yuan Songnian, and Ruan Lian all stem from the local.
Chixian City voluntarily recognizes itself as part of the local territory, but the local respects the ideological differences arising from different civilizations’ developments and respects the Wei Family’s territorial rights over Chixian City, promising not to interfere in Chixian City’s internal affairs.
Other families in Chixian City authorize the Wei Mansion as a representative, voluntarily initiating economic trade cooperation with the local and allowing the local to station a cross-border consulate.
The content of cooperation between the two parties is as follows:
1. The local is obliged to protect Chixian City from beast tide invasions; a decision passed by all clan leaders approves the local’s dispatching an elite unit to garrison the city.
2. Both parties used Huaxia currency as the trade equivalence, initiating comprehensive trade cooperation with the following areas:
1.
Chixian City will grant Huaxia the mining rights for the Spirit Stone vein left by Si Ming Ancestor, with Huaxia providing technical means.
The profits derived from mining are divided in a ratio of seventy to thirty, with Huaxia obtaining fifty percent profits, with the remaining twenty percent given as material compensation.
The initial exchange rate of Spirit Stone to Huaxia currency was set at 1:5955.23.
However, after discussions, Chixian City exchanges allowing locals to set up banks and circulates Huaxia currency in the city, with the final exchange rate finalized at 1:6100.
2.
Huaxia will open unrestricted trade with Chixian City, including but not limited to weapons, food, various facilities, and assisting Chixian City in modernized upgrades...
3.
Chixian City will publicly share all cultivation materials within the clan, and dispatch cultivators above Qi Cultivation level 8 to guide Huaxia Enlighteners in cultivation, teaching fields such as Artifact Refining, Alchemy, Planting Spirits, and Talisman.
Additionally, the Wei Family will send elite writer Wei Niandong to the Fire Camp, responsible for both sides’ language translation and learning.
4.
Chixian City will conservatively open spirit fields within the clan, offering Spirit Pills, talismans, and Spirit Medicine to the local for experimental analysis at a cost.
Furthermore, Chixian City needs to provide detailed surrounding city distribution maps and share trade lines within the Damo Realm with the local.
3. The Chixian City party will establish a Heavenly Dao vow, not revealing the existence of Spirit Stone mines and local powers unless permitted by the local.
4. Chixian City will mobilize all networks to search for information regarding the Two-headed Cow tribe.
All the above agreements are permanently effective, signed by representatives from both sides:
Wang Yu
Wei Fan.