Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 645: Being a coal boss is so delicious!

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There is only a simple dirt road to the mine, but there are dozens of trucks lining up on this simple road.

These trucks are all here to pull coal.

Within the scope of the mine, Zhao Jinlong pointed to the mine in front of him and said, I spent two million on this mine. A few days ago,

Someone has already offered 50 million to buy it!

In just two years, it has increased by a full twenty-five times. I bought short and sold short in Southeast Asia before, and I didn't have such a high rate of return! Brother Li, I really admire your eyesight,

It is not an exaggeration to say that turning stone into gold is not an exaggeration!

When you said that coal mines can make a lot of money,

I'm still a little guilty. If you weren't willing to invest money in it, I wouldn't dare to make such a big deal if I did it alone! Now it seems that within three years, the money we invested will be recovered!

It's still too conservative within three years. With a little improvement in efficiency, I estimate that within two years, the capital can be recovered, and then it will be pure profit. Li Weidong said with a smile.

Brother Li, you said that the price of coal is also strange. I remember that in the early 1990s, the price of coal also rose sharply. At that time, I even traded coal with a few buddies!

Zhao Jinshan went on to say: A few years ago,

The price of coal is cheap again, no matter how much it rises, it will not rise, but this year's price is rising steadily,

It's almost a price a day. I'm really worried now,

In case one day,

Coal prices fell back as before.

It should not fall in the next ten years. Li Weidong went on to explain: The price increase of coal this time will be a long-term process, because our country's demand for coal will increase.

At the end of last year, we officially joined the WTO. In the future, the demand for industrial electricity will increase significantly, so the country canceled the guide price of coal this year, just to ensure energy supply, and the current coal is completely market-oriented. .

Maybe after a few years, the coal we produce ourselves will not be enough, and we will have to import hundreds of millions of tons from foreign markets every year! Brother Zhao, don't worry, the price of coal will not fall!

Import coal from abroad? It shouldn't be possible! Our country lacks everything, but there is no shortage of coal. There is so much coal to be dug in the entire northwest region, how can we use imports! Zhao Jinshan shook his head and said.

Didn't we also be a big oil producing country back then, Daqing and Shengli are also big oil fields, and now we are not counting on imports.

Li Weidong smiled, and then said: Brother Zhao, don't be too full of words. Maybe ten years later, Dongshan Mining will have to go overseas to buy coal mines, and then ship them back to China for sale!

Over the years, Dongshan Mining has accumulated a lot of coal mines. Now that the country has canceled the guiding price of electric coal, the good days of Dongshan Mining have finally come.

Coal has always been the most important energy source in China, and as early as the 1980s, Li Weidong had dealt with coal mine business.

When Li Weidong was still in the transportation company, he proposed the business strategy of consignment sales by transportation. At that time, the product sold by consignment by transportation was coal.

The transportation company directly pulls coal from Yankuang to the port. In addition to the normal freight, it can earn a difference of two or three yuan per ton.

At that time, coal mines were either state-owned or collectively owned. Those state-owned large mines had good technology, large output, and guaranteed benefits. The small rural collective mines had relatively primitive mining methods, basically relying on Manual operation and operation are more difficult.

Ordinary village collectives do not have the money to invest in the coal mines of the collective, so they simply contract out, or even subcontract layer by layer, and the profit margins naturally shrink.

In addition, the triangular debt was rampant at that time, and the coal mining industry was also the hardest hit area.

It is not bad to get back two or three of the money sold for coal a year at the end of the year.

The coal boss at that time was not as good as the future, even a little pitiful.

Many coal bosses are either asking for accounts, or are on the way to ask for accounts. Some people don’t do anything throughout the year, just ask for accounts.

At that time, the coal miners would accompany the coal bosses everywhere to collect accounts. In name, they were escorts, but in fact they were monitoring them, fearing that the coal bosses would run away and the money would not be returned.

In 1993, the turning point of the coal industry appeared. The country opened up the prices of coal types other than thermal coal, and the coal industry also ushered in the first wave of development.

The period from 1993 to 1997 was the most brutal period for the growth of small coal mines in China. In those years, the relevant laws and regulations were not perfect, and the supervision was not strong enough. During the development of the coal industry, many damages to the environment, farmland, and even Some serious violations.

For example, Baoqiang's debut novel Blind Shaft is based on the small coal mines of that era.

This wave of good times for the coal industry lasted until 1997. After the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, energy demand dropped sharply, and coal prices also fell sharply. The first wave of dividends in the coal industry is over.

Although the Asian financial crisis had little impact on China's economy, in 1997, China was still a net exporter of coal, mainly to East Asia.

East Asia was precisely the hardest-hit area of ​​the Asian financial crisis. At that time, the economies of East Asian countries nearly collapsed, and a large number of enterprises closed down. Naturally, the demand for coal was also greatly reduced, so domestic coal prices were affected.

Then, in 1998, the coal management system was also reformed, the Ministry of Coal Industry was abolished, and the terminal coal enterprises originally under the management of the Ministry of Coal were also devolved to the local governments.

The entire coal industry has also ushered in hard times. Most coal mines are operating in debt. The smaller the coal mine, the more serious the debt situation.

Mining coal is hard work. If you don’t make money, no one cares about it. At that time, most of the people who were still engaged in coal mining were people who really had nowhere to go.

It was also during this period of time that both coal companies and coal bosses sold coal mines at low prices one after another, and Li Weidong's Dongshan Mining also bought the bottom at that time.

Top-tier mines worth billions like Taifeng Mine and Taisheng Mine are hard to come by. Even coal mines worth hundreds of millions are in the hands of large coal companies.

These large coal enterprises have the production task of guaranteeing the national coal supply, or have their own coal chemical enterprises. Even if the coal price falls, they can rely on coal chemical industry to make profits. Therefore, large coal mines will not be sold easily.

Therefore, the coal mines that are really sold at a low price are those with millions or tens of millions of coal mines.

At the level of the village collective, some coal mines worth hundreds of thousands are sold. Of course, small coal mines of this level will be cleaned up and sealed up by the state in the future.

The coal mine where Li Weidong works is actually not large in scale, but it can meet the standard of a medium-sized coal mine, so there is no need to worry about being cleaned up in the future.

As for coal mines of a similar scale, Dongshan Mining made more than 200 bargains.

There are more than 200 coal mines, which are actually not many in the Northwest.

Later, when the small coal mines were being rectified, Shanxi alone had to shut down three or four thousand small coal mines at any one time! Later, the small coal mines were almost rectified, and there are still more than 700 900,000-ton coal mines in sx province.

This is just Shanxi. In Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Shaanxi and other places, the land is more extensive and the reserves of coal are higher.

The hard days of the entire coal industry continued until 2002.

At the end of 2001, when China joined the WTO, the domestic manufacturing industry began to grow rapidly, and at this time the demand for coal was also increasing.

The first is electricity demand. The manufacturing industry is inseparable from electricity. There are large electricity consumers in high-end, medium-end, and low-end manufacturing industries. Among other things, just one piece of electrolytic aluminum consumes 12,000 kWh of electricity to produce one ton.

China's electricity mainly relies on coal-fired power generation, and the surge in industrial electricity consumption has also led to a substantial increase in coal consumption.

The second is the direct use of coal in industry. At that time, boilers were basically the standard equipment of many enterprises. Even some small workshops with a few people would be equipped with a small boiler, so a lot of coal was needed.

With the increasing demand for coal in the market, the country also opened up the guiding price of thermal coal in 2002. At this time, the coal industry was completely market-oriented, followed by a rapid rise in coal prices.

As a result, the price of coal has become one price per day. No one knows what the price of coal will be the next day, but it is certain that the price will rise tomorrow.

Now that you know that the price will increase tomorrow, why don't you hurry up and buy more today!

Just like the National Development and Reform Commission announces that the price of oil will rise tomorrow, many people will definitely go to the gas station today to fill up their tanks.

However, the output of coal is fixed. Even if there are a lot of stocks, they are all buried underground. It takes time to dig them out, and when these underground coals are dug out, the price may rise.

In various coal mines, the original debt collectors disappeared in an instant, replaced by people holding large bundles of cash, begging to buy coal, and long queues of trucks pulling coal to the mines also formed.

At that time, many truck drivers were willing to wait at the mine for a week in order to pull a load of coal, because as long as they pulled this load of coal out, they could earn more profit than they had worked hard for a week.

When the coal price was at the bottom in 2000, a small coal mine in a certain village begged grandpa to tell grandma, hoping to subcontract the coal mine in the village. The contract cost only 200,000 yuan for 20 years, but no one cared.

However, in 2004, a boss offered 90 million yuan, but the village refused to sell it.

Because in that year, the net profit per ton of coal was 150 yuan, and this was just a small coal mine with backward technology. Large coal mines with higher coal mining technology and larger production scale can earn more than 150 yuan per ton of coal.

According to this price, a small coal mine with a level of 300,000 tons can earn 45 million yuan a year.

This kind of small coal mine with a level of 300,000 tons is the kind that can close three or four thousand small coal mines every time Shanxi cleans up small coal mines. A small coal mine earns 45 million yuan a year, and the 4,000 small coal mines earn 180 billion yuan a year!

This is only the output of small coal mines, counting medium and large coal mines, what an astonishing number a year.

Seeing this number, everyone should know why those coal bosses were so prosperous back then, and why they spent a lot of money without changing their faces.

It is too easy for the coal bosses to get money!

The real estate industry in later generations can be described as a pillar industry, but those real estate bosses are still much inferior to the coal bosses at that time.

Although the output value of real estate is high, the various taxes and fees in the middle are also high, and it takes time for a real estate project to become profitable, which will take up a lot of money during this period, so the profitability of real estate companies is not as high as it seems on the surface.

Many large real estate companies often make tens of billions of dollars a year in profit, but when they check their financial statements, they are still operating in debt.

In contrast, the coal bosses are obviously much more prosperous. If you dig a ton of coal and sell it, you will earn money. If you don’t finish digging this year, you will continue to dig tomorrow. The price of coal will be higher and you will earn more. There are not so many taxes and fees, and there is no need to worry about debt.

The good days of coal bosses reached their peak in 2008, when coal prices once exceeded four digits, and coal profits were several times higher than before.

At that time, the price of coal was no longer one day, but calculated by the hour. The price was the same price for the first hour, but not the price for the next hour!

It was also in this year that China became a net importer of coal. The price of imported coal from foreign countries is already far lower than the price of self-produced coal. At this time, it is natural to buy coal from abroad.

Until 2012, under the influence of the economic environment and the relationship between supply and demand, the coal industry bid farewell to the so-called golden decade, and then came a new round of difficult operation.

Li Weidong and Zhao Jinshan stood at the entrance of the mine and chatted for a long time. At this time, a person came up from the mine and trotted over in a hurry after seeing Zhao Jinshan.

Mr. Zhao, don't let me know in advance when you come here, so I can go to meet you! the man said.

This is Lao Zhang. His family lives in this village. I bought this mine from my hand. But I don't have that many people in my hand to manage the mine, so I simply hired him to take charge of the management. The operation of this mine. Zhao Jinshan explained.

Li Weidong nodded suddenly. With so many coal mines under Dongshan Mining, it is natural that someone needs to manage them, and the person in charge of the mines must have experience. After all, this is not just a business, but also involves important production safety issues.

However, with so many experienced managers, where can they find them?

Zhao Jinshan used a very clever method. After buying the mine, he directly hired the original mine owner as the manager.

These original mine owners are very familiar with the situation of the coal mine and have management experience. They don't need time to adjust, and they can work directly, which is much more convenient than hiring other people.

With Zhao Jinshan's background, the mine owners in these villages couldn't even please, so when Zhao Jinshan sent an invitation, almost all the mine owners agreed.

Some mine owners also feel that to be able to work for Zhao Jinshan and become his horse boy is to climb a high branch, which is much better than being a mine owner.

From this aspect, Zhao Jinshan is still very intelligent.

Only Zhao Jinshan asked with a smile: Old Zhang, now the mine is so profitable, do you regret selling the mine to me?

I don't regret it. Lao Zhang shook his head, and quickly said: Mr. Zhao was willing to buy my mine at that time, he thought highly of me, and I was too happy! And now I help you manage the mine, you will definitely not treat me badly. of.

He is a sensible person! Work hard in the future, if I, Zhao Jinlong, eat a mouthful of meat, you, Lao Zhang, will drink a mouthful of soup! Zhao Jinshan said.

Lao Zhang quickly nodded with an apologetic smile, and even showed a grateful expression. For him, a soil mine owner, being able to drink soup with Zhao Jinshan is already the pinnacle of his life!

Zhao Jinshan then asked: Nothing happened to the mine recently, right?

It's okay, everything is normal! Now the price of coal is good, and the coal dug out is not worrying about selling. Basically, it is robbed as soon as it comes out of the well. And now the price of coal is high, and the wages of coal diggers have also increased, so there is no need for coal mines to sell. Shortage of manpower.

Old Zhang paused for a moment, then continued, That's the recovery rate. It's too low. With the current coal price, our recovery rate is like throwing money away! I feel distressed when I see it.

What is the recovery rate? Li Weidong asked immediately.

About 20 to 25! Lao Zhang replied.

So low! Li Weidong frowned.

Such a low recovery rate is really throwing money!

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