Chapter 1172: Lingering Worries

Yangbu Township is a mountain ridge with an altitude of about 400 meters. The leaves on the ridge are still deep green, and a few rice paddies are scattered at the foot of the mountain. Occasionally, patches of mottled yellow soil appear from the mountain, looking like wounds on the mountain forest from a distance, and these exposed wounds are the rare earth mines.

It is about 30 kilometers away from Ganzhou city, and only one county road and one village road connect it to the outside world. It is located at the junction of Gan County, Xinfeng, and Nankang, only 400 meters away from the nearest village, Yanyu, and belongs to a medium-heavy rare earth mine.

At this time, several transport trucks were transporting ore-throwing machines and other equipment up the mountain. If you looked closely, that equipment was somewhat rusty and should all be second-hand old equipment.

Fan Yu and Guo Zidan, wearing safety helmets, stood on the hillside, pointing at the surroundings. From time to time, their laughter could be heard, possessing a momentum of "waving their hands to command, the world is in my hands."

"Gan County has a total of 6 rare earth mines. Except for the Yangbu mine, the other 6 are in Jibu Town and Tiancun Town in the north, Dabu Township in the east, and the mountainous areas of Han Fang Township and Datian Township in the south, surrounding Gan County in a U-shape from the north, east, and south."

Fan Yu introduced to Guo Zidan: "But Gan County is still not the main production area for rare earth raw materials in our Ganzhou region. The mountain range to the south of here has even richer rare earth reserves, with Xinfeng, Dingnan, and Longnan being the most abundant.

Longnan is a concentration area for heavy rare earths, mainly high-yttrium type mines. Heavy rare earth content accounts for about 85 percent, medium rare earths account for 8 percent, and light rare earths account for 7 percent.

Another major rare earth mine is located within Dingnan, mainly distributed on the west side of the county and the north of the ridge east of Longnan, with an area of about 280 square kilometers. Let's put it this way: in the southeastern mountainous area, if you dig a piece of soil at random, it contains rich rare earth elements.

It's just that private mining and theft are too serious now. I have already greeted the relevant departments in the province. In the next two years, we will focus on cracking down on illegal mining, and then our company will come forward to integrate them."

Guo Zidan stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the front: "Where are the mines that Zhang You and the others acquired?"

Fan Yu said: "They are everywhere. There are three in Longnan, one in Dingnan, and the most are in Xinfeng. That is another major rare earth mining area in our Ganzhou, where the reserves of yttrium-rich europium rare earth resources rank first in southern Jiangxi.

Not counting illegal mines, there are seventeen or eighteen with formal procedures, and twelve have already been acquired by Zhang You and the others. Therefore, if we want to build a rare earth kingdom, those mines must be taken back, and Zhang You and the others must get out."

"President Fan, President Guo." A young man rode a motorcycle to their side: "Young Master Jie called and said he has something important to tell you."

Fan Yu looked up at the setting sun in the sky, turned his head, and said to a middle-aged man behind him: "Old Han, you keep an eye on things here and get the equipment installed as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, I will urge them." The middle-aged man bowed slightly respectfully.

Fan Yu said to Guo Zidan again: "Let's go."

The two walked down the mountain and came to the office, which was a residential house rented in Yanyu, with a telephone line pulled from the village committee.

Entering the office, it was very clean, with desks, sofas, and everything else, and the phone was placed on the desk.

Fan Yu sat in the large boss chair, picked up the phone, and dialed Fan Jie's mobile number.

But he couldn't get through, so he could only call Fan Jie's home. This time it went through, and Fan Jie's voice came through quickly.

"Brother?"

"What is it?"

Fan Yu didn't take it seriously, because Fan Jie's personality was like that—startled by every little thing, and small matters became huge issues in his mouth.

"Something happened." Fan Jie said: "Zhang You and the others have disappeared."

"Disappeared?" Fan Yu said with a smile: "Did they run back to Jingcheng?"

"No." Fan Jie took a deep breath to calm himself down: "Our people didn't see them leave. They must have left in the middle of the night, and they didn't even check out of the hotel rooms."

Fan Yu sat up straight abruptly: "When was this discovered?"

"Just now!" Fan Jie said: "Maozi felt something was wrong, went to the front desk, and asked the waiter to check. The rooms were empty."

"I see." Fan Yu hung up the phone heavily with a *snap*.

Guo Zidan asked: "What happened?"

Fan Yu picked up the cigarette on the desk and lit it: "Zhang You and the others are gone. Our people didn't discover when they left, and it's guessed that it was in the middle of the night."

"Hmm?" Guo Zidan was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed: "Damn it, they are going to cause trouble. We must be prepared."

Fan Yu frowned tightly: "I don't know what they want to do, so even if I want to take precautions, I don't know where to start."

Guo Zidan paced back and forth: "Now they are most urgent; the things they need to do are the sealed mines and that Song Mao who is about to eat a peanut (be executed)."

"This is Ganzhou Province." Fan Yu was full of confidence: "Without my word, they can't move an inch here."

Guo Zidan shook his head with a solemn expression: "If it were just those idiots like Zhang You, I wouldn't be worried. I'm worried about that person who came from Jingcheng and has never shown his face."

Fan Yu took a hard drag of his cigarette. The entire Ganzhou Province was an iron bucket, not to mention Ganzhou.

He really couldn't understand what method Zhang You and the others could have to tear a hole in this iron bucket.

"How about calling Huaiyu and asking him?"

"Okay!" Guo Zidan nodded. In such matters, he considered his brain to be far inferior to Seeing Tong Huaiyu's.

Fan Yu found Seeing Tong Huaiyu's mobile number in the drawer and dialed it quickly.

Soon, Seeing Tong Huaiyu's voice came through the receiver, but the signal wasn't very good, and there was a lot of static. Fan Yu shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Something happened. Zhang You and the others have disappeared. Zidan and I suspect they are going to cause trouble, and their goal is the sealed mines and rescuing that Song Mao."

Seeing Tong Huaiyu was silent for a long time, which made Fan Yu think the line had dropped, so he hung up and dialed again.

This time, the static was much less, and Seeing Tong Huaiyu's voice came through.

"Solid fortresses are often breached from within. So, be on guard against them using money to smash through and bribe some people.

You personally talk to the heads of those departments below and give them a reminder: don't walk the wrong path. If they fall into a pit, no one can save them."

"Okay!" Fan Yu said: "I also need to make a trip to the province and take some things to see those uncles."

Seeing Tong Huaiyu snorted: "They disappeared suddenly, and it's possible they went to the province to find connections. It's good that you go there and seal off their path. Also, have people continue to watch the hotel and the United Mining Company. They will definitely come back."

Actually, regarding that person who had never shown his face, Seeing Tong Huaiyu had always been lingering on it.

But now that Zhang You and the others had suddenly disappeared, he didn't have a very good way either.

He did what he could think of first, and as for what would happen in the end, he could only take it one step at a time.