Chapter 702: The Government's Plan for the Surprising Value of the Sea Stone Mine
A few days later, after a fierce battle, the top 16 from the four major divisions of the Kendo Tournament have been decided.
This also means that the regional competition has officially ended.
The final sixty-four will compete for the title of the world's number one swordsman.
Those who can reach this step are all powerful people whose reputations resound throughout the sea.
Even if it was originally unknown, it is now known to everyone.
The emergence of a number of dark horses and many young figures make people even more excited about the development after the top 64.
The sea's attention seemed to be drawn to Paros.
The shadow in the dark gradually began to cover Dragon Island, the core territory of the Tyrannosaurus Regiment.
The backstabbing by the Tyrannosaurus Pirates many years ago caused the World Government to lose one of its top fighters.
How could the World Government forget such a blood feud?
It has always been the world government that schemes against others, but it never expected to be schemed against by a mere junior.
Even the Five Elders looked disheartened.
Recruiting soldiers from around the world, searching for the Signpost Stone, and targeting the Tyrannosaurus Pirates are what the World Government is currently doing.
Of course, it's not just because of hatred.
The Tyrannosaurus Pirates banned the World Government from purchasing Seastone.
Although the World Government can still purchase seastone through the underground world.
But not only is the quantity small, but the price is also very expensive.
It is far less easy than when we were cooperating with the Kingdom of Chronos and the Kingdom of Eternity.
Currently, it can also be purchased secretly from the Kingdom of Chronos and the Kingdom of Eternity, but the quantity is not large.
How could the world government tolerate such humiliation for long?
The news about a large seastone mine on Dragon Island spread across the sea.
They were even worried that other forces were unaware of the value of the seastone owned by the Dragon Kingdom, and secretly spread rumors that this seastone mine was worth 5 trillion berries.
Even the World Government does not know how much seastone the original Wano Country possesses.
However, according to the data from the survey, the seastone veins contained in Dragon Island account for more than 90% of the entire ocean.
Seastone is a rare mineral that can only be produced in unique environments.
Although there are sea stones in the sea, they are too few.
It is also difficult to mine, unlike the huge Dragon Island, which can be mined directly in the open air with low cost.
Of course, this is the seastone mine that has been discovered.
There may be places with seastone in various parts of the ocean, but they have not been discovered.
In Hades' opinion, what the World Government said is actually too conservative.
But in terms of value, seastone is only one-tenth of gold.
Today, one ton of gold is equivalent to more than 3 billion Baileys.
And Bailey is still depreciating at a slow pace.
The World Government needed Pele for development, so at the World Conference, a plan was developed to control the depreciation of Pele.
A plan that lasted more than ten years.
This level is acceptable to the member states.
It will not affect the stability of the ocean too much.
So there was no objection, and by getting the news in advance, they could also prepare themselves, minimize their losses, or even make a fortune.
A dozen years later, one ton of gold was equivalent to about 5 billion Baileys.
This is still the simple price of seastone ore.
If the seastone is purified, its value will increase several times and be equivalent to gold.
But no one is so stupid as to go to the trouble of selling the purified seastone.
Even so, 300 million Baileys per ton is an unimaginably high price.
This is just the normal price in the market.
If the Kingdom of Chronos trades through the Black Carbon Family, one ton of seastone would only cost 100 million or 200 million Baileys.
The World Government purchases it through the underground world, and one ton of seastone costs about 400 million or even more.
The gap is huge.
In particular, the World Government will definitely purchase dozens of tons at a time.
The price paid was too high.
In the future battle at the top, the huge encirclement will be covered with a layer of seastone.
In order to build such a huge project, at least hundreds of billions of Baileys would be needed for construction alone.
The hardness of seastone is comparable to that of diamond and it has extremely high practicality.
Many precision instruments also require the use of seastone materials.
For top forces, seastone is a completely strategic material, not just for restricting people with special abilities.
The World Government has no intention of destroying the Tyrannosaurus Regis, as this is very difficult to do.
However, they must break the deadlock in which they are blocked.
Able to purchase more and cheaper seastone ore.
If a large amount of seastone flows into the market, the value of seastone will definitely drop.
Therefore, the World Government needs to let the pirates fight among themselves.
The benefits are attractive, and he doesn't believe that other big pirates can let go of such a huge pie.
There will definitely be a chaotic war in the end.
By selling seastone, the Tyrannosaurus Pirates can earn nearly tens of billions of dollars in profits every year.
This is the case when most of the seastone was purchased at low prices by the Kingdom of Chronos and the Kingdom of Eternity.
The Heitan family also gained considerable benefits from it.
And the mining of seastone is not easy.
Obviously, this is just the beginning.
Just as Hades thought, the seastone mine on Dragon Island has lost its value.
According to estimates, there are about 50,000 tons of seastone on Dragon Island.
Even if we calculate it at 50,000 tons, according to the current market price of seastone, the value of this seastone mine is as high as 15 trillion berries.
Except for Dragon Island, the seastone mines discovered in the ocean so far are at most hundreds or thousands of tons, which can be easily mined out.
It sounds like little, and it is.
Basically, only volcanic landforms can be found in small quantities.
Soon, there were rumors that the seastone mine on Dragon Island was worth 10 trillion berries.
A few days later, it became 30 trillion Baileys.
The news spread more and more terrifyingly.
Even the World Economic News Agency was "bribed" by the World Government and published this news on the front page.
Even the Kendo tournament was ranked second.
"Are we finally going to take action?"
Hades listened to the news from the underworld, but his heart was not disturbed at all.
He also knew that the "Black Dragon" had been stabbed in the back, and that the World Government would not let it go and would take action sooner or later.
Besides, the World Government needs more seastone.
The value of the seastone mine has no reference value in Hades' opinion.
Because over the years, the value of seastone has actually been declining.
Forces like the Kingdom of Chronos have already stockpiled large amounts of seastone.
The demand for seastone is not that urgent.
Moreover, in the past twenty years, before cooperating with the Eternal Kingdom and the World Government, the Kingdom of Chronos had continuously obtained large amounts of seastone through the Black Charcoal Family.
The value of seastone at that time was much cheaper than it is now.
Even if there is a need, not much power is needed.
Not many people know about seastone.
With the large-scale excavation of seastone and the changes in the sea situation, the demand for seastone is increasing.
This has led to a steady rise in the price of seastone.
It has at least tripled.
Now, even Hades hopes that the price of seastone can be reduced.
If something happens to the Tyrannosaurus Pirates.
With the further mining of seastone, various forces will be able to unite to suppress the price of seastone.
More than 10 trillion Baileys sounds a bit scary.
But how long does it take to mine seastone? At least several decades, or even longer.
Seastone, which is as valuable as diamond, cannot be mined by ordinary people at all, no matter how many people there are.
It requires a strong person with certain strength.
