Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 1185 Diamonds

The foundation established by Rock and Stoudemire is called the Rock and Rhodes Foundation, referred to as the Rollo Foundation.

The headquarters of the foundation is located in Eagle Town at the foot of Eagle Mountain. The residents of this town are all the family members of Eagle Fort staff. The entire Eagle Fort, including Rock’s office, has about 500 staff members, including a company The security personnel and their family members all live in Eagle Town, so Eagle Town may be one of the best, most beautiful and safest towns with the best infrastructure in Nyasaland.

There are more than 300 households in the town. Although the area is not large, it has all the basic facilities such as kindergartens, primary schools, markets, hospitals, libraries, etc. The headquarters of the Rolls-Royce Foundation is just next to the winding road up the mountain In a small two-story building with a beautiful environment, although the foundation is large in scale, there are not many staff members. There are only 32 official staff members including Phyllis, the chairman of the board.

What needs to be explained is that Phyllis, the chairman of the board, works in the foundation, and her salary is not much compared with that of ordinary staff, only 15 rand per month.

According to Felice's intentions, the 15 rand is not wanted, and Felice wants to invest more funds in charity, and does not take this job to earn money at all.

Rock insists that Phyllis must take money. Maybe Phyllis does not need to live on this salary, but other people working in the Rollo Foundation need it. Of course Phyllis can carry forward her style without salary, so that other people need to live on salary. What about the staff?

In addition to Phyllis, there are several family members of high-ranking Nyasaland officials who are also members of the Rolls-Royce Foundation Council. For example, Anton’s wife and Los Angeles Mayor George’s wife both work for the Rolls-Royce Foundation and receive Same salary as Phyllis.

With the participation of Mrs. Nyasaran, the governor's wife and the mayor's wife, it is not easy for the Rollo Foundation to raise funds.

The few women are also very smart. The Luoluo Foundation will hold a charity dinner every month, inviting industry leaders from all walks of life in Nyasaland to participate. There will be a fixed auction session at the charity dinner, and the auction items are generally not very good. It is valuable, but it is particularly commemorative. For example, Eternal will auction its upcoming new products at charity dinners every quarter. While satisfying the vanity of those rich and noble ladies, it can also raise more for the Rolls-Royce Foundation funds.

Abu came at the right time. The next night there was a charity dinner held by the Rollo Foundation. Phyllis warmly invited Abu to attend.

Abu readily agreed, and was also ready to see the fundraising ability of the Luo Luo Foundation.

The dinner was held in the banquet hall of the Eagle Fort office. It was originally scheduled to start at 06:30 in the evening. In fact, guests arrived one after another from five o'clock in the evening. In particular, several members of the council arrived early after two o'clock in the afternoon. , discuss with Phyllis how to raise more donations.

Rock will also attend the dinner with Phyllis in the evening, but Rock doesn't care if Phyllis does not participate in the preparations for the dinner.

In order to set an example, Rock prepared a check of [-] rand in advance, and planned to ask Phyllis to donate it to the Rollo Foundation.

It’s not that Roque is stingy. In order to raise more charitable funds, those women have to hold dinners once or twice a month. Sometimes if there are emergencies, they will increase temporarily. Roque also donates 80 every time. Yes, even with Roque's wealth, he couldn't bear it.

At six o'clock in the evening, Phyllis in full costume appeared at the charity dinner with Rock on her arm. There were already more than a hundred guests who came to the scene in advance, including Anton and George. They were required to attend this kind of occasion.

After Phyllis arrived at the dinner, she went to find her colleagues, and a group of people surrounded Roque immediately. This kind of charity dinner is also a perfect social occasion while raising funds, and there are many benefits to make full use of.

"My lord, this is His Royal Highness Saeed from the Ottoman Empire—" Anton took the initiative to introduce to Rock. Although the Ottoman Empire has been destroyed, there are still royal family members alive.

"Your Highness, welcome to Nyasaland—" Roque said enthusiastically, regardless of whether he was a prince or a prince, his economic strength should not be underestimated.

"Thank you very much, my lord. Nyasaland is such a beautiful place, which is impressive—" His Highness took the initiative to step aside after a few words of greeting. On this occasion, Roque was very busy with work, and Said could not occupy Roque too much. much time.

"Locke, this is America's Tom, Tom Dupont." Stoudemire has not gone to Europe yet, and it seems that he does not want to fulfill his responsibilities as Director of the Relief and Rehabilitation Agency.

During the World War, American companies did not obtain similar benefits to those in another time and space. Southern Africa completely replaced the US. Because of the special relationship between southern Africa and the United Kingdom, the United States very much hoped to use southern African companies to open up the European market.

"Tom, hello——" Rock was not very enthusiastic. This space-time United States is an unrecognized upstart. If Rock is too enthusiastic, it will not fit Rock's identity.

Rock is the Marquess of the British Empire.

"Lord Nyasaran, I would like to send my greetings to you on behalf of my father—" Tom expressed humility. His father is Pierre Dupont, the current head of the American Dupont family.

Pierre Dupont is the fifth-generation heir of the Dupont family. He became the leader of the Dupont family in 1902. Under the leadership of Pierre Dupont, the Dupont family has grown stronger and is now beginning to attack the chemical industry.

During the World War, Nyasaland Military Industry and the DuPont family cooperated to purchase explosives from the DuPont family and sold them to Europe as products of Nyasaland Military Industry. At that time, Rock was the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, and he was not clear about these things.

"Take me to say hello to your father too. If you have time, I hope your father can come to Nyasaland. We can have a good chat then." Rock sent an invitation to Pierre Dupont. For the chemical industry, Rock was still very interested.

Rock knows that the DuPont family is entering the chemical industry, but he doesn't know how far the DuPont family has researched in this field. The Nyasaland military industry is also conducting research on "nylon", hoping to be ahead of the DuPont family in this regard Make a breakthrough.

The application prospect of "nylon" is very broad. At present, the "nylon" market is basically monopolized by Japanese rayon in the world. The Japanese are using "nylon" for primitive accumulation, which makes Rock very dissatisfied. Southern Africa and Japan Although there is no clear conflict of interest, Rock doesn't mind cutting off the Japanese's financial resources and causing some trouble for the Japanese.

At 06:30, the dinner officially started. As the chairman of the Rolls-Royce Foundation, Phyllis welcomed all the guests present on behalf of the Rolls-Royce Foundation, and especially welcomed the arrival of His Royal Highness Saeed and Tom Dupont.

Few of the guests present knew His Royal Highness Saeed and Tom Dupont, but they still gave them polite applause.

Tom Dupont was still restrained, but His Royal Highness Said flushed with excitement.

Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, His Royal Highness Said has not felt such enthusiasm for a long time.

The next step is the popular auction session.

The first lot is a 10.5-carat diamond provided by a South African company. Stoudemire will donate all proceeds from the auction to the Rolls-Royce Foundation.

South African companies are also doing everything they can to hype diamonds. Although they are diamonds composed of a single carbon element, they have become a symbol of indestructible love in the South African company’s publicity. , One will last forever", amidst the overwhelming hype, the price of diamonds has been rising steadily.

The starting price for this rare diamond is an astonishing R[-], but don't be surprised, this is certainly not the final price.

"Fifty thousand!" Said His Highness called the price for the first time, pushing up the price of this diamond to an unprecedented height.

But today His Royal Highness Said is destined not to be the champion. Tom Dupont, not to be outdone, followed His Highness Said and shouted a price of [-] rand.

"[-]——" Christian's wife, Joanna, raised the price with a smile. Southern Africa is also full of talents and rich people, and two outsiders will not steal the limelight.

Said still asked the people next to him, and after confirming that there were no hidden dangers, he called out the price of [-] yuan.

"Seventy-five thousand——" Tom Dupont said calmly, his price increase was five thousand five thousand, and Said was ten thousand and eleven thousand.

In fact, they are all very good. Phyllis and Anton's wife Tong Ziyu will not end. If the two of them bid, no one will dare to compete.

Rock and Stoudemire are no strangers to this kind of scene, they both smiled and did not speak while holding the cups, Abu was inexplicably surprised.

This is [-] rand. Since the establishment of the Nyasaland University Foundation, it is the first time that Abramovich personally donated more than this figure, but only once.

Abu looked around and found that the people around him were not very surprised. He could only sigh with emotion at Nyasaland Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but he was full of confidence in Phyllis right away.

The price of the diamond was quickly raised to [-] rand. Joanna gave up first. She was the trustee and raised the price to [-] rand. She has completed the task excellently.

"11." Said didn't change his face. The Millennium Dynasty really has a lot of background.

"11——" Tom DuPont was still calm. A 10.5-carat diamond was indeed rare, but this price far exceeded the value of the diamond itself.

But who will take the value of the diamond itself into the eyes of those who participate in the charity dinner.

"Twenty-five thousand." Said was bound to win, always five thousand more than Tom DuPont's bid.

Tom Dupont gave up and toasted Saeed from a distance.

Saeed was personable, leaning on his chest with one hand to thank Tom DuPont, and then expressed his hope to give the 10.5-carat diamond to Rock's eldest daughter, Judy.

There must be no other factors, it's just a simple show of favor to Rock. Judy is not yet six years old and has just entered elementary school this year.

(End of this chapter)