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Chapter 1175 Boiling the British Bloodletting (Sixth update, please subscribe)
cape town.

It is the most prosperous city in southern Africa in this era, with European-style granite buildings standing by the sea.Steamboats and sailboats shuttled across the sea.An ocean-going ship loaded with cargo slowly enters the port.Various flags of various countries are floating on the berths, which are colorful.Cars and carriages pass the streets...

This is Cape Town... the busiest city in Southern Africa.

beep!
The whistle blew, and a cruise ship from Daming dropped its anchor and slowly stopped at the berth.Ten minutes later, the passenger ship lowered the gangway, and a large number of European passengers poured out of the cabin.

An elegant, dignified, and tall European went down the gangway with the crowd.He has a pair of gray-blue eyes, a high and wide forehead, thick and fluffy golden-colored hair, and a square face that is more resolute and resolute.The most eye-catching thing is his pair of eyes, the eyes are so sharp that there is no doubt that this is a young man full of drive.

At the customs checkpoint, he showed his passport, which read: Pearson Jones.He was from London and was a businessman who ran a company specializing in the sale of machinery and equipment.

That's who Pearson is.

This identity is real and credible, no one can find out why, and he even has an uncle - an old man suffering from Alzheimer's.

Over the past nearly 20 years, the Investigations Division has learned how to exploit loopholes and craft an unassailable identity.

After arriving in Cape Town, Pearson headed inland to Barberton without taking a break.

Even on the train, Pearson heard one word—gold!
Everyone was talking about gold, about Barberton's gold, and the carriages were full of workers in thick canvas clothes, and people in bright clothes, and everyone was rushing there, trying to participate in this "gold rush". hot".

However, they were destined to be disappointed. While listening to people talking about "gold rush" legends and fantasizing about getting rich overnight, the geological data provided by his family came to Pearson's mind - gold mines associated with Among the rocks, mechanical equipment is required to break the ore, and then use mercury to extract it.

These people want to copy the grand occasion of the Australian gold rush with a gold pan, simply dreaming.

By the time Pearson arrived in Baston, the gold mines were being discussed throughout southern Africa.Tens of thousands of people gathered here overnight. After these people who dreamed of getting rich came here, they immediately found that the gold pan was useless at all, but the capital is always keen. Soon, the disappointed gold diggers Since then, companies have been established, and funds from all of southern Africa have been attracted to this humble place. Various mining companies have also been established quickly, and the stock exchange in the small town of Barberton has become the hottest place. .

At the same time, Pearson Jones Firm was also established, which specializes in selling various mining equipment including rock crushers. As the first machinery supplier to enter Barberton, in just one month, Pearson Signed a contract of more than 200 million pounds, and became a supplier of machinery and explosives for hundreds of mining companies.

It has to be said that, as the person who sold the shovel in the "Gold Rush", Pearson earned a huge amount of wealth that others could hardly earn in a lifetime in one month.

At the same time, he also became the original shareholder of many mining companies.In the following year, with the addition of capital from London, the stocks of mining companies related to gold mines were pushed to the highest level, and some stocks were even fired to hundreds of pounds in a short time, which increased hundreds of times. Investors made a lot of money.

However, there are actually very few companies that are able to produce. The vast majority of companies have never discovered gold mines at all. Even those companies that have actually discovered gold mines, most of them have no mining value because the output rate is too low.

However, among the hundreds of companies, only a few were economical to exploit. After the news came out, the gold rush bubble burst immediately, and those investors who were far away in London almost lost their money.

But this is all for later. When people all over the world are focusing on Baston and the nearby gold mines, more than a dozen southern African investors from London have quietly bought the central and southern Transvaal. Most of the land in the White Water Ridge Mountains.

……

"So far, we have basically completed the land acquisition in the White Water Ridge Mountains, which cost almost 15 pounds."

In the imperial garden of the central capital, when playing chess with His Majesty, Qian Zizhuang simply admired His Majesty's business acumen in his heart. In just two months, he used thousands of pounds to leverage several The return of millions of pounds, here and there is to make money, it is clearly a money grab.

"This money is all derived from the sale of machinery and equipment by the commercial firm. By investing in local mining companies, the stock held by the commercial firm has increased thirty-fold, with a market value of more than 200 million pounds."

Listening to Qian Zizhuang's report, Emperor Zhu thought about it, and then said.

"Well, let's start selling."

Don't Earn Your Last Copper!
This is the principle of Emperor Zhu.

"Yes, but, Your Majesty, I don't understand something."

Emperor Zhu, who was staring at the chessboard, said.

"You said."

"Why do you want to invest as a British person? If it is invested by a Daming company, then wouldn't the gold mine belong to Daming?"

"Gold mine?"

Looking up at Qian Zizhuang, Emperor Zhu smiled.

"The gold mine is in our hands, and the future conflict will become a conflict between us and the Boers, but what if the gold mine is in the hands of the British?"

Naturally, it was a Boer War!

The Boer War said a thousand words and ten thousand, but in the final analysis it was for gold, for the Rand Gold Mine.

"Is Your Majesty going to use gold mines as bait to provoke a conflict between the Boers and the British?"

After thinking about it, Qian Zizhuang said.

"However, the Boers are no match for the British."

"It doesn't matter if it's the British opponent or not!"

Shaking his head, Emperor Zhu said.

"It is important that we use the Boer stone to weaken the British Empire. What we need in the struggle against the great powers is bloodletting, continuous bloodletting, and bloodletting to weaken them."

It's not just bloodletting. In history, it was the Boer War that made the whole world see the weakness of Britain, and also made all ambitious countries see opportunities.

"When the tiger shows weakness, the wolves will rush up and try to take food from the tiger's mouth. What we need is to create this opportunity to let the world see the weakness of the tiger..."

While speaking, the chess piece in Emperor Zhu's hand fell down.

"After disposing of the stocks in my hand, I can almost release the gold mine in Baishuiling."

(End of this chapter)