Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 1267 Accelerating Daying (Third update, please subscribe)
A great cause begins at the very beginning. What kind of changes will be brought to the future by a sudden idea of ​​a young flight officer at Sidley in 19 years is something that people at this time cannot expect.After all, when change happens, often only a handful of people hold the future in their hands.

The future is unpredictable, but sometimes the future can be predicted.

As for some people, the future is predictable and even deployable.Almost at the same time that the Pacific Fleet Command temporarily requisitioned the "Yizhou" immigrant ship, in the imperial palace of Zhongdu, Emperor Zhu, who had no idea about the news, was examining a report, which was "Jerusalem incident" investigative report.

"Your Majesty, in the past six months, the investigation department has dispatched the best agents to Jerusalem, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. Through various investigations, they have proved Lawrence's confession. They really planned the incident and carried out the investigation of Napoleon III. Assassination of the Emperor!"

Listening to Qian Zizhuang's report, Emperor Zhu pursed his lips, then stood up, but when he picked up the cigar and wanted to smoke, he hesitated, and finally he walked to the window silently, And staring out the window,
In fact, he can choose to hide it, but who knows what will happen if he hides it?In this incident, any concealment may cause many uncertainties, and may even affect the trust between the two countries.

After all, Emperor Zhu himself was also a beneficiary of the assassination, at least potentially.

Under such circumstances, Emperor Zhu had to face it cautiously, after all, there could be no doubts between them.

After thinking for a while, he said.

"Now that we have proved this, it is necessary for us to notify the French side. I will visit France in the near future. Do you know what this means?"

"I know."

"Is it possible to stop this?"

"I think it's unlikely."

"But you still have to try."

Emperor Zhu said.

"However, if I leave empty-handed, I'm afraid I won't be able to persuade them to give up revenge for the time being. I need a gift!"

Gift?

His Majesty's request made Qian Zizhuang's heart tighten, he said.

"I think this gift should not be rushed."

"It shouldn't be too hasty, but without a gift, I really have no reason to persuade them..."

Emperor Zhu smiled slightly, looked at Qian Zizhuang and said:
"Maybe when we started, we thought too much. It is not enough to promote the UK through certain measures. We need to speed up!"

"Speed ​​up, what does His Majesty mean?"

"We have people in the Cape Colony! I mean, some people in a special position."

After Qian Zizhuang nodded, Emperor Zhu said,

"For now, if it's just fueling the flames, how long would it take according to previous calculations? Two years! It will take a full two years to induce a war. Of course, the Boers are also speeding up now, um, we Is it possible to increase this process through some methods, through some special means..."

After thinking about it, Qian Zizhuang said.

"I understand!"

"Well, leave the dossier...Think about it! How can you accelerate this process faster...Maybe you can use some means from the inside? However, I don't need to teach you your profession, just do as you know .”

……

On this day, in the roof office of the De Beers mining company, Cecil John Rhodes, chairman and managing director of Sir De Beers Mining Company of the British Empire, sat in a leather armchair, as before, He glanced at the report in front of him again, and said softly:

"My God, if it works, the whole of southern Africa will be ours!"

No one answered him, it was just him talking to himself.

He got up from his large desk and walked across the room to the window, gazing down at the people and vehicles squirming in the central business district of Cape Town, a city that, in European terms, is Backward, full of colonial taste.

However, in the eyes of Cecil John Rhodes, this land is full of wealth and opportunities. Although he was the loser in the expansion competition with Daming more than ten years ago, through the Kimberley diamond mine investment, he still reaped a lot of wealth.

Just a few months ago, he defeated his old opponent, the oligarch Barnato of the "Kimberley Central Mining Company", established the "De Beers Unified Mining Company", and became one of the three directors of the company.He has almost monopolized 90% of the world's diamond production.Adding in the profit of the "South African Mining Company" he invested in and operated two years ago, he can get millions of pounds in profit every year.

However, his huge wealth comes from a foreign country - the Transvaal Republic, a country established by the Boers, and the Transvaal government that has been poor for many years. Naturally, they will not let him go. He has been suffering from extortion and excessive collection of taxes and fees.Therefore, it is Ross's greatest wish to destroy this "greedy" small Boer country.

"This is really an opportunity!"

Talking to himself, Ross whistled lightly.

"It only needs an investment of 10 pounds to completely destroy this country, and then the diamonds in Kimberley and the gold in Johannesburg are all ours. From then on, there is no need to endure the forced expropriation of the Boers Already!"

While talking to himself, Ross picked up the phone on the table.

"Hey, please let James come up..."

James, Rhodes read the name, and then he glanced at the report, he is no stranger to James, that guy came to Cape Town from England 13 years ago, when he was a pauper, and later he entered the company , and then step by step to become the company's middle-level supervisor, this guy... can always give him some construction advice when it is unexpected
"James!"

After James entered the office, Rhodes smiled kindly at his henchman.

"I have seen your report. This is a big matter. I need to think about it before making a decision. Tell me, why is it time to take such an action?"

"The reason is simple, sir."

James replied.

“For the past few years, the Transvaal government has treated the Kimberley Diamond Mine and the Rand Gold Mine as fat, imposing heavy direct and profit taxes. Currently, the gold mine tax revenue is as high as one-eighth of the Transvaal’s annual income. 100. In addition, the Transvaal also issued various concessions, monopolized the explosives business, and arbitrarily increased the tariff rate of commodities imported or re-exported from the Cape Colony to the Transvaal, and the import tax alone grabbed 60 million yuan a year. £160 a year from the monopoly on dynamite. That £[-] million is literally squeezed out of us, almost all of us to the point of being intolerable, sir, since none of us can If you endure it any longer, then of course the time for action will be ripe."

After thinking about it, James said again.

"And I also came into contact with a person who is suitable for carrying out this mission. I believe that as long as we are willing to take the lead, then our operation will definitely be successful!"

"But, it's just a few hundred people... Will they be able to succeed?"

Ross asked,
"It is impossible to occupy a country with hundreds of people, but it is enough to involve the British Empire with a few hundred people. Sir, what we need is the involvement of the British Empire!"

Although he didn't explain further, everyone knew.The meaning of this sentence is that it doesn't matter whether those people succeed or not.What matters is that they will start a war.

"Need to bring this up at the board?"

"Does it matter?"

What James said was a smile, yes, it doesn't matter at all, most of the time, the board of directors is just a decoration.

"However, we need the cooperation of Johannesburg. If we want to expand this matter as much as possible, we must turn this incident into a big event and make him out of control. Only in this way can we Benefited from."

What James said made Ross nod in disbelief.

"It's true that we can only force the government to get involved if things get as bad as possible. That's really in our best interest."

After thinking for a while, Ross said again.

"Go ahead with your plan, but I want to see the guy before I do it."

After James left, Ross picked up the phone.

"Hey, is that Pearson? I have something I want to discuss with you!"

Pearson is one of the three directors of De Beers Mining Company, and Pearson also has an identity as the chairman of the South African Mining Company, and the Rand Gold Mine belongs to the South African mining industry.

Their two companies seem to be two companies, but in fact they have already formed an integration through cross-shareholding.Their interests are of course the same.

Ross believes that Pearson has already reached the point where he hates those damn Boers.

"It's like this..."

(End of this chapter)