Chapter 425: The Boers' Gold
South African law states that private landowners not only own the surface land, but also have mining rights and mineral ownership underground!
Of course, you have to pay taxes to the state to open a mine. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info But one thing is clear: if treasure is found on private land, the discoverer will have half of the ownership, except for minerals.
The premise is that the discoverer has obtained permission from the landowner before exploring......
The rules are very detailed, similar to those in the United States, and the owners of private land have very much power over their own land.
But unlike similar laws in the United States, South Africa's "treasure" article was created for one thing: the gold of the Transvaal Republic and the Free State of Orange in the Second Boer War.
The discovery of gold in South Africa in 1886 eventually led to the outbreak of the Boer War, which lasted from 11 October 1899 to 31 May 1902.
At that time, the Boers were a group of peasants who took up arms, but they broke the British Empire, which had absolute superiority: although the number of Boers was small, there were also many countries that looked at the British Yankees behind them, and they also had gold reserves!
At least 200 tonnes of gold are said to have gone missing in the northwestern part of present-day South Africa after the war. Maybe it was hidden in the mountains over there, and there were also people who thought it was smuggled up, anyway, there are various speculations.
In several nature reserves in the northwestern region of South Africa, the managers have also developed "treasure hunts" to attract tourists.
Because of this legend, South Africa's relevant laws simply added a clause: treasure found on state-owned land belongs half to the individual and half to the state, and all treasures found on private land belong to the landowner, but the treasure hunter with the permission of the landowner enjoys half ownership.
So far, however, the law has not yet demonstrated its validity once: where is the treasure of South Africa except for ape-man fossils?
Minerals don't count.
When Guan Xingquan asked, "If the situation here is the same as that of West Germany, what will it be", Zhang Nan guessed that it was gold!
"At the beginning, the Boer country had at least a few hundred tons of gold reserves, but during the outbreak of war, the heavy gold was of little use and would drag down the war, and most of it was hidden.
However, after the armistice was signed at the end of the war, the original gold reserves of the Boer state were greatly reduced, and many people died on the battlefield, when the Boer men and young men participated in the war.
A staggering number of children, women and elderly people died in the death camps set up by the British, and the whereabouts of some of the gold became a mystery forever. ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Nan added: "By the way, the death camp is not an invention of Hitler, it is something that the civilized British came up with, hehe...... Civilization, you!"
Well, even if Zhang Nan doesn't mention this, Guan Xingquan knows it: even if the description of imperialist wars of aggression and brutality cannot be found in Chinese textbooks, many magazines will write a few paragraphs.
"Talk to that Kruger?"
"Just tell him that we have found some signs, and that he will not do it with one person and half of us. ”
Guan Xingquan frowned: "If he goes to ask Old Hans where we have been today, then he may guess it." ”
As he spoke, he looked to the northeast.
There was a gunshot over there just now, and Lin Ming replied in the intercom that little Charlie had killed the springbok, 200 meters away!
Well, Lin Ming didn't say that it was under the guidance of him and Old Hans, using the M700 with a 6x scope, and there was still a support for shooting.
After aiming for about half a minute, he almost tied up the antelope and let little Charlie fight.
"I said, Brother Guan, don't you look at people like that, don't you?
In fact, the richer this person is, the more afraid he is of death, and when the amount of money reaches a certain level, he sees a lot of things.
Dean said that Kruger's worth, if there is gold, a ton of us and a half of us is a lot of fun for him, and 100 tons of us and half of us is pie in the sky.
As long as this person is worth more than 100 million, nothing will be worth more than his own life. ”
Zhang Nan is not worried that Kruger will not agree, because he understands the rich man's understanding of money: a poor man without money will kill someone for a gold ring, but a billionaire will not put himself in danger for tons of gold.
......
Return to camp with the harvest, and hand over the game to the black guys, who will naturally dispose of it, and have the freshest game to enjoy tonight.
By nine o'clock in the evening, Dean Kitt and Paul Kruger were all back.
"The confession is recorded, and there is no problem at all. ”
Dean and the others were very relaxed, and the problem was solved, and the corpses, vehicles, and guns of the poachers were basically handed over to the police, and nothing happened to them.
Kruger thanked Zhang Nan again for his help, and expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that the guests had only hunted two small antelopes weighing less than 50 kilograms today: this is simply the signature of the owner of the hunting ground!
If you don't kill an elephant or kill two lions or something, Kruger won't have face when you say it!
Zhang Nan didn't care, and said with a smile: "Actually, I'm generally interested in hunting, and besides, my bodyguards have already enjoyed this trip, and my brother Guan is even less interested in hunting."
But Mr. Kruger, I may have discovered a secret in your private land. ”
Hunting is not enjoyable, killing people is energetic!
It's also the art of speaking.
But Kruger was more concerned about the last paragraph that Zhang Nan said, "What secret?"
"There may be treasures, perhaps treasures left over from the time of the Boer War. ”
Hearing this, Kruger and Dean immediately became interested, and the former asked, "Where is it?"
As soon as he said this, Kruger himself hurriedly added: "I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry." Mr. Allen, if you find war remnants on my land, you will get half of it, as required by South African law.
To add, mineral deposits don't count, hehe... There are still unmined diamond mines in the hunting grounds. ”
There is no need for a written agreement, this verbal is enough.
Dean on the side answered: "I can prove this, and I can also be a middleman, that's half." Even if there are hundreds of tons of gold, that's still half.
War treasures, I've grown up listening to stories like this! Damn the British!"
After Dean finished sighing, Zhang Nan said: "We're friends, aren't we, since I'll say it, I just believe in Mr. Kruger and Dean's people."
It's near the ancient ruins of the hunting grounds. ”
Hearing this, Kruger said strangely: "A few years ago, some people who were engaged in archaeology dug two or three meters there, and it was my friends who asked them to dig it."
Just iron and stone, nothing of value. ”
Zhang Nan said with a smile: "They are archaeology, and I have the eyes of a treasure hunter and the heart of a treasure hunter.
But this trip will take some work, and the place is buried. ”
As soon as he arrived, Kruger smiled and said, "Mr. Allen, you can do whatever you want! If you want metal detectors, my friend's gold mine has large professional equipment, if you want excavators or something, I have them in my mine, and it's no problem to ask for explosives, as much as you want." ”
Well, Zhang Nan felt that he had forgotten something just now: this is not in Berchtesgaden, where you can make a big noise, and any heavy machinery is trivial!
"A 200 excavator will do. ”
"Is it okay to be bigger? My smallest excavator is a 450. ”
As soon as he heard Kruger's words, Zhang Nan was really a little speechless!
"Okay, 450 is the best, load the mine bucket. ”
As soon as he arrived here, it was Zhang Nan's turn to hurriedly add: "I didn't say the second half of the sentence!"
Kruger and Dean reacted two seconds later, and laughed tacitly, "I didn't think Mr. Allen is also an engineering expert! Then I'll call right away and ask the mine to get the excavator ready to be loaded and transferred tonight, and we'll do it tomorrow morning." ”
"I didn't say it in the second half of the sentence": That's because the excavator in the mine is not equipped with a thick mine bucket, is it equipped with that kind of light and thin loading bucket?
Funny about you!