South Africa's gold mining industry is full of magic, and the miracles that have been born in this land seem to be related to gold and diamonds, and the traditional gold and diamond mining is carried out in the mines, and Lao Yang cannot experience it himself, but can only visit it.

Johannesburg has a gold mining tour, where you can go through the pit with a guided tour, and try your luck with a hard hat and pickaxe for a little more money.

Of course, the odds of digging gold in these pits are similar to winning the lottery, and tourists just want to experience it, and if you really want to dig up gold, you have to rely on dreams, which is impossible in reality.

But the town of Bekuzulu, where Hall went, found the Golden Sands River, so that he could really try his hand at gold mining.

Yang Shubao was very interested in this, and many of his friends and classmates asked him if he had ever found gold after learning that he was staying in South Africa.

He made an appointment with Meison to go to the town to find Hall together this weekend.

The reality is always that plans don't change as fast as they do.

On Friday, suddenly some more cars drove into the grassland from the road leading to the town, and then the cars stopped, and some workers threw wooden wedges down from the cars, and a group of about a dozen people brandished hammers and began to smash wooden wedges in the grass.

The first to notice their behavior were tourists, who thought that the workers were hired by Yang Shubao, and came to see the excitement.

Zhang Jinjie asked what they were doing, and a worker told him that they were pulling a wooden fence.

He knew that this was not arranged by Yang Shubao, so he called back and told Yang Shubao about the matter.

After listening to his description, Yang Shubao guessed what he was doing, the Provincial Land Reform Department was going to sell the land again, this is to use a wooden wedge to carve out a piece of land, just like the previous No. 1 and No. 2 protection areas.

Yang Shubao is more concerned about this matter, and he does not mind expanding the reserve a little more.

The monster truck was racing, and he jumped all the way to find the pickup trucks and saw the workers at work.

After stopping the car, he carried a cold beer over, put it down and greeted him warmly: "Hey, guys, the sun is really hot today, huh?"

Despite the pleasant climate in South Africa, the rainy season has high daytime temperatures, high humidity, blazing sunlight and strong ultraviolet rays, and it is definitely very tiring to stay outside and do rough work at this time, especially these black people have a strong ability to absorb heat, and they are exposed to the sun like lumps of coal.

The workers were very talkative, and a strong black man wiped the sweat from his forehead and greeted, "No doubt, sir, what are you doing here?"

Yang Shubao put down the beer and said, "Come and have a casual chat, let your guys stop working and come over for a few sips of beer to rest." Castle Brew, 11 proof malt strength, I've chilled it in the freezer, and there's nothing quite like it on a hot day. ”

Castle is the most famous beer brand in South Africa, and its status in the whole country is similar to that of Tsing Beer in China.

Headquartered in Johannesburg, the brewery was founded in 1895, and in the early 90s, before the apartheid system in South Africa was abolished, castle beer was only served to white people, and blacks had to work in the gold fields to drink it, and it was even illegal for other blacks to drink it.

With the abolition of apartheid, Castle Beer began to sweep the market in South Africa, and later conquered the whole of Africa, and then became the second largest brewery in the world through mergers and acquisitions of several breweries in the United States and Europe, and gained the largest beer sales network in Africa and the second largest beer sales network in the United States, and now produces 12 billion liters of beer per year.

Yang Shubao thinks that the taste of this beer is not unusual, if he drinks castle beer, he only drinks craft beer, this wine has a higher wort concentration, more mellow, soft taste, and tastes like some wort.

The black brothers of the workers are even more fond of castle beer, and when they heard that there was a cold castle supply, the group stopped working, so they hurriedly ran over and drank beer one by one.

The strong man in the lead killed half a bottle of wine in one go, he burped after putting down the bottle, and said with a satisfied smile: "It's cool." ”

Beer opens the lines of communication between the two sides, which is more useful than toasting tobacco in China.

Yang Shubao asked, "It was the Land Reform Department that arranged for you to come here to circle this land, right? Why are they planning to sell this land again?"

The lead worker shook his head and said, "No, sir, we are not employed by the Land Reform Department, we are employed by the Green Wetland Forestry Industry Co., Ltd., and they hired us to pull up a wooden fence on the border here, and we all know that this is to cut off from your protected area." ”

This answer was beyond Yang Shubao's expectations, and he asked with some surprise: "You were hired by the Green Wetlands, which means that this land has been bought by them? I mean when did they buy this land?"

The lead worker shrugged regretfully: "We don't know, I think you'll have to ask their person in charge." ”

Yang Shubao frowned, he had been staring at the official website of the Ministry of Land Reform, and the Ministry of Land Reform would definitely announce the sale of land on the Internet, but he had never seen the new land sale information about the Great St. Lucia Wetland Park on the official website.

His goal was frustrated, and he wanted to get on good terms with these workers to ask for inside information, because almost all of the workers hired by the Land Reform Department were related to their internal employees, and they could get useful information from them.

But these people are ordinary workers and have nothing to do with the Land Reform Department.

He went back to the car and called Metosh, who was an insider and must have known about the resettlement of the new land.

Because Yang Shubao is also a celebrity now, he has some social energy, so McTosh has a good relationship with him.

After receiving his call, Metosh chatted with him very warmly, and Yang Shubao threw out the subject after a few polite words, asking him what was going on in this land.

McTosh did know about the sale of public land in the Great St. Lucia wetlands, and he told Yang Shubao: "Mr. Yang, it will not be so easy for you to get the land here in the future, some companies linked to the timber business are staring at it, and they want to play a sideline game and plant trees." ”

Yang Shubao's heart sank: "Then the land here is no longer auctioned?"

McTosh sighed and said, "Yes, I'm afraid I won't go through the auction channel anymore, I guess someone has already planted a tree next door to you, right?"

Yang Shubao said: "Not yet, but this day is not far off, they are going to plant eucalyptus, right?"

McTosh continued to sigh: "There is no doubt about it. ”

He can't help Yang Shubao, after all, his position is too low and his authority is too small, and the sale of these lands is decided by the top management.

The interests of the timber companies are closely related to the land, and they naturally have a close relationship with the officials of the Ministry of Land Reform.

(End of chapter)