Chapter 260: Gold Mine
Why did South Africa come to power after Mandela came to power, accompanied by the identity of blacks to be equal to whites, and then brought South Africa's domineering business card with the highest crime rate in the world, in this case, it is unbelievable that South Africa's tourism industry is still well-known internationally.
The world's highest crime rate and developed tourism industry may sound strange just by sounding strange, but this is indeed the existence of South Africa after 2000.
Obviously not, the reason why South Africa still maintains a good tourism income after 2000 is that it is indeed rich in tourism resources, thanks to the excellent foundation laid by the Boer government, South Africa has developed infrastructure, airports, star hotels, highways and so on.
In this case, South Africa faces the sea on three sides, and you can experience the inland scenery of Africa in the north, and the animal and plant resources are abundant, which indeed makes it a unique tourism resource.
The reason why the high crime rate and developed tourism exist at the same time, is not because the two can live in harmony, with South Africa's tourism resources, if the problem of law and order can be solved, South Africa's tourism income will be higher, and the tourism data of South Africa in later generations have been affected by the high crime rate, in fact, it is far from playing the role of corresponding tourism resources.
But then again, maybe there are some tourists who like excitement, and they just want to see what the high crime rate in South Africa is like, after all, the forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds, and it seems that there is a couple in the upper plane republic who travel around the world in various dangerous places, the second stop of which is South Africa, and they also filmed the video "Couples" and uploaded it on the Internet.
"Well, I just said, the conditions in South Africa are actually not worse than our country, and now that I feel it myself, I am finally relieved, right?"
Walking into the street with luggage, there are some white people coming and going, Wang Zhengguo and Tu Zhenying, two yellow people appearing on the street, the rarity is even lower than the probability of black people appearing on the streets of Johannesburg, and it can be said that they have made enough money to turn back along the way.
Tu Zhenying was always a little hairy when she was looked at like this, and whispered close to Wang Zhengguo's ear and worried: "These whites in South Africa have strong racial discrimination, they isolate blacks, so will they also discriminate against us yellows?"
After speaking, he hugged Wang Zhengguo's arm in fear, and gestured with his eyes to all kinds of strange eyes around him, this really doesn't look like the previous strong woman style, is it really a change of character?
If it was Wen Ling who was accompanied this time, some people would believe that Wen Ling would be afraid, after all, some people had not long ago put India's high-power, rape, and Ganges River water incident on South Africa's head, which could scare people a lot at that time.
As for Tu Zhenying's character, he didn't know it, and half-jokingly: "Well, it's possible, racial discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction, and there is more than black discrimination, and yellow people must be just as discriminatory, and even I heard that within the white race, the Boers in South Africa also discriminate against Europeans, we... I'm afraid it's dangerous. ”
is a serious braggadocio, if others listen to this clear and eye-catching fool, maybe they will believe it, but Tu Zhenying doesn't eat it, lets go of holding Wang Zhengguo's arm and bends his hand, and raises it up to slap someone's buttocks.
"Call you nonsense, I really think I'm so easy to deceive, tell you, last year you fooled Wen Ling, I have heard from Master Wen next door to our house, this kind of trick used, the second time it doesn't work. ”
Feeling the hotness coming from the buttocks, my heart trembled, it seems that I didn't find that the girl likes this kind of tone before, is it possible that she is still a queen of shaking S with hidden attributes, this Nima is a little scary, and I will be this in the future......
Thinking about it, I felt embarrassed, and quickly shook my head, shaking all these thoughts that shouldn't be there aside, rolling as far as I could.
put on a smiling face: "How can this be confused, you and him must be different, this is not comparable, he is not as smart as you, otherwise you can't be deceived." ”
Tu Zhenying's words were very useful, and when she was satisfied with the woman, she naturally stopped, and quietly followed Wang Zhengguo to continue walking, listening to the introduction along the way.
"One day in 1886, a white man named George Harry was walking on a farm and he tripped over a rock that was outcropping, and this happened to be a piece of gold, which is what we commonly call dog's head gold. As a result, gold prospectors from all over the world came to the area to pan for gold, and gradually formed a large population settlement. ”
The prosperity of Johannesburg and the gold rush in Alaska in the United States are the same routine, both started in the eighties of the nineteenth century, and in the subsequent development process of this place, it is also through the gold rush to drive the original barren area gradually prosperous, until the gold rush recedes, after the gold mines gradually dry up, they also go to tourism.
"After the discovery of the nuggets, after the ecstasy, they rushed to Pretoria, as is customary, to report the discovery to the official authorities and obtain a "gold finder's title certificate" that is tax-exempt. The subsequent government of the Republic of South Africa sent people to establish a town here, and the two people who were sent to do it, a Dutch immigrant and a Boer, named the town after themselves, and this is how Johannesburg came from. ”
Then, someone mysteriously pointed to his feet: "Just below the city, there are actually a lot of holes, all of which were dug by gold diggers, so Johannesburg can be regarded as a city built on a mine hole." ”
A city built on a gold mine may sound exciting, but the fact is that Johannesburg is not built just a few kilometres away from the mines, as other mining areas are, to ensure safety, the city is built directly on the surface of the mine.
In Johannesburg, almost all the old houses with some history have "labyrinths" built underground, which are converted from abandoned mines.
As he was talking, he saw a building at the end of the road with the sign "Standard Bank of South Africa", and seeing this familiar name, someone suddenly remembered a very interesting acquisition that he had heard from the upper plane.
"In the case of the bank in front of us, I can guarantee that it must be an abandoned mine underneath, or there would not be a bank here. ”
Banks have vaults for storing important items, usually built basements with ultra-high protection standards, but South African Standard Bank is different, they directly purchase integral safes, often dozens of tons of that kind of big guys, directly in the underground mines, to ensure safety!
On the upper plane, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the most powerful of the four major state-owned banks of the Republic, learned that the Standard Bank of South Africa was built on a gold mine, and the bigwigs of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China listened to it and built a bank on the gold mine, which must be good, and then bought 20% of its shares in 2008 and became the largest shareholder.