Beautiful things are hard to find, just as diamonds are always in symbiosis with poisonous snakes. Legend has it that in 350 B.C., King Alexander of Macedon went on an expedition to India and found diamonds in a deep pit, but the pit was guarded by many poisonous snakes that could kill people from a distance of several feet. Alexander ordered the soldiers to use a mirror to refract (gather light), burn the viper to death, and then throw the mutton into the pit, and the diamonds in the pit stuck to the mutton, and the mutton attracted the vulture, and after the vulture ate the mutton with the diamonds and flew away, the soldiers followed and chased the vultures to get the diamonds, and since then it is said that the viper is the patron saint of diamonds.

Humans have a long history of dealing with diamonds. As early as the 1st century AD, there were references to diamonds in Roman literature at that time. At that time, the Romans did not use diamonds as decorative gemstones, but only used them as carving tools by taking advantage of their incomparable hardness. Later, with the advancement of technology, diamonds were used as gemstones for jewelry, and the price became more and more expensive. By the 15th century, in European cities such as Paris, London and Antwerp (a city in northern Belgium), it was already possible to see craftsmen using the powder of diamonds to grind large diamonds and process them.

Since the eighth year of the Apocalypse, when the West African melee entered a state of confrontation, Sun Yuzhi of Ming Island retreated to the periphery of Ming Island, his own sphere of influence, Zhu Youxiao did not let him expand, and he himself did not dare to make too big a move, so he took Ndaru and his soldiers and the tribes he followed back together, in order to ensure the safety of Ming Island, Ndaru and their followers established their own forces in the north of Ming Island about four or five hundred thousand square kilometers of land, and now it is not called a country, Ndaru thinks that he is just Sun Yuzhi's servant, He will be loyal to Sun Yuzhi for the rest of his life.

The armies of Germany and Spain also withdrew their spheres of influence and calmed down to carry out their own mining and mining activities, after all, they were commercial expeditions and could not go to war all the time. Especially in the German Confederation, their domestic materials are relatively poor, and the large coal mines and iron mines in later generations have not yet been discovered, and the materials here have become their largest supply base, supporting nearly half of the domestic demand.

Leaving the Congo Kingdom and the Talon Empire to confront the Nordic coalition forces, although their weapons are not as good as the Nordic coalition forces, they are better than the many soldiers, plus they are not called adapting to the local climate, and Sun Yuzhi. Zhu Changrunge and they trained a lot of officers, so they could also resist the attack of the Nordic coalition army.

Zhu Youxiao didn't want to occupy a large area of land in southern Africa, but he really couldn't move more immigrants, and he also wanted to dig a big hole for the Europeans in Africa, so that they could put more troops here, and the population here was much more than that of North America, and he also armed them, the purpose was to bleed the Europeans here, so that their financial resources and military resources could be consumed here, so he reserved this vast battlefield and patiently waited for their opportunity to fight.

An expedition of the Belgian army finally sparked the war, and diamonds were discovered on the border between Namibia and Botswana. This is a dry river valley in a desolate desert, the Belgian expedition team found diamonds in the hands of the indigenous people in the small village here, at first they exchanged with their own goods, but then found that the indigenous people had a lot of diamonds in their hands, so they secretly followed, and finally found the location of the diamond maniac, the murderous Belgian expedition slaughtered the indigenous people, seized the diamond mine, and even they did not dare to find the local indigenous people to mine, Members of their own expeditions are responsible for finding diamonds.

But this slaughter still slipped through the net, more than a dozen indigenous people went out hunting, and when they came back to find that their village had been slaughtered, in a fit of rage, they rushed in and fought with the Belgians, and the result was naturally not good, only one escaped alive.

The natives who had escaped for their lives would not rest on their laurels, so he went to the chiefs of the tribes in the area, told them about the brutality of the marauders, and asked them to unite against the invaders, to defend their homeland, to kill the murderous invaders, and to avenge their loved ones.

At their most dangerous time, an English expedition discovered their predicament, although there were less than two hundred men, but their rifles had a relatively high rate of fire, and the range was certainly much farther than the bows and arrows of the natives, and with their help, the remaining Belgian expeditions finally escaped.

The Belgian expedition suffered heavy losses, but they were able to bring out all the diamonds they had obtained. Of course, even if they didn't say it, the English would know that they must have received something valuable, otherwise the natives would not have hunted them down, and would have killed them all, so you can imagine how much trouble these people have caused.

Because of their alliances, the Belgians did not hide their expedition and showed the diamonds they had obtained to the English, asking them to cooperate and share the diamond resources here. It's not that the Belgians are noble and selflessly share their information, but that their strength is too weak to have it to themselves, and if the English had found out, they wouldn't have done that, and they would have blocked the news.

In this expedition to England, there was a gunsmith, whose original purpose was to follow the expedition to confirm the quality of the guns in his factory, and by the way, to help the explorers repair the guns. But when he found out that there were so many diamonds here, he used the tools in his hand to set a suitable diamond into his hand diamond, and he was so overjoyed by the effect of using it that he immediately asked the English expedition to buy all the diamonds and return to England with them.

The super hardness of the diamond was unexpected, and after the gunsmith returned to England, he finally developed a hand drill inlaid with diamonds, which was very good to use, not only greatly improved the work efficiency, but also the quality of the barrel drilled was high, so that the firing range was greatly increased compared to the original, and the surprised gunsmith immediately reported this achievement to the factory owner, not only received a huge reward, but also received a stake in the factory.

The use of diamond drill bits made the production efficiency and quality of rifles in this workshop rapidly improved, and their secrets were soon discovered by other workshops, so various conspiracies emerged one after another, and the mystery was quickly revealed. When the Crown of England learned of this event, diamonds became a national strategic resource, and England began to arm a large number of troops, which were no longer organized as expeditions, but for the purpose of preparing to occupy the diamond mines.

When hundreds of thousands of armed English troops sailed to southern Africa, other countries in Northern Europe such as the Kingdom of France, Norway, Italy, Scotland, etc. have paid attention, spies in this era are not yet a standing institution of the state, but the information network of businessmen is still very sensitive, they have gone through countless money transactions, and finally understood the intentions of the English, so they also began to expand the army, ready to go to the south of Africa to have a piece of the pie, the opportunity must not be lost, to develop must have a strong army, this is their consensus.

The cunning English made a fortune again with their excellent business acumen, not because they foolishly let other countries obtain secrets, but because they consciously revealed it, by virtue of the opportunity to develop and use diamonds first, they made huge profits in this arms race, and most of the guns needed by various countries to expand their armies were purchased from England's workshops, and this opportunity was not only to make England obtain super-profits, but also to give England a reputation for the high quality of weapons, By the way, it also opened the door to other goods in England.

The primitive accumulation of capital was originally bloody, and by virtue of this arms trade, England's weapons factories obtained a large amount of capital, coupled with a large amount of domestic capital to see the attractive prospects of weapons production, so more funds rushed to the weapons factories, which made great progress in the development of weapons in England, thus establishing the leading position of England's weapons and other industrial commodities in Europe.

The actions of the English were also discovered by the Germans and the Spaniards, they could not buy the weapons of the English, as for making their own, it was not a matter of a day or two, but they also had their close allies the Ming Empire, so large orders began to be sent to Sun Yuzhi.