As early as half a year ago, the Chinese Empire paid 5 million Shengyuan and 10,000 cattle to buy territory from the Boer-controlled Transvaal Republic, replacing the Boer capital Pretoria and large basins and pastures to the south.

At the same time, the Indian Ocean Fleet and 50,000 field troops of the Chinese Empire were officially stationed in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, taking over the administration from the British colonial governors in the two places, replacing the British dependency over the region.

In addition, the Chinese Empire sent an infantry army to help the Boers defeat the Zulu Kingdom, which was always a threat to the north. In this way, the Boers officially split into two parts, one went north, occupied the territory of the original Zulu Kingdom, and began their nomadic life, while the other majority of the Boers went south, into the original territory of their Boers, the southernmost Cape Colony and the adjacent Leidenburg Colony, officially moved the Transvaal Republic to the south, and established the capital in Cape Town.

After the Boers left the Pretoria area, the Chinese Empire continued to send 20,000 field troops to bring this basin, and did not hesitate to spend huge manpower and material resources, 100,000 immigrants, plus these 70,000 field soldiers, in this basin to open up and graze, hire the defeated and captured Zulu and indigenous tribesmen to build settlements, villages and towns here, and the Chinese Empire spent a lot of money to start building castles and fortifications here, and officially included this territory into the territory of the Chinese Empire.

Just when the Boers thought they were taking advantage, a piece of news came that stunned them: more than 30 miles southwest of Pretoria, an exploration team from the Ministry of Minerals and Metallurgy of the Chinese Empire discovered three large high-grade gold deposits one after another, among which the largest one was the Rand gold mine, which, according to current technical forecasts, has a gold reserve of more than 10,000 tons, accounting for more than 60 percent of the world's total gold reserves currently discovered. The location of the gold mine is also directly named "Golden City".

The Boers regretted it. It was only at this time that they realized that the Chinese Empire had spared no expense to drive out the British colonists and help them defeat the Zulu and the black natives of the north for this gold mine. It is no wonder that in such a poor and desolate barren land, the Chinese Empire also sent 70,000 elite field troops to garrison here, and also immigrated 100,000 to build settlements, reclaim land to grow crops to supply food, and build military fortifications, the purpose of which was to garrison this place for a long time. No wonder they were willing to give such generous terms in exchange for their Pretoria Basin, it turned out that they had a plan, and their intentions were really sinister and cunning.

The Boers were unusually angry, feeling that they had been deceived, and they contacted Orange and the scattered Boers in the northwest, and formally proposed to the commander of the Chinese Empire in the "Golden City" to reredeem the Pretoria Basin at double the price of 10 million saints and 20,000 cattle, which was naturally rejected by the Chinese Empire. The Boers demanded to share the gold deposit with the Chinese Empire, but were refused.

In desperation, the Boers plotted to send troops together to retake the old capital by force, of course, the fundamental purpose was to recapture the discovered gold mines. However, the fortifications of the Chinese Empire had been arranged, and the soldiers were well armed, and although the Boers were brave and good at fighting, it was still difficult to bargain, and after two attacks were strongly sniped by the Chinese Imperial Field Army, and the losses of 2,000 men, the Boers finally gave up the idea of fleeing back to the territory by force, and switched to wait and see.

The Chinese Empire quickly organized a large number of experienced miners and mining equipment from the mainland and other overseas regions to mine these three gold mines, among which the largest Rand gold mine in the Golden City, because of the excellent mining conditions, was soon put into mining, and after three months of preparation and trial production, after the fourth month was officially put into full production, 200,000 tons of high-quality gold ore were directly put into production. Moreover, the newly mined gold ore is of very high taste, reaching a gold content of about 60 grams per tonne.

Because almost all the gold in this era is placer gold ore, the amalgamation method is generally used to refine gold, and the cost of gold mining is not small, and the main part of this cost is not in the mining, but in the refining process. According to today's mining and refining methods, a ton of gold ore can barely cover all the costs with about 8 grams of gold, so that alchemy does not lose money. However, the technical engineers of the Ministry of Minerals and Metallurgy of the Chinese Empire invented a new type of gold refining process, which greatly increased the daily amount of gold ore processed and the purity and speed of gold extraction, and greatly increased the efficiency of gold smelting.

Because the Chinese Empire had long predicted that while occupying the surrounding area of the Golden City, it purchased and hired a large number of black natives from the northern tribes as laborers, and the manpower and machinery and equipment were very abundant, and the monthly gold ore mining capacity reached more than 200,000 tons, and according to the average production rate of 60 grams of gold per ton, the monthly gold purification output reached about 12 tons. In other words, the annual gold production of this golden city alone can reach 144 tons!

This output is undoubtedly shocking to everyone! You must know that the territory of the Chinese Empire is now extremely vast, and the newly established Ministry of Minerals and Metallurgy of the Cabinet Imperial Court, in addition to the vigorous development of the iron and steel industry and the oil industry, attaches great importance to the gold mining and refining that is directly related to the income of the empire, and mobilizes the largest funds and manpower for mining, but even so, the total gold output today is only just over 100 tons per year, about 108 tons. This is mainly from the large gold mines in New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand on the newly occupied Australian continent, and from the mining of gold mines in California, Canada, Luzon and India in the Hexi region of North America.

That is to say, the gold output of the entire Chinese Empire today directly reaches 252 tons per year, and the annual gold output of the whole world except the Chinese Empire at this time is only about 82 tons, that is to say, after this time, the gold output of the Chinese Empire will account for more than 75% of the world's gold production!

Although the Chinese Imperial Army tried their best to conceal the news, it slowly spread, and the Boers, who were the first to get the news, went completely crazy. The Boers even united with several black African tribes in the north to attack the Chinese Empire in the area of the Golden City, but sadly, they suffered another miserable defeat, losing more than 3,000 men.

Moreover, even the Boers of Orange voluntarily surrendered to the Chinese Empire, voluntarily renounced their military force, obtained the understanding of the Chinese Empire, became the jurisdiction of the other party, and obtained the right to work in the Golden City.

In desperation, the Transvaal Republic, the main force of the Boers, formally proposed reconciliation to the Chinese Empire, hoping that the surveyors of the Chinese Empire would help them to survey in the territory and obtain the benefits of at least one large gold mine, in return, the Transvaal Republic gave up the jurisdiction of the original territory and officially recognized the Golden City as belonging to the Chinese Empire.

The commander of the Chinese Empire in the Golden City area agreed to the Boers' demands, but offered to sell more than half of the gold ore mined to the Chinese Empire, and in return, the Chinese Empire built a railway from the Golden City to the port of Cape Town.

After completely and firmly occupying the Golden City area, the Ministry of Minerals and Metallurgy of the Chinese Empire expanded its scope, continued to expand its exploration in the 250-square-kilometer basin of the Golden City area, and discovered several large-scale gold mines one after another, and initially estimated that the total gold reserves will exceed 20,000 tons, becoming a new gold center in the whole world.

And this news was naturally spread quickly. The whole world, especially Europe, is in complete uproar! Europe, which was already in turmoil, turned its attention to this part of southern Africa after learning the news, and Britain, which had the opportunity to get the world's largest gold mining area, was even more sad and regretful.

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