The Chinese Empire succeeded in finding the world's largest diamond mine in western Australia and mined the most precious pink diamonds. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the news broke, the Chinese people were elated, and the Allied bloc sent congratulatory messages one after another, but the Entente bloc was silent.

Especially the British Empire, so angry that the nose is not the nose, not even the face, how twisted and twisted it is.

You must know that Australia is a colony of the British Empire!

Such a large territory was robbed of the Chinese Empire, rich animal husbandry, the best quality iron ore, all lost, which had already made the British Empire egg pain, but now it broke out that the world's largest reserves of diamond mines have been discovered in western Australia, and it also produces precious and invaluable pink diamonds.

At this moment, the British Empire really can't be calm.

Originally, the coalition government of William and Saul had gradually forgotten Australia from the minds of the people of the British Empire, and this moment was awakened again, poking the scars of the British Empire.

The front page of The Times read "Australia is ours!" Australia's wool is ours! Australia's iron ore is also ours! Australia's diamond mines are ours! For a time, it aroused the strong concern and endless indignation of the people of the British Empire.

When the British Empire lost Australia, the people of the British Empire did not feel anything because it was only an overseas colony, so the reaction was not violent.

However, as the hostility between China and Britain deepened in recent years, the confrontation between the Allies and the Allies worsened, and the people of the British Empire developed a deep hatred for the Allied bloc under the constant negative propaganda of the coalition government.

Therefore, it only takes one spark to detonate the general indignation and strong condemnation of the people of the British Empire.

Now the economy of the British Empire is in decline, even the economy of the German Empire has surpassed the British Empire to become the first in Europe, and more than a dozen rounds of new pounds have been issued, but it still cannot change the trend of depreciation, and it cannot recover the pound sterling 20 years ago, and it can no longer stand up, resulting in a continued downturn in the economy of the British Empire and a serious decline in the people's living standards.

The dissatisfaction of the people of the British Empire with their lives was successfully transferred by the Commonwealth government to the Chinese Empire and the Allied Bloc, turning domestic contradictions into international contradictions.

Today, the Chinese Empire has discovered a huge reserve of precious diamond mines in Australia, which is a huge amount of wealth, conservatively estimated to be worth 30 billion yuan, which can be mined by the Chinese Empire for 50 years, that is, an average annual income of 600 million yuan.

You must know that today's renminbi is the strongest currency in the world, the currency with the highest gold content, the exchange rate of the renminbi against the new pound sterling (1892 version) has reached 1:9.8, and the exchange rate of the renminbi against the new dollar (1888 version) has also reached 1:6.5.

If the Chinese Empire had an annual income of 600 million yuan from diamond mines alone, it would be equivalent to three times the total revenue of the United States and six times that of the British Empire. What this means is understandable.

Of course, 600 million yuan is only a theoretical average estimate, and in fact it is closely related to the Chinese empire's diamond mining capacity in Australia, and in the first few years, it will definitely not meet this average standard.

Still, it was enough to make the whole world envious and jealous, and the British Empire hated it.

Reading the newspaper every day, Li Weiguo likes to watch Westerners babble, and every time he imagines William, Roosevelt and others with wonderful expressions like his father who died, he will feel very comfortable.

Recently, the Chinese Imperial Army has been doing well in the Balkan and Ethiopian theaters, training and seizing the most important strategic points in the world, constantly disgusting the Entente bloc, making them frightened and unable to sleep all day long.

However, Li Weiguo thought of the Transvaal and the Orange Liberty Gang from the success of the Argyle diamond mines, which were rich in gold and diamonds, and were the most important blood transfusion bags of the British Empire.

To this end, Li Weiguo systematically studied the economic structure of the British Empire, summed up some fatal weaknesses, and planned to attack these weaknesses of the British Empire to achieve the strategic goal of finally destroying the British Empire.

In his view, the British Empire in history, whether during World War I or World War II, was able to resist the German Empire, which was closely related to the three main sources of the British Empire's windfall.

The opium trade not only poisons China and grabs the hard-earned money of the Chinese people, but also any rich country in the world has been plundered by the British Empire. The United States, the strongest and richest in industry, actually suffered greatly in the film trade, otherwise the United States would not have risked offending the British Empire, forcing the British Empire to finally cancel the legalization of the film trade in 1946, and the global drug convention was born.

The first was in 1908 before World War I, at the first Shanghai International Anti-Smoking Conference, the United States forced the British Empire to sign the Anti-Drug Convention, and the British Empire was forced to sign the Anti-Drug Declaration because of the threat of the German Empire. However, due to the fact that the British Empire was very strong militarily at that time, and the huge profits from the Yapian trade were one of its windfall sources, it refused to actually carry out the anti-drug operation, and only made a verbal declaration. At that time, the United States had a strong economy but a weak military and could not completely coerce the British Empire, so it did not continue to persecute.

After World War I, the British Empire was severely weakened, but because it was the victorious power, the United States was an ally with the British Empire, and in consideration of the post-war economic reconstruction of Europe, it did not continue to persecute the British Empire in the Yapian trade. At the same time, the military strength of the British Empire was still strong, and the United States was not easy to force.

But after World War II, when the second International Drug Convention Conference was held in 1946, the British Empire was no longer an empire on which the sun never set, the economy collapsed, the colonies were all independent, and the United States became a super military power.

The second windfall of the British Empire was gold and diamonds in the southern colonies of Africa.

Since the discovery of gold and diamonds in southern Africa, the British Empire has stepped up its colonial penetration into the region, and the British army in Cape Town has taken control of the gold and diamonds in the region, so that the British Empire can obtain huge wealth every year.

So far, the British Empire's pound currency has been attacked dozens of times by Li Weiguo's illegal banknote plan, but although the pound has repeatedly experienced a sharp depreciation, the British Empire will eventually restore it, through the issuance of new pounds, although it has not been able to restore the world dominance of the pound, but the exchange rate of the RMB and the pound sterling has been stabilized in the range of 1 to 7.8~9, which shows that the pound's strong position for hundreds of years is not so easy to be completely crushed.

The third windfall refers to the pound sterling.

Since the British Empire seized world hegemony, the British pound has gradually dominated the world, the British Empire implemented the gold standard, but used strong ships and cannons to forcibly pry open the doors of the world, and then implemented the British pound and the gold standard. Because all countries in the world at that time were silver and copper standard, under the strength of the British Empire, they were forced to exchange silver and copper for gold, which was equivalent on the surface, but in fact, the British Empire plundered the silver mines in South America and Spain, and the British Empire became worthless because of the implementation of the gold standard, and in other silver standard countries, silver was quite valuable, so the British Empire used cheap silver to earn the difference and make huge profits.

This is a very hidden plundering of capital, which ordinary people do not understand at all, especially the Qing Dynasty at that time, and the loss in this regard is no less than that of the Yapian trade.

Now, Li Weiguo has cut off the British Empire's Yapian production base and cut off this windfall source of the British Empire. On the contrary, Li Weiguo upgraded the Golden Triangle's Yapian to Bliss Medicine, and sold it "legally" all over the world under the banner of medicine, which was more lucrative than the British Empire's Yapian trade back then, but it would not be criticized by the international community.

At the same time, Li Weiguo's counterfeit banknote plan also destroyed the British Empire's hegemony in the world of the British pound, and the renminbi replaced the pound sterling to dominate the world currency market. In the past, the British Empire used the British pound to plunder the world's wealth, but now it has been replaced by the renminbi and has become a tool for the Chinese Empire to plunder the world's wealth.

The British Empire lost two major sources of windfall, and today South Africa is left with gold and diamonds.

With the establishment of the world's largest diamond mining base in Argyle, the Chinese Empire was bound to attack the British Empire's diamond dominance in South Africa, leading to a decline in diamond prices.

However, Li Weiguo not only wanted to compete with the British Empire for the diamond market, but also to seize the British Empire's Cape Town colony and South Africa's gold and mineral resources.

After all, the Chinese Empire was also on the gold standard, and the demand for gold was huge, and if it could seize the gold production base in South Africa, it would not only cut off the last source of foreign money for the British Empire, but also obtain more wealth for the Chinese Empire, killing two birds with one stone.

Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared.

As soon as Li Weiguo set his mind on South Africa, he learned that the Boers in South Africa had clashed with the British.

This reminded Li Weiguo of the Anglo-Boer War in history, where the Boers were dissatisfied with the control of gold by the British and set off a war of resistance, but unfortunately it was finally suppressed by the British Empire.

Li Weiguo quickly seized the opportunity and decided to intervene in the upcoming Anglo-Boer War.

Not long ago, prospectors discovered the world's largest Witwatersrand gold mine (Rand for short) in a remote pasture between Pretoria and the Vaal River in the Transvaal. Johannesburg was subsequently established on this gold mine. Profits from the gold mines and tax revenues allowed the Transvaal's economy to skyrocket, while also increasing friction with the British.

This is because the British Empire was defeated by the Chinese Empire one after another, with heavy losses, the loss of overseas colonies, and the heavy damage to the economy, coupled with the endless large-scale arms race with the Chinese Empire, especially the recent construction of super-dreadnought battleships, each of which cost as much as 20 million yuan, or as much as 150 million new pounds, which caused a heavy burden on the British Empire's finances and was overwhelmed.

In particular, the British Empire did not actually build super-dreadnought battleships, but super-dreadnought battlecruisers, which cost much more than super-dreadnought battleships, each super-dreadnought battlecruiser cost more than 200 million new pounds, leaving the British Empire heavily indebted and in dire need of capital injection.

It was at this time that the Transvaal government announced that foreign nationals residing in Johannesburg would be required to pay full taxes, but would not be entitled to participate in presidential and legislative elections. In addition, all aliens are not allowed to hold government office and their children cannot attend government-funded schools.

This law was protested by the local British, who were mostly British in the Transvaal.

The Transvaal's desire to break free from the control of the British Empire led to a trade war and tariff warfare with the British colonies of South Africa, and the Transvaal's high taxes and economic restrictions on British mining companies in the country strained and deteriorated relations between the Transvaal and the British.

At this moment, William's coalition government was suffering from lack of funds to expand its armaments, the richest Australian colonies were robbed by the Chinese Empire, and the most lucrative Yapian trade was robbed by the Chinese Empire.

For this reason, since William came to power, he has gradually increased the heavy taxes imposed on the British in South Africa to cover the fiscal deficit.

As a result, the Transvaal increased taxes, making British miners miserable.

They wrote letters to Queen Victoria (without telegrams) asking her to protect the interests of her British subjects.

William was worried about running out of money, so he fell asleep and sent a pillow, so he planned to completely occupy the Transvaal, seize all the gold and diamond mines, and make up for the British Empire's fiscal deficit.

Half a year later, the British Empire held its last negotiations with the Transvaal, and the two sides parted unhappily.

In fact, the British Empire did not have the sincerity to negotiate at all, and the conditions were harsh.

This was also forced by the Chinese Empire, the British Empire was really poor and had no money, so it could only attack the Transvaal and the adjacent Orange.

Therefore, while negotiating, the British side seized the time to send troops from overseas to South Africa to prepare for war.

This time, world opinion no longer supported the British Empire.

The last Anglo-Boer War was when the British Empire was strong, and all European countries were afraid of the British Empire, so they did not intervene.

But this time it was different, the Allied bloc was formed, and of course it was going to be against the British Empire.

At the same time, the Netherlands was also a member of the Entente, but the Boers were of Dutch descent, which made the Dutch angry.

Although the two sides are allies, there will always be only interests between countries.

When the Dutch felt that their interests were being harmed, whether they were allies or not, they naturally resisted.

As a result, the Netherlands and the British Empire were at odds.

However, the British Empire was too short of money, and the Netherlands was a small country, so William did not dump the Dutch at all, and still decided to use force against the Boers for the sake of gold and diamonds.

The Dutch became popular, and a bizarre scene appeared in Europe.

The Dutch were still very popular in Europe, and the whole of Europe began to denounce the British Empire, and even the French and Russians fell into the ground, because they also looked at the gold and diamonds of the Boers and wanted a piece of the British Empire.

Unfortunately, the British Empire was too short of money and resolutely refused to share the spoils, which led to the French and Tsarist empires following suit, criticizing the British Empire for preparing to use force against the Boers.

Not to mention the Allied bloc, which took advantage of this opportunity to vigorously win over all countries and dismantle the British together.

The Western world was swift in launching a movement of sympathy and solidarity with the Boers. The Netherlands and Belgium formed numerous civil society groups, solicited donations, published articles, established foundations, and donated wartime mobile hospitals and medical equipment to the Transvaal. Thousands of volunteers from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, the United States, Russia, Ireland, Italy and other countries crossed the ocean to the Transvaal, ready to fight alongside the Boers.

However, William can't care about the countries of the world scolding him, and he is completely shameless.

At this time, the United States strongly supported the British Empire and supported the military operations of the British Empire.

Li Weiguo, who was still vacationing in the southern capital of Sydney, was always in control of the world situation, and after learning that the Western world had formed volunteers to participate in the Boer War, Li Weiguo quickly made a public speech, saying that the Chinese Empire would also provide all kinds of assistance to the Boers, and even allowed the Chinese people to voluntarily go to South Africa to help the Boers fight together.

If it had been before, Li Weiguo had said this, if the Chinese were allowed to participate in the war, they would definitely not have won the support of the people of Western countries. But this time it was different, the Western countries sent volunteers to participate, and the three allies of the British Empire, the Netherlands, France, and Russia, all stood on opposite sides, so they didn't care about the Chinese Empire also participating.

The Dutch government hoped that as many countries would support the Boers, and for the sake of its own national interests, it could no longer care whether it was an Allied or an Entente power.

As a result, a global volunteer army of all nationalities and races was soon formed. (To be continued.) )