After a few days of recuperation, Wickham miraculously discovered: his injuries had recovered from seventy-seven eighty-eight! It is said that the injuries have been broken for 100 days, and Wickham suffered a gunshot wound and was unconscious when he was rescued. But Wickham had only been in his tent for three days before he was able to move freely.

Faced with such a jaw-dropping phenomenon, Priest Kochibu shouted that Wickham had been favored by the sun god to recover so quickly! As soon as the news spread, even the ordinary Xhosa people in the tribe no longer rejected Wickham as a white man. That's good news for Wickham.

Wickham secretly rejoiced in his heart, is this the benefit of crossing? Wickham remembers that the ones on the Internet of a certain novel are big, either from a wealthy family and directly become rich and handsome, or they have particularly awesome superpowers, or they have the help of alien technology before they are opened.

It's just the ability of the body to recover quickly after an injury, which is a bit of a chicken rib. You can imagine who would want to be seriously injured? For example, this time Wickham was injured, and if he was unlucky, he hung up directly, and no matter how fast the recovery speed was, what was the use of fart?

Since his recovery, Wickham has been training the first 200 members of the Xhosa Guns. These team members are carefully selected by Prince Savida, these people are not only good at horsemanship, but also very rich in combat skills, they are all old herdsmen who have been fighting with the Boers on the border line for many years.

Wickham was not satisfied with the origin of these soldiers, because the herdsmen, accustomed to freedom, could not adapt to the line infantry that emphasized discipline. However, after seeing the horsemanship of those soldiers, Wickham changed his mind, and these Xhosa people living on horseback could be used to form a cavalry infantry, which is commonly known as "horseback infantry".

Mounted infantry can ride horses when maneuvering, and dismount when they need to fight, so that the firepower of the musketeers and the mobility of the cavalry can be combined. Of course, in fact, the best way to do this is to form dragoons with carbines, but the weapons funded by the British are infantry standard rifles, so they can only settle for the next best thing. In this way, the Xhosa people will be able to overcome the dilemma of insufficient infantry mobility and will be able to compete with the Boer dragoons.

As for the training method, Wickham directly applied the method of training the independent company of the Marine Corps some time ago. In particular, the local method of distinguishing between left and right directions was also applicable to these Xhosa soldiers. Prince Savida stayed by Wickham's side, acting as a translator of military orders.

Slowly, Prince Savida became interested in such a training model and turned to Wickham for advice whenever he could. Wickham was also happy to teach Prince Saveda some basic military knowledge, and was willing to do anything that would cause trouble for the Dutch anyway.

But that's about it, because Wickham himself is not a formally trained officer, and has commanded a company so far, which is considered a halfway home. If Prince Savida knew that Wickham had really commanded the troops, it would only be a few months, and he would probably be so angry that he would vomit blood.

After the basic formation training was completely handed over to Prince Savida, Wickham's training tasks were reduced all of a sudden, at least until the initial queue training was completed. Coupled with Lord Magalny's request for Wykeham to assess the war potential of the Xhosa, he began to wander around the tribe.

Originally, Wickham was a little worried that the Xhosa, who had been tricked by Portuguese spies pretending to be merchants, would be on his guard. After a circle, Wickham realized that it was not the case at all, and those Xhosa people were quite respectful to him who was favored by the sun god, and basically did not have any precautions, which allowed Wickham to avoid some unnecessary trouble.

When Wickham walked to a mud house, he found a young Xhosa boy playing with a stone that shone blue and shone softly in the sun's rays. Wickham's heart chuckled, this is definitely not an ordinary stone, maybe a priceless blue diamond!

Why would Wickham go to the standard dick silk of his previous life like this, and he will know the valuable blue diamond? This is because in June 2014, Petra Diamonds found a 122-carat blue diamond in a diamond mine in South Africa, and the value of this diamond was as high as 6.3 billion yuan!

The discovery shocked the world, and major media outlets were frantically reporting on the sky-high price of the blue diamond. A domestic TV station also followed the trend and made a program about diamond knowledge, which made Wickham, who had just graduated not long ago, also know some knowledge of diamonds, especially blue diamonds.

Although this stone is only a little better than ordinary stones in color, but the diamond ore is generally like this, and South Africa is a world-famous diamond source in later generations, so Wickham can almost determine that it is the diamond that makes women all over the world crazy!

At the end of the eighteenth century, there were only two areas where diamond mining was made, India and Brazil, and the production was not large. South Africa emerged as a well-known diamond source after 1866. Speaking of the discovery of diamonds in South Africa, there is an interesting little story here.

In 1866, on the south bank of the Orange River, 60 kilometers from the town of Hope in the colonial district of Cape Town, South Africa, a shepherd boy picked up a yellow shiny stone on the way out.

Soon after, a guest named Koenkok came to the shepherd boy's house, and during the conversation, the shepherd boy's mother mentioned the shiny stone, which made Koenkovk, who had heard of diamonds, shine in his eyes. He asked the mother for the stone, and scratched it on the glass window of the shepherd boy's house, and sure enough, he made a mark on the window. The kind mother saw that the guest liked the stone, so she gave it to Koenkovk.

Koencock took the stone to the town of Hope and asked a diamond dealer to have it appraised, but the diamond dealer was not sure if it was a diamond or not, so he suggested that he send the stone to Fort Goses for a geology to identify. But because of other matters, Kony put aside the appraisal for the time being. 1

In 867, Koencock boasted of the shining stone to one of his friends, Aurili. Aurili volunteered to send the stone to a geologist for identification, who wrote back not long after confirming the true identity of the shiny stone.

When the British governor of Cape Town heard of this, he bought the diamond for five hundred pounds, which was a lot of money at the time. After Koencock got the money, he did not forget the mother of the shepherd boy who gave him the diamond, and gave half of the five hundred pounds to the kind mother. This diamond was later known as the famous diamond "Eureka".

Koencock's good fortune didn't end there, as he guessed that a black witch doctor also had a shiny stone, too. So he went to visit the witch doctor, and they soon came to an agreement. Koencock gave the black witch doctor five hundred sheep, ten cows and a horse, worth two hundred and fifty pounds, in exchange for the stone in the witch doctor's hand.

The witch doctor secretly laughed at the white man for being a fool with a lot of money, for fear that the white man would regret it. How did he know that Koencock sold the diamond for £11,200. This diamond is the 83-carat Star of South Africa. After the Star of South Africa appeared in Europe, it shocked the world, almost all Europeans wanted to try their luck in South Africa, so the vigorous diamond fever in South Africa began, and countless whites and slaves flocked to the Orange River in South Africa with shovels to dig diamond mines.

The Kimberley newspapers of the time described it this way: "The sailors left the ships anchored in the harbor, the soldiers left the army, the policemen threw away their rifles and let the prisoners go, the merchants abandoned their thriving businesses, the clerks left their offices, the peasants starved their cattle to death, and they all marched towards the banks of the Vaal and Orange rivers......"

However, there are no diamond mines in Cape Town today, and the local economy is still supported by agriculture and animal husbandry. That gives Wickham a chance to pick up the slack! Because it has not experienced the crazy diamond mining of later generations, there are many fine diamonds on the riverbed of South African rivers now, which is definitely a huge wealth!

Staring at the stone in the little boy's hand, Wickham's heart is on fire, this blue diamond according to his titanium alloy dog eyes, will definitely not be less than 70 carats, although there is no 122 carats of blue diamonds in later generations, but such diamonds are definitely rare in this era! Bringing this beautiful diamond back to Europe and then selling it to the emerging bourgeois nouveau riche will definitely sell for tens of thousands of pounds!

Feeling the hungry wolf's eyes in Wickham's eyes, the Kosa child cowered, turned around and walked back to his tent. How could Wickham let the duck run away, so he rushed up with a brisk stride and stopped the child. When the boy saw that a tall white man had stopped him, and his eyes were so terrible that he could no longer hold back his tears.

As soon as this little kid cried, Wickham was a little embarrassed, and now he was very much like the lewd and perverted men who snatched children's lollipops in later generations. Wickham didn't care if the other party could understand him, and hurriedly said: "It's not good for the children to stop crying, it's not good for the elder brother." ”

Unfortunately, the child couldn't understand English and continued to cry at the top of his throat. The parents of the children in the house heard their children crying and went out of the tent to check the situation: they saw a white man standing on their son's side, helplessly coaxing the child. Isn't that what the priest said was a good friend of Prince Savida, who was favored by the "sun god"?

The father of the child respectfully walked up to Wickham and scolded the boy a few times, and the boy obediently stopped crying. In the hearts of ordinary Xhosa people, those who can be favored by the sun god are messengers who have come to the mortal world with the will of the sun god, and they cannot be blasphemed.

Wickham breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the child's father scolding the boy. Wickham, who has never been married, really doesn't know how to coax in the face of the crying of children. Of course, he did not forget the blue diamond, and gestured to the boy's father.

Because of the language barrier, coupled with Wickham's suffocated body language, it took a long time for the other party to understand that Wickham wanted the stone in the child's hand. The child's father smiled slightly, graciously took the diamond from the child's hand and handed it to Wickham, signaling that it could be given to him, anyway, there are many such small stones and big fish in the river.

Wickham was suddenly full of black lines, such a valuable thing was given away? It seems that the Xhosa people really don't know the value of these little stones in Europe, but Wickham doesn't want to ask for anything for nothing, and wants to give something to the father and son.

It's a pity that Lin Zihan touched all over his body, but he didn't find anything valuable, Gini had a few, but unfortunately for the Xhosa people, the British coins were useless. After thinking about it, Wickham took off his top hat and put it on the little boy's head.

The little boy got a hat and happily touched it with his hand, and the child's father thanked him again and again in the native language. Rao is Wickham's face is a little thick, and this hat is worth ten shillings at most, which is really a drop in the bucket compared to the tens of thousands of pounds of diamonds.

Having the opportunity to make a fortune, Wickham was not in the mood to go any further, so he returned to the camp of the Guns and Guns early to discuss the matter with Prince Savida.