When Qin Zhiyuan was in full swing of preparations, Pierre was not idle. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Unlike Qin Zhiyuan, who was mainly military-oriented, Pierre had to coordinate the interests of different interest groups before he set off.

Pierre was instrumental in his quest for the post of governor of Madagascar, played by the Reynaud and Rothschild families, as well as the bankers of Paris.

The reason why these people will invest in Pierre is that they need to get a return after Pierre takes office, so when the dust settles and Pierre has obtained the position of Governor of Madagascar, Pierre still has a lot of work to do to ensure that these investors get what they want and lay a good foundation for future cooperation.

Basically, Madagascar is indeed very rich in resources, including iron ore, coal mines, and gold mines, but because of the lack of cooperation of the locals, there are still many areas in Madagascar where the French have not set foot at all, so only a small part of the area has been initially explored, and there are more areas waiting for people to explore.

It was the mining rights of these mines that Pierre needed to balance.

You must know that Madagascar is now under the control of the French, in Madagascar, there has been a vested interest group that has been operating painstakingly for many years, of course, compared with these people gathered around Pierre, the local businessmen of Madagascar are clumsy in terms of financial resources and influence, but the strong dragon does not suppress the snake, Pierre took these businessmen to parachute into Madagascar, and it is impossible to completely occupy all the mineral resources of Madagascar.

Now Madagascar, the most important minerals are iron and media, for the old Renault, these two things are not of much value, although Madagascar's coal mines are rich, but the economic value is not large, even if it is mined, thousands of miles to Europe or Asia, there is not much oil and water to fish, at this time Madagascar's geographical disadvantages are magnified, no matter where you want to go, Madagascar is a little too far.

Speaking of iron ore, under the premise that the old Renault already owns part of the iron ore in the Pilbara region, the iron ore in Madagascar is not very attractive to the old Renault. Compared to the Pilbara region of Australia, Madagascar's iron ore is not on the same order of magnitude in terms of taste and reserves.

As for the gold mine, it is even more chicken, perhaps for ordinary people, gold undoubtedly makes the most attractive, but for people like the old Renault, gold is not of great significance, with basic resources such as coal and iron, as much gold as you want is at your fingertips.

After this analysis, Madagascar, which seems to be rich in resources, is actually a chicken rib existence for old Renault, which is really puzzling for old Renault.

There is nothing to be puzzled, in the past few years with Qin Zhiyuan, the old Renault is now an out-and-out mining tycoon, with the world's many jewels like the New Baku oil field, and the huge wealth of the Pilbara iron ore waiting for the old Renault to excavate, so there are really not many things that can make the old Renault look at it now.

Fortunately, the old Renault still has the strong backing of Qin Zhiyuan, under the guidance of Qin Zhiyuan, the old Renault won the right to explore mineral resources in southeast Madagascar from Pierre, no matter what kind of mineral resources the old Renault found in the southeast of Madagascar, the old Renault has the right to mine for 50 years.

In the eyes of the Rothschild family and the bankers in Paris, the old Renault is a gamble, but only Qin Zhiyuan knows that there are a large number of bauxite resources in the southeast of Madagascar, of which there is a reserve of more than 100 million tons of bauxite in the Manantenina region alone.

Compared with iron ore and coal mines, Qin Zhiyuan attaches more importance to aluminum mines in Madagascar.

With the vigorous development of the aviation industry and the automobile industry, aluminum as a light metal, in aviation, construction, automobiles and other important industrial fields have a very broad application, aluminum itself has material properties, and the unique properties of its alloy, so that the position of aluminum in the industry is becoming more and more important.

The old Renault entered the aluminum industry, and there is a unique advantage, because of the relationship between the federal group, the old Renault can be connected through Allen and the Mellon family in the United States, the Mellon family is a monopoly on the aluminum industry in the United States, and must have its own unique technical advantages, if the old Renault can join forces with the Mellon family, then not to mention that the old Renault has also established the Mellon family's advantages in the United States, at least it can occupy a place in the European aluminum industry.

This is enough, the situation in Europe is more complex than in the United States, and the relationship between various interest groups is intertwined, and it is not so easy to get ahead in an industry.

With Qin Zhiyuan's support, the direction of the old Renault was immediately clear, Pierre did not set up obstacles for the old Renault in this matter, and the Rothschild family and the bankers in Paris did not mean to compete with the old Renault for the southeast of Madagascar, so the old Renault simply won the mining rights in the southeast of the family's private house, and when the Rothschild family and the bankers in Paris were still competing for the dominance of those existing mineral deposits, the old Renault had begun to form his own team and was ready to go at any time.

has been with Qin Zhiyuan for a long time, and the old Renault is also used to doing things out of the ordinary, the big capitalists of this era are indeed unscrupulous, although Pierre, the governor, has not yet taken office, and the African Legion formed by Lan Fang has not yet set off, but the old Renault has already organized an expeditionary force by himself, ready to go to Madagascar at any time.

Now the old Renault does things, as long as it involves the military aspect, Qin Zhiyuan must be indispensable, and the mining area in the southeast of Madagascar won by the old Renault originally had Qin Zhiyuan's share of forty or five. Therefore, the "exploration escort team" organized by the old Renault has a total of 1,200 people, which is just the size of an infantry battalion.

It is only a battalion, there is no need to reorganize, Qin Zhiyuan directly transferred a reinforced battalion from Lanfang's active army, gave it the name of "exploration escort", and took a cruise from Lanfang to Madagascar, preparing to start colonizing Madagascar.

That's right, it's "colonization", and now Lanfang already has the qualifications to colonize, which is recognized by the whole world. Although this force still bears the name of "exploration escort", everyone knows that this is a step that Lan Fang will take sooner or later, and like Britain, France, and the United States, when Lan Fang's strength develops to a certain extent, Lan Fang will definitely choose to expand abroad.

In mid-June, the war between Port Hedland and Western Australia came to an end after the British co-ordination.

As a result, the state of Western Australia recognises Port Hedland's autonomous status, grants Port Hedland seats in the state legislature to match its strength, and no longer imposes an export surcharge to ensure that the Port of Hedland's free trade practices are not interfered with.

In return, Port Hedland released all of the Perth Expeditionary Force prisoners of war, including all ships including the Pass, and Port Hedland recognized the leadership of the Western Australian government and paid taxes to the Western Australian government as agreed before the war.

Objectively speaking, this result not only protects the face of the Western Australian government, but also ensures the sustainable development of Port Hedland, which is a win-win result.

But everyone knows that the strife is far from over, and that even the seeds of hatred have been planted, and that Port Hedland, now that it has achieved the autonomy recognized by the British and Western Australian governments, it will be even more unfettered in the future.

A very surprising result, although Port Hedland showed great strength, but did not attract the British to suppress, on the contrary, the British made a very intriguing choice, and even in the whole process of adjustment, the British position was somewhat biased towards Port Hedland.

If you only look at Port Hedland, you may feel that the British have taken the wrong medicine, but if you zoom in to the whole of Australia, the British choice is not surprising.

In the World War, the Anzac fought for the British, and throughout the course of the World War, the Anzac fought bravely and performed many feats and performed prominently in the Commonwealth Army.

After the World War, the Anzac returned to Australia and New Zealand, and their outstanding performance in the World War began to become a burden for the Australian government.

In fact, all the credit is won by the heavy casualties of the soldiers, and the better the performance, the more casualties there are, and the same is true for the Anzac in the world war.

After the war, the bereavement of disabled and killed soldiers became a major problem.

The Australian government's wartime supply system in the world war caused a lot of resentment from all walks of life in Australia, but the Australians showed patience in order to deal with the Germans. When the world war ended, just when Australians felt that they were finally going to breathe a sigh of relief, the Australian government not only did not touch the wartime supply system, but instead intensified its taxes.

This exceptional situation arises because of the issue of paying bereavement benefits to disabled soldiers. Originally, the money was supposed to be paid by the British, but now that the British are taking care of themselves, the money falls back on the Australian government.

Therefore, the current Australian government is quite critical of the British, so much so that there are endless calls for self-government status.

Against this background, what the British need to do is balance.

For example, in the war between Port Hedland and the Western Australian government, Britain appeared as a "mediator", which fully emphasized its suzerainty status and showed its indispensable value to the Australian government.

Perhaps for the British, it is more in the interests of the British to have a small accident in Australia.

With the war between Port Hedland and the WA government subsided, Qin Zhiyuan was finally able to visit the UK with peace of mind.

And just when Qin Zhiyuan arrived in London, the "exploration escort" organized by the old Renault finally arrived in Manantenina, southeast of Madagascar, and the first conflict with the locals broke out.

From the first moment the Lanfang people set foot in Madagascar, the war has started simultaneously, and it is destined to be a dark history that will be difficult to tell in the future, both for the Malagasy people and for the Lanfang people.

(To be continued.) )