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"It's a huge project!"

In his own time, Lin Haifeng knew that Pretoria, South Africa, had a prosperous gold mine that was unparalleled in the world, but how big was this gold vein? He didn't have the time, nor the opportunity to go there or even admire it. But he knew very well that a gold mine of this magnitude would not work if it were to be mined by primitive mining methods. He also remembered that George Harrison, the lucky Australian gold digger, had sold the ownership of his unrivalled wealth to others at a very low price because he had no money to develop the gold mines, and he became obscure for the rest of his life.

He closed his eyes slightly, silently pondered in his heart for a while, and then opened his eyes and looked at Ai Hua, "Have you made relevant calculations on how to mine in the future?" ”

"Roughly calculated, even if it is gradually exploited, the scale of investment is very large," Having said that, Ai Hua's expression was obviously very excited, "Your Highness, you came at the right time this time, I am just waiting to ask you for instructions." The gold mines there are not trivial, and they have to be mined and mined well. After the news of the gold mine was reported back to Director Wang, I invited some mining experts to follow Zhou Ting, and they secretly conducted on-the-spot exploration and evaluation of the area again, and finally came to the conclusion that if the original practice of indiscriminate mining was carried out, the losses would be huge. Therefore, I have ordered Platini and them, taking advantage of the hot market, to speed up their secret withdrawal from the stock and bond markets of Britain and France in the near future. In addition, we are also preparing to hire a large number of local people and organize them to ......"

"Mining is a must," Lin Haifeng waved his hand, intercepting Aihua's words. "And you have to do it scientifically, as you said, it's a non-renewable resource. But...... You can do the same with the upfront funding and mining design plan, as for the hired personnel...... Except for the caregivers who are urgently needed at the moment, the others are still on hold for the time being. ”

Lin Haifeng smiled when he said this, and then said, "Originally, our Celestial Empire has been preparing for foreign immigration for a long time, and we have also moved some people to the United States and Canada one after another. However, with the recovery of the whole country. Now in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Mongolia, Northeast China and other places. A large amount of wasteland is also in urgent need of a large number of immigrants, but for those of us who like to love home, this kind of persuasion work is by no means a one-time effort. But rest assured, China will do its best to do a good job in this important work. When I go back, I will make arrangements with the whole plan. From technical equipment to workers, China will give you strong support. It is naturally good to develop gold mines and increase the income of the heavens and earths, but if we can take this opportunity to find a solid foothold there for us, the significance is far more than a few dollars can compare. ”

"What does Your Highness mean...... Where is our sphere of influence established? With His Highness's words, Ai Huadi's eyes suddenly lit up, haha. Now there's a place to show your hands. For the history of the Transvaal Republic and the whole of South Africa, where his great gold mines were located. He'd figured it out.

At the end of the war with Napoleon, Britain had hundreds of thousands of retired soldiers and sailors who could not be resettled, in order to prevent the huge employment pressure caused by these people, which would cause serious social problems for the whole country. The British government began to organize immigration to the sparsely populated Australia, Canada, and South Africa. In South Africa, the British who had emigrated to the Cape soon outnumbered the Afrikaners, who had already emigrated for more than 100 years, and replaced the Dutch dominance over South Africa.

Because Britain was pursuing a policy of free trade throughout the world, it was to turn all the colonies of the British Empire into markets for British industrial products and raw materials. The economic basis of the Cape Colony was based on the backward economic form of the local Boer ranchers who could obtain large tracts of land for free and enslaved the local blacks, which was obviously not in line with the economic policies of the British era of free capital. Thereupon. In the thirties of the XIX century. The British proudly nationalized all the land in the Cape Colony, that is, overnight the land became "royal land". Boer farmers were not allowed to occupy and develop land for free, and the land auction system was introduced, while the Boers were restricted from moving north of the Orange River.

At the same time, the British also publicly announced the abolition of slavery in the Cape Colony and replaced the traditional Boer Autonomous Assembly with its strict system of colonial appointments. The "equality of all men" brought about by the British colonizers deeply touched the most sensitive nerves of every Boer farmer who was permeated with a strong racist ideology. Out of extreme anxiety and dissatisfaction with British colonial rule, a large number of Boer farmers were finally forced to abandon their pastures and houses, drive ox carts, drive livestock, and take all their belongings and slaves, and chose to leave the rich and fertile Hex and Bull valleys, and poured out of the Cape Colony, and began a great migration to the interior of South Africa, which had only sand and low shrubs.

After years of twists and tribulations, the Boers finally established the Transvaal Republic, with Pretoria as its capital, and the Orange Free State with Bloemfontein, which were recognized by the British government a few years earlier.

South Africa was one of the most backward white colonies in the world. Already sparsely populated and scattered, the local people are mainly engaged in animal husbandry and semi-subsistence agriculture, and there is an extreme lack of capital, and the development of industry, agriculture and commerce is slow. It was because of the poverty that white immigrants from Europe sailed across the Cape of Good Hope and preferred to sail to the richer cities of Australia and New Zealand rather than settle here. And the whole of South Africa, the further north it goes, the more backward it becomes, and the Transvaal Orange Free State is definitely the poorest place. In the Transvaal, there were no schools, no banks, and almost no roads, and the rich never wanted to invest in such a poor place.

But now? Now it's different, although his Citroën company has a "gold finder's ownership certificate" that also enjoys tax exemption, and the gold ore found is owned by him. Although this gold mine is still in a barren land that the British once looked down on, and his Citroën company still hangs the sign of the Chinese Chinese and righteous French Empire. However, the greedy British had already smelled the smell, pricked up their ears, and widened their blood-red eyes, and it was difficult to predict whether the local natives would have hot eyes at that time, and to what extent. In this "very good" situation, if His Royal Highness can really transfer 100,000, 200,000, or more "men" from the Celestial Empire to him, hehe, then what he will build and lead in the future will not only be a gold mine, but a few or even a dozen Celestial Empire legions.

"Your Highness, when the time comes, you should leave us a few more military experts who came with you this time!" Thinking of this, Aihua blurted out this sentence almost subconsciously.

Lin Haifeng smiled slightly, didn't take his words, but immediately brought the conversation back to the original two million taels of silver, "Now let's talk about the arrears......"

"Your Royal Highness......" Fu Shanxiang was a little incomprehensible, she looked at Lin Haifeng, blinked her eyes, and began to ask for Mr. Bicester, "Since they are all from their own family, they are not all the same, besides...... Besides, aren't they still waiting for money......"

Lin Haifeng waved his hand lightly at Fu Shanxiang, and then pouted towards Aihua, "Silly girl, don't listen to his nonsense, I don't know if they have money or not." ”

Ai Hua laughed again, "Your Highness, do you really want it?" ”

"Of course I really want it, but I don't want this money," Lin Haifeng stretched out his hand, took a piece of paper from his wife Liu Xianghe, and handed it to Aihua with a smile, "Look clearly, it is the current British Emirate of Kuwait, and there is a schematic map of the land located in several provinces adjacent to the Ottoman border with Persia and Kuwait, go and buy them, and the specific detailed plan will be carefully deployed by Wang Haiyang with you." ”

"Buy land...... Ai Hua looked at Lin Haifeng for a while, and suddenly laughed proudly, "Your Highness, who is willing to buy land now that they have nothing to do." In the places where these ghosts you don't want to stay, where can you still use two million, it is estimated that less than half of them will be done. Haha, I love this kind of business too much. ”

"If the shareholders behind Citroen can come forward again, I guess you, Mr. Bicester, will have to smile crookedly in the end," Lin Haifeng couldn't help but laugh after snorting. "Your Highness, the places you mentioned are very hot all year round, and there is nothing worth using, even if you buy them, what is the use?" The attentive Fu Shanxiang couldn't help but ask.

"Live," Lin Haifeng pretended to be surprised and glanced up and down at Fu Shanxiang a few times, "Now we have a small population of 40,000,000, no war, the day is better, everyone is crackling and scolding, I can't say what day, and there is no place to stand?" Haha, I call it planning ahead. ”

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