And in addition to these formal channels, Ren Chao also has some additional income. This so-called extra income refers to the gold finger carried by Ren Chao. The system carried by Ren Chao gives Ren Chao certain benefits. That is, according to the number of territories and populations actually controlled by Ren Chao, Ren Chao will be rewarded with a part of the points every month. Although these points cannot be directly exchanged for money, they can be directly exchanged for various materials. Including all kinds of advanced industrial equipment, weapons and equipment, all kinds of technical data, and even all types of talents can be exchanged through the guò system. Therefore, for Ren Chao, these system points are undoubtedly a hard currency that is better than gold.

Ren Chao secretly calculated that the more territory he mastered, the more people he had, and the more points he would get every month. And now that Ren Chao has mastered most of the territory and population of Huaxia, Ren Chao silently calculated that if all these points are converted into various materials, they will be converted into silver, and Ren Chao will increase his income by more than 50 million taels every year, and it is only a lot more. Don't underestimate these 50 million taels, you must know that during the First Sino-Japanese War, the annual financial revenue of the entire Qing Dynasty was only 70 million taels. And this additional income, as long as it is not a time of war, is more than enough to cover military expenses.

When Yang Jichang heard this, he remembered this stubble, so he had no doubts, and responded respectfully, "Yes, I'll do it immediately!" ”

In 1867, a child was playing on the banks of the Orange River when he stumbled upon a sparkling "pebble". When the Boer farmer (a descendant of the Dutch) came to learn about the "stone", he took it back to Europe for analysis, and it was confirmed that the "stone" was a real diamond. It is said to be the first diamond found in South Africa. After this news came out, it caused a sensation in the whole world, and Westerners came to South Africa one after another to "explore treasures". The discovery of a large diamond worth 625,000 francs at the time in 1869 convinced Europeans of South Africa's wealth of treasure and led to an unprecedented search for diamonds. In 1884 and 1886, the richest gold deposits in the world were discovered in the territory of the Transvail. In Europe, there was another "gold rush", and gold diggers and diamond seekers flocked to South Africa. "The sailors left the army, the merchants closed their shops, the clerks went out of their offices, the farmers abandoned their land and their livestock, and they all ran to the banks of the Orange and Waal rivers with hunger." In just a few years, the largest number of gold prospectors in South Africa was British, surpassing the local Boers (descendants of the Dutch), with a ratio of 7:3. The British took control of most of the mining rights and organized several large companies, the largest of which was the British Cecil? Rhodes's three major corporations, who made $5 million in profits from diamond and gold mines in 1890 alone.

The British colonial authorities in the Cape annexed large swaths of South African land in order to monopolize the diamond-producing region: in 1871, they annexed the diamond-producing region of Sigligaland; The Republic of Natalia, which annexed the Boers in 1877.; In 1877-1878 it annexed all of Cafraria and Valfus Bay in the northwest. In order to prevent the Boers from advancing to the eastern seaboard, the British prepared to seize Zululand in 1878 and destroy the Zulu state. In 1887, the British annexed Zululand. After the defeat of the Zulus, a conflict between the British and the Boers was inevitable. IN 1880, THE BRITISH ANNEXED THE TRANSVAAL REGION, BUT AFTER THE DEFEAT AT MAJNBAHILL (1881), THE BRITISH HAD TO WITHDRAW FROM THE TRANSVAAL. Shortly thereafter, significant gold deposits were discovered in the Transvaal area. The ensuing British gold prospectors came to the region from the Cape and Natal, and thousands of Britons began to settle in the region and demanded the right to vote and equal payment of taxes - but without success. As a result, the situation in the region has become very tense.

In the early 90s, the Anglo-South African company expanded its territory to the Congolese border, and the Anglo-African Lake District company invaded Nyasaland. In this way, the British colonies in South Africa were united. The British and South African colonial prime ministers, Rhodes, clamored that the British wanted to conquer the whole world and realize the so-called "Cape-Cairo" plan in Africa, that is, to try to unite British North and South Africa. By the mid-90s. The only obstacle to the "Cape-Cairo" imperialist project in Lodz was the two Boer republics - the Transvalla and the Orange. Rhodes organized foreign migrants from Johannesburg to overthrow the rule of President Kruger of the Transanswar Republic from within, while preparing armed attacks from the outside. December 1895 - January 1896. The Rhodes faction launched a sneak attack on the Republic of Transvaal from the west, which was completely crushed by Kruger. In order to protect their interests, the Boers drew closer to Germany and confronted the British. The Anglo-Burkini contradictions are becoming more and more acute, and a large-scale war is brewing.

In the autumn of 1899, the British began to assemble troops near the border between the two Boer republics. In order to prevent the British invasion, the Boers declared war on Britain on October 11, 1899, and launched military operations, and the Anglo-Boer War broke out.

By the beginning of the war, the British army numbered about 30,000 men, and it was supplemented by conscription, with outdated weapons, poor training, and lax discipline, so it was repeatedly defeated by the Boer army in the early stages of the war. In October 1899, Boer forces captured the cities of Newcastle and Glenco, besieging Leddy Smith, Maflotin and Kimberley.

Naturally, the British refused to give up, and in 1900, the British mobilized more than 200,000 troops to attack the Boers.

At a time when the British were fighting the Boers in Africa, Ren Chao ordered the Northwest Military Region to send a division to Tibet in early March 1900. Due to the previous efforts of the British to obstruct it, and Ren Chao had just annexed South China, Southwest China, Northwest China and other places, the situation in various places was not too stable, so Ren Chao did not free his hands to march to Tibet for the time being. And this time, Ren Chao took advantage of the fact that the British turned all their attention to South Africa, and made a decisive attack and sent troops directly into Tibet.

There was no gold or diamond in Tibet, and the British would not be an enemy of the now increasingly powerful Qing Dynasty for such a place. Moreover, in the eyes of the British, the Qing army, which is already very powerful, is far from being able to do so by the Boers, so it is very unwise to go to war with the Qing Dynasty for the sake of Tibet, a remote and backward place. Therefore, the British protested on the surface, and the matter was closed, and the imperial army successfully occupied Tibet. (To be continued......)

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