In London in May, although the sky is cloudless, there is still a drizzle of Philippine, people hide under umbrellas, passing by puddles in the secluded, even as the capital of the world's first power, the streets of London are inevitably a little waterlogged, especially between the crevices of the curbstones, so that people have to walk carefully, only those who think that the real English gentlemen will be unhurried, holding umbrellas and striding down the road, in their opinion, the first thing to consider is their own appearance, and they must not be indecently dodged anything.

On the way to the club, Wu Yuming, with an umbrella, did not go to the carriage today, but chose to walk in the rain, three days ago, when he received a telegram from China, he could not concentrate as in the past, this is the second telegram, as early as 20 days ago, he received a telegram, the telegram was sent by the superintendent, asking him to invest 50,000 pounds in the British and French press "advertising money".

At first, he did not understand the significance of this huge advertising money, but after the telegram sent three days ago, he was surprised and a cold sweat broke out on his back - the lord had predicted that the Japanese would assassinate the Russian crown prince! But whether it was an assassination or a conspiracy, it is unknown.

But for Wu Yuming, after this incident, there was a trace of fear between respect and respect for that adult. Whether it was the gold mines in South Africa or the current incident, it was enough to make him feel awe of that adult, and it was in awe that he would work harder to do his current job - to use the assassination of the Russian crown prince to incite the British and French people to hate Japan, and bribe British ministers, so as to make Britain side with Russia. At least Britain would be inclined to Russia's neutrality.

Why do adults fall into Japan? on this. Mr. Woo attributed it to Japan's ambitions for North Korea. But now that it is well known that Japan is facing the greatest threat since its founding - the ultimatum issued by the Russian Empire, and now that there are less than ten hours left before the ultimatum deadline, will Japan accept it or reject it?

But whether it is accepted or rejected, it will undoubtedly be destructive for Japan. From then on, there will be no threat to China or the DPRK.

Thinking like this, when Wu Yuming realized that he had already walked to the place. I couldn't help but be shocked. Opposite is the club department he is about to enter, and the baroque building is punctuated by people coming and going, and every afternoon, London's politicians always have afternoon tea here, including the Prime Minister, but he is not here to meet the Prime Minister today, but for another purpose.

Before crossing the street, Wu Yuming stood by the newsstand, browsing newspapers and magazines. Not surprisingly, the front page of almost every newspaper. They were all articles that sympathized with Russia, rebuked Japan, and advocated that the countries of Europe unite to punish the inferior Japanese monkeys, while the newspaper sellers were shouting hoarsely and calling for an attack on Japan.

The 25,000 pounds of "advertising money" was not spent in vain, and all the mainstream newspapers in London had columnists who published "news" calling for severe punishment of Japan, which seemed to have become the mainstream in Britain and France, and in Germany, where there was no "advertising money", the emperor Wilhelm II even advocated avenging the revenge of his "cousin" and even declared that Germany would give Russia the greatest help.

"Look at the historic speech of Kaiser Wilhelm II, in which he called on the nations of Europe to unite and declare war on Japan, and Kaiser Wilhelm II said that Germany could send warships to assist Russia at any time......"

The news in his ears made Wu Yuming's lips rise, and now that the second emperor has been involved, it will directly affect the decision of the British, looking at the politicians who entered the club, he knows very well how "dirty" those dignified and rigorous politicians are, they are all greedy without exception, and after coming to the UK, he has dealt with this kind of person a lot. And in the same way, the rewards they give are also handsome.

"Belfrey!"

Just when Wu Yuming walked outside the door of the club, suddenly a happy voice reached his ears, and he knew who it was without looking back, it was Sir Randing, a politician who would not miss any gatherings of London's upper class, and it was under his guidance that Wu Yuming knocked on the door of London politics a few months ago.

"Sir Randing!"

They walked side by side, talking happily with each other, and they were talking about trivial things, but for Randin, the association with Mr. Belfrey was always to be expected, and how many people in London did not know about the success of the South African mining company.

Two months ago, almost everyone thought he was a fool - buying the depleted and worthless White Rock Ridge gold mine, and everyone was waiting for the news of his bankruptcy. But a month ago, South Africa's mining company became the darling of the London News and Exchange when the seemingly non-promising mining company introduced a new technology – the use of cyanide to treat ore, dissolving the valuable metals in the ore in the form of cyanide in water to separate the metal from the ore.

This method is not complicated to say. First, the ore is crushed, and then the crushed ore is added to a cyanide solution. The gold inside the ore is slowly extracted by cyanide, and then the undissolved slag is filtered out. Once a cyanide solution containing gold is obtained, zinc powder is added to it. Since the cyanide of zinc is more stable than the cyanide of gold, in this way, zinc can replace the gold in the cyanide to form a zinc cyanide solution, and the gold will precipitate. The resulting mixture is then filtered to obtain solid gold. The purity of the gold obtained in this way is not very high, but the following purification and refining process is relatively mature.

South African mining companies first used this method for trials. The results of the trial were striking. According to newspaper reports, the company first used the guò method to dispose of 10,000 tons of slag discarded by other refining methods, and found that 6,000 ounces of gold were extracted from the slag, or nearly 20 grams of gold per tonne of slag. It is clear that this method of extracting gold is already far more efficient than any other method, and you can see how staggering the waste of other methods is, and in the following month, the company obtained tens of thousands of ounces of gold from hundreds of thousands of tons of slag alone.

When the news broke, South African mining companies suddenly became the darlings of the London Stock Exchange, and their shares surged from one pound per share to tens of pounds overnight, and now, some people even offered a high price of 100 pounds per share, but they could not buy the shares, and no one would sell the shares of the South African mining company.

Landing was undoubtedly one of the lucky ones, having invested £150 in a South African mining company, not so much a stock investment as an investment to maintain a relationship with his client, Belfrey, but who would have thought that the return would be so huge. If it weren't for the thousands of "shareholders" of the South African mining company, Landing believed that this investment alone would make Belfrey the richest man in British history, but who would now despise this guy who returned to Britain from the Far East? He's the guy who runs the South African mining company.

When the two entered the smoking room of the club, as soon as they sat down, several well-dressed gentlemen came over and greeted Belfrey warmly, now, no one cares about Belfrey's "Chinese blood", as for the title of the manager of the British branch of the "Beiyang Trading Company" has also been ignored intentionally or unintentionally, people only see that Belfrey, who is "turning stones into gold", is concerned about his next investment, if two months ago, he needs to look for investors everywhere in London, Now there are countless people in Britain with money in hand, begging him to accept his investment. However, Belfrey is extremely picky about investors, just like the investors he accepts now are not ordinary people, but the elite of the British upper class.

Amid the smell of cigars and whiskey, a group of people chatted for a while, and naturally turned the conversation to the "Otsu incident", to the ultimatum of the Russians and the declaration of the German emperor, and of course the topic eventually returned to the British, to the event, to the final decision of the British.

"It's -- some clerks."

Listening to their discussion, Wu Yuming thought in his heart that this was indeed just a group of "clerks", maybe their voices would be valued by the upper echelons of the British government, but they could not directly decide the development of things.

"Maybe you should find a way to be friends with Robert."

Wu Yuming thought in his heart, Prime Minister Robert is a drummer who advocates the expansion of the British colony in South Africa, and at a certain time, the mining company needs him as a political backer, but on the other hand, Wu Yuming doesn't know that including Robert, there are many British people who are eyeing the mining company, as long as there is an opportunity, this group of wolf-like characters will pounce on the company, and then swallow the fat of the company into the stomach, and now the only thing to be thankful for is that Britain is at least a legal society, The UK system still provides some protection for companies. If it was in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, maybe the mining companies would have been confiscated by those officials a long time ago, but how long could this situation last?

It is precisely because of this that he is extremely active in attracting investors, and he hopes to use the strength of Britain itself as much as possible to counter those greedy guys, but how long can this be delayed?

However, none of these issues are important now, the most important question now is, what kind of decision will the UK make?

Frowning, Wu Yuming smiled and asked several politicians in front of him:

"Now, then, it's time for Your Excellency Prime Minister to make a decision. After all, there are only a few hours left! (To be continued......)