"The sailors left the army, the merchants closed their shops, the clerks went out of their offices, the farmer owners abandoned their land and their livestock, and they all ran to the banks of the Orange and Waal rivers with hunger." - The Times

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Westerners' thirst for gold is insane. In just over a year, 30,000 people have entered the Baishui Watershed area. More than half of these people work for Chinese mining companies, and the rest are scattered under the umbrella of more than 20 gold mining companies, large and small. They pay taxes to China in proportion, but at the same time China has to pay heavy taxes to the Transvaal Republic. Because the White Water Watershed area is a territory belonging to the Transvaal Republic. At the Berlin Conference, China consolidated its right to occupy the land, but sovereignty still belonged to the Transvaal Republic.

It's like treating Cecil. Like Rhodes's De Beers Unified Mining Company, the Transvaal government, which has always been insanely poor, will naturally not let go in the face of this piece of fat. Indiscriminate collection of taxes and charges. From last year to this year, even Liu Xian, who has ulterior motives, is eager to destroy this "insatiable" Boer country in the face of the Transvaal's success.

"Your Majesty. This is a telegram from the city of River. The attendant sent a telegram from South Africa. After several years of hard work in China, a small city was built between two rivers, hence the name Hejian City.

Liu Xian took the telegram and read it quickly, and his face turned iron-blue. His eyes were now mostly on the Russians, and in his mind Hema was nothing more than a powder keg buried in a pit, but a big golden cow. In recent years, a full 500 tons of gold have been added to the treasury, but all because of the gold mines there.

Now the Boers are going to attack the river!? The Transvaal government announced that foreign nationals residing in the White Water Ridge were required to pay full taxes. However, they shall not enjoy the right to participate in the presidential and legislative elections unless they have resided in the Transvaal for 14 years and have been naturalized. Furthermore. All aliens are not allowed to hold government office, and their children are not allowed to attend government-funded schools. What's more. The Transvaal Republic is going to set up a city on this land!

"Inch by inch! Damn it, the Boers are looking for death! ”

The Baishui Ridge area was bought by China, and the discovery of gold mines also belonged to the landlords, although they had to pay a certain tax to the Transvaal government, but this percentage was definitely not high.

The Transvaal government was about to raise taxes last year, but China pushed it back. This year, the influence of the Delan gold mine is getting bigger and bigger, and Liu Xian feels that this time is not the time for the two sides to conflict, and he will have to wait a few more years. Therefore, a lot of money was paid to the Transvaal government as a lubricant to ease the contradictions between the two sides. As a result, how did the Boers repay Liu Xianam?

Raise taxes, but also set up cities in the white water watershed area? This is death!

In addition to the civil affairs and management, Wei Changjun's second son, Wei Chengen, was in charge of the security work of the leaders sent by China to South Africa. Speaking of this Lanfang Wei family, Wei Changjun has been in Lanfang for so many years, and everyone knows who he is. But so many years have passed, and no matter how big the grudge is, it has almost disappeared. Shi Dakai didn't shout at him!

Speaking of the Tianjing Incident that year, Wei Jun and Shi Dakai were both victims. Although Wei Jun's actions after surrendering. Let many people respond, but as far as he is concerned, a 'pitiful' is also said. It's not a human being inside and out, right?

Wei Chengen, like his father, never went to military school. I have only read the basic traditional military books, and after joining the army, I have read the battle regulations and so on, and I have been able to get to the point where I am now. It's completely spelled out in the Lanfang jungle. The lieutenant colonel, who was in his early thirties, came to the river to raise the next level. Now the colonel! It's just that the number of soldiers under his command is vacant, and there are only two brigades!

"No. Don't pay a single one. ”

"Tell the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Make a statement and let the Transvaal not kick his nose in the face. ”

Liu Xian's anger had subsided a bit. The head was clear, but he thought it was better, and the Transvaal was anxious. Now at least eighty percent of the profits from the gold mines are in the hands of China, and most of the rest are in the hands of gold diggers and gold mining companies, and one or two percent of the profits that fall into the hands of the Transvaal Republic is good. This will make the Transvaal government more anxious and urgent than the British in the original plane!

As soon as this person's heart is on fire, and when his mind is blinded by desire and desire, he will act impulsively. It's the same with the government, which can always do something that shocks the world under the influence of money obsessiveness.

When the time comes, this powder keg, which has been buried for several years, will have time to explode. Liu Xian only needs to make a glance at the British, and the Anglo-Saxons will pounce on them like hyenas.

In the past life, the Second Anglo-Boer War was a sign of the decline of the British Empire! In order to deal with the Boers, whose total population was less than 500,000, the British mobilized 440,000 troops, transported a total of 1.374 billion tons of various military weapons and equipment to South Africa, and used 1,027 ships. It took £250 million and two years and seven months to win completely. Although the war allowed Britain to unite the colonies of southern Africa and control the corridor to the Great Lakes region of the heart of Africa. The Cape of Good Hope region was one of the most important outposts of the British Overseas Empire, based on the vast interior of South Africa. Economically, with the world's largest Rand gold mine being controlled by the British, Britain was able to control the world's economic lifeline. Gold from South Africa has made London fast becoming a hub for the global financial industry and gold trading. However, the Second Anglo-Boer War also marked the end of Britain's history of overseas expansion.

Liu Xian didn't know how far the South African War in this time and space could drag Britain to. But in the past, even if the war in South Africa was a few years earlier, the Boer struggle would still be as fierce. This is a big hole for the greedy Britain after all!

"Your Majesty, Commander Wang will arrive in Beijing at noon tomorrow."

"Let him rest for a while, and give him a feast in the evening."

After finishing his work in South Africa, Liu Xian read the South American telegram again, and the situation in Iquique was still the same. Chile is in conflict but inseparable from this unique port, and now the Chinese here are living a good life. At the same time, it has attracted many Chinese workers from Peru, Chile and Cuba to migrate here, and the population has grown from 20,000 to 40,000 or 50,000 at the beginning. and organized a garrison regiment of 2,000 people, with absolutely first-class guns and artillery in South America, as well as a police force of several hundred people. And almost every Chinese family here has a gun.

As long as the resistance is resolute, according to the level of the Chilean Army, I am afraid that Iquique will not be able to gnaw this piece of fat alone without the support of China.

Iquique also built forts around the city and in the harbor last year, and installed 10-inch and 11-inch shore defense guns.

As for the two dilapidated warships in Chile, there was a real fight, and if you look for it, you will be looking for death.

Liu Xian was ready to make a deal with the British in the Nabai Water Ridge area, and asked the British to support China on the Hawaii issue. Over the past few years, the Hawaiian fruit has been covered enough to be ripe, and it is time to pick the fruit. That Kalakaua I, when he died, is a sentence from Beijing.

And then it's the next step after arriving at Liu Xian today. Wang Guosheng, commander of the Xinjiang Military Region, is returning to Beijing.

Liu Xian is not unloading the mill and killing the donkey, this is to listen to Wang Guosheng's opinion before the war. Even if he wanted to go to Xinjiang directly, he would not have gone directly to Xinjiang at the beginning of the war. There is always a gap of time, which requires Wang Guosheng to support.

It's a big fight!

Neither the scale nor the significance of the previous two Sino-Russian wars are comparable. As the commander of the early operation, Wang Guosheng must have the courage of an iron general to close the door and close the door.

It is also because the war in Xinjiang is very important, and Liu Xian also wants to see Wang Guosheng with his own eyes.

After eight or nine years of wind, sand and cold, Wang Guosheng's photo, a person in his early fifties, has the same face as an old man in his sixties and seventies. Liu Xian looked at it secretly, and it was not a taste. This is the descendant of his lineage. After this battle, if he performs well, Wang Guosheng's title of general will definitely be given, and he will be promoted to marquis, and he will be transferred back to Beijing to rest for two years to recuperate and recuperate.

After dinner in the evening, Liu Xian didn't have the heart to look at the encouragement anymore, playing chess and the like. Instead, he went into the study alone and picked up one of his most precious things, the silver box that was very sci-fi.

Liu Xian made a large box with sandalwood, and the outside was locked, and the secret was hidden safely over the years, but outsiders knew that Liu Xian had a silver treasure, but they all thought it was a rare treasure, and they couldn't imagine the real thing.

How many years haven't you used this thing? Soon it will be back on the battlefield. Over the years, it has been silently storing energy, and now the scanning radius is more than 1,000 miles. A number of sub-items are lit up, and the clarity has been improved by more than N, which is simply a small satellite! Therefore, Liu Xian had no worries about the coming war.

The victory of the war must belong to oneself and to China!

July passed, August passed, and there were only three months left for the final term of the second cabinet. The atmosphere between China and Russia in the northwest is becoming more and more tense, but there is no sign of misfire.

Li Hongzhang and Li Ying were honestly pressed under Zhang Shouyan, the cousin of the queen's mother, one of the leading figures in the honor, and succeeded to the next cabinet.

Liu Xian didn't care about it. Although the first assistant of the cabinet asked the emperor to nod, Liu Xian also made rules and gave the cabinet the right to recommend, of course, the candidate cannot be one, at least five, and there is no limit to more. And in the next Congress, Congress will have a power of impeachment. If you do not agree with the candidate for the first assistant of the cabinet, you can directly face the emperor to sue you, at least not without a target, and there is real evidence, then cross out the impeached candidate and choose another one.

In the future, when it is time for the next Diet, everyone will have to go through the list of candidates from the Diet and be satisfied with more than 50% before they can be on the list of candidates. And if the parliament is mischievous and deliberately makes the candidate not pass, the cabinet can dissolve the parliament and reorganize the parliament.

Anyway, there is only one throne, and anyone who can be the first assistant has the 'corpses' of countless officials under his feet! If you really drop the chain at the last moment, it's because you don't have the ability to do it yourself. (To be continued......)