The news of the Chinese landing in Maputo caused panic in Pretoria. Botha broke out in a cold sweat, speaking of which he was not without psychological preparation in this regard, and there was no doubt about the military supreme commander of the former Boer guerrillas. But the problem is that he has that little strength, if he doesn't transfer the main force to Ladysmith, the result is nothing more than people fighting from the south, and the result of dividing the troops is the same, he has only one British army and two armies of the South African Federation, and a British division must also defend Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, no matter how crowded they are, there will still be these people, and the south border can't defend the north.

"Your Excellency, there is a Swedish businessman outside asking to see you." Just then, his secretary walked into the office to report.

"No, when is this time, and there is still time to see these idlers." He said impatiently.

"Swedes." The secretary mysteriously emphasized.

"How about the Swedes..."Prime Minister Botha just finished speaking, he suddenly came back to his senses, Sweden was about to become a vassal of Emperor Yang, since he was a Swedish businessman, the identity of this person was also revealed, he hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded and said, "Please let him in." ”

As the former world's most important arms manufacturer, Bofors' employees can be said to be all over the world, and Pretoria is no exception, and this businessman surnamed Anderson brought Prime Minister Botha a promise to the people of South Africa by his boss, His Majesty the Emperor of China.

"If your country chooses peace, then Your Majesty can guarantee the establishment of South Africa, and you will not become a province or an autonomous republic of China, but a truly sovereign state, which even the British will not give to you, but Your Majesty can give it to you." Anderson said reservedly.

"What about the conditions?" Botha wouldn't believe that there was such a pie-in-the-sky thing, Emperor Yang's greed for gold was well known to the world, and it was strange that he could let go of the gold reserves of the Rand Gold Mine, which could almost be described as terrifying.

"It's simple. South Africa changed from a federal republic to a constitutional monarchy, and then His Majesty wore the crown of South Africa, in addition to the exclusive right of the People's Bank of China to issue notes in South Africa and the exclusive right to operate the gold trade, permanently, and then the right to garrison Chinese troops in South Africa, which is also permanent. Anderson said with a smile.

For Yang Feng, the importance of South Africa only lies in gold, but it does not mean that all this gold must be turned into his, you must know that the mining and refining of gold in South Africa is not so easy, so he only needs to control the links after the finished product. As for the dirty and tiring work of panning for gold, it is better to leave it to someone else, anyway, the gold mined in the end has to be handed over to him to deal with.

And the importance of gold to the world is only because now everyone is playing the gold standard, this is money, but the post-war gold standard system is definitely impossible to play anymore, because there is no way to play, the whole world's gold is now almost all in the treasury of the People's Bank, even Yang Feng himself can't figure out how many tons there are, so how can other countries play, how can they play the gold standard without gold?

If you want to play, you can only borrow Chinese dollars from the People's Bank of China to play gold exchange. But China's gold is not allowed to leave the country, which means that the last thing to borrow is only a pile of printed banknotes, in this case, it is better for everyone to discuss and discuss that no one should play, and then change to banknotes to play national credit currency. As for the settlement of international trade, it is naturally Huayuan, anyway, no one will want anything else now, and then Emperor Yang only needs to print money to play in the future.

As for South Africa's gold, it completely lost its special meaning at that time. Returning to the essence of a glittering metal, there was no need to swallow it so ugly, after all, he was still a little wary of the Boers. It would not be good if they were forced to fight guerrilla warfare for the sake of this.

Prime Minister Botha is a little unbelievable, which means that after the war they can snatch the gold mines back from the hands of British businessmen, a simple nationalization law can solve this problem, at that time the dying Britain absolutely did not have the courage to resist, and there is Yang Feng as the king of South Africa The British gold mine owners resist only a dead end, at that time the South African government can not only collect more taxes, but even state-owned gold mines, God, this is even before the Boer War they dare not imagine, For a moment, Prime Minister Botha's eyes were left with only a glint of gold.

As for the exclusive right of the People's Bank of China to operate gold, the right to issue banknotes, and the right to garrison Chinese troops, those are all trivial matters, and they are not worth mentioning compared to the ownership of gold mines.

"Mr. Anderson, please tell your Majesty that the people of South Africa are very much looking forward to becoming his subjects." Thinking of this, His Excellency the Prime Minister said without hesitation.

The next thing was simple, such a good thing even he couldn't control, not to mention the members of the South African Parliament, the only South African federal division left to defend in the Drakensian Mountains, immediately received an order to stop resisting. Faced with the surging Chinese chariot swarm, they immediately moved out of the way, and the trains that were all concentrated in Pretoria also headed for Maputo, bringing the 74th Army, which had marched along the railway line, to Pretoria. Of course, there were some minor twists and turns during this period, such as the rebellion of the British gold miners in Johannesburg, but in the face of the surging Chinese soldiers, they had no choice but to die, and instead cheapened the South Africans, which was just the reason to nationalize their gold mines.

As for the Ladysmith front, the front was in chaos, the South African army loyal to the Union chose to follow the orders of Pretoria to withdraw from the battle, and then the whole front collapsed, and the two British divisions there and some South African soldiers loyal to the British could only choose to rout in the face of this situation, until half of the last 100,000 troops fled to Bloemfontein, while the rest chose to turn their guns and turn against the British according to the new orders of the federal government.

Immediately after that, the Central and South Korean coalition forces began to kill Bloemfontein, and the isolated British army abandoned Bloemfontein and fled to Cape Town by train, where they at least had a psychological support, after all, the vast majority of the residents were British immigrants, and there were fortresses, sufficient supplies, and a group of small warships, and there was no need to worry about naval guns hitting the top of their heads to lock the bays on both sides with some mines, as for the carrier-based aircraft in the air, there was no way to do this.

Just South Africa's Federal Prime Minister Louis. When Botha officially announced in Pretoria that South Africa would withdraw from the British Commonwealth and establish the Kingdom of South Africa, and invite the Chinese Emperor Yang Feng to serve as the king of South Africa, in distant Siberia, after sufficient preparations, of course, mainly after rebuilding the railway destroyed by the Russian army, the Siberian Front led by Wang Shizhen finally began to attack Kurgan.

In fact, at this time, only Kurgan, a key Russian stronghold, remained along the entire Tobol River, including Tyumen in the north and Kustanay in the south, which had been taken, and Wang Shizhen's supply was restricted by the railway, as was his opponent, Grand Duke Nicholas. But Wang Shizhen still has countless trucks to use, Grand Duke Nicholas does not have such good conditions, it is difficult to defend cities outside the railway line in sparsely populated Siberia, he simply does not care about these remote places, even if the Chinese occupy it will not have any impact on him, for the Russians as long as they hold Kurgan.

Winter is about to begin, in the bitter cold of Siberia, without the support of the railway, the more than one million troops of the Chinese do not dare to venture forward, and now in this season those off-road trucks run casually on the empty wasteland, and the snow is difficult to move an inch, and no one dares to take such a risk.

During this time, the entire Kurgan was completely built into a steel fortress by him, stimulated by the destruction of the entire front in the Battle of Omsk just because a railway bridge was blown up by the Chinese airborne troops, taking advantage of Wang Shizhen's inability to launch a large-scale offensive on the railway, Grand Duke Nicholas desperately hoarded weapons and ammunition in Kurgan, and trains transporting arms sent countless supplies to the city, and then stored them in scattered ammunition depots.

Moreover, his tactics have also changed, no longer playing a long snake formation, but placing an army group in Kurgan, and the remaining three army groups will all retreat to Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg and other places, with a clear goal of letting this army group hold in Kurgan with enough supplies to support more than three months. How many people to lose from Chelyabinsk to the front line, as long as they can hold out for a month, it will enter winter, when the Chinese can only stop at the cold of Siberia, and the temperature of minus 30 degrees is his best weapon, at least he can buy him another winter's time, one winter, enough for a lot to happen, and it is even possible to end the war.

"A month, a month we must advance to the front line of the Ural Mountains, and at the very least, we must capture Chelyabinsk, this is the emperor's will." Looking at Kurgan in the distance with a telescope, Wang Shizhen said to Qin Cheng, the commander of the First Group Army beside him, with a stern face.

On his side, the main attack was the First Army, in fact, only the four armies of his Siberian Front were left in the entire Siberian battlefield, and the Eighth Army of the Central Asian Front, which was originally attacking with him on the southern front, had been transferred to Persia, after all, it had become the main battlefield, and the Tenth Army's attack on Tehran during this time was not smooth, and Brusilov was worthy of Russia's number one general, and he held the Persian capital with weak troops.

"Please rest assured that the emperor and the commander will take Kurgan for you in five days, at most five days." Qin Cheng, commander of the First Group Army, patted his chest and said that his group army is the number one elite of the army, and the history can be traced back to the era when Emperor Yang robbed Kuwait, and he himself was the first group of soldiers to follow Emperor Yang. (To be continued......)