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Five dollars can buy a kilometer of land from the indigenous hands of Mexico and other countries around the United States, so you can imagine how cheap and cheap the land was at that time.

When 500,000 pounds was placed on the desk of the British Governor General in South Africa, Li Mu successfully obtained the title of the entire highlands in the upper reaches of the Vaal River.

With this certificate, from now on, the highlands in the upper reaches of the Vaal River will be owned by Li Mu personally and become his personal property, and even the local blacks will become his personal belongings under a certificate.

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After turning the land near the Rand Gold Mine into private property, temporarily preventing outsiders from prying eyes, Li Mu carried the title of the highlands in the upper reaches of the Waal River and prepared to move to other parts of South Africa.

A month later.

Li Mu and his five people came to the Orange River in South Africa, the boundary of the Cape Province on the plane.

The reason why I chose to come here is because the Cape Province has the reputation of being the diamond capital in this plane.

Legend.

One day in the summer of 1866, at Decker Farm on the banks of the Orange River, a bored little boy was playing and found a diamond weighing 21.25 carats.

The diamond was later cut into a 10.73 carat oval diamond, which was originally named "O'Reilly".

When the diamond was unveiled at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, it was renamed "Eureka".

Li Mu didn't know if this legend was true, but he knew that there was a famous diamond mine here, and it was also the location of the world's largest artificially dug diamond pit, the Kimberley Diamond Pit.

Moreover, the largest diamond group in this plane, the founder of De Beers, the Englishman Cecil. It was from this diamond mine that Rhodes started and established the world's largest diamond family.

According to the information that Li Mu saw on this plane, in the 70s of the 19th century, the Englishman Cecil. For just £6,000, Rhodes bought nearby farmland from local farmers, the De Beers brothers.

The famous Kimberley Diamond Pit was discovered, and in 1888 Rhodes founded De Beers Diamonds.

Since the establishment of De Beers by the Briton Rhodes, it has been the world's largest diamond mining and sales company, enjoying the privilege of monopolizing the purchase and pricing of diamonds.

At one point, De Beers controlled 90% of the world's rough diamond market.

This is also the reason why Liu Yue wants to enter the rough diamond market, but has repeatedly hit a wall, because the rough diamond market on this plane has long been monopolized by the De Beers Group, and it is impossible for others to enter at all.

And when Li Mu came here, he fell in love with this Kimberley diamond pit that originally belonged to the Englishman Rhodes, and also solved the problem of Liu Yue by the way.

Every time Liu Yue of the province knew that he was in South Africa, she asked him if he had any news of the diamond ore.

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"Sir, we have found the De Beers brothers, and they have agreed to sell all their farmland for five thousand pounds."

Abel who took Arnold to find someone handed over the contract he had purchased from the De Beers brothers to Li Mu.

Li Mu took the contract, glanced at it, and handed it to Natasha, who was waiting beside him, to put it away, and then asked Abel, "Abel, has Deck Farm been found?" ”

No way, Li Mu never forgot the polished oval diamond with more than a dozen carats.

Now that you're here, you can't just take the contract to buy farmland and leave, and be indifferent to the diamond that is said to have been picked up by the little boy, and not look for it.

This is not Li Mu's character, although there are still a few years until 1866, and the Decker farm at this time is different from a few years later, both in terms of geology and environment.

But it doesn't matter, Li Mu has a cheat, as long as he spends some smuggled coins, let the system check that Deck farm.

He didn't want to miss the big diamond anyway.

"Found sir, Deck Farm is not far from the De Beers brothers' farmland, on the banks of the Orange River." Abel turned and pointed not far away.

Just now, when he signed a contract with the De Beers brothers, he asked about the location of Decker Farm.

Li Mu followed Ebel's guidance, nodded and said, "Okay, let's go over and have a look, by the way, is there anyone on the farm?" ”

"Yes sir, how can there be no one on the farm?" Able said in a cold sweat, since it is a farm, there will be people, this is common sense.

"Uh..."

Well, seeing Abel's expression, Li Mu knew that he was negligent, but for the sake of that diamond, it was not a matter to buy another farm.

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"Sir, Decker Farm has also been bought." Abel stood in front of Li Mu and said.

Li Mu glanced at the farmer's family who were leaving Decker Farm, nodded, and began to call out the system, preparing to let the system find the big diamond in Decker Farm, and by the way, you can also take a look at the situation of the Kimberlite diamond pit.

After all, he still doesn't know if the Kimberley Diamond Pit in the Third Smuggling Plane has more than three tons of diamond ore like this plane.

You must know that the Kimberley Diamond Pit on this plane was closed before it was closed, but nearly three tons of raw diamond ore were mined.

"System, help me explore the mineral resources within a radius of ten kilometers nearby, and don't forget to help me find a big diamond on the surface of the land."

Abel next to him saw that Li Mu was silent, and he didn't dare to disturb, so he honestly stood aside without speaking, and waited with Steve and the three of them.

"Drop, start exploring, the scope is: ten kilometers around, the target is: mineral resources."

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After the system started to explore the surrounding radius of ten kilometers, Li Mu also found a place to sit down and waited for the results of the system for a while.

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Ten minutes later.

The notification of the system sounds.

"Drop, probe over."

"Start calculating costs."

"The cost is: 500,000 smuggled coins."

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Hearing the end of the system probe, Li Mu's whole spirit became excited, stood up, got ready, and listened carefully to the system's notification of the probing results.

When the system's notification sounded, Li Mu had a surprised smile on his face.

Unexpectedly, the system gave him a big surprise.

Not only did he find the big diamond that the little boy had picked up, but he also had an unexpected surprise in the exploration of the Kimberley diamond pit.

Seeing the storage data of the Kimberlite diamond pit provided by the system, Li Mu felt that the trip was really worthwhile.