PS: The day before yesterday to update the www.biquge.info of the Pen Fun Pavilion was delayed for nearly 6 hours, so embarrassing.

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September 9, 2761 (1920), Oakland, California, USA.

The Zenith Consortium is a new chaebol that rose before the war, and like the American chaebols that rose before it, this consortium also relied on many new technologies and new products. Initially, their founder and owner, Barnazar Sith, made his first pot of gold through venture fortune, and then he became the exclusive agent of Xingke in the United States by virtue of his good relationship with China Xingke Group, and established himself by selling ballpoint pens, lighters and MSG.

Subsequently, with the use of high-tech products, the tentacles extended to electronics, chemical industry, food and beverage, machinery, automobiles, shipbuilding, smelting, aviation, precision instruments, restaurants, department stores, film and television production, broadcasting media and other fields, and developed at an astonishing speed. Later, Barnazar Sith married the Morgan family, completely established himself in American high society, and became one of the top plutocracy in the United States. Especially in World War I, this consortium earned a lot of votes.

At present, the Zenith consortium has become the third largest plutocracy in the United States, after Rockefeller and Morgan. Founded in 1913, the Federal Reserve accounted for 10% of the shares, becoming one of the veritable behind-the-scenes manipulators of the American economy.

The city of Auckland is home to the headquarters of the Zenith Consortium, the highly postmodernist Zenith Tower just north of Lake Merritt in Oakland. The Zenith headquarters tower, which was completed last year, is 60 storeys tall and has a total height of 267 meters. Upon completion, this sci-fi skyscraper surpassed the 1913 Woolworths Building (57 floors, 241 meters) to become the tallest building in the United States and a famous landmark in Oakland.

The top three floors of the building are closed to the public, and the ordinary elevator only goes to the 57th floor, and there is a dedicated elevator to get here. The three floors, apart from the offices of Banazal himself and a handful of high-ranking members of the consortium, are classified things, including a long-range transoceanic radio station.

Banazal, the ruler of the Zenith Consortium, was standing in his office and looking out. His office is located on the top floor of the Zenith Tower, with a floor-to-ceiling, unidirectional glass wall on the south-facing wall, which on a good day offers a view of Oakland's southern Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley is now the electronics industry base of the Zenith consortium, where the famous Galaxy Electric Company is located. and Pacific Tobacco, located north of Silicon Valley.

Now the Galaxy Electric Company has obviously been affected by the gold rush, and the whole factory is slightly depressed. However, Banazal, as the boss, saw this situation, but did not have any dissatisfaction, but showed a mysterious smile on the corner of his mouth.

In this office, which is close to 200 square meters, there is only one guest, Weiss Lando, the head of the Lando consortium. Compared to the Zenith Consortium, which is like an ancient behemoth, the Lando Consortium is only a medium-sized consortium, mainly focusing on the financial and shipping industries. But because Lando has strong trading ability and market insight, and also has a lot of influence in the American high society, the last rubber turmoil was organized by him, and many American billionaires followed him to shear sheep in Europe and made a windfall. According to Lando's own words, "Our Lando company is not a consortium, we are only serving major consortiums." ”

"Banazal, now our Galaxy Electric Company, Pacific Tobacco, Procter & Gamble Daily Chemical, Neptune Shipbuilding, Yum Catering and other enterprises have been affected, and one-fifth of the workers have quit their jobs to go to Africa to pan for gold. It's crazy, tsk......"

Lando said with a grin as he held a cup of black tea.

"yes, it worked really well, more than I estimated. I'm underestimating the American people's love for gold......" Banazar turned, a smug look in his eyes. "You've earned enough money from your Lando voyages......"

"Hehe, aren't the companies Planet Motors and Comet Machines also making a lot of money......" Lando took a sip of tea and smiled. Planetary Automobile and Comet Machine Qì Company are owned by the Zenith Star Consortium, and they also make a lot of money by relying on this gold rush.

"Hehe......" The two looked at each other and smiled.

Anyone who knows history knows that in the gold rush, it was a very small number of lucky people who really made a fortune by mining gold, and more than ninety percent of the gold diggers hit the streets. And the easiest thing to get rich, and the thing with little risk is not to go directly to pan for gold, but to buy peripheral products and services.

For example, if you want to go to gold panning, you can't go empty-handed, you have to have gold mining equipment and tools. Before the last century, the gold panning tools were very simple, shovels, pickaxes, chutes, flow plates and gold panning plates, and you could go with the "five major pieces of gold panning". However, now that science and technology are so advanced, and all kinds of advanced instruments, equipment, and tools are available, who would be so outdated? With these advanced equipment and tools, the efficiency of those who use the traditional "five major pieces of gold panning" is at least 10 times higher, and fools know what to choose. Even if these instruments, equipment and tools are far more than ten or even dozens of times more expensive than the traditional "five gold panning pieces", they are also necessary for upfront investment.

In addition, food, clothing, housing, clothing, food, housing and transportation are all required. Needless to say, food and clothing are not good, they need to be easy to carry in the wild, can be stored for a long time, high-calorie food, and clothes are also strong and wear-resistant.

An off-road pickup truck with a cargo hopper is definitely a wise choice for you, which can allow you to run like the wind in the wilderness, saving a lot of time and body. The matching mobile home vehicle can allow you to enjoy the warmth of home in the wilderness. An off-road pickup truck and a house trailer cost only $999, which is really cheap and affordable. If you add another $599, you can replace the house trailer with a multi-purpose model that can be used as a workshop for people to live in and pan for gold. So you can drag your gold rush factories around Africa. Oh, and there's a more advanced ......

It's expensive? We also have cheap vehicles. Look, a high-powered motocross bike for $299! It's no problem to really fly, the Gold Digger Airship, designed for Gold Digger friends, is fully functional and easy to control. As long as one ......

Let's talk about "living", you are too expensive to have a mobile home, so you must have a tent.

And then there are the weapons, the medicines, and the medical supplies, and Africa is not very peaceful, with the savage indigenous black maw, the ferocious snakes and beasts everywhere, and the damned poisonous insects. There are no police in the fields, and hospitals are only available in a few cities. If you don't want to die, you have to have these things.

Finally, there are the various service industries. You have to take a boat to travel between the United States and Africa, and once you find gold, you have to relax and have fun.

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Hankyung, presidential palace.

"Mr. Wen, our plan has succeeded. The gold rush in the United States is still rising, a large number of manpower has been lost, and the production capacity of various industries has dropped significantly, deducting the proportion of the decline in the state of withdrawal from the war, the comprehensive industrial production capacity of the United States fell by 17% compared with the pre-war period last month, and the comprehensive agricultural production capacity fell by 11%. Moreover, European countries and Japan are also preparing development plans for Africa......" Gu Xiaolu reported happily. Although they are all old husbands and wives, Gu Xiaolu still uses his previous name in the workplace.

"Well, that's good. That's it, the gold rush is actually a good thing......" Wen Deji nodded with a smile, he picked up a report on the table and said: "You see, this is the number of immigration applications to the new territory last month, and one month is more than last year's half a year. ”

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the United States had several gold rushes and the introduction of a large number of immigrants, which completely changed the demographic structure of the west and gave the west a foundation for development. Thousands of gold prospectors skyrocketed the population of the sparsely populated American West, and many of the newly popped towns soon became cosmopolitan. At the same time, the needs of a large number of people prospered the market, which played an important role in promoting the development of the local economy, the expansion of agriculture, the revolution in transportation, and the development of industry and commerce.

Now Wen Desi did the same, deliberately releasing some small gold mines in the new territory, and stipulating that the trial of gold mining qualifications should be given priority to local immigrants, and if gold mines were found on their own land, they could do gold panning themselves, or they could invest the land in those companies, and then they could sit and collect the money. These measures immediately attracted a large number of immigrants. Of course, all that is released are relatively scattered small gold mines, and the big gold mines must still be controlled by the state.

But even if it is just a small gold mine, it may be relatively weak for the country, but it is extremely attractive to the individual. Moreover, China has clear regulations on the acquisition of special items such as natural gold nuggets and natural gemstones, which are not counted as ore veins (ore veins belong to the state), and individual seizures are treated as windfall income, and only need to pay 20% of the market value of income tax to be the legal property of individuals.

Although the ownership of the veins belongs to the state, it can be opened to private individuals and enterprises to operate, as long as they are mined according to the rules and pay resource taxes in accordance with the law. The tax rates for various resources are different, and in order to encourage immigration, the taxes on all projects in the new territory that are tied to immigration status are very low. Under the promotion of various preferential policies and the media, after this gold rush, there are many more immigration applications.

Of course, the gold rush caused by Wen Desi will not be so simple, and the result of accelerating domestic immigration is nothing more than incidental. His main target is the United States, and Europe and Japan are incidental. With Mr. Wen's discipline, of course, he didn't have any good intentions. In this way, a large amount of the energy of the United States will be involved in Africa, which is very beneficial to China, let the United States, old Europe, and Japan tear apart in Africa, they will not only tear each other, but also tear apart with the local black corn. At this time, China can take the opportunity to move its hands in the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean regions.

Of course, the minerals that the American media broke out are all true, and the gold and diamonds are also true, and the European and American white skins are not fools, and they can't be deceived for long by making things out of nothing. However, there may be some discrepancies between the reserves and the century, such as the decimal number has been moved to the right by one or two digits, or the number at the front has been added such as "1-9". Well, it's all a small problem, science allows mistakes, minerals are buried in the ground, and it's understandable that surveying or estimating is a bit poor.

What, some people still don't understand? Say we deceive the public? Well, a psychotic shooter or a prison escape robber will teach him to be a man.

Of course, these are all aimed at ordinary people in the United States, and of course the US government and big business groups know the truth, and the scientific research team over there is not only Zenith. But they are also the main promoters of this gold rush, Zenith does not have a monopoly on the media in the United States, and the US government does not have any way to refute the rumors, on the contrary, they are still fueling the trouble.

Why?

Because for the big conglomerates, that little gold mine is nothing at all. As mentioned earlier, they really make money from various peripherals, not from the gold mine itself. On the contrary, it is precisely because of the gold rush that they have more opportunities to make money, and the money they make is much more than that of those gold diggers.

Besides, gold and diamonds have to flow to have value, and it is useless to pinch them in your own hands, that is, they must be exchanged for money first. Most of the banks and jewelry houses are controlled by the chaebols, and the gold diggers can't avoid them if they want to exchange money, and the vast majority of these things will eventually come into their hands.

As for the US Government, it is all the more eager for these people to run to Africa, because their thinking is the same as that of the Chinese Government, and the core population is the key to digesting a new piece of territory.

In fact, the Zenith only mentioned this incident slightly, and the big conglomerates and the U.S. government knew about it and began to actively participate. They don't know that population loss will cause a decline in production capacity, but they think that the war is over, and there is a lot of production capacity to be stopped or dismantled, and the current production in the United States is completely sufficient, and even some surplus, even if it is reduced, it doesn't matter. Besides, the US Government has also seen the abundant resources of Africa, and they feel that if these things are developed, they will enhance their national strength even more.

"That's right, if the three West African states of the United States are really developed, it will be no problem to increase the national strength by one-fifth. Wen Desi said with a smile: "However, this is not easy to say, just the two difficulties of infrastructure construction and tropical diseases, they need to spend a lot of energy and time to restrain them." Not to mention the revolt of the locals......"

Mr. Wen came from later generations, and of course he was very clear about the development of Africa, until the middle of the 21st century, Africa was still the same bird. Of course, the United States would certainly have a much better effect if it invested with national forces, but that was also calculated over decades. Don't forget, that's half the size of the United States. Will Kewen always give them decades?

But because these prospects are real, and the resources are real, Americans will have to invest even if they know that they will have to put a lot of effort into building it. This is a conspiracy, or it doesn't even count as a conspiracy, Mr. Wen just gave them a gentle push and created a little momentum.