Chapter 1175 Aoying Bleeding (Sixth Update, Please Subscribe)
Cape Town.
It was the most prosperous city in southern Africa at that time. European-style granite buildings stood on the seashore. Steamships and sailboats shuttled back and forth on the sea. Ocean-going ships loaded with cargo slowly entered the port. Various flags were flying on the ships of various countries docked at the berths, and they were colorful. Cars and horse-drawn carriages passed by on the streets...
This is Cape Town... the most prosperous city in Southern Africa.
beep!
The whistle blew long, and a mail ship from the Ming Dynasty dropped anchor and slowly stopped at the berth. Ten minutes later, the passenger ship lowered the gangway, and a large number of European passengers poured out of the cabin.
A tall European with elegant manners and a solemn demeanor walked down the gangway with the crowd. He had a pair of gray-blue eyes, a high and broad forehead, thick and fluffy golden hair and a square face that made him look more resolute and resolute. The most eye-catching thing was his eyes, which were sharp and left no doubt that he was a young man full of energy.
At the customs checkpoint, he showed his passport, which read: Pearson Jones. He was from London, a businessman who ran a company specializing in the sale of mechanical equipment.
That’s who Pearson is.
This identity is real and credible, and no one can find out anything about it. He even has an uncle - an old man suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Over the past nearly two decades, the Department of Investigation has learned how to exploit loopholes and create an impeccable identity.
After arriving in Cape Town, Pearson did not take time to rest and headed straight to Barberton inland.
Even on the train, Pearson heard only one word - gold!
Everyone was talking about gold, the gold in Barberton. The carriages were packed with workers wearing thick canvas clothes and people in fancy clothes. Everyone was rushing there to try to participate in this "gold rush".
However, they were destined to be disappointed. When listening to people talking about the legend of "gold rush" and fantasizing about getting rich overnight, Pearson's mind emerged with the geological data provided by his family - gold mines are associated with rocks, and mechanical equipment is needed to break the ore, and then mercury is used to extract it.
These people want to replicate the Australian gold rush with a gold pan, but they are simply dreaming.
When Pearson arrived in Baston, the whole of southern Africa was discussing the gold mines here. Tens of thousands of people gathered here overnight. After these people who dreamed of getting rich came here, they immediately found that the gold panning plate was useless. However, capital is always keen. Soon, the disappointed gold diggers began to set up companies. Funds from all over southern Africa were attracted to this inconspicuous place. Various mining companies were quickly established, and the stock exchange in the small town of Barberton became the hottest place.
At the same time, Pearson Jones & Co. was established, specializing in the sale of various mining equipment including rock crushers. As the first machinery supplier to enter Barberton, Pearson signed contracts worth more than 2 million pounds in just one month and became the supplier of machinery and explosives to hundreds of mining companies.
It has to be said that as the man selling shovels in the "Gold Rush", Pearson earned a huge fortune in just one month that others would find difficult to earn in their entire lives.
At the same time, he also became an original shareholder of many mining companies. In the following year, with the addition of funds from London, the stocks of mining companies related to gold mines were pushed to the highest level, and some stocks were even quickly hyped up to hundreds of pounds, rising hundreds of times, allowing those initial investors to make a lot of money.
However, there are actually very few companies that are able to produce gold. The vast majority of companies have never discovered gold mines. Even for those companies that have actually discovered gold mines, most of them have no mining value because the output rate is too low.
However, among hundreds of companies, only a few were economically viable for mining. After this news came out, the gold rush bubble burst immediately, and those investors far away in London almost lost all their money.
But that is a story for later. When people all over the world were focusing on Baston and the nearby gold mines, a dozen southern African investors from London quietly bought most of the land in the Whitewater Mountains in central and southern Transvaal.
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"So far we have almost completed the acquisition of land in the Whitewater Range, which has cost us around £150,000."
In the imperial garden of the Zhongdu Palace, while playing chess with His Majesty, Qian Zizhuang was simply overwhelmed with admiration for His Majesty's business acumen. In just two months, he used a few thousand pounds to gain a return of several million pounds. This was not making money, but robbing money.
"This money was all earned from the profits of the company's sales of machinery and equipment. By investing in local mining companies, the company's shares have now increased thirty times and are worth more than 2 million pounds."
After listening to Qian Zizhuang's report, Emperor Zhu thought for a while and then said.
"Well, start selling it."
Don’t make the last penny!
This is the principle of Emperor Zhu.
"Yes, but, Your Majesty, there is one thing I don't understand."
Emperor Zhu said as he stared at the chessboard.
"you say."
"Why do you want to invest as a British person? If it is an investment from a Ming enterprise, then wouldn't the gold mine belong to Ming?"
"Gold mine?"
Looking up at Qian Zizhuang, Emperor Zhu smiled.
"If the gold mines are in our hands, the future conflict will become a conflict between us and the Boers, but what if the gold mines are in the hands of the British?"
Naturally, it was a Boer War!
No matter how much we talk about the Boer War, it was ultimately about gold, the Rand gold mine.
"Your Majesty, are you going to use the gold mine as bait to provoke a conflict between the Boers and the British?"
After thinking about it, Qian Zizhuang said.
"But how can the Boers be a match for the British?"
"It doesn't matter whether you are an opponent of the British or not!"
Shaking his head, Emperor Zhu said.
"It is important that we use the Boer stone to weaken the British Empire. In the struggle against a powerful country, what we need is bloodletting, continuous bloodletting, to weaken their strength through bloodletting."
It was not just about bloodletting. Historically, it was the Boer War that made the world see Britain's weakness and allowed all ambitious countries to see opportunities.
"When a tiger shows signs of fatigue, the wolves will rush over and try to snatch food from its mouth. What we need is to create this opportunity and let the world see the tiger's weakness..."
As he spoke, the chess piece in Emperor Zhu's hand fell down.
"After I finish dealing with the stocks I have, I can almost release the gold mine in Baishuiling."
(End of this chapter)
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