Chapter 1256 Robbery, that's the old business of Daying (first update, please subscribe)
In Southern Africa, our interests are common!
There is absolutely no doubt that gold can, after all, bind everyone's interests together, there is no doubt about that.
When the two men entered the smoking room of the club, as soon as they sat down, several well-dressed gentlemen came over and greeted Pearson enthusiastically. Now, no one would care about Pearson's ordinary background, and people would even deliberately try to please him. Perhaps, Britain is a society that values background, but in fact, everyone is very realistic. They may look down on nouveau riche, but if the nouveau riche is rich enough, they will definitely not reject him, just like those impoverished aristocrats who married American nouveau riche.
Now, in London's upper class, people only see Pearson, who has a huge fortune of millions of pounds, and his South African mining company. Everyone envies the wealth in his hands.
Of course, people are also paying attention to his investment. After his successful experience of turning stones into gold in southern Africa, there are countless people in London holding money in their hands, begging him to accept their investment. However, Pearson has always been very picky about investors. For example, the investors he accepted now are not ordinary people, but the elites of the British upper class.
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is just a combination of power and money.
Amidst the smoke of cigars and the aroma of whiskey, the group chatted for a while, and naturally the topic turned to the gold mines in southern Africa, the greedy taxation of the Transvaal people, and of course, the importance of the gold mines to Britain. The topic finally returned to some of their ideas.
"What do we think? As the importance of gold mines continues to emerge, especially the increasing production of Rand gold mines, the Dewasland government is bound to increase taxes."
"This is obviously unacceptable!"
"I heard that the Dewasland government is increasing tariffs on explosives and various mining equipment..."
"They are trying every possible means to take the gold mine away from us..."
…
"This is the civil servant of the Empire."
Listening to their conversation, Pearson thought to himself that they were indeed just a group of civil servants, seemingly a group of insignificant "clerks". Their voices might not be heard in Congress, but as we all know, it was these seemingly insignificant people who directly determined the development of things - they dominated the ministers, and the ministers dominated the country.
"As long as they stand on the side of the gold mines, the British Empire will soon sound the clarion call to march towards Dewasland!"
Why did they blow the horn to march?
In fact, Pearson knew very well what he needed.
He was nothing more than a drummer advocating the expansion of Britain's colonies in South Africa. To a certain extent, the mining company needed such a drummer as a political backer. But on the other hand, Pearson knew that countless British people, including the dignitaries in London, were eyeing the mining company. As long as there was an opportunity, these wolf-like characters would pounce on the company and swallow this piece of fat meat into their stomachs.
The only thing to be thankful for now is that the UK is still a legal society, at least on the surface, the British system can still provide companies with certain protection. If it were in South America or some other country, perhaps the mining company would have been directly confiscated by those powerful people long ago.
But how long can this situation last?
Of course, it doesn’t matter, not even the mining companies.
After all, for the empire, the mining company was just a bait, a bait to lure the British Empire into taking the bait.
It is for this reason that he does not feel that those greedy guys are a threat at all. To a certain extent, he even needs those greedy guys to join his company or even devour his company.
Only in this way can we complete the tasks assigned by our family!
What is his mission?
They used the gold mines as a lucrative opportunity to attract the British and Dewasland.
Just like the old Chinese saying goes - "When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman gains!"
The empire wants to be the fisherman!
But when will the conflict between Britain and Dewaziland come into play?
However, these issues are not important now. The most important question now is, when faced with the fact that Dewasland wants to exclude British capital and immigrant infiltration, and even wants to take away the gold mines bit by bit, what decision will Britain make?
Will it be a war?
war……
Frowning, Pearson asked the senior civil servants in front of him with a smile, and then said:
"So, gentlemen, how should we protect the interests of the British Empire there? Now Dewasland is excluding British immigrants and attacking British power there. Even my company is suffering from some kind of discrimination. Gentlemen, what can the British Empire do for me?"
In response to his inquiry, Mr. Weatherill, the Prime Minister's senior secretary, said.
"Mr. Pearson, please believe that the British Empire will never ignore the invasion of your interests, but now... the time is not yet ripe."
"Mr. Weatherill, maybe we can create some opportunities!"
Create opportunities?
Faced with other people's suggestions, Weatherill thought about it and then said.
"Even to create opportunities, some reasons are needed!"
"Reasons, Mr. Weatherall,"
Pearson said,
"I believe that in the days ahead, they will certainly bring their reasons to our door."
In fact, for the imperialists, what reason do they need for expansion? If they need a reason, they will create one, and if they need an excuse, they will also create one.
That evening, Pearson had dinner with an official from the Colonial Office. What topics did they discuss? Of course, some topics related to expanding the influence of the British in Transvaal. In fact, to put it bluntly, they hoped to do everything possible to stimulate Transvaal and intensify the blow to the British.
The official who was enjoying the steak looked back at his "employer" sitting in front of him.
"I'm not sure I would, sir," he said after a moment's reflection.
"I have to think about it, you know, what this means. It almost means war."
"perhaps,"
Pearson nodded.
"Of course you have to think about it carefully. But we all know that this is also an opportunity, an opportunity for all of us to gain wealth. Perhaps this needs to be considered again and again. But if we miss this opportunity, sir, maybe one day the gold mine will belong to the Boers, but now we have the opportunity to make it ours..."
"But the war..."
Pearson said after he finished speaking.
"War is the way to expand and gain wealth. When can we avoid war? Moreover, for the British Empire, we have fought too many wars in the past few hundred years. Fighting war is the British Empire's forte."
To be precise, it was not war, but robbery, which is the real business of the British Empire.
All Pearson needs now is to get these British people back to work.
Of course, the gold there is enough to attract them.
(End of this chapter)
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