After Roque arrived in Johannesburg, there was a constant exchange of telegrams between him and Ida, and the communication was never interrupted.

Ada's lighter business is getting better and better, as the expeditionary force returns to their respective countries, lighters are also spread all over the world with the expeditionary force, don't underestimate this small lighter, from its birth to the present, has brought Ida more than 500,000 pounds in profits, more than Roque's gold mine.

The accumulation of wealth did not bring much security to Ada, and perhaps only in the dead of night would Ida wonder if it was all worth it.

Roque certainly wouldn't object to Ida coming to Johannesburg, and even from an economic point of view, Johannesburg's prospects are far better than Cape Town's.

After the opening of the Suez Canal, the value of Cape Town plummeted, only those giant ships whose tonnage is too large to pass through the Suez Canal will bypass the African continent through Cape Town, but limited to the current technical conditions, the number of such giant ships is very small, so Cape Town's status as a transit port is continuing to decline.

Johannesburg is different, Johannesburg, which owns the Rand gold mine, has a bright future, because of Roque's involvement, Johannesburg's economy is diversifying, gold mining is no longer the only economic pillar in Johannesburg, the textile industry and agriculture will also bring great wealth to Johannesburg in the future, after the war, many people of insight are concentrated in Johannesburg, Ida is of course no exception.

No, because Ada's destination was not Johannesburg, but Pretoria, where Ida bought a piece of land and built a castle-like building as her home in Pretoria.

The whole building is made of white marble, and the grandeur is not much better than Ade's Palace of Justice, and it took a year for the whole building to be completed, and the people of Pretoria thought that it belonged to a certain prince and nobleman, but they did not expect it to be built by Ada.

That's right, Ida is a nobleman herself.

As soon as the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will win countless in the world.

It's been more than a year since Roque and Ida last met, Roque has been clean and clean for a year, and has not communicated with anyone about bodily fluids, and Ada is now obedient to Roque's tidy up, curled up next to Roque like a kitten.

Roque knows that this is actually just an illusion, Ada is a strong and independent woman, even if she loves Roque to the core, Ada will not open her heart easily, and during the time when she was separated from Roque, Ada was also self-conscious, and it was impossible to replace it with someone else, you must know that there are a lot of wild bees and butterflies around Ada, and Roque has seen it in Cape Town before.

"I know about you and your little girlfriend, I don't want to ruin your relationship, and I don't want to change our relationship, so that's fine." Ada's attitude was very clear.

"Can you not talk about this at this time?" Roque still doesn't like it a little, and feels a little betrayed by Ada.

"Hmph-" Ida snorted in satisfaction, and her fingers circled Roque's chest, "Are Orientals very loyal to their feelings?" This situation is normal for us in the UK and even more normal in France. ”

"Heh, Qingguo is still polygamous." Of course, Roque will not admit defeat, and the Chinese he says are the same as innocent little virgins.

In fact, in this regard, the East and the West are similar, Britain and France are definitely the hardest hit areas in this regard, although Britain and France are monogamous, but in the aristocratic circle, this kind of lover relationship is simply not too much, such as the current King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, this is a suave man, there are many lovers.

Incredibly, many British aristocrats knew that their wives were having an affair with the king, but they didn't do it, and some even thought that they had been disgraced and were complacent.

In contrast, the relationship between Roque and Ida is too normal, and Phyllis also knows about the relationship between Roque and Ada, but Phyllis has never been in front of Ida in front of Roque.

"Will you marry many wives in the future?" Ida seemed nonchalant.

"Let's see, we're here in Pretoria, not Paris or London." Roque can't make a promise now, in fact, according to African tradition, men here can marry many wives, and this has been the case until the twenty-first century.

So those women who have fantasies about Africans should be careful, maybe the dark horse prince in your mind has ten or eight children in distant Africa, and two or three wives, four or five mothers, and even whether his father is his own father or not.

"Get up and tell me about your business plan." When it came to business, Ida was immediately in good spirits, pulling Roque to get up.

"Wait a little longer, we'll talk about it tomorrow—" Roque pulled Ada back again—

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The next morning, after lunch, Roque and Ada were finally able to talk calmly about money.

"I have a gold mine in Johannesburg right now—" Roque was confident that the Far West Rand gold mine would definitely be able to handle.

"Don't talk about the gold mine, this is for your little girlfriend." Ida was generous.

"Are you sure? My gold mine is Rand's biggest gold mine—" Roque didn't believe Ida could be generous enough to do that.

"How old?"

"It's hard to say, but it should be enough for us to mine for many years, and now the proven reserves are 350 million ounces." Roque really didn't know how much reserves there were in the Far West Rand Gold Mine, and the Far West Rand Gold Mine was still being mined when Roque crossed.

This does not need to be explored, and at the time of Roque's crossing, 350 million ounces of Far West Rand gold had been mined and was still in production.

"How much?" Ida is going crazy.

"350 million ounces, not all, just proven reserves." Roque replied honestly, to be honest, Ida is an expert in the development and management that Roque is good at, and Roque is ashamed of himself.

When she was in Cape Town, Ida had already proven her managerial skills, whether it was the Table Mountain Bar, Oak Town, or the lighter business, Ida was well managed, and after the Peace Agreement was signed, many Boers in Cape chose to leave Cape for Orange, but none of the Boers in Oaktown left, which is very revealing.

"Does anyone else know?" Ida immediately noticed the crux of the matter.

"I don't know, only you and I know about this reserve now." Roque is very proud, the Rock Gold Mine is the most correct thing that Roque has done in this world.

"Well done!" Ada didn't seem to understand what Roque meant.

If you want to determine the gold reserves, you must hire professionals to explore, so under normal circumstances, the reserves of the gold mine cannot be known only by Roque and Ada.

But since Roque said so, then in Ada's understanding, Roque should have used some special methods to seal the secret.

As for what the "special method" is, Ida has no interest in asking, for Ada, this is what a man should do.

"In addition to the Rock gold mine, the Matilda gold mine also has half of mine." Roque confesses to Ada, who is one of Roque's most trusted people in this world.

Of course, there are still many people who can be trusted by Roque. For example, Buck, Anton, Phyllis, Henry, Xiaosi, etc., they are all worthy of Roque's trust, because their current relationship with Roque is both prosperous and loss-making.

"Leave the Matilda gold mine to your little girlfriend, the Rock gold mine needs to be handled carefully, if the news gets out, you will be the center of the vortex." Ida is indeed wholeheartedly thinking from Roque's point of view.

"Don't worry, the Rock Gold Mine is my people from top to bottom, on the surface, the output of the Rock Gold Mine is not remarkable, and the gold that does not need to be sold for the time being is stored in the basement of the Rock Gold Mine, and now the gold in the basement has exceeded fifty tons-" Roque is really not short of money, 50 tons of gold is worth about 7 million pounds, even at the current price of land, 7 million pounds can buy the entire Transvaal and Orange farms.

"Well, gold is part of it, and what else?" Ida found a piece of paper and made notes with a pencil, feeling that Roque's fortune could no longer be calculated by oral calculation.

"I still have about 100,000 acres of farms in Johannesburg, which are between Johannesburg and Pretoria, the best farms around Johannesburg, but it doesn't matter because I still have about 77,000 square miles in Nyasaland—" Roque's threw another bombshell.

"Ten thousand?" Ida frowned, feeling that the unit of "10,000" was beyond her understanding.

"Yes, 77,000 square miles, I am secretly financing the Yao people in Portuguese East Africa, and if the Yao people can drive the Portuguese out of Portuguese East Africa, then the Zambezi River valley in Portuguese East Africa will become part of Nyasaland." Roque's ambitions were ambitious, and a mere 77,000 square miles certainly did not satisfy Roque's ambitions.

"God, Zambezi valley, do you think London will tolerate this?" Ida feels like crazy again, Roque's strength has gone beyond the ordinary business scope, and Ada doesn't know how to run it.

Yes, Roque invited Ada to the Transvaal in the name of taking care of Roque's assets, otherwise Ada probably wouldn't have left Cape Town.

Ida was indeed full of confidence before he came, after all, pioneering and defending are two different things, many people are good at pioneering, but not good at management, like Cecil Rhodes, that is a good example.

Before coming to the Transvaal, Ida knew that Roque was excellent, but did not think there was any comparison between Roque and Cecil Rhodes.

Now Ida has found out that she was wrong, and Roque may indeed be less famous than Cecil Rhodes now, but Cecil Rhodes is definitely not as successful as Roque is at Roque's age.

"I talked to the colonial minister, Joseph Chamberlain, about Nyasaland, and although the minister did not explicitly support it, he also did not explicitly oppose it, and I think the minister also wanted to try another possibility, after all, it is no longer possible to complete the 'two Cs' plan through conventional means, so we have to use some unconventional means." Roque laid out his plans and plans.

Ada's eyes are confused, and in business, Ada's talent is visible to the naked eye, but in military and politics -

Well, the vast majority of women are not good at these things.

"It's not impossible, think South African companies." Roque sacrificed the South African company as a big killer, and compared to the South African company, Nyasaland is indeed nothing.

South African companies were not alone in this era, such as Mozambique, Niassa and Zambezia in Portuguese East Africa, which controlled two-thirds of Portuguese East Africa's territory and were equally powerful.

"Well, the issue of Nyasaland is put aside, what are you going to do with the Transvaal's farm?" This is Ada's strength, work beyond her ability, Ada will never interfere at will.

"Let's develop it slowly, now the Chinese in the Transvaal will either work in the gold mines and the Crocodile Bay Reservoir, or have their own farms, and when the Crocodile Bay Reservoir is completed, it will not be too late to develop these farms." Roque is really too busy, mainly there is still no one.

"It's not just the Chinese who can farm the land, they can hire Zulus and Boers—" Ida is very good at this, and she doesn't need to worry about Roque at all: "You don't have to worry about the farm, leave it to me to manage, and the Rock Gold Mine, nearly 5,000 workers, with this little output every month, are the Chinese stupider than the Zulus?" ”

This is a bit unpleasant, but Roque is not easy to explain, and he can't honestly admit that Roque is using gold mines to exercise the martial spirit of the Chinese.

Speaking of martial spirit, this is another tragedy.

The Chinese are absolutely not lacking in martial spirit, the Qing people practiced martial arts, regardless of whether the family is rich or poor, the farmer will learn to strengthen the body with both hands, Roque's father used to be a boxer, and he is no stranger to this situation.

The problem is that for some reason, even if they have the ability to resist, many Chinese will be restrained when they encounter danger and dare not resist, unless their lives are in danger, the Chinese will give it a go, and the Chinese on weekdays look a little cowardly.

Roque wants to reshape the martial spirit of the Chinese, and the "martial" here is not to be brave and ruthless, but to dare to fight when encountering injustice, and will actively strive for his own power, which is Roque's real purpose.

"You still have to be careful when hiring Zulus, I don't want too many Zulus on the farm." Roque once again emphasized his attitude towards the Zulus.

"I know, I know, don't worry, when the farm is built, I'll drive them all away." Ida knew that Roque hated the Zulus, and must have only borrowed Zulu labor for a short time, and when the farm was on track, Ada knew what to do.

"Okay, then the next thing is the agricultural cooperative." Roque puts the agricultural cooperative last, and this part is actually what Roque values the most and needs Ida the most.

"What is an agricultural cooperative?" Ida does not understand the concept of agricultural cooperatives.

"Agricultural cooperatives are mutual aid organizations, and at this stage, agricultural cooperatives are limited to organizing farmers to cooperate in agriculture, and in the future, the coverage of agricultural cooperatives will continue to expand, and now agricultural cooperatives have begun to provide some financial services to farmers around Johannesburg." Roque explained in as much detail as possible, but it was still not enough.

"Finance-bank?" Ada's comprehension is superb.

Almost.