After the failure of the Republic of the Congo to establish an arsenal, southern Africa intensified its penetration into the Republic of the Congo and further strengthened its control over the Republic of the Congo.

Electricity is only one aspect of the railway, which was previously owned by the government of the Republic of the Congo and has been bought by a southern African company for a mere R50,000.

The railway was built by the former colonial government of the Congo Free State and was originally designed to run from Bomaheu to Lake Kivu and run through the entire territory of the Congo Free State.

It's a pity that before the railway was completed, a rebellion broke out in the Congo Free State, and later it was divided into the Republic of the Congo and the Kingdom of the Congo, and it was impossible to complete it.

After the establishment of the Republic of the Congo, the railway extended from Boma to Soyo, and the total length of the railway in the eastern part of the territory was only about 300 kilometers.

Only the eastern region is counted because in the western part of the Republic of the Congo, near Nyasaland and Rhodesia, there are about 500 kilometres of railways, but this part of the railway is not owned by the Republic of the Congo, but by Albert Katanga United Mining Co., Ltd.

Moreover, this part of the railway is not connected to the Bosso Railway, but to the east and the Southern African railway network, which is one of the reasons why Southern Africa forcibly occupies Katanga.

Like the railways, Soyo, the Republic of Congo's only outlet to the sea, was operated by a southern African company that received management rights from the Republic of the Congo in the form of rents, including taxes, in a similar pattern to that of South African companies in the Cape colony.

South African companies are also shareholders in many companies in the Republic of Congo.

"After taking Katanga, all the copper mines will be under our control, and we will have the final say on the price of copper in the world—" Henry is confident that he is now a veritable mining giant, and Favart, as the most important heavy industry base in southern Africa, plays a key role in the industrial development of southern Africa.

Both Roque and Xiao Si smile, the difference is that Roque's smile is all from the heart, while Xiao Si's smile is a bit reluctant.

By Henry, he was referring to the Central African Copper Belt that stretched across Nyasaland, Rhodesia, and the two Congos, all the way to the French colonies.

Originally, most of this copper belt belonged to Rhodesia, but unfortunately, when Xiao Si "sold" Nyasaland to Roque, he sold the northern part of Rhodesia, which had not yet discovered the mine, to Roque, and passed by the huge wealth.

After the discovery of copper deposits in northern Nyasaland, Roque joined hands with Xiao Si and Henry to establish the Upper Katanga United Mining Co., Ltd. to develop the Central African Copper Belt, and now the copper produced by the Upper Katanga United Mining Co., Ltd. accounts for more than half of the world's copper production, so Henry is really not bragging, and now the pricing power of copper has been in the hands of the Haut-Katanga United Mining Co., Ltd.

"Don't be complacent, Adan has discovered a large amount of copper in South America, and the reserves are no less than those of the East African copper belt." Roque's eyes are now not limited to southern Africa, but also to the world's well-known mines, all of which are in Roque's memory.

In his previous life, when Roque was engaged in foreign trade, he coveted the rich resources possessed by foreign mining companies.

At that time, Roque could not do anything, and now Roque has an opportunity, that is, after the Australian company bought a large amount of land in Western Australia and began to hoard iron ore, Adan Company also began to conquer cities in South America.

It's not just Adan that's not just Adam, but Christian Exploration's explorers are also running around the world.

In Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the Cristian Exploration company's explorers have discovered several staggering iron ore reserves, each of which exceeds the Favart iron ore mine, and the explorers speculate that there should be a huge iron ore belt around Itabira, just like the Central African copper belt.

The engineers of Christian Exploration are right, there is indeed a huge copper belt around Itabira, and the famous "Iron Quadrangle" of another time and space is centered on Itabira, this iron ore belt ore body is 64 kilometers wide and 192 kilometers long, with reserves of about 3.5 billion tons, and the iron content is as high as 60-70%, and the ore layer is close to the surface, which is convenient for open-pit mining.

"Buy, buy them all, even if you don't mine it, you can't cheapen others." Henry's momentum is like a rainbow, and the husband is not guilty.

Just like the Republic of the Congo, which owns the Katanga region, when the Upper Katanga United Mining Co., Ltd. signed a development agreement with the Republic of Congo, although the Republic of the Congo was reluctant, it was forced by Roque, Xiao Si and Henry to join forces, and the Republic of Congo also pinched its nose and recognized it.

It is a pity that human desires are endless, and it is not enough for Roque and Xiao Si and Henry to establish the Haut-Katanga United Mining Co., Ltd., and now they have gone one step further and demanded that the Republic of the Congo cede Katanga to Southern Africa, and the Republic of the Congo could not refuse.

This is like the United States bullying Mexico, the essence of jungle society is that you are weak and you deserve it.

"Mining, why don't you keep it? After the establishment of the Southern African Union, Africans were brought to South America to open mines, and then the ore was transported back to southern Africa, and when it was not used up, it was piled up. Xiao Si is also ruthless, the resources of southern Africa can be developed at any time, and the resources of other countries can be grabbed as much as they can.

"Then you have to prepare a large enough warehouse-" Roque laughed, Xiao Si has no concept of the scale of hundreds of millions of tons, just like the gold mine in the Rand mining area, it can't be mined in a hundred years, and all of it can meet the needs of the world for tens or hundreds of years.

"Then transport it back to the sea—" Xiao Si said in a word.

Legend has it that in the seventies and eighties of the 20th century, Japan often bought resources from neighboring countries, shipped them back to Japan, and stored them in the sea, such as coal, wood, and rare earths.

Coal and rare earths are forgotten, how can wood be thrown into the bottom of the sea and stored, and gloomy wood can be made in batches?

Japan does not know whether there are resources in Roque, southern Africa does not need to be stored, itself southern Africa has extremely rich resource deposits, and now with the iron ore of Australia and Brazil, there may be no Vale and BHP Billiton in the future, Rio Tinto is now a Spanish company, but it is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Founded in 1873, Rio Tinto spun off its Spanish operations in 1954 and shifted its focus to the United Kingdom.

The current mining giant in the UK is Favart, and even local British companies need to buy raw materials from Favart.

What makes the British local smelters gnash their teeth is that Favalt not only mines mines, but also smelts the goods together, and the British steel mills have closed one by one in recent years, not to mention that the economy is not affected, at least the air quality is much better.

The current mining triumvirate in Southern Africa is Favart and Haut-Katanga United Mines Ltd., as well as Adan in Port Elizabeth.

One of them is steel, one is copper and rare metals, and the last one is oil, the boss of Favart is Henry, and Roque and Xiao Si have shares, and the boss of Haut-Katanga United Mining Co., Ltd. is Xiao Si, and Roque and Henry also have shares, and the shares of Adan are a bit complicated, nominally owned by multiple companies, but in fact the majority shareholder behind it is Nyasaland.

In other words, Roque, Henry, and Smalls are the real mining triumvirates in Southern Africa and even in the British Empire.

What Roque didn't expect was that Adan was buying copper ore in South America smoothly, while buying iron ore in Brazil was experiencing some problems.

In 1889, the Brazilian Empire established by Prince Pedro I of Portugal was overthrown, and Deodoro da Fonseca established the Federative Republic of Brazil, with a new government under the slogan of "order and progress" and based on the presidential system to strengthen the modernization of Brazil, vigorously developing the "coffee economy", Brazil produced three-quarters of the world's coffee production.

After the end of the World War, Brazil's political scene was shaken violently, and after Rodríguez Alves was elected president, he died of illness before he could be sworn in.

On November 15, 1918, Delphine Moreira was elected president.

Half a year later, Delphine Moreira resigned.

The present President, Epitacio Pessoa, was elected on July 28, 1919.

All three presidents are from the Republican Party of Minas Gerais, where Itabira is located.

Anyway, Basiduo has no sense of existence, and Nima searched for this information for two hours.

Minas Gerais is second only to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, with many cities and plantations, and Itabira is located at the southern end of the Espiniazo Mountains in the east of Minas Gerais, 50 kilometers southwest of Belo Horizonte, with a population of less than 1,000 people.

Unfortunately, most of the local plantations in Itabira belong to the Pessoa family of the current president, Epitasio Pessoa, and the Adan company tried to buy Itabira from the Pessoa family, but the Pessoa family directly rejected it, and they were not even interested in listening to the offer of the Iron Four Corners.

"Hahahaha, the Pessoa family is not short of wealth, no matter how much money you pay, the Pessoa family will not sell Itabira." Epitasio Pessoa's cousin, Ernesto Pessoa, who also owned most of Itabira's land, was also Minister of Commerce in Epitasio's cabinet.

"Your Excellency, why don't you listen to the offer of the Iron Quadrangular Company, which is willing to buy your land in Itabira at twice the market price, and with this money, you can go elsewhere and buy a plantation twice the size of the present one." Fan Bao, general manager of Iron Four Corners, is not in a hurry, and the Brazilian government has not yet grasped the information that Itabira has a large amount of iron ore.

"Hehe, twice! Sounds great, but I don't understand why you Iron Four Corners have traveled all the way from Africa to Minas Gerais to buy that hellish place in Itabira, what the hell is there? "Ernesto is not stupid, businessmen are unprofitable and do not get up early, since Iron Square is willing to pay twice the market price, then Itabira must have value worthy of investment by Iron Square Company.