Of the 37 gold mines in Johannesburg, eleven belong to the Rhodes family's De Beers Unified Mining Company, five belong to the Matilda family (including the Rock Gold Mine), three belong to the Anglo-American mining companies that have risen in the last two years, and the rest belong to the elites of different European countries.

With a status as high as Sidney Milner, he wants to have a gold mine in Johannesburg and also looks for opportunities, and without the help of bigwigs of the level of Roque and Xiaosi, it is basically impossible.

Since he came to Johannesburg, Roque was not in a hurry to go to the gold mine where the accident occurred first, and went to the Nyasaland Mansion in Ziwei City with Xiao Si.

The current Ziwei City has finally gotten rid of the name "Ziwei Town", and there are not many cities with a permanent population of more than 10,000 people in southern Africa, and it is really unreasonable to use the level of "town".

Compared with Johannesburg, the scale of Ziwei City is not large, but its status is very important, and it is comparable to Johannesburg's status.

The reason why Johannesburg has attracted attention from all parties is mainly because of the gold in Johannesburg, and Ziwei City is famous for Ziwei College, Ziwei Hospital, Johannesburg Medical School, and Johannesburg Pharmaceutical Company.

With so many important institutions, the financial situation of Crape Myrtle City is very good, there are enough funds for urban construction, so although the scale of Crape Myrtle City is expanding, but urban construction can also keep up, the road conditions are second to none in southern Africa, the streets are still planted with purple trees, the business district around Church Square stays awake all night, and the elegant residential area is quiet and peaceful, Crape Myrtle City has been rated as the most livable city in Johannesburg for five consecutive years.

Although Roque Phyllis now stays in Nyasaland all the year round, but the Nyasaland Mansion is taken care of by Anna, and the inside and outside are still clean and tidy, this time Roque came back alone, and Phyllis and the children stayed in Nyasaland and did not come back, so Roque was not very demanding, and went to the study with Xiao Si after eating casually.

"Anglo-American mining companies have been very restless in the past two years, they have great ambitions, not only gold in Johannesburg, but also iron ore in Favart, and copper mines in Nyasaland, Rhodesia, and a few months ago a huge manganese ore was discovered around Kurumman, and Anglo-American mining companies bid very high and are very promising to get the right to mine manganese ore." The situation explained by Xiao Si is shocking.

Manganese has a huge role in modern steel, manganese can enhance the hardness of iron, but will not reduce the ductility and toughness of iron, but also has ultra-high wear resistance, so high manganese steel has become one of the most important types of steel since its birth.

Southern Africa has 150 million tonnes of manganese reserves, accounting for a quarter of the world's total reserves.

"They have no hope, Henry has been in Cape Town some time ago, just for the manganese ore in Kurumman." Roque knew about it, but he didn't know that there was a shadow of Anglo-American Mining Company in it.

"It's hard to say, Anglo-American mining companies also have the background and strength, as long as the bid is high enough, everything is possible." Xiao Si is not optimistic, the Anglo-American mining company can develop such a mine, there must be a background behind it.

This is normal, and there is also a background behind the Anglo-American oil company looking for opportunities on the peninsula, but if you want to set foot on the peninsula, you also have to look at the face of the umbrella company and the Adan company, Roque disagrees, and the oil exploration team of the Anglo-American oil company does not dare to set foot on the peninsula at all.

The situation in southern Africa is different from the peninsula, the peninsula is now uninhabited, and southern Africa is part of the British Commonwealth, and Roque can't go too far in southern Africa, after all, there is a British royal family and aristocratic platform behind the Anglo-American mining company.

"It's impossible, even if they get the mining rights, they don't want to take even a kilogram of ore with them." Roque is not in a hurry, if the Anglo-American mining company is willing to throw money, then it will be smashed casually, in southern Africa, Roque wants to find trouble with the Anglo-American mining company, it is not too simple.

"Well, you're the boss!" Xiao Si is really convinced, which is why Cecil Rhodes and Roque hit it off at first sight.

"Anglo-American Mining has three gold mines in Johannesburg, right, let them give one to Sidney." Roque is welcome, there are too many three, Roque himself is only three, of course, the largest reserves, the best benefit is still the Rock gold mine.

"I don't think Anglo-American Mining will agree—" Little laughed out loud.

Roque was simply speechless, and Anglo-American Mining Company was not stupid and would certainly not agree.

However, it is not up to the Anglo-American Mining Company to agree or not, Xiao Si, as the president of the Johannesburg Mining Alliance, actually has a lot of ways to deal with the Anglo-American Mining Company, but Xiao Si is not as black as Roque, and it will not be so direct, so the Anglo-American Mining Company can gain a foothold in Johannesburg.

In the case of Roque when he was still in the Transvaal, it is estimated that Anglo-American Mining Company had no chance at all.

"Tell me about this strike, does it have anything to do with the Boers?" Roque is still concerned about the strike, and the gold mine problem will be handed over to Xiao Si, and I believe that Xiao Si has a way to solve it.

"Probably not, this time it's purely the French themselves who are brain-dead, anyway, this is not the first time they have been brain-dead." Xiao Si's mouth is also very poisonous.

Roque didn't speak, this question shouldn't actually be asked to Xiao Si, it should be asked to Sam or Lu Si, who are the people in charge of the Transvaal's intelligence work.

Early the next morning, Roque started to work, and it was rare to go back to Ziwei City, and there were many people who wanted to report to Roque or contact feelings, and even Marcus Beauft came to join in the fun.

"The mayor's job is so idle—" Roque still gave face, when he was in Johannesburg, Roque and Marcus Beaufort worked well together.

"You, the Minister of Defense and Minister of Justice, are idle, and the mayor is certainly even more idle." Marcus Beaufort took the initiative to hug Roque, and the title was also the essence of the Chinese.

"I'm a deputy, of course I'm idle-" Roque corrected, and then disliked: "-I'm not here for a vacation, okay, I've been on the train for two days, and I've just gotten up to work, where can I be free?" ”

"Okay, okay, I'm also for work, you mobilized the army this morning, not to suppress it by force, right?" Marcus Beaufort is also for work.

In fact, Roque had already ordered the garrison to go out last night to block the gold mine of the riot, and the gold mine was previously in charge of the umbrella company in cooperation with the Johannesburg Police Department, and Roque was not dissatisfied with the work of the umbrella and the police department, but some things still could not be made a big deal and should be handled in a low-key manner.

"It's not enough to be suppressed by force, I'm here to prevent violence from spreading, and gold production can't be affected." Roque has asked the miners to send representatives to negotiate, not in the mines already controlled by the miners, but in the Johannesburg City Council.

Roque will also participate when the time comes.

"That's good, I said can you think of a way to get rid of all those nasty guys, the French and Americans will only make trouble, they actually dare to smuggle gold secretly, they simply don't take us seriously." Marcus Beaufort was angry, how miraculous, Roque didn't even know about this kind of thing.

"Smuggling gold?" Roque was surprised, he really didn't know.

"You don't know?" Marcus Beaufort was even more surprised, the police department is a subordinate agency of the Ministry of Justice, and Roque, the deputy minister, didn't know it, it's amazing!

Roque does not blush, the Ministry of Justice also has a lot of things every day, it is impossible for Roque to deal with everything, this matter must have been reported by the Johannesburg Police Department, but it has not yet reached the extent that Roque personally handles it.

In the past, Roque probably wouldn't have dealt with it personally, after all, smuggling gold is actually not uncommon in Johannesburg, and Xiao Si's gold mine actually has smuggling, Henry's gold mine is the same, and Roque's own gold mine is also smuggling.

It's just that Roque, Xiao Si, and Henry smuggled it above board, and sent it directly to the underground vault of the RAND Bank, even if it was discovered, it didn't matter, with the cooperation of the RAND Bank, it was found that it would be necessary to make up a procedure.

It didn't matter before, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't matter now, so Roque immediately called Gaode over.

"Yes, the Johannesburg Police Department has detected a number of gold smuggling cases this year, and the police department has dealt with the gold mines and individuals involved in accordance with relevant regulations, and the results have been reported to the Ministry of Justice." AutoNavi is not afraid to ask, the whole process is reasonable and legal, and no one is afraid to ask.

Roque nodded, exchanging a tacit glance with Sidney Milner next to him.

"The gold of Johannesburg is of great importance to both the Commonwealth Government and the British Empire, and all smuggling must be strictly prohibited, Lord, it is better to increase the punishment for all the gold mines involved, as smuggling will cause serious losses to the Commonwealth Government and the British Empire." The first secretary was simply indignant.

"To confiscate their illegal gains, cancel their gold mining rights, the mining industry needs to be rectified, how much tax revenue will be lost every year." The former tax collector also had a common language on this issue.

The word "rectification" is very elastic, and the next notice that does not hurt or itch is called rectification, and subverting the rules of the industry to make an example is also rectification, and Marcus Beaufort obviously wants the latter.

As mayor of Johannesburg, Markus Beaufort has a chance to compete if ownership of a gold mine is transferred.

"Agreed, some gold mines are really excessive, four or five thousand workers work in shifts, and only one or two tons of gold are mined every year, and under normal circumstances, such gold mines are not necessary to be mined in Johannesburg." Xiao Si also agreed to rectify, anyway, no matter how it was rectified, it had nothing to do with the gold mine of De Beers Unified Mining Company.

Then straighten it out.