In Johannesburg, there are some things that must be figured out, or you won't know how to die.

This time, it seems that the mining alliance has come up with seven gold mines for auction, but in fact, there are not many gold mines that can really increase the price, and after Hawley raised his card, everyone still had a tacit understanding not to raise his card, and Aiden soon announced that the Coverdale gold mine was sold at a reserve price of 20,000 rand.

Even if Sidney Milner and Roque have a good relationship, they can't help but be envious and jealous at this time, just now, the Marcellus Gold Mine sold an unprecedented 450,000 rand, and now the Coverdale Gold Mine, which is not much smaller than the Marcellus Gold Mine, has only been auctioned for 20,000, don't look at Roque is now in Nyasaland all year round, but his influence in Johannesburg is not less at all.

"Let's go—" As soon as Aiden announced the deal, Roque got up and left.

"Look at it again—" Sidney Milner wanted to watch the excitement continue.

"Let's go, after we're gone, the auction can go on normally." Luo Ke still explained, the appearance of eating should not be too ugly, others have saved enough face for Luo Ke and Xiao Si, and Luo Ke and Xiao Si should also accept it when they see it.

Sidney Milner only then noticed that Smalls didn't know when he had left the pitch early.

Then go, and when he left his seat, Sidney Milner could even hear a small cheer from the inside.

It seems that the shadow created by Roque and Xiao Si is indeed a bit big.

When he left the city hall, he found that Owen was actually there, waiting for Roque and Sidney Milner in the car with Xiao Si.

Then let's go to the Cecil family's estate for dinner, and Roque only learned at the dinner table that at this moment, the Ignati Woods gold mine bought by Xiao Si had been resold to Owen for 50,000 rand.

Sidney Milner was really speechless about this operation.

"The De Beers Unified Mining Company already owns most of the Rand mining area, it doesn't matter if there is one more or less, what we have to be wary of is foreign capital, whether it is the Americans, the French, or the Russians, I want them all to get out of southern Africa." If Xiao Si's words were to be spread, it might affect the internal relations of the Entente.

Although Xiao Si's status is high, he is actually a businessman after all, and it doesn't matter what he says, Roque and Sidney Milner are both high-ranking officials in Southern Africa, so this kind of talk cannot be discussed casually, so Roque and Sidney Milner are as if they didn't hear it, concentrating on dealing with the steak on the plate in front of them.

"Ernest Oppenheimer seems to have gone to London to prevent this guy from doing something." Owen was in a good mood, and 50,000 rand to buy a bonanza that was being mined, to put it bluntly, was like picking it up for nothing.

"It's not there yet—" Roque said softly, and several people immediately laughed wickedly.

It takes half a month to take a boat from Cape Town to London, and now Ernest Oppenheimer is still floating at sea, and by the time Ernest Oppenheimer arrives in London, everything has already settled, even if Ernest Oppenheimer finally finds someone willing to stand up for him, the distance between Southern Africa and London is daunting enough.

"How many workers are there in the Marcellus Gold Mine?" Sidney Milner is still concerned about the Marcellus gold mine, which is yet to be acquired.

As is customary in Johannesburg, the Marcellus Gold Mine can now be renamed Milner Gold Mine.

However, considering Sidney Milner's identity, the name is probably not easy to change.

"Workers don't have to worry, the workers who took the lead in the trouble have been sent to Ceylon, and the remaining workers can continue to use them, but these workers will also have to be replaced in batches, and dogs that have eaten meat will not want to eat potatoes anymore." Xiao Si has experience in dealing with this kind of thing.

"Ceylon—" Sidney Milner feared the consequences.

"Don't worry—" Roque understands Xiao Si's consistent style of doing things, the so-called "exile" is just a rhetoric, and no one can tell where the person has gone.

During the Boer War, at least 8,000 people were exiled by the expeditionary force, and now that the war has been over for many years, few people have returned to look for their relatives.

"Wouldn't this be too simple and crude?" Sidney Milner hasn't gotten used to the unbridled approach of Roque and Smalls.

"The way the French manage the Marcellus gold mine is that because it's so civilized, the workers go on strike." Xiao Si in a word.

"I'm going back to Nyasaland tomorrow, can we go together?" Roque didn't want to stay in Johannesburg.

"You go first, I still have things to deal with." Sidney Milner felt that the Mining Alliance's handling of the gold mines was too hasty, so Si still had some things to deal with.

Sloppiness also has the benefit of being sloppy, with seven gold mines, auctioning a total of R2.03 million, averaging R290,000 each.

This is still on the premise that the Ignati Woods gold mine and the Coverdale gold mine were only auctioned for 50,000 and 20,000 yuan respectively, excluding these two, the average price of each gold mine reached more than 390,000 yuan, which is the real price of the Johannesburg gold mine.

The money was divided into three parts, one of which would be distributed to other mine owners by the mining consortium for the losses caused to other mine owners by the Marcellus gold strike, and two parts, one to the Johannesburg City and the Transvaal State Government, and the other to the federal government.

In this way, there are benefits from top to bottom, and even if there are problems in the future, the federal government and the state government will have to stand on the same side as the mining alliance.

Roque returned to Nyasaland early the next morning, passing through Pretoria without stopping.

Nyasaland is still changing with each passing day, and only a few days after leaving Little Rock, several more construction sites are being started on King's Street near Cecil Rhodes Square, and they are not small.

Previously, Little Rock's business district was concentrated around Cecil Rhodes Square, where the Nyasaland State Government, Little Rock City Government, Nyasaland Council and other institutions, as well as the Rand Bank, De Beers Unified Mining Company, Nyasaland Agricultural Development Corporation, Favart Steel Company, and other large enterprises have their headquarters in Nyasaland.

In addition to these government agencies and corporate headquarters, Cecil Rhodes Square is surrounded by the largest state library in Nyasaland, the Nyasaland Museum donated by Smalls, the newly built Nyasaland Opera House, and Ida's Capet department store, among others.

As more and more businesses move in, the land around Cecil Rhodes Square is at a premium, and all the houses around the square have been expropriated by the Nyasaland Municipality or bought by large corporations, and the houses that have only been built for a few years have been demolished, and permanent buildings of masonry and concrete have been erected.

As more and more buildings grew around the square, it became known as Nyasaland, or later established businesses, to King's Street, which was originally home to various scientific research institutions.

Now the headquarters of the Nyasaland Aircraft Factory, the Nyasaland Automobile Company, and the Nyasaland Military Industrial Group are all located on Kings Street, between Kings Street and Sunset Avenue on the shores of Lake Nyasa, which has also become the most prosperous area of Little Rock, where the Nyasaland Army Academy and the Nyasaland Flight Academy, as well as the two schools that have just been upgraded to "academies" this year, are located.

The two schools are the newly established Nyasaland Institute of Mechanics and the Nyasaland School of Economics.

Long before the establishment of the University of Nyasaland, in order to meet the human resource gap in Nyasaland, Roque tried to train technical talents in the form of short-term training courses, one of which was a mechanical training course led by Rudolf Diesel, and the other was an accounting training course run by RAND Bank.

These two training schools have provided a large number of basic talents for Nyasaland's economic take-off, and after the establishment of the University of Nyasaland, these two training schools have not been suspended, and continue to train more talents for Nyasaland.

About half a year ago, the government of Nyasarland decided to upgrade the two training schools so that the Faculty of Mechanics and the Faculty of Economics can issue diplomas to students.

Of course, the diplomas of these two schools are definitely weaker than those of the University of Nyasaland.

But it doesn't matter, as long as the government of Nyasaland recognizes it, and it doesn't matter if the federal government recognizes Roque or not.

Most of them still have to admit that after moving to the new campus, at least in terms of hardware facilities, the School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Economics are no worse than the Cape of Good Hope University in Cape Town, and even better in terms of soft power, and Roque can't think of a reason why the federal government will not recognize it.

However, the inauguration ceremony of the two academies was estimated to be in time, and on September 3, Italy finally declared war with the Ottoman Empire, and the Italian-Turkish War broke out.

In Roque's impression, the Italian-Turkish War in another time and space seemed to have not broken out until September 28, 1911, and now it was only 1910, a year earlier than the outbreak of the Italian-Turkish War in another time and space, which caught Roque a little off guard.

It's probably normal to think about it, butterflies in the Amazon rainforest can cause a hurricane in Texas with a few flicks of their wings, and it has been a full decade since Roque came to this era, and there are no "strong winds" fighters in another time and space, and there are no "albatross" bombers, and Italy and the Ottoman Empire have obtained these advanced weapons so long in advance, and it is already very bearable to endure the declaration of war until now.

In fact, the calculation time is about the same, although Italy and the Ottoman Empire have planes, but there are no pilots, it is easy to buy planes, but it is very difficult to train pilots, so Italy and the Ottoman Empire can drag on until now.

The Italian-Turkish war was a charge for the military industrial enterprises of Nyasaland, and from the moment of the outbreak of the Italian-Turkish war, the military industrial enterprises of Nyasaland began to produce at full capacity.

Now the military-industrial complex in Nyasaland is still very scary, and if the weapons produced by the Italians and the Ottoman Empire are not used up, it doesn't matter, in a few years they can be sold back to the British mainland.

The Italian-Turkish war broke out ahead of schedule, will the First World War be far away?