This time, the Transvaal Republic is very happy, the right to use a piece of land is only, if the Chinese Empire can give a suitable price, wouldn't it be earned?

In just a few days, the two sides came up with a plan and reached an agreement on the location, area, usage cost, and other issues of the concession area:

First, the Shandong Industrial Company bought out the land use rights of the Transvaal Republic at a price of 150,000 pounds per year, about 300 kilometers long and about 50 kilometers wide, with a service life of 99 years, in this area, the Shandong Industrial Company of the Chinese Empire can freely carry out development, construction and even mining and pave the way;

Second, in the next 99 years, the two parties will renew the agreement every 10 years, and Shandong Industrial Company will need to increase the buyout fee by 10% to protect the rights and interests of the Transvaal Republic;

Third, after the expiration of the service life, Shandong Industrial Company has the priority right to continue to renew the lease;

Fourth, all business activities carried out by Shandong Industrial Company in this area shall comply with the laws of the Transvaal Republic, and normal business activities shall be under the armed protection of the Transvaal Republic;

Fifth, the income generated by all business activities carried out by Shandong Industrial Company in this area shall be subject to the relevant taxes to the Republic of the Transvaal;

Sixth, when the Transvaal Republic or this region is threatened by a third party, the Chinese Empire has the right and obligation to send troops to protect it;

This agreement has been unanimously approved by both sides, especially the last one, which makes the Transvaal Republic extremely excited, this is undoubtedly an alliance treaty signed with the Chinese Empire, as long as any country dares to challenge the Transvaal Republic, it will inevitably be responded to positively by the Chinese Empire, and even send troops directly!

What could be more exciting than this?

The price of 150,000 pounds a year can also be said to be a very cost-effective deal, you must know that fifty years ago, the British bought the Cape of Good Hope area directly from the Dutch, and it only cost six million pounds, which is only the cost of leasing the Rand area to the Chinese Empire for forty years, this business is definitely earned by the Transvaal Republic, not to mention, every ten years, the lease fee will be increased by 10%!

Although it is 150,000 pounds, it is still not enough to repay the annual loan to the Chinese Empire, but at least there is no need to bear so much pressure, and the remaining 80,000 pounds, squeezing it, can still be reluctantly accepted!

For the Chinese Empire, this is of course more cost-effective, now to Laiyang Iron Works and Yanzhou Coal Mine as the main Shandong Industrial Group, in Shandong production of coal and steel has reached the limit, the most important thing is that the quality of steel and coal produced in these two places is average, the quality of ore is also very average, earned the first pot of gold Shandong Industrial Company holds a large number of silver dollars in its hands, and urgently needs a platform to put into it, while it can produce sustainable benefits, this Delan Basin is undoubtedly the cornucopia of Shandong Industrial Minister!

According to Guo Ye, once the gold mines are discovered, the gold mines in this basin will easily reach the scale of hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels per year! That's gold, not silver, according to the current ratio of silver dollars to gold, one tael of gold is worth twenty-five silver dollars, if the annual output really reaches millions of taels, let alone millions of taels, even if it reaches one million taels of gold, it is twenty-five million silver dollars, which is converted into pounds, and it is as high as four or five million pounds! That's the real fortune!

With so much gold in his hands, it is natural for the Chinese Empire to implement a gold standard monetary system in the future!

"Mr. President, it will not be long before two million pounds of money will arrive in your country, and then the plan for the unification of the Boers will be unstoppable! Here, I wish you all the best of luck! ”

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Martinas looked at Jiang Shenghua and Kong Youlin gratefully, I have to say that these two people have worked hard to help the Transvaal Republic and the Boers, and they have been enthusiastically running before and after, regardless of pay, which is really touching.

"Mr. Minister, Mr. Kong, in recognition of the contributions made by the two Boers, I, Martinas Pretoriaus, on behalf of the Government of the Transvaal Republic, declare that two special Republican Peace Medals have been awarded to them, who are the great heroes of our Boer people!"

Martinas said, holding up his glass.

Jiang Shenghua said with a smile: "Mr. Martinas, this is just the first step, you must know that it may be easier to promote the merger of the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State, but it is not so easy to want a prosperous and powerful Boer country, the entire Cape region is under the strong rule of the British, and it is inevitable that the Zulu people are also the great enemies of your country, and your country does not have an outlet to the sea, this is the most troublesome, only by mastering the access to the sea, can communicate with the outside world in a timely manner, Only then can your country quickly become strong! It can be said that your country still has a long way to go if it wants to be truly strong and fight and become a decisive force in Africa......"

Martinas's heart sank, Jiang Shenghua was right, the threat of the English was only a potential threat, they were suppressing the development of the Boers, trying to divide the Boers forever; But the threat of the Zulus is real, the two countries have a long national border, often clash, and the Zulus can be said to be the most tenacious warriors in the world, extremely strong, even with spears, bows and arrows, can repel the British foreign spear team!

Jiang Shenghua continued: "Also, the population of the Boers is too small, even the population of the Transvaal and Orange countries combined, it is only one or two million people, including some blacks, you know, in this world, any powerful country, has inexhaustible population resources, look at our Chinese Empire, population 40,000, such a huge population, naturally do not have to be afraid of the British and the French, big deal to fight, three Chinese against one British, Then the Chinese can still have two or three hundred million left! ”

Martinas almost laughed, this was the most cokely sentence he had ever heard, of course, the truth was real, war, isn't it just fighting for money, weapons and population?

The Chinese Empire can easily arm a million troops, but what about the Boers, all the Boers combined, even the children and the elderly are only more than a million, and being able to make up more than ten or two hundred thousand people is already the top of the sky!

(To be continued.) )