1890 King of Southeast Asia

"General! The cold has been basically controlled, but there is bad news."

Lord Roberts covered his face: "Is there any worse news?"

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In mid-to-late March, a large-scale typhoid fever broke out in the British army. The front line stopped at Bronquan. By mid-April, thousands of people died because they could not get enough medicine and nutrition.

"Hanover was attacked by Franco. We lost a mule team and the road was destroyed. Our supply only depends on the line from Durban to Bronquan." The chief of staff looked solemn. Without supplies, this army of more than 100,000 people would be gone.

"The cavalry division has basically recovered and will be sent out to guard the supply line. The whole army will replenish food and all supplies on the spot and attack Transvaal." Roberts ordered with a cold face.

Replenish on the spot, where to replenish? Bronquan is a big city...

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Wang Tinghan, in the name of Franco, captured the empty Douglas and seized 5 cannons, 1,000 rifles, a large amount of ammunition, and gold.

After that, he attacked on multiple fronts, focusing on the small British transport team and two hundred dragoons, easily killing them, taking away what he could take away and burning what he couldn't take away.

Until the British army chose to accompany the large force, Wang Tinghan adopted the routine of selling mines, blowing up mountains and bridges, so that the British army did not even have enough medicine to treat typhoid.

"Great! Hans! Where is the next target?" Franco returned to the command room from the cheers of the crowd, and Wang Tinghan was bored.

"Turn the horse around and attack Cape or Port Elizabeth." Wang Tinghan licked his lips.

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"Why not Durban?" Franco asked.

"They only have one supply line left, Durban. The British army has a cavalry division and a cavalry brigade. If we run into them, none of us will survive." Wang Tinghan shook his head. The child is incorrigible.

"Attacking the Cape direction can also cause them a little panic and involve the enemy's forces. Any other choice is to seek death. Don't try to fight a decisive battle. The gap between the enemy and us is too big."

"Okay! I'll listen to you." Franco knew his own weight and went out to arrange public opinion immediately. This is why Wang Tinghan shook his head.

They are more like a loose alliance. Franco is the leader and his subordinates are the mountaintops. How can they succeed in the face of the British army, which is generally integrated?

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"Good day, sir." Liu Yiming greeted Cyril politely.

"Good day, your Majesty." Cyril bowed slightly.

"Excuse me, I don't know why you are looking for me?" Cyril sat opposite Liu Yiming under the guidance of the waiter.

"Take a look at this." Liu Ming motioned to Cyril to look at the documents on the table.

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"This is actually an interesting question. You know, the British Empire is considering agreeing to Australia becoming a British dominion. They are very sensitive during this period." Cyril smiled and put down the documents.

"But this is just normal business behavior, and the Australians do not have due respect for a monarch." Liu Ming could not deny it.

"Your Majesty, you know, no country will agree to other countries mining gold on its territory." Cyril said straightforwardly.

"But my merchants have already taken the mining rights in this area according to the normal procedures. This is just a small gold mine. And I will hire local people as the main employees, pay taxes reasonably, and export according to regulations. Even so, it's not okay." Liu Ming acted angry.

"I'm sorry, the gold mines on the territory of the British Empire should be mined by the British Empire." Cyril said with a "really sorry look".

"As far as I know, the United States, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and other countries all have gold mining in the territory of the British Empire." Liu Ming stared at Cyril.

If it was just an ordinary mineral, it would be fine. The Ranger deposit is one of the few metal uranium deposits that Liu Ming knows, and the other one is in Nigeria.

Investing in Australia is investing, and at most it can be negotiated.

If it intervenes in Africa..., South China is already a country in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and with the Atlantic Ocean, it will disintegrate without anyone touching it.

"Well, that's a special case." Cyril shrugged, indicating that he was powerless.

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"Okay! I think there must be a way to solve it." Liu Ming pointed out appropriately.

After all, according to the process, the South China Royal Mining Company under Liu Ming has bought the prospecting rights for dozens of kilometers 224 kilometers east of Darwin.

After successfully finding the location of the Ranger deposit, the Royal Mining Company notified the Darwin colonial authorities in the name of gold mine development, and then got stuck.

"The mineral forecast has been released. The expected reserves are only worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, which is just enough to cover the cost." Liu Ming played with the pen in his hand.

"Your Majesty, the expected reserves are not accurate." Cyril argued.

"I can accept cooperation and set up a joint gold mining company to develop gold mines and mine all gold and silver mines in the mining area, but it cannot prevent us from mining other minerals." Liu Ming said.

"What about the proportion? If there is no suitable proportion, it will be difficult for me to convince the parliament, and the Dominion Ordinance is about to be passed, which will be even more troublesome." Cyril said easily.

This is his purpose. Australia has always been rich in gold. A new gold mine has been discovered. It's fine if the gold diggers can't mine it, but even the British Empire can't get much benefit? How can that be possible?

"37 points." Liu Ming gritted his teeth.

"No! No, no, no, you are wrong to think so..." Cyril bargained skillfully.

In the end, the two sides reached a 5:5 ratio. Mineral mining must mainly employ locals, unless their prices are too outrageous, and they must pay taxes according to the law. Gold exports must also pay a large export tax.

Cyril was very satisfied. In this way, the bulk of the gold is in the UK, and less than 20% of the gold can be taken out, unless they choose to take away pounds and then exchange them - this is what the UK wants.

This matter actually makes the British very embarrassed. The UK is fighting for the gold mine (the gold mine exports hundreds of millions of pounds of gold every year). It is unreasonable to sell the gold mine here.

And Nanhua is a gold mine obtained through normal procedures. If it were someone else, the worst case scenario would be to seal the mine and leave it alone.

But Nanhua is next to Australia and can cut off Australia's foreign exchanges at any time. There is also a greedy Nanhua. Now most of Britain's energy is in southern Africa. Once a war breaks out, it may be that many countries will go to war against Britain to seize colonies.

Now, as long as there is a reasonable distribution and a precedent, we can follow the rules in the future.

As for other minerals? Conventional metals such as copper and iron and non-ferrous metals such as nickel, chromium and uranium are not of much value. In particular, metallic uranium can only be used as a glaze for porcelain.

As long as gold is controlled in hand, the pound will be the most powerful weapon of the British Empire.

As for Liu Ming? Liu Ming was even happier. After the negotiation, Liu Ming called Tian Rui.

"The mining of the Langjie mining area will be put on the agenda immediately. The cost is not important. The focus is on metallic uranium mining." Liu Ming was a little excited.

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"Everything is ready. I'll do it now." Tian Rui nodded and turned around.

"Don't panic. For metallic uranium mining, don't let our people step aside. They must wear special protective clothing when entering and leaving the mining area, and make the protective clothing look like uniforms.

According to the agreement, ore mining, purification, etc., are all done by Australians. Anyone who approaches the mining area and ore must wear special protective clothing." Liu Ming said one by one.

He couldn't explain to Tian Rui the harm of radiation. In two years, radium will be used as medicine, beverage additives, and food additives, and will be popular throughout Europe.

"I've made a note. Where can I get the special protective clothing? Is it poisonous gas?" Tian Rui thought about it.

"It's radiation. If you want to know, you can go to Nanhua University to attend classes. There are several new scholars who are experts in this field.

As for the clothes, they have not been developed yet. The ore storage and transportation must be sealed in lead boxes and stored in special places after returning to China." Liu 1ming waved his hand, indicating that Tian Rui could leave.

Radiation has been discovered, but people don't know about it yet, just like the discoverer of radiation, Anthony Henry Baker, who directly operated uranium salts at the time.

Although the radiation is not large due to the low content of uranium 235, long-term exposure is still not good.

"Lin Hai, what else is on my schedule this week?" Liu 1ming asked after Tian Rui left.

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"Your Majesty, the Flight Power Laboratory invites you to visit the flight show the day after tomorrow; after that, you will go to the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Volkswagen No. 1 Automobile Plant, and that's it." Secretary Wang opened the small notebook and confirmed.

Liu 1ming was about to leave when the phone rang and Secretary Wang answered the phone.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Health called and said that penicillin separation and mass production were successful, and the first batch of three drugs have been produced." Secretary Wang said.

"That's great! Contact our allies and push it to the market. After the side effects of the drug are confirmed in Europe, it will be promoted on a large scale." Liu 1ming patted the table.

The manufacture of penicillin is not troublesome, but the difficulty is to separate various active ingredients and mass production. The yield of the original strain is very low, and there are many toxic components, which are very troublesome to separate.

"The French or Sir Charles?" Secretary Wang was stunned.

"Contact both, leave the British and American markets and their colonies to Charles, leave Europe to the French, and we will monopolize the Asian and South American markets." Liu 1ming also wanted to enjoy it alone, but he didn't have the ability.

Sulfonamide drugs are springing up like mushrooms after rain. Thanks to the interest alliance, most of them are registered by Nanhua. Europe is also promoting fake drugs that harm people, and generic drugs have little impact.

But if Liu Ming has it all to himself, then the drugs in his hands are fake drugs.

At the same time, Europeans can try the drugs, and no one knows the side effects and stability of the drugs.

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"By the way, you reminded me to let the parliament discuss the bill for inventors to obtain honorary titles. For example, penicillin takes ten years to make, and it cannot hurt people's hearts." Liu Ming wants to avoid a deformed scientific research model.

Because in traditional values, scholars with clean hands and upright morals are worthy of respect, and people generally put this concept on scientists.

I think this is just like the recurrence of this wave of epidemics. There are bad people among the masses.