Greece’s Roman Road

Schmidt's method of using gold to lure investors is indeed feasible.

Just a banker with a large amount of money, which one is not a well-informed, shrewd person.

Such fake news has a limited effect, and real predators will not take the bait.

Since it is decided to use the news of the gold mine to promote the development of the Congolese Railway Company, there must be real materials and genuine gold mines.

According to the general distribution of the Congo gold mines in Constantine's memory, Constantine Tondo telegram instructed Banning to hire some geographers or mineralogists from developed countries in Western Europe such as Germany, Britain, France, Belgium, etc., to go to the north and south bases of Africa. The province conducts geological and mineral exploration.

The Congolese Commission funded the exploration and owns the minerals discovered.

If he had to, Constantine didn't want the Congo's rich mineral deposits to be exposed to the eyes of the world prematurely. He was not strong enough and had a treasure land, and a jealous country could easily bring trouble to Greece.

However, the Congo, which has little value, has no ability to attract investment. The colonial forces want to quickly gain profits. If the shortcomings of transportation are not solved as soon as possible, the development of Greece will be hindered.

Therefore, Constantine instructed Banning to limit the scope of activities of the exploration team, pay attention to controlling the trend of the situation, and limit the scope of exploration to the vicinity of North and South Kivu, so as to avoid all the minerals in the Congo being exposed, attracting coveted by all countries.

This place in Kivu Province was not chosen by Constantine at will.

This province was chosen because it is in the east of Congo, a landlocked province, far from the western coast of Congo.

If countries are really interested in the gold mines here, they will naturally increase the construction of the Congolese railway. After all, all kinds of mining equipment and personnel, as well as the transportation of gold mines, are inseparable from the railway.

In this era when money is gold and silver, and gold and silver are money, no one can resist the temptation of gold mines.

In order to obtain trade deficits and make their countries grab more gold and silver, countries have taken various measures to create a closed economic circle to avoid the outflow of gold and silver.

With a solution to the railway financing problem, Constantine let out a sigh of relief and walked out of the office with Schmidt.

On the empty playground, the two of them heard the sound of gunshots in the distance.

Seeing Constantine's interest, Schmidt replied, "It's the soldiers who are training to target."

"Let's go, let's go and see together," Constantine said enthusiastically.

When the two came to the playground, they saw that the soldiers were lined up in a neat queue, taking the platoon as a unit, and under the command of the commander, they took turns to shoot the target.

Constantine waved his hand and motioned for the commander in the distance to come over.

The three four-pointed stars on the rank indicate that this is a captain.

"Captain, how many bullets do the soldiers shoot in a year in training?" Constantine asked after saluting.

"About 10 rounds a year, Your Excellency," the captain replied while returning the salute.

"There are only 10 rounds a year, is that the case all the year round?" Constantine replied with a frown.

"Yes, Your Excellency, soldiers only have 10 rounds of ammunition each year, so everyone usually trains the basic skills of shooting, and officers and soldiers cherish the opportunity to shoot with live ammunition," the captain replied.

Constantine and Schmidt came to the headquarters and told Metaxas that the number of bullets the soldiers were training was too low.

"In recent years, the government's finances have been very tight, so the training of soldiers has also been affected." Metaxas said of the soldiers' live-fire training, with a helpless expression on his face.

"You know, the weapons and ammunition of the Greek army, every bullet, every shell, must be imported from abroad. The government owes a lot of debt, and there is pressure to repay every year. affected," Metaxas returned.

"If this goes on, without enough training, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers will be affected. After all, the best soldiers are fed by bullets," Constantine replied regretfully.

After a period of understanding, Constantine had a clear understanding of the situation of the first division.

In general, the morale of the soldiers is good, but the training is affected by the lack of military spending, and the soldiers' live ammunition and artillery training are forced to be compressed.

For a country with weak industrial strength like Greece, the cost of maintaining tens of thousands of soldiers is already very difficult.

It is no wonder that officers like Metaxas are anxious to launch military operations against Turkey.

In general, the strength of a country's military is, after all, constrained by its economy.

Even if Constantine was dissatisfied with the status quo of the Greek army, the government's investment in the army had reached its financial limit when industry and commerce had not improved.

Four months later, the teacher's office.

"Your Highness, a telegram from Congo," Schmidt reminded suddenly.

When I received the telegram, it was the Congolese exploration team that came with news.

After being prompted by Constantine, the expedition, with the help of the Congolese Committee, traversed the Congo River basin without any risk, and discovered many gold mines in North and South Kivu.

The main type of gold deposits is placer gold ~www.wuxiax.com~ distributed in the rivers and valleys of North and South Kivu.

The content of gold ore is as high as 64 grams per ton. It is undoubtedly a rich ore with mining value.

"Schmidt, send a telegram to inform Banning that he will take the news of the proven gold mine and release it through Western European newspapers," Constantine said.

"Then let the Congolese government send professionals to negotiate with those bankers or mineral development companies in Western Europe, and use the ownership of the gold mine as a bargaining chip to attract them to invest in the Congolese railway company," Constantine said.

Although a large gold mine in South Africa has been discovered before, the gold mine is not afraid that some people will dislike it too much.

The end of the nineteenth century was the period when the gold standard prevailed, and all countries needed a large amount of gold as currency.

The reason for this is that the production of silver has exploded, which has caused the value of silver to depreciate every year, and it has a long-term downward trend.

Compared with the instability of silver, the production of gold is limited and the price has been stable.

Therefore, holding a huge amount of silver is equivalent to shrinking every year, and countries have successively established a gold standard system.

Gold coins are a common means of payment in all countries.

From the bottom of his heart, if it weren't for the urgent need for funds for the development of Congo, he would prefer to leave these gold mines to Greek companies for mining, so as to keep the gold in the Greek domestic market.

At the end of the 19th century, almost three-quarters of gold was held by powers such as Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States, which made other countries’ gold shortages and economic development plagued by currency shortages.

Even so, because powerful countries have stronger commodity competitiveness and greater international influence, gold continues to flow to the top countries in the food chain.

Gold mines have become a scarce strategic asset and are welcomed by all countries.

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