I want to be emperor

At the beginning, when Gan Bowen heard that Meng Xiu's gang was going to attack the autumn wind in the Dutch settlement, he felt that Meng Xiu and the others were only after the gold in the hands of the Dutch, and the gold mine was just a small gold mine.

All kinds of small gold mines are actually not uncommon. In the huge territory of the Great Chu Empire and overseas territories, there are many kinds of small gold mines. Otherwise, what do you think the annual output of one or two hundred tons of gold in the Great Chu Empire is? here?

The gold was not looted from the natives, but mined by themselves.

Thanks to the advancement of science and technology, the Great Chu Empire used more advanced gold prospecting technology and mining technology to achieve such a large gold output.

Therefore, gold mines are actually not particularly rare in the Great Chu Empire.

But Gan Bowen never imagined that the gold mine that Meng Xiu and the others discovered and grabbed was actually a super gold mine.

Those Dutchmen just used the most primitive mining technology... To some extent, they manually searched for dog's head gold on the ground, panned for gold sand, etc., and mined hundreds of kilograms of gold in just a few months.

If it were replaced by the Great Chu Empire to mine it by itself, the output would have to be increased by dozens of times, and it would be embarrassing to say how awesome your technology is if you don’t mine dozens of tons of gold a year.

Looking at it this way, the gold mines Meng Xiu and the others discovered are probably comparable to the super gold mines in the Jinshan area of ​​North America.

Even Gan Bowen's imagination is still not enough. The super gold mine in South Africa is not just one gold mine, but a super gold belt composed of many large and small gold mines.

The annual gold output of South Africa in the original space-time can account for more than 40.00% of the global annual gold output. After World War II, mining with modern technology can produce hundreds of tons of gold every year.

Their annual gold production is more than the gold reserves of the central banks of most countries in the world!
Gan Bowen is still a normal person, and his imagination has limits.

What's more, he has never seen the super gold mine in Tshwane with his own eyes, and he has no professional gold surveyors to survey it. He only speculates based on the existing output based on the oral report of the Mengxiu gang criminals.

Even such a result made Gan Bowen very excited.

With such a gold mine, the Mengxiu gang's tax fines will be settled, and they can even find a way to increase the amount of the fine. The fine of about 50 is now less.

Finally, the most important thing is that the gold mines in Tshwane are now nominally unowned... That area in Tshwane also belongs to the wild land in the interior of Africa for the time being, and does not belong to the territory of the Great Chu Empire for the time being. not belong to any indigenous country.

It was a land of no man.

As for the so-called small Tshwane countries established by the Dutch, the Great Chu Empire would not recognize the legal rights of such joking countries... Otherwise, there are many countries that the Great Chu Empire needs to recognize in this world, including Chu There are a lot of countries secretly established by the people of the country in the wild overseas territories. Is it possible that the imperial officials still have to give official recognition?

Just kidding!
When there is nothing to do, the imperial officials are actually too lazy to talk to you.

But what’s the matter, for example, after the empire’s overseas territory expands to this area, you either obediently put away your house-building games and become a good citizen, or go out and find a wild place to continue to be your king.

Either you will be crushed by the imperial army, and then the empire will hold you accountable for treason!
Therefore, the so-called Tshwane Republic of the Dutch is not an official country in the Great Chu Empire. It is an immigrant settlement if it is exhausted, and it is no different from the status of the indigenous tribes in Africa.

Whether it is the settlements of these European immigrants or the gathering places of local indigenous tribes in Africa, in the eyes of the Great Chu Empire, it is all nonsense.

Therefore, in the official eyes of the Great Chu Empire, in addition to the territories controlled by the Great Chu Empire itself, there are also a few territories in some countries in North Africa, and counting the colonies established by several European countries on the west coast of Africa. All other places belong to wild and uninhabited land.

Such a place, if the Great Chu Empire wants to get it, it is a matter of a piece of paper.

As for Tshwane, a place with super gold mines, even if it is four to five hundred kilometers away from the coastal Maputo, Gan Bowen believes that it will definitely attract the attention of the African governor's office and even the local Jinling.

As the official who first discovered and reported this matter, he will definitely be greatly rewarded.

Therefore, after Gan Bowen learned of the incident, he immediately reported it to Pemba County, and applied to his superiors to send more armed tax police and invite professional gold survey engineers.

After confirming that he was the first person to report the incident to his superiors, Gan Bowen immediately led more than 150 armed tax police officers and more than 20 ordinary tax police officers in the name of recovering taxes. Hundreds of indigenous prisoners of war were recruited to serve as civilian husbands to transport supplies.

Hundreds of people rushed directly to Tshwane.

To make a digression, Gan Bowen said that he personally led the armed tax police, but in fact it was only in name.

The commander of these armed tax police is actually someone else. He is Xu Quanke, the captain of the third squadron of the second brigade of the armed tax police under the African Taxation Office.

When it comes to fighting, Xu Quanke is a professional. He is a former professional soldier who graduated from the Military Academy of the Great Chu Empire. He just couldn't get along in the military and was unable to be promoted for a long time. In the end, he changed jobs early with the rank of lieutenant.

After he was transferred to a local area, he was assigned to the Armed Tax Police.

According to his personal willingness to go overseas and continue to work hard, he was promoted and transferred to the African region as the squadron leader of the third squadron under the second brigade of the African Armed Tax Police Corps.

The position of the captain of the Armed Tax Police Squadron is the seventh grade, and it should have been a position that a major officer can only take up after retiring from the military. However, in order to attract talents to take the initiative to work overseas, that's why they have been promoted.

The overall situation is actually similar to that of Gan Bowen taking the initiative to take a job overseas and then being promoted very quickly.

Speaking of rank, Gan Bowen's rank is actually not as high as Xu Quanke's. Gan Bowen is only from the seventh rank.

It's just that the particularity of the armed tax police also led to the need for the armed tax police to obey the instructions of the tax officer.

The work of the armed tax police has always been mainly about taxation... How should I put it, it's not easy to put it bluntly, the armed tax police are just thugs under the hands of the tax officials!

You can't let the thugs act on their own, no.

Before Xu Quanke came, the team leader and the director of the East African Regional Taxation Bureau had instructed him to cooperate with Gan Bowen when he arrived in Maputo.

Therefore, after Xu Quanke arrived in Maputo, he did not rely on his military officer background and higher rank to embarrass his inferior Gan Bowen, but honestly led more than 100 armed tax police to garrison for normal training.

Routine training is carried out when there is no major action, which is also the daily routine of armed tax police.

On the whole, the Armed Tax Police is not much different from the Army except for the different names and different mission targets.

It seems that the name is different, but in fact, many of the establishment and training are similar to the regular army, but they pay more attention to the task of explosion-proof and suppression, and pay more attention to special operations such as small-scale battles, urban street fighting, and fortified operations.

This is also the reason why the armed tax police of the Great Chu Empire never recruit people from outside, and only recruit from retired soldiers.

Command positions above the small captain in the armed tax police are all serious army or navy officers. Senior command positions, such as the captain of the provincial armed tax police, are all retired generals!
In a way, you can actually think of the Armed Tax Police as an outlier to the regular army.

Armed forces, the military is not at ease letting your tax department play by itself...

If you take it off, you will be finished!
For Xu Quanke personally, it is also very good to transfer to the armed tax police.

Serving in the armed tax police, the task is light, the pressure is low, and there are no talented colleagues to press him down...

When he served in the army, Xu Quanke actually did not go his way. He was a top student when he was a child. He took a scholarship along the way to fight, and as a farm boy in a remote place, he was finally admitted to the Army Military Academy.

Became the first student of the army officer academy in their county. At that time, it could be said to be the most glorious time in Xu Quanke's life.

Below the county magistrate, many officials collectively held a banquet for him to enter school, and the local government awarded him a large scholarship on the spot.

But when I got into Army Academy... it didn't go my way.

How should I put it, Xu Quanke has been a top student since he was a child, at least he thinks he is. From elementary school to middle school, he has been ranked first in his age for a long time, even if his performance is abnormal, he will not fall to the top three in his age.

But after arriving at the Army Military Academy, he realized that the top students in his small place were not enough!

His brother on the upper bunk, the third child in the dormitory, the top scorer in science in the joint entrance examination of Guangdong University...

The boss who looks dark and simple... looks dark, but in fact he is a son of a viscount, because his father was the founding lieutenant general and was canonized as a viscount. .

The most important thing is that this guy is still a top student of the Royal Youth Military Academy. He was admitted to the Army Military Academy with the top ten results of the current youth military academy graduates. This school is the most difficult high school level school.

To some extent, it can be regarded as a preparatory school for the Military Academy and the Naval Academy. Each year, more than 200 students will basically enter two official military schools.

As for the dark one, it was the summer vacation before school, and a group of other freshmen from aristocratic families went to Jiangbei to participate in the special training of a certain regular army.

There is also a fourth child, who doesn't seem to be very good, and is also a liberal arts background.

But upon inquiring, Nima, this is someone who was specially recruited to enter the school without taking the test... In Xu Quanke's class, there were only ten students who were admitted without the test among hundreds of freshmen, and this person was one of them.

As for why there was no result, it was because he didn't take the college entrance examination at all. He had been contested by two military academies, the Army and the Navy. In the end, the Army Officer Academy won, so that he could be directly exempted from the entrance examination. All kinds of preferential conditions made this supposed super genius get it. down.

There are four people in a dormitory, and Xu Quanke finds that he is the bottom one. The status of a top student that he was proud of in the past is not even enough here... because others are basically more top students than him!

The situation after that was indeed similar to what he had expected. Although he was also very smart and studied hard, others were smarter and more diligent than him!
Since entering school, his grades have never been in the top [-], and he has been hovering between [-] and [-].

He struggled, tried...but it didn't work!
Because others are working hard, even harder than him!

Assigned after graduation, went to serve in an ordinary second-class division, and then began a long and hard career...

When I was in my thirties, I was only a lieutenant.

At that time, the superiors gave him two choices...either to go to the third-class division, and he will be given the rank of captain if he goes there, or he will retire and go to a local place, and professional arrangements should be arranged as much as possible!
As for staying in the second-class division... that's impossible. You have been given the time and opportunity to prove yourself, but you haven't seized it, and even if the second-class division is only a second-line force, it doesn't support idlers.

A large number of officers who came out of the military academy, as well as the lieutenants who were promoted after the meritorious service officers were promoted, were all waiting for their positions.

Xu Quanke finally chose to retire... As for the C-class division, he didn't want to, although he could continue to hang out for a few years after he went there, and even when he was close to retirement, he might even be able to earn a major.

But when he went, he didn't mean to arrange a job transition, use the position of the third-class division as a springboard, and it would not take long to be promoted to the second-class division or even better the first-class division.

If he went to the C-class division here, he would basically only be able to hang out in the C-class division for the rest of his life.

Although he only came from a second-class teacher, to be honest, he still looked down on those third-class teachers in his heart.

Since I can't get along in the military, I might as well take advantage of my age, even if I transfer to a local job... the competition in the local area is not as great as in the military.

The first half of Xu Quanke's career was actually not an exception, but rather a common situation.

There are only so many promising positions in the military, and at the same time, there are quite a lot of young people in the empire who are enthusiastic about applying for the military academy. Every year, a large number of talented young people join the military academy.

The two military academies of the Great Chu Empire are the most difficult schools to apply for besides the Royal Institute of Technology.

As for the Royal Institute of Technology, this thing is actually not a normal school, and there are not many normal people who can get in, all of them are perverts!
As seniors of the military academy, if Xu Quanke and the others fail to climb to a higher position in time, they will be shot to death on the beach by the latecomers within a few years...

They have to make way for the latecomers!
Either go to a third-class teacher for the elderly, or transfer to a local area, or take a part-time job in some institutions, in short, get out!
The way Xu Quanke and the others join the army is different from that of ordinary soldiers!

Soldiers serve in peace and stability. After the four-year service period expires, first-class soldiers are properly qualified, and a few of them can be promoted to non-commissioned officers. The contract was renewed until he was in his forties, and the highest reached the rank of sergeant major.

The service life of military officers is like sailing against the current, and they cannot stop for a moment, because once they stop, it means they are out of the game.

If you can climb all the way, even if you are a brigadier general at worst, with good luck and ability, then you may become a lieutenant general or even an admiral.

But in the actual situation, most of them cannot climb up smoothly all the way, and they will always encounter a threshold...Once they fail to pass, they will fall behind. Served in first-class troops.

If you don’t know what you’re interested in, then the superiors will come to talk to you, talk to you about the possibility of serving in the secondary army, and even pretend to be for your own good, and solve the problem of military rank promotion for you... Still not willing?If you send an order directly with a piece of paper, you still have to get out obediently.

Refused to accept the transfer order?Soldiers take obedience to orders as their bounden duty. If you dare to refuse the transfer order, you are disobeying the military order, and you will be ordered to retire directly. Don't even think about any arrangements for changing jobs.

How should I put it, the position under your buttocks will be stared at by the latecomers!
You can either go up or get out... In short, you can't occupy the position for a long time!
At that time, Xu Quanke chose to retire voluntarily, accepted the arrangement of changing jobs, and offered to go overseas when changing jobs.

So the result was not bad, and I got a squadron leader.

He came overseas not only for a higher level, but also to fulfill his own dream...

He started in the military academy and has been in the army for more than ten years... He has never fought a single battle!

No way, his grades in the military academy were not good, so he was assigned to a second-class division in the hinterland of the mainland... and the local second-class divisions have no chance of fighting. They are only training exercises on weekdays, and there are only a few second-class divisions that perform well. Only then will you get the opportunity to rotate to the frontier to garrison, and if you are lucky, you will be able to get a dozen in actual combat.

Although there are many foreign wars in the empire, they are basically the affairs of the first-class divisions and the second-class divisions stationed in the frontier or overseas, and there is no such thing as the second-class divisions in the hinterland.

If you don't follow the army to deploy and get a chance, you will be directly transferred to the first-class division or the frontier second-class division... That is an opportunity only for the military's son of heaven, and it is not his turn.

Besides, if he had this ability, he wouldn't have been assigned to the second-class division in the hinterland of the mainland back then.

He has been in the army for more than ten years, and he has learned a lot of various military theories, but he has never practiced it. I have to say that this is also Xu Quanke's great regret.

If you go to work in the armed tax police overseas, at least you can fight wars.

Overseas armed tax police, there is no shortage of combat missions... Although they are fighting low-intensity battles such as small aborigines and illegal businessmen, they are still fighting.

So Xu Quanke is still very satisfied with this. When he was in Pemba before, he led the team to fight against the local indigenous tribes several times. Although the battles were all low-intensity battles, and the enemies were not worth mentioning, they passed anyway. It's fun, and the military knowledge that has been learned for more than ten years is not in vain.

Now that he was in Maputo, after receiving the task of cracking down on Mengxiu's tax evasion gang, Xu Quanke attached great importance to it and looked forward to it.

Because the Mengxiu gang is not an indigenous tribe, nor is it an ordinary tax-evading businessman, but a real desperado, a former pirate, now a bandit gang, it is not easy to fight.

For this reason, he has also made full preparations in the past month or so. After Gan Bowen said that he would go to the Tshwane area to arrest the Mengxiu tax evasion gang, he immediately set off with more than 100 armed tax police members.

Head straight to Tshwane!