African Nationhood

Chapter 213 Secret Agent
  After hearing the news, Li Yaru's first reaction was that she was going to get rich, but she quickly realized that this matter must be covered up first.

"Who is handling it, and has the person who discovered it been controlled?"

The female clerk obviously walked in a hurry, which made it a little difficult to breathe. After her breathing subsided, she nodded and answered.

"It's under control. The field director has gone. He asked me to inform you and other committee members."

Rand Fortress City is very large, covering an area of ​​more than 20,000 square meters. It is divided into many areas. The main organization is the Rand Farm Management Committee.

The committee has six members, each of whom is responsible for a part of the business. For example, Li Yaru is responsible for education, while the director is in charge of everything.

Therefore, he was the first leader of Rand Fortress City to be notified, and also because the field director Xu Yajun had a military position.

He was the original sergeant platoon leader of the third advance battalion, although there was no garrison in Rand Fortress City.

But there is a farm guard here, and the farm director Xu Yajun also serves as the captain of the guard.

"Have the other committee members been notified?"

"We have already notified you. The director should be back soon to hold a meeting. Sister Yaru, please prepare first."

Li Yaru nodded, "Okay, I understand. Thank you for your hard work. Please keep this matter confidential."

"Oh, I see."

After the female clerk left, Li Yaru was thinking about the direction of this matter, but her face soon showed joy.

Sure enough, Director Xu Yajun held an emergency internal meeting after he came back, and all the committee members gathered in the large conference room of the fortress city.

There is an object on the conference room table, covered with a blue jumper.

Everyone has received the letter and naturally knows what is covered under the clothes.

"Director Xu, please open it and take a look. I have never seen what gold looks like in my life."

The person who spoke was Shi Tai, a technician on the farm. He was short, fat and not very active. He liked to assign others to do things for him.

This guy was sent from the Agricultural Technical Institute and occupied one of the farm committee members.

Xu Yajun is thirty-five years old this year. He is a taciturn man. He is not tall and has a dark complexion.

He is Tian Liang's fellow villager, but because of his lack of education, he can only be promoted to platoon leader.

Tian Liang took good care of this fellow countryman and arranged for him to be the director of the farm, which was better than working in the army.

Xu Yajun reached out and uncovered the blue pullover. Everyone looked at the round gold nugget on the table, which was almost as big as an adult's head.

At this moment, everyone's eyes couldn't help but radiate greedy light, and their breathing became a little heavy.

Li Yaru is a little better, she has also made a lot of money in the past year.

The others obviously had little resistance. The short and fat Shitai could not help but approach the big gold nugget and wanted to move it, but unfortunately he failed.

"Oh, this piece of gold is so heavy. This is the first time in my life that I, Old Shi, have seen such a big piece of gold!"

After hearing Shitai's words, everyone couldn't help but laugh.

"It's just a lot of nonsense. It sounds like we have seen it before. No one has seen such a big piece of gold."
  Director, please tell me how you found out? "

The person who said this was a tall and thin Chinese young man named Li Lei, who was responsible for scientific seed selection on the farm.

Like Shitai, he was from the Agricultural Technology Institute, and he also accounted for the committee's membership.

Xu Yajun looked at the big gold nugget and whispered: "A heavy rain a few days ago destroyed the farm's water channel. The ground has been completely dry in the past two days, so I sent a few farm workers to supervise the indigenous workers to repair it.

Who would have known that they had dug up this nugget of gold during the emergency repairs. When things like this happened, the farm workers did not dare to hide it secretly.

Besides, there were so many black natives at the scene, and they came to me immediately.

After I took the convoy members there, I immediately ordered them and the natives involved in repairing the canal to be locked up.

Now we have a meeting to unify our opinions on how to deal with it, and then we will see how to report it. "

Hearing this, everyone's excited hearts calmed down. Rand Farm belongs to the company, so if gold is discovered, the company must be notified.

Li Yaru was only happy when she got here. Seeing that no one else was talking, she immediately said to Xu Yajun: "Director Xu, is this the only piece of gold over there?"

Xu Yajun sighed, "If I only had one piece of gold, I wouldn't let you come to the meeting together."

Hearing this, everyone present could not sit still, "What, what else?" "Well, yes, there is probably a gold mining belt under that river channel."

“Gold Belt!!!”

Shitai's voice rose unconsciously, and several people's moods were a little unstable, but Li Yaru was the calmest.

“Don’t think too much about this matter. The larger the gold mining belt, the less likely it is to be preserved. The gold mines in the Namib region are all occupied by the British.

The company didn't get any benefits at all. Once this incident broke out, it was the British who had the final say.

We have no autonomy at all, so we must keep this matter confidential first, and then report it to the company as soon as possible for Mr. Shi to handle it.

In addition, I suggest that all black workers involved in repairing water canals should be silenced.

As for those farm workers, they will be detained first and will be dealt with after the company people arrive. "

Xu Yajun looked at the young female teacher in surprise. He didn't expect this woman to be so ruthless, much more ruthless than the men present.

Xu Yajun looked around and asked, "Do you have any other different opinions?"

After hearing Li Yaru's words of silence, the other young people dared to talk too much. If this happened, they would lose their heads.

Moreover, the company has been vigorously promoting military tickets as tokens. Even if they have gold and silver, they cannot spend it, so it is better not to get involved in this matter.

Seeing that no one spoke again, Xu Yajun made a decision: "Just do what Teacher Li just said, silence the black people first and then report it to the company.

The farm has been under martial law for the past few days, and entry and exit are strictly prohibited. It has been reported to the outside world that a severe infectious disease has occurred here. "

……

While the Farm Committee was still meeting, a young man in Guards uniform walked into the farm telegraph room.

"Sister Wu, you are really busy."

Telegraph operator Wu Yun smiled when he saw the young man arriving.

"Xiao Zhao is here, why did you send a report to your mother again today?"

"Well, ah, my mother has cherished me since I was a child. Now, it's time to report that you are safe again."

After saying that, Xiao Zhao handed over a note with only one sentence on it, "I'm fine, but I suddenly want to eat oranges."

Wu Yun read the note and asked, "What does this mean?"

Xiao Zhao smiled and said, "Suddenly I want to eat fresh oranges, and I want my mother to send me some."

Wu Yun nodded. Everything was good here at Rand Farm, except that there were no fruit trees. So if they wanted to eat fresh fruits, they had to go to the Boers to buy them. But to check the pass, they had to call Nanhua Company to report it.

Therefore, most employees here like to send reports to their families and ask them to deliver them.

Wu Yun quickly finished sending the report, and Xiao Zhao said goodbye with a smile.

……

A female telegraph operator at the Anhai Town Military Headquarters changed her face after receiving the telegram from Rand Fortress City. She quickly got up and delivered it to her superiors.

Orange representative: There is a major problem on the farm, come quickly!

……

Then the Orange Grove Garrison Regiment received orders from the military headquarters.

Tian Liang quickly crossed the Crocodile River and stationed in Mafeking (today's Mefogen Town, South Africa). Then he led a company of soldiers to refit and rushed to the Rand Fortress City.

When Tian Liang's men entered the Rand Fortress through a secret passage, they found that Xu Yajun was leading people to deal with the corpses of the silenced black natives.

Xu Yajun was a little surprised to see his old boss suddenly arriving.

Tian Liang looked at the situation at the scene and said with a cold face, "What happened here?"

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