African Nationhood

"Commissioner Shi Jinyong, please tell me about the distribution of minerals in the Transvaal and Orange, and then talk about the company's development in the past few years."

Shi Jinyong nodded, took out the map from his hand and hung it in front of the desk in the council hall.

Here is a map of the Transvaal and Orange, marked with many symbols.

"Please look at this picture. Our commercial department only found some gold mine information when receiving mining information from the two governments.

Most of the other mineral resources above are detected by our mining department on our own.

There are a large number of coal resources distributed south of Pretoria. Our prospectors estimate that these coal resources amount to tens of billions of tons.

The coal here is of very high quality, and with a little processing can become high-quality anthracite and coking coal. "

Shi Jinyong's words shocked everyone present. Tens of billions of tons would take many years to be mined.

Shi Jintang secretly muttered to himself, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Later generations proved that the total coal reserves of the Union of South Africa should be more than 2000 billion tons, accounting for two-thirds of the total reserves of the African continent.

The coal reserves around Pretoria alone should be between 300 billion and 350 billion.

"In addition, there are diamond mines around Pretoria. The town of Cullinan on the southern outskirts of the city is a famous diamond mine."

When Shi Jinyong talked about the small town of Cullinan, Boss Shi immediately remembered that in two years' time, the world's largest rough diamond, a giant diamond weighing 3106 carats, would be found in the diamond pit of this town.

Now that Nanhua Company occupies this place, this huge diamond belongs to his boss Shi! ! !

Thinking of this, Shi Jintang couldn't help but nodded, "Well, not bad."

Shi Jinyong was stunned when he suddenly heard Boss Shi interrupt.

"Mr. Shi, what's good?"

Shi Jintang chuckled and said, "It's okay. I plan to run this diamond mine on my own. Just ask someone to hand over the property rights of this diamond mine to Mrs. Kelly."

The entire company belongs to his boss Shi, and it is no small matter for him to have a diamond mine.

Shi Jinyong would not object and nodded directly, "Okay, Mr. Shi."

"After talking about the diamond mine, let's talk about the gold mine in Rand Fortress City. The grade of the gold mine that has been proven so far is still high-grade rich ore, and the gold veins are very huge. Our department estimates that the veins here should stretch for fifty kilometers."

Hearing this, Shi Jintang laughed again. The Rand Basin gold mines are spread throughout the basin. The gold veins are more than 200 kilometers long. Boss Shi had not finished mining before crossing.

Therefore, this is a real precious mineral. It was later estimated that the gold in the Rand Gold Mine accounts for one-fifth of the total gold reserves in the world.

“Our personnel detected hematite (Tabachinbi iron ore) 200 kilometers north of Landfortress. The iron ore here has good grade, few impurities, and medium reserves.

There is a giant iron mine (Seshen Iron Mine) about 280 kilometers northwest of Kimberley Town. The ore there is also of high quality and the reserves are very huge. The estimated iron ore is at least several hundred million tons.

With this iron mine, the development of our heavy industry will be smoother. "

After hearing this, everyone felt more relaxed, and they all exclaimed that the Transvaal and Orange are the real treasures.

This battle for the company is really worth it!

In fact, there are some iron ores distributed at the junction of the Transvaal and Matabeleland regions, but time is tight and the exploration is not careful enough. In the future, we can explore slowly.

There is no need for Shi Jintang to point it out. Anyway, these minerals cannot escape if they are left underground.

Shi Jinyong pointed to a city called Welkom in the east of Orange in the drawing and said: "When we were exploring coal mines here, we actually discovered that there are gold mines and associated silver mines here.

This is hundreds of kilometers away from the Rand Gold Mine, and we guess it should be a separate gold vein. "

This is also an extension of the Rand gold mine veins, and Shi Jintang doesn't point it out. Anyway, no matter how far it is, it belongs to him.

Shi Jinyong finished talking about minerals and opened his notebook.

"I continued to talk about the company's industrial development in the past few years. During the war, the company's various light industrial categories had substantial development, and the number of employees became more and more diverse.

Under our conscious guidance, more and more freedmen are keen to open up a second career. They hand over their land to companies for planting, and then they engage in small handicrafts or hire workers for workshop production. At present, the development of these light industries is mostly stagnant, and it is far from possible to achieve large-scale exports. I hope that the company can introduce policies to support the development of small businesses and try to support a group of enterprises that can export and create profits. "

Shi Jintang nodded, "Well, I have been thinking about this issue. Some of the light industries held by the company, such as clothing, glass, oil extraction and other enterprises, can be subcontracted to private operations.

I will discuss with the finance department in the near future to introduce a loan policy for private owners.

After the Dominion is established, I will also ask the commercial department to introduce an export tax rebate system. As long as companies that can export can enjoy state tax subsidies, so that companies can develop rapidly. "

Shi Jinyong immediately became excited after hearing Boss Shi's words.

"These policies are good and can indeed promote companies to become bigger and stronger. But will the company suffer a loss in this way?"

Shi Jintang smiled and said, "Don't worry about this. Whether it is a company or a dominion, you must take a long-term view.

In the short term, the country will suffer a loss, but by making the domestic industrial capital bigger and stronger, the profits and taxes gained can smoothly feed back to the country. "

Shi Jinyong nodded, "Well, Mr. Shi, you should take a long-term view.

It's just that our light industrial products are currently not very competitive and lack sufficient markets. "

Hearing this, Shi Jintang nodded. Most of the world is monopolized by Britain, France, Germany and the United States. Small countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands are living in the cracks.

Nanhua Company was able to occupy a market in the Qing Dynasty mainly because Shi Jintang had the advantage of foresight. Bicycles, cars, and arms could not be copied by ordinary forces or individuals.

Like the European clothing market, since Mr. Shi opened a clothing factory in Lyon, France, many businessmen followed suit and opened clothing factories in Lyon.

Moreover, as soon as the brand clothes of his clothing factory are launched, there are counterfeiters, and it is difficult to fight a lawsuit. After all, others are not copying them all.

The only solution for now is to take the branding route, abandon the low-end market, and switch to high-end clothing.

Although there are still counterfeiters of Henry Partners' Zhibao lighters, Zhibao lighters and Lucky Strike cigarettes have a first-mover advantage in opening up the market. It is difficult for counterfeiters to follow and surpass them.

“The main problems with light industry are that it is too small in scale and lacks competitiveness.

As for heavy industry, because there are too few categories and they are mainly for personal use, there is still no possibility of large-scale export for the time being.

However, there has been a major breakthrough in the research and development of diesel engines. According to Rudolf Diesel, their team has achieved the development of a diesel engine with more than 300 horsepower.

Such a high-power marine diesel engine can propel a 2000-ton load-carrying ship to sail.

At the same time, according to Mr. Shi's instructions, we have begun to produce and test large-scale diesel engine agricultural machinery. The first batch of experimental machinery include farm machinery and load-carrying trucks, and the wheels are temporarily replaced by crawlers.

The speed of the prototype is a bit low, only more than 20 kilometers per hour, but the effect of plowing on farmland is very significant.

The new machinery is fine for agriculture, but a bit too slow for transportation.

However, the diesel engine has one particularly significant advantage, which is its large load capacity. "

Hearing what Shi Jinyong said, Shi Jintang immediately reminded: "Why don't you try using diesel engines on train locomotives?"

Hearing Boss Shi's prompt, Shi Jinyong immediately nodded excitedly, "Well, okay, I will tell the engineers and let them try it.

Because of the war, most of the company's products were used internally. We calculated that the output value was about more than 5 billion yuan in military dollars.

These industrial output values ​​are purely internally digested by us. From this perspective, expanding internal consumption is also a growth driver for our industrial and commercial development. "

“Commissioner Shi can recognize the stimulating effect of domestic demand on industry and commerce, which shows that Commissioner Shi has worked hard.

Your department can study this in depth, it is worth digging into. "

Boss Shi's words are to the point, and Shi Jinyong will definitely take them seriously.

After all, Boss Shi's words are very high-level, and as long as he says it, there will definitely be something useful to dig out.

Over the years, these senior officials have already figured out the secret of getting along with Boss Shi. (End of chapter)