Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 251: Rescue and Recruitment of Oil Tycoons
In mid-to-late November 1962, in Sam's White House office, Director of Intelligence Diamandino Chambers walked in with a smile on his face and reported to John Fitzgerald:
"Sir, we have confirmed that Moscow has withdrawn all missiles deployed in Crocodile Country, and has also taken away their bombers."

After the rain, the sky will clear!

The nuclear shadow that weighed on everyone's heads finally dissipated. Although they also had nuclear bombs, and quite a few of them, these were only a deterrent and could not be actually detonated.

Moscow is not a fool like Kimura. Back then, Kimura refused to surrender, which eventually forced Sam to plant two big mushrooms in Kimura's Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

After growing two big mushrooms, Kimura finally surrendered honestly.

However, the tragic events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki shocked the whole world. Even within SAM, people were terrified of such a weapon of mass destruction.

In short, big mushrooms are not good things. If you can avoid planting them, it is better not to plant them. Otherwise, the consequences will be unacceptable to everyone.

"Oh my God, the goddess of luck is finally blessing us."

In the office, everyone, including John Fitzgerald and others, were smiling and in a very good mood.

After being happy, James Barnes suddenly thought of something and looked at Chambers and asked:
"By the way, Diamandino, has your intelligence agency found the traitor who stole the two B57 Canberra bombers last time? And the gang that destroyed one of your airports before, have you found them? Or do you have any clues?"

Why is James so obsessed with Chambers? Is there tension between the two?
The reason is very simple. James Barnes is in charge of the purse strings. Since last year, the Apollo moon landing program has been restarted. Although John Fitzgerald was reluctant, he still waved his pen and started a space race with Moscow.

This has made our already tight wallets even worse.

As the person in charge of the purse strings, James pays close attention to every penny. However, the Intelligence Bureau has suffered heavy losses one after another. The loss of money does not mean that it does not need to be replenished. He, as the person in charge, still needs to pay for it. So how could he not urge to follow up on this matter?
A destroyed airport would cost at least several million to rebuild. The key point was that a lot of aircraft were lost. The cost of these aircraft was hundreds of millions. Even the U2 Jiaolong reconnaissance aircraft was more expensive. The stone sold to Jiangwan Airport was sold at million US dollars for each aircraft.

Even if the profit is 200 million US dollars, the cost is also 200 million US dollars.

It just so happened that there were five U2 reconnaissance planes stored in the base of SAM Intelligence Agency at that time, two of which disappeared, and the remaining three and the hangar were destroyed.

This is equivalent to a loss of one billion US dollars, and this is just the loss of the five U2 reconnaissance planes, not counting other losses.

Then there are the two B57 bombers that were lost some time ago. The transaction price of these things is not very expensive, only million US dollars each, and the two together are only to million US dollars.

But the problem is that they not only lost these two bombers, but also eight missiles.

If we don't know where these things are going, then when they land above the White House offices, it will be too late to regret.

Hearing James' question, Eric Blair, Deputy Class Leader Lyndon Johnson, Franz Geithner and others all looked towards Chambers. The latter shuddered and his smile disappeared instantly.

After hesitating for a long time, Chambers still couldn't explain the reason. James Barnes' face immediately turned pale:

"Diamandino, you need to understand one thing: what does your intelligence agency do? Don't let me see you like this again, because you really disgust me."

"Why can't I always count on your department? If it weren't for Robert during this Crocodile Country crisis, we would have suffered heavy losses. This crisis was already very sudden, and your Intelligence Bureau played a significant role, but I never expected you to drag your feet like this later."

"Honestly, when can you be available and when can't you? Let me know in advance so I can let someone else take charge of this matter."

"Do the math yourself. Over two billion dollars in losses, and your intelligence department accounts for more than half of that. Yet you can't find any clues. Could it be that even if the enemy lurked in our White House offices, we wouldn't be able to detect him? Is he God?"

Even if it is God, there are traces to follow, right?

Fake!

The more he spoke, the angrier James Barnes became.

Diamandino Chambers looked very ashamed on the surface, but he was furious in his heart. In addition to James, it was also those who destroyed the airport and stole the bombers and missiles who made him so embarrassed. It was simply hateful to the extreme.

John Fitzgerald's smile faded as he glanced at his brother Robert Francis and then at the others.

At this moment, there were all kinds of people in the office with different expressions.

Chambers was very angry, the others were just watching from the sidelines, and James was being too aggressive.

Deputy squad leader Lyndon Johnson saw that the situation was becoming very bad, so he finally stepped forward to smooth things over.

Although it may seem like hindsight, the matter was finally exposed, which can be regarded as a way for Chambers to save face.

"Okay, everyone, we should talk about other issues next," John Fitzgerald said, mentioning the topic they had not finished just now: reforming oil and energy policy.

As a young and energetic squad leader, John Fitzgerald was definitely on par with Roosevelt before him, as the latter served as squad leader for twelve years.

John Fitzgerald, who was born in 1917, is only 45 years old this year and is one of Sam's youngest squad leaders.

If you want to be a great squad leader, then there are some things you have to do, such as touching the oil tycoon's cheese. So why do you want to touch this cheese?

First, lack of money!
James Barnes, the person in charge of the purse strings, keeps saying that he has no money and is poor. It's not that he insists on saying that, but that's the truth.

Sam is not short of money, but the country is. Doesn't it sound strange? But this is the truth.

John Fitzgerald thought of many ways to raise funds, such as nationalizing the Federal Reserve and withdrawing troops from the Monkey Peninsula.

Trying to nationalize the Federal Reserve is simply digging one's own grave, because this is a country where capital is everywhere. How could John Fitzgerald possibly do that?

There are many chaebols in the Eastern Greater New York City Group, such as the famous Morgan Consortium, Rockefeller Consortium, etc., as well as the most hidden Rothschild family. They are all shareholders behind the Federal Reserve.

Anyone who wants to touch the Federal Reserve will become an enemy of these financial tycoons.

With these tycoons' networks of relationships spread across the country, John Fitzgerald's idea encountered unprecedented resistance as soon as it was put forward.

So John could only set his sights on Monkey Peninsula.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to evacuate from the Monkey Peninsula. The Western California Consortium and the Southern Texas Consortium will not agree.

Since World War II, the focus of Sam's economic development has shifted to the West and South. Their traditional industrial areas are in the Northeast, but with the rapid development of emerging industries after the war, the West and South, which are not burdened by traditional industries, have developed rapidly because they have emerging industrial raw materials such as oil.

Oil is very suitable for the development of emerging industries such as aircraft manufacturing, petroleum industry and petrochemical industry.

At the same time, the California and Texas consortiums also suddenly emerged.

The military-industrial enterprises under their control are all in the western and southern regions, and the war in the Monkey Peninsula has only been going on for a few years. These military-industrial enterprises have not made enough money yet. How could they be willing to withdraw?

Since we can't retreat, let's move the cheese of oil. Those oil tycoons should be easier to bully.

The White House Office has no money and can only find a way to increase taxes.

It just so happens that these oil tycoons themselves enjoy the support of preferential oil policies, with certain tax exemptions and policy preferences, and they can make money without doing anything.

Therefore, John Fitzgerald believed that there was nothing wrong with canceling these preferential oil policies. After all, the oil tycoons had already made money.

Second, if you look at the entire Sam, there are chaebols everywhere, but only these oil tycoons rose slowly during World War II and have a very low foundation, so we can only touch their cheese.

Speaking of which, as the squad leader of the world's largest economy, John Fitzgerald thinks he is quite sad.

He clearly holds great power, but he is timid when doing things and has no way to show his abilities.

It was Roosevelt who was the most awesome, he was popular and he turned the tide.

"Everyone, I have to tell you that according to the current situation, even if we cancel the oil preferential policy, our fiscal gap will still be very large, so we must find other ways to increase our income. Otherwise, it will easily lead to big problems."

In the office, at this small meeting, James Barz's words made everyone's expressions change violently.

Number six, Eric Blair, took the lead:

"James, aren't you being overly pessimistic? You should know that after the oil preferential policies are cancelled, there will definitely be more revenue. Why do you say there is still a huge gap?"

Next up is Franz Geithner, who also believes there may be a fiscal gap, but it can’t be that big, right?

Others, including Deputy Squad Leader Lyndon Johnson, also expressed their opinions, but when James presented the data, everyone was speechless.

There are more than ten expenses in total, and the amount on the largest expenditure item left everyone speechless.

The Apollo moon landing program was finalized in April of the previous year. John Fitzgerald decided to send a Sam man to the moon and bring him back to Earth safely within ten years.

The entire Apollo program was divided into three steps. The first step was the Mercury program, which was to send astronauts into space to test people's ability to move in space.

The cost of this plan is not much, but it is definitely not small.

In addition to the Apollo program, there was also the Monkey Peninsula War, which also consumed a lot of funds.

The third is the reconnaissance aircraft project. In addition to the U2 Jiaolong reconnaissance aircraft project, which was originally a major taxpayer but eventually became unprofitable, there is also the Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft project.

The Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft project was the most expensive, because not only did Zhao Mancang take away tens or even hundreds of billions of US dollars from this project, but the British Office and the Gallic External Security Service also took a lot of money from it.

Overall, the cost of the Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft is definitely more than the 2 billion US dollars in the original time and space.

Although the Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft flies at a higher altitude of 30,000 meters, its speed can reach 3.5 times the speed of sound, or Mach 3.5.

However, the high cost has caused James Barnes and other White House financial personnel to take notice.

After looking through these expenditure items, John Fitzgerald broke the silence and said:
"In that case, let's brainstorm and see if there are other ways to raise more funds."

In this way, John Fitzgerald embarked on the road to a quick death. As long as he continued to move other people's cheese and offend more people, he would not be far from seeing God.

Lyndon Johnson, as the deputy squad leader, always supported John's actions and played the role of a complete yes-man.

After the meeting today, Lyndon Johnson secretly went to a golf course to meet with someone.

Unless John Fitzgerald is eliminated, there will be no "sunny days" in Sam's territory!
While Lyndon Johnson was secretly planning, in southern Africa, on the outskirts of the Wilkem Basin, Zhao Mancang had already made a plan and began preparing for action.

The Castile National Mining Company sent a team of more than a thousand people to encircle Tie Wanzhong and his two teams, which had a total of only forty people. They also had thirteen China Resources Company staff members. The strength of the two sides was very different. If Zhao Mancang wanted to save people, he could only find ways to eliminate the other side's manpower.

In this case, he set up three traps outside the basin. These traps were linked together and contained a large number of bombs, which could definitely eliminate the enemy to the maximum extent.

As the saying goes, when the situation is favorable, firepower should be comprehensive. Zhao Mancang strictly implemented this strategy this time.

After setting the trap, Zhao Mancang sent a telegram to Tie Wanzhong and others, asking them to cooperate with the plan and eliminate the enemy as much as possible.

Otherwise, if we just break through, there will be other troubles later. It is better to solve it once and for all.

In the abandoned mine, Ma Lifu and Sun Weimin quickly received orders from Zhao Mancang. They were both smiling and hurriedly reported the matter to the two captains Tie Wanzhong and Zuo Changsheng.

Tie Wanzhong is the captain of the third team and the supervisor of the mission in Africa this time, but he caused the first team to come to support, and it was not enough, so he called Zhao Mancang.

Although Zhao Mancang is just one person, everyone has great confidence in him.

All the members of the two teams saw the action plan sent by Zhao Mancang and smiled.

Saved!
Ten minutes later, a loud explosion was heard outside. This was the signal!

Zhao Mancang was alone, driving a modified off-road vehicle, rushing around in the temporary camp of the Castile National Mining Company, driving with one hand and throwing out small pineapples with the other hand.

After traveling through a parabola, these small pineapples arrived precisely about half a meter above the heads of those people and exploded on time.

Such intense explosions caused even more tragic cries and insults, but all these sounds were drowned out by the subsequent hail of gunfire.

By attacking unexpectedly and catching the enemy off guard, Zhao Mancang had eliminated hundreds of people in less than ten minutes.

But the enemy still has a lot of people. If we want to destroy their living strength to the maximum extent, we have to keep busy.

Tie Wanzhong and his men also launched a counterattack, but they were short of guns and ammunition and could not sustain it for long, so they had to wait for Zhao Mancang to arrive.

Zhao Mancang, who was well prepared, drove the off-road vehicle at high speed towards Tie Wanzhong and his group, and soon appeared near them.

The cabin of the off-road vehicle was full of bullets, and these bullets were all suitable for the types of guns they used.

With the help of bullets, Tie Wanzhong and his two teams were immediately revived to full health and launched a fierce attack on the enemy.

According to the predetermined plan, they fought and retreated at the same time, retreating towards the place where Zhao Mancang had set the trap, luring all the people sent by the Castile National Mining Company into the trap circle, and then sending them away in another wave.

The whole process went extremely smoothly. The enemy did not find anything wrong and continued to hold on to Zhao Mancang and his men.

After they all entered the trap circle, Zhao Mancang pressed the switch without hesitation. The huge explosion sounded far away and killed many people in one wave.

Hundreds of people were killed, and there were many wounded, but those who were still able to move were completely panicked and fled quickly.

But Zhao Mancang continued to press the switch, and these people could not escape.

"Change weapons, let's go and cause trouble for these people!"

After confirming that no one was chasing them from behind, Zhao Mancang immediately took Zuo Changsheng and the others to a hidden place, cleared the camouflage, exposed the pits inside, and asked them to take out the weapons in the pits.

After a while, Tie Wanzhong, Fan Xuexin, Zuo Changsheng and others changed their weapons again. They were all equipped with powerful individual weapons. Holding these weapons, they chased after the "deserters" who had been completely exhausted by the trap bombs.

A team of thousands of people just like that, after leaving behind nearly a thousand corpses, the remaining people simply escaped without a trace.

"Anyone hurt?"

After confirming that the crisis was resolved, Zhao Mancang also breathed a sigh of relief.

His biggest purpose for coming here to support had been achieved, but as soon as he asked this question, Tie Wanzhong's answer left him completely speechless. "Old Zhao, I'm sorry. Because of my willfulness, six of our brothers were injured."

"You are not sorry for me, you are sorry for the brothers who trust you."

Zhao Mancang glared at the other person, then looked at the others. After confirming that there were no new injuries in the previous operation, he went to visit the six people who had been injured before.

Among the six injured, Tang Moqun and Qin Dahai were seriously injured, and Yu Chaoqing, Sun Weimin, Sha Yongping and Li Shanyan were slightly injured.

There are wounded soldiers in the first and third teams. After returning this time, Yu Chaoqing and the other three should be able to recover after a short rest, but the same cannot be said for Tang Moqun and Qin Dahai.

As a doctor, Zhao Mancang quickly came to a conclusion after examining the six of them.

After being injured, Tang Moqun and Qin Dahai did not receive timely and correct treatment. It should be said that they did not have top-level medical resources at the time, so they only received rough treatment, which made it difficult for them to recover completely.

"You now have two options. One is that I perform microsurgery on you and make adjustments as much as possible so that you can recover as quickly as possible. The other is that I do nothing. Whether you can fully recover at that time will depend entirely on God's will."

Upon hearing this, Tang Moqun and Qin Dahai quickly chose the first one because they believed in Zhao Mancang's medical skills and would not give up as long as there was hope.

So, in the following time, Zhao Mancang performed microsurgery on Tang Moqun and the other man, while Tie Wanzhong and the others were cleaning up the battlefield.

By the time they finished cleaning up the battlefield, Zhao Mancang had also completed the microsurgery.

"Old Zhao, we've finished it. Now we can go to that underground mine to look for gold."

Tie Wanzhong came to report that they had buried the gold in the underground mine tunnel and there was no other way.

The previous cooperation between Castile National Mining Company and China Resources Company was that the latter approached Castile National Mining Company to sign a mineral procurement contract, which was a very formal commercial contract.

However, in September, their competitors intercepted China Resources' goods in order to deal with them, which made China Resources' staff very dissatisfied. They then contacted the Castilla National Mining Company and asked them to take responsibility for the matter in accordance with the terms of the contract.

But the people from the Castilla National Mining Company did not buy it. They refused to pay the corresponding compensation and believed that this was not a breach of contract that their company should compensate for.

Because of this incident, both sides went back and forth, and in the end, for some unknown reason, the people from China Resources were detained.

It was not until Tie Wanzhong and others appeared that the people from China Resources Company were rescued.

When Tie Wanzhong heard that minerals worth more than 20 million US dollars were swallowed up by the people of the Castile National Mining Company in such an unclear manner, he knew that this was definitely not acceptable.

So Tie Wanzhong and others volunteered to help investigate the reasons behind it.

After some investigation, they soon discovered that this was a complete show directed and acted by the Castile National Mining Company themselves, which was purely caused by greed, or they thought that China Resources Company was a typical stupid and rich company that was easy to bully, so they just swallowed it up.

In other words, Rupert Reed, a person in charge of the Castile National Mining Company, never thought about abiding by the terms of the contract and wanted to get the money from China Resources for free from the very beginning.

Speaking of which, a contract worth more than 20 million US dollars is indeed very tempting. No wonder Rupert Reed couldn't resist.

After confirming that it was the Castile National Mining Company that was behind this, Tie Wanzhong and his team did not hesitate to discuss countermeasures and fight back.

It turned out that they were indeed very brave. They broke through the warehouse without any reaction, took away all the money in the mining company's warehouse, and also took away the twelve tons of gold inside.

These twelve tons of gold were originally the "revenue" of the Castile National Mining Company in recent months, and were funds that were prepared to be shipped back to the Castile headquarters.

But now they were wiped out by Tie Wanzhong and his team. The Castile National Mining Company, which suffered heavy losses, was of course not happy about this. Then Tie Wanzhong and his team faced a strong counterattack from the other side.

In terms of familiarity with this place, outsiders like Tie Wanzhong were certainly not as familiar as the Castilians, so the tragedy happened.

Even if Zuo Changsheng and others came later, it was useless. They couldn't escape with the people from China Resources and the gold.

Whether it was abandoning the people of China Resources or the gold, Tie Wanzhong and the others were reluctant to do so.

The funniest thing is that when Tie Wanzhong and his team were escaping, they happened to run into a car transporting gold from the Castile National Mining Company, and then got more than five tons of gold.

why?

Because this gold was transported from the Rand Central Gold Mine, in simple terms, it was transported here so that the Castile National Mining Company's headquarters in southern Africa could transport more than 17 tons of gold back to its European headquarters at one time.

Unexpectedly, he was robbed again.

More than seventeen tons of gold made Tie Wanzhong and his team's escape even more difficult.

The people from the Castile National Mining Company will definitely not let this go, but they dare not say anything to others. After all, this is too embarrassing.

In this way, Tie Wanzhong and his team obtained more than 17 tons of gold and tens of millions of US dollars in cash, forcing them to ask Zhao Mancang for help.

“You guys!!!”

Zhao Mancang nodded at Tie Wanzhong, Zuo Changsheng, Fan Xuexin, Yang Chunjiang and others. They all said that it takes two to tango. The reason why they did this must be that the two teams had already discussed it. If someone was not happy about it, Tie Wanzhong and others would definitely not do this, and they would not be in such a mess now.

Tie Wanzhong and the others felt embarrassed when Zhao Mancang pointed at them like that.

"Don't do this next time. It's not worth it for this little bit of gold. Just seek justice. There's no need to cause trouble. This little bit of gold is definitely not as important as your safety."

Everyone was very moved when they heard what Zhao Mancang said, but Malifu and others thought that seventeen tons of gold was still very important.

A general's success is built on the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers. This is something that is inevitable. Besides, we can't allow the Castile National Mining Company to cause trouble while not allowing the Dragon Army to fight back, right?

If this is true, doesn't it mean that the officials are allowed to set fires but the people are not allowed to light lamps?
Zhao Mancang also noticed the expressions of Malifu and the others, but he didn't care too much about it.

People like Malife dream of making achievements, which is a good thing. Although they are a bit too eager for quick success, I hope that this lesson will make them sober and cautious.

"Get ready to pack up, we're going back home!"

Just as Zhao Mancang finished saying this, Shan Kaiquan and Yang Baojun, who were patrolling the periphery, came back to report that someone had broken into their area and they had to evacuate immediately.

It should be the reinforcements from the Castile National Mining Company that have arrived. Let's evacuate as soon as possible.

This place is not far from their mining company's headquarters, which is the Witwatersrand Basin. It is very likely that the explosion just now was heard, so they rushed here so quickly.

"Old Zhao, what should we do?"

Tie Wanzhong and the others looked at Zhao Mancang. After all, they now had six injured people, so much gold, and China Resources Company staff. If they wanted to evacuate, the speed would be very slow.

Zhao Mancang pointed in another direction and said:
"Lao Zuo, Lao Tie, take the rest of the brothers and organize a counterattack to buy us some time. I've stationed three helicopters ten kilometers away. They can take us all at once. No problem at all."

"But we have more people, and I'm also afraid that the enemy has rocket launchers, so the safe approach is, Lao Zuo, you guys stay and fight back, and then break out from the ground."

After Zhao Mancang briefly explained the situation, everyone began to act separately.

After more than an hour, Zhao Mancang and his team finally left the Witwatersrand Basin.

Escaping doesn't mean you are completely safe.

Carrying seventeen tons of gold and tens of millions of US dollars in cash, even though Tie Wanzhong and his men were all armed with guns, they still looked like bad guys to everyone they saw.

After the three helicopters landed at a small airport in southern Africa, Zhao Mancang communicated with the locals and gave them some money, and was finally able to leave smoothly.

Tie Wanzhong's team took the staff of China Resources Company and the gold and US dollars to leave Africa first, while Zhao Mancang took Zuo Changsheng's team and stayed here.

The Castile National Mining Company is unethical, especially the head of the company, Rupert Reed, who is too greedy, so this matter must be dealt with.

In addition, if China Resources wants to purchase the minerals needed domestically from southern Africa, it must establish an effective cooperative relationship.

Zhao Mancang originally had no idea about these things, but China Resources Company was most likely unable to continue to undertake this task, so it would be a good thing for their Jiaolong Comprehensive Organization to establish corresponding cooperative relationships in southern Africa.

The Tamron factory has already started operations. In the future, many raw materials will require more minerals, oil, etc. Not to mention other things, just airplanes and petrochemicals will inevitably require rich mineral resources to develop.

Don't even think about relying solely on domestic production. There are many units in the country, such as the Dawn Engine Manufacturing Plant, which have already divided up that share.

If China Resources had not been crying out for food, it would not have taken the risk of coming to southern Africa to purchase.

The situation in southern Africa as a whole is not so stable. It can be summed up in one word: chaos.

Zhao Mancang and his team came to the small town of Welkam, located in the south of the Witwatersrand Basin, and first established a stronghold here.

There are many outsiders in this small town, because it is located around the Rand Central Gold Mine, so many surrounding cities have a large number of outsiders. Therefore, Zhao Mancang and other disguised "white people" do not seem out of place.

"Old Zhao, should we first find Rupert Reed?"

In the room, Zuo Changsheng asked.

Zhao Mancang heard this and shook his head:

"I'll leave Rupert Reed to you guys to deal with. I won't be showing up."

"The Rand Central Gold Mine is one of the largest and most important gold mining areas in the world. It can mine a large amount of gold every year. This gold has long been targeted by others. Our target is not this gold, but its by-products."

"We can expand gradually in the future, but right now, our priority is to settle down here and ensure that our cooperation with these local mining companies can proceed smoothly."

In fact, Zhao Mancang's idea is very simple, that is to establish a mining company here, just like the one he has in Australia, a mining company composed entirely of Chinese. In this way, he can gradually compete with the locals while ensuring production and transactions.

To put it simply, Zhao Mancang's alias is responsible for upstream mineral mining and cooperates with the Jiaolong Comprehensive Organization. At the same time, the Jiaolong Army serves as a mobile force. If there are any problems with this cooperation in the future, the Jiaolong Army can be asked to help.

It is a very simple matter to dispatch a team of hundreds of people from the Nolinasun Company in Australia to establish a branch in southern Africa.

Anyway, the affairs in Australia have been mostly completed. Many large mines that have not yet been discovered have been acquired. The next step is mining, so it will be very simple.

Zhao Mancang and Zuo Changsheng pretended to communicate with Xu Caixue and Sun Xiangshan, the heads of the Nolinasun Mineral Branch in Southern Africa, and soon finalized the cooperation plan.

It will take some time to decide when the specific contract will be signed.

Because Xu Caixue and Sun Xiangshan have only arrived in southern Africa not long ago and are not very familiar with the situation here, they need some time to understand it before they can start the acquisition.

In addition, it is necessary to recruit security teams from Hong Kong Island or Australia.

Unlike Australia, the security requirements in South Africa are higher because they actually shoot people here and deaths are absolutely common.

There's nothing that can be done in such a chaotic place.

So you have to protect yourself.

In Hong Kong Island, newspapers such as Sing Sing Daily, Hong Kong Daily News and Ming Pao are once again running full-page advertisements to recruit a large number of miners, security personnel, financial personnel and other staff, with relatively high salaries.

The recruiting company was the Nolinasun Mining Company from Australia. This company is also very famous in Hong Kong Island. After all, in the past few years, it has recruited nearly 100,000 people from Hong Kong Island. Such a large number has left a deep impression on many people in Hong Kong Island.

It can be said that this company has also contributed to the economic development of Hong Kong Island.

why?
Because workers like those working in this company, such as the three brothers Song Yajun, have purchased a large number of properties in Hong Kong Island, which should be used as their future retirement homes.

Moreover, they are very concerned about the economic development of Hong Kong Island, and they purchase so many houses in order to become landlords in the future.

Song Yajun and his two brothers have all worked in Hong Kong Island. What they envied most were the local Hong Kong Island people who collected rent in Kowloon Walled City. These rent collectors did not have to do anything and could live a very comfortable life relying on the rent collected every month.

Song Yajun and his friends were very envious of such a life, so the three brothers who made money in Australia took the money back to Hong Kong and Kowloon to invest in real estate without thinking twice.

In just a few years, Song Yajun alone earned 2,500 yuan a month, which would amount to 30,000 yuan a year.

From October 1960 to November 1962, a full two years, he has saved more than 60,000 yuan.

He had already invested this money in the real estate market in Hong Kong Island. He did not buy the house with full payment, but took out a loan to buy the house and rented it out to pay off the loan.

He bought a total of six houses, and the monthly mortgage repayments were around HK$3,000. With his and his wife's combined salary, they were able to cover the loans.

His wife works in a seafood processing factory and earns HK$1,500 a month, which is not a small salary.

Miners like Song Yajun are not uncommon in the Nolinasun company in Australia.

At the beginning of this year, the entire Nolinasun Company had tens of thousands of miners, and including their families, the number had already exceeded 40,000.

Later, because Zhao Mancang added a seafood processing plant and an ocean shipping company, he recruited a lot of people one after another. The number of miners has almost reached 20,000. Including their family members, the number of people in Australia has exceeded 100,000.

Among the three companies, Nolinasun has the largest number of employees, followed by the seafood processing plant and then the ocean shipping company.

Nearly 20,000 workers came to Australia to work, but they have no sense of belonging at all. They are just migrant workers who have left their hometowns.

Due to the relationship with Nolinasun Company, an airport runway was built directly next to the headquarters of the Tuao Company, and there will be a flight between Hong Kong Island and Tuao every half a month.

Most workers who want to return to Hong Kong Island can order tickets in advance. The airfare is not very expensive, and the profit is only about 10%.

In addition to this flight, cargo ships of ocean shipping companies occasionally return to Hong Kong Island, establishing a transportation channel between Hong Kong and Australia.

In this way, these workers and their family members can return to Hong Kong Island at any time even if they are tired of staying in Australia.

In fact, Hong Kong Island is not a hometown for immigrants like Song Yajun, but it is the place closest to their hometown after all. Besides, they just want to live their own lives and don’t think too much.

Based on these circumstances, when the recruitment advertisement was advertised in newspapers such as the "Xingxing Daily", it was quickly welcomed by everyone. However, when some people heard that the destination was Africa, they still hesitated.

(End of this chapter)