At first, when Gan Bowen heard that Meng Xiu's gang was going to attack Qiufeng in the Dutch settlement, he felt that Meng Xiu and the others were only targeting the gold in the hands of the Dutch, and the gold mine was just a small gold mine.
Various small gold mines are actually not that rare. There are many small gold mines in the vast territory of the Da Chu Empire and its overseas territories. Otherwise, how do you think the Da Chu Empire’s annual gold output of one to two hundred tons is Coming?
This gold was not plundered from the natives, but mined by ourselves.
Thanks to the advancement of science and technology, the Dachu Empire used more advanced gold mine exploration and mining technology to achieve such large gold output.
Therefore, gold mines are actually not particularly rare in the Chu Empire.
But Gan Bowen never imagined that the gold mine that Meng Xiu and the others discovered and seized would turn out to be a super gold mine.
The Dutch just used the most primitive mining technology... to a certain extent, they manually searched for nugget gold on the ground, panned for gold sand, etc., and mined hundreds of kilograms of gold in just a few months.
If it were mined by the Dachu Empire itself, the output would probably have to be increased dozens of times. If you don't mine dozens of tons of gold a year, you would be embarrassed to say how awesome your technology is.
Looking at it this way, the gold mines discovered by Meng Xiu and the others are probably comparable to the super gold mines in the Jinshan region of North America.
Even Gan Bowen's imagination is not enough. The super gold mine in South Africa is not just one gold mine, but a super gold mine belt composed of many large and small gold mines.
In the original time and space, South Africa's annual gold production accounted for more than 40% of the world's annual gold production. After World War II, mining with modern technology could produce hundreds of tons of gold every year.
Their annual gold production is more than the gold reserves of most central banks in the world!
Gan Bowen is still a normal person, and his imagination has its limits.
What's more, he has never seen the super gold mine in Tshwane with his own eyes, and there are no professional gold surveyors to survey it. He only speculates based on the oral reports of the criminals in the Mengxiu gang and the existing production.
And even this result made Gan Bowen extremely excited.
With such a gold mine, the Meng Xiu gang and the others have already secured their tax fines, and they can even find ways to increase the amount of the fines. The fines of around 500,000 yuan are now much smaller.
Finally, the most important thing is that the gold mines in Tshwane are now nominally ownerless... The area in Tshwane is temporarily a wild land in the interior of Africa. It is not part of the territory of the Chu Empire for the time being. Not belonging to any indigenous nation.
It was a deserted land.
As for the so-called small countries in Tshwane established by the Dutch, the Great Chu Empire will not recognize the legal rights of such a joking country... Otherwise, there are many countries in the world that the Great Chu Empire needs to recognize, including Chu. The people of the country have secretly established a lot of countries in the overseas barbaric territories. Is it possible that the empire official still needs to give them official recognition?
What a joke!
When nothing happens, the empire officials actually don't bother to talk to you.
But if something happens, for example, after the empire's overseas territories expand to this area, you can either put away your country-building game and become a good citizen, or you can get out and find a barbaric land to continue being your king.
Either you will be crushed by the imperial army, and then the empire will pursue you for treason!
Therefore, the so-called Tshwane Republic of the Dutch is not a formal country in the Chu Empire. It is just an immigrant settlement. Its status is no different from the indigenous tribes in Africa.
Whether it was the settlements of these European immigrants or the gathering places of local indigenous tribes in Africa, they were all nonsense in the eyes of the Chu Empire.
Therefore, in the official eyes of the Chu Empire, the entire African continent, in addition to the territories controlled by the Chu Empire itself, there are also a few national territories in North Africa, plus some colonies established by several European countries on the west coast of Africa. All other places are barbaric and uninhabited lands.
If the Chu Empire wanted to get a place like this, it would only require a piece of paper.
As for a place like Tshwane with a super gold mine, even if it is four to five hundred kilometers away from Maputo on the coast, Gambowen 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 the matter, I will definitely receive a great reward.
Therefore, after Gan Bowen learned of the incident, he immediately reported it to Pemba County and applied to his superiors to dispatch more armed tax police and invite professional gold survey engineers.
After confirming that he was the first person to report the matter to his superiors, Gan Bowen immediately led more than 150 armed tax police and more than 20 ordinary tax patrol officers in the name of recovering taxes. , and at the same time hundreds of indigenous prisoners of war were recruited from nearby areas to serve as civilian laborers and transport baggage.
Hundreds of people marched directly towards Tshwane.
As an aside, Gambowen said 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, captain of the third squadron of the second brigade of the armed tax police corps under the African Taxation Department.
When it comes to fighting, Xu Quanke is a professional. He is a former professional soldier who graduated from the Da Chu Empire Army Officer School. However, he could not survive in the military and was unable to be promoted. In the end, he transferred to the army early with the rank of captain.
After transferring to a local area, he was assigned to be an armed tax policeman.
Based on his personal desire to continue working overseas, he was promoted and transferred to Africa to serve as the squadron leader of the third squadron under the second brigade of the African Armed Tax Police Corps.
The position of captain of the armed tax police squadron is the seventh rank. It should have been a position that a major officer could take after retiring and changing his career. However, in order to attract talents to take the initiative to serve overseas, there were cases where he was promoted to a higher position.
The overall situation is actually similar to Gan Bowen taking the initiative to work overseas and then being promoted very quickly.
Speaking of grades, Gan Bowen's grade is actually not as high as Xu Quanke's. Gan Bowen is only at grade seven.
However, the special nature of armed tax police also results in the need for armed tax police to obey the tax officer's instructions.
The work of the armed tax police has always been focused on taxation... How should I put it, to put it mildly, the armed tax police are just thugs under the tax official!
You can't just let the thugs act on their own.
Before Xu Quanke came, the team leader and the director of the East African Regional Tax Bureau had told him to cooperate with Gan Bowen's work when he arrived in Maputo.
Therefore, after Xu Quanke arrived in Maputo, he did not rely on his military background and higher rank to embarrass Gan Bowen, who was inferior to him. Instead, he honestly led more than a hundred armed tax policemen to conduct normal training. .
This is regular training when there is no big operation. This is also the daily routine of armed tax police.
Generally speaking, apart from having different names and different targets for performing tasks, the armed tax police are not much different from the army.
It may seem that the name is different, but in fact many of the organization and training are similar to those of the regular army, except that it pays more attention to anti-explosion and suppression tasks, and pays more attention to special operations such as small-scale combat, urban street fighting, and fortified operations.
This is also the reason why the armed tax police of the Dachu Empire never recruit people from outside, but only recruit from retired soldiers.
The commanders and above in the armed tax police are all serious army or navy officers. The senior command positions, such as the captain of the provincial armed tax police, are all retired generals!
To a certain extent, you can actually think of the armed tax police as extra-staff units of the regular army.
When it comes to armed forces, the military can’t trust your tax department to play with it...
If you lose it, you'll be doomed!
For Xu Quanke personally, it would be a good idea to change his career to serve as an armed tax policeman.
Serving in the armed tax police, the tasks are light and the pressure is low, and there are no talented colleagues weighing on him...
When he was serving in the Army, Xu Quanke actually had a very unhappy job. He was a top student when he was a child. He earned a scholarship along the way and finally got admitted to the Army Military Academy as a peasant boy from a remote place.
He became the first student of the Army Military Academy in their county. At that time, it could be said that it was the most glorious time in Xu Quanke's life.
At the county magistrate level and below, many officials collectively held a study banquet for him, and the local government awarded him a large scholarship on the spot.
But after entering the Army Officer Academy... it wasn't very smooth.
How should I put it? Xu Quanke has been an academic master since he was a child, at least he thinks so. From elementary school to middle school, he has been ranked first in his age for a long time, and even if he performs abnormally, he will not fall to the top three in his age.
But after arriving at the Army Officer Academy, he realized that the top academics in his small place were not enough!
His brother in the upper bunk bed, the third child in the dormitory, the top scorer in science in the Guangdong Provincial University Entrance Examination...
The boss who looks black and naive... looks black and innocent, but in fact he is the heir apparent of a viscount, because his father was the founding lieutenant general and was canonized as a viscount. This is nothing. Just having this status will not allow him to pass the exam Army Academy.
The most important thing is that this guy is also the top student of the Royal Youth Military Academy. He was admitted to the Army Officer School with the top ten results of the current Youth Military Academy graduates. This school is the most difficult high school level school to get into.
To a certain extent, it can be regarded as a preparatory school for military officers' schools and naval officers' schools. Its more than two hundred students every year basically enter two formal military schools respectively.
As for what looked dark, it was during the summer vacation before entering school that he and a group of other freshmen from aristocratic families went to Jiangbei to participate in special training for a certain regular army.
There is also a fourth child who doesn't seem to be doing well either. He has a liberal arts background.
But when I asked about it, Nima, this was a special recruit who was admitted without taking the exam... In Xu's class of general education, there were only ten students who were admitted without taking the exam among the hundreds of freshmen, and this person was one of them.
As for why there are no results, it’s because he didn’t take the college entrance examination at all. He was competed by two military schools, the Army and the Navy. In the end, the Army Military Academy won and was directly admitted without examination. Various preferential conditions were given to this supposedly super genius. down.
There were four people in a dormitory, and Xu Quanke found that he was the last one. His status as a top student, which he was proud of in the past, was not even enough here... because others were basically better top students than him!
What happened next was indeed similar to what he expected. Although he was also very smart and diligent in studying, others were smarter and more diligent than him!
Since he entered school, his scores have never been in the top 300, and he has been hovering between 300 and 400.
He struggled, tried hard...but it was useless!
Because others are also working hard, even harder than him!
After graduation, he was assigned to serve in an ordinary second-class division, and then began a long hard-working career...
When he was in his thirties, he became a lieutenant.
At that time, the superiors gave him two choices...either go to the C Division and get the rank of captain for him, or retire and go somewhere with as many professional arrangements as possible!
As for staying in the second-class division... that is impossible. You have been given the time and opportunity to prove yourself, but you failed to seize it. And even if the second-class division is only a second-line unit, it will not support idlers.
There are a large number of lieutenants who came out of the military academy and were quickly trained after the frontline promotion of meritorious non-commissioned officers, waiting for their positions.
Xu Quanke finally chose to retire... As for the Third Class Division, he was not willing to do so. Although he could continue to work for a few years after leaving, he might even be able to get a major even when he retired.
But when he went, he did not mean to arrange a job transition and use the position of the C-class division as a springboard. It would not take long to be promoted to the B-class division or even the better A-class division.
If he went to the C-class division, he would basically have to hang out in the C-class division for the rest of his life.
Although he was only a second-class teacher, to be honest, he still looked down on those third-class teachers in his heart.
Since I can't survive in the military, I might as well take advantage of my age. Even if I change my job to a local job... the competition in the local area is not as big as in the military.
The first half of Xu Quanke's career was actually not an exception, but a fairly common situation.
There are only so many promising and good positions in the military. At the same time, the empire's youth are very enthusiastic about applying for military academies. Every year, a large number of talented young people enroll in military academies.
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 can't be considered a normal school. There are only a few normal people who can get in. They are all perverts!
As seniors in the military academy, Xu Quanke and the others will be beaten to death on the beach by newcomers in a few years if they cannot climb to a higher position in time...
They have to make way for those who come after them!
Either go to a C-class division to retire, or transfer to a local job, or take a casual position in some agency, in short, get out!
Xu Quanke and other officers have a different path to joining the army than ordinary soldiers!
Soldiers serve safely. After four years of service, they are considered first-class soldiers. A few can be promoted to non-commissioned officers. After becoming a non-commissioned officer, you don’t have to worry about your superiors driving you away... Renew your contract every three years. The contract was renewed until he was in his forties, up to the level of sergeant major.
The service career of officers is like sailing against the current. They cannot stop for a moment, because once they stop, it means they are out.
If you can climb all the way up, even if you are at worst a brigadier general, and have good luck and ability, then you may become a lieutenant general or even a general.
But in reality, most people cannot climb up smoothly. They will always encounter a threshold... Once they can't get over it, they will fall behind. If you still can't turn around after falling behind for a few years, you can apply for a job change or go to another job on your own if you are sensible. Served in a first-level unit.
If you are not sensible, then the superiors will come to talk to you and talk to you about the possibility of serving in a secondary army. They will also act like they are doing your best and help you solve the problem of military rank promotion...still unwilling? Just give him an order and you'll have to get out of here.
Refuse to accept the transfer order? It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders. If you dare to refuse transfer orders, you are disobeying military orders. They will directly order you to retire without even thinking about any career change arrangements.
What should I say? The place under your butt is being stared at by those who come after you!
You either go up or get out... Anyway, you can't occupy the position for a long time!
At that time, Xu Quanke chose to retire voluntarily and accepted the arrangement of changing careers. When he changed careers, he offered to go overseas.
So the result was not bad, I got a squadron leader position.
He came overseas not only for a higher level, but also to realize his dream...
He started in the military academy and has been in the army for more than ten years...to his surprise, he has never fought in a single battle!
There was no way, his grades in the military academy were not very good, so he was assigned to the second-class division in the hinterland of the mainland... And how could the local second-class division have any chance of fighting? It was just training exercises on weekdays, and there were only a few outstanding second-class divisions. Only then will they get the opportunity to rotate to the frontier garrison. If they are lucky, they can get a chance to fight in actual combat.
Although the empire has many foreign wars, they are basically a matter of first-class divisions and second-class divisions stationed on the frontier or overseas. There is nothing to do with the second-class divisions in the hinterland of the country.
If he doesn't get a chance to join the defense team with the troops, and is directly transferred to the A-class division or the B-class border division... that is an opportunity that only the military emperor and the arrogant have, and it will not be his turn.
Besides, if he had this ability, he wouldn't have been assigned to the second-class division in the hinterland of the country back then.
After serving in the army for more than ten years, I have learned a lot of various military theories, but I have never practiced them. I have to say that this is also Xu Quanke's great regret.
If you work as an armed tax police officer overseas, at least you can fight.
There is no shortage of combat missions for overseas armed tax police... Although they are fighting low-intensity battles with small indigenous people, illegal businessmen, etc., they are still fighting after all.
So Xu Quanke is still very satisfied with this. When he was in Pemba before, he led a 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, he still managed to pass. It's so satisfying, and the more than ten years of military knowledge I've learned is not in vain.
Now that he has arrived in Maputo and received the task of cracking down on Meng Xiu's tax evasion gang, Xu Quanke attaches great importance to it and is looking forward to it.
Because the Mengxiu gang is not an indigenous tribe, nor is it an ordinary tax evasion businessman, but a real desperado, a former pirate and now a bandit gang, it is not easy to fight.
He had made full preparations for this in the past month or so. After Gan Bowen said he was going to the Tshwane region to arrest Meng Xiu's tax evasion gang, he immediately set off with more than a hundred armed tax police members.
Heading straight for Tshwane!
