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"Diamonds last forever, and one lasts forever." Although diamonds have proved to be hungry for marketing, the world is still eager for them because of their abundant output rather than scarcity. Wedding diamonds must be bought. The bigger the better. The size of pigeon eggs is the best.

Diamonds are undoubtedly the best marketing in history, and the price is extremely high. Take time out of the pocket of the world and fill the pocket of capital. Diamonds are the best in South Africa, crystal clear and well-made, as if there is light. But all this comes from South Africa's bachelor: Cecil? Rhodes.

Rhodes' comments were mixed. Women love him to death, but men hate him. He became the king of diamonds by means of war, and every diamond in the last century was stained with blood and flowed down.

He was an imperialist depth bomb, which provoked the second Boer War, and the South African people suffered from the war and were displaced. His life was praised by westerners, while Africans gnashed their teeth at him and wanted his meat.

Rhodes suffered from asthma as a child.

Rhodes 1853 was born in England, and his father was a priest. His father was so careless that he was dismissed after speaking 10 minutes, which was quite official.

Rhodes suffered from asthma since childhood, when the air quality in Britain was extremely poor (smog). His family were worried that he would get tuberculosis, so they sent him to South Africa soon. The air in South Africa is fresh, and his illness will soon be cured.

15- 17 years old, Rhodes began his first life? Start a business? Co-founded a cotton farm with his brother Herbert, but the joint venture failed because the land was not suitable for cotton planting.

/kloc-at the age of 0/8, Rhodes jumped ship and came to the mining area? Kimberley

A person's life depends not only on personal struggle, but also on the historical process.

Rhodes' sketch

Kimberly mining is a mixed bag of fish and dragons, quite like a group fight in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Whoever can accumulate blood will be in the lead.

At first, Rhodes was as obscure and penniless as Liu Bei. Mining needed machinery, and he couldn't afford it, so he started a miner's business. He sold clothes, ice cream, shovels and everything a miner needed, and initially accumulated wealth.

22-year-old, mining boom, many mine owners declared bankruptcy, Rhodes bargain-hunting, selling at high prices, engaging in speculative activities, and his pockets gradually swelled.

After 10 years of mining infiltration, Rhodes established "De Beers Mining Company", which is a famous diamond giant in the future.

Old mine photos of De Beers Mining Company.

Rhodes operated in a variety of ways, was fierce and vicious, mined, plundered property, used the British background to suppress opponents, defeated Kimberly oligarchs, monopolized 90% of the diamond resources in the world at that time, and became worthy of the name? Bachelor of diamonds? . You know, before this, only India was considered as the only place of origin of diamonds, so the price was very high and only European aristocrats could use it. Rhodes suddenly found out? Jinshan? The annual income is 5 million pounds.

Naturally, people are jealous when you make money. The Boer government in South Africa regards Rhodes as a cash cow, and unexpectedly imposes heavy taxes. Rhodes hated this and laid the groundwork for provoking the Boer war.

Bachelor of diamonds: Rhodes

Like all the rich people in the world, behind Rhodes' great wealth is the invisible hand of the British Empire. He established a small empire in northern South Africa through a mining license issued by Britain. And bribing indigenous chiefs with money, forming a double protection.

Once competitors enter the area, they will encounter "obvious obstruction"

During his business career, he frequently traveled to Oxford University in England to study for his degree. Influenced by Oxford culture, he felt the greatness of the British Empire more and more, and thought that Britain had colonized the whole world. East to Indian, China and Hongkong, west to two continents, south to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. He even planned the "Cairo-Cape Town Route", that is, the straight line from Egypt to South Africa became the sphere of British influence. Ambition is amazing.

Cairo-Cape Town route

At the same time, he boldly said: I insist that we (the British) are a world-class race; In this world, the more places we live, the better for mankind. If there is a God, I think what he wants me to do is to draw as many English reds as possible on the map of Africa. ?

To this end, Rhodes began to work intensively. His cooperation with Gordon, who invaded China, is bound to drive all European powers out of Africa except Britain.

& ampquot Giant Rhodes &; Quot a cartoon of a poor magazine

The Zambezi River in northern South Africa is an unavoidable river with two straight lines, and Rhodes tried to occupy it.

There is a powerful indigenous tribe in the local area, and the chief is very opposed to the invasion of foreign forces. Rhodes sent envoys there and lied that the Boers were going to wage war on the tribe, but they British people could help them. And try to get the sheikh to cut off contact with the Boer government.

African black and his white? Master?

Indigenous tribes never imagined that Rhodes, who claimed to help himself, turned out to be the executioner of his own head.

Two months later, with the promise of 65,438+0,000 rifles and 65,438+0,000 pounds per month, Rhodes persuaded the chief to rent a piece of land and let him mine minerals.

The confused officer agreed, but I didn't expect it to be a time bomb for myself.

Rhodes' cooperation treaty is not candy, but shells, and the bombed tribes are fragmented. It turned out that the chief could not read, and the evil Rhodes quietly stuffed many terms of ceding territory into the treaty. Primitive tribal chiefs owe money for their IQ, so they sell their land.

British colonists enslaved African blacks.

Afterwards, the director became angry from embarrassment and flushed. He angrily tore up the final treaty, drove the British out of the territory and gave Rhodes an excuse to wage war.

General Rhodes led 1500 white soldiers to attack indigenous tribes. White soldiers with rifles beat indigenous tribes with cold weapons and simply cut melons and vegetables. With the death ratio of 1 20, they killed 1500 aborigines. And burned its capital, the fire burned for two days and two nights, and all the monuments were reduced to ashes.

Honest natives thought they were coming to rescue, but they were actually wolves. Another tragedy that lured wolves into the house.

The British occupied the northern part of South Africa, referring to Zambia and the government of South Huibul.

Boers are in danger of laying eggs!

Peace talks between Rhodes and indigenous tribes

Boers (now known as Afrikaners) played an important role in the history of South Africa. They are a group of new white immigrants who came here from Holland, Germany and France in the early days. Nation? They are hostile to African aborigines and British people.

1880, the Boers won the first Boer War, and the British army was killed 154, with only 2 injured. After this battle, the Boers became independent from Britain, established the Boer government and ruled central South Africa.

Britain has never forgotten hatred. 10 years later, Britain, led by Rhodes, planned to wage war again and conquer the Boers again.

Rhode Island occupies the north of South Africa, and the south is the British colony in Cape Town. The Boer government is caught in it and is in jeopardy.

Brave Boer

1895, Rhodes suffered a fiasco and resigned.

On the grounds that the Boer government was "undemocratic", he sent troops and led 1500 people to attack the Boers in an attempt to replicate the victory of occupying indigenous tribes. But the Boers are white after all, and they beat the British five years ago. As soon as Rhodes' army entered Boer territory, it was surrounded by Boers.

If you dare not fight, you can't return it. Rhodes' army was disarmed before it started. This was a disgrace to the British Empire and was laughed at by all Europeans at that time. Rhodes was forced to resign to quell public anger.

Rhodes is trapped in Kimberly, satirizing cartoons.

Although Rhodes resigned, the resentment was buried. 1899, the British army was attacked on all sides and confronted the Boers. The humiliated Boers couldn't bear it, and took the initiative to attack the British army, and the second Boer War broke out.

Because the Boers fought bravely, they soon surrounded Kimberly, and poor Rhodes resigned himself to fate and was still surrounded in the city. It was not until the British defeated the Boers that they fled hastily.

Photos of the Second Boer War

The Boers and the British fought back and forth for three years, and both sides suffered huge losses. The British war cost 250 million pounds, 28,000 people died, 35,000 Boers died, and 20,000 blacks were possessed.

The number of troops mobilized in this war exceeded 500,000, and it was precisely because of this war that Britain gradually declined.

Although the British finally won the war, compared with the cost, there was no winner in this war.

1902 On March 26th, Rhodes died of a heart attack at the age of 48, and the second Boer War ended two months later.

A bronze statue of Rhodes near Oxford University.

Although Rhodes launched the Boer War, he still made great contributions. He founded the Rhodes Scholarship to reward outstanding South African students for further study at his alma mater, Oxford University.

Rhodes' love for Oxford is evident.

20 15 cape town students demand to remove the bronze statue of Rhodes.

Rhodes has a bad reputation in Africa. South Africa became independent after World War II, and the bronze statue of Rhodes at the University of Cape Town in South Africa has been criticized. The students think that a sinner who started the war, a white supremacy, and the initiator of the history of apartheid in South Africa do not deserve to own the bronze statue of Cape Town, even though he is a patron of the University of Cape Town.

20 15, 13 After Rhodes died, radical Cape Town students launched a campaign "Rhodes must fall" on the Internet. They even threw feces at the bronze statue, and the school had no choice but to remove it. Rhodes, the bachelor of diamonds, was discredited, and the debate about him was brought up again, which drowned out the noise.