After receiving the telegram, Basilio lowered his head and quickly read the contents of the telegram, then raised his head again and looked at Jerome Bonaparte.
"You don't need me to teach you what to do!" Jerome Bonaparte spoke slowly and said to Basilio in a calm tone.
"Your Majesty, please rest assured!" Basilio quickly assured Jérôme Bonaparte, "I will find suitable personnel for them as soon as possible!"
"Well!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded slightly and said in a normal tone: "I'll leave this matter to you!"
As soon as Jerome Bonaparte finished speaking, Basilio bid farewell to Jerome Bonaparte.
After Basilio left, Jerome Bonaparte quickly opened the lower drawer of the desk, took out an ordinary-looking notebook from the bottom of the drawer, and then opened the notebook and flipped through it while whispering
Muttering: "I remember that I actually wrote it down!"
After looking back and forth several times, Jérôme Bonaparte finally found the page he expected to find.
The page turned by Jérôme Bonaparte was filled with densely packed simplified Chinese characters. Not to mention the French, even current Qingguo scholars could only understand these Chinese characters by half-guessing.
Content.
"Gabon! Gabon!" Jérôme Bonaparte's fingers kept sliding on it, and he soon found what he needed. He said excitedly: "Yes! This is it!"
I saw the line pointed by Jerome Bonaparte's finger clearly written: Gabon is rich in oil, timber and manganese ore resources, as well as iron ore, gold and other scarce resources.
"I remember correctly!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to himself as he closed the notebook and put it back into the bottom drawer.
If Jérôme Bonaparte guessed correctly, the open-pit mine mentioned by Jérôme Patterson was probably manganese ore.
Because there is no need to send professionals to the gold mines, those in the colony are enough to identify the gold content of the gold mines.
Once it is confirmed that it is a manganese ore mine, the price of steel in France will drop by another level based on the original level.
Moreover, those manganese ores can not only meet domestic production needs, but also earn a certain amount of foreign exchange for France.
As far as Europe is concerned, there is no country in Europe that does not use the "Bonaparte Converter" designed "personally" by Jérôme Bonaparte for steelmaking.
The ferromanganese desulfurization process is naturally indispensable to them, so they must purchase a large amount of manganese ore from France.
Of course, Jérôme Bonaparte's doing this would also cause a problem.
That is, European countries, especially the British Kingdom, will set their sights on Central Africa earlier than history.
Countries that originally had some advantages in Central Africa (such as the Kingdom of Portugal) will also have a sense of crisis due to the addition of Britain, thus accelerating their expansion.
All in all, China and Africa will become the target of competition for various countries in the future.
However, considering the harsh environmental factors in Central Africa and the fact that the British Kingdom will start to suppress India in the next one to two years, it is very likely that they will not take action in Central Africa within one to two years.
In other words, France's short-term competitor is still only the Kingdom of Portugal.
Thinking of the difficult situation that the British Kingdom might face in the next one to two years, Jérôme Bonaparte couldn't help but smile. He shook his head and said to himself: "I really hope that the Qajar dynasty can survive."
For a while! If they can survive the Indian Rebellion, then the British Kingdom will really face a crisis."
He paused and sighed: "Hey! What a pity, this is just my wishful thinking!"
After saying that, Jerome Bonaparte lowered his head again and continued working.
On the other hand, Basilio, who was entrusted with an important task by Jérôme Bonaparte, lived up to Jérôme Bonaparte's entrustment and went to the Ecole Polytechnique in person to send an invitation to the geology professor there.
, and promised that as long as he is willing to go to Libreville, the geology professor will be able to enjoy treatment that is not inferior to that of the school.
At the same time, Paris Nord Industrial Group will reward him with another sum of money.
Although Basilio has resigned as the general manager of Norinco, his influence in Norinco has not diminished.
Many people are still willing to obey Basilio's orders and report to Basilio.
The reason is that Basilio was transferred from the Norinco Group to the Palais du Inlery, which was a promotion.
Now that Basilio has been promoted, the cronies who were originally attached to him have no reason to betray Basilio.
After all, although Basilio was not in the same system as them, Basilio spent more time in contact with the emperor, and the Paris-Nord Industrial Group was the private property of Jérôme Bonaparte.
Therefore, Basilio can still give Norinco a certain influence.
However, Basilio will not use these powers openly.
In the final analysis, Paris Nord Industrial belongs to the emperor and the Bonaparte family. He used to manage it as the general manager, and now he has no reason to manage it as the steward.
If Basilio interferes too much with the personnel of the Norinco Group, he may be criticized by the emperor.
By then, not to mention Norinco, even he, the general manager of Duyinleli Palace, may not be able to retain it.
Basilio has never forgotten that the nominal steward of the Tuileries Palace is Vernia, and he only "assisted" Vernia in managing the Tuileries Palace.
If Vernia, as the steward of the palace, suddenly no longer needs assistance one day, then Basilio's "supervisor" would be done with it.
But Basilio said that he actually had no right to award a sum of money to the geology professor on behalf of Norinco.
But he was confident that Norinco would provide the money.
The geology professor was also a little moved after hearing Basilio's promise.
Although teaching and educating people is his dream, as long as he has enough money, he can put his dream aside.
"Professor, what do you think?" Basilio looked at the geology professor with a smile and said to him in a soft tone.
"I..." The geology professor hesitated for a long time before making a decision.
At this moment, a voice came from the door of the geology professor's office, "Professor can't come with you!"
The geology professor and Basilio turned to look at the door. It turned out that the dean of the Ecole Polytechnique was standing there.
"Hello!" Basilio said to the dean of the department in a respectful manner.
Basilio maintains sufficient respect for everyone with culture and social status.
"Director Basilio, Professor Charles cannot leave with you!" the department head said to Basilio as he entered the room.
"Why?" Basilio asked.
"Because Professor Charles is the most capable professor in our entire geology major! If he leaves, it will cause great losses to the entire geology major!" the department chair responded to Basilio sincerely?
"If I didn't admire Professor Charles' ability, I wouldn't have come here to invite him in person!" Basilio responded to the dean of the department, still smiling.
"Your Excellency, Manager, I would like to ask why you invited Professor Charles to go?" the department head asked Basilio again.
After hesitating for a moment, Basili replied truthfully to the dean of the department: "We have discovered a mine in the colony, so we would like to invite Professor Charles to give guidance."
After hearing this, the head of the department responded to Basilio with a sincere expression: "Your Majesty, with all due respect! This does not require Professor Charles to take action at all. We are just any teacher, even a geology graduate."
Everyone is up to the job!"
"Really?" Basilio looked at the dean of the department suspiciously.
"Of course!" The head of the department saw what was going on and quickly said to Basilio: "Every student who can graduate from our school is an outstanding talent!
Their knowledge of minerals is not inferior to that of our teachers, and our teachers are also excellent talents.
Mr. Basilio, there is no need for you to let Professor Charles pass.
If Professor Charles goes over, we will lose a lot of students in France as a whole."
"In that case, forget it!" Basilio shrugged, and then expressed to Professor Charles: "I'm sorry to disturb your time!"
"Nothing!" Professor Charles shook his head and replied to Basilio: "Actually, I still want to thank you!"
"Thank me?" Basilio was stunned for a few seconds and then asked: "Why do you want to thank me?"
Professor Charles exhaled and said to Basilio: "I want to thank you for strengthening my determination to teach and educate people! Just now, I almost agreed to go with you!"
"Actually, it's not too late to agree now!" Basilio said to Professor Charles, half jokingly, half seriously.
"Forget it!" Professor Charles shook his head and refused: "I'd better stay in the school and continue working! The colony is not suitable for me!"
"Then there's nothing I can do!" Basilio replied to Professor Charles.
Subsequently, on the recommendation of the dean of the department, Basilio "packed" a geology teacher and several graduating students away.
A few days later, the teacher and the graduating students took a train south to Marseille, where they met the messenger who had been waiting in Marseille.
After the two met each other, the messenger asked them: "Is everyone here?"
The teacher and the graduating students looked at each other, nodded and said to the messenger: "Everyone is here!"
