Doomsday Super Merchant

Chapter 286 Losing money and shouting

Zhou Yuanqiang, a small drop of water, made almost no waves in central Somalia. This appointment was diluted in a moment.

People living in central Somalia have not had their lives affected by a small appointment. They are still struggling in dire straits, running around for life every day and worrying about their own safety. While other warlords are still fighting with each other.

For power and territory, tribes are still fighting in the name of justice for the loss of a sheep, anti-government armed forces are still clamoring for the president to step down, and religions are launching jihads one after another...

But no one would know that the impact of Zhou Yuanqiang's appearance has just begun.

In fact, the appointment of the Somali government is very chaotic and has lost its effect. If you want soldiers, it is very simple, and many people can give them to you. But if you want weapons, supplies, etc., I'm sorry, the government is now so poor that it only has a pair of underwear.

Words have no money.

The equipment of a regiment is about 3,500 men, which means that Zhou Yuanqiang can raise a force of 3,500 men.

Kosov's army of more than 600 people can be called warlords. You can imagine what the strength of Somalia's warlords is like. According to Zhou Yuanqiang's understanding, the strongest armed force only has 5,000 soldiers, and there are

It's just a logistics of two to three thousand people. These troops of only a few thousand people can control a very vast land and a population of millions.

It is said that it is equipped with 3,500 people. As long as you have the ability, you can arm 30,000 people, because the management in the army hardly cares about this.

Somalia is an extremely poor country. You may not imagine that the poorest families don't even have an electrical appliance. They still use fires to light up the night and can only eat one meal a day. A lot of civil strife can happen at any time.

The fighting around them caused serious damage to the animal husbandry industry. The cattle and sheep that were finally raised became victims of the war.

As an animal husbandry country, the direct consequences of the destruction of the animal husbandry industry are complete economic collapse, inflation, and people living in dire straits.

The first thing Zhou Yuanqiang did when he took office was, of course, to recruit soldiers. The good treatment he gave made countless people excited. Being a soldier in Somalia is not paid, just to have enough to eat. What's more, there is constant civil strife here.

, the lives of ordinary people are like grass. Only by becoming soldiers can they find a support. Naturally, there will be more people who serve as soldiers to feed them.

As for Zhou Yuanqiang's treatment, as long as he is a healthy man between the ages of 18 and 28, he can sign up and receive a monthly subsidy of US$50, which is equivalent to 1.25 million Somali shillings.

Think about the most economically developed region of Somaliland, where the average GDP per person per year is only US$150, and here, you can receive a subsidy of US$50 a month. This kind of treatment is a great benefit to the poor and backward people.

What a fatal temptation? 50 US dollars is enough to eat, clothe and live comfortably here for a month.

Immediately, everyone who knew the news ran directly towards the steel factory where Zhou Yuanqiang was located.

In fact, it is really simple to win over a group of people here, as long as you have money and are willing to spend money. Of course, in the eyes of others, only Zhou Yuanqiang, the enemy, would do this. To win over so many people, everyone

The expenses, including food, drinks and wages, amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. With this kind of money, to risk getting involved in Somalia, which is experiencing constant civil strife, isn't there something wrong with your head?

Regarding Zhou Yuanqiang's large-scale recruitment, many warlords looked on with cold eyes, waiting to see Zhou Yuanqiang's jokes.

A Chinese just wants to establish a foothold in Somalia. He seems to think that it is too easy and too easy. Why there are constant civil strife and why multi-party mediation is ineffective is because the water here is too deep and the relationships are too complicated. It’s not that you want to

That's fine. Many factors determine that this is a historical issue that cannot be reconciled.

Zhou Yuanqiang's army recruited 5,000 able-bodied recruits in just one week. In order to appease them, Zhou Yuanqiang generously paid 20 US dollars per person in advance. This move naturally made those who defected to the army have an incomparable feeling for the businessman Zhou.

of goodwill.

In the end of the world, Zhou Yuanqiang's power would be many times greater than it is here. He really didn't show any excitement for 5,000 people.

When these 5,000 people gathered, Zhou Yuanqiang stood on a designated training ground next to the steel plant. Looking at these 5,000 dark and sturdy young men, he looked very plain. Wearing the uniform of a Somali major, although he did not have the majesty of the People's Liberation Army, he looked very ordinary.

At least it makes people feel more energetic.

"I know that everyone comes here with the hope of having good food, good clothing, and a 50-dollar subsidy. I don't blame you for this, because I know what kind of conditions everyone lives under. But I want to tell you

The thing is, since you are here, you must abide by military regulations and treat this place as a factory where you work. You must maintain my status, because your food, clothing, and supplies are all given to you by me. If not

Everything you and I hope for is just cannon foam, and after it bursts, you will get nothing."

Zhou Yuanqiang is not so miraculous. He has learned the Somali language in just a few months in Somalia. He can barely understand it now, and he can't speak it very fluently, so he speaks in English, and Shehade serves as the translator.

As an official, he repeated Zhou Yuanqiang’s words.

Faced with this kind of naked personal CEO's lecture, everyone below understood it, and no one came up with any patriotic rebuttal, because they knew whose money they were taking and who they had to sacrifice their lives for. And this is also the norm.

, Whoever serves as a soldier must obey his orders.

The training of new recruits is naturally handled by more than a hundred men who were previously led by Shehade. They are also the backbone of the entire army and have rich combat experience.

In fact, many of the recruits escaped from other warlords. Zhou Yuanqiang did not seem to be taboo about these. As long as the physical fitness was reached, he was directly admitted into the army. Experienced soldiers are the most important. They can improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

Get better soon.

Although Zhou Yuanqiang's performance was very conspicuous, he also knew how to measure. During training, the soldiers wore clothes they brought themselves. There was no uniform clothing. They looked exactly like a group of farmers running in formation. Moreover, during training, every soldier

A soldier used wooden sticks instead for training. Not only that, he also required the soldiers to train only in the morning and to help build a steel plant in the afternoon. It was as if they were treated as workers.

Zhou Yuanqiang understands the saying that a big tree attracts wind, so he can only act no different from other people, or even behave more like a businessman, desperately squeezing all their value and sending a signal to outsiders, this is why I attract so many people.

People just want to protect themselves and treat them as employees.

Before these soldiers form an army, Zhou Yuanqiang needs to keep a low profile so that no one comes to practice on him without opening his eyes. If he wins the battle, he will not know how many of these new recruits will die.

This is what it looks like on the surface, but in fact, Zhou Yuanqiang is not just like this. He secretly dispatched Shehade to privately raise a 1,500-man troop in an area more than 200 kilometers away from the capital, hiding in the mountains, and unfolding

The most rigorous training. With this identity, even if someone discovers this unit, it will not be a big deal. Then it will be a good excuse to say that it is your own unit conducting mountain training.

As for this unit, their training standards are those of special forces, and they will become Zhou Yuanqiang's sharp arrows.

The Somalis have lived in war for many years, and everyone is familiar with using guns, so the training of new recruits progresses very quickly.

After more than a month, various forces that sent personnel to observe withdrew these intelligence personnel one after another, because they believed that Zhou Yuanqiang was just a timid businessman who bought an identity to protect himself and had no ambitions.

After confirming that there were no spies, Zhou Yuanqiang completely sealed off the entire training ground with a radius of ten kilometers and sent out numerous patrol teams equipped with motorcycles, modified minivans equipped with machine guns, etc., to patrol within this restricted area.

Inside.

Not only that, Zhou Yuanqiang also brought signal jammers from the apocalypse to block all signals in the entire training ground. No signal could be transmitted out. He also spent a huge amount of money to install signal jammers within a ten-kilometer radius of the training ground.

There are hidden monitors one by one to ensure that no one can sneak in or leave quietly.

As soon as these measures were completed, Zhou Yuanqiang first took out 10,000 sets of uniform military uniforms produced by the Doomsday Chamber of Commerce Garment Factory, and distributed two sets to each soldier. Under the uniform uniforms, the soldiers who originally looked like bandits immediately became

Majestic and majestic, the formation finally looked like an army.

The second step is to imitate the American m16a4 rifle from Doomsday Arsenal.

It wasn't that Zhou Yuanqiang didn't want to use the large number of Type 81 automatic rifles in stock, but his own identity and the stimulation it brought to the country, so he had no choice but to let the arsenal copy this major U.S. small weapon that was widely installed in more than a dozen NATO countries.

Anyway, such weapons are plentiful in the underground arms black market, so there won't be any trouble.

The third step is to carry out mechanized construction. For Somalia, they have almost no mechanized troops, and their armored strength is pitifully small.

Of course, Zhou Yuanqiang will not let go of the mechanized troops. Although the situation in the apocalypse is also tense, the usefulness of armored forces is not very great at present. The power of the air force is enough to deal with zombies. Therefore, for the sake of our own safety in modern times,

Zhou Yuanqiang dispatched thirty armored vehicles and ten Sand Snake tanks.

In military training, like infantry, you may be able to barely master it in two or three months, but like tank soldiers, it is not something that can be trained just by training.

Like the large number of armed helicopters in the Doomsday Chamber of Commerce, Zhou Yuanqiang has no reason to let them go, but it is not the time for them to appear yet, because this is too shocking for Somalia. The appearance of Sand Snake tanks has already made people

Many people were extremely shocked.

In fact, the Somali transitional government is unlucky enough. The area they can control is only an area less than ten kilometers near the capital Mogadishu. Moreover, groups of anti-government armed forces are advancing step by step. What is even more unfortunate is that the Somali security forces

There are too many problems to solve, and the desertion rate is as high as 80%. Most of the soldiers recruited will desert within a few days.

The soldiers under the warlords are all loyal to the warlords, not the local government. In many cases, the government needs to provide benefits to make these warlords move.

Under such circumstances, the "Al-Shabaab" is naturally advancing step by step and may annex Mogadishu at any time. The transitional government supported by Western countries is definitely in turmoil and may become a joke at any time. Fortunately, Mogadishu

There are 1,500 peacekeeping troops in Desali, and many countries support the transitional government. This makes the "Al-Shabaab" somewhat scrupulous, so it did not go all out to capture the capital.

Strictly speaking, half of the training ground occupied by Zhou Yuanqiang belongs to the transitional government, and half belongs to the advancing "Al-Shabaab" party.

The main reason why no one takes care of it is that Zhou Yuanqiang's silver bullet offensive is really too sharp, whether it is the transitional government's greedy politicians who will avoid others when things go wrong, or the terrorist leaders in the "Al-Shabaab"

Guys, they all fell mercilessly to this offensive. After all, no one has trouble with money.

Different from the transitional government to gain votes, the "Youth Party" thinks more. In their view, Zhou Yuanqiang is just a small fish now. He should be raised first. When he gets fat, it will not be too late to have surgery. What's more, they themselves

In the area under control, the power of the tribe is very strong. Zhou Yuanqiang, who has a good cooperative relationship with the tribe, would be better off leaving him alone for the time being. Otherwise, if he provokes a backlash from the tribe, things will get a bit bad.

It is this kind of stability that gives Zhou Yuanqiang the opportunity to develop with peace of mind, and no one jumps out to make irresponsible remarks.

But why doesn't Zhou Yuanqiang understand? It's just that his foundation is too weak. If the recruits were not well fed, clothed, and subsidized, they would have dispersed long ago. So what he is doing now is brainwashing these soldiers and...

We will strengthen training to develop combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

In order to train armed helicopter pilots, Zhou Yuanqiang spent a lot of money to buy several flight training systems on the black market, selected a group of the most loyal soldiers, and let them start training. When necessary, armed helicopters

Or rely on them to drive and fight.

Not only for military training, Zhou Yuanqiang also used the 100,000 acres of steel factory land in his hands to recruit a large number of local employees and set up small workshops-like factories to try to produce some parts. This kind of behavior is completely a loss-making act.

In Somalia, these factories rarely get orders.

But there was no other way. Zhou Yuanqiang had to act like a harmless businessman to confuse others and buy himself more time.

Including the army and the steel factory, there are already 3,000 employees a month, and he needs to pay more than 300,000 US dollars in salary every month. Only now does Zhou Yuanqiang know that raising a modern army is completely different from the apocalypse. In the apocalypse, just

At the beginning, if they were given a mouthful of food, so many people would crowd in that they would be overwhelmed. Later, although a subsidy system was implemented, the dominance of the Chamber of Commerce would not be too difficult.

Without the support of the Doomsday Chamber of Commerce, Zhou Yuanqiang would have spent tens of millions on equipment for 5,000 people. Just rifles, including bullets, military uniforms, and helmets to be equipped, such as armored vehicles, tanks, etc., would eventually be

The cost is around US$300 million.

Fortunately, the Doomsday Chamber of Commerce, a big factory behind the scenes, can provide all this for free.

Now Zhou Yuanqiang also understands why the country's business is arms business, because it is really too profitable. Think about it, a 5,000-man army and simple equipment will already cost 300 to 400 million U.S. dollars. If equipped with artillery

, missiles, armed helicopters, fighter planes...a large number of armored vehicles, tanks, and a series of logistics...

Zhou Yuanqiang no longer dared to think about it. Without two to three billion US dollars, there was no way he could build a mechanical army.

During this period, Zhou Yuanqiang also went back to China several times to meet his family and accompany Yan Yuhe. For example, Zhou Yuanqiang did not hide anything about opening a small steel factory in Somalia. Apart from his identity as a major, he still kept the truth

Said it out.

I originally thought that Yan Yuhe would be scolded for a while, but she didn't expect that she just smiled and didn't say anything. After all, this man is also someone who dares to love and fight. Wealth can be obtained in danger, and that man fights in the mall alone.

Don't people seek wealth from danger after danger?

As for Somalia, Yan Yuhe didn't know about this country at all before. But since Zhou Yuanqiang is where she is, she needs to pay more attention to it. You don't know if you don't check it. If you check it, you will jump. War and poverty are almost representative of Somalia.

As the saying goes, the entire country has never been quiet for a day, and there are armed conflicts all over the country.

Sometimes Yan Yuhe wonders whether Zhou Yuanqiang opened a steel plant there, is it a good thing or a bad thing, and can it be profitable given the economic situation in Somalia?

Zhou Yuanqiang didn't know how to answer this question. He couldn't say that he was losing money to make up for the big gains, right? Underneath his words, he finally found a reason: "Somalia's ore export has always occupied an important economic position, and the ore is very important.

Cheap, self-refined steel, the equipment used comes from China, and the steel standards are also different from those in the country. With very low labor and raw materials, and exemption from export tax rates, the price is far lower than that in the country."

"But how to solve your transportation problem? Eastern Africa is not close to here, which will increase costs and make it uncompetitive."

Yan Yuhe's problem is indeed a problem that restricts the development of local steel companies in Somalia. The nearby countries are all extremely poor and rely on exporting raw materials to maintain financial expenses. They don't know who they sell their steel to.

, there is no need to count on nearby countries to bring consumption.

However, the increase in transportation costs in distant countries has indeed made them less competitive. This question really made Zhou Yuanqiang not sure how to answer it.