Doomsday Super Merchant

Chapter 368 Ripe Fruit

Shehade has entered his own role since he followed Zhou Yuanqiang. He was once just an ordinary old gangster, but at the age of fifty-five, he experienced a second rebirth. As Zhou Yuanqiang was not in Somalia,

As the temporary general manager, he manages the entire huge steel park, with more than 30,000 workers and 2,000 security teams inside.

In Somalia, when it comes to the steel park, people not only think of Zhou Yuanqiang, a Chinese who has claimed nationality, but also Shehade himself.

In today's Somalia, who doesn't know about the Steel Park? In the entire country, regardless of political reasons, as long as they are Somali people, they are all thinking of ways to come to the capital Mogadishu, and then sharpen their heads, trying to enter.

Come to the steel park and become an enviable worker.

Anyone who has suffered a lot knows what the minimum monthly salary of US$50 means in Somalia. In previous years, they raised a large flock of sheep and sold them all. The price of each sheep was

It’s only about 5-6 US dollars. After a year of hard work, it’s only about 150 US dollars.

It is hard to imagine how the Somali people, who rely on animal husbandry, can support a family with only 150 US dollars a year.

Just thinking about 30,000 workers and a monthly salary of 200,000 US dollars, Shehade couldn't help but feel dizzy. If the steel park can produce something, Shehade thinks it is very worthwhile. However, in the steel park, since its establishment,

So far, except for the 5,000 tons of steel orders from China every month, the steel plant has no income at all.

The steel park has been expanded repeatedly, and it is vaguely more like the capital than the capital Mogadishu.

One and a half years of crazy expansion seems to have stimulated the entire Somali economy. A large number of large and small factories and handicraft workshops based on the steel park have completely brought the capital Mogadishu into the industrial age. You know, one year

Half a year ago, people in the capital still had to go out into the cultivated fields and work hard to grow food in order to live a hard life.

How many people in Somalia will directly benefit from the steel park? Thirty thousand workers mean that 20,000 to 30,000 families have entered a well-off life in Somalia, and the family has no worries about food and clothing. And the daily consumption of these 20,000 to 30,000 families

, and will bring economic benefits to the entire capital. There are a large number of large and small factories that rely on the steel park, and the number of workers they need is also around 10,000, plus raw material collection, ore mining, etc.

Shehade knew that the entire steel park affected more than one million people.

As the number two figure in the steel park, Shehade is one of the most influential people in the entire Somalia. Even in places dominated by other warlords, they all throw olive branches to this number two figure. That is, in the north.

The President of Somaliland also secretly sent someone to contact us to discuss the possibility of cooperation.

Shehade is fifty-six years old this year. His heart has long been worn away by time. This makes him unlike other young people who have ambitions beyond their abilities. Shehade clearly understands

Realize who gave him everything he has now.

Maybe he is too satisfied with the status quo, but Shehade understands that he should know how to be satisfied.

All six of my children work in the steel park, and the boss privately gives me a salary of 500 US dollars a month. They are responsible for the security team supervisor and the management of some important departments in the steel park. This is for those who have little education and ability.

For children, it is definitely a gift from God.

Not only the six children, but also their families and relatives, as long as they could work, all entered the steel park. Although most of them were just ordinary workers, compared with those outside before,

What else is there to be dissatisfied about?

Everyone in the village doesn't know that Shehad is now a big celebrity. In the past, the look he looked down upon has completely changed. Hasn't it changed now? People come to the door one after another, just because they want to work in the steel park. They have no objection to Shehad at all. He can grow old.

It’s not a big deal to come here to enjoy the scenery and benefit the countryside.

What's more, the boss also agreed to this matter. As long as the factory's rules are followed, the boss doesn't care.

As long as he walks on the streets of Mogadishu, the capital, or in the village, who doesn't look at him with envy? Based on these alone, what else does Shehade himself dissatisfied with? What's more, the money he receives every month

Yes, the salary is still US$1,000. As long as you complete the tasks ordered by the boss, the general reward is US$10,000.

To be honest, being able to receive 1,000 US dollars already made Shehad feel guilty, because he thought that he just dealt with the movement problems in the entire steel park every day, and did not put in much effort. Moreover, the boss needed to spend money.

There are simply too many.

Thinking about the two thousand armed forces that maintain the entire steel park, those weapons alone are a dizzying sum. However, the boss’s investment in this aspect is far more than that. A large number of machine guns have been equipped to the security team.

There are also more than a dozen armored vehicles.

These are just superficial. The boss privately trains 5,000 soldiers in the restricted area, and the investment is truly huge. Dozens of tanks, dozens of armed helicopters, hundreds of armored vehicles, and hundreds of

Truck. Shehade had no way of calculating how much this would cost.

Just an armed helicopter, which resembles an Apache. Shehad checked on the Internet. An Apache armed helicopter, fully armed, costs more than 30 million US dollars.

.I remember that at that time, I could barely grasp the mouse. What is the concept of more than 30 million?

Shehad counted here, and there were as many as sixty-seven armed helicopters. When he looked at the long and endless string of zeros in the calculator, he felt that he couldn't turn around. If he added fifty

What about five tanks? These are heavy tanks worth more than ten million dollars each. Hundreds of armored vehicles cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each. Hundreds of trucks...

Shehade felt that the world was going crazy. He simply couldn't understand how his boss could possess these weapons silently and where he could get so much money.

Thinking of the Chinese identity of his boss, Shehade became panicked at that time. He was very afraid that his boss was just an agent sent by a certain country with the purpose of subverting Somalia, which would bring a hint of peace to the whole country.

Somalia is plunged into war.

With the boss's current military force, it is simply not comparable to that of other warlords. The key is that the relationship between the boss and the local tribe is completely tied to the chariot.

But soon, Shehade erased this sorrow, because the boss saw his thoughts and took him to each factory in the steel factory, pointing at the machine tools and manufacturing lines.

The production line was explained to himself one by one. When he walked to the countless parts piled up in the warehouse, Shehade truly understood why the steel park had no business, because the things that were composed of these parts turned out to be munitions.

"Shehad, let me ask you a question, how do you think we can completely unify Somalia and enter permanent peace?"

Faced with this question raised by his boss at the time, Shehade had no way to answer it. There were so many problems that leaders could not solve. How could he, an ordinary person, know what to do? What abilities did Shehade have?

It is most obvious that it is impossible to manage a small factory and answer such a high-level question.

Shehada remembered that the boss at the time just laughed and asked another question: "Do you think you are happy now? Are the people who benefit from the steel park happy?"

Faced with this problem, Shehade had no reason to hesitate and just shouted happiness loudly.

"Since you feel happy and have hope in life, then this is the right path. Peace sometimes does not have to be in the form of war, and war is just a last resort. The entire steel park, here

Every factory in China serves the military industry and produces the Rhino tanks, helicopter gunships, and armored vehicles you see... It is not just arms, it is also our equipment."

I remember that I was shocked at that time.

"In Somalia, what do you think we can develop to make people happy? Raise a few pigs or a few sheep, or lead a group of craftsmen to do some sewing and mending work? No, these will not bring anything to Somalia.

Changes. We need to develop heavy industry and develop what is needed most in the world, so that we can stimulate Somalia's economy and lead Somalia out of its current predicament. Like other countries, there is no war or civil strife. People have enough food and clothing, so that Somalia can also be like

Like a powerful country, it can feel proud in front of other countries..."

At that moment, Shehade remembered that he was stunned. He didn't know why his boss did this, but at least he thought that the person who could bring about all this, even if he was a devil, would be seen as an angel in the eyes of Somali people.

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Shehade himself asked a very stupid question at that time: "If other forces want to stop us, they will never see the day when they lose power."

"Whoever blocks the happiness that the people need most is the enemy of the people. When dealing with the enemy, the guns in our hands are the voice we want to convey. We need to use weapons to defend our happiness and use blood to fight for the happiness we need. Any

Anyone who stands against us is an enemy and will be crushed by us."

Yes, happiness, defend your own happiness, and do not allow others to destroy your own happiness.

Shehade found that at that time, he was standing at an unprecedented height, looking at the entire Somalia like the great men of Somalia before. Then he discovered what Somalia was really like, with warlords and a forest of partisans.

, religious beliefs with complex relationships, tribes like strong snakes, and more importantly, villages like villages, cities like villages, and people who are always threatened by war.

"If what the boss says can be realized, I am willing to be the devil."

Shehade himself is just a small person, but he has a patriotic heart. He knows very well what the boss will bring. It is definitely an opportunity to change the entire Somalia. No matter what the boss's ultimate goal is, as long as people can

Living and working in peace and contentment, being able to stay away from the flames of war, is enough.

So Shehad found that he seemed to have fallen. Everything was for the sake of the steel park. From the factories to the huge warehouses and the shipyards that were about to be built, they were all trying their best to improve safety and security.

Everything about management.

Shehade understands that Somali people are also kind-hearted people. The Steel Park has given them the opportunity to benefit a lot, and they will sincerely embrace everything in the Steel Park. In their minds, the Steel Park is a sacred existence.

No one is allowed to destroy anything here.

In order to take advantage of the huge number of people this affected, Shehade began to visit tribes in central and southwestern Somalia, based on the boss's ultimate goal, and established good relations with each tribe. At the same time, he also made friends with people in the transitional government in the capital.

Shehade was not afraid to approach officials, even the al-Shabaab group surrounding the capital.

It was thanks to Shehade's efforts that the steel park was finally able to maintain a high-speed development that was neutral and unaffected by the outside world.

But since the beginning of May, Shehad's heart has become cloudy and rainy like the rainy season in Africa. In Somalia's hot and dry weather throughout the year, he feels cold all over. Because in his heart, there is another

Faith collapsed with a crash.

Shehad received the news that in the face of the increasingly expanded and improved steel park, some people finally couldn't bear it and wanted to pick this ripe fruit.

What was even more unbearable for him was that the first person to reach out was the transitional government recognized by the United Nations. According to information obtained from credible channels, the transitional government bosses working in neighboring countries seemed to want to steal steel.

After taking advantage of the ripe fruit of the Iron and Steel Park, they used the economic strength of the Iron and Steel Park to expand their meager troops, purchase equipment, train a war-worthy army, and exercise the unified power that a government should have.

The idea of ​​the transitional government is good, but what it establishes is based on the sacrifice of the steel park, which Shehad cannot tolerate.

What can a bunch of civilians in the transitional government do? Even if the economic power of the steel park is given to them, corruption is certain, and how much of it actually falls on training soldiers and purchasing equipment. And Shehad

I don’t think they have such ability. Let’s look at what they have accomplished in the past few years since they took office.

A president who doesn't even want to stay in his own country's capital, a president who regards his own life as his top priority, will he be a good president?

The Steel Park is actually built on the plains north of Mogadishu, outside the area controlled by the transitional government. The only connection is that the boss is a major from the transitional government. But don't forget, this is a "youth center"

"Party" territory, how could they allow the transitional government to pick this fruit on their territory?

It is foreseeable that the "Al-Shabaab" party will learn this news soon, and then the steel park will be sandwiched between the two parties.

Thinking about the pitiful few troops of the transitional government, many of them are weapons donated by other countries, and most of them are so old that they are toothless. For example, the capital has armored vehicles and tanks, but they belong to the peacekeeping force, not to the transitional government.

Based on the strength of the transitional government, if it were not for the existence of peacekeeping forces, it would be a joke. Would a government that even controls the area be called a government?

After getting the news, Shehade immediately called his boss's mobile phone. He couldn't get through the first few times, which made Shehade as anxious as an ant in a pot, calling over and over again.

Perhaps God was moved, the phone finally got through, and the boss's familiar voice came through. Shehade naturally reported the news he heard in detail, and also expressed his worries.

It took a whole night from the time he got the news to the time he got through the phone. Shehada bet that the "Al-Shabaab" must also have gotten the news, and they also had intelligence personnel.

When Zhou Yuanqiang heard Shehade's report, he happened to be eating a late-night snack next to Yan Yuhe. He stopped eating, put down his chopsticks, gave Yan Yuhe an apologetic look, stood up, and walked to

On the open-air balcony, looking at the vast darkness outside, he murmured: "Is it finally coming?"

In fact, Zhou Yuanqiang had already expected this situation. The scale of the steel park and his immigration status would make it impossible for them not to be tempted.

Is it just too late to be tempted now? You must know that the 5,000 soldiers in training can be regarded as elite troops after a year and a half. As long as you are willing, you can form a force with 150 vehicles at any time.

A mechanized force of tanks and a hundred armed helicopters came out. And the pilots who had been trained day and night, after a short period of adaptation, were able to fly fighter planes under this sky.

One and a half years, doesn't it give me enough time to prepare? Rather than saying that the fruit is ripe, it is better to say that I am ready and waiting for them to come and pick it, giving myself a very reasonable excuse.

"The efficiency of the transitional government is extremely low. If they make no mistakes and the transitional government wants to attack the 'Shabaab', with their ability to raise an army at any time, they will definitely be the first to attack. This does not fit in with the plan."

Thinking of this, Zhou Yuanqiang showed a smile, turned to his phone and said in Somali: "Shehad, I will give you a task now. Go to your old friend Heben Ermo and ask him to persuade the transitional government to deal with the situation in advance.

We launched an attack... I think if we follow the government's wishes and get a lot of money, he will be very happy to do what we want."

Shehade was shocked, but he didn't ask any more questions. He knew that the boss had spoken and there must be a solution. He nodded and said: "As you wish, boss, I will do it right away."