The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Thomas took out a map of northeast Angola and drew two boxes on it.

"Simple and crude, the two locations are 20 kilometers long and wide. Engineer Xie said that they can completely cover the mining area.

The two regional centers are more than 20 kilometers apart, so the two plots are actually connected together for about 10 kilometers.

Area A is just north of Shaorim, and the central area is about 35 kilometers away from the city.

After Thomas finished speaking, Xie Jianliang said: "There are primary mines in both places. Area A is a super-large pit, at least the size of the Argyle pit.

There are one large, two small and three mines in Zone B. Due to topographical reasons, there is a huge sedimentary secondary ore deposit at a location 3 to 12 kilometers east of the two small mines.

All within the delineated range, the reserves may exceed Zone A, and the quality of the diamonds is amazing, which should exceed all the diamond pits currently known. "

Zhang Nan took a few glances. The map is very new, but at a glance it can be seen that the paper is a bit old, and the words on it are incomprehensible. It should be in Portuguese.

I looked for it on the map and all laughed.

There is a number in the corner of the map, "1965", this should be the time when the map was printed.

"On the map 25 years ago, there is no one in this country..."

Hearing what the boss said, Thomas said: "This is the map provided by the Angola government during negotiations.

This is the latest version of the map that the entire Angola can give. From 65 years to the present, they have not printed any maps.

The original signed agreement has been sent to the headquarters of the Star Group for filing, because as long as eight boundary points are marked, the actual area of ​​the land we rented is a bit larger..."

This was originally a military map, which was printed by the Portuguese colonists. Thomas pointed to the location of the boundary point of the delineated area, and said: "Although the two places are not far from Saurim, they are both relatively deserted areas. The aftermath of the Civil War.

In the colony, there was no detailed land survey and mapping there, and there were no roads there. Our people drove cars and the warlords used odometers.

Because of the uneven terrain, it was agreed during the negotiation that the distance here would be lengthened...the actual length of each side was more than 22 kilometers.

Originally, there was only a small village on the southwest side of Block A, which relied on growing cassava for a living. We were so poor that we didn’t believe it.

Plot B is grazing, but there are very few people. The land there is very barren. This is good news for us. "

Haoqiu, Angolans do this business and don't even have simple surveying and mapping personnel and equipment?

What about artillery?

There are always a few artillerymen in the army of tens of thousands of people?

"It's hard for me to imagine how their artillery fought?

You can measure the land and find a few artillery observers. These guys...

I'm speechless! "

Xie Jianliang on one side smiled and said, "Boss, you will pay more if you find more people. Those black guys are smart."

Hearing this, Zhang Nan thought of something, frowned and said, "Are there any places where the villagers and the grazing are moved?"

If there is a secondary mine, it is not a good thing before the war is completely subsided if it is discovered.

Even if you don't panic that group of warlords send people to defend their own interests, the cost is not small, and I am not in the mood to help others to destroy a certain force in Angola.

When the cannon rang, the gold would be two thousand two!

Participate in those bad things, unless you have a brain twitch!

However, in the two mining areas, it is not a big problem to create more than two billion profits each year in the future, and the total value may be close to 100 billion U.S. dollars.

Even if it takes 30 to 40 years for this profit to be fully realized, I won't let it to others: if there is someone who doesn't have a long eye, he didn't discuss it!

Is the army of tens of thousands very powerful?

I don’t know how much support the Soviets gave to Angola, but on the US side, supporting millions of dollars of arms at a time can affect the development of the war.

The fighting power of the Angolan warlords also bullied the common people. As for the intensity and consumption of the war, Zhang Nan's mercenaries with a unit of 100 million can still be able to fight. In contrast, the Angolan own army is a mob and a crocodile!

As for excuses...

Protect your own investment and employee safety, even the United Nations has nothing to say!

This will Thomas replied: "After moving, the warlords are planning to drive people directly, anyway, there are many places to relocate.

It is a bit like the western United States 120 years ago, where homes can be settled everywhere, but there are fewer Indians, and local military forces will not harm people in their own panic-controlled areas.

However, our people think that forced relocation is not good, and it is necessary to give the locals an impression of good luck.

The grazing is a small tribe that is part-agricultural and part-pastoral, with about 80 people, and the village is even smaller, with less than 40 people.

There are many places. We give farmers one cow per adult, and children under 1.4 meters tall are subsidized by two people.

The grazing people give food, 300 kilograms of corn flour per person, if they are still in our territory ten days after receiving the supplies, or they re-enter, they are arrogant! "

The words "strong-demolition" flashed in Zhang Nan's mind: a cow would have to move, and 300 kilograms of corn flour would have to abandon the grazing place he was used to...

Haha, if you change to China, it is estimated that something big will happen!

But that was in Black Africa, or Angola, one of the poorest regions in the world, just after the war had eased.

When the village moves, the grazing people can change their grazing direction. Anyway, there are some places.

"...The gang of warlords also said that we have given too much. It is kind to give three or five cows in a village.

What they said was right. The villagers moved faster than the rabbits. They didn't need to demolish the shack, so they harvested a crop of cassava in the field and relocated after running 10 kilometers.

They also sold more than half of the cattle we subsidized them, and only a few of them were kept in exchange for money and food. "

what……

American companies have a lot of stupid people and a lot of money, and the villagers probably think so.

As for why the people in that small village wanted to sell the cows, Zhang Nan thought that this might have something to do with the habit left during the war: cows, when they fight again, there will be no more cattle to eat.

As for the grazing...

People can probably drive the cow away.

The most common daily food for Angolan villagers is cassava, which can be harvested in a year by breaking a fresh stem and inserting it into the ground, watering some water, and planting a little more corn at most.

I have been to Africa, and I know that the cassava fields look like dwarf shrubs and sparse forests, and they are different from the cassava fields planted on a large scale in the southernmost part of China for the purpose of extracting industrial starch.

Huaxia grows cassava, which is neat and dense, but in Black Africa, if you don't pay attention to the cassava field, you would never think it would be a food field.

Many kinds of cassava in this African belong to "unrestrained cultivation". After the pole is inserted, it depends on God to watch.

The original land cassava rushed to harvest, it is estimated that the villagers can eat for a few months, and it can be eaten for a year after being dried. If you sell the cow, there will not be any situation where it will not be picked up by the time.

"The war has led to poverty. In fact, the climate there is said to be the same as the Spring City in Yunnan Province throughout the year. The altitude is more than 1,000 and the rainfall is 1,300 mm. Although the land is a little barren, you can grow anything you want to grow. It's the people there. No money..."

It was Thomas who spoke, "...If the civil war in Angola continues, I think that land should not be developed for the time being, and we will talk about it when the situation stabilizes.

This will begin to collapse the Soviet Union. No matter who finally gains power, the Angolan government does not dare to tear up the agreement with us. It only needs to establish a small foothold there in advance, and send personnel to station in rotation every few months or half a year.

There is no need to have too many people, a dozen or twenty are enough, and it is even possible to gather some local people to plant crops on the plot far away from the future mining area according to the excuse given in the agreement. "

"Grow cassava?"

Zhang Nan smiled.

"No, corn, the land there is actually suitable for growing corn, but the people there don't know how to plant it scientifically and are lazy.

The price of corn in Angola is actually pretty good. If only a few agricultural technicians are sent and dozens of local people are called to work, the salary of the people we send can be settled by diamonds.

It means that a batch of weapons has to be transported over. Some people have guns, and no one will come to provoke them.

In this war, foreigners who can provide food are still welcome in Angola.

Of course, if they can't arm themselves, some villagers will become robbers, but the warlords dare not openly beat the Americans. "

The big warlord knows who can provoke and who can’t touch, but it’s hard to tell the small groups of militants and the villagers who are about to starve to death. If something happens, you don’t know who did it.

As for the diamonds paid for, of course they are not obtained from their own sites. There are many places where diamonds are produced in Angola. The price of rough diamonds has been suppressed during the civil war, and there are sanctions. It is a good thing that someone buys them. cash.

Cash will eventually buy weapons, ammunition and food. No one wants corn. If you can provide arms to those warlords, they will treat you as a good friend.

"It doesn't matter if you give some basic equipment, but we'd better not be professional arms dealers.

Just deal with it according to your ideas and make long-term preparations. There has not been a civil war in Angola for more than a decade.

Fortunately, we have no shortage of mines in the past ten to twenty years, so we just assumed it was reserved.

50 years, the lease term is down to 2040, and it is estimated that the mine can be completed in 35 years.

After 10 years, those Angolans just don't trouble me. "

Zhang Nan said it lightly. There will be trouble at that time. It is certain that the profit of more than two billion a year is attractive enough for those poor countries!

But Zhang Nan didn't panic at all. As long as this guy doesn't have any problems, when the anti-terrorism war starts, Washington will treat it 100% as invisible to its own company's actions in Black Africa!

If Washington does not intervene, who else does it need to worry about?

Now I have 5 sites in Africa. Saurimu in Angola is about 1,700 kilometers from Umtali in Zimbabwe and 1,400 kilometers from Letraneka in Botswana. Even from Gambia, I can send a transport plane to my site in Angola. Provide direct assistance.

"By the way, how is life in Angola?"

Zhang Nan asked fluently.

Thomas said: "The western coast is fine, but Saurim's inland conditions are really poor.

There are still a lot of seafood along the coast, but Angolans like to bake everything. Fortunately, Western food is more popular in Angolan cities, and the Portuguese have a deep influence there.

The most troublesome vegetable is the poor inland. The climate there is actually okay, probably because of the soil quality. Only lettuce and tomatoes are grown. Other green leafy vegetables do not have long roots. "

Black Africa...also annoying Zhang Nan.

...

After talking about Angola, Zhang Nan put away the map and photocopy documents, got up and left the small meeting room.

"Go, leave the day after tomorrow, and go hunting now."

Zhang Nan not only came to inspect, but also came to play by the way.

What's so fun about inland Australia?

Hunt, then...

It is the choice of the prey.

Zhang Nan doesn't like to use shotguns to deal with kangaroos. That thing always makes him feel like walking on two legs, and two small forelimbs are like hands. He never eats such a human-like animal. .

A group of people drove a few jeeps to hunt wild boars.

As soon as the car started, Xie Jianliang yelled, "I, Hu Hansan, are back again!"

Good guy, don't even care about the fatigue of the journey: originally arranged for him to take a rest, but in the end he also wanted to participate.

Thomas could hear clearly in the other car, and looked strangely at the engineer standing in the front seat of the open jeep, arrogantly roaring.

Sitting in the co-pilot position, Zhang Nan happened to see this scene and said to Thomas: "He and the rotation guards here have participated in the provincial-level hunting competition here~www.wuxiaspot.com~ won the championship, and there are countless dead boars under the gun. ..."

After listening to the great achievements of these "crazy pig killers" in the car, Thomas shrugged his shoulders, looking as if he didn't have much hope for today's itinerary.

In response, Zhang Nan pointed to a pickup truck that followed, and said, "We will return after filling the hopper of that truck."

Australian wild boar, more!

Yesterday Zhang Nan went hunting and killed only 50 or 60 kilograms, but the group of wild boars actually had 70 or 80!

The wild boar breeds too fast and scurried everywhere.

Before China’s folks rotated here for the main, the nearby wild boars were unlucky; but in recent batches there are many American folks, and they seem to be less interested in hunting wild boars: they rarely eat wild boars.

Besides, the mine has been exploited on a large scale, and the guards and workers don't have so much time to hunt.

Wild boar is not a native species of Australia. In the 18th century, some European immigrants brought pigs to Australia.

In order to increase food reserves, the immigrants released some domestic pigs into the wild, and the domestic pigs soon became wild boars.

The area around the mining area has a warm and humid climate all year round and sufficient food. There are no natural enemies yet, this number...

Zhang Nan said in the car: "...According to statistics, there are now more wild boars in Australia than there are residents in Australia. This ratio should be the number one in the world.

Australia's environmental department also believes that the wild boar proliferation has caused multiple threats, especially the harm to agriculture and animal husbandry. Wild boar hunting here does not require a certificate, and many kills are rewarded.

Wild boars are omnivorous animals and eat a lot. Groups of wild boars often "invade" farms and pastures, gnawing on crops such as wheat, barley, sugar cane, apples, watermelons, etc. in farms; lambs in some pastures have also become wild boars. Object. Wild boars also like to dig the soil and turn over the mud, causing large tracts of land vegetation to be destroyed.