Chapter 188 African Farce
.Guinea Bissau, Africa.
The storm of last night woke Lu Yong up from his sleep. The people in the same dormitory, as well as the upstairs and downstairs, were cheering loudly. As the end of May approached, the rainy season in West Africa finally came.
When Lu Yong first arrived in Guinea Biliu, he was not very comfortable with the climate here. The half-year rainy season and half-year dry season made the farming solar term he had remembered since childhood lost its effect. He could only follow the advice of the farming sciences area, plant rice in the rainy season, interplant potatoes and corn in the dry season.
As soon as it was dawn, he hurriedly put on his raincoat, carried a basket out of the dormitory, and ran to the Agricultural Science Institute to collect seedlings.
Lu Yong felt that the management of this farm was very distinctive. After they allocated three acres of land to each farmer, the farm would distribute pesticides and seeds to you every year according to the standards, and you would serve you whatever you want. However, the salary payment is evaluated according to your harvest. If you leave the farmland free for a year, not to mention that you can’t get a penny of salary, you will be sent back to China.
Like when Lu Yong first came last year, he thought he could just fool him. As a result, he settled the score at the end of the year and his average monthly salary was only more than 300 yuan, which was only half of the other people's.
At that time, he realized that he used to joke about those who worked hard, but the stupidest one was himself.
This year, he did not dare to be lazy no matter what. In order to earn more money, he would work hard no matter what.
Since he came to Africa, he was here to make a lot of money. He was still waiting to earn a few more years and go home to repair a big house. He missed a great opportunity, even if others didn't care, he couldn't forgive himself!
The agricultural science institute was crowded with farmers and workers who came to collect rice seedlings. There were more than 1,700 farmers and workers in the entire farm. In the farm center, there were thousands of people working in other jobs, and thousands of people and land farms. Yiran is a small town in the mainland.
Guinea-Bissau is close to the seaside. Affected by the monsoon, the rain is abundant, and the land quality is also good near the inland area. However, the locals' farming is too extensive, and the rice yield per mu is as low as 130 to 40 kilograms, and the most is as high as 260 to 70 kilograms, which is not enough to meet the needs of the country.
Under the guidance of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, farmers and workers used selected rice seeds and cultivated carefully. The yield increased by two to three times compared to them!
Even Lu Yong, who did not farm carefully last year, had a harvest of about 100 kilograms per acre. The highest harvest in a single acre in the farm reached 860 kilograms per acre, which was even high in China.
After finally getting the rice seedlings, Lu Yong rushed to his farmland in the rain.
Lu Yong came to the land last year, and the person who came first said that the farm was not big before. Later, a wealthy boss invested and bought all the delta where the farm was located, which made it reach the current scale of 1,000 hectares.
However, not all such a large land is suitable for farming. The real land is about 700 acres, 500 acres are used to grow rice, and more than 200 acres are used to grow vegetables and other economic crops. In other places, in addition to the captive chicken, duck, pig, cattle and livestock farms, they have been transformed into agricultural and industrial dormitories and farm headquarters. Some places have been renovated and have commercial land, such as barber shops, supermarkets, small department stores, game halls, and cinemas, which are more complete than Lu Yong’s hometown facilities.
These stores are all opened by Chinese people from Africa. Their supply comes from the distribution center of the farm headquarters.
Lu Yong felt that consumption here is no different from that in China, the currency used is all RMB.
He passed by a big tree, turned his body sideways intentionally or unintentionally, and accelerated his pace and walked around.
He knew that there was a camera hidden in the thick shade of the tree. This was the place where he was lazy last year and climbed up to the tree to get the bird eggs. At that time, he didn't know what it was, and was shaking the camera around and trying to pull it off the tree. A motorcycle drove over on the road, and a few people were under the tree and aimed at him with guns.
Lu Yong was frightened at that time and almost pissed his pants on the spot.
Fortunately, the other party asked about the situation and thought that he had no malice and did not pursue the matter again. He also kindly told him that because the neighboring black people sometimes came to steal vegetables and harm the farmland, they installed these cameras and told him not to destroy them in the future.
Who are you lying to this?
On the land side of the Delta, all of them are partitioned by cement walls, and there is also barbed wire by the river. Who has nothing to do when you are full? Will you have such a lot of money to get a little bit of food?
Lu Yong was disbelief.
Later, the people in the same dormitory told him that the people with guns did not deceive him. Guinea-Bissau people were poor and one of the poorest places in Africa. They did not steal vegetables because Africa did not have the habit of eating vegetables. But sometimes they would run to steal corn, potatoes, and harvest wheat, especially when the rice was ripe. They would often swim in the river and run away after harvesting rice.
Lu Yong was skeptical about this, but from then on, he would involuntarily speed up his pace when he saw the big trees with cameras hiding.
The farmland he was responsible for was almost here. Lu Yong reminded himself that he must work hard.
To be honest, he is a little adapted to this place now. There are Chinese people everywhere, and everyone says the same thing, and the food and land use is no different from that in China. As long as he is willing to work, his salary is also very high. Many times, he doesn't want to go back to the countryside. Lu Yong was exploring whether to wait a few more years and simply bring his country's wife here.
Unlike Lu Yong, who is looking forward to the future, Yang Kewei Temple and Zheng Fei are worried about the difficulties faced by the base.
After years of construction, Nong Yang's appearance has been completely renewed.
There are more than 4,000 farmers and workers in farming and livestock farms, and there are also more than 5,000 people who open shops on the farms. There are two thousand scientists from Central, Soviet and Eastern Europe, more than 1,000 workers, nearly 2,000 staff, 800 armed personnel, and together with their families, the entire base has a total of more than 21,000 people. In terms of calculation, it is also quite large.
The base is a closed small society, where everyone eats, wears, lives and entertainment are all here.
The boss Xiao Qiang regularly uses a steamship to send supplies to the base. Now, grain, poultry, eggs, meat, and milk can be self-sufficient. The supply is changed to sending some domestic daily necessities, as well as steel plate profiles and other military materials required for military industry.
Entertainment is not a problem either.
There are no shortage of movies, cafes, teahouses, baths, gyms, underground shooting ranges, and game rooms. The satellites on the head also allow the base to be connected to the Universal Network. Even the latest movies can be seen at the first time, and they will not feel disconnected from the world.
The base has developed to this day. As its supervisor, Yang Kexiongqi is absolutely satisfied.
But the problem is that if you don’t know what’s going on, then the people who are close to tribes are very dissatisfied with hearing that the prices here are cheap, but they are selling them rice and other crops to them or selling them at the market price. They threatened that if the farm did not sell them at the same price and allowed them to go to the farm to buy daily necessities, they would drive away the people here.
The staple food in West Africa is rice. Although Guinea-Bissau is heavily involved in agriculture, its productivity is very low. It also imports about 80,000 tons of rice every year to supply domestic demand.
Neither Yang Kevic nor Zheng Fei saw the local tribe's armed forces.
The underground arms production lines they are watching can produce light weapons including light and heavy machine guns, automatic rifles, bazooka, grenades and other light weapons.
If they could build an ammunition factory, they could do their own arms.
If the base dispatches all the local combat personnel, relying on their skillful fighting skills and excellent equipment, they can do it with real swords and guns. Maybe even the other party’s old nest can be copied for them.
But they can't!
This was originally a secret base, and once a large-scale armed conflict occurred, the true face of the base would be exposed.
There was nothing they could do. They could only send people to negotiate with the local tribes and explain to them that all the items on the farm were shipped from Zhongyuan. This pot was just to meet the needs of the farm, so it actually cost the cost and actually had to pay it back. All the money earned by the farm here was used to subsidize the shipping costs. Until now, it has just been achieved to balance income and expenditure.
In order to make the other party believe, the negotiators also presented the purchase form. From this, it can be seen that the daily necessities on the farm are indeed losing money.
The tribes only need to calculate the prices of agricultural products sold on the farm. They can also conclude that the farm basically did not make money in Guinea-Bissau.
But knowing that is one thing, and whether to accept it or not is another thing.
When they understand the farm, they will make profits from them and subsidize the farm's internal employees. The tribal members not only did not calm down, but became even more angry.
They said indignantly that they were poor enough and that the farm was still exploiting them, which was really unacceptable.
Although the grain importers who are talented will not charge them a penny less because of Africa's poverty, they are not here after all, and they can only curse the unscrupulous merchants in their hearts.
The farm is built under their noses. Once the difference in life between the two is too strong.
Nearby tribes cannot accept this result calmly.
They were still very energetic and asked the farm to either supply them with food at a low price or get out of here.
Yang Ketuiqi and the others naturally could not agree to their unreasonable request. Besides, even if they agreed, how could the boss accept this result? He paid for it in vain and gave those tribes a bargain?
They informed the municipal government of the matter and stated that the land was private land purchased by the farm and hoped that the local government would assist in the unblocking work. If the local tribes felt that selling rice to them was exploiting them, then the farm would go to other places to sell rice in the future.
The local government of Guinea-Bissau does not want the farm to close.
Domestic rice needs to be purchased from the local area, at least some of the needs are met. No one can buy rice at home and go far away to other places to buy grain.
However, the local government is also dissatisfied with the attitude of closure of the farm.
Since its establishment, the farm has been white and Chinese, and never hired farmers in the local area. The locals do nothing all day long, but they are watching the people on the farm have big fish and meat and live a rich life. How can they balance their mentality?
Yangkovic couldn't make any decision about the dissatisfaction expressed by the local government.
The base must not be allowed to enter the locals. There are too many secrets inside, so that locals can wander around at will. If you are not careful, it may cause even greater trouble.
But it does not meet the local requirements at all, and it is not appropriate.
After all, this place is Africa. There is no legal system. Even the staff in the local government are all from various local tribes. Their interests and demands are consistent.
Yangkovic thought of a solution. It was to build another farm outside, an open farm cut from the delta. All the farm was handed over to the locals to cultivate, and the farm sent people to provide them with technical guidance on agricultural production.
As for whether the locals can endure hardships and take care of farm work carefully like the people in Zhongyuan, let them do it themselves.
Anyway, all the harvests in the outer farms are sold to the locals at a fair price. They themselves are unwilling to take care of themselves. Then no one else can blame others. Can't they have to support them on the farm?
After discussing the fastest update of wap, 16k, cn), Yangkovic contacted Xiao Qiang through the Internet.
Xiao Qiang and they were tens of thousands of miles away. They listened to Yangkovic's report using online conference software. He didn't care about Yangkovic's suggestions. In places like Africa, land prices are very cheap. You can buy land worth more than ten kilometers or dozens of kilometers in a radius, but it won't cost much.
He agreed to Yangkovic's opinion, but asked Yangkovic to bargain with the other party and not agree to their request so quickly, so as not to be tempted by them. He treated the farm's concession as weak and could be bullied. He instructed not to give in step by step. If the other party makes a too unreasonable request, he firmly refused. If they dare to make a tough decision, beat me with a stick. Let them know that the farm is not a soft persimmon that can be pinched by others!
Xiao Qiang ended the online meeting with Yangkovic and his friends, but he still felt uneasy.
Africa is an important part of his plan, and he will never give up on it in a very important role.
After several years of construction, it has reached its current scale. It is obvious that it is on track, so how can it allow situations that threaten the existence of the base to occur?
But Guinea-Bissau is too far away. Even though he is anxious, he is powerless. This time, no matter how many tricks he is, he is still out of reach. He can only control it remotely at home, and it is even more impossible to openly let the base challenge a country - even if it is a poor small African country.
Every day he listens to Yangkovic's report. He only has a rough understanding of domestic research. All his energy is devoted to the attention of the base.
He also came up with many ideas, including using force.
However, no idea is realistic and can be truly implemented.
Yangkovic is slapping and fighting with the other party every day. Seeing that the other party slowly loses patience, he is about to speak out his own conditions. At this time, an emergency changed his mind.
The base is located close to the border between Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. The base is not far north, and it is the southern territory of Senegal.
And this area is also a place of constant conflict.
In the southern part of Senegal, the local rebels and government forces have been fighting against each other for many years. The war has been ongoing.
Just as Yankovic was negotiating with the surrounding tribes, a small group of Senegal rebels crossed the border into Guinea-Bissau territory.
They were rebels, and they had any discipline. When they passed by nearby villages, they would inevitably do some stealing activities, clashed with locals, and exchanged fire immediately.
Once the battle was fought, Senegal's version of the chaos shared the war finally had experience, and the local village did not have enough resistance. Soon, a few armed personnel in one part of the village were beaten to death, and the rest quickly fled into the forest to escape the disaster.
The armed personnel in the village avoided it, but the village cannot.
The Senegalese rebels were injured and injured in the firefight. In a rage, they snatched all the valuable things in the village and burned the village with a torch before leaving.
The tribal leaders were still bargaining with Yankovic, and when they heard that the villages in the territory were burned by rebels from neighboring countries, they were immediately furious.
They quickly left the venue, and after discussion, they also understood their strength. They were incomparable to each other.
But our own blood cannot be in vain!
They asked the rebels opposite to ask the other party for an explanation.
The other party gave them an explanation. The person who went to negotiate was found hanging on a tree on the border the next day, and his body was cold. He had already been a corpse.
The land area of Senegal is several times larger than that of Guinea-Bissau.
Those rebels believed that they could deal with government forces for many years. How could they be scared by some small tribes on the border of Guinea-Bissau?
Their cruel methods also angered the tribe leaders. In just a few words, they decided to
The countermeasures to be taken: revenge! Blood debts must be paid with blood!
The borders of Africa have never been unclear. The north is densely forested and there is no army to guard it. It is as easy to enter and exit the border as if it is visiting each other. Soon, the tribe found out where the other party was staying.
They immediately sent tribal warriors to sneak attack the other party's camping village and hunt the other party's heads.
Unexpectedly, the Senegalese rebels were not sure whether they were in danger or some military knowledge, and arranged secret sentries in the hidden places in the village. Before the tribal warriors approached, they were discovered by secret sentries.
Gunshots sounded, and tribal soldiers rushed into the village while the chaos was in chaos. The tribal soldiers were unable to tell which were rebels and which were killed by the villagers.
The leader of the Senegalese rebels panicked for a while and gradually calmed down. He found that the number of tribal soldiers was not large, so he immediately launched a counterattack. Some of the rebels held guns, and some held machetes and rushed towards the tribal soldiers who came to steal Gong. Not long after, they beat the tribal soldiers who had revenge.
The Guinea-Bissau tribe failed to take revenge and was hit hard, which was a handful of rice that could not be taken.
The tribal leaders calmed down and realized in frustration that the other party could deal with the Senegalese government forces for many years, which was indeed not something that they and the indigenous armed forces could deal with.
But they wanted to ask for peace, but the other party refused.
The villages in Guinea-Bissau were looted by the other side one after another, and tribal villages moved from the border to hide from this place of failure. As a result, the farms that were watching the show were exposed to the forefront.
The rebels on the other side also heard about the wealth of the farm, and they were happy to see this. They thought they could make a fortune. They did not care which country the industry was, and they would still be able to grab it.
Facts have proved that the trained soldiers are far more than the miscellaneous troops in Africa that are inseparable from the soldiers and bandits.
The individual weapons in the hands of the soldiers at the base can only escape when facing aircraft and tanks, but are used to attack this group of rebels in neighboring countries, mainly machetes. It is like cutting all the vegetables.
The sniper rifle knocked down the rebels one by one from afar. There were numerous monitors, leaving the rebels hiding in the woods without any escape. Faced with the firepower nets of light and heavy weapons, the rebels left more than ten corpses and fled in a panic.
This time the firefight was only a few minutes, but everyone was clearly aware of the strength of the farm.
Guinea-Bissau is just a small country. At that time, the tribal leaders were only indignant and took revenge measures. They were frightened by the other party's bloody means, and saw that the farm was so powerful, so they came to the door and asked for an apology for the unreasonable request.
At the same time, they also hope that the farm will provide them with some weapons and help them train a group of soldiers to protect the safety of the tribe.
Xiao Qiang did not expect a farce to end in this form, which was ridiculous.
Chapter completed!