In the Lunta region, except for cash crops such as oil palm and cocoa trees, which are easy to grow and manage with little input, few ordinary tribes have the ability to develop a well-developed irrigation system.

Even though water resources are not scarce in Lonta, food is more or less dependent on the weather.

The climate in Kanem as a whole is hot, the rain evaporates quickly, and the crop yield is much lower than that of China's intensively cultivated farmland.

This is a phenomenon that Cao Mo did not understand when he first came to Kanem.

In addition to the cultivation of cash crops, the production of other food crops in Kanem is even far from the level of the pre-liberation period and the era of small-scale peasant economy.

Of course, after a long time, Cao Mo can also figure it out.

In the days of traditional agriculture that could be mechanically irrigated, the weather in Kanem was so hot and the rain evaporated so quickly that the hard work of manual irrigation was disproportionate to the final harvest.

In the early years, the African continent was far less densely populated than it is today, and natural food sources were abundant and abundant, so it developed a tradition of relying on the weather for food.

After the world entered the industrial process, the African continent, especially the sub-Saharan countries, was still ruled by colonizers in the early years.

For the sake of economic profits, the colonizers sharpened their heads and used a large amount of suitable arable land with abundant water supply to develop the cultivation of cash crops; after the seventies and eighties, they got rid of colonial rule one after another, but fell into civil strife to varying degrees, so naturally there was no development.

After Kanem ended his colonial rule in the sixties of the last century, he ruled by a military junta for more than 30 years, and only six successful coups were launched, which was extremely chaotic.

Even though the political situation in Kanem at this time has generally stabilized, the civil unrest on the northeastern border has not completely subsided, and the law and order in other areas is also daunting.

The lifeblood of the domestic economy is controlled by European and American companies or the descendants of colonizers, and it is really difficult for Kanem society to talk about change.

The situation in the village of Ibogu was better, and it had to do with the fact that the old chief Felician had made some pushes after returning to the tribe, but it was also limited.

Ordinary villagers in Ibogu also grow drought-tolerant, hard-caring perennial cassava as their staple food along the banks of the Lujiao River.

Apart from cassava and some legumes, there are basically no other crops left in the village of Ibogu.

Most of the land is deserted, overgrown with weeds and shrubs, and no one in the tribe wants to develop or cultivate it.

As a result, almost a third of the women and children in Ibogu village are malnourished to varying degrees, while the situation in Ibogu village is relatively good in the entire Lunta area.

In Cao Mo's eyes, the abandoned land far away from the Lujiaochuan River is of great value for agricultural development, whether it is digging wells for water or buying machine irrigation equipment to dig channels.

Perhaps from an economic and operational point of view, Cao Mo invested in the construction of a farm of thousands of acres of land in Yibogu Village to engage in vegetable planting, and was able to successfully sell it, not to mention the great energy involved, and the income may be far less than that of concentrating and capital to engage in gold mining, but for more villagers in Yibogu Village, the meaning is different.

In addition to vegetables, more land can be reclaimed for the cultivation of staple foods such as rice and wheat in the future, which is of greater significance to the local desperately poor tribal villagers.

In the past, there was no capital in Yibogu Village, but now Cao Mo can use a part of the surplus of the gold mine to invest in irrigation equipment, wells and ditches, and pesticides and fertilizers in the later stage.

When the old chief Felician heard this, he was also quite moved.

After all, the gold mines only benefited from the fact that the tribes hired workers, but the new crops could spread and not only benefit Ibogu and nearby tribes.

Cao Mo was born in the city and had little contact with farmland, but he was still very interested in telling the old chief Felician about his impression of China's crop cultivation......

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Owema and Kabuja went to the Lunta police station to report the incident and returned at 12 o'clock at noon.

Of course, Owema passed with anger, like a firecracker that lit up at a point, but I don't know if Cao Mo's shooting had shocked the Lonta police station, or if the Lonta police station was completely unaware, thinking that there were really robbers who pretended to be police officers to enter the mine and rob and were driven away.

The Lunta Police Department did not immediately send someone to follow Owema to investigate, nor did anyone pursue the details of Cao Mo's robbery and shooting in Kanem as a foreigner.

This is not necessarily a lack of heart, the efficiency of the local police is so unexpected.

No one thinks this is the end of it, but they can only pretend that it is over.

Regarding the vegetable farm, Cao Mo only asked Lucy to collect some resources in Draculamo first, and he didn't dare to leave the mine for the time being, so he rushed to Akash's farm to meet with the experts to discuss guidance and training.

If he was stopped by these four corrupt policemen in the middle of the road, who would he cry to?

Akashic farms do not have a mobile phone signal, and the experts are not provided with satellite phones, so they cannot be reached for the time being.

Cao Mo thought that he was so panicked and that he would have to survive for a while to see how the situation changed, but a few days later, he was called to the tribe by the old chief Felician and saw two Toyota cars parked in front of the chieftain's compound.

Lily, who was supposed to go to school in Catelo, the capital of Oyo State, ran out happily, hugged Cao Mo warmly, her small breasts were still squeezing on Cao Mo, and said, "Mr. Cao, you are so brave......"

Cao Mo walked into the big house where the chief received the guests on the street, and saw Felician sitting on the straw mat with two local men, drinking the new tea sent by Jiaying from China, using the kung fu tea set fired in the famous cellar of Jingdezhen - after Cao Mo gave this set of tea sets, the old chief couldn't put it down, and he would never take it out easily.

The two local men looked to be between thirty and forty years old - Cao Mo's judgment of the age of the locals was quite different, and the young one might not be thirty years old.

The two men were dressed in the traditional local robes, the materials of the robes were of the highest quality, and they sat with the old chief, energetic and extraordinary.

Looking at the four bodyguards with guns standing at the door, Cao Mo couldn't guess what they were all about for a while.

Of course, the older man sitting on the left side has a stronger literati temperament under the chocolate complexion, and his intuition also tells Cao Mo that this person is sitting next to the old chief, and he is somewhat restless and nervous in his heart.

Is he Lily's father?

Cao Mo heard from Owema and Portu that the old chief served in the fifth military government of Kanem and was a member of the officer corps at that time, while Lily's father, Ojosan, had already joined the patriotic construction front against the rule of the military government when he was a young student in Katero, and was a hot-blooded patriotic youth.

At that time, the relationship between father and son had always been strained, and even though it had been almost ten years since the old chief retired and returned to the tribe, Lily's father rarely returned to the tribe.

Even after the democratically elected government came to power, the old chief was targeted by local law enforcement, and Ojosan, a member of the ruling party's Patriotic Construction Front, was not seen to come forward.

Of course, this is more likely to be the old chief's stubborn temper, or he thinks that the Patriotic Construction Front is temporary, and does not want his son Ojosan to have endless troubles because he offends the local forces.

The locals generally got married earlier, and this person looked less than forty years old, and then saw Lily following into the house, sitting next to the middle-aged man affectionately, which confirmed Cao Mo's guess.

"This is Lily's father, this is Abacha Sika, the councillor of the Lunta district, and Lily's father's partner in the party......" Old Chief Felician asked Cao Mo to sit down and introduce him to two local men.

Cao Mo guessed that little Felician, as a senior member who joined the Patriotic Construction Front more than ten years ago, even if he was not directly engaged in politics, it was not that simple!

He hurriedly joined hands to give Lily's father, little Felician, and Abacha the local etiquette.

The Patriotic Construction Front is currently Kanem's ruling party and the party that holds the majority of seats in the Oyo State Assembly.

Kanem is a federal system consisting of 37 federal states, each of which is the size of the prefecture-level cities in the country, and the state legislature is elected, with the majority party of the state legislature serving as the governor at the local level.

Each federal state, on the other hand, is made up of a number of regions, which no longer have parliaments, but are composed of elected party representatives and the most powerful tribal chiefs (chiefs) in the region, who traditionally form municipal councils to decide on regional affairs.

Just like Abacha in front of him, with dark brown skin, it seems that he is also of mixed European and American blood, and he is obviously younger than Lily's father Ojosan, but as a city councilor in the Lunta area, he can be said to be a local real power figure.

Of course, several of the municipal councillors in the Lunta area were members of the Patriotic Construction Front, and Abacha was apparently here today at the behest of Lily's father, Ojosan Felician Jr.

"The day before yesterday, Ojosan told me on the phone about the disturbance of the Ibogu gold mine, and I went to the police station to inquire about the matter, and it was indeed four corrupt people in the police station who ran over to extort money without permission, and the police station has dealt with it internally and expelled these four people from the police force......

Abacha was straightforward about the handling of police trespasses into gold mines.

Of course, Cao Mo also knew very well that this was not because the local police department could enforce the law impartially, but because Lily's father, Felician Ojosan, Jr., asked Aba to find out the result of facing pressure from the regional police department, but he could deal with it to this point.

Cao Mo also hoped that the matter could be settled, so that people would not have this matter hanging in their hearts, and he did not think about bringing these corrupt policemen to justice.

In addition to his almost telepathic intuition, Cao Mo also judged from Abacha's words that he knew about the actual operation of the gold mine from Ojosan Felician Jr.

He came here with an intention.

Otherwise, it would be enough for Ojosan or the old chief Felician to come forward to thank him for his help to the Felician family this time, why do you have to meet him, and this grandson still puts on a gloomy appearance?

Of course, Cao Mo is no longer the kind of innocent teenager who can't rub a grain of sand in his eyes.

Abacha knew the true situation of the gold mine, and although it was seen from the outside that Abacha had helped the Felician family solve the big trouble, he still had to admit Abacha's affection.

Otherwise, if he really wants to encounter something in Longta in the future, he won't expect people to take care of it!

Of course, he also had to be wary of Abacha's appetite.

Keen intuition is not mind reading after all, Cao Mo is not very clear about what Abacha is trying at this time, and he doesn't know if directly giving a sum of money as a reward and filial piety can satisfy his appetite?