After receiving Song Peiji's report, Liu Qingyu asked our agents in Niger to go to the French garrison in Niger to inquire about the news.

This incident must have been a deliberate provocation by the French special forces stationed in Niger.

Before Su Yue and Liu Qingyu arrived in Taman Lassett City, they had already talked with the special envoy sent by Huaxia to the Algerian Embassy, and the special envoy told them in detail about the impact of our country's uranium mining in Algeria on the French Areva Energy Company, and Su Yue and Liu Qingyu already knew that the French had long been eager to squeeze us out of North Africa.

France has always regarded Africa as its backyard and has been cunning in Africa for many years, while North Africa, as a former French colony, although it achieved independence in the fifties and sixties, is still a region where the French can influence the political situation.

Niger has the world's fifth-largest uranium reserves, and for many years, France's Areva Energy has monopolized uranium mining in Niger at extremely low prices.

Niger has always been one of the poorest countries in the world, but the Nigerien government has never benefited from this resource.

The country's poverty and the lack of wisdom of the people have led to the fact that most people in Niger know very little about what is going on outside, so they are not very dissatisfied with the situation of being poor while standing in the mines.

France's Areva Energy Company has been operating in Niger for more than 50 years, and with its own strength to influence the selection of the head of the Nigerien government, the uranium mine mined by Areva in Niger does not even need to pay export taxes.

But things don't last forever, everything is constantly changing, and since 2006, our mining company has set up mines in Algeria, and our uranium mine is just over 100 kilometers away from the French company's uranium mine in Niger.

When the indigenous people of the Tuareg tribe on the Niger side knew about the price of uranium ore and the benefits brought to the indigenous people, the long-standing resentment of the Nigerien government in selling the country's resources at a low price boiled instantly!

The indigenous people felt that they had been fooled and hurt by the government's authorities, and the Tuaregs were already fierce and warlike, and when they learned that the government was so corrupt and incompetent, harming their interests, the tribal leaders immediately called the indigenous people and formed a rebel force to protest against the government's "dog licking" behavior of cheating the people!

Their "uprising" attracted the participation of many northern tribes in Nigeria, and for a time, the northern tribes united and forced the government to revise the mining law to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the indigenous people!

Although the rebel was eventually suppressed by the government, and several rebel leaders were imprisoned at the time, the incident forced the government to amend some provisions of the mining law, which allocates 15% of the annual income of uranium mines to the indigenous people of uranium mining areas, but the pricing mechanism of uranium mines is still secret.

And this armed uprising has also brought more Tuareg elites into the state's power system, and these people will not let the government seal it again, now that they have lifted the lid on the government.

These men rallied the majority of Niger's elite to resist and crusade against the traitorous pursuit of glory by those in power, and finally forced the government to amend the constitution in 2010, which explicitly stipulates that the government must openly buy and sell mineral resources and publicize its contracts with mining companies.

This series of events also forced the French company Areva Energy to adjust its strategy towards Niger, make a series of concessions, and begin to renegotiate the price of minerals with the Nigerien government.

In such a situation, China's national civil nuclear energy company seized the opportunity to sign a contract with the Nigerien government for the mining of a newly discovered uranium mine, and the ore price was slightly higher than the contract we signed with the Algerian government, because the mining of this mine is relatively easier than that of the Algerian government.

And with our price as a comparison, it is impossible for the French company Areva to try to win the mining contract at a low price, and not only that, but the huge benefits they have obtained through ultra-low prices in the past few decades may have to spit out some.

The French could not sit still, and they had a deep grudge against the mining and nuclear companies in China, and they wanted to drive our companies out of North Africa at once.

The trigger for this incident was that Haranbo, the former rebel leader of the Tuareg tribe who had been imprisoned, was released by the Nigerien government in October last year after spending seven years in prison after being repeatedly appealed by the Tuaregs.

In view of the great hostility of this man towards the French, he was assassinated several times by French agents as soon as he came out, and he was also a character who even thought of escaping to Algeria, and recently someone told the French that Harambo was hiding in the mining area of China, posing as a mining worker.

This is nonsense, or perhaps, this is a rumor created by the French themselves, since they have found a legitimate reason for themselves, and have a history of being bullied many times in the past when Chinese enterprises have not dared to speak up, the French took advantage of the collective outing of our workers to send special forces to loot our people and ore.

Su Yue and Liu Qingyu couldn't sleep all night, and when they learned that it was the French who were picking quarrels and provoking trouble, of course we had to fight back, but they had to consider the difference in strength between the two sides.

The French have always been known as the African gendarmes, for many years, they are one of the hegemons on this land of Africa, they have a large number of troops in Africa, in recent years, because of the huge military expenditure and the strong protest of the garrison countries, the number of French troops in Africa has decreased, but their number of troops on the surface is still about 9,000.

In addition to the regular government garrison, the French also lead nearly 10,000 European mercenaries on African soil, and in the event of an open conflict with the French garrison, these people will be recruited by the French government to become our enemy.

At present, the Oriental Eagle Security Company has only about 4,600 security employees in place, and there are quite a lot of military supplies and weapons and equipment, which have not been transported in time.

Su Yue and Liu Qingyu knew early on that they wanted to gain a foothold here and become an armed force that was feared by all forces, and sooner or later they would have to compete head-on with the French garrison, but now is not the right time.

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