Chapter 369 [What Mine?]

"What mine?"

Chen Xiaolian suddenly stepped on the brakes, and the car stopped on the side of the road.

Lin Leyan's exclamation came from the back of the car, Chen Xiaolian opened the window between the cab and the back compartment, and said in a low voice: "Nothing went wrong, it's just that there is something I need to figure out first, stop here." ”

Lin Leyan's face appeared from behind the window and breathed a sigh of relief: "Then, I'll let everyone get out of the car and take a rest?"

This smart Lin Xiaoniu probably realized that Chen Xiaolian might have something to talk to Una alone.

"No, I don't. Chen Xiaolian thought for a while: "You guys are in the car, let's get out of the car." ”

Una naturally didn't have any capital to resist in Chen Xiaolian's hands, so she was taken out of the car by Chen Xiaolian and walked to the bushes on the side of the road.

The woman's face was visibly a little panicked, and she looked around...... This kind of African night outside, just kill a handful of people, and you don't even have to bury the corpse, naturally some wild beasts will come when they smell blood.

"Don't, don't kill me......" Una screamed as she almost broke down.

Chen Xiaolian looked at it and frowned: "I didn't plan to kill you here, so you put away your screams." ”

Una bit her lip hard.

"Now that you have a chance to speak, you'd better use the most straightforward, honest, and simple description to tell me about the 'mine' you said. If you try to disguise or hide anything, then I promise you're going to die, right away. ”

Chen Xiaolian said, looking at his watch: "You have ten minutes." ”

Una's body shuddered.

She could see that Chen Xiaolian was not joking this time.

He's serious.

......

Zeid came to power in Kambiya through a coup d'état, most of the time before he came to power, and for most of the years after he came to power. Kambia is a small, impoverished African country.

There are no mineral resources, there is a lack of population, there is a lack of sufficient land depth...... It can be said that by any condition, Kambia is a typical small country.

The only thing that can be developed may be to use geography to do some trade articles. Or to carry out agriculture, animal husbandry, etc......

But for warlords like Zeid, there is clearly no interest in agriculture or animal husbandry. The investment is large, the cycle is long, and the benefits are not much.

What's more, there are various tribes large and small in Kambiya, and the relationship between them is also complicated.

The most important thing is that the big Western countries have no interest in coming all the way to invest in agriculture or animal husbandry in such places.

Zeyd has always pinned his hopes on minerals.

Other Central African countries around it have minerals, and they all rely on minerals to drive their economies. At least the head of state can take advantage of the opportunity to make a lot of money, and Zeid naturally has this idea.

In the first few years of his ascension, Zeid had a hot fight with several Western countries.

To put it bluntly, he just wants to sell the country, find minerals at home, and then sell the benefits to foreign forces, as long as he earns benefits.

However, after the arduous survey. The fact that Zeid is very helpless is that he can't sell his country if he wants to.

There is no way to sell the country!

Several Western mining groups have come to survey. No veins worth mining have been found in the territory of Kambia. Copper, iron, gold, rare metals, non-ferrous metals, nothing was found.

It's as if Kambia is a place abandoned by God.

The Creator did not leave anything of value to the land.

Zayd, which has lost its use value, will naturally no longer be taken seriously by those mining groups.

The downside is. He didn't have a way to make a lot of money for himself.

The good thing is that he can't get into the sight of Western countries, even if he is a dictator and a tyrant here, and he is angry. Nor will any international powers bother him.

Let's put it this way, the United States killed Saddam Hussein for oil, and if there is no oil, no matter how dictatorial and brutal Saddam Hussein is, the United States will not go to Iraq to claim justice.

That's the case with Zeyd, who is so comfortable being a dictator in a poor country that at least no one will come to justice.

But this situation was broken about four years ago.

According to Una, about four years ago, a group of people came to Kambia.

The group of wealthy people, after finding Zeid, expressed their intention to explore for mineral resources in Kambia.

Zeid has long been numb to this kind of thing, and several major Western powers have come to comb through the national geography of Kambia like a comb, but nothing has been found.

Zeid has no intention of refusing this kind of wronged person who is sent to the door, anyway, if you want to survey, you can just give money.

The two sides signed a non-disclosure agreement in which the other paid Zaid millions of dollars and stated that the other party would have the right to mine the minerals for 50 years if found. And Zayed could get a share of the mineral revenue, which was promised at the time to pay 10 million US dollars a year.

Zeid didn't care how the terms were signed, he cared about the millions of dollars in deposits he got - in his opinion, the other party was a big wrongdoer.

Unexpectedly, this unjust boss actually succeeded!

It worked?!

......

"Now that I think about it, that was a very strange thing. ”

Una's tone was complicated: "At that time, the surveyors were all sent by the other party, the survey team was very simple, and they didn't even carry much equipment, and I was also in the survey team at the time, and I was just accompanying and monitoring as my father's representative - just ensure my father's interests." And most importantly, this is actually a beauty difference, and my father just asked me to follow along to see it, maybe I can get some more benefits from the hands of these wronged people. ”

Chen Xiaolian didn't speak.

Una continued: "Those surveyors, it doesn't seem to me to be surveyors at all, they don't look like people who work in the field all year round, they look ...... It's more like having the temperament of a professional soldier. This is nothing, because the Western mining groups we have contacted over the years have a government background behind them, and the guards of those mining groups are basically professional mercenaries, or even the country's army. But. Things are still strange. ”

Speaking of this, Una paused, carefully understood, carefully considered her words, and said slowly: "They ...... It's not like looking for mines, it's looking for the right terrain. ”

"Hmm, what does that mean?" asked Chen Xiaolian.

Una thought for a moment. Said slowly: "Prospecting is a very professional job, which requires professional people and professional survey equipment, and then according to the special geographical environment, and then screens them one by one, and finally there may be mineral areas for exploration...... But these people, it seems, are very strange. How so...... They gave me the impression that it was very casual. ”

"Random?"

"Yes, they feel like a tourist. He wandered around with his team of Kemubia, looking at the mountains, the rivers, and the geography, but rarely stopped to survey.

And the strangest thing is that, in the end, we came to the bottom of a mountain, not far from the southern border. These people looked at the mountain, and then they pointed. Say: This is it. ”

Una said as she recalled, "I feel ...... It was as if they were completely satisfied with the topography of the mountain. ”

Chen Xiaolian's eyes lit up: "What is the result?

Una smiled wryly: "I also think these people are just messing around, however, we soon did find a vein in the mountains. This fact stunned my people. ”

She lowered her voice: "Actually, this mountain, we have surveyed it ourselves before, there is nothing there. Both mining groups in the West have surveyed there and found nothing.

But these guys just found the vein there. ”

Chen Xiaolian nodded: "Go on." ”

......

The rest is simpler.

Zeid is an old rascal.

When he learned that he had found the ore vein, and that he had found it in his own territory, his first reaction was to tear up the agreement!

If the other side is a mining conglomerate of some Western power. Zeid certainly didn't have the guts to do that.

But the other party didn't look like he was very powerful, and Zeid had a bad idea.

In his opinion, everything is his own in this land under his feet.

That non-disclosure agreement, with an annual income of only 10 million, was too small to satisfy Zeid's appetite.

He believes that with this vein, he can take it out himself and negotiate with other countries in the Western world, and he may be able to get more and better conditions.

Fortunately, he didn't do it immediately, but tested the partner first.

Immediately after the team returned to Kabuka, Zeid sent troops to surround the hotel where the team was staying, placing the men under house arrest.

He decided to force the other party to comply, and if the other party could agree with his big appetite, then he could continue to cooperate, and if the other party did not agree, then ...... Just kill someone, and then find cooperation with other Western countries.

Zeid wouldn't have any mental barriers to doing so anyway.

The survey team did not resist, and even those members who looked very military and professional did not resist, and they were very calm in the hotel to eat and drink.

The next night, Zeid was terrified!

Someone gave him a gift.

This gift is a human head.

The head of the Minister of Mining of the State of Kambia.

It was cut straight off and bloodily stuffed into Zaid's bed!

Mr. President didn't wake up until the morning to find that he had one more thing in his bed.

Of course, he was scared on the spot.

Zeyd is furious!

He executed several of his guards on the same day, and replaced the captain of his own guard. A thorough investigation was ordered by the Presidential Palace, and the security level was raised to the highest level.

He sent someone to meet the people of the survey team in the hotel, and put forward conditions to the other party, but he did not ask for much, only asked to increase the annual income ratio of 10 million yuan to 30 million yuan per year.

The other party smiled at the time and said to think about it.

Then that same evening, Zeid received a gift again.

In the morning, it was discovered that all 20 guards guarding the Zayed Gate had been beheaded!

Heads piled up.

And Mr. President, on the other hand, fell asleep in the room, and his subordinates woke up with cold water!

Zeid was terrified!

This time he did not execute his own guards in a rage, but sat alone in the room for a morning without speaking.

In the face of such a ferocious opponent, the old hooligans of this region reacted directly.

He knelt.

That night, Zaid himself went to the hotel to meet the leader of the survey team, and happily signed the redrawn agreement, which he had already torn up.

The other party only put forward two conditions: first, confidentiality. If any news about this mineral leaks out outside, then Zeid will die. They even gave a list of all the people in Kambiya who already knew about the exploration of the vein, including the guides in the procession, including government officials, and some family members.

After Zeid returned. The first thing is to shoot all the relevant insiders!

The only person left behind was Una.

The other party accepted that Una could enter the mining area as a representative of Zeid's interests and conduct an audit of the accounts. Otherwise, no one is to enter the area again.

The second condition of the other side was to stabilize the political situation in Kambia and not affect the mining of their mining areas.

Zeid was troubled by the request.

Although he was president, he did not actually control the whole of Kambia, and some tribes had been rebelling against his rule, and there were always battles between large and small battles.

The other party said: You can't do it, we will help you.

It only took three days. In the vicinity of the mines, two relatively large tribes that had been at odds with Zayed were uprooted! A fire burned down nothing!

If before Zeid was just fear, this time, he is completely surrendered.

The other party told him: Actually, we can kill you and replace you with an obedient president, but I think that is too troublesome.

So, so far, in the country of Kambia. Only Zeid and a handful of high-level officials were aware of the existence of such a mine, beyond that. Nobody knows.

The surrounding tribes were cleared of that mountain.

And the Zaid army never approached that area.

The only one who knows the most is Una.

Una is an alternative among all of Zaid's children, she has studied abroad since she was a child, received a Western education, and is considered an alternative elite among Zaid's children.

Zeid gave his personal property to Una to take care of.

And Una. I only visit the mine four times a year as a quarterly check on the distribution of income from the mine.

She didn't even have access to the real mining area, she could only look around the perimeter.

According to Una, they didn't even hire miners in Kambia - all of them were probably brought by themselves.

And then more mysteries emerged.

There must always be a place to process and refine the mined ore, right?

There are no processing plants in the area.

If not processed. So all this ore has to be shipped out, right?

But in the past four years, I haven't seen any convoys of transportation from the other side in and out.

The place was almost hidden in the mountains, and no one knew about it, and the officials in Kambia did not see any convoys coming or leaving.

It's as if these guys just enclosed a piece of land in the mountains, and no one was allowed to enter or leave, and then ...... I don't know anything.

Una even said that she had been there a few times, and it didn't feel like a mining area, and she didn't see any ore or any explosives needed to open the mine.

She hadn't even seen anyone who looked like miners.

Every time she meets her, she is dressed cleanly, in a suit and leather shoes.

......

"So, what kind of mine is this mine?coal?iron?copper?gold?diamond?You always know this, right?" Chen Xiaolian frowned.

Una opened her mouth: "I...... I do not know. ”

Chen Xiaolian was stunned.

Una hesitated for a moment and whispered, "It's gold on paper. My father once tried to ask for a batch of gold, and the other party agreed, and then I took someone to the mining area, and the other party really gave us a batch of gold. But...... I really haven't looked at it in the mines. No one is allowed to enter the entire mine. Anyway, I've always wondered what kind of mine is hidden in that place, because none of us have ever actually seen it. ”

...... (To be continued.) )