Needless to say, if Chen himself carves a one-meter-long tooth after resting alone, and uses the most delicate ideas and skills, it will take a whole year to complete. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The inheritance of ivory carving is promising, but its superior institutions don't want to take advantage of it.

Because Zhang Nan said: You don't need to give face to anyone.

Although this is an exaggeration, there will always be people who need to sell face, but such people are not the ones in the living room who can be moved and influenced.

The embassy is not a decoration, and it was quickly understood who Zhang Nan was, and the higher-level department simply told the secretary: It is okay to contact feelings, but it must not make people unhappy.

As for the reason, the superiors did not say.

No, it's more explicit than explaining the reason - it's not something that anyone of your level can know.

That's it, Zhang Nan will have another guest this time, and Zhang Nan didn't leave these people to eat.

This is not the right time and is not necessary.

When the others left, Guan Xingquan said: "Why don't they go to Zimbabwe to try their luck, the family relationship should be good with that side." ”

"There's a single target, you can't eat it. The news that has been made public all over the world is not easy for Zimbabweans to change, at most they can find a way from the inventory. ”

As for how to figure out a way, it doesn't matter what Zhang Nan does.

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Tato arrived with the Tswa man named Morale, who had accompanied him, and had already changed his uniform and were wearing plain shirts.

Zhang Nan expressed his gratitude for the auction ivory before, and gave each of them a case of acceptable French wine, plus two bottles of Moutai per person.

Africans love to drink, and Zhang Nan has seen it in Botswana.

Before leaving the mine, I listened to the debriefing, and this time I started to deal with the locals, one hand mineral water, the other hand spirits absolutely right!

At dinner, in front of the chief, the two Tato did not dare to let go of their drink, and it would be rude to drink high. After the meal, the honorable chief thanked him again and again for the wine, and the two half-drunk "own people" drove away in a pickup truck with police lights.

"Don't drink and drive, don't drink while driving, don't roll over these two guys halfway. ”

When the people left, Zhang Nan looked at the gate and said.

Guan Xingquan, who drank half a bottle of Moutai on the side, was a little puzzled, "What logic, I think the probability of them hitting the bull is relatively high." ”

Drinking and not driving?

Is it not the United States here.

"Haha! Nine times out of ten, it's going to be bulls, then they're miserable!"

Zhang Nan laughed: There are more cattle than people here, it is said that they are about 2.3 million heads in normal years, and 5 million heads can be raised in rainy years!

The kingdom of the cow.

Zhang Nan had heard the joke that a diplomat from the Chinese embassy in Botswana had come to visit the Attorney General, who was in a meeting at the presidential palace and was going to be half an hour late.

The diplomat was waiting in her office, and the secretary brought him a newspaper to pass the time, and the diplomat took the initiative to chat with the secretary: "The newspaper says that Gaborone's milk is in short supply and the price is rising. ”

The secretary chimed in: "Yes, it's gone up by almost a half." ”

The diplomat asked: "I don't understand, Botswana has more cattle than people, how can there be a shortage of milk?"

The attorney general's secretary asked rhetorically, "No matter how many men there are, can they give birth and breastfeed?"

There really seem to be more bulls, and Zhang Nan said "miserable" because cattle are precious here, and it is said that hitting a cow in a traffic accident is more troublesome than hitting a person.

As for drunk driving......

Now China doesn't pay attention to this, let alone Botswana, there is no such thing at all.

Hearing Zhang Nan's ridicule, Guan Xingquan said coolly on the side: "It's miserable, that Tato is also holding a wooden stick." ”

Well, a cattle driving stick.

Ordinary police officers have "wooden sticks", not to mention Tato's police chief, the Wildlife Service security officer who is the equivalent of a police officer in Botswana, Zhang Nan guesses that it is similar to the forest police in China.

Botswana's law stipulates that public servants can also buy land and buy property near the city.

Why buy land?

Raise cattle!

About 80 per cent of Botswana's population is directly or indirectly engaged in cattle farming, and Botswana has the highest number of cattle per capita in Africa.

It's also the number one in the world.

In Botswana, a person's wealth is directly proportional to the number of cattle raised, and the more cattle there are, the richer they are, and the higher their social status.

They also had cattle, and the people liked to "store" their wealth in the form of cattle - when they had money, they often did not keep it in the bank, but saved it up to buy cattle.

What should I do if I am short of money?

It's simple, just sell a few cows.

From the tribal chieftains, high-ranking military and political officials, to the common people, the few have a few or a dozen cattle, and the most have hundreds or even thousands of cattle.

It is not surprising in Botswana that the owners of the merchant houses, the big business owners and those high-ranking officials own thousands of head of cattle, with more than 300 head of cattle in Tato alone, and even more than 100 head of cattle raised by the clerk Morale.

Most people who live in cities have farms in their hometowns or near their places of work, and they usually work in the cities, and their relatives or hired people take care of the cattle on the farms.

On weekends and holidays, people like Tato drive to the farm and enjoy the idyllic life. When they return to the city, they often bring back a cart full of agricultural products, which they produce and sell themselves, and they are self-sufficient.

There is usually a lot of undeveloped land around the rural-urban interface, overgrown with weeds and shrubs, and cattle breeders simply graze their cattle according to local conditions.

Even in the city, herds of cattle can sometimes be seen hovering in the middle of the road - just near the Regent Hotel, who makes this a suburb.

This cow is still free-range, and I am used to seeing it too much, as long as I don't smell the smell.

The next day, Brown handled the shipping of the ivory and rhino horn, and on the third day, he flew to Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.

A European-style modern city with a beautiful environment, but who would have thought that in 2011 it would be voted the most unlivable city in the world.

As for the reason, it is the Zimbabwean government that has played itself to death. Inflation is staggering, and currencies are depreciated to the point where they can only be calculated using aggregate numbers.

This time, I didn't even leave the airport, but changed to two small passenger planes and went to Umtali, 300 kilometers to the east, next to the Mozambican border.

The land Zhang Nan bought in Zimbabwe is a large area of pristine landform with a length of 12 kilometers and a width of 4 kilometers, more than 10 kilometers southwest of Umtali.

A few kilometres to the north is Zimbabwe's railway to Mozambique, and there were only a few crops on the surface.

When Zhang Nan stood on this land of his own, he could not even imagine that this agricultural area, less than 15 kilometers from a city of 70,000 people, was a huge alluvial diamond mining area.

It is less than 20 kilometers away from the border, and the surrounding scenery can be counted as beautiful, with mountains in the east and Mozambique in the past.

Standing on the side of the newly built highway and looking at this mine, which will reach a quarter of the world's diamond production value under the chaotic mining operation, I feel a little emotional.

Now everything here is its own, the legal documents are clearly written, but that piece of paper is often unreliable.

"Brother Guan, there may be hundreds of billions of dollars of diamonds here, do you think if you were the government of Zimbabwe, would you go crazy?"

"If you give half of the benefits to the Botswanes, they may regret it, and if you don't give Zimbabwe a dime here, they will not be able to get along with you 800 percent. ”

"What then?"

"Simple, this is Africa, and the big fist is the boss. ”

Guan Xingquan was unimpressed.

"But this is not Botswana, there are 30,000 or 40,000 troops. ”

"There are quite a few oppositionists, so don't worry too much. Saying that, Guan Xingquan pointed to a building under construction in the other direction, and said, "If you have them, then this place will always be yours." ”