Close to the Great Salt Lake, the land is relatively barren, originally a relatively poor land in Botswana except for the southwestern region, which can be said to be useless except for wildlife and barren arable land!

However, "Xingchen International" found diamonds in the land it bought, and it was still a huge diamond mine: it was divided into two parts, a total of three diamond rock pipe groups. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Because of the agreement signed with the tribe that controls it, if the mine is found and mined, the tribe will receive a proportional profit, but the tribe will also have to pay their part.

"Star International" will only take out up to half of the benefits, and how to distribute the interests between the tribes and the Botswana country is up to the tribes to figure out their own ways.

There is no need to worry about the tribes not making contributions, because "Star International" can also negotiate with the government; as for the Botswana government and the tribes together, plus De Beers squeezing out "Star International"?

It's not that Zhang Nan looks down on Botswana, it's a southern African country with a population of 1.34 million, and there are eight ethnic groups with similar populations, and more than half of the population is still a semi-primitive society.

It's a big deal to let his government fall, and it doesn't matter if you fight a civil war, you want to swallow your own interests?

We don't dare to provoke a big country, a country with a GDP of only ten or two billion dollars a year, relying on diamonds, and the vast majority of people still live in an almost primitive state, if you provoke it, it is not a big deal.

Behind this Zhang Nan is the interests of the United States, and De Beers is not the son of the American government.

, I have to say that Lao Mei is domineering!

The plane landed at the newly built airstrip, and within three days little Lily saw giraffes and lions as she wished, because there were near the mine.

This is a wasteland, and a simple gravel road opened more than ten years ago passes through the middle of the three mines, and the farthest one is only a dozen kilometers away from the road.

The plain terrain is about 1,000 meters above sea level, so it is not super hot, but the land in the north direction is more saline.

Supplies had to be brought in from a small town more than 50 kilometers away, and fortunately, the engineering department had also pumped up drinking water from all three sites, all of which were found near seasonal creeks.

Some time ago, the engineering department drove small drilling rigs around several large settlements of the inner tribe a hundred kilometers nearby, helping to dig wells, and by the way, installing pumps and small generators to pump water if necessary.

The Chinese-style African strategy, those settlements are a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry, although many people go out to graze for a few months every year, but most of them still stay in the settlements.

The rainy season is easy to talk about, there is no shortage of water, but in the dry season it can not even drip in the months, and the drought can break out at any time.

Having a deep well that can bring drinking water to people and livestock during the dry season is the happiest thing for a semi-desert tribe.

Didn't say it, these "whites" from the United States are good brothers!

The Chinese people look white in the eyes of the little chiefs and villagers of the tribe, and the person who solves the biggest crisis in the dry season for them is their best friend.

The wisdom and good-neighborliness of the Chinese people quickly won the friendship of the big chiefs of the tribes, the small chiefs of the tribes, and the villagers.

As for being asked why they were helping them, the guys in the engineering department had a unified statement: our boss, Mr. Zhang Nan-Allen, asked him to do it.

In this way, on the third day of arrival at the mine, Zhang Nan was appointed "chieftain" by the chief of the tribe, or "Tuwang" as he was called in the language of the Chinese, and was given 500 acres of land that could be hereditary.

Zhang Nan was a little dizzy, why did he become an African chief in a daze?

And this is not of an honorary nature, but a real chieftain can participate in the tribal assembly and have the right to speak and vote!

In the presence of the other eleven chiefs of the tribe and Zhang Nan's bodyguards, representatives of "Star International" and "United Forces", Lily and her mother in princess clothes, Moshari, the nearly fifty-year-old earth king, conducted a "coronation ceremony" for Zhang Nan.

It was ceremonious, wearing a hat decorated with various feathers and beast teeth, and was given a short wooden stick that was bare, but painted with simple totems.

The stick is inconspicuous, but it is indeed "power"! It represents the power of the Tswa chief, one of the eight major tribes of the entire Botswana!

"Dear Chief Zhang Nan-Allen, the scepter represents your majesty as the chief of our Tswa people!" said Moshari, the Earth King, pointing to the other 11 chiefs, each of whom also had a wooden stick representing power and majesty... Oh, it's the scepter.

However, it is not flashy at all, and the scepters in several hands are like sticks used to drive cattle, but there is one thing in common: they all have almost the same totem representing the status of the tribal chieftain.

"You can come to your own liking, I will heal several of them, as long as you have the totem of our tribe, you can have your own subjects, as long as you can let them live happily on the grassland, you can take the woman you like, as long as her parents are willing, you can afford the dowry, and you can support her, no matter how many ......"

The Tuwang said a lot about the power of the chiefs, and most of the people in Botswana seem to believe in the religion introduced from the West, but that is only the official version, the countryside and the grasslands have always been native primitive beliefs, the tribal system is still there, and the tribal chiefs and wealthy men often marry polygamous.

However, the vast majority of Botswana people are headed by women, which seems to have a relatively high status of women, but in fact it is also a symptom, although a few tribes still have the remnants of matriarchal society.

With the increase in productivity, the remnants of matrilineal clans are about to collapse in the most backward areas.

Mothari said a lot of power, and the last thing he talked about was that the chiefs of the Tswa tribe automatically obtained Botswana citizenship, and the tribe would go out of their way to get a passport for Chief Allen.

This is southern Africa, which still has a primitive African tribal system, and ordinary people don't have any ID cards, passports or anything at all, and there is no household registration system at all.

How do you count the population?

Said the tribal chief.

Those who have a passport are the privilege of those with power!

"Honorable King Mothari, thank you and the clan chiefs for ......"

Zhang Nan also made a long speech, which was nothing more than all kinds of thanks, and the speech after receiving the commendation was watched on TV in Huaxia.

The chiefs all knew a little English, and when Zhang Nan finished thanking him, the chiefs held the scepter to congratulate and play with hugs.

Fortunately, there is almost no AIDS in Botswana now, if it is another 278 years, Zhang Nan will not dare to be killed: the AIDS infection rate is the second in the world, 40%!

The fief given to the new chieftain by the Tuwang was a land with a small seasonal river that could grow sorghum and corn, and was relatively fertile here.

As for the pastures, they are tribal common land, and as long as they are not grazing predatory, they can be grazing as they please.

It is impossible for Zhang Nan to farm or herd, so he will not contradict any of the other chiefs.

However, Comrade Chief Zhang Nan, who will be fresh and hot, is still a poor egg, because for the time being, he doesn't even have a cow that represents wealth!