Thomas pulled out a map of the north-east of Angola with two boxes drawn on it.

"It's simple and crude, both of which are 20 kilometers long and wide, and Engineer Xie says that this is enough to completely cover the mining area. ”

The two regional centers are more than 20 kilometers apart, so about 10 kilometers of the two plots of land are actually connected.

Area A is located just north of Sorim, and the central area is about 35 kilometres from the city.

After Thomas finished speaking, Xie Jianliang continued: "There are primary mines in both places, and there is a super-large pit in Area A, at least the size of the Argyle Mine.

There are three pits in Area B, and due to the topography, there is also a large sedimentary secondary ore siltation 3 to 12 km from the east side of the two small pits.

All within the delineation range, reserves are likely to exceed Zone A, and diamonds of astonishing quality should exceed all known diamond pits. ”

Zhang Nan glanced at it a few times, the map was very new, but at a glance he could see that the paper was a little old, and he couldn't understand the words on it, it should be Portuguese.

I looked at the map and laughed.

In the corner of the map is the number "1965", which is supposed to be the time when the map was printed.

"On the map of 25 years ago, there was no one in this country......

Hearing the boss's words, Thomas spoke: "This is the map provided by the other party when negotiating with the Angolan government.

This is the latest version of the map that the whole of Angola can give, and they have not printed any maps from 65 years to the present.

The original of the signed agreement has been sent to the headquarters of Xingchen Group for filing, because as long as the eight boundary points are marked, the actual land area we rent is a little larger......"

This was originally a military map, or was printed by the Portuguese colonists, Thomas pointed to the location of the boundary point demarcating the area, and added: "Although the two places are not far from Sorim, they are both relatively barren areas, and they are the aftermath of the civil war.

There was no detailed land survey in the colony, there were no roads, and our people drove in cars and measured with odometers with the warlords.

Because of the uneven terrain, it was agreed during the negotiation that this mileage should be extended...... The actual side length is more than 22 kilometers.

Originally, there was only a small village on the southwest side of plot A, and it made a living by growing cassava, which was so poor that we didn't believe it.

Lot B is grazed, but there are very few people, and the land there is very poor, which is good news for us. ”

Motion sickness, the Angolans do business, they don't even have simple surveyors and equipment?

And what about artillery?

With an army of tens of thousands of people, there are always a few artillerymen, right?

"It's hard for me to imagine, how did their artillery fight?

Measure the land, find a few artillery observers and do it, these guys......

Lao Tzu is speechless!"

Xie Jianliang on the side said with a smile: "Boss, if you find more people, you will get more money, those black buddies are shrewd." ”

When Zhang Nan heard this, he thought of something, frowned and said, "Have you asked those villagers and grazing people to move places?"

There are secondary mines, and if they are discovered, it will not be a good thing until the war is completely subsided.

Even if you don't panic about those sub-warlords and send people to protect their own interests, the cost is not small, and you are not in the mood to help others to exterminate a certain force in Angola.

As soon as the cannon goes off, ten thousand taels of gold!

Get involved in those things, unless you get your head pumped!

However, it is not a big problem for those two mining areas to create more than 10 or 2 billion yuan of profits for themselves every year in the future, and the total value may be close to 100 billion US dollars.

Even if it takes thirty or forty years for this profit to be fully realized, I will not give it to others: if there is someone who is not long-sighted, it is not negotiable to kill him!

Is an army of tens of thousands of people powerful?

I don't know how much support the Soviets gave to Angola at the beginning, but on the side of the United States, a single million dollars of arms can affect the development of the war.

As for the intensity and attrition of the war, Zhang Nan can still afford to fight with 100 million mercenaries, and compared with it, Angola's own army is a rabble, a chicken, a dog!

As for excuses......

Protecting your own investment and the safety of your employees, even the United Nations has nothing to say!

Thomas replied, "I've moved, those warlords are planning to drive people out, and there are a lot of places to resettle anyway."

It's a bit like the American West 120 years ago, where you can make a home anywhere, and there are fewer Indians, and the local military won't harm the people in your own panic-controlled areas.

However, our people think that forced relocation is not good, and it is necessary to leave some impression of good luck on the locals.

The herding is a small half-farming and half-pastoralist tribe of about 80 people, and the village is even smaller, less than 40 people.

There are many places, and we give farmers one cow for each adult, and two children under 1.4 meters tall are subsidized for two people.

The grazing people are given food, 300 kilograms of corn flour per person, and if they are still in our territory ten days after receiving the supplies, or re-enter, they will live and die at their own risk!"

The words "forcible and demolition" immediately flashed in Zhang Nan's mind: a cow has to be moved, and 300 kilograms of corn flour have to give up the habitual grazing location......

Hehe, in Huaxia, it is estimated that there will be a big event!

But that was in black Africa, or in Angola, one of the poorest regions in the world, where the war had just eased.

When the village moves, the grazing can be carried in a different direction, and there is a place anyway.

“…… The sub-warlords also said that we gave too much, and it was merciful for a village to give three or five cows at will.

They were right, the villagers moved faster than rabbits, and they didn't need to tear down the shacks, so they harvested the cassava in the field and ran 10 kilometers to settle down again.

They also sold more than half of the cattle that we subsidized them, and in exchange for money and grain, they kept a few heads. ”

Ha......

American companies, people are stupid and have a lot of money, that's probably what the villagers think.

As for why the people in that small village sold the cattle, Zhang Nan thought that it probably had something to do with the habits left over during the war: cattle, when the fight started again, there would be no cattle to eat.

As for grazing ......

People can probably run away with oxen.

The most common daily food of Angolan villagers is cassava, which can be harvested in a year by breaking a fresh pole and sticking it into the ground, watering it a little, and at most planting some corn.

I have been to Africa and know that those cassava fields look like dwarf shrubs, and they are not at all the same as the cassava fields that are cultivated on a large scale in the southernmost part of China to refine industrial starch.

Huaxia planted cassava, which is neat and dense, while in black Africa, if you don't pay attention to the cassava field planted, you can't imagine that it will be a grain field.

Many varieties of cassava in these Africans belong to "unrestrained planting", and after the pole is inserted, it is all up to God to watch.

The cassava harvest on the original land is estimated to be enough for the villagers to eat for a few months, and it is possible to eat it for a year after it is dried. If the cattle are sold, there will be no shortage of crops.

"War leads to poverty, in fact, the climate there is said to be similar to our Spring City in Yunnan Province all year round, the altitude is more than 1,000, and the rainfall is 1,13400 mm......

It was Thomas who spoke," ...... If the civil war in Angola continues, I think it would be better not to develop that land for the time being, and wait until the situation calms down.

This will start the collapse of the Soviet Union, and whoever finally takes power, the Angolan government will not dare to tear up the agreement with us, as long as it establishes a small foothold there in advance, and sends people to rotate there every few months or six months.

There is no need for many people, a dozen or twenty is enough, and even some locals can be summoned to plant crops in a location far away from the future mining area, as the excuse given in the agreement. ”

"Growing cassava?"

Zhang Nan said with a smile.

"No, corn, the land there is actually suitable for growing corn, but the people there don't know how to plant it scientifically, and they are lazy.

The price of corn in Angola is actually good, if we only send a few agricultural technicians and gather dozens of locals to work, the salaries of the people we send can be solved, and the payment will be paid in diamonds.

It's just that you have to transport a batch of weapons over, and if someone has a gun, no one will come to provoke it.

Foreigners who can provide food are still welcome in Angola.

Of course, if they can't arm themselves, some villagers will become robbers, but those warlords will not dare to fight the Americans openly. ”

The big warlords know who can mess with and who can't touch, but it's hard to say about the small group of militants and the villagers who are dying of starvation, and you don't know who did it when something happens.

As for the diamonds that are paid for, of course, they are not obtained from their own territory, and there are many places where diamonds are produced in Angola: this civil war is fought, the price of rough diamonds is suppressed, there are sanctions, it is good that some people buy them, and those warlords are happy to exchange diamonds for supplies and cash.

Cash, and eventually you will buy weapons, ammunition and food, no one will want corn, and if you can provide some arms to those warlords by the way, people will treat you as a good friend.

"It doesn't matter if you have some basic equipment, but we'd better not be professional arms dealers.

Just deal with it according to your ideas, and be prepared for a long time, the civil war on the Angolan side will not be completed in more than ten years.

Fortunately, we have not lacked mines in the past ten or twenty years, so they should be reserved.

50 years, the lease period is 2040 years, and it is estimated that the mine can be completed in 35 years.

But in 10 years, those Angolans don't make trouble for me. ”

Zhang Nan said easily, there will be trouble when the time comes, that is certain, the profit of more than ten or two billion yuan a year is attractive enough for those poor countries!

But Zhang Nan didn't panic at all, as long as Uncle Ben's guy didn't have a problem, as soon as the war on terror started, Washington's actions in black Africa would be 100% invisible!

If Washington doesn't interfere, who else needs to worry about?

Now that it has five territories in Africa, Somrim in Angola is about 1,700 kilometres from um Tali in Zimbabwe and 1,400 kilometres from Letraneka in Botswana.

"By the way, what's life like in Angola?"

Zhang Nan asked casually.

"The western coast is fine, but Saurimu is inland, and the conditions are really poor," Thomas said.

There is also a large amount of seafood along the coast, that is, Angolans like to bake everything, but fortunately, Western food is more popular in Angolan cities, and the Portuguese have a deep influence there.

The inland is poor, the most troublesome vegetables, the climate there is actually okay, probably because of the soil quality, only lettuce and tomatoes can be planted, and other green leafy vegetables do not grow at all. ”

Black African ...... It's also quite annoying to Zhang Nan.

……

After talking about Angola, Zhang Nan put away the map and photocopy documents, got up and left the small conference room.

"Gone, leave the day after tomorrow, now go hunting. ”

Zhang Nan didn't just come to inspect, but also to play by the way.

What is there to do in the Australian outback?

Hunting, then ......

It is the choice of the prey.

Zhang Nan doesn't like to use a shotgun to deal with kangaroos, that thing always makes him feel like he is walking on two legs, and the two small forelimbs are like hands, and he will never eat such a somewhat human-like animal.

A group of people get on a couple of jeeps and go boar hunting.

When he set off, as soon as the car started, Xie Jianliang roared: "I, Hu Hansan, are back again!"

Good fellow, I don't even care about the fatigue of the journey: I originally arranged for him to rest, but I wanted to participate in it too.

Thomas heard it clearly in the other car, and looked strangely at the engineer who was standing in the front seat of the open-top jeep, yelling arrogantly.

Zhang Nan, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, happened to see this scene and said to Thomas: "He and the rotating guards here have participated in the provincial hunting competition here, won the championship, and the wild boar has lost countless ...... under the gun."

After listening to the feats of these "crazy pig killers" in the car, Thomas shrugged his shoulders and looked as if he didn't have much hope for today's trip.

In this regard, Zhang Nan pointed to a pickup truck following behind and said, "Fill the cargo bed of that car and we'll return." ”

Australian wild boar, more!

Yesterday, Zhang Nan went hunting, and he killed only fifty or sixty kilograms, and there were seventy or eighty wild boars in that group!

Wild boars, multiplying too fast, are scurrying around.

In the past, the Chinese guys mainly rotated here, and the wild boars in the vicinity were unlucky, but the last few batches are mostly American guys, and they seem to have little interest in hunting wild boars: they rarely eat wild boar.

Besides, the mines had been mined on a large scale, and the guards and workers didn't have as much time to hunt.

Wild boars are not native to Australia, and some European immigrants brought them to Australia in the 18th century.

In order to increase their food reserves, the migrants released some domestic pigs into the wild, and it was not long before the domestic pigs turned back into wild boars.

The area around the mine has a warm and humid climate and plenty of food all year round. There are no natural predators yet, and this number is ......

Zhang Nan said in the car: "...... According to statistics, the number of wild boars in Australia is even more than the number of residents in Australia, and this proportion should be the first in the world.

Australia's environment department also believes that the wild boar epidemic has caused multiple threats, especially to agriculture and animal husbandry, and that wild boars can be hunted here without a permit, and there are prizes for killing more boars.

Wild boars are omnivorous animals and eat a lot of food, and herds of wild boars often "invade" farms and pastures, grazing on crops such as wheat, barley, sugarcane, apples, and watermelons. Wild boars also like to arch the soil and turn the mud, causing the destruction of large areas of land vegetation.