Expensive diamonds are almost priceless, oil is valuable, compared to diamonds is not a necessity, oil is - modern society is inseparable from oil for a day, diamonds, without which you can live.

Not much to say, in the next 50 to 100 years, oil will always be the protagonist of energy, Angola has oil, Sudan also has oil, and Iraq, which will be scrapped in the future, will also have oil, and the mining group under the "Sunshine Star" is naturally also eyeing this piece of fat.

Almost all of Angola's oil production comes from the offshore oil fields off the coast of the outer enclave of Cabinda, between Congo and Zaire, and from the deep-sea oil fields of the Lower Congo Basin.

Twenty years later, the Chinese will also have oil companies to invest, and the net profit will not be less than $1 billion a year. Now that the Angolan civil war has just ended, or is still fighting desperately, and the development of the oil industry is still at the level of the early 70s, the battle of Guan Boss is also calculated by experts according to today's benchmarks.

Zhang Nan, don't calculate it like that.

As big as the heart, so is the heavens and the earth!

"Brother Guan, in less than ten years, the oil off the coast of Angola will provide us with a net profit of at least US$10 billion a year. Originally, I didn't want to get too involved in the bad things over there, but now it's the Angolans themselves, let's push forward, and the exploitation power of the oil and gas fields over there can be swallowed as much as they can.

Wait for 20 years, this year's profit will be at least 200 billion, who dares to rob us and kill his whole family!"

One or two hundred billion a year?

Guan Xingquan was slightly surprised in his heart, but he didn't show it, these things that Zhang Nan said never went wrong, and it was a big deal that 10 billion would become 20 billion.

As for how Zhang Nan calculated?

Angola will be very rich in the future, and it can be regarded as a rich country in southern Africa, with more than 20 million people, a land area of more than 1 million square kilometers, and a per capita GDP of more than 3,000 US dollars, which is ten times that of neighboring Zaire.

In 20 years, the annual tax revenue will exceed 20 billion, and more money will be taken away by a large number of oil wells and oil fields invested and developed by foreign oil companies.

Zhang Nan wants Angola to have exploration and mining rights, and now is a good time.

"We can't let that Savimbi finish up yet, at least until Luanda and the Angolan government sign a resource development agreement. ”

Guan Xingquan nodded, "Don't worry, you know it."

Raising bandits is a problem, and the bandits are gone, and this trouble will be gone. ”

Justice?

This is Africa, all for the sake of profit!

The Boeing 747 will be largely emptied back to the U.S. in the evening, taking with it all the roughs over 2 carats from the Leitraneca mine in the last month.

Armed escort, Zhang Nan also put an envelope into the explosion-proof iron box to be transported, and the contents of which were turned out of the bodies of UNITA officers when they attacked the Lukapa military camp.

The diamonds in the envelope were the small batches found during the previous experimental survey and mining, which were large and of high quality.

Zhang Nan told the escort staff: "Inform the company that the rough diamonds in the envelope will be all finished within 3 months, so make a necklace, and the main diamond will see if Mr. Joshua has time to deal with it..."

Things were taken away, and Guan Xingquan on the side smiled.

The quality of this batch of diamonds is very good, and when Boss Guan took the things back, Zhang Nan asked him: "Don't you dislike blood diamonds, right?"

"What?"

"Aren't you about to get married, this batch of diamonds is of good quality, it belongs to you, if you don't dislike it, you will be given a wedding gift after processing." ”

At that time, Guan Xingquan smiled and said, "I have more blood on my hands than on diamonds." ”

It doesn't matter, as for the bride, just don't tell her: 91 carats of D color and IF clarity are rare, and the shape is good, and the weight of the finished product can be left in about half.

It's not cheap, it can even be said to be a ball!

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On the 23rd, a formal package of agreements on mineral development between the "Xingchen International Mining Group" and the Angolan government was signed in Luanda, the capital of Angola, according to the official statement, this is the largest investment by a foreign company in the history of Angola, and will effectively promote the rapid development of the domestic economy...

Actually.

Also, everyone is happy when they have money to make, provided that there are enough oil and gas, diamonds and non-ferrous metal deposits off the coast of Angola.

Zhang Nan is not worried, the earth is still this earth, and those oils and ores will not run, and in a few years, it will be a matter of reading reports and numbers.

The capital side is jubilant, and the situation in the central and eastern parts is not so happy, and this is true for all three parties. As soon as the middle of September passed, Angola entered the rainy season, and the roads were cut off under the continuous pouring rain, and the war was temporarily deadlocked.

But these are just illusions!

At the Kueto Airport, which is more than 300 kilometers northwest of Menongei, in the area actually controlled by the SPLM, eight Mi-24 helicopter gunships were stationed on the afternoon of 24 July.

The news of the arrival of this batch of gunships was very complicated, and it was not too surprising for people outside the airport to see the appearance of such a large gunship in Cuito, which was itself equipped with Mi-24.

But the people in the airport have a different feeling about this, because the crews of these 8 gunships are all Russian!

They are no strangers to Russians, they have seen a lot in the past ten years, many Angolan airport technicians and pilots are still students of the Russians, but a few years ago the Soviets all evacuated.

The airport staff were not allowed to have direct contact with the Russians, everything was a bit mysterious, and some had a premonition that something was about to happen.

However, it is not too surprising that it is only 150 or 60 kilometers from the area controlled by UNITA, and perhaps these helicopters are there to help in the fight.

In fact, Quetto is not the base of these Mi-24 sorties, and it is only a temporary recuperation here, and the ammunition, oil and lubricants needed have been transported by land to the small city of Mutumbo, more than 100 kilometers to the south.

It was also under the control of the SPLM, and there was a remote farm thirty kilometers south of the town, and a plateau there was the forward base for the Mi-24s: it was less than 150 kilometers away from Menungai, and not only within the combat radius of the Mi-24s, but also the helicopter gunships could be fully loaded.

In the middle of the night on the 25th, when we were advancing to the base, eight Mi-24s were lined up on the platform, and when we looked at the short wings of these eight planes, we knew that they were going to carry out a relatively special mission.

Fully loaded, the mounting method is not the same.

Two Mi-24 short wings are equipped with 32 S5 aviation rocket launchers with a diameter of 57 mm on each side, four AT6 heavy anti-tank missiles on each of the top pylons, and the 12.7 mm Gatling machine gun under the nose is 1470 rounds full of ammunition, and it is also loaded with various special ammunition combinations with complex technology and high prices.