These are the two closest capitals in the world, with two different capitals only two kilometres apart and only a river in between.

The presidential palaces of the two countries are only three kilometers away. Take a telescope and you can see the movement from this side to the other.

However, these two countries, which were originally born from the same roots, have been artificially created many tribulations and wars between the two countries because they were once occupied by different European countries, and now they have been on the same footing.

Zaire is the second largest country in Africa, with the largest primary forest in central Africa, as well as rich copper and cobalt mines.

But due to Mobutu's brutal rule, the country's military strength was not worth mentioning.

Anguo still has only 50,000 regular troops, and the army was even smaller before, and the total population was only one-third of them, but they could beat them crying and crying for their mothers.

The convoy arrived at the presidential palace and entered the hall, where Mobutu, wearing a leopard-print cap, was waiting at the entrance of the side hall.

He had close personal relations with the three presidents of Armenia, and had experienced ups and downs for many years. Although Jonas is considered a rich man, he does not have it in his heart.

When he greeted Jonas at the gate of the side hall, he was already giving extra face, and it was not Jonas who was given face, but the face of interest groups.

Interest groups are like a close-knit QQ group, where Rich and Green are the leaders, but they are not binding on the members.

Many of the group members are stronger industry hegemons or national hegemons.

They gave Richie face because Richie created the group, and there was no substitute for the leader.

But that doesn't mean Richie can tell them what to do.

Jonas has only been part of the group for a short time, but has already shown great potential.

He used financial investment banking to win over most of his friends, and Rich and Green were still building momentum for him.

Monopolizing the oil development of Angola, Jonas borrowed the situation from Ritchie and leveraged the leverage of interest groups, and only after the interest groups pressed on them could they have the opportunity to wrestle with the Eastern and Western camps.

For this alone, most of the members would not easily oppose Jonas.

Many members have their own positions and can only co-opt others from the same camp.

As Santos got close to the Soviet Union, and Mobutu got close to Armenia, there was no reconciliation between them.

Unlike Jonas, the neutral camps themselves are tightly bound and can establish direct relations with the camps on both sides.

For example, if Mobutu wants to connect Zaire's railway line to Angola and transport ore directly to the sea, this matter must be negotiated through a neutral camp such as Jonas as an intermediary.

As an heir or agent elected by the neutral camp, Jonas does not have enough face of his own to make a president like Mobutu pay attention.

However, after all, he is more than thirty years older than Jonas and is the president of a country, so it is impossible for him to greet him directly at the door, and it is already very respectful to greet him at the door of the side hall.

Mobutu was not tall and looked kind, and only with a pair of eyes could he see his yin owl slightly.

"Welcome to Zaire, Jonas. ”

"Thank you, Your Excellency, for the invitation, and I am honored to have seen this beautiful country, which I am sure will be an unforgettable part of my life. ”

In addition to several high-ranking Zairean officials, Mobutu was accompanied by several liaison officers from Rich International here.

However, Jonas regretted that Willistholt, who he wanted to see the most, was temporarily unable to come because he was currently in Katanga.

He came to Zaire today on an impromptu basis, and if it weren't for the attack on the port of Soyo airport, he would have been in Cabinda at this time.

Internationally, Mobutu is notorious, but everyone who can become a hegemon cannot simply label it with media evaluations.

For example, Mobutu, who is now shown in front of Jonas, is definitely a wise man of first-class eloquence, well-informed, and full knowledge and thinking about many international affairs.

To be able to emerge from the primeval forests of northern Zaire and become the president of a country, and to be vigorously encircled by the presidents of Armenia, this man definitely has super abilities.

When they first met, the two had a full exchange on the mining, processing, and transportation of Zaire's rich minerals.

Katanga is one of the world's largest copper mining regions, with associated cobalt deposits accounting for 80% of the world's reserves.

In the early seventies, Mobutu began the process of nationalization, and by the mid-seventies, the Zairean state was on the verge of bankruptcy due to the collapse of global copper prices.

In '74, the price of copper reached an all-time high of $1.4 per pound before it began to fall. In '75, the price of copper fell to fifty-three cents per pound and reached its lowest point of forty-one cents in '77.

At the same time, the price of crude oil has risen sharply, and the price of food has also risen.

Originally wealthy Zaire did not have enough foreign exchange to pay for the import of essential goods, the price of basic domestic goods rose sharply, fuel shortages, government revenues plummeted, and debt intensified.

This, coupled with the interference with industry and agriculture after Mobutu's confiscation of foreign businesses, put Zaire's economy in a difficult situation.

In 75 years, the Zairean government has been unable to repay its foreign debt, which has reached $3 billion.

Today, ten years later, Zaire is bankrupt due to credit, Western banks no longer dare to lend money to Zaire, and the government is borrowing more and more.

Today, although there are still hundreds of thousands of troops in this country, these troops have completely ineffective combat because of too many deserters.

Otherwise, they would not have been able to defeat even the tens of thousands of people in Anguo and lost most of their access to the sea.

Mobutu's main thing to do now is to revive the country's mineral processing industry, but no investor can trust him anymore for his bad image in the nationalization process.

Katanga is located in the middle of the southern African continent, and if it develops mineral processing in the region, it is certainly more cost-effective to export blister copper directly than to export ore.

But no mining company dared to invest in Zaire, only through Richie to buy ore.

Mobutu was well aware that Jonas was a junior that Richie admired and that he would have a big say within the interest group in the future. What's more, Jonas's financial investment bank has already attracted most of its members.

So Mobutu attached great importance to Jonas and did not snub him because of his youth, nor did he force Jonas to invest.

Really, he was probably richer than Jonas, but it was his own money, not the same as the state's money.

He himself refused to take out the money, so how could he let Jonas invest.

For him, interest groups are also an important retreat for him in the future.

Jonas also explained "openly and honestly" the main reason for his unexpected visit, and in fact, from Jonas to Kinshasa, Mobutu should have been aware of the fighting in the port of Soyo.

Upon learning that Jonas had no plans to stay in Africa in the last few days, Mobutu warmly invited Jonas to his palace in his hometown of Gbadolit for a vacation.

Jonas politely declined, but was not gracious, and accepted his invitation.

When Jonas travels by private jet to Gbadolit, 700 kilometres from Kinshasa, he gets a glimpse of the lascivious life of a poisoner.

This small town, located in the middle of the African bush, has an airport that does not match its status and can take off and land any type of aircraft.

The palace of Mobutu, with a floor area of more than 15,000 square meters, consists of two main buildings, connected by a 200-meter all-glass corridor in the middle.

Between the two main buildings, there is a charming European garden, which is planted with a variety of fine flowers and a variety of wild animals to form a zoo.

In this manor, there is everything that can be enjoyed in this era, and in addition, there are more than a dozen Starfury who specialize in entertaining important guests.

Most of these star wraths have been cultivated since childhood, and they don't know anything except serving men.

Knowing that Jonas had a slight habit of cleanliness, Mobutu arranged for two white virgins to entertain him, which made Jonas quite happy and depraved.

Apart from women, the most enjoyable activity here is, of course, hunting.

Zaire is home to a wide variety of wildlife, whether giraffes or elephants, antelopes or rhinos, and there is no animal that Jonas cannot hunt if he wants to.

Holding an AK or a shotgun, no animal is a match for humans.

Of course, Jonas was not out of his mind, and his directives were sent in a steady stream by telegram about his attack on Luanda and the attack on the port of Soyo by the rebels.

In Cabinda, the exploration of the major discovered oil fields, the training of the Kane security forces, and the plan to send Andreev an additional 500 mercenaries are well underway.

I don't know if Jonas hid in the primeval forest of Africa to surprise the masterminds behind the scenes, and all aspects of the investigation did not show any vision.

But the more this happens, the more bottomless Jonas's heart becomes, and if he can't find the enemy, no matter how strong he is, he can't use it.

But he is not worried, because he knows what the root of all this is, and the initiative is always in his hands.

On 9 September, Jonas revealed plans for the development of eight oil fields in the Angolan sea through Hubert in the name of EOT Petroleum and Transoceanic Drilling Oil Services.

This move immediately caused a sensation in the industry, and not only dozens of European oil tycoons urged Luanda, but even companies such as Shell and Total immediately sent people to Luanda.

On 10 September, Jonas and Stherhote set out from Gbadorit and arrived in Luanda.

Receiving Mobutu's warm offer, Jonas was also commissioned by Mobutu to renegotiate with the Angolan government forces and the rebels on the railway merger plan.

Santos is very easy to do, like Mobutu, although he belongs to different camps, but because of his high prestige, they have a certain degree of autonomy and have the ambition to develop the country's economy (the individual always comes first).

But Savimbi is different, Jonas is well aware that he will soon be in the final stages of his reign, and now he is in his prime.

Because of his sabotage, all three railway lines in Angola were suspended, and at this time, he would not allow rail transportation to become a help for Santos.

So Jonas had no confidence in the negotiations and just coped with errands. And Stehote is full of ambition and wants to convince Savimbi by relying on the diamond sales that stuck Savimbi.

Jonas didn't want to be a prophet, so he let Stehott get excited for a few more days.

Just one day before Jonas arrived in Luanda, Andreev arranged for five hundred mercenaries to arrive in Luanda by plane.

Although they were not equipped with military vehicles and weapons for the time being, the representatives of the Soviet Army in Angola allocated a part of the weapons and military vehicles that had previously provided assistance to Angolia.

When Jonas arrived in Luanda, he was under the strictest protection.

When Jonas checked into the beachfront hotel on the Luanda Peninsula, the Kony-class frigate he had purchased went straight to the peninsula for protection.

The Kony-class frigate is arguably one of the most advanced warships off the west coast of South Africa, and in this area of the sea, it has no rivals at all.

Seeing this formation, Jonas really felt like he had become a big man.

Of course, in the eyes of others, he is more like a flamboyant young man.

However, when he was young, he had to be a little more flamboyant, and he had been hiding behind his back and calculating like an old yin, and he might never be the opponent of those old rivers and lakes.

He is just going to use his strength to sabotage the conspiracy against him.

When such a formation was put out, it was really calm, and the changes he expected did not appear.

In the face of absolute strength, all intrigues and tricks are useless.

On 11 September, at his hotel on the Luanda peninsula, Jonas held the first investment conference of the Angolan oil development plan.

Details of the eight oil fields that had been discovered were sent to each guest, but instead of adopting the auction strategy of the highest bidder, the conference distributed them according to the relationship of interests.

Italy's Eni, France's Total, and Anglo-Dutch Shell have obtained the rights to develop three oil fields.

Angolan oil company has been granted the right to develop an oil field, but because they do not have the technology to develop offshore oil, transoceanic drilling will become a service provider.

The remaining four oil fields are all allocated to the members of the interest alliance, and only close companies and members can be allocated together, so as to prevent conflicts caused by oil development in the future.

Oil development is not a matter of dividing the fruits, and the issues involved in the middle are very complex, such as transoceanic drilling, which has become a service provider for five oil companies, and the distribution of benefits in this requires long-term negotiations.

The oil companies and individuals who have not been granted the right to develop oil fields, Jonas is not fooling them, because there are at least 30 oil fields in this 30,000 square kilometers of sea area.

Although these fields have not yet been found, Jonas has promised them the attribution of the later allocation, and they have been ranked according to their priority.

In other words, even if an oil field is not discovered, once it is discovered, it has a home.

If someone wants to attack him and sabotage the Angolan oil development plan, then don't blame him for directly distributing the benefits and letting them make a bamboo basket for nothing.