Chapter 13: The Affair of Africa

The old king of Wakanda, T'Chaka, said to his son T'Chaka, "I'm old, and I feel low on energy at some point. You're going to have to help me carry some more burdens, and if I step back one day, you'll be able to take my place. But you need a princess,"

"A crown prince has no princess, no heirs. This is not a good thing for our country. T'Chaka put forward his thoughts very seriously: "You have to get married as soon as possible and have a child, whether it's a daughter or a son." ”

The young panther was a little depressed because this was not the life he wanted. He still prefers his pursuit of independence and freedom. But it wasn't easy, because Dad didn't die. There are many things that you can't decide on your own.

"Dad, it's the Earth Federation era now. Can we be less feudal?!" T'Challa the panther said helplessly to the old king.

"Feudal fart!" T'Chaka was very dissatisfied: "We are originally the king's inheritance system. It has been this way for so many years, and it can't change when it comes to you. Even if we join the Earth Federation, we are still a relatively independent regime within the Earth!"

T'Challa didn't have anything to do with his father. Because he couldn't convince him of the old man's house. But T'Challa is also a very stubborn person, which is in the same vein as his father. Just when his father had to find him a wife, he didn't care about it at all.

He said very stubbornly: "My princess can only be the Storm Girl, I just like her!"

"You like her, but does she like you?!" the old king was furious, not that he didn't support his son being with Storm. In fact, if he could, he would also like Storm Girl to be his daughter-in-law. Because Stormgirl herself has a reputation in Tuvalu and is also a favorite disciple of Professor Charles. In various ways, he is actually quite a match for his son, and his appearance is also pretty.

But there is a big problem, that is, the storm girl does not care about her son at all. What can you do about this? People don't like your son, can you force them to like them with a gun? Even if it will anger Professor Charles and make a story of mutants vs. Wakanda. Those writers of the Marvel Group are afraid that they will be able to use this story to water for a whole year of mutant comic book publications.

"It's my personal thing that I like someone, even if she doesn't like me, but I like her. This is originally my personal matter, and it has nothing to do with her. "What the panther T'Challa said still has some backbone and reason, but in the eyes of the old king T'Chaca, it is a stupid behavior.

"T'Challa, are you going to be angry with me?! I tell you, you must immediately find me a girl to come back and get married and have children! You are not too young to be consumed like this!" the old king gave an ultimatum: "Otherwise, you will not inherit this throne!"

While the king and prince of Wakanda are arguing and ending with T'Challa running away from home, Li Jay happens to take Thor, the prince of Asgard, to the African continent.

Speaking of which, the African continent is truly the last piece of land on earth to be explored. In the past, because of various kinds of oppression, it was impoverished for nearly a hundred years.

"Actually, this is a very rich continent. Not all parts of Africa are hot, and not all places are dry. It's like many countries in South Africa aren't as hot as most people think. What most people think of as arid and hot Africa is actually the North Africa we are in today. Li Jie walked the streets of Cairo, Egypt with Fat Tuo. It's full of vendors who solicit tourists to visit the pyramids, and both Li Kit and Thor have turned off several vendors who have pitched them out.

"I know this, in fact, many Egyptian countries still have a suitable climate. And it's also great for farming, but Africa used to be the region with the largest number of poor people in the world. Most of the least developed countries in the world are also gathered in this place. Seriously, do you think they're lazy?" said Thor, walking behind Li Kit as he ate a sweet beef stew sold on the streets of Cairo. And he wanted to share it with Li Jie while eating: "You should watch it often, it's delicious." The taste of this beef is sweeter than honey. ”

To be honest, Li Jie feels that he has a high acceptance of all kinds of food, but he really can't accept the dish of sweet beef stew. But he took a closer look at the food in Thor's hand, well, it didn't seem to have beef. It looks like it's just an ordinary praline cake? Li Jie took it and tasted it, poof! This thing is too sweet! It was the sweetest thing Li Jie had ever eaten under the quilt, and he felt that his throat and eyes were instantly choked.

This is a dessert made by selling praline cakes under the title of beef, and killing a group of candy sellers and getting free sugar!

"Going back to what we just talked about, the problems in Africa were actually more complex than you might think. This cannot simply be attributed to laziness. Li Jie felt that his throat was sweet and greasy as he spoke.

But Thor enjoyed the sweet treat, and he continued to eat: "Oh? I see a lot of people say that Africans are too lazy to even farm. That's why they're so poor. ”

Li Jie shook his head helplessly: "Where is it so simple." A few years ago, when new energy was not yet popularized, farming was also a big investment. Those who think that they can grow crops by just getting a few seeds and throwing them in the ground must be people who are not diligent in their limbs and do not divide the grains. Every aspect of modern agriculture needs money, seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides. Planting one acre of land requires a cost input. Moreover, the seeds of modern agriculture cannot be bred by farmers themselves, and new seeds need to be purchased from seed companies every year. ”

"And the most terrible thing is that when you spend enough money on planting and harvesting, you will find that the cost of your harvest per acre of land is even higher than the cost of buying finished grain directly from the market. To put it simply, it costs you 50 cents to grow a pound of grain, while the price of grain sold in the market is only 40 cents. Li Jie said and smiled: "Do you say that it is still necessary for farmers in Africa to grow food?"

"Hmm, why is it that the cost of growing food on the market is lower than that of African farmers growing it themselves?" Thor was not stupid, but he couldn't figure out the difference.

"Because the grain is coming from the EU. The EU has high subsidies for farmers. In the case of dairy cows, for example, each cow used to receive a subsidy of two euros per day. The government subsidizes enough money to go into agriculture. As a result, European agricultural products can be sold in Africa at prices below cost. After spending so much money on growing food, and in the end there is no direct purchase of grain to calculate, who in Africa still grows food?"

"The same is true for raising cattle, raising chickens, making sugar, and so on. There are many legends on the African continent, for example, they say that the chickens sold by the Chinese are fake and impulsive, and the sugar sold by the Europeans is made by magic from the leaves. Because they have never been able to understand how low the price of agricultural products can be after large-scale industrialized societies and government subsidies for agriculture. So Africa's farmers are bankrupt en masse. ”

"It's not that they're too lazy to grow food, it's that they can't grow food anymore. In addition, the EU wants to use Africa as a dumping ground for its industrial and agricultural products, so they are willing to give money to Africans, raise them very lazy, and let them not work and do not work. Then they went to war, robbed diamond resources, copper ore resources, etc., and then sold them to foreign forces at a low price until they were empty. If Africans were really too lazy to be genetically lazy, they would have been wiped out in more than a thousand years of evolution. Laziness is artificially cultivated by people with a purpose. This is the power of capital. ”

Thor was eating a sweet beef stew (praline cake) and couldn't figure out why it was so complicated. He took a bite of the candy cake and said, "At least now that the Earth Federation has been established, it's much better, isn't it?"

"yes, that's why I've been pushing the world around. In addition to Africa, there is also South America, and this is actually the case all over East Asia. There is also the plundering and exploitation of resources by the advanced regions of the country against the backward areas, and so on. Li Jie spread his hands: "But after the new energy comes out, all this becomes meaningless." Now Africa has become the breadbasket of the world. Half of the world's food is produced here, and the farmland here stretches like the waves of the ocean. To solve the most basic problem of eating in the world, I think we are actually doing a good job. ”

"Well, although you say so much. But what are we doing in North Africa? Are you looking at the pyramids? You said you promised to help me solve the problem of the Shura field. Thor finished the last of the sugarcakes, and he began to complain.

Li Jie shook his head: "We need to solve the problems one by one." Let's start with the easy ones. ”

"Easy?"

"Well, Stormgirl. ”

Li Jie pointed to a hookah parlor at the intersection, where the panther T'Challa was smoking a hookah on the other side of the glass window.