However, the long insight is the long insight, the safety issue still has to pay special attention, you can take risks but you can't deliberately increase the degree of danger, and the risk that can be reduced by known means must be reduced, which is Hong Tao's consistent style. The first thing that needs to be paid attention to is disease, which is also one of the things that Hong Tao is most afraid of, not only afraid of the children being infected, but also afraid of himself. As a result, the ship's hospital expanded from 2 doctors and 3 nurses to 6 doctors and 10 nurses, and a billiard room was converted into an intensive care unit. The equipment is top-notch, whether it is used or not, buy it first and load it again, and the drugs are stuffed into the warehouse by tons, mainly vaccines and antivenoms for various infectious diseases, and everything that has been heard of is prepared.

The second is the security measures, the main reason why Melinda has to be brought with her is to let her lead the ship's female crew members who have been trained in the escort team for several months, and act as a temporary ship escort on the ship. Whether it's when the boat is docked or when the children are traveling, these female guards carry long guns when they can, and when they can't, they wear short guns and grenades to act as bodyguards for the children. As for whether it will violate local laws, it will be handled by Aigo's local offices or branches, and those small countries will not be messed up forever if they really have laws. Money is the law in the local area, as long as enough money and benefits are given, they will not care so much about whether you bring weapons or not, and they can also send local troops to help you escort you.

Finally, there is the issue of transportation, now it is not with 12 children, but more than 40 children, and it is definitely not enough to rely on ordinary off-road vehicles. So Hong Tao drove the UNICAT RV specially ordered from Germany on the Mouse Superman, which was originally intended for the bigwigs who came to the seminar to explore in the jungle. Each car is an all-terrain design with 8-wheel drive. There is also something like a snow shovel in front of the front of the car. It was used to open roads in the jungle, and small trees with thick mouths would be cut off by a sloping blade. Obstacles that are more than 40 centimeters high on the ground will also be shoveled away, and even if the shovel does not move, the driver can be warned to pass carefully. Regardless of whether there is a road or not, there is basically no obstacle to this kind of car, and the 1-meter-deep river can be easily crossed, and any mud, sand, and gravel can be run, or how to call it an all-terrain vehicle.

The disadvantages of this kind of car are also obvious, it is one word, fee!

Fuel efficient. With a weight of more than 20 tons and a powertrain of 600 horsepower, it has an average fuel consumption of 35 liters on the road, and it is even more expensive to enter the 8-wheel drive off-road state, reaching more than 50 liters at the highest time, which is about the same as a light tank.

It costs money, this kind of car does not have a vehicle price, but a base price is given according to the chassis and power system, about 500,000 US dollars. That's right, a chassis and a powertrain are worth so much money. It uses the chassis of the MAN truck, which won the Dakar Rally, and is of the same quality, without compromising on the standard. The rest of the equipment has to be added by the user according to the requirements, which is the same as ordering food. Eat whatever you want. UNICAT is the restaurant, and if it can make it, it will make it for you. It can't make it, you tell it where it can be. It helps you buy it!

Hong Tao's 6 cars are RVs in appearance, but they have been changed inside. The kitchen was removed and the living room area was increased. Because Hong Tao thinks that those Internet bigwigs are unlikely to cook by themselves, it is a waste to get a kitchen. It doesn't matter, among the six cars with the same appearance, one of them is actually a special mobile kitchen, which is full of kitchen utensils and stoves, and after being equipped with chefs and waiters, it can provide at least 30 people with a meal, and if you don't pay so much attention to it, it is no problem to cook 50 people.

Now these five cars have become the means of transportation for the children after they go ashore, and each car has ten children, plus a driver and nanny is just enough. You can also take a dining car with you when you run long distances, and with Melinda's two escort jeeps, it's a relatively safe small fleet. The problem of sleeping is also easy to solve, the driver, nanny, and escort sleep on the bed in the car, and the children all sleep on the floor and on the sofa. If you get to a safer place without poisonous insects, you can also set up a tent outside the car to camp, anyway, bring enough diesel and water, without any supplies, this team can be self-sufficient for 3 days. Hong Tao felt that this configuration was basically enough, and he didn't really want to go deep into the Sahara Desert to play for his life.

The first stop of the Mouse Superman is Puerto Borlamar on Margarita Island in Venezuela, which is a very famous tourist destination, the Caribbean style is very strong, and there is a special product that the Chinese like very much, that is, pearls. Follow the pearl divers out to sea, wearing only simple diving goggles to dive to the bottom of the sea to find pearl oysters, and every now and then a pearl diver will come up and throw a bag of shells in the cabin. Hong Tao once used a stopwatch to calculate for them, and the average breath-holding time was about 5 minutes, the same for both men and women.

There are two ways to buy pearls here, one is to go to a special pearl store to choose, where the pearls are all selected, according to the individual size, gloss, color, etc., the price of each level is different. There is also a way for foreign tourists, which is not so much a gambling game as buying pearls. Local pearl divers give visitors a chart with lots of different coloured grids and prices on them. These lattices are the sea areas where pearl oysters are abundant, and according to the previous collection results, the price of the sea area with more good pearls is higher.

Tourists can choose any area according to their economic strength and preferences, and then follow the pearl divers to the sea, and the four pearl divers will collect and purchase for 2 hours in the morning and afternoon. The pearl oysters are all piled up on the boat, and after being pulled back, they are broken in front of the tourists, and the pearls obtained are many, large, and high-grade, and the tourists will make money, otherwise the tourists will lose. Hong Tao spent $33,000 to buy the right to collect three of the best sea areas, and the result was that one area was earned, and the other two areas were all lost. Except for the two pink pearls, which are not bad, the rest of the goods can only be considered medium, and the number is not very large.

But Hong Tao didn't come here to buy pearls, he also had to meet someone named Delgado, the private secretary of Astrouvar Chávez, the Minister of Petroleum and Mining of the Venezuelan People's Government.

Lake Maracaibo in the northwest of Venezuela is rich in oil, and Venezuela is also the largest oil exporter in South America. If Belize wants to develop, whether it wants to develop industry or not, it needs oil, and both the United States and Mexico can provide a sufficient number of oil quotas, but Hong Tao does not want to pin his fate on one country, which is too constrained by others, so Venezuela, which does not have a good relationship with the United States, has become a perfect spare tire.

This time, he met with Minister Chávez's secretary through secret channels to negotiate a deal with the Venezuelan government. Hong Tao intends to build a modern refinery in a joint venture between Xueyan Investment and Venezuela's Ministry of Petroleum and Mining, and then sign a long-term annual oil supply agreement. Xueyan Investment will invest in the equipment in exchange for increasing petrol and diesel quotas every year.

If you want to ask if it is so troublesome to buy some oil in a capitalist country? The answer is that other countries are not so troublesome, but Venezuela is so troublesome. The country's form of government is very strange, and Hong Tao still has not figured out whether it is socialist or capitalist, or whether it is a combination of the two. In any case, all of Venezuela's oil industry is state-run, and if you want to buy it, you have to talk to its Ministry of Petroleum and Mining, and it is useless to talk to others. As for whether it can be negotiated, Hong Tao doesn't care, anyway, he was looking for a spare tire, and he didn't want to use it immediately, or he was prepared.

The reason why I want to come in person is to stop by and to reassure the Venezuelan government. The name of this rich madman has spread throughout Central America, including several countries in the northern part of South America, through his frenzied investment in Belize for more than a year. Everyone is very envious that Belize, a small poor country with a big fart, can attract such a golden mouse as Hong Tao, so Hong Tao plans to talk to the secretary in person so that they can pay more attention to it. This golden rat is coming to Venezuela to invest, don't take it seriously.

The Delgado secretary was a white man who looked a lot like Ralph, and could easily be mistaken for twin brothers if they stood together. I don't know if people who look like this are particularly picky, anyway, Ralph and this Delgado are all the way. The food he invited Hong Tao and Radha to eat sounded good, oysters, but the place and way of eating it was too Nima to save money. A small wooden boat, two fishermen rowing, not even a cook, drill into the mangrove forest by the sea, let's eat!

In the impression of ordinary people, they are all oysters that grow on the reef, and they all grow at the roots of mangrove trees here. At this time, you only need to hold a knife in your hand, insert it into the oyster shell and pry it, and then cut it with your hand, and the oyster meat will come down, remove the internal organs, rinse it in the seawater, stuff it in your mouth, and eat it......

The taste is indeed delicious, it really doesn't matter if you dip it in the ingredients or not, it's just a little too back-to-basic, if you can catch these oysters and make a similar restaurant by the sea, with a few chefs, it will be even more perfect. But the secretary of Delgado also said that the mangrove forests here are all designated as national parks, which are key to protection, and ordinary people are not allowed to approach. And the oysters that grow in the mangrove forest taste the most beautiful, and they can't be eaten easily, so it's worth it and Hong Tao still takes advantage of it. The more picky people are, the more they can fool and have a virtue with Ralph. (To be continued......)