Chapter 1159: Who's Good and Who Bad?
Regarding Hong Tao's proposal, Secretary Delgado listened very carefully and recorded a lot of key points, and finally turned around with Hong Tao's plan and left without deciding anything. Hong Tao doesn't expect a secretary to decide anything, he is just an eye and an ear, exactly the same nature of work as Radha and Singh, and no one who can really make up his mind shows up. As for whether they will agree to this plan in the end, Hong Tao doesn't care, he just has to match, even if the Venezuelan government wants to talk, he can't talk to himself, go to Han Yan and Yulia to talk. Since the Poseidon Company completed the preparatory work and entered the launch preparation stage, Yulia was no longer needed to be an eyesore there, so she was reinstated by Hong Tao and became the vice president of Xueyan Company, helping Han Yan develop in Europe, and the United States did not need her for the time being.
After 2 days on Margarita Island, Superman the Mouse set off again, and this fierce man was far away, across the Atlantic, and one stop to Cape Verde. Last time I sailed around the world on a sailboat, I missed this country, and this time I just made up for it, not only to make up for it, but also to West African countries that I haven't been to last time, and I have to go up to see it this time. It's convenient to have the big guy of the Mouse Superman in charge, it can hold things too much, and you don't have to worry about supplies at all.
The first West African country that Hong Tao took the children to set foot on this time was Gambia, its land area is very small, and it is crooked like a not too hard male root, but it is inserted into the territory of Senegal, and I don't know if it is too hard, and I have bent myself. But whenever this kind of figure is dug out of the territory of another country, cut off a piece, and inserted into a piece, you don't have to think about it, just think about it right in the British Empire. Belize was cut from Guatemala by the British. The Gambia was inserted by the British and French who burst the chrysanthemums of Senegal.
How did this country come about. Everyone will know when you go to Baidu Baidu, so we won't discuss it here. Its territory is basically the banks of a river. In other words, it is the most fertile land in Senegal. Do you think that this kind of relationship between countries can last? This is the artificial fuse, and one day two countries that originally belonged to the same race will fight, and then the British will have the opportunity to meddle in the affairs of this place again. This is the small trick adopted by the British when they have to let go of their colonies all over the world, which is considered an idle move, and maybe it will be used one day.
The reason why Hong Tao wants to go around in such a broken country is not because there is any special scenery here, nor because there is any food here, there is nothing here, and it is poorer than Belize. There's only one reason why he chose it as the first stop on his trip to West Africa. In later generations, there was a joke circulating on the Internet, saying that the president of the Gambia said that if China dared to use force against Wanwan, he would help Wanwan fight China, claiming that as long as 1,000 Gambian marines were dispatched, they could sweep the whole of China. Hong Tao had to come and see what this country that could brag about X X was like, and how much courage they had there.
It's a pity that the president Hong Tao, who bragged about X in later generations, didn't see it, and the convoy drove more than ten kilometers along the river bank, and Hong Tao lost interest in going further. The country really wants nothing, neither agriculture nor industry. Along the way, the most common sights are locals around the cars of foreign tourists reaching out for money and things. However, Hong Tao's convoy was surrounded by no one, and the locals were not stupid, and they knew that they were not easy to mess with when they looked at the appearance of these cars, so they all hid from a distance to watch.
This situation is not good for educating children in the slightest. There are so many reasons for this phenomenon that Hong Tao himself can't figure it out, let alone explain it to the children. So it's better to see less. After they go to high school and have the ability to think independently. It's useful to come back to this kind of place to take a good look and think about why it's all about.
Ask what is the fastest running species in the world. Hong Tao has only one answer, and that is the reporter! This species is not only fast, but also has a very good sense of smell. As soon as the Mouse Superman arrived in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, and was hoisting a vehicle on the docks, a man with a camera appeared nearby. Although there are whites and blacks among them, Hong Tao doesn't need to go over to ask, he just needs to smell the wind and smell the smell of reporters.
If you want to ask what is the most hard-working species in the world, Hong Tao has only one answer, or a reporter! This species is more tenacious than Nima's vitality, and he actually hired a few local broken cars to chase the children's convoy for more than 300 kilometers. Sleeping in the open and starving, just to find out what Hong Tao was going to do with these children. So much so that on the way back, Hong Tao's convoy had to rescue several reporters who were trapped in the vast Sahara Desert due to the breakdown of their vehicles, Hong Tao did not like them, but he could not watch them starve to death, freeze to death, and die of thirst in the desert Gobi.
"Well, you've defeated me, and now I'm going to tell you what I'm here for, I'm just taking the kids to see what the world's largest desert looks like, that's all. Come, children, come here, get in line! See these uncles? They are journalists, and as for what a journalist is, it's probably a combination of thieves, liars, liars, and idealists, and you'll figure it out later. Now what I want to tell you is that no matter how much they hate it, their attitude towards work is still very worthy of our learning, and when you grow up, no matter what work you do, you should work as hard as they do. But I'm not a big fan of journalists, so you'd better not be in this business when you grow up. "Give water and food and let you get a free ride, where in the world is there a free lunch, especially here in Hong Tao, he never gives to others in vain, even if he saves people, he has to find some compensation from the rescued. For these reporters, he can't squeeze out money and can't find partners, so letting them be the children's negative teaching materials and giving them a living lesson is the only compensation that Hong Tao can find from them.
As for whether these reporters are willing to listen or not, then Hong Tao can't care, it doesn't matter if he doesn't like to listen, if you have the ability, don't eat, drink, don't take a car, go down and walk back to the city 200 kilometers away. Hong Tao really doesn't look down on them, even if they take out the eight generations of their ancestors and squeeze them one by one now, they have to endure it. There are people in the world who can be dignified and don't want to die, but they are rarer than gold and diamonds, and Hong Tao doesn't think he has such good luck to meet them.
After walking around the Great Desert, further south, not every country can stop. Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire were directly skipped by the Mouse Superman. Their domestic political situation is unstable, and they are either in a civil war or just about to have a civil war these years, and none of them are stable anyway, so it's better not to get close. Although those big RVs can be bulletproof, they can't resist large-caliber bullets and mines, rocket launchers and other weapons, and they will never do this kind of stupid thing to put their own and their children's lives on the line to see what a national vendetta looks like.
Starting from Ghana and further south, except for the Congo is a little chaotic, most countries are still okay, the further south they go, the more stable they are, and the better the standard of living and the country's infrastructure. In July, Hong Tao also led a convoy from the port of Lobito in Angola to travel nearly 3,000 kilometers, through the whole of Angola, Zambia and Tanzania, all the way to the Serengeti grasslands in the middle of the Great Rift Valley to see the annual wildebeest migration.
Every year when the dry season comes, millions of wildebeests, zebras, and antelopes will start to migrate north from the grasslands of southeast Africa, because when the dry season comes, the grasslands here will become yellow, and if they don't leave, they will all starve to death. Sitting on a rented hot air balloon and watching the countless moving black lines on the grassland is like squatting in the corner of the wall as a child and watching ants move. When these black lines cross the Tanzanian border and enter Kenya, the Mara River will stand in front of them, and in addition to this moat, there are countless crocodiles, lions, and hyenas in the river and on the banks, waiting for the animals that have fallen behind to feast on them.
Whoever has poor physical strength will be drowned and eaten. This migration is not only for eating, but also for optimizing genes, only a healthy, strong individual can live, and its genes have the right to pass on, this is the law of natural selection of nature, cruel but effective, under this law, all animals are equal. The wildebeest will start breeding after migration, while lions and hyenas will choose this time of day when the food is most abundant to give birth to their young. In a holistic sense, these lions, hyenas, and crocodiles are helping the wildebeest to purify their population, and eating the old, weak, sick and disabled is both their job and their reward.
Unfortunately, the children don't understand this, and they will cheer for the wildebeest at first, then they will cry for the wildebeest, and finally cheer for the wildebeest. As for the lions, hyenas, and crocodiles, they have become negative characters in the eyes of children, and they are all criticized. Older children, such as Hong Shan, were already indignantly shooting down with small-caliber rifles, but unfortunately none of them could be hit.
"Why are you fighting lions and hyenas?" said Hong Tao chatted with the children as he returned to the camp for dinner, munching on crocodile meat.
"They're badass! They killed ponies and fawns!" Hong Shan answered Dad's question on behalf of his younger siblings.
"No! The lion will starve to death if he doesn't eat meat! There are so many wildebeests, and the lion can't eat them all, so why don't the lions eat them!" Vanessa's speech made Hong Tao feel that she was not necessarily weaker than Aoya in school, although she hadn't been by her side for a few years, but she had all the aggression in her body, just by looking at the way she liked to lead the bully dog around, she knew what kind of character she was. (To be continued......)