Chapter 60: The Pony Thief Who Came as He Spoke
"Hey, I'm timid, is what you said true or false?"
Lin Quanxin is indeed a little undecided, if what Dennis said is true, then he will not do this transaction, living here alone may be suddenly attacked by horse thieves who don't know where to come out one day, and it seems that there is no profit space at all in the desert farm, although the government's support is strong, but their purpose is nothing more than to attract people to come over for them to prevent and control desertification, and most of the plants that can grow in dry areas of the desert do not have economic value, and it is difficult to produce economic benefits after planting, which is very embarrassing。 Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Of course, Lin Quan didn't come here for any noble cause of all mankind, of course, his purpose was to make money, and at the moment, the money was not easy to earn, and his life was in danger, such a thing made him immediately retreat.
"Really... It's also fake!"
Denise deliberately hung Lin Quan's appetite, and the previous words followed the words with a big gasp.
"What's really fake? Are there any horse thieves here?"
Lin Quan had a straight face, looking very unhappy, after all, this is a matter of personal safety, and he can't joke like this.
"Uh, why are you so fierce? Don't you know how to be gentle with girls? Boys should be gentlemen, humble, and ...... Okay, okay, I'll tell you, don't go!"
Denise was proud, feeling that she had let out a sigh of relief, and she felt much more pleasing to the eye when she looked at Lin Quan.
Lin Quan turned around and looked at her calmly, with a frank and lenient expression of resistance and strictness.
"There are indeed horse thieves here, but this is a mountainous area, there are more sand dunes, nomads usually come here after the rainy season in May, and most of them will go to both sides of Highway 11, after all, there are more people living next to the road, so the situation over there will be more dangerous, but in recent years, after the government army, the number of these horse thieves has been very small, so you don't have to worry here." ”
Lin Quan thought to himself, is the government army of Yenier so strong?
"How many government forces are in Niger to the north?"
Denise thought for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "It seems that there is an infantry battalion of more than 1,000 people! ”
Lin Quan was taken aback, the second largest city, Agadez, only has an army of more than 1,000 people?
"Is there such a small army in Niger? How many of them are there?"
Denise smiled and said, "It seems that there are more than 5,000 people! If the number of people is round, it is indeed much smaller than your Chinese army!"
Lin Quan glared at her, but there was nothing he could do about her, China's army ranks first in the world, and the army of more than 2.3 million is indeed a little scary, she said that there are a lot of people, and Lin Quan can't refute it, after all, the number is here, you can't kill it and not admit it!
It's just that he didn't expect Niger's military strength to be so weak, a country with a population of about 20 million, the army is less than 10,000, which is a little unbelievable, if it is known as the world's first power under the leadership of its great leader **** Sun, its domestic army has more than 1.2 million, and the special forces alone have more than 88,000!
The 88,000-strong special forces are amazing to my brother! It can only be said that the great leader also pays attention to numbers and auspiciousness, heheda!
In fact, if he knew the economic situation of Niger, he probably wouldn't be too surprised by this situation, Niger as the poorest country in the world, its GDP is even twice as low as North Korea, plus it has been sanctioned by the West African Union and European and American countries for a long time, the economic situation is very bad, the domestic economy is completely only the primary industry of agricultural products and some minerals in exchange for foreign exchange, its government revenue is very low, and the annual investment in the military is only about 18 billion CFA francs, well, the exchange rate of the CFA franc is slightly higher than the previous TSNY shilling, and the exchange rate between the RMB is about 88:1, 10,000 CFA francs can be exchanged for almost 115 yuan, so 18 billion military spending seems a lot, but in fact it is only about 200 million yuan, considering the number of its troops, so its per capita military expenditure is about one-tenth of that of Chinese soldiers.
An average person can only get an average of $6,000 in military expenses, and a soldier has a lot of equipment in his hand, not to mention, at least a gun! And a desert eagle pistol costs 1200 US dollars, an M4A1 automatic rifle costs 3200 US dollars, these two guns combined, the military budget is about the same, and the price of 1000 rounds of 7.62 mm rifle bullets is about 80 US dollars, there is a gun and you have to contact shooting, this is all money, so the most expensive is actually the army, this is just military equipment, what armored vehicles, tanks, artillery, that is all gold-swallowing monsters!
And it's not enough to just have someone, at least pay a salary every year, get rid of weapons, and the salary will probably only. $100 per person per month?
I feel pitiful when I think about it, I can't live this day!
In fact, the real situation is not like this, Niger's military spending is very low, but they don't worry about weapons, the reason is that they are a former colony of France, plus the location is important, there is oil and uranium mines in the country, so the Americans also attach great importance to them, these two countries are military powers, especially the Americans, they fight wars everywhere, use countless weapons, and eliminate so many weapons, casually take out some weapons are regarded as treasures by other countries.
Niger, like Egypt, belongs to the United States' military aid countries, and most of their weapons are provided by the United States, including M109 howitzers, ASV150 infantry armored vehicles and M1114 patrol armored vehicles, etc., and the number of tanks is small, after all, the M1A1 Abrams are too expensive, and the Americans reluctantly send some Patton improved tanks.
In fact, Niger's national security problem is not big, no external country wants to invade him, but the internal environment is not very good, Denise said that the horse thief is only one aspect, and the domestic rebels are entrenched in all parts of the country, among which the Saharan armed forces and the Tubu and Tuareg rebels pose a great threat to the government and businessmen, and in the past few years, there have been many incidents of hostage kidnapping for ransom, so the social security in Niger is not good.
And just when Lin Quan was chatting with Denise, two people on camels found them in the distance, they first observed some, but did not find the car of the two nearby, so they searched along the range where the two were located, and after making sure that there were no other companions, they slowly approached, and by the time Lin Quan found that something was wrong, they were already very close.
Lin Quan immediately saw the AK guns in their hands, and sighed in his heart, is this a horse thief?