"Well, it's true that there is something, but buddy has just driven for six or seven hours, and he is dying of thirst on the road, do you give saliva to drink first, and then ......"

"Here you go, water!"

When the two entered the house, Lin Quan took out a bottle of red liquid from the refrigerator, and then poured a glass for Li Xiang. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Xiang picked up the cup, looked at it carefully, then asked again, and looked at Lin Quan suspiciously.

"Big brother, what is this? Can you drink it? ”

Lin Quan gave him a blank look, "Nonsense, why can't you drink what I'm doing in the refrigerator?" ”

As he spoke, he poured himself a glass, took it and took a sip gently, this cold feeling stimulated his tongue and throat, making people feel like a long drought and rain, very cool, and the faint mellow fragrance in it also made Lin Quan feel very intoxicated.

Seeing that Lin Quan had drunk it himself, Li Xiang carefully picked it up and took a sip.

"Huh? This is... Wine? ”

"You guessed it!"

Of course it's wine, but what else can it be if it's not wine? However, the taste of red wine is not the same as that of white wine, some red wine is put for a longer time, the more mellow the taste, and some red wine can not be stored for too long, just like the red wine that Lin Quan is drinking now, once they are put in the refrigerator, if they are not drunk quickly, they will deteriorate and acidify.

But cold wine tastes much better than beer.

Lin Quan has never liked beer very much, that kind of taste makes him feel very disgusted, not only does it support his stomach, but also tastes very bad, he can't understand why so many people like to drink it, and he wants to drink it from a big beer glass that is a liter, thinking of their stomachs like wine barrels, Lin Quan shuddered.

"Well, it tastes very good, very cold, very refreshing!"

After trying it for the first time, Li Xiang quickly accepted the taste, and he was indeed very thirsty at this time, so he drank several times in one go.

Lin Quan looked at him with strange eyes on the side, and Li Xiang felt that something seemed to be wrong.

"What's wrong, Brother Lin? Why are you looking at me like that? ”

Lin Quan shook his head, "It's nothing, I'm just curious, don't you know it's wine?" After drinking so much at once, what should I do if I get drunk later? ”

Li Xiang was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "It's nothing, you don't know how much I drink, Brother Lin, I have no problem with a few more bottles of wine of this degree!" ”

Lin Quan nodded, not wanting to continue wasting time on the matter of drinking.

"Say it! What the hell is going on with me? ”

Li Xiang laughed, "Brother Lin, you don't know yet, right?" Really don't know? ”

"Know what?" Li Xiang looks like the kind of person who is complacent.

"Didn't the leader of our country come here for a visit last year? You were still in Niamey at the time, I told you about it, didn't I? ”

Lin Quan thought about it for a while, when they went to Niamey last year, they did encounter this incident, when they saw the leader's motorcade in the embassy area, and now they think about it as if this incident has not been long in the past.

"Well, remember, what's wrong? Are you so happy, does it have something to do with it? ”

Lin Quan suddenly had a kind of realization, Li Xiang definitely didn't come to him to inform him of the news this time, in that case, a phone call would be solved, there was no need to run by himself, he came to find Lin Quan, and he had something to do with Lin Quan.

Sure enough, I saw Li Xiang say: "Of course it has something to do with this matter, Brother Lin, you know, Niger is a country rich in oil, but because of its inconvenient transportation, backward infrastructure, and their oil is basically in the depths of the desert, the extraction cost is very high, and the difficulty is also great, so few people are willing to come to exploit." ”

Lin Quan nodded, Niger is indeed the case, like southern Africa, for example, in places like Angola, even if they are located on the plateau of South Africa, and there are frequent wars in the country, the hostility and vendetta between various tribes are very serious, but because they have access to the sea, and the natural environment is much better than Niger, so many countries will exploit oil here, among which Chinese oil companies are also very active, many people don't know, China's current largest oil importer is not Russia, not Tsarist Arabia, but Angola.

It is such a small African country, whose oil exports account for about 18% of China's oil imports, ahead of Russia and Saudi Arabia.

And China's own oil production is not high, oil reserves are not much, so over the years began to invest and purchase oil outside, basically some major oil-producing countries have the shadow of Chinese capital, such as Iran, Iraq, Angola, Venezuela, Niger and Chad, like some countries in Central Asia that contain rich oil and natural gas are also included, such as Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and other countries, these countries may not be heard of by many people, because of their sparse population, The country is small, and there has been little presence in the international community, so unless there is a major natural disaster, it is basically difficult to get in the newspapers, and the presence is very low.

So people don't know about them, but these countries are important to China, because China needs to rely on their oil and gas.

And China is also important to these countries, because if China, the world's largest oil importer, does not buy their oil, their national finances will be very difficult.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a country as large as Lao Maozi could only rely on selling oil to survive, let alone these smaller and weaker economies.

In 2012, the international oil price was very crazy, and the price of oil at this time had soared to a historic high in March, reaching as high as $125 per barrel of oil!

Oil is so expensive, oil-producing countries are elated one by one, for example, Russia, they have put forward a lot of welfare policies, to improve people's livelihood, Putin the Great also put forward the Russian army reconstruction plan, how many rubles to invest, the Russian army's equipment is updated, after all, the navy's broken ships, has not been replaced for decades, every year in the Sino-Russian joint military exercises, their navy is those ships, very embarrassing, in front of the former little brother is simply embarrassed to throw home.

And at this time, countries like China are very painful, because oil prices are too expensive, and China, which imports nearly 400 million tons of oil every year, will have to pay at least $150 billion more just because of the rise in oil prices! That's an outrageously high number!