No My Dish 2 - Ghana Gold Rush Origins
Shang Linpan drove me and Xiao Yin to Bai Ying's villa to pick up Bai Ying, and then ate at a Turkish restaurant in Accra. I've already called Bai Ying, and when we arrived at Bai Ying's villa, Bai Ying had already taken a shower and changed into a maroon shirt and black slacks, and her hair and shawl were not completely dry. Shang Lin Pan drove his car, a Range Rover 5.0 displacement, to be honest, I didn't know that this car was a Land Rover, Land Rover I also only knew the name Land Rover in a TV series "Snail House", I can still remember what Song Siming said: "The man who drives this car is bloody, and he hopes to have a Land Rover." After holding back in the city for a long time, I hope that I will grow up like a wild horse, with a mane, fluttering in the wind. Land Rover is a man's legs, the wind blowing in the air. "Since then, I've had a Land Rover dream in my heart.
"Uncle Shang, have you changed cars? Domineering changed Land Rover? "I got out of the car and took Bai Ying into the back seat, Shang Linpan drove, Xiao Yin sat in the co-pilot, Bai Ying and I sat in the back seat, Bai Ying said to Shang Linpan.
"Yes, that domineering gave my nephew a drive to Kumasi, so he bought another one." Shang Linpan pretended to be over his head and said to Bai Yan, "Xiaobai, you see that I have a very speculative conversation with your boyfriend, I invite him to do it with me, I let him be my CEO, it's called CEO, anyway, it means that he will manage a few gold mines for me, you help me talk about it, Xiaosheng he doesn't want to!" If he wants this car, I'll make him a special car and let him drive it."
"I can't handle this!" Bai Bai smiled and looked at me as he spoke.
"Mr. Shang, you're laughing, you think too highly of me!" I was also embarrassed to say it.
"I'm telling the truth!" Shang Linpan drove the car and said.
"Uncle Shang, the car has changed, and the little girl has also changed!" Bai Yan changed the topic and asked Xiao Yin, the co-pilot. Xiao Yin heard Bai Yan talk about her, her face turned red all of a sudden, and her cheeks flushed shyly.
"This is Xiao Yin, the translator newly invited by Mr. Shang!" I hurriedly broke the embarrassment and answered for Shang Linpan.
The three of us continued to chat, and after about 30 minutes we arrived at a restaurant in Accra, where the plaque said "TURKEYSTYLE" - Turkish style, and we went in and sat down in a four-seater. Shang Linpan asked Xiao Yin to talk to the waiter, and Xiao Yin spoke fluently, and it could be heard that Xiao Yin's spoken language was quite good, with a slight Guangxi accent. Xiao Yin ordered a large Turkish roast plate with the waiter and ordered two bottles of freshly squeezed juice.
"I won't ask you what you eat, I'll order you a plate of their signature dishes at the Turkish restaurant, the signature juice you ordered, here's a menu of them, I don't understand, if there's anything else delicious, you can just order it." Shang Linpan handed the menu to Bai Ying.
Bai Ying flipped through the menu and ordered a cup of hot tea, but to be honest, I couldn't understand many words on the menu, so I simply said that I didn't need it for the time being.
"Xiaobai, Xiaosheng, let's take a sip first, I salute you" Shang Linpan picked up the juice and saluted us. We raised our wine glasses to thank him, and Bai Ying also raised the wine glass and motioned for Xiao Yin next to her to drink together, Xiao Yin was flattered and raised it to take a sip and said a very light "thank you".
"Xiaobai, there is something I need your help with. I have 20 old Sany excavators in China I want to ship over, can you help me see how much is a unit from Fangchenggang, Guangxi, and then how long will it take? Shang Linpan said straight to the point.
"Uncle Shang, do you have a specific list of excavators, you give me a copy, I'll go back and calculate it, and I'll reply to you within three days." So that's why you invited me to dinner today! I thought it was your nephew's business! You can just call me about this. Bai Yan smiled and said to Shang Linpan.
"This is by the way, the most important thing is that you and Xiaosheng, the golden boy and the girl, I invite you to dinner, I am also honored, you helped me several times in advance, I haven't invited you to dinner properly, I was quite embarrassed about that last time, and today I apologize to you!" Shang Linpan stood up and poured juice for Bai Ying and me.
Bai Ying and Shang Lin Pan have known each other for a long time, Shang Lin Pan has customs clearance for Bai Ying in advance, and his nephew has a good relationship with A Feng, so he gave the business to A Feng, and A Feng finally cleared Bai Ying, and his nephew also lied that there was no business import customs clearance recently, Bai Ying saw the bill of lading that A Feng gave her and immediately understood the meaning, so the deliberate customs clearance was very slow, so Shang Lin Pan spent more than 100,000 wharf demurrage. Shang Linpan's nephew went to the dock yard office last time to find Bai Ying trouble, smashed the glass window of Bai Ying's office, and was directly arrested by Bai Ying's friends at the police station, and finally Shang Linpan went out to intercede with Bai Yan to be released on bail, and now his nephew's passport is still held in the police station. Of course, these are what Bai Xi told me later. In front of me, the gentle and lovely white, I didn't expect that in the eyes of these Guangxi bosses, it was a god-like existence.
The dinner was very boring, Xiao Yin didn't talk much, mainly Shang Linpan interceded with Bai Ying in my name, and the excavator that he was about to transport hinted to Bai Yan to operate, and then hinted that his nephew's case could let Bai Ying get his passport back.
I am also in the middle of the embarrassment of Bai Ying and Shang Lin Pan, Bai Ying said a lot of things or have something to say, a little sarcastic Shang Lin Pan, in order to avoid the atmosphere of solemnity, I tried to change the topic and asked Shang Lin Pan when he came to Ghana and how he came to Ghana These topics.
The earliest Chinese who came to Ghana to pan for gold were not Shanglin people, but Hunan people, and whether they were Hunan people or Shanglin people, they were related to a person, and Su Zhenyu, a well-known figure in the Ghana gold mining circle. Su Zhenyu is said to have been in Ghana for more than 15 years, he himself graduated from the Department of Foreign Chinese of Guangxi University for Nationalities, and after graduation, he worked for a travel agency in Beihai, Guangzhou. From this point of view, Su Zhenyu seems to have nothing to do with Africa, let alone gold mining. The turning point for Su Zhenyu came when he decided to come to the development stage, after working in a travel agency for two years, he worked as a casino translator in Ghana introduced by a friend. Later, after working for a few years, Su Zhenyu started his own business, recycling mineral water bottles, which is to recycle and crush bottles thrown away by blacks and sell them to Chinese plastic factories. Soon the young paid the price, Su Zhenyu's factory closed, he went to engage in brewing business again, this time she pulled a domestic shareholder, it backfired and he failed, and was suspected by the shareholders of him embezzling investment funds, mainly at that time about 2000 when there were still few Chinese in Ghana, there were even fewer Chinese restaurants, and his wine sales were basically not guaranteed, and there was no place to sell. Later, he also raised pigs and sold small commodities, all of which were not successful without exception, and it can only be said that there was no extra money to maintain his expenses in Ghana.
A stubborn man spent money with Garner like this, vowing not to return home if he didn't get famous. Later, in 2003, he met a Hunan man who asked about the gold panning in Ghana, and because of winemaking and pig farming, he had accumulated a certain local relationship with the mountainous region of Ghana, and he met Banana, a friend of Chief Kumasi, whose literal translation is banana. In this way, Su Zhenyu matchmaking introduced Hunan people to Ghana to pan for gold, and he started an intermediary business, because the equipment of Hunan people was too complicated, at that time, gold digging was only enough to maintain the cost, and only when he was lucky, he could make money, so at that time, Hunan people came in a few waves and no one was willing to come. The first Hunan man brought gold digging equipment is now stored in the National Museum of Ghana.
Hunan people persevered for two years, and finally achieved success, Hunan Xiangtan TV station also sent reporters to Ghana for on-the-spot interviews, and wrote a series of reports "Hunan businessmen in Africa", which was very popular on the Internet.
In the summer of 2006, Su Zhenyu returned to China to visit relatives, because he had struggled in Africa for several years and did not make any money, but his parents asked him, and he said that he was a native of Hunan to pan for gold there. Parents all over the world like to praise their children, lest people in the world not know that their son is digging for gold in Africa, Su Zhenyu's mother said that her son was panning for gold in Africa when she saw people.
said that the overhearer had a heart, and a couple heard that they took the initiative to find Su Zhenyu to learn about the gold panning in Ghana, and as a result, they went to North Korea, yes, to North Korea.
And a person named Lu Zhaozi chatted with the couple about Su Zhenyu's situation in Ghana's gold panning, and decided to go to Ghana to inspect it together. It was this expedition that completely changed the history of the gold rush in Ghana, and also changed the entire Shanglin gold diggers.