8-42 National events in the bathhouse

After Martin's introduction, everyone roughly understood the domestic situation in Western Sadamoa, this small West African country has recently changed its political situation from a small constitutional monarchy to a military dictatorship in the blink of an eye, the captain of the Wendu army has become the president of Western Sadamoa, and the original royal family members are dead and fleeing, and the only remaining people are surviving in the jungle, relying on the support of the Caye tribe to fight against the Kuba regime.

Western Sadamoa is located in the middle of West Africa, the tributaries of the Congo River pass through the territory, flow into the Gulf of Guinea, San Juan is a port city, but also the only city in the country, the port equipment is backward, can not berth large ocean-going ships, maritime trade has to rely on the deep-water ports of neighboring countries, there is an airport in the country, but also can not take off and land large jet airliners, only a few rare African routes are barely operating.

The official language of this country is Portuguese, as well as the Wendu and Caye native languages, these two ethnic groups together form the Kingdom of Western Sadamoa, in the early colonial rule, the Portuguese governor adopted a divide-and-rule method, supported the Wendu people, suppressed the Caye people, the Wendu people have more opportunities to get education, doctors, lawyers, teachers, policemen, these professions are also mostly occupied by the Wendu people, but after the independence of the colony in the sixties, the political situation in Western Sadamoa was reversed, and the Caya people seized power by armed force with the support of the Soviet UnionThe People's Republic of Western Sadamoa was established, and the Caya people took high positions and used class struggle to oppress the Wendu people, who had been entrenched over them for centuries, and the Wendu regime, with the help of Western mercenaries, waged a civil war with the armed government forces of the Soviet Union for more than two decades.

In the mid-eighties, the Soviet Union in the African continent in a comprehensive contraction of the front, under the coordination of the international community and the original suzerain, Western Sadamoa restored peace, adopted a unique constitutional monarchy, the head of the country by the chiefs of various ethnic groups in turn, the term of office of two years, this rotation of the emperor in the way of governance made the country lack of long-term planning, the domestic political situation has been turbulent for a long time, ethnic contradictions have intensified, San Juan has become a dangerous powder keg, just a month ago, an accidental incident led the fuse, Army Captain Jean. Kuba led a rebel army of Wendu soldiers to capture the palace, kill the Caye king, and proclaim himself the state of Western Sadamoa.

"Is it officially the start of the fight?" Li Jianguo, who had been listening silently, suddenly flicked the ashes of his cigarette and asked, as a professional soldier, he was quite interested in this war thousands of miles away.

"The war has begun, and finally the king's army has fled into the rainforest and started a guerrilla war with the government army, and now we Kaye are the people to arm the whole people against the tyranny of Kuba." Martin said with a wave of his fist.

"I'm asking, what form do you take to fight, specifically." Li Jianguo asked.

Martin was stunned for a moment and said: "A war is a war, and we attack the rebels who dare to invade our tribe with all weapons, with bows and arrows, with spears, with fists. ”

"Understood." Li Jianguo didn't ask any more, the scale of a civil war in a country with only two or three hundred people in the whole team can be imagined, and it is estimated that the level of military friends playing aRgame is lower.

"Why not call the attention of the international community." Liu Ziguang asked.

"There is an Associated Press reporter in San Juan, two local employees of the BBc, and no one will be interested in everything that is born here, because there is no oil in Western Sadamoa, there is no gold and diamonds, and the capitalists and politicians of the West do not look at it more than that, and whoever is the president or king of this country, it makes no difference to them, I think they don't even bother to change the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

With that, Martin spread his hands and grabbed the Chivas Regal bottle and took a few puffs.

"If ......," Liu Ziguang muttered, "I mean, if we sponsor you Kaye to regain power, what will we get in return?" ”

A hint of surprise flashed in Martin's eyes, and then he shook his head and said: "My dear friend, I'm afraid I can't make any promises, now the country is in the hands of Kuba, the treasury is in his hands, the banks and importers and exporters are all Wendu people, and we Caye have nothing, no dollars, no gold, nothing that interests you. ”

Liu Ziguang nodded, Martin's honesty made him understand that the predicament faced by the Caye clan was more difficult than he had imagined.

"Even the poor can't afford even a few hundred AKs, can they?" Bei Xiaoshuai interjected and asked.

Martin shrugged: "Arms procurement is not a simple matter, in fact, I came to the Chenguang Factory to purchase bows, arrows and spears because of this road, as we all know, the arms trade is the most profitable business in addition to drug trading, the world's largest arms dealers are the five permanent members of the Security Council, and then there are some cross-** arms groups and small arms smugglers, and black market arms dealers are the lowest level in this industry." ”

"Yes, this is reliable, I think it is also said in "Lord of War"." Bei Xiaoshuai nodded yes.

"First of all, I don't represent the government of Western Sadamoa, I can't get the certificate of end user, so the regular arms dealers won't deal with me, and arms transactions between countries are often accompanied by political transactions, and the foreign ministers of any country will not be interested in meddling in the internal affairs of such a small African country, and they can't even find this place in Western Sadamoa on the map, so ......" said Martin, expressing his helplessness with a very African expression.

"And ordinary arms dealers will not look at the small business of 200 AK47, the light weapons business depends on the volume to make money, they value the kind of high-tech weapons, such as shoulder-fired missiles that can shoot down passenger planes, or micro nuclear devices, fighter stealth coatings or something, arms dealers never care how many * women and children will be killed by the weapons they sell, they only care about how many green banknotes they can earn, so you can't expect someone to be kind and sell me 200 AK47 cheaply."

"What about the black marketeers, have you tried it? I know that Danao in the Philippines and some areas along the border with Pakistan can produce light weapons, which are two-thirds cheaper than the market price, and they are cheap and sufficient, and they don't care if you are bin Laden or cIa, they just pay for it with one hand and deliver it with the other. Zhuo Li also played with some of the posts he had read on the Internet.

"I'm just a poor student, I've only been to China, I've only done some clothing and electronics trade, I've never been to places like the Philippines and Pakistan, I don't have experience dealing with terrorists, and even if I have money to buy weapons, there's no way to ship them back to China." Martin spread his hands out.

Zhuo Li held his head on one arm and pondered, the room fell into silence, the five men were desperately smoking, thinking about how to help Martin, during which the waiter came in to help them clean up the wine bottles and ashtrays, the waiter would never have dreamed that these five men were in the private room of the bathing center, discussing a major national event!

"I know a friend who may have some supplies on hand, and he doesn't care about the size of the business, and he has the means of transportation, so I asked him to see if I could make up a ...... By the way, Martin, how many people do you have there who can make guns? ”

Martin pondered for a moment and said, "Some of the former King's Guards were skilled in handling guns, there were about a dozen of them, and the tribal warriors could only use bows and arrows and spears, in fact, they were still in their primitive stage, and even training required considerable effort. ”

Liu Ziguang and Li Jianguo exchanged glances and understood what Martin meant, the so-called tribal warriors are the original raw people, primitive people, I am afraid that they don't even wear clothes, so it is not much more difficult for them to learn to use automatic rifles and let orangutans learn to use bows and arrows.

"I have a plan." Liu Ziguang stood up and paced two steps, his cigar smoking in his hand, with a strategizing posture.

"How much money can you Kaye come up with, I will make appropriate allocations according to your financial strength, it is absolutely impossible to do without firearms, but it is not possible to rely on firearms alone, I think it is more appropriate for the two to match each other."

"Fifteen million ......"

Zhuo Li and Bei Xiaoshuai gasped and looked at each other, Li Jianguo also showed a grim smile, Liu Ziguang stopped and asked in a deep voice: "Dollars?" ”

"Not ......"

"Renminbi?"

"It's not ...... It is the Western Sadamoan peso. ”

Martin said, taking out a few banknotes from his pocket, the huge banknotes were printed in good quality, with Latin characters and black heads in European military uniforms, and the face value was 10,000 yuan.

"This is the currency in circulation in our country, the Western Sadamoan peso, this coin can be exchanged for about ten dollars, after Kuba came to power, the political situation was turbulent, the currency depreciated, and now it can only be a few cents more than a dollar, and it is still falling."

Everyone has a black line, smokes and doesn't speak, and only thinks about the great cause of restoring the country for more than 10,000 yuan.

Bei Xiaoshuai took one of them, looked at the watermark at the light, and said with an idea: "I have a solution." ”

"Tell me about it."

"Take this money to the bank door to deceive the old lady, and say that it is euros......"

Before he finished speaking, he was slapped on the head by Zhuo Li: "Pull it down, you can come up with this bad idea, I think you are underdrawn!" ”

Bei Xiaoshuai covered his head: "I'm just joking, it's really fighting." ”

"The African class brothers are in dire straits, and you still have the heart to joke, and it is light to whip you."

"Okay, okay, in the early years, when the revolutionary martyrs beat the devils, they also wanted guns and no guns, and they didn't want money or money, and they didn't beat the Japanese devils away in the eight-year War of Resistance, and if you have less money, you will think of a way to have less money, by the way, Martin, you are also a foreign student, and you belong to the elite of your Caye tribe, what kind of official are you in the government-in-exile?"

"I'm the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commerce." Martin replied solemnly, pulling on his non-existent tie as he spoke.

The brothers were all happy, and laughed and said: "Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commerce, this is at least a vice-ministerial-level official, buddy didn't expect you to be an official very quickly, by the way, do you have a knighthood?" ”

"Probably you have forgotten that I am the prince of Western Sadamoa, and the old king who was killed by Kuba was my grandfather."

The laughter stopped abruptly, and everyone silently patted Martin on the shoulder as a sign of mourning.