CHAPTER XV
It's really not important anymore, Ndiaye and Royce have explained everything they should say, now they just need to go to their house to get the video and some other things, as for the others, Li Zhen doesn't care at all, just like Li Zhen said before, he is not French, and he will not participate in these things of the French.
However, it seems that France has a more magical tradition, and the heroes of this country do not seem to be natives...... When you are a French hero, nothing ends well, and this is something that is recognized all over the world.
Half an hour later, Li Zhen, who got the things, left Paris, and at the same time they also found the traces of Renault and Marca, these two guys had left Paris a day ago and went to Ethiopia, Li Zhen was also preparing to go to Ethiopia to capture these two people, obviously these two people are now the key to Li Zhen to find the hand of God.
"Little four, find a few clearer photos and send them to General Kaman, since you are in Ethiopia, you can't let them run!"
Ethiopia, located in the northeast of Africa, is a military power in Africa and one of the few powerful countries in Africa, but amazingly, this country is the least developed country in the world, and it is also one of the most prone to turmoil.
The country borders Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan, as well as Kenya and Eritrea, which originally belonged to Ethiopia, but in 1993 the region voted for independence and became an independent country, while Ethiopia's last port was lost and became a landlocked country.
The country has a large number of ethnic groups, so there has always been a sharp ethnic problem, which is an important reason for the outbreak of conflict in Ethiopia.
At present, there are a number of different armed groups in Ethiopia, in addition to the government army controlling some important cities, the armed front, the Ethiopian coalition front, and so on, more than 20 different armed forces of different sizes control the country in different regions, and the most amazing thing is that these armed groups are militia organizations recognized by the government.
The general meaning is that these armed groups are different from the anti-government armed groups in other African countries, they do not fight with the government army, but are hostile to each other with other armed groups, fighting to the death, while the government army does not care about the problems between these armed groups, no matter how serious the trouble is, as long as they do not touch the chassis of the government army, and at the same time, the leaders of these armed groups are still the leaders recognized by the government.
This is roughly the case, but the main reason is that the supporters behind these armed groups are different, which has led to the current situation, and Ethiopia is a relatively resource-rich country, producing gold, coal, copper, iron, oil and gas.
Many countries around the world have invested in development here, but Ethiopia's main economic source is agriculture, which is a very worthy matter.
Li Zhen arrived in Ethiopia at noon the next day, and as soon as the mobile phone was turned on, he read more than ten text messages, all of which were sent by the woman Julia, and it was obvious that the woman also asked for something, but some valuable things were all taken away by Li Zhen.
However, Li Zhen doesn't plan to give the information to Julia at this time, with this woman's ability, as well as the funnel-like secrecy of the French Intelligence Agency, it is estimated that if the information is sent here, Renault and Marca will be able to receive the news, and Li Zhen doesn't want to run in vain.
"How is General Carman now?"
After getting into the car, Li Zhen slowly asked, Kaman, Lat, a leader of the Southern Ethiopian National Front, this organization has about 50,000 people, controls some cities in the south, and is one of Li Zhen's customers, of course, not intelligence customers, but customers who buy arms.
This guy is more generous, but Li Zhen doesn't like to trade with this guy very much, because this guy has no cash, but he has some gold and diamond mines and oil fields under his name, and after every transaction, he will use these things to offset the payment, but the price of these things fluctuates with the market, bad luck, today with oil settlement tomorrow The price of oil plummets, and you will lose.
But Li Zhen still did business with this guy many times, and in general, doing business with this guy is a little more reliable than doing business with this group of guys in South America, at least Kaman will not take out a piece of white brick to settle accounts with you.
"General Kaman has been trying to buy some heavy weapons lately, and he has had some clashes with another armed group recently, but it's not on a large scale!"
After Li Zhen heard this, his eyes narrowed: "Heavy weapons?" Tell me more about what they are? ”
"The latest purchase list includes Katyusha rockets, third-generation tanks, armored vehicles and other equipment, but his demand is not high, and Ethiopia has no port, so it is a bit troublesome to ship in, and those who can afford to ship in feel that the profit is too low, and the general does not want to increase the price, so he has been looking for sellers in the international market!"
After Li Zhen heard it, he nodded slowly, it is true, the location of Ethiopia determines a very embarrassing problem, after the end of the Ethiopia-Eritrea war, there is no port, so it is more difficult for goods to enter Ethiopia, and it is necessary to enter Ethiopia by land transportation from Somalia.
However, the security of that place in Somalia has always been worrisome, and if the goods want to be transported safely across the border, they need to pay a certain price to hand over to the local warlords, there are many large and small warlords in Somalia, and it also takes a lot of money to buy roads, and if the goods are too small, they can't make money at all.
Arms trading is a high-risk industry, and who would want to do it without huge profits?
"How much does he need?"
"Twenty tanks, twenty armored vehicles, ten Katyusha launchers, plus ten base ammunition, by the way, he also wants to get some Scud missiles!"
"It's a bit small, how much will it cost us to transport it here?"
Li Zhen also has a business in Somalia, knows some warlords, and can save a lot by saying hello to the goods crossing the border, and he still needs some gifts to find Kaman to do things by himself.
"If the goods are concerned, they may be worth less than 30 million US dollars, and the toll will cost 1 million US dollars, but General Kaman's quotation is only 40 million US dollars, and it is offset by the goods, and it will take some time and process for us to sell the goods, and the profit is very low, not even more than three million!"
Xiao Si quickly calculated and gave a price, and after Li Zhen heard it, he shook his head, this profit is really pitifully low, who wants to work hard if the arms dealer does not have double the profit?
As for saying that Africa is poor? Can't get 40 million? It is true that 400,000 ordinary Africans may not be able to scrape together 40 million US dollars, but for African warlords, there is still money!