Half a month passed quietly.

In this half a period of time, Li Lan successfully passed through Muhammadi and sold 100 AK-47 automatic rifles and 50,000 rounds of ammunition. Although these cost 6250 base funds, Li Lan also brought a lot of food and fuel, which are two necessary consumables.

In the past month and a half, a mining truck in the ore refinery has brought Li Lan a total of 75,000 base funds.

In recent days, he has built five more magnetic reactors and an ore refining plant. Sadly, even with the ore refinery, the recovery time of the mining cart has not decreased much, only ten minutes. When he learned this number, Li Lan was so angry that he jumped to his feet.

Fortunately, in half a month, Li Lan built two mining vehicles in one go. The first one was four days later, and in these eleven days, it brought Li Lan 55,000 funds. The second car was six days later, and now it has also brought Li Lan 45,000 funds.

Then, on the seventh day, he built another ore extraction shaft on top of the iron ore, because one ore extraction shaft could only satisfy three mining trucks. During the three days from the eighth to the tenth day, three more mining carts ran around him. These three new mining vehicles alone brought 80,000 dollars to the base.

Within less than a month of coming to Somalia, Li Lan had basically completed the basic construction of the base. Two ore extraction shafts, two ore refining plants, and six mining vehicles form a considerable capital recovery capacity. Although in addition to the original mining vehicles, ore refining plants, and ore extraction shafts, Li Lan has spent 127,000 base funds for this purpose in the past half month, but he has also received an income of 30,000 base funds per day. It's nothing compared to that.

In half a month, excluding the 3,000 funds that spent 6,250 funds on the production of weapons and five magnetic energy reactors, the remaining 40,400 funds seem to be a lot, but there is not much left so far.

At present, the base has seven magnetic reactors, three military camps, two tank factories, two sentinel guns, and two machine gun bunkers. For this reason, Li Lan's funds are only 14,400 left. This was followed by a series of enclosure activities, first with the construction of a magnetic reactor in the distance, followed by a fenced enclosure.

With a lot of money invested in the base, the defense units are constantly being built every day. With the base as the central point, a full three kilometers of extension, even the ore extraction shaft is within the bounds of the fence. Today's base is surrounded by a huge wall eight kilometers long and six kilometers wide.

Not counting the gaps left behind, the total length of the wall has reached 28 kilometers, covering an area of 48 square kilometers, and these walls, the base cost 42,000 dollars. And if you count the walls that Li Lan also built for each construction unit, in the fence alone, a total of 72,000 base funds have been used in the past half a month.

Covering an area, although there is the protection of the wall, it also needs to be armed enough, and Li Lan is not stingy with the remaining 72,000 base funds. Of course, this is also when 30,000 base funds come in every day, and he will boldly use it.

Ninety soldiers, thirty military dogs, ninety sets of equipment, ten engineers, ten trucks, although each of these things is not a lot of money, but it adds up to a lot, which is enough to consume 31750 base funds.

Moreover, in order to strengthen the training of soldiers, Li Lan also produced a large number of bullets for their use. These days, a hundred soldiers have consumed more bullets than Li Lan has sold these days. In half a month, 60,000 rounds of ammunition worth 1,500 funds were consumed, and the average person consumed only forty rounds of ammunition per day.

Originally, there were still 38,750 funds, but last night and this morning, Li Lan lit two more sentry cannons and placed them on both sides of the gate that Li Lan had designated as the gate of the outer wall. Now there is only 28,750 base funds left to use.

Money comes and goes fast. After half a busy month, the base has changed greatly. The 48 square kilometers currently occupied by the base are enough to meet Li Lan's development needs for a long time.

In the next period of time, Li Lan will focus on the defense construction of the base. According to his jihua, the perimeter wall of the main base must also be reinforced, at least one wall, with the defense of two walls, so that security will be guaranteed.

Moreover, at the exit of the perimeter wall, there must be a strong firepower counterattack ability. Although the sentry gun is a little expensive, the three-kilometer warning range and the twin 30-mm cannon are already worth the price. With a large number of military dogs running on guard and soldiers patrolling, the base can be regarded as the most basic security guarantee.

However, now Li Lan needs engineers, and even more so cement. Because the interior of the base is still a primitive dirt floor, although the ground is very hard, the dust is very nasty.

Cement is not a rarity in Somalia, but it is not an easy task to obtain large quantities of cement. However, money can make ghosts grind, and this truth is basically suitable for all human societies.

Although none of the weapons sold by Li Lan have been directly exchanged for money during this period, weapons, like the US dollar, are the main items in circulation in Somalia.

However, there is one point, the cement in Somalia is in the hands of the local government, and since Li Lan is considered to have been smuggled over, he cannot buy cement from the local government in his own capacity without a certificate from the Somali Embassy in China.

And Muhammadi did not have a lot of access to cement in this regard, and an obvious problem was in front of Li Lan, he had to go to Bossaso. This trip is only a matter of time or time, cement is just a fuse, and there will be many other needs in the future, requiring him to go to Bossaso.

Since yesterday, he has been preparing for this trip, and in the car page of the base, in addition to the truck, there are two icons that can be built, one is an armed off-road vehicle, and the other is an armed off-road quad bike.

After Li Lan was ready to set off for work today, he also completed the production of four armed off-road vehicles yesterday.

At noon, four armed off-road vehicles and four military trucks left the base and headed east towards Bossaso. On this trip, the soldiers who protected Li Lan were led by Ahmet, of course, not only these soldiers, but also the soldiers who stayed at the base to guard the town, and they were also led by Ahmet.

As he passed through his village, he was already waiting on the side of the road, and after he got into the armed SUV where Li Lan was, the convoy continued towards Bosasso, more than 200 kilometers away.

"My friend, you're so punctual." As soon as he got into the car, Mohammadi took the lead in greeting Li Lan, and the Somali habit was fully revealed: "I am very happy every time I see you, have you had a good time?" ”

"I'm glad to meet you, too." Li Lan is also very familiar with Muhammadi's greetings when he meets them these days, and he is glad that he does not have a camel many times, otherwise he will definitely ask about the camel when he greets him. However, Li Lan also likes this kind of greeting, which can make people feel extra cordial and friendly.

"But, my friend, are you going to war?" After the greetings, Muhammadi asked puzzledly: "The armed Liliang you brought is very powerful, four armed vehicles and four large trucks." ”

"They're just here to protect me, and they don't want to go to war with the other forces." Li Lan explained. He was very uncertain about the trip, and this time he came out with sixty soldiers and some heavy weapons on the truck.

"In that case, then listen to me, let the big trucks behind you not enter the city, and let us four armed vehicles enter the city. Otherwise, others will think that you are provoking. When Muhammadi said this, after seeing that Li Lan's face did not look unhappy, he continued: "Come into the city with me, and the armed men inside will not do anything to you, at least they will not point their guns at you. ”

"Well, I trust you, and I'll have them wait outside the city when the time comes." Li Lan nodded, and did not refuse Mohammadi's suggestion.

"Also, my friend, as you know, we Somalis have a lot of taboos, and I hope you can remember them." Mohammadi also knew that Li Lan did not know much about Somalia, and in order to avoid unnecessary trouble after entering the city, he was obliged to remind his good friend.

"In our country, men are not allowed to enter mosques without permission, men are not allowed to hold out their hands to shake hands with ladies, they are not allowed to ask about their age in person, they are not allowed to inquire about their salaries, they are not allowed to ask others curiously if they are married, they are not allowed to speak words that are detrimental to the Somali state or nation, they are not allowed to eat pork, horse, donkey, mule, etc., and they are not allowed to drink alcohol in Muslim areas. The main point is that you can't take pictures at will without the consent of others, especially for women, which is taboo. Also, you can't talk about pirates, and it's better not to mention them at all.

As long as there are no taboos in Somalia, Somalia is still very friendly to the Chinese. ”

"Weishenme can't ask pirates?" Li Lan just nodded at these taboos, indicating that he knew, but Li Lan had a lot of curiosity about pirates.

"Listen to me, you really can't talk about pirates, because the other party will turn their faces at any time. As for the reason, if you have time, I will take you to find out in detail. Seeing that Li Lan seemed to be very interested in pirates, Muhammadi said very seriously again.

"Alright! I remember, so what can I say? Seeing that Muhammadi didn't want to solve his doubts, Li Lan did not continue, but diverted the topic.

"If it's someone you're not familiar with, there's no need to say anything, just a normal greeting." Muhammadi said.

Later, Li Lan listened to some basic information about Bossaso and made preparations for this trip as much as possible.