Chapter 188: Somali Pirates (Part I)
After saying this, Li Lan got up and walked out of the reception room, and Natasha followed closely behind.
There is no need for him to stay inside, if these people really want to buy weapons, then they will naturally be bound, and he doesn't want to say much about the rest.
It's not that too many words will be lost, but there is no need, because in a few days, there will be a lot of arms dealers and armed forces coming over, and today is just the beginning. And in his eyes, arms dealers are nothing more than a group of businessmen, and the amount that can be purchased is not much.
Li Lan's most valued customers are those third shijie countries. Instead of those arms dealers, as long as China and Russia, the two permanent members of the UN Security Council, are on his side, the United States and NATO will not be able to pass a UN resolution to impose all-round trade sanctions on him. The imposition of sanctions is only unilateral, and Li Lan is not afraid of this.
In just two years, he will be completely on his feet and will not have to continue to rely on others. Because when the time comes, even the United States will need to consider the outcome of the confrontation with an advanced navy, land and air force. In a non-asymmetric war, the United States was able to bring in a few allies who were willing to send troops.
As for the customer system created by the assistant, Li Lan will also give it to all customers, and as for whether they use it or not, he will not force it. Because as long as it is a normal person, it will be thought that this tablet must be deeply controlled by Li Lan, and those with bad intentions naturally need to be well considered.
If they don't want this system, then Li Lan will naturally sell it, but in terms of price, it will naturally be much higher, and there will inevitably be some special conditions. I believe that as long as it is driven by interests, there are still many people who are willing to use this system. Especially those places shili. This will certainly be welcomed.
However, this thing is not for everyone. At least those shili who don't enter the stream and arms dealers who don't scale up are not eligible for this thing. It's not that Li Lan is stingy. Rather, he intends to take the mid-to-high-end route.
If it weren't for the purpose of opening up the arms trade, he wouldn't have dealt with these arms dealers, after all, businessmen are all mercenary, and so is he, Li Lan. Therefore, his most inclined customer is the country, no matter where the country is, Li Lan will sell. Even if the United States wants to buy it, Li Lan is very willing to sell it.
And at the moment, all the sales lists. They only have weapons and equipment for the army, and none for the navy and air force. These two pieces of equipment are not yet on sale.
After walking out of the reception room, Li Lan, under the leadership of the hotel manager, went directly to Lin Meiqi's room.
After knocking on the door and entering, Maggie Lin, dressed in a crisp white dress, was standing on the balcony, letting the sea breeze blow, and a busy port of Bossaso could be seen in the distance.
"Are you done?"
Lin Meiqi's faint voice came from her ears, although the other party did not turn her head. But Li Lan still nodded and said, "Take you to a place." ”
"Where?"
"Didn't you always plan to make a documentary about Somali pirates? I'll take you to see the real pirates. Li Lan continued.
Lin Meiqi didn't say anything, nodded, and turned around. It seemed that he deliberately avoided Li Lan, lowered his head, and walked back to the room.
But. Li Lan still saw a trace of water stains in the corners of her eyes, and immediately stepped forward. Stretched out his hand and grabbed Lin Meiqi's shoulders, and hurriedly asked, "Are you crying?" Who bullied you? ”
"No one bullied me. I didn't cry either, the wind just rubbed into the sand. Lin Meiqi pinned her head to the side and said very calmly.
"Is there anything you can't tell me?" Seeing her reddish eyes, for some reason, Li Lan was particularly irritable.
"What is our relationship?" Lin Meiqi said lightly.
Hearing her rhetorical question, Li Lan was silent, and after a while, said, "Isn't it okay to care about friends?" ”
"Just friends?" Hearing Li Lan's answer, Lin Meiqi didn't know whether she was relaxed or heavier, but none of this could be seen from her face, and a smile that hadn't appeared for a long time suddenly appeared on her face, "Let's go!" ”
"Where to go?" Seeing Lin Meiqi's smile, Li Lan felt a faint pain in her heart.
"Aren't you going to take me to see pirates? I've got everything with me. The smile on Lin Meiqi's face was even softer, and she looked at Li Lan and smiled.
"Hmmm! I'll be waiting for you in the car. Looking at Lin Meiqi, who seemed to have figured it out suddenly, Li Lan just nodded lightly and let go of her hands. When he turned around, he didn't see tears in the corners of her eyes.
Ten minutes later, Lin Meiqi, who had refreshed, walked down the hotel, and now she seemed to have completely cheered up, sweeping away the negative emotions of the past two months. A smile appeared on his face again.
After Maggie Lin got into the car, the convoy restarted and slowly headed towards Bossaso Prison.
Five minutes later, the convoy Shijie drove into the prison. Stopped in front of the second gate of the prison. Through the second iron-barred gate, you can see hundreds of prisoners gathered in the prison activity square.
At this time, the prisoners were sitting on the ground one by one, each of them wearing heavy shackles on his feet. The arrival of the convoy attracted their attention, but they only looked at it, and they didn't mean to get up one by one.
In the cells around the activity square, many people were still locked up and not released for activities.
Around the square, dozens of Red Alert soldiers surrounded them in the middle, and on the four walls, there were also many machine guns. The guns were pointed directly at the prisoners.
Li Lan's arrival made the prison on high alert, and in a short period of time, the number of troops was doubled.
Li Lan, who got out of the car, just glanced at the people through the iron gate, and then followed directly behind the prison warden and walked to the small door on the side. Later, Maggie Lin and Natasha are the same.
Through the small door, Li Lan really walked into this prison, and there was no barrier with all the prisoners.
"Are these people pirates?" After entering, Li Lan glanced at the large group of prisoners who were staring at them, and asked the warden beside him.
The warden was originally a captain company commander, and since the capture of Bossaso, he has been sent here to serve as the warden. The original prison warden and detainees have long been in the Surud Mountains, enjoying the treatment of prisoners.
"Report to the commander, these people are people with pirate experience." The warden replied.
"Is the ashram arranged?" Li Lan said.
"It's already arranged, please come with me."
Led by the warden, the group of three came to a large empty house, which was already filled with rows of benches, and on the opposite side of the bench were three seats.
And when Li Lan and the others arrived, the Navy SEALs who protected them were already guarding inside. On the side, a camera has been set up.
"When you want to ask something, just ask directly, I'll watch." After walking in, Li Lan said to Lin Meiqi beside her.
Lin Meiqi nodded quietly.
Not long after, under the summoning of the Red Police soldiers, the prisoners who were originally basking in the sun walked in one after another and sat down one by one.
"This is your zuihou chance, what do we ask, you have to haode answer. If anyone dares to mess around, I guarantee that he will disappear on this shijie. When everyone came in, the warden gave a warning in Somali.
Looking at these scrawny pirates in front of him, Li Lan's heart was very responsible. This was the first time he had come into close contact with the pirates, and they thought they should be frowning, but none of them showed sadness on their faces, but they all smiled.
This is a prison, and they are in a cell here, not a house. If it weren't for the Bossaso occupied by Li Lan, some of these people would have gone to court to stand trial. It is precisely because of this that in Li Lan's opinion, they should have a sad face, but they all seem to be very glorious, and they don't look like prisoners who have been imprisoned at all.
Not only Li Lan, but Lin Meiqi also felt this way. The smiles on the faces of these people are really incomprehensible in the eyes of normal people. They are not as vicious as they imagined, and they give her the impression that they are no different from ordinary Somalis. It's hard to imagine that these people are pirates.
"Weishenme, you're all smiling, aren't you afraid to accept punishment?" This was Maggie Lin's first question.
When the Red Police soldier translated her question, many of the pirates laughed. One of them stood up and replied, "We are not pirates, we are heroes, heroes of Somalia." ”
His answer seemed to resonate with everyone, and everyone cheered.
"If you're heroes, how can you get caught here?" This is the second question.
"We are all Somalis, but we are not pirates, and there are many reasons why we were caught. First of all, we have never robbed, and we don't need to. Secondly, the biggest reason we were arrested is that we do not have a strong sovereign government, and there is no one to defend our interests. Fishing boats from other countries come to our shores to catch fish and drive away our fishing boats.
We don't ask for 12 nautical miles, and we have nothing to say about them coming to fish, but why should they drive away our fishing boats? To be clear, this sea has belonged to us Somalis since ancient times. Half of the Gulf of Aden belongs to Somalia. Not the fishing grounds of the Yemenis, and even less the backyards of the Indians.
The most hateful are those international convoys, they are not indiscriminate at all, as long as they are Somalis, it is all wrong. They didn't give us a chance to defend ourselves at all, and we were just ordinary fishermen, just to defend our rights and interests. The man seemed to be a little excited, and his voice slowly raised, waving his arms vigorously as he spoke.
Driven by him, others also shouted excitedly, and the scene was suddenly lively. (To be continued......)