The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the third largest in Africa in terms of land area, after the Federation of Somalia and Algeria, and the fifth most populous in Africa, with more than 80 million people according to the latest statistics.

However, with more than 2 million square kilometers, a population of more than 80 million, and the second largest river in the world, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a total economy of only $20 billion and a per capita GDP of just over $200, making it one of the poorest countries in the world.

There are no light and heavy industries, only ordinary processing industries, which mainly include food, textiles, footwear, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical appliances, automobile assembly, wood processing and building materials, and their output value accounts for 1.3% of GDP. Due to the shortage of funds and the insufficient supply of raw materials, the normal operating rate is only 30%, and it has only gradually recovered in recent years with the support of the Somali Federation.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the second largest source of revenue, relying mainly on minerals and exports, accounting for about 33% of GDP. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a predominantly agrarian country, with annual crop income accounting for 45 per cent of GDP.

The rest of the treasury is to rely on the 13,000-kilometre river tax revenue of the Congo River to barely support the country's normal functioning, and it will require at least $1.1 billion in outside aid every year to survive.

In the past, Belgium, France, the United States and other countries were bailing out the Democratic Republic of the Congo and owed $5 billion in foreign debt. In recent years, it has largely relied on non-reimbursable assistance from the Somali Federation and the African Union. This has also made the Somali shilling a hard currency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to replace the US dollar in just a few short years.

If it weren't for the construction of railways in recent years, driven by a large amount of funds from China and Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo began to have a light industry. This broke through the dilemma of zero industry.

The smelting industry has also developed tremendously in the past few years. The Congo is rich in rubber and iron ore, which can be processed in-house. It has become one of the important driving forces to stimulate mineral exports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and with the start of the construction of the railway, the steelmaking enterprises invested by the Somali Federation have also been officially put into operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, becoming the only heavy industry.

This has also led to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's growing dependence on the Somali Federation. One of the benefits of economic growth has been the deepening of relations between the two countries, with which the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now increasingly closer than the traditional overlord, Belgium, and a few creditor countries.

In addition to industrial construction and financial assistance, the two countries will also have assistance in people's livelihood.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has one of the lowest average ages in the world. There are 80 million people, but the average age is only 43 years old. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is an equatorial country with a hot and humid climate and rampant diseases. And its own almost zero medical care has made the disease mortality rate one of the top three countries in Africa.

At the same time, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is also one of the countries that receives the most international medical assistance, but in the face of a country with a population of 80 million, the so-called medical assistance can only help those who are favored by Lady Luck, and more people continue to die of malaria, dysentery, trachoma, AIDS and other infectious diseases.

In the past few years, the Somali Federation has sent thousands of batches of disinfection machines. Aerial disinfection has been carried out in high-risk areas and population cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and millions of vaccines have been provided to infants free of charge.

Although this practice cannot be fully spread throughout the entire territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it will not completely eradicate the disease. But it has also been a good indicator of the unnatural deaths of the population in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the number of infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has steadily declined.

The actions of the Somali Federation have naturally won the goodwill of the entire Democratic Republic of the Congo. This help directly reaches every citizen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, together with food aid. Roads and bridges were built, schools, medical institutions and ...... were built. In the past few years, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has almost become the iron buddy of the Somali Federation, commonly known as Gangtie.

Now that the Democratic Republic of the Congo has raised the issue of whether or not to join the Somali Federation, most of the world is not surprised, but wonders whether other countries in Africa will do the same.

Because in the past few years, everyone has clearly seen that Somalia is playing a big game of chess, and the countries that have been blessed by the Somali Federation are far more than Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and almost all the countries in Central Africa have been helped by the Somali Federation.

In the past six years, three African summits have been held, and the African heads of state most want to see Li Lan, because everyone who meets him can always get great help from the Somali Federation.

Up to now, except for a few countries that cannot leave NATO's support, which of the remaining African countries is not eye-to-eye with the Somali Federation. They are not only interested in Somalia's huge military, but also the surging economy, as an African country, and the world's fourth largest economy, which makes many Africans envious.

The GDP per capita is 10,000 or 20,000 US dollars, which is more than ten times the average in Africa, and people are still living and dying for a dollar, and the citizens of the Federation of Somalia are working normally every day in order to be hundreds of dollars.

The gap is so wide that many international assessment agencies have conducted in-depth statistics on African issues over the last four years, and the results are published every year, including an assessment of African attitudes towards Somalia.

In the last four years, Somalia has become one of the most commended countries in all of Africa. In particular, support for African tribal and ethnic practices in the Somali Federation has been welcomed throughout Africa. Li Lan has naturally become the most admired person in the whole of Africa, although this kind of admiration is far from the belief of federal citizens, but being able to radiate influence abroad is enough to lay the foundation for Li Lan's great light.

Of course, there are more people who are concerned about whether the Somali Federation will continue to accept other African countries, after all, many African countries have established an economic community system with Somalia, and the Somali shilling has become the currency of most African countries, and Somali influence has penetrated into many countries.

Under this form. Concern about whether the Somali Federation will continue to accept other countries has also become a mainstream topic.

This has also been investigated by a number of assessment and research agencies. The results surprised many, and not many countries wanted to join the Somali Federation. However, the voice of the African community is growing stronger, and even more than half of the African countries want to complete the integration of Africa and integrate the whole of Africa into one country.

However, at the beginning of this year, the Federal Government of Somalia officially announced that it would welcome neighboring African countries to join the federal family. As a result, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was the first to question whether or not to join the Somali Federation. On the agenda of national discussions, once half of the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and half of the people in the country have reached guò, then the Democratic Republic of the Congo will apply to the Federation of Somalia to join the Federation.

Although the entire process of joining the federation still requires a long time of preparation and investigation, this move has made a good start, which has also made many African countries quite excited.

It is not so easy for African integration to be fully completed, but it is much easier to join the Somali Federation, and only by joining the Somali Federation. That would be equivalent to a family, and the foreign debt federation would help to repay it, and even it would only take a few years to rapidly increase the national economy. Freedom from poverty, war, and disease is an irresistible temptation for countless Africans.

Foreign aid is, after all, limited. Being a family and receiving help are completely different concepts. This is very much appreciated by most primitive tribes, after all, no one likes to worry about war all day long. I'm worried that one of them will be infected, and I don't have to worry about starving to death if I don't have food.

Of course, not everyone thinks the same thing, but as long as the majority of people agree, a small number of attitudes can be ignored. In the event of armed resistance, the Somali Federal Guard will accept requests from the applicant country to eliminate the rebellion once and for all.

It will take time to verify whether the future will continue to develop, but at least for the time being, is a good prospect for the Somali Federation.

"Now that the country's economy is just getting better, do you really want to accept the application of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?" In Natasha's view, the federation is now developing well and has unlimited prospects, both in the economy and industry, and it will take more time to work hard to get closer to the developed countries. Once the Democratic Republic of the Congo is added to the oil bottle, the economy and industry of the entire federation will decline a lot, and the efficiency of economic and industrial construction will be greatly delayed, which is not a good thing.

"If it was ten years ago, I wouldn't have said yes, and now what reason do I have?" Li Lan looked at the darkness outside the floor-to-ceiling window with deep eyes, and his sharp eyes seemed to see through the dark sky, and asked inexplicably: "Do you know why our economy is growing so fast?" ”

Natasha replied very simply: "Because of the storage of the base, we have unlimited development space, no need for scientific and technological accumulation, no need for complex raw materials and costs, and no need for huge labor and technical needs." As a result, our light industry has developed rapidly, the handicraft industry has not been affected by other industries, raw materials do not need to be imported, and the export volume is always greater than the import volume. Of course, the most important point is efficiency, we have centralized and efficient production, day and night without stopping, the efficiency is more than ten times that of European and American countries......"

"Therefore, our current economic growth does not depend on conventional industry and consumption, and even if there is no one citizen, we also have our own complete industrial circulation. In this case, why refuse others, that land is incomparably rich in mineral resources, although the population of 80 million has brought about a decline in the average economic average, but it gives them greater development potential, as long as the base industry continues to spread, our economy will continue to grow. When the momentum comes, the momentum will be better, and a little sacrifice and investment in the early stage will only be a floating cloud for future development. ”

The saying that there is strength in numbers, this applies to the past as well as to the future, and although the increase in population brings a burden on the economy and employment, it was in times of peace, and throughout human history, war has dominated all the times of human growth.

Now Somalia's per capita GDP is very high, but Li Lan knows very well that there is a lot of vanity in per capita GDP, and nearly half of the total GDP of the Somali Federation is brought by base industry, and the wealth that is really created by the Federation is only equivalent to less than half of the total GDP.

The federation is overly dependent on the economic benefits brought by the base, but this is what Li Lan hopes, and if it were not for the economic drive of the base, the federation would still be a toddler now, and it would not be possible to have today.

Therefore, Li Lan has only one attitude towards the Congo or other countries' application for membership, and if he does not seize the opportunity to expand his territory, he is a fool. The main purpose of his dedication to the Congo was to win the hearts of the Congolese people in advance, erode the Congolese government, and achieve the goal of annexing the Congo in the future.

As an equatorial country, Congo has the largest rainforest in Africa, the richest minerals in Africa, and the oil content is not small, although there is still a gap compared with North African countries, but it is also a lot. The reason why Congo has not extracted much oil so far is simply that the cost is too great.

First of all, the problem of road traffic, oil extraction always has to be transported and refined, refining is good, investment can be built, but want to transport oil from the deep mountains and old forests, it is not so simple. There is also the cost of management, oil is gold, enough to attract poor people to take risks, the long oil line has to lead to a place with traffic, I am afraid that not a drop of oil can flow, and it will be stolen halfway.

Another cost is the cost of oil exploitation, first of all, you need to transport the equipment to the rainforest, which can be solved by air, but where there is oil in the Congo, it is a deep buried oil field, the cost of exploitation is huge, plus many difficulties, in the eyes of normal people, there is no oil investment environment here, it is better in the Middle East or North Africa, where you can step on the oil with a stomp on your legs.

However, these are not problems for the base's scientific and technological oil drilling wells, and Li Lan can completely build a scientific and technological oil refinery next to the oil drilling wells, and it is also a very good choice to store the oil in the deep mountains and old forests when the time comes.

And as long as the Congo can be included in the national territory, many of the problems that originally existed in zài will not exist in zài. At that time, a naval base could also be built on the South Atlantic coast of the Congo.

In short, in Li Lan's view, if Congo joins the federation, it will be completely beneficial and harmless.

"In the future, our territory will be very large." In the end, Li Lan added.

"Unification of Africa?" Natasha replied.

Li Lan smiled silently, without denial or affirmation, but his gaze became deeper. (To be continued......)