In the waters of the South Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Africa, Mo Fashi stood on the deck of the exploration ship, leaning on the side to look at the two white warships not far away. This is a 052A destroyer and a 903B large integrated supply ship, serving as their escort fleet this time.

Mo Fashi was working on infrastructure construction in Iraq not long ago, but he didn't expect to be transferred to Africa again, thinking about when the days of constantly jumping around the earth would be a head. But constantly appreciating the exotic scenery and feeling the sense of accomplishment after the completion of the project still made Mo Fashi's heart feel comfortable.

He knew that the PLA had just won a winning battle, storming the capital of Russia and "liberating" the enslaved and oppressed country. Mo Fashi was unable to digest such information at first, but now he is a little bearish. When he was in Iraq, he experienced the strength of his own army, and the PLA troops stationed in the southern region of Iraq were an important factor in bringing peace and stability to the region, and no one rushed to make trouble in front of them.

Until now, the company has come to Angola to expand its business, and the military is still following, which makes Mo Fashi's people floating in a foreign country feel very safe.

Xiao Zhao next to him didn't feel this kind of security, but was very worried when he saw the clearer and clearer coastline, "Brother Mo, Angola is now fighting a civil war, I heard that the fight is still very fierce, do you think we can be safe?" ”

Mo Fashi couldn't help but chuckle and said: "What are you worried about, in fact, it is like some tribal armed forces attacking each other, crackling with guns, as for whether they hit people or not, they don't care, it's no different from our New Year's firecrackers." Also, you have to be stationed on the drilling platform, unless these militants have aircraft missiles, otherwise they will definitely not be able to hit you, what are you worried about this? ”

Xiao Zhao's face turned red and retorted: "But it's impossible not to go to land, if those forces of the Angolan People's Liberation Movement (Angolan People's Liberation Movement) can't keep us, we will suffer a big loss!" ”

Mo Fashi patted him on the shoulder vigorously and said with a smile: "Do you think our company's security is for nothing?" Those are all mercenaries who have killed people on the battlefield, and there are a hundred people smaller, even if the tribal armed forces come with all their might, I don't think they can beat us, besides, don't we still have PLA? ”

Xiao Zhao looked at the mighty and majestic warship on the ocean and sighed: "But they can't stay here forever, they still have to leave sooner or later." ”

Mo Fashi snorted, but said: "CNOOC has hit a treasure in Angola, and all the oil reserves explored last year are small by 5 billion barrels, you should understand what this concept is." ”

Xiao Zhao was serious when it came to professional issues, and said: "This is about the sum of China's land oil reserves. ”

"That's right, and we have reached a development agreement with the Angolan side through negotiations, and the 5 billion barrels of newly explored offshore oil fields are all owned by our family, as long as they are shared with Angola, and those seven sisters abroad have to stand aside." Mo Fashi didn't know which great power actually ate such a big piece of cake, but the price he expected to pay was definitely not small.

Angola's offshore oil field development project is an important part of Qi Yiming's African strategy, the SPLM itself was a red force supported by the Soviet Union back then, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was a little more centrist, and Qi Yiming strengthened the penetration and support of the SPLM when the Soviet Union was not finished. The current democratically elected president of Angola is José, the leader of the SPLM? Eduardo? Dos Santos, and his smooth ascension to the throne is naturally indispensable to Qi Yiming's support.

Although the president himself was not controlled by Qi Yiming with red police spies, many of the profitable cadres around him were Qi Yiming's red police spies, especially the armed forces of the Anren Movement, which had been mastered by Qi Yiming.

On the surface, China has paid a lot to get the 5 billion barrels of Angolan oil fields. First of all, Angola is still in a civil war, and even if the Angolan People's Liberation Front is strong, it is really difficult to solve the problem quickly with the fighting power of the black uncles. Qi Yiming not only assigned the mercenary corps of the Westwood Company to serve the SPLM, but also promised a large amount of military aid.

Not to mention light and heavy weapons, the army armored vehicles have generously donated 100 VT-1A tanks, 200 VN-2 6*6 armored vehicles, 16 Wuzhi-19 light armed helicopters, and 24 retired J-5 attack aircraft. These weapons are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and anyone will be happy to give them away for free.

In addition, it is also a large amount of money in the economy, and the deposit for signing the contract alone will reach 500 million US dollars, which is basically equivalent to giving it to Anrenyun for nothing. China then provided Angola with long-term interest-free infrastructure loans totaling up to US$8 billion, mainly for infrastructure construction, covering hydropower, transportation, medical care, education, etc., as well as the support of some key industries, such as industry and mining, and basic agricultural production and some light and heavy industries.

Even China did not hesitate to build a basic small industrial system for Angola, following the path of the "five local small industries" that allowed China to completely industrialize the whole country in the past, and to build products that can initially self-circulate and supply modern industrial life in some cities in Angola where conditions permit. China's five small industries refer to small coal plants, small iron and steel plants, small fertilizer plants, small cement factories and small machinery factories, which are more in line with China's national conditions.

However, it is clear that Angola has limited coal mine production, but it is a major oil country, and in 2009 it even surpassed Nigeria to become the largest oil producer in Africa, so it is not very practical to build a small coal plant. This small coal plant was replaced by a small petrochemical plant. In fact, a large number of coal plants in China have been forced to shut down, because the country's power generation has been concentrated in nuclear power, magnetism, hydropower and natural gas power generation.

Western countries have basically maintained an economic model towards the countries of the third world in Asia, Africa and Latin America, which is to prevent these countries from industrializing, because it is obvious that this will neutralize their advantages and prevent them from making money in the most greedy and lazy way. However, the Chinese have never had such concerns, perhaps they suffered too much when they were not industrialized, so they can empathize with others.

More importantly, China is different from the capitalists of capitalism who are doomed to destruction in terms of social form and concept, and promoting the progress of all mankind is not only a matter of making money, but also a matter of the evolution of civilization and the development and progress of the world's productive forces. Even if it is profitable, with the progress of productive forces, this money is inexhaustible, as long as it always maintains the lead, and things such as basic industrial products, not far away, the Chinese themselves feel that there is no need. Moreover, these small countries will always have a shortage, even if China is the world's largest producer of surface steel, it is not a large number of expensive special steel imports every year.

Qi Yiming's determination to industrialize Angola is well thought out, and the first is that Angola is a country dominated by red parties, so it is easy to get close to and influence. Secondly, Angola is a small country, with 1.24 million square kilometres and a population of only 20 million, making it very easy to get rich quickly. Moreover, such an environment also provides conditions for Chinese to enter this area to live.

A rich-rich Angola can be a gold leaf calling card for China's leadership among third world countries. The United States claims to lead the world, but in addition to seeing him lead all his interests into his own home, he has never seen third world countries that follow them into poverty and chaos. On the contrary, it is a group of countries that are "led", fragmented, and the future of the country is bleak.

The difference between royalty and domineering is so clear.

In other words, the reason why China spends dollars on investment is also to balance its own seriously imbalanced balance of payments. Due to the emergence of this plane, the spring of China's export trade has come early, and it is not only the export of a large number of low-tech labor-intensive products of light industry, such as machinery, automobiles, ships, electronic products and even cultural products, which has caused a large number of trade volumes to be counted every year, and the surplus number can scare people to death.

A large amount of foreign exchange has been accumulated, and China's foreign exchange reserves have rushed up like a rocket. This will inevitably put tremendous pressure on the appreciation of the renminbi, coupled with the fact that many developed countries use their purchasing power to argue that China has surpassed the middle-income countries and is infinitely close to the developed countries, forcing the renminbi to immediately put aside the current serious inaccuracy of the currency and appreciate as quickly as the yen and the mark.

Qi Yiming himself studied economics back then, and knew that this argument of the Americans was a cheat. After the Plaza Agreement, everyone can see what virtues Japan has, and it is said that the value of the RMB currency is indeed problematic now, but Qi Yiming does not plan to appreciate as crazy as the yen. Maintaining monetary stability is the benchmark principle of economic development. The huge trade surplus is a structural problem of the economy, and it should be noted that not only is China's trade surplus huge, but also the increase in domestic consumption is huge, and it is also growing at a rate ranging from 20 to 30% per year.

This only shows one problem: China's position as the world's factory is already taking shape at an accelerated pace, not only with the ability to meet the normal or even extraordinary needs of its own people, but also with the ability to supply the rest of the world in large quantities. This kind of industrial capacity did not exist in any previous era, including the United States today. But visionaries are beginning to be able to foresee the rise of an astonishingly large industrial superpower, and they are trying to strangle her in their own national interests.

Another reason why Qi Yiming is unwilling to appreciate easily is that with cheap technical costs, labor costs and material costs, coupled with China's complete industrial system and cluster scale effect, even if China invades for economic interests, this kind of wealth plundering solely by trade is comparable to the primitive capital accumulation of white pigs in any era watered with blood and fire.

Not to mention the perennial 600%-1000% windfall profits in the arms trade, even if it is selling a T-shirt or watch, it is casually more than 100% profit margin, how can the Chinese not make money?