After Wang Zhe finished speaking, he handed the dollar bill to the secretary, he originally thought that it would take two to get it, but it turned out to be done with one, and it was probably possible to get it for 20 US dollars.

You must know that at the current exchange rate, 1 US dollar can be exchanged for 1355 ganglangs.

Huang Jiafan couldn't cry and laughed: "Okay, it's speechless, you have to give money to pass the test, otherwise they will take all kinds of measures to make it difficult." ”

This little episode did not have much impact, and under the guidance of Mr. "Franklin", everyone left the airport unimpeded.

Wang Zhe made a phone call and successfully contacted the local contact, and a few minutes later they met at the designated place, and the meeting was a white man named Reiter, who claimed to be from South Africa, and he was the local guide hired by Wang Zhe's team.

Reiter quickly found a way to find a bus, but the rental fee needed to be paid by Wang Zhe's team, which was all small money.

About ten minutes later, everyone took the rented bus and left, but the ride experience was very poor, and since they came to Ganggajin, they didn't have to expect a vacation.

Although Lubumbashi is the largest industrial city in Ganggajin, its population is just over 800,000, but the center of the city is still bustling with traffic.

There are also no traffic lights at intersections, and the locals have developed the habit of passing through them in turn, and there is no friction or conflict in sight.

It's just that most of the roads here are dirt roads, and the cars are dusty when they drive over, and when the car is bumping forward, the red and yellow dust raised by the car in front is like a poisonous mist, and the visibility on the road is less than one meter.

What I saw and heard in front of me told Wang Zhe's team that they were mentally prepared to endure hardships on a business trip abroad this time.

The car drove bumpily all the way for more than 40 minutes, passing through a toll booth, and met people from the immigration bureau, asking Wang Zhe and others to hand over their passports.

Obviously, it's asking for money again.

Just as Wang Zhe and the others were about to invite Mr. "Franklin" again, Reitel got out of the car and went outside to shake hands and hug one of his buddies.

They looked familiar, and the immigration officer, seeing this, spoke to Reitel for a few words and asked for permission to let them go.

Reitel was obviously accustomed to this, and when he returned to the car, he spoke to Wang Zhe and the others in English: "Accepting bribes here is almost a public act, and when you see a dollar you ask, you can let it go for $10." Here, it is common practice to make things difficult for Chinese people, because many Chinese people usually do not know how to refuse and resist when they encounter bribes. ”

Everyone was sweating in their hearts, and they were just ready to give money, but they were said on the spot.

Reitel is actually right, but he is not Chinese, so he doesn't know that when Chinese people are doing business, they suddenly encounter things that have nothing to do with business, and they are all more things than less things.

"I take the liberty of asking, which mining company are you from?" Reitel asked casually.

"According to a friend in China, I have a little money in my hand, and I heard that there is a good investment project here, so I came to inspect it." Wang Zhe said with a smile, naturally it is impossible to tell the other party his true intentions.

Reitel also heard that the other party didn't want to reveal more, he had done guide work for many Chinese people in the local area, and he had come into contact with many Chinese people, knowing that the people in this country were rich and cautious.

So staggered the topic, Reitel was more talkative: "In the past ten years, a large number of Chinese people have entered the Ganghua gold 'gold panning', many large mining companies from China or other large and small investors have invested here, and after the local people have mined artisanally, the Chinese people have come to buy, and after pooling, they will be sold to mining and smelters, and their profits are calculated at 10 times. ”

Everyone was surprised, they didn't expect the profit to be so high?

It is no wonder that many people in China have invested in Africa in recent years.

It has been estimated that a Chinese person can earn $1 million in about 20 days by running a local village to collect ore, and there is a legendary story that happened in 2000, a Zhejiang businessman brought $150,000 to collect mines, and the profit reached $24.5 million two years later, earning a lot of money.

Ganghua gold is rich in cobalt ore, and where high-grade cobalt ore is found, a large number of Ganghua people run over, set up tents and mine underground. Sometimes it's the whole family, young and old.

After chatting and driving all the way, we finally arrived at Katanga Plateau where Katanga is located.

This was the end of Reiter's work as a guide, for which Wang Zhe's team paid him $850.

"It's such a place where birds don't poop." Huang Jiafan looked around, although it is the dry season now, not as terrifying as the rainy season, but compared with China, it is already a difference between heaven and earth, and after a while, he misses the comfortable days of blowing air conditioning in the headquarters of Shangdu.

"Let's go, I've contacted Ms. Wen." Wang Fatzi urged everyone, and everyone finally entered a local village with their own backpacks.

Wen Yan is the wife of Yu Fengxian and an expert in volcanic geology.

It was more than two hours after everyone arrived at the designated village location, and after seeing seven or eight familiar Chinese faces, Wang Fatzi and others, who had just come from China, were fine, and Dr. Wen Yan's team felt very cordial when they saw them.

It is natural to be happy to meet compatriots in this foreign country, knowing that their team has been in Africa for more than two years, and has been running in the Great Rift Valley, and the scientific research funding is not very large.

Volcanic geology research is really an extremely unpopular major, and the future is not very good, like this team has been in Africa for almost two years, not ordinary people can survive, all because of the love of this profession.

Like Dr. Ye Wenyan, he paid out of his own pocket to support the funds, and this money was actually supported by Yu Fengxian, after all, he was a scientist hired by Tianqing Company and received a high salary of 3 million.

Otherwise, he would have returned to China half a year earlier because he had no funds, and he would not have been able to find this vein riding Cambutu.

"Ms. Wen Yan, I'm Wang Zhe." Wang Fatzi introduced Wen Yan after meeting, and at the same time took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to her, Wen Yan was sure that it was correct after reading it.

"Xiao Zhang, you take everyone to settle down for a while." Wen Yan turned her head to her team and said.

"Howler!"

"It's hard enough, that guy just now is tanned black." Wang Fatzi said with emotion, in fact, Wen Yan is not the same, the latter laughed when he heard it: "You can also enjoy it in the bitterness." Due to the language barrier and different customs between the Chinese and the locals, it is difficult for them to integrate. On the one hand, our Chinese-funded enterprises have done a lot of good deeds in the local area, such as building roads, digging wells, schools, etc.; On the other hand, the salary income of employing local people is second to none, according to the GDP of 450 US dollars, the annual income of local employees of Chinese enterprises can reach more than 3,000 US dollars, which is also the envy of many local people. ”

Wen Yan's team has been stranded in Ganghuajin for more than three months, and their understanding of the local area is naturally higher than that of Wang Zhe, so he consulted her, Wang Zhe is very clear that Tianqing Industry is afraid to establish a mining factory here in the near future, and he also heard from Mr. Qiu's explanation that it is likely that most of the projects here will be led by themselves.

The conditions were a little harder, but the position was properly promoted, and if there was a chance, it was natural to understand the situation here in advance, so he began to learn more about the local situation from Wen Yan.

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