Chapter 286: Losing money and shouting

Come, this appointment faded in a moment.

People living in central Somalia have not been affected by a small appointment, and are still struggling with the dire situation, running around every day to make ends meet, fearing for their safety. Other warlords are still fighting each other for power and territory, tribes are fighting in the name of justice for the loss of a sheep, anti-government forces are still clamoring for the president to step down, and religion is waging jihad......

It's just that no one will know that the impact of Zhou Yuanqiang's appearance is just beginning.

In fact, the appointment of the Somali government is very chaotic and has lost its effect. Want soldiers, it's simple, a lot of people can give you. But I want weapons! $ Wait, I'm sorry, the government is now so poor that there is only a pair of underpants left and no money in a word.

The allocation of a regiment is around the people, which means that Zhou Yuanqiang can pull up a troop of stumbling people.

Kosov's army of more than 6 people can be called warlords, and one can imagine what the strength of Somali warlords really is. According to Zhou Yuanqiang's understanding, the strongest armed force only has soldiers and two or three thousand logistics. It's just that these thousands of troops can control a very vast land and control millions of people.

It is said that it is equipped with people, as long as you have the ability, you can arm 30,000 people, because the management of the army almost does not care about these.

Somalia is an extremely poor country, and you may not imagine that their poorest families, who don't even have an appliance, still use a fire to light it at night, and can only eat one meal a day. A large number of civil strife was fought around at any time, causing serious damage to animal husbandry, and the cattle and sheep that had been raised with great difficulty became victims of the war.

As a country with animal husbandry, the direct result of the destruction of animal husbandry is the complete collapse of the economy, the expansion of goods, and the dire life of people.

The first thing Zhou Yuanqiang did when he took office was, of course, recruiting troops, and the good treatment he gave made countless people boil. Serving as a soldier in Somalia is unpaid, just to have enough to eat. What's more, there is continuous civil strife here, and the lives of ordinary people are like grass, only when they become soldiers, they can be regarded as finding a support, and naturally there are more people who serve as soldiers and eat food.

The treatment of Western Zhou Yuanqiang, as long as it is a healthy man between the ages of 18 and 28, can not sign up before, and can receive a subsidy of SO US dollars every month, which is equivalent to 12s thousand Somali shillings.

Think of the region of Somaliland, where the economy is the largest, where the average per capita GDP is only Iso dollars a year, and here you can receive a subsidy of 5o dollars a month. What kind of fatal temptation is this kind of treatment for poor and backward people? So dollars, enough to eat and dress well here, and live comfortably for a month.

So, one by one, people who knew the news ran directly towards the steel plant where Zhou Yuanqiang was.

In fact, here, if you want to pull up a vote, it's really simple, as long as you have money, you are willing to spend it. Of course, in the eyes of others, only Zhou Yuanqiang, the unjust boss, would do this, pulling so many people Zhao, each of them spending, eating and drinking salaries, this is more than 100,000 US dollars. With this ruthenium, and taking the risk of inserting a foot in this civil strife in Somalia, isn't there a problem with the head?

Regarding Zhou Yuanqiang's large number of recruitment, many warlords watched coldly, and they wanted to wait to see Zhou Yuanqiang's jokes.

A Chinese wants to gain a foothold in Somalia, and he seems to think that it is too easy, too easy.

The reason why there is continuous civil strife and why multi-party mediation is ineffective is because the water here is too deep and the relationship is too complicated. It's not that you can just say you want to, and many factors determine that this is a historical issue that cannot be reconciled.

Zhou Yuanqiang's troops recruited strong recruits in just one week.

In order to appease them, Zhou Yuanqiang generously paid $23 per person in advance. This move naturally made the people who joined the army have an extremely good impression of this businessman week.

In the last days, Zhou Yuanqiang's power is not known to be many times greater than here, and he really has no excitement for people.

When this person gathered, Zhou Yuanqiang stood on a batch of training ground next to the steel factory, looking at this sturdy young man who was embarrassed, he looked very bland. Wearing a Somali major uniform, although it does not have the prestige of the People's Liberation Army, it at least makes people much more energetic.

"I know that everyone is here for the subsidy of so dollars. I don't blame you for that, because I know what kind of conditions we live in. But what I want to tell you is that since you are here, you must abide by the military regulations and use this place as a factory for you to work. You must maintain my position, for I have given you what you have to eat, to clothe, and to take. Without me, everything you wish for would be nothing but cannon foam, and when it breaks, you won't get anything. ”

Zhou Yuanqiang is not so magical, he has only been in Somalia for a few months, and he has learned the Somali language, and he can barely understand it now, and he is not very fluent in speaking, so he speaks in English, and Shehad plays the role of a translator and repeats Zhou Yuanqiang's words.

In the face of this kind of personal president's lecture in the ** class, all the people below understood, and they did not "put forward a rebuttal to the patriotic, so that they knew whose money they were taking and who they were working for." And this is also a custom, whoever is a soldier must be given an order.

The training of recruits is naturally carried out by more than 100 subordinates led by Shehad before, who are also the backbone of the entire army and have rich combat experience.

In fact, among the recruits, there are also / Gen most of them escaped from other warlords, Zhou Yuanqiang does not seem to be taboo about these, as long as the physical fitness is reached, he will be directly accepted into the army. Experienced soldiers are the most important thing, and they can improve the combat effectiveness of the troops as soon as possible.

Zhou Yuanqiang said that although it was very conspicuous, he also knew how to measure, and during training, the soldiers were wearing clothes they brought themselves, and there was no uniform clothing, just like a group of peasants running in formation. And when training, every soldier used a wooden stick instead of training. Not only that, but he also asked the soldiers to train only in the morning and help build the steel plant in the afternoon, as if they were workers.

Zhou Yuanqiang understands this truth, so he can only show that he is no different from others, and even behaves more like a businessman, desperately squeezing all their value and sending a signal to outsiders, this is why I recruited so many people, just to protect myself and treat them as employees.

Before these soldiers became an army, Zhou Yuanqiang still needed to keep a low profile, so that someone would come to practice his hands without opening his eyes, and when the time came, he would win, and these recruits didn't know how much J1 would die.

On the surface, in fact, Zhou Yuanqiang is not only like this, he secretly sent Xie Hade, and in an area more than 200 kilometers away, he privately pulled up a force of 1 D people, hid in the mountains, and carried out the most rigorous training. With this identity, even if someone shows up in this unit, it will not be a big deal, and when the time comes, it will be a good excuse to say that his unit is conducting mountain training.

And this unit, their training standards are the standards of special forces, and they will become Zhou Yuanqiang's sharp arrows.

Somalis have been living in war for many years, and everyone is familiar with the use of firearms, so the training of new recruits is progressing very quickly.

After more than a month 9! At the same time, the various forces that sent personnel to observe withdrew these intelligence officers one after another, because they believed that Zhou Yuanqiang was just the timid nature of a businessman, and he just bought an identity to protect himself, and he had no ambition.

When it was confirmed that there were no spies or anything like that, Zhou Yuanqiang completely blocked the entire training ground within a radius of ten kilometers, and sent a large number of patrols, who were equipped with motorized cattle, modified small trucks with machine guns, etc., to patrol within the restricted area.

Not only that, Zhou Yuanqiang also brought a signal jammer from the end of the world, blocking all signals in the entire training venue, and not even thinking about transmitting a single signal. It also spent a huge amount of money to install hidden monitors within a radius of 10 kilometers of the training ground to ensure that no one could sneak in and leave quietly.

As soon as these measures were completed, Zhou Yuanqiang first took out 100,000 sets of unified military uniforms produced by the Garment Factory of the Chamber of Commerce in the Last Days, and put two sets per person into the hands of soldiers. Under the uniform dress, the entire soldier, who originally looked like bandits, immediately became majestic, and in the queue, he finally had the appearance of an army.

The second step is an imitation of the American M16D4 rifle from the Apocalyptic Arsenal.

It's not that Zhou Yuanqiang doesn't want to use a large number of stored Type 81 automatic rifles, but his own identity and the stimulation of the country, so he can only let the arsenal copy this major U.S. light weapon that is heavily equipped in more than a dozen NATO countries. Anyway, this kind of weapon, in the underground arms black market, there are not a few of them, and there will be no trouble.

The third step is to start mechanization, for Somalia, they have almost no mechanized troops, and their armor is pitifully small.

For mechanized troops, of course Zhou Yuanqiang will not let go, although the situation in the last days is also tense, but the use of armored forces is not very big at present, the strength of the air force is enough to deal with zombies. So for the sake of Hyundai's own safety, Zhou Yuanqiang transferred thirty armored vehicles and ten Sand Snake tanks over.

The training of the army, like the infantry, may be barely able to handle it in two or three months, but like the tank troops, it does not mean that the training can be trained.

Like a large number of helicopter gunships in the Chamber of Commerce in the last days, Zhou Yuanqiang has no reason to let them go, but now is not the time for them to appear, because this is too shocking for Somalia, like the appearance of the sand snake tank, which has already shocked many people beyond measure.

In fact, the Somali transitional government is also unlucky, the area they can control is only less than 10 kilometers near Mogadishu, and there are anti-government forces advancing step by step. What is even more unfortunate is that the problems of the Somali security forces are too numerous to solve, and the desertion rate is as high as half of the soldiers recruited by the parade, and most of them have fled after a few days.

The soldiers under the warlords are all loyal to the warlords, not the local government, and many times, the government needs to show benefits to let these warlords move.

Under such circumstances, Al-Shabaab is naturally advancing step by step, and Mogadishu may be annexed at any time. The transitional government supported by Western countries is absolutely stormy and may become a joke at any time. Fortunately, Mogadishu has 1 or D peacekeeping force, and many countries support the transitional government, which makes the "Al-Shabaab" somewhat scruples, so it is not discouraged, and will give all the training ground occupied by Zhou Yuanqiang, strictly speaking, half of the territory belongs to the transitional government, and half is the "al-Shabaab" that is advancing step by step.

The reason why no one came to the city was mainly because Zhou Yuanqiang's silver bullet offensive was really too sharp: "Whether it is the politicians of the transitional government who are greedy and flashy when things are not good, or the terrorist bigwigs in the "Shabaab", they all fell ruthlessly under this offensive, after all, no one has trouble with money.

Unlike the transitional government, the "Al-Shabaab" think more, in their opinion, Zhou Yuanqiang is now just a small fish, raise it first, when it is fat, it is not too late to start the knife.

What's more, in the area under his control, the power of the tribe is very large, and Zhou Yuanqiang, who has a good cooperative relationship with the tribe, is still better not to move him, and if the tribe rebounds, things will be a little bad.

It is this kind of stability that Zhou Yuanqiang has the opportunity to show with peace of mind, and no one jumps out to say that he is going to be upside down.

It's just that Zhou Yuanqiang doesn't understand? It's just that their foundation is too weak, and if the recruits weren't well fed and clothed, and there are subsidies to receive, they would have dispersed a long time ago. So what he is doing now is to brainwash these soldiers, strengthen training, and do his best to form combat effectiveness.

In order to train helicopter gunship pilots, Zhou Yuanqiang spent a lot of money to buy several flight training systems on the black market, and selected a group of the most loyal soldiers to let them train. When necessary, helicopter gunships still rely on them to fly and fight.

Not only military training, Zhou Yunqiang also used the 100,000 acres of steel factory land in his hands to recruit a large number of local employees, set up workshop-style small factories, and tried to produce some parts. This kind of behavior is completely at a loss, and in Somalia, these factories will hardly get orders.

But there is no way, Zhou Yuanqiang must make an appearance, the appearance of a harmless businessman, to confuse others and buy himself more time.

The number of employees in a month, including the army and the steel plant, has reached 3,000, and he needs to pay a salary of 300,000 US dollars a month, and now Zhou Yuanqiang knows that raising a modern army is completely different from the end times. In the last days, at the beginning, when they were given a mouthful of food, many people came in with their heads pierced. Although the subsidy system was also implemented in the later period, the ruling position of the Chamber of Commerce was not too difficult.

Without the support of the Chamber of Commerce in the Last Days, Zhou Yuanqiang would have spent tens of millions of dollars on the equipment of the Dan people alone, just the rifle, counting the bullets, military uniforms, and the steel helmet that will be equipped.

For example, armored vehicles, tanks and much more. It will end up costing around $300 million.

Thankfully, all of this has the Big Factory Behind the Scenes of the Apocalyptic Chamber of Commerce, which can be provided for free.

Now Zhou Yuanqiang also understands why the country's micro business is an arms business, because this is really too profitable. Think about it, the troops of 5OD people, simple equipment, will already cost three or four hundred million dollars. If equipped with artillery, missiles, helicopter gunships, warplanes...... A large number of armored vehicles, tanks. There are also a range of logistical ......

Zhou Yuanqiang didn't dare to think about it anymore, without two or three billion dollars, don't want to build a mechanical army.

During this period, Zhou Yuanqiang also went back to China several times, met with his family, and accompanied Yan Yuhe. Like opening a small steel factory in Somalia, Zhou Yuanqiang did not hide anything, except for the identity of the major, he still said it truthfully.

originally thought that Yan Yuhe would definitely fall for a while, but she didn't expect that she just smiled and didn't say anything. How to say that this man is also a person who dares to love and fight. Wealth is in danger, that person is a person who fights in the mall, isn't he seeking wealth in danger again and again?

For Somalia, in the past, I didn't know that there was such a country. But since Zhou Yuanqiang is there, she needs to pay attention to it somewhat. War, poverty, almost synonymous with Somalia, the whole country has not stopped for a day, all of them have armed conflicts.

Sometimes Yan Yuhe wonders where Zhou Yuanqiang opened a steel plant, whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, and with the economic situation in Somalia, can it be profitable?

Zhou Yuanqiang doesn't know how to answer this question, he can't say that he is losing money, right? Under the squeak, I finally found a reason: "Somalia's ore exports have always occupied an important economic position, the ore is very cheap, and the steel refined by itself" uses equipment from China, and the steel standards are different from the country. Under the very low cost of labor and raw materials, the exemption from export tax rates, the prices are much lower than in the state. ”

"But how do you solve your transportation problems? Eastern Africa, which is not close to here, will increase costs and will not be competitive.

The nearby countries are all poor and rely on the export of raw materials to maintain financial expenditures, and their steel and so on do not know who to sell to, so there is no need to expect nearby countries to bring consumption.

However, in farther countries, the increase in transportation costs is indeed not competitive, and this question really makes Zhou Yuanqiang not know how to answer.