In the end, Muyang met his own people, a manager and two engineers of China Civil Engineering Group Co., Ltd. This is a real family member, and the two sides have met and dealt with each other before, so they naturally feel cordial.

"Ambassador Mu, we're meeting again." Manager Song held Muyang's hand and said enthusiastically.

"Yes, after five months of rushing work, it has finally been completed, and we have taken another big step forward in Djibouti and Africa." Mu Yang said in Chinese and Manager Song.

"If it weren't for the embassy to escort us and dredge up relations, we wouldn't have been able to do it so quickly and smoothly, and on the Ethiopian side, we have encountered unreasonable situations of local natives, but we still did it smoothly on the Djibouti side." Manager Song approached Muyang and whispered, for fear of being heard by the Ethiopian ambassador and officials not far away.

Muyang smiled, Djibouti has Odova, which is naturally much smoother. Muyang knew that when the railway was being built in Ethiopia, the local indigenous patriarch took the lead, leading hundreds of warriors from the tribe, armed with spears and bows and arrows, to openly go to the construction site in China to extort money.

The Ethiopian government built the railway, occupied their land, but did not give any compensation at all, these guys came to the construction site to make trouble, found the Ethiopian embassy, contacted the Egyptian government, but turned around, there was little effect at all, and finally the civil engineering group really had no choice but to recruit themselves.

Three shallow wells and one deep well were promised to be drilled for the tribe, the shallow wells were mainly for livestock to drink, and the deep wells were for human drinking. Then he gave the other party 3 tons of flour and some seasonings, such as salt, sugar, spices, etc.

It took about 120,000 yuan in total to settle this matter.

More than 120,000, it's really not much, the civil engineering group is also a large construction company with national prefixes, assets of tens of billions, tens of thousands of workers, more than 4,000 workers invested in the Jiai Railway alone, 120,000 yuan for them, is not enough for 4,000 workers a day.

However, because of the obstruction of the local people, the entire project was suspended for nearly 50 kilometers, and the time reached a week, and the loss during the shutdown period reached millions, which also made the civil engineering group cry and laugh.

On the Djibouti side, there was no trouble at all, the Djibouti embassy was responsible for coordination, and the Djibouti government directly intervened to appease the local natives, and the project went smoothly.

At the beginning of the ceremony, President Odowa took the stage and delivered an enthusiastic speech in French and local languages, saying that after the completion of the Kyrgyzstan-Egypt railway, it will promote the integration of East Africa, and will also stimulate the economic development of Kyrgyzstan and create more jobs. Odova expressed his gratitude to China for its strong support for Kyrgyzstan's infrastructure construction, and expressed his appreciation for the hard work of Kyrgyzstan's and Chinese engineers, technicians and workers.

Finally, Odova invited Ethiopian Transport Minister Walkeni and Muyang to jointly cut the ribbon for the project, and local media such as Djibouti National Television and The Nation reported the whole ceremony, and the Chinese side will also send the information back to China.

A few minutes later, a train arrived from the direction of Ethiopia, and everyone got on the train and made a train together to reach the final station, the capital railway station of Djibouti.

Djibouti railway station is built on the edge of Djibouti city, not far from the seaport, and there is a special railway connecting the seaport, in order to facilitate direct loading in the port, now the Djibouti free trade zone and the new port is still under construction, and so on, the port throughput will be dozens of times that of the previous one, which will greatly accelerate the port's loading and unloading capacity.

After the ribbon-cutting, the Djibouti side held a reception luncheon at the presidential palace, and at the table, Muyang and Odova naturally sat together.

Odova leaned close to Muyang and whispered: "Sir, yesterday the American ambassador John . Rogers made a special trip to the presidential palace to meet me, hoping that Djibouti would not get too close to China and that the United States would increase investment in Djibouti, and he told me that what the Chinese can give, the Americans can also give. ”

"Is this a warning?" Muyang said.

"I think yes, the Americans are now very dissatisfied with Djibouti's leaning towards China, in fact, the French have also expressed this view more covertly, they say that they hope that Djibouti's internal politics should be decided by the Djibouti people, and that any action will be in accordance with Djibouti's constitution and legal system, and they are also worried about China's large-scale entry into Djibouti." Odova said.

"They won't be so gentle." Muyang asked.

"Yes, they all said that if Djibouti continues to walk into China, they will reduce their investment and aid in Djibouti, and Djibouti's security may be threatened from the outside, after all, before, the American and French troops were here, from the other side, and also guaranteed that Djibouti would not be invaded by other countries."

"In the past, Djibouti has also participated in the United States and European countries' piracy clearance operations in the Gulf of Aden on many occasions, and has played a certain guiding role in Djibouti's army building."

"Also, U.S. Secretary of State John Terry will be visiting Djibouti in half a month, and I guess he will definitely say something like that, and he will put pressure on Djibouti. Rodgers should have come to play the front stop. Odova shrugged.

"Looks like you're under a lot of pressure." Muyang Road.

"It's not a big problem, I'm okay with it." After Odova finished speaking, he laughed to himself, and the Ethiopian ambassador and the minister of transport, as well as several other ministers of Djibouti, who did not know what the two said, would be so happy, and also smiled and nodded.

After lunch, Muyang did not leave, but Odova wanted to discuss another matter with him, "I am ready to increase Djibouti's existing military strength, as well as replace some weapons, and purchase a formal warship, so that Djibouti has a stronger military force." ”

Djibouti's military strength is very weak, with a total strength of about 3,200 troops, including about 200 each for the air force and navy, 100 civilian personnel, 1,200 military police and 1,400 national security forces.

The army has an artillery battalion, an armored regiment and 3 infantry regiments. The Air Force has several MiG-8 and MiG-17 helicopters. The Navy has several patrol boats and speedboats.

Djibouti has a system of voluntary military service. The President is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

At present, most of the weapons used by the Djibouti army are Soviet-made, and the soldiers are also using the AK series, and other weapons and equipment are also relatively backward. Especially the navy, it really can't be called a navy, Djibouti's navy, if you go alone, even Somali pirates may not be able to fight. (To be continued.) )