As a country with a long history, Italy also drove a spaceship out of the Earth in the "Great Cosmic Age", but it did not survive the brutal battle for colonies. In modern times, when they wanted to expand abroad, they tragically found that the entire Shijie had been divided by the great powers, so they could only make three deserts in East Africa to fill the façade.

What is even more infuriating is that during the First World War, Italy relied on its back on Germany and Austria in exchange for its status as a "victorious country", but it did not get anything at the "spoils sharing conference", not only played for nothing, but also played the one. In desperation, Mussolini's classmates, who seized power by "marching into Rome", had no choice but to set his ill-intentioned eyes on Ethiopia, which was rich in supplies.

As early as Mussolini's rise to power, Italy had been actively preparing and planning for the invasion of Ethiopia. After dormant for several years, they finally felt that the time was ripe, and launched the famous "Wallwall Incident" at the end of 34 years, took the initiative to provoke the incident, and then arrogantly regarded themselves as "victims" and demanded compensation from Ethiopian Daoqian.

Ethiopia's response to this was crisp...... Ghosts will daoqian (fall)!

In short, the smell of gunpowder in this part of North Africa has been very strong lately, the Italians have been sending troops and pasta to the colonies since the beginning of the 35th century, and Ethiopia is also actively rearing its armaments.

In this conflict, the European powers represented by Britain and France sided with Italy and adopted a policy of appeasement towards it, and the American tycoons even gave Mussolini a loan of 600 million US dollars. And Ethiopia, which could not buy weapons from formal channels, could only place orders with those arms dealers, and Zhao Jian was a part of this pie.

However, it is obvious that Zhao Jian tragically deviated on the delivery route and entered the "highest difficulty"!

Although he was nervous in his heart, Zhao Jian still expressed his calm and calm expression on the surface.

On the way to the Garesa Palace, the administrative center, Zhao Jian's eyes were dripping, silently observing the situation around him. He found Italian soldiers everywhere in the city of Mogadishu. If the information obtained is true, the number of Italian troops stationed in Somalia, at this time, was at least 8,000 and growing.

Soon Zhao was brought into the Garesa Palace, where he met the governor of Somalia in an ornately decorated office...... A middle-aged uncle who is thin like a bamboo pole spirit. As soon as Zhao Jian saw the face of this goods, he knew that the other party was definitely not a clean and honest person, and when the governor could lose weight to this virtue, he was 100% a miser!

"Welcome to Mogadishu, Mr. Zhuge ."

"It would be a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Governor, what do you call you?"

"Piero A. Ferrari, you can call me Governor Ferrari."

"Good name! (it!) This surname is good DIO) So what are you looking for me? ”

"I heard that you are a businessman from the Tang Dynasty?"

"Uh...... Yes. ”

Zhao Jian couldn't help but say proudly, why do you need to hear about this!? Is your passport fake? All right! It's really a fake.

For security reasons, Zhao Jian never used his real identity when he went out to do business, he had a whole dozen forged identity documents, and he would play people with different identities when he went to different places. Even in order to deal with possible messing up, he also prepared two sets of Japanese identities, which can be thrown out to divert attention at critical times.

Normally, his freighter departs from Qingdao and nominally goes to the South Pacific to do business, but halfway through it turns into another freighter that departs from Guangzhou and then sails to its real destination. He bribed some customs officers in Guangzhou and Fiji to help him falsify relevant records.

Just like this time, his identity is called "Zhuge Dark", and he is a non-staple food merchant who sells preserved fruits.

Although his heart is full of strength, Zhao Jian, who has long practiced the "two-skin face", still has a business-style smile on his face, and even has a little flattery unique to small businessmen. With a little research in psychology, he knows very well that these subtle manifestations are often more flattering than straightforward touting. Sure enough, the Governor of the "Sports Car" was quite useful for his humble gesture.

"Mr. Zhuge , I want to entrust you with a business this time. I'm going to leave my post in two weeks, and I have some more personal things, I hope you can help me ship them back to Italy, I wonder if your company has any discounts on the price? ”

"How many things are you going to ship?"

"There are about 40 wooden boxes, the kind that are one meter square."

"Uh...... You've got a little bit of a lot of personal belongings! ”

Zhao Jian didn't need to ask to know that the other party's more than 40 boxes must have been pulled by him over the years as governor, because he didn't dare to return to China through formal channels, so he could only entrust a "foreign company" like Zhao Jian to help. However, after the other party revealed his true purpose, he also made Captain Zhao breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time had a way to cross the border safely.

"Your Excellency the Governor, dare to ask you when this shipment will be delivered? Do you need to send someone with you? ”

"Naturally, the sooner the better, and it is necessary to send someone to follow the ship."

"What do you think of that?"

Zhao Jian leaned in and whispered in the other party's ear for a while, and the other party's expression became very surprised after listening to it.

"You're going to give me your ship?"

"Borrow, to be exact! The freighter still belongs to me in name...... A merchant of the Tang Dynasty, but you can take it and ship anything you want, and I just hope that you can issue a certificate so that my goods can be easily transported in Somalia. ”

"Your goods...... Is there something wrong? ”

"Hey, hey! With you, Lord Governor, I will not speak in secret. I'm going to give Ethiopia this trip, and it's a bit of a ...... for the local nobleman, I guess you should understand! ”

Stretching out his hand to his mouth to make a gesture of smoking a big cigarette, Zhao Jian's meaning could not be more obvious, while the Ferrari Governor made a few meaningful "ums", and the understanding between the profiteers and corrupt officials would seem to be all in plain sight.

"Mr. Zhuge , you have a very good set!"

"Governor, each other!"

Like in another time and space, the Western Shijie here tried to poison Asia with opium in the 19th century. But Datang was not a teasing late Qing Dynasty, and soon realized the harm of opium, and quickly launched a ban on smoking to control the harm in the embryonic stage. The European powers were afraid of the Tang Dynasty's military liliang, so they could only leave obediently, and the opium was transported to Africa.

In fact, there was no opium in Zhao Jian's cargo at all, and the reason why he said this was just to confuse the other party. It is already a well-known thing for the Italians to go to war with Ethiopia, as long as it is in line with the principle of "pitting the enemy is helping themselves", Zhao Jian believes that the other party will give him this "convenience".

Sure enough! The Governor chuckled twice and returned to his desk to draft a special pass and stamp it with his own print.

"Take it! Cunning Orientals, this will allow your convoy to move through Italian Somalia, but you had better cross the border before Admiral Graziani arrives, or I cannot guarantee that he will not give new orders to the various posts. ”

"Thank you so much for your help, after my people have unloaded, you can send someone you trust to receive it. In addition, I will keep two sailors on board, and they will assist you in getting the ship back to Italy. ”

“haha！ That's great. I wish you a prosperous business, Mr. Zhuge . ”

"Have a nice journey, Governor!"