Thanks to the high enthusiasm of human beings for colonization of outer space in the "Great Cosmic Age", Africa in this time and space has not received much attention from European powers. In addition, it also suffered unprecedented damage during the First Shijie War.

During World War I, Germany and Britain broke out in the largest space war ever over Jutland on the Earth's Jutland Peninsula, and the main fleets of both sides made an all-out attack, and the engagement area once crossed low-earth orbit, causing more than a dozen large warships to crash into the atmosphere and turn into countless wreckage fragments.

At that time, the means of human air defense were still very rudimentary, and the ancients did not leave anything in this regard, and human beings had no patriots, no S400, and no red flags (9), so they could only watch a large "meteor shower" smash down on their heads and faces!

Most of these massive pieces of iron fell on the African continent and near the Mediterranean, and in addition to smashing the vast steppes into a mess, they also almost smashed Turkey back to the Stone Age, and completely destroyed this once great empire! And a small amount of debris that fell on the Eurasian continent also caused a lot of casualties to the local people, and even Datang was not spared.

This incident caused a great sensation in human society at that time, and the casualties caused by the debris were even so many that it was difficult to count, and only in Asia, where the casualties were the lightest, the number of victims exceeded the famous "Verdun meat grinder".

In anger, Li Xunde, who had been neutral before, began to mediate the First World War, and publicly issued a manifesto, which can be roughly summarized as "Whoever does not stop, Lao Tzu will the whole family", forcing the Entente and the Allies to sign the "Kangbian Armistice Agreement", so that the First World War ended hastily after a large number of problems remained.

It is precisely because of this that the dilapidated continent of Africa has not received the same attention as in the previous time and space, and the British colonists who occupied it did not care about the local indigenous strife as long as the mines and plantations were not harassed.

When Zhao Jian was on the ship, he deliberately went to read relevant books, and knew that Tanzania, as one of the birthplaces of human beings, had trade with Arabia, Persia and India in BC, so a large number of Arabs and Persians moved in in the 7~8th century. In 1886, the interior belonged to Germany, but during World War I, the British occupied all of Tanzania in November 1917, and after the war it became a British "mandate".

In this land, there are as many as 126 tribes of all sizes, some of whom believe in primitive fetishism, some in Islam, and some in Catholicism and Christianity under the influence of colonizers. With such a variety of religious beliefs, coupled with a colonial government that has nothing to do with itself, if it hadn't been made into a pot of porridge here, Zhao Jian would have felt strange!

After the Hengtong docked at Tanga Port, a British customs officer immediately greeted him, and when the other party learned that the ship was loaded with 120 boxes of tea and was ready to be shipped inland for sale, his eyes were like looking at **.

"With all due respect, gentlemen, the natives of the interior do not drink tea, and they are not very welcoming to outsiders."

"It doesn't matter, we just fancy the fact that they don't know how to drink tea, so we came here to promote."

Zhao Jian, who came out of the crowd, took the initiative to talk to the other party in acceptable English, and the tax officer asked a little stunned.

"Who is this kid?"

"This is our young owner."

"What is the Young Owner?"

"Uh...... It's the little boss. ”

The customs inspector was not too surprised by Zhao Jian's age, after all, in this era, boys can already be treated as adults at the age of 14 or 5, and it is common for large families to start touching the family business at the age of 12. And Zhao Jian has bodyguards and housekeepers by his side, which is just in line with the "standard configuration" of young businessmen going out.

Relying on the identity of the Tang Dynasty merchant traveler, the British did not embarrass Zhao Jian and them, and after inspecting a few ordinary tea boxes specially prepared for him, they collected a tariff and a few bribes and left hastily. Everyone immediately began to unload the goods nervously, and Qin Heng, who was worried about the sales problem, held the attitude of trying it out, and humbly asked Zhao Jian, who seemed to be in the chest, for advice.

"Young master, we are not familiar with this place, how can we contact the buyer?"

"I don't know." Zhao Jian replied in a low voice, which immediately made Qin Heng feel angry.

"And what kind of garlic are you pretending to!?"

"Hey! I'm the boss anyway, if even I have a listless morality, how can the people below have a bottom in their hearts? ”

"The problem is, none of us have ever sold guns! You can't be like a cargo man, resist two bundles of guns and enter the village and shout, right? ”

"Don't worry, let's stay here for one night first, find a local guide, understand the situation and make the next step."

According to Zhao Jian's instructions, Qin Heng first chartered what was said to be the most Haode hotel in Tanga Port, and then asked one of Liang Guoxiong's English-speaking cronies to go to the bar to hook up with a self-proclaimed "jack-of-all-trades" Heishu millet back. Zhao Jian only spent 20 pounds to ask for the information he wanted from this courier named Singh.

In Tanzania, tribal discord can be said to be a situation created by the British, after all, it is conducive to their rule in the region, but for the sake of regional stability, the British do not want them to really fight, as long as they maintain the stalemate of mutual hostility and inability to unite.

But this delicate balance existed only between the large tribes with larger populations, the sparsely populated small tribes and primitive tribes, and the British did not care what they did with each other. Therefore, in this part of East Africa, it is these people who fight the most.

These small tribes are generally few and far from a thousand, and most of them live in the hot and humid interior, and the British have little control over the area. In addition, the large diamond mines are under British control, but these small tribes also have some "stocks" on their hands. The bits and pieces that the British couldn't look down on, but it was just right to help Zhao Jian pay off his debts.

"Singh, do you want to make some extra money?"

"Yes! In my dreams, money is a good thing! ”

"I need a guide who can take me inland to find those little tribes, and I want to do some business with them."

Zhao Jian originally thought that he was going to the "war zone" to do business, and the other party would hesitate somewhat, but what he didn't expect was that Singh didn't care at all, and happily agreed, and bragged with the unquenchable wine that he and the chiefs of several small tribes were "brothers", and he could help them introduce them.

But he was very interested, what exactly did Zhao Jian want to sell to those tribal chiefs? So Zhao Jian took out a Colt M1917 revolver from his arms and shook it in front of Singh.

"Singh, you said I wanted to trade this thing for diamonds, would they be able to do it?"