Chapter 1003: The Heart of the Amazon

Brazil Manaus is located in the north-central part of Brazil......

It's a veritable island city, because the traffic here is a mess.

Unless you're traveling by plane or boat, you'll need to be prepared to get trapped for a week or more on the way to any of the surrounding cities.

Surprisingly, Manaus is one of the most industrially dense regions in Brazil.

Because in the past, Brazilians set up a free trade zone in Manaus in order to develop the central region, and provided very large preferential policies for foreign investors, attracting many world-renowned enterprises to invest here.

It was in this context that Siemens and Nokia set up electronics factories here, and then developed it into the center of the Brazilian electronics industry.

And relying on the rich mineral resources and petroleum resources around, the metallurgical industry and energy industry here are also developing quite well.

However, transportation has always been the key to restricting Manaus, which can only rely on river transportation to export goods, so that the transportation costs can be evenly distributed by the capacity of large ships.

However, with the shrinkage of Brazilian industry and the increase in overseas trade, Manaus's industrial output has been declining year by year.

If it weren't for the duty-free benefits of the bonded zone, the decline here would have accelerated.

But even so, Manaus' position in South America is still solid.

It is home to the largest production base for motorcycles and bicycles in South America, as well as the largest electronics industrial base, where televisions, radios and monitors account for 98% of the Brazilian market.

The electronics produced here not only have a high share in Brazil, but also radiate to Peru and Colombia in the Amazon basin.

Manaus's early prosperity stemmed from Brazil's restrictions on imports, when they stipulated that no product that could be produced domestically should be on the import list.

Not anymore, though!

With the advance of industrialization and the loss of Manaus' personnel, the invasion of overseas goods was simply not resistible.

Coupled with the island-like location here, as well as the extremely bad infrastructure and transportation, Manaus's status has been reduced again and again.

Joga is here not just for a holiday, but more to see this unique city and try to learn about it.

The Amazon basin occupies nearly 7 million square kilometers of land and holds 20% of the world's fresh water, but the Congo River is no slouch.

It is completely unrealistic to set up an electronics industry in Afika, but the Sangha town of North Kivu can expand the metallurgical industry, and Bangui can develop a motorcycle or bicycle business.

According to Boss Qiao's instructions, the plane hovered over Manaus for a while, allowing everyone to fully feel the magnificence of the lungs of the earth, and after Boss Qiao appreciated the urban layout of Manaus, it slowly landed inside a relatively dilapidated airport.

The moment Boss Qiao's Global 8000 landed, it attracted the attention of everyone in the airport.

The people in the terminal wanted to know what kind of sacredness this was, and they actually came to this poor country.

Then all kinds of gossip began to circulate, recently Manaus came to several extremely expensive private jets, it should be the Middle East tycoon admired the abundance of the Amazon so came here for a vacation.

And just when the door of the plane opened, everyone wanted to see who would get off the plane.

A few inconspicuous-looking guys took photos of Boss Qiao and them through the window of the terminal building with their cameras, and then spread them through the Internet.

Soon one of the men finished taking the photo, and watched Boss Qiao and his family leave the airport directly in a few cars and go straight to the direction of the dock, he took out the phone and dialed out......

"Boss, there's another wave of people, they look very rich, and they don't look like easy to mess with!"

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Joga didn't know that he had just shown his face, and someone was eyeing him.

If he knew, he would probably laugh off his big teeth!

The murderous aura of his wife has not retreated, and there are still people who dare to target him, it is simply that he doesn't know what to say, and he is afraid of a long life!

Boss Qiao didn't know that although the urban development of Manaus has been stagnant for many years, it is the starting point of thousands of streams in the Amazon Basin......

Countless tributaries have clawed into Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia.

Sheltered by rivers and jungles, drug dealers use Manaus as a drug trading center.

The laxity of duty-free ports has made Manaus an important place for drugs to dominate the Brazilian market and transit to the world.

Some of the drugs from South America are scattered from here to all parts of Brazil, and the rest are shipped locally, traveling hundreds of kilometers east, crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Senegal or Morocco in Afica, where they will stop for a while before they enter Spain and disperse across Europe.

Saeed found a very secluded location in the Amazon River basin to Colombia and built a luxury resort.

Then, in order to ensure the safety of the local area, Saeed also arranged a large number of armed security personnel.

Originally, it was not within the range of the Brazilian military's patrols, but recently due to the arrival of Middle Eastern tycoons, the Brazilian military has sent a large number of military police to take charge of the security of the area.

And then a large number of drugs were inexplicably blocked!

Just as Boss Qiao blocked the channel of the Glorious Society in Central Africa, the resort built by Said, a wealthy foreigner, exposed a key waterway for transporting drugs to the noses of the Brazilian military police.

Colombians want a negotiated solution, but what is Said's identity? How could he possibly come into contact with a gang of Colombian drug traffickers?

And so things froze!

When the photo of Boss Joe was passed to Colombia, it didn't take long for someone to recognize him.

Boss Qiao's prestige is too strong in the drug world!

Although he attacked the Glorious Society along the lines in the early days and destroyed the HLY channel, he didn't have much intersection with KKY in South America.

But Boss Qiao's close cooperation with DEA is no secret, which makes people have strange associations.

Originally, with the bad relationship between Colombia and the Glorious Society, they shouldn't have taken the initiative to provoke Boss Joe, but they were really scared.

Because once Manaus is blocked, and at the same time the access to the Amazon River is cut off, not only will their transportation costs increase, but the smoothest route to Europe will be cut off......

Mexico was uncomfortable enough to stop the sale of drugs to the United States, but now if the access to Europe is blocked, the consequences will be absolutely painful.

Boss Qiao didn't know that just showing up his face had caused so many psychological activities for drug dealers in Colombia.

They boarded a luxury yacht on a marina in Manaus, and the yacht, escorted by several Brazilian military dinghys, slowly began to sail upstream along the majestic Amazon River.

Joga had never seen such a majestic river, and it was normal for the river to have no end in sight, but the breadth of the Amazon River that could not be seen at a glance made Joga mistakenly think that he was by the sea.

Only then did he understand why there was a huge port even though it was an inland city.

Here, freighters can directly bring locally produced sugar cane or pulp down the river to the Atlantic.

The water of the Amazon River is not as clear as Boss Qiao imagined, and the turbid river water basically has no visibility.

However, after going up the river for a distance of dozens of kilometers, as the yacht turned into a tributary, the river narrowed, and the tropical rainforests on both sides made up for the lack of river water, making Boss Qiao feel different from the Congolese jungle.

The vitality is too strong!

There are more monkeys than people here, and they are very bold, when the yacht passes by, some of the monkeys will throw the fruit in their hands at the yacht, and then they will let out a smug laugh when they watch the people on the yacht hug their heads and scurry.

Boss Qiao hugged his son and fought with a few monkeys who had been chasing the yacht with fruit for a few rounds, and finally found that he was not an opponent, so he decisively called for support......

In charge of the yacht is Saeed's steward......

This old guy is obviously very fond of the green environment of the Amazon, and the whole person looks very spiritual.

In the face of Boss Qiao's call for help, the old butler beckoned the two sailors to carry out two baskets of fruits like melons, and then carried an air cannon like a bazooka on his shoulder, squatting and walking towards the direction where there were more monkeys......

The fist-sized fruit exploded on the trunk of the tree, causing the surrounding monkeys to squeak in fright.

Then the old guy seemed to be a little unhappy, and he kept urging his men to replenish his ammunition, and kept firing at both sides.

Qiaojia and a group of guys who were rolling on the battlefield watched an old man fight a group of monkeys with a cannon, and it was so lively that you came and went......

In order to avoid being infected by the old man's stupidity, Joga carried his son to the shadow below the cabin, and then looked at Nice who was sitting on a chair and holding a small yellow-haired sloth looking at the river in a daze......

"Ma'am, your son is ...... here"

Ness was stunned for a moment, smiled at Qiao Jia, and then opened his arms and motioned for Boss Qiao to give her his son to her.

Qiao Jia looked at the little sloth's half-inch-long paws, and then looked at his son's immature skin, he shook his head in disgust and said, "Forget it......"

So saying, Joga sat down beside Nice, and reached out and poked the little sloth's body, causing it to make a childish cry, causing Ness to hit him in disgust......

"This thing looks so ugly, what's so good?"

Ness looked at the drowsy appearance of the little sloth in her arms holding a few leaves and eating, and she smiled and said, "Because this is the happiest animal I have ever heard......

They want very little, but they are very comfortable living, and a little thing can make them feel satisfied.

I envy them for always being slow, and for good reason......

I knew I couldn't do it......"

Qiao Jia was stunned for a moment, then finally nodded and said, "When this little guy grows up, we will retire and find a place to slow down."

If you like it, let's buy a few plots of land on Amazon and build a big house......"

When Qiao Jia spoke, the old housekeeper gave up the meaning of competing with the monkey, and the monkey sadist put down the air cannon happily, walked in front of Boss Qiao, and said with a smile: "Sir, 80 kilometers ahead, you will enter the land of Prince Said."

He bought nearly 60 square kilometers of land along both sides of a river and established a hunting area for a hunting company.

And we're looking for someone to explore inside Amazon and hopefully buy a bigger piece of land......"

Joga instantly remembered what Prince Said had said about building a one-of-a-kind resort off the beaten track.

He didn't like this guy's idea, because when he went, it would no longer be an inaccessible place.

But thinking about this guy's big money to buy 60 square kilometers of land when he came up, Qiao Jia could only nod in admiration and said, "I don't quite understand your fanaticism for green......

But buying land is always the right thing to do! ”

The old housekeeper was stunned for a moment, then shook his head slightly and said, "Not necessarily, I recently found that there are people snooping around the resort, and I don't have a good feeling......"

(End of chapter)