"The locals are here again!"

"Come on, they can really storm the camp!"

In a small sentry box on the edge of the desert southwest of Chad, several PCs are boredly playing poker, outside their sentry box, there are two separation walls made of explosion-proof modules, and then, dozens of meters away, there is a three-layer ring barbed wire, if you don't know, you think this is a military base.

But in reality, this is just an ordinary oil production well area, and behind these several defenses, there is a long row of tall kowtow machines, which are constantly pumping the blood of industry from the ground.

The extracted crude oil is eventually piped to processing plants more than a dozen kilometers away, where it is then transferred to trains to ports in Africa.

As an important strategic material, oil will never be sold, and there is no need to worry about exploitation, and after Shepard got the land from Habré, it didn't even take a week for the Standard Oil people to come over.

Shepard didn't even know how the guys knew so well-informed, considering that Chad was still in chaos and there were frequent firefights.

As a result, less than three days after Standard Oil offered him the price, a convoy of trucks transporting oil production equipment arrived.

Because the proven reserves are very rich, the money of Standard Oil is also extremely happy, and the three storage areas controlled by Shepard have been bought out by Standard Oil neatly, and the first contract money alone has been given to 50 million, and when all the storage areas start to produce oil, Shepard can still get 50 million.

This money is a drop in the bucket for an oil region with reserves of up to one million barrels, so Standard Oil is also willing to give money, after all, the Shadow Company has a good enough reputation and cooperation prospects, and it will be as much as it should be, and it will not sit on the ground and start the price, so the predators of Standard Oil like to cooperate with such friends, not those damn local warlords.

The most important thing is that the Shadow Company can ensure the stability of mining, and if the fleet and pipelines are harassed in three days, then everyone will not make any money.

The construction of these mining camps also took a large part of the Shadow Company's efforts, for which they also ordered several small modular construction machines from Japan.

This kind of construction machinery, which can be transported by medium-sized trucks, can be turned into excavators or rollers with replacement parts, and one machine can be filled with 60 explosion-proof wall modules in an hour, which is simply not too convenient.

Many times, PCs are complaining about whether their bosses are sick or not, and they like to build fortifications so much, and many PCs can even make part-time cameos as engineers.

The locals the guards were talking about were local civilians who had to leave their homes after receiving a fair severance pay because their land had been expropriated by the Shadow Company.

It stands to reason that if the money is taken and the handprints are pressed, then everyone's work will be cleared, but after the truce between Chad and Libya, the locals who left came back again, and under the leadership of the local village elders and leaders, they began to make trouble, demanding that the Shadow Company return the land on which they depended.

For these troublesome civilians, the PC maintained maximum restraint, not only did not use machine guns to figure out, but also used cement to build a water tank outside the camp, and sent fresh water into it every day for the civilians to use.

It stands to reason that these Shepard should notify the garrison to come and expel them, but Habré's attitude towards the Shadow Company has been very subtle recently, so the surrounding gendarmes promised to be good, but in fact it was a sloth that got up and remained motionless, as for the other National Army units, most of the troops who were familiar with the Shadow Company were purged, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were exiled to the desolate north, and the chief of staff was even worse by Daibi, he was directly exiled abroad by Habré, nominally to investigate and study all aspects of European countries, But in fact, they all understand.

After all, Shepard hadn't seen any expeditions, and he wasn't allowed to come back without orders!

The local authorities don't care about the civilians who make trouble, and the Shadow Company naturally can't hold any unlimited fighting competitions, and those black uncles are also very restrained, a group of old people and children come over on time every day, and then under the shade of the trees, they should take a cool dip, they should drink water, and some little cubs will take off their pants and pee in the sink,

Then he will be ripped off his pants by his brother and sister and beaten violently.

The two sides got along safely, after all, from the first day these troublemakers appeared, Hannibal sent people to control them, and sure enough, he found the driving force behind them.

A French company would give these civilians fifty CFA francs a day, so that they could come and make trouble for the Shadow Company, and it was better to force the Shadow Company to use force roughly, and if they were forced to shoot and cause casualties.

This is why the Shadow Company is restrained, and once there are casualties, Habré can reclaim the land that he had sold to the Shadow Company at a low price, and then sell it to the French at a high price.

And this is not one fish and two eats, but one fish and four eats, because in the beginning, this land was French, and later because of the coup d'état and the civil war, the French lost power, and the Americans intervened, so the land became American's.

But with the return of the French garrison, the influence of the former suzerainty is also returning little by little, and the time when Habré was originally extremely intimate with the United States has passed, and now he has a hot fight with the French, and even invites the French garrison commander to his official residence for a ball for three days.

As for the Americans, it was just an accident, France was the original match of Chad!

Habré's move is not untargeted, he just knows his weight in Chad, the Americans have a request for him, and the French have a request for him, so he jumps left and right so unscrupulously.

It's like a scale, there are more weights on the left, so it will naturally be biased to the left!

According to what Hannibal had learned, the French offered Habré ten times the price of the Shadow Company, and it was not a one-shot deal, and there were additional regular dividends, so it was no wonder that Habré changed his attitude.

However, as long as the face has not been torn, the Shadow Company can still continue to control the region, after all, there is a contract written in black and white, and Habré himself signed it, and Habré does not want to tear his face, after all, if he really offends the Americans, his value in France will also fall, and the value of the united front is a two-way view!

Therefore, the Shadow Company's attitude towards land is also very clear, that is, it will not give up an inch of land, if it is so easy to give up the meat to the mouth, then wouldn't this power be in vain?