The official language of Sudan is Arabic. However, what surprised Chen Taizhong was that he couldn't understand the Arabic Kavanagh spoke at all, but the black girl could understand what he said - because he was just skipping words.
Accent problems are a common phenomenon, so he is not surprised, but in this case, he has to choose German as a means of communication.
There is indeed a problem where Kavanagh's family is located. This is caused by several tribes competing for land. The deeper reason is the Arabs' southward movement.
There are two main ethnic groups in Sudan, one is Arab and the other is black. Among them, Arabs are mainly engaged in animal husbandry while blacks are mostly engaged in planting. Due to the severe desertification of the soil, the Arabs from the north moved south step by step, invading the black people's land.
Traditional territory - This sounds a bit similar to ancient China, where farming people encountered land demands from nomadic peoples from the north.
The Arabs were still far away from Kavanagh's home. She thought that she would never see the danger of her home being invaded by the Arabs in her life. However, the worst thing was that those tribes whose homes were occupied would be forced to go south. They would crowd them out.
living space.
This is the problem her family is facing now. The chief believes that the tribe should purchase some weapons to defend its homeland - of course, he may use this to expand, who knows?
Kavanagh said that her tribe now has some weapons, about a hundred rifles, but most of the guns are much older than her father. Although they can still be used, their firepower is too strong.
It's really bad, especially because the ammunition for these guns is really hard to find.
"Oh, you just want to get some rifles?" Chen Taizhong was a little listless when he heard this. This man is so contradictory. At first, he thought that in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he couldn't sell any weapons that were too powerful.
But when he heard such a small order, he couldn't hide his disappointment - he was a chief after all, couldn't he even afford an armored vehicle?
However, thinking that the chief's daughter couldn't even afford the money to rent a room, he was a little relieved, "Well, I'll help you get some AK47s. It's not embarrassing enough to introduce such a small order to the country.
Woolen cloth."
"I still want this," Kavanagh said, a little resentful of being looked down upon, and took out a magazine from the bag next to her. The bag was from Louis Vuitton. It's easy to understand, do as the Romans do; but that magazine...
…It’s actually a weapon.
Chen Taizhong naturally wouldn't think that a girl would be interested in weapons, so he couldn't help but feel a little surprised in his heart: You have been prepared for the little black card.
Kavanagh turned to a page with photos of mortars and spoke with a little pride, "I want this too. I want ten of them. We also need instructors...can you satisfy me?"
100mm mortar? Chen Taizhong couldn't see where her pride came from. However, it was always interesting to see children pretending to be adults, so he frowned slightly and said, "Instructor, you want something like this."
…You also need an instructor?”
"We are buying goods," Kavanagh answered seriously. She had heard a lot about Director Chen, but she didn't really know how scary this person was, so she didn't answer the question very much.
Psychological pressure, "Product suppliers should provide door-to-door installation, guidance on use and after-sales service, shouldn't they?"
"After-sales service?" Chen Taizhong smiled slightly when he heard this, and he found this little black girl more and more interesting. The old saying that when in the country do as the Romans do is really true, a little girl from a backward black tribe, after spending several years in Germany, actually learned to ask for
When purchasing arms, ask for after-sales service.
"Guns are not ordinary commodities, Kavanagh, you can't buy them in the supermarket, right?" Liu Yuanlin heard this and quickly chatted, "And this mortar... just put the shells into the barrel.
, how else to teach?”
"You have to aim," Kavanagh rolled her eyes at him. It was obvious that she was well prepared. "It's not easy to learn from the kao manual. It's best to have someone teach you step by step."
Liu Yuanlin blushed a little when he said this. Didn't he know that you have to aim when shooting? But this aiming skill... seems to be practiced, theory and so on, it's not important, right?
"I'll introduce someone to you, and you can talk about it then." Chen Taizhong was already hesitating whether he should introduce this business to the country, or buy some from abroad. When he heard that there were so many demands for such a thing, he immediately gave up.
I thought about contacting the country.
"It needs to be cheap." Well, this poor man's child is really destined to be a master early, and Kavanagh would emphasize it again.
"You guys negotiate the price yourself," Chen Taizhong smiled faintly and stood up. He planned to end the conversation, "It's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that the order is too small."
"His tone... is really loud," Kavanagh murmured softly when she saw him leaving, and then stood up, "Come and help me choose the food, and you can talk to him again, okay?"
"I have told you again and again, you must respect him," Liu Yuanlin stood up helplessly and followed her into the kitchen. The two communicated in German, and they were not afraid of others hearing, "Director Chen
If you are happy, I can give you some arms for free... He can give me ten thousand dollars to spend, but he still cares about your small money?"
"Ten thousand dollars... Oh, you promised to buy me a diamond ring," Kavanagh's eyes lit up. It seemed that the words "wealth is not in vain" also apply to foreign girlfriends, "I want five thousand dollars."
That’s enough, let’s use the rest of the money slowly.”
Liu Yuanlin rolled his eyes when he heard this, "I said, you don't want me to go to Germany to see you after graduation? I have to save this money for travel expenses... Okay, can I buy a two thousand one first?"
After finishing the meal, Chen Taizhong said that he would lie in bed to rest his mind. Xiao Liu sneaked in again and said, "Boss, Kavanagh would like to introduce her father to come and talk to you. Is it convenient for you?"
"Tsk, that's a big deal," Boss Chen was really speechless. However, seeing the color of Xiao Liu's face that had not yet fully recovered - it was the mark of being scratched on National Day last year, he couldn't bear it. "
Let’s do this, I’ll give you another ten thousand dollars to make her stop looking for me, okay?”
"How can I keep asking for your money?" Liu Yuanlin smiled awkwardly. He knew that his boss was generous. He didn't refuse the last offer of ten thousand, but this time it was inappropriate to ask for anything. "She just said
She just wanted to contact her father, but I criticized her. She had to ask the leadership for instructions on this matter first, and a surprise attack would be disrespectful to you."
"It seems that you are quite satisfied with Xiao Heika." Chen Taizhong naturally said the nickname he had for this girl. He had no scruples when talking to his subordinates. "You tell her, it's best to get some."
Some creative suggestions, for example...she can get cheaper gum arabic."
Director Chen knows very well that what Xiao Liu said about "surprise attacks and disrespecting you" sounds like it is his duty to do things, but deep down he still cares for Xiao Heika - I really respect you, if it is convenient for you,
Also give me some face.
"Little black card?" As expected, Liu Yuanlin was stunned for a moment before he realized what the leader was talking about, so he smiled awkwardly and said, "Is Tiannan's food processing industry... very developed?"
He and Kavanagh have known each other for a while and have a certain understanding of the specialties of each other's countries. Sudan is rich in gum arabic, which is a good thing. It is a natural food thickener. For example, add a little of this to some soups or cans.
The powder of gum can make the soup extremely viscous - it is natural, pollution-free and can be digested and absorbed.
"It's not very developed," Chen Taizhong answered frankly. He really didn't know what kind of industry Tiannan had. It could be considered developed in China. However, since he knew that Xiao Heika was from Sudan, he just checked Sudan.
I know that this thing is pretty good. "Anyway, there is a demand for this thing in China. If it can be introduced cheaply, why not do it?"
Chen has always done things like this. When he wants to go out, that is, when exporting materials, he must emphasize that he cannot disrupt the market; but when he wants to bring in, when importing materials, he must emphasize high quality and low price.
"It seems that her family has no price advantage when it comes to this," Liu Yuanlin looked at his boss and carefully explained, "I have analyzed with her what we can do to make money, and it is really difficult to make money through gum arabic.
, but if you can invest one million US dollars... you can do this business."
"Are you planning on me?" Chen Taizhong looked at him with a half-smile, "You use public resources to find private business, you are quite good at calculating... Didn't you ask where you need something?"
His words must have been intended to help Phoenix develop exports, but what surprised him was that despite Sudan's poverty and backwardness, there was still some demand for imports. Unfortunately, he could not meet the other party's needs - they wanted to build an oil refinery.
Two days later, Kavanagh's father came to Paris. This middle-aged man named Levi was so young that Chen Taizhong could not imagine. He was less than forty years old and had eleven children. This was not even
Counting the two growing in the mother's womb.
His body shape was also very different from that of his daughter. He was only a little over 1.7 meters tall but weighed at least 180 kilograms. Seeing him, Chen Taizhong found it hard to imagine that this man actually came from a poor family.
A scummy country.
Levi came with four followers. As soon as he entered the European Office, he sighed loudly, "Oh, my God, this is the most beautiful office I have ever seen... This kind of Gothic-style building,
There really aren’t many left, even in Paris.”
Chapter 2249 National Interests (Part 2)
Do you know what Gothic architecture is? Chen Taizhong doubted this very much, because the translator was Kavanagh, the daughter of Chief Levi. No way, although the chief could speak Arabic, his words contained a certain
The degree of local slang is much heavier than that of his daughter, or can only Sudanese people understand it?
He couldn't even understand the Arabic spoken by Director Chen, so a translator was necessary, so... everyone still communicated in German.
Levi said that our daily necessities can basically be produced and sold by ourselves to meet our needs. If, Director Chen, you want to sell products, then please build us a refinery. "What I have is oil. Unfortunately, I have
What’s more, I can only sell crude oil and not finished products or semi-finished products.”
The refinery... this seemed to be something that Phoenix people couldn't do. Chen Taizhong had to face this reality, "Okay, I must admit, your request was beyond my expectation, but I can guarantee that the refinery is not a problem.
,The key is...what are you going to pay?"
"You said... it's not a problem?" Levi was really shocked this time. He had already heard from his daughter that the Chinese he was going to contact was a very, very, very powerful guy, so after receiving the news, he
He came all night - Sudan's poor roads delayed his journey, but that was not his fault.
But he never dreamed that when he asked casually, the other party would dare to agree to such a thing as an oil refinery. For Sudanese people, an oil refinery is really what everyone dreams of.
Sudan has oil, but they do not have their own refinery, so they can only export crude oil. It is said that the technology required for this refinery is not that advanced, but they cannot build it themselves. This country is based on agriculture and animal husbandry. In industry
It is indeed very backward.
Then, it will ask other countries to help build refineries. At the beginning, it thought that I was the boss in spending money, so you can build it how you want. Unexpectedly, no one has pissed on its pot.
.
Everyone knows how to calculate this. If I help you build a refinery, what you export will not be crude oil, but finished products. As a result, not only will the price go up, but I won’t be able to choke you with refined oil.
Refined oil is stuck? Is that really the case? Sudan has the fourth largest oil reserves in the world. Because the exploration is not very thorough, no one knows at this time that its true ranking should be the second in the world. But until last year, Sudan
It has the ability to export crude oil, and it also spends huge sums of money to import more than two million tons of refined oil products every year.
For the Sudanese people, this is an unacceptable reality. You buy our crude oil, process it slightly, sell it back, and then take away more crude oil, just because we do not have the processing capacity.
"I don't know much about this business," Chen Taizhong rarely admitted his shortcomings. He had no choice but to be caught off guard by the other party's request, "but if you have oil, it will definitely not be a problem."
Now the price of oil is rising day after day. In order to control the lifeline of oil, the United States is attacking Saddam Hussein in Iraq and looking for weapons of mass destruction. To put it bluntly, it is also because of oil.
All the internal references he had access to said that the strategic security of oil is extremely important to China's development. If this matter can be successful, wouldn't it be another great achievement?
However, Chen Taizhong has one question that he doesn't understand: "How do you transport your oil? As far as I know, Sudan's outlet is in the Red Sea in the north. Is that a territory controlled by the Arabs?"
"This..." Levi was at a loss for words. In fact, the refinery he mentioned was probably just a test, so he hesitated before answering, "We will fight for our legitimate rights and interests in Khartoum. After all, those oil fields,
It is on the land where we have lived for generations.”
"Huh?" Chen Taizhong was a little confused, and his thoughts on meritorious service were a little less. He felt that this black man was not only overnourished, but also a little too shrewd. "Okay, what do you want to say? Why does what you say logically exist?
So many questions?”
In fact, it is not difficult to understand. Levi just wanted to obtain weapons and obtain weapons cheaply. Of course he knew that oil was a good thing, so he boasted that he had a lot of oil on his hands.
Speaking of oil, he does have some oil, but not much, and the area where his tribe is located does fall within the scope of the oil fields, and there is also a planned oil pipeline that will pass through his territory.
As for the oil refinery? Of course the chief wants to build it, but as Chen Taizhong thinks, he can't even afford to buy an armored vehicle, so let's not talk about drilling oil wells, let alone build any refinery.
And this flaw lies in the issue of transportation. North Sudanese control the political and economic lifeline of the country. How can South Sudanese be allowed to mine and refine oil on their own?
Chen Taizhong tried his best to clear his head, but his German was not as good as he thought, so he had to admit that he really couldn't understand what the chief was thinking.
Of course, he was certain that this chief had an unusual obsession with weapons, and he also emphasized that they should be cheap - it seemed that this was really not a wealthy guy.
However, since this person could make a fuss about oil, it was necessary to pay more attention to it. Chen Taizhong entrusted Liu Yuanlin to take care of these people, but he called Huang Hanxiang again.
Huang Hanxiang is a well-informed person, but this does not mean that he knows everything. However, after hearing the word oil, he still said decisively, "I will understand the situation and call you later."
Mr. Huang understood the situation very quickly, so he called back not long after, "I said what kind of aircraft are you planning? The oil refinery jointly built by PetroChina and the Sudanese government in Khartoum will be put into operation in the next few days.
What kind of refinery should we build?”
"Khartoum is the capital, it's in the north." Chen Taizhong never understood what happened to him today, "I'm dealing with people from the south."
"The South... it's not peaceful there." Mr. Huang's ability to gather information is second to none. He even learned a lot of inside information, "The Americans are supporting some tribes."
The problem in Sudan is really messy. At first, Western countries explored oil fields in Sudan on a large scale, but no oil wells were found. In 1984, three employees of the American Chevron were killed by locals in South Sudan.
kill.
Now the Americans quit, and because oil was not as tight as it is now, the Americans gradually withdrew from Sudan and gave up their mining rights.
When China National Petroleum Corporation entered Sudan in 1995, the Americans were still prepared to laugh at the Chinese people's jokes. However, it turned out that they did not expect CNPC to take action. The first exploratory well produced a high-yield oil flow. They immediately couldn't sit still and asked for... participation!
The Sudanese government is quitting now. We want you to build an oil refinery. You keep talking about the democratic process, the dissolution of the military government, human rights, equality, and monopoly of mining rights. Anyway, you are deliberately making things difficult, but we are with
As soon as the Chinese say it, they will ask - how big of a refinery do you want to build?
It is still cost-effective to cooperate with the Chinese, the Sudanese think so, and because the quality of the crude oil produced in Sudan is very similar to that of China's Daqing Oilfield, it is not difficult to build this refinery, and then... they will suffer economic sanctions from the Americans.
Yes, no American companies are allowed to do business with Sudan.
But the Sudanese people don't care if he imposes sanctions on them. They have been poor for so many years, and it doesn't matter. And because the oil pipelines and refineries in which CNPC participates are operating extremely smoothly, the Americans are unbalanced again.
In addition, in recent years, international oil has grown rapidly. A barrel of crude oil has risen from fifty dollars to sixty dollars in the blink of an eye, and it seems that it is easy to rise to seventy dollars. When Americans see this, they forget that the southerners once killed Chevrolet.
Long's people secretly supported some tribes in the south and asked them to make trouble with the Sudanese government.
Huang Hanxiang found out all this mess in a short time. Chen Taizhong was dumbfounded. At this moment, he finally understood Levi's purpose, "It seems that this guy also wants to go against Northern Sudan... Then I can't
Promise him, this conflicts with our national interests."
"Tsk, what kind of head do you have? It's full of sawdust?" Huang Hanxiang smacked his lips when he heard it, "You don't agree to him... and then push him to the Americans?"
"But if you agree to him, wouldn't the Sudanese government be very dissatisfied if they knew about it?" Chen Taizhong admitted that what Huang said made sense, but he also had his own sense of the overall situation.
"The best birds are hidden in the air, and the hares are cooked by the running dogs. You don't understand this?" Huang Hanxiang laughed on the phone. "If there was no chaos in the south, and if the Americans did not impose sanctions, do you think we could get such a good result in Sudan?"
Is there much benefit?”
This is a bit ruthless to say, but in the face of national interests, there is no room for mercy - the three people in the American company died in vain. Chen Taizhong discovered for the nth time that compared with certain groups of people, he is not really a fuck.
.
"It doesn't matter if you give him weapons for free. Let's also cultivate some pro-China forces in South Sudan to prepare for a rainy day. At least we can communicate effectively no matter what happens there," Mr. Huang continued to point out to him, "But this matter needs to be done
You have to be more secretive, um... you definitely can’t use domestically produced weapons."
"Isn't it?" Chen Taizhong finally realized. Isn't this asking his buddy to do dirty work again? It's still very dirty, so he objected firmly, "I can introduce him to the relevant departments, but I don't care.
He...and the money I spent on buying weapons can’t be reimbursed, so I won’t do it!”
"Okay, you introduce me," Mr. Huang finally became reasonable for once, because he understood very well that what Xiao Chen said "cannot be reimbursed" is similar to the dollars the little guy invested when he came into contact with Colonna. Someone can reimburse him.
, but once the reimbursement was made, Xiao Chen put a halter on his head.