Liu Dong's stay in Vancouver was destined to be short-lived! The bad news from Sudan made him set foot on the plane again after stabilizing Standard Chartered Bank and dealing with all the urgent matters at hand.
The Republic of Sudan is located at the eastern end of the Sahara Desert. With a land area of 1.88 million square kilometers, it is the third largest country in Africa and the 15th largest country in the world. It was once a colony of the British.
Moreover, Sudan also has the common problems of almost all European countries, such as: a single economic structure, mainly agriculture and animal husbandry, backward industry, weak foundation, strong dependence on nature and foreign aid. And most importantly, war!
The northern opposition, the southern armed forces, the National People's Congress Party led by Bashir in the center, and Turabi's "People's Congress Party", also known as the "Islamic Front Alliance", compete with each other for state power.
Under the instigation of the US intelligence agencies, the whole of Sudan is like a powder keg, ready to explode at a moment's notice!
The war also made Sudan one of the least developed countries in the world declared by the United Nations. It was once rated as "the most unstable country in the world" by the Failed States Index list.
But even so, there are 300 million tons of iron ore, 9 million tons of copper, 9,000 tons of silver, 700,000 tons of chromium, 500 million tons of oil, and 64 million hectares of forest buried underground in this country.
Gum arabic, as well as rich resources such as manganese, gold, aluminum, lead, uranium, zinc, tungsten, asbestos, gypsum, mica, talc, diamonds, etc. still attract batches of capitalists to exploit this vast land.
wealth.
Xstrata Company, which has now been acquired by Liu Dong, is one of them, but their excessive greed ultimately led to their own consequences.
The Lise Iron Mine is located 70 kilometers east of Adalama, a city along the Atbara River. Although it contains 300 million tons of high-grade manganese iron ore and is a big enough asset to make all resource companies in the world commit crimes, it is located in the north.
The Lise Iron Mine is on the front line of the battle between the opposition and the southern armed forces. But few people have the courage to develop it.
Although Xstrata is not the first company to take advantage of the chaos in Sudan and want to make a lot of wealth, it obviously does not have the wide network of contacts of Anglo American in the same industry.
Although they both belonged to the United Kingdom, they could borrow some connections left over from the British colonial era. But it still failed in the end.
After the construction of the iron mine was completed, a narrow-gauge railway was connected to the southern railway node Eriba. The investment was nearly 1.8 billion US dollars. When the harvest was about to come, the peaches were picked by the southern armed forces.
After several fruitless efforts, Xstrata's already tight capital chain broke due to rapid expansion! Unsustainable, they finally had no choice but to go bankrupt.
Of course, this big burden after bankruptcy also fell into the hands of Abi National Bank. After Abi National Bank was acquired by Liu Dong, it naturally became a practical problem that Liu Dong had to solve.
But before solving this problem, Liu Dong must also deal with the rebellious God of War mercenary group!
Therefore, he did not go to Adalama immediately. Instead, he took a plane from Cairo, Egypt, and went upstream along the Nile River to Atbara, an important hub city in northeastern Sudan!
"Master!" Looking at Liu Dong walking into the room, the secret door killers present and the diamond killer "Aquarius" Roddy who led them stood up quickly.
Looking at Liu Dong with a serious expression, Rody felt very uneasy. He was ordered to lead a team of killers to deal with the rebellious leader of the Ares Mercenary Group, Faustino Balde. As a result, almost a month passed.
progress, but continued to lose troops and generals. No leader would easily forgive this situation of losing consecutive battles.
Liu Dong was naturally the same, with an intimidating aura all over his body, and he stared at Aquarius Roddy with a cold expression. It wasn't until fine cold sweat broke out on the other person's forehead that Liu Dong snorted coldly, "What's the specific situation?"
Rody, who felt a little relieved, said quickly: "Fastino Balde's God of War mercenary group has now expanded to 30,000 people with the support of the rebels in northern Sudan!"
"Thirty thousand people?"
This number was somewhat beyond Liu Dong's expectation. The last information he had on the God of War Mercenary Group was that the opponent's military strength was only about 10,000, and now it has tripled!
"Yes, Master! If it weren't for the large number of soldiers under Faustino Balde and the tight defense of the camp, we wouldn't have suffered consecutive defeats!"
After thinking for a moment, Liu Dong nodded silently.
Although the killers at the secret door are elite, if they are allowed to attack a tightly organized modern military camp, there will obviously be no good results.
Are machine guns and cannons something that the fragile human body can stop?
"Where do they get the money to support the expenses of 30,000 people?" Liu Dong asked.
Because he once held the three mercenary groups of the God of War, the Desert Fox and the Dragon Fang in his hands. He knew very well that he wanted to maintain such a huge armed force, even if it was only equipped with a few dozen tanks, a few helicopters and a small amount of heavy equipment.
Weapons and maintenance costs are definitely beyond the reach of ordinary people.
“Fastino Balde controlled parts of Sudan’s North Darfur and North Kordofan states, where millions of Sudanese paid him taxes, and he also controlled almost all of the population in the two states.
Gold mines and diamond mines, which brought him huge wealth. In addition, he also sold the Huvar oil field to Shell Oil and purchased a large number of heavy weapons through their relationships. Now under Faustino Balde
The God of War Mercenary Group has become an important military force in Sudan. Even the Americans have begun to pay attention to them!"
"I didn't expect that this Faustino Balde has the potential to be a hero! He became a big warlord in Sudan without making any noise!" After listening, Liu Dong thought to himself.
"Where is he now??" Liu Dong said.
"We are still unable to grasp the whereabouts of Faustino Balde. But if we guessed correctly, he should be in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur. Here he has the largest number of troops, deploying nearly 12,000 people.reads
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After thinking for a moment, Liu Dong nodded, "Are you ready for the helicopter I asked you to prepare?"
"Already ready!" Rody said quickly.
"That's good, fill up the fuel tank and take off in two hours. Let's go to Fasher!"
"yes!"
After looking at him, Liu Dong stood up and said, "This time you did something bad, and all three months of elixirs will be deducted!"
After saying this, Liu Dong turned around and walked towards the inside of the room.
Looking at his back, Roddy showed a look of relief. Although it hurt him to have three months of elixir offerings withheld, it was far better than the heavier punishment he originally thought.
Expected.
In Atbara, a city with a population of only 80,000, there are no decent hotels at all. Apart from being clean, the house Liu Dong lives in now has no fancy electrical appliances at all.
Fortunately, he won't stay here for too long, so he doesn't have to be too picky about the living environment.
But when Liu Dong walked into the room, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he looked at the beautiful back on the balcony wearing a large black robe that still couldn't hide her extremely figure, but he quickly reacted and said with a joyful tone
Asked: "Why are you here?"
After Liu Dong finished speaking, his back trembled. After looking away from the window, he turned his head and focused his eyes on Liu Dong. After staring for a while, he raised his white hands, stretched out to his cheeks, and pulled out the black veil.
He took it off. Soon, a beautiful face that was familiar to Liu Dong, but as cold as ice, as if no one was allowed to enter, appeared in front of Liu Dong.
"I have something to ask you!" The voice sounded in Liu Dong's ears with a cold air that seemed to be within reach, but with the crispness of a pearl falling on a jade plate, a gentle and melodious voice.
Looking at the unattainable beauty who was less than three meters away, Liu Dong admired it without restraint, then smiled and said: "You want to see me if you have something? What matter? As long as I can help, I will be happy to help."
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In response to Liu Dong's somewhat teasing words, the cold and charming woman just frowned slightly, without any other expression on her face.
"Next July, I hope you can go back to the old castle in Colombia. I'll wait for you there!"
After saying that, the cold and charming woman put on her veil, stopped looking at Liu Dong, and jumped directly, like a light swift, falling out of the window, and soon disappeared into the dark night of Atbara.
After being stunned for a while by the other party's neat behavior, Liu Dong couldn't help walking to the window with a wry smile. Looking at the beautiful figure that had long disappeared outside, he couldn't help but sigh, "This is really your style! Stranger.
Don't come in, it's as cold as ice! But what on earth will happen next July that will make you come to Sudan to find me?"
After thinking curiously for a while, Liu Dong finally shook his head and closed the window.
The visit of 'Nu Wa' Jiang Yan was destined to be just an unexpected interlude. After resting for two hours, Liu Dong took a helicopter and flew towards Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state in Sudan, 800 kilometers away. He passed twice in the middle.
After refueling, the helicopter finally arrived at the outskirts of Fasher before dawn.
El Fasher is the center of Darfur state, which is part of the Darfur region. It borders Chad and accounts for about one-fifth of the country's total area.
The terrain here is high, the rainfall is high, the natural conditions are second only to southern Sudan and the Nile River coast, and the oil and other natural resources are also waiting to be developed.
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ps: Sorry, I was in a hurry yesterday and got the chapters in the wrong order! Change it now!