bonanza

Chapter 426 Africa
"So in a short time, that old man can't take care of us anymore?" Yang Huai said.

"Anyway, enough for him to be busy for a while, but you still have to be careful with his son, if he refuses to give up, he may poach our people!"

"I have already prepared for this, I have signed a non-compete agreement with them!"

"The non-compete agreement is not safe! They have money and are not afraid to sue us, and once they go to court, the Hong Kong media will definitely stand by them! Recently pay more attention to the company's internal movements, we can let him poach some people, but the core team must be kept!" Yang Dongsheng turned to look at Yang Huai, "I asked you to do virtual equity incentives, as well as dividend callbacks and delayed incentives, how is your implementation going?"

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It was already late at night in Hong Kong, and it was just after noon in Guinea at this time. A dozen armed men with live ammunition jumped out of the truck to set off their vigilance, and James Whistler got off a high-end off-road vehicle.

"Money, money..." A group of children immediately ran over and surrounded them, begging for money around them, including two adult men.

The armed men with guns skillfully drove these people away, and the two adult men were even hit with two gun butts on their backs.

James Whistler has been in Guinea for several weeks, and it can be said that these few weeks have completely subverted his impression of Africa in his mind.

The Africa in his mind should be a place similar to Western Australia - full of deserts, wind and sand everywhere, and the heat waves in summer can dry people up... From time to time, lions come out from the side of the road and drag people down Walk.

But after coming here, he discovered that there is no desert in Guinea, and the summer is not hot.

The hottest season in Guinea is the Spring Festival. At that time, Guinea was dry and rainless, and the temperature at noon would reach above 35 degrees. In June and July, it was not hot, because summer was the rainy season, and it rained all day long, which was worse than that in Western Australia. It is much more comfortable in summer.

When he first came here, the local government heard that he was here to farm, and suddenly lost interest. They were not interested in managing agricultural projects that don't have much lucrative water.

But when James Whistler gave the head of the local government a Mercedes-Benz off-road vehicle, he immediately upgraded to VIP.

Not only was it allowed to operate a farm locally, but it also had special armed guards.

When he first came here, James Whistler believed that there would be a shortage of food here. The fish here are like fools, and they can be caught without bait; in the jungle below the road, there are wild boars and deer everywhere...

There are wild mangoes, bananas, and jackfruit all over the place, and they taste very good.

Wild boars eat it, monkeys eat it, and humans can eat it too.

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After listening to the introduction, James Whistler realized that this situation does not happen all year round. Fruits are not like food and cannot be stored for a long time. During the dry season, the rivers will dry up and the forest will wither. lazy.

James Whistler originally thought that the southern Europeans were the laziest people in the world. After he came to Africa, he realized that there are even lazier people.

On the streets here, you can always see groups of men sitting there holding a bottle of Coke and chatting, sitting for a whole day.

Many fruits are overripe and fall to the ground and rot, but no one picks them up and sells them. They prefer to beg for money.

The fish in the water can be made into smoked fish, and the meat of wild animals can be made into bacon, but the locals have no long-term plans at all, and they don’t care about anything when they are full.

James Whistler found that the locals had an obsessive love for Coke, and with a little money in his hand, he immediately went to buy Coke without eating.

"Mr. Whistler, I really don't recommend you to buy the land here. These lands are too unsuitable for farming!"

This is an agricultural expert brought by James Whistler. According to this expert, due to the high temperature and rainy weather in tropical areas, substances that are easy to water such as potassium, sodium, calcium, and magnesium in the soil will be dissolved and lost in rainwater. , the organic matter in the soil will also be decomposed into water and carbon dioxide due to high temperature and rain.

The soil here is highly acidic, highly viscous, poorly ventilated, low in organic matter, and very barren.

Moreover, although the total amount of precipitation here is a lot every year, it is concentrated in the rainy season for a few months. There are almost no water conservancy facilities throughout Guinea, and there is no way to store water.

Since there is no winter, all kinds of weeds and pests multiply wildly, crowding out the living space of crops.

"But the fertile land here is no longer our turn!" James Whistler looked around and said.

In the early years, when the colonization had just ended, multinational companies brought the most fertile land in Africa under their banners through acquisitions or land leases.

Fortunately, James Whistler didn't need fertile land either.

Looking at the land in front of me, there are only sparse grass and some low trees on the ground. You can clearly see that the whole ground is brownish red, even close to black.

James Whistler was familiar with this color, which is the color of high-grade iron ore, which is the color of iron ore in Australia's Pilbara mining area.

These days, James Whistler's biggest discovery is that under those barren lands, there are basically mines.

The weather in Africa has brought them barren land, but leaching has also brought them a large amount of laterite-type iron ore, bauxite, and nickel ore. In the industrial age, this is an important resource.

However, it is not so easy to develop these mines. Among other things, it is four to five hundred kilometers away from the coastline. The cost of the railway alone is not a small fee. The distance to the coastline is only half, or even less than a third, of this distance.

James Whistler asked someone to drive a car around, and in just one afternoon, he settled the sale of hundreds of pieces of land. His method of buying land was very simple. He asked his men to set up a table in a nearby village, and then waited for people to buy land. Just come and sell.

The people here are too lazy, the land is deserted in patches, and no one is planting it at all.

Selling it to Alice is also considered an extra income, and the price is surprisingly low.

Not long after getting into the car this time, James Whistler suddenly noticed that several men were chopping a thick piece of wood. of.

Although James Whistler didn't understand wood, this piece of wood was not ordinary at first glance. It's just that these people looked like they didn't care about it at all, and hacked on the wood.

James Whistler asked someone to get out of the car to ask how much the wood cost. He wanted to buy it. According to his experience, it should be very cheap.

When his subordinates asked about it and came back to report, James Whistler was stunned immediately. These people cut down this precious wood and planned to burn it as firewood.

(End of this chapter)