The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Charlize Theron had a wonderful day, but even those 12th graders who were five or six years older than her were still small children in her eyes.

As the old saying goes, everything is incomparable, Charlie compares those people with Zhang Nan, who is only 21 years old this year, and then...

Whether you are a schoolmaster, a scumbag, a club leader, a basketball captain, or a rich second-generation driving a mustang... in her eyes you have become a hairy child.

It’s a tragic thing, but the guys who feel pretty good about themselves don’t know it-bad luck, they ran into the thing Hawking said, "Even in the infinite parallel universe, you can’t date it." Charlize Theron".

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The days are still passing, and Zhang Nan has been wandering around New York’s antique and second-hand goods markets for several days. There is nothing much to gain. He just takes the bodyguard to find some fun.

In fact, there are a lot of things, just don't want to leave New York, staying with Nicole and Jenny more, it feels a little home.

On January 20th, George-Herbert-Walker-Bush became the President of the United States, and Zhang Nan watched live TV. On the second day, the Hungarian Communist Party was forced to abandon its status as the only leading party guaranteed in the Constitution.

Someone is going to put himself on the guillotine!

When he saw news about Hungary at home, Zhang Nan said unconsciously: "This is a great gift from Reagan to Bush. There is a big problem in Eastern Europe!"

Nicole was on the side, seemed to think about it, and asked: "Are you sure there will be a domino phenomenon?"

"Definitely, I think that in two or three years at most, the current political system in Eastern Europe will be completely wiped out."

Speaking of this, I have talked about Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union many times in previous family meetings, and now it is enough to watch the lively onlookers, but don't dare to take a stand.

Politics, when it will affect your own interests, you have to pay attention; of course, it has nothing to do with yourself, of course, just watch the excitement when you have time, otherwise it will be tiring to watch.

Especially today’s Eastern European issues, the ** experts will be visually fatigued, not to mention that they are prone to brain knots.

Not wanting to focus too much on the TV, Jenny said on the side: "By the way, Ellen, don't mess around when you go to Africa tomorrow, and put safety first."

"know."

Nicole also pointed to her belly, just to understand.

Having been a good man at home for a few days, it is time to go to Africa.

In Canada, everything is going well. The ice expressway is extremely efficient. The transportation efficiency of Chinese drivers far exceeds that of North American drivers. The accident rate is also lower than the "Gold Mine Ice Expressway" indicators in previous years.

The mines in Australia have entered into a state of sampling and very small-scale mining, but so far Zhang Nan has no plan to take a look, because the summer is said to be super hot, reaching forty degrees!

It’s also good for the desert. It’s pretty cool at night. Workers choose to work at night and early in the morning. They rest in the camp during the day and use air-conditioning.

If you want to go to Australia, you have to talk about it in two or three months.

The African mines have been bought from local tribes, and they have established preliminary good relations with the governments of Botswana and Zimbabwe.

For this trip, the relevant department of the other party gave a formal invitation letter, and Zhang Nan set out: first go to Botswana. It is said that this will be the only rich country in southern Africa whose economic conditions are second to that of South Africa.

What is interesting is that Botswana has not only invited the Star International Diamond Group to the Ministry of Mines, but also the Ministry of Tourism.

Botswana is vast and sparsely populated. In addition to rich minerals, it is a tourist country. 38% of the country's land area is designated as a protected area. There used to be a lot of European tourists there, but now it is preparing to vigorously develop North American tourists.

Since the discovery of diamonds 20 years ago, Botswana and its neighboring countries have had border disputes, but they have been fairly stable. Moreover, since a few years ago, he has been devoted to economic development, and he has been kind to Western consortia.

Of course, the same is true for the East.

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Departing early the next morning, the voyage was long enough, almost 14 hours, and the straight-line distance was 300 kilometers shorter than that of Pretoria in South Africa.

New York was still cold, and I boarded directly at the airport.

"Uncle Ellen!"

There was a crisp childish voice. There was a small guest on the plane, Lily Greene, Alice Greene's baby daughter.

The blond little girl, with blue eyes, looks like a doll, and is wearing children's clothing from the French bonpoint brand.

cute.

"Lily, where's mom?"

Compared with Charlize Theron, little Lily is the real little girl. The little man hides and hides in the plane, and it is difficult to find it.

I didn't see Alice, it was Randy who arrived at the airport ahead of schedule to accompany Lily.

The little human fleshy little hand pointed back: "Mom has gone to the back, and now Uncle Big Dog Bear is playing with me."

Zhang Nan has a black line, but Randy, who is called a big bear, doesn't care: once accompanied the boss to Alice's house, the big guy took his children to the community playground and played the role of big bear.

The child remembered: This "Uncle Big Bear" was named by Randy himself who taught Lily. Of course, such a request must be met!

This time Zhang Nan took Alice with him, and it was considered a flight attendant Zhang on the surface. Now he should be arranging work behind him.

As for the little girl, it is best not to go to Africa, but after the last cold wave arrived in New York, Alice almost put her daughter in her house and dared not take it outside.

Unlike Zhang Nan, who hates heat and is not afraid of cold, Xiao Lili is not afraid of heat and hates the winter in New York.

It’s easy to get sick when it’s cold. Last year, I was ill. Doctors advised me not to catch cold. It would be best if I could escape from New York to the south in winter.

It can be regarded as a "rich system". If you live in the wrong place, it will be troublesome. If it is in Florida, it will be nothing.

This trip to Africa, it is not cold, so bring the little girl, otherwise Alice will not worry about leaving the child in New York for her parents to take.

Africa is hot?

The summer temperature in Botswana is actually reasonable. During this time, the daily temperature is between 20 and 30 degrees. If it is not special, the highest is 32 degrees.

Even if Zhang Nan hates heat, as a young man trained from Jiangnan, who is a commonplace in summer, the temperature of Botswana is a little uncomfortable.

As for the doll of Lily, when the flowers in the greenhouse are not good, she still needs to experience wind and frost.

There is a general practitioner on the plane, and the employees recruited by "United Forces" also know a little bit about the pediatrics: I went to Africa and brought more than ten kilograms of medicines, not to mention the medicines my children need for colds.

Now Zhang Nan attached himself to pick up the little girl, kissed the little man's face, and deliberately made a very loud noise.

"You have to be obedient this time. Uncle takes you out for the first time, so you can't make trouble."

Lily also kissed Zhang Nan's face, "Lily must be obedient. Lily wants to see giraffes and lions, but also hippos..."

"Hippos are not necessarily, giraffes must have..."

When he arrived in the spacious lounge, Zhang Nan sat down and let the little girl sit on his lap.

"Lago!"

Zhang Nan also had to stretch out his little finger and make the agreement of "pull the hook and hang" together, which was all taught by Zhang Nan.

After finalizing the agreement that Zhang Nan would take her to eat and drink freshly squeezed watermelon juice and orange juice if she couldn't see the giraffe, Zhang Nan felt like she had fooled the child again.

A child of this age is very good at fooling around, because she has no idea which goal is more difficult to achieve...

"Come on, let me see, do you have cavities?"

The little girl grinned immediately, bumping her upper and lower jaws by the way, and the sound of teeth clashing was a little crisp.

"Don't keep bumping, watch out for the teeth to fall." After saying that, Zhang Nan pretended to be a dentist and looked at the little man's teeth in detail.

"Well, yes, there is no tooth decay, so good to eat!"

"That is, Lily's teeth are very sharp!"

"Well, sharp! Bite and rattle!"

The little girl replied very confidently. Although she ate a lot of sweets, her teeth were always good-what would be better for a little girl of this age?

Of course it is for eating and playing.

Every time Zhang Nan went to see Lily, he would buy a lot of chocolates suitable for children, which was often talked about by Alice.

What? Eat chocolate early?

In fact, the problem is not big: how many children have chocolates, and there are no big problems. Don't eat it as a meal.

Now the two people, one big and one small, in the lounge are talking childish things to each other, ignoring the people in front of them at all.

Many people went to Botswana on this trip. Not only did Zhang Nan’s core bodyguards have more than 20, there were also 30 “security guards” drawn from the “united forces”-Botswana and Zimbabwe who would go to this trip were not. South Africa!

South Africa is in areas where white people live, and the security is pretty good; and this trip will also enter tribal areas, and the environment is much more complicated.

Not only that, Thomas, who had unloaded the cargo on Safiladura Island, also arrived in Botswana long ago, and Hanson Bruce, the logistics chief of "United Forces", was in Zimbabwe waiting for the boss to inspect.

For the two huge mines, the "Xingchen International Diamond Group" should unite local forces in accordance with international customs. Although the mines have not yet started construction, they have hired a security company.

Which one?

Of course, it is a "joint force." The core of the mine protection team is a safety contractor from the United States, and Huaxia's folks account for almost half.

At the same time, it is necessary to increase the local employment rate. Hire security personnel from the local tribes and cannot fight the war. These black Africans look after the home and behave well. At least they know how to drive the lions away and deal with the mess in the African wilderness. insect.

Local people are indispensable in almost any situation, unless it is a no-man's land, or it is artificially turned into a no-man's land.

The plane was about to take off, and Alice, wearing a flight attendant uniform, appeared in the lounge. Seeing Zhang Nan holding Lily and talking extremely naively, he smiled and said: "Lily, don't pester you Uncle Ellen."

The little girl became unhappy and turned her head and said, "Mom, it is Uncle Allen who wants me to play with him."

The little man has the wisdom of a child. The facts tell her: in any case, if there is trouble, it is the best solution to push the cause to the adults.

"Don't make trouble, Lily and I are busy. How can I take care of you."

As soon as Zhang Nan said, the little girl nodded immediately: "Yeah!"

This is the standard royalist blessing the little princess with fearlessness, and Alice had to smile and shook her head to leave.

She was happy in her heart, wishing to be like this every day, so stupid women would disturb the big one and the small two playing games.

More than an hour after the plane took off, Zhang Nan didn't have the time to talk to other people on the plane: Lily gave him her baby music Barbie to play, and she also painted pictures for her uncle.

Even when they went to Botswana together, Mr. Loebs-Brown, who had had something to talk to the boss, saw the situation and didn't intend to disturb him. First, he went to the rest of the second half of the plane.

Get up early in the morning, and this one hasn't woken up yet.

Alice arrived at the airport earlier than Zhang Nan, and Lily also got up earlier. After playing with Zhang Nan for more than an hour, I watched the videotape of "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck" for more than half an hour, and put a lot of snacks in her mouth by the way. Later, he fell asleep in Zhang Nan's arms of course.

Zhang Nan took her to the bed in the bedroom, and helped the sleeping pig take off her sweater and trousers, and covered her with a quilt as she did for her daughter.

Feeling a little stunned, she turned around and saw Alice looking at herself at the door.

"You spoil her too much."

"Girls want to be rich, so please pet them."

When I arrived at the lounge, I asked Alyosha to invite Brown. In fact, I saw him just now as if he was looking for something.

It's just that the plane will fly for more than ten hours, enough time to open the United Nations General Assembly. It's not urgent, it's still important for children.

It is about the progress of some diamonds and gems designed and processed by Zhang Nan in Joshua, and Brown also participated in land surveys in Botswana and Zimbabwe.

The appraiser is to talk about the situation in Botswana, especially the current situation of De Beers in Botswana.

"...The current situation is that, in diamond mining, De Beers's Botswana subsidiary in Botswana and Botswana's Botswana government's Botswana trading company each hold 50% of each other's shares.

The method of cooperation between the two sides is that one side produces resources, the other mines and sells, and shares revenue.

Botswana does not fully control the autonomy of its own resource development, because De Beers currently controls the supply and pricing power of the world diamond market to a large extent in the world, and often regulates diamond production or even hoards diamonds according to changes in the market, seeking itself Maximize benefits. "

Zhang Nan knows some of these things, because the current situation is that Zhang Nan already has land ownership and prospecting rights, and the previous agreement has 30 years of mining rights ~ www.readwn.com~ However, the mining rights and the tribal agreement signed , Also need to wrestle with the Botswana Ministry of Mines.

That Zhang Nan is the meat on the cutting board?

Don't worry, there are 8 big tribes in Botswana, and the three plots of land bought by Zhang Nan are all the land of one of the big tribes, and the chief of that tribe has got a good price.

Although the chief is not as big as the president, the current President of Botswana is also from this tribe: even if he becomes the president, he cannot turn his elbow out. You have to take care of the interests of the tribe, or the chair will fall apart immediately!

The diamond mine is completely owned by the country, so the tribe can't rebel?

You know, the concept of Botswana as a nation has only been more than 20 years, and the tribal elders and members are in charge of your country's hair in their vital interests!

It doesn't matter if foreigners account for half of the profits, or even more than half, because by picking up ready-made tribes, they can get rich quickly. Besides, the tribes themselves have no mining technology and no market.

If you ask the country for help...Thank you, there are still 7 big tribes. Regarding the one-eighth and fifty-percent issues, the chief who has studied in a mission school can still figure out which one is more accounting.

The territory and properties of one's own tribe are their own, and foreign tribes want to divide it?

The chief screamed, and thousands of armed fighters of his tribe refused to agree, let alone the young and middle-aged farmers and herdsmen men who could turn into berserkers at any time.

And for soldiers and officers in the Botswana army, the words of the chief of his tribe are even more useful than the president!

Why are there more coups and more wars in Africa?

Because the tribe is powerful!

Now, De Beers actually surpasses the Botswana government on the diamond issue. As long as there is a government, tribe, and "Star International" that can accept a reasonable distribution method, then the Botswana government does not need to be led by De Beers. NS.