The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

It is close to the Great Salt Lake and the land is relatively barren. It was originally a relatively bad land in Botswana except for the southwest. It can be said to be useless except for wild animals and barren arable land!

However, "Xingchen International" found diamonds in the purchased land, which is still a huge diamond mine: divided into two parts, a total of three diamond rock tube groups.

Because there was an agreement with the tribe that controls this place before, if the minerals are discovered and mined, the tribe will get a proportional profit, but the tribe will also have to pay their share.

"Stars International" will only give out half of the benefits at most. How to distribute the benefits between the tribe and the Botswana country, then the tribe must figure out its own way.

Don’t worry about the tribe’s lack of effort, because "Star International" can also talk to the government; as for the Botswana government and the tribe, plus De Beers squeezing "Star International" out?

It's not that Zhang Nan looks down on Botswana. It is a southern African country with a population of 1.34 million. There are eight ethnic groups with similar populations. More than half of the population is still a primitive society. I dare not measure it!

The big deal will let his government fall, and it doesn't matter if he fights on the court. Want to swallow his own interests?

We dare not provoke a big country. The GDP of a year is only more than two billion U.S. dollars. It relies on diamonds and the vast majority of people are still living in almost primitive conditions. If you provoke it, you will provoke it.

In this meeting, what Zhang Nan stands behind are the interests of the United States, and De Beers is not the son of the US government.

Fuck, I have to say that the old beauty is domineering!

The plane landed at the newly constructed airstrip. Within three days, Lili got her wish and saw giraffes and lions, because there were nearby mines.

This is a wasteland. A simple gravel road opened more than a decade ago passes through the three mines, and the farthest one is only a dozen kilometers away from the road.

The plain terrain is about 1,000 meters above sea level, so it is not super hot, that is, the land to the north is more saline.

Living materials have to be transported from a small city more than fifty kilometers away. Fortunately, the engineering department has produced groundwater that meets drinking water standards at all three mine sites, all of which were discovered near seasonal rivers.

There is water and everything is there. Some time ago, the engineering department drove small drilling rigs and wandered around several large settlements within a hundred kilometers nearby. They helped to drill wells and installed pumps and small generators to pump water when necessary. .

A Chinese-style strategy for Africa, the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry in these residential areas, although many people go out to graze for several months each year, most of them still stay in the residential areas.

The rainy season is easy to talk, and there is no shortage of water, but during the dry season, there is even dripping water, and droughts will break out at any time.

There is a deep well that can bring drinking water to people and livestock during the dry season. This is the happiest thing for semi-desert tribes.

What I didn't say, these "white people" from the United States are good brothers!

The Huaxia people looked white in the eyes of the tribal chiefs and villagers. The person who solved the biggest crisis in the dry season for them is the best friend.

The wisdom of the Chinese people and the characteristics of being kind to their neighbors quickly gained the friendship of the tribal chiefs, the small chiefs of the tribes and the villagers.

As for being asked why they wanted to help them, the folks in the engineering department had a unified statement: Our boss, Mr. Zhang Nan-Allen, let it do it.

In this way, on the third day of arriving at the mine, Zhang Nan was appointed as the "chief" by the tribal chief, or by someone called the "tu king" in the Chinese language, and was given 500 acres of land that could be hereditary.

Zhang Nan was a little dizzy, how could he become an African chief in a daze?

And this is not honorary, but the real chiefs can participate in the tribal assembly and have the right to speak and vote!

Witnessed by the other eleven chiefs of the tribe and Zhang Nan’s bodyguards, representatives of "Star International" and "United Forces", Lily in princess costumes, her mother and others, the earth king Moshari, who is nearly 50 years old, spoke Zhang Nan performed the "coronation ceremony."

Very grand, wearing a hat decorated with various feathers and beast teeth, and was awarded a bare short wooden stick with a simple totem drawn.

The stick is very inconspicuous, but it is indeed "power"! Represents the power of the Tswa chief, one of the eight tribes in Botswana!

"Dear Chief Zhang Nan-Ellen, the scepter represents your majesty as the chieftain of our Tswa people!" After speaking, the earth king Moshari pointed to the other 11 chiefs, and each of them held them in their hands. The wooden stick that represents power and majesty...oh, it's a scepter.

However, it is not gorgeous at all. Some of the scepters in their hands are like rods for driving cattle, but one thing is the same: they all have almost the same totems representing the identity of tribal chiefs.

"You can come to the scepter according to your own preferences, and I will treat several of them. As long as you have the totem of our tribe, you can have your own people, as long as you can make them live happily on the grassland; you can take what you like. A woman, as long as her parents are willing and you can afford the betrothal gift and support, no matter how many..."

The Tuwang talked about the power of a lot of chiefs. Most people in Botswana seem to believe in religions introduced from the West, but that is only an official statement. The villages and grasslands have always been indigenous and primitive beliefs, and the tribal system is still there. .com and the leaders of the tribe and the wealthy men are often polygamous in marriage.

However, the vast majority of Botswana people are headed by women. This seems to have a higher status of women, but it is actually a manifestation, although a few tribes still have remnants of matrilineal society.

With the increase in productivity, the remnants of the matrilineal clan are almost disintegrated in the most backward areas.

Moshari talked about a lot of power, and the last thing he talked about was that the chief of the Tswa tribe automatically obtained Botswana citizenship, and the tribe would deliberately get a passport for Chief Alan for this purpose.

Here is southern Africa with the primitive African tribal system. Most people don't have any ID cards or passports, and they don't even have a household registration system.

How is the population counted?

Said the tribal chief.

Those with passports are the privilege of those with power!

"Dear King Moshari, thank you and the chief of the tribe..."

Zhang Nan also talked a lot about it. It was nothing more than all kinds of gratitude and speeches after receiving the commendation. I watched TV in China.

The chiefs all know a little English. After Zhang Nan thanked him, the chiefs took the scepter to congratulate them and played with hugs.

Fortunately, there is almost no AIDS in Botswana now. If another twenty-seven years pass, Zhang Nan would not dare to kill Zhang Nan: the HIV infection rate is second in the world, 40%!

The land that the Tuwang gave to the new chief is a piece of land with a seasonal stream that can grow sorghum and corn, which is relatively fertile here.

As for the pasture, it is the land shared by the tribe, as long as it does not predatory grazing, it is free to put it.

It is impossible for Zhang Nan to farm or graze, so he will not conflict with any other chief.

However, Comrade Zhang Nan, who will be fresh and hot, is still a pauper, because there is not even a cow representing wealth for the time being!