The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The tribes of Uvalu are in the southern part of the three diamond mining areas, and the chief’s residence is less than 20 kilometers away from the nearest mining site.

The Uvalu tribe benefited the second time when the mining engineering team was digging water wells. It was during the dry season last year, which solved the urgent needs of the chiefs and tribal villagers.

The first profit is of course Mr. Moshari Tuwang. Leaders must always be the first to get benefits, social art that is universal in the world.

At night, the bonfire is lit, and the primitive and rugged songs and dances of Africa dance until the night is celebrated.

Zhang Nan had long since declined Moshari’s invitation to stay in the small town. As long as he was drinking at night, the same group of chiefs shouted "Rain" in the native language, and killed a few boxes of French wine. He returned to the mine in a Land Rover car.

Botswana does not lack diamonds, agriculture and animal husbandry, and non-ferrous metal minerals, but it lacks water!

Twenty years ago, this big road was all about watching the sky and eating, and water was the foundation of everything.

Drinking a toast and shouting "Rain" is very distinctive. People who come here for the first time will think that the people here are money fans, because the sound of the blessing is "Pula", which is also the name of the currency of Botswana. .

A toast comes with a sentence of "money", this picture is so interesting.

It can be seen that the Botswana people's feelings for water: too short of water!

Even the Limpopo River inside the capital Gaborone is almost a seasonal river, so the dry season has to be maintained by reservoirs.

In this country, urban water charges have long implemented stepped water prices. Once water consumption exceeds a certain level, the water charges will be staggeringly expensive, and they will go up one by one.

Of course, the price of water in the rainy season is different from that in the dry season. Otherwise, Zhang Nan would not be able to enjoy the swimming pool during the few days he lived in Gaborone.

In the dry season, the swimming pools in the best hotels are dry.

Lily fell asleep in the car, and she was honestly held by Alice, and Zhang Nan was about the same, a little drunk.

I returned to the camp in half an hour. It was fenced with barbed wire, and there were guards on duty 24 hours a day.

After entering the simple gate, he soon arrived at the camp.

In the army-style two-story barracks, only Zhang Nan can enjoy the treatment of a suite, living with Alice and Lily.

This time I slept until noon and got up. After eating Chinese food, the guest came to the door. It was Chief Uvalu.

Driving a 70% new British-made jeep, the current Botswana chief is no longer the "primitive" image of 40 years ago, and to a large extent has long been in line with the current society.

Educational facilities here are backward, but just like the Huaxia Plateau in the early twentieth century, regardless of the total economic volume, each county always has some high-end off-road vehicles-which land cruiser is the highest drop, and the Mitsubishi Pajero is the benchmark. match.

The reason...hehe, the higher-level government subsidizes the local grassroots organizations.

As for the chief’s car, it may be subsidized by the government or bought by himself. Just like yesterday, all 11 chiefs came by car.

Botswana is vast and sparsely populated. Although the gap between the rich and the poor is large, the tribe members are not particularly poor in terms of their actual wealth. Just because the infrastructure is too backward, people look at this area as super backward.

Not a pauper, because people here love to raise cattle! .

Botswana's cattle are still farmed completely without pollution and purely natural grazing, so many of them are exported and are widely welcomed by European countries. In fact, the chiefs are not short of money, and they have gotten rid of the primitive state of existence decades ago.

Of course, it's just "getting rid of"-a broken road, and electricity is not available. In order to raise cattle, the semi-desert areas where people have to drive cattle to migrate during the dry season are not much better than modernization.

For example, now, although Chief Uvalu and the two tribal helpers who came with them are wearing the clothes of modern society, not the traditional national costumes of yesterday, they look awkward.

I was covered in gray, and the air conditioner on the car didn't work. If it was broken, it would take hundreds of kilometers to repair it. I just didn't repair it.

Entering the "car age" from primitive society is too fast for Uvalu, and it is almost too fast to adapt.

Then, Zhang Nanzhang saw: a large rhino horn with a length of one meter or two was removed from the car, and Uvalu specially came to give the rhino horn that he promised yesterday.

I originally thought of using rhino horns as a scepter, but when I saw this unique rhino horn, Zhang Nan immediately dispelled his original idea: to make it a sceptre would be a waste of sin!

Uvalu didn't stay to finish the meal and left soon. There was still something in his tribe. However, Zhang Nan didn't let people give away things for nothing: he talked for half an hour and promised to build a few more underground cisterns for his tribe.

In the dry season, I’m afraid of water shortages. Even if there are wells, I’m worried about pumps and generators. I’m really relieved to have an underground reservoir.

The chiefs have money, so why don't they use underground cisterns?

mean?

Alice has this question, a little worried that these locals will take Zhang Nan as a fool.

Zhang Nan understands why.

"They didn't have the technology to build houses and water cellars. The original reservoirs that didn't land were actually crypts.

The engineering team in Botswana is basically controlled by the whites, and the tribes here don't like to deal with them~www.readwn.com~ and the labor costs and profit margins of white companies are very high.

As for the black engineering company, hehe...unreliable. "

This is the reality. If you have money, you don’t know how to build truly modern buildings in tribal areas. This will lead to such backward infrastructure.

Alice smiled, not embarrassed.

On this continent, conflicts between people of different skin colors are almost an eternal topic.

Just now Lily was still looking for herself to play, but Zhang Nan found that the little girl seemed to be missing, so she asked.

"Randy and Mr. Brown took her to play. She said she wanted to look at the shining stones. Mr. Brown said that she would teach her not to use diamonds as rock candy. It is not enough to stop it, she has to be guided."

Zhang Nan smiled and shook his head.

Women really love diamonds regardless of age. Lily also likes those shiny things, but the reason is dumbfounding.

Two days ago, the camp took out a small plate of rough stones. As a result, Lily, who was sitting in Zhang Nan's arms, had quick eyes and hands. She took out a rough stone of about five or six carats from the plate and stuffed it into her mouth.

Fortunately, Zhang Nan's eyesight was quick, and he snatched it out of the little man's mouth.

Although there is nothing wrong with swallowing, Zhang Nan was afraid that her "sharp" teeth would collapse.

Lily was very upset, feeling that her uncle didn't hesitate with her-even grabbing her candy!

The octahedral rough diamond looks really like rock candy.

What, there is no rock candy in the United States?

The Chinese community has found that Zhang Nan likes to have some rock sugar stewed white fungus in summer. Lily has seen rock sugar in her car and loves the shiny, loud candy.

The next day, he left the mining area and returned to Gaborone. The last ivory auction in Botswana will begin before the ivory trade ban takes effect.

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