The last people to get off the plane were actually Chu Chen and three attachés from a certain unit.
Because of his outstanding work ability and outstanding achievements, Chu Chen has been promoted. He is a deputy director in his early thirties, which makes people envious.
"Mr. Hou, Mr. Du has time to chat alone." Chu Chen whispered as he shook hands with Monkey and Liar.
The two of them knew Chu Chen and heard from Sun Xing. They knew about his background and workplace.
"Okay, how about we drink tea together after dinner," Du Pianpian said.
"Listen to Mr. Du's arrangements." Chu Chen said with a smile.
The group of people got into the motorcade and headed straight to the castle.
This place has been expanded. The original airstrip could only take off and land business aircraft, and at most A320-class straight-line passenger aircraft. Now after extensive construction, it has become a 4F-level airport. Even the largest aircraft can take off and land.
The road from the airport to the castle was also built into a six-lane expressway. The distance of more than 60 kilometers was quickly reached.
Nowadays, the town and dock here are no longer what they used to be. Yang Fan spent a lot of money to carry out large-scale renovations.
Because of its special geographical location, the Horn of Africa has extremely high strategic value. It is close to the core area of the Middle East. It is the choke point after the Suez Canal comes out. Of course, it is also the poorest, most backward, and most chaotic area in the world today.
There are no valuable resources here, and it is so poor that no country is willing to pay attention to it.
But Chu Chen, who was sitting in the car, was very surprised. Modern airports, high-grade highways, and dense palm trees and olive trees outside the car window. These are all important oil raw materials.
When we arrived at the seaside, we saw modern port facilities, Zhenhua equipment, huge enclosed docks, 500,000-ton deep-water berths, and densely packed factory buildings, dormitories, and warehouse buildings in the industrial zone.
This small town located on the seaside was originally a small town and is now renamed Blue Castle. It has a population of half a million. Although they are basically workers and farmers from China, there are not many locals. However, it is already very prosperous.
Already.
Now ten 500,000-ton berths have been repaired, and the water depth has been excavated to 30 meters. At the same time, a newly built ship repair yard can repair oil tankers of more than 300,000 tons.
There is no problem in parking some warships. There are also three enclosed docks used for ship repairs.
In fact, this is one of Yang Fan's teleportation points. The covered dry dock was built to prevent it from being discovered by satellites. Now most of the modern supplies that Yang Fan needs come from here.
After all, China’s domestic bulk supplies easily attract attention.
Internationally, especially in this extremely chaotic country, everyone is very free to do anything.
Yang Fan deeply felt that his decision-making was wise. In Africa, a land of right and wrong, it is very convenient to have a territory of his own. It is very convenient to purchase food, weapons and minerals on a large scale from here. Now there are three 300,000-ton closed buildings.
Type dry dock is very beneficial for transportation.
Coupled with the great warlord Ali who already rules half of the Horn of Africa, Yang Fan's base here is as solid as a rock and cannot be shaken. No surrounding African country is Ali's opponent.
Because they are all too poor.
Without money, there is no use having more people. Modern wars no longer focus on human resources.
Although General Ali was nicknamed Funny Ali, he did have a way of making money.
In the past three years, he has made a fortune by raising donkeys. The semi-arid desert grasslands and savannas here are very suitable for raising donkeys. In the early days, Yang Fan relied on purchasing camels to support his finances and maintain his army and government. Now
He was already self-sufficient and financially sound.
Now we rely on donkey breeding, deep processing of donkey products, mining, cultivation of traditional Chinese medicine and production of patent medicines, development of marine fishing and fish processing, seawater giant cage fish farming, offshore oil and natural gas mining, inland mineral mining and metal smelting...
.made a fortune.
General Ali's government has become the most powerful government in East Africa. He has raised an army of 100,000 people, with a total of thirty brigades. There are also plans to develop the navy and air force.
It’s not that this country has no way to develop, it’s just that the long-term turmoil has delayed the economy. After Alibaba took control of the southern half, the entire region entered the fast lane of economic development.
Ali started his career by selling camels to Yang Fan, and then developed donkey breeding and donkey product processing industries. After making a fortune from donkeys, he introduced hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from China to engage in desert planting industry. Mainly planting olive trees and palm trees.
Such as oil crops and traditional Chinese medicine crops.
Because China is the largest importer of edible oil, importing tens of millions of tons a year.
Although this is a desert area, groundwater is actually very rich because of the large number of seasonal rivers. Not all the water in these rivers evaporates, but most of it seeps into the ground.
Ali commissioned a scammer to recruit more than 100,000 migrant workers from China to raise donkeys. He bought a large number of well-drilling equipment, irrigated with groundwater, planted high-quality alfalfa and sweet stalks, and produced five tons of sorghum per mu (the yield of the entire plant, for
Make silage feed.)
There are currently five million black donkeys in the population, and one million black donkeys can be slaughtered every year.
Alibaba and Xinghe cooperated to establish a donkey industry company here, and it was also listed on the domestic GEM. The stock is called Big Donkey.
The slaughterhouse is responsible for processing donkey meat and donkey offal, marinating it, sealing it in vacuum bags, and transporting it back to China for sale. The donkey skin is used to make donkey hide gelatin.
Donkeys can be said to be full of treasures, and nothing is wasted.
An adult donkey can produce more than 300 kilograms of meat. Calculated at 30 to 40 yuan per kilogram, the profit of donkey meat can reach 9,000 to 16,000 yuan. This is based on raw meat. If cooked and marinated, the weight may be reduced by half, but the value will also be
improve.
For donkey meat alone, if one million animals are slaughtered a year, there will be a profit of tens of billions of yuan.
Donkey skin can be boiled into donkey hide gelatin. Each donkey skin is about 35 to 40 kilograms, and each catty is 60 yuan. The profit is about 2100 to 2400 yuan. If you make donkey hide gelatin by yourself and sell it, it will be even more impressive. The largest listed company in China makes donkey hide gelatin.
That company will have revenue of 7.6 billion in 2022.
The offal is about 40 kilograms. Calculated at tens of yuan per kilogram, there is a profit of about one thousand yuan. This is another revenue of more than three billion yuan.
The factories here process all the products directly and sell them back to the country. There are no middlemen to make the difference. Moreover, the products are purchased directly online and the profits are passed on to consumers.
Because they are semi-wild donkeys that are raised in deserts and savanna areas, both the quality of their meat and the effect of their hides are better than those of pure breeding. They are extremely competitive in the country.
Alibaba's donkey industry generates at least 20 billion soft sister coins in revenue a year. This makes the surrounding countries and warlords red-eyed.
They never dreamed that these worthless donkeys could be so profitable after being bred, slaughtered, marinated, and further processed into traditional Chinese medicine on a large scale.
But if I want to reach out again, it's too late. Now the funny Ali has grown up.