He already controls the southern half of the Horn of Africa. The reason why he did not attack the northern half is mainly because the two places are two civilizations that were forced together by the colonizers.
The north has better natural conditions and is much richer than the south, so we have always had to live alone. It has not stopped in the past few years, and there has been a civil war in the country.
Yang Fan considered that the north was closer to the Red Sea and had higher strategic value. However, the cost of governance would be too high. Two civilized ethnic groups would not be easy to deal with. Fighting, suppressing, and rebelling all day long would not be as good as now, all by themselves.
People are easy to manage.
But after Ali's rise, the situation actually changed.
Now that the poor brothers in the north have made money, they are no longer clamoring for self-reliance. They are determined to stay in the Horn of Africa and strongly demand Ali to be the commander-in-chief and at the same time pay for the government budget in the north.
Their government officials are also poor, and life is very difficult.
Although the north has actually become independent, and even though it is under the same culture, the elders of various tribes are fighting back and forth all day long. It is still a mess, and there is no economic construction at all, let alone development.
Without a peaceful and stable environment, nothing can be accomplished.
Ali sneered at them. He did not want the territory in the north at all. This was simply asking for trouble for himself. He did not intend to become a general.
In the city of Disha, the capital city that has now become an isolated island, he has not dealt with thousands of former government soldiers and old warlords. Throughout the southern region, the warlords and politicians he defeated have fled to Disha City.
So far, the government officials representing the entire Horn of Africa are still an older group of people.
Their strength is negligible. They are still entertaining themselves there.
They were huddled and shivering in Disha City, and they didn't know when Ali would come and take care of them.
Ali didn't want to go to Disha City and become a general.
I don't want to deal with the North either.
He wouldn't spend a dollar on them.
Moreover, the north is not suitable for raising donkeys, so what is the use of Ali taking them back?
When the commander-in-chief doesn't worry about anything, he will be exposed to the sun.
Let the old warlords, who have long been sidelined and can only hide in the urban area of Disha, have their own fun. They have more than a dozen factions and go to war every few days. Ali just watches the show.
In total, they had more than 3,000 remnant soldiers left, which was not enough to fill Ali's teeth. Ali was too lazy to care about them.
After establishing the donkey industry, Ali has established a firm foothold.
In the hot land of Africa, if you have money, you will have soldiers. This is an unbreakable truth.
As soon as Ali had money, he immediately began to raise troops. Everything else was scarce here, and there were unemployed people everywhere. All idle people like Aliba gathered in the military camp. Then they invited instructors to train them hard.
In the past two years, Ali's army has expanded crazily from a few thousand people to now a hundred thousand troops and thirty brigades. This is already a force in East Africa that no one dares to underestimate.
After Ali had a sense of security and could defend himself with troops, he shifted his perspective from fighting to construction. After all, this country was so dilapidated that no great powers could even pay attention to it.
Now, Ali is ready to gear up and vow to develop the economy and build this half of the Horn of Africa into a powerful East African country.
Naturally, Yang Fan wanted to support him. He hired a group of agricultural experts from China to make a good plan for him. Let's see what kind of agriculture can be improved in this barren land.
Monkey has a very good relationship with the experts at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, because he often has rare plants found from home and abroad. Now that cross-breeding has come to an end, there is not much left to go. Transgenics are the future. The main reason is
There is a lack of wild plants for hybridization.
There is no such thing as wild hybridization between wild plants.
After reading it, the experts suggested that the desert here is particularly suitable for growing high-value Chinese medicinal materials such as Cistanche deserticola, Cynomorium Cynomorium, black wolfberry, licorice, and sea buckthorn.
All male compatriots know what these things are for.
Who doesn’t need it when they reach middle age, right?
As long as these products are of good quality and highly effective, there is no need to worry about selling them. The prices are quite expensive.
An industrial zone was established in the small town of Gubao, and a number of traditional Chinese medicine factories were introduced to move in. The two parties cooperated, and Ali provided land as a planting farm. These factories produced patent medicines.
Now, in addition to several large domestic traditional Chinese medicine companies, Xinghe Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory has also been established. It is jointly run by Xinghe and Alibaba.
Because of underground water irrigation, various grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton, coffee and tea can also be developed under the guidance of the Chinese expert group.
Monkey recruited more than 100,000 farmers from China and entered the Horn of Africa in the name of labor export. They planted various grains and cash crops in the desert and provided raw materials for traditional Chinese medicine factories.
Ali understood that the local people could not farm. They raised some cattle, sheep and camels. Even the people who raised donkeys were recruited from China. They were not very good at raising donkeys. Nowadays, in the desert, there are often animals with a diameter of ten
Several kilometers of fenced donkey farms.
Internally, groundwater drippers are used to grow high-protein alfalfa, sweet stalks and other feeds. The donkeys here are all semi-wild donkeys that roam freely, so the quality of their meat and donkey skins is excellent. They quickly occupied the domestic market.
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The fishery has also developed in the past two years. After all, the tuna here is the best.
It is located in the western Indian Ocean and is affected by various ocean currents. The fish resources in its waters are very rich, including tuna, mackerel, anchovies, sardines, sharks, etc. The fishing and processing industry has also been established.
Fish farming has even begun to be done in large cages.
The Red Sea is so narrow, it's like a ditch. It's so narrow. A few large trawlers pulled the fish in a row and caught almost all of it. The local fishermen were starving to death.
In order to survive, the sea brothers rose up. They kidnapped fishermen and seized fishing boats. Gradually, they seized as long as they were boats, and then extorted ransom. In fact, their real purpose was to protect the country's fish resources. Now no one dares to fish in the Red Sea.
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Since we want to do it, we should do it with the best. Yang Fan directly asked Monkey to contact a large domestic marine ranch group. They are a rice farming enterprise. Currently, they are responsible for the world's largest wind power grid fish farming project, Fuxi No. 1.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Fuxi No. 1" is located in Shanwei. The central area of China General Nuclear Power Group's Houhu 500,000-kilowatt offshore wind farm is about 11 kilometers away from the coast.
The main structure cage of "Fuxi No. 1" is 70 meters long, 35 meters wide, with a water depth of about 25.7 meters and a breeding space of about 63,000 cubic meters. It is the world's largest cage fish farming project. It is expected to produce high-quality marine fish annually.
The class is about 900 tons.
There is now a demonstration project off the coast, and if it operates well, it may continue to expand. In addition to being used for fish farming cages, offshore wind power can also be transmitted to the shore through submarine cables.
There is no thermal power station here, and the ancient castle town relies entirely on diesel power generation. Now Alibaba has signed contracts one after another to introduce wind power and photovoltaic power generation from China. It just so happens that the domestic combination of photovoltaic and animal husbandry is very suitable here.
In addition to these, there are also some of the largest potential projects here. Ali is considering whether to develop them. Because once these things are developed, this land will become coveted by others.
The offshore here is rich in natural gas and oil, which have only been explored in recent years.
At the same time, mineral resources are also being explored in the desert. Iron ore, copper, tin, aluminum, lead, lithium and rare earth elements, etc. These mineral resources have huge potential.
Copper and lithium, in particular, are the most coveted. They are also resources that are in short supply in all countries.
You can leave the others aside for now, but there is one thing that really makes Yang Fan tempted. That is offshore natural gas. The natural gas here contains helium. This is shocking news.
Helium is a very precious resource.
Most of the helium on the earth is the result of radioactive decay. Therefore, helium is found in large amounts in uranium and thorium minerals. To this day, the helium resources found on the earth are only 48.4 billion m3, and China is very helium-deficient.
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Due to its very low density and the inability to form various compounds such as water like hydrogen, helium as an elemental gas easily escapes out of the atmosphere. Over the years, there is less and less helium on the earth.
The world's exploitable helium resources mainly come from natural gas. Therefore, helium is a scarce non-renewable resource.
What does Yang Fan need helium for? He wants to build an airship.
Because hydrogen is easy to produce, but very easy to explode, he did not dare to take his wives to build a hydrogen airship. Helium airships were a very good choice.
In the future, Yang Fan's territory will be spread all over the world, and he needs a palace flying in the air so that he can travel around the world to inspect his territory.