From Arms Dealer To King of War

  Chapter 997 Amazon's Heart

  Manaus, Brazil is located in the north-central part of Brazil…

  This is a veritable island city, because the traffic here is a mess.

   Unless you take a plane or a boat, you need to be prepared to be stuck on the road for a week or more from Manaus to any of the surrounding cities.

  But unexpectedly, Manaus is one of the most industrially dense areas in Brazil.

  Because the Brazilians once established a bonded zone in Manaus in order to develop the central region, and provided very large policy preferences for foreign investors, attracting many world-renowned companies to invest here.

  Siemens and Nokia came here to set up electronics factories under this background, and then developed it into the center of Brazil's electronics industry.

   And relying on the surrounding rich mineral resources and oil resources, the development of the metallurgical and energy industries here is not bad.

  However, transportation is always the key to restricting Manaus. Here, only by relying on river transportation to export goods, can the transportation cost be shared evenly by the carrying capacity of large ships.

  However, with the shrinking of Brazilian industry and the increase of overseas trade, the industrial output value of Manaus is declining year by year.

  If it weren't for the tax-free benefits of the bonded area, the decline here would definitely accelerate.

   But even so, Manaus's position in South America is still very solid.

  It has the largest motorcycle and bicycle production base in South America, as well as the largest electronics industry base. It produces TVs, radios, and monitors, which account for 98% of the Brazilian market.

  The electronic products produced here not only have a high share in Brazil, but also radiate to Peru and Colombia in the Amazon Basin.

  The early prosperity of Manaus stemmed from Brazil's control over imported goods. At that time, they stipulated that any products that could be produced in the country were not allowed to appear on the import list.

  But now it doesn't work!

  With the advancement of industrialization and the loss of people in Manaus, the invasion of overseas goods is simply irresistible.

  In addition to the island-like location here, and the extremely bad infrastructure and transportation, the status of Manaus has dropped again and again.

   Qiao Jia came here not only for vacation, but also to see this unique city and try to learn it.

  The Amazon River Basin occupies nearly 7 million square kilometers of land and holds 20% of the world's fresh water, but the Congo River is actually not bad.

  It is completely unrealistic to establish an electronics industry in Afika, but North Kivu Province, Sangha Town, can definitely increase the scale of the metallurgical industry, and Bangui can develop motorcycle or bicycle businesses.

According to Boss Joe’s instructions, the plane hovered over Manaus for a while, allowing everyone to fully appreciate the magnificence of the lungs of the earth, and letting Boss Joe appreciate the city layout of Manaus, and then slowly landed in a relatively dilapidated building. Airport interior.

  The moment the Global 8000 that Boss Joe took landed, it attracted the attention of everyone in the airport.

  The people in the terminal want to know where this is, and they come to this remote place.

   Then various gossip began to spread. Recently, several extremely expensive private jets came to Manaus. It should be that the local tyrants in the Middle East admire the abundance of Amazon and came here for vacation.

   And just when the door of the plane opened, everyone wanted to see who would get off the plane.

   A few unremarkable guys took photos of Boss Joe and the others through the windows of the terminal building with their cameras, and then posted them on the Internet.

   Soon one of the men finished taking the photos. Seeing that Boss Joe and his family left the airport and headed for the pier in a few cars, he took out his phone and dialed...

   "Boss, there is another group of people here, they look very rich, and they don't look too easy to mess with!"

  …………

   Qiaojia didn't know that someone was following him just by showing his face.

  If he knew, he would probably laugh out loud!

  My wife's murderous aura has not subsided, yet someone dares to follow him.

  Boss Joe doesn’t know that although Manaus’s urban development has stagnated for many years, it is the starting point of the Amazon Basin where thousands of streams meet the sea...

  Countless tributaries grabbed Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia like claws.

   Because of the cover of rivers and jungles, drug dealers regard Manaus as a drug trading center.

  The laxity of the duty-free port has made Manaus an important place for drugs to occupy the Brazilian market and transit to the world at the same time.

Some of the drugs in South America are scattered from here into various parts of Brazil, and the rest are shipped on the spot, traveling hundreds of kilometers eastward, and then crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Senegal or Morocco in Afica. After staying in these two places, the drugs will enter Spain is then dispersed into the European region.

   Said found a very secluded place in the Amazon River Basin leading to Colombia and built a luxurious resort.

   Then in order to ensure local security, Said also arranged a large number of armed security personnel.

   It was not within the scope of Brazilian military patrols, but recently, because of the presence of local tyrants from the Middle East, the Brazilian military sent a large number of military police to take charge of the security of that area.

   Then a large batch of drugs was inexplicably blocked!

  Just like Boss Joe blocked the channels of the Ndrangheta by defending Central Africa, Said, a resort built by a wealthy foreigner, exposed a key waterway for drug delivery to the eyes of the Brazilian military and police.

  Colombians want a negotiated solution, but who is Saeed? How could he be in touch with a gang of Colombian drug dealers?

   So things froze!

   When the photo of Boss Joe was introduced to Columbia, he was recognized immediately.

  Boss Joe’s prestige is too strong in the drug world!

  Although he attacked the Ndrangheta in the early days and destroyed the HLY channel, he didn't have much intersection with KKY in South America.

   But it's no secret that Boss Joe's close cooperation with the DEA makes people have strange associations.

  Originally due to the bad relationship between Columbia and the Honor Society, they shouldn't take the initiative to provoke Boss Joe, but they are really scared.

  Because once Manaus is blocked and the passage on the Amazon River is cut off, not only will their transportation costs increase, but the smoothest way to Europe will be cut off...

  Originally, Mexico blocked the road of drug sales to the United States, which made them uncomfortable enough. Now that the passage to Europe is blocked, the consequences will be absolutely heart-wrenching.

  Boss Joe didn’t know that just by showing his face, he caused so many psychological activities among Colombian drug dealers.

   They boarded a luxury yacht on a pier in Manaus, and then the yacht, escorted by several Brazilian military rubber boats, slowly began to move upstream along the extremely magnificent Amazon River.

  Choga has never seen such a majestic river. It is normal for a river to have no end in sight, but the wideness of the Amazon River that can't be seen at a glance makes Choga mistakenly think that he is at the seaside.

   Only then did he understand why there is a huge port in an inland city.

   Freighters can directly transport locally produced sugar cane raw sugar or pulp, and go all the way eastward down the river to the Atlantic Ocean.

  The water in the Amazon River is not as clear as Boss Joe imagined, and the turbid water basically means no visibility.

  However, after going upstream for tens of kilometers, as the yacht turned into a tributary, the river channel narrowed, and the tropical rainforest on both sides made up for the lack of river water, which made Boss Joe feel different from the Congo jungle.

   The vitality is too strong!

There are more monkeys here than people, and they are very courageous. When a yacht passes by, some monkeys will smash the fruit in their hands at the yacht, and then watch the people on the yacht run away, and they will give out a burst of pride laugh at.

  Boss Joe hugged his son, and fought several rounds of fruit fights with monkeys who had been chasing the yacht. Finally, he realized that he was probably no match, so he decisively called for support...

   In charge of the yacht is Said's butler...

   This old guy obviously likes the green environment of Amazon very much, and he looks very energetic.

Faced with Boss Joe's call for help, the old butler called two sailors to carry out two baskets of fruits like melons, and then carried an air cannon like a bazooka on his shoulders, squatting and walking towards the direction where there are more monkeys. One shot past...

  The fruit the size of a fist hit the tree trunk and exploded, scaring the surrounding monkeys to scream.

  Then the old guy seemed a little dissatisfied, he kept urging his men to replenish ammunition for himself, and kept firing towards both sides.

  Joga and his gang rolled on the battlefield, watching an old man start a battle with a group of monkeys with a cannon, and it was so lively...

In order to avoid being infected by the old man's foolishness, Choga hugged his son and walked to the shadow under the cabin, then looked at Niss sitting on a chair with a small yellow-haired sloth in his arms and looking at the river in a daze with a resentful face. …

   "Ma'am, your son is here..."

  Nice froze for a moment, smiled at Qiaojia, and then opened his arms to signal Boss Qiao to give her his son.

  Joga looked at the half-inch long claws of the little sloth, and at his own son's immature skin. He shook his head in disgust and said, "Forget it..."

  Speaking, Choga sat beside Niss, stretched out his hand and poked the little sloth, making it make a childish cry, which caused Niss to hit him angrily...

   "This thing looks really ugly, what's so good about it?"

  Nice looked at the sleepy little sloth in her arms eating a few leaves, she smiled and said, "Because this is the happiest animal I've ever heard of...

  They want very little, but they live very comfortably, and a little thing can make them feel satisfied.

  I envy them that they are always slow, and it is only natural that they are slow...

  I know I can’t…”

  Joga was stunned for a moment, finally nodded, and said: "When this little guy grows up, we will retire and find a place to slow down.

  If you like it here, we’ll buy some land on Amazon and build a big house…”

When Qiaojia was speaking, the old butler gave up his intention of competing with the monkey. The monkey abuser put down the air cannon happily, walked up to Boss Qiao, and said with a smile: "Sir, go forward 80 kilometers and enter the race." The land of Prince Yide was gone.

  He purchased nearly 60 square kilometers of land along both sides of a river, and established a hunting area exclusively for hunting guide companies.

   And looking for someone to explore inside Amazon, hoping to buy a bigger piece of land..."

  Joga immediately thought of what Prince Said once said, that he wanted to build a unique resort in an inaccessible place.

  He is not optimistic about this guy's idea, because when you go there, it will no longer be an inaccessible place.

   But thinking about how generous this guy was to buy 60 square kilometers of land, Choga could only nod in admiration, and said, "I don't quite understand your enthusiasm for green...

   But buying land is always right! "

  The old butler was stunned for a moment, then shook his head slightly and said, "Not necessarily, recently I found that there are people spying around the resort, I have a bad feeling..."

  (end of this chapter)