From Arms Dealer To King of War

  Chapter 222 Like a Spring Breeze

  The Park Management Office prepared a residence for Qiaojia and the others, but Qiaojia chose to accept John’s invitation and followed the couple to the ‘Animal Protection Center’.

  The little black girl Linda may be socially stronger than Lian Nuoer because of her family background.

After understanding what Qiaojia meant, she went over and tried to dismiss the people from the park management office, so as not to let them disturb Qiaojia. She only needed to arrange a few guards with guns to show the management office's respect for Qiaojia. That's fine.

  At this moment, Qiaojia, who was very clear-headed, did not show the slightest sense of domineering. He smiled and rejected the guards arranged by the management office.

  After seeing the old-fashioned AK in the hands of the security guards who tried to make themselves look more professional, Choga smiled and motioned for Dorian to move the gift he brought off the helicopter.

   To the boss of the park management office who was a bit cramped, he presented a custom-made 'P·B shotgun' customized by Yogginbert Company.

The rest of the security guards who looked quite strong were given a M05N1 produced by Yuge Imbert Company, which is a modern modification of the AK47. It still uses 7.62*51mm machine gun ammunition and 30 rounds of ammunition. Box, with this guy, the close defense capabilities of these security guards are absolutely overwhelming.

  Joga’s fortune is in arms, and of course it’s more convenient to give gifts when meeting, but the key is that the other party likes it very much.

   Seeing Yoda, the boss of the Park Management Department, holding the shotgun and loving it, Choga shook hands with him, patted his arm, and said, "Please take care of me in the future!"

  Yoda probably has never seen such a kind big man, he nodded and said with a grin: "Don't worry, don't worry..."

Qiaojia looked at Yoda who was not very good at talking, he smiled indifferently, and said, "I'm going to live with John for a few days, you are the boss of the park, pass the message to the locals for me, no one should beat the lion king Namor's idea, I'll deal with it myself after a while."

   While talking, Choga looked at Yoda who was hesitant to speak, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't hurt Namor.

  Oh, it’s not just Namor, tell those who have a history of poaching here to stop all poaching work, and we can discuss a reasonable solution.

  I need a harmonious grassland to carry my investment. Don’t do the kind of thing that goes to the grassland to find trouble with elephants for hundreds of dollars. "

After finishing speaking, Choga was about to turn around and leave, when he suddenly thought of something, patted his head, turned around, took out a stack of dollars from his pocket, counted out about a thousand dollars, handed it to Yoda, and said, "Father Freeman probably didn't I’ve been busy discussing the ivory issue, and I’ll give the money to that guy named Man Luo, let him buy medicine for his wife and children, and the two ivory tusks in his hand will be donated to your management office.”

After finishing everything, Choga didn't wait for Yoda with a complicated expression to reply, and turned around to find John. They drove three pickup trucks out of the town and drove northward for about 5 kilometers. To the 'Animal Rescue Center'.

  John's rescue center is not as miserable as he himself described, and it is actually quite good according to Choga's standards.

  A medical room, a dining room, an entertainment room, a row of staff dormitories, and a dozen cabins scattered around.

   This is a standard commercial rescue center, but this unlucky place in Central Africa is not very attractive to most people, so the wooden houses are all vacant.

   It was about 5:00 in the morning when Qiaojia and the others arrived. When the car arrived at the parking lot of the rescue center, some people were already up and busy.

   Someone is preparing breakfast, someone is preparing food for the animals...

   There are 10 people and six vehicles in the entire rescue center, and everyone is very busy.

  Seeing Choga standing next to the pickup truck and observing his rescue center, John leaned over and said with a smile: "Actually, I need 20 people here, but I don't have enough funds..."

   Qiaojia shook his head and said: "You are joking, people here die laughing when they have 30 yuan a month, how can hiring someone make you not enough money?"

  John raised his hand to greet a few people passing by in the distance, then he looked at Choga and said, "Did you make a mistake? How could it be $30?

There are more foreigners here than locals, and the local agriculture is not very developed. All vegetables and non-staple food need to be shipped in from hundreds of kilometers away. There are also many things that tourists like, such as alcoholic beverages. Some even need to be imported from abroad.

  The prices here are a bit high compared to other places in Central Africa. Hiring a full-time worker here requires at least 200 US dollars a month.

  This is already a relatively low salary standard in the Afika Animal Rescue Center. "

   Qiaojia probably understood after hearing this, that this is equivalent to the fact that some 4th-tier small towns in China can get by with 3,000 yuan, but in some super-tier-1 cities, as long as you buy a house, even 30,000 yuan a month will feel pressure.

  This analogy is a bit inappropriate, but the deformed industrial form in Central Africa has led to the small town of 'Ndele' being the place in this country that has the closest contact with the world except the capital Bangui.

  Tourism is the only pillar industry here. Tourists not only bring income to local people, but also artificially push up local prices because of their needs.

  This should not be a bad thing, but the number of tourists who come to travel is obviously not enough, which leads to the poverty of the local people, because the national park does not allow large-scale reclamation and grazing, and they can't even farm and raise cattle.

  Without enough tourists, the prices of handicrafts and service industries will not go up, but prices will go up.

  The simplest comparison is that people in Sangha Town eat cassava and beans three times a day, and they can still have a few yuan left over 30 yuan a month. And here in Ndelai, there are three meals of cassava every day, and there are only a few pieces of 200 yuan left.

Because the location of Ndélé is too biased, although the straight-line distance from the nearest city to the south is only 170 kilometers, the curved road built according to the terrain has extended the distance to more than 400 kilometers. You can run in the dry season, and this road in the rainy season A trip without a car might not be able to carry it.

  Who can believe that the most common means of transportation between this small town of Afika and the outside world is by plane?

  Foreign tourists get off the plane from Bangui, and then take a small plane with a fare of 80-150 US dollars, and then they can fly here from the capital.

  The transportation capacity of small aircraft is very poor. If you want to use trucks to transport those cheap agricultural products in, the price will rise a lot. Of course, it is wise to transport those high value-added things, which will push up prices in disguise.

  This place is actually an isolated island. People outside envy the high income of the people here. While the people here are proud, they do not want to give up their life here.

   This is a bit different from what Qian Zhongshu described in The Siege of the City. People outside want to come in, but people inside don’t want to go out no matter how tired they are, because they know that the outside is worse and more dangerous!

  John looked at Choga's thoughtful expression, and he said helplessly: "The Animal Protection Fund can only provide me with 300,000 US dollars a year, which is very difficult to take care of those animals that have no ability to earn a living.

   So sometimes we have to find food for those animals ourselves..."

  Speaking of John pointing to a green banana dragged out of a warehouse by a middle-aged black man, he shook his head and said: "We go to the wild banana forest 25 kilometers northwest to pick bananas every week, and occasionally I need to take the lead into the grassland to hunt.

  I've been looking for a way to adopt animals across borders, but so far people only seem to be interested in lions and cheetahs.

  I have called many zoos around the world, but the only one that really accepts the injured animals here is your zoo in Guangzhou, China. They took away more than a dozen gazelles and a few cheetahs.

  Now I have a lot of animals with nowhere to go. They have some physical defects or are not adults. Letting them go into nature is letting them die. "

  Joga nodded in understanding, John's thinking was right, his main rescue objects were injured animals or animal cubs.

   The cubs can be released to the grassland after they are adults, but not the injured ones. Once they have physical defects, letting them go is letting them die.

  It costs a lot of money to raise them, and those cubs need to be rewilded as adults, which requires more money and more manpower.

   This is a public welfare undertaking, and the only thing you can rely on if you want to have income is external funding.

  With the scale of John's rescue center, unless he is a **** without a conscience, 300,000 a year is far from enough.

Fortunately, Qiaojia came here with a problem-solving mind. Facing John's distressed narration, he waved his hand with a smile and said, "I have to find a place to sleep first. Let's have a chat at noon. Go out in a helicopter, you come with me, I need to find a suitable place to build a resort."

After speaking, Qiaojia turned his head and looked around, shook his head and pushed away the baby elephant that kept pushing him, and then said with a smile: "I think this place is only suitable for a veterinary hospital. I need a piece of scenery, geographical location, and Where food is relatively easy to obtain.

   Otherwise it would drive me crazy just to get bananas for this little guy. "

  John nodded with a smile, and said: "This is your time to consider, come with me, I have 10 cabins here.

  At the beginning, I also imagined that my place could be like the animal rescue center in Botswana, open to tourists and volunteers to earn some fees, and at the same time provide a place for caring volunteers to display their talents.

  Unfortunately, the reality gave me a hard blow. Now I only have one volunteer here, but it is a pity that he is still a volunteer who cannot pay the room fee.

  Fortunately, he is very interested in working, and he is also a good medical assistant, ha..."

  John tried his best to show his optimism, and at the same time led Qiaojia and the others to several exquisite wooden houses, and said with a smile: "It smells a bit musty, but the cleaning is still clean, you can choose for yourself.

   Eat and go to the restaurant, wash in the blue house opposite..."

   When Qiaojia nodded and was about to open the door of a wooden house, a tall man in the next house pushed the door out while putting on his clothes.

  He seemed a little surprised by the guests here, so he subconsciously sped up the action of putting on the T-shirt. However, the gunshot wound on his abdomen and the large and small wounds on his arms still caught Qiaojia's attention.

  He looks handsome, but his temperament is a bit decadent. This middle-aged white man has a taste of middle-aged Eastwood, and he should be a soldier, at least he used to be!

   Seeing the sudden coldness of the atmosphere, John said with a smile: "This is my only volunteer here, Kenny Rogers, we all call him 'Medical Officer Bird'."

  Joga looked at the slightly wary expression on Kenny Rogers' face. He nodded as a greeting, and then he opened the door first and walked into his cabin...

  (end of this chapter)