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However, there were two other people pushing the bicycles, the wheels were all crushed into the sand, and it was hard to push, let alone ride.

"Whoever asked to bring the bicycle didn't have a brain, the bicycle is here, it's just a decoration." Xiao Wu complained while pushing the bicycle.

There is sand here, and bicycles are really not suitable.

But these two bicycles are not for riding, they have their own magical functions.

After wandering around for more than three hours, the bullock cart saw a village in front of it. It was said to be a village, but it was actually a settlement.

There are basically none of the facilities that a village should have, only a simple thatched hut.

It is indeed a thatched hut, that is, it is supported by a few logs, covered with thatch, and surrounded by thatch.

Occasionally there are a few huts with thin mud walls. Anyway, it is not cold here all year round, so there is no need to think about keeping warm.

In the settlement, flocks and camels can be seen everywhere, and the ground is also full of excrement, which is used to light the fire after drying.

Dirty, messy, and poor are the most appropriate words to describe this place.

You can see many little black children running around barefoot.

I also saw some indigenous women wearing brightly colored robes and turbans on their heads. When they saw outsiders, they panicked and dodged.

"Aju, don't take pictures, or they will beat you up." Ma Laosan patted lead singer Huang on the shoulder.

Xiao Wu also added: "Also, don't take pictures of those camels without the owner's permission."

Lead singer Huang could only silently put away the camera, and then stared at the extremely simple thatched hut in a daze.

"You guys are here." Evera came out from nowhere, said hello, and led the way.

In fact, without him leading the way, everyone could find the chief's residence, because there was only one decent house in the entire settlement.

The houses are white because of their beliefs.

Liu Qingshan remembered a joke: when you go to a strange village, if you want to find the village head's house, you can find the biggest and best house in the village, basically it won't be bad.

It seems that this rule still works here.

Evera ran into the house to report the news, and soon a group of people came out to welcome him. The person in the front was wearing a decent suit, about 40 years old, with a big belly and a hood. bearded.

There is still a turban wrapped around her head, which doesn't match the suit on her body, and it looks awkward no matter how you look at it.

Xiao Wu hurriedly introduced: "This is Chief Adu, Your Excellency, this is the general manager of our company, Liu."

Liu Qingshan blinked, and glanced at the chief's big belly: I guess it's more appropriate to call him Chief Ah Du?

So he came forward to shake hands, Chief Adu was very enthusiastic, he held Liu Qingshan's hand tightly with both hands, and greeted Liu Qingshan in a long-winded manner in his mouth.

He talked endlessly, chatting for several minutes, but he still refused to let go, and he had the potential to be talkative.

Liu Qingshan also knows that the locals have this habit. The longer they chat with you, the closer they are to you, so they can only chat awkwardly with each other:

How about the wives in your family, how about the children, how about the camels, etc.

Just when he was about to say hello, Xiao Wu from behind helped him out: "Your Excellency, this is a gift from us."

Hearing the gift, the chief let go of his hand, and then he was a little dazed when he saw the two bicycles.

He has been to big cities, and of course his knowledge is far superior to that of ordinary aborigines. He knows that this thing is called a bicycle, but they don't even ride it at all.

Liu Qingshan also saw what the chief was thinking, so he turned the bicycle upside down on the ground, took out a set of equipment, assembled it on the car, and finally extended a light bulb.

Ask a person to shake the pedals of the bicycle, and the wheels will spin in mid-air. Then, the light bulb in the hand, the filament inside will start to glow red. If it comes to night, it will definitely be very bright.

Chief Adu had been to big cities and seen electric lights, and immediately the fat on his face trembled with joy, and he kept applauding.

That's right, what Liu Qingshan got here is a set of bicycle motorcycle lights. This thing generates electricity by friction, and it doesn't cost electricity, but there must always be someone to shake the pedals.

Chief Adu's cry attracted several women in turbans in the room, and they watched it together.

These are the chief's wives, ranging in age from their 40s to their teens, surrounded by a group of little guys, who should be children of the chief's family.

Liu Qingshan just said hello, he heard from Xiao Wu that it is not allowed to shake hands with women here.

This gift was obviously welcomed by the chief's family, and Liu Qingshan and Xiao Wu were let into the house.

As for the soldiers of that class, they were all outside the house, continuing to fiddle with another gift for the chief.

The furnishings in the room are quite luxurious, the floor is covered with camel hair carpets, the coffee utensils are also very particular about silverware.

Coupled with the big diamond ring worn by Chief Adu, Liu Qingshan and the others felt a strong aura of local tyrants.

On the contrary, the local coffee is very fragrant and tastes very good.

While drinking and chatting, Chief Adu was about to get to the point when he suddenly heard a muffled bang from outside the house, scaring him to lie down on the ground:

"No, someone fired a cannon, it must be from other tribes!"

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Liu Qingshan pulled Chief Adu up from the carpet, this guy is really heavy.

Soon, a few black children, big and small, ran in outside, screaming, holding white popcorn flowers in their hands, and stuffing them into their mouths.

The chief was clearly in shock. He talked to a slightly older son before he felt relieved. He grabbed the popcorn in his son's hand and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

While chewing, he also nodded with satisfaction, no wonder this guy can eat so fat.

The children ran out again, and Chief Adu followed, and saw a young man brought by Liu Qingshan, sitting there shaking a black cylinder, collapsing popcorn.

Presumably the loud noise that shook the earth just now came from here.

This is also the second gift Liu Qingshan brought to the chief, mainly considering that the chief has many wives, so he should also have many children, so he gave a set of broken popcorn flowers.

"Cover your ears, it's ringing!"

Xiao Wu was yelling, and saw the veteran stepped on the sole of his foot, and there was another bang, and immediately there were more snow-white popcorn flowers in the front pocket.

The children in the tribe rushed forward, stretched out their little black hands, grabbed popcorn flowers and stuffed them into their mouths.

A few grains of saccharin are added to the popcorn flower, so it is sweet and delicious.

Chief Adu was obviously more satisfied with this gift, and treated Liu Qingshan and the others with more enthusiasm.

After returning to the room, poured coffee again, and then started chatting.

It was Wang Gong who communicated with the chief the most, asking questions about groundwater, coal reserves, and so on.

Liu Qingshan is more concerned about the situation of other tribes and tribes around. After all, this place is notoriously chaotic, and the first priority is safety.

This meeting was very fruitful, and the two sides reached several mutually beneficial verbal agreements: for example, to jointly build power plants and so on.

As for the ocean fishing rights mentioned by Liu Qingshan, that's not a problem. According to the local customs: any area in your territory that faces the sea belongs to your own territory, and you can fish as you like.

It doesn't matter what the license is.

At noon, the chief's wives set out a sumptuous lunch, good guy, it's all meat: beef, mutton, camel meat, no wonder the chief eats it fat.

Everyone reported a meal, and when Liu Qingshan and the others bid farewell and left, the chief gave a return gift, which was more than ten kilograms of frankincense particles.

Liu Qingshan thought for a while, and asked about the stinky stone that Evera mentioned could be ignited.

Not to mention, one of the chief's wives turned out a piece of taupe ambergris in disgust, about the size of a volleyball.

This made Liu Qingshan so happy that he accepted it cheerfully. In his eyes, the chubby Chief Abdu seemed to have become much cuter.

When Liu Qingshan and the others returned to the station, they were told that the cargo ship had also arrived here, but there was no wharf, and no cargo was dispatched or unloaded.

After discussing for a while, it was decided to go to Berbera Port in the west to unload the cargo, and then transport it here.

Because on the cargo ship, there are small four-wheel tractors, Dongfanghong chain-track tractors, ten jeeps, and more than two dozen large trucks, so there is no problem in transporting goods.

The only thing to worry about is that it takes hundreds of miles to get here from Berbera, and you have to pass through the spheres of influence of several tribes. I don't know if they will be robbed.

Since he was cooperating with Chief Adu, of course he had to seek the assistance of this local snake. Soon, Chief Adu sent Evera to lead dozens of people and boarded the passenger ship together.

Considering the importance of this batch of goods, Liu Qingshan also went to escort them himself, and brought [-] militiamen with him. The old squad leader and Zhang Long were in charge of commanding them.

After sailing for most of the night, the freighter arrived at the port of Berbera, where it finally had the appearance of a city.

In the port, you can see the large and small ships coming in and out, and you can also see various hoisting machinery and vehicles transporting goods on the dock.

In the city not far away, you can vaguely see the towering minaret of the mosque.

Evera took someone to go through the formalities, and he didn't know how he did it. Anyway, he didn't spend a penny.

The only cost is the loading and unloading of the hoisted cargo.

The pier was busy unloading goods, while Liu Qingshan and the others were invited by Evera to visit the city of Berbera.

It is estimated that it is not easy to come here in Evera, so I want to take a good look around.

Berbera said it was a city, but in Liu Qingshan's eyes, it was about the size of a town, with almost no tall buildings, and the mosque was considered the tallest building.

On the contrary, the livestock market here is very lively. As far as the eye can see, there are camel heads chewing slowly in their mouths.

These camels are exported to foreign countries through the port.

In addition, there are more goats, bleating.

Now that he's here, Liu Qingshan is also planning to purchase a batch of livestock to go back and raise a batch, which can be mixed with goat's milk, camel's milk, or killed for meat.

It is estimated that it is impossible to raise pigs here, so we can only raise sheep and camels.

Ask about the currency used, the common currency here is the national shilling, and the maximum denomination is one thousand.

However, the U.S. dollar is also commonly used here, and it is more popular than the national currency.

This is just right, Liu Qingshan is not planning to use the local currency right now, and the currency will depreciate when there is a war.

His later generations have seen that the bundles of shillings are all packed in sacks, and they are not very valuable. It is estimated that they cannot be sold for a sack of grain.

So with the assistance of Evera and the others, they purchased 1000 camels and more than [-] goats, and they will go back together when the time comes.

For Liu Qingshan's big money, Evoya can only envy him.

After learning that there is still a cement factory here, Liu Qingshan was also very happy, and went to purchase another batch of cement, which will definitely be used for the construction of the power plant.

As for other industries here, there are basically none, not even a steelmaking plant.

After lunch, I returned to the pier. The cargo has been unloaded. Whether it is a tractor or a large truck, it has been run-in. I can directly load a part of the cargo and set off immediately.

Liu Qingshan also wanted to hire a convoy to transport the goods back at once, but unfortunately he couldn't find them at all.

As soon as Evera saw the truck, his eyes straightened, and he got into the cab without any explanation, squeezed out the two militiamen in charge of guards inside, and then acted as a guide for the driver with gestures.

So the truck team set off first, rolled up bursts of yellow sand, and quickly disappeared from people's sight.

There are 100 veterans in charge of escorting the car, and the remaining [-] people will protect the large troops behind.

Because of driving the flock of sheep and camels, the speed of this team must not be fast, and those large and small tractors also followed the team.

There are also ten jeeps cruising around.

In the evening, set up a tent and camp in the wild.

After walking for two days, it is estimated that I only went out for more than 100 miles. I saw that the convoy of trucks had returned. I dropped some supplies for them, and then drove towards the port. I also threw Evoya, who had had enough cars. down.

The flock of sheep and camels also attracted several groups of lions and followed them for dozens of miles. They finally gave up helplessly when they saw that there were many people on their side.

As soon as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the sentinel who had been thrown out galloped back on a camel, ran to the front, and slipped directly from behind the camel's buttocks to the ground.

The camels here are mostly dromedaries, and riding them is quite strenuous.

The sentinel shouted: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, a team of about 1000 people, approaching us from the direction of two o'clock!"

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately became nervous. They were full of plans. There could be more than 200 people, but against 1000 people, the pressure was great.

Liu Qingshan also frowned, the thing he was most worried about still happened.

Their miscellaneous army was obviously being targeted by people, not to mention anything else, just these cattle, sheep and camels were enough for any tribe to envy.

"What kind of equipment does the opponent have?"

Zhang Long is relatively calm, he has really been on the battlefield.

The sentinel replied: "The opponent has no mechanical weapons, and a small number of people have rifles, about one or two hundred!"

Fortunately, the situation is not as bad as imagined.

Liu Qingshan immediately handed over the command to Zhang Long. He had never been on the battlefield, so he didn't dare to command blindly.

Zhang Long, the old squad leader and others had a very brief pre-battle meeting, and then decided on the tactics.

I saw five Dongfanghong chain-track tractors spouting black smoke from their chimneys, lined up and clearing the way ahead.