Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 776 Business without Capital
Since the 60s, 17 African countries have declared independence, 13 of which were French colonies.

To put it bluntly, the reason why so many countries belonging to the Gallic rooster's sphere of influence have escaped control is that the Gallic rooster was severely beaten by the Germans during World War II, which led to the decline of its national strength.

In addition, from 45 to 54, they were driven away by the Vietnamese, so their prestige and deterrent power were naturally far less than before.

Moreover, the Gallic Rooster has the largest territory in Africa, so it seems that most of Africa is against France.

But in fact, even though more than a dozen countries in West Africa and North Africa have announced their independence from France, the Gallic rooster is still very strong in West Africa and North Africa.

To put it bluntly, these independences are not armed independence, and naturally cannot take back the various interests of the Gallic roosters in West Africa and North Africa.

On the surface, the country is controlled by the black uncles, but the economic lifeline is still in the hands of French companies. Not only does exploitation continue to exist, it is more covert and even more serious.

In the past, France was worried that these colonies would get out of control and would be cautious in doing things. Now that they are independent, all that is left is to reap huge profits from West Africa and North Africa and feed back to France, which is in a weak state after World War II.

After coming to power, the black uncles were either bought by France or worried that France would support the opposition and drive them out of power.

So France is just trying to make money now and can only turn a blind eye.

In other words, although the colonial era has ended, France's "territory" in Africa has expanded instead.

The profits gained are also greater.

Moreover, the Gallic roosters saw that their territory was lost, so they naturally did not want Britain, Portugal, Spain, and Italy to continue to control their colonies.

Not only did they stir up trouble everywhere, but they also constantly extended their hands into the colonies of these countries.

Decades later, France took away more than 20% of its GDP from Africa every year, amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars.

But it is not entirely without positive aspects, at least it means that the power of white people is getting weaker.

The price of over-reliance on exploiting Africa has also gradually caused France to turn evil.
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Gabriel, who was captured alive by Chu Xiangqian, refused to eat or drink. After being imprisoned for three days, he dared not hide anything when he saw Chu Xiangqian coming back. He told Chu Xiangqian all the reasons why he arrested the two Chinese people three days ago.

He also mentioned the discovery of a large diamond mine in Guinea.

In other words, China's desire for its African brothers to be in charge directly conflicts with the interests of the Gallic rooster.

But if we leave Africa, China and the Gallic roosters, in a sense, both hope that the guys from Magnesium and Britain will suffer.

So there is both cooperation and conflict between the two sides, which is why there are only interests between countries.

This time, the Chinese Empire is preparing to send weapons and equipment to a number of black uncles, and the Gallic rooster can be said to be the first one that does not want to see it.

But the Gallic roosters are against magnesium only because they don't want to see magnesium as the safe leader. At the same time, magnesium is also taking away a large amount of the Gallic roosters' interests all over the world.

To put it bluntly, cooperating with China is only in the interests of the Gallic rooster, but it does not mean that the Gallic rooster is willing to see China become stronger.

For China, capital is not trustworthy, and any opportunity to cause trouble for capital countries means that China itself will face less pressure.

Of course it would be best if we could get the black uncles to stand up together and oppose capital.

Therefore, they treat Africa as a new map and make trouble for the white people on the black uncle's territory. Both the Celestial Empire and the red polar bears never get tired of doing this.

Once China has interests in Africa, this secret struggle will become even more intense.

In the future, the return of China to Lianheguo will indeed benefit from the black uncles.

Chu Xiangqian didn't care about medical matters, but he was interested in the valuable minerals such as gold mines and diamond mines in the hands of the black uncles.

However, he also knew that it was not the right time to drag China into causing trouble in Guinea.

At the same time, it is impossible for China to really turn against the Gallic rooster just for a diamond mine.

After thinking about it, I decided that I could only go and take a look first, and then find a chance to bring the Ying people along to give it a try.

In any case, the relationship between England and France has never been very good. There is the grievance of the Hundred Years' War, and England is an island country and does not want to see the unification of Europe.

In the past few hundred years, when the Gallic rooster was strong, Britain must have been the first pioneer to fight against France.

They will never let go of any opportunity to find fault with each other or to trick the other.

If Chu Xiangqian could take the opportunity to instigate a fight between Ying State and Gallic Rooster, he would do his best to cause conflict between the two sides even if he did not make any money.

Of course, timing is very important in this matter. Chu Xiangqian is not so foolish as to think that a diamond mine can fool the British people into fools.

If he really thinks so, he is the fool.

After finding out the location of the new diamond mine in Guinea, he threw Gabriel some dried meat and water, and gave him a bottle of wine as a reward.

As for letting him out, forget it.

However, it would be no problem to move him to a better cell. Chu Xiangqian even thought that since there was a language barrier, perhaps Gabriel could be locked up in Stromgarde.

But after thinking about it, I gave up the idea.

Anyway, I would go into the Novice Village to kill monsters every day. Even if Gabriel escaped from the center of the village or even discovered the secret of upgrading, he could only kill monsters for a day.

If you encounter wolves, wild boars or bears, the chances of being killed are even higher.

Moreover, Red Hare, his wife Night Zhao Yu Shizi, and their two horse sons have been hanging out in the Novice Village. The three horses have been upgraded to more than 28 levels. Red Hare follows Chu Xiangqian every day and has also been upgraded to level .

Gabriel could be killed with just one kick.

So Chu Xiangqian thought about it and decided to lock Gabriel up in the Novice Village.

After releasing the tit and observing the real world, Chu Xiangqian rode his motorcycle out of the Novice Village.

There was no one to clean up the more than one hundred bodies that were burned earlier.

In the past few days, the wild animals on the grassland have eaten up all the food.

As for the trucks and jeeps that Chu Xiangqian had abandoned, no one knew who drove away some of them.

We drove all the way back to Cape Town. Guinea is located in the central-western part of Africa, at least several hundred kilometers away from Cape Town. If we drive there, given the road conditions at that time, it might take at least ten days or half a month.

It would be more convenient to take a boat or a seaplane.

After entering Cape Town, Titmouse had already flown to the warehouse that he had rented before to take a look.

The tens of thousands of rifles, 2 Sten submachine guns and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition had long been taken away.

However, Chu Xiangqian guessed that the new hiding place of these weapons and ammunition should be not far from this warehouse.

Otherwise it would be impossible to empty and transport it overnight.

Sure enough, when Chu Xiangqian was negotiating with a seaplane dealer in Cape Town to buy a HU-16 Albatross, the same seaplane used by the Suicide Squad, Shantiao spent more than three hours and found 1600 Lee Enfield rifles and Sten submachine guns in a warehouse of a small wine farm six or seven kilometers away from the warehouse.

Apparently, 4 rifles and 400 submachine guns have been shipped to other countries in the past few days.

Chu Xiangqian let the tit fly around the winery several times, and when he found nothing unusual, he turned his attention to the seaplane.

The HU-16 Albatross was developed as early as the late 30s.

It first flew in 47 and entered service in 49, but unfortunately this aircraft was born at the wrong time.

Although the performance was excellent in that era, unfortunately not only did World War II end, but the number of land airports also increased rapidly after the war.

In order to prepare for the next war, the people of Magnesium built tens of thousands of small and medium-sized airports in the country within ten years after the war.

And we strive to guide the public to participate in flying activities related to propeller aircraft.

The purpose is nothing more than to train a large number of propeller fighter pilots among the civilian population.

Unfortunately, although the idea is good, with the rise of jet aircraft, even the best propeller plane pilots will be stuck in their tolerance of g-force acceleration.

Future fighter pilots rely on talent. No matter how good the skills of some people are, their bodies cannot withstand the gravitational acceleration of 6G or even 9G, so they naturally cannot become jet fighter pilots.

However, in the thirty years of May, June and July, there were many civilian pilots, which was indeed considered part of the war potential.

Since there are more airports on land, the role of seaplanes will naturally be smaller.

This Albatross, produced in 55, was eliminated after only three years of service.

It has been used for water support since then and was officially retired last year.

Chu Xiangqian followed the dealer and engineer to check carefully and confirmed that there were no problems with the aircraft engine and other equipment. Only then did he spend $3 to buy the aircraft directly.

After the deal was done, the chubby dealer Holla pulled Chu forward and whispered, "I have more than a dozen classic World War II propeller fighters at the airport on Cape Town Road. If you're interested, they're $1 each."

Chu Xiangqian immediately guessed that the fat man was probably agreeing with what he said, saying that he liked collecting vintage airplanes and wanted to make some extra money.

This Albatross is the seaplane that the fat man bought from Uncle Black. It is the seaplane that was left in Cape Town when the British left in 61.

So when he said he had a classic fighter plane from World War II, Chu Xiangqian had no doubts.

However, Chu Xiangqian became secretly alert in his heart.

This fat guy might be an aircraft dealer in public, but secretly an overseas intelligence agent for the British.

Or it could be a part-time job developed by MI6.

Chu Xiangqian sighed secretly. This was originally just a normal business, but if the fat man was testing him, then he wouldn't mind doing a no-cost deal.

I got in the car with Holt and drove south for half an hour until we arrived at a small simple airport by the sea.

Chu Xiangqian originally thought that there were only British aircraft from World War II, but he didn't expect that the somewhat shabby hangar actually housed three classic fighter planes: the Spitfire, the Hurricane, and the Storm.

There are even the P51 Mustang and Mercedes Bf109 fighter jets from the Magnesium.

It was not surprising for Chu Xiangqian to see the Mustang fighter jets in Cape Town, as this type of aircraft had been used in large quantities to support Britain since 41.

Even this aircraft was purchased by the Magnesium Army and replaced with an English engine, which greatly improved its performance and made it the most outstanding fighter in World War II.

Therefore, the British had a lot of these aircraft at that time, so it was normal that they were shipped to South Africa.

But the Bf109 fighter plane was made by Germany. Although it was obviously weakened in the later period of World War II, it is no exaggeration to say that this aircraft was the nightmare of Britain and the Gallic rooster in the early period of World War II.

It was not easy to survive after the war.

Chu Xiangqian's interest in flying the Bf109 is far greater than that of the P51 Mustang, and the Mustang is more interested in flying the Spitfire, Hurricane and Tempest, three classic British fighter planes of World War II.

Chu Xiangqian knows how to repair planes himself, and he also bought a small private plane at a private airport outside Tijuana, Mexico.

Normally it is kept in the Novice Village and taken out to fly to Panama City when needed, but if he doesn't know how to maintain it, he wouldn't dare to fly that plane all the time.

It’s a pity that the plane was not a seaplane, otherwise it would not have been used to look for Holt.

After spending half a day roughly inspecting the five fighters in the best condition among a dozen World War II aircraft, Chu Xiangqian smiled and said to Holt, "Do you provide door-to-door delivery?"

Holt's face lit up and he nodded hurriedly, "Don't worry, we have perfect freight channels. As long as you are willing to pay, it doesn't matter whether it is Europe, Latin America, or even East Asia."

After hearing this, Chu Xiangqian's suspicion level immediately rose to 7%.

When Holt said that it would only cost $2 to send a plane to Latin America, my doubts became more certain.

The freight cost of 5 US dollars for 1 planes basically means no profit, and may even result in a loss.

Without hesitation, he smiled and pretended to shake hands, grabbed Holt's hand and pulled it, then easily broke Holt's neck with his left hand.

Then three flying knives appeared in his hand without warning. With a flash of the knives, the three followers kept retreating while holding their necks, and finally fell to the ground and slowly became motionless.

Then Shantiao and Huang Diaoer began to search for survivors in the airport, but Chu Xiangqian looked at his watch.

It was already past 4 p.m., so he was in no hurry.

First, he took the four bodies into the Novice Village, and then in the residential buildings of the Novice Village, he took out a table and a chair and sat at the door of the hangar to act as security.

Two hours later, the employees at the airport began to leave work one by one. No one came to the warehouse, and no one left during this period.

Only then did Chu Xiangqian relax.

It seems that very few people come to the hangar on normal days.

Even looking at the shabby state of the hangar, it’s possible that no one would come here for several months.

In this case, naturally few people would care when Holt and his men leave.

It might be several months before we discover that Holt has disappeared.

Moreover, Chu Xiangqian used a fake identity and put on makeup, so even if someone investigated, it would be impossible to trace it back to him.

When it got dark, there were only a dozen people on guard at the airport. Chu Xiangqian stood up and put all the five fighter jets that had been inspected into the Novice Village.

Then he locked the hangar door, rode a bicycle, and slowly pretended to be someone getting off work, blended into the night, and easily left the airport.

After returning to Cape Town, Chu Xiangqian simply did not open the hotel. He went into the Novice Village outside the pier where the seaplane docked and went to Rapids Castle to play poker with Luna.

(End of this chapter)