From arms dealer to king of war

The Park Management Office prepared a place for Qiao Jia and his family to stay, but Qiao Jia chose to accept John's invitation and follow the couple to the Animal Protection Center.

The black girl Linda is socially stronger than Lenore, probably because of her family background.

After understanding what Qiao Jia meant, she walked over and tried to send away the people from the Park Management Office so that they would not disturb Qiao Jia. She only needed to arrange a few armed guards to show the management's respect for Qiao Jia. That’s it.

Qiao Jia, who was very thoughtful at this time, did not show any arrogance. He smiled and refused the escort arranged by the management office.

After seeing the old-fashioned AKs in the hands of the security guards who were trying to look more professional, Qiao Jia smiled and motioned to Dorian to take the gifts he had brought down from the helicopter.

To the boss of the park management office who was acting a little embarrassed, I gave him a 'P·B shotgun' customized by the Yog Imbert Company.

The remaining few security guards who looked quite strong were given an M05N1 produced by Yogurt 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 explosive.

Qiao Jia's fortune was in arms. Of course, arms were a good choice when giving gifts when meeting. The key was that the other party liked him very much.

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

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

Qiao Jia looked at Yoda who was not very good at talking. He smiled nonchalantly and said, "I'm going to stay with John for a few days. You are the boss of the park. Send a message to the locals for me. No one should hit the Lion King." Namor's idea, I will deal with it personally after a while."

As he spoke, Qiao Jia looked at Yoda who was hesitant to speak, and he smiled and said: "Don't worry, I won't hurt Namor.

Oh, it's not just Namor, tell the people here who have poaching records to stop all their poaching work, and we can work out a reasonable solution.

I need a harmonious grassland to carry my investment. I don’t want to go to the grassland with my bare hands to trouble elephants for a few hundred yuan. "

After speaking, Qiao Jia was about to turn around and leave when he suddenly thought of something. He patted his head and turned around and took out a stack of dollars from his pocket. He counted out about a thousand dollars and handed it to Yoda and said, "The Freemans probably don't have any." Now that I have enough energy to discuss the ivory issue, give the money to that guy named Manluo and ask him to buy medicine for his wife and children, and the two ivory tusks in his hand will be donated to your management office."

After everything was done, Qiao Jia did not wait for the complicated expression of Yoda to reply. He turned around and found John. They drove three pickup trucks out of the town and drove about 5 kilometers north. Finally, they arrived before dawn. Arrived at the 'Animal Rescue Center'.

John's rescue center was not as miserable as he described it, and by Qiao Jia's standards, it was actually quite good.

There is a medical room, a restaurant, a recreation room, a row of staff dormitories, and a dozen cabins scattered around.

This is a standard business rescue center, except that this unfortunate place in Central Africa is not very attractive to most people, so those wooden houses are empty.

It was about 5 a.m. when Qiao Jia and the others arrived. When the car arrived at the parking lot of the rescue center, 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 Qiao Jia standing next to the pickup truck and observing his rescue center, John came over and said with a smile: "Actually, I need 20 people here, but I don't have enough funds..."

Qiao Jia shook his head and said: "You are kidding me. People here are laughing to death if they only have 30 yuan a month. How can you not have enough funds to hire someone?"

John raised his hand to say hello to a few people passing by in the distance, then he looked at Qiao Jia and said: "Did you make a mistake? How is it possible for 30 dollars?"

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

Prices here are a bit high compared to other places in Central Africa. It costs at least US$200 per month to hire a full-time worker here.

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

Qiao Jia probably understood after hearing this. This is equivalent to the fact that in some fourth-tier small towns in China, you can get by with 3,000 yuan, but in some super first-tier cities, as long as you buy a house, even if you get 3,000 yuan a month, you will feel pressured.

This analogy is slightly inappropriate, but the abnormal industrial structure in Central Africa has led to the small town of 'Ndele' to be the place in the country that has the closest contact with the world besides the capital Bangui.

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

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

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

The simplest comparison is that the people in Sangha Town eat cassava and beans three times a day. How many yuan can they still have left over from 30 yuan a month? Ndele also eats cassava three times a day, and there are still only a few pieces left from the 200 yuan.

Because Endele is located so far away, although the straight-line distance from the nearest city in the south is only 170 kilometers, the curved roads built according to the terrain extend the distance to more than 400 kilometers. It can be run during the dry season, but this road can be used during the rainy season. I might not even be able to carry it without a car.

Who can believe that the most commonly used means of transportation between this small town in Afika and the outside world is airplane?

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

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

This is actually an isolated island. People outside are envious of the high income of the people here. While the people here are proud, they increasingly don’t want to give up the life here.

This is somewhat 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 it's worse and more dangerous outside!

John looked at Qiao Jia's thoughtful expression and said helplessly: "The Animal Protection Fund can only provide me with 300,000 US dollars in funding every year. It is difficult to take care of animals that have no ability to make a living with this money.

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

As John pointed to the green bananas that a middle-aged black man pulled out of the warehouse, he shook his head and said: "Every week we go to the wild banana forest 25 kilometers northwest to pick bananas, and occasionally I need to take the lead into the grassland to hunt.

I have been looking into a way to adopt animals internationally, but so far people only seem to be interested in lions and cheetahs.

I called many zoos around the world, but the only one that really accepted injured animals here was a zoo in Guangzhou, China. They took away a dozen gazelles and a few cheetahs.

There are still many animals here with nowhere to go. They have some physical defects or are underage. Letting them go into nature is letting them die. "

Qiao Jia nodded in understanding. John's idea was right. His main rescue targets were injured animals or animal cubs.

The cubs can be released to the grassland when they become adults, but the injured ones cannot. 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 we can rely on for income is external funding.

With the size of John's rescue center, unless he is a heartless bastard, 300,000 a year is not enough.

Fortunately, Qiao Jia came with the intention of solving the problem. Facing John's distressed story, he smiled and waved his hands and said: "I have to find a place to sleep first. Let's talk together at noon. I think in the afternoon Fly the helicopter out for a spin, you come with me, I need to find a suitable place to build a resort.”

As he spoke, Qiao Jia turned around and looked around, shook his head and pushed away the little elephant that kept nudged him, and then said with a smile: "I think this place is only suitable for a veterinary hospital. I need a view, location, and... A place where access to food is relatively simple.

Otherwise just trying to get bananas for this little guy drives me crazy. "

John smiled and nodded, 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 show their talents.

Unfortunately, reality gave me a blow. Now I only have one volunteer here, and unfortunately, I am still a volunteer who cannot pay the room fee.

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

John tried to show his optimism, and at the same time led Qiao Jia and the others to a few relatively exquisite wooden houses, and said with a smile: "It smells a bit musty, but it is reasonably clean, you can choose for yourself.

Go to the restaurant to eat and wash in the blue house opposite..."

When Qiao Jia nodded and was about to open the door of a wooden house, a tall man in the house next to him pushed the door open while getting dressed.

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

He is very handsome, but his temperament is a bit decadent. This middle-aged white man has a kind of middle-aged Eastwood in him, and he should be a soldier, at least once!

Seeing that the atmosphere was suddenly a little cold, John smiled and said: "This is my only volunteer here, Kenny Rogers. We all call him 'Medical Bird'."

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