In this way, Li Du had a small follower behind him.
This pygmy was indeed not a teenager. He could not see clearly in the cave. When they were brought out with the black cloth, Li Du saw his appearance and the wrinkles on his forehead. He could tell that he was not young.
However, he was as timid as a teenager. He tugged at Li Du's clothes and muttered in a low voice, "Jiu jiu woo! Jiu jiu woo! Woo, woo, woo! "
Li Du called Sophie, who was in charge of his account. She immediately transferred 500,000 dollars to Remonin through the bank.
The amount in the account made Remonin extremely happy, and he could not stop smiling.
Seeing this, Lu Guan said in a low voice, "Boss, I feel a little sad. Isn't this warlord a failure? What can he do with 500,000 dollars? "
Li Du glared at him and said in a low voice, "Don't talk nonsense. They are not warlords, they are tribal armed forces."
Warlords and tribal armed forces were indeed not the same thing. One had no reason to attack, while the other had a reason to.
If Remonin's army was tribal armed forces, it meant that he had legal authority to have an army. Many tribes in Africa now maintained independent armed forces, which was the result of the government's compromise.
As everyone knew, before the white man entered Africa, there were very few countries in Africa, and most places only had tribes.
There were often conflicts between tribes, so there was tribal armed forces, which was the tribal army.
Later, when the white man built a country and governed it, in order to maintain his rule, he adopted the strategy of roping in, isolating, and beating.
Among them, tribes that were roped in could have legal armed forces, isolated tribes could have armed forces but not legally, and tribes that were beaten could not have armed forces.
After that, each country became independent, the white man left, and the black man came to power. In order to fight for independence, the various tribes united against the white man and paid a high price.
Therefore, after independence, the government began to distribute the fruits of the labor. As the tribes that contributed the most, they naturally enjoyed more privileges, among which maintaining legal tribal armed forces was one of them.
Having legal tribal armed forces did not mean that the government would welcome them. That was just the government's compromise at the time. Later, the power of the major tribes would be gradually weakened, and their armed forces would be taken back.
China was no stranger to this practice. In the feudal dynasties, such as the Western Han, Song, Tang, and Ming dynasties, the centralization of power would do the same. First, they would grant kings with different surnames, and then gradually take back their territory and power.
It was not easy to raise a tribe's armed forces. There should be no other mines in the territory of Remonin's tribe except for this newly discovered diamond mine.
In Africa, no mines meant no income.
Therefore, five hundred thousand US dollars was a huge sum of money for Remonin. It was enough for him to feed his army for a long time. The tribal armed forces in Africa did not have much salary. The soldiers were all tribal men, and they only needed to be fed.
After a round of torment, it was already night time.
Remonin wanted to host a banquet for Li Du. When Li Du went to take a look, he saw that it was not a banquet. It was just an ordinary Western meal: bread, red wine, steak, fried fish, fried meat, salad, desserts, and so on.
He didn't eat much. Firstly, he wasn't hungry. Secondly, this kind of food wasn't tempting at all. He might as well eat some African food. Of course, normal food wasn't roasted rats or bats.
Musa was thrown to Li Du by Remonin. He only had one request: Musa was to stay in the military camp and not to wander around to avoid being seen by the miners.
To the outside world, Remonin had already announced that Musa had been shot to intimidate the miners.
Li Du had to stay there for a few days. Remonin collected the diamonds. Lion Hunter contacted a diamond appraisal expert. They would rush over to verify the authenticity and quality of the diamonds. Then, the two of them would negotiate the price.
Seeing that Li Du had saved Musa and didn't chop off his penis to make soup, Remonin understood Li Du's character. He knew that Li Du hated violence, cruelty, and coercion.
The next day, Li Du had nothing to do. Li Du rested in his room while he was at it. He was very interested in this guy's Mandarin. He wanted to know who taught him.
In addition, he was also very interested in some of Musa's words.
In the end, this guy's brain wasn't working very well. He hid in his bed and talked to himself the whole day.
However, there was nothing wrong with his body. He could eat a lot. His small body seemed to hide a trash can. Godzilla ate half of the basket of toasted bread, and the others ate the other half.
Among them, Li Du, Brother Wolf, and Lu Guan ate the same amount as Musa.
On the third day, Remonin treated him to breakfast and said enthusiastically, "Mr. Li, I don't have much to do today. How about I treat you to Tahayi?"
Tahayi meant bazaar. Other than the big cities in Africa, there were no supermarkets. Most places relied on bazaars to maintain trade.
Li Du asked, "Tahayi? Which city, town, or village? "
"Tahayi of our tribe," Remonin said with a smile. "Tahayi of our Golden Grass tribe."
Now, Li Du knew the name of his tribe. After understanding Li Du's character, Remonin no longer mentioned his name as a democratic army.
In fact, his army was quite shabby. They didn't have any heavy weapons, tanks, armored vehicles, or artillery. They didn't have any.
They had two helicopters. Only one of them could fly. The other one was probably used to dismantle parts to maintain the operation of the helicopter that could fly.
The helicopter was very small. It was equipped with a machine gun, which was the only offensive weapon.
Other than that, the most lethal weapon in his army was the modified pickup truck. The pickup truck had an anti-aircraft machine gun that could fire horizontally.
Li Du believed Remonin's words. He was not a warlord. He was a tribal armed force that was boycotted by the government. If a warlord was at this level, no matter how weak Mozambique's army was, they would have been wiped out long ago.
In the morning, the weather was gloomy. Li Du, Brother Wolf, and Godzilla got into a Jeep and followed Remonin north.
They had a total of three Jeeps. One was for Remonin, one was for Li Du and the others, one was for a black soldier, and the last one was for a pickup truck with an anti-aircraft machine gun mounted on it.
Li Du looked back and took out his phone to take a picture. It was not bad. This was the first time he had experienced armed protection on the road.
About a kilometer or two away from the military camp, he started to see some tents. He had seen them in the helicopter before. He thought they were abandoned after people lived there.
In the end, there were still people living there. Many black people were crowded in the tents. When a few tents were put together, it was a small settlement.
These black people were obviously Remonin's tribesmen. When they saw the convoy, many of them ran to the side of the road and waved excitedly. The soldiers in the two vehicles also waved excitedly. These soldiers were not very disciplined.
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