Xu Yun followed the expressionless man into a Toyota Land Cruiser that probably hadn't been refreshed in half a year. The Japanese were quite good at making cars. Just this Ku Luze and the Japanese Touareg had off-road performance that was no worse than the Grand Cherokee. It was even worse than the Land Rover Range Rover.
Other than the Wrangler and the Land Rover Guard, the Ku Luze was really not afraid of any opponents. In fact, the name Ku Luze was quite nice, but in Hua Xia, it was given an even grander name, "Land Cruiser."
Full-time 4WD, Torson-type differential, front coil spring double wishbone independent suspension, rear four-bar independent suspension … There was no need to say much about these. Steep slopes and slow descents, central differential locking, everything that one could think of was also available.
Even though most of the roads in Africa were difficult to travel on, it wasn't difficult for this car. This thing's mechanical performance was very reliable. It ate coarse grains and did the dirty work without any pretense.
The expressionless man didn't speak when he wasn't driving. Now that he was driving, there was no sound at all. Even his breathing was almost silent.
Xu Yun sat in the back of the car and simply ignored him. He looked at the African scenery outside the window.
Although it wasn't his first time in Africa, he always felt that he had no way to familiarize himself with this continent.
In many people's eyes, Africa was dirty, messy, and poor. In fact, Africa was really a rich land.
Most of the primary gold deposits in African countries are related to the Archean or Early Proterozoic greenstone belt. The main types of gold deposits are gold-bearing quartz vein type and fault-altered rock type, followed by various stratified and stratabound disseminated gold deposits.
In addition, the primary gold deposits in Africa also had a small number of skarn type and hydrothermal gold deposits related to magma activity.
Therefore, this was worthy of being the number one gold resource continent. Thinking about how this land could produce thousands of kilograms of gold ore, what kind of concept was this!
Perhaps it was because the resources were too abundant that people would fall behind and be bullied.
In the world, the ones who liked to invade and rob were often small countries. They were probably forced. There was no other way. They had no resources and could only go out and rob. If they wanted to rob, they had to force themselves to develop faster.
Just think about Japan. It was a tiny place that was always showing off its prowess. There was no place for people to live and they had to fill up the sea.
Their invasion was for nothing more than resources. Otherwise, they couldn't rely on selling electronic products and cars to survive in a place as small as a palm, right?
Furthermore, Japan's electronic products were almost obsolete. More than 10 years ago, Sony was still able to show off its products. But now, who would still use them? There were iPhones for mobile phones, Beats for earphones, and even cars were no longer sold in Hua Xia.
Hua Xia people were very particular about appearances. They used iPhones for their phones and Beats for their earphones. Their cars had to be Mercedes-Benz, BMW, or even a Land Rover, Jaguar, or Porsche.
Toyota and Honda had become lousy cars that only the "poor" would buy. Lexus and Infiniti, together with the disappointing Acura, were not even comparable to Volkswagen in Hua Xia. Within 10 years, Japanese cars and Sony would be the same as Japanese cars.
If one had to ask what else the Japanese could bring out, it would probably be the camera, the Canon, and the Nikon. But in a few years, Germany's Leica and Sweden's Hasse might be able to kill them.
But then again, there were many gold mines in Africa, and it would attract those countries without resources to take advantage of them.
At the same time, those countries with resources would also come to take advantage of them.
The US was the most shameless country. They were the country with the most oil reserves, but they still wanted to "import" their oil. They were waiting for the day when the rest of the world ran out of oil. What they had left was the most precious.
Speaking of African alchemy, it was basically smelting in the mines using the most traditional crucible smelting method. Due to the different production processes and processing materials, the gold content of the alloy produced was also different. Because the gold content was not high or the silver content was not valued, some mines used chemical methods to remove impurities and then smelt or electrolysis to separate and refine the gold and silver in order to improve the quality and economic benefits.
Now, more and more people were using the new water smelting method to remove the base metals from the gold cyanide mud through electrochlorination. This method had replaced the crucible smelting method in the past, which lowered the cost and improved the working conditions.
But the conditions for absenteeism did not change.
After all, those who came here wanted to exploit. Exploitation was to extract more benefits and more labor.
The car kept driving until Xu Yun began to feel bored and fell asleep. He was really carefree. Every time he closed his eyes, the car drove for an entire night. Only then did they reach the southwest of Mali.
Mali was a chaotic place. Even the presidential palace in Bamako was robbed. Although the coup d 'état in Mali promised to transfer power to the elected government, they refused to specify a time limit.
The country was really pitiful.
The Tuareg separatist forces in the north kept launching new attacks. The US and other powers also put pressure on the coup d 'état, trying to make the situation favorable to their anti-terrorism and political interests.
All of this made the country chaotic. It was the so-called Mali chaos.
The more chaotic a place was, the more mercenaries liked to live. Whether it was the separatist forces or the local army, as long as there was war, mercenaries would always be able to gain benefits.
This might be the meaning of mercenaries' survival.
But Xu Yun did not come here to participate in the armed struggle. He only came to help Lai Wen protect his local gold mine.
It was impossible to open a gold mine and make money in a chaotic place like Mali without a certain amount of armed protection.
Therefore, the mercenaries hired here only fought to protect their own interests and would not take the initiative to do anything.
Lai Wen had always been recruiting people in the country because he did not trust the mercenaries here. He always thought that even if he spent money to hire these people, these people would do everything possible to take away his benefits.
Because they had guns, they could even threaten the gold miners to secretly get something for them …
Lai Wen could not solve this kind of thing even if he saw it with his own eyes, let alone when he had no chance to see it.
This was a very difficult problem to solve.
Unless there was one of his own people who could control these mercenaries. Unfortunately, his men who were really capable were not willing to come to this damn place, and those who were willing to listen to him did not have the ability to do so.
Not only did this require a ruthless character, but it also required a smart ruthless character.
This problem had always troubled Lai Wen, but Lai Wen could not do anything about it. He could only let nature take its course and let everything develop like this. Maybe one day, things would suddenly take a turn for the better.
The car was parked in a typical rural area. There were some temporary houses and sheds outside. Then, there were some machinery and equipment. Xu Yun could even see the outdated mine entrance through the car window.
What was the difference between this and the existing private black mines in Hua Xia? All of them had old technology and were highly dangerous. The only difference was that they were mining gold here, while Hua Xia's black mines were mining coal.
"We're here." Deadpan Face said faintly, "Get out of the car."
After the car stopped, several mercenaries with weapons around their necks walked over.
Along the way, Xu Yun saw a lot of armed people. Including the ones in the mine, there were at least a few dozen people. This was definitely not a small force.
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