1272 Building the West African Liberation Army (12/31)
(Today's 32nd birthday, I will update the 31th chapter to commemorate the 31st years of youth that passed away, please give me rewards and blessings!)
"General Liu, I wonder how you are talking to your unit?" After waiting in China for several days, Babanjida was a little excited when he saw Liu Yijiu again.
He really couldn't afford it.
As a president, if you are not in the country at such a dangerous moment, you may be able to return to your territory and be someone else's.
When Liu Yijiu met Babanjida again, he felt a little bit friendly.
"General, after I patiently convinced me, the leaders of our unit agreed in principle. Moreover, regarding investment, this requires seeing the more stable political environment and investment environment in your country." Liu Yijiu no longer had the original arrogance.
After all, the person in front of him is also for the benefit of the Hei Guard.
When Babanjida heard this, he suddenly became sad, "The adjustment of our domestic economic structure has not been very effective. Due to the depreciation of currency, although export competitiveness has been strengthened, the living standards of domestic people have declined significantly. If we wait any further, it is very likely that our government will collapse..."
I didn't understand the situation at first, and I felt unsafe to say such words.
Now Liu Yijiu knows that this guy obviously learned the situation from someone from the Hei Guard.
The senior management threw this hot potato to himself, but he didn't know that it had a lot to do with the black guard who was so taboo at the top.
"Yes, as a country with deep friendship, we don't want you to have a chance at home. Nigerian people live a harder life than us. If the government falls, their lives will be even worse. So, after serious discussion, we decided carefully that before you stabilize the domestic situation, we will provide a billion-dollar low-interest loan to stabilize domestic food prices..." Liu Yijiu proposed to provide a billion-dollar low-interest loan, which immediately made Babanjida happy.
For him, cash is more helpful in solving domestic problems.
The biggest problem is that the cash in the hands of domestic people has depreciated significantly and prices have risen, so the purchasing power has become lower.
When you are not full, you will naturally rebel.
Because Europe and the United States are discussing sanctions on Nigeria, they not only did not give them a larger export discount, but instead had great restrictions. The price of oil has always been low, and they just wanted to increase oil production to ensure income. Because the British and French oil companies in Nigeria will not agree to increase oil production, nor will they provide oil extraction equipment and smelting equipment for Nigeria to increase production.
The reason for all this is to avoid economic crisis and reduce government public spending, the Nigerian government has canceled oil price subsidies to the people.
Originally, it was a major oil-producing country, but the refineries were in the hands of the British. They would not lower the oil prices just because the oil belongs to Nigerian countries. For a long time, the Nigerian government has adopted a strategy of subsidizing domestic refined oil prices.
Now the government has no money, so it can only be cancelled.
As a result, domestic people were dissatisfied with the sharp rise in oil prices, and BP also canceled subsidies. The rise in domestic oil prices in Nigeria caused many people to buy less fuel, which further affected the sales of European cars in Nigeria. At the same time, the energy costs of factories controlled by a large number of foreign capital in China rose...
In fact, oil prices have not changed.
It was just because the government canceled the subsidies that the interests of foreign companies were not fundamentally affected.
In this case, Europe's economic aid is naturally gone. If you want to obtain investment from China, you can even use resources to exchange it. This is to solve such a problem.
China has a very good reputation in Africa, so even if the resources are given to China, China will not just skip and not help African countries develop like those in Europe that have plundered Africa for hundreds of years.
Liu Yijiu is now willing to provide a loan of one billion US dollars, which is completely beyond Babanjida's expectations.
"Are there any conditions?"
"We need you to provide security that can guarantee our billion-dollar loans and later recovery of Nigeria's investment. That is to say, you need to let our officials understand that you will help us reduce our risks to the maximum..." Liu Yijiu was tempted by. "Because even if we invest, we cannot spend too much money to hire mercenaries to protect our property. And the whole world knows that our army cannot go abroad."
"This is not a problem. We can arrange our army to protect the security of your country's assets." Babanjida heard Liu Yijiu's re-emphasizing concerns about investment security and quickly guaranteed it. "We will double our military power to maintain domestic security and maintain territorial integrity."
"We can't trust your army!" This guy was simply not up to the point.
This has given such an obvious hint.
"This..." Babanjida was also a little confused. He arranged a special army to protect China's assets, and with their mercenaries at the core, what else can't be guaranteed to be safe? Even if a military coup occurs in the country, it will not cause too much danger, right?
"Then we also invite some mercenaries to help protect them? Nipponsan's mercenaries have very high credibility throughout the world, and they are mainly yellow people." Seeing Liu Yijiu looking at him with a smile on his eyes, he immediately understood what the other party needed. "I wonder how many mercenaries Liu thinks can ensure the safety of your country's investment?"
Although mercenaries spend a lot of money every year, compared to China's early provision of a billion-dollar low-interest loan and greater investment, it can effectively alleviate the domestic economic crisis and stimulate Nigeria's economic growth. If you spend more money, you can only endure it with your teeth.
One billion US dollars, on average, is only about ten US dollars per Nigerian national, but it accounts for more than 80% of the agricultural population and many tribes, it is already a very large sum of money.
"We will invite about 500 mercenaries to help us protect the safety of overseas assets. You will be able to invite about 1,500 more." The number proposed by Liu Yijiu immediately made Babanjida embarrassed.
It is not about how much money the 1,500 mercenaries will spend every year, but about such a huge military force in Nippodosan, which is a threat to his rule that should not be underestimated.
These military forces are enough to subvert the government.
What's more, most of the mercenaries of Nippodosan have rich war experience and are also very strong in individual soldiers.
Faced with the army of any African country with backward equipment, insufficient training and low combat capabilities, it is a strong army.
"I know you are worried that the regime will be subverted, but as you cooperate with them, they will completely protect your interests within the contract period. This is also something we can rest assured. Only when your regime is more stable can we be more at ease. Because after discussions and application from superiors by the unit, we agree to provide you with 50 J-7B fighter bombers, 10 J-8II fighter jets, as well as supporting ammunition, 40 Longwei tanks, 200 Type 59-2 tanks, and other conventional weapons and equipment. We also provide technical support and training. At the same time, within our investment scope, we will include steel plants, machining plants, tank maintenance plants and other supporting industrial foundations... The cost of these weapons and equipment will be repaid with oil fields, mines, textile industry fabrics, etc. At the same time, we will jointly operate these mines with your government. After all, our purpose is not to plunder, but to help you develop basic industries and improve basic economic construction..."
Liu Yijiu first proposed to ask for two thousand garrisons, but the number was indeed too large.
But the series of conditions given later were all what Nigeria seeks now.
"Even, you can send students from our National Defense University and intern in our army, and Nippodosan's mercenary combat capabilities are also top-notch. You can ask them to help train your country's army..."
Babanjida did not expect that Liu Yijiu would give up easily.
According to his estimate, the value of these weapons and equipment is more than one billion US dollars, and if China wants to recover these from Nigeria, the investment scale will be larger.
He never thought that Liu Yijiu did this, which was a completely imitation of **********, and wanted to build a People's Liberation Army in West Africa.
“When will these equipment be available?”
"As long as you prove that you have the ability to protect the safety of our assets, a billion-dollar loan will be issued first, so that our supplies of weapons and equipment can also enter your country, and then the investment will start from the oil fields and mines we have reached. Textile products used to repay these equipment costs can be exported to us after the agreement is reached..." Liu Yijiu said without thinking.
Textiles, especially textiles that have not been processed in the post-processing process, are basically nothing valuable.
Basic industrial products are the most valuable.
However, for Nigeria, this can completely expand the production scale of domestic textiles.
"Okay, please draft a contract as soon as possible. After signing the contract, we will go to Nipdosan to hire mercenaries and organize the export of Chinese textiles..."
Although textiles are not valuable, this can solve many employment problems.
Moreover, with China's market support, the issue of currency depreciation and improving the competitiveness of export products can also be terminated.
China will provide technical support for these fields, after all, textiles, etc. are also one of China's investment fields...
Both sides were extremely happy when the matter was resolved successfully.
There are no too harsh conditions in such cooperation, and even Babanjida proposed to use many domestic basic projects to obtain investment from China.
Only after the successful first phase of investment cooperation in Freedom will Chinese people have the second phase of investment.
Chapter completed!