Chapter 1165 Watson Base
Although this method of growing vegetables is not an innovation, it is a spectacular scene that is absolutely invisible in Somalia, which makes the government officials who come to visit again amazed. It should be noted that many people in Somalia still have no food, let alone ensure sufficient supply of fresh vegetables every day.
Rom personally picked a bright red tomato for Abdullah to taste, and other officials were also asked to pick and taste the taste at will.
Abdullah took a bite of the tender and juicy tomatoes and nodded repeatedly, asking, "Have the staple food and meat in your base also reached self-sufficiency?"
"I'm ashamed that I still rely on imports, but I believe this problem will be solved in the near future." Rom said confidently.
Abdullah looked around and said, "I believe in Mr. Rom's ability, and I hope that the production and lifestyle at Watson's base will be promoted to the entire Somalia in the future."
Rom smiled and said, "I must work hard to cooperate with the government led by Mr. President."
A group of people left the greenhouse vegetable area and came to the Watson Hospital building at the base.
Although it is just a five-story building, the interior is clean and tidy, and the doctors and nurses in the hospital are basically waiting at the door to welcome the President's arrival.
Before entering the hospital, Rom explained: "The attending doctors in the hospital all spent a lot of money to hire experts from abroad, and various types of treatment experts are basically complete. The base specially selected a group of students with higher education levels to follow the experts to study, and students with outstanding learning abilities will provide conditions to send them abroad for further studies in the future."
When he heard that the people who came out to greet him were medical experts hired by foreign funds, Abdullah immediately walked up to everyone and shook hands with the experts one by one to work in Somalia.
Then the dean personally led the way in front and led Abdullah, Rom and others into the hospital for a visit.
Although the hospital is not big, it has a complete range of categories. All kinds of medical equipment are quite advanced and will not be inferior to ordinary large hospitals abroad. From this, it can be judged that anyone at the base can receive proper treatment here after they get sick.
At the same time, it is certain that this hospital is the most advanced in Somalia in terms of equipment and treatment levels.
A group of officials who accompanied the tour were moved by it. Who doesn’t want the best treatment when they are sick?
The situation in the hospital is naturally the most suitable introduction by professionals. Rom, who accompanied President Abdullah on his tour, listened to the director's introduction, kept paying attention to the reactions of Abdullah and the officials accompanying him, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. I believe that the Somali government will communicate with him soon.
This hospital is an important means he used to bring closer relations with the Somali government. He has already prepared a vague case to provide free treatment for senior Somali officials and their families. As long as he maintains a good relationship with the top government, no one in the government will be embarrassed about the development of the base in the future, and if there are any difficulties, you can find them. Many things are better for the government to come forward than for him.
After leaving the hospital, Rom accompanied Abdullah and his party to the base school.
The base school can be said to be the best place with the hardware facilities of the entire base. It is definitely the most beautiful place around it, and even transplanted to build an excellent greening environment.
When Rom was nervous before, he cut off a lot of local budgets, but he didn't cut off the school and tried his best to support him.
At that time, Johnny and others thought that the school could be suspended. Romthunder was furious and said that the base will be in school in the future, and the base will be in education in the future, and I can save money from anywhere. I can even eat less meal a day, but the money in education must not be saved, because what we lack the most is education.
With Rom's strong support, not only the school's environment is the best in the base, but the school's teachers were also hired from abroad with a large amount of money.
There is no way to hire you without a lot of money. The living environment of this bird is very poor. In addition, there are often militants around you. Who would come here to teach and educate people without money?
Having said that, if the conditions here were not poor, the conditions in Europe and the United States would be good, but who would have asked him to build a base in Rome's painting area?
Now thousands of children and teenagers in the entire base have entered schools to receive basic education that is no less than countries around the world, and all receive free education.
However, some ethnic characteristics are difficult to change in a short period of time. A nation that is used to wandering life has formed its unique tradition. To be honest, the learning atmosphere is indeed not very good. It is normal for people to come and go when they want to come, and it gives Rom a headache.
You can't force others to learn this thing with a gun. If you force others to learn with a gun, they will be in conflict with each other and they will not be able to learn anything.
In order to encourage everyone to send their children to study, Rom not only gave free meals, but even gave each student a reward of one dollar a day. As long as you come to study every day, you will be paid one dollar a day. Students with good study can also benefit the whole family. The top ten students with the best academic performance in each grade will not only have a heavy reward for money, but will also provide family travel abroad for free.
After a series of reward measures were implemented, some learning atmosphere was finally established, and parents would basically urge their children to come and study.
The school environment once again made Abdullah amazed, and some officials even had the idea of sending their children here to study.
After leaving school, everyone visited power stations, theaters, department stores and so on. However, the goods in the department store were ordinary and there was no sales of luxury goods. After all, the living standards of base workers were limited, so where did they get the money to buy luxury goods?
The last person came to the administrative center of the base, which is also the central office space of the base. In terms of hardware facilities, the conditions are definitely not as good as those of the school, and they are even worse than some other places in the base.
Anna once suggested that the administrative center represents the image of the base and the hardware facilities should be better, but Rom felt that it was unnecessary, as long as it did not affect the work, and felt that the money should be spent where needed, and wait until the conditions in the future were improved.
In the main conference room of the administrative center, Abdullah and his party sat down to rest, listening to Rom in the lecture to tell the future prospect of the base in the base planning map. Of course, it is just a long-term view on the economic aspects and will not involve anything else.
But this is enough to amaze Abdullah and others. The current situation alone is a comprehensive development trend, and I don’t know how much money Rom has invested. At least everyone still can’t see any output at the moment, and they all have some doubts whether Rom is worth it.
But it’s not everyone’s business. It’s spent Rom’s own money, and they don’t spend their money. The infrastructure can also bring employment opportunities to the locals and provide taxes to the Somali government in the future. Why not do it?
After everyone had a while of eating, drinking, chatting and resting in the conference room, Johnny hurried to Rom, who was sitting next to Abdullah, and whispered: "Sir, you're about to arrive."
Rom nodded, waved his hand to make him prepare, and then muttered to Abdullah a few more words.
Soon, the group left the administrative center again and boarded the bus and headed straight to the newly built airport at the base.
The level airport runway like a ribbon made Abdullah and others look at each other. Rom led them into the airport ground dispatch tower first to visit. Johnny was busy with several staff members inside and in front of the newly built equipment.
After walking around the building, Rom invited everyone to climb the rooftop of the building and pointed to the radar antenna that stood not far away. This set of radar was only bought by Abdullah in the name of the Somalia government, otherwise the relevant countries would not sell it to him.
Standing on the building and looking at the entire base, I feel like a sparrow is small and has all the internal organs. I have built almost everything I should have built on the limited land area.
Although everything in front of him seemed a little simple, it made Rom, who was looking around, feel that he was getting closer and closer to his dream. He couldn't help but leave everyone, pace slowly, and look at everything in front of him affectionately. He put too much effort into everything in front of him.
Anna, not far away, noticed his reaction, walked to him and breathed a sigh of relief: "It was finally completed as scheduled within the time you stipulated."
Rom looked back at the woman and found that she had become dark and thin. She had the charm and sexyness she used to have gone to, which shows how much hard work and sweat it had been spent on this base.
"Thank you for your hard work during this period, thank you!" Rom bowed deeply sincerely to her.
At this moment, a whistling sound came from afar. Everyone on the rooftop looked up and saw a thousand fighter jets flying rapidly from a distance. Two of them landed on one end of the runway in a double landing manner, sliding all the way, and finally slowly stopped on the runway.
Johnny, holding the walkie-talkie, appeared downstairs, and could hear his loud shouting. The staff on the ground quickly drove the relevant vehicles over to pick them up.
The other eight fighter jets hovered in the air and swung greatly, causing everyone on the roof to look up and watch the spectacular scene.
Rom quickly threw Anna down and ran to Abdullah and pointed at the air to tell what he said.
Anna smiled bitterly while she was still there and found that the man was too career-oriented and had no mood at all.
After the two fighters on the runway were pulled out of the runway by the tractor, two of the eight fighters hovering in the air were immediately separated and landed in the same way again.
After five repeated trips, ten F16 fighters were neatly arranged in a row outside the hangar. After the ten pilots got off the plane, Johnny ran to hug everyone happily. Both sides seemed very excited. You punched me in the chest, and I punched you in the chest.
Looking at the cross fighter jets, Abdullah's eyes were a little shining. The whole of Somalia did not have such good equipment. It's not that I can't afford it. If I grit my teeth, I can buy it. However, the Somalian government cannot afford the subsequent maintenance costs. How can a country with a GDP of only 2 billion US dollars afford such equipment?
(To be continued)
Chapter completed!