Duke was busy working on his super electromagnetic wave transmitter. On the other hand, after talking to Vice Premier Wu, Cai Siqiang knew that SAL could make a big contribution to the development of resources in Africa, so he started to work hard. This matter is related to the national strategy, and of course it is not something that SAL companies can handle, because this matter has completely exceeded the scope of corporate business investment and involves the national development strategy.

"Eric, what do you think about this?" After thinking about it, Cai Siqiang visited the head of the old Li family again. After explaining the purpose of the visit, he wanted to get some feasible suggestions from the wise old man. More importantly, Cai Siqiang knew that SAL could not eat alone in this matter.

"I think it's a good thing," said Eric. "In the long run, non-renewable resources always have a shortage. Although the economic weak development of European and American countries in recent years has led to the current low bulk resource commodities, once the world economy recovers, there is no doubt that the prices of mineral resources will have a significant increase. It should be a good time to intervene."

Although Eric also received that the country is planning to develop African resources on a large scale, this matter is still controversial within the family, because according to domestic policies, there are large restrictions on the entry of private enterprises, and there is no problem with small fuss. However, a giant family like the old Li family has invested tens of billions of dollars in one move. Without a clear policy support, it is impossible to make a rash move.

The news brought by Cai Siqiang today made Eric feel more excited. "Since the country is preparing to open up to private enterprises in this area, how much does SAL plan to invest in it?" Eric asked.

"We are ready to invest a lot," Cai Siqiang did not have the need to hide the old man. "If possible, there is no problem for us to invest hundreds of billions of dollars."

Hundreds of billions! Even Eric is a person who is used to big numbers, but he can't help but be startled by the number Cai Siqiang, and his face twitched involuntarily. This young man is really a newborn calf and is not afraid of tigers. He dares to take serious measures at critical moments.

"Are you planning to invest the funds raised by SAL's listing and invest in this aspect?" Eric quickly linked this matter with SAL. "Frankly speaking, I personally think the time is not very ripe for such a large-scale investment." Eric shook his head and said to Cai Siqiang.

"Why, didn't you just say that now is a good time?" Cai Siqiang was a little confused by Eric's statement.

"Just now, I thought that the maximum amount of funds you are planning to invest is only tens of billions. At that level of investment, even if there is a risk, it is irrelevant to your SAL company," said Eric. "And under that scale of funds, it will not have a big impact on the current international mineral resources industry and will not cause a chain reaction of the international situation."

"But if you are preparing to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in, it will be completely different. It will have a huge impact on the entire industry. For the European and American interest groups behind the mineral giants, doing so will greatly harm their interests, so they will definitely not sit still and wait for death, but will try every means to destroy it." Eric continued.

"You should know that in Africa, compared with China, the history of the US military's existence in Africa is much older. Since the 9/11 incident, the US military has long established a series of military presences around Africa's natural resource production areas and transportation lines, and has established military bases in more than a dozen African countries to ensure the core interests of the United States, including combating terrorists and monopoly and priority over African resource development.

In order to unify command, the US military has also established an African command to independently command operations in Africa. It now has more than 4 combat brigades stationed in Africa. With such a strong military presence, and the US military supports and controls more than 20 African countries, these countries are spread across North Africa, Central Africa, Atlantic coasts, etc. It can be said that the US military is also everywhere in Africa. They have the largest military force on the African continent and can escort the core interests of the United States at any time.

If there are major strategic changes involving hundreds of billions of yuan, it is difficult for us to ensure that the US military does not take action to destroy it. Under the current circumstances, it is difficult for me to believe that the PLA can defend our huge interests in Africa. After all, the PLA has only signed an agreement with Tanzania. It will take time for the real military force to enter and ensure our interests to be proved.

In the surrounding areas of Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Kenya now have US military bases, and their armed forces are also trained by US military. More importantly, the western neighbor of Tanzania is in constant war and warlords are everywhere. If the US military wants to do anything, there are too many means to make Tanzania unable to be peaceful."

After hearing what Eric said, Cai Siqiang was shocked and realized that he was thinking a little simpler. He only saw the huge benefits of this matter, but he did not expect that it would be so dangerous behind this matter. If he had not understood the entire international political and economic situation thoroughly, he would not have seen it at all. If he rashly invested huge amounts of funds, once he encountered events like Libya and Iraq, wouldn’t it be wasted?

"Eric, according to you, we should not participate in this African development now?" Cai Siqiang asked.

"That's not the case," Eric shook his head and said, "In fact, according to the information we have obtained, the central government has deployed the tone of the African development, and it depends on the specific implementation steps. The most critical of the operation is the PLA. We need to observe how determined the PLA is to defend our African interests. If the military force invested is enough to deal with surrounding challenges, then there are many benefits to participate in this development."

Although the military has signed an agreement on the construction of a military base with Tanzania, the People's Liberation Army has not made any noise about the future scale and number of troops of this military base. For a long-standing family like the old Li family, they would rather miss it than make mistakes when external conditions are immature.

"I understand, what you mean is that we keep our attention to this matter, but we are not in a hurry to intervene on a large scale in terms of investment?" Cai Siqiang asked thoughtfully.

"Yes, although there is a new trend in the world situation now, the United States' dominance of the world is still unshakable. If the People's Liberation Army does not show its determination to win in Africa, we can only try to do some preliminary preparations in Africa, but the main funds cannot enter rashly." Eric said, "But it seems that it is time for us to set up a new mining company."

A few days later, a sign named Oriental Mining Development Co., Ltd. quietly appeared in the headquarters building of SAL Rongcheng, becoming another new company in the Oriental Group. It currently has a registered capital of 10 billion yuan and was jointly established by SAL and several well-known domestic companies.

When Vice Premier Wu heard the company's registration from his secretary, he couldn't help but be stunned. One hundred billion yuan is already an astronomical figure for ordinary people, but in the eyes of Vice Premier Wu, this is far from the fact that Cai Siqiang came to the door a few days ago and was ready to invest huge sums of money to cooperate with his African development plan.

Why did SAL change his mind all of a sudden? Without the piece of SAL, Vice Premier Wu really didn't know that he could find such funds to support the African development plan he chaired.

It is hard to say that Vice Premier Wu had to ask his secretary to contact Sun Hong and then understand the reason why SAL retreated. When Vice Premier Wu heard the worries that Cai Siqiang had tactfully conveyed back, he suddenly realized.

"How did you forget this?" Vice Premier Wu patted his forehead hard and smiled bitterly. "Xiao Wang, help me contact Vice Chairman Liu, I want to have an interview with him."

Vice Premier Wu knew that military support was essential in the development of Africa, and even a critical link, so this work must keep up to match his political and economic plans. Otherwise, the military would not cooperate or demonstrate its ability to protect our core interests. Who dares to throw a lot of real money on this magical land of Africa?

I have been busy with the economy and have less concern for the military to cooperate with the actions, which has led to such a mistake now.

Fortunately, it is not too late to repair the problem of the sheep.

After coordination with Vice Premier Wu and Vice Chairman Liu of the Military Commission, China soon announced a series of new military and economic agreements with Tanzania. China announced that it would sell 30 new generation of JF-11 fighter jets and affiliated air early warning aircraft, as well as ground radars, missiles and other arms to Tanzania within three years, to build a modern air force for Tanzania;

In addition, the People's Liberation Army will also transform two aircraft and infantry brigades for the Tanzanian Army according to the People's Liberation Army's standards, so that the Tanzanian Army will also have modern combat power. If the People's Liberation Army's military plan can be successfully completed, Tanzania will jump to the top of the list in East Africa and become an absolute regional military power.

The approximately one billion US dollars of capital investment required by the Tanzanian military modernization plan is unbearable for the current Tanzanian finance. Therefore, China and Tanzania agreed to deduct the income from China's mineral development in Tanzania in the future. That is to say, Tanzania has obtained a worrying installment payment method, or will deduct it from the new revenue in the future, greatly reducing the financial pressure on Tanzania.

It would be fine if it was just this. The Tanzanian government's military force this time will inevitably trigger a rebound from the people and make this plan still die. However, China has obviously taken this into consideration. In addition to the military agreement, it also signed an economic cooperation agreement. China announced that it will help Tanzania achieve an economic doubling plan within ten years, focusing on mineral resource development and smelting in Tanzania, and at the same time, developing Tanzania's agricultural processing and light industrial product production, increasing Tanzania's employment opportunities, and achieving dual growth in economic development and employment in Tanzania, benefiting all classes in Tanzania.

As soon as these two agreements were introduced, they immediately caused an uproar in Africa and even the world.
Chapter completed!