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Chapter 389
Chapter 389
The Bantu people are the collective name for nearly 600 African ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, central Africa, east to southern Africa, and are the largest ethnic group in Africa. They inherited a common Bantu language system and culture, and it is said that there are 450 middle Bantu languages.
At the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th century, the Bantu people established a huge Kingdom of the Congo in the Congo and its valleys. The territory includes the borders of Angola, Gabon, and the two Congolese.
The Bantu originally lived freely in their own country, but since the late 15th century, Europeans came here to engage in the slave trade, and the Bantu suffered a heavy blow. By the end of the slave trade in the early 19th century, the Bantu kingdoms in this region had already declined.
In 1884, a conference held as far away as Berlin determined the territorial division of the Congo region. With the Congo River as the boundary, it belongs to a French colony to the north and Belgium to the south.
The French have a particularly large territory in Africa. French Equatorial Africa was established in 1910, including the current Republic of Congo, Gabon, Chad and Central African Republic. Brazzaville on the Congo River was designated as the capital.
During World War II, the French Equatorial African authorities supported General de Gaulle, and Brazzaville was chosen as the symbolic capital of Free France from 1940 to 1943.
After World War II, France was very injured and did not have enough power to control the colonies in Africa. In September 1958, after a French referendum and a new constitution, French Equatorial Africa was disintegrated and four countries became independent.
The Republic of Congo preemptively occupied the word “Congo” with a long history as its country name, and considered itself the orthodox continuing heir of the Kingdom of Congo.
However, a shameless president appeared on the other side of the Congo River, who forcibly changed his country’s name to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was less than the Republic of Congo.
Thus, there are two Congolese in this world. No way, everyone had to use the names of their capitals to distinguish. Congo cloth is the Congo of Brazzaville, and the Democratic Republic of Congo is the Congo of Kinshasa.
The funny thing is that there is a Congo River between Brazzaville and Kinshasa. People on both sides of the river can see the capital of another country every day, so they proudly say that we are the two closest capitals in the world. .
It is difficult for foreigners to understand this sense of pride-two cities that are the most important in their respective countries, are so close, but there is no bridge between them!
At this moment, Chen Ling was in a hotel by the Congo River, standing by the bed, staring at the tattered Kinshasa opposite.
Yesterday afternoon, Chen Ling’s convoy successfully reached the border of Congo-Brazzaville, and Bill really took people to wait for a long time. Not only did he get the visas of Chen Ling, Liudmila and others in advance, he also prepared the license plates of the team by the way, and all the cars were replaced with Congo-Brazzaville license plates.
“It’s easy, just spend a little money!” These were Bill’s original words.
Seeing Chen Ling again, and seeing Lyudmila next to him for the first time, Bill is as strange as François, but Bill is different from François after all. He said one more sentence: “Mr. Chen , Just one? How about two more?”
Chen Ling squinted and cast him a look, and Bill immediately stopped talking, and obediently climbed into the front car and led the team on the way.
“Is there anyone else?” Lyudmila heard Bill’s words and asked Chen Ling very concerned, “We can’t leave people here.”
François, who was sitting in the co-pilot, closed his eyes and couldn’t help but raise the corners of his mouth. Bill once said that next time there might be three beauties next to Mr. Chen, and you should bring an extra car when you pick him up.
What he meant was that the first time in Mali, there was an extra Ms. Hu Xiaoxiao; the second time in Sierra Leone, there were two more Liu Ya and Charlotte. By analogy, there should be three more ladies for the third time.
François really believed Bill’s statement, and he really took one more car to Marcocu. Fortunately, there is only one person beside Chen Ling, which is not so shocking.
“There is no one, Bill made a mistake. He thought we would take a few prisoners and go together. We’ve always done this before.” Chen Ling said casually, and must not let Lyudmila know Bill’s words. The true meaning.
“What is the purpose of taking a prisoner? Is it a hostage?” Lyudmila asked again.
Chen Ling didn’t want to make up any more nonsense, and said, “A Bin, you can explain it!”
François turned around and said: “The main purpose of capturing prisoners is to let them lead the way. There are no maps in many parts of Africa, and we can’t find directions, so we need the prisoners to lead the way.”
“Aren’t you afraid that they deliberately led the wrong way?”
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With Bill’s simple sentence, Chen Ling and François were interrogated by Lyudmila for a full hour. In the end, there was no other way. The two pretended to be asleep and snored rhythmically.
Liudmila, who was overly energetic, didn’t believe that Chen Ling was asleep, pinched his nostrils, opened his eyelids, and almost poured chili water, and finally “woke up” Chen Ling.
“Curious baby, what’s the matter?” Chen Ling looked sleepy.
“I lost that dagger.” Lyudmila looked aggrieved.
Chen Ling remembered that the dagger was taken by Daniel, and then disappeared.
“Daniel took it and used it to threaten me… I may not get it back.” He said, “We bought one later.”
“He took it? Then I don’t want it!” Lyudmila uttered a cute tongue and made a disgusting expression. “The thought of that person makes me uncomfortable.”
Chen Ling looked dumbfounded. Liudmila changed, it turned out that it was not like this in front of Chen Ling. At that time she was very professional, very professional, and friend enough, but she didn’t have such a childish attitude.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
At this moment, Chen Ling, standing in front of the hotel window, was thinking about this issue.
When staying in the hotel, Bill opened a big bed room for Chen Ling and Liu Demi, and Chen Ling gave him a bit of training before he opened one more room.
Lyudmila didn’t speak at the time. After going upstairs, she slammed the door of the room and never came out.
Chen Ling sighed and started to work. He called the people who needed to be contacted one by one, and once again reported that he was safe. When the local phone reached Wang Siyuan, it was learned that the Gabonese Ministry of Interior had cancelled the wanted order, unblocked the CR company, and everything returned to normal.
Only the Aolang Group changed a lot and suddenly announced the suspension of the railway project and the development of the port project.
Chen Ling immediately forwarded Lyudmila’s report to Wang Siyuan, and ordered him to find the local media and French media to send it out to engage in the Orang Group. And before the order is sent, send someone to the Palm Garden of the Olang Group to take a few photos as a picture for the report.
It is absolutely impossible to be beaten passively and not fight back. This time, I will send some black materials of the Aolang Group for a little revenge.
Subsequently, Chen Ling contacted Lilia again.
“Lilia, I’m all Brazzaville.”
“You went to Congo? You are still the same, running around, not listening to me… Brazzaville? By coincidence, Miranda is also in Brazzaville, where she attended the Great Lakes Summit… …”
The African Great Lakes region refers to the surrounding and adjacent areas surrounding Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Kivu in Africa, covering 11 countries including Angola, Congo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, covering an area of more than 7 million square kilometers. It is a natural resource of Africa. The most enriched area, but also the most concentrated area of war, famine, plague and refugees in the world, is called “Africa’s Gunpowder Keg.”
Chen Ling had no acquaintances in Congo-Brazzaville. He planned to return to Cameroon after a day off. When he learned that the “princess” of Angola was here, he wanted to meet her. If you don’t go, you can’t do it, or she will definitely get angry when she finds out in the future.
However, Lilia told him that Miranda also wanted to find Chen Ling.
Lilia said: “This summit will discuss two issues, one is security issues, which are discussed at every meeting. The other is regional infrastructure interconnection, Miranda and Angola will build a lot of transportation infrastructure. , She wants to find you to help her.”