Chapter 948 947. Fly to the Ancient Forest (1/5)

Chapter 948 947. Fly to the Ancient Forest (15)

After talking with the lion hunter, Li Du probably understood what he was like.

This is a delicate egoist, he is ambitious, brainy, and knows how to use the environment for his own maximum self-interest.

Obviously, he succeeded, he entered the high society in South Africa, and could hire a large number of white people to work for him and serve him.

The lion hunters have arranged some activities for them, but these activities are not at the villa.

His original words were: "I don't want other black people to enter here except me, and these activities require the participation of my people, so we have to go to another place."

Li Du was disgusted and frightened by this person's attitude towards his compatriots, so he didn't respond enthusiastically, but just dealt with it, saying that they were too tired and didn't want to participate in the activity.

The Lion Hunter is aware of this, and rarely stays behind him to talk about the situation in South Africa and his views on his compatriots.

After two days of rest, Li Du and his party were ready to set off to visit his mine.

There are many diamond mines in South Africa, the most famous of which is the Kimberley Diamond Mine. This mine has been closed for hundreds of years, but the legend is still circulating in the diamond industry.

The mine began to be excavated in 1866 and was closed in 1914. It has survived for less than half a century, but through the work of 50,000 miners day and night, a total of 2,722 kilograms of diamonds were unearthed.

Kimberley Mine is the largest hand-excavated mine in the world. It has a depth of 1097 meters, an opening diameter of 1.6 kilometers, and covers an area of ​​17 hectares. Now the water storage has become a deep lake. Inscription.

But South Africans hate this place very much. Think about it, how much effort would it take for blacks to dig out such a mine by hand and their bodies a century and a half ago? How many people died in it?

Local South Africans have a proverb: If you want to hear the wailing of the dead, go to the Kimberley Cemetery and wait.

For the suffering South African miners, the Kimberley mine is a death pit. Instead of getting rich because of diamonds, they lost many relatives because of diamonds.

The lion hunter's mine is located in Limpopo Province, just north of Johannesburg, about 800 kilometers away from Johannesburg, which is relatively far.

After two days of rest, they were ready to visit. The lion hunters prepared a helicopter so that they could fly there in only three or four hours.

The whole body of the helicopter is silver, it can accommodate two pilots and sixteen passengers, it is 13 to 14 meters long, and its height is more than three meters to nearly four meters.

Big Ivan saw it and said: "Zhi-15, boss, this is made in China."

The lion hunter laughed with a cigar in his mouth and said, "Yeah, Chinese aircraft, Chinese products are very popular in South Africa, buddy, haha, this aircraft is very exciting, come on."

Li Du didn't study helicopters, so he didn't know much about them. He only knew after hearing the words of Ivan the Great. This is the Z-15 that was widely spread in China when he was in middle school.

After reading the information about Zhi-15 at that time, Li Du joked with his classmates, saying that he would definitely buy a Zhi-15 in the future to support national construction.

Because the news at that time said that Chinese helicopters encountered resistance from overseas markets. The quality of the helicopters was good and the price was still low, but Europe and the United States tried their best to block their markets.

He doesn't know the performance of Zhi-15, but judging from the appearance and cockpit configuration, this is a relatively high-end helicopter.

Big Ivan introduced to Li Du that this helicopter is very safe, it is developed according to the latest airworthiness standards, its safety can meet the latest airworthiness standards, it has a five-bladed spherical hinge main propeller system and conforms to Airframe structure with the most stringent certification standards.

Li Du doesn't understand these things. What he can feel is that the cabin of this helicopter is very spacious and the decorations are very luxurious. Of course, this is a kind of rough luxury, almost a patchwork of famous products, without any connotation.

But judging from the lion hunter's attitude towards the helicopter, this kind of meaningless decoration is exactly what it wants.

Li Du adjusted the curvature of the seat, the spacious footrest and lateral space allowed him to sit comfortably on it, and the seat was equipped with a massager, which began to work as the helicopter took off, relieving the human body from taking the aircraft. Discomfort.

In addition, the helicopter has large windows, so they can overlook the city without having to lie on the windows.

The helicopter flew north, and soon left the urban area. As the helicopter climbed, and there were no coordinates of tall buildings on the ground, so I couldn't see anything clearly.

However, they encountered some hot air balloons on the way. South Africa is a paradise for hot air balloon lovers in the world, and relevant competitions are held every year.

The hot air balloon flew very high, and when looking down from the helicopter, it felt like the two sides could touch each other.

Limpopo Province is one of the nine provinces in South Africa, formerly known as the northern part of the Transvaal, a famous agricultural land.

This province covers an area of ​​123,900 square kilometers and is nicknamed the Land of Legends. Unlike people's understanding of Africa, there are no deserts here, but many forests.

The forest in Limpopo Province is called the ancient forest, which is full of ruins and relics, trout can be seen everywhere in the waters, and there are countless hot springs and waterfalls.

Its appearance has not changed in the slightest for more than half a century, so it is also known as the virgin land of Africa.

However, as some gold mines have been discovered here in recent years, the local ecological environment has begun to be damaged.

It’s not that Li Du excused the white people in Europe and America. If the gold mine was bought by some big companies and chaebols in Europe and the United States, they would pay more attention to protecting the environment. If it was developed by Africans, it would be really rude and wild.

A few hours later, the helicopter began to descend, and the destination was close.

Li Du looked down from the window, and first saw some tall baobab trees sparsely dotted in the bushes. There were also baobab trees on Shaou Island, but they were not as tall as the ones here.

Extending his field of vision to the distance, a mine shrouded in blue-gray dust mist appeared in his eyes. This is where the mine is located. The dust in the air is the product of crushing kimberley rocks during diamond mining.

Kimberlite is a volcanic lava from the guts of the earth that has now solidified, and diamonds are hidden in it, so to get diamonds, you have to mine them.

Li Du has already known it before. About 30 to 40 years ago, the French prospecting team discovered diamond veins with amazing reserves in this area. At that time, people realized that there were diamond veins hidden here.

However, at that time South Africa was still in the hands of the British, while South African blacks were chasing their legal rights, and the dawn of self-government in South Africa had dawned.

Discerning South Africans realized that the British would eventually leave, as would the whites, and that the mine would eventually belong to them.

As a result, the black leaders called on the locals to protect the areas where the mines were located, confronted the whites and carried out many bloody conflicts, not allowing them to mine these places.

After a lot of hard work, the diamond mines in Limpopo Province were preserved by the local people. Then, South Africa began the history of black rule. These mines were divided up by black rich people and those in power...