"Those locals are here again!"
"Come on, can they really attack the camp?"
In a small guard box on the edge of the desert in southwestern Chad, several PCs were playing poker boredly. Outside their guard booths, there were two isolation walls made of explosion-proof modules, and then, dozens of meters away If you didn’t know better, you would have thought this was some kind of military base.
But in fact, this is just an ordinary oil well area. Behind these defenses is a long row of tall kowtow machines, which are continuously drawing industrial blood from the underground.
The extracted crude oil will eventually be sent via pipelines to processing plants more than ten kilometers away, and then transferred to trains and sent to various ports in Africa.
As an important strategic material, oil will never have to worry about sales, and there is no need to worry about exploitation. After Shepard obtained the land from Habré, people from Standard Oil came over not even a week later.
Shepard didn't even know how these guys knew such well-informed information. You must know that Chad was still in chaos at that time, and firefights often occurred.
As a result, less than three days after Standard Oil gave him the price, a fleet of trucks transporting oil production equipment arrived.
Because the proven reserves are very rich, Standard Oil paid extremely happily. The three storage areas controlled by Shepard were bought out by Standard Oil. The first contract payment alone was After giving 50 million, Shepard can still get 50 million when all the storage areas start to produce oil.
This amount of money is a drop in the bucket for an oil area with reserves of up to one million barrels. Therefore, Standard Oil is also willing to pay. After all, Shadow Company has a good enough reputation and cooperation prospects. The standard oil giants like to cooperate with such friends instead of those damn local warlords.
The most important thing is that Shadow Company can ensure the stability of mining. If the fleet and pipelines are harassed every three days, then everyone will not make any money.
The construction of these mining camps also took a large part of Shadow Company's energy. For this reason, they also specially ordered several small modular construction machinery from Japan.
This kind of construction machinery that can be transported by medium-sized trucks can be replaced with components to become an excavator or a road roller. One machine can fill 60 explosion-proof wall modules in one hour, which is not too convenient.
Many times, PCs complain about whether their boss is sick and likes to build fortifications so much. Many PCs can even work part-time as engineers.
The locals the guard was talking about were local civilians who previously lived in the oil reserves. Because their land was expropriated by the Shadow Company, these people had to leave their hometowns after receiving a fairly fair severance package.
Logically speaking, once the money is taken and the fingerprints are pressed, everyone's lives are settled. However, after the armistice between Chad and Libya, the locals who left came back again. Under the leadership of the local village elders and leaders They began to cause trouble, demanding that Shadow Company return the land they depended on for survival.
Regarding these troublemaking civilians, the PCs exercised maximum restraint. Not only did they not use machine guns, they also built a water tank outside the camp with cement, and transported fresh water in there every day for civilians to use.
Logically speaking, Shepard should notify the garrison to expel these people, but Habre's recent attitude towards Shadow Company is very subtle, so the military police around him promised well, but in fact it was the sloth who got up and remained motionless. , as for other National Army units, most of those units familiar with Shadow Company were purged, and officers and non-commissioned officers were exiled to the desolate north. Chief of Staff Debi was even worse. He was directly exiled abroad by Habré. The above is an investigation and study of various aspects of European countries, but in fact, I understand everything.
After all, Shepard has never seen any inspection team not allowed to come back without an order!
The local officials ignored the troubled civilians, and it was naturally impossible for the Shadow Company to hold any unrestricted fighting competition. Moreover, those black uncles were also very restrained. A group of old people and children came over on time every day, and then took advantage of the shade of the trees to enjoy the coolness. Drink water, some kids will even take off their pants and pee in the sink.
Then his pants would be taken off by his brothers and sisters and they would be beaten violently.
The relationship between the two parties was considered uneventful. After all, from the first day these troublemakers appeared, Hannibal sent people to control them, and as expected, he discovered the driving force behind them.
A French company will give these civilians fifty CFA francs every day and let them cause trouble for the Shadow Company. It is best to force the Shadow Company to use violent force. If the other party is forced to shoot and cause casualties, that would be the best.
This is also the reason why Shadow Company maintains restraint. Once casualties are caused, Habré can take back the land that was previously sold to Shadow Company at a low price, and then sell it to the French at a high price.
And this is not just one fish and two fish, but one fish and four fish, because at the beginning, this land belonged to the French. Later, due to the coup and civil war, the French lost power and the Americans intervened, so the land became American.
But with the return of the French garrison, the influence of the former sovereign country has also returned little by little. The time when Habré was extremely close to the United States has passed. Now he is in a heated relationship with the French and even invited the chief of the French garrison to visit for three days in a row. Attend a ball at his official residence.
As for the Americans, that was just an accident. France was Chad’s original partner!
Habré's move was not without purpose. He just knew his weight in Chad. The Americans wanted something from him, and the French wanted something from him. That's why he jumped left and right so unscrupulously.
This is like a steelyard. If there are more weights on the left side, it will naturally lean to the left!
According to what Hannibal learned, the price offered by the French to Habré was ten times that of the Shadow Company, and it was not a one-time deal, with additional regular dividends. No wonder Habré changed his attitude.
However, as long as there is no break-up, the Shadow Company can still continue to control the region. After all, there is a contract written in black and white, and Habré himself signed it, and Habré does not want to break up. After all, if it is true, If he offends the Americans, his value in France will also fall. The value of the united front can be viewed in both directions!
Therefore, Shadow Company's attitude towards land is also very clear, that is, it will not give up an inch of land. If it gives up the meat so easily, wouldn't it be in vain for the great powers?
