Chapter 1414 African Affairs

The old king of Wakanda, T'Chaka, said to his son T'Chaka earnestly: "I'm old, and sometimes I feel out of energy. You have to help me carry some more burdens, in case One day when I step down, you can take over my position smoothly. But you need a princess, "

"A crown prince has no princess and no heirs. This is not a good thing for our country." T'Chaka put forward his thoughts very seriously: "You must get married as soon as possible and have a child, whether it is Either a daughter or a son."

The young Panther is a little depressed because this is not the life he wants. He still prefers to pursue an independent and free life by himself. It wasn't easy though, because Dad wasn't dead. There are many things that I cannot decide on my own.

"Dad, it's already the era of the Earth Federation. Can we be less feudal?!" Black Panther T'Challa said helplessly to the old king.

"Feudal fart!" T'Chaka was very dissatisfied: "We are the king's inheritance system. It has been like this for so many years, and it can't be changed when you come here. Even if we join the Earth Federation, we are relatively independent on Earth. regime!"

T'Challa has nothing to do with his father. Because I can't convince him of the old man. But T'Challa is also a very stubborn person, which is in the same line as his father. Just when his father insisted on finding him a wife, he didn't care about it at all.

He said very stubbornly: "My princess can only be Storm, I just like her!"

"Stupid! You can like her, but does she like you?!" The old king was very angry, not that he didn't support his son and Storm. In fact, if possible, he would also like Storm to be his daughter-in-law. Because Storm herself has a reputation in Tuvalu, and she is also Professor Charles' lover. From various aspects, he is actually a good match with his own son, and he is also pretty.

But there is a big problem, that is, Storm Girl doesn't pay attention to her son at all. what can you do about it If someone doesn't like your son, can he use a gun to force him to like him? Even if it would anger Professor Charles, he would create a chapter in the story of mutants fighting Wakanda. The screenwriters of the Marvel Group may not be able to use this story to promote mutant comics for a whole year.

"It's my personal thing that I like someone. Even if she doesn't like me, I still like her. This is my private matter and has nothing to do with her." Black Panther T'Challa said something very Backbone and reasonable, but in the eyes of the old King T'Chaka, it is a stupid behavior.

"T'Challa! Are you going to piss me off?! Let me tell you, you must immediately find me a girl to marry and have children! You are not young, you can't go on like this!" the old king issued Ultimatum: "Otherwise you will not inherit the throne!"

Just when the king and prince of Wakanda had a quarrel, and it ended with T'Challa running away from home, Li Jie just brought Thor, the prince of Asgard, to the African continent.

Speaking of it, the African continent is really the last piece of land on earth to be developed. In the past, because of all kinds of oppression, it has been impoverished for nearly a hundred years.

"Actually, this is a very fertile continent. Not all parts of Africa are hot, and not all places are dry. Just like many countries in South Africa are not as hot as most people think. And what most people think The dry and hot Africa I thought was actually North Africa where we are now." Li Jie and Pangto walked the streets of Cairo, Egypt. There are peddlers all over the place soliciting tourists to travel to the pyramids. Both Li Jie and Thor have turned down several peddlers who tried to sell them.

"I know this. In fact, many countries in Egypt have a suitable climate and are also very suitable for planting, but Africa used to be the region with the most poor people in the world. Most of the least developed countries in the world are also gathered in this place. Said Really, do you think they are lazy?" Thor walked behind Li Jie while eating the sweet sweet beef stew sold on the streets of Cairo. And while eating, he wanted to share it with Li Jie: "You should watch it often, it's delicious. The taste of this beef is sweeter than honey."

To be honest, Li Jie feels that he has a high degree of acceptance of various foods, but he really can't accept the sweet beef stew. But he took a closer look at the food in Thor's hand, um, it seems that there is no beef. Looks like just plain praline cakes? Li Jie took it and took a sip, poof! This thing is too sweet! It was the sweetest thing Li Jie had ever eaten while wearing the quilt, and he felt his throat was instantly choked up.

This is a dessert made after selling praline cakes with the title of beef, and killing a bunch of sugar sellers, and getting free sugar! For Thor's move to continue sharing, Li Jie can only be grateful and insensitive.

"Returning to the topic we just talked about, in fact, the problems in Africa in the past were more complicated than you imagined. This cannot be simply blamed on [laziness]." Li Jie felt his throat was sweet and tired as he spoke.

But Thor enjoyed this sweet food very much, and he continued to eat: "Oh? I see many people say that Africans are too lazy to even farm. That's why they are so poor."

Li Jie shook his head helplessly: "It's not that simple. A few years ago, when new energy sources were not popularized, farming was actually a big investment. Those who thought that they could just get some seeds and throw them into the ground People who grow crops must be people who do not work hard. Every link of modern agriculture requires money. Seeds require money, fertilizers require money, and pesticides also require money. Planting an acre of land requires cost input. And Modern agriculture has seeds that farmers cannot breed themselves and need to buy new seeds from seed companies every year."

"And the scariest thing is that when you have spent enough costs on planting and harvested, you will find that the cost of the grain you harvested per acre of land is even higher than buying finished products directly from the market. The cost of grain. To put it simply, it costs you 50 cents to grow a catty of grain, while the price of grain sold on the market is only 40 cents." Li Jie said with a smile: "You said that farmers in Africa still Is it necessary to grow food?"

"Huh? Why is the food on the market cheaper than what African farmers can grow themselves?" Although Thor is not stupid, he can't figure out what's wrong with it.

"Because those grains come from the EU. The EU has high subsidies for farmers. Take dairy cows as an example. In the past, each cow received a subsidy of two euros per day. The government subsidized enough funds to enter agriculture. So European agricultural products It can be sold in Africa at a price lower than the cost price. It costs so much to grow food, and in the end there is no accounting for the direct purchase of food. Who in Africa will grow food?"

"The same is true of raising cattle and chickens to make sugar. There are many legends on the African continent. For example, they say that the chicken sold by the Chinese is fake, and the sugar sold by the Europeans is made from leaves. It was made by magic. Because they still can't understand how low the price of agricultural products can be after the large-scale industrialized society and the government's agricultural subsidies. So a lot of farmers in Africa went bankrupt."

"It's not that they are too lazy to grow food, but that they are no longer able to grow food. In addition, the EU wants to use Africa as a dumping ground for its own industrial and agricultural products, so they are willing to give money to Africans and make them lazy. They don’t work or work. Then they go to wars, rob diamond resources, copper resources, etc., and then sell them to foreign forces at a low price until they sit and eat. If Africans are really lazy in their genes, they would have been there for more than a thousand years It has been eliminated in the evolution of human beings. Laziness is only artificially cultivated by people with a purpose. This is the power of capital."

Thor, who was eating sweet beef stew (praline cake), really didn't know why this was so complicated. He took a bite of the sugar pie and said, "At least it's much better now that the Earth Federation is established, isn't it?"

"Yes, that's why I've been pushing the world to change. In addition to Africa, South America, and East Asia, there are actually such situations. There are also resource plundering and exploitation of backward areas by advanced areas in China, etc." Li Jie spread his hands: "But after the advent of new energy, all this has become meaningless. Now Africa has become the world's breadbasket. Half of the world's food is produced here, and the farmland here stretches like ocean waves. Solve this problem The world's most basic problem of eating, I think we are doing pretty well."

"Well, although you have said so much. But what are we doing in North Africa? To see the pyramids? You said that you promised to help me solve the problem of the Shura field." Thor finished eating the last sugar cake, and he started complain.

Li Jie shook his head: "We need to solve the problems one by one. Let's start with the easy ones."

"Easy?"

"Well, Storm."

Li Jie pointed to a shisha bar at the intersection. The black panther T'Challa was smoking a shisha haggardly on the other side of the glass window.