Selling oil across Libya

Chapter 19 Customizing a Wife

Although the port area has generator sets and backup units, which are fine for temporary use, a power plant still needs to be built to truly solve the power problem.

Although Libya has no shortage of oil.

What Qin Rui really wants is clean energy, primarily solar panels and wind turbines.

In 2011, clean energy was in a period of rapid development. More than 95% of the country was desert and semi-desert, and the potential for developing clean energy was enormous.

Instead of building thermal power plants, Qin Rui directly imported solar panels to build clean energy power plants.

Developing clean energy in Libya has many benefits.

Libya's traditional agriculture is based on animal husbandry. To put it bluntly, the country's deserts and semi-deserts were created by herds of sheep and camels.

After Qin Rui and others reached an agreement with the Transitional Council, the first thing they did was to extract oil, and the second thing was to restore the ecology.

The method is simple.

This work has actually already begun.

Qin Rui designated the 1st of each month as Tree Planting Day.

On the first of every month, everyone within the Nubidia Brigade's territory, whether Libyan or foreign worker, must plant a tree and ensure it survives.

If we plant them and then leave them unattended, they will die. We'll have to plant two more next month.

If fewer than twelve trees survive in a year, the foreign workers are laid off and the Libyans are imprisoned.

Qin Rui has contacted forestry experts to select suitable tree species for Libya and has commissioned a forestry company to cultivate them.

The saplings were provided by the Nubidia Tourism Authority. Residents and employees only needed to plant the saplings and ensure they survived.

Don't say there's no water.

Go and pee every day; you get not only water but also nutrients.

"So, we should plant trees too?"

Yuri was also surprised that Qin Rui set an example by not even sparing himself.

"Yes, we want to plant them too."

Qin Rui is even stricter with himself, planting one every day.

Mia is the same.

Zhong, Fa, Bai, and the other guards spent all their time by Qin Rui's side with nothing to do, and each of them also received one pill a day.

Qin Rui did not plant it next to the villa.

Instead, they drove around with Aleppo pine saplings they had bought from Bengaldan and planted them in an open area one kilometer from the port.

Aleppo pine is a pine native to the Mediterranean region. It grows and regenerates well in northern Libya and is very suitable for planting in Zawiya.

"Boss, can I ask Zhukov to help me plant them?"

Like Qin Rui, Yuri has a rather wicked sense of humor.

Zhukov, like the blank slate, was a blank slate officer and served as Yuri's bodyguard captain.

"Can……"

Qin Rui suddenly remembered something: "Now that we have money, shouldn't we start paying ourselves a salary?"

"I can't have children, so who should I give money to?"

Yuri has no desire for money.

"Too!"

Qin Rui then remembered something else: "Do you want a wife?"

"Can you customize it?"

Yuri's eyes gleamed.

"Can!"

Qin Rui was generous.

Yuri's taste is quite good; he commissioned a wife based on Marina Alexandrova.

Marina Alexandrova is the actress who played Catherine the Great.

Musa abandoned his wife, obsessed with the battle against Haftar.

To be honest, Haftar is actually a bit weak, and he's not even in the same league as Musa.

He wasn't bad, but he wasn't so bad that he was captured by Chad.

Although Haftar is incompetent, he has a think tank of military officers from Europe and America by his side.

So Musa was fighting against this think tank of officers from Europe and America.

Max-level soldiers are extremely powerful; in the battle of Tripoli, only 24 max-level soldiers were lost.

After leaving Tripoli and continuing the offensive in Misrata, the troops suffered a sharp increase in losses.

On the 7th, Musa delivered a batch of captured weapons to Qin Rui, including a batch of standard military sniper rifles from Europe and America.

"Therefore, the Transitional Council not only had a think tank of officers from Europe and the United States, but also officers and soldiers from Europe and the United States who directly participated in the war."

Qin Rui now realized just how deeply the West was involved in this war.

"These snipers are very capable, on par with our snipers;"

Yesterday, coalition reconnaissance planes conducted reconnaissance of our vanguard forces. The coalition will certainly not allow us to capture Misrata.

Although the French government included Stinger missiles in the supplies handed over to the Nubidia Brigade as requested by Qin Rui, Musa still failed to obtain the anti-aircraft weapons he wanted.

The Stingers handed over to the Nubides by the French government were authenticated and could not attack coalition aircraft, or even lock onto them.

Qin Rui has already exchanged for two max-level military research personnel, and is preparing to dismantle "Stinger".

After studying the "Stinger," the two told Qin Rui that the "Stinger" had a self-destruct system, and that if it was forcibly dismantled, the Stinger would self-destruct.

Replicating the "Stinger" would be a massive undertaking, requiring even more technical personnel.

It would take them about twenty years to reverse engineer the Stinger on their own.

Fine.

Qin Rui temporarily abandoned the attempt to replicate "Stinger" and sent the two men to Bengaldan to instruct workers on the production of toys and fireworks.

"Many countries have suggested that we negotiate to form a coalition government."

Yuri reiterated the necessity of forming a coalition government.

"A coalition government can be formed, but it must be divided by the 15th parallel east."

Qin Rui made appropriate concessions without excessively provoking the allied forces.

While the nominal objective of "Operation Odyssey Dawn" was Colonel, its true aim was Libyan oil.

France and the United States have different objectives.

France's aim was to seize Libya's oil fields.

The United States' goal is to force Libya to return to the petrodollar system and maintain the international hegemony of the dollar.

The Americans didn't care who the Nubidean Brigade or the Transitional Council sold the oil to.

The day after reaching an agreement with the French government, Yuri announced through Boboci's correspondent in Tripoli that the country was returning to the petrodollar system.

This was also intended to appease Washington.

"Misrata will be under our control in three days at most."

Despite the increasing losses of his troops, Musa remained confident.

The troops loyal to the Transitional Council numbered less than 10.

Moreover, there are numerous factions, with more than a dozen well-known organizations.

The most combat-effective troops were besieging the colonel's last stronghold, Sirte.

The Nubian Brigade was not large in total strength.

They are far stronger than the troops loyal to the Transitional Council.

"Tiger, when did we go to Tripoli?"

Yuri hopes to go to Tripoli to realize his greater ambitions.

"It's not possible now. We need to wait until all the residents of Tripoli have been relocated, then demolish and rebuild Tripoli, carry out the most thorough transformation of Tripoli, and then consider going to Tripoli."

Qin Rui showed no lingering attachment to the so-called "ancient buildings" in Tripoli.