For a time, people across Africa sang the praises of this pesticide. When they learned that it had been freely donated by a Chinese merchant, without charging them a single cent,
the African people's favor toward China grew even stronger, and governments throughout Africa expressed their heartfelt gratitude to China.
They were especially grateful to that Chinese merchant.
Without the pesticide, they might not have had enough to eat this year.
Even donating money would not have been as practical.
No matter how much money they had, their entire country lacked food. No amount of money could buy any, could it?
This pesticide had solved their most urgent problem, eliminating a major source of trouble for them.
Once the locusts were dealt with, the Congo Government could finally spare the time to address the mining rights issue.
And when they learned that the country coming to purchase the mining rights was China, Congo had already begun favoring China.
Then they heard that the person who wanted to buy the mining rights was the very same person who had donated the pesticide to them.
At that point, the Congo Government sold the mining rights to China without hesitation, offering one hundred percent of the rights at the extremely low price of fifteen billion.
Spending fifteen billion to mine a trillion-worth deposit—this deal was even more profitable than robbing a bank.
At that price, even a seventy-billion deposit would not have been enough to cover the cost, let alone a trillion-worth deposit.
Yet the Congo Government gave it to them, and without the slightest hesitation. The Japanese side did not even get a chance to negotiate for a higher price.
They had even been willing to pay 150 billion, ten times China's offer, to buy the mining rights.
But the Congo Government