sinovels Chapter 227
Chapter 227
Chapter 227
“Who is the royal family?” Everyone was puzzled.
The expected reaction appeared, and the restaurant owner was satisfied. He simply pulled a chair over and said: “I’ll get a bottle of drink, come back right away, sit and say.”
Next, the restaurant owner drank the drink from the bottle without any label while telling the story of the royal family of Mrs. Volo.
Mrs. Volo is an African nation, mainly distributed in West Africa, and is the main nation of the Republic of Senegal. In Senegal, 40% of the population consider themselves Madame Volo.
Historically, Mrs. Volo’s traditional society was based on class relations and was mainly divided into three classes. The first class was the aristocracy and landlords, which belonged to the ruling class.
According to oral history, Mrs. Volo settled in the Senegal River Basin around the 8th century, and was unified into a loose political union in the 14th century, the famous Volov Empire, which produced representatives of the nobility and landlord class. It is the so-called royal family.
The royal family nominally occupies more than half of the empire’s land, owns all the output on the land, and the residents on the land. During the glorious period of the Wolof Empire, one-third of the gold produced by the Mali Empire was replaced by the Wolof Empire’s royal family.
However, the good times did not last long. In the middle of the 16th world, the Wolof Empire split into four main kingdoms, and the royal family also divided into several factions. These kingdoms were later full of political conspiracies, rebellions, and wars, and they wanted to resist Moorish invasions at the same time. The royal clans split and merged, and their power gradually weakened.
Nevertheless, the class relations within Mrs. Volo have been preserved.
Mrs. Wallo entertained herself in this area until the beginning of the slave trade along the coast of West Africa in the 19th century. In order to protect their own economic interests, the French launched wars against the Wolof Empire many times. Under the overwhelming external pressure, Madam Volo’s royal family finally formed a great unity and rose up to resist.
However, the disparity in combat power brought about by the social development gap made Madame Volo’s resistance like a joke. The army collapsed when touched, and the Volov Empire fell apart.
Under the oppression of the colonists, most of Mrs. Volo had to abandon the traditional industry and began to plant peanuts imported by the colonists. To this day, peanuts are still one of the most important cash crops in Senegal.
The empire has disappeared, but the traditional social structure is looming in the shadow of the modern republic, and the royal family has always existed stubbornly.
They are chiefs and village chiefs in the tribes and villages where Mrs. Volo gathers; under the modern political system, they will be elected members of all levels or hold government positions.
However, this kind of group power has always been jealous of other ethnic groups in France, Senegal and neighboring countries. Thus, despite the large population of Mrs. Volo, she never produced a president.
After finishing the story of the restaurant owner, Chen Ling’s meal was finished. But all the audience did not understand, what is the royal family going to do?
François asked bluntly: “Boss, what are you going to do, Mrs. Volo? Where is the royal family?”
The restaurant owner proudly said: “The members of the royal family are distributed among the ethnic groups across our country. They have money and status, and they will definitely find a way to change the status quo!”
“You all believe in *** religion? You should pray to Allah, it may be more effective.” Chansrail’s representative suddenly interrupted.
The restaurant owner sneered: “This guest, you don’t need to be so sarcasm. We, Mrs. Volo, believe in *** religion, but our strength comes from a unified leader. Unlike yours…”
“Okay, boss!” Chen Ling didn’t want to hear the restaurant owner quarrel with his fellow Senegalese, interrupted him, and said, “We have all eaten, and we have to go back to rest. Pay the bill!”
After leaving the restaurant, Chen Ling vaguely remembered the rally route map he saw in Dakar. The place where I crossed the railroad for the first time seems to be called Bambe.
“This place is Banbei?” Chen Ling asked, looking at the surrounding scenery. There are potholes and potholes in the street, and the two sides of the road are mainly low-rise houses, and there are very few buildings; the roofs are almost all iron tiles, many of which are already rusty.
A Chansrail representative said: “Yes. Bambe is the largest city in this neighborhood with a population of tens of thousands.”
Chen Ling smiled and said: “A city with a population of tens of thousands…”
The representative of Chansrail also laughed and said, “There is no way to compare with Dakar. There are millions of people there. But you can buy everything here, and there are hotels.”
Chen Ling didn’t mean to ridicule, but as a Chinese, he knew in his mind that a place without millions of people would be embarrassed to be called a city.
“There is a hotel, which is basically covered by us today.” He Chaoxu said, “After all, this is a small place and the hotel that can live in, that’s the only one.”
Chen Ling smiled and said, “I originally planned to experience the real Africa. The requirements cannot be too high. Besides, if everything is good here and everything is there, we don’t need to build it.”
Everyone talked and laughed, walked a short distance, and stopped in front of a two-story white building. The representative of Chansrail said: “Here, it’s here.”
Chen Ling saw the sign in front of the building, Bambi Hotel. The solid wood double-opened front door and the wrought iron door handle opened with a creak and a light pull.
“Looks like a hotel.” Chen Ling looked at the tall front desk and said. It can only be said to be the front desk, which has nothing to do with the word “lobby” because the place is too small.
The wooden front desk is behind a shelf with a few whiskey bottles sparsely placed on it.
“Mr. He, you can have a drink in the evening.” Chen Ling said, pointing to the bottle.
He Chao Xu smiled and said, “It’s all gone, it’s just a decoration.”
The front desk was empty. The Chansrail representative went up and knocked on the counter.
“Come!” A sound of footsteps came from the stairs, followed by the sound of thumping down the stairs. The wooden stairs can’t be quiet.
A young woman in a turban came down from the stairs.
“Are they all here?” She looked at the people in a room, her eyes staying on a few Chinese people for a while, and before anyone could answer, she went to the back of the counter, took out a key, and put it on the counter. .
“All the room keys you want are here. Give me your credentials, register one, and get a key.”
He Chaoxu motioned to the translator he followed to check in, and asked, “Which room has hot water?”
The woman in a turban smiled: “We are not Dakar here, there is no hot water.”
“How can I take a shower without hot water?”
The woman said: “Yes. There are bath towels and small soaps in the room, so you can take a shower.”
“cold water?”
The woman smiled and said nothing.
“What about the air conditioner?” He Chaoxu asked again, “Is there air conditioner? It’s almost 50 degrees outside, so I can’t sleep without air conditioner.”
The woman shook her head and said, “There is no air conditioner, but an electric fan. The temperature drops at night and it is cool to sleep with the window open.”
He Chaoxu frowned and whispered to the interpreter: “Don’t you say you can live?”
The translator looked innocent: “He, this is the only hotel with a single room, and the only hotel with a bathroom, water, and fan in the room.”
He Chaoxu frowned after hearing the translator’s answer. He used to travel north and south in Africa, and he was used to it, but he was worried that Chen Ling was not used to it.
But I heard Chen Ling smile and say, “This is the Bambe Hotel. If you come, you will be at ease. You can deal with it at night to sleep.”