Text: Shiraishi
"Three wives and four concubines" are on the side, and there is no shortage of airplane villas; Mining and buying gold come at your fingertips, and even the pets around you are lions and giraffes.
Some locals even feel that a "Mr. Wang" is more useful than anything else.
This is the life of Wang Yao, the "Emperor of Africa", and his status in the hearts of the African people.
A trip to Africa
When it comes to Africa, most people's first impression should be that it is poor, dirty and chaotic, but there is no way, due to the long-term colonial oppression of Western countries in modern times, Africa is still relatively backward.
But in this poor land, there are many so-called world riches, such as the former emperor Bokassa of Central Africa, Monpoto of Congo and others who were once famous and rich.
But these rich people have always had a bad reputation in the world, because these so-called rich people, their wealth and luxury are based on the blood and tears of countless people, and they are out-and-out cannibal demons!
But there are exceptions, for example, Wang Yao, a Chinese guy known as Wang Sicong of Africa, also lives in a mansion of thousands of square meters in Africa, with more than a dozen beauties, and lives a drunken life every day, but he has been well received by the Chinese government and the African people.
So, how did he do it?
It is better to rely on others than on yourself
Wang Yao was born in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China, to a fairly good family, his parents were both employees of state-owned enterprises, and his father was said to be a small leader.
After graduating from high school, he was admitted to Beijing University of International Trade, and relied on his excellent performance in college to work in a state-owned enterprise after graduating from university, and traveled back and forth to South America and Africa many times.
In 2008, with the increasingly close economic cooperation between China and African countries, Wang Yao was also sent to work in Africa.
In the beginning, his main task was to negotiate with African countries about the purchase of Chinese aircraft.
Relying on his excellent eloquence and hard work, Wang Yao not only successfully completed the tasks assigned to him by the company, but also taught himself the languages of many African countries, and established good personal relations with many African governments and business executives, becoming an African expert.
Through years of travel between African countries, Wang Yao has a deep understanding of the business opportunities contained in Africa, a land known for poverty and chaos.
So, in 2018, after ten years in Africa, Wang Yao made an unexpected decision after feeling that the time was ripe, he gave up his job as a director of a state-owned enterprise, took his savings for many years, exchanged some goods, set foot in Africa, and became a businessman.
Wang Yao's first pot of gold in Africa was earned by pouring second-hand clothing, and after working in Africa for many years, he knows how important clothes are to the industrially backward African people in this hot and arid land of Africa.
And Wang Yao also knows how saturated China's clothing production capacity is, so he buys a large number of second-hand clothes from China and ships them to Africa for sale.
Wang Yao's business has been well received by the African people, after all, we can always see those African people walking naked on the desolate land on TV, they don't want clothes.
On the contrary, since mosquitoes are quite rampant in Africa, clothes are absolute hard currency in Africa.
But because the people of Africa are poor, they can't produce so many clothes, and they don't have the money to buy new clothes from foreign countries at high prices. For this reason, these second-hand clothes in China are a rare blessing for countless African people.
The Chinese government also recognizes Wang's waste clothes recycling program, because since 2010, there have been millions of tons of discarded clothes in China every year.
Now that Wang Yao has taken him to Africa, not to mention how much money he makes, just saying that he can harvest the friendship of the African people, which is a good thing with immeasurable merits.
Of course, this job is really not easy to do, and there are 60 countries in Africa today, of which more than 20 countries, such as Sudan and Ethiopia, have been in large-scale civil strife for a long time, and the United Nations peacekeeping forces dare not end easily.
As for the rest of Africa, it is also mostly tribal, without effective government management, and the transportation infrastructure is really difficult to describe.
In Africa, ordinary people like Wang Yao want to do business, so they really hold their heads on the belt of their trousers, but fortunately, there is a powerful China behind Wang Yao, and Wang Yao has a good relationship with the leaders of many African countries.
So, after the efforts of all parties, Wang Yao finally pulled a guard of several hundred people for himself.
This guard came from all parts of Africa, some were serving government troops, some were just retired veterans, and some were so-called tribal warriors with only one mission: to protect Wang Yao.
With the cooperation of all parties, in two years, Wang Yao's clothing business has spread all over African countries, providing an average of about 6 million tons of cheap clothes for the people of Africa every year, which has greatly improved the living standards of African people and brought new economic business opportunities to China.
In 2016, according to the official statistics of the Chinese government, China produced 26 million tons of discarded clothes, and the recycling rate of them was less than 1%.
Before Wang Yao's appearance, most of these discarded clothes could only stay in abandoned warehouses, and after Wang Yao, most of these discarded clothes were sold to Africa at low prices, bringing a 100 billion market to China.
While selling clothes in Africa, Wang Yao has not only cooperated with many African countries in other fields, but also become a bridge for communication and cooperation between Chinese enterprises and African countries.
For example, in 2019, with the help of Wang Yao, China's Lanxiang Enterprise reached cooperation projects with some countries in East Africa.
In promoting economic cooperation between China and Africa, Wang Yao is an absolute hero.
However, with the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in 2020, Africa, a land with relatively poor sanitation conditions, is the focus of the new coronavirus. In June of that year, the United Nations World Health Organization estimated that at least 100,000 Africans had died from the coronavirus.
In addition to a large number of casualties, the new crown has also caused global trade to shrink, causing millions of unemployed people in Africa, which is already economically backward.
Even the company with Wang Yao was greatly affected, and in January 2020, after learning that Wuhan was locked down due to the outbreak of the epidemic, Wang Yao, who was far away in Africa, donated 5 million yuan through various channels.
Soon after, when Africa also fell into chaos due to the new crown epidemic, Wang Yao actively raised funds for the African people, and announced that all the clothes in the inventory would be sent to African countries seriously affected by the epidemic for free in the form of loans, so as to help the African people tide over the difficulties together.
But in the huge Africa, where can Wang Yao manage it alone, and even when the epidemic is getting more and more serious, Wang Yao's own business is about to face closure.
So, in 2020, Wang Yao began to appear in front of people in the form of Internet celebrities, he showed his 1,200-square-meter mansion in Africa on his mobile phone, as well as beautiful bodyguard secretaries from African countries, and also part-time food anchors.
This gave him the title of African Wang Sicong.
But in fact, in the video, the drunken and extravagant Wang Yao is not so big in reality, and the reason why he made these videos is just to attract more Chinese investors.
Not to mention, Wang Yao's trick is really effective, when Wang Yao's life in paradise in Africa was posted on the Internet through a short video, it immediately attracted the interest of many Chinese netizens.
In just a few months, the number of fans of Wang Yao's short video account has exceeded 5 million.
Through a huge fan base, Wang Yao found some friends who are interested in Africa, and some people may be attracted by the videos posted by Wang Yao, hoping to experience exotic customs in Africa as well.
Others learned about Wang Yao's entrepreneurship through the video, and they also became interested in the African market economy, wondering if they could become the next Wang Yao.
No matter what kind of thoughts he has in mind to communicate with Wang Yao, Wang Yao will patiently explain to these fans what he has seen and heard in Africa, and put forward sincere suggestions and advice for them with his own personal experience.
In addition, after Wang Yao gained everyone's attention by promoting his life as an emperor in Africa in the early days, he began to slowly turn the camera to the epidemic.
The tragic situation of the people at the bottom of Africa has made more Chinese truly understand what kind of disaster the people in this ancient land of Africa are in, and through this way, a lot of donations have been raised online to help the African people under the epidemic.
It is precisely because of Wang Yao's friendly deeds to Africa that Wang Yao has won the friendship of most African countries and has been praised many times by China CCTV.
For the African people, Wang Yao, a businessman from China, is their true friend, a brother who is willing to speak up for them when they are in danger, pay for them, and help them get out of their predicament.
References:
Observer Network-Interview with Wang Yao in Africa for ten years: To influence Africans, it is fundamentally necessary to make him earn money 2021.06.28
CNKI - Feel the vitality of Africa in the "African Decade" - African business opportunities behind Douyin bloggers. Li Jiaxuan