African mercenaries earn 1,000 yuan a day by sending blessings to Chinese people. They wish you a happy birthday with guns in hand...

8,000 kilometers away from China and with a 5-hour time difference, a group of mercenaries from Africa, wearing unique uniforms, smiled and raised their guns to the camera. (Customized WeChat: 18673936764)

If the blackboard in front of them wasn't filled with heartwarming Chinese characters, you would suspect that some organization was claiming responsibility for a terrorist attack.

If you type "mercenaries" in the search box on Taobao, you will find that they have not been fighting much recently and are busy sending blessings.

As a continent full of treasures since ancient times, after experiencing the baptism of deep globalization, the African people have proved the omnipotence of Taobao from another perspective.

Paying to record videos to send blessings is no longer limited to veteran artists like Zhao Zhongxiang and Hou Yaohua. These good wishes from violent armed groups in Africa are constantly blessing Chinese people's social etiquette.

"With the global economy in a downturn, mercenaries are taking on even this kind of work."

Although some of them said that their major is still fighting and recording videos is just a part-time job, their overseas business is still in full swing with the help of Taobao stores.

As one of the most imaginative groups in China, Taobao sellers have always adhered to the business creed of making the best use of resources. They create various packages for customers to choose from.

"Generally, there are two price ranges for the products, one with guns and one without. The package that includes 6 guns is 300 yuan, and the muscle package is more expensive, with 3 guns, which costs 288 yuan. If you buy it separately, each additional gun costs 50 yuan."

Although they all hold guns, their market positioning is different. The one with the blue wall background is the suicide squad, and the others are mercenaries.

Their business scope covers every corner, from apology letters, confessions, birthday wishes to the opening congratulations of a county shopping mall, reflecting their humanistic care for Chinese customers everywhere.

Put down the butcher knife and make money immediately

After the buyer has paid, the store owner will write the customer's request on a small blackboard and teach these mercenaries, who make a living by licking blood on the tip of a knife, word by word, how to be gentle and passionate at the same time.

"With a bright smile and a mouthful of white teeth, and a blessing in not-so-standard Chinese, and a gun fired into the air to show respect, it can be said that he is a tough guy with a soft heart."

"This kind of service can also be used to collect debts or wages. A group of armed African mercenaries shouted in unison, "So-and-so, please return my hard-earned money quickly."

This kind of hard-core blessing method is also used to cheer for e-sports competitions.

It can be applied in any field. Taobao sellers who are well aware of market trends will bring mercenaries into the world of the second dimension and address users' needs from a childhood perspective. Mercenaries who cannot dance the "Huluwa Dance" or "Laser Rain" or "Su Wei Su Wei" basically have no chance to get a job.

These mercenaries know more about the popular music charts than ordinary people

If shooting with a gun is a deep fantasy that every man has been forced to hide, then for less than 500 yuan you can get a mercenary blessing video of your own, which is the most accessible aesthetic of violence.

Imagine that in any situation, when you and your partner quarrel and a cold war breaks out between you, only fierce gunshots or gentle love words can break the deadlock.

But when you really need help across the globe, the zero sales data of these Taobao sellers will still make people doubt the role of videos.

At this point you are one step closer to the center of the taboo. These products often have notes saying not to place an order directly, but to contact the store owner first.

Taobao sellers will tell you: "Due to some regulations, the platform will often delete our product information. If you need it, add WeChat to chat privately."

Although the products you see today may not be there tomorrow, you can still find some clues in the cracks of supervision.

In the seller’s WeChat Moments, you can see more detailed classifications and strict divisions of team names, which seems to be a tightly organized industrial chain.

The store owner said: "Taobao is just a promotional window. The real transactions are all on WeChat or QQ."

"The mercenaries are real mercenaries, definitely not hired actors. The cost of each mercenary is 1,000 RMB per person per day. The initial investment is huge, and making money depends entirely on volume."

"So some of my peers use WeChat business routines to recruit agents. You can get the agency rights by paying 1,800 yuan. The wholesale price is 300 yuan for qualified agents and 200 yuan for qualified agents. As for the retail price, how much it sells depends entirely on your ability."

"We paid these soldiers to sing happy birthday to us, so they are mercenaries, no problem."

"Fortunately, business is good, and our team now has more and more mercenaries."

In fact, it is not a new thing to find foreigners holding signs to send blessings. In the Baidu Post Bar for "Birthday Wishes", there are foreigners from all over the world holding signs written in Chinese and appearing in every corner of the world.

Africa has always been a popular region for people to hold up signs to send blessings. On various social media platforms, as long as you find a few African children to say a few witty words and make a video, you can attract a lot of traffic.

Since children are involved, people have different opinions on this. Some think that this is illegal child labor, while others think that there is nothing wrong with giving poor African children more income.

"Any action that allows African children to say goodbye to Ak47 and RPG and survive is worthy of encouragement."

"I hope that in the future they can go to school and study, and discuss who is the best between Captain America and Batman, without having to think about making money or looking at the bloody bodies of death row inmates."

However, for other Chinese people who are familiar with the ancient dialectical wisdom, this is precisely a business revelation. They quickly found this new direction in Africa that is both violent, auspicious and has little risk.

"No one should scold me if I hire mercenaries to hold up signs."

But it's as unpredictable as how many Hamlets there are. You can never make something liked by everyone.

Some people still think that it is better to send red envelopes directly than to spend money to send blessings. The cost-effectiveness is too low. If you have so much money to buy this thing, why not just send me a red envelope directly?

Old-school business colleagues believe that knives, guns, sticks and clubs are the most taboo in the business world. "Things full of murderous intent are not conducive to doing business. Harmony brings wealth. Mixing them with guns will definitely not lead to good results."

Some people even suspected that the photos were taken by black people in Guangzhou themselves.

As the safest country in the world, mercenaries are definitely a rare species in China. China is like a hell-difficulty copy for mercenaries. So far, the only mercenaries you can see in China are basically online water armies.

But Africa is different. From the Sahel region in West Africa to Côte d'Ivoire, the Central African Republic to Equatorial Guinea, a large number of mercenaries are constantly creating conflicts. They are intertwined with transnational organized crimes such as human trafficking and drug smuggling, becoming an important factor leading to insecurity and instability in Africa.

For small countries, illegal mercenaries are a nightmare. They can do anything from overthrowing regimes and launching mutinies to smuggling, drug trafficking, assassinations and kidnappings. These countries are often powerless to do anything about such mercenaries.

No longer having to risk their lives under the hail of bullets, they can collect money just by reciting a few auspicious words every day. The Internet has opened up another way for mercenaries to get rich, while also giving Africa the possibility of gradually moving towards stability.

There are African people who are willing to hold up signs, there are Chinese in Africa who are willing to build bridges, and there are people in China who are willing to buy. As long as there is no forced trade, it does not harm anyone's health, and it does not endanger international relations, it is normal.

"To be honest, if we can help increase the income of poor people in Africa, it will be a contribution to world peace. Who would be willing to go to the front line to fight if there is money to be made? If the sales are good, we can hire all the militants within a few miles to do this, and the local area will be stable."

Pay African ruthless people to hold up a sign for you, and help the poor

When Western powers first set foot on the African continent hundreds of years ago, they simply regarded Africa as a huge zoo.

Nowadays, in some parts of Africa, people still fight to the death for a job as a loader, just for a salary of $1.

In a country with a very low employment rate, providing job opportunities can be considered a form of charity.

As one netizen in Africa said: "The business of getting paid by holding up a sign and taking a photo is one of the few happy businesses I have heard of in this land, and I will fully support it.

This kind of business seems to be an absolutely good thing today, but it is not a healthy industry. It is a business that is destined to be eliminated as long as Africa develops.

I give a lot of credit to the person who first came up with this idea, but I also sincerely hope that the day will come when it will be eliminated by nature. ” (WeChat: 18673936764)