Chapter 302: Three Wives and Four Concubines is Common
Half an hour later, they successfully arrived at the Purton Military Base and could see the base buildings below from afar. Zhang Ailun also asked Boktu to contact the tower in advance and inform them of the details.
After obtaining landing permission from the military, Boktu flew a Black Hawk helicopter around the military base and successfully landed at their central airport.
As soon as he got off the plane, Zhang Allen saw a young man in military uniform coming over and greeted him enthusiastically, "Hello, Mr. Jin. I am Colonel Monte's assistant officer. You can call me Carter."
"Hello, Major Carter." Zhang Ailun glanced at his military rank and immediately shook hands with him and greeted him with a smile.
"Regarding the specific situation, Colonel Wood has already contacted us in advance. Our base commander and Colonel Monte are also willing to reach this cooperation with you, but Colonel Monte is not in the base at the moment, so I will be the one to negotiate with you throughout the entire process of this cooperation transaction." Major Carter said with a smile.
"It is a real loss and regret for me that I cannot meet with Colonel Monte, but I also believe that with Major Carter in charge of this matter, both parties can successfully reach this transaction project."
Zhang Ailun said, "The goods we are escorting are already in transit, and they will arrive in just over an hour at most."
"There's no need to rush the deal. We have plenty of time anyway. This should be Mr. Jin's first time visiting our Wilton Military Base. We can first take a look at the base's construction and armed forces."
Major Carter took a look at the Black Hawk helicopter and realized that this Black Hawk must be a model retired from the military base. As someone in the circle, he also knew some of the inside stories of the adjustments that Colonel Wood had experienced recently. The other party made a lot of money and was even going to be promoted!
But he also kept it to himself and kept silent about the matter.
He enthusiastically took the chief leader and several others to visit the environment of the Wilton Military Base and introduced the history of Wilton. Zhang Allen readily agreed.
Wilton was a military base established around the 70s. At that time, Mexico's economy had gone from a glorious stage of rapid development to a period of economic stagnation and decline year by year.
The main reason is that the economic boom has not driven the basic employment environment. The GDP is very high, housing prices are very high, consumption is very high, and medical expenses are very high, but the monthly wages of the lower-class people are very low. This has been the case for more than a decade, and food safety risks have also been exposed.
Many Mexicans who are dissatisfied with the domestic employment environment protested against this, but the top leaders turned a blind eye, thinking that these problems will eventually be solved with the economic growth. However, water can carry a boat but can also capsize it. The result is obvious. The Mexican economy collapsed directly and can only rely on annual drug exports to barely support the fiscal deficit problem.
The poor Mexicans also chose to climb over the wall and come to the West Coast to work illegally.
In order to target and prevent this incident, the Pentagon and the California government at the time established several military bases along the border to cooperate with police forces in border cities to crack down on criminals and armed terrorists.
But as time went on, Mexico's economy almost collapsed and was completely unable to recover. It was in a state of turmoil. So far, the Pentagon, considering the level of threat between countries, has withdrawn several military bases and only retained a few strategic locations. The Wilton Military Base in California is one of them.
After a tour, Zhang Allen also got to know the Wilton Military Base. The base's equipment and force personnel configuration were not as good as the military base where Colonel Wood was located. The Apache and Black Hawk seemed to be models left over from the last century, and there was an atmosphere of thrift and diligence.
Compared with several other military bases in California, the Wilton Military Base should be considered an older base. Many of its facilities were set up for rapid counter-terrorism. Although the base has not been abolished, it has not been renovated and still retains the style of the 1970s. Many communication equipment and armed forces have not even been updated.
But is it really poor? Not necessarily. After all, the export of arms alone can easily bring in millions of profits, making it very rich.
They are just pretending to be poor, in order to deal with the inspection from above and ask for subsidies.
There have been several generations of base commanders. During the Cold War, the superiors might believe the previous base commanders who cried poor, but now it is the 21st century, and internal transactions have been exposed several times. A screw cap costs $, and you still cry poor! No one will believe it!
"Major Carter, it seems to me that your base doesn't have too many advanced equipment. Even the weapons used by the soldiers are old models. Why don't you bid for new military supplies?" Zhang Ailun asked the other party.
"There is nothing we can do about it. After all, someone from above proposed to close the Wilton base a long time ago. Although the head of the military region successfully retained the base after an internal meeting, our base ranked last in terms of resource allocation, equipment bidding, and funding projects. We are not taken seriously at all. We can only purchase some second-hand weapons from other military bases, or buy equipment from small manufacturing companies."
Major Carter explained: "Even though we don't have advanced equipment and weapons, we still stay at our posts to protect the safety of the border."
Zhang Ailun naturally didn't believe his nonsense, what the hell was that second-hand munitions.
Do you think you are the chief leader? You only pick up the good and broken things that others don't want and assemble and sell them.
There are countermeasures from above and policies from below. Could the things Colonel Wood gave you be second-hand? Aren't they all first-hand treasures? If they weren't good goods, you certainly wouldn't want them.
But I have to give a compliment: "If every base in California could be as frugal as the Wilton base, there would be no need to worry about terrorists from South America coming over to harm border residents."
The other party directly climbed over the wall and asked for a green card.
There are no terrorists these days. Aren't they just disaster victims with nowhere to go?
Major Carter nodded in agreement when he heard this.
Even if there was no Wilton base, even if the terrorists had ten times the courage, they would not dare to carry bombs to bomb border cities.
If there is such an abnormal phenomenon, then you have to consider their motives and who is behind it. If there is really no threat, the military bases on the border will have nothing to do, but as long as the terrorists are still active, the military bases will be able to retain their quotas and not be revoked, and they will thrive.
In this regard, the Wilton Military Base can be said to be conscientious and responsible, a model worker in the army, with a very high attendance rate, a small fight in March and a large fight in May.
The base has a second-hand Black Hawk that was passed down from the last century, and even if it's smoking, I still have to drive it over for a spin.
Press the heads of the terrorists, grab their necks and beat them hard, and focus on achieving excellent results with cheap equipment.
What else can be said about this? Impeachment is impossible!
Major Carter took the chief leader and several others to visit the command center and the VIP meeting room and drank two cups of cappuccino.
Maybe because they were not that familiar with each other, they didn't even give the leader a show to cheer him up.
About an hour later, Zhang Allen also received a message from the Beggars' Sect disciples. Major Carter also received a report from the soldiers that several heavy trucks had arrived at the military base transporting goods.
"Mr. Jin. It seems that your people have delivered the goods." Major Carter smiled, immediately gave the soldiers on duty the order to release them, and then went out with the chief to meet them.
The Beggars' Sect disciples drove three large trucks with San Francisco license plates to the military base. Under the command of the soldiers, they stopped at the storage area of the arsenal, got out of the car, and saw the chief leader and the head of the military region.
"Boss, 20 sets of military supplies and clothing, as well as those mysterious weapons and equipment have been arranged in place." The Beggar Gang disciple reported to the chief leader.
Zhang Ailun asked them to open the hatch of the truck, and cooperated with the base's quartermaster and soldiers to get on the truck to check the goods. The quartermaster also asked the soldiers to drive the base truck to move all the things down. It took more than ten minutes to unload all the goods and count them.
"Major, the 20 sets of military uniforms and that batch of military products have been counted, and the numbers are not off." The quartermaster captain came over with the list and reported to Major Carter, and handed him the contract list for review.
Major Carter nodded, glanced at it for a few seconds, and signed his name on the order.
Two hundred thousand units is just a rough estimate. In fact, it doesn't matter if there is one more or one less unit. They are just middlemen anyway and can sell it to their "own people" across the river.
"Major Carter, you have purchased so many military uniforms, it seems that your soldiers and non-commissioned officers will never be able to use them all." Zhang Ailun asked knowingly. He also saw hundreds of lieutenant uniforms and dozens of colonel uniforms, which were undoubtedly all produced in Yiwu Garment Factory in a big country in the East. And the workmanship was excellent, basically no different from the authentic military uniforms.
The key is that it is cheap, only 3 US dollars per set.
Even if the leader sells it to Wilton for $28 per set, he will resell it to others for $40 per set. With each layer of price increase, who can withstand this?
The leader sells it for 28, and it can only be sold at 28 in this market. No one will want it outside this market.
If they sell it for 40, it means they can sell it for 40 anywhere else, or even at a higher price.
Discussion: "Why is American equipment so expensive?"
Major Carter said tactfully, "We also need to distribute necessary military supplies to other brother units and ground crews. You may not know that in order to be able to combat terrorist activities more thoroughly and effectively, we submitted and signed a twelve-year contract with the Mexican government. At the same time, we are responsible for the security of local areas such as the US-Mexico border, including the security supervision of some seaports. Therefore, in addition to the current base at Wilton Military Base, we also have three other small military bases and two sea bases in the Gulf of California. They are specifically responsible for supervising the actions of terrorists and the activities of modern South American pirates."
Zhang Ailun suddenly realized.
Isn't this just ceding territory and paying compensation? Mexico has handed over the security of its national border to you, and you still say this is not an alternative overseas base.
The key point is that your military bases have been established for so many years, why are anti-terrorism operations becoming more and more intense?
Is it that the Black Hawk helicopter's cannon is not powerful enough? Or is it that the Apache's air-to-ground missiles are not strong enough?
What kind of South American terrorists and pirates can withstand your twelve-year-long bombing and crazy suppression?
Aliens?
Zhang Ailun was almost too lazy to complain about their attempts to cover up their crimes. They were the ones who fed the people, so wasn't it them who had the final say on whether there were terrorists or not?
Even if there are a few small military bases, it is impossible for them to have tens of thousands of troops. The others are outsourced members. When they put on clothes, they are soldiers of the American military base, and when they take off their clothes, they are pirates and terrorists!
If something happens, it has nothing to do with them. After all, the other party is a terrorist. Can you believe what a terrorist says?
So terrifying.
The military products and supplies were successfully delivered. Major Carter did not hesitate to follow the procedures. After confirming that everything was correct, he brought the chief back to the VIP trading room and signed the contract.
Zhang Ailun also provided his own foundation account, and the other party directly asked someone to transfer the project funds.
+$960 million.
Excluding the cost price of $3 per set, the profit is still five million.
Even the 4 million project funds for that batch of smuggled goods were also transferred to the foundation account of the chief leader.
Zhang Allen also understood that the people on Colonel Wood's side wanted to avoid risks. This deal was reached between the Thunderbolt Armed Nation and the Wilton Military Base, and had nothing to do with them. There was no trace of them at all.
There is no way, making money is like this, it is impossible to make a lot of money without risk. Even if Colonel Wood thinks highly of the chief, the jobs and orders introduced to him must be similar internal transactions.
Even Colonel Wood himself was just a ruthless tool who took the middle dividends.
At most, you can make a further step in the team, have more say, get more rewards, and the chief leader can at least benefit from it and make more money.
For ordinary people, even if you want to make this money, you won’t find a way.
After that, you just need to get the internal account provided by the other party and transfer the money.
He chatted and laughed with Major Carter and negotiated for half an hour. After the deal was reached, their relationship naturally became closer and they could be considered true family members.
Major Carter did not hesitate to show off his best skill, the 'Seraphone' which is a must-have in every military base, entertained the chief with high-standard treatment, and started the exciting program of the celebration banquet.
To be honest, the Seraphine in Wilton is really not as good as the Seraphine at Colonel Wood's base.
Maybe it’s because it’s on the border, it’s quite desolate.
Although there were also female non-commissioned officers and even female warrant officers, the chief leader always felt that something was missing.
Well, the chief feels that he still prefers blonde, blue-eyed, heroic beauties with long legs.
Since the chief's stock of ammunition had been used up several times before and the landlord had no surplus food, so in the face of Major Carter's warm hospitality, he only tasted a little and touched the food.
After staying at the party for more than an hour, Zhang Allen also received a message from Madison, and used this as an excuse to propose the idea of adjourning the party and leaving.
Major Carter also expressed his understanding and enthusiastically sent the leader to the central venue.
The Beggars' Sect disciples drove three empty heavy trucks away from the military base, preparing to return them.
The chief waved goodbye to Major Carter, boarded the Black Hawk attack helicopter, and Boktu took off in the Black Hawk and left the Wilton military base.
Looking at the military base that was getting smaller and smaller until it disappeared, Zhang Allen couldn't help but sigh: "Major Carter is such a kind person."
From his eyes, the leader did not see any superfluous emotions, only the passionate feelings of positive efforts and upward struggle.
After completing the deal, I don’t know if people inside can give him a mention, but at least he will be credited with it.
"Boss, his little wife is also at the party. The female warrant officer who toasted you seems to be her." Sig mentioned.
"You said it yourself, she's just a concubine. It's common for a man to have three or four wives. It's a matter of mutual consent." Zhang Ailun also thought of the female warrant officer who was good at handicrafts. At that time, he didn't realize that she had that kind of relationship with Major Carter.
It doesn't matter. The leader has poached people before. Major Carter doesn't care, so he doesn't care either.
He pulled out his phone and looked at the message Madison had sent him.
Madison: This is a Picasso painting? Mr. King, where did you get it?
Zhang Ailun: I received it by chance. I have asked my friend to authenticate it and it was confirmed that it is indeed a Picasso painting. It was auctioned for a high price of 1905 US dollars in 289!
Madison: You are so lucky! Picasso's paintings are valuable collectibles. The price of this painting is at least 5000 million US dollars, or even higher! Do you plan to keep it or sell it?
Zhang Ailun: You know. I am not short of money at the moment, and I like to collect things. I have lion fur and precious ivory given to me by the Central African royal family. I am indeed planning to frame it at home for collection. However, if someone else is interested, I am not unwilling to part with it.
(End of this chapter)
