In addition to letting William understand how cruel the world is, the trip to the Ministry of Defense also taught him another thing, sometimes people need to compromise when facing reality, and sometimes they need to put down their body, face, and dignity...... These are things that he used to think was more important than money.

The cost of developing combat uniforms is $130 million, and if there is no contract, this $130 million is equivalent to a waste, and William received a total of $1 billion from his father, and every penny of this money goes away, and if a project does not pay off, it means that he has the possibility of bankruptcy.

What's more serious is that the follow-up research and development of firearms and other weapons may not get a contract.

Putting down his body and face to ask for help may be unacceptable to William, but if he returns to the family as a loser in the future, this is even more unacceptable to him.

People tend to choose a less bad outcome than the worst, so William chooses to put down his dignity and seek help because he can't accept returning to the family as a loser.

Since he chose to put down his body and face, William quickly entered the role, and after mastering some of Cora's habits through some connections, he took action!

Cora has a small hobby of collecting coins, so William decides to do what he likes, and he happens to have a precious coin, so he decides to cut his love and bribe Cora.

............

As the deputy secretary of defense, Cora lives a very regular life, except for breakfast, the other two meals are solved in the Ministry of Defense, and every weekend he will go to the restaurant outside to eat and treat himself.

There are not many people in the restaurant, the environment is quiet and elegant, and when William entered the restaurant, he saw Cora sitting by the window eating, so he walked over, and when he was about to approach, he was stopped by two bodyguards.

"It's okay, let him come!"

Cora saw that it was William and asked the bodyguards to let him go.

"The steaks in this restaurant taste so good that every sauce is made by their chef himself. William pulled out a chair and sat down.

"What do you want to eat?" Korra put down her knife and fork and smiled.

"How can you let the lady have a treat? ”

"This is not good, I am a senior national civil servant, according to the discipline regulations of senior officials of the Department of Defense, I cannot accept a banquet with a price of more than 50 US dollars, and a gift of 100 US dollars, otherwise I will be invited to drink coffee by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, expelled from the party, membership, dismissed from my position, or sent to Alaska to serve my sentence, so I will invite this meal!"

In a tactful way, Cora tells William not to bribe herself, it won't work. At her part, it is impossible to ruin her future for a little money, and besides, she is not short of money.

"Thank you very much, but this meal should indeed be invited by you, you asked me to find the coins for you, remember to give me $1 million!" William pushed the box with the coins to Cora, he was very smart, he didn't say that it was for Cora, he just said that he helped Cora buy it, as for Cora will give her the money, it doesn't matter, in short, he didn't bribe, Korra didn't take bribes, it was a help between friends.

Cora took the box and opened it, her eyes lit up, and she carefully picked up the coins in the box with her index finger and thumb.

"Beautiful Lady Liberty!"

The coin that William gave to Cora was not an ordinary coin, but a silver coin with the head of the American wavehead Lady Liberty, known as the king of American coins, this silver coin was issued in 1804, not a circulating coin, but as a national gift to the head of government of another country, very rare, only 15 pieces in total, particularly precious, one of which was given to the king of Thailand, and later Rama IV gave this silver coin to his tutor Anna, the movie "Anna and the King" tells this story.

"This silver coin has been coveted for a long time, it appeared at auction the year before last, and when I knew it, it had been sold for $1.25 million, and I regretted it for a long time, but I didn't expect to see the real thing today, and now the price of this silver coin is estimated to be more than $2 million. I can't take it, though. ”

Cora put the silver coin back in the box and pushed it in front of William.

"This silver coin is not a bribe, I helped you get it, and there is no rule in the discipline rules of the Ministry of Defense officials that prohibit friends from helping them buy things!" William advised.

"President William, you and I are both sensible people, so we don't have to beat around the bush, do you know why I can sit in a high position at this age?" Korra asked.

"Because you've done a good job, of course!" replied William.

"There are a lot of people who do a good job, there is no shortage of talents in the United States, I can become the deputy secretary of defense, in charge of weapons procurement, development, logistics, and foreign sales, in addition to my excellent work, the most important thing is that I abide by my duties and abide by the rules, so Shaozun trusts me to take on important tasks, this silver coin is very precious, I like it very much, but it is not worth mentioning compared to Shaozun's trust, I received this silver coin today, which is equivalent to slapping Shaozun in the face.

Shaozun's face cannot be slapped, and as a member of the Morgan Group and a senior member of Freemasonry, I must defend Shaozun's dignity to the death.

I have had the pleasure of meeting your father, brother, and sister a few times, and I have a lot of respect for their charisma and their way of following the rules, and I dare not take the slightest offense.

As an important member of the Stillman family, I hope to have the same respect for you, and I look forward to the day when I will be able to call you Mr. Stillman with all respect!"

William's white face immediately turned red when he heard Cora's words, and Cora's words made him a little embarrassed.

"I'm sorry, I apologize to you for my actions!

"I accept your apology! Let's enjoy this dinner now and leave with dignity with each other!" Korra smiled.

William nodded, ordered a steak, and ate in silence, the last time he came into contact with Cora he felt despised and this time he felt insulted, or insulted by himself, what Cora had just said really made him embarrassed.

And Cora on the other side also felt that William was not a hopeless second generation, at least there was a trace of honor and disgrace in his heart, and he was determined to give him a look.

"If you are determined to do the arms business and want to get a license from the Ministry of Defense, you need to have a complete manufacturing system, an after-sales system, a confidentiality system, and a respected guarantor.

There is no manufacturing system, after-sales system, and confidentiality system, how do you ensure production, how to ensure maintenance, and how to ensure that information is not leaked?

Without a respected guarantor, how can the Department of Defense trust you, and how can Congress trust you?

Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Electric, General Atomics, General Dynamics, Grumman, Raytheon...... The boss of these companies is not a big family, or even the leader of this country, these companies are called private enterprises, but they are actually state-owned enterprises, so the country's weapons and equipment will be so assured to be handed over to these companies for research and development and production, just imagine if Boeing and Lockheed Martin are not the industry of the big family, the country will rest assured that it will invest tens of billions of dollars in them and hand over the research and development and manufacturing of fifth-generation aircraft to them? Once important data is leaked, not only tens of billions of dollars will be wasted, but our work will also be ruined for more than ten or twenty years, and no one can afford this consequence, and no one dares to take this risk.

So I suggest that you hang your arms company under the name of Boeing and become an independent advanced R&D center within Boeing, like the skunk factory of Lockheed Martin.

Manufacturing system, after-sales system, confidentiality system, not a day or two can be established, which of these big arms companies is not dozens of hundreds of years old, you want to establish it at once is unrealistic, and you are very talented in research and development, but definitely not an excellent businessman, so just do what you are good at, the headache of manufacturing, after-sales to Boeing to complete, and you just research and development, to build the Blue Whale factory into the world's top weapons research and development center like the Skunk Factory, this is what you should do. ”