Chapter 54 Military Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, or Cargo Aircraft?

"Jia Lei, you're finally back, it's been almost a week since you left, but I'm worried about it. Su Renfeng said with a sigh of relief after seeing Jia Lei at the airport.

"Why are you worried about me, I'm walking with my uncle, and he's got guards with him. What can happen to me?" Jia Lei said.

"But you were in too much of a hurry, and you didn't even come to say hello and left, you just said you were in trouble, but I don't know what trouble you had? Su Renfeng asked.

"I did have a little trouble this time, but it's been solved now!" Jia Lei said.

"It's good that your trouble is solved, so that I can go back with peace of mind, I've been out for more than a week and it's time to go back. Su Renfeng said.

"Don't be in a hurry to leave! Go, I'll take you to see the good things I bought when I went out this time. After Jia Lei finished speaking, he pulled Su Renfeng to the airport, and the others followed in confusion.

"This ...... What is this?" asked Su Renfeng as he looked at the behemoth in front of him.

"Of course it's an airplane! Surprised, surprised?" Jia Lei said in a hurry.

Not jumping or jumping can't express Jia Lei's excited mood at the moment!

"I'm not happy, I'm really shocked by you this time......" Su Renfeng said while holding his chest.

He felt his heart pound out of his chest!

"Oh my God, this is really a big accident!" Hong Chen said as he looked at the plane in front of him in disbelief.

"Jia Lei, is it something as expensive as an airplane that we ordinary people can buy?" asked Xia Fatzi in disbelief.

"As long as you have enough money, you can buy anything!" Jia Lei said proudly.

"Jia Lei, can I ask you a question? How much did it cost you to buy a plane? What is the use of you buying a plane?" Su Renfeng suddenly asked with a pale face, he had a hunch that Jia Lei would definitely spend a lot of money this time.

"Of course, I bought a plane to pull goods? If I were like Xia Fatzi, I would point to those two trains and bring three or five packs of goods to sell in a month, how could I make a lot of money?" Jia Lei said.

"But are you sure you can earn back the plane ticket money and gasoline money by using the plane to pull goods?" asked Xia Fatzi in disbelief.

"First of all, the plane is mine, so I don't have to spend money on airfares. Secondly, everyone knows that Russian gasoline is cheaper than mineral water, just like it is given for free, and the money for oil does not need to be considered at all. In this way, it is much cheaper to transport goods by plane than by train, and the key is that it saves time! It only takes three days for a round trip. Jia Lei said proudly.

"Jia Lei, let me ask you, how did you come up with the idea of transporting goods by plane? There are only two particularly rich people in our group who are willing to fly back to China in order to save time, and they will immediately take a large bag of goods to Moscow by train after returning to China. I didn't expect you to think that you would directly buy a plane to pull goods? Wouldn't you have made a lot of money?" asked Xia Fatzi in surprise.

"This is a great idea that I dreamed of!" Jia Lei said shamelessly.

Maybe it was very surprising to people in the 90s to buy a plane to pull goods, but for Jia Lei, who was reborn, he did just to learn from the successful experience of his predecessors.

Jia Lei had a classmate who lived in Tianjing in his last life, and according to him, there is a terminal at Tianjing Airport that is specially used to park cargo planes from the CIS. At its peak, there were dozens of CIS cargo charter flights parked in the airport's special cargo area every day, and countless foreigners brought large bags and small bags of goods from Beijing's Silk Street to return home from Tianjing Airport for customs clearance.

"But Jia Lei, don't you think the cost of transporting goods by plane is too high?

Don't you know that there are "customs clearance companies" everywhere in Moscow now, and we only need to pay a tax of $0.2 to $1 per kilogram of cargo on chartered flights, and the cost of transporting goods per kilogram is less than $3 when you count the cost of using the plane and the cost of fuel. This amount of money is not enough to pay the benefits of those policemen if they walk to the gates. Jia Lei sneered.

"Oh my God, is the charter flight so cheap? Isn't that cheaper than taking the train?" said Xia Fatzi in disbelief.

"Of course it's much cheaper, otherwise why would I spend so much money to buy so many planes!" Jia Lei nodded and said.

"Wait, Jia Lei, what did you mean by that sentence just now?...... Have you bought more than one plane?" asked Xia Fatzi in surprise.

"Didn't I say at the beginning, I bought all the planes here, so you don't believe it?" Jia Lei asked.

"How expensive should a plane be, of course we don't believe you can afford more?" Hong Xia whispered.

This sentence is the voice of everyone present!

"It's just that of course I bought a few planes, in fact, I bought all five planes in this row!" Jia Lei pointed to the planes behind him and said proudly.

"Poof! poof!" As soon as Jia Lei's words were finished, several people sat on the ground with weak legs.

"Did you say that you bought all five planes, and how much does it cost?" asked Su Renfeng in a frustrated manner.

"I didn't spend much money to buy these five planes, I bought them at half price when I took advantage of the ruin in Ukraine and sold them in tears, and it only cost a total of 100 million US dollars! It's really too cheap!" Jia Lei shared with others with great excitement.

It's the equivalent of buying a big-name luxury bag and watch at half price on Singles' Day, and then you can't help but show off to your friends.

"100 million US dollars, Jia Lei, can you tell me, where is this price cheap?" asked Su Ren angrily to the point of vomiting blood.

"In terms of the price of the plane, this price is really cheap! This price is less than half of its original price, at most it is only three or four discounts. Isn't this cheap?" Jia Lei asked puzzled.

"Jia Lei, since you can use 100 million US dollars to buy an airplane, then what else should you sell as a master? If I have so much money, it will be enough to keep it in the bank for a lifetime of interest!" said Xia Fatzi speechlessly.

"Wait! Jia Lei, let me ask you, where did you get so much money? When I went in two years ago, you only had a million yuan, how can you have 100 million US dollars in just two years? Even if you rob a bank, you can't be so fast, right? What did you do to kill people and set fires to make so much money?" Hong Chen asked nervously.

"What do you think I can do with my small body to kill people and set fires? I just took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union to cause a national disaster in the Soviet Union. Jia Lei whispered.

"Isn't it possible that you're going to resell arms......? It seems like...... I saw that there were guns, guns, guns, guns on that plane, and ......" Xia Fatzi suddenly raised his hand tremblingly, pointed in the direction of the tail of the plane and said.

"I didn't resell arms! Where did I get those things? I just resold some food, and in war, arms and food are indeed the two most profitable things. Jia Lei said as he looked at Xia Fatzi's fingers.

"Didn't I say Udiste, I'm going to buy a civilian model. Why is there a machine gun on this plane?" Jia Lei hurriedly asked after seeing the machine gun.

"Of course, the military transport plane we bought this time has a machine gun, and in fact, the civilian design version of the Il-76 also has a machine gun, which is a legitimate means of defense. We have already changed the military model to the civilian one as you said. As soon as the plane landed, we removed all four bombs from the wings, as well as the two 23mm self-defense guns with radar sighting systems in the tails. Now that there are wars going on everywhere, your plane must have some means of self-defense, right?" Udist said.

For this group of war maniacs, a machine gun is not a weapon.

"Although the means of self-defense are important, I have a double-barreled machine gun, which country's airport is willing to let me stop? You immediately have someone go and remove the machine gun for me, now, immediately, immediately!" Jia Lei jumped to his feet and shouted.

"Well, since you have to ask for that, I'm going to have the machine guns on two of the planes removed. The remaining two planes are ready to fly to the domestic route of country E, so don't dismantle them yet. Udiste said.

"You just have to remove the machine guns from these two planes so they can park at Tenkyo Airport. I've booked the route and parking stands, and we're ready to take off at any time!" Jia Lei said.

"I have already released the news that the plane will carry out the cargo according to your request, and now there are businessmen from several countries who want to talk to you about renting a plane to pull goods. Udiste said.

"Have you set the price of the freight?" asked Jia Lei.

"I have set the price of freight, and I will charge $2 for freight per kilogram of goods, plus a $1 tariff, which will be handed over to the Ministry of Taxation. Udiste said.

"This price is good, a ton of cargo is 3,000 US dollars, 10 tons is 30,000 US dollars, and our aircraft has a carrying capacity of 50 tons. You can earn $150,000 in shipping just by pulling goods. In this way, when we don't use it ourselves, we can still rent him out to make money!" Jia Lei nodded with satisfaction.

"Jia Lei, you shouldn't have forgotten, we can also bring some goods when we go. That's a $300,000 trip. Udiste reminded Jia Lei.

"Don't you say that I really forgot? The main reason is that I rarely bring goods back from the Soviet Union, and I don't know what is worth in China now?" Jia Lei said.

"You don't have to worry about this, I've already organized the first shipment. Udiste said.

"Oh, what's the first batch of goods?" Jia Lei asked curiously.

"Your grandfather asked my grandfather to order a batch of sophisticated laboratory equipment, saying that it was for their school, and my grandfather handed over the freight to us. Udiste said.

"My grandfather and his school are a rich man, how much can we earn from this batch of equipment?" Jia Lei immediately asked with glowing eyes.

"This batch of equipment is agreed with the Precision Instrument Bureau, and we can get a referral fee of about 1 million US dollars. That's not enough money for a fraction of the transaction between them! Fortunately, the shipping cost of this batch of instruments is quite a lot, and it adds up to $1 million. Udiste said.

"Precision instruments, this thing shouldn't be big, right?" Jia Lei asked.

"Of course, as long as it is not a large equipment like a whole laboratory, the general precision instruments are not large, and this time the instruments are mainly optical instruments and thermal measurement equipment. The Instrument Bureau has already packed them up, and I've seen that the volume is not large. Udiste said.

"With such a high-precision instrument, we must do a good job of anti-impact protection during transportation. Jia Lei said suddenly.

"Of course I know that! Don't worry, we have used transport planes to transport munitions and ammunition in the past, and we are very good at anti-collision and cargo securing. Udiste said.

"We Chinese people like to cushion the soft things such as fur and cotton on the bread outside the valuables, and I think we can also put some fur coats in the cargo hold this time to make anti-collision cushions? Jia Lei immediately smiled and proposed.

"Jia Lei, don't you want to take advantage of this opportunity to bring private goods to yourself?" asked Xia Fatzi in surprise.

He deserves to be the master of the long-distance running line, and he was the first to react to Jia Lei's intentions.

"How can I be considered a private cargo? I'm shipping it above board, this plane is mine. Anyway, now the country is only not allowed to hunt wild animals, and there is no ban on buying and selling foreign finished coats. Jia Lei quibbled.

At that time, the value of domestic fur coats was thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan, and Jia Lei could bring in at least a few hundred coats in this way, which was much more than the freight!

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(The author would like to explain here that this aircraft package cargo was a popular mode of freight at that time, and it was not only a real but also a very popular mode of transportation.) The main thing is for Sino-Russian trade!)