Chapter 682: Crazy Thoughts, Selling Arms
Lin Cheng had the heart to inquire about the profits from arms sales, so he asked: "How big is the profit from arms sales? For example, how much is this batch of T90 main battle tanks sold to India?"
Khodorkovsky said with a smile: "Brother Lin Cheng, the profits from arms transactions are beyond your imagination, for example, this T90 main battle tank can be sold for $8 million each, and this batch of tanks sold to India has a total of 30 tanks, and the net profit is more than $200 million."
This is a relatively small profit deal, the higher profit is the fighter, such as China's Su-27 fighter, the early price of a single machine is 33 million US dollars, and later with the rise in prices, now the price of a fighter is as high as 50 million US dollars, if you add training fees, weapons, spare parts, and later maintenance costs are included, the price can even reach 80 million US dollars.
However, your country is old and shrewd in doing business, some time ago China sold 76 Su-27 to your country, and your country only bought the body of the Su-27 aircraft, as if it was to develop what J-11, and other training fees, maintenance costs, and parts are not needed, so the single aircraft is only 36 million US dollars, and the price is only 2.7 billion US dollars. ”
Lin Cheng was dumbfounded when he heard this, the arms business is really profitable, but Lin Cheng also knows a little bit of the law, it seems that the legal arms business can only be done by the government, and the private arms business will be regarded as smuggling and illegal business.
So he shook his head and said: "It seems that only the government can do the legal purchase and sale of arms, and we are just businessmen, so how can we do arms trading?"
In his previous life, Lin Cheng had been in the bag all his life, and he didn't know anything about such a high-level business as arms trading, so he asked a question that made Khodorkovsky laugh.
Khodorkovsky smiled: "Brother Lin Cheng, you have never been in contact with the arms trade at all, right?"
"Hmm. Lin Cheng nodded and said: "Our country is too strict with arms control, and the arms trade can only be done by the government, and there is no legal arms trading market for the people, so they can only use illegal smuggling channels." ”
Khodorkovsky shook his head and said: "The arms trade is not like this, in fact, the large-scale arms trade is a dump in your Chinese terms, for example, if a country finishes fighting, the weapon will not be wanted, and the lord will pick it up cheaply and sell it to other countries that are about to break out into war;
Or when the power of any country falls, the greedy soldiers will open the arsenal and secretly sell the arms to the arms dealers, which our country is deeply aware of, when the Soviet empire collapsed, it became a gluttonous feast for arms dealers around the world!"
First of all, the reason for the huge profits in the arms trade is its high monopoly and high technology.
At present, only a dozen or so countries in the world are able to independently develop and build third-generation fighters, only two or three countries can independently produce fourth-generation fighters and above, only four or five countries can produce high-performance air defense missiles, only seven or eight countries can independently build third-generation main battle tanks, six or seven countries can build regional air defense ships, and nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and other technologies are only in the hands of a few big hooligans in the Security Council of China, the United States, and Russia.
Secondly, arms itself is an extreme monopoly industry, and because this monopoly has political and strategic significance, it is highly protected by the government and becomes a tool of the government.
In the modern era of a market-oriented economy, the monopoly position of the arms trade has been further strengthened, and this has determined that countries that do not have the capability to develop and produce weapons can only turn to these countries for the sake of their own national defense needs and political needs, and purchase arms and weapons from these big countries at high prices.
Of course, the legitimate arms business is generally carried out between countries, and the profits are certainly not comparable to those of illegal arms smuggling.
At this time, Lin Cheng finally understood, and asked, "Do you mean that we will be the master and specialize in reselling arms?"
Khodorkovsky nodded and said: "It's you who will be the master, I am only an arms supplier, and the Izmash Arsenal is currently in my hands, in addition to completing the needs of government orders, there is also a large amount of weapons leftover, but I have always had empty weapons channels, but I have not found a sales channel."
Now that the opportunity has come, didn't you say that you have a business all over the world, the two of us can join forces, I will provide weapons, and you will be the salesman, and we will add two to five to the profits, and half of each person. ”
What is lawlessness, this is it!
Why did Khodorkovsky start to whitewash since 2000, and why did he still not let him go, this guy is really too lawless!
Lin Cheng thinks he is bold enough, but compared with Khodorkovsky's blatant prying of the country's corners, and Chiguoguo's bad behavior of harming the public and profiting his own interests, Lin Cheng is so kind that he can even receive a model worker medal every May Day, and do ten advanced deeds reports every year!
But when it comes to being a bad man, that seems to be a buddy's strength!
As a reborn person, being an arms dumper can be said to give full play to Lin Cheng's rebirth advantage, for no other reason, because he remembers the wars that broke out in the world from 1998 to 2017 clearly, and if he resells weapons, he will definitely be one step faster.
The Kosovo War in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia began in February this year, and there was also the involvement of US imperialism and NATO.
But since the 9/11 incident in 2001, Lin Cheng has all the memories of using the US imperialists as a-stirring stick to launch the war on terror that has swept the world.
For example, on October 7, 2001, a war broke out on October 7, 2001 by a coalition led by US imperialism against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
On March 20, 2003, the United States imperialists unilaterally launched a military strike war against Iraq on the grounds that Iraq was possessing weapons of mass destruction and secretly supporting terrorists.
From 8 to 18 August 2008, Georgia and Russia fought for control of South Ossetia.
In addition, there is the Syrian civil war, which continued from the beginning of 2011 until 2017, when Lin Cheng was hung up and reborn.
Not to mention the African continent, which is a day and no war, it is a carnival feast that Lin Cheng can lay out in advance and make a lot of money.
It's just that when it comes to arms trading, a business that will lose your head if you're not careful, plus he has never been in contact with it, Lin Cheng is still quite worried.
Moreover, Lin Cheng mainly feels that as long as he enters the 21st century, when the Internet industry explodes, he can easily earn hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars, and it seems that there is really no need to do such a dangerous business as arms trading.
"I'd better think about it, I mainly think it's too risky. After thinking about it for a long time, Lin Cheng shook his head and said.
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