Chapter 144: The First Step of the Empire

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the Afghan people began a guerrilla war that lasted for more than 20 years. Afghanistan is a mountainous country, and many mountains have been hollowed out to counter the guerrilla groups of Soviets, and at the same time, the Soviet army has also hollowed out many mountains to serve as a secret storage and transportation base for the Soviet army in order to cope with the surprise attack of the Afghan guerrillas and Soviet troops.

On the day of September 9th, Ye Haodong took Huzi and a group of brothers to Manas Mountain. Witness the place of surprise introduced by Victor.

It was a mountain storage and transportation base left by the former Soviet army, and the entire mountain was hollowed out in the mountain, and the wide passages and huge spaces were densely packed into it. The passage can accommodate heavy trucks, and tens of thousands of tons of metal materials can be accommodated in each part of the space. Outside the mountain, there are dozens of high-power wind turbines, supporting more than half of the energy consumption demand of the entire storage and transportation warehouse, while huge diesel-electric units support the other half of the energy consumption. Under the action of countless ventilation fans, the air in the interior of the mountain is dry and well ventilated. It has a unique advantage as a storage and transshipment base.

After Ye Haodong took over, he immediately hired the security facility manufacturing branch of Schnepp Company to carry out a comprehensive transformation here. The entire storage and transportation warehouse will be transformed into digital management. Every door, every storeroom will be controlled by a central program. Cameras are installed everywhere, infrared alarms, controllable auto-firing machine guns, and various mechanisms to resist foreign invasions emerge one after another. After tens of millions of dollars were smashed in, by the end of October, it had been transformed by Ye Haodong.

This will be the foundation of Ye Haodong's arms empire with a sales network all over the world.

In mid-November, the renovation and decoration project of the entire storage and transportation warehouse was completely completed. Nong Junting and Jiang Lan visited with great interest, accompanied by Ye Haodong. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this is actually a good place to live and customs. Great place to be warm in winter and cool in summer. As soon as the two ladies arrived, they fell in love with the luxurious room that Ye Haodong reserved for themselves. The living rooms in the cave have been renovated to give them a bit more of a homely style than the caves inhabited by the mountain dwellers of Afghanistan. The luxurious and simple decoration style is designed according to the style mentioned in the book of the French design master Roman Fontaine, which is very retro and suitable for human habitation.

The two ladies fell in love with the place but did not fall in love with a man like a donkey, and the helpless boss Ye had to move to the next room to live.

As the situation stabilized, the United States finally ended its months-long flight ban and Kabul International Airport began to resume operations before New Year's Day. The Caucasian Air Transport Company rented one of the runways, and Ye Haodong's arms trade was officially opened.

It has been three months since Liu Changsheng led his troops to Kabul, and he has never found Ye Haodong's whereabouts. With the repeated postponement of military exchanges between China and Pakistan, the time has come for him to return to China. Just when he felt that the operation would end in failure, the Japanese spy agency in Kabul approached him through a 'special channel' and informed him of the important news that Ye Haodong would attend the inauguration ceremony of the newly built Fakht Mosque on New Year's Day.

The anxious Liu Changsheng didn't have time to think about whether this was a trap, so he immediately decided to do it that day. For this reason, he has been wandering around the construction site of the Fakht Mosque in the north of the city for the past few days, looking for suitable sniper spots and escape routes if he succeeds. What he didn't know was that another group of people from Huaxia were also silently watching him when he was surveying the scene.

New Year's Day is approaching, and all countries and forces have begun to take stock of the gains and losses of the year.

By the time the year 03 approached, the United States had completely occupied the Kandahar Mountains and had failed to find any trace of the terrorist tycoon bin Laden. No one at the top of Hezhong would have thought that it was their closest friend Mr. Ye Haodong's partner who secretly transferred bin Laden to Indonesia in South Asia in the United Arab Emirates a few months ago because of greed for money.

The military operations of the United States were generally remarkable, and although they failed to capture bin Laden alive, they completely destroyed the cradle of terrorists. At the same time, it also won the initiative for the United States in the layout of Asia, occupied Afghanistan, a strategic point on the Asian continent, and further strengthened the control of the United States over the Asia-Pacific region. From this point of view, the United States has had a fruitful year.

Ye Haodong's Yip's Group also took stock of the year's earnings before the arrival of the New Year. The result is a mixed blessing, the good thing is that with the expansion of the industry, the income of the Ye Group has increased significantly, but the worry is that the boss is too able to spend money, and the increase in income can only barely keep up with the speed of the boss's spending, and the annual income is less than 10% of the operating income after removing the necessary cost inputs.

As the new year approaches, international crude oil prices have soared in anticipation of the United States' imminent launch of a second Gulf War. This has been accompanied by a general rally in international commodity trading. After China's accession to the WTO, along with the readjustment of the leading body, new economic policies have been frequently introduced, and it has also entered the fast lane of high-speed development. This year, China's foreign exchange reserves have approached Japan's, and it is expected to become the largest country in foreign exchange reserves within three years. The trade deficit between imports and exports is gradually revealed, and while domestic light industrial products and labor-intensive industrial products occupy the international market in a large area, their dependence on imported energy is also greatly increasing.

Ye Haodong and Huaxia Petroleum cooperated to build an international crude oil storage and transportation base in Liancheng, and in 02, his Far East Haotian Energy Trading Company exported a total of 15 million tons of crude oil to mainland China. According to the current international crude oil of 65 US dollars per barrel, each ton is equal to 6.29 barrels, and the total annual crude oil trade between Ye Haodong and Zhang Tianpeng and China is close to 7 billion US dollars. At the same time, the total amount of potash trade between Yip's Group's Xiyun Mining and Sushi Mining in Canada and China has also increased to US$3 billion with the increase in domestic demand and the rise in potash prices. Coupled with the billion-dollar net income from other industries and arms sales in North America that Mr. Situ left him, these fund incomes are only one billion US dollars after deducting the costs and Ye Haodong's huge expenses. In other words, the net income of the main industries of the Ye Group is only enough for Boss Ye to squander.

At the headquarters of Yip's Group in Vancouver, Canada, Vice Chairman and President Xie Fuyun and Group Vice President and President of Mining Affairs Su Wantong are taking stock of Yip's Group's annual income and expenditure.

Taking stock of all the accounts, Xie Fuyun frowned, and said indignantly to Su Wantong: "This stinky guy is too good at spending money, he spends enough money a year to build an aircraft carrier, and his expansion model of swallowing elephants is too dangerous, the industry has increased to the current scale, this risky expansion method is not worth advocating, steady and steady is the king, it seems that you used to be too dependent on his temperament, this is not good." ”{

Su Wantong sighed and said, "He didn't put making money in the first place, our stinky husband took making money as a joke, and in his heart, this huge industry was not very important at all." ”

Xie Fuyun was happy: "Tell me, what is the most important thing in his heart?" ”

Su Wantong blinked and said, "The country and the family, relatives and elders, lovers, children, brothers and friends, anyway, there are more things that are more important than money in his opinion." ”

Xie Fuyun shook his head: "If he doesn't have the ability to make money, I'm afraid that you and I won't even have the opportunity to know him, if you want me to say, it's not that he doesn't pay attention to money, he just thinks it's easy to make money, from the New Green Group to today's Ye family, from his debut to the present, every pot of gold is almost pressed on his own life and future, two prison disasters, several assassination experiences that narrowly escaped death, aren't they all money?" But at that time, he didn't have us by his side, and now he has a family and children, and the responsibilities on his body are not the same as back then, and that kind of risky expansion is no longer appropriate, for our own happiness, we can't let him fall into a crisis for money again, so I decided that from today onwards, we must control the speed at which this guy spends money. ”

Su Wantong: "His main expenses this year are focused on land investment in the Middle East in the last few months, at present, the investment prospects in the United Arab Emirates are very optimistic, investment in Tel Aviv and Tehran is basically breaking even, only in Afghanistan, basically all the investment has gone and there is no return." ”

Xie Fuyun sighed, and his expression revealed a kind of loneliness when a top master met someone higher than himself. "I must admit that his vision is better than mine, those few pieces of land in the UAE are too worthwhile, with the rise in international crude oil prices and the gradual weakening of military confrontation in the Middle East, the economic prospects of these plots are bright, as long as the war ends, the price of these plots will increase dozens of times is not surprising, it can be seen that his determination to the United States is more accurate than mine, and it is really a little unconvincing." ”

Su Wantong asked tentatively: "Sister Yun, since he didn't spend money indiscriminately, can we continue to let him be the best?"

Xie Fuyun waved his hand to interrupt her: "By no means, even if his vision has been so accurate, such a large-scale industrial investment must be decided by his own preferences, the development model must end, if he doesn't make a mistake now, it doesn't mean that he will be good in the future, his expansion method, one wrong step, we will all fall into passivity, we are all Ye family, we can't be dictatorship by this stinky guy, you must stand on my side at this point." ”

As he was talking, Ye Haodong called: "Sister Yun, I have decided, give up the position of chairman of the Ye Group to you, from next year I will change the name of the Caucasian Transportation Company to the Oriental Transportation Group, including sea and land transportation and air transportation, mainly engaged in arms business, Ye's business is our foundation, can not be involved with this road business, don't one day the East Window incident happens, because my relationship makes people a spoonful of stew, besides, according to my method, the Ye Group guards the world's best industry but it is difficult to develop too much, It's nothing short of outrageous. ”

Xie Fuyun and Su Wantong looked at each other, and couldn't help but look around, "This stinky guy has clairvoyance?" ”

Su Wantong said with a smile: "There are no clairvoyances and no ears to the wind, I think it's almost the same if you have a good heart." ”

Xie Fuyun said in a faint tone on the phone: "This is your own decision, once it takes effect, even if you are the largest shareholder of the group, you can't draw blood from the Ye Group at any time, and when the time comes, you feel that spending money is restricted, and you are not allowed to play scoundrels and bully people." ”

This sentence is a bit charming, so that Nong Junting and Jiang Lanhan's **** Ye Haodong pondered, Sister Yun is encouraging Lao Tzu to go back to North America to bully her, who can guarantee that there is no time for business to be in high stirrups. Could it be that every time I encounter financial trouble, Lao Tzu has to fly to Vancouver, let them tie up Jiao Didi and say: "Xiaosheng is incompetent, and he has a lot of funds, so he has to help his sister for today's plan, and he has no choice but to hand over this seven-foot body to his sister, and you can take what you want." "Hehe, if that's really good, then Lao Tzu deliberately messed up the business and flew to Canada every day.

Hanging up the phone, Ye Haodong approached the window, looked out the window at the residents in the northern city of Kabul who were busy carrying water early in the morning, turned back to Huzi and instructed: "Let Shouyi contact the mayor, let's get a water company here, and after the Fahd Mosque is unveiled, we will start construction." ”

Huzi didn't move, and reminded Ye Haodong: "Big brother, you just handed over the financial power to Fuyun's sister-in-law, it is unlikely that she will agree to you engaging in this kind of public welfare undertaking here, and it is almost the same as doing it in China." ”

In the morning of the same day. The original site of the Fakht Mosque in the north of the city.

The inauguration of the Fakht Mosque is underway. Sibgatullah? Mujadi personally participated in the ceremony as the Islamic leader of Afghanistan. As a key politician supported by the United States in Afghanistan, his arrival kept the entire ceremony venue heavily guarded, and the streets were full of United States soldiers who would have the opportunity to pose a threat to the ceremony site.

In a building with hollowed-out walls near the mosque, Liu Changsheng was searching for Ye Haodong through the scope of a Barrett sniper rifle in the crowd at the ceremony.

There are actually two more chapters, even I can't believe it. It's almost the New Year, I wish you all good health and a happy family, and I would like to give you an early year.