Chapter 133: Visit the Air Base
Regarding the crew, Zhou Yu has long had his own ideas. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
In addition to the service nature of flight attendants, chefs and the like, other corresponding personnel, Zhou Yu is ready to choose from the members of the training base.
The official members of the training base are all retired soldiers in the army, and among them, there are not a few retired soldiers from the Air Force. With these people, firstly, Zhou Yu feels more comfortable, and secondly, retired air force soldiers, technology should be reassuring.
Besides, it's more convenient. In a word, the person is in place.
As for the flight attendants, they still need to be recruited. But as long as the starting price is opened, everything is easy to say.
After Max waited for the Lockheed staff to leave, Zhou Yu went to meet the person in charge of Santa Maria Airport and told him that the plane needed to stay here for a while.
Of course, the money that should be paid, the storage fee or something, a lot of money, paid on the spot.
Leaving Santa Maria Airport and returning to the farm, Zhou Yu called Lin Quan.
"My private jet has arrived," with Lin Quan, Zhou Yu didn't have any polite thoughts at all, what was there, just said directly: "I need flight attendants and other related service personnel, as for the plane's security and piloting team, I have another candidate." I hope to see the people I need within three days. ”
"Okay boss." Lin Quan nodded: "I guarantee that it will be completed within three days." But boss, do you have any requirements for the service staff? ”
"It's pleasing to the eye, and then..."Zhou Yu thought for a while: "I know Chinese!" ”
"Understood."
After Lin Quan went down, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly posted the recruitment information in the name of Jade Seal Farm on the largest recruitment website, listing various conditions.
The first is the salary - ten flight attendants, with an annual salary of 200,000 US dollars, two cooks, one Chinese and one Western, and the salary is negotiable.
Requirements - Flight attendants are 18 to 25 years old, with high requirements for appearance, height, education and ability to speak Chinese. If you don't meet the requirements, don't do anything.
Chefs are not limited to men and women, and those with high skills are preferred, and the higher the skills, the higher the salary.
All of these are listed very carefully.
There are more than 20 clauses, which are as harsh as recruiting agents.
This is only Lin Quan's first step - to complete the recruitment within three days, and the conditions are so harsh, then, just advertising, it will definitely not work.
He immediately used his farm connections to start from major universities and airlines in California to prepare to poach people.
Of course, Zhou Yu doesn't pay attention to these things.
He just wants results.
After instructing Lin Quan, Zhou Yu turned around and went to the training base in the forest area, and when he came back, he brought three people with him. All are full members of the base, and all are retired from the Air Force.
"From now on, the three of you will leave the training base and become part of my private jet piloting team. I'll give you a fixed annual salary of $800,000. Zhou Yu smiled at them: "You should know that private jets are not the operating aircraft of airlines, and there are not a few flight missions throughout the year, so they are very leisurely." ”
All three are very satisfied with the job. Earlier at the base, Zhou Yu said again that it was their own choice to take over this job. There are not a few retired people from the Air Force in the base, but only the three of them voluntarily left the base and worked as full-time drivers for Zhou Yu.
The current training process of the base has long been completed for them. The number of full members has exceeded 200. Since the beginning of the year, the 200 men have been divided into four groups and taken turns to go out on missions -- the so-called missions are actually to be mercenaries -- and through some connections, they have been dragged to the Middle East, North Africa, and other places where the situation is chaotic.
Zhou Yu established this armed force, not to raise them for rice. They must maintain their combat effectiveness, so it is necessary to go to the battlefield and roll.
As for the money they earned from their missions, Zhou Yu didn't take a penny, and used it all for the development of the base and their own welfare.
Of course, if Zhou Yu needs more people, even if he doesn't want to, Zhou Yu must come in a word. However, he felt that three people should be enough for the driving task.
As for the security task of the aircraft, Zhou Yu is ready to hand it over to the boulder to do.
Every time you need to fly, take the boulder with you. He is one, and it is not an exaggeration to top ten hundred. Besides, the three people in the driving team are not eating dry food.
After sending the three of them to Santa Maria Airport to familiarize themselves with the Jade Seal plane, Zhou Yu prepared to go to Vandenberg Air Force Base to visit, and by the way, obtain the right to use the site from the air base.
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The next morning, Zhou Yu took Tina and drove straight to Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Yesterday, Zhou Yu made an appointment with the person in charge of the base and got the opportunity to meet at noon today.
In fact, compared to Zhou Yu, the air base wants to see him immediately. But the army is the army after all, and it is much more arrogant. Zhou Yu didn't care about this, but Tina wasn't very happy.
From the farm to Vandenberg Air Force Base, the distance in a straight line is actually not far. If the coastal road is built, then it will take a maximum of twenty minutes by car.
Unfortunately, the coastal road is still under construction.
It was necessary to take a detour from the direction of Sitok, first to the east, then to the south, and finally to the west, and it took more than forty minutes to reach the outlying area of the base.
There is a large area near the military base, and non-military units are not allowed to approach. When the Bugatti Black Ghost drove here, he was stopped by a sentry post.
Several soldiers with guns, armed and wearing berets, stopped the car.
The leader knocked on the car window, Zhou Yu rolled down the glass, and said, "I'm Zhou Yu from Yuyin Farm, and I made an appointment with the commander of your base yesterday." ”
The soldier probably should have known, nodded, took out a photo from his pocket, compared Zhou Yu's appearance, nodded, waved his hand to let the other soldiers put away their guns, and said, "Mr. Zhou, this is the rule of the base." Then he said, "What about this lady?" ”
Zhou Yu nodded in understanding and said, "This is my female companion, Miss Christina." ”
“OK。” The soldier gestured, "Welcome, Mr. Zhou." You can go over. ”
"Thank you." Zhou Yu nodded, rolled down the window, and walked towards the base with a puff of smoke.
Along the way, we passed through three checkpoints in a row before arriving at the real air base.
Outside the base, it is surrounded by metal mesh several meters high, which is probably supposed to be electrified. Because Zhou Yu saw that there were some fresh, almost charred bird carcasses on the metal mesh. Although it is not much, it should be cleaned up frequently.
The gate is fully automatic and electronically controlled, and there is also a guard at the door.
Zhou Yu's car stopped, and after some inspection by the sentry, then a phone call came in, and after a while, a small door on the gate opened, and an officer wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt-style military uniform with a bald sea eagle on the epaulette on his shoulder walked out - this was a colonel.
"Mr. Zhou, welcome to Vandenberg Air Force Base."
The colonel held out his hand.
Zhou Yu shook hands with him and said with a smile: "I am honored, Mr. Colonel." ”
The colonel grinned and made a gesture of invitation sideways: "Your Excellency the General is already waiting, please." ”
Zhou Yu was not polite, let Tina hold her arm, and walked in.
In one of his offices, Zhou Yu met the person in charge of the base, a major general, about 50 years old, with a nose that resembled the most eagle-hooked American Zhou Yu had ever seen.
The eyes are very sharp, if there is substance.
There is a faint murderous aura on his body, indicating that this general should have fought on the battlefield.
Swept away by his eyes, if it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that he would be afraid, but Zhou Yu was very indifferent.
The general nodded without a trace, his eyes closed, and he seemed to have turned into an ordinary old man, stood up, and said with a smile: "Welcome, Zhou." ”
Needless to say, after Zhou Yu sat down with Tina, he said with a smile: "I never knew that my neighbor to the south turned out to be an air force base, and I only found out when I went to sea last time." ”
"Mr. Zhou focuses on business, and it is reasonable not to know." The general smiled slightly and said, "But between the neighbors, you still have to move around more." ”
"Yes, yes, your Excellency is right." Zhou Yu snorted and said: "The saber security under my command has cooperation with your base, I used to think that the air base was far away." To be honest, I felt very safe knowing that the military base was near my farm. ”
"Hehe..."The general smiled slightly: "The duty of the army is to protect this country and its people. ”
"So, I feel that I, as a businessman, should support the country's military construction." Zhou Yu didn't want to go around the bend with this cunning general, so he said directly: "I plan to donate 10 million US dollars to Vandenberg Air Force Base every year in the name of Jade Seal Farm from this year. ”
The general froze slightly.
Indeed, there is a super-rich man next to the base, which made him think about it a long time ago, and he really wanted to get some benefits from this rich Chinese man.
However, Zhou Yu has never contacted the base, and even after that trip to the sea, there was no movement for a long time. He thought it would not be easy.
Unexpectedly, after only a few words of meeting, people took the initiative to speak.
It was not what he expected.
Ten million dollars, for an air base, is not too little. In recent years, the United States has spent more than $500 billion or $600 billion a year, but the specific military expenditure allocated to the Vandenberg base is only a few hundred million. Ten million is a few tenths.
What's more, what Zhou Yu said is every year!
In other words, from now on, he will be able to get such a Franklin from Zhou Yu every year!
It's all for nothing!
The general was very happy, stood up and said, "I think we should have a drink, shouldn't we?" ”
"Of course." Zhou Yu said with a smile.
The general personally poured wine for Zhou Yu and Tina, clinked glasses, and then said, "Mr. Zhou's fishing ground is near the base. I heard that the seafood produced in Mr. Zhou's fishery is very valuable. It may make some lawless fishermen covet it. Our base will definitely not turn a blind eye to the daily routine flight tasks of the base, and I am ready to make a change to include Mr. Zhou's fishing grounds in the patrol area. ”
Zhou Yu was very happy when he heard this.
To be honest, although the fishing industry along the coast of California is not developed due to environmental problems. But not without fishermen. Old Bell once told Zhou Yu - just like on the east coast, the resources of some fishing grounds are often stolen by individual fishermen, leaving many fishermen helpless. After expanding the fishing ground, Lao Bell reminded Zhou Yu and let him be mentally prepared.
Zhou Yu didn't expect that this hidden danger would be solved here - with the help of the US Air Force, presumably no one would dare to mess around unless he was the kind of bold guy who splashed the sky.
"Thank you." Zhou Yu sincerely thanked him.
Then he said, "Your Excellency, I have one more request. ”
"Oh?" The general smiled slightly: "Please speak." ”
"That's right." Zhou Yu said: "I ordered a private jet, and the conditions of West Tok Airport cannot meet the demand. So, I would like to rent one of the airstrips at the airbase. (To be continued.) )