Chapter 13: Bullets vs Votes

War changes fate!! This is the truth of the earth, and it may be the truth of the universe. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

I would like to solemnly inform you of a cosmic truth -- "Most of the changes in regime are caused by bullets, not votes."

The historical fragments of the intercontinental colonial wars in the B century, the story of wealth will be wonderfully staged.

Story two, Victor Arms Trading Company

"There are three types of arms trade in the world, white legal, black illegal, and my favorite color, gray."

"Arms are not something you want to buy, you can buy them if you want to, and if you pay for cash with gold, people may not ......sell them."

"If they don't sell me, I can buy it, just add a few more money and buy it from a trading company!!"

(Excerpt from the spoof song, "Arms Deal", the tune is a parody of "Love Deal")

This is the legend of the rich generation in the war, and this time it is a gray story of fortune. Don't always say that these rich people are not pure, is the character of this society useful!?? People don't care. Although a very small number of people have been imprisoned, the gray pure gold bricks cast by these arms dealers are still shining brightly, enough to brighten the eyes of ordinary people.

The story begins:

"Catch the murderer Bill Victor!" "Trial of war criminal Bill Victor!" These two useless words were the slogans of many anti-war groups of the Notre Dame cult in the early C century. The slogan of the left-hand card, like the wails of the helpless victims in the Japanese adult movie, only makes Mr. Bill Victor more happy, in addition to adding noise and junk information, it really makes the arms dealer Victor Militarial Trading Company, also known as Mr. Bill Victor, get more orders.

Victor Arms Trading Ltd., founded or dating back to May 59 of the B century, still exists and is functioning well. That Mr. Bill Victor was the third generation of the family's arms trading enterprise. The family business was founded by his grandfather, Falconel Victor. At that time, the elder Victor was a colonel officer of the United Empire Expeditionary Force, or more precisely, a colonel officer who was about to be discharged from the army due to injuries......

In mid-January, 13 and 19 B59, the Imperial Navy fleet of Marnerocco made two night raids on Curry Island, and the one on January 13 was successfully successful. The two Yanar-class battleships and the two Naru-class battleships on the attack bombarded the expeditionary force army barracks off the coast of the island, and then bombarded again until they were almost out of ammunition......

On Friday, January 13, B59, at about 21 o'clock that night, off the coast of Curry Island, four battleships of the Imperial Navy of Marnerocco, dozens of 280mm guns, a single shell weighing several hundred kilograms, and a salvo shocked the scene...... Curry Island, which is the target of the bomb, is even more exciting, like fireworks during the Chinese New Year......

This is the "Hell Night on Curry Island" in the history of the expeditionary force. The shelling of the "Helena Fan" caused huge casualties of more than 40,000 people to the land forces of the United Imperial Army Expeditionary Force stationed on the island, and the originally planned landing operation had to be postponed. After the shelling, Colonel Vic Sr.'s unit was completely disrupted, and only the disbandment was disbanded. The colonel himself was unfortunately wounded, and his limbs did not appear to be disabled, but he became completely deaf and had to retire.

Old Victor didn't go back with the returning fleet that transported the wounded soldiers, what can he do when he goes back, he hasn't had a family all these years, the old man has died, he has no home in the empire, as a disabled veteran who has no immediate family and can't do anything, what can he do there except be respected!! After thinking about it, the elder Victor finally decided. "Stay and make money", "Make enough money and find a good woman who doesn't dislike yourself".

Victor Sr.'s father was a small businessman who ran a grocery store. "Since this is the end of my life as an officer, let's become a small businessman like my father. Doing a little business to feed a family is also a very meaningful life. ”

He recruited a few disabled comrades-in-arms to join the shares, and co-founded a commissary, and wholesaled all kinds of captured small commodities from the Navy warehouse at low prices, and sold them to the army at least double the price. To this day, this commissary should be called a "supermarket", and it is laid out according to the pattern of a military supply warehouse, with all the goods placed on the storage shelves and marked with prices, and the officers and men of the army take the things they want and settle the bill at the door. This time-crossed business model was an immediate success.

"The business is very hot", "the income is beyond imagination", "I can earn a month's salary almost every day". But that's not the history of Walmart. The good times did not last long, and two months later, the landing battle began, and the army went a lot. Supermarket profits plummeted, and by early May, the profits were too low to even maintain employees' wages. No way, old Victor has to find another way to make a fortune.

On 8 May, Colonel Victor was approached by his senior superior, who was in charge of the training of officers and non-commissioned officers on Curry Island. The landing force is gone, and the old superior, Major General Nemo, is also going to lose his job. To be exact, he's been out of work twice. After the withdrawal of the original army, which had suffered heavy losses, the army assigned him a new task - to form an intervention army to support the great uprising of the people of the Chávez Empire (an ally of the Marnerocco Empire), a state in the southern part of the Alme continent, located 1,500 kilometers west of the island of Curry. This was an order from Caesar, and the purpose was: to keep the Chávez Empire busy with civil strife and unable to support the colonial defenders of the Marnerocco Empire; It will also expand the political influence of the United Empire in the region. Major General Nemo organized an intervention force of 2,000 men to support the rebels, but ...... The unit was amicably disarmed by the rebels and sent out of the country as a gift for the arms, with the arms paid in gold, and told Major General Nemo that he was welcome to send arms again, but not your troops.

The rebels did not seem to appreciate the friendly forces sent to their door, and even had an extremely arrogant attitude. "As long as the gun, no people", "The affairs of this land are solved by the people of this land, and there is no need for outsiders to interfere!! ”

Julius Caesar was slapped in the face...... The intervention force, which was composed of this crack force, had no choice but to serve as a professional instructor unit and train the officers and men of the newly formed unit before arriving at Curry Island. Major General Nemo inadvertently mentioned that the guns of the rebel army seemed to be the military standard of the Marnerocco Empire, and he did not like the weapons they brought, but he did not refuse to come if they lacked weapons.

Colonel Victor heard from Major General Nemo and had an idea, a good opportunity to make a fortune. He was able to get his hands on the Marnerocco Imperial Army-style munitions, which was a simple task for him. As for transportation, there are many captured enemy ships in the harbor, one can be bought or rented at a low price.

The colonel entrusted Rear Admiral Nemo to find two reliable elite subordinates as helpers, hired sailors from the supplementary crew, rented a former enemy transport ship with a tonnage of only 1,500 tons from the naval fleet anchorage (the mixed cargo ship Golden Leaf-011), and used the money saved from opening a supermarket to buy hundreds of tons of ammunition and a small number of guns from the harbor defenders from the port material warehouse...... The defenders here only blew up the port facilities and warehouse in the port area, but the war ammunition depot and supply depot outside the port area fell intact into the hands of the United Imperial Army.

On 12 May, Colonel Victor and his shipload of second-hand munitions set sail from Curry Island to the Chávez Empire (now known as the Democratic Federation of Venerenia). It was an all-or-nothing deal, and the ship was Colonel Victor's entire net worth.

On 18 May, the arms arrived at a port in the rebel-controlled area, and the rebels stationed there were surprised and delighted at the uninvited guest and his ship......

This incident was no less shocking to the top brass of the rebel army than the harbor defenders. This was the first time that someone had come to the door to sell arms to the rebels. Previously, the arms of the rebels were either captured in battle on the battlefield or bought at high prices from the government's repression of renegade officers and soldiers. In the early part of this month, the rebels fought a very beautiful battle with the help of munitions "captured" from Major General Nemo, and captured a small town heavily defended by government troops. The battle was fierce and long, so that after the capture of the city, the defenders were almost completely wiped out, and little ammunition was captured. The last defenders fought with their ammunition running out, and they destroyed their guns. At this time, the rebel army was in urgent need of guns and ammunition, and it can be said that the rebel army here has always lacked guns and ammunition, and the arrival of Colonel Victor is like what the Bible says: "At that critical moment, God came down to help his people."

On 19 May, representatives of the rebels boarded the ship to see the munitions, and were very satisfied, and the price of the goods was very fair. The rebels decided to buy the munitions, but because they had just spent a lot of money, and there was not so much ready-made gold in the treasury, they proposed to barter 70% of the goods and pay the bill with 30% gold leaves. Gold is easy to say, everyone likes it, and it's easy to get rid of. The offsetting material is molybdenum ore, which appears to be more valuable than gold. Colonel Victor readily agreed, knowing that molybdenum had to be added to the artillery artillery steel, which was an extremely valuable rare metal for any country of the Central Continent.

At the dinner that followed, the rebel generals chatted speculatively with the colonel through the mode of drawing and literacy; Several hostesses with a face of 9 points and a body of 10 points are even more flattering to this arms uncle, this kind of woman's unique language is understood by men.

At the banquet, Colonel Victor learned that there were several gold and sand mines in the area controlled by the rebels, as well as a molybdenum mine, which was the main source of military spending. Relying on the gold and silver produced here, the rebels exchanged large quantities of daily necessities from neighboring countries, including food, medicine, and various light industrial goods. This barter trade resulted in large quantities of supplies that the rebels could rely on to expand the number of military personnel who were out of production. In addition, the insurgents had accumulated a large amount of surplus supplies, which they often distributed to the people in the areas under their control and in the areas of war, which won the hearts and minds of the people. In this Chavez dictatorship, the rebels are popular not only because of their idea of fairness and justice. In the war with the Chávez government army that lasted for several years, the rebel army, which did not have the advantage of the armed forces, frequently used the "golden egg" and "silver egg" tactics to defeat and defeat the Chávez imperial army. This Chavez has always liked to eat alone, and does not give any benefit to the soldiers and the people, even if the government army is not treated much better during the suppression of civil strife, so as long as the rebels are willing to spend money, they will always be rewarded, "Hungry Chavez lackeys have no loyalty, and their personalities are cheap enough to be bought by a few cans."

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Chavez Empire's lifelong consul Chavez, who came to power through a coup d'état, was originally called Venerenia, and it was a very good country. At first, it was okay, but with the consolidation of power, his nature of abusing the people and swallowing state assets was exposed. This so-called lifelong ruler has always been fond of extortion, and even the name of the country has not been spared. As for this subordinate who has been in power for life, he is a bunch of corrupt and unbridled wine bags and rice bags, pure greed...... Finally, the country's extremely corrupt politics caused an almost complete collapse of the socio-economy. Four years ago, tens of thousands of conscientious soldiers bravely stood up and revolted under the appeal of scholars!! The rebels call themselves the Free People's Army of Venezuela, "We are fighting for the liberation of the people of Venezuela who have been enslaved by the tyrant Chávez and his corrupt officials!!" Subsequently, the people and the army responded in large numbers, and the uprising team can be described as a warrior king.

Just three years ago, the Free People's Army almost overthrew the Chávez Empire, but this big fat man Chávez knows how to sacrifice his life to save his wealth at a critical moment. This evil fat man is not like Colonel Gaddafi, a Libyan hyperthyroidism and skinny nymphomaniac, everyone is dead, and the $150 billion deposited in Switzerland has not been touched. The big man had great wisdom, he called in foreign aid, and betrayed the rights and interests of the country in exchange for foreign military aid - 500,000 "volunteers" from a certain old friend of the Far East came to Venerenia to suppress the people's uprising here, at the cost of all the country's minerals, permanent mining rights; In addition, Chávez had to provide these people with weapons and war money, and their salaries and pensions had to be handed over to the Government. In the months that followed, the "foreign government forces" went on the offensive, and Chávez seemed to be about to win, but at this time there was a problem with his volunteer army, and the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops dropped significantly, and the combat effectiveness of some of the newly recruited troops was simply amazingly low. It turned out that in addition to the first batch of 80,000 people in this "volunteer army", all the subsequent batches were civilians recruited by Chavez's old friends in the name of overseas workers, and there were even so-called "pig workers" who were deceived and kidnapped. It's no wonder that the "old friends" have deep domestic contradictions, and the regular army has come to Chavez, so what to do in the country!??

"Nima, the product quality is not up to standard, and the military salary from the old friend of the East is not given!!" (Chavez quote)

In the ensuing war, on the battlefield, most of the regular army was exhausted little by little, and the combat effectiveness of the "piggy workers" army was very scum, by no means a war scumbag, and even under the pressure of the warlords, they could only barely maintain a defensive posture. The situation on the battlefield seems to be reversing little by little, with the "foreign government army" stationed at the key points, the "foreign pig army" in front of the cannon fodder, the attack of the cannon fodder is always so weak and powerless, and the "foreign government army" has switched to an all-out defensive position.

At this time, Chavez finally realized that this old friend of the East had taken his own 500,000 lives or 80,000 minions and 420,000 slaves to open a gamble in distant Venerenia, and drank the blood of soldiers...... Well, then let's use these 500,000 chess pieces to play, and if we don't have any fun, we are looking for a friend to pledge the mining rights. …… Anyway, he Chavez didn't care about the rights and interests of the people at all, but the rebels cared, and it was for this reason that the rebels refused the armed assistance of the United Empire.

At the beginning of last year, the "foreign government forces" suffered one defeat after another, and their total strength was greatly reduced. Even if this foreign army stopped paying its salaries, the war expenses would be very high. This fat man who lacks virtue does not have much money, and the rebel army in the mining area is firmly in possession, and the money can only be expropriated from the occupied areas, and the problem is that it has already been collected there. The scumbag, who was obese and sexually impaired, learned how to trade in human beings from the Orientals, and began to secretly sell the girls of the occupied territories to the Marne-Rocco Empire as slave girls in exchange for silver and much-needed arms. The price of exchanging arms is said to be a bit outrageous, with a girl with a medium face only getting back a small box of 8mm rifle bullets (1,500 rounds) or 3 rifles; A good-looking girl can exchange for a large box of rifle ammunition (3000 rounds) or 6 rifles. In fact, this scumbag dictator has the capacity to produce arms, but domestic production cannot make up for the loss of the front, and many of this loss are actually "foreign soldiers" selling weapons to "domestic enemies".

The country's previous government introduced a complete set of small arms industrial systems from the Mannrocco Empire, and also imported a number of artillery production lines from a central mainland country, which can produce 100mm and 75mm caliber artillery. At that time, there were more than 20 arms factories of various types in the country, all of which were located in industrial cities controlled by Chavez. From the beginning of the civil war in September 55 to the complete demise of the Chávez regime in January 60, these factories produced a total of 116,000 rounds of 80mm rockets, 213,000 8mm rifles, more than 700 20mm multi-barrel machine guns, 316 75mm or 100mm guns, 465 million rounds of rifle ammunition, 21 million rounds of machine gun ammunition, 660,000 rounds of artillery shells of various calibers, 8,310,000 kilograms of black powder and 330,000 kilograms of smokeless gunpowder for the 'government army'.

Almost all of the people who bought girls with silver were gray and black unscrupulous merchants in the Marnerocco Empire, and they bought these girls for lucrative illegal activities, and the more they earned, they naturally bid a lot of money. A slightly beautiful girl can usually sell for 60 to 80 taels of silver (the country's unit of measurement is taels, about 30 grams), and the good ones can sell for more than 200 taels. By selling women, Chavez earned 100,000 taels of silver every month, and the maximum monthly income reached 200,000 taels. He did not use this money to keep the country running, a small part of it paid high salaries to the foreign mercenary guards, and most of it was to fill his shortfall purse. In the eyes of the dictator, the people are definitely not as good as the cattle and sheep in the eyes of the steppe barbarians and herdsmen, and the cattle and sheep will at least be well cared for.

After the fall of the Chavez scum, this unconscionable human trade continued, only going underground or changing to other suppliers, and the perverted elites of the Marnerocco empire seem to have an innate penchant for destroying young girls and abusing women, which is their "historical tradition". This non-human bestiality lasted for decades, centuries, even millennia, until civilized people united to wipe out this demonic nation.

(In the Imperial War at the beginning of the C century, the combined armies of the United Empire of Saint-Romain, the Empire of Saxony and Windsor completely wiped out the Empire of Marne-Rocco, an alternative pseudo-civilized country; The inhumane sex slave human trafficking disappeared with the demise of this perverted nation. )

Maintaining power with money and arms from the trafficking of girls seems to be somewhat inefficient and ineffective. This tyrant Chavez also wanted to find other old friends, but he didn't even eat it. No bank will lend to duplicate pledged assets, except for certain banks in Chinese mainland. From the middle of B58 onwards, the situation of his foreign armies was already very bad, and even a little unbearable. In fact, the situation of the rebel army at that time was not good, the veterans suffered great losses, the recruits were still growing, the regular officers before the war lost most of them, and the worst thing was the weapons!! During the fighting, weapons were badly damaged and the number of weapons was insufficient, and many units on the front line had two or even three people sharing a rifle. Since the middle of last year, the civil war in Venerenha has entered a phase of stalemate. The rebels wanted victory, but were desperately short of arms.

The rebel generals repeatedly stated, "If possible, I would like to establish long-term trade relations with you." ”

In terms of the specific types of goods required, the rebels said that "the lack of ammunition is really a headache in the offensive battle" and that "the weapons equipped by the United Imperial Army are actually more suitable for our combat operations, and we hope to get more weapons from the United Imperial Army, especially artillery." "We need a lot of grenades, either in the United Empire or in the Marne-Rocco Empire." ……

At the dinner party on May 19, the rebel generals pointed out the direction of wealth for Uncle Arms, and the pretty girls seemed to show the colonel where happiness lies.

On May 20, the Golden Leaf-011 set sail with the hopes of the rebels. With 650 tons of high-purity molybdenum ore and 165 kilograms of gold, Colonel Victor was so overjoyed by the huge profits from this arms sale that he decided to take it as an opportunity to make a big move.

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After Colonel Victor left, the rebels kept their eyes on the sea. On June 18, the wait and expectation finally came to fruition, and Colonel Victor returned, bringing with him three 5,000-ton munitions ships "Hope", "Freedom", and "Endeavour", as well as more than a dozen warships escorting these three freighters, ironclads. A day earlier, these warships had killed the Chavez interceptor fleet deployed in the open sea. In the belly of these cargo ships were a full load of United Imperial Army weapons and equipment, and even the ballast was a variety of shells used. This is the equipment that Caesar specially approved the transfer from the arsenal of combat units. Because of the last "molybdenum ore payment".

The admirals were overjoyed with the molybdenum ore brought by the Golden Leaf, and decided to continue the deal, but they had no spare munitions. The matter was eventually reported to Caesar. Emperor Longyan Dayue, "Kill this enemy's friend, and we will have a new friend, and this friend will become one of the rear supply bases for the colonial war." Caesar decided to postpone the offensive at the front and transfer a batch of munitions directly from the supplies supplied to the troops participating in the battle.

On June 23, the fleet was unloaded and reloaded, and set sail for the front line of the Yanar colony, carrying all kinds of foodstuffs and several thousand tons of molybdenum concentrate as ballast. A few days later, the fleet of Yanar colonies unloaded their food, loaded them with various kinds of timber provided by the natives of the occupied territories, and sailed to the empire itself, where they were to return with military supplies.

A war route was opened: the convoy set sail from the United Empire, with munitions, sailed to Curry Island, where it joined the escort fleet and some empty ships, sailed to Venerenia, unloaded some of the munitions, loaded with food supplies and gold ore and molybdenum ore as ballast, sailed to the Janar colony, unloaded food supplies, loaded with timber, and sailed back to the mainland.

The exact quantity of these batches of munitions is unknown, but Colonel Victor received a reward from Caesar, which was equivalent to 2 tons of gold at the time. This may have been the Empire's reward for Victor's opening of this commercial route to the war. The colonel remained in the rebel-controlled area on Caesar's orders to become the arms trade representative of the United Empire side in this series. He set up his home there, and the rebels found an 18-year-old local beauty for the uncle.

During that war, the "arms-food, ore-timber" triangular trade was carried out at least six times, and the United Imperial Expeditionary Force in the Yanar colony received a large amount of fresh food and high-quality provisions, which increased the combat effectiveness of the troops to a certain extent. The rebel army was armed with a large amount of munitions manufactured by the United Empire, and the forces of justice grew stronger and stronger. In January B60, Chávez and his "foreign government forces" were completely wiped out by the People's Armed Forces. The Democratic Federation of Venereña was established. As Caesar had predicted, the new nation saw the United Empire as a founding ally and the Marnerocco Empire as an enemy, and volunteered to be the logistics procurement base for our army in the war in the Janar colony. With a stable, reliable, and inexpensive source of supplies, the Marnerocco Empire's strong-walled and scorched-earth policies became a joke in the history of warfare.

Looking back at Victor, he became extremely rich, had a wife and a family. He founded an arms trading company in Venerenia, which now sells arms produced by the United Empire in the continent and the smaller and weaker nations of the surrounding continents. In B63, Victor set up a headquarters-level liaison office in the United Empire, but he was still based in Venerenia, and it is said that the real reason the colonel did not return was that he had more than a dozen wives there.

In the years after the war, historians published research reports that in the war to exterminate the Chavez criminal gang, the United Empire provided a staggering number of weapons, 246,000 7.62mm rifles, 3,100 Markhin heavy machine guns or portable machine guns, 650 75mm infantry guns or mountain guns, cannons, 150 105mm howitzers, 1.13 billion rifle or machine gun bullets, 1.06 million shells of various calibers, nearly 16,000 tons of various infantry engineering explosives (grenades, blasters, explosives packs, etc.).

This story tells us a truth that "regime change is mostly done by bullets, not votes"

Reiterate this truth! "Regime change is mostly based on bullets, not votes"

Say something important three times! "Regime change is mostly done by bullets, not votes" / "It is more effective to exchange the barrel of a gun for a go-vern-ment than to use a ballot".

The key to the success of Victor Arms Trading for decades has been the establishment of its comprehensive purchasing and sales network. In many major arms-producing countries such as the United Empire of San Roman, and even in the Marne-Rocco Empire, there are purchasing branches of this company. His sales network covers at least four continents. In the words of today's businessmen, the Victor family has a global vision, a sense of risk diversification, is very good at grasping emerging markets, and is good at surviving, developing and expanding in the cracks of large companies. In the limited space left after the partition game of the state-owned arms companies of various countries, this non-productive trading enterprise is able to blossom in all directions.

The arms deal is a crossover of political territory and commercial profits, and to a certain extent represents the political leanings of the purchasers, and the intelligence agencies of the major powers are inevitably involved. In terms of the source of arms, this Victor arms trading company has used the intelligence agencies of at least six arms-producing countries to get internal prices for them, and even illegally bought goods that ordinary arms dealers could not buy. Victor Arms has repeatedly pledged to fully support the side that is beneficial to the arms supplier in return in order to reach a deal. This means that Victor is a "partner" or "spokesperson for regional interests" with many governments.

Bill Victor's government background is evident in the fact that he was able to purchase goods on credit with the military factories of the Reich's Ministry of Defense, and that he could also use arms contracts to obtain unsecured credit loans from the National Bank.

Making full use of government resources, skillfully using market gaps, integrating various resources with advantages, and accurately locating effective customers are the summaries of Victor's successful experience in arms trading companies for decades.

Compared with the Victor family, a family of government and business arms traders, most of the arms dealers in this world are too hanged. These poor children don't have such a tall granite backstage, and they don't have the blessing of a government sending warships to escort their cargo. "Without the blessing of being a second wife to the government, it seems that I can only stand on the street." For the sake of high profits or because there are only such customers, they engage in dark-colored business - black trade, including the sale of arms to drug dealers or guerrillas.