Qin Lang stood next to the window of his office, staring intently at the San Diego Naval Base not far away. www.biquge.info He didn't really want to see anything valuable, he just wanted to distract him from something he wanted to miss. This usually works, but sadly, this is not the case today, and Rachel's complaints are still clear in his ears.

“…… When you presented your plan, you told me that we would lay off at least fifteen thousand mercenaries, and how many did we cut as a result? In the name of God, there are only nine thousand ......"

"Nine thousand one hundred thirty-seven." A tired voice interjected. It was Yi Shui, who had just returned, and had not rested much - of course, Rachel thought he had rested long enough on the boat - and was forcibly pulled here by Rachel.

So, one thing is clear, he wants to end this dispute as soon as possible. He interrupted Rachel, but it looked like a mistake.

"Thank you, dear, but I think you should be silent for now." Without looking, Qin Lang knew that Rachel must have warned her husband with an extremely fierce eye, making sure that he would not interrupt her speech again - what she wanted to say was obviously a bit much. "Nine thousand, we have laid off such a small number of people, and we have not completely dissociated ourselves from them. Of these, less than 2,000 actually left the company, and the rest registered themselves as registered part-time employees, even though most of them had new jobs and were either recommended by us to join Mr. Liu's personal guard or to join the Chinese army and militia......"

"There are also private security service companies." Qin Lang said.

"And private security services - thank you for the reminder, Qin." Rachel's voice became scathing, "We actually helped those mercenaries who were laid off by us to set up four new private security service companies, Qin, if I knew you would do this......"

"All these measures are noted in the relevant documents I submitted, and you have no objection."

"If my memory is okay and you used 'when necessary' and 'may' in those terms, don't tell me it's your little trick again!"

"You know my style." He shrugged.

She had to ignore this provocative gesture, because only by doing so would she be able to keep a clear head and say what she had to say. "What do you want to do? Reach your hand into each of China's armed forces and finally reach the point where you can manipulate them in the shadows, and then realize your far-reaching and unspeakable secret plans? ”

"Looks like you've got the gist of it." Qin Lang pretended to be a compliment.

"And that's not all." Rachel showed the slightest hint of being fooled, though he still had his back to her, unaware of it. She stepped out of her chair, walked around her desk, walked over to him, and asked in a serious, but not stern, question, "When did you become so enthusiastic about manipulating China's political situation?" ”

"At a time when our interests in China are becoming more and more numerous." He replied.

"I still remember that you said that you had no interest in leading a revolution and in the construction work that followed it – you didn't want to jump into that fire pit."

"There is someone here who is interested in leading the revolution and the revival of the country, but that person is not me." Finally, Qin Lang turned around, and his first gaze was on Yi Shui, who was full of embarrassment, and then Rachel. "But that doesn't mean I won't do whatever I can to protect our interests."

"Including such deep involvement and manipulation of China's political situation in the future?"

"I don't think it's deep enough."

"But do you think those who have left the company will continue to be under your control?"

"There will always be people who will accept our kindness."

Rachel looked into Qin Lang's eyes, not to find out the elements of lies and fraud in his eyes, but just to show her attitude: serious, serious, and not a joke. "Okay. But if you don't mind, I would like to know the names of former company employees who joined the Chinese army and militia, and the names of former company employees who joined that Mr. Liu's personal guard, I don't think you're going to keep them top secret, are you? ”

"Of course not. You'll get everyone's names, Rachel. He said with the solemnity of a priest's God—of course, it was a mockery, and she knew what he meant, and he knew she knew.

He was equally clear why she had asked for that list: for her husband. Rachel himself had no interest in the list, except that Yi Shui had some noble secret plans that conflicted with his secret plans. He hoped that these plans would be successful, which meant that they could not be seriously interfered with, and unfortunately, the mercenaries who had been inserted into the Forces nouvelles and militias were able to do so, or even destroy them completely, as long as they acted strictly according to his orders.

Rachel has apparently foreseen a future that is not so rosy for Yi Shui. This time, she chose to side with her husband—even though she had the same views on those noble secret schemes as he was—and asked for the list as a small warning from her, merely to show that she knew what was wrong and would be investigating it in secret.

As for the list itself, it doesn't really mean much. Of course, Qin Lang would not put a mark under the names of those mercenaries who were on the special list of the Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Rachel was suspicious that he would erase the identity information of the spies who were already in his possession. In the end, both of them knew what the other was thinking, and he didn't expect it to satisfy her, and she didn't intend to put unnecessary pressure on him.

Therefore, there is no better outcome than the current situation.

"Thank you very much." She nodded in satisfaction and moved on to the next question. "What about the private security services companies that we've financed?"

On the surface, this thing looks terrible. The purpose of the layoffs was to reduce the company's financial expenses, but the new security services company that helped the mercenaries who left the company to set up was largely contrary to that purpose. However, Rachel believed that Qin Lang had other far-reaching and unspeakable secret plans, such as distracting people while maintaining the size of the armed forces at the company's disposal, and other things she hadn't thought of yet.

Even if she didn't agree with all those possible goals, in Rachel's opinion, Qin Lang's approach was simply redundant. Either lay off or maintain the status quo ante, either way it is better than what is currently the case: companies are less able to intervene in armed conflicts, and have less control over mercenaries, but the costs are not reduced to a corresponding level.

At the very least, until the new companies enter a virtuous cycle of operations, the company's financial expenditures will remain at an unsatisfactory level.

She didn't particularly want a satisfactory answer—she still wanted to see the moment Qin Lang made a mistake—but she did need some more reasonable explanation than she could guess.

But Qin Lang didn't want to give his reasons.

It seems so.

He still shrugged his shoulders to express his attitude, however for something unrelated to her question. "When I decided to lay off personnel, there were objections to the idea that we should maintain a large mercenary force, that our system of registered part-time employees was a measure that was too far ahead of its time and doomed to failure, that it was impossible for us to recruit temporary workers on a large scale when necessary, because all combatants with good combat capability would be left in the army by their countries, that we needed to create many private security contractors under our control and that there would be at least five thousand mercenaries, in order to maintain the basic capacity of companies to intervene in armed conflicts. ”

"A person who raises objections to you." It doesn't matter who he is. Rachel pondered, she had never heard of anyone making those comments, not in the firm, not on Wall Street, not in Washington. If this wasn't an accident, he seems to have mentioned a ghost hiding in the dark.

A ghost worthy of Qin Lang's attention, or rather, a ghost that he had to pay attention to. "Obviously, you accepted part of his opinion."

"No, frankly, I didn't take any of his advice." He replied.

"But you still set up those independent security services companies that we control - albeit not on the scale he suggested."

"It was my own idea."

"Really?"

Qin Lang easily ignored her provocation. "Independent security services companies can help us solve a lot of problems that we can't solve in person, take care of some of the worthless business that we can't give up on our behalf, and get some contracts that we can't get. Rachel, you know, there are times when people just choose what a local business offers. ”

"Yes, I already foresaw that." Yi Shui felt that he could speak, "One of our subsidiaries was hired by the village of a mercenary's fellow villager to attack a village with which they had a vendetta, and then happened to run into a mercenary from another subsidiary hired by that village—"

"Very interesting hypothesis." It is also in line with reality, however, Qin Lang likes it. "That way, we will be able to take full control of the development of the situation."

"That's true." Rachel agreed.

"The only problem is that our people are going to be locked in a fratricidal battle." Yi Shui sighed.

"Humans are always killing each other and are passionate about killing each other. Of course, for our people, the premise of cannibalism is that they will really fight, not collude to deceive their employers-" Qin Lang glanced at the time, and then announced, "I think this conversation should be over. In ten minutes, I will head to the training center to discuss the new formation of mercenaries with Sean and the company's senior advisors, as well as new training programs. ”

That's the notification he's been waiting for. Yi Shui immediately stood up, took a few steps forward, grabbed Rachel's hand, and pulled her out of the office.

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