Chapter Eighty-Four: The Aggrieved Kumi
Keynes had contacted a number of arms brokers in the past few days, and Walter said so, and he was not sure which company he was talking about.
He hesitated for a long time before he said, "How should I inspect the goods here?" Can you provide after-sales services?"
"It's impossible to sell after-sales service," Walter said, "If you want to trade, I'll let your people go to a place to inspect the goods, and your people determine the type and quantity of purchases, and then we ship them to the border of country T, and pay for them with one hand and deliver them with the other." β
To put it bluntly, this type of transaction is arms smuggling, and it is generally not used for the trade of large quantities of arms.
"If there is no after-sales service, the price must be lower," Keynes has embraced, but he has to fight over the price: "It can't be more than 70% of the market price, otherwise I won't be able to explain it to my boss." β
"But Mr. Keynes," Walter said on the phone, "consider the risk we take." β
Because weapons and equipment are equipment with a large attrition rate, the price of regular weapons procurement includes after-sales, which includes the maintenance of weapons and equipment, the supply of spare parts, and training in use.
Without that, the price would have been much lower, and Keynes was not asking too much.
However, it is obvious that Walter does not plan to reduce the price, probably because he sees that country T has no other procurement channels for weapons and equipment, and now he urgently needs a batch of equipment, so he opened his mouth.
Keynes was very reluctant to accept such a deal, and bargained with the other party for a long time, and after regressing to eighty-fifty of the price, he refused to go any further, and said: "Mr. Walter, listen to me, I am a businessman, I can't accept a higher price than this, that will be the black spot of my career, I would rather accept the defeat of the government army of country T than accept this humiliating price- You know, I can leave country T at any time and go back to the civilized society of the West to live the life of a rich man, I can give up!"
This can't be said to be a simple threat, in fact, he really has this idea.
Anyway, the war that was successfully waged earlier had already paid him very well, and now he was able to achieve financial freedom and live a prosperous life in any city except Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen in China.
Why do you want to get rid of China's Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it is because according to expert research, in those first-tier cities, if you want to get real financial freedom, you need 290 million assets, and Keynes is still so far from this standard.
Under the threat of his picker, Walter finally reluctantly accepted his request.
The next step is to decide where to look at the goods.
Keynes thought it was on the high seas, after all, it was very inconvenient to transport heavy weapons and equipment by land.
However, Walter's proposed place of sighting was on the border of S, another neighbour of country T, near the border of country T.
Keynes even wondered if the bigwigs of the army of country S wanted to make some extra money and sell the weapons and equipment of his army.
There are many countries where the military bigwigs secretly do some arms smuggling, sell the weapons and equipment they use, and then report the damage in a drill, and then they can write off their accounts and ask for the next batch of armament allocations.
But that's not what Keynes needs to care about, it's the quality and price of these weapons and equipment.
The three major mines have only added one billion dollars to his activities, which is a huge amount of money, but he really can't buy anything when he buys heavy weapons and equipment.
Moreover, when the war started, the consumption of weapons was particularly large, and the so-called cannon sounded ten thousand taels of gold, which was not a joke.
Purely commercial transactions cannot do the good thing of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to procure billions of dollars like the Peace Security Company.
He had to keep a tight eye on the price so that he could buy more arms and support the government's victory on the battlefield β and at least for a longer period of time.
After finalizing the details with Walter, Keynes called Kummy and told him that he had contacted the arms dealer and asked him to select a few soldiers who knew how to use weapons and equipment to look at the goods.
Kumi was thrilled to hear that the arms dealer had been contacted, and shouted on the phone: "I want Black Hawk helicopters, I want Leopard 2A7 tanks, I want Tomahawk missiles-"
Keynes was sweating and interrupted him, saying, "Listen to me, Kummy, you'd better not have such a desire, for then you will be disappointed." We can't afford to buy such weapons, and no one will sell them to us. β
"And what can you bring us?" Kumi was disappointed, "Is it to give each of us an AK47?"
"There will be some MANPADS, there will be a variety of artillery, but there will be no helicopters, tanks, armored vehicles or large-caliber artillery. Keynes said, "I'd love to be able to buy those things, but Kumi, you know, no one in the world dares to sell us those things right nowβunless he's ready to bear the wrath of Huaxia." β
Helicopters, tanks, armored vehicles, and other equipment will be numbered, and it is easy to find out where it came from, so no one else will sell it.
It is difficult to transport large-caliber artillery, it is not mobile enough, it is difficult for people to transport it, and it does not have much effect for the government army to buy this, so it is not included in the options.
Kumi was still disappointed when he heard only those things - this kind of equipment is enough for the People's Army to fight Max, but it is still far from fighting the Peace Security Company.
However, it was much better than Keynes giving him some guns and ammunition to deal with.
Although reluctantly, he quickly selected some soldiers who had a certain understanding of the weapons and equipment of Western countries to go to the location mentioned by Keynes to inspect the goods.
In the past two days, he has put his old troops in order and engaged in fierce battles with Max's People's Army.
He originally thought that the soldiers under his command were all professional soldiers who had undergone several years of training, and in the face of Max's People's Army, which had only been established for a few days, he could definitely crush it.
But when it really started, he found that there was a difference in level in equipment, and the veterans under his command could not have much advantage in front of those recruits.
On the KPA side, there are heavy weapons and equipment of government troops captured by the Peace and Security Company, which can be used after a little repair, and they have an absolute advantage in firepower.
In terms of numbers, the People's Army has invested 70,000 recruits, which also occupies an absolute advantage.
During the two-day battle between the two sides, the KPA killed more than 2,000 enemies on the condition of suffering more than 10,000 casualties, and advanced dozens of kilometers on the battlefield.
If it was weapons and equipment of the same level, Kumi would definitely be able to easily destroy those recruits, but now he was being chased and beaten by others, which made him feel very aggrieved.