Although Katanga is a sparsely populated place, some of the news doesn't last long, such as when Shepard's Shadow Company raised its Castle of Spades flag at the mercenary camp with great fanfare, and the mining companies throughout Katanga knew about the place's misery.

"The French, it's too much!"

The British, who were hiding in the city and watching, hated that iron could not become steel, and they were still looking forward to the great destruction of both sides, so that BHP could change the previous overlord contract with the Shadow Company, but they didn't expect that the French would be so completely defeated, and the camp was occupied!

However, several BHP people are also very discerning, and at the first time when the Shadow Company won the battle, they organized several trucks to send condolences to the mercenaries with canned melons, fruits, vegetables, and drinks, and then when they came back, they didn't forget to pull a cart of arms and ammunition to arm their company guards, as for the weapons and ammunition, it must have been given by French friends for free.

There's no way, the French have a considerable number of people using weapons like MAS49 and MAT49, although there are a lot of FAL, but the legal weapons are not compatible with the logistics of the Shadow Company at all, and it is naturally not polite to send Shepard, and those FALs he kept some of them in good condition to use as backup weapons for his own people, and those in bad condition were all lost to black mercenaries.

In addition, Shepard also had to thank François for his free assistance, the French mercenaries were equipped with almost a dozen heavy machine guns, in addition to the four heavyweight water-cooled M1921, there are also two M2 old godmothers, in fact, the former is also an old godmother, but the early old godmothers of the water-cooled model, and the other two are air-cooled M2 models, the air-cooled models were directly taken and reinstalled on the machine gun tower of the M20 armored car, and the water-cooled ones were thrown into the warehouse by Shepard to be sent back to the collectors for auction.

In addition, there are several trucks, jeeps, two military radios, more than a hundred military sleeping bags, dozens of sets of bomb hangers, and several medical supplies including bandage hemostatic powder.

As for the funds that were knocked out, they were not so important to Shepard, after all, money could not be immediately converted into supplies.

In addition, Shepard unceremoniously ransacked François's personal storage, and the other party's treasured red wine, jewelry, and even a dozen books became his.

But none of this matters, because everything after that is the most important!

After leaving most of the men in the valley to continue holding the captives, Shepard returned to the camp with his inner core, as François's previous clients were all waiting for Shepard at the camp.

As a major mining province, Katanga produces countless amounts of minerals from all over the world every year, and it is only natural that such a rich fat meat will be surrounded by wolves, and everyone will want to take a bite.

After several years of competition and games, there are still dozens of enterprises of different sizes that can stay here, their mining areas are all over the province, the terrain is complex and the transportation is inconvenient, coupled with the weak local law enforcement force, the inaction of the government army, so the car tyrant road bandits are rampant, these people have been entrenched here for many years, and have turned the roadblock and robbery into their official work, whether it is a humanitarian aid convoy from the United Nations, or a civilian convoy, as long as there is an opportunity, these guys will rush up and take a bite.

And the mining company is naturally a big fat sheep in their eyes, after all, they are all mine bosses, how can they be short of money? But the mine boss also has a temper, if you rob me once or twice, I will support the construction of Africa, but if you rob me every day, I will find someone to do you!

And where there is demand, there is naturally a market, and François's mercenaries have been operating here for many years, and at one time monopolized the security work of all mining companies, and even reached millions of dollars a year, but now, these fat gaps have nothing to do with him.

Although the mercenaries are gone, their business has to continue, especially in East Asia, where the demand for minerals has skyrocketed year after year in recent years, and production cannot be stopped for a moment, and transportation is even more full.

Shepard had previously given these guys a much more reasonable offer than François, but for various reasons, these companies still chose François, but now François is obviously no longer able to rely on, and they want their convoy to safely survive hundreds or even thousands of kilometers of bad transportation lines, so they can only count on the Shadow Company.

In the face of many people in charge with eager expectations, Shepard immediately smiled and said that the previous offer was a little problematic!

"What's the problem, we think it's very good, the price is fair, cheap and affordable!"

"Yes, the problem is that the price is fair and affordable!"

Shepard nodded, then admitted directly.

So many people in charge suddenly felt nervous.

"Well, Mr. Shepard, that's not what you said when you quoted before!"

"Times have changed, everyone, look at this place in Africa, dirty, dilapidated and backward, warlords fight tribal vendettas every day, there is peer competition, prices rise three times a day, and the brothers live a very difficult life!"

As Shepard said this, the OH6 helicopter flew over everyone's heads with two huge ice cream buckets, and the camp burst into cheers.

"Then, just tell me straight, how much will it rise?"

"Well, combined with the price and local per capita income, as well as the trend of international oil prices, I want to rise by two percent!"

"But what you're saying has nothing to do with the offer!"

"That's right, and didn't you say before that you want to break François's monopoly on the industry and reduce the burden on everyone?"

The people in charge immediately wailed, although the 20 percent increase was still affordable compared to the price of the French, but it was still more uncomfortable to make them pay more, which was worse than killing them.

"Yes, I didn't break the monopoly before, but now it's broken, it's my turn to monopolize, shouldn't I have the final say on the price?"

Shepard unhurriedly crossed Erlang's legs and sat down in his chair.

Now don't talk about Katanga, there are few opponents in the DRC who can be compared with the Shadow Company, and since a de facto monopoly has been reached, it can't be said that Shepard doesn't slaughter the fat sheep with a knife!

"Can doing business be called business without monopoly? That's charity! ”