"It's a rare time for you to come back!"

"It's not fun to come back, and besides, it's much more dangerous on home than outside!"

"What do you mean, this place is still dangerous?"

Looking at his luxurious manor, the old man Morgan with red wine looked proud, he has dedicated most of his life to the country, why can't he build a small villa of 100 acres to enjoy.

"yes, didn't we and the Soviets aim each other with thousands of nuclear bombs, and if war breaks out that day, you don't think we will drop a nuclear bomb in this place?"

"I ........."

Morgan shook his red wine, and suddenly felt that Shepard had a point, and that he might have a nuclear vault in his backyard.

"A nuclear bomb shelter is useless, it's better to find a place with a lot of land and sparsely populated areas, it's better to build a mountain, and then build a manor or something!"

"Good idea, you can also get a horse farm with two horses, fishing or something!"

Morgan was a little moved, it just so happened that he was on annual leave during this time, and it was also time to relax.

Not just Morgan, as far as Shepard knows, almost one-third of the senior CIA officials are not on duty, not because they have gone elsewhere to engage in subversive activities, but because most of them have left their jobs on vacation.

And the reason for this is the problem of funding!

The Carter administration is not satisfied with the CIA's external funding, and the internal funding is also a lot less, and there is no performance and no welfare, so everyone will have no motivation to work, after all, in these years, the Soviet Union is paying attention to welfare benefits, but the CIA is facing the dilemma of funding crunch, so everyone will not be too lazy to work hard to defend democracy!

Let's go fishing!

So a big spy leader like Morgan immediately either went to Europe for a vacation, or went into the mountains to hunt, or organized a group to go to some hidden place to play perverted games, anyway, he was very happy.

Shepard, on the other hand, was called to his new mansion by Morgan, and Shepard didn't know how a senior CIA spy boss could afford a large estate of 124 acres of land, probably falling from the sky.

Of course, Morgan called Shepard not to let the other party come to his new home, but to discuss some more sensitive topics.

The beginning of the Shadow Company is inseparable from the CIA, when the predecessor of Pegasus was first formed, the people and guns, and even the company's façade were provided by the CIA, and now, these things are still used by Shepard, he originally had three cargo ships, in addition to the Black Mermaid, and two were for the military, after the end of the Vietnam War, those two have been transferred back to the CIA-controlled leather bag company.

These things can be regarded as a burden for Shepard, and the expenses of cargo ships in wartime can still be paid by the navy, but after the war, Shepard has to raise them himself, which is a big burden.

Now that the war in Angola has come to an end, and the income of the Shadow Company without a big financier has also dropped sharply, Shepard originally planned to transfer all these large items back to the CIA, but Morgan called him, but he was not prepared to let him hand over these things.

"It's checking the expenses above, so you should continue to use these things, and we will confiscate the rent anyway!"

"But I don't have much work to do now, I really can't afford to toss that little thing, the Black Mermaid could have dumped two ships of arms to Angola, but now Vietnam is finished, Angola is finished, my buyers and sellers are gone, and now, the poor have to live as pants!"

"yes, then how did I hear Smith say that you kid bought three estates in Beverly Hills?"

"Ah, that's just a real estate investment! That place is so expensive now, and in another ten or eight years, it will definitely multiply several times!"

"yes, I thought it fell from the sky!"

"Sort of!"

"As for the lack of work, I can't do anything, the new president is not here, then we can only be people with our tails between our legs, but it's good to survive this time, and besides, I think your new business is doing well!"

"The main thing is that there is a good manager working on the spot, and the market needs it

Put it there!"

Another important reason for Shepard's return to the United States is that there are several new subsidiaries under the Shadow Company, one of which is specifically responsible for docking the security and defense of the rich, which can be regarded as a new blue ocean industry opened up by Shepard.

The reason why this business was quickly transferred to operation is due not only to the professional managers that Parker hired from the United Kingdom, but also to the U.S. government.

After the Vietnam War, the people in the United States applauded the end of the war, and the people who were bored with the war even more unscrupulously ridiculed and criticized those soldiers who were born and died on the battlefield and had no place to live when they returned home.

On the battlefield, they can use all kinds of valuable weapons and equipment at will, but after returning home, they can't even afford to eat five dollars of fried chicken, not to mention that many people are also addicted to drugs, and the cost is even greater.

What does a society with ill will become of retired soldiers, a veteran soldier who knows all kinds of military skills but is in debt and has symptoms of drug addiction, and a shop where he can buy weapons and ammunition at will?

The answer is violent crime, and these veterans with military skills also have a sense of reconnaissance, experience in using weapons and even the ability to drive vehicles, and when they choose targets, they will not be limited to any bank, gold store, jewelry store, and the rich people in those rich areas are also their targets.

And in terms of difficulty, robbing those rich people is much easier than bank gold stores, because the former has no security means to block the other party.

Wall? Easy to climb!

Security door? Violent demolition!

Security guard? One shot down!

This kind of work can be regarded as high return and low risk, because the matching style of both sides is different, how can the security guards who use shotguns and pistols be the opponent of robbers who use semi-automatic rifles or automatic weapons, and the environment of the rich area is also more secretive, the infrastructure is also more perfect, and it is more convenient for the robbers to run away after they succeed.

If there is a demand, there is naturally a market, and Shepard's Paladin Security was born, and even the first business came from the company's CEO, Shepard used his own money to open the company, and then spent his own money to hire his own recruited security guards to protect his assets.