In the conference room, Wang Ye and Mike Wade sat at opposite ends of the long table.

"Nesconfey!"

I saw him holding a cup of coffee and sighing loudly, chubby with a general's belly, how could I see that I thought it was a neighbor uncle in the United States, and I couldn't associate it with the American officials stationed abroad, at this moment, with his nodding action, the gauze strip bow wrapped around his head shook and shook, which looked quite funny.

"Let me introduce you."

"Mr. Mike Wade, Chief of the U.S. Hexagonal Operational Command Center in Africa."

Subsequently, Juliet, who was sitting next to Mike Wade, said that although Wang Ye had already known Mike Wade's name and position when Juliet made an appointment with him to meet today, but the official meeting today did not prevent Juliet from introducing it very officially again.

At this moment, looking at Mike Wade not far away, Wang Ye said with a smile:

"Good morning, Mr. Wade!"

"Nice to meet you."

From the name of the US Hexagonal Operations Command Center in Africa mentioned by Juliet just now, it can be found that Mike Wade is a person belonging to the Hexagon, that is, a person from the US military, and Blake, who has died, is a special envoy to the desert area of the Black House faction, so there is no subordinate relationship between these two people, they can only be said to be colleagues, and they may have the responsibility and obligation to cooperate with each other, and there is no relationship between superiors and subordinates.

However, because the interests of the United States in Africa are not so huge nowadays, or the focus is not on Africa, and the Hexagon does not have a large-scale military presence in Africa, so the actual power and status of Mike Wade is actually not comparable to Blake's, after all, Blake, as the special envoy of the Black House, is in charge of the desert and some parts of Asia, which are all hot areas, needless to say, the focus of the United States.

However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Twin Towers, the landmark of the United States, and the United States entering the era of anti-terrorism, this "combat command center in Africa" will be renamed the "Hexagonal Africa Command," and then the US military presence in Africa will begin to increase.

The moment he said hello, a thought flashed through Wang Ye's mind.

"Hello Mr. Wang Ye!"

"To be honest, I'm very surprised, you look much younger than the age I learned from the intelligence, at your age, I am still studying in the military academy, and what I desire most every day is a beautiful girl."

"Like you, you have become a famous big man all over the world!"

After hearing Wang Ye's greeting voice, Mike Wade said with a smile, he feels completely different from Blake, if Blake feels like an old silver coin, then Mike Wade gives people the feeling that he is an uncle on a farm in Texas, who is doing BBQ and warmly invites you to eat a piece.

"Thank you for the compliment, it's my pleasure."

"It's a pity that we didn't have a video recording, otherwise I would have secretly replayed it a hundred times after the meeting was over."

As soon as Wang Ye's words fell, Mike Wade, who was sitting opposite, seemed to have heard the funniest joke of the year, and couldn't help but start laughing, while Juliet next to him was slightly surprised, as if Wang Ye's performance made her have a different understanding of Wang Ye, and the whole person became more and more incomprehensible and incomprehensible.

"Hahaha! Mr. Wang Ye, what a humor! ”

"If I had such a sense of humor, I am afraid I would not have come to this part of Africa, after all, if a girl was favored when he was young, who would want to stay in a army full of sweat and smell?"

"That's when I believed last year's rumor."

"It is said that the two ladies of the Soviet Union fell in love with you at first sight, Mr. Wang Ye, and now it seems that this rumor is true, a young, talented, high-powered, handsome, and healthy man like Wang Ye, girls generally can't control their hearts, and they can't help but be moved and loved!"

In the room, Mike Wade laughed, took a sip of his coffee cup, and then said with emotion, the atmosphere was very relaxed, and I didn't know what kind of friendship meeting this was.

After a brief pleasantries, the formal talks finally began.

"Mr. Wade, I want to know what is the matter with your sudden arrival with me?"

"You shouldn't just be here to meet me and get to know me, right?"

Faced with Wang Ye's statement, Mike Wade said with a smile:

"No, no, Mr. Wang Ye, knowing you is also a very important thing, not subsidiary."

"However, I do have another mission on my side, an order from the Hexagon."

Speaking of this, Mike Wade gave Juliet next to him a look, Juliet took out a document from her bag, Mike Wade took it, pressed it on the table and slid it over to Wang Ye, while explaining:

"A few days ago, we purchased a batch of supplies from you, with a total price of 10 million US dollars."

"In recent days, this batch of materials has been put into combat applications, and our soldiers are very satisfied with these weapons and equipment, believing that they perform very well on the battlefield and are no worse than our country's own production."

"And the Hexagon, for its part, is also very, very satisfied with this batch of materials."

"Because their overall price is very reasonable, far less expensive than what we buy from domestically plus shipping from Europe, and it's a lot cheaper!"

"That's why"

I saw Mike Wade knock on the table in front of him, then pointed to the document he had swiped over, and continued:

"So the Hexagon hopes to conclude a treaty of 'medium and long-term cooperation' with the Red Star Consortium."

"Throughout the military campaign against the Brotherhood of Akandi, you can become a stable and reliable supplier of some of our weapons and ammunition, and what exactly is supplied is on this document."

"Mr. Wang Ye, please take a look!"

After Mike Wade finished speaking, he started drinking coffee with a smile, while Wang Ye was slightly stunned, as if he didn't expect this situation to happen, and he couldn't help but laugh in his heart.

In fact, the 10 million materials before were expensive and expensive, and they were really not expensive if they were not expensive.

For example, those pickup trucks are actually quite expensive, because the original price has tripled, but as Wang Ye said, this price is determined by the capital market, in a sense, it is still a more reasonable price, and if it is really tripled, it may be more difficult to reach a contract.

There is no other reason, that is, the price of this kind of pickup truck is public, and the Americans are not big fools, it is 3,000 US dollars to sell to Pakistan, and 9,000 US dollars to sell it to us.

But twice the price, such a problem does not exist, because in the circumstances of the time, it was completely understandable to pay twice.

In addition to these vehicles, grenade weapons and grenades, Wang Ye directly gave the public price of the consortium for external sales, and did not increase the price because it was sold to the Americans.

To put it simply, this price is in the middle of the international arms transaction price, it is more expensive than the price of ammunition with a support nature, but it is slightly cheaper than the ammunition that has the meaning of paying protection money, and of course, in terms of price and purchasing power, it is also cheaper than the US military itself procurement.

But even such a mid-stream price, for the Red Star Complex, is still very profitable, on the one hand, there is a problem of purchasing power and manufacturing costs, and on the other hand, because the export of ammunition is also foreign exchange.

After all, for the country, the RMB is essentially just a tool for internal circulation, representing productivity and social materials, that is, the total amount of domestic wealth, and the US dollar has a real "market value", because it can communicate with foreign countries and involves the exchange of wealth at home and abroad.

And the reason why Wang Ye wants to do this is actually only one reason, and that is fishing!

After all, if you can't afford to let the child trap the wolf, if you are not even willing to pay the bait, how can there be a harvest? Wang Ye can indeed take this opportunity to open his mouth with the United States again, such as raising the total offer to fifteen million, maybe the Americans will agree to the deal, but that's all, earning an extra five million dollars.

Five million dollars is a lot, but it's not a lot for today's consortium.

It can even be exaggerated to say that this is a "small profit"!

And people can't give up long-term big interests for the sake of this small interest in the moment, so Wang Ye gave a rather "loyal" offer, the purpose of which is to seduce the Americans.

In fact, since the entire sixties and seventies, the manufacturing industry in the United States has begun to outflow and transfer, after all, the production cost of Americans' own production is too high, while the cost in Europe, Japan, South Korea and other regions is much lower, so that capitalists can get more profits, which is the inevitable result of capital drive.

And this kind of transfer, after the 80s, became more and more crazy.

If before the 80s, those capitalists in the United States still had some scruples, such as high-end and precision manufacturing-related fields, they were still relatively restrained, and after the 80s, they became more and more wild, and many more high-end manufacturing industries began to move up crazily.

As for the nineties, that is, after the Soviet Union finished its calves, it was even more completely free of itself, not to mention high-end manufacturing, even if it was military-related manufacturing, it also began to transfer frantically, after all, capital is born to chase profits, and its own hard production, how can it be comfortable to lie down and count money?

Not to mention, the trade unions in the United States are also a major interest group, and they make trouble for you every once in a while, and the capitalists are so angry that they are helpless to die, so the capitalists simply don't do anything, anyway, everyone is unhappy, so let's just finish the calves, right? If you don't produce it, you don't have to make trouble, you can all go homeless.

It is precisely because of this that in the future, more than 40 years later, there will be so many jokes spread all over the Internet.

What military boots purchased by the US Hexagon, in the end, it turned out that they were produced domestically, and the blocking cables on the US aircraft carriers were actually produced domestically, and even the bullets used by American GIs were still produced domestically, all of which were those arms and manufacturing giants in the United States, who secretly bought them back and labeled them themselves, and then treated them as their own production.

Therefore, what Wang Ye has to do is very simple.

Since this thing is bound to happen, it is better to take some initiative yourself, they have their rules of the game, then don't pretend not to understand, you can try to join it, only in this way can you get more profits and benefits.

"Shhhh

In the conference room, Wang Ye sighed with emotion while flipping through the document, and at the same time couldn't help but gasp, as if he was quite surprised.

Finally, after a minute, Wang Ye closed the file and said:

"First of all, our products can be approved by you."

"We are honored to do so."

"Secondly, we can supply these products in large quantities in the list, and we can provide as much as you want."

"Finally, I have a doubt, and that is the issue of lead time."

"After all, these products, from production to delivery, require a certain cycle, after all, the sea freight is long, I don't know what you think about this problem?"

In fact, after seeing the content in the document, Wang Ye already understood that the Americans had taken the bait, even if it was just a small temptation, it was enough, because a good start represented a smooth follow-up.

At this moment, after Wang Ye finished speaking, he looked at Mike Wade not far away.

And Mike Wade explained with a smile:

"As for the lead time, it's actually very easy to solve, from your port to the east coast of Africa, the time is about a month."

"So within this month, you can sell us a portion of Iron Fist Security's inventory, and with our airlift, it's pretty much enough to be maintained."

"Then, the supplies we ordered will be ready to arrive."

"In the future, we will place orders with you according to the time cycle according to the settlement situation and the subsequent settlement arrangement."

Hearing this, Wang Ye showed an expression of sudden realization, and then Mike Wade continued:

"In addition to the lead time issue, there is another issue that I need to highlight."

"Mr. Wang Ye, among the materials we procured, there is naturally no need to mention general-purpose ammunition, and there are still a lot of various vehicles and equipment left, such as your six-wheeled all-terrain assault vehicle, as well as your gyroplane, I have ordered them, and we have some requirements for these equipment."

"In fact, it is very simple, in the past, these equipment of yours were supplied to some backward countries, and their use demand was relatively low, so your configuration was relatively low, which is in line with the laws of the market."

"And our clearance war is intense and difficult, so the demand for these weapons and equipment is higher, such as pickup trucks and six-wheeled assault vehicles, we need stronger defense capabilities to protect our soldiers from as few casualties as possible during the battle, and rotorcraft, which is also a mountain field weapon."

"So we also ordered a gyroplane, but the gyroplane we want is different from what you have produced in the past, and the size of our gyroplane will be slightly increased, and I think Mr. Wang Ye should also know that the Soviet Union is also copying your 'assault gyroplane', just like they imitated, the size is slightly larger."

"In addition, we asked for more defense, but not too much to affect the endurance, we asked for the addition of simple electronic control systems and electronic equipment, such as radio stations and the like, and the weapon mount system also needs to be improved, to be compatible with our multiple weapons, and"

Then, under Wang Ye's gaze, Mike Wade Balabala said a lot, and finally he gave Juliet another look, Juliet took out a document, Mike Wade slid over and said:

"All the requirements for equipment and weapons and ammunition have been sorted out and are in this document."

"Mr. Wang Ye, we need you to customize the products we need according to our requirements!"

"Of course, because our customized products are different from your original products, then the price is naturally different."

Speaking of this, Mike Wade paused, looked at Wang Ye with a smile on his face and said:

"So, Mr. Wang Ye, we can already be said to be friends now, right?"

"Then, I hope you can give us a suitable price, a price that is acceptable to both of us, a price that can continue to cooperate, long-term cooperation, and mutual benefit!"

"Moreover, I hereby promise that if our cooperation goes well, then in the future, our cooperation may not be limited to this region of Africa, not limited to the war against the Akandi Restoration Congress, but will go global, towards deeper cooperation, towards more extensive cooperation, towards greater scale of cooperation! Win-win! ”

"I remember you liked the word, and now, I like it too! Hahaha! ”

At that moment, Mike Wade's laughter echoed throughout the conference room, and a touch of joy appeared on Wang Ye's face, no matter how hard Wang Ye tried to suppress it, he couldn't contain it at all, and at the same time, Wang Ye was in ecstasy, but also very clear that he shouldn't be too calm now, and it was normal to be happy!

Because of the problems mentioned by Mike Wade, in fact, the key is not the improvement of these equipment at all, but the "right price" problem he said at the end!

After all, the products of the consortium are now small-scale bestsellers in the global market, and the price is clear to everyone, such as pickup trucks and rotorcraft, and the price of such a clear product, coupled with the relationship between the two parties, there is no such thing as who pays protection money to whom, so the price cannot be easily changed.

And a price that cannot be easily changed is inappropriate in such a transaction, because the profit brought by the original price can only meet the needs of the Red Star Consortium, and cannot meet the interests of all aspects and levels of the entire transaction chain, such as Mike Wade in front of him!

Obviously, Wang Ye's previous rebate to Juliet has had an effect!

Even Wang Ye guessed that the last five percent rebate problem might be stuck with Mike Wade, and then this part of the profit would be internally digested by all the people who might be involved.

But it is also clear that ten million orders, five percent profit, will not satisfy their appetite.

In this way, the Hexagon originally had a need, and Mike Wade naturally pushed the boat with the flow, so under the mediation and promotion of the community of interests of all parties, this plan appeared in front of Wang Ye.

Naturally, the American troops cannot use the same weapons and equipment as those rogue forces, and we need more advanced weapons and equipment!

Of course, the more advanced the one, the more expensive it is!

"Hahaha!"

At that moment, Wang Ye laughed loudly, and after Mike Wade and Wang Ye glanced at each other, they confirmed each other's eyes, and then the two of them began to laugh heartily.

Finally, a few seconds later, after the laughter stopped, Wang Ye nodded with a red face and said:

"That's inevitable, Mr. Wade, and I'm pretty sure we're friends now."

"And very sincere, close, deep friends!"

"However, I would like to ask, how much time can you leave us for this offer? Because there are a lot of specific technical issues involved, it may take us some time to decide. ”

"Look?"

In response, Mike Wade knocked on the table and said:

"Our needs are urgent, so we don't have much time left for you, count today, three days! We're giving you three days! The deadline is March 22. ”

"A quote between friends! Mr. Wang Ye, how is it? May I? ”

As soon as Mike Wade's words fell, Wang Ye said without thinking:

"Of course there is no problem."

"But we have a lot of questions about the pricing of the product, Mr. Mike Wade, do you have anything else you would like to add?"

"The ones that are very important, the ones that must not be left out?"

As soon as these words came out, the smile on Mike Wade's face became more and more intense, and he looked at Wang Ye with a teachable expression, nodded and said with a smile:

"Because the supplies are so important this time, there must be no mistakes in the whole transportation and delivery process."

"For this reason, Mr. Wang Ye, you need to pay ten percent of the total price of the materials for escort and insurance, do you know the insurance? A very popular thing in developed countries, spend a small amount of money, just in case. ”

Hearing this, Wang Ye gasped, scratched his chin and said:

"Ten percent? That"

Without waiting for Wang Ye to finish speaking, Mike Wade chuckled and said:

"It's a reasonable price."

"Because it depends on the total amount of this order, in the face of such a high order, so many escort and insurance costs are required"

At that moment, Wang Ye seemed to be very entangled, and finally nodded with difficulty and said:

"Deal, Mr. Mike Wade."

"I hope our cooperation goes smoothly, and I hope we can have more cooperation in the future!"

Regarding Wang Ye's statement, Mike Wade nodded, the corners of his mouth were almost to the root of his ears, and he said with a smile:

"Of course, I love this win-win cooperation!"