The so-called escort and insurance costs are, of course, just a "wealth delivery channel", and the final result, of course, is to flow safely into the hands of Mike Wade, and then distribute the profits to all "interest communities" through some means.

It is clear that the Americans are very professional in the issue of eating kickbacks.

"Mr. Wade, I actually have a little doubt."

"I don't know if you can give me an answer."

After the business was discussed, the two sides entered the greeting time, Wang Ye put down the cup and asked, while Mike Wade, who was sitting opposite, held the coffee cup in both hands, with a bandage bow on his head, squinting his eyes and smiling, like a neighbor's uncle, he said without threat and unusually kindly:

"But, of course we can, we are friends and partners."

"What can't be said? Mr. Wang Ye, just ask! ”

Mike Wade was very honest, and Wang Ye said without thinking:

"Actually, I'm very curious."

"The Hexagonal has decided to purchase these weapons and equipment and materials from our Red Star Consortium, and according to the list description, the total amount will not be too small, so I am afraid that the damage will be those related arms manufacturers in your country, right? Don't they have an opinion on that? I guess there should be? ”

"If they have an opinion, what will they do?"

"After all, your country's national operation model is different from ours, and according to some of my understanding, these companies and consortia are still very influential in your country's political arena, right?"

"Under such circumstances, how could this cooperation plan be determined so smoothly?"

As soon as Wang Ye's words fell, Mike Wade couldn't help laughing twice, and then said:

"In fact, the reason is very simple, it can be summarized into two."

Speaking of which, Mike Wade seemed to want to adjust his sitting position, he seemed to want to raise his legs, but because his stomach was too fat, he failed to bend his legs, so he tossed his legs upside down and said:

"The first reason."

"Mr. Wang Ye, what you said is not wrong, these consortia and companies do have strong influence, but this influence is mutual, it is not absolute."

"I'll give you a simple example, for example, I may also represent a consortium or company behind me, they need me to maintain their interests, and I also need their support to help me get to a higher position, we have a mutually beneficial relationship."

"But essentially, where does my power come from? Coming from Congress, the Black House, the Hexagon, this is where my personal value lies, and where my fundamental interests lie, because if I lose this identity, then I will be worthless, just a fat veteran who has long been unable to go to war. ”

"In this way, the situation is actually very simple."

"In the vast majority of cases, I need to protect the interests of the consortium and the company behind me, but there is a premise for this, that is, when I have already safeguarded the interests of the United States, or try not to let the interests of the United States be harmed, for this situation, the vast majority of the consortiums and companies, in the vast majority of cases, are understood, because if the interests of the United States cannot be guaranteed, then the interests of the consortium and the company will also not be guaranteed."

"And in officialdom, there are countless people like me, and everyone has a similar consensus."

"To describe it in a simple way, it is these consortia and companies, although they have great influence, but they do not have absolute influence, plus the interests of different consortia and companies are also different, and it is difficult for them to reach a unified plan with each other, so the House of Representatives exists, so it is convenient for everyone to quarrel and compete for different interests, and we, the officials, are responsible for coordinating in the middle, and then implement it in various ways."

"Mr. Wang Ye, do you understand?"

Hearing Mike Wade's answer, Wang Ye nodded slightly, this answer did not surprise Wang Ye, but it also inspired Wang Ye.

Then, Mike Wade coughed lightly and continued:

"As for the second reason, it's actually very understandable."

"Mr. Wang Ye, the interests are fluid, not fixed, you only see that these arms companies seem to have lost a lot of orders because of this cooperation, but you don't know that they may have gained more benefits from other directions, not only to make up for this loss, but even to earn more."

"We often say win-win, does win-win really exist? Of course it is! ”

"And I can tell you unequivocally that there is not only a win-win, but also a win-win!"

"As for the real result, I think it won't take long for you to know, and then you will naturally understand all this, haha!"

Regarding Mike Wade's statement, Wang Ye's thoughts flashed in his mind, and he nodded and said with a smile:

"Then I look forward to the day when the truth comes."

Then the two sides began to talk again, and after about five or six minutes of small talk, Mike Wade took Juliet and left.

In the next two days, Wang Ye was very busy.

The main question, of course, is about the new equipment ordered by the United States.

First of all, these equipment customized by the Americans are indeed a strengthened and upgraded version, and they need to communicate with the country quickly for production, after all, in the past few days, the Americans have died a lot of people in the Darfur region of western Sudan, and the war situation is quite anxious, so their requirements for the delivery cycle are relatively high, so the production naturally has to work overtime.

The second is the issue of pricing, Wang Ye led the African team, and also communicated with the domestic fake model, and finally in the evening of the next day, the quotation of the relevant finished products was determined.

For example, the price of the enhanced version of the military bulletproof pickup truck is 15,000 yuan, for example, the price of the six-wheeled all-terrain assault vehicle is 25,000 yuan, and the price of the upgraded version of the heavy rotorcraft has also come to 45,000 yuan.

Anyway, Wang Ye has already made up his mind, first quote a relatively high price, and then look at Mike Wade's attitude.

If he agrees, then naturally there is nothing to say, of course, the probability of him agreeing directly is not high, because this time the offer is actually quite outrageous, if he does not agree, then continue to talk, and then talk about a similar price, anyway, the total price of the final order is closely related to Mike Wade's interests, plus he must be the most aware of the internal situation in the United States, and knows how much price is the most appropriate, so he is not afraid of any problems.

In a sense, this cooperation also made Wang Ye really feel the benefits of "internal response".

And the total price of this order has reached a high 120 million US dollars, in fact, this is already a rather terrifying figure, after all, the United States, Britain and France sent over to clear the troops of the Akandi Restoration Congress, even if you count the logistics support and medical-related personnel, the total is about 5,000 people.

Not to mention, most of the equipment and weapons used by these soldiers were airlifted from Europe by the United States, but even so, the per capita cost of these vehicles and ammunition purchased from the consortium alone was as high as 24,000 US dollars.

Thinking of this, Wang Ye couldn't help but sigh secretly, Lao Mei's wealth is really unimaginable, after all, under the effect of the dollar and oil economic system, Lao Mei's money comes too quickly and too easily, and the Soviet Union is simply hanging up and beating in this aspect, and as for the country, there is no shadow of being dumped.

After all, in China, now the soldiers can't open their arms to eat, which is like the old American troops, almost all of them are canned luncheon meat with pure meat, they are all eaten and thrown away, and bluntly say that they don't like this thing, just a few days ago, the relevant personnel of the Iron Fist Security Company, when they sent more than 100 rescued marines to the camp of the American troops, they were almost directly envious and cried, and the food, treatment, and conditions of the people were simply not said!

As for weapons, it is even more incomparable, the ordinary combat teams of the front-line troops in China are still equipped with automatic rifles and semi-automatic rifles, and there is no firepower output if there is no money, for this, Wang Ye has never doubted it, which is like Lao Mei, just say that their mixed army of the three countries, just the grenade machine gun of the Red Star Consortium, has bought a total of more than 2,000 units, and on average, two and a half people have a grenade machine gun, who can stand it?

Even Wang Ye suspects that if one day in the future, Hollywood directors want to shoot the follow-up parts of "First Blood", it is estimated that the protagonist Rambo in it will not charge with a machine gun, at least with a grenade machine gun, and then ride as a thousand, and directly break out all the thousands of enemies, so as to be awesome enough.

"Alas! I still have to find a way to get the wool of the old beauty! It's a little bit of money! ”

"But how? It's a problem."

In the office, as the sun set, Wang Ye was thinking about this problem, and the whole person was very melancholy.

The next day, March 22.

Mike Wade came with Juliet and a small negotiation team, and finally after heated discussions and arguments, the total amount of the order was finally determined to be 90 million.

In the middle of the negotiations, Mike Wade and Wang Ye bluntly said that 90 million is indeed not the limit of the negotiations granted to him by the Hexagon, but there is a certain amount of leeway in life, this price is very appropriate, not too high and not too low, in general, it is bland, and there will be no other problems.

Wang Ye has no opinion on this.

After all, even if it is sold for 90 million US dollars, the total price is less than a quarter, and the consortium still has a very terrifying profit, the reason is very simple, a pickup truck is normally sold for 3,000 US dollars, there is a lot of profit, according to the requirements of the United States, bulletproof steel plates, bulletproof glass, mud off-road tires, tire self-inflation systems and other contents have been added, the cost increase is limited, but the consortium's quotation is directly five times higher, that is, it has reached 15,000 US dollars.

And 15,000 US dollars, a quarter of the reduction will still leave more than 11,000 US dollars, click to make money!

"Happy working together!"

"Happy working together!"

In the end, Wang Ye and Mike Wade shook hands with a smile, and even if the deal was reached, the consortium would arrange the delivery as soon as possible to ensure the supply of the United States, Britain and France to the liquidation of the Akandi Restoration Congress.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Mike Wade left with his men.

"Factory director, news from Saudi Arabia."

As soon as Wang Ye returned to the office, he heard a report from the staff.

"What's wrong?"

Wang Ye asked, and at the same time reached out and took the report handed over by the staff, and at the same time, the staff quickly explained:

"Since last week, armed groups in the north and south of Saudi Arabia have become more frequent again."

"And the reason why it is called an operation, not a previous attack, is because, according to the description in the report, this time they attacked almost in the form of war, unlike the past, which was mainly a sneak attack."

"Director, look at the description in the document."

"These armed groups seem to have been affected by Pakistan's mobile warfare, and they have also started this large-scale rapid mobile combat mode, which has already caused great damage to the Saudi side."

In the voice of the staff, Wang Ye was reading the report in his hand, which was basically similar to what the staff described, although in the past, these armed organizations also relied heavily on cars to carry out high-mobility sneak attacks, but in the past, they generally did not invest a lot in a sneak attack, only one or two hundred people, and if they could sneak attack, they would sneak attack, and if they couldn't, they would run.

But now, with the use of high-efficiency air defense equipment and the destruction of rotorcraft air raid tactics, they have abandoned the former "sneak attack" combat mode, and have launched a frontal attack on Saudi targets with a high degree of mobility, just like Pakistan's operation against India.

In this way, Saudi Arabia is naturally tired of coping, after all, the defenders of each oil base are limited, and they are simply unable to deal with a frontal attack of such a scale, and even from the report, there have been several emergency retreats of oil bases, that is to say, troops, security personnel, and oil workers have abandoned the oil base and run away!

As a result, the entire oil base was burned.

"Where did they get so many people?"

"With such a huge army, there is still such a force?"

After reading the report document in his hand, Wang Ye couldn't help frowning, and at the same time said to himself, the staff member could only shake his head and say:

"I don't know, maybe the Soviet Union has increased its support?"

"From the desert to North Africa, people have been mobilized to help?"

Wang Ye sighed, put the report document on the table, and then patted it and said:

"Where did this come from? It wasn't sent by Satler, was it? ”

The staff member shook his head and said:

"No, it was sent directly by our office in Riyadh, entrusted by China."

"It's all public or semi-public information."

Wang Ye nodded, and then couldn't help but let out a long sigh and said:

"I guess soon Sattaler's letter for help will be sent."

"I hope that our Iron Fist troops can go to their country as soon as possible and start carrying out security and combat missions!"

"But our troops, the combat effectiveness is still forming, and it is not a good thing to rush into battle."

Regarding Wang Ye's statement, the staff member nodded, and then added:

"By the way, the factory director, and then there are Iran and Iraq."

"In the winter, they just calmed down for a while, and recently as the temperature warmed, large-scale military operations began again, and it was initiated by Iraq, and it seems that they want to win some results."

"The situation is not very clear at the moment, but it seems to be a hot fight."

Hearing the staff say this, Wang Ye was silent for a few seconds, and then instructed the staff again:

"I'm going to return home on the 25th."

"It's been a lot of time to come out this time, the work of the Iron Fist Security Company has also been on the right track, the office has been settled, and everything is developing steadily and well."

"As for the negotiation with Lao Mei, although the most critical cooperation has not been reached, that cooperation cannot be rushed, plus there are a lot of domestic things piled up, and this cooperation with Mike Wade has also been reached, and there is no point in continuing to wait."

"Arrange a plane for me!"

The staff member nodded and said:

"Yes!"

Then, the staff left the office, leaving only Wang Ye sitting there, watching the sun gradually slant to the west, and the sky was full of burning clouds, which looked exceptionally beautiful.

In fact, when negotiating with Mike Wade today, Wang Ye also read a lot of information from his words.

For example, in order to control the price of oil, the United States is trying to mediate between Iraq and Iran, after all, now that the war on the Saudi side is becoming more and more severe, oil prices will definitely continue to rise, and if Iraq and Iran, the two major oil-producing countries, can stop the war and turn to development, then with the increase in their production, then the global oil shipments will inevitably increase rapidly, which will lead to a decline in global oil prices.

In the past, this happened as well.

But it is clear that neither for Iraq nor for Iran they do not want a ceasefire.

For Iraq, because the "sunk cost" represented by the ceasefire is too high, and it has been fought for so many years, not to mention the issue of face for the time being, and the problems of economic and domestic public opinion alone, it is impossible for Sa Damu to agree so easily, after all, so much money has been invested, and no results have been obtained, how can he explain to the country? Where do you give your face? How can you command such a large country in the future?

As for Iran, they are not willing to admit defeat, after all, the war was provoked by Iraq on its own initiative, can Iran still take a step back and accept a ceasefire at some cost? That is naturally impossible, because war broke out as soon as their official stubble was changed, and if there is a ceasefire in the form of peace now, it will inevitably lead to unstable buttocks!

The end result was that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union were willing to sell weapons to these two countries.

The reason why the United States does not sell is very simple, since you are not obedient to the ceasefire, then I will let you have no weapons to use, how can you fight a war without weapons? Isn't there a natural ceasefire?

As for the Soviet Union, in the past history, with the death of Xunzong, the changes and pressures of the domestic and international situation, many changes in people's hearts, etc., in fact, the Soviet Union has a feeling that it is a little unbearable, so it also hopes that Iraq and Iran can cease fire, so they also made the same operation, that is, not to sell weapons.

In this way, in the face of the two countries that had no weapons to buy and were unwilling to cease fire, the east naturally began to frantically pick up orders, and the troops breathed a sigh of relief.

But here's the problem.

This time, it's very different.

The most important thing is the Soviet Union, now the United States wants a ceasefire in Iraq and Iran, the Soviet Union does not think so, after all, only war, the price of oil can remain high, and they can use this to grab a lot of profits.

In this way, there is a high probability that the US arms embargo plan will not be carried out, because if they do not sell, the Soviet Union will sell it with a click, and the money will be made by the Soviet Union.

"So, what's next?"

"And what can we do and what do we get out of it?"

The room became darker and darker, and Wang Ye couldn't help but muttered to himself.

The next day, March 23.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Wang Ye was packing his luggage in his room, when at this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"Come in!"

Accompanied by Wang Ye's voice, I saw the staff on duty push open the door and say:

"The factory director, suddenly received a phone call."

Hearing the staff say this, Wang Ye couldn't help but laugh:

"Don't tell me, it's that Juliet again!"

"She's pestering me, isn't she?"

Faced with Wang Ye's statement, the staff member smiled and said:

"Director, you're thinking too much!"

"Not Juliet, but also an American, who calls himself Padraic, says he was introduced by Mr. Mike Wade, and wants to meet with the director of the factory and say he has business to discuss."

Hearing this, Wang Ye couldn't help frowning, he didn't find a person named Padraic in his mind, and then couldn't help but ask:

"What about the others? Didn't he say anything? ”

"Since he wants to do business, he has to say what department he belongs to, right? Black Palace? The Hexagon? Still is? ”

Regarding Wang Ye's question, the staff shook his head and said:

"He said it, he said he didn't belong to the U.S. authorities."

"But what exactly he did, he didn't say a word, just said that he wanted to see the factory director."

At that moment, Wang Ye couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and smiled a little helplessly:

"Why do Americans like to play this routine? It's naïve! ”

"Okay, let him come! It's arranged for this afternoon. ”

Facing Wang Ye's order, the staff member nodded and said:

"Yes!"

Then he turned around and left the room, leaving only Wang Ye's eyes flickering slightly, because Wang Ye suddenly remembered what Mike Wade had said a few days ago, about what he had said when discussing the US arms consortium!