When he understood the significance of the war preparation warehouse, Vargas' eyes turned red and he gave An Qi a big hug.
An Qi could feel that Vargas's body was shaking.
God knows how much pressure Vargas was under during this time.
Coming to southern Africa, Vargas was actually prepared to be left out, ridiculed, and even blackmailed.
But as Mires said, both the Southern African federal government and the Nyasaland state government gave Vargas the highest courtesy.
When Vargas arrived in Pretoria, Roque received Vargas according to the standards for receiving foreign heads of state. This was beyond the standards for Vargas. After all, even if Vargas has potential, he is only the governor of the state of Miami.
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Rand Bank also gave Vargas the highest courtesy.
The Mizhou iron ore is very valuable, but the Mizhou government's shares in the iron ore are limited. Vargas does not know the specific reserves of the Mizhou iron ore, but according to the current mining volume, Rand Bank has to recover the 200 million rand.
It will take a hundred years to dig ore.
This doesn’t even require interest!
Now Angel brings Vargas directly to the war preparation warehouse called "the last line of defense in southern Africa". What is sincerity? What is atmosphere? What is friendship?
This is!
"General Angel, Southern Africa is Brazil's eternal friend. I want to write this into the constitution and write it on Brazil's currency, so that Brazilians will always remember the brotherly support that Southern Africa gave to Brazil when Brazil needed it.
Help." Vargas was extremely excited, not only because he was moved, but also because he saw a vague light on the road ahead.
With such strong support in southern Africa, Vargas would have no shame in facing Jiangdong’s elders if he did not overthrow the military government.
So Vargas now subconsciously uses "Brazil" instead of "Mizhou".
"Your Excellency, Governor, Southern Africa has always been generous to its friends, and we will not let down any of our feelings." Angie is qualified to say this. Even for the countries of the Southern African Union, whether they are exploited or not depends on who they are with.
Compare.
In the words of some people, Southern Africa is indeed squeezing the countries of the Southern African Union.
However, compared with the former sovereign states of the Alliance countries, Southern Africa is simply an angel. At least Southern Africa will not only plunder without construction, nor exchange glass balls for gold, nor will it kill Africans for fun at will.
The weapons and equipment Vargas hopes to purchase from southern Africa include: 360,000 rifles, 50,000 pistols, 7,500 general-purpose machine guns, 300 heavy mortars, 900 light mortars, and 1,500 fully automatic grenade launchers.
250 tanks and armored vehicles, 100 tailor-made aircraft, and ten ghost submarines.
In principle, except for ghost submarines, southern Africa can be fully satisfied.
It seems that 360,000 rifles are quite a lot. In fact, there is no need to deploy them from other places. This combat readiness warehouse can fully satisfy them.
As for the ghost submarine, it is not impossible to sell it. If you are worried about insufficient training time and unable to ensure combat effectiveness, you can sell it with the crew and the boat together. Of course, the crew must be "free employment".
It doesn’t matter if you don’t hire them. It doesn’t matter whether you can defeat the decommissioned and refurbished destroyers of the United States. The key is not to ruin the reputation of southern Africa’s weapons and equipment.
If the most advanced submarines of Nima cannot even defeat the obsolete destroyers, not to mention how complacent the Americans will be, who will they want to sell to in the future? Who will dare to sell?
You cannot do business at a loss. The customer is God, and you must provide complete and thoughtful services to God.
Opening a box at random, Vargas was very satisfied with the fresh smell of Lee Enfield gun oil. In the past, Vargas might have scorned the smell of gun oil, but now he feels that the smell of this gun oil is so lovely and intoxicating.
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"7.7mm caliber, direct-pull action, ammunition capacity of ten rounds, 1000-meter range, total gun length 1250mm." An Qi suddenly laughed out loud when she said this, which was meaningful: "The Lee Enfield produced by some companies,
The barrel life of the gun is only 200 rounds, while the Lee Enfield produced in southern Africa has a barrel life of more than 2,000 rounds."
200 is not black. Lee Enfield initially used Kodak smokeless powder, which was highly corrosive and required the barrel to be replaced after about 200 rounds of continuous shooting.
"The quality of weapons in Southern Africa is obvious to all. If our troops use weapons produced in Southern Africa, they will definitely be able to beat the Yankees back into the Atlantic Ocean!" Vargas was full of confidence. He still noticed the rifles used by the Angel guards, which were similar to those of Lee.
·Enfield was different, but Vargas was smart enough not to ask.
Vargas still understands the principle that you get what you pay for. Southern Africa has opened up Lee Enfield for sale, which means that Southern Africa already has more advanced weapons and has no regard for Lee Enfield.
Already, even Southern Africa is destocking through sales of Lee Enfields.
The fact is indeed the case. The Southern African National Defense Force is currently equipped with semi-automatic Nyasaland rifles. The performance is indeed good and the price is indeed expensive. To put it bluntly, selling it to the Brazilians is a waste.
Just go to stock. Don’t be angry. Many times you want to buy stock but you can’t. In the situation Vargas got, although the rifle sold to Fragozo by the Americans was also a Lee Enfield, its performance was
It's definitely not as good as Southern Africa sold to Lee Enfield in Michigan, and the price is even more expensive.
There must be off-site factors involved. As for arms purchases, everyone knows what’s going on.
What surprised Roque was that Vargas paid as much as he had to in the military purchase contracts between the United States and Southern Africa, without even a penny of kickbacks. This kind of high-spiritedness is not only in South America, but also in a country that prides itself on being a "civilized society."
Very rare in Europe.
When Angie and Vargas visited the war readiness warehouse, the "Polaris" transport ship belonging to the Nyasaland Ocean Shipping Company, flying the flag of Southern Africa, had arrived off the coast of Victoria Harbor.
Victoria is the capital of the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. In order to transport iron ore back to southern Africa, the Iron Four Corners Company signed a contract with the Port of Victoria and has an independent terminal and railway. In order to expand its shipping capacity, the Iron Four Corners Company has invested in the Port of Victoria.
millions of rand, and hired Umbrella Company mercenaries to manage the terminal.
The "Polaris" is an 8,000-ton transport ship. The ship is loaded with some materials ordered by the state of Miami from southern Africa. Most of these materials are daily necessities. Brazil's industrial base is weak, and many things need to be purchased from southern Africa.
purchase.
What makes people very helpless is that, let alone industrial products, some commodities can be supplied in Mizhou, but they still have to be purchased from southern Africa.
For example, coffee.
It’s speechless to say. After the economic crisis broke out, Brazil’s coffee economy was completely bankrupt. The coffee beans produced could not be sold and had to rot in the fields. Many short-sighted plantation owners even leveled coffee gardens and replaced them with other cash crops.
So now Brazil actually has to buy its coffee from southern Africa.
You must know that Brazil once supplied two-thirds of the world’s coffee
In the bridge of the "Polaris", Captain Abe and Second Secretary Raphael of the Michigan State House were tasting southern African coffee.
"Actually, these coffees are not produced locally in Southern Africa, but are produced in East India and shipped to Southern Africa for processing. Compared with Brazilian coffee, the coffee from East India is pretty good." Abe said with a touch of pride, East India
Like Brazil, it only grows coffee but has no ability to further process it.
Therefore, companies in southern Africa import coffee beans from Brazil and East India, grind them into powder, and then add milk and sugar according to the proportion to make instant coffee, which can be brewed directly when drinking.
In the eyes of some people, this seems to take away a lot of fun and the ritual of drinking coffee.
Actually, it’s all nonsense. Drinking coffee can have a sense of ritual. You must have never seen the world.
The coffee produced in southern Africa is packaged in large packages. One bag can brew twelve liters, which is enough to meet the needs of a shift.
This standard is determined based on the capacity of military kettles in Southern Africa. The capacity of the military kettles distributed by the Southern African army is one liter. If it is too large, it will be too heavy to carry. If it is too little, it will not be enough to drink. If a person drinks only one liter of water a day,
That's enough, after all, it can be supplemented in other ways.
“The taste is pretty good, but it’s still not as good as cat poop coffee.” Raphael’s hobby is a bit special, cat poop, eh
“God, that’s not cat poop coffee, that’s Golden State Coffee.” Abe’s face was full of confusion. Damn, using this name was just deliberately disgusting.
“It’s pretty much the same anyway,” Raphael laughed.
At this time, a patrol boat belonging to the Brazilian military government suddenly approached the "Polaris" and issued a flag to order the "Polaris" to stop for inspection.
An 8,000-ton ocean-going transport ship, almost 120 meters long, 18 meters wide and 30 meters high.
The patrol boats of the Brazilian military government are definitely not more than 100 tons. Next to the "Polaris", they are like a rabbit next to an elephant.
“The military government’s patrol boats, will they stop?” Abe asked Rafael for his opinion.
“It’s a stop, can you call for backup?” Raphael didn’t agree to stop the ship. If it stopped, it would be meat on the chopping block.
“Okay.” Rafael immediately ordered the crew to send a report to Victoria Harbor. It was said that the Umbrella Company was also equipped with patrol boats in Victoria Harbor.
Patrol boats and patrol boats are also different. The patrol boats of the Brazilian military government are only equipped with a Maxim heavy machine gun, while the patrol boats of the Umbrella Company are equipped with a 40mm fully automatic grenade launcher.
Before the telegram was sent, the patrol boat of the Brazilian military government suddenly fired a warning shot in front of the "Polaris" channel.
咚咚咚嚚
Maxim's voice was deep and deep, and a wave of water splashed up on the channel in front of the "Polaris". No matter how big the civilian ship was, it had no ability to resist in front of the military ship.
But not necessarily.
“If you dare to shoot, run over it and sink it!” Abe suddenly became furious and dared to shoot at the southern African merchant ship. He was so disgusting.
