The ninth and thirtieth chapter is more promising than cheating
Chapter 930: More promising than cheating
There are two main categories of "buyers" for arms dealers: one is the government, anti-government armed forces or guerrilla organizations in war-torn areas, and the other is international terrorists.
For the former type of buyers, arms dealers often respond to their requests, selling weapons to government forces without "treating" the anti-government armed forces, because the longer the war between the two, the greater the arms dealers' profits.
Arms dealers have no scruples about the latter type of buyers, and they have therefore become "boosters" for global terrorist activities.
These arms dealers don’t care how many lives the products they sell will cause. The types of weapons they sell range from small firearms to heavy firearms, from land and sea weapons to air weapons, from ordinary weapons to high-tech weapons, and from hard-kill equipment.
We have everything from soft-kill equipment to soft-kill equipment.
A few countries and regions, in order to obtain formidable nuclear weapons and biological and chemical weapons, do everything possible to purchase various raw materials and weapons components from clandestine arms dealers.
Not long ago, the Russian military publicly admitted that Russia has lost more than a dozen nuclear warheads. According to observer analysis, these nuclear warheads are likely to have entered the logistics of secret transactions. At the same time, it is not ruled out that some nuclear warheads have been used by individual countries.
or obtained by the organization.
For a long historical period in the past, the major arms exporting countries adhered to the principle of "only selling their own obsolete weapons and eliminating them." Therefore, the world arms market was full of second- and third-rate weapons and equipment. Even in the 1960s and 1970s, they had already suffered
Some obsolete heavy firearms from World War II can still find buyers.
Things are different now. The main battle weapons installed by the armies of developed countries, including the most advanced fighter planes, warships, tanks, anti-aircraft missiles, etc., can all be purchased in open arms transactions.
In order to earn more hard currency to reorganize their armaments as quickly as possible, some arms-exporting countries have even sold some of their main battle weapons that have not yet been officially equipped by their armies to eager buyers.
"Damn, these people dare to sell anything..."
Zhuang Rui was stunned when Peng Fei said that he even sold the main battle weapons of some troops. If this happened in China, it would be an unimaginable disaster.
"Isn't it strange? Our country has sold weapons to Russia since the beginning of the century, which amounts to tens of billions of dollars at least. It's just smuggling at the national level..."
Peng Fei curled his lips. The reason why he knew this information was because they themselves had performed relevant handover tasks, and Peng Fei's ability to obtain these arms in just one week also relied on the convenience provided by certain departments.
Peng Fei is not a brainless person, and of course he will not buy these heavy weapons with such a big fanfare. His behavior has been tacitly approved by some levels, otherwise it is just to cause trouble for Zhuang Rui.
"Damn, those people who sell drugs with their heads up, if compared with these arms dealers, they are just like fucking street vendors..."
Zhuang Rui shook his head and uttered a curse word. The most fundamental reason for the world's arms trade is profit.
Arms smuggling is the most profitable business in the world, even several times more profitable than drug smuggling. Some arms smugglers are worth billions of dollars, and some total annual income is even roughly the same as the gross national product of a medium-sized country.
quite.
Huge profits have prompted arms dealers to "succeed one after another". When one group falls, a new group stands up again. For their own interests, some countries and groups openly or covertly condone and support some arms dealers, and many arms dealers receive certain benefits.
Thanks to the connivance and protection of some major powers, he was able to escape justice for a long time.
In addition, arms dealers use "barter trade" instead of "money trade" in their trading methods.
For example, if some countries in Africa want to obtain arms, they exchange diamonds for arms, eliminating the need for money laundering and directly converting them into "legal income." As a result, arms smuggling, which is originally difficult to detect, becomes more and more confusing.
"Brother Zhuang, look at this..."
Peng Fei got excited as he spoke, took out a folded piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Zhuang Rui.
"What's this?"
Zhuang Rui took it and saw that it was written in English. But when he looked at the content carefully, he was shocked.
"Holy crap, the unit price of the American M1 series tank is US$3 million, and it also comes with 20 rounds of artillery shells?"
Zhuang Rui's eyes immediately widened when he saw the line at the top.
Peng Fei chuckled and said: "Brother Zhuang, keep looking down, there are a lot of good things..."
Zhuang Rui then looked down. The unit price of the Russian T-72 tank of the same grade was only 1.8 million US dollars, which was nearly half cheaper than the old American one. Zhuang Rui finally understood that the price list of the arms dealer had been deliberately made
A comparison.
Peng Fei suddenly came to Zhuang Rui, pointed to the quotation below and said: "Brother Zhuang, what do you think we buy an anti-air azimuth missile system? It doesn't seem expensive, only more than 10 million US dollars..."
"Go away, we go to sea to find treasures, you think you are going to fight..."
When Zhuang Rui saw the quotation, his head was filled with black threads. This was actually the quotation for the Russian C-300 air defense missile system, and it was only sold for US$12 million per set.
Speaking of the Russian C-300 air defense missile system, you may not understand it, but its performance has a higher hit rate than the famous American "Patriot" air defense missile system, and its price is only half of the "Patriot".
Zhuang Rui finally discovered that with his own wealth, if he wanted to equip it, he could probably convert this merchant ship into a destroyer. As long as he had money, there seemed to be nothing he couldn't do in the arms smuggling world.
"Okay, go to the bilge and keep an eye on it. Don't let the crew know about these weapons..."
Zhuang Rui waved his hand feebly, saying that he had bought a ship for nothing, but he did not expect that the expenditure on these weapons alone would cost hundreds of millions. He really didn't know the value of those undersea treasures and whether he could earn back his expenditure.
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There is a desert island not far from the Strait of Malacca. The entire island is long and narrow, with a depth of four to five hundred meters. It naturally forms a very hidden harbor. It cannot be seen from the outside ocean. There is a hidden island inside.
A port with a deep draft.
At this time, there was a huge oil tanker more than 200 meters long parked in the port. There were seven or eight people standing at the front of the tanker. On the deck not far from their feet, there were several pools of bright red bloodstains. It was obvious that something had happened on the deck.
Some unpleasant things happened.
"Brother, this tanker of oil can be sold for 100 million US dollars no matter what. And this tanker can be worth several hundred million no matter what? The other party is only willing to give 80 million. Isn't it too dark?"
If Zhuang Rui were here, he would definitely recognize that the person who just spoke was the Qianmen Fire General he had seen.
This guy is completely different from the one he wore in suits and ties a few months ago. He wears a tight-fitting vest on his upper body, with muscles all over his body. A golden bullet chain is slung across his body from his shoulder. He looks a bit like Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Hardworking style.
"The 200,000-ton oil tanker contains a total of more than 1 million barrels of crude oil. According to the market price, it will cost at least 150 million U.S. dollars. But, Lao Wu, if someone died this time, there is no way for the owner to redeem the goods.
, we can only deal with it at a low price to others..."
The person who spoke was none other than Liu Minghui. Brother Hui's image was very different from a few months ago. He was wearing an American Navy camouflage uniform and a pair of big sunglasses on his face. His originally fair and chubby skin was now worn by the sea.
Although I was tanned by the sun, I was in good spirits.
Since they left Macau, they spent a total of 20 million US dollars to buy a frigate that was obsolete by the Russian military from the arms black market.
However, due to Liu Minghui's financial constraints, the missiles, depth bombs and anti-submarine torpedoes on the frigate were all dismantled by the other party. In addition to a few heavy machine guns, the 100mm naval gun on the bow was also for show.
Not a single shell.
This is why the cost of building a frigate is relatively low. If it were a destroyer or a torpedo ship, US$20 million would only be enough to buy a set of electronic equipment on the ship.
But in Malacca, having such a frigate is enough to make the new pirate group headed by Liu Minghui prosper.
In just two months, Liu Minghui has already robbed three merchant ships traveling to and from Malacca for trade. The ship in front of him was the one belonging to the Nepali shipping company "Fratelli Da" that he had just hijacked half a month ago.
"Mato Company" tanker.
It was just that there was a small accident when hijacking the oil tanker. When he warned the tanker to stop and board the ship, Hui Ge was not calm enough and shot and killed two crew members. This made the hijacking incident happen.
A little change.
Originally, when pirates hijacked ships, especially expensive but difficult-to-handle oil tankers, the ultimate goal of pirates was to get the shipowner to pay a sum of money for redemption.
But it would be difficult to deal with the death of a person, so Brother Hui contacted a large buyer in Malaysia through the previous method and prepared to sell the ship and oil to him, but the price was very low, and he only sold the oil.
Half of the money is equivalent to giving away the boat for free.
"Eighty million, just eighty million, boss, there is still a future in this. Counting this one shot, in just over two months, we have made almost one billion RMB. It's so damn good...
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Huo will be very adaptable to this kind of life of licking blood from the edge of a knife. He used to work hard for decades and live in fear every day, only to earn a net worth of four to five billion. Unexpectedly, after more than two months at sea, he has already exceeded his previous wealth.
I’ve made enough money in half my life.
"The ancients sincerely did not deceive me..."
Brother Hui suddenly said something literate without any beginning or end, but he thought of the deeds of his ancestors across the sea. He dared to believe that what his father and grandfather said were true. This business has a much brighter future than Qianmen Scam.
