A few minutes later, Qin Fei and Victor sat in chairs under the shade of a tree, drinking tea and watching workers use forklifts and cranes to lift the Mi-8MPS helicopters that had been divided into large and small parts from the truck.
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"Victor, when I talked to you on the phone yesterday, why didn't you tell me that UH-1 was not available?" Qin Fei took a sip of tea and tilted his head to ask Victor.
Victor spread his hands: "My UH-1 was originally purchased in Yemen. In the early days, the US military sold a batch to the Yemeni government, but later it was replaced with the new UH-1HP model, and the old model was eliminated.
, I asked friends there to help me get three planes. Yemen is the closest to your place and the easiest to transport. I didn’t expect it to be a big trouble. "
"What's the trouble? What kind of trouble can make you, an arms dealer with great hands and eyes, feel a headache?" Qin Fei teased Victor.
"Big trouble!" Victor took a sip of tea and said coldly: "Those three UH-1s were directly blown into parts. Even if I get them, it will be useless."
"What's going on?" Qin Fei asked.
Victor glanced at Qin Fei and said as if he were an alien: "Don't you watch the news?"
Qin Fei shook his head: "I just came back from Stockholm and didn't pay much attention."
Victor said: "The situation in Yemen is quite tense now. The smell of gunpowder is very strong. It is expected that a fight will start soon. People from many countries have begun to retreat. My three UH-1s were originally from the government military. As a result,
Yesterday, those stupid pigs put the plane at the airport and it was blown up by the opposition armed forces with mountain cannons. What can I do? If I go to you to find other UH-1s, it will take a lot of time. I'm afraid you will have to wait here too.
It was too late, so out of desperation, I bought you three Mi-8MPS in Egypt. But think about it, this thing is indeed more expensive than the UH-1. I charged you an extra US$20,000 for one unit, which is actually a loss.
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"It's an old model, or a second-hand helicopter. I guess your profit is not low, right?" Qin Fei didn't believe that this tough guy would do a loss-making business.
Victor said: "Yes, it is not expensive to buy. These Mi-8s were purchased from the Soviets when Sadat was in power in Egypt. They are almost eliminated now, but the Mi-8
The leather is solid and durable, and the engine life is more than 12,000 hours. The ones you picked are all good, and they will probably last another two to three thousand hours!"
"What should I do if it breaks?" Qin Fei asked.
"If it breaks, come to me?" Victor pointed to the busy workers in front: "Look, these are my maintenance team, otherwise how do you think I put all those weapons and equipment together after I dismantled them?
These people are helping me. My company has a maintenance team of nearly two hundred people, which is dedicated to doing this kind of thing. It’s not easy to raise a team, so I’ll charge you the price, which is not expensive at all, okay?”
Qin Fei was stunned for a moment, and immediately felt like he had been cheated.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Why do I feel like I've been cheated? If something breaks, I'll contact you? How much will I charge?"
"We are all friends. Talking about money will hurt our feelings." Victor continued to drink tea while saying: "But if you don't talk about money, it will hurt your body. I will hurt my body. After all, I still have to collect the money, but
I’ll give you a preferential price. After all, we are friends and I also need money to support my team, right?”
Qin Fei was stunned again. He realized that he was really weak in front of an old man like Victor.
I used to think that I had bargained for a bargain, but I didn't expect that Victor didn't care about lowering the price for you now, just because he was afraid that you wouldn't use it, just like the door of a casino is always open, not afraid that you would come in and win money, but just afraid that you wouldn't come.
As long as you use his stuff, if anything breaks, of course you have to contact him. The dispatched personnel and after-sales service all cost money.
It’s not unreasonable why Victor is able to do such a prosperous business in the arms business. This guy is not the kind of person who just kills or buries. He not only sells equipment, but also services and parts.
As long as you have needs, this iron rooster can do it for you.
"Why do I feel like I've been fooled?" Qin Fei looked at Victor with a look of displeasure on his face, "I'm afraid he will inevitably be ripped off by you in the future?"
"Why do you say it so harshly?" Victor pretended to be unhappy and said, "There is still friendship between us after all, right? You saved my life after all, right?"
After speaking, he stood up and shouted to the group of workers who had removed all the parts of the aircraft: "Chekov, take your people and send the aircraft into the fighting arena. It is big enough.
Assemble it inside, and then take it out after it’s assembled.”
Chekov, the leading technical instructor, responded loudly and began to organize people to drag the parts into the fighting arena on trolleys.
The fighting gym is enclosed, spacious enough inside, and has a large doorway. It is simply a natural hangar.
"Qin, your place is pretty good, it's big enough!" He looked around: "How big is your camp?"
Qin Fei said: "I have seen the lease contract and it is twenty square kilometers."
As he spoke, he pointed to the coastline and mounds in the distance, "It's the same over there, but many places are empty for the time being."
Victor suddenly scratched his head and said, "Qin, there is something I want to cooperate with you on."
"What's the matter?" Qin Fei looked wary.
Victor said: "Don't worry, I won't hurt you."
"you say."
"I want to rent a piece of land from you to use as my transit warehouse. I will build a large hangar there and a large warehouse to assemble the weapons and equipment I sell to Africa." Victor said: "You
I know that many places do not have the conditions for assembly at all. I have gone to many countries to deliver weapons, and sometimes I have troubles. The conditions are very bad. They don’t even have a good building. Assemble it here, and then take care of the things along the way.
If you have military relations, you can transport it directly or fly it there."
"Why don't you find Lawrence? He is also an old friend of yours. You can just rent the military warehouse." Qin Fei said.
Victor snorted coldly: "I don't want to be too close to him. This person is very greedy. If I pile up all the weapons and equipment in his warehouse, I'm afraid they can sell them all. I don't even know! I need it."
People who are trustworthy are like you. Besides, you are all mercenaries here, which means I have someone to guard the warehouse for free."
Qin Fei did not expect Victor to propose this method of cooperation.
But when I think about it, there seems to be no harm, it's just a matter of benefit.
Free inspection of the warehouse? Damn it! This iron rooster’s abacus is really too quick!
"I can help you, what benefits can I get?" Qin Fei asked.
A smile immediately spread across Victor's face, and he said with a smile: "Qin, we are friends, right? Do we talk about money among friends?"
"Don't talk about money?" Qin Fei also smiled, pointing to the aircraft parts and BPM-1: "You give these to me, we don't talk about money."
Victor's smile suddenly melted away like ice cream under the poisonous sun. He thought for a while and said: "Let's do this, I will pay you rent, or use weapons and equipment to pay off debts, or help you maintain your weapons and equipment for free.
,how?"
This idea seemed to be a good one, and Qin Fei was immediately tempted. After all, it could significantly reduce operating costs, so there was nothing wrong with it. Anyway, the territory was very large, and it would be a waste to lose it.
Suddenly a light flashed in his mind.
"Victor, I have something to ask you. Actually, it's not me asking you. It's Lawrence asking me to be his lobbyist."
"Lawrence?" Victor froze, then understood immediately, and waved his hand: "Fuck, that guy wants you to be a lobbyist and let me buy him two SU-27s cheaply, right?"
"Well, you know it too?" Qin Fei asked.
Victor raised the corners of his mouth and sneered: "How could I not know? He is a lunatic. Last time I bought a batch of equipment for their military and I haven't paid off the balance yet, and he still owes me three million US dollars.
You actually have the nerve to buy an SU-27 from me?"
"No." Qin Fei said, "What you just said inspired me a little."
Victor said: "What inspiration? The SU-27 is different. This is not a backward model. It is at least the best among the three generations of aircraft. There is no way to buy it without real money. The price is known to the whole world. The one made in the Soviet Union is at least 3,000.
One unit costs more than 10,000 US dollars, even if it is made in Ukraine, it still costs 25 million US dollars, which is still the ex-factory price!"