[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill":3,"chapter-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-151":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Arms Tycoon: Starting by Conning a $10 Billion Order",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2077930,3287,"Chapter 151","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-151",151,"\u003Cp>This represented profits exceeding three hundred percent, trampling every law on earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Boss, where are we heading now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>asked the white man driving the truck.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Where? Naturally, we first secure the goods, then peddle another batch of weapons to the factions hostile to these Red Army forces!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Will said with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"That doesn't seem right!\" The white man driving seemed to feel this was highly improper.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, Will stated:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Remember, as a qualified arms dealer, there is no right or wrong, only profit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In fact, arms agents for the DWS platform like Will\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>were currently numerous across Africa.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Among them, some had been eliminated for playing both sides,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>while others had made enormous fortunes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, due to this, even the Ugly Country's military-industrial enterprises had noticed a sharp recent decline in sales.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>For second-hand arms dealers like Will,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the DWS platform offered doorstep delivery with prices roughly one-third those of international arms giants.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Who would still seek out those legitimate arms companies?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Just as now, if Will were to procure from the other party,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>after accounting for customs handling and so on, the procurement price for the same weapons would be at least 800,000 USD.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Meaning, even if he received gold worth 1 million USD,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>he could earn at most 200,000 USD.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yet, that meant risking his life with every step.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Whereas purchasing weapons on the DWS platform required neither long waits nor customs bribes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The profit soared to 700,000; by comparison, anyone who wasn't a fool would know whom to choose.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If not for the recent war between the Ugly Country and Syria, which demanded massive arms supplies\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>to dilute the bleak reality of the arms companies' exports,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the major arms corporations of the Ugly Country would likely be unable to sleep a wink right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, soon a piece of news left these Ugly Country arms merchants utterly stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Following Iran, Syria, Mao Xiong, and other nations successively becoming Diamond VIPs of the DWS platform,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>finally, some equipment price quotes leaked out.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>For instance, the M1A2 Abrams at 4 million USD, and the AH-64E Apache helicopter at 10 million USD.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Such incredibly cheap weapon prices left the Ugly Country's military-industrial sector dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment, they finally understood why Syria had the confidence to stand firm against the Ugly Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If weapons were all this cheap, Syria could even arm its entire population.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Every single person would become an enemy of the Ugly Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>When the intelligence department reported this news to the Ugly Army's military command,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the commanders all exchanged strange looks.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In reality, if the Ugly Army's military command were willing to procure weapons from the DWS Platform,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>their war costs would drop to an unimaginable level.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But the question was, could they actually do that?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Of course not!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Not to mention they had long ago labeled the DWS Platform as a terrorist platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If they bought from it, wouldn't that be funding the enemy?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Furthermore, even if they could ignore these concerns and wanted to buy,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>would the military-industrial complex agree?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the Ugly Nation, the military-industrial complex included Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boyin Company, and Northrop Grumman, among others.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Back then, during the Afghanistan War alone,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>these Ugly Nation arms dealers earned 2.02 trillion dollars from the government, equivalent to about 12.85 trillion yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The combined power of these companies was such that even the Little White House had to heed their opinions.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>With these military-industrial groups in existence,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>even if every weapon on the DWS Platform was dirt cheap,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>there was no chance of them entering the Ugly Army's supply chain system.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even the Wujiao Building had to obey, because even if the military wanted to buy,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the Ugly Nation's Congress would never approve it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Without a fiscal budget, the military could not procure weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was just like how equipment produced by the Dragon Nation had never existed in the Ugly Nation's military supply chain.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because the Ugly Nation's military had clear regulations prohibiting any military equipment from the Dragon Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even if Dragon Nation products were extremely cheap and of excellent quality.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But regulations are regulations.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Years ago, a Ugly Nation contractor landed in prison\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>simply for relabeling military boots produced in the Dragon Nation and slipping them into the Ugly Nation's equipment roster.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The reason this matter was exposed was quite laughable: the military boots produced by the Dragon Nation were simply too good.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Ugly Nation soldiers wore them for a long time without any damage, something that had never happened before.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As a result, the matter was reported up the chain, and thus the scandal came to light.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Therefore, even Lin Yi had never imagined that the DWS Platform could enter the Ugly Nation's military supply chain.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, this was even better.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At the very least, Syria and the Yemeni Hu Sai armed forces didn't need to worry about the Ugly Nation using cheap weapons at the same price as theirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But this price point was far too attractive to other nations.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Soon after Mao Xiong, the Dragon Nation's procurement volume also surpassed 100 million dollars, becoming the sixth Diamond VIP on the DWS Platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The other five were Iran, Syria, Mao Xiong, the Yemeni Hu Sai armed forces, and Hamas.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>With the Spring Festival fast approaching,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the Dragon Nation's military interior convened an emergency meeting over this matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because compared to producing various weapons themselves, the Dragon Nation's military found that weapons on the DWS Platform were much cheaper.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After fierce discussions among leaders from the General Armaments Department, the Logistics Department, the Operations Department, and the major military regions,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>they had to admit that, given a fixed military budget,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>procuring equipment from the DWS Platform was truly a cost-effective choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Of course, the Dragon Nation's interior also understood that mass procurement would impact their domestic military industry.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But even so,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the thrifty Dragon Nation, after deliberation,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>planned to allocate 10% of next year's military budget to procure from the DWS Platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Do not underestimate this 10%.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The military budget decided within the Dragon Nation for 2016 had already exceeded 900 billion Hua Bi.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even 10% of that was 90 billion, equivalent to 15 billion US dollars.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And these 15 billion US dollars would be used to procure some low-cost, cutting-edge weapons and the like from the DWS Platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although the Dragon Nation was capable of manufacturing many of these items itself,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the costs were far higher than those on the DWS Platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Given this, why should the Dragon Nation continue to produce these things itself?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Moreover, allocating 10% of the military budget would not have too great an impact on the Dragon Nation's military enterprises.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Chr\u002F>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>— Author's Notes —\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>(PS: New book seeking flowers, tips, and review tickets; your support is the author's motivation!)\u003C\u002Fp>",1125,"2026-06-16T04:14:27.492Z","2026-06-17T08:50:51.634Z",1,"Qwen3.5 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