Chapter 958: Lanse's Good Suggestion

"Mr. White!"

The people who got off the cruise ship finally gathered together. After Lanse shook hands with them separately, he let them get into the car.

The pier is not a place to talk about things, and neither is the hotel.

Lanse was already very careful, and now that people from the Republic of Jiede have also begun to interfere in Lapa's affairs, he will only be more careful.

The car is not a place to talk about things, so Lanse didn't say a word along the way until the bus stopped at Lanse Manor.

There are quite a few detached small houses here. Sometimes when you need to receive some people, these detached small houses can play a role.

Capital is very efficient because they understand the truth that "time is money" better than politicians.

The group of people simply changed into a set of clean clothes, and then appeared in a reception hall of the main building of the manor. They sat in different places, representing different forces.

And Lanse sat in the middle.

McGray Industry has always been one of the top military-industrial groups in the Federation. The weapon they are most capable of taking out, and also the weapon they are least capable of taking out, is the "McGray Defense Revolver."

Yes, it is the standard equipment of federal police. Hundreds of thousands of federal police are using these weapons, and a simple iteration will be carried out every few years.

In fact, the frequency of changing police pistols is not as high as people imagine. After all, it is impossible for all police to empty the magazine the moment they see a criminal, regardless of what the criminal has actually done.

The federal government and the law will not allow them to do so, and the wealthy will not allow it either.

So most police will not use the weapons issued to them by the police station to shoot at will. At the same time, for those police who like to shoot, most of them will not use the very troublesome small-caliber revolver.

They will buy semi-automatic pistols themselves for modification and then use this.

For example, Chief Bulu of Jincheng has a semi-automatic pistol that can be loaded with eighteen bullets, with stronger firepower and longer battery life.

Don't look at it as just two times more bullets. In actual close-range shooting, the huge advantage is enough for them to preserve their lives to a greater extent.

So in fact, the frequency of changing pistols in the police department should be very low.

Should be.

The reason for using such an uncertain word is that the speed of changing equipment in the police department is actually very fast.

Two years, three years, a huge change of equipment will be carried out.

In the absence of war, millions of weapons can be sold every two or three years. McGray Industry has always been in the first echelon in this industry.

They spent a lot of money to publicize key figures in every state, and even let Congress require local police to maintain at least how many shooting trainings per year in the form of "opinions."

Firearms also have durability. When the number of bullets fired reaches a certain amount, the accuracy will decrease, and it will be easy to miss.

At this time, McGray Industry will begin to sell their weapons to the police department.

As the big brother in the firearms industry, the representative of McGray Industry Group naturally spoke first. "Mr. White, I heard that the Diego government just ate a batch of weapons and equipment worth ten million. Is that so?"

Lanse crossed his legs and nodded. "Yes, I also inquired about it. It was aided by the Republic of Jiede."

"This is a relatively official statement, but I also heard that this is actually the Republic of Jiede's overall change of equipment, and the eliminated weapons were sent here in the name of half-aid and half-sale."

In order to fight against the possible military competition, the Republic of Jiede completed some equipment change plans at the end of last year.

For example, changing soldiers into weapons they produced and designed themselves. Of course, bullets still need to be imported from the Federation. They are currently unable to achieve mass production.

The assembly line is a problem, the metal formula is also a problem, and there is also the gunpowder formula.

The Republic of Jiede is afraid that if the Ya Alliance and the Federation reach the point where they must go to war, at least they will not have such great pressure on logistics.

Suddenly changing a large number of military equipment, if left there, is also a waste. Under the proposal of cabinet members, they exported to Lapa.

The original price might need 20 or 30 million federal sols of military equipment, now it only needs a little over 10 million to buy, and most of them are 80% or 90% new.

As for the more detailed content, Lanse is not very clear.

Listening to Lanse's simple narrative, one of the representatives showed some dissatisfaction on his face. "They are destroying our market. This behavior should be stopped!"

Lanse glanced at the other party, didn't recognize him.

According to reason, the scale of Lapa's arms market will not be too large, at most it is a market of 100 million. There is no need for so many enterprises to swarm in. After all, Congress will give them many orders.

But in fact, Congress's orders are not divided equally. Some people have more, and some people have less.

The core of commercial competition is to drive away the other party. Even if they don't make money in the Lapa market, they can't let their competitors continue to expand and grow.

This world war is an unprecedented opportunity for these military-industrial enterprises, and it is also a fierce internal competition for survival of the fittest.

After the war, there will definitely be some military-industrial groups being annexed or disappearing from the Federation.

And the market of 100 million scale is not small.

"The Lapa government's approach is too disappointing. It seems that we might not get any big orders here."

Someone said something relatively discouraged, including the representative of McGray Industry, whose face also showed a difficult look.

They were one step late, and the fattest order was destroyed by the Republic of Jiede.

Although they can also contact the anti-government armed forces and supply various weapons and equipment to the other party, compared to government procurement, these people may not have much money in their hands, and may not be able to buy much.

Looking at their somewhat lost appearance, Lanse coughed, attracting their attention.

Watching everyone's eyes focus, Lanse smiled and said, "I have an immature idea."

The representative of Gray Industry spoke first. "Please say, Mr. White."

Lanse nodded, sorted out his thoughts again, and then said, "The use of weapons must be firing, shooting, these."

"Bullets are consumables, and the consumption of every battle is huge."

All representatives nodded one after another. The world war has proved this point. They have provided about 10 billion bullets to the Federal Army (in two years), which is definitely an amazing number.

"So, how much reserve do the Lapa government army and those resistance armies have now?"

"If we stop exporting standard rifle bullets to the Yalan region and only export non-standard caliber rifle bullets, can we force them to change equipment?"

Lanse looked at the two representatives sitting in the front. "I don't know much about this aspect, but I believe that designing a weapon specifically for export, with its own unique caliber, shouldn't be a very difficult thing."

His words immediately aroused the high attention of these representatives. Until now, military-industrial groups hadn't thought of taking some weapons out separately to make export versions, and they hadn't even thought about producing weapons with separate calibers.

As the supply pressure on the front line became heavier and heavier, the Federal Military Committee had required military-industrial enterprises to unify calibers. The calibers of various weapons, including the specifications of bullets, were standardized.

In this way, the pressure of supply on the battlefield would be reduced, and the probability of errors would be reduced.

Unifying standards is a rule that must be followed, but Congress never said that weapons exported to other countries must also follow this rule.

This immediately made these representatives realize that this is a good opportunity to carry out a major change of equipment for the entire Ya Alliance!

Because the Ya Alliance's bullets rely entirely on imports, as long as they no longer sell standard bullets to the Ya Alliance, and only sell export version specification bullets, in order to match these bullets, they must change equipment!

Including the Republic of Jiede, which has just completed a round of equipment change!

This method... is a bit wicked.

Because once bullets are not exported, it means that the standard bullets currently owned by the Ya Alliance will become a "swan song," and at the same time, it will make all countries on this land very uncomfortable.

Especially the Republic of Jiede, they have just changed their equipment. Now tell them whether these weapons are still used or not.

A battle can consume hundreds of thousands or millions of bullets. How much can he store?

The Federation produced 10 billion bullets in two years. The Republic of Jiede, which has always been stable, without war, and without chaos, how many bullets can they store?

And these changes have started since the end of last year. At that time, the Federation's military-industrial enterprises were mainly supplying materials to the main battlefield.

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If it weren't for holding Slader, perhaps the Federation's military-industrial groups wouldn't have exported bullets to the Ya Alliance.

Now they have obtained some bullets, but the reserve is definitely not enough for continuous use, which will be very embarrassing.

Training consumes bullets, war consumes bullets, but there are no bullets.

They are about to face a difficult problem. Those newly changed weapons have not yet been put into actual use, and they have already been eliminated.

This will become a huge trouble!

Soon the representatives in the room figured this out. The look in their eyes looking at Lanse also contained a very special emotion, as if saying... this is a ruthless person.

The ruthlessness lies in the fact that Lanse only used two sentences to completely disintegrate the development of the Republic of Jiede in the military industry!

They studied for seven or eight years to produce weapons themselves, and finally achieved results, but all the research was in vain.

The process and technical difficulty of manufacturing firearms are smaller than manufacturing bullets. Many countries have the ability to manufacture weapons themselves, but being able to manufacture bullets is very difficult.

Not to mention that this is an era where science is not so developed. There are only seven or eight countries in the world that can produce bullets themselves, and the Republic of Jiede is not among them.

As for whether anyone is willing to smuggle for huge profits, risking being sunk by the Federal Navy, there might be.

But the bullets brought by this kind of smuggling scale are not enough to support them to launch a war!

Facing their shocked eyes, Lanse smiled reservedly, as if saying "this is nothing."

"This matter... we need to report to the company, and Congress might also need to communicate."

"I will also submit your suggestion, Mr. White..."

Now it is no longer Lapa's business alone, but the business of the entire Ya Alliance region. This is a market of hundreds of millions or even more. They naturally need to pay attention to it.

Just a "representative" may not have the authority to make some decisions. They need the parent company to send more senior employees here.

Lanse didn't stop them. Soon they all returned to their rooms and began to contact the people above.

The cable used for communication between Lanse and the Federation was a specially laid line, directly from the submarine cable to Lanse Manor, so there is no need to worry about leaks or anything.

In less than an hour, Senator Cleveland's phone call came. "You have found something else for us to do."

Senator Cleveland's tone didn't have any dissatisfaction. This suggestion to force the Ya Alliance region to change military equipment shocked the top management of various military-industrial groups as soon as it was reported, and also shocked Congress.

Because this is already a strategic plan for the region, not a simple commercial plan.

It can even be seen as a military power restriction plan against the Ya Alliance. They found an important point here, that is, the Ya Alliance relies too much on the Federation's bullet exports.

If the Federation doesn't give them bullets, their weapons won't fire.

But there is also a problem here.

"We just had a simple discussion, and there are still some gentlemen beside me. I will turn on the speakerphone."

The senator first gave a hint, then Lanse could hear him put the receiver on the table, and it wasn't "gently" put down, it was very ordinary and casually put down, and it also made some sounds.

He just wanted this sound to remind Lanse and give him some time to figure out the current situation.

Then after a few seconds, more sounds came into the receiver. "Can you hear me?" Senator Cleveland asked.

Lanse immediately replied, "I can hear you."

"Very good. Someone raised a question during our discussion just now, that is, what if the Republic of Jiede develops bullets by itself?"

"This possibility is not non-existent, and we believe the possibility is not small after discussion."

"Compared to continuing to change equipment and continuing to rely on the Federation's bullet input, the President of the Republic of Jiede will most likely choose to develop bullets by himself."

"I have heard of this person. He is very capable. He and his father have turned that broken place of Jiede into a country that is becoming strong."

"If he is allowed to continue to grow strong, maybe one day he will threaten us."

This was obviously a joke. The industrial strength of the Republic of Jiede is too far behind the Federation. By the time he has the ability to threaten the Federation's current technological industrial level.

The Federation would have flown out of the planet to outer space long ago.

Some congressmen around also laughed out loud. Obviously, they could all hear that this was a joke with strong irony towards the Republic of Jiede.

Lanse also laughed twice. "Actually, this matter... I considered it before, and it is not difficult to solve."

"If the Republic of Jiede knows that we will stop exporting standard bullets, then assuming they are indeed willing to research and produce bullets by themselves, then we will help them."

Senator Cleveland asked in a tone slightly mixed with confusion, "Help them?"

"How to help?"

Lanse laughed loudly. "There is an engineer from some military-industrial group who failed in office politics, and he happened to master the production and research technology of bullets."

"Now he has been persecuted and had to leave the Federation, exiled to the Ya Alliance region, and happened to be discovered by people from the Republic of Jiede."

"Then he can help the Republic of Jiede waste time, energy, and resources on the wrong research route, investing a lot of resources, but finally getting nothing."

"We actually don't need too long, just let them not be able to manufacture it themselves within two or three years."

Lanse's proposal made the gentlemen in the room opposite the receiver forget to evaluate it. This suggestion is really... low.

But between countries and countries, forces and forces, there is no moral standard, nor is there anything good or bad, only successful and failed.

"This idea is very good. They will be very nervous. When they can't find a clue in a short time, they will definitely rely more on external forces."

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"You are a good one, Lanse. You have broadened our ideas again."

"However, I won't leave this matter to you. I will ask the President to award you a Gold Heart Medal."

Then he ended the speakerphone, picked up the phone again, and asked Lanse about the progress here.

When he knew that Lanse was still continuing to promote the contradictions and conflicts between the Diego government and the anti-government armed forces, he kept nodding and praising his ability.

In Lanse's words, he now wants to force those people with "rebellious bones" among the Lapa people to jump out actively, and let them fight a life-and-death war with those firm "conservative forces."

As long as these two batches of people don't die almost completely, the civil war will not end.

When they are almost dead, the rest are "docile lambs in God's pasture," honest, obedient, and easy to rule.

This phone call will not cause any huge changes in a short time, but the federal government has already begun to stop exporting any standard-specification rifle bullets and pistol bullets to the Ya Alliance region.

At the same time, Congress passed the "Federal Standard Weapon Export Trial Act" at an unprecedented speed the next day, which did not nakedly say that standard weapons were not allowed to be exported, but used some relatively circuitous statements.

For example, considering the national security of the Federation, it is now required that weapon suppliers must provide domestic versions and export versions, and the export versions should be slightly lower in weapon performance than the current federal versions.

The act did not shock anyone, nor did anyone make a profound interpretation of such a low-impact act.

The military-industrial group is also willing to cooperate. After all, "washing" the market again is also what they hope for. ===== CHAPTER 959 =====