Chapter 966: Why not ask Lanse?

In the evening, the Federation military-industrial sales representatives met with President Diego. As soon as they met, the president couldn't help but ask about the arms sales.

These arms sales representatives took out the new policies of the Federation. These policies had not been announced to the outside world, which could be considered a smile.

When President Diego saw the contents of the price list, he stood up directly, slammed the price list onto the coffee table, and pointed at one of the arms sales representatives. "You're out!"

There were more than a dozen arms sales representatives in total, and it was impossible for every one of them to eat some of the shares.

Arms sales are like this; often one or two companies eat the vast majority, then the rest eat some small classifications, and more people will go to other countries to find opportunities.

Different countries will have different policies. For a populous country like Lapa, and one that is caught in civil strife, the price of arms sales here is very outrageous.

For example, in the past, they purchased a 1010 bolt-action rifle from the Federation, which cost about 170 Federation Sol.

Now, they purchase the 1010 bolt-action rifle export version, which requires 300 Federation Sol, and it's not negotiable.

The price of bullets has also risen a lot. In the past, a bullet only needed about 2 Para, but now, it needs 5 Para per bullet, also not negotiable.

Only when it exceeds 100 million bullets will there be a little discount, just a little, not much at all!

When seeing this price list, President Diego's heart was already filled with anger!

Although he didn't personally do business with these Federation military-industrial groups in the past and import weapons from them, he still had to review the Federation military equipment purchased by the Lapa government.

After all, this involves a large amount of capital flow, and he definitely wanted to know if this money was according to his ideas and went where it should go.

Or was it embezzled by these damn little cuties in some places.

The government corruption problem in Lapa is actually very serious. After all, everyone including the president is frantically making money. Under the influence of the top, the middle and lower-level government officials are also frantically making money.

Making money seems to be what government officials should do; they even dare to intervene in the president's money.

So President Diego knew the price of military equipment before, at least he had a vague understanding.

Now he saw that this price list was too outrageous, and he thought this military-industrial sales representative was teasing himself, and his temper came up immediately.

The arms sales representative who was pointed at and said "you're out" was not annoyed. He had encountered situations more excessive than this. Being able to represent the group company to go abroad for sales showed that his ability in business was absolutely qualified.

He smiled and faced President Diego. "Mr. President, I can guarantee that there is no problem with this price list. If you feel that its price exceeds your psychological price, then you can look at other people's."

Diego listened to his words, and with a look of doubt in his eyes, he looked at others. Soon he picked up another military-industrial group's price list, looking at the outrageous numbers on it, and felt as if something was surging in his brain.

His blood pressure rose.

Diego has high blood pressure. He not only has high blood pressure but also high blood lipids and high blood sugar, three highs, and possibly four or five highs.

But in this period, people didn't pay much attention to this aspect, and even he himself might not know that his body is currently in a very unhealthy state.

He felt uncomfortable. He tore open his collar. Under the effect of high blood pressure, he felt dizzy and short of breath.

This price list was more outrageous than the previous one, and he didn't curse anything either. He threw it on the coffee table directly and picked up other people's price lists. He looked at every one of them.

Every time he looked at one, he would be more angry, because there was not a single price list that was normal; all of them were outrageously high.

His eyes carried a unique momentum of a ruler, staring at these people dead. "I need an explanation!"

Among them, the sales representative of McGray Industry took his price list out of other people's price lists and put it back in front of him. "Mr. President, I know you are very dissatisfied with these prices,"

"Actually, I myself am also very dissatisfied with the prices on this price list, but there is no way, Mr. President."

"In order to respond to the call of the federal government, these firearms were designed and produced at the fastest speed."

"They are not the kind of standard-specification weapons, which means we cannot use the assembly lines currently in use to produce these weapons. We must use new assembly lines, new designs, and new processes."

"Everything needs cost, needs more cost!"

"If you have some understanding of industry, you should understand this point."

"Newly developed things often have very high prices. Only after selling for a period of time, our costs will come down, and the price will come down."

"The price of these weapons is indeed a bit high, but I guarantee that if you can purchase more than 1 million, then our price can be given to you more favorably!"

"For example...", he glanced at the price list in his hand, but his brain was thinking about who the hell set the price, so outrageous?

"295 per piece, this is already 5 less than 300."

"If you can order 2 million, then I can decide to lower this price to 290."

"Similarly, if you can order more of these weapons, then we can lower the price appropriately and use quantity to amortize the cost. I hope you can understand what I am saying."

"If you can purchase 5 million, I can say that I can give you a price of 250 per piece."

President Diego looked at him, his emotions had calmed down a bit, maybe the physical discomfort made him unable to continue to get angry with these people.

He held his forehead. "5 million?"

"Wang Defa?"

"Do you... know how many troops I have in my hands now?"

"200,000 people!"

"200,000, an army of 200,000, you let me purchase 5 million weapons?"

He couldn't help laughing as he spoke. Of course, it wasn't that he felt how ridiculous this was, purely because he was so angry that he laughed.

"I don't need that many weapons."

McGray Industry's arms sales representative could only regretfully put the price list back into his briefcase. He looked into the president's eyes without avoiding the momentum that made people a little afraid.

"If you can't buy that many weapons and can only order 200,000, I can only decide to give you 1 less per piece."

Diego's laughter grew louder. "1?"

McGray's representative nodded and said very seriously, "Yes, 1."

"Mr. President, don't feel that 1 is a small price. Think about it, 200,000 weapons, each one is 1 less, this is saving 200,000 in expenses."

"Honestly, I may not be able to earn 200,000 in my life, but now, I can decide to waive this 200,000 for you. This is already the limit I can do."

It sounds like there is no mistake, but if you study it more carefully, you will find that this is actually a very ironic thing.

Diego looked at others. "You are doing the same?"

Other representatives nodded one after another. There are strict regulations on weapons sold to the Xiang Yalan region. Although it is said that in the Federation, large capital consortiums may not really take the federal government's political decrees seriously.

Every year, capital tramples on the Federation's laws and rules back and forth, as long as there is enough interest, there is nothing they dare not do.

But on the matter of arms sales to Xiang Yalan, they still don't dare to mess around.

It's not that these people who produce weapons now love their country very much and are willing to listen to any arrangements of the federal government, purely because their biggest customer now is the Federation government's arms sales.

Tens of billions of government arms sales every year, and the scale will continue to expand.

If they lose these arms sales because they violated the federal government's regulations, the people who made these decisions will very likely disappear suddenly one day.

The company's shareholders will slaughter them because they made the company lose a large sum of profit!

So it is said that 300 is 300, not a cent less, unless they buy enough.

Regarding the fact that buying enough can lower the price, the federal government also agreed.

As long as Diego buys enough weapons, he can drag down a large amount of funds of the Lapa government, and the government's capital pool will dry up, which is very helpful for a series of subsequent plans. Diego sat there, his chest surging. He looked at these people and randomly picked up a few price lists and flipped through them.

The more he looked, the more he felt that these people were teasing him, giving him a price that he knew he couldn't accept, and then watching him get angry here, but now he has no way.

He picked and chose here, and finally closed his eyes and left the sales representative of Gray Industry.

It's not that Gray Industry's price is lower than others, but that he is more familiar with Gray Industry. Gray 1010 bolt-action rifle has always been the main equipment of the Lapa government army.

Including the weapons imported from the Republic of Jiede this time, they are also mainly Federation standard weapons, including a large number of Gray 1010 bolt-action rifles.

This situation is very common in sales. Considering the soldiers' usage habits, when purchasing weapons, they often choose the weapons the soldiers are most familiar with, rather than those they are not familiar with.

Other arms sales representatives were not too disappointed. They were still recommending other weapons, such as sniper rifles, such as grenades, such as explosives, etc.

But now, Diego mainly wants to talk about rifles and ammunition.

Other sales representatives then got up and left. They will continue to visit the Lapa government. They all saw a large scale and market here.

And not just the Lapa government, but also the anti-government armed forces side, they will also go to talk.

The two sat there, and the room was quiet for a while. Diego ate some special medicine from the Federation, and the headache situation improved a lot.

He eased for a while. Now he is becoming more and more inseparable from the Federation's special medicine, although its price is also starting to become more and more expensive.

Inexplicably, he suddenly associated, will the Federation also add these special medicines to the list of prohibited exports?

Perhaps he should let people get some special medicines from the Federation first, so as not to have no medicine to use when the Federation suddenly prohibits exports to the outside world.

After diverging his thinking for a while, he looked at the sales representative. "I need at least 250,000 rifles and ammunition. This is a long-term business."

"From now until the end of the civil war, or even for a long time in the future, we will use your company's products, so I hope you can give us a more suitable price."

The sales representative shook his head. "I can't give you a promise now, but I can guarantee that as you buy more and more things, its price will definitely become lower and lower."

Diego didn't get the result he wanted, and it couldn't be said how disappointed he was. When he opened his mouth to try to bargain, he was already psychologically prepared to be rejected.

The sales representative took out the pen and notebook he carried with him, and then began to calculate the price of this arms sale.

250,000 rifles, plus a large amount of ammunition, this is definitely a huge order, although Diego didn't indicate that he would definitely purchase from Gray Industry.

After a simple calculation, the sales representative showed the calculated price to Diego, more than 80 million.

Diego just took a look. "I don't have that much money now."

"You should be able to see the economic situation in Lapa. From the second half of last year to now, Lapa's agricultural output value is almost zero."

"Mineral resources have also stopped production in many mines because of the civil strife, and the anti-government armed forces have cut off transportation. Even if they are in production, it is very difficult to transport them out."

"It is very difficult for us to take out so much money at once to pay for this military equipment purchase, but we can consider changing a payment method."

Before the sales representative came, Lanse had already greeted them, so they knew how to respond.

The sales representative didn't say that he must want money either. He nodded and showed a listening expression. "It depends on what it is. As long as it is valuable, I believe the company will not mind."

Diego didn't have any big expression on his face. In his mind, he calculated the resources in the territory of the ruling groups that were not with him, and then said, "I can give you the mining rights of two silver mines and one gold mine."

"These mines have large reserves, and the mining time is not long. You can get at least... from them in a year," he calculated seriously, "about 2 million to 3 million in profit."

This is already a very sincere offer. The offer he gave to the Jiede government is about the same, just changed to copper mines and some other resources that can be used in industry.

A profit of 2 or 3 million a year, as long as 30 years, can realize the cost of this arms purchase.

Maybe some people think this time is a bit long, in fact, it is not.

If the military-industrial group doesn't want to mine it themselves, he can directly hand over this gold mine to the bank after evaluation and take away his arms sales payment.

Then the bank is responsible for mining and benefiting from it until the value mined meets the bank's expected return—principal and interest added together.

And the increase in gold and silver mines can make the bank more stable and have stronger anti-risk ability.

In fact, these high-quality resources are also acceptable to capital groups, but this time is an exception.

He thought this sales representative would agree immediately. After all, it was a gold mine and a silver mine, which made him not expect that the sales representative directly shook his head. "Sorry, we don't have a long-term mining plan."

"If you can give us refined silver ingots or gold bricks, these are acceptable to us."

Diego looked at him with wide eyes as if he hadn't heard what he said. "I can give you the mining rights of gold mines and silver mines, and you can mine as much as you want?"

"Isn't refining into silver bricks and gold bricks just a matter of your convenience?"

The sales representative still shook his head. "These mineral resources are not within the Federation, and we don't know much about the situation here."

"We just want to sell the weapons in our hands, and then take away the payment for these weapons and ammunition."

"So... sorry, Mr. President, if you can only take out these, then the business between us is afraid it won't be done."

Seeing that the other party didn't seem to care about these mineral resources at all, instead of wanting to take the opportunity to ask for more, this made President Diego not know what to do.

The sales representative whispered, "Mr. President, if the mineral resources you mentioned are indeed worth so much money."

"You can completely sell it to someone who is interested in it, and then use this money to pay for the arms purchase fee."

This sentence made Diego's eyeballs turn. Of course, he knew he could do this, but now the two silver mines and one gold mine he mentioned are not under his control.

In other words, he is using other people's things to purchase this military equipment, at least from the current point of view, it is very difficult to achieve.

And this is also one of his little schemes. He intends to use this method to bind the Federation's military-industrial group to himself.

If he can win in the civil war, then he can fulfill his promise.

If he fails in the war, then fuck whoever!

This way the military-industrial group will tend to help him win the civil war.

With the help of the Federation's power, he still has great hope for winning the war.

Even if they don't help, they will find ways to make Lanse and the others not so excessive. After all, this involves a capital problem of more than 80 million Federation Sol.

It's just that now, this plan seems not to work.

This may be the most difficult time in Diego's life. He shook his head and couldn't think of anyone who could help him with this.

Because he wants to get money now, it means he must also hand over the property rights of the mines to others now.

Others can't get these resources, they definitely won't give money, and not only can they not provide him with any help, but they will help him build an enemy who can take out 80 million Federation Sol at any time!

He doesn't know what to do a bit.

Although there are tens of millions of cash lying in his bank, although there are many valuable art pieces in his treasury, he can gather so much money if he gathers it himself.

But as a ruler, he doesn't intend to use his own money to do this.

Those money, art pieces, everything, are the last retreat of the Lavila family and cannot be moved.

Seeing that the president seemed to have fallen into a state of daze, the sales representative prompted softly, "If you don't have a suitable candidate, then I might be able to give you some suggestions."

Diego looked toward him. He whispered, "I heard that Mr. Lanse White and his Empire Chamber of Commerce have a lot of money, and are also willing to invest locally. Maybe he will support your plan?"

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