Chapter 64: Transaction

On the 33rd floor of the Roland Building on Wall Street in New York, Johnson, as usual, ordered two Mexican burritos and a large cup of coffee at a nearby fast-food restaurant he frequented, then carried them into his office.

N&J International Trading Company, full name Nolan & Kipling International Trading Company, was an enterprise that sounded vulgar and ordinary just by its name.

But anyone with even a little bit of brains would not view it that way.

Being able to locate its headquarters on Wall Street, where every inch of land is worth gold, in itself proved the extraordinary nature of N&J.

In fact, this international trading company, which operated under the guise of importing and exporting various equipment, was a leader among the tens of thousands of arms trading companies in the United States. Since its establishment in 1971, funded by two retired high-ranking officials from the Ministry of National Defense, it had sold hundreds of millions to over a billion dollars worth of arms annually. As an arms middleman that did not engage in production, this was a truly remarkable figure.

Just after entering the office and sitting down, before he even had time to eat his breakfast, Johnson heard a knock at the door, "Bang bang!"

"Come in..."

He placed the breakfast he had brought on his desk and responded without even raising his head. Immediately after the sound of the door being pushed open, the voice of his familiar young secretary followed.

"General Manager, there is an email that requires your attention!"

Johnson looked up at the young beauty who had walked into his office, a look of surprise appearing on his face, "Nena, what email is it?"

"You had better take a look yourself..."

The secretary named Nena was clearly somewhat cautious; she took a printed document from the folder she was holding in her arms and handed it to him with a smile.

Johnson nodded and said nothing more. He had worked at N&J for several years and knew that companies like theirs, which focused on arms trading, had many unknown rules within them.

He quickly took the printed document, picked it up, and after reading it carefully, he couldn't help but frown slightly. He looked up and asked her, "Has Mr. Smith arrived?"

The Smith in Johnson's mouth was the company's president and chairman. N&J had a well-defined division of labor; he, who had been hired by the company, was responsible for contacting clients, managing the company, and handling finances, while he generally did not interfere with specific matters related to arms trading.

If this email was not a prank sent by an outsider, then it really was quite a significant deal, though some of the items mentioned on it were indeed quite sensitive.

Nena shrugged, "The boss has gone to Florida for a vacation..."

Johnson nodded, "I see, you may go out first!"

After sending the secretary out, he lowered his head again to look at the document in his hand, a thoughtful expression on his face.

"8,000 M4A1 Carbines, 200 sets of M60 General Purpose Machine Guns, 100 sets of FIM-92 'Stinger' Anti-aircraft missiles..."

Holding the document in his hand, Johnson had after all worked at N&J for many years, and he couldn't help but see the trickery within it.

After estimating the risks and returns of this transaction in his heart, Johnson quickly made up his mind. He immediately picked up the phone on his desk and dialed a number.

The phone rang for a while before he heard a lazy middle-aged male voice on the other end, "Yoni, if you can't give me a satisfactory answer to make me understand why you interrupted my vacation, then you'll have to treat me to a French dinner on Thursday..."

Yoni was an intimate nickname for Johnson; this was naturally a joke. Clearly, the other party also understood that if he was calling to bother him, there must be something going on with the company.

"I'm afraid you'll have to be the one treating me to that dinner, Mr. Smith."

Smiling, Johnson explained to him in detail, "The company's mailbox received an email; a foreign company wants to purchase a batch of goods from us!"

"The number seems quite large, what do they want?"

Smith on the other end of the phone was clearly interested and asked with a smile.

"Some conventional weapons, estimated at about 17 to 18 million US dollars. But these are the small items; the other party also wants to purchase some sensitive things from us, including 500 Hellfire Missiles..." Johnson said.

This time, Smith was clearly silent for a good while before he asked in a serious tone, "Who is the buyer?"

Although the Hellfire Missile was active equipment for the United States, it was not a non-sale item prohibited from export, and it was exported to some allied countries.

N&J Company had military backing, so they also shouldered the Task of handling some obsolete equipment for the US military.

For example, the Hellfire Missile spanned nearly forty years, from the initial AGM-114A model to the most advanced AGM-114M/N/L models.

The US Army and Air Force had successively purchased nearly 60,000 Hellfire missiles; apart from daily training and war consumption, nearly 40,000 remained in stock.

Three-quarters of this inventory consisted of the oldest first-generation models, which not only occupied storage space but were also far less powerful than the advanced new second and third-generation models. Therefore, N&J was sometimes responsible for handling some old Hellfire Missiles for the military to raise funds for them to purchase updated third-generation ones.

Therefore, for N&J, the Hellfire Missile was not impossible to export, but they had to carefully weigh the buyer.

"Nebrina Trading Import and Export Company, it's the Brazilians who want to buy this batch of goods..."

"Brazilians!"

Upon hearing that it was the Brazilians who wanted to buy, Smith immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "I remember now, the United States previously provided Brazil with 10 Apaches (for plot requirements)..."

Because of the Latin American policy consistently implemented by the United States, the relationship between the United States and South American countries had not been very good since modern times. Brazil was likely one of the few pro-American countries in South America, especially after the current president took office and actively leaned toward the United States, which led to the previous military aid of a batch of active equipment from the United States.

If the Brazilians wanted to buy, he believed the military side would not block it; at most, they might select a batch of relatively old missiles in terms of models.

Therefore, he agreed quite readily, "If it's Brazil, there shouldn't be a problem. As for the price and delivery date, you should first contact the Brazilians to discuss it. I will go and talk to the Brazilians myself after my vacation ends in two days!"

"Alright!"

"... Well done. After the goods are received, I will transfer the final payment to your account!"

Hanging up the phone, Sun Cheng let out a long breath, a smile blooming on his face.

Although he had taken a rather large detour, the batch of goods he wanted was basically in his hands.

Just a few days ago, after deciding to acquire a batch of Hellfire Missiles, rocket launchers, and aircraft machine gun Enhancement to strengthen his own power, Sun Cheng had been busy with this matter.

Because there were many sensitive items among them, it really took him quite a lot of effort to get his hands on them.

Fortunately, his hacking ability was truly remarkable. He first locked onto Brazil as a country to which the United States might sell Hellfire Missiles through investigation.

Sun Cheng then conducted a detailed investigation into several companies in Brazil specializing in arms import and export. Soon, upon discovering that an executive at Nebrina Trading Import and Export Company had engaged in a large number of illicit transactions and private kickbacks, he used this person as a breakthrough point, took the initiative to contact the other party, and carried out a series of coercion and inducement.

In the end, he successfully forced the other party to agree to contact, in the name of Nebrina Trading Import and Export Company, another US company that Sun Cheng had personally investigated and which had the right to export Hellfire Missiles, and completed this purchase according to his requirements.

PS:

Sorry, I was stuck on this recent section. From noon until night, it took over seven hours to knock out just over two thousand words. Sitting in front of the computer, I just couldn't get it out.