Chapter 294 The life of an arms dealer is not easy!
The choice given by Yang Jing is very simple. Do you want money or guns?
Of course, Yang Jing knew that the Kokang King would definitely choose to get a gun in the end. As the actual supreme ruler of Kachin State, Peng Jiasheng was not short of money. After all, at this time, he had not started to control drugs. The opium and millet grown in Kachin State was no less than that in Shan State controlled by Khunsha in the south.
Moreover, there are jade mines in the territory controlled by Peng Jiasheng. Those jade mines are located in the deep mountains and forests of the hinterland of Kachin State. The government forces are willing to control the jade mines but are not strong enough. In the territory controlled by Kunsha, there is nothing else except poppy and corn. Although Mago, which produces rubies, is close to the territory of Shan State, there are heavy troops guarding it. Even if Kunsha is jealous, it cannot take Mago.
So Peng Jiasheng is not short of money, he really is not short of money.
But in bad places like northern Myanmar, you can't spend money even if you have money. International arms dealers are too lazy to go to bad places like this. In addition, the government's blockade of Kachin State, where did you ask Peng Jiasheng to buy guns and arms?
Therefore, Yang Jing had no doubt that Peng Jia chose arms at the grand event. At least in the past few years, this Kokang King would definitely choose to obtain arms wisely.
Sure enough, when King Kokang heard the conditions offered by Yang Jing, his eyes lit up, but then he returned to normal.
"Cole, can you get arms?" Although Peng Jiasheng's voice was calm, Yang Jing could still feel a faint excitement.
"Commander Peng, do you mean to choose arms?" Yang Jing asked with a smile.
Peng Jiasheng bit his back teeth and then nodded heavily, "Coll, as long as you can get goods similar to these two batches of arms, I promise you can walk sideways in Kachin State!"
Bingo! This old man really chose arms!
In fact, it is not difficult to guess the choice of this Kokang King. The current situation in Myanmar is like the Chinese in the 1920s and 1930s. The Myanmar government army was Chang Kaishen of China back then. Whether it was Miss Yang Er in the early days, Luo Xinghan, Kunsha, and the Kokang King Peng Jiasheng in front of him, they all looked very similar to the revolutionary army of China at that time.
As the saying goes, "Are there any kings, princes, generals and ministers?" Why can't we replace it if your government army can occupy the best and largest territory in Myanmar and become the orthodox of Myanmar?
So, since World War II, Myanmar has been in chaos. You fell and I stood up again. It was one after another, which made the northeastern Myanmar never settle down.
Unfortunately, it is difficult for Luo Xinghan, Kunsha or Peng Jiasheng to get support from the outside world, so they can only stay on their own acre of three-point land and cannot expand their territory.
They have money in their hands, but in such places, money cannot be said to be similar to waste paper. But for these big warlord leaders, money is far less important than arms. As leaders of one side, how could they not know the supreme truth of "policy comes from the barrel of a gun"?
Yang Jing smiled and stretched out his hand, and Peng Jiasheng held it without hesitation.
"Commander Peng, the arms worth one million US dollars a year are mainly light weapons, while heavy weapons are mainly single-arms bazooka. I believe you won't expect anything like artillery, right?"
Peng Jiasheng nodded and said, "The cannon is useless here, and the single-soldier rocket launcher is most useful!"
"Then one-third of the weapon, two-thirds of the ammunition?"
"make a deal!"
"Okay, I will ask the arms dealer to contact you directly when you look back. Just tell him what you need."
The two hands holding each other shook them heavily.
After Peng Jiasheng said goodbye and left, Yang Jing wandered around Nicholas Ballmer's room. When he entered the room, the guy was talking on the phone with a satellite phone with a head of about the size of a shoe box.
Seeing Yang Jing come in, he pointed to the chair and said a few more words before he hung up.
"Mr. Smith, how are you talking?" Nicholas asked.
"Well, there is basically no problem here. At least in these three years, you can provide you with one million US dollars in arms transactions every year."
"Thank you!" Nicholas Ballmer was happy. The one-million-dollar arms deal was nothing in national-level arms deals, but for an arms dealer like him who had no deep background, it was a considerable amount in this era.
Yang Jing picked up the cold and cold on the table and took a sip, then said, "Nick, when dealing with this Commander Peng, please pay attention. The person who can become the largest warlord leader in northern Myanmar is not that easy to fool."
Nicholas Ballmer nodded and said, "I understand this. In the Middle East, I have a lot of dealing with local armed forces there. I know how to take my position."
"Well..." Yang Jing looked up at the arms dealer, "Be careful, don't provide him with too good weapons. The weapons eliminated by the Soviets are already very good weapons for them. And using Soviet weapons, isn't the profits in them also very large?"
Nicholas Ballmer laughed in a low voice.
"Nick, I don't want the power of this King of Kokang to expand too quickly, so I don't care what method you use to hold this King of Kokang. I need you to use arms to hold him for at least five years. If you can do this, I don't mind introducing you to the senior management of Lockheed Martial Arts or General Dynamics to give you a safer background. Maybe you don't know that General Dynamics is controlled by my family." At this time, Yang Jing didn't mind bragging, no one knew his real background anyway.
Nicholas Ballmer's eyes lit up, stared at Yang Jing for a long time, and finally shook his head and said, "Forget it, I have no hope for some large domestic companies now. The series of things that happened in the past few years have completely discouraged me from domestic arms companies. Mr. Smith, can you help me introduce some other arms companies? For example, the Soviets or... China?"
Nicholas's words made Yang Jing stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Nick, are you really planning to fight against the arms dealers in China? Are you not afraid of them dealing with you?"
Nicholas smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "What are you afraid of? What else can I be afraid of now? The incident nine years ago has made me unable to gain a foothold in China, and I have not set foot on the United States for nine years. Since I provided arms to the revolutionary army in Iran in early 1979, I have completely stood opposite to those in China. There have been three assassinations against me in these years, but I have a great life and have not allowed them to succeed."
Nicholas looked at Yang Jing, his eyes gradually turned red, and he shook his head slightly and said, "My family is gone, and I don't have anything to worry about in China. Since those guys can't wait to let me die, how could I let them succeed?"
Yang Jing sighed slightly in his heart, looked at Nicholas and said, "Then do you really don't want to go back? If you want to go back, I can keep you safe."
"What are you going back? It's boring! Mr. Smith, I live quite freely now and no one cares about it. It's enough for me to earn millions of dollars a year."
Yang Jing thought for a while and said, "Okay, Nick, if you insist on doing this, I can recommend people related to China. At the same time, I can remind you not to always focus on the Middle East. In fact, in some places you have never paid attention to, the arms business is not necessarily worse than the Middle East."
After a pause, Yang Jing looked at Nicholas whose eyes were lit up again and said, "For example, the area where we stand at our feet now, such as the more distant African continent..."
Hearing Yang Jing's words, Nicholas patted his thigh and said, "Yes, why didn't I think of Africa before?"
"Haha, Nick, it's not too late to think about it now. Moreover, China's weapons are sold very well in Africa."
Yang Jing’s words are not nonsense. After all, he came from 2018. He still knows a little bit about China’s foreign arms sales.
It has been a long time since China's foreign arms sales. After the founding of China, it first provided weapons to Africa, but in the first twenty years it was purely political demand rather than commercial activities.
As early as 1958 when the Algerian National Liberation Organization held the War of Resistance Against France, China transported the American infantry weapons seized from the country through secret channels. In 1964, China first sent cargo ships to Africa, and transported military equipment to the newly independent Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania). Then, China provided weapons to Sudan, Egypt, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and other countries. In accordance with the principle of Taizu's "not being an arms dealer" at that time, all were given free of charge.
The 56-type submachine gun made by the Soviet AK-47 in China once became a symbol of the national liberation movement in Africa. Mozambique, which achieved independence through armed struggle, was even painted with the pattern of this gun on the national flag of Zimbabwe, which is enough to prove the influence of Chinese weapons in Africa.
However, since 1979, China began to export paid weapons. The first time it exported paid weapons was to sell the J-7 fighter jets to Egypt, the largest military power in Africa, which opened up the precedent for paid arms sales in China. Then, since the 1980s, China has used small profit or cost-price sales methods to Africa, changing the unsustainable embarrassment of simply asking for and barely supplying goods.
Later, as more and more African black brothers realized that China's weapons were not only easy to use, but also cheap, and were a model of high quality and low price, China's weapons became more and more popular in the African market.
After entering the 21st century, China even replaced Russia and Ukraine and became the largest arms supplier in sub-Saharan African countries except South Africa, with annual sales reaching US$1 billion.
Although it is 1986 now, China's weapons have become famous in Africa. Of course, if Nicholas Ballmer is willing to become a certain agent of China in Africa, Yang Jing really doesn't mind introducing Nicholas to relevant senior executives in China through Pitt Wu.
Yang Jing didn't have the intention to become a big arms tycoon. Although this thing was violent, Yang Jing didn't want to get involved in this. If it weren't for impressing King Kokang this time, he wouldn't have taken such measures.
However, Yang Jing didn't mind helping Nicholas Ballmer. After all, Yang Jing knew very well that the King of Kokang was not a good person. As long as this kind of warlord had interests, he could treat you as an ally. Similarly, this kind of warlord was also a representative figure who turned against you. As long as they felt that they could not extract any benefits from you, turning against you was just a thought.
Therefore, in recent years, Yang Jing still needs an arms dealer who can hold up the Kokang King to ensure the interests of the Dragon Fund in the Myanmar Jade Mine. Compared with arms, jade is nothing to this Kokang King!
Of course, Yang Jing didn't mind pulling Nicholas Ballmer on his ship, at least he could control King Kokang to have other ideas through this arms dealer.
Chapter completed!