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"Mr. Palermo, thank you very much for thinking of us as soon as possible at this time. It's just that your quantity is a little less. This number is divided among the three of us. This seems a bit not enough, right?" A person with a full face said

The hairy guys said dissatisfiedly that the relationship between their group and Palermo is actually not that good, but this guy often has a lot of good things. This time it is because this guy emphasized it many times that he came here.

, otherwise they would not come here. After all, this place does not mean anything to large jewelry companies like them. Their main suppliers are all in South Africa, and the diamonds produced there have always been

They are much better than the ones here, but I didn’t expect that this time it would give them such a big surprise. There is no problem with the goods worth 600 million US dollars. This guy Palermo is not a fool, so naturally from them

He could see what was going on in his eyes, so he immediately increased the price by 100 million US dollars. This time he made more money. He really lamented that his previous life was in vain. Why didn't he meet Li Cong so long ago?

As for this guy, if I had met him earlier, he might have made a fortune long ago. Why would he still be running this hotel here?

"Mr. Sharon, as for the amount, I can only take out so much at the moment, but in the near future I will have a large number of such first-class goods, but I need you to leave me a 30% deposit.

, a week should be no problem." Palermo thought for a while and said, even if he completed this transaction, it would only be worth 600 million US dollars at most, and he was still a small customer with Li Cong, so he also

I can see that Mr. Li won't talk to you about friendship. If you have money at his place, you are a guest. If you don't have money, then don't do business. Even if you add the things you mortgage with him, the maximum is

Being able to sell goods worth a billion dollars is not a big deal. Of course, this was already a big deal for Palermo in the past, but now people are much more discerning, and they are no longer what they used to be.

Palermo, now people don't pay attention to billion dollar transactions. Now they have to compete with companies like ALROSA. Of course, the rising tide will raise their own horizons.

Thirty percent deposit? In the jewelry industry, there is a term for paying a deposit, but it is not a lot. They looked at each other and then at the best diamond in their hands. If only one person comes

If they didn't, they would definitely not pay any deposit, but now that the three of them are here, it's different. If they don't pay the deposit and the other two guys do, then this guy from Palermo will definitely give it to those two.

If you are the one who paid the deposit, you may have problems like this when selling in the future, and your customers may go to them.

"No problem, we pay a deposit of one billion U.S. dollars. Next time we hope to get goods worth three billion U.S. dollars. Mr. Palermo, you will always be our best friend with Cardia Diamonds. You will definitely do it next time you come to Europe."

You want to come to our place and have a look." One of the guys said. With this guy, the other two people immediately opened their mouths and paid a deposit of one billion US dollars. At this time, Palermo was dumbfounded, 3.6 billion US dollars.

The U.S. dollars were directly deposited into his account. Before the guy was stunned for ten minutes, he remembered what he should do. At this time, he had to order goods for Li Cong. Three billion U.S. dollars of goods would be no problem, as long as he could get them

Just stagger the delivery times, one every two days, then you will have enough funds to order for the next person. Of course, your profit plus what Li Cong obtained will reach an astonishing 17%.

, if these three transactions are completed, Palermo's net worth will immediately rise from 4 to 5 billion US dollars to nearly 2 billion US dollars. This is all completed in just one week. To be honest, Palermo is a little bit crazy at this moment.

Stupid, he is not a daydreamer, but now he feels like he is really daydreaming, because everything is not so real.

Two weeks later, everyone in the city discovered that Palermo was obviously different from before. First of all, this guy's car was changed. It used to be just a Volkswagen Tiguan, but now that car has been given away.

Man, this guy drives an extremely hot red Ferrari, and the beautiful woman in the car has been seen in magazines. She is the supermodel who is very popular in Paris. It is said that this woman costs everyone a meal.

One hundred thousand euros, and now she is willing to become this guy's woman.

Of course, this is not the most important change. The most important thing is that the time from Palermo to his lifeblood, which is the hotel, is getting shorter and shorter. This illustrates a problem, that is, this guy no longer values ​​that deal very much.

Well, a city is so big. Of course, people would speculate on such strange things. Soon everyone understood what was going on. It turned out that this guy made probably the largest diamond transaction in the history of this place in one week.

, this guy has made over a billion dollars, no wonder he spends money like this.

This was originally a place for diamond sales, and soon most of the diamond merchants here began to visit Palermo's house. Although each of them could only sell tens of millions of dollars in diamonds every year, their

The number is very huge, and there are many people who are not doing this, but they have huge capital in their hands, and their power cannot be underestimated. What Palermo is doing now is like what Fatty Zhou is doing in Asia.

The things are basically the same, the only difference is that Fatty Zhou had Li Cong's support at the beginning, but now Palermo relies on itself for everything.

Two weeks later, a private jet from Raytheon Company worth 95 million US dollars arrived here. It was Mr. Palermo’s new car. Although many people have their own private jets, most of them are helicopters.

, such a large aircraft worth hundreds of millions of dollars is still very unfamiliar to them. It can be said that Palermo is ahead of the rich in this aspect, because there are many people who want to get involved with Mr. Palermo.

Because of his connections, his hotel business has been getting better recently. There are often some wealthy people who eat and drink here directly in order to please Palermo. Palermo will not dislike that he has too much money and immediately requests the hotel.

Some fees are increased by 30%, but these rich people don't care whether a meal costs 10,000 US dollars or 20,000 US dollars. What they care about is how to get in touch with this new diamond king. Then

That's the most important thing.

The reason why Li Cong pushed Palermo to the front desk was because he wanted him to replace him and let all the light shine on this person. Although you have made a lot of money relying on me, you still have to bear this risk.

Looking at Palermo now, he probably wouldn't have guessed what Li Cong was thinking, because the order worth billions of dollars has stunned this guy. Originally, the share of five billion dollars was thought to be sold within a year, but now

It exceeded 15 billion US dollars in one month. It was really unbelievable, so this guy took his new plane and flew directly to Li Cong. He wanted to thank Li Cong properly.

Construction of the airport started on the day Li Cong came back. Although some people from the central government came to see it, they didn't say anything about Li Cong's red envelope of 100,000 US dollars. It seemed that coming here was a big deal for them.

The job is not to check but to get red envelopes. This is the most important thing. Although the airport is only a prototype, there is still no problem in landing the plane from Palermo.

"Welcome to Mr. Palermo." Li Congken asked this guy to come here and naturally wanted to accept him. Although Fatty Zhou felt uncomfortable watching this guy get rich, on the surface he still wanted to follow him happily.

People who ask questions are like old friends whom they haven't seen for many years.

"It's so grand. Mr. Li came to pick me up at the airport in person. I'm really flattered." This guy's Chinese is getting better and better.

"Haha, Mr. Palermo is now the big financier of our group. In this month, you have helped us sell 15.435 billion US dollars of diamonds. If such a person can't work and I personally come to pick him up, then what?

What kind of person has such qualifications? It's windy here, Mr. Palermo, please." Li Cong got in the car first after saying that. As for opening the door for this guy, he will definitely not do it. We

Not that far yet.

Obviously Palermo doesn't care about this now. He came here this time to discuss an important matter with Li Cong. He knew that the energy group had dealings with some international mercenary groups.

So this guy wants to hire a group of mercenaries to give Erosa some strength. Now that he has so much money, although he can't injure Erosa, it's okay to cause him pain for a while.

"Mr. Li, this is a cashier's check from Hua Xia Bank worth US$7 billion. It is also the goods I need in the future. I hope it can arrive at my place within ten days. I wonder if Mr. Li can help me do it?" This guy also brought the goods.

He came here with a big purchase order. Now his business was different from before. Among the seven billion US dollars, he had one billion US dollars. He thought that some small jewelers were asking for goods worth tens of millions.

You should have a batch of goods there, just give them to them directly, and you don't have to go through so many procedures at Li Cong.

"Haha, no problem. In fact, I am the happiest at this moment. Getting the order means that we are alive again." Li Cong said happily. He could tell that this guy was not here specifically to give him this check.

Yes, this guy has other ideas. He just wants to send troops to fight Erosa, but he won't do it. Even if you are very useful to me now, I will never do it.

"Hmm? Mr. Li, it's like this. I have some money in my hands recently, and I want to find some powerful mercenary organizations. Mr. Li also knows that I am just a small businessman, and those mercenary organizations are basically me

I'm not familiar with it. I wonder what Mr. Li would recommend?" Li understood immediately. To be honest, he really wanted his subordinates to get it, but in the end he still had sense. He couldn't do that, otherwise

The rest of the things were enough to give him a headache for a long time. He nodded, Li Cong gave him a phone call, and then went out. He knew that this guy had a satellite phone on him.

"Hello, this is the South African eo company. How can I help you?" When this guy dialed the phone, there was such a message on the other side. They don't just call people, especially those with such a high level.

Telephones are generally only available to some large customers. South Africa is now controlled by energy groups, but this company has never been very obedient. ALROSA is not easy to mess with. Li Cong decided to let both of them use it. If ALROSA

If Rosa suffers a big loss, her diamond business will be fine. If this eo suffers a big loss, then she will uproot them directly.

This Mr. Li is so reliable. In the past, companies like this could only be seen in newspapers. People could just write down their phone number and they could call him. He was not worried that Li Cong had deceived him, because

The phone number stated that this was from South Africa. It seemed that my commission this time was on track.

The logo of eo is "Paladin" - the "knight" in chess. The full name of eo is executive outcomes, which translates to "execution results". The original name of Strategic Resources Co., Ltd. is strategic resource corporation, or src for short.

SRC is actually the parent company of eo. eo is one of the 32 subsidiaries of src. The business of these subsidiaries covers mining, air transportation leasing, security, etc. These subsidiaries are registered in different places, including South Africa.

, some are in the Bahamas, and some are in the Isle of Man (a semi-autonomous region of the Commonwealth). eo’s superficial customers are all internationally recognized legal governments. The most famous customers are Angola and Lyon, but in fact eo’s real customers are

Customers are multinational companies that extract natural resources, such as De Beers, British Resources, Texaco Coal Mines, Gulf-Chevron Transportation, etc.

Take Larion as an example. The interim government at the time had no money to hire EO to fight against the Ruf rebels, but a company called Branch Heritage provided a credit guarantee for the Larion government. EO's

The wages are actually paid by Zhilu Energy, and every time eo recaptures a diamond mine, Zhilu Energy can obtain 60% of its mining rights. Of course, this company is a subsidiary of the Energy Group, which is how the Energy Group has been doing business for decades.

The first diamond mine was obtained in Africa years ago.

The United Nations has been asking the Sierra Leone government to terminate its contract with EO. In 1997, the terms of the peace agreement signed between the Sierra Leone government and RUF included the withdrawal of EO and all other foreign troops. The irony is that

, when eo withdrew, ruf quickly fought back. As for the group of South African mercenaries in the movie "Blood Diamond", some people said that they were alluding to eo. In fact, the time background of this movie was in 1999, when

Ruf has already reached the outskirts of the capital of Lyon.

eo's founder, Eben Barlow, was once the second-in-command of the 32nd Air Reconnaissance Battalion in South Africa. After retiring, he became an employee of the National Cooperation Bureau (ccb), which was specialized in working with the African National Congress (ANC).

anc), a racially oppressive institution whose main activities include intelligence work and assassination operations. When South Africa abolished apartheid in 1989, ANC leader Nelson Mandela disbanded the units that carried out racially oppressive tasks. Faced with unemployment,

, Barrow simply jumped out to start a business and established eo company. The employees were all former comrades and colleagues.

Some sources say that EO is the ancestor of modern PMC, and Barrow's book also boasts that he pioneered modern PMC. But in fact, EO was established in 1989, while MPRI was established in 1987, the predecessor of the Armored Group.

Defense Systems Limited (DSL) began operations in 1981. DSL, like EO, is very active in Angola. Deyang Group has a longer history, and its predecessor was established in 1946, although the aviation service company established at that time was only a contractor for the US military.

combat aircraft maintenance, but this is a serious "military contracting business" after all.

EO can always defeat more with less and suffer very few casualties. In comparison, the number of enemies killed by them is simply disproportionately high. This is partly because EO soldiers are well-equipped. They have armed helicopters and armored vehicles.

and howitzers, as well as fuel-air bombs and other big killers, and most of their enemies only have light weapons and not much heavy equipment; on the other hand, it is also because the soldiers of eo are veterans from South Africa and other countries, and they are well-trained.

The military quality is high, but most of their opponents, such as ruf, do not have enough training. It is similar to the plot in the movie "Blood Diamond". Among the strong men captured, there are many children, with a rusty AK and a

Stacking bullets, and sending them to the front line as soon as they learn how to shoot, can be used to deal with ordinary people or the Sierra Leone government and military of the same level, but it is too far behind to deal with well-equipped and well-trained mercenaries. Once in Kosovo

In a mine in Nova Scotia, only more than 60 EO soldiers withstood a week-long attack by thousands of RUF. During this period, EO soldiers always adhered to one principle: never enter a combat area without helicopter fire support.

eo can attract many experienced foreign veterans, partly because of the high wages, and it is not easy for veterans to find a good job - especially those from the special forces. Apart from fighting, they have no other skills that can make a lot of money.

On the other hand, it is also because of the good welfare benefits. Some articles, including "World Military", mentioned EO's "full drug coverage". In fact, if there is a "work-related injury or death" during combat, drugs and medical care will be covered.

It's free, and even if it fails, the insurance company will pay for it. Now, if any pmcpsc dares not to buy insurance for the "temporary workers" below, it is estimated that no one will sign a contract with them.

Although eo's headquarters has always been in South Africa, since 1993, the business of eo's head office has been moved to the UK. This is mainly due to two reasons: first, London is an international arms trading center and defense trading center; second, this

Helps rid South Africa of the ANC government's interference in their business.

The South African government has always disliked eo. This is because many of eo's employees had previously opposed the African National Congress. When South Africa signed the international anti-mercenary law in 1998, it forced eo to end its business. But only
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