Chapter 600 The Real Bottleneck
An hour later, looking at the pile of equipment brought back by Shi Dakai, Chen Chen held his forehead and said helplessly:
"56 rush, Bayi bar, 56 machine, big black star. Good guys, I asked you to buy equipment, I didn't ask you to buy all the equipment from the north."
"Where's the M249? Didn't I just see that there was an M249 for sale?"
"There are also sniper rifles, why is it SVD again? Isn't there an L115A3 there? If you can't, just buy an AWP!"
"There are also these portable body armors. They are all made in the north. What, are you used to using other things?"
Hearing Chen Chen's words, Shi Dakai shook his head and said helplessly:
"It's not that we don't want to buy it, it's that other things are not good."
"What do you think you can buy? Almost all NATO weapons on the market are emasculated semi-automatic versions. The M249 is available, but it is a para version, and it is definitely scarred by battles. It is hard to say how much life is left in the receiver."
"The market looks open but is actually quite closed."
"If you are not a regular customer or have a special relationship, it is almost impossible to buy a suitable fully automatic weapon here."
"It's good to be able to buy these northern products. The bosses even recommended SKS to us - either 56 and a half, or Maozi's SKS!"
"Is anyone still selling this thing?"
Chen Chen asked in shock.
"That's right. The time is too short, and our exploration of Peshawar can only touch the surface."
"If you spend more time, maybe you can go deeper."
"However, it is not easy to establish trust with the businessmen here. This time, I guess we can only take a brief look."
"The rest of the matter must be left to Peng Xucheng to handle slowly."
"Looks like you're going to be stationed here for a while—or are you sending a deputy?"
Chen Chen turned to Peng Xucheng, who nodded slightly and replied:
"I'm OK."
"Xu You can also handle most of the affairs of the group. If you really can't handle it, I can take command remotely."
"The plan here in Peshawar is very important. Now that I'm here, I want to spend more time and have a deeper understanding of the ecology here."
"In this way, our subsequent plans will be relatively smooth."
"no problem."
After a slight pause, Chen Chen continued:
"We can't always rely on the SSG for protection. We will ask Lao Zhu to transfer a team from Pubei, led by the Li Gang, to be responsible for your security."
"After the incident in Peshawar is over, you go back to Pubei, and the Li Gang will go directly to Syria."
"By that time, the reception work in Syria will be almost complete, and it will be seamless."
"How's it going, Gang Li, is it okay?"
"no problem."
Li Bang nodded without hesitation and then said:
"When you return, Lin He will take my place."
"rest assured."
Chen Chen waved his hand and replied:
"After returning this time, I will most likely not carry out high-risk missions myself in a short period of time."
"I will stay in Pubei and command remotely."
"The Americans are worried about their own affairs right now. No matter how crazy they are, they can't make themselves miserable when the election is coming."
"This is a golden development window, and I have to make good use of it."
"The best outcome is that by the time they react, we have developed to a point where they can't handle it."
"It's not easy."
Peng Xucheng took over and said:
"Our current position is too extreme. Basically, it can be said that we are completely opposed to NATO."
"Moreover, we have not formed any interest binding with them - it is not that there is no deep interest binding, but there is no interest binding at all."
"This really gave us a great advantage in the early days of our start-up. Choosing a direction resolutely allowed us to obtain maximum support."
"but now."
"Our scale is constantly expanding, but we are not yet large enough to completely withstand the opponent's attacks."
"In the future, once the other party officially defines us as an extremist organization or a hostile organization at the bill level, our situation will be quite worrying."
"The previous incident on France's terrorism watch list is a warning signal, if the United States adopts the same policy as them."
Peng Xucheng didn't finish what he said, but Chen Chen knew that none of the countries and organizations on the United States' list of sponsors of terrorism would end well.
This is not a problem that can be solved by sheer bravery. The Dongfeng Corps can fight back and forth with DEVGRU's special team, but if the other party really launches a large-scale deployment and officially lists the Dongfeng Corps as a "national level" enemy , How long can we hold on?
At this point in time in 2012, the United States was still the well-deserved world hegemon. Even though some policies of the northern powers had begun to point to their petro-dollar hegemony, their dominance in the fields of international trade, international settlement, and international finance was still undoubtly.
An elephant cannot crush ants, but it can easily destroy an ant nest.
They don't even need to actually go to war. Once the terror list is added, economic sanctions are launched, and SWIFT is stopped, Dongfeng Group will immediately fall into a complete shutdown.
——
Of course, Chen Chen had actually been prepared before this.
Most of Dongfeng Group's cash has been transferred from Citibank to a bank in the north. Under Peng Xucheng's management, the pure US dollar settlement method has begun to expand to Euro, RMB and even barter settlement.
But even so, Chen Chen still couldn't guarantee that Dongfeng Group would survive the opponent's full blow.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen frowned.
After a long silence, he spoke:
"That's really something we need to think about."
"However, it is impossible for us to change our position and our team."
"We don't need to change our stance."
Peng Xucheng interrupted Chen Chen and continued:
"Even Pakistan is maintaining limited cooperation with the United States."
"I mean, for the big countries in the north, they can tolerate such limited cooperation. After all, they know that we are just trying to survive."
"Only by surviving can we function better"
"This is different."
Chen Chen shook his head firmly and said:
"The biggest difference between us and Pakistan is that we are not a national entity."
"We do not have any rigid demands on sovereignty, which means that we can fall to any party at any time."
"Don't think that since we have good relations with the North, they won't have any precautions against us."
"Trust is based on the fact that we have done nothing wrong from beginning to end. If we break this bottom line, you can decide what will happen in the future."
".What should we do?"
Peng Xucheng spread his hands and said:
"Otherwise we will shrink in size and rely entirely on our big brother in the north to survive."
"But in this way, we will lose the space for large-scale expansion, and we will be severely restricted in terms of business scope."
"It's even possible that you won't even be able to move freely in the future - even if a few of us can accept it, other people in the group may not be able to accept it."
As a businessman, Peng Xucheng thinks about issues from a very simple and direct perspective.
In fact, he doesn't have much of a political stance. All he does is just for two words: making money.
And such a simple purpose can indeed allow him to get straight to the essence of the problem.
Yes, the core layer of Dongfeng Group can accept quite harsh conditions, but the problem is that Dongfeng Group is different from Wagner in his previous life.
The foundation of this group is in Pubei, not in the north.
This means that the subordinate relationship between Dongfeng Group and the North will naturally be weakened a lot.
If Chen Chen insisted on running the group according to Wagner's method, the final result would most likely be mutiny.
So, this is definitely not the optimal solution.
But besides this, is there any other way?
"Can we cooperate with other arms groups?"
Shi Dakai on the side interrupted and asked:
"On the other side, we do not cooperate directly with the U.S. government, nor do we change our position."
"However, through cooperation with other business groups, we form interests with them."
"The United States is a country controlled by the military-industrial complex. If we can establish ties with companies like Lockheed Martin,"
"Not too possible."
Peng Xucheng interrupted Shi Dakai and then explained:
“There is a concept in the market called ‘decisive consideration’. If we want to reach cooperation with the other party, we must come up with decisive consideration.”
"For example, what the boss said to Yegor is actually the decisive consideration."
"But if you think about it, what can we give Loma? What can we give Thor?"
"We need technology but not technology, and we need market but not market. Our value lies in our ability to do dirty work. Of course, there is also some sensitive intelligence related to the north that we have."
"They want these things, should we give them to them too?"
"Instead of cooperating like this, it is better to make some compromises in the field of counter-terrorism and engage in some joint operations like Pakistan, and the risks will be smaller."
"Shall we join forces with them?"
Li Gang, who had been silent from beginning to end, finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"Don't let us fight ourselves first!"
"So that's the crux of the matter."
Peng Xucheng spread his hands and said helplessly:
"This is our real bottleneck. If Dongfeng Group maintains its current scale and does not continue to expand and defends its one-third of an acre, in fact, we will not have such troubles."
"However, according to the boss's wishes, we have to operate Syria, Peshawar, Pubei and Indonesia."
"If we want to run everything"
"etc."
Chen Chen suddenly interrupted Peng Xucheng.
"It's not impossible."
"any solution?"
Peng Xucheng asked doubtfully.
"Donny Davis."
After the words fell, the whole room fell into silence.
Shi Dakai and Li Bang naturally knew what happened to this person and the story that had happened before.
Peng Xucheng didn't know, but even just from the shocked eyes of others, he could guess that this person was probably a pioneer who solved the "paradox".
"Can I participate?"
Peng Xucheng asked quickly.
"Nothing is impossible, because none of us here have obtained any specific information about this person."
"Including me."
"You didn't get it either?"
Peng Xucheng asked in astonishment.
"Yes, this person is like a black hole."
"All the information related to him is swallowed up directly, just like light approaching a black hole."
"We on the periphery have no way to explore the situation inside, and those inside cannot actively transmit information to us because of the gravity composed of rules."
"But this is not important."
"What is important is that if he were me, the so-called bottleneck would definitely not be a problem for him."
"He is likely to maintain the same tacit understanding with both parties with different positions, and based on this tacit understanding, no matter what he does, he will not be suppressed by any party."
"If we want to solve our problems, we have to become like him."
After the voice fell, Peng Xucheng was stunned.
"I thought you would say that we have to find him and let him join us."
"That's impossible."
Chen Chen shook his head and continued to explain:
"Before this, I have made some attempts."
"Let alone pulling him into our team, even if I contact him, it will cause high vigilance in the north."
"I always feel that they are not just afraid that I will kill him."
"The king does not meet the king? Is this possible?"
Shi Dakai suddenly asked.
"It is possible, but without specific information, any speculation is meaningless."
"Don't think too much, we don't care about him."
"At this time, there is no point in beating around the bush, it is better to be straightforward."
"You guys step aside first, I'll make a call."
"Understood."
After the voice fell, everyone left the room immediately.
Chen Chen was the only one left in the empty room. He sat alone on the sofa, hesitated for a few seconds, and finally dialed the familiar number.
He knew that this call was likely to change himself and the fate of the entire Dongfeng Corps.
If many of the things he did before were to wash away the "original sin" that accompanied his birth, then after this phone call, the plan to wash away the original sin will be completely overturned.
It's like a glass of water with a few drops of poison mixed in it.
What he had been doing before was to pour non-toxic clean water into this glass of water, constantly diluting the poison until it was no longer fatal.
And now, he wants to hand this glass of poisonous water that has not been completely diluted to a person with decision-making power, and let them mix new poison.
The difference is that the antidote for this poison is only in the hands of the two largest forces in the world.
The phone was quickly connected, and Xiaoyu's voice came from the other end.
"Sinking ship, how is it?"
"Are you doing well in Peshawar? Is your injury healed?"
Chen Chen nodded subconsciously and replied:
"It's going well, the injury is fine."
"I have a question now, and I need you to give me a clear answer."
". You say."
Chen Chen took a deep breath and asked:
"Can I do what Donny Davis can do?"