King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer-Chapter 1114 - 980: Pry Open

After Joe Ga decided to let Nis have her way a bit, he didn’t get involved in their actions but instead made a call to Michael Beach from the DEA.

This guy is now the director of the DEA, with one foot stepping from the civil service into the political arena, enjoying his success.

After receiving a call from Boss Qiao, this guy patted his chest and immediately informed the Brazilian side to confirm Nis’s identity and then had the contract sorted out, allowing Boss Qiao to sign online.

At the end, he tentatively asked if any official DEA field agents were needed to provide support?

After receiving a negative response, Michael Beach sighed regretfully...

In fact, he wanted to come to Sao Paulo himself, because over the past few months, after Bigmouth Tang took office and began implementing his policies, this guy gradually saw the situation clearly...

The Department of Justice, the State Department, the Pentagon, Congress...

It’s a seemingly loose network, but in reality, it’s connected by interests and friendship.

Although it can’t compare with the interest groups represented by the two parties, its latent power is still extremely terrifying!

From Michael Beach’s standpoint, Boss Qiao is a ready-made big player.

Their relationship has always been good, but it could be even better, especially since he was just a deputy director before, but now he’s the director.

The level of contact is different, and the vision has also changed!

After being promoted to director, he is no longer just a simple civil servant.

The American-style ’revolving door’ between politics and business is open to him, and as long as he manages his connections well, he could retire from his position after a few years and enter a big company as a partner or the like.

For a DEA agent who climbed up from the bottom, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Boss Qiao probably has no idea what’s on Michael Beach’s mind; in his heart, his investment in America has a ceiling.

The current situation is more than enough for self-preservation but lacks development potential; maintaining the status quo is already the best outcome.

Because once the network expands again, it will touch the core interests of both parties.

It’s not a simple matter of a few politicians or positions; expanding the network would eat into other people’s interests.

Moreover, the collision of interest networks will cause huge waves, leading to the annihilation of many valuable assets.

The most typical case is the ongoing evaporation of the shale oil bubble in America.

A new batch of emerging energy capital in America, not aimed at shale oil extraction, was thoroughly consumed by traditional energy groups in conjunction with Wall Street, and they also reaped a lot of low-hanging fruit in the process.

Boss Qiao is definitely stronger than those guys who bought land to make fake projects, boasted about selling corporate bonds, and carried out Ponzi schemes to manipulate massive capital.

But he is still not ’one of the insiders’!

More than once, people have approached Monica, wanting to finance and list the P.B. American branch company.

Joe Ga doesn’t even know how they calculate it; they even gave value to the Department of Justice’s witness protection plan and many odds and ends contracts that the Brotherhood got from the Pentagon.

As long as P.B. is corporatized according to their method, it could achieve a valuation of 500 million US Dollars, and it could go public on Wall Street in two to three years.

This is the power of financialization!

The New Jersey Company’s fixed assets only comprise a single farm and a hundred or so people; the most valuable are those contracts.

With an annual output value of around 20 million, they gave it a valuation of 500 million, and after going public, this number can expand 3 to 6 times.

Under such temptation, how many people in the world can resist?

Damn, I won’t make that much money in a lifetime, so why shouldn’t I do it?

What they don’t realize is that once you reach this step, you lose absolute control over the company.

If you can always lead the company to profitability, you can continue to steer it, but once you make a decision mistake, financial capital will instantly kick you out.

However, many facts have proven that financial capital, a profit group purely relying on monetary exchanges, finds it hard to patiently manage industrial capital.

So they will make a profit from shareholders via the stock market while splitting your company into several parts, selling off the valuable pieces, leaving the rest to either go bankrupt directly or packaged for sale to asset management companies, eventually profiting and exiting.

What’s scarier is that this kind of international financial capital, when linked with official talk capital of some countries, can clean up and exit not only taking away wealth but leaving behind a mess.

Boss Qiao knows the listing of P.B. is merely some interest group testing the waters.

Once Boss Qiao nods, they can pull him into their game circle, and then gradually absorb the political connections that Boss Qiao represents.

With Boss Qiao’s current status and connections, if he were willing to nod, he could immediately become a true big player in finance!

The traitors and proxies who appear in so many countries worldwide are mostly born in this context.

Because to protect their interests, they need to protect the interests of financial groups.

The world-renowned large investment banks have done countless despicable deeds; how many successful entrepreneurs do you see insulting them?

Unfortunately, Joe Ga didn’t want to deal with them because he knew that once he got involved, he would lose some of his autonomy.

Joe Ga wanted to blaze his own trail, to use what he had learned to build an indestructible moat in a crevice.

The first step in building the moat is to develop Central Africa...

Only with the great development of Central Africa can Sangha Town remain as stable as Mount Tai!

Joe Ga wanted a thriving Central Africa with tourism, agriculture, steel, and diamonds as its main industries, where the infrastructure investment alone would be astronomical.

The funds Joe Ga promised to Francois were not a joke, but he couldn’t handle it alone, so the first person he needed to see was that Claverley from England...

The investment banking procedures that Gami arranged had been completed, and Claverley was the board representative sent by England.

Now everything was ready, just waiting for someone to put money into the investment bank.

Copacabana Beach...

Claverley, dressed in beachwear, was strolling along the shore with Joe Ga, who was similarly attired.

The old fellow was fairly slender, but his eyes were extraordinarily bright.

After buying a few joints from a child selling marijuana, Claverley gestured to Joe Ga, and after being refused, he lit up and took a puff, saying, "I like Brazil because it’s full of a sense of freedom."

Joe Ga didn’t like the smell of marijuana, so he moved upwind, walking slowly and saying, "I’ve already reached an agreement with the Central African Government to take on all the basic project constructions, then I will establish a Central African Asset Management Company...

I need enough funding to start the project; 1.5 billion British Pounds is a decent figure.

I can promise a 4.5% return, which will be used to buy bonds issued by the asset management company."

Claverley took another puff of marijuana, then disdainfully discarded it before looking at Joe Ga and saying, "Central African Asset Management Company?

From what I know about you, you can’t profit from those infrastructures.

4.5% return makes me a bit concerned...

Besides, as we discussed before, the first destination of these funds should be Congo."

Upon hearing this, Joe Ga frowned and said, "You doubt my ability to make money?"

Claverley shook his head with a smile, saying, "Hu Lang, you’re the most adept at using influence to make money that I’ve ever seen.

Of course, I don’t doubt your ability, but I’m worried you’ll drag England into Central Africa as your leverage against France’s financial domination."

Saying this, Claverley looked at the sunset-filled sea and smiled, saying, "Hu Lang, we can be your leverage, but the profit from 1.5 billion British Pounds is too little.

How about 15 billion British Pounds?

I have no other demands, you can use it all to buy bonds from the asset management company, just guarantee a 3.5% return.

Additionally, half of the funds must go to the Congo Katanga Province, with your asset management company integrating the infrastructure there, and the rest invested in mining resources."

Joe Ga, with a cold look, said to Claverley, "Katanga Province?

I haven’t even settled South Kivu Province, and you want me to wade into the quagmire of Katanga Province?

Integrate infrastructure? Do you know how much it costs to go to war there?

Katanga Province is the most concentrated place for foreign mining companies in Congo, and the largest copper and cobalt mines have already been taken by China...

Did you even prepare a mining company, just waiting for me to grant them loans so they can acquire and start operations on local mines?

You just put money with me, and I have to help you snatch Congo’s mineral resources.

Do I look like a sucker?"

Claverley listened and, smiling, said, "The Chinese, having taken the copper and cobalt mines, are investing massively in infrastructure projects as a trade-off.

If you can manage those basic livelihood projects, you can collaborate with Chinese companies to entirely control the Katanga Province.

We only want some minor mining resources, which doesn’t really conflict with you."

Upon hearing this, Joe Ga decisively shook his head and coldly looked at the overreaching Claverley, saying, "Lending me 15 billion just to make me work for you, you’re surely overthinking it.

Cobalt is a key element in new energy batteries, we both know why you’re stirring into Katanga Province, anyway, I won’t agree."

Claverley, facing Joe Ga’s firm refusal, wasn’t particularly disappointed...

Seeing Joe Ga’s impatient look, he smiled and said, "Alright, 1.5 billion British Pounds will enter the investment bank within a week, and more funds will flow into the investment company when your Congo plans are implemented.

As the large buyer of your asset management company’s bonds and standing at the forefront against France’s financial harvesting, I need some additional perks."

Joe Ga rubbed his chin and said, "Then what do you want? Or rather, what do the people behind this fund want?"

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