Chapter 224: Can already influence the game between major powers

"You should go to 1400 Pentagon Avenue in DC."

In the small meeting room of the manor, Milo chuckled as he looked at the two Frenchmen in suits in front of him.

"Instead of coming to me. I don't even join a political party, so what's the point of you coming to me?"

His words made the two Frenchmen look at each other.

The man who looked older and whose hair was half white began to introduce himself: "Hello, Mr. Blackburn. Let me introduce myself first. I am Gabriel Franz, and this is Adelaide Federico."

"Be direct. Sir, you are not here to do business with me. There is no need to waste time on small talk. How about just stating your purpose? Everyone's time is valuable."

Gabriel was silent for a moment, then smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll speak my mind."

But I was thinking in my heart that these Americans are as rude and direct as ever.

"Well, as far as we know, Mr. Blackburn, you own a security company called United Global. This company has been active in Africa recently, so we thought..."

Gabriel spoke slowly, staring at Milo's expression as he spoke, but Milo's expression did not change.

This made Gabriel immediately understand that although this American aristocrat in front of him was young, he was already very cunning.

No wonder he can achieve things that most people can't at such a young age.

"…So we want to hire you, a PMC from a security company, to help us perform some tasks."

“Mainly in Africa,” Adelaide quickly added.

"ha--"

Milo's expression finally showed some reaction, he looked at the two Frenchmen and smiled.

In fact, Milo had already learned about it from Kenny before returning.

Knowing that these two Frenchmen named Adelaide and Gabriel came to Sophie.

Moreover, through the intelligence network, Milo also knew that although these two people were ostensibly senior executives of French companies in the United States, they were actually the white gloves of the French Chirac government in the United States.

Their company has very close ties with France.

To put it more directly, these two people are the current French President Jacques Chirac and people from the French military.

But there are two French people with this identity.

But now he comes to me and says he wants to hire my security company to carry out some tasks in Africa.

Milo felt that it would be strange if this had nothing to do with the French government.

However, since these two people still want to give it a try, and France is indeed one of the world's superpowers.

Just like Washington, sometimes we have to consider the attitude of the Elysee Palace.

So Milo's attitude was pretty good. He chuckled and then said, "If it's this kind of thing, you should go directly to the business department of United Global. This is a legitimate American security company. As long as the conditions are right. Well, I think you should understand that I mean the price is right. Then I think United Global is willing to accept your mission. You don't need to come directly to me, because I will never give you a discount for this."

Seeing that Milo seemed easy to talk to, Gabriel and Adelaide both looked relieved.

The main reason was that the information they received from the French intelligence system indicated that the person in front of them seemed to be a little neurotic.

Gabriel: "Of course, our people have already gone there to look for her. But we were lucky enough to learn that you, Mr. Blackburn, have some... connections with our Light of France. So we came here, hoping that she can introduce us to you."

The Light of France? It should refer to Sophie.

But this is obviously an excuse, even without Sophie.

And Julie Delpy, and a lot of other excuses.

The key is to see why these French people come to you.

Following the Washington K Street story?

People in later generations know that the United States' remote farming technology is unparalleled in the world, and there are a large number of pro-American people in countries around the world who are helping the United States do various things.

For example, taking to the streets, color revolution, various beautification propaganda, etc.

But in fact, this kind of thing is mutual.

Americans can do this to other countries, and other countries can do this to the United States.

Moreover, because the United States has a relatively special system, there are many internal factions that are extremely divided and often hostile to each other.

It is also very suitable for foreigners to influence the United States.

The most typical one is K Street in Washington.

The media said that it was America's lobbying street or congressional street.

Because many times, this street can influence many decisions of the U.S. Congress.

However, secretly, this street is also a spy street for the United States.

It’s just a very American characteristic, and like political donations, everything is put out in the open.

For example, if the United States wants to influence European countries, it usually hints at the activities of pro-American people there, then pushes local media opinion, lets the opposition party attack behind the scenes, and then when the time is right, the United States will cooperate with the pressure.

Conversely, if foreigners want to influence the United States.

They don't need to go to so much trouble.

They can go to a K Street company that has a member of Congress or family members of certain members of Congress on the board of directors.

Sign business deals directly with these companies, such as buying something from them and then paying for it.

After the price is agreed upon, the company will start shipping goods, such as several bottles of American specialty red wine worth five million US dollars, or hundreds of kilograms of rotten and rancid American potatoes.

Don’t worry about the quality of the product, as long as there is one willing to offer a price and the other willing to sell it.

Then, in the following months, some members of the U.S. Congress will coincidentally propose many U.S. policies that are in the best interests of customers who bought red wine or rotten potatoes.

It's sensible, legal, and very American.

And it's not just members of Congress who open such companies. Almost all capitalists and conglomerates in the United States also open such offices on K Street.

In short, everything is determined by money and interests.

Thinking of this, Milo smiled inwardly.

He thought, I'm not that easy to bribe.

"Sophie is very nice, I like her very much."

After saying this, Milo paused and added, "So... can you tell me what you want my security company to do in Africa? As far as I know, the armed forces of the United World are still in Sierra Leone."

Milo was very clear about his own private armed forces.

As a result, he now has a clear understanding of the situation in Sierra Leone, a black Africa.

Ever since it declared independence in 1961, this small black African country has never been truly peaceful.

For more than thirty years, there has been a rebellion almost every two or three years.

After the rebellion ended, another rebellion broke out two or three years later...

United Global's employer Foday Sankoh successfully rebelled six years ago, but was driven out less than two months after taking office. He then spent a long time fighting guerrilla warfare in the country's southeastern jungle area.

After fighting for two or three years, the local government forces, unable to continue, decided to negotiate, and Sankoh finally had a chance to catch his breath.

Sankoh returned to the capital of Sierra Leone to run for election, but of course he was unsuccessful because he and his army had once carried out a bloody massacre in the capital of this small country.

After losing the election, Sankoh turned against the government and refused to acknowledge the election results, and started making trouble again.

This time the Sierra Leone government forces learned their lesson and hired foreign mercenaries.

As for the combat effectiveness of the armies of small African countries, those who understand will understand.

The mercenaries stayed in Sierra Leone for 21 months and spent $35 million, but they did achieve some results: Sankoh's rebels were crushed and retreated to the countryside, occupying only a few small pieces of territory.

Sankoh himself was captured and imprisoned in the capital, Freetown.

It was in this context that Sankoh’s son, who remained in the United States, approached United Global.

In fact, Sankoh has never been eliminated since the rebellion in 1991, and there is more or less some American influence behind it.

Because in fact, Sierra Leone can be said to be the territory of Britain and France.

Since old Europe cannot compete with the United States globally, they have invested most of their strength in black Africa.

Together with the Eastern countries, the United States has never had much influence on black Africa.

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After consulting military advisers and asking for his father's opinion.

Milo asked United Global to take the lead and enter Sierra Leone.

After more than half a year, Sankoh himself had been killed by the former government forces.

But the original rebels, with the help of mercenaries united by a group called United Global, which was actually a small group of American generals in the Five Star Building, have defeated the original government forces and their mercenaries.

At present, Sankoh's son has occupied Freetown and announced the establishment of a new government.

The former government army turned into a rebel army, and the British and French mercenaries they hired were simply defeated and retreated back to their country.

Sankoh's son has nominally unified the country.

Then it's time to pay.

Black Africa is a small country, so to say it is poor and backward is a nice thing to say.

Sierra Leone's national foreign exchange reserves probably can't even buy a small apartment in Manhattan.

The money cannot be given, but fortunately Sierra Leone is one of the world's most famous natural diamond producing areas.

However, at this time, the artificial synthetic diamond industry has not yet achieved great success.

Diamonds are still easy to trade, so Sierra Leone's diamond mines are very valuable.

Sankoh's son took out half of their country's diamond mines as payment for hiring United Global to continue fighting and stationing.

However, the government of Sankoh’s son had been established for less than two months, and many mining areas had not yet been recovered.

Most of the original owners of these mines happened to be French, because Sierra Leone's mineral producing areas are close to neighboring Guinea, which was called French Guinea forty years ago.

So, see, the French are coming now.

"In fact..." Gabriel weighed his tone and looked at Milo seriously, "We want to hire United Global to defend some of our diamond mines in Sierra Leone. Their rebels overthrew their original legitimate government and are now advancing towards the Northern Province, which happens to be where our company's diamond mines are located."

"That's right." Adelaide also added: "For this, we are willing to pay half of the output of these diamond mines as the cost of hiring United Global Security."

Are these Gauls so naive? Milo frowned.

That sounds good, paying half of the output as employment fee.

But if you don't accept it, then it won't be half, but all the output of these diamond mines will be yours.

Milo couldn't believe that the Gauls didn't understand this.

"United Global will not refuse such business."

Milo smiled, and before the two of them could get any more happy, he immediately said:

"However, United Global is a company with professional ethics. United Global will not accept employment from another employer before the employment period of the previous employer has not ended. So if the two gentlemen want to employ United Global, they must wait until the current employment period of United Global ends."

Hearing what Milo said, the two Gauls' faces really darkened.

After learning the other party's intention, Milo was in no mood to continue wasting time with these Gallic chickens.

To put it bluntly.

There is actually more competition between Americans and French than cooperation.

Frankly speaking, if it weren’t for the Red Bear, Big Hair would be half-dead now.

In Europe, France is definitely the number one target of suppression by the United States.

Not to mention that the Five-Star Building has always been eyeing France's interests in black Africa.

But compared to London, which has been completely kidnapped, Paris still has relatively strong autonomy.

Chirac, who is in power now, is also the last of the political elite in Europe.

It is difficult for the United States to infiltrate, so it can only look to the future.

So if that were all, Milo would have little interest in cooperating with these French people.

cooperate?

Cooperation is bullshit.

It would be better to just snatch it away. This is the American habit.

He stood up and left. As soon as he walked out of the room, Kenny stood in front of Adelaide and Gabriel with an expressionless face:

"Gentlemen, please go. Oh, by the way, the CIA is waiting for you outside."

Gabriel and Adelaide looked at each other, and the former took a deep breath. "Sir, I am a subordinate of the French Embassy in the United States. I hope I can make a phone call before your CIA takes us away."

Kenny had a blank expression on his face and waved his hand, indicating that the other party could make a phone call.

The boss just didn't want to cooperate with these French people, but he didn't want to fall out with them directly.

So next was the battle between ClA and the Gauls, and Kenny knew he didn't need to join in.

Milo, who came out of the conference room, couldn't help but let out a sigh.

He was a little dazed.

Because just now, he got involved in the interest game between the two major powers, and at the same time directly and indirectly deeply affected the future development of a country in Africa.

Just in that country, in just six months, it is estimated that tens of thousands of people were born or died because of him.

Looking at the vast green lawn in the courtyard of the manor and the lush trees surrounding it, it feels like being in a peaceful paradise.

This, he thought, is what Americans are like.

Live in the best, eat the best, use the best, and enjoy peace.

But the price is that other parts of the world will continue to suffer from war, hunger and poverty for a long time.

Vampires, Americans are the vampires of the planet, from top to bottom.

Thinking of this, he chuckled to himself, shook his head and walked towards the baby twins' door on the living room side.

(End of this chapter)