The news that the Eddie brothers' anti-government armed forces were wiped out by the troops led by the Navy General Fang within three days naturally reached the ears of General Neiro Mora of the Air Force.
What shocked him the most was, of course, Fang Lang's use of forty bombers at once to carpet-bomb the enemy, as well as the use of transport planes to quickly mobilize troops across regions.
This made him more eager to hope that his air force could form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and that his transport and bomber formations could be formed as soon as possible.
Upon learning about the bombing operation, Fang Lang had seconded a group of students from the aviation school, which made him full of expectations for the students of the aviation school.
He was not at all surprised that Fang Lang could achieve such results. After all, when Lieutenant General Crook suddenly volunteered to fight at the Ministry of National Defense meeting, he had already noticed something was wrong.
Of course, Fang Lang was deeply shocked that the enemy that the army had not been able to resolve for half a year was resolved within three days.
At the same time, this battle further strengthened his idea of establishing an airborne force independently belonging to the Air Force.
Naturally, the public also quickly got the news, and the Brazilian Times even gave a huge page to announce the victory of the war to the world. The TV station also made a detailed report.
But in this report, the media company under Fangyuan Group did not over-publicize the time comparison between the navy and the army, but only told everyone that it was the Navy's Rio de Janeiro aircraft carrier battle group that achieved this great victory.
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The purpose is naturally to minimize the confrontation between the navy and the army and avoid bringing new enemies to their boss.
While the outside world was marveling at Fang Lang's achievements, Fang Lang himself was inspecting the town of Bittenkot, which was originally occupied by the rebels, although the main force stationed in the town at this time was the army.
But as the new front-line commander, Fang Lang naturally has the right to inspect work in these towns that were once occupied by the rebels.
Because the town is ruled by rebels and recruits soldiers here, many residents are very wary of government forces, not that they choose to stand on the same side as the rebels.
It is because their families inevitably became part of the rebels, whether voluntarily or under duress, and most of them died in the government's actions.
This inevitably led to some hostility among the townspeople towards the government forces.
The Brazilian government forces are not the local army of later generations, and have no intention or responsibility to help the local people resume production.
Therefore, the town of Bittenkot, which had experienced the war, was actually very dilapidated, and there were many bullet holes on the houses caused by artillery shells and bullets, which had not been filled.
There are also traces of burned wooden houses that have not been erased.
The person who accompanied Fang Lang on the inspection was not a military official, but Fang Lang's uncle, Fang Xinshui, the head of Hongmen Hongyitang.
"Lang'er, what did you ask me to come to this place to investigate?
There aren’t many people here!”
Hearing this, Fang Lang smiled and said:
“Uncle is right, there aren’t many people here, but there are abundant resources!
Look at the dense primeval jungle here, these tall trees that are thousands of years old, these are real resources.”
“Oh! Do you want our company to come here to do timber business?
But there are a lot of forest resources downstream, so why go deep into the Amazon River and come to this inconspicuous town? "
When Fang Lang heard what his uncle said, he did not give an answer immediately, but smiled and said:
"Uncle, don't worry. I came here for inspection. Since we have taken this place, we must exert enough influence here!"
As he spoke, he patted the door of the Willys Jeep and pointed to the dilapidated buildings around him.
"Looking at the dilapidated environment around here, most of the families here have family members who joined the rebels, and now the rebels have been wiped out by us. This has caused some rifts between the local residents and the Brazilian government.
If these barriers are not properly eliminated, the residents of these two places may give birth to a new rebel group.
This is something I don’t want to see.”
After hearing Fang Lang's words, Fang Xinshui frowned and said in confusion:
"Even if a new rebel group appears, it shouldn't have much impact on you! Maybe it can even provide you with some new opportunities to make meritorious contributions!"
Fang Lang smiled and pointed at the Yapura River not far away:
"Do you know where this river is all the way up?"
"Of course I know. That's Columbia."
"Then do you know what specialties Columbia has?"
This question obviously touched upon Fang Xinshui's blind spot. He looked at his nephew sitting next to him with some confusion, and shrugged helplessly.
"I really don't know about these things, but I roughly understand what you mean. You want us to build a temple here and find a way to get some Colombian specialties, right?"
Seeing his uncle react so quickly, he couldn't help but look at him with admiration. It seemed that after such a long period of training, his uncle had grown very fast!
He smiled and nodded:
"My uncle is right. Colombia is the most important emerald producing area in the world. The mines in these areas are mainly concentrated in the central Andes Mountains in Colombia.
As for the exact location of the gem mine, I am not sure, but I know that, apart from a few regular European and American companies, most of the local mining companies are illegal mining by local people.
Illegal mining is within the scope of crackdown by the local government, so the gems of these local people can only be taken away at a relatively low price.
After being polished and processed, these gems will be transformed into expensive luxury goods sought after by European upper-class ladies.
The profit gap between the two can drive people crazy. Do you understand what I mean?"
Fang Xinshui looked at his nephew in shock after hearing this. He swallowed hard before saying:
"I understand. Do you want our Hong Yi Tang to intervene in this business as a gang?"
Feeling his uncle's gaze, Fang Lang just smiled and nodded:
"If it wasn't for dealing with this rebel group, I wouldn't have known that there was such a huge source of wealth hidden here."
As he spoke, he took out an emerald the size of a pigeon egg from his pocket and threw it to his uncle beside him.
Because the Willys Jeep was driving on the muddy streets of the town and the body of the car was shaking constantly, Fang Xinshui, who did not notice Fang Lang's movements, almost failed to catch the gem.
Fortunately, his reach was good and his reaction was timely, so he caught the gem just before it fell to the ground.
He took the gem in his hand and played with it for a while. After carefully examining it in the sun for a while, he said in amazement:
"What a beautiful little treasure! I seem to remember that once when I was shopping in a jewelry store in São Paulo with your aunt, a gem that was less than a quarter of the size of this little guy was priced at $10,000.
I don’t know how much he is worth in the mining area.”
Fang Lang smiled and didn't say anything, but stretched out a hand and waved it towards his uncle.
Fang Xinshui looked at Fang Lang in disbelief and said:
"It can't be just five hundred dollars!"
"No, the purchase price of the rough stone is fifty dollars."
"Fuck, I'll do this business. When I get back, I'll start organizing people, set up a base here, and then find a way to sneak into Colombia to investigate the situation."
After knowing that this gem had such a high profit, Fang Xinshui spoke without hesitation.
Seeing this, Fang Lang smiled slightly, shook his head and said:
"Don't be anxious. If we want to build a base here, there is another very important prerequisite, which is that we must have a sufficient mass base.
The residents nearby are not on the same page with us now. I would be lucky if they didn't come out to cause trouble.
More importantly, I don't want you to personally participate in the sale of raw ore, but I plan to open a gem trading center here, recruit enough gem processing workers, and make this place a gem distribution center.
And your Hongyitang controls this channel by controlling this gem distribution center.
As for the hard work of gem trafficking, let others do it!"
Fang Xinshui was playing with the emerald pigeon egg gem in his hand while thinking about Fang Lang's words. It was obvious that the other party did not want to get himself too deeply involved, but only wanted to control the shipping channels of the gem.
However, he didn't understand, if they couldn't control the procurement channels of raw materials for gemstones, how could they attract others to come here to trade gemstones!
If other people don't come, their gem distribution center might become a joke.
Just when he wanted to express his doubts, Fang Lang seemed to have anticipated it and said:
“You don’t have to worry about them not coming here to trade. According to the information I have learned, there are already many people here engaged in related transportation businesses.
The first thing we need to do next is to immigrate here, make it our territory, build hotels here and provide them with catering services.
Then we will collect intelligence, find these people who are smuggling gems, gather them together, and let them trade according to our rules at the place we designate.
If someone doesn't want to play by our rules, I will arrange for professionals to carry out targeted strikes against them.
This is a game where those who follow the rules will prosper and those who go against them will perish. Only those who follow the rules can survive.”
Fang Lang's words once again refreshed Fang Xinshui's cognition. Is this how the powerful machine works?
"You mean to just let the police take action?"
"Of course, it is the police's duty to combat illegal smuggling and other crimes, isn't it?"
Looking at Fang Lang's matter-of-fact expression, Fang Xinshui swallowed and didn't know how to comment for a moment.
"What if they just don't take our route anymore?"
Fang Lang looked at his uncle who was dumbfounded, smiled and said:
"In fact, this is a simple cost selection issue. The purpose of building a gemstone distribution center is to purchase relatively cheap raw stones from them.
It's not about robbing them of their gems.
If they bring the gems to our distribution center to sell, although the sales price will be lower than if they ship them out directly, it is absolutely safe.
If they try to avoid our gem distribution centers, they will risk losing everything.
But when the risks and benefits are not proportional, smart people will make wise choices. "
Fang Xinshui still didn't understand and said:
"But in this way, won't our profits be maximized?"
Fang Lang smiled and took out a cigar, handed it to his uncle beside him, and said:
“Don’t focus on the profit of a single gemstone. What we want is the profit of the entire market and the scale.
By then, all the smuggled emeralds flowing from Colombia into Brazil will be traded with us, and we will be able to get a share of the profit from each gem. Just imagine how big a business this will be.
More importantly, do you know how many people this business can support?"
At this moment, Fang Xinshui finally understood what Fang Lang was thinking. After thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help but nod in admiration again.
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