Shadow Empire - Chapter 957 Lance's Good Advice

The people who got off the cruise ship finally gathered together. Lance shook hands with them one by one and let them get on the bus.

The pier is not the place to discuss business, nor is the hotel.

Lance was already very cautious, and now that people from the Republic of Jeed have begun to interfere in Lapa's affairs, he will only be even more careful.

The car was not a place to talk, so Lance didn't say a word along the way until the bus stopped at Lance Manor.

Capital is very efficient because they understand better than politicians that "time is money".

The group simply changed into clean clothes and then appeared in a reception room in the manor owner's building. They sat in different places, representing different forces.

And Lance sat in the middle.

Magre Industries has always been one of the top military-industrial groups in the Federation. Their most impressive, but also their least impressive weapon, is the "Magre Defense Revolver".

In fact, the frequency of replacement of police pistols is not as high as people imagine. After all, it is impossible for all police officers to empty the magazine the moment they see a criminal, no matter what the criminal has done.

The federal government and the law won't allow them to do that, and neither will the rich.

Therefore, most police officers will not use the weapons issued to them by the police station to shoot at will. At the same time, for those police officers who like to shoot, most of them will not use the very troublesome small-caliber revolvers.

They would buy their own semi-automatic pistols, modify them, and then use that.

Even though they only have twice as many bullets, in actual close-range shooting, the huge advantage is enough for them to save their lives to a greater extent.

So in reality, the frequency of police department replacing pistols should be very low.

should.

The reason why such an uncertain word is used is that the police department actually changes its uniforms very quickly.

In times without war, millions of weapons can be sold every two or three years, and Magre Industries has always been in the first echelon in this industry.

They spent a lot of money on public relations with key figures in each state, and even asked Congress to require, in the form of an "opinion," that local police conduct at least a certain number of shooting drills each year.

Guns also have durability. When a certain number of bullets are fired, the accuracy will decrease and it will be easy to miss targets.

At this time, Magre Industries will begin selling their weapons to police departments.

Lance crossed his legs and nodded, "Yes, I asked around, and it was aid from the Republic of Jede."

"This is a more official statement, but I also heard that this is actually the Republic of Czechoslovakia changing its overall equipment and sending its obsolete weapons here in the name of half aid and half sales."

In order to counter possible military competition, the Czech Republic completed some equipment replacement plans at the end of last year.

For example, they can equip soldiers with weapons they produce and design themselves. Of course, the bullets still need to be imported from the federal government, and they are currently unable to achieve mass production.

The Republic of Czechoslovakia is afraid that if the Asian Alliance and the Federation reach the point where they have to go to war, at least they will not be under such great pressure in logistics.

It would be a waste if the large amount of military equipment that was suddenly replaced was just left there, so at the suggestion of cabinet members, they exported it to Lapa.

Military equipment that originally might have cost 20 to 30 million federal soles can now be purchased for just over 10 million, and most of them are in 80 to 90% new condition.

As for the finer details, Lance wasn't quite sure.

Lance glanced at the other person and didn't recognize him.

Logically speaking, the scale of Lapa's arms market would not be too large. At most, it would be a market worth 100 million yuan at most. There was no need for so many companies to flock in. After all, Congress would give them many orders.

But in reality, the orders from Congress are not evenly distributed; some people get more, some get less.

The core of business competition is to drive out the other party. Even if they do not make money in the Lapa market, they cannot allow their competitors to continue to expand and grow.

After the war is over, some military-industrial groups here will definitely be swallowed up or disappear from the federation.

Moreover, a market with a scale of hundreds of millions is not small.

"It's very disappointing what the Lapa government has done. It looks like we may not get any big orders here."

Some people said rather discouraging things, including the representative of Magre Industries, who also showed an embarrassment on his face.

Although they can also contact the anti-government armed forces and supply them with various weapons and equipment, compared with government procurement, these people may not have much money and may not be able to buy much.

Seeing their somewhat lost looks, Lance coughed and attracted their attention.

Seeing everyone's eyes focused on him, Lance said with a smile, "I have an immature idea."

The representative of Gray Industries spoke first, "Please go ahead, Mr. White."

"Bullets are consumables, and the cost of each battle is huge."

All the representatives nodded. The World War had proved this. They had provided the Federal Army with about 10 billion bullets (in two years), which was definitely an astonishing number.

"So, how much reserves do the Lapa government forces and the rebels have now?"

"If we stop exporting standard rifle bullets to the Yalan region and only export non-standard caliber rifle bullets, will we be able to force them to make a replacement?"

His words immediately attracted the attention of these representatives. Up to now, the military-industrial group has not thought of separately exporting some weapons, and they have not even thought of producing weapons of separate calibers.

As the supply pressure on the front line becomes increasingly heavy, the Federal Military Commission has required military-industrial enterprises to unify the caliber of rifles used for various types of weapons, including the specifications of bullets.

This will reduce the pressure of supply on the battlefield and the probability of errors.

Uniform standards are a set of rules that must be followed, but Congress has not said that weapons exported to other countries must also comply with this rule.

Because the bullets of the Asian Alliance are completely dependent on imports, as long as they no longer sell standard bullets to the Asian Alliance and only sell export version bullets, they must change their equipment in order to match these bullets!

Including the Republic of Geed, which has just completed a round of transformation!This method... is a bit unethical.

Because once the bullets are not exported, it means that the standard bullets currently owned by the Asian Alliance will become a "swan song", and it will also make all countries on this land very uncomfortable.

Especially the Republic of Czechoslovakia, they have just replaced their equipment. Now let's decide whether you still need these weapons.

Moreover, these changes all started at the end of last year, when federal military-industrial enterprises were still mainly supplying materials to the main battlefield.

If it weren't for the purpose of controlling Slade, perhaps the federal military-industrial group would be unlikely to export bullets to the Asian Alliance.

Now they have obtained some bullets, but the reserves are definitely not enough for continuous use, which will be embarrassing.

Training consumes bullets, war consumes bullets, but there are no bullets.

This will become a huge hassle!

Soon the representatives in the room figured out what was going on, and there was a very special emotion in their eyes when they looked at Lance, as if to say... this is a ruthless person.

The cruel thing is that Lance completely destroyed the military development of the Republic of Czech with just two sentences!They spent seven or eight years researching to produce their own weapons and finally achieved some results, but in the end all their research was in vain.

The process and technology difficulty of manufacturing firearms is less than that of manufacturing bullets. Many countries have the ability to manufacture weapons on their own, but it is very difficult to manufacture bullets.

As for whether there are people willing to smuggle for the sake of huge profits and risk being sunk by the Federal Navy, there might be.

But the bullets brought by this scale of smuggling are not enough to support them to start a war!Facing their shocked gazes, Lance smiled reservedly, as if to say "it's nothing".

"We need to report this matter to the company, and we may also need to communicate with Congress."

"I will also submit your suggestion, Mr. White..."

They are just a "representative" and may not have the authority to make some decisions. They need the parent company to send more senior employees here.

Lance didn't stop them, and soon they all returned to their rooms and started contacting the people above.

The cables used for Lance and the Federation's communications are specially pulled separately, directly from the submarine cable to Lance Manor, so there is no need to worry about leaks or anything like that.

Within an hour, Senator Cleveland called and said, "You've found another thing for us to do."

Because this is already a regional strategic plan, not a simple business plan.

It can even be seen as a military force limitation plan for the Asian Alliance. They discovered an important point here, which is that the Asian Alliance is overly dependent on the export of bullets from the Federation.

If the Federation doesn't give them bullets, their weapons won't fire.

But there is a problem here too.

The senator first gave a warning, and then he could be heard placing the receiver on the table. He did not put it down "gently", but just put it down casually, and it made some noise.

He just wanted this voice to remind Lance and give him some time to figure out the current situation.

After a few seconds, more voices came into the receiver. "Can you hear me?" Senator Cleveland asked.

Lance immediately responded, "Yes, I can hear you."

"This possibility is not impossible, and after discussing it, we think it is quite likely."

"Rather than continuing to replace equipment and continue to rely on the Federation's bullet input, the president of the Czech Republic is likely to choose to develop bullets on his own."

"I've heard of this man. He's very capable. He and his father have turned that poor place called Jed into a powerful country."

"If we allow them to continue to grow stronger, we never know when they will threaten us again."

The Federation could have flown off the planet and into outer space a long time ago.

Some of the congressmen around also laughed out loud. Apparently, they all knew that this was a joke full of sarcasm towards the Republic of Czechoslovakia.

Lance also laughed twice, "Actually, I've thought about this before, and it's not difficult to solve."

"If the Czech Republic knows that we will stop exporting standard bullets, then assuming they are willing to research and produce bullets themselves, we will help them."

"How to help?"

Lance laughed loudly. "There was an engineer from a military industrial group who failed in office politics. He just happened to have mastered the production and development technology of bullets."

"Now he has been persecuted and had to leave the Federation and go into exile in the Asian Union region, where he happened to be discovered by people from the Czech Republic."

"Then he can help the Republic of Czechoslovakia waste time, energy, and resources on the wrong research and development route, investing a lot of resources but getting nothing in the end."

Lance's suggestion made the gentlemen in the room across the phone forget to comment. This suggestion was so fucking... despicable.

But there are no moral standards between countries and forces, and there is no good or bad, only successes and failures.

"This is a good idea. They will be very nervous. When they can't find a clue in a short period of time, they will definitely rely more on external forces."

"You're great, Lance. You've broadened our horizons a little bit."

Then he ended the call, picked up the phone again, and asked Lance about the current progress on his side.

When he learned that Lance was still continuing to promote conflicts and contradictions between Diego's government and the anti-government armed forces, he kept nodding and praising his abilities.

In Lance's words, now he wants to force those "rebellious" people among the Lapa people to jump out voluntarily and let them fight a life-and-death war with those staunch "conservative forces".

As long as these two groups of people are not almost dead, the civil war will not end.

The call won't result in dramatic changes anytime soon, but the federal government has already stopped exporting any standard-spec rifle and pistol bullets to the Asian Union region.

At the same time, Congress passed the Federal Standardized Arms Export Trial Act the next day at an unprecedented speed. The bill did not explicitly state that the export of standard weapons was not allowed, but used some relatively roundabout terms.

For example, considering federal national security, weapons suppliers are now required to provide domestic and export versions. The export version is slightly lower in weapon performance than the current federal version.

The bill did not alarm anyone, and no one would interpret this low-impact bill in depth.

(End of this chapter)