Chapter 1153: An Windfall in South America IV

Wu Chen didn't say that he didn't want to sell weapons and equipment, especially for this kind of country that is against the US government, and increasing its strength is very beneficial to the Golden Triangle Federation, but the words of this president almost scared him.

The procurement of this time is all cutting-edge weapons and equipment, the technological content is very high, and the vision for Venezuela's combat capability has been qualitatively improved, but the total amount is 125.8 billion US dollars, what kind of figure is this?

No amount of orders can scare Wu Chen, the key is, can the country of Venezuela come up with so much foreign exchange to purchase weapons? Are you kidding?

"Mr. Wu Chen rest assured, since the Venezuelan government dares to place this order with the mercenary, it will naturally take into account the payment of the goods, in fact, the payment does not mean that it must be in dollars, and the exchange of resources is also a way, what do you think?" President Chavez said firmly, as if he was very sure.

"Mr. President really knows how to settle accounts, this family member is far-sighted, admire!" Wu Chen said with a smile.

He knows why the Venezuelan government dares to do this, the key is to see the weakness of the Golden Triangle Federation, and want to exchange resources for equipment to make this deal. And as long as the oil area is assigned to Atlantis Mineral Resources, not only can it be paid off, but also a lot of benefits can be obtained.

Everyone knows the style of the mercenary corps, just look at the African continent, as long as the subordinate enterprises are mining, they must bring welfare investment to the local area, such as improving medical conditions, education conditions and transportation conditions, and even electricity, distributing relief funds to the poor, giving priority to resettlement jobs, etc., and all the enterprises of the mercenary corps have always recruited workers from the local area, which is to provide jobs for the local government.

"If it were other companies, we wouldn't necessarily take this approach, but the Venezuelan government has a lot of trust in the companies of the Golden Triangle Federation, and the key is that the example of the African region is clear, and the top government is very optimistic about the cooperation between the two sides."

"After research, it was decided to allocate two-thirds of Lake Maracaibo's oil and gas resources and half of the Orinoco heavy crude oil belt to federal enterprises as exclusive oil areas, and the estimated reserves of these two places are 150 billion barrels of light crude oil and more than 400 billion barrels of heavy crude oil, which is the figure given by exploration geologists from many countries, and the price is 100 billion US dollars, and the remaining 25.80 billion US dollars, we will pay in cash." President Chávez said.

It sounds like the Venezuelan government has spent one-third of the country's oil and gas resources to replace weapons and equipment for its own army, but that's not how it counts.

Wu Chen thought about it carefully, not counting the actual payment received, the weapons and equipment worth 100 billion US dollars, the cost of raw materials plus labor costs and wear and tear costs, accounted for about 60 percent of the sales price, that is to say, this is already an investment of 60 billion US dollars.

But the rest of the $40 billion net profits, also can't get their own hands, and they have to invest in the development and construction of these areas, and there is not much problem in exploration, followed by drilling equipment, crude oil pipelines, oil storage bases, water injection stations and oil production teams.

This account is Wu Chen's $60 billion in weapons and equipment and $40 billion in profits to invest in Venezuela's oil and gas resource exploitation, and provide nearly 100,000 jobs, and the number of beneficiaries will reach at least 1 million.

It's not that there are no discounts at all, the pipeline can use the pipelines that have been built in Venezuela, the ports can use the ports of Venezuela, everyone divides according to the output, the tanker can load a sufficient amount of crude oil, which can save a lot of money, and the oil production team is not much of a problem, Venezuela does not lack such workers.

Two-thirds of Lake Maracaibo's oil and gas resources, including the oil wells that have been drilled, this is also a resource, if the speed is accelerated, the annual output of 1.4 billion barrels, that is, 200 million tons, according to the current trend of crude oil prices gradually rising, excluding the cost of exploitation, about 30 billion US dollars of income, four years can fully recover the cost, the rest is pure profit.

"The financial pressure on the Golden Triangle Federation is very high, because I recently want to buy the Rio Tinto Group, which requires about $80 billion to $90 billion in cash, and you only give a fraction of it, and the rest is covered by oil resources, which is very difficult for me."

"But as Mr. President said, the Golden Triangle Federation cherishes Venezuela as a friend, so I need you to lease me 10 million hectares of land as a grain production base, 5 million hectares of pasture as a breeding base, $10 per hectare for rent, and the rest of the input is mine, and all the farms are used by local people." Wu Chen said.

He knows very well what Venezuela will become in the future, take precautions in advance, since he chooses to do something in Venezuela, then take precautions, think about the dignified oil-exporting countries, but the people lack food and daily necessities, this is a big joke.

Using Huaxia's hybrid rice technology, even if it is two seasons a year, one acre of land can produce one ton of rice, one hectare is 15 tons, 10 million hectares is 150 million tons, the whole corn is 60 million tons, and the population of Venezuela is only more than 30 million!

This is not the solution to the problem, the shortage of food and commodities, the most fundamental reason is the loss of government credit and the loss of currency value, Wu Chen is ready to open a bank to Venezuela, pay wages all in his own currency, the dollar ups and downs, it is always okay to use Chinese currency, right? If it really doesn't work, then simply use the federal currency of the Golden Triangle, and the Venezuelan government still dares to prevent the use of foreign currency?

The department store group, grain and oil group, agricultural and sideline products group under the Atlantis International Group, etc., will also enter Venezuela one after another to implement a variety of currency sales methods, which is the horror of Wu Chen's strategic thinking, concentrating all resources on the expansion of one industry after another, and then forming a terrifying network.

"This is a problem that is not easy to solve, 10 million hectares of arable land is equivalent to nearly one-third of Venezuela's arable land, 5 million hectares of pasture, accounting for one-third of the total number of pastures, and if the government does this, it will inevitably cause some public opinion."

"Of course, this is not to say that it can't be done, I would like to ask Mr. Wu Chen to give a guide, what is the strategic purpose of doing this, judging from the previous cases, it seems that you are not so simple in doing things." President Chavez said with a frown.

For the Venezuelan government, the willingness of mercenaries to lease their own land is not a big problem, relying on the huge profits from oil exports, the country has no eyes on agriculture at all, where can money buy food?

The biggest problem is that it will offend the interests of some local farmers, and Venezuela is a country where the vast majority of arable land is not in the hands of farmers, but in the hands of farmers, and of course, it is only a little difficult.

President Chávez controls the most powerful army in South America, and the military's loyalty is quite high, and he is not worried that someone will dare to jump out and look for trouble, that is, he is impatient, and the end of confrontation with the state apparatus will certainly not be much better.