King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer
Chapter 879 - 791: The Ubiquitous Contractor

'There are various types of "contractors"...'

Contracting for the daily affairs of the military is one among them, and it does not necessarily involve participating in combat.

All the service projects in this public area are completed by 'contractors'.

For instance, contracting a barbershop is quite straightforward...

No matter how many people you have, as long as you establish good relations with the base leader and promise to cut the hair of the soldiers on base once a month, you can gain the operating rights.

As for how to make a profit, that's up to you.

The barbershop contractor at the base is a Thai, who sounds effeminate when speaking but is definitely sharp-minded. If haircuts aren't profitable, he helps mercenaries trim their beards and massages them.

He brought over a few masseuses from his hometown and scraped up a hefty profit by skirting legality.

The bar contractor is Scottish, the coffee shop contractor is Italian, the dry cleaners' contractor is Indian, and the tailor's shop contractor is Malaysian.

Only the gun shop is staffed by P·B's own people; a few snipers who got bored staying in Africa came here, took charge of the gun shop business, helped mercenaries maintain their firearms, and also promoted the boss's high-end firearms.

The supermarket 'contractor' is a person from China, who has advantages due to their proximity to the logistics center - they always manage to obtain goods at a low price.

After paying a deposit of 10,000 US Dollars to P·B, this boss runs the supermarket here, paying a monthly rent of 2,000 US Dollars.

Joe Ga had a chat with the supermarket boss...

This guy is from Northeast China, could not find work back home, so he came abroad with his wife by joining a labor dispatch team.

His situation is similar to Joe Ga's; both discovered business opportunities while working overseas, except Joe Ga was not engaged in legal trade then, while he managed a supermarket...

In the past, he always followed the Energy Group's teams around. Whenever the dispatched laborers exceeded 200 people, he would open a small supermarket near the construction site, specializing in selling Chinese goods, and his business turned out surprisingly well.

Now this guy is on a roll; capitalizing on the great development of the Energy Group in Iraq, he opened six supermarkets consecutively, eventually even bringing the supermarket into the Baghdad Base.

Joe Ga isn't sure how he priced items in his external supermarkets, but the prices inside this base are ridiculous.

Most of the basic living necessities are quite cheap, but 20 US Dollars for a pack of cigarettes and 600 US Dollars for a bottle of Maotai made Joe Ga feel that people who set such prices should be jailed.

But looking at him, it's clear making money from mercenaries is particularly easy!

Joe Ga couldn't help but admire this Northeastern brother...

To be honest, it's not easy for Chinese people to mix in the outside world!

It's even harder for this brother who's come to Iraq to make money with his family!

Seeing the happy demeanor of this Northeastern brother, Joe Ga also brightened up and then cleared out his stocks of expensive, even after discounts, cigarettes and alcohol, asking him to deliver them directly to P·B's dormitory.

Not until Joe Ga had left did the Eastern brother realize that he might have encountered the legendary boss of P·B.

Because there are not many Chinese people in P·B, only a group of chefs in the cafeteria and a team of fluent Chinese-speaking western pretenders; the rest were just the legendary 'Hu Lang'...

Seeing Joe Ga and Dorian leave, the Northeastern brother went online to search for P·B's information. Seeing the photo of Boss Joe, he frustratingly slapped his forehead...

Then this clever fellow glanced at the surveillance camera overhead, turned to his computer, printed a photo of him having a convivial chat with Boss Joe, and stuck it behind the cash register.

He didn't intend to leverage Boss Joe's reputation for anything, nor did he dare to; he just felt having such a photo up would make those intimidating-looking mercenaries be a bit more polite.

The changes in the base were a bit overwhelming for Joe Ga, but these were good changes.

Originally, Boss Joe's plan for this base was to use it as a transit hub; now that it has developed this way, it's actually better than he expected.

If the other bases in the north could follow suit in the future, the value of this corridor connecting north to south could be further magnified.

Depending on the security provided by the military base, there would be a tremendous improvement in Iraq's commercial situation; with the base's soldiers' deterrence, at least they don't need to worry about being robbed right after spending money.

Joe Ga walked around, fully experiencing the prosperity of the 'commercial area', before getting back into the vehicle and heading towards the air force area.

It had been quite some time now; Boss Joe didn't know how 'Archerfish' and 'Cobra', these two beloved elderly people were doing, he needed to check on them...

Recently, the major expenses of the base were due to these two, still not clear what enemy Iraq had that warranted deploying two jet fighters every day...

Boss Joe was absent previously, but now that he's back, he must go and see it firsthand; the spending was a bit excessive.

When Dorian drove into the air force area, Joe Ga saw Small Glasses Andre instructing a group of ground crews at night, loading bombs on two Su-25's and two F-16's.

As the vehicle approached, Joe Ga noticed that under the wings of the two F-16's, two AGM-12 'Sidewinder' air-to-ground missiles had already been mounted.

This thing is over 4 meters long, and it looks terrifying.

This thing has been largely abandoned by the United State Army, so 20 'Sidewinders' were sent over during the initial wave of support when the Iraq conflict began.

The moment this thing arrived, Joe Ga understood that this was the Navy's way of 'laundering money'.

With such outdated goods, they even dared to 'account for 2 million'.

But since it was free for Joe Ga, he gladly accepted it with a smile.

The 'Sidewinder' has average accuracy and requires the pilot to manually aim while keeping the nose of the plane directed towards the target throughout.

This is a far cry from those precision-guided missiles that you can just fire and forget, which operate beyond defense zones.

But you can't underestimate their power; looking at its length of 410 cm and diameter of 60 cm, one can tell the explosive power of this beast is immense.

Joe Ga didn't know what they wanted to do, so he got out of the car and walked up behind the little glasses-wearing Andre, patted him on the shoulder, and asked with a smile, "Who are you planning to bomb?"

Little glasses-wearing Andre jumped in surprise...

Turning around to see his boss, Andre hugged Joe Ga excitedly and said, "Boss, it's the people from ISIS.

In the last few days, the American forces in Syria have been pinned down and have also ordered the Kurdish not to take action.

Now ISIS is seizing this opportunity to viciously attack the safety zone. Team B's 'Vanguard' has been having a tough time recently, and there's been a huge consumption of artillery shells.

He wants us to organize a raid to obliterate an ISIS stronghold."

Joe Ga listened and nodded with a frown...

Artillery has exceptional power, but accurately hitting moving, dispersed soldiers is challenging, and the shells are not cheap...

Moreover, artillery can't move out of the safety zone, so it can't strike targets beyond 40 kilometers, hence relying on the air force to conduct precise strikes is necessary.

Hearing that there were issues in the safety zone, Joe Ga decisively nodded and said, "Then don't skimp, attach two more cluster bombs."

As Joe Ga glanced at the nearby Su-25, with its terrifying appearance bearing 3 clusters of twenty rockets each and two guided missiles on its wings, he mused on the issues in the safe zone. Joe Ga thought that the sudden increase in ISIS aggression must be provoked by something—probably connected to the Americans in Syria.

On one hand, they're stirring the Shah to get involved in Iraq, looking to trouble P·B and simultaneously counteract Iran's growing influence in Iraq.

On the other hand, they're retracting military forces within Syria, providing ISIS with opportunities to attack.

These guys really went to great lengths to trap Boss Joe in Iraq.

Considering that launching these four planes just once costs millions, Joe Ga shook his head, feeling gloomy, and said, "Bomb them, scare them once and for all, then we can save some onwards."

Andre, being an insider, knew all too well how costly the air force could be.

Salaries, airplane maintenance, part replacements, ammunition, fuel, with P·B's air force being busy recently, they need to spend at least several millions of dollars a month.

Usually, it's the Big Beak Bird and Griffin-1 that are deployed for regular missions.

This time, if not for the need to cross into Syria for a raid, they wouldn't have deployed the F-16s.

How could a normal military contracting company withstand such expenses?

After examining the bomb attachment process and helping to check the planes, Joe Ga learned that the two old aces were resting up. Instead of disturbing them, he returned to his dormitory feeling somewhat heavy-hearted...

Just as he reached the dormitory entrance, Joe Ga witnessed a bizarre scene.

'Spider', the old guy, was slowly descending from the fifth-floor rooftop via a rope, reaching the third floor. Right as he neared a dormitory window, preparing to retrieve something, the driving Dorian suddenly honked the car's horn...

Then all the lights in the dormitory were turned on...

Hanging outside the dormitory, 'Spider' glanced at Dorian, threw a smoke grenade towards the vehicle, and completed a rapid descent with one hand before the people inside the dorm could react...

As the smoke from the grenade engulfed the vehicle, 'Spider' rushed to the side of the off-road vehicle, yanked open the door, and grasped at nothing.

'Spider' found this peculiar. He glanced at Boss Joe sitting in the front passenger seat, who signaled with his hands that he was not involved. Just as 'Spider' was about to greet him, he felt two hands grabbing his ankles...

"I've got him, everyone come down and get him..."

Hearing the shouts from Dorian hiding under the car, Joe Ga saw a cold smile appear on 'Spider's face...

Knowing that Dorian was definitely in trouble, Joe Ga grinned harmlessly and said, "Go easy on him..."

"Ah..."

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