The round-faced staff member immediately made a suggestion: “Commander-in-Chief, I have an idea that can minimize losses.”
The Commander-in-Chief immediately said, “Tell me quickly!”
The round-faced adjutant offered a suggestion: “Why don’t we take this opportunity to find a suitable person from the military to support? This person must have a certain level of prestige, military achievements, and a certain business acumen. Let him leave the military and start his own business, creating a replica of Blackwater!”
“In that case, we’ll secretly help. By exploiting this FBI investigation into Blackwater, we’ll be able to obtain the identities of all the Blackwater mercenaries. We’ll give the list to this man, then find some obedient and prudent Wall Street tycoons to invest in his company!”
This way, he would have connections, prestige, money, and information about the Blackwater mercenaries. He would be able to recruit the scattered Blackwater mercenaries and quickly build a fighting force!
After all, this is our own Black Glove operation, so it’s bound to be more controlled. It won’t be like Blackwater, where their cleverness backfired. What do you think?
“Oh my gosh!” the commander-in-chief exclaimed in surprise. “Ah, wonderful! This is truly the best plan you’ve come up with since you took office! Excellent! I’m so pleased! Let’s do as you planned! Publicly execute Blackwater to appease the people and help us get rid of our current reputational problems. Then we can completely dismantle it and give it a new look!”
The round-faced aide smiled shyly at the compliment, then added, “By the way, Commander-in-Chief, I think we should give Syria a warning not to cause any more trouble. We’ll launch a public investigation into this matter, and everyone will be watching their every move for a long time.”
“Yes,” the Commander-in-Chief nodded and said, “Running that slum is nothing more than taking risks to secretly extract oil. That in itself isn’t a profitable business. Warn them to be honest and not cause us any more trouble!”
…
After Charlie and his family arrived in Aurous Hill late at night, they happened to see Bernard Elno’s live broadcast.
Even she couldn’t help but admire him. This old man was truly an entrepreneur. It was like finding a way to exploit the flaws in the rules he’d established.
First, Bernard Arnault’s revenue in the American market would plummet to zero, but all costs would remain the same.
While losing profits, you also lose operating costs and accumulating experience points in both directions.
Even more interesting, this man has transformed thousands of stores across the United States into his own showrooms. Coupled with his skyrocketing popularity, demand for his products among the American public is only going to grow stronger.
If such strong demand cannot be converted locally, it will naturally be converted to other regions.
The United States is so close to Canada that it’s conceivable that Canadian luxury goods consumption will likely surge in the future. Much of American consumer demand will be captured by the Canadian market. Thus, the losses can be offset somewhat.
While accumulating his own experience points, he can also earn money back from other markets. I have to admit, this guy has a way of doing things.
However, if you really want to deal with him, it’s not difficult. Simply conduct a rigorous and detailed financial audit, review the group’s earnings, and reasonably exclude any profits the group generates from spillovers from the US market. This way, the actual losses may be negligible, or even close to zero.
But Charlie didn’t mean to do that.
Although he is not as astute as Bernard Arnault in business, his vision is much bigger than the old man’s.
You’re the one who makes the rules of the game. Since your players have discovered a small loophole, you should acknowledge it and not regret it. At least, you shouldn’t regret it immediately.
Changing orders every day is definitely a taboo for managers.
Moreover, he doesn’t care about Bernard Elnocar’s bug, because even if he takes into account all the losses in the American market, the result will only be four or five billion US dollars a year.
It would take at least ten years to accumulate enough experience points from four or five billion US dollars to reach fifty billion US dollars.
And the cost he had to pay was nothing more than a rejuvenation pill.
So, why not give Bernard Elno a chance to find a loophole, so he can play the game more carefully and feel more grateful to himself.
Besides, why should I set the rules for him?
Wasn’t it just to make him rack his brains and cause a big fuss in America? Now it seems this person is highly motivated. This matter has reached this point, which is enough to make America suffer. And judging by the current situation, Blackwater is likely doomed.
After all, if America had not killed them to appease public anger, America would never have been able to get past this hurdle.
So, he immediately took out his phone and sent a WeChat message to Joseph Wan, asking him to immediately monitor Blackwater’s every move in Syria. Blackwater was likely doomed, and it would have to withdraw completely from Syria before it did.
However, given America’s style of doing things, they will surely find a replacement for Blackwater. Once Blackwater withdraws from Syria, they will have to watch for any new American mercenaries returning to Syria.
Charlie also reminded him that although the Cataclysmic Front army was not directly responsible for the White Horse Island incident, it also reflected the Cataclysmic Front army’s lack of intelligence work.
Having invested and established permanent bases in Syria, the Cataclysmic Front must fully control every Syrian movement. Intelligence work will never end and must be carried out thoroughly to fundamentally prevent such incidents from recurring.
Joseph Wan was also watching Bernard Elno’s live broadcast at the time. He also realized that with this person’s actions in the United States, Blackwater was essentially declared dead. He was initially a little excited, because once Blackwater fell, the Cataclysmic Front would become the world’s largest mercenary organization.
However, after hearing Charlie’s reminder, he realized that even though the black water was gone, there would still be white water, red water, blue water, and green water. He couldn’t be too optimistic, let alone overconfident. Furthermore, he was indeed responsible for his inadequate intelligence work, having been conspired by this group of people before.
He immediately replied, “Rest assured, Mr. Wade. I will be extremely vigilant and closely monitor every movement in Syria and throughout the Middle East to build a solid intelligence company! If something like this happens again, I am willing to face a court-martial for negligence of duty!”
Although the Cataclysmic Front Army is a mercenary organization, it has always been under highly militarized management. Its core structure is a force with extremely strong organizational discipline. It not only has its own norms and regulations, but also a set of military laws and even its own military court.
Joseph Wan’s attitude had blocked his own way out. Although the responsibility wasn’t great, Charlie was quite satisfied that he was capable of shouldering it. However, he didn’t give Joseph Wan a way out. He simply warned him: “Be careful in everything you do. Remember that arrogance will lead to failure!”
In short, it was both a warning to him and a tacit acknowledgement of the military orders he had issued.