Meiman plane trader

Chapter 139 WAA
When he saw Josie sitting opposite Ross in the courtyard of Rose's house, Phillips was stunned.

At the same time, my heart was full of helplessness.

But soon the helplessness turned into determination.

There is no way, now that this is the situation, he can't help but retreat. Stretching out his head is a stab, and retreating is also a stab. It's better to go straight.

"Long time no see, General Phillips!" The last time the two met was in Vienna, when the two sides cooperated to capture the remaining "Hydra".

Of course, those who were arrested were mainly those diehards who were unwilling to submit to Josie, the new Hydra leader, and some scapegoats that neither Josie nor Austria looked up to.

At that time, Phillips had just been promoted from colonel to brigadier general, but now he is a major general.

As far as the speed of promotion is concerned, it is not bad.

But if you really want to say it, it is actually not as good as William Ross.

After all, William Ross's military rank was really earned by commanding the army.

And Phillips is telling the truth, largely because of the death of Captain America and the credit bonus of Howard Stark, a super scientist.

But the military intelligence department is also normal.

"It's been a long time, Mr. Kahn!" Phillips also greeted Josie honestly.

"General Phillips is polite, please sit down. Speaking of which, you are also Steve's old boss, and we are half friends." Josie greeted Phillips enthusiastically to sit down, as if he was the one. Like the owner here.

William Ross, who was on the side, didn't mind, and smiled at Phillips to show that you are free.

Immediately, the three of them focused on Josie's words, chattering all over the world.

It wasn't until Phillips couldn't bear it any longer that Josie suddenly asked a question, "Speaking of which, the Ministry of Defense is preparing to establish a war assets management department. Phillips, you should know, right?"

"...I heard a little bit!" Phillips couldn't help but nodded when he heard the words. Of course he knew about it, and as the head of an intelligence agency, he was also a smart person. He immediately looked at William who didn't know what happened. Rose glanced at it, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart for Josie's great powers and William Rose's good luck.

The so-called War Assets Management Department, established as WAA, is a specialized agency established by the United States after World War II to deal with the huge inventory of military supplies.

When any country produces military materials, it is impossible to produce to the extent that the existing military force is just enough, and there will be a surplus.

In World War II, in order to cope with its own military system of tens of millions and to provide blood transfusions for many allies, the production of military supplies did not have any plan at all. They basically produced desperately, and then received them all according to the order.

If you dare to produce, I dare to take it.

This led to the end of the war, not only did the U.S. military have a large amount of supplies that were not used up, but there were even a large number of orders that had not even been produced.

How many of these huge materials are there?
The total valuation exceeds 340 billion US dollars, with more than 400 million categories. There are two stacks of 28 volumes in the catalog alone, each stack is more than 2 meters high. From pulling sleds to mosquito nets used by soldiers fighting in the South Pacific, from small bullets to aircraft, warships and tanks, they are distributed in 181 warehouses across the United States.

What is the concept of 340 billion US dollars? In 1945, the annual GDP of the United States was only 3550 billion US dollars.

This figure has exceeded the total assets of any consortium in the United States at that time.

With so many assets, let alone using or selling them, it will take a long time even if they are given away for nothing.

After the original space-time WAA was formally established in early 1946, under the management of the helm Major General Tor John, various military materials were transformed into equipment and sold all over the United States.

For example, a washbasin transformed from a steel helmet, a large trainer bomb transformed into a lamp holder, and a military tracked vehicle sold as a tractor,
32 medical vials became targets at a shooting range.

The snake-like hose on the gas mask turned into a poisonous snake toy that kids will love in the hands of the toy dealer.

Massive quantities of medical bandages are used by Cincinnati garment factories as padding for suit shoulder pads.

Half a million pieces of aluminum tape used to jam radars are trendy Christmas decorations in Washington.

6 rocket launchers became elegant lampposts.

450 million pairs of flight pants with wool lining were changed into gloves and slippers, and the mountains of surplus military supplies slowly went from civilian to civilian.

But even so, it can only consume one-seventh of this huge amount of material.

Therefore, while the country is slowly consuming it, it is desperately selling it abroad. Norway and the Netherlands are ideal buyers of old ships, and Italy is most concerned about the production line of military shoes; while Czechoslovakia can buy a little of everything as long as it is cheap; East Asian countries with anxious stomachs are concerned about the surplus flour and milk powder in the United States.

At that time, these countries basically had no cash, so they used credit, credit, and credit again.

In the end, it turned into a pile of bad debts and bad debts.

In order to be able to sell these materials as soon as possible, the final income of the US military is often not as good as one-tenth of the value of the materials themselves.

But even so, not many were sold, and most of them could only be thrown away or burned... Even in 2022, there is still a lot of inventory of these materials.

Of course, it is not that no one makes a fortune by reselling these materials, but basically they are small rich.

For the consortium, these materials are a pile of military garbage of little value.

What is it called?This is called violent waste.

This should be put into Josie's hands, and if it is sold to Daenerys, its value will be at least ten times higher.

There is no doubt that Daenerys can't eat it. Now Daenerys is planning to set off a war of conquest of the entire Game of Thrones world, and the demand for military materials has reached the extreme.

Even if you can't eat it all at once, I believe you can eat most of it slowly by fighting to feed it in the future.

And even if you can't eat it all at once, you don't have to worry about spoiling these substances in Josie's system warehouse.

When you encounter a backward world similar to the world of Quanyou in the future-such as the little doll who has not grown up, you can continue to sell it.

But if you want to get the sales and management rights of this material, then the position of the person in charge of WAA must be Josie's own talent.

In his opinion, William Ross is the best candidate.

In particular, WAA is not a temporary agency, but a long-term, well-oiled agency. After all, in the next few decades, the war in the United States has basically never stopped.

Especially the South Vietnam War, for the United States, its scale and consumption were more severe than the Pacific War.

But it is not an easy task to push General William Ross to this position.

It is true that Josie has a good relationship with the military, but it is only limited to the army garrisons in Europe during the war.

Putting this relationship into the Pentagon is simply not enough.

The relationship is the best, and the general with the highest rank, General McGinnis, not to mention that he is still stationed in Europe, even if he comes back, a mere four-star general will not change anything at all. After all, there are as many as seven or eight generals in the US military during this period. ten.

Regardless of whether it is President Truman, Marshall, Eisenhower and other real top military leaders, Josie can only say that he can talk to each other so far, and he can't reach the point where he can tell everything in one word.

In the United States, capital has the final say, but only if you are the top one.

Of course, if Josie can persuade the entire council to help, then this matter can also be done nine out of ten.

But the interests of everyone on the council are not the same.

Josie regards a large amount of military waste as a treasure. Others headed by Thomas may not think so. It is not too much possibility for them to help themselves plan for the position of WAA manager. After all, this matter is only Josie's. Self-interest is of no significance to the overall layout of the council.

As for the matter of helping them and catching Bucky just now, Josie wasn't going to use it as a favor.

Because this favor is not enough.

Even if the arrest of Bucky failed at that time, it would not have much impact on the council, but now that the arrest is successful, in the opinion of the council, it is not enough for them to spend the price to help Josie compete for the head of the WAA position.

On the contrary, if Josie is willing to provide the council with veterinary potions, the council will most likely agree to help Josie, but this is not cost-effective for Josie.

It's just that he didn't expect that when Josie was planning this matter, Phillips himself bumped into it.

In the Marvel movies, as one of the three founders of S.H.I.E.L.D., because Phillips is not the protagonist, his sense of existence is very low, which makes Howard Stark and Peggy Carter the first generation of S.H.I.E.L.D. Top card".

But in fact, Phillips was the most critical part of the original S.H.I.E.L.D.

Although his military rank is not very high, his family is a military family that has existed in the United States since the founding of the United States more than 100 years ago, and has a great influence in the Ministry of Defense.

It can be seen that Phillips was able to manage the "Rebirth Project" with a large investment scale and a high level of secrecy to manufacture super soldiers with the rank of a colonel during World War II.

It is also because of his role as a middleman and leader that he was able to pull Howard Stark and Peggy Carter to establish SHIELD together.

Otherwise, one is just a scientist and rich man, and the other is a British spy, and a woman.

Why do they get the support of the military, Congress, the White House and other forces to establish a special organization with power that almost overrides all existing US intelligence agencies?

Can Howard sleep with other people's wives and love to offend others?
Phillips is the real key.

So a mere WAA head?It's just a trifle.

"In my opinion, because of the importance of this institution, an officer who is young, rich in military experience, has enough credit, and has a good relationship with the consortium should take up this position, so that the huge amount of post-war assets can be used as much as possible. Digest it and exchange it for enough funds, what does General Phillips think?" Josie put forward the conditions with a smile.

"Of course, I think there is no one more suitable than General Ross for such a candidate!" Phillips agreed to the deal very simply.

Although this matter is a bit troublesome for Phillips, and from the perspective of purely exchanging interests, Phillips will suffer a lot, or even a big loss.

In theory, a branch of the Strategic Science Corps and a dozen senior agents are not worth the price of the head of WAA.

But that's not how it works out.

Although the position of the person in charge of WAA is very valuable, the premise is that you have the ability to eat those things or sell them, otherwise this job may not be a fat job.

The Pentagon is not stupid either, they also hope to use this batch of supplies in exchange for as much military spending as possible.

In contrast, the Strategic Science Corps is a special organization established by Phillips, and it is his life's work.

Although the New York branch is small in scale, it is a very important part of it.

And if this matter continues to escalate, no matter how hard Phillips' relationship is, the entire agency will face the crisis of abolishment-several other intelligence agencies, such as the FBI, CIA, NSA (National Security Agency) and many other intelligence agencies , but he has long been unhappy to see him, as long as they are given a chance, they will not mind trampling to death the Strategic Science Corps, an organization that distributes their power.

So in comparison, he is more willing to pay a little price to help William Ross take the position of WAA manager.

Besides, William Rose himself is also a very good support object.

Like the Phillips family, the Ross family is actually an old-fashioned military family, but not as strong as the Phillips family, and William Ross himself is not as good at politics as Phillips.

But to be a puppet WAA director, earning a wave of qualifications is enough.

Phillips could see clearly that Josie's fundamental purpose was not to help William Ross, but the bigger reason was that he was eyeing the terrifyingly large batch of military materials.

Therefore, one of the two parties was willing to fight, and the other was willing to suffer, and the matter was settled in a few words.

It turned to William Ross, who hadn't fully figured out the situation until it was over.

After Phillips left, Josie explained it carefully to him before he understood the meaning of WAA.

He didn't have any opinion on this, because Josie made it very clear that for him, taking this position would only be good for him, and there would be no harm.

Since the two sides met, Josie has never cheated old friends like Ross and McGinnis, so his words are very credible.

Afterwards, Josie stayed at Rose's house for another dinner before leaving.

On the way back to the hotel, Josie looked at the busy streets and suddenly realized that he had never bought a house in New York.

Although he has no plans to live in New York permanently because of the shadow brought by the Avengers series in his previous life.

But as a super rich man, staying in a hotel every time he comes to New York is a bit too low.

Speaking of which, the land of the United Nations in the future...

(End of this chapter)