Don't talk about martial arts, I'm a war contractor

Chapter 371: Aspirations are high, but rich people are late (please vote for me!)

There are direct flights from Afica to Los Angeles, but the East Coast, where 75% of the world’s population is concentrated, better reflects American culture.

For example, New York is the closest place to heaven and hell, a city that cannot be bypassed as long as you learn English.

"You know, I still prefer the wasteland style of Xinxiang, where I can stand on the wing of that SR-71 Blackbird and play golf."

At Pier 86 on the banks of the Hudson River, Xia Yu, who was boarding the Intrepid Sea and Air Museum, said to two employees.

He was describing a scene from the Will Smith movie "I Am Legend."

Compared with the endless explosion of the Goddess of Victory and the White House, these battleship museums are a bit less visible.

Apart from this one, the only other one is "Battleship" with a ridiculous plot, in which the USS Missouri, the third Iowa-class battleship, fights aliens.

"Of course, this F-14D Super Tomcat prototype is also good."

Xia Yu stood in front of an old Super TOMCAR painted in red and white and said.

But there was no more specific information, and their cognitive limitations prevented them from inferring Xia Yu's true intentions.

"That's just part of my business. My most profitable business is actually running museums. As for the space shuttle, did you know that I bought the former Starlink Bird?"

"Hello, Mr. Sherlock, I am Pasquale, Director of the New York Bureau of the FBI. Welcome to the Magnesium Country."

"Why can't we recreate the classic? F-14 shooting down T-50 would be more of a stunt!"

Just like what he said to Pasquale, he came to Magnesia this time to discuss cooperation.

"Tom Cruise's "Top Gun" influenced my father's generation. I didn't expect that it would be 30 years before the second movie was filmed."

The models of Persian cats are really too old, but they are all senile cats that are seriously overage and have little body life left.

There is still some information about the people of the Mei country. Some of Xia Yu's resumes are recorded. As soon as he enters the country today, they can be found on the intranet.

Forget about having his whereabouts tracked and raiding the aircraft cemetery. Besides, the company even has F-16s, so there isn't much good stuff there.

Xia Yu spread his hands and said.

Not many tourists dare to experience it like that. Only with the endorsement of Lao Mei can we re-stage the large-scale real-life sitcom of the F-14 vs. "Mig-28".

There was nothing to hide, Xia Yu directly stated his intention.

In addition, if it is just the engine, there may be better choices in the future. After all, technology is still developing rapidly.

If you have the opportunity to integrate several SSMEs onto the Birdie, you can form a double insurance with the external energy supply system.

The biggest difference between the Soviet space shuttle and the American space shuttle is whether it has its own power. The Bird, which does not have a main engine, is equipped with a power system that can only adjust its orbital attitude.

This is a prototype for testing, but it is also equipped with three SSME rocket engines.

This is not bad, but Xia Yu prefers to take the bright road and get a fight or two from the Mei people.

If they don’t sell foreigners, their own museums are not enough.

"You know, Mr. Sherlock also plans to display it to tourists on the St. Paul?"

Xia Yu, a rich man from other countries, is not sure about it, but there must be many rich people in Magnesia who are willing to spend millions to remake "Top Gun" with himself as the protagonist.

Johnny took off his sunglasses and carefully looked at the plane in front of him and said.

At this moment, someone behind him said in French.

"Well, to be honest, we are a little nervous. Mr. Sherlock has created quite a stir in Afica's Middle East."

There seem to be more than a dozen F-14Ds that are under key surveillance?

Xia Yu looked down at the Enterprise that had never entered space.

"Let's talk about some reasonable and legal small business. As the director of Afika War Museum, I came to Magnesia to discuss cooperation."

Xia Yu looked at this middle-aged man wearing a custom-made suit, who looked like a local elite in the country.

In fact, it doesn't matter. The priority of acquiring this kind of back-up vehicle is not high.

Fu Bole specially dispatched a branch director to find out the purpose of this man's visit.

"No, no, no, it's just a personal collection. If you sell it to the outside world, I would be happy to pair it up with a male and a female."

As a boss, Xia Yu is of course on some lists, and there will be reminders for him to enter the country through normal channels.

"It's true, sir, you know gimmicks."

The Central Fire Defense seems to be small in scale, but they are not only famous in Afika, but also internationally.

At that time, he will have to stock up on a batch of F-5E Tiger II fighter jets to use as target aircraft. After all, the Mikoyan Design Bureau does not have a fighter called MiG-28.

Having said this, he waved to the two employees not to follow him, and he and the branch director walked and chatted to the space shuttle exhibition hall placed on the hangar deck.

"The second part is nothing interesting. The Tomcats vs. the United were classic back then, but now? Watch plastic bugs beating up Russia or Persia, or some other country that was sewn together?"

Pasquale was not exaggerating at all. The opponent's combat effectiveness was supported by his record.

"New York is my first stop, and Seattle is the destination of this trip."

Pasquale said hello and revealed his identity.

Xia Yu said more conservatively.

It is logical to extend the life of an old aircraft that has flown for three to four thousand hours to seven or eight thousand hours, but to extend the life of a fighter jet that is about to be scrapped after seven or eight thousand hours to 15,000 or 16,000 hours is too science fiction.

"I'm sorry Mr. Sherlock, these space shuttles have gone to national and state museums after they were retired."

Pasquale said he was sorry, but he couldn't help thinking in his heart, why does this guy look like he was a kid in the past and came to our country to show off his wealth?
The Japanese couldn't buy the country of Magnesia, and Xia Yu, who was more accustomed to working in exchange for pay, couldn't afford to buy it.

At most, it's like the exchange of interests like the last time I bought Chinooks. Or maybe even if you pay hundreds or tens of millions of people, they won't sell you, but they can sit down and talk about it when they use you.

I don’t want money, I want F-14!

Xia Yu can earn hundreds of millions by launching this limited service by ejecting the Tomcat from the Chinese aircraft carrier, not to mention using the disassembly and printing method, and he can collect it himself.

"That's what I'm saying. Director Pasquale doesn't have to be like this. If Concentrated Fire Defense develops the North American market in the future, I hope the FBI can take care of us."

Xia Yu became polite to the other party.

The real estate developer they selected last year likes to do things openly. He may have a confrontation with his hometown in the future, but he cannot be intimidated by him. This old magnesium still needs to earn the people's money.

As for the North American market, Xia Yu is currently only exporting some handmade ammunition, but there are so many private antique armored vehicles here that he may not be able to open a North American branch of the tank museum.

His original idea was to open in Canada, but this damn place banned guns from midnight to night, which would be even more unfriendly to industries like theirs where the caliber of business projects has doubled.

On the contrary, Lao Mei really cares about money. After the era of involution begins at the Afika Chariot Museum, as long as the museum here can obtain the qualifications, it can use live ammunition.

Selling ammunition was the original strategy, and developing the North American market meant that they had to do it themselves. Making money is one thing, and fire defense hidden behind the museum is another.

Lao Mei’s backyard and Latin America as a whole are also quite chaotic.

In Xia Yu's eyes, those du Xiao families and gang organizations are just fat sheep.

In the news and American TV series, they slaughter civilians as easily as they kill chickens, and it is also easy for Xia Yu, who has the power of heavy equipment, to eliminate them.

As for whether these countries can usher in development after cutting off these "carrion", I can only say that they are not optimistic.

There is a wilted one on it that is constantly bleeding, and new carrion will grow after a period of peace.

It's not the same situation as Afika, but the results are similar.

As a medium-sized PMC company, Jihuo Defense will soon have the strength to open a second battlefield, but for the time being it can only treat the symptoms rather than the root cause.

If you want to cure the root cause, you probably have to wait for the day when the old magnesium is so weak that it can no longer cover Latin America just like Taoguo can't cover Afika.

Therefore, Xia Yu quite likes this real estate developer. It is better to pay more attention to his one-third of an acre of land rather than shaking his fist everywhere.

After chatting with Pasquier about the closure of the museum and getting to know the organization more truly, he, Johnny and Rob returned to the presidential suite of the Oriental Mandarin.

For dinner, we had Boston lobster. Xia Yu had only had this at high-end banquets in China a few times. In Afika, she always had local lobster.

This time when I came to Magnesium Country, I was able to try local cooking methods, such as baking it with cheese. The lobster lacking fat had more layers.

This is unhealthy for fitness crowds, but soldiers who undergo high-intensity combat or training lack calories.

Like Paul, he likes to eat raw and pickled fatty meat sent from his hometown, which makes the people of Xiayu crazy.

This is just a few more steps than holding a live pig and chewing it. The most he can accept are Dongpo pork, braised pork, and braised pork with pickled vegetables. He really can't stand the raw pickled pork.

Relatively speaking, the fat in dairy products is more acceptable.

Picking up a piece of brushed lobster meat, Xia Yu chewed it slowly, and suddenly felt that the taste of Aolong was better than the time at Qidian Liya.

Sure enough, it is still expensive and delicious, but the king crab is not as good as the king crab.

In other words, I have made money and can eat whatever I want. However, if the uric acid explodes after eating, I don’t know if the system can help filter it and save up the charge for a grenade?
Xia Yu cheated, but a wealthy man on the West Coast worth more than 200 billion U.S. dollars was helpless, quietly waiting for God to knock on the door.

Oh, he doesn’t seem to be religious?

They say the saddest thing is that money is not spent after death. Paul Allen, who suffered from cancer for the third time, spent money like crazy.

Buying sports teams, playing rock n' roll, photographing tons of art, building a 400-foot expedition yacht, exploring shipwrecks on the ocean floor, and developing a space plane.

Of course, there is also the infinite love inherited from his father for those tanks, armored vehicles, and fighter jets from World War II to the present.

He built one car after another, one plane after another, and slowly built a museum.

But now, the third cancer has found him, and Paul can no longer save.

Maybe, life is like this. He seemed to have gained wealth, but he lost his health forever.

After spending a week on the east coast and inspecting several World War II museums, Xia Yu officially set sail for Seattle.

In addition to Silicon Valley, the technology center of Magnesia is Seattle.

Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon...the headquarters of these companies are all here.

Paul Allen, who suffered from his last cancer and was unable to leave the house, began to live in Seattle.

When the weather is good and the energy is good, he heads to Boeing Paine Field to watch his fleet perform flight demonstrations.

When he was 10 years younger, Paul would have sat in the back seat and enjoyed the flight himself, but now he could only watch.

But his only heir, sister Jody Allen, didn't understand the meaning of this. It burned several tons of aviation kerosene in just a few hours, which was not environmentally friendly at all.

Are all women like this?

Paul was already a little worried about his collection. These things that he would not take with him in life or death, but were his most cherished things, might be packed up and sold by his sister.

Thinking this, he looked at the Stuka whose repair progress was far away.

"Om~~"

A Boeing 767 landed on the runway of Paine Airport, and Xia Yu took two employees down the ramp first.

Without leaving the airport, the shuttle bus directly pulled the three people to a long hangar in the corner of the airport.

"You are Mr. Sherlock, Mr. Paul is waiting for you inside."

Museum staff gave Xiayu directions.

The itinerary was scheduled, and Paul came to the museum specifically today, which was not an air show day, just to see him.

"Hello, Mr. Paul, I am Sherlock, you can also call me Weasel."

Arriving at the workshop at the innermost part of the hangar, Xia Yu saw a figure whose back was no longer strong and exuded the aura of twilight.

This is Paul Allen, Bill Gates' partner at the time. He left Microsoft after suffering from cancer for the first time. He has no wife and children and only one sister as a relative.

His apparent net worth is more than 10 times that of Xia Yu, but his actual net worth is also much higher.

But the lives of two people, one has reached the end, and the other has just reached glory.

They stood together because of an antique bomber that had not yet been restored, and it was probably the last time they saw each other.

"Founded a PMC company, fought on the battlefield, and also operated tanks, fighter planes, and battleship museums..."

Pushing up his glasses, Paul looked at Xia Yu carefully and then said.

"Mr. Huang Weasel, your life is more exciting than mine. Your whole person is full of vitality. You are nothing like me, a dying old man."

"Mr. Paul, I am just an entrepreneur who has not finished college. My life has its ups and downs. It is not as legendary as your change in the world."

Xia Yu said with rare humility.

Microsoft's operating system has indeed had a profound impact on the entire world. It is known that many things are mixed with private goods, but from Windows 98 to Windows 10, it has affected all aspects of people's lives from the IT industry.

"Society is the best university. There is no need to belittle yourself. Mr. Huang Weasel, you and your company are also subtly changing the world."

Paul, who also dropped out of college and encouraged Gates to drop out, laughed.

"It is your target, the German Stuka bomber. I thought I would never see the day it took off, but you appeared in front of me. I think things will turn around."

Paul's tone became serious as he stroked this Ju-5 R-87 bomber from the 4th Dive Bomber Wing, which fought in the North Philippines and was later shot down on the Eastern Front.

(End of this chapter)