Chapter 336 The Trip to Australia
( ) After disembarking at Koro Island, Jiang Chen didn't stop.
After ordering Kaqi to drive the yacht back to his villa and park it, he flew to Australia by himself and got off the plane in Melbourne.
When Jiang Chen checked in at the business hotel near the airport, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.
He hadn't had lunch yet, so he found a Chinese restaurant to finish his meal, and then started today's itinerary.
According to the driving route provided by the mobile phone map, he soon came to the building of a military company whose Chinese translation is "Mammoth".
This company was introduced to Jiang Chen by Roberts. It is a relatively well-known military base contractor in the world. It once built military outposts for peacekeeping troops in Iraq. Roberts had contacts with them in the arms business.
After explaining his purpose to the pretty receptionist at the front desk, the boss of the company quickly went downstairs to receive Jiang Chen himself.
The boss of this company is a bearded Australian named Thomas, who served in the Australian Special Forces.
Roberts had obviously talked with him in advance. After briefly asking Jiang Chen about the details of the military base, he enthusiastically came up with more than a dozen construction plans. The recent geopolitical situation has slowed down. It has been a long time since his company has encountered such a large order, and it is no wonder that he is so enthusiastic.
After two full days of discussion, the two sides finally finalized the construction plan.
The total value of the contract is 400 million U.S. dollars, and the construction content includes four berths deep-water port, radar base station, meteorological observation equipment, airstrip, coastal defense gun base, missile base and other facilities, modeled on the layout of the Wake Island military base.
Of course, due to arms sales restrictions, missile launchers and large-caliber artillery are not included in these construction projects. Without the permission of the Australian government, Thomas would not dare to sell these big guys.
But Jiang Chen is not uncommon.
No matter how powerful this 21st century missile is, it is better than the Tianjie-32 cruise missile? No matter how powerful the artillery is, it is stronger than the Type 50 electromagnetic gun? Although the manufacturing technology of the former has not yet been mastered. The latter is just a tank-level electromagnetic gun, but Jiang Chen believes that with further exploration of the end of the world, these nb things will be in his pocket sooner or later.
In addition, this guy named Thomas also sold Jiang Chen four uh-60 Black Hawk helicopters. The unit price is 40 million US dollars, a total of 160 million US dollars. Incidentally, he also presented eight training spots for helicopter pilots to the Star Ring Trading Company.
With these four Black Hawks,
The mobility of the military base on Crescent Island will be upgraded by one level. With the carrying capacity of these four Black Hawk helicopters, the soldiers of the Star Ring Trading Company can quickly land on any of the nine islands. To deal with various emergencies.
It's good to transition with the Black Hawk before switching to new technology.
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On the third day after arriving in Australia, the matter of the military base had been negotiated, and the Mammoth Company had sent professionals to Crescent Island for investigation. According to Thomas, if all goes well, they will be finished by July this year.
After dealing with the military base, Jiang Chen was not in a hurry to go back.
The next day, Jiang Chen got up early and drove to the suburbs in northern Melbourne early in the morning.
Victoria is located in the southeastern tip of Australia, and its capital is Melbourne. It has always been known as the "Garden State". Because it is close to the ocean and has a warm and humid climate, it has the best vegetation and lush grasslands in Australia, and Victoria has therefore become Australia's largest milk source and agricultural and pastoral product production place.
The farther the car is from the urban area, the fresher the air will be.
After getting off the car in front of a farm, Jiang Chen found the farmer who had just gotten off the farm truck.
"Who are you?"
"Jiang Chen." Jiang Chen simply introduced himself.
The farmer with a big beer belly picked up a towel and wiped the sweat off his face.
"Jiang Chen? From Huaguo?... I feel like I've heard this name somewhere. Well, you can call me Luke. I'm the owner of this farm. Are you here to buy fresh milk?"
"Fresh milk?" Jiang Chen asked confused.
"Huh? Isn't it?" The farmer also looked at Jiang Chen in surprise, and put the towel on his thick neck. "Aren't you here to 'purchase'? Judging by your age, you should be an international student in Melbourne."
Lu Ke used the term Daigou in Mandarin.
Jiang Chen couldn't help but feel ashamed. At any rate, Future International was also nominated by the world's top 500 companies. No matter how free he is as the chairman, he can't come to do the shopping agent business.
"Ahem. You misunderstood. I'm here to discuss big business."
Luke glanced at Jiang Chen suspiciously.
While talking, a van stopped in front of the farm.
A girl wearing a peaked cap got out of the car. Seeing the visitor, Luke seemed to know her purpose, so he went straight back to the farm.
"Hello." The girl was quite lively. He greeted Jiang Chen warmly.
Jiang Chen smiled at her and asked casually, "Are you an international student in Melbourne?"
The girl was also very talkative, she smiled cheerfully and said, "Well, I'm studying business administration, and I'm a junior this year, how about you?"
"I'm not a student. I finished the book two years ago."
"Not an international student? Are you an expatriate?" The girl asked, blinking her eyes.
Although it is true to say so, they are not Australian expatriates, but Xinguo.
"Um."
"Eh? Then where is your ancestral home?"
"Lake City."
"Hucheng, my family is in Shangjing, do you specialize in purchasing milk powder?"
"Why do you think I'm a purchasing agent?" Jiang Chen said helplessly.
The girl gave Jiang Chen a puzzled look, then seemed to understand something, and persuaded Jiang Chen kindly.
"If you're bringing it for your family, it's better to go to the supermarket to buy it. Although you can drink it directly from the farm, the packaging is very inconvenient and unhygienic."
"What about you?" Jiang Chen looked at her suspiciously and asked.
"Of course I'm not bringing my family to drink." The girl gave Jiang Chen a white look, "I'm a purchasing agent, mainly selling on WeChat and Taobao... Ah, by the way, recently I also opened I opened a purchasing agency, and now I can earn tuition by myself.”
As she said that, the girl's face was filled with pride. Compared with other poor students whose parents sell money to go abroad, there are not many rich second-generation students like her who can support themselves. Neither close to the godfather nor burden the family.
But she would never have imagined that Xiaobai's designer was standing in front of her at this moment, chatting with her normally.
"Purchasing agent...uh, don't purchasing agents purchase goods from supermarkets?" Jiang Chen vaguely remembered that's how those advertisements were written.
"You're stupid," the girl gave Jiang Chen a blank look, "Have you never bought milk powder at Woolworths? Chinese customers can only buy two cans at a time! And it's expensive. I have to sell dozens of cans, how can I buy it from the supermarket. Get the goods directly from the farm, and then buy some empty cans of brand-name milk powder from the waste station-"
Speaking of this, the girl seemed to have reacted, and quickly stopped talking.
Coincidentally, Luke had already walked out carrying a big bag. The girl's eyes lit up, and she hurried up to meet her.
The Australian helped the girl carry the milk powder to the van and put it away, and then took the dozen or so Australian dollars she handed over.
"Goodbye." The girl smiled sweetly at Jiang Chen, waved goodbye, and then got into the car.
Jiang Chen also waved his hand and bid farewell to the girl whose name he didn't know.
Very polite girl.
It's just that she always felt that this sweet smile was a little distorted.
"Tell me buddy, what's your big business?" Luke wiped off his sweat, stood beside Jiang Chen and asked.
Jiang Chen didn't answer, but instead asked an irrelevant question, "Is that milk powder safe?"
Luke froze for a moment, looked at Jiang Chen puzzled, and nodded.
"Of course it's safe. My farm has passed the quarantine procedure from the milk production stage. Although that batch of milk powder is privately made by my friend's milk powder factory, the quality must pass the inspection..."
After a long silence, Jiang Chen sighed as if giving up.
"Just be safe. Of course, I'm not here to buy milk powder, I'm just curious... Forget it, let's get down to business..." (To be continued.)
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