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

Chapter 493 Two companies transfer personnel back to the United States

"Of course. I will communicate with the other party in person when we meet."

Xia Yu is professional when it comes to doing business, but Magnesium is not his home country after all. Only with Thompson as a bridge can he find someone who can make decisions.

After confirming this, the two went to a Chinese restaurant in Seattle for dinner.

However, after the meal, Lao Tang returned to Paine Field and took his small plane directly back to Nevada, and Xia Yu realized that he had no place to stay in Seattle.

In the past, everyone lived directly in Paul's house. He had several villas on Mercer Island for friends who came to visit. But after his death, Jody packed up and sold these properties as well.

But even if it wasn't sold, Xia Yu wouldn't come to bother him. Maybe he should buy a farm near Paine Field?
Yes, luxury apartments and brick-concrete villa communities (not wooden houses) are not suitable for his status. It would be better for him to buy a farm and transform it however he wants.

In addition to its residential properties, it can also serve as the headquarters of the North American branches of the Fire Defense and Fire Air Transport companies.

The company's business and some sensitive things can be placed at Paine Field, but they live in the airport, Boeing's passenger aircraft assembly plant, and the FHC museum for the upcoming tank live-fire shooting business...

No matter how I think about it, it's a bit desperate. I have to find a place that is close to the airport but away from the incoming flights so that I can have a good work and life.

“Honey, we still have to buy a house in Seattle.”

After checking directly into a hotel near the airport, Xia Yu had a video chat with his wife.

Liv didn't come with him this time, but surprises came one after another. He couldn't handle so many things by himself, so the surplus labor in the family had to be pulled in to do the work.

"I see. I'll pack my bags now. Maybe I should come with you."

Touching her belly which was not yet visible, Liv felt that she was born to be a hard worker, but she had to take care of her own business!

For example, the FHC Museum was inherited by Xiao Youzi, but the actual ownership was donated to a foundation by Paul. Xia De Xia was only the beneficiary of the foundation. After all, children have no ability to run a business.

But since Xia Yu wants to rely on the museum to open two other North American branches in Seattle, it would be better to apply under Liv's name.

This can save a lot of trouble, especially with the FBI and CIA.

In Seattle, Xia Yu can borrow the connections left by Paul, but these two institutions are national and global.

Among them, Foberle is still okay, but the CIA is really notorious. He doubts whether they will ever have a head-on confrontation with the other party.

After all, Afika is the home turf of the hairy people, and the CIA's actions are not that active. They basically collect intelligence in units of embassies and have never had any confrontation with the concentrated fire defense.

The problem is that Xia Yu is going to open up new markets in the future, and he will definitely not be able to avoid dealing with this group of people in Latin America and the Middle East, so he must be prepared.

"I'll ask Lao Qian and the others to pick you up tomorrow. We can just buy a farm here. We're not here to enjoy ourselves."

"Yes, yes, we are here to make money. The money made by the United States is spent all over the world. We don't leave them a penny."

Liv understood her husband's tricks too well and learned to answer quickly.

Of course, to borrow a phrase from Lao Mei - Business is business.

After hanging up the phone, Xia Yu fell asleep and got up early the next day.

After breakfast, he rushed to Paine Field. Due to upgrades and renovations, the FHC Museum was not open to the public during this period.

Armour Ministry employees have already conditioned half of the tanks and tested their striking capabilities with live ammunition.

The antique cars that Paul bought are all in great condition, and now with hand-rolled ammunition, they have regained their former glory.

The Armour Department and the Aviation Department work together, and the FHC Museum is equivalent to a low-profile version of the Afika War Museum Phase I and II projects.

After all, we are in the country of Magnesium, so we can't be too wild.

But such a configuration directly beats those local armored museums that previously imported ammunition from Jihuo Defense and now use CNC machine tools to make their own shells, reuse shells and only add or reduce charge.

This was the reason why Xia Yu had previously wanted to develop the North American Armored Museum business, because people no longer bought his ammunition.

This won’t do. If you don’t buy, I will take away your market. However, he is a foreigner after all, and it is extremely difficult to open such a sensitive museum in Magnesium.

Then it was delayed until his good friend passed away, and the arrangements for the FHC Museum were announced in his estate.

There was no other choice, he could only hold his son in his arms, inherit Paul's legacy and move forward to make FHC No. 1 in the United States!

"During this year's rainy season, the Afika War Museum will bring over the collections that the FHC does not have in batches for external operation. Everyone in the Armored Department must be prepared."

Xia Yu looked at Bob, the old men behind him, and the new recruits who had just been recruited.

Even so, a dozen people are still too few. We will officially open the business next month, and a group of people from Bogo Village will come to help.

"Yes, curator!"

Everyone responded in unison.

Compared with them, the Aviation Department also recruited several new employees. There were too few engineers originally, and they and part-time and full-time pilots could only sustain one flight day per week.

If there were planes taking off every day, they would be swinging wrenches until smoke came out, and there would not be enough working hours.

Fortunately, after a few months, the aviation department team successfully expanded to 30 people, including 20 maintenance team members and 10 full-time pilots.

Thanks to the booming private aviation industry in Taiwan, there are also many part-time temporary workers.

Relatively speaking, the accident rate is also very high. Antique piston engines and jet fighters will also crash, but the more they crash, the more people will be killed.

All I can say is that foreigners are less afraid of death, which is why there are so few foreigners.

“Safety is very important. We can guarantee a zero accident rate in Afika, and I believe we can do the same in Magnesium.”

Arriving at the aircraft maintenance workshop at the innermost part of the museum, Xia Yu stopped everyone who was working and repeatedly emphasized the importance of safety to everyone in the Aviation Department.

Lao Mei likes to buy insurance. From cars to airplanes, from street shops to large supermarkets, even if the spacecraft cannot come back from the sky, as long as he buys insurance, he can get compensation.

Xia Yu doesn't like insurance, and no insurance company provides insurance services for Afika's tanks and fighter jets, but when he came to Magnesium, he still had to adapt to the local customs.

Well, only the people are insured, not the plane.

As the boss of a PMC company with several thousand in his hands and approaching ten thousand, Xia Yu disregards the lives of his enemies and values ​​the safety of his employees.

If he crashed an expensive antique fighter plane, he could still save up for a second one, but if the person was dead, there was really nothing he could do, so he would pay for the accident himself in Afika and let the insurance company pay for it in Magnesium.

"Yes, curator!"

Everyone expressed their determination to Xia Yu.

"Kevin, how's the progress of the B-29 project?"

Having emphasized this, he looked at the Super Fortress behind them.

Yesterday, Xia Yu was talking about more important things with Lao Tang, so he didn’t pay attention to the treasure of the FHC Museum.

"We completed the B-73's modern avionics upgrade before your ASh-29TK arrived."

Kevin, the head of the aviation department, introduced that the other two airworthy B-29s had also undergone the same upgrade, with the mechanical instruments only serving as backup.

"It will take at least a week to replace the four engines and adapt them. As for the weapon system, we cannot and will not be able to recover it."

After all, it is the engine of the red B-29. Replacing it with the original B-29 is not a matter of just installing and connecting it. They still have a lot of debugging work to do.

As for the weapon system, Xia Yu can only temporarily prepare and restore it when the exhibition goes to West and Philippines during the off-season. As a museum, FHC does not have the qualifications of Tac Air.

Washington, where the White House is located, is too far away, but Los Santos is on the west coast!

"A week? Including debugging and test flight?"

Xia Yu confirmed with the other party again.

"Yes, including test flights, we will be able to make it fly safely at the beginning of the month."

Kevin assured directly.

"Then I'll leave it to you. I'll come back to inspect it during the test flight."

System acceptance is the most foolproof process, and there must be no problems when the fighter jet body is delivered and the museum reopens.

"Yes, curator!"

Kevin and his team members continued to work, while Xia Yu drove the car to the shooting range behind the museum.

Several T-64A and T-72M1 target vehicles that he had brought back from Russia and Eastern Europe had been towed to the opposite side. These were all fixed targets.

The more expensive mobile targets are parked in a parking lot with a maintenance workshop at the shooting range. After adding the universal unmanned module, these target vehicles can move forward and backward by remote control, shoot blank ammunition with coaxial machine guns, and launch smoke bombs and spray hot smoke screens.

If you want to make money, you have to keep upgrading your services. Simply firing is no longer that attractive. After all, there are only so many people with purchasing power.

You have to cheat... No, you have to attract old customers to consume multiple times.

The service standards of FHC are aligned with those of the Afika War Museum, so tourists from Magnesium can travel abroad less frequently. They can just buy a plane ticket and head directly to the west coast, where they can start fighting as soon as they land and return home after the fight.

This is the kind of special forces trip that you can go on at any time. There is nothing wrong with it except that it is a bit expensive.

After carefully inspecting the shooting range, Xia Yu pointed out a number of problems. After asking Bob and others to make the rectifications, he also planned to go to Nevada.

The main purpose of this trip was to visit the headquarters of Tac Air, and secondly to fly back the six fighter jets that were to be delivered in batches. Thompson and his team were short of manpower, so he, as a partner, had to go along as well.

The Fisher returned to Afika, and Xia Yu and Johnny and Rob, who were responsible for his personal security, took a commercial airliner to Nevada.

"Ocelot, you are from Magnesium, are you interested in coming back to work?"

In the empty business class, Xia Yu asked Johnny.

Afica is separated from Magnesium by the Atlantic Ocean, not the Mediterranean Sea, so the head of the North American branch would be best to find a local person he is familiar with.

Xia Yu remembered that Johnny was from New Mexico, which was separated from Washington State where Seattle was located by Idaho and Utah, and was not very close.

As for the North American branch, its main businesses are divided into security business in Laomei and Canada, as well as strike business covering the whole of Latin America.

After owning three An-3s, Xia Yu decided to start with the security business in two North American countries.

There is no need to rush the overly sensitive ground armored force. If there is a real need, he can transfer personnel from the headquarters instead of having to operate local convoys and helicopters like in Europe.

From this perspective, even though Johnny is not a local of Seattle, as a combat employee he is a suitable candidate for the branch head.

If the company is located in Canada, the candidate would be Rob. Unfortunately, the gun control there is so strict and the PMC business is also relatively conservative, so let's keep it in Seattle!

"Me? Of course I would."

Johnny seized the opportunity without thinking too much. He was the only Chinese in the instructor group, and it would be difficult for him to compete with Lao Ke and the others.

Now that he is back in North America and has recruited a group of former comrades to form his team, he will be able to quickly build the framework of the branch's strike force.

As for his ex-wife who asked him for alimony?
Humph, Johnny is no longer the retired fourth-rate person who couldn't even afford a lawyer. He won't leave a single cent of his millions left in Afika to the other party.

"Then this position is yours for now. I hope you can give me a satisfactory answer."

Xia Yu did not confirm Johnny's appointment. After all, suitability should be determined by performance.

"Yes, boss!"

Johnny responded confidently.

Before retiring, he was a staff sergeant with a pay grade of E-6. In the military, only the SSgt in the Marine Corps can be considered a sergeant major and serve as the platoon sergeant major of each platoon.

The platoon leader of the fourth-class team died, and the next one to take over was the platoon sergeant major. Johnny also took command courses.

But among the instructors, who isn’t a senior sergeant?

"I will recruit 15 people first. The salary will be increased by 15% to 20% compared with the industry average. I want those who can fight. I can fill in the security subject later. Those who are not capable of fighting will not be filled."

Xia Yu talked about his recruitment criteria.

"By the way, we don't want Green Berets, and the recruits will go to Afika for a month-long intensive training to strengthen their rapport with the armored convoy."

Johnny took out his notebook and wrote down these requests one by one.

Not only the North American branch needs to recruit people, but also the headquarters and overseas offices. He plans to conduct a large-scale recruitment to fill all staffing gaps.

The instructor group has been increased to 10 people, while the ordinary digital group and enhanced digital group remain at 6 and 8 people respectively.

After readjustment, the combat effectiveness of concentrated fire defense will reach a new level.

At that time, they can be dispersed into multiple groups, and when they are concentrated, they can destroy the enemy's nest in one go. If there is not much work, they can be rotated in batches instead of fighting the whole field.

This is very important. With each deployment, everyone's nerves are on edge, and they can only relax when they return to Kongluga.

As the number of employees increases, even if there are no holidays, rotating to easier positions can help soothe your nerves.

For example, we went to Zhunfei to see the mine, to Mali to see the cemetery, and to the European branch and office to see the site...

"Om~~"

The plane began to descend and stopped at a civilian airport in Nevada, and Thompson was already waiting for them at the helicopter pad not far away.

"Nice helicopter, how much did you buy it for?"

Looking at the Black Hawk that Lao Tang was leaning on, Xia Yu asked directly.

"The internal price is 100 million, but the aircraft is a bit old. It can only fly for another seven or eight years at most!"

(End of this chapter)