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

Chapter 542 Buy and sell, business is booming

"Although it is a coastal country, the climate in Spain is very dry, and 70% of the country's land is uninhabited. It is a good place to store aircraft."

Xia Yu said to his wife and son while flying over Teruel Airport.

This is not his first time to come to Spain. In the early days of his business, he used this place as a springboard to come to Europe to purchase goods. Of course, he still comes here to purchase goods now, but the product categories have changed slightly.

"You're interested in their Airbus A340?"

Liv asked.

"Yes, the Spanish have always been staunch supporters of A340, but now they can't hold on any longer."

Xia Yu was not laughing at others, but the black swan event caused too much damage to the civil aviation industry, forcing major airlines to make a choice.

After retiring 14 Airbus A340-600s at one time, Spanish Airlines' fleet size instantly dropped from three digits to two digits, and was directly surpassed by Viet Nam Airlines. It can be seen how difficult life is.

他这次的主要目标就是西斑牙航空这14架A340-600了，价格比A340-300要贵些，但却是市面上能卖到的最新的空客A340系列了。

Lufthansa also has more than a dozen aircraft. Xia Yu only bought 17 A340-300s last time. Because they still have some assets left, they have not yet decided whether to retire this batch of A340-600s. They only gave him the right of first refusal after retirement.

Actually, there is no problem. Just buy the batch of 14 from the Spanish, and get some snacks with them. You can also buy a few of the other cheaper models.

It is not a big deal to only dismantle the A340 model. It is a good opportunity to gain some experience in dismantling airports.

For example, the four Boeing 4-777ERs that Air France next door is about to retire are more than 200 years old, so they can be dismantled without any regrets.

The asking price was $777 to $ million back then, but now a piece of inferior quality is worth a few million dollars. The usable parts can be removed and used on other s.

However, if the machine is young and in good condition, he would be happy to sell it for more than 10 million yuan.

There is relatively little research on other places, but the civil aviation industry in Afica can be said to be dominated by second-hand machines. Except for a few countries in the northern Philippines, there are not many airlines that can place orders directly with manufacturers. They are purely picking up junk.

Therefore, the aviation accident rate is an order of magnitude higher than the global average. It is okay to have foreign airlines for intercontinental flights, but flying within the continent is really a gamble with your life.

Faced with this phenomenon, Xia Yu felt that he could do something. For example, in addition to Kidar's reputation as an aircraft graveyard, a demolished airport, and a Cold War branch, he could also create the image of Afika's second-hand mobile phone trading center.

It integrates the sales, after-sales and maintenance guarantee of second-hand passenger aircraft, making money while reducing the accident rate.

Just like at the beginning, Xia Yu made his first pot of gold by servicing excavators, but excavators only cost a few dollars, and then he entered the PMC industry by chance.

Military equipment makes good use of the system's functions, but at a certain point bottlenecks will appear, and at this time it becomes natural to return to the civilian industry.

Especially now that he has the equipment in his hands, Xia Yu is qualified to get involved in and integrate the second-hand passenger aircraft business. Otherwise, why would others buy your passenger aircraft?
To be even more cruel, you might not even be able to keep the plane in your hand. After all, this is Afika, a place where the strong prey on the weak.

Looking back at Xia Yu’s growth trajectory, we can find that his development path from a civilian to a military officer and then to a Muslim was correct.

Of course, now we are just seizing the opportunity of the black swan event to carry out initial layout. This is also a long-term business.

"Mr. Martini, your batch of A340-600s all look good, but because the quantity is too large, it will cause indigestion if we eat them all. We need a suitable price."

Xia Yu chatted with the CEO of Iberia on the sixth A6-340 they had flown.

Doing business requires very particular methods and approaches. For the old and poorly-conditioned A340-300, these reasons can be used to lower the price. However, for the A340-600, which has no problems and is eliminated simply because the company can no longer sustain itself, it is necessary to start with the overall environment.

Everyone has had a hard time these past two years, could you give me a discount?
He also talked about his "losing all the money" in the museum business, and how he managed to hold on without laying off any employees even though the number of visitors dropped significantly.

"Alas, we have already cut two planes. We can't sustain it any longer. We leased a lot of A330s from Huaxia to stimulate our tourism industry, but we didn't expect to run into this kind of thing. Now half of them are grounded!"

Martini also said with the same feeling.

If you can’t afford to buy a plane, you can lease someone else’s passenger plane. This is also a common practice in the civil aviation industry.

However, it would be fine if there is no war. If a war breaks out, there will be sanctions and the aircraft may be easily seized. To make an inappropriate analogy, it is like in the mortgage car business where both parties A and B are in the country, and it is basically a battle of wits and courage between each other.

But if Party B does not abide by the rules and drives the car all the way to the border, or stuffs the container across the ocean, Party A will look at the GPS and wonder how my car ended up in Kazakhstan or Dongnan Pass.
Once you cross the country, everything becomes very troublesome. Fortunately, as far as Afika is concerned, Concentrated Fire Defense can be regarded as the strongest collection team.

As they refused to execute the contract, an An-124 flew over to collect the goods.

两人在诉苦中敲定了价格，A340-300去年报价850万每架，今年的A340-600单价1250万。

"So the total is 1.75 million euros?"

Xia Yu confirmed the final total price.

"Yes, for 1.75 million euros, and we will drive them from Teruel to Kidar, delivering them within a quarter."

Martini nodded.

"Then let's get ready to sign the contract!"

Xia Yu signaled the lawyer to contact the other side to confirm the details of the contract and whether to add or delete additional clauses.

After staying in Spain for a few days, they officially finalized the deal, and the ownership of the 14 A340-600s on the parking spaces in the graveyard belonged to Xia Yu.

Immediately afterwards, the family of three visited the PMC company again and delivered a lot of medical supplies.

The details of their itinerary also caught the attention of some interested parties, and after the news was passed on, it was compiled in Roma Nía.

"After leaving Spain, they went to the British Empire and bought a few retired passenger planes. Now they are inspecting the British Empire's office for fire protection in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region."

The men were reporting Xia Yu's real-time movements to Vlad.

It is impossible to ambush them because the other party has branches in Europe with a very high security level. The best opportunity to take action is still in Afika.

The problem was that the other side's escorting F-16s flew all the way to the Strait of Gibraltar before withdrawing, and even if he used his best-kept Beech fighter jets, it didn't work.

Fortunately, judging from the current situation, because El Mencho was silenced in Mexico, the clues were cut off from him and could not be traced back to him.

He escaped another disaster, but his business in Mexico was completely ruined. Next he had to open up new markets, and South America looked like a good option.

Vlad relaxed his vigilance just as Xia Yu guessed. It was the CIA who helped him. His crotch was stained with mud, and people in the circle blamed them for it.

This is why word of mouth is so bad. Little did people know that El Mencho was actually in Xia Yu's hands, and the oriole was eaten by the weasel, and thus became that batch of A340-600.

"Honey, when are you going to do it to him?"

During the last few days of their European trip, Liv asked her husband in their own castle in Mecklenburg.

Having fully understood the whole context of the incident, she also knew about Vlad.

"I had wanted to find a time this year, but after talking to El Mencho I changed my mind. The pigs need to be fattened before being killed, and Vlad is not fat enough yet."

"I should have guessed it, you money-grubber."

Liv suddenly realized.

"Haha, these are all incidental. The important thing is to distance ourselves from the matter. I prefer the safe approach. Also, Vlad has character flaws. He doesn't have the courage of El Mencho. He became a coward after one failure. This time, he is standing behind CJNJ and adding fuel to the fire." Xia Yu also said with a smile.

The price of the arms he sold to El Mencho was not expensive, but according to Old Ai's explanation, the other party still had a lot of hard goods in his hands.

Considering the distance between Romania and a certain place, Vlad's opportunity would only come after the belated war broke out.

It would not be too late for Xia Yu to take action after the other party had become fat in one bite.

"I understand. Killing two birds with one stone!"

"Wow, the little foreigner also knows how to use idioms!"

"In Germany you are a foreigner..."

A few more days passed, and after little Youzi said goodbye to her grandmother, the family of three set off to return home.

The first batch of five Airbus A5-340s have already arrived in Kidar, and the Nijiliya people came over following the smell.

Only countries that are not short of oil like this fuel-consuming small four-engine old passenger plane. The Afica Airways is definitely not short of oil, but the level of refined oil is relatively poor, and several refineries cannot even meet half of the domestic demand.

Fortunately, they also knew that selling crude oil and importing refined oil would result in double-edged charges, so they invested US$190 billion to build the Dangote Refinery, Afika's No. 1 project, which will be able to produce 24 barrels per day after completion in 65 years.

Regardless of whether gasoline and diesel can meet domestic demand, aviation fuel is definitely sufficient.

Therefore, the development of civil aviation has also been put on the agenda by the Niriliya people.

The rich airlines can afford the Airbus A380, but the rich in the Beggar Gang can only settle for the A340. After all, the poor who earn less than $1000 a year are the majority of Afica.

"Mr. Sherlock, we hope to purchase an A340-600 first and fly it on all the routes."

The CEO of Azman Air made a request to Xia Yu.

One is a little too few, but we don't have the money on hand at the moment, and the refinery will take another three years to make a profit. Even if we have the money, it is not appropriate to purchase too many passenger planes now.

"The numbers are easy to say, but do your people have experience in maintaining the Airbus A340-600?"

Xia Yu lit a cigar and asked back.

"Well, after we determine that the A340-600 is suitable for us, we will form a dedicated team. Before that, we hope you can assist us."

The other party organized the wording.

Anyway, Nijiliya and Mali are separated by only Nijir, so the distance is very close.

“But that would be expensive.”

"How much is it?"

"2000 million US dollars, an A340-600, and a one-year guarantee contract."

Xia Yu made an offer.

It may not seem like a lot, but it's just a start, and Azman Air bought one just as an experiment.

If the test results are ideal, a big contract will follow.

"Okay, $2000 million."

This price did not exceed the other party's psychological price range, so he agreed to it directly.

After they left, Weifei sent someone to Kidar to discuss the business of spare parts supply for their A340 fleet.

Gradually unable to bear the high prices of original parts, the other party turned their attention to dismantling parts, not to mention a dismantling factory in Afika.

Xia Yu left these professional matters to professionals, and he was mainly responsible for the buying and selling of aircraft.

Until one day a few bearded men came to the door and said they wanted to buy an Airbus A340-600.

This is the scale effect. Kidar is now the world's largest aircraft graveyard for A340 series aircraft. As it is a private enterprise led by a private person, it naturally attracts interested people.

Xia Yu thought that the other party would not come for a few years, but he did not expect that they would come in 21 years. It seems that the blockade has had a far-reaching impact on them.

Even though we received a batch of A15s from Elak in 340, we are still short of aircraft after several years.

In fact, there are many news reports about Persia finding various ways to buy second-hand aircraft from all over the world. They are in short supply of four-engine aircraft for long-distance trunk routes, and they also need twin-engine aircraft for short-distance branch routes. They found Mari today.

"Mr. Sherlock, our original target was the two former presidential planes of the Hairy Man, but two is still a bit too few. We need at least six A6-340s to meet the demand."

The bearded leader spoke to Xia Yu sincerely.

Look, look at what is blocked. The Chinese are selling it the most happily, even the former president’s private plane is available for sale. It’s a pity that two planes cannot meet the other party’s demand.

As for the number of 6 planes, it would definitely not be possible to go directly to the Spanish, because the number is too large. In addition, they do not have the confidence of the Spanish, so the other party found this place.

"Six is ​​not a problem, but the price will be a bit expensive. After all, we also have to bear the risk."

Xia Yu asked for more money as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Can you tell me the number?"

"US$2400 million each."

This offer is more expensive than the one he gave to the Nijiliya people with a one-year maintenance contract. Will the other party agree?

"Okay, it's $2400 million, but we need to exchange it for an equivalent amount of crude oil."

The bearded man agreed to the deal without much hesitation. This was the premium they had to pay. The Chinese wanted to charge them 3000 million euros per plane because the special plane had fewer take-off and landing cycles!

The A340-600s in Kidar have a higher number of flight hours, but at least the price is right.

There is no U.S. dollar, but there is plenty of crude oil gushing out of the ground.

This was not the first time Xia Yu had made such a settlement, so naturally there was nothing he could not agree to.

These six planes would cost 6 million dollars worth of crude oil, plus they also needed 1.44 million dollars worth of disassembled parts. He made back his investment in one go and earned back all the money he spent on his last trip to Europe.

"Mr. Sherlock, there is one more thing we need to trouble you with."

It took two days to finalize the contract, and the bearded man spoke again before leaving.

"Just tell me, as long as I can do it."

Xia Yu raised his hand and signaled the other party.

(End of this chapter)