Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 1026 Fat Sheep
Maria didn't notice the change in Chu Xiangqian's expression.

In other words, Chu Xiangqian, who is over 40 years old, has gained more experience and experiences over the years.

In many occasions and situations, his acting skills are better than those of the best actor.

Pretending to be curious, he motioned for Maria to continue.

Maria put away her frustration and continued, "At first it was only in Texas and Florida, the amount of flour on the market suddenly increased significantly in a short period of time.

Last year, this group of people was targeted by the DEA, or the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

After almost being intercepted off the coast of Florida.

The final destination for the smuggled flour was moved to California and Arizona.

As far as I know, in just the six months in the second half of last year, the amount of flour in major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix increased by at least three times.

Even the price of flour has dropped by 4%.

Originally, this had nothing to do with me. It was just the newly appointed president who wanted to fulfill his campaign promise.

There is also a plan for re-election a few years later. Since the beginning of this year, the crackdown on flour has been intensified."

At this point, Maria frowned and cursed softly to vent her frustration.

Then he said helplessly, "You also know that the new Ligen chief was the governor of California a few years ago.

I was able to take the position of District Attorney so quickly thanks to his support.

Now he wants to attack flour, and I can only stand on his side. "

As soon as Chu Xiangqian heard it, he guessed that it must be related to Pablo and his Medellin Group.

Chu Xiangqian began working with Pablo in the mid-1960s, for nearly two years.

At its peak, he helped Pablo transport $40 million in cash out of Mexico every month and sent it to Panama to be handed over to ninjas such as Ichiro Matsuno.

Then hand it over to Pablo or his cousin Gustavo.

Chu Xiangqian took 3% of the commission.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash can be earned every year from this business alone.

This is also one of the reasons why Chu Xiangqian had so much money back then and could buy hundreds of thousands of tons of grain every month and ship it back to the Celestial Empire.

When the disaster in the Celestial Empire was over, Chu Xiangqian knew that it would be best to stop this business, otherwise he would not be able to withdraw in the end.

This ended the cooperation with Pablo.

However, over the years, he had sold a lot of weapons and ammunition to Pablo from time to time.

The purpose is nothing more than to use the hands of these big flour merchants to fight against Meiguo.

The effect was exactly as Chu Xiangqian had expected. The greater Pablo's power, the more money he made.

The amount of flour shipped into Magnesium is also increasing.

The more hostile some of the powerful people in Magnesium are to these flour merchants, who take away billions of cash from Magnesium every year, the more Pablo and other big flour merchants will oppose Magnesium.

And this Barry Sidman was just a retired naval pilot in the mid-70s.

After the Vietnam-Nan War, he switched to civil aviation as a pilot.

It's just that this guy is not a person who is content with what he has to live with. Whenever he flies to South America, he always smuggles some lucrative stuff back to his home country to earn some extra money.

Then he was noticed by the people from Zhongqing Bureau.

In the 1970s, polar bears continued to stir up conflicts in Central and South America.

In addition, the Chinese themselves are constantly weakening the strength of Central and South American countries. In recent years, Central and South America has been in chaos.

When the women of Meizhou saw the fire in their back garden, they were of course anxious to put it out.

After the people from the Zhongqing Bureau found Barry, they easily recruited him with just a few words: "The country needs you."

They began to use the stealthiness of small private aircraft to continuously transport weapons and ammunition to several small countries in Central and South America to the local forces supported by Meiguo.

But the armed forces in Central America are actually not stupid. Compared to listening to the women and starting a war, they would rather make money.

As soon as the weapons and ammunition were obtained, they were sold to the flour merchants whose power was growing.

Barry is then noticed by Pablo's men.

At first, Barry didn't want to cooperate with Pablo. After all, although he was short of money, he was also adventurous by nature.

But he didn't want to be targeted by the police just because of a little money.

What Barry didn't expect was that as long as he helped Pablo transport one kilogram of flour into Magnesium, he would be rewarded with two thousand dollars.

The small private plane that Barry used to transport weapons for the Zhongqing Bureau can hold a full 300 kilograms.

At this moment, Barry didn't know how to refuse even if he wanted to.

A single flight cost $60, which in the late 600s and early 900s could be exchanged for to ounces of gold.

This is equivalent to getting 18 to 25 kilograms of gold in one flight.

In just three or four years, Barry earned so much cash that he didn't know how or where to hide it.

Then start doing what Pablo did and bury your cash in the ground.

But Barry gradually discovered that if he dug a new hole in his garden, he would find the cash that had been buried previously five times out of ten.

The house's storage room, cloakroom and cabin were filled with suitcases filled with cash.

Each box contains at least three or four million US dollars.

Of course, Maria didn't know this news yet, but Chu Xiangqian quickly remembered who Barry Sidman was through Maria's description.

This guy is considered a legendary figure in the world.

What's more, unlike the Chinese, the Taiwanese do not think that selling flour has risen to the level of morality.

After all, only China in the world, which has been deeply poisoned by flour, thinks that banning flour is a natural thing to do.

Chu Xiangqian's first thought at this moment was that it would be better if the countless cash hidden by Barry was finally divided up privately by the powerful women in the future.

It's better to make yourself cheaper.

So I just recalled for a moment, and then I remembered that in the expansion pack, Barry himself said that he was arranged by the Central Clear Sky Bureau to live in seclusion in the small town of Mena in Arkansas.

Although it was called seclusion, in fact the Zhongqing Bureau gave Barry a ranch in the town of Mena.

There is a small private aircraft airport hidden in the ranch.

Whenever weapons and ammunition need to be transported to a small country in Central America, planes will take off from this airport.

As for Barry's plane, whether it was carrying something shady when it flew back to Magnesium.

The Zhongqing Bureau not only knew about this, but also allowed him to grow bigger and stronger.

To a certain extent, it means to fatten them up first and then kill them.

After Barry was arrested, the amount of cash he had hidden was reported to be only 36 million.

Chu Xiangqian himself had dealt with Pablo and knew how profitable this guy's business was.

Moreover, Pablo is actually very generous and magnanimous to his partners. He will never give less than a penny of the money he deserves or promises to pay.

So Chu Xiangqian didn't believe that Barry would only save 36 million after working with Pablo for several years.

Doubling is definitely an understatement. Tripling or tripling would not be surprising.

So after Chu Xiangqian recalled where Barry was hiding, he ordered the golden eagle and the peregrine falcon to fly to Arkansas.

And the governor of Arkansas at that time was Zipton.

Barry was once arrested, and the state prosecutor threatened to put him in jail for life, but in the end he received a call from Zipperton and had to release him.

Chu Xiangqian simply didn't believe that there was no exchange of interests here.

After Chu Xiangqian sent out the golden eagle and the peregrine falcon, he pretended to discuss with Maria how to find evidence of Barry's crime.

But Maria was destined to be disappointed this time.

Chu Xiangqian knew very well how difficult to deal with South American flour merchants like Pablo were and how cruel their means of revenge were.

Of course, people like Pablo did not dare to openly assassinate a Party official of Maria's level.

But it is extremely difficult to convict Pablo or defeat the Medellin Cartel.

Even though the Magnesian people used every possible means and method, it took more than ten years in the previous life to kill Pablo.

But even if Pablo died and the Medellin Cartel was defeated, another new flour force would eventually rise.

Moreover, the newly emerging forces will be more difficult to deal with and more ferocious than the past ones.

Decades later, the behavior of the Meiguo people has proved that they had fought the flour war for decades and ultimately suffered a crushing defeat.

To put it bluntly, how can a country where even the chief executive and senior officials smoke tobacco win the flour war?

It's really not cost-effective to let Maria get involved in this matter.

However, Chu Xiangqian changed his mind.

This is not entirely without profit.

By taking advantage of the fact that Barry and Pablo have been partners for many years and helping Maria get solid evidence that Pablo is a flour merchant, Maria would gain considerable prestige.

Speaking of which, whether it is the people of Medellin, Colombia, or ordinary people in Medellin, everyone knows that Pablo is a flour merchant.

But the Meiguo people have never obtained any direct evidence to prove his guilt.

There is no legal basis for forcing Colombia to deal with Pablo and the Medellin Cartel.

This is also one of the biggest reasons why Pablo was able to get away with it for so many years.

Once they get the real evidence and see how strong their team is, Colombia will definitely not be able to withstand the pressure.

No matter how powerful the Medellin Cartel is, it is actually just a local armed force.

Not to mention the Colombian government, even Pablo's forces could suffer great losses.

Maria, who has obtained the real evidence, will definitely be appreciated and rewarded by the new commander-in-chief "Li Gen".

If Chu Xiangqian spends a lot of money to give Maria a push behind the scenes, there is a high probability that she will be able to take the position of Attorney General.

So Chu Xiangqian's thoughts changed from indifference to giving it a try.

But what he told Maria was that he would ask people to pay more attention to the news and information in this regard.

When Maria heard that Chu Xiangqian was willing to help, her expectations suddenly increased several times.

After following him for so many years, Maria, like other women, had a blind belief that as long as Chu Xiangqian was willing, no matter what happened, he would be able to accomplish it in the end.

At noon, after waking up, Boji put on Chu Xiangqian's white shirt, revealing her smooth long legs, and walked out of the room in a daze to look for Chu Xiangqian.

Seeing him sitting on the sofa and talking to Maria, Brooke was not interested in what they were talking about.

She came to Chu Xiangqian, sat astride his legs, rested her face and body on Chu Xiangqian's chest, hugged his neck, and continued to doze off with her eyes closed like a kitten.

Chu Xiangqian smiled, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Bo Ji became three points gentler.

Maria rolled her eyes and cursed "Biqi" inwardly.

Although she cursed in her heart, Maria knew that Brooke's heartless personality made her very suitable to be with someone like Chu Xiangqian.

Chu Xiangqian lowered his head and kissed Bo Ji on the forehead, then smiled and whispered, "I'll take you shopping this afternoon, okay?"

Brooke unexpectedly shook her head and murmured, "I have a lot of clothes, but I don't like wearing dresses, and I don't like wearing revealing clothes."

Chu Xiangqian had no doubt about this at all. Before the girl was 18 years old, she had always been controlled by her mother who was extremely ambitious for fame and fortune.

When I turned 18 and was able to make my own decisions, my dressing style immediately became conservative.

I also applied to a university and stayed away from the entertainment industry for four years.

However, it is not easy for a beautiful woman to live an ordinary life.

Not to mention that she is a super beauty who was born as a child star. All kinds of temptations and traps have never left her.

Brooke herself is actually just a girl in her 20s, so she is definitely vain.

It was natural for me to return to the entertainment industry.

Now following Chu Xiangqian, although movie roles are not something she can choose easily, she no longer has to worry about her future.

In these eight months, she played three supporting roles in Universal films alone.

He also endorsed the products of Chu Xiangqian's toy and clothing company in Hong Kong.

In endorsement fees alone, one company paid him $20 a year.

When she becomes more famous, her endorsement fee will definitely increase.

So this girl doesn't have much motivation to make progress now, or it can be said that her life is too comfortable and she has no ambition.

A 17-year-old girl, who has been accustomed to the ups and downs of life since childhood, is indeed prone to becoming lazy once she has someone to rely on.

Chu Xiangqian didn't mind it at all, since he didn't need that little money from Bo Ji anyway.

If you are more obedient, you can get along longer.

After lunch, Chu Xiangqian heard the golden eagle’s reminder in his mind.

When his mind was focused on the golden eagle's sight, he soon saw a small airport on a private ranch in the town of Mena.

Then, through the peregrine falcon, we checked a large group of wooden houses on the ranch, and basically confirmed that this was 8% likely Barry's home.

Chu Xiangqian couldn't help but smile, but he was not in a hurry to fly to Arkansas.

Instead, he attended the internal film screening held by Charlie Weir and Taylor as planned.

He also privately discussed with Robert, Dennis and other women's gang leaders in a country villa outside Washington about the action plan to continue transporting weapons to Afghanistan.

This time, Dennis and his people don't want to simply transport the weapons in.

In the past eight months, the Appropriations Committee has made three consecutive appropriations, totaling more than $8 million.

The amount seems not to be large, but if there is no movement from the Afghan side, Dennis and his people will not be able to explain to the Women's Association.

So everyone looked at Chu Xiangqian expectantly.

Chu shrugged and said, "I suggest adding the Stinger missiles to the aid list.

Otherwise, no one would want to attack a polar bear when faced with the threat of a Hind helicopter gunship flying like a sky fortress."

(End of this chapter)