Chapter 1009 Ruble and Military Base

When entering the door, Jiang Chen noticed that at least ten eyes were focused on him. But he didn't care and walked forward as normal.

"Surprised?" Pugin raised his eyebrows and made an inviting gesture to the sofa with his free hand.

"Indeed," Jiang Chen shrugged, went to sit on the sofa opposite him, nodded slightly to the waiter who handed him the champagne, and then looked at the leader of the fighting nation, "I heard the Minister of Foreign Affairs say, you He is inspecting the frontline situation in the Crimean Peninsula and will not be able to return to Moscow until three days later."

Both of them speak good English and do not need to communicate through a translator.

Clinking glasses with Jiang Chen, Pujin drank all the champagne in one gulp, and then handed the goblet to the waiter.

"If we want to deceive our enemies, we must first deceive our own people."

"Do you still need to be so cautious in Moscow?" Jiang Chen joked as he returned the empty wine glass to the waiter.

"It never hurts to be careful. Russia has a vast territory, and there is no guarantee that a mouse or two will not sneak in from any corner." At this point, Putin crossed his fingers on his knees, leaned forward slightly, and stared straight into the blue-brown pupils. Jiang Chen, "Well, time is running out. In order not to miss this cocktail party, let's get straight to the point."

Putin looked at Nikolaev who was standing behind Jiang Chen and winked at him.

General Nikolaev stood at attention and saluted, took a map from the hands of the bodyguard next to him, stepped forward and spread the map flat on the coffee table.

This is a topographic map, covering the two cities of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk, with contour lines outlining the basin and foothills. The two big cities are also sandwiched between large and small towns, including Red Army Village, Papulograd and other large and small towns. Three jagged black lines are drawn in the middle area of ​​the map, and three or four arrows are drawn from the northwest like a handful. The sharp knife penetrated into the heart of the Donetsk Republic, dividing the civilian armed forces in Donetsk and Lugansk.

Jiang Chen was familiar with this map. It was not just European countries that were paying attention to the civil war in Ukraine. However, the information revealed on this map was slightly different from what Jiang Chen knew. Although he heard that the civilian armed forces were declining, he did not expect them to decline so completely. If he read correctly, the civilian armed forces that had been pushed to the Dnieper River were not allowed to go home.

Nikolaev's next few words confirmed Jiang Chen's guess.

"Starting last month, an illegal private armed force entered Ukraine from Poland, and the war situation began to take a turn for the worse. They claimed to be mercenaries and were hired by the President of Ukraine. The sources of funding are quite complicated, including the National Endowment for Democracy in the United States.

There are more than twenty North American and European human rights organizations, large and small. Our intelligence officers tried to investigate the shareholders behind it, and eventually all clues pointed to one organization. "

"Freemasonry?" Jiang Chen asked.

"You guessed it right." Nikolayev paused, looked at Jiang Chen and continued, "This is not a regular mercenary. They are composed of retired veterans and refugees from NATO member states and received training in Finland. . Their equipment is not limited to automatic weapons, but also includes armored vehicles, tanks, and even armed helicopters..."

"Tank? Armed helicopter? What's the difference between this and the army?" Jiang Chen couldn't help but ask.

"This is an army, and its size is comparable to the 58th Army." Nikolayev added.

The silence lasted for a long time.

At this time, Pujin, who had been silent until now, spoke.

"How's it going? Are you sure?"

"Are you sure?" Jiang Chen looked at him with a strange expression.

Staring into Jiang Chen's eyes seriously, Pujin continued.

"This is the content of our cooperation. We hope that you will be their opponent."

The room fell silent again.

This time it was Jiang Chen who broke the silence.

"Are we going to be their opponents? We are a company and we won't do anything that is not beneficial." Jiang Chen said with a smile as he leaned back on the sofa.

After hearing Jiang Chen's words, Pu Jin also smiled.

Although he didn't get an immediate affirmative answer, since Jiang Chen didn't refuse directly, it meant that there was still room for discussion on the matter.

"Please rest assured that you are a new state enterprise, and we do not expect you to provide free assistance to our allies. All supplies consumed by the mercenaries will be converted into rubles and borne by us. In addition, we will provide You will pay the employment fee of 100 billion rubles in two installments."

100 billion rubles, equivalent to 1.7 billion New Zealand dollars, is no longer a small amount for Russia with a tight budget. However, a mere S$1.7 billion obviously cannot satisfy Jiang Chen’s appetite. He was more interested in things than money.

"One hundred billion rubles, a military base."

Upon hearing Jiang Chen's request, Putin and Nikolaev frowned in unison. Although they urgently hope that Star Ring Trade can intervene in the Ukrainian crisis and reverse the decline of pro-Russian civil forces, this does not mean that they will sacrifice their own interests for the Donetsk people.

After communicating with Nikolaev through his eyes, Putin tapped his finger on the armrest of the sofa and spoke word by word.

"Russia will not open military bases to any country or private organization. The employment fee can be increased appropriately, but we cannot accept this condition."

"You misunderstood," Jiang Chen waved his hand and explained, "Of course our military base will not be built in Russia. Since we are fighting the Ukrainian government forces, it will naturally be built in Donetsk."

Nikolayev breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Putin. This condition was not unacceptable to Russia.

"If it's Donetsk, no problem. We will help you negotiate with them." Putin nodded, "Is there anything else?"

"No, I wish us a happy cooperation." Jiang Chen said with a smile.

Without any legal documents signed, such a shady contract cannot be on paper. The actual employer of Star Ring Trading will be a local chocolate company in Donetsk. As for the source of funds, it is exactly the same as the Ukrainian government army, and it also comes from shell companies registered in Russia or overseas.

A world map was spread out on the table. The bearded general pointed along the map and clicked on the location of Vladivostok, a city in Russia's Far East.

"Your people can land in Vladivostok, and we will provide a railway transportation route from Vladivostok, through the Siberian region, to the Russian-Ukrainian border. This line will serve as your supply line, and all costs will be borne by us. If the situation is optimistic, , you should be able to deploy two brigades on the border by mid-May..."

"No need." Jiang Chen shook his head, "This is too slow."

"No need?" Nikolayev was stunned for a moment.

Pujin's eyebrows raised slightly, showing an interested look.

"Let's go directly from here." Jiang Chen's finger pointed at the corner of the Western Pacific on the map, where the equator line passes.

Leaning forward and looking along where Jiang Chen pointed, Nikolaev's pupils suddenly shrank.

There were no markers there, but the latitude and longitude were familiar to him.

There is the Space Elevator, the man-made marvel of the Halo Trade. (To be continued.) Activate new URL