Reborn Brazil as a Plutocrat

The news that the Eddie brothers' armed forces were wiped out by the troops led by Navy General Fang within three days naturally reached the ears of General Nairo Mora of the Air Force Ministry.

What shocked him the most was naturally Fang Lang's act of pulling out forty bombers at once to carry out carpet bombing on the enemy. He also used transport planes to quickly overwhelm the area and mobilize troops.

This makes him even more eager to hope that his air force can form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and his transport aircraft and bomber formations can be formed as soon as possible.

After learning about this bombing operation, Fang Lang seconded a group of students from the aviation school, which made him look forward to the students at the aviation school.

He was not surprised at all that Fang Lang could achieve such results. After all, he had already sensed something was wrong when Lieutenant General Crook suddenly took the initiative to ask for a fight at the Ministry of National Defense meeting.

Of course, the enemy that the Army had not eliminated for half a year was eliminated by Fang Lang within three days, which still deeply shocked him.

At the same time, this battle further strengthened his idea of ​​establishing an airborne force unique to the Air Force.

Naturally, the people got the news quickly, and the Brazilian Times even gave a huge page to announce the victory of this war to the world. The TV station also made a detailed report.

But in this report, the media company under Fangyuan Group did not overly publicize the time comparison between the Navy and the Army. It just told everyone that it was the Navy's Rio de Janeiro aircraft carrier battle group that achieved this great victory.

The purpose is naturally to reduce the confrontation between the navy and the army as much as possible and avoid attracting new enemies to his boss.

While the outside world was marveling at Fang Lang's results, Fang Lang himself was inspecting the town of Bittenkot, which was originally occupied by the rebels, although the main force stationed in the town at this time was the army.

But as the new frontline commander, Fang Lang naturally has the right to inspect the towns once occupied by the rebels.

Because they are ruled by rebels and recruit troops here, many residents in the town are very wary of government troops, not that they choose to stand on the same side as the rebels.

It's because their family members inevitably became members of the rebels, whether voluntarily or under coercion. Moreover, most of them died in this operation by government forces.
This resulted in the inevitable hostility of the townspeople towards the government troops.

The Brazilian government army is not the home army of later generations, and has no willingness and responsibility to help local people restore production.

Therefore, the town of Bittencourt, which experienced the Great War, is actually very dilapidated. There are still a large number of bullet holes in the houses hit by artillery shells and bullets, which have not been filled.

There are also traces of burned wooden houses that have not been erased.

The person accompanying Fang Lang during the inspection was not an official from the army, but Fang Xinshui, the master of Hongmen Hongyi Hall, Fang Lang’s uncle.

"Lang'er, why did you ask me to come to this place to investigate?

There isn’t much of a population here!”

Hearing this, Fang Lang smiled and said:

"Uncle is right, there is not much population here, but there are rich resources!

Look at the dense virgin jungle here, these tall trees that are thousands of years old, these are real resources."

"Oh! Do you want our company to come here to do timber business?

But there are a lot of forestry resources downstream, so why go deep into the Amazon River and come to this humble town?"

When Fang Lang heard his uncle's words, he did not give an answer immediately, but smiled and said:

"Uncle, don't worry, I'm here to inspect this time. Since we have conquered this place, of course we must exert enough influence here!"

As he spoke, he patted the door of Willys Jeep and pointed to the dilapidated buildings around him:

"Look at the dilapidated environment around us. Most of the families here have family members who joined the rebels. Now the rebels have been wiped out by us. This has created some gaps between local residents and the Brazilian government.

If these barriers cannot be effectively eliminated, the residents of these two places may give birth to a new rebel team.

This is what I don’t want to see.”

After hearing Fang Lang's words, Fang Xinshui frowned and said in confusion:

"Even if a new rebel team appears, it shouldn't have much impact on you! Maybe it can also provide you with some new opportunities to make meritorious deeds!"

Fang Lang smiled and pointed to the Yapra River not far away:

"Do you know where the river goes all the way up?"

"Of course I know, that's Colombia over there."

"Then do you know what specialties Colombia has?"

This question obviously touched on Fang Xinshui's knowledge blind spot. He glanced at his nephew sitting next to him with some confusion, shrugged helplessly and said:

"I really don't know about these things, but I probably understand what you mean. You want us to build a hall here and find a way to get some Colombian specialties, right?"

Seeing his uncle react so quickly, he had to look at him with admiration. It seemed that after such a long period of training, his uncle had grown up very quickly!

He smiled and nodded:

"My uncle is right. Colombia is the most important emerald producing area in the world. The mines in these producing areas are mainly concentrated in the central Andes Mountains in Colombia.

As for the specific location of the gem mine, I don’t know, but I know that local mining companies, except for a few formal European and American companies, are mostly illegal mining by local people.

Illegal mining falls within the scope of the local government's crackdown, so these local gemstones can only be taken away at a relatively low price.

After being polished and processed, these gemstones will become expensive luxury goods sought after by ladies in upper-class European society.

The profit gap can drive people crazy. Do you understand what I mean?"

When Fang Xinshui heard this, he looked at his nephew in shock, swallowed hard, and then said:

"I understand, do you want us, Hongyi Tang, to intervene in this business as a gang?"

Feeling his uncle's gaze, Fang Lang just smiled and nodded:

"If it wasn't for dealing with this rebel team, I wouldn't have known that there was such a huge source of wealth hidden here."

As he spoke, he took out an emerald the size of a pigeon egg from his pocket and threw it to the uncle beside him.

Because the Willis Jeep was walking on the muddy streets of the town, the car body kept shaking, so Fang Xinshui, who didn't notice Fang Lang's movements, almost missed catching the gem.

Fortunately, his reach was good and his reaction was timely, so he was able to catch the gem just as it was about to hit the ground.

He took the gem in his hand and played with it. After examining it carefully for a while, he said with a look of amazement:

"This is such a beautiful little baby! I seem to remember one time when I was visiting a jewelry store in Sao Paulo with your aunt, and a gemstone that was less than a quarter of the price of this little guy was priced at $10,000.

I don’t know what his value is in the mining area.”

Fang Lang smiled and did not speak, but stretched out a palm and shook it at his uncle.

Fang Xinshui looked at Fang Lang in disbelief and said:

"It's not just five hundred dollars!"

"No, the purchase price of the rough stone is fifty US dollars."

"Fuck, I've done this business. I'll start organizing people when I get back, come here to establish a stronghold, and then find a way to get into Colombia to explore the situation."

After knowing that this gem had such a high profit, Fang Xinshui spoke directly without hesitation.

Seeing this, Fang Lang smiled slightly, shook his head and said:

"Don't be anxious. If you want to build a stronghold here, there is another very important prerequisite, that is, we must have a sufficient mass base.

Now the residents here are not of the same mind as us. If they don’t jump out and cause damage, I will burn incense.

More importantly, I don’t want you to personally participate in the sale of raw ore, but I am planning to open a gem trading center here and recruit enough gem processing workers to make this a gem distribution center.

And your Hongyitang controls this channel by controlling this gem distribution center.

As for the specific hard work of gem trafficking, let others do it!"

Fang Xinshui was playing with the emerald pigeon egg gemstone in his hand while thinking about Fang Lang's words. Obviously, the other party didn't want to get himself into too deep, but just wanted to control the gem's shipping channel.

However, he didn't understand why they could attract others to come here to trade gems if they couldn't master the raw material procurement methods!

If others don't come, their gem distribution center may become a joke by then.

Just when he was about to express his doubts, Fang Lang seemed to have expected it:

"You don't have to worry about them not coming here to trade. According to the information I've learned, there are already many people here engaged in related transportation business.

The first thing we have to do next is to immigrate here, turn this place into our territory, build hotels and hostels here, and provide them with catering services.

Then collect intelligence, find these gem smugglers, summon them, and let them trade in the places we designate according to our rules.

If someone doesn't want to play according to our rules, I will arrange for professionals to carry out targeted attacks on them.

This is a game in which those who follow the rules prosper and those who go against the rules perish. Only those who abide by the rules of the game can survive."

Fang Lang's words once again refreshed Fang Xinshui's understanding. Is this how to play with a powerful machine?

"You mean to ask the police to take action directly?"

"Of course, it is the duty of the police to crack down on illegal smuggling and other criminal activities, isn't it?"

Looking at Fang Lang's matter-of-fact expression, Fang Xinshui swallowed his saliva and didn't know how to comment for a while.

"What if they just stop taking our route?"

Fang Lang looked at his uncle who was a little stunned, smiled slightly and said:

"Actually, this is a simple cost selection issue. Our purpose in building the gemstone distribution center is to purchase relatively low-priced rough stones from them.

It’s not about robbing them of their gems.

If they take the gems to our distribution center and sell them, the selling price will be lower than if they shipped them directly, but the advantage is that they are absolutely safe.

And if they want to avoid our gem distribution center, they have to risk a lot of trouble.

But when the risks and benefits are not proportional, smart people will make wise choices."

Fang Xinshui still didn't understand and said:

"But wouldn't it be possible to maximize our profits?"

Fang Lang smiled and took out a cigar, handed it to the uncle beside him, and said:

"Don't focus on the interests of individual gemstones. What we want is the interests of the entire market and scale.

At that time, all the smuggled emeralds flowing from Colombia to Brazil will be traded with us, and we will get a share of the profit from each gem. Think about it, how big a business this will be.

More importantly, do you know how many people this business can support?"

At this moment, Fang Xinshui finally understood what Fang Lang was thinking. After thinking about it carefully, he had to nod his head in admiration again.