Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 334 Career Balance Point

There was a lot of beef and mutton in the refrigerator, and even two expensive Iberian hams. The wine cabinet was filled with high-end whiskey, brandy, and red wine...

Apart from the coffee, almost everything in the cafe is fun stuff brought from the cruise ship.

Exquisite porcelain, silver tea sets and candlesticks, knives, forks and soup spoons with gold-plated handles, and even a complete set of unopened kitchen utensils.

These things are incompatible with the original ecological style of coffee shops, but they are expensive, and this expensive feature makes up for all the shortcomings.

Shanying knew at a glance that when Mr. Poincare and his crew moved, they did not forget to pick out the good things from the cruise ship spoils.

He took out a set of tools, picked out a saw, cut the frozen lamb chops into pieces, and then set them aside to thaw.

While Shanying was busy, Jon and Zorn, who were getting off work, also came downstairs.

When the two saw their big boss coming back, they happily stepped forward to greet him. However, before they could organize their words to report their recent gains, all their attention was attracted by Anna.

Anna, who has been studying and working in the UK and the US for many years, knows how to attract the attention of white people...

Passion, sexiness, health, extroversion, and a little fanaticism can easily make these guys aroused.

Seeing these two guys surrounding Anna and showing their courtesy, Shanying shook his head and smiled. He didn't mind their performance, and he didn't care whether they would leak the secret to Anna...

Since he dared to keep Daria and Yulia by his side, he was not worried that Anna would know his secret.

On the contrary, if these two guys cannot uphold their professional ethics, then Anna will be helping Shanying to test and screen them, and they can be let go after finishing the work in Thailand.

Sofia helped the butcher and his team determine the location of the foundation and the size of the house. Then she bypassed the area where Anna was and walked into the kitchen of the cafe...

Seeing Shanying applying spices and butter to a thawed leg of lamb, Sophia walked over and said, "Do you need help?"

Shanying glanced at Sophia, pointed at a bag of onions next to him, and said, "Cut some onions for me. I can't believe that you have so many good ingredients and yet you complain about the food every day."

Sophia bent down and picked up a few onions, then took out a knife and began to fiddle with the onions in a very unskilled manner. In less than a minute, the girl said with tears streaming down her face: "Mr. Poincare is an Englishman, he thinks everything is delicious...

Jon and Zorn can't even fry a steak properly."

Shanying looked at Sophia curiously and said, "What about you?"

Sophia wiped her eyes, and then she couldn't control her tears anymore and said, "I only know how to fry food with butter. They only ate one meal and then they stopped letting me into the kitchen."

Shanying recalled the "prisoner heat bomb" he had experienced in Moscow. Let those who know how to make it make it. At least the first few bites were still very fragrant...

But seeing Sophia's tear glands being poked as she cut the onions, Shanying shook his head and said with a smile, "That's because they don't have vision. I think everyone has potential. As long as you are willing to try, you can achieve good results."

Shanying glanced at the onion that had been chopped into pieces. He gently took the knife from Sophia's hand and said, "I saw a grill outside...

Killing and arson are related skills, I think you will have no problem making a fire."

Sophia glanced at Shanying, her eyes red, and said, “We have had enough of 25 gas stations, and one-third of them are currently undergoing renovations on their appearance and infrastructure.

More than 60 ships have accepted our conditions, passed the inspection and acceptance of the maritime department and are now out to sea.

Our fuel business is doing well at the moment, but to be honest the profits are not very high.

I understand your plan, but I want to tell you that being too lenient won’t be enough to control the smugglers. If you want them to obey your management, you have to use some more powerful measures.”

Shanying looked at Sophia, who was in tears and speaking murderous words, and waved his hand and said, "You are wrong, I don't mean to control the smugglers, at least I have never thought about controlling all of them.

Use fuel to implement limited intervention, then screen over a longer period of time, and slowly establish a set of rules that everyone is willing to follow."

Sophia listened, frowned and said, "What if someone doesn't want to?"

Shanying shrugged his shoulders and said, "I am a policeman. My responsibility is to fight against crimes!"

Shanying looked at Sophia and said with a smile: "You are a Russian, you should know very well that the police must maintain flexibility between the scale of regulations and the scale of law enforcement in order to truly exercise their power.

You have to kill a few chickens from time to time to keep the monkeys quiet!

But if we were the Monkey King, we would be a target...

So I am a police officer, now and I will probably always be one! "

Sophia rubbed her red eyes subconsciously and said, "If you don't want to control them and don't want them to pay fees, then why are you spending so much effort? It's very expensive to maintain such a network."

Shanying smiled and shook his head, saying: "Controlling smugglers is not about making them recognize me as their boss. We can't control so many people.

How much would it cost if I didn’t want to completely control them?”

Sophia frowned at Shanying and said, "Then how do you make money?"

Shanying said with a smile: “I understand them as truck drivers, and I am a trading company. As long as I can understand the tariff lists, sanctioned items, and embargo lists of countries in the surrounding areas, I can easily make a lot of money.

And you know what's the most profitable thing to smuggle?"

"Arms? Drugs?"

Sophia frowned at Shanying and said, "No, you won't do such a thing. What do you want to do?"

Shanying smiled and placed the massaged lamb leg on a large piece of tin foil, sprinkled chopped onions on it, and then put a large piece of butter on it...

After wrapping it, he put the lamb leg aside, then picked up the instruction manual of the high-end oven, and said with a smile while thinking: "I really can't do these things, because what I want to do is the 'channel'...

Even without discussing the issue of conscience, the risks of cooperating with arms dealers and drug traffickers will increase exponentially.

If you are not capable enough, those black-hearted bastards will exploit you. If you are capable enough, they will ask you to do more and more excessive things.

The better you do, the greater the risk and the higher the cost.

If you want to maintain an underground trade channel for a long time, the best way is to limit the types of transactions and find a balance between cost, profit and risk. Believe me, this is entirely possible! "

Shanying put the wrapped lamb legs into the oven, set the temperature and time for baking, and then blanched the thawed lamb chops while saying, "Stop staring at me, go light a fire..."

Sophia, a tough girl who was able to develop a prison killer network before she was 20 years old, said unwillingly: "You haven't told me yet, what is more profitable than arms and drugs?"

Shanying sighed slightly and said, "I haven't thought about it yet, but tobacco, alcohol and luxury goods are definitely good products that can make a lot of money in Southeast Asia and will not affect the interests of the market.

You see Anna outside. Her boss has great influence in Cyprus, and he still owes me the balance of 500 million US dollars, which I need to go to Cyprus to collect myself.

Cyprus is a country in the European Union. I can legally organize sufficient supply of goods in Cyprus through a trading company, and then use cargo ships to transport them to the high seas in Southeast Asia.

Believe me, based on my experience, there are plenty of freight ships willing to do this job!

At that time, these smugglers can pay me enough fees and then pick up the goods on the high seas. They can make money no matter where they are sent.

As long as they gradually get used to this model, we will be able to control the source of the goods."

Sophia frowned and said, “You put so much effort into this?

I know that the profits of tobacco, alcohol and luxury goods are okay, but they certainly cannot achieve the balance of cost, profit and risk that you mentioned..."

Shanying hesitated for a moment and said, "The profits in the initial stage will definitely be enough, but I haven't thought through the problems in the later stage yet..."

Then Shanying looked at Sophia and said, "Sophia, what is the best product?"

Sophia frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "The banned products are all high-profit goods..."

Facing Sophia's correct nonsense, Shanying glanced at Mr. Poincare standing at the kitchen door and said with a smile: "You can ask Mr. Poincare, he has the answer!"

Mr. Poincare handed Sophia a handkerchief and said with a smile: “Money is the best commodity!

Dollars, pounds, euros...

There are too many companies and individuals in the Asian region holding huge amounts of cash!

This money is either for tax evasion or simply illegally obtained.

Their only thought is to get the money out of their country and to a place where they can spend it freely.

Not everyone has the power to take advantage of legal loopholes in the country to transfer these illegal gains, so there is a cash smuggling business. "

Shanying looked at Sophia's surprised expression and said with a smile: "Almost all economic activities are actually restricted by the law, but do you know how to avoid legal supervision without paying a price?"

As Shanying looked at Sophia's curious expression, he smiled and said, "The best way is to go to a place where you can customize the laws!

British overseas territories, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Jersey...

Malta, Luxembourg, Cyprus in Europe...

Singapore in Asia...

Panama in Latin America...

Bahrain in the Middle East...

Mauritius in Africa...

Transport the money to these places, or transport the money to a place where it can smoothly enter the banking system, and then use local legal means to allow the money to flow legally to these overseas accounts. "

Sophia frowned at Shanying and said, "What you call big business is money laundering?"

Shanying shook his head and said, "I haven't thought about it yet, because this is different from selling cigarettes and alcohol. It will involve a lot of people and things that I don't want to deal with, and I will face huge competition.

So when safety cannot be guaranteed, I would rather put it aside for now and wait for the right client, which is sometimes safer than rushing into an industry."

Shanying looked at Sophia who was in a daze and said with a smile: "I'm not in a hurry, so you don't have to be in a hurry either...

Don't think about anything else until you've digested the list in your hand.

Business is like building a house. Without a solid foundation, no matter how beautiful the building is, it is empty!"

While Shanying was talking, Anna, who had been eavesdropping near the door, suddenly stuck her head out and said, "So you have ideas about Cyprus, right?"

Shanying looked at Anna with disdain, and said, "Your boss owes me $500 million and asked me to go to Cyprus to settle the account...

I don't think I can get the cash, and if it's a combination of cash and assets, then I would definitely set up a company there to dispose of those assets.

Isn't it natural to do some trade stuff at the same time?"

Anna looked at Shanying with a smile and said, “But if you want to launder money, you can’t get around my boss in Cyprus.

Don't forget, he is now a major shareholder of the National Bank of Cyprus!

You'd better be polite to me from now on..."

Shanying looked at Anna like a fool, waved his hand and said, “You are too stupid, so you always mix up our positions.

There are some things I can’t explain to you clearly, so you better drink a couple of glasses honestly, and then I’ll have someone take you to a hotel to sleep, and you can leave quickly tomorrow…”

Anna was stunned for a moment, and said unhappily: "I'm not leaving, I came here to negotiate with Deutsche Capital and AXA Group...

More importantly, I want to make sure that Blood Fox doesn’t lose his life…”

(End of this chapter)