Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 205 Either Friend or Enemy
"General, you think too highly of me."

Song Heping threw the document back.

"You're not trying to make a deal with me, you're trying to take my life."

"You can name your reward," Peter said. "Mercenaries always have a price."

"What you can get is called reward, what you can't get is called ghost money." Song Heping reached out and opened the information, pointing at the people inside and said, "These people are in the Golden Crescent District. You want me to go in there and kill these three for you? Do you really think I'm a god?"

The Golden Crescent is a no-man's land located at the junction of Persia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, similar to the Golden Triangle.

The vast mountainous region there is named because of its crescent-shaped shape. Since 2001, a "double-moon-shaped" terrorist zone and drug production and trafficking hub has formed, centered in Afghan. The other center of this double-moon is the Fergana Valley, a Central Asian country.

"Those three are drug lords," Peter said. "We're currently having some trouble in Afghanistan. Although we control most of the country, we still can't control this area. Furthermore, since we entered Afghanistan, we've discovered an incredible resurgence and expansion of opium. Last year, the area under poppy cultivation exceeded 20 hectares."

"Terrorist organizations are using the profits from the drug trade there to buy large quantities of arms to fight us. According to intelligence obtained by the CIA, organizations like al-Qaeda obtain all their weapons and ammunition from there. Therefore, we must cut off the drug trafficking channels there, and these three people are the key."

"You've run out of your own special forces? What about the Army, Navy, Air Force, and your Special Operations Command? You have tons of special forces you don't need, and you want me, a mercenary, to do this?"

Song Heping vaguely sensed the danger emanating from this matter.

What a strange thing this is.

The US military now controls most of Afghanistan and has established a provisional government, while student militias and groups like al-Qaeda have retreated to the fringes or taken refuge in the Hindu Kush Mountains.

Isn't it a simple task to wipe out the drug trafficking organization in the Golden Crescent area?
"something……"

Peter put a piece of beef into his mouth and chewed it slowly, as if he was thinking about how to answer Song Heping.

"If you accept this mission, I can explain why I chose you to take this mission."

Song Heping smiled and said, "General, why don't you first explain why you chose me, and then let me see if I can cooperate with you in carrying out this mission."

After Peter finished chewing, he put down his knife and fork, thought for a moment, and then said, "Let's put it this way, the source of the poison in Jin Xinyue is actually a little bit related to us..."

He placed his index finger on his thumb and rubbed it a few times.

"Relationship. Do you understand? This matter can be traced back to the Soviet-Afghan War..."

"Before 1979, the Soviet Union sent troops to Afghanistan. To intervene in the situation there, we fostered dozens of anti-Soviet forces, large and small, within Afghanistan. One of these forces came from Persia. However, due to the political tensions between us and Persia, we cut off our weapons and financial support to them 80 years later."

"This Persian resistance force would certainly not be able to defeat the Soviet Union head-on, so they often adopted guerrilla tactics. After defeating the Soviets, they fled to Pakistan and Persia to avoid being hunted down. Since they lost our funding, in order to survive, this group began to grow opium on a small scale at the junction of the three countries."

"Perhaps you know what happened later. The Soviet military invasion failed. They withdrew from Afghanistan, leaving behind a chaotic situation. Various armed groups began to fight for power, including the student army, which we really disliked. So the CIA intervened again, supporting other armed groups to fight against the student army, including the Persian resistance force revolutionary brigade. So..."

"So you help them sell drugs?"

Song Heping finally understood Peter's difficult words.

I have to say that from a certain perspective, he really admires these Americans.

What a pragmatist he is, he would even make a deal with the devil to achieve his goal.

A top intelligence agency is involved in drug trafficking. If Peter hadn't said it himself, you would have thought it was something from street literature.

"You could say that, but back then, Congress couldn't openly support the Revolutionary Brigade. It could only support armed forces like the Northern Alliance. Especially after the embassy hostage crisis, we couldn't and wouldn't have any overt interactions with the Persians. To do so would be politically incorrect. So, the CIA secretly devised a secret plan. Without congressional funding, they could use black ops to assist the Persian Revolutionary Brigade, opening up channels for them to transport drugs to Europe for profit and sustain their operations. Unexpectedly..."

Having said that, he smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Song Heping couldn't help but sneer again: "I didn't expect that the little cat back then would turn into a big tiger. That place has become a source of poison even more powerful than the Golden Triangle, right?"

He cursed inwardly.

You idiots made a bunch of shit, and it's a smelly and hard pile of shit.

You actually want me to clean up your mess?
Golden Crescent...

That place is no joke.

Song Heping has some knowledge about that place.

This damn place is not only a lawless place, but also unmanageable.

Not only the Persians and Pakistanis can't do anything about it, the provisional government in Afghanistan can't do anything about it, even the Americans who have invaded Afghanistan can't do anything about it.

"So, are you willing to help with this?"

Peter looked at Song Heping who was sitting opposite him and put down his knife and fork.

"I will give you a very satisfactory reward."

Song Heping said, "Don't you have an air force? It's easier to let them do it than for me to kill them."

Peter said: "It's not that we haven't tried. We even sent the Air Force to bomb their poppy fields. The problem is that there are too many poppy fields and we can't bomb them all. And we can't find their processing plants. This is the key."

He opened the first page of the document. It was a white man named Adrian. Peter tapped his fingers on it.

"And then there's the channels. Adrian is the main person responsible for shipping drugs to Europe. He's the linchpin of the entire chain. Meanwhile, Hazard and Hula are two key figures in the Revolutionary Brigade. They'll meet at a processing plant in southern Helman Province in fifteen days. Your mission is to find them and eliminate them."

"As long as these three men are dead and the processing plant is bombed, I believe they will not be able to resume production within six months, and the revolutionary brigade will definitely not be able to gain a foothold in Afghanistan. Our army can use this time to enter the Golden Crescent region in one fell swoop, conduct a sweep, and then completely control that area."

Song Heping listened to Peter patiently and thought to himself, you guys have a good plan.

But I never thought about who would dare to do such a task?

"This is not what a mercenary should do."

Song Heping was still refusing.

"It should be done by secret CIA agents."

"No, you have to go," Peter said, "because we have an opportunity to get inside." "What opportunity?"

"Delta Force recently captured an important figure in an operation in Afghanistan."

He went to his desk, picked up a document, and returned to the dining table.

"have a look."

He placed the document in front of Song Heping.

Song Heping opened the document and was slightly surprised.

"This man named Han Fei is a drug trafficker who has recently risen in Central Asia. He recently connected with the Revolutionary Brigade through some connections and plans to go to the Golden Crescent region to conduct a big deal with the Revolutionary Brigade. If the deal goes through, Han Fei will become the Golden Crescent's drug agent in Central Asia. This is their one-time deal, so neither Azar nor Hula has met him. The person who brought them together is Adrian. At present, Adrian does not know that Han Fei has been arrested by us, and you..."

Peter glanced at the photo.

"Don't you think you look alike?"

Song Heping looked at Han Fei's photo carefully. No matter how he looked at it, he didn't feel that they looked very similar. However, they were of similar age.

So he sneered, "Do you think you look like him?"

Peter said confidently, "Similar! Of course! You just lack the goatee, which is easy to imitate."

Song Heping was amused: "Are all of you face-blind?"

Peter said, "Well? Care to help?"

Song Heping thought for a moment and said, "I want to ask, you let me take such a big risk, what is my reward?"

"This is a big piece of the pie in the logistics support mission in Irigoo," Peter said. "This pie mainly involves transportation. Most of the supplies for our military camps in Irigoo are handled by subcontractors. They usually pick up the goods at the ports or airports in Kuwait, or directly from Bakda Airport and then transport them to the various military camps according to orders. If you help us complete this task, you will receive a three-year transportation contract worth $2.4 million per year."

2.4 million! ?

Song Heping thought he had misheard and asked hurriedly, "How much?"

"Two hundred and forty million," Peter said with certainty. "But you don't take all the money. Do you understand me?"

Song Heping immediately calmed down. He remembered what Ferrari had mentioned to him about the "rules" in this circle.

"So...how much is the fee?"

"50%." Peter did not hide it: "We will give you instructions on where to transfer the money when the time comes."

Song Heping suddenly realized at this moment that it was no wonder that he was given such a fatal task.

Are you going to surrender yourself?

No wonder Peter can live so luxuriously here.

It seems...

Haha, these senior executives made a lot of money.

The cost of rebuilding Irigo is really a huge piece of cake.

The military-industrial complex, the oil companies, the stock market, Wall Street.

Ferrari used to tell me these things, and I thought they were fantastical.

It seems that Ferrari is not exaggerating at all.

"General, I'm curious about something."

"You said."

"Didn't big companies like AAFES handle this business before? Why did they suddenly think of taking care of small companies like us?"

After hearing Song Heping's words, Peter smiled and said, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket. This is an advice from economists."

Song Heping tasted it and felt that it was not that simple.

But now that we've come to this, it seems like I have no way out.

If I had refused from the beginning, perhaps I could have done it, but now I'm afraid there is no chance anymore.

Either you shake hands with Peter and leave the room, or you leave the room as Peter's enemy.

Regardless, $2.4 million a year is a big contract.

From the perspective of company development and personal development, both must be achieved.

As for the future, no one can predict what will happen.

we'll talk about it then.

"OK, I'll take this task."

"Hahaha!"

Peter beamed and held out his hand.

"I knew you were a smart person, Song. I was right about you. You are an ambitious and ambitious person."

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)