50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 671 The First Batch of 500
Sun Zhiwei threw those debris into the water for two reasons: firstly, to clean the cabin, and secondly, to create the illusion of a maritime disaster.

Once those objects and the bodies of the people surface, the remnants of a submarine accident will be recognized.

After handling all the initial and final matters, Sun Zhiwei quickly steered his yacht away into the vast ocean.

Not long after, the shipyard sent people into the vicinity of the incident area to search for the missing 'Yanwan'.

Soon, they discovered debris floating on the surface of the submarine, as well as the bodies of the personnel who participated in the sea trial.

Police investigations revealed that all the remains and debris indicated that the 'Rock Bay' submarine, which was undergoing testing, had indeed suffered a serious accident.

Based on the descriptions from the crew, the police determined that the blockage in the ventilation pipes supplying oxygen to the diesel engines in the submarine caused the oxygen in the cabin to run out, leading to the suffocation and unconsciousness of all the crew members.

Finally, due to a rupture in the hull, the personnel, debris, and diesel fuel inside the submarine were washed to the surface by the ocean current.

Although the wreckage of the ill-fated 'Rock Bay' was never found.

Because the investigation team considered that the waters where the incident occurred were more than 2000 meters deep and that there were several ocean currents nearby, it was highly likely that the submarine wreckage was swept into the deep sea.

Therefore, a few remaining doubts do not affect the conclusions of the investigation into this maritime disaster.

Only the Barrow-in-Furness shipyard wanted to find out what happened.

The aim is to eliminate a potential safety hazard and improve the performance of the Trafalgar-class submarines during subsequent construction.

Therefore, the shipyard's board of directors allocated funds to hire a search team to search for the wreckage of the 'Rock Bay'.

The search, which lasted for several weeks, yielded no results, leading to strong opposition from shipyard personnel and causing funding problems for subsequent searches. In the end, the search was abruptly terminated.

By this time, Sun Zhiwei had changed his identity and returned to Subi Island on an international flight with the 'Rock Bay'.

After more than a month of additional construction work, the facilities on Subi Island have been gradually improved.

Meanwhile, good news also came from Xu Yimin's side in China: his request was approved, and it was decided to select 500 soldiers from the first batch of demobilized soldiers to be resettled abroad.

This number fell far short of Sun Zhiwei's expectations.

However, everything is difficult at the beginning. Now that the door has been opened, as long as he settles these 500 people properly, shows the results to the country, and gets positive feedback, he believes that there will soon be a second opportunity to speak.

Therefore, he immediately instructed Dong Haoyang to issue 500 work visas to China in the name of Pinkerton's East Asia branch.

Subi Island is a trapezoidal island with a slight bend in its shape. It is 20 kilometers long, 10 kilometers wide at its widest point, and 8 kilometers wide at its narrowest point.

More than 90% of the island is covered with lush tropical vegetation, and two small rivers on the east and west sides of the island drain the accumulated water into the sea.

Sun Zhiwei has already instructed the construction team to build a semi-submersible indoor dock in the forest 500 meters upstream of the small river 3 kilometers from the port.

It was officially stated that it was used for the maintenance and repair of the company's future ships, but in reality, it would later serve as the berthing port for the 'Rock Bay'.

To ensure the smooth entry and berthing of the 'Yanwan' ship in the future, he secretly went to the mouth of the river and expanded the water depth there to 50 meters.

The dock is not yet completed, so the 'Rock Bay' will have to remain in its space.

Two weeks later, a passenger ship arrived in Port Sobi, carrying 500 soldiers recommended by China.

Here, they will undergo a one-year onboarding training. The training includes learning how to use various advanced technological equipment and various security skills, including preventing harassment and guarding against assassination attempts.

They also need to learn how to establish safe zones and defensive barriers in cities and the wild, and how to protect important targets.

This will completely change their previous operational concepts, shifting from large-scale positional warfare to small-scale special operations and defensive warfare.

Pinkerton Security's philosophy is more about prevention, nipping danger in the bud.

One year later, they will have become qualified security personnel.

That's when Pinkerton's Asian branch will start taking on external business.

However, from the day they set foot on Subi Island, Sun Zhiwei started calculating their wages.

Although the basic salary is halved during the training period, with each person receiving only $800 per month, this is still an unparalleled high salary in China.

As time went on, Subi Island became increasingly lively, and employees began to bring their families to live on the island.

These employees' family members gradually replaced the workers from the power plant and water plant that he had borrowed from the Huang family, and took over the management of the island's infrastructure.

Many employees' family members have also opened various small shops on the island, whose main customers are company employees and soldiers during training breaks.

Sun Zhiwei had been busy for over a month and really missed Tong Jiajia. Fortunately, the first batch of personnel were still training and there wasn't much else to do for the time being.

So in mid-June, he left Subi Island and returned to New York.

Returning to New York this time was much easier. Ivan flew his Gulfstream 3 directly to the new airport on Subi Island and picked up Sun Zhiwei.

Then, following the route of Subi Island-Anatahan Island-Honolulu-Los Angeles-New York, after refueling and transferring along the way, it took more than 20 hours and a flight of 15000 kilometers to finally arrive in New York.

Upon arriving in New York, Sun Zhiwei couldn't help but marvel at how fast private jets really are.

In the past, when he went to Pontianak, it would take him three to five days, and the return trip would still take just as long, mainly because of the transit time.

Having tasted success, Sun Zhiwei decided to have his crew members stand by in New York, as he would need them for all his future travels.

He even had Huang Mingyu arrange his accommodation, which was the Westin Central Hotel in New York, located above the Robert Company headquarters building, with one room for each of them.

As the landlord, the Westin Central New York offered him a discount of up to 30% off the entire year, which is cheaper than many hotels' off-season rates.

Sun Zhiwei wasn't being coy, because he also offered the Westin Central Hotel a significant discount on rent; only through mutual exchange can things last.

During the time when Sun Zhiwei is not flying, the crew members are free to move around the New York area, but he will still pay their wages and allowances.

He only asked one thing: whenever he needed it, the crew members had to be ready to depart in a short time and take off at any time as required by Sun Zhiwei.

The crew members expressed no dissatisfaction with this.

As private jet crew members, Gulfstream 3 crew members have a lot of free time, and their salaries are more than double those of regular passenger jet crew members.

(End of this chapter)