King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer-Chapter 1896 - 1573: Supreme Power

Joe Ga took the ’malice’ of those two broken defense bastards towards him as an achievement...

Isn’t there a saying, returning home in glory is like wearing brocade at night!

Doing something particularly awesome, it’s not nice to brag about it to your employees.

Because if you tell Dorian, at most he’ll just say, ’Oh, the boss made money again’...

Some things should be known by those who understand the subtleties to truly feel accomplished.

The plea for help from the African Union was already within Joe Ga’s expectations. It wasn’t that he foresaw the East Africa drought early on, but he realized before the war started that the Ukraine war would affect international grain prices...

And the stockpiling of grain by developed countries would certainly cause shortages in the market.

The price of grain is just one aspect. The most important thing is when all countries start hoarding grain to cope with the crisis, those Africa countries simply have no competitiveness; even if they pay more, they can’t buy enough grain.

Joe Ga had already started to act when he was in Aqionghan. Gami mortgaged all of P·B’s assets in Greece to secure over 40 billion euros from banks across Europe, then invested all the money into the grain sector...

The massive funding of over 40 billion euros instantly propped up a huge grain market.

If it was just buying wheat and soybeans, the money would push the already rising international grain prices even higher.

Gami, being a financier, couldn’t allow Boss Qiao to use such a crude method to allocate the funds.

On one hand, she hoarded a large amount of wheat and soybeans. On the other hand, she began investing in grain processing factories in Tubruq, producing flour, soybean oil, soybean meal, and other products with higher added value.

She didn’t plan to arm wrestle with those grain giants because neither the funds nor technology could compete with them.

However, by sticking to the route of coarse processing, not only would Boss Qiao, who laid the groundwork early, earn more profits, but in times of need, he could also adjust the aid proportions...

For example, if Ethiopia can process and digest those grains, they would directly get wheat, soybeans, and the like...

For those countries without the capability, of course, they would directly receive flour and soybean oil. The soybean meal derived from soybean processing could instantly support large-scale pig farms in those messed-up countries.

The intricacies are very complex, but for Boss Qiao now, the more cards he holds, the more benefits he can reap from the complicated situations in the coming two years.

It’s not just about money, but through grain exports and debt, he can control the political direction of those unfortunate countries.

This kind of thing can only be realized when Europe and America are overwhelmed, and Boss Qiao doesn’t even need them to pick sides. He just needs these countries to recognize P·B’s existence, acknowledge P·B’s contributions, and pay the interest on time...

In fact, finance can sometimes be really scary...

Because after the money is lent to those countries, the collateral is in P·B Bank’s hands, and the money still sits in P·B Bank’s accounts.

The grain is given to them, and the money is merely transferring from one account to another. In the end, their repayment still has to go to P·B Bank...

Out of the over 40 billion euros, less than one-third was used for purchasing grain and soybeans. The remaining two-thirds of the funds only need to keep a certain amount as a safety cushion.

The surplus portion is re-loaned, and the less than 30 billion euros can be amplified to a scale of 90 or even 100 billion euros to be released.

The grains purchased in advance, coupled with the key channel in Odessa that can help purchase grains, are enough to meet the grain needs of those disaster-stricken countries.

It’s simply through grain aid that a huge financial network can be supported!

The core is not in the collateral, nor even in the interest on the repayment, but in the fact that those chaos-ridden countries are handing over their grain security to P·B, and simultaneously shifting part of their financial trade through P·B Bank.

That trade network of chaos-ridden countries already shaped by Jia Liang Trade actually helps P·B Bank absorb part of the trade funds of those chaos-ridden countries.

It’s just that most of the transactions within that trade network still operate on a barter model. However, due to the presence of Jia Liang Trade, those goods are converted into appropriate figures upon export, forming a certain amount of retention...

Although a significant portion of funds eventually enters the China Bank system, used to pay for the procurement of those basic goods, the funds remaining in P·B Bank are not as much as imagined.

Now, Joe Ga buys grain himself to sell to them, and with the bottleneck of Odessa in his hands, he can leverage the channel advantage to force both parties to conduct transactions through P·B’s banking system.

By doing so, the scale of P·B Bank is instantly enlarged, and the bank’s disposable funds increase far beyond the simple 40 billion euros...

The existence of P·B Bank allows Joe Ga to avoid many financial risks while exponentially expanding his influence.

Because the P·B Bank in Joe Ga’s conservative hands almost never engages in high-risk speculative business.

It has no connection with the few investment funds controlled by Gami and the P·B Investment Bank funded by the English royalty.

Its function is a simple financial channel, occasionally absorbing external funds to make friends, lending money when needed to individuals, organizations, or even countries, while helping some reliable friends issue bonds and the like...

Lending and collecting transaction service fees are the main sources of profit for P·B Bank.

The 40 billion borrowed from European banks, coupled with the rapid devaluation of the euro, brings about the benefits that are Joe Boss’s personal direct gains.

The money in the bank is essentially the bank’s liabilities, and among these funds are the US Dollar and euro. Their depreciation or appreciation doesn’t really affect Joe Ga much because, in essence, that money isn’t even his.

What really ruins a bank is never currency depreciation, but the rise in bad asset rates brought by the systemic financial risk caused by currency depreciation.

With more bad debts, the bank’s liabilities exceed its assets, and bankruptcy becomes inevitable!

The collaterals collected by P·B are all high value-added resource assets endorsed by national credit. Their profitability may be slightly lower, but the risk is almost negligible.

In summary, the money of P·B Bank is not actually Joe Ga’s, but he uses various methods to boost the bank’s capital and then directs these funds where he wants them to go.

This is the most fundamental play of traditional finance. Although the profits aren’t high, it’s the most beneficial way of playing for society as a whole.

It’s the ideal state envisioned when banking systems were initially designed!

Soleimani cares about Joe Ga Odessa’s brilliant move, which created a massive political influence channel.

He spent his whole life working hard for the arc of the SY faction, only until he ’sacrificed’ himself to bring together voices within Iran, that the arc of the SY faction truly took shape.

As a result, Joe Ga just paid money to buy a port in the midst of chaos, and then effortlessly turned the situation around, and people even begged him to do it.

The work was done, money was earned, and influence was achieved...

While Aaron has always lacked interest in monetizing political influence, his plans in Ukraine follow the entire black world’s playbook.

He certainly knows the political effects of Joe Ga’s maneuvers, but he’s more aware that Joe Ga never mentioned the qualitative transformation of P·B Bank to them...

If the former P·B Bank was merely a financial tool created by Joe Ga to integrate Central Africa and Congo’s industrial capital, then now, P·B Bank will become an important player in the international financial markets.

Because the business he’s doing carries a charitable nature, even more flexible than the IMF.

Once Joe Ga chooses to cooperate with the UN humanitarian department, the people at the UN would be thrilled to death, and the bank’s business would be endless...

Then the bank’s influence and scale would continue to expand, and with the UN’s endorsement, this bank would become a piece in the world’s operating puzzle...

Aaron has no interest in the lengthy process of political monetization, but as a white glove among the top-tier global class, he truly understands the side effects after integrating into the world’s rules!

Think about how a certain Eastern country did so much for establishing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Development Bank?

They were only promoting settlement in native currency and resisting financial harvesting from Europe and America, pulling together a bunch of underperforming little brothers.

In some respects, the attributes and flexibility of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Development Bank don’t even compare to the P·B Bank boosted by Joe Ga.

Think about Iran, the Middle East giant with a diverse industrial system, yet because of lacking resistance in the financial field, their industrial capital value is severely underestimated.

The countries trading with them have always exploited exchange rates to drain their resources, ultimately resulting in the average living standards of most people being very mediocre.

Even though the fund scale of P·B Bank is far less than those giants, it indeed has touched the boundaries of world rules...

This represents power!

And it’s the most pinnacle of power!

This isn’t something you can gain by firing a few shots or killing a few people!

As long as everything develops as Joe Ga described, he will soon become a member of the top power class.

And the most outrageous part is, outsiders only see Joe Ga passively doing good deeds, making everything seem so natural under the cloak of goodwill!

This is what truly breaks Aaron’s defense...

The volatility during P·B operations is known to everyone; terrorists and drug dealers worldwide can testify, P·B’s people are all Madmen!

Yet now these ’Madmen’ have become subjects of praise, while lifting Joe Ga, the ’mentally ill,’ to seize huge honor, also gaining the most important ’recognition’!

While Aaron considers himself clever, since adulthood, after joining the CIA, moving into the white glove career after Harlotte cut off his leg, he’s been painstakingly working hard.

He hasn’t killed as many people as Joe Ga’s small change, but the ’bad guy’ label stuck on his head couldn’t be removed.

Even after struggling to clean up in recent years, he can only leverage international intermediary companies to stand in the world’s gray areas.

He can never be like Joe Ga, standing in the sunlight, roaring at everyone provoking him!

Think of Joe Ga in Mariupol, indiscriminately bombarding Russia, yet the two not only didn’t go berserk but apologized instead...

Consider this guy earning the most but being regarded as a savior of thousands...

Aaron frustratingly takes a big gulp of whiskey and says to Soleimani: "Not today, I’m not in the mood...

I need to think about how to take a bite out of this guy’s business, eating his meat surely tastes better than those oligarch’s crumbs...

Damn it, he still needs a lot from me in Ukraine, if I don’t get enough benefits, this matter won’t end..."

Soleimani glances at the indifferent Joe Ga, sighs, and says: "Hu Lang, being your friend is a lot of pressure..."

Joe Ga spreads his arms with a smile: "Welcome to my world!

The world of the King of War!

I am a friend’s best friend, an enemy’s worst enemy, hahaha..."