1929 I am a chaebol in the United States

Chapter 147: Not Getting Any Benefit

Hearing that Green was going to give him more than 10,000 World War I veterans, Lu Chen was surprised and happy, but of course a little worried.

If they want to stuff so many people into my life without giving me anything, I will definitely not agree. Lu Chen said with some embarrassment:

"Mr. Green, I really want to help you, but you know, my company is so small, and it might be difficult for me to be responsible for so many people at once."

Green thought for a moment and said, "I know you have difficulties, but don't worry. President Hoover is already preparing a government-run credit center. You can just apply for a loan there when the time comes."

Lu Chen remembered the credit company set up by the government. Historically, this company was called the Reconstruction Credit Company. It mainly lent money to banks, railways and insurance companies to enable these companies to cope with the financial crisis. As for the final outcome of this company, it goes without saying that this company definitely did not have a good ending. It was abolished in 1957.

Lu Chen thought about it and realized that when his loan was revoked had nothing to do with him. If he could get a loan of hundreds of millions from it now, that would be great. It all depended on how much money he could get.

Lu Chen asked, "Mr. Green, how much loan can you get for me? Look at these 10,000 people. Even if I only pay them 30 yuan a month, I have to pay 300,000 yuan a month, which means 3 to 4 million yuan a year. Plus, I have to buy weapons and equipment for them. This will cost a lot of money."

Green said, "Lu Chen, don't exaggerate. First of all, you will not let them get paid for nothing when they come to your place. As for weapons and equipment, you have your own arsenal, so why would you need so much money? As for the loan, I will explain your specific situation to the president. As for how much the president can give you, it depends on the president's opinion."

Lu Chen curled his lips. Hoover would definitely not give the money to these veterans. Otherwise, he would not have listened to Mai Paopao's advice and treated those veterans who were marching and demonstrating as rioters, and acquiesced to Mai Paopao's use of force to disperse the veterans who were sitting in. Therefore, Lu Chen did not believe that Hoover would approve a large loan for him.

Since he didn't get much benefit from the loan, Lu Chen thought about getting some other benefits. Lu Chen learned that during World War I, many Chinese joined the US military. Since he decided to accept these people into his company, he might as well accept them. So he said:

"Mr. Green, you know from the president's attitude towards veterans that he will not approve too much loan for me. In that case, I will not force you to approve a higher loan amount. I also agree to accept 10,000 veterans, but I have one request."

Hearing that Lu Chen agreed to accept 10,000 veterans, Green was somewhat delighted. This way, he could help the Ministry of National Defense and the President solve a big problem. He said happily:

"Tell me what you want."

Lu Chen said, "I heard that there are quite a few Chinese veterans among the retired soldiers. I require that at least 60% of the 10,000 people I accept be Chinese. I wonder if you can meet this requirement."

When Green heard Lu Chen's conditions, his mood instantly turned bad. His original idea was to pack up all the troublemaking veterans and give them to Lu Chen. He didn't expect Lu Chen to have such a request.

There were no Chinese soldiers among the rioters. Not only that, among the entire veterans, there were less than 10,000 Chinese veterans. With this move by Lu Chen, basically all the Chinese veterans were gone. How would the other veterans view the government? The government favored the Chinese and ignored the others? Isn't this just provoking trouble!

Green said: "I can't agree to this condition."

Lu Chen asked in confusion: "Why can't you agree to such a simple thing?"

Green said firmly: "No reason. If you don't want to accept these veterans, then just pretend I never mentioned this to you."

Lu Chen quickly said, "Mr. Green, I just want to get more Chinese first, but you guys won't agree to that. Aren't those Chinese veterans worthy of your military's help?"

Green said: "That's not the case. We will definitely help these veterans, but how to help them is definitely decided by our government and the military. It's not something you can solve any way you want."

Lu Chen thought about it and decided that he might have asked for too many Chinese. He decided to ask for fewer Chinese, so he said:

"Mr. Green, how about this? Out of these 4000 people, you give me Chinese people, how about that?"

Green thought for a while. There were only a few thousand veterans who came to Washington to cause trouble this time. Together with the troublemakers from other states, there should be more than 10,000 people in total. He should deal with the thousands of people who were the most violent first. These veterans should be able to stay quiet for a while. In this way, it should be no problem to give Lu Chen a few thousand Chinese veterans.

So he said, "Four thousand people are too many. I can only give you two thousand Chinese veterans. If you agree, you can come to the headquarters tomorrow to sign the contract."

Two Chinese are not bad either. As long as these Chinese come, I can get all the Chinese veterans here. Chinese people in the United States like to form various groups. With these veterans, I can quickly find other Chinese veterans who have difficulties in making a living through these veterans in my company. So Lu Chen said:

"Okay, I agree."

Seeing that the terms were agreed, Green hung up the phone. After hanging up the phone, Lu Chen was indeed a little worried. There were suddenly 10,000 more people, and he didn't know if Aziz had enough money to hire these people. Also, how would he solve the problem of these people's weapons and equipment. Damn, the weapons and equipment of a whole division, this was too much of a headache.

Lu Chen thought about it, then took out a pen and paper and started calculating on the table.

He thought that it was unrealistic to equip so many people with a machine gun each. It was not because he could not afford it, but the main reason was that he could not afford to maintain more than 10,000 people firing machine guns on the battlefield.

Take the Czech light machine gun for example. Its firing rate is 79 rounds per minute. Even if the veterans are experts, they can fire 50 to rounds per minute. If there are people, they can fire to million rounds per minute. The current bullet is US dollars per thousand rounds. This will cost to yuan per minute. With Lu Chen's belongings, it is estimated that he will lose them in a few hours.

He decided to equip these people with rifles, and then give them a machine gun for every 100 people as a firing point. Give them four or five mortars for every 1,000 people. This should be affordable for him.

After writing and calculating on the table for a while, Lu Chen suddenly threw the pen in his hand and said in disbelief:

"It's really expensive to maintain an army. Just the weapons and equipment cost millions. The money will be wasted in a war. Fortunately, someone paid for it this time, otherwise I would definitely not let so many people go to the battlefield."

Lu Chen stood up from his chair and walked out of the office. He looked at both sides of the corridor. Not seeing Li Qiang, he complained:

"This Li Qiang, he doesn't stay in the office, he just runs around. I don't know where he is now."

(Li Qiang: "If you hadn't occupied my office, would I have stayed in the office?")

Lu Chen couldn't find Li Qiangren, so he could only knock on the door of the office next door. Soon, a woman in a white shirt opened the door from the inside.

Lu Chen was surprised to see this woman, and he said in his heart, "What a high mountain." Lu Chen looked more carefully, and it was a pity that this face was not worthy of the mountain. And this woman did not look like a Chinese.

The woman looked at Lu Chen with a puzzled look.

"Who are you, how did you get in, who are you looking for?"

When Lu Chen heard the woman's three questions, he immediately collected his thoughts and said:

"I'm looking for your CEO Li. Do you know where your CEO Li is?"

"Looking for Mr. Li, what do you want?"

"Do you know where he is? Then please go and tell him that Lu Chen is waiting for him in his office."

The woman looked at Lu Chen in surprise, and then said to him respectfully:

"Okay, boss. I'll go find Mr. Li right away."

After saying that, he walked out of the office and ran out of the building.