Chapter 498: Transaction
"Indiana, if you hadn't reminded me, I would have almost forgotten about it." After hanging up the phone, Shang Chu leaned back in his chair and stretched.
Indiana wanted to change her hairstyle recently. After trying for a long time, she only changed the side part to a middle part. She still showed her beautiful forehead. She pouted and said, "I really forgot. Or I am trying to avoid it. I don't want to think about that man or that tutelary fort. Can't you accept the reality?"
"It's not that I can't accept the reality. It's not like I haven't seen admirals who are more powerful than my garrison... I just forgot." Shang Chu said stubbornly, "You know I've been busy lately..."
"Speaking of this, I really want to scold that guy... He used a large force to contain the deep-sea fleet, and then used the fish to launch a sneak attack and sink the Deep Sea Eagle. He left the remaining deep-sea ship girls alone and let them wander around..." Shang Chu said indignantly, "He received rewards, the Royal Ark, Peter... Petropavlovsk, that's the name, right? The tide, and a lot of powerful equipment, but he wants us to help him clean up the mess?"
Shang Chu knew that he couldn't blame them. They resisted the large deep-sea fleet and defeated the most difficult deep-sea flagship, and they definitely deserved all the glory. On the contrary, they should be ashamed that they could only clean up some weak and scattered soldiers. Isn't this just complaining in private? It's just empty talk.
Shang Chu sighed. Even though he had been to the other side's garrison, he still didn't want to believe that there was such a powerful garrison that could defeat the deep-sea flagship on its own. This time he really saw it. He never thought that the powerful deep-sea flagship would be so vulnerable to the other side. It only took one night to solve it.
It was definitely not easy for Shang Chu to become an admiral. He sighed for a moment and then recovered and said, "Yes, that's it... He defeated the deep-sea flagship and let those ordinary deep-sea ship girls wander around and escape to the waters under the jurisdiction of our garrison... In short, we helped him clean up the mess, and used this as an excuse to lower the price."
We have discussed the transaction before, and today we are also actively contacting each other for the transaction. In the past, we could always use the excuse that we were busy, but now that everything is done, there is no more excuse.
"Do you think it's helpful?" Indiana asked.
"It's not very useful, but a little bit is still useful." Shang Chu stood up from his office chair, walked to the office window, leaned on the windowsill and looked out at the clear blue sea in the distance.
Their garrison was on a small island far away from the mainland, a real small island, with only enough land to build a house.
Thanks to the development of science and technology - any weapon sunk in the sea can be used by deep-sea ship girls, and of course by ship girls. In any case, people are conservative about the development of weapons and equipment, and are careful to avoid escalating the intensity of battles, but civilian use is obviously not taken into consideration - the technology of land reclamation and island building has been greatly improved. In fact, most of the naval bases located in the deep sea are reclaimed islands. The small islands have become quite large, but that's all, barely enough to build a naval base.
Once a person becomes an admiral, he can have whatever he wants and reach the pinnacle of life. But there are pros and cons. Once you become an admiral, you can only stay in a garrison far away from the mainland. The better ones have a group of ship girls to accompany you, but the worse ones only have one or two ship girls and don’t know how to spend the money.
This is also why the admirals always show off their boats when they meet. Every day when you are alone overseas and rarely see someone, you must compare. Happiness requires comparison.
"It's business," Indiana said. "I don't think they'll give you a discount for that little thing... There's no way the MK6 is lacking buyers."
Shang Chu lay on the windowsill, looked back at her secretary ship, and said unhappily: "You have to sing a different tune from me, right? Which side are you on... Speaking of which, you still want MK6."
After so many years of admiral and shipgirl, Indiana knew her admiral's personality very well. She raised her eyebrows and said, "Don't you want a battleship with MK6 and 91-type armor-piercing shells, so that you can show off in front of your friends, saying that my shipgirl's equipment is not good enough, and then kill her in the end, pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger."
Shang Chu chuckled, she was so keen on helping Indiana update her equipment, besides wanting her ship girl to become stronger, she must have some little thoughts in mind.
Seeing Indiana's contemptuous expression, Shang Chu smiled and said, "But don't tell me, Su Xia probably doesn't care about any deal. It's better to say that he doesn't care about anything... You don't know that he is also in our admiral group. I have never seen him speak, and I often @ him but he doesn't come out. It seems that I sent him a message yesterday and he didn't reply. So I called him directly this morning... The problem is that you have also seen him, he is not the kind of aloof person. On the contrary, he cares about other people's feelings... I don't understand."
"Maybe he's busy." Indiana said.
"What's so busy that you don't even have time to reply to a message?" Shang Chu looked at her ship girl standing on the dock feeding seagulls. When she wasn't paying attention, a thief seagull snatched away all the bread sticks. She was getting mad and stamping her feet, and a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth involuntarily.
"Let me think about it," Indiana thought for a moment and then smiled, "I know."
"What?" Shang Chu asked.
"I'll give you a hint," Indiana said, "Do you know how many wedding ships Admiral Su has?"
Shang Chu smiled, she also knew. The relationship between the admiral and the ship girl is different from that between the emperor and his concubine. The emperor often has no feelings for his concubine. The emperor can ignore his concubine and just turn over a card when he feels like it. But the admiral who lives off his wife can't do that. Then...
"Well, it's not good to make up stories about others behind their backs." Shang Chu pretended to be nonchalant and said, "I have an appointment with Admiral Su... Indiana, you can go directly to their garrison to trade tomorrow."
In that garrison, the admiral and the shipgirls will be exposed, so it is not easy to go there. Indiana certainly would not be fooled so easily, and said: "I don't know if those vagrant soldiers and deep-sea shipgirls have been completely eliminated. As the strongest force in the garrison, I must stay in the garrison, and the transaction can only be left to the admiral."
Shang Chu looked at Indiana, and Indiana looked back without showing any weakness. The two looked at each other for a long time.
"Okay, that's it." Shang Chu said.
"That's it, let's go together," Indiana said.
The admiral and the shipgirl smiled at each other. The admiral and the shipgirl are always the best match.
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Unless there is really something going on, normally no ship girl would call the admiral. If they just want to chat with the admiral out of boredom, the admiral would not have to work for the day and would not be able to do anything.
Qiye took a sip of the black tea from the cup. After drinking black tea for a few days, she felt that the taste was really good. She watched Su Xia finish the call and asked curiously, "Who's calling?"
Su Xia threw the phone on the desk and asked, "Do you know Shang Chu?"
"I don't know him." Enterprise said. She had recently become a secretary ship, and before becoming a secretary ship, she didn't care much about what happened in the garrison. She only heard a little from her eldest sister and younger sister occasionally, or stayed in the bar and listened to what everyone talked about.
Su Xia explained: "It's the admiral who came to our garrison last time."
"Which admiral is on board the secretary ship Indiana?" Enterprise asked.
"Besides her, has any other admiral come to our garrison?" Su Xia asked. He thought that he was playing games before and had just traveled to the garrison for two months. It was not a short time, but also not a long time. He was confused for a long time and then slowly took over the job of admiral. He was not a sociable person and only knew a few people.
"Did she call the admiral about something? Did she invite the admiral to a party?" Enterprise asked.
The sea area under the jurisdiction of an admiral is at least as large as a city, and because of the speed of the ship girl, it can't be much faster, and it will never exceed the size of a province. In particular, only the garrison located at the forefront is the strongest garrison, and it must face the boundless sea. The appearance of the deep-sea flagship is a special case.
Because everyone's garrisons are too far apart, they don't usually have any gatherings, except for occasional gatherings at the Kanmusu headquarters when they go on official business. But if a garrison builds a powerful Kanmusu, they will often send out invitations to everyone to attend the gathering, both to celebrate and to show off.
"No." Su Xia replied.
"The last time they came to our garrison was because the admiral invited them to participate in the exercise." Enterprise didn't think much about it. "It's impolite not to reciprocate. So this time they invited us to participate in the exercise at their garrison?"
Su Xia finally told Shang Chu about the transaction they had discussed when they visited the garrison.
"I understand." Enterprise said, "But Admiral, are you really going to trade the MK6?"
"Why not?" Su Xia said, "There are quite a few MK6s in the garrison."
Su Xia thought that MK6 was a very powerful equipment in the past, but it was just basic equipment for the current garrison. Moreover, there were too many ways to obtain it. It could be obtained through construction, unlike those more powerful equipment, which could only be obtained through activities, spoils of war, etc.
"Of course, we can't sell too much. After all, the garrison may have new battleships joining in the future, such as the Conqueror, which may be useful at that time." Su Xia said, "Anyway, Shang Chu has helped me a lot. As long as the price is right, we can make a deal."
The enterprise nodded without comment.
"Then," Su Xia paused, picked up the teacup and found that the tea had been finished long ago, so she was too lazy to pour it. "My idea is - our warehouse has been full for a long time, and there are many equipments that are completely useless, but they are somewhat useful to other garrisons. How should we sell them? Shang Chu is a fat sheep."
Enterprise smiled and said, "It's not good for the Admiral to be so concerned about me."
"I'm not forcing you to buy or sell." Su Xia said, "Does the company have any good ideas? Why not sell other equipment while selling the MK6? There are so many radars and anti-aircraft guns sitting there for no reason."
"I suggest that the Admiral contact Santi about this," Enterprise said. "If the Admiral plans to trade with other garrisons, I recommend that the Admiral appoint Santi as the Minister of Commerce of our garrison."
"Instead of letting Santi do nothing and cause trouble in the tutelary fort, it's better to let her bully those outsiders." Enterprise said, "Even if it's Santi, she can serve the tutelary fort if she is used properly."
"Even if it's Santi, what do you mean?" Su Xia laughed, "Do you also think Santi is a scourge to the tutelary fort?"
"I never thought Santi was a nuisance, it's just the admiral who thought Santi was a nuisance," Enterprise said.
"I hate capitalists." Su Xia said. As a former office worker, he was fed up with capitalists. But he thought that capitalists definitely didn't like him, a lazy guy, a shameful salary thief. Thinking of this, he laughed, "Capitalists should all be hung on street lamps."
"Let's find some opportunities," Su Xia said, "and hang Santi from the street lamp."
"I support it," said the enterprise.
"After thinking about it, I decided to forget it." Su Xia waved her hand, "We can't bully our own ship girl."
"Isn't it the Admiral who loves to bully ship girls the most?" Enterprise asked back.
"No way." Su Xia denied.
Su Xia smiled. Of course he knew. He liked to bully the ship girls the most. Bullying the ship girls was so interesting, but being bullied by the ship girls was not fun. He tapped on the keyboard of his laptop and said, "I believe in the vision of the enterprise... I am still a little worried about Santi. She can make money, but she can't lose friendship for the sake of making money."
"Admiral, don't underestimate Santi," Enterprise said, "It's not like you haven't come into contact with Santi before."
Enterprise continued, "A successful businessman will never be so short-sighted as to offend people easily in order to make money. Santi will calculate the account and decide whether it is more profitable to make money once or to make money all the time."
"Enterprise, you may have misunderstood." Su Xia said, "Santi is really the kind of person who will do anything to make money. She will befriend people like us, such as admirals and secretary ships, but she will not show mercy to others."
For the first time, the company was silent.
"Of course." Su Xia said, "Santi is a ship girl, a member of the garrison. Even if you owe her money, she won't do anything to you. She won't sue you to take away your property, your players, or your candies. She just enjoys making money."
Su Xia laughed and said, "Do you know how much money Nevada owes Santee?"
"I know one thing, Nevada owes Santee a lot of money, I don't know the exact amount."
Su Xia raised her hand.
"So many?" said Enterprise.
"That's all." Su Xia smiled. "Although Nevada is not a pushover. No matter how much money he owes, I won't pay it back. And Santi won't ask Nevada for it. He'll just bring it up for no reason... Anyway, that's for internal use. If it's for external use, Santi probably won't show mercy."
"The Admiral really knows a lot about Ship Girls," Enterprise said.
Hearing the praise from the company, Su Xia felt a little flattered and waved her hand, "It's okay."
" We Let's discuss Shang Chu's visit."
Su Xia picked up the teacup and left her seat to pour the tea.
