Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 384: Blue Diamond

"Because of the price," Schaefer answered.

"Thailand isn’t short of money, but their original budget was only enough to buy two submarines. However, now they can get six submarines with the relevant logistics support. Do you know how cheap this deal I negotiated is?"

"How cheap?"

"8 billion Baht, for a full set of six diesel-electric submarines and logistics."

Baht is equivalent to less than 2 billion RMB. This price is indeed insanely cheap, with great value for money.

"When were these submarines built?" Chen Yiyang was a bit curious.

How could the price be reduced to this level?

The price of a submarine is almost the same as an aircraft.

"These submarines are our country’s Type 206A submarines, which were mostly commissioned between 1973 and 1975."

Uh.

Chen Yiyang calculated that these submarines were mostly three or four decades old.

"However, later we gave these submarines a modern upgrade. Although they are indeed somewhat outdated, they are at least functional."

Chen Yiyang took out his phone to check.

Schaefer wasn’t wrong.

This batch of submarines is indeed still decent in terms of performance.

Referring to their era of manufacture.

This type of submarine was the smallest, manned, weapon-carrying submarine in the world at the time.

"Thailand plans to invest around 16 billion US Dollars in the next few years to upgrade their navy, army, and air force. It’s a big deal.

Now that I’ve sealed this submarine deal, although the 8 billion Baht isn’t much, the commission is enough to make me a millionaire. Honestly, I’ve been eyeing a yacht lately. Next time you come to Germany, I’ll take you out on my yacht."

"Okay, I’ll look forward to it." Honestly, Chen Yiyang was a bit tempted.

The profit from business of this level is too astonishing.

It’s just a pity he doesn’t have the connections.

Schaefer’s savings have indeed run low.

When he first came to Thailand, he stayed at this hotel, but now, because he’s out of money, he’s switching hotels.

When Chen Yiyang ran into him earlier, he was actually in the middle of checking out.

It seems this buddy invested all his assets into this deal.

So Chen Yiyang simply helped him out by booking a presidential suite.

He still understands these social niceties.

"Thank you so much." Schaefer warmly hugged Chen Yiyang, "Have you considered marrying our Luobu? I can introduce you."

"Forget it, I’m a non-maritalist." Chen Yiyang knew Schaefer was joking, so he declined.

Besides, he doesn’t really have any special relationship with Luobu.

But this trip to Thailand, apart from bodyguards and assistants, he did have no one to accompany him.

For security reasons, Chen Yiyang didn’t bring his assistant to Thailand, leaving them back home to handle affairs.

As for going out to find a girl?

Chen Yiyang considered it and decisively gave up.

This is Thailand.

Who knows if the pretty girl you see on the street is actually male or female.

If it reaches a critical moment and they really start talking, only to find the wrong gender, it’d be too late for regrets.

The next morning, waking up from the hotel bed, Chen Yiyang glanced at his phone.

Todays’ intelligence, Flawless Blue Diamond: A blue diamond is hidden in an abandoned warehouse in Bangkok, Thailand. Purchase the warehouse and acquire the blue diamond for a successful haul.

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A blue diamond, that sounds pretty valuable.

Chen Yiyang looked at today’s intelligence with a bit of interest in this haul.

He’d never really stumbled upon modern jewelry before, and since it was mentioned in the haul intelligence, it’s likely quite valuable.

At noon, Chen Yiyang met with the person in charge of Marte Bubble in Thailand at the hotel to discuss the problem of opening physical stores for Marte Bubble, and Chen Yiyang could only tell them that he would do his best to handle it.

After discussing business, Chen Yiyang gave the person in charge the address of the warehouse, and then asked if they could rent it for a few days.

"No problem, Mr. Chen, I’ll look into it for you." The person in charge knew Chen Yiyang was a major shareholder of Marte Bubble, so they readily agreed to such a small favor.

By the afternoon, the person in charge called Chen Yiyang to report the situation. "Mr. Chen, I asked some locals about that warehouse. It was originally in the outskirts of Bangkok when first built, mainly for transferring mass goods in and out of Bangkok.

However, with Bangkok’s rapid development, that area was soon planned as a commercial zone.

Unfortunately, the area where the abandoned warehouse is located wasn’t redeveloped due to its poor location, so it was overlooked.

The owner who later took over the warehouse didn’t want to sell the land at a low price, so they quoted a high price to prospective buyers.

This caused the warehouse to remain idle until now. Our agent asked the owner about the rental price, and they said it would be 10,000 Baht per day solely for rent."

"Okay, help me rent it then, I’ll transfer the money to you." Chen Yiyang nonchalantly nodded.

After handling these small things, Chen Yiyang followed Rabbi on a trip to Rayong Province to inspect Rayong Automobile Factory.

This automobile factory has a good location, and the facilities aren’t too outdated.

If it can be bought, production could start directly.

"But there are two issues now."

Wu Changxun took the time from his busy schedule to discuss the issue of the automobile factory with Chen Yiyang.

"One is General Motors’ opinion, after all, this factory originally belonged to them, and they can decide who to sell it to. The other is the Thai military." 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"How is it that the Thai military is involved again?" Chen Yiyang frowned.

Marte Bubble’s store couldn’t open smoothly due to the local mafia with military connections, so it’s been dragged on until now.

"There’s no way around it. If you understand Thailand’s history, you’ll know how powerful the military is in industrial production here."

Wu Changxun gave Chen Yiyang a brief history of Thailand’s industrial development.

After World War II, Thailand went through a period of ’Free Thai’.

During this period, power was in the hands of an elected government, but economic development was a complete mess.

Facing a backward, impoverished situation and public dissatisfaction, the military took it as a pretext to overthrow the elected government and take power.

During this time, though there were many questionable policies put forth by the military,

in the realm of industry, Thailand made quite some progress.