Spy Wars: I have space, but I choose to work alone

Just when Ma Liang was about to leave, he suddenly remembered that there were still 20 tons of tungsten ore in his space that had not been processed and was taking up space.

"By the way, Mr. Brad, do you collect tungsten ore?"

“That’s it!”

Ma Liang reached into his pocket and actually took out a piece of pitch-black metal strip with bumps on it and varying thicknesses.

Brad took it and looked at it, but he couldn't tell with his naked eyes, so he could only say:

"Wait a minute, I need a professional to identify it!"

After more than ten minutes, Brad came back excitedly with a middle-aged man wearing glasses. Before Brad could speak, the middle-aged man wearing glasses spoke.

"Sir, although your product has been refined, the technology is obviously not up to standard. The purity is only 75%. We can only give you 50 dollars for 700 kilograms."

"How many?"

Ma Liang was a little upset. According to this calculation, one ton is worth ocean money. He bought one ton for 6000 ocean money. Isn't this double the profit?

"No wonder those compradors of foreign companies are making a lot of money. Is the retail price so high now?"

Ma Liang complained in his heart about the compradors of the foreign companies who charged the underground party members 8000 yuan per ton.

"Sir, you have to know that your refining technology has caused a lot of impurities. We will need to continue to purify it. 720 dollars, the price cannot be higher."

Thinking that Ma Liang disliked the cheapness, the technician quickly added, and after saying that, his eyes involuntarily looked towards Ma Liang, and his Adam's apple rolled several times involuntarily.

An elite agent like Ma Liang knew at a glance that the actual situation was definitely not what the other party said, and the price could be even higher.

But I thought it was a one-time deal, and there was a huge sum of 10 million US dollars promised by America as a backstop.

Ma Liang bargained with the idea of clearing out his inventory:

"I have twenty tons of this kind of stuff, and I charge one ton for one dollar."

It was obvious that Brian and the technical guy had a flash of joy in their eyes, but they still pretended to hesitate and discussed in German before saying awkwardly:

"For the sake of our previous cooperation, let's take this price! When will we trade?"

The last sentence revealed the other party's anxious mood, and Ma Liang smiled in his heart.

He was very easy to negotiate with as he could clear out his inventory and make a lot of money at the same time, so he told the other party to trade the equipment together.

This intelligence deal, or should we say arms deal, was an arms deal because the intelligence was not sold for any price at all, so Ma Liang had to put money into it.

But Ma Liang was still very happy. Before saying goodbye, Brian took the initiative to say:

"Sir, if you still have tungsten ore of the same quality, we can reach a long-term cooperation on the tungsten ore business. Don't worry about the price. I will definitely satisfy you."

"There is a chance!"

Ma Liang said this, but in fact he never thought about continuing the tungsten ore transaction.

Both parties were very satisfied with today's transaction, especially Brian and his friends, who were so happy that they wanted to jump for joy.

As for why they are so happy, we have to mention the issue of tungsten ore prices.

In 1938, one ton of Portuguese tungsten ore cost 300 pounds, equivalent to 3000 ocean dollars.

At this time, due to cheap labor in China, the price of one ton of tungsten ore had risen due to the war, but the price was only 1600 to 1800 oceans per ton.

This price is not even enough to cover the mining cost of one ton of tungsten ore in Europe.

This is also the real reason why Hans would not buy tungsten ore from Europe which is nearby, but would travel thousands of miles to China to trade tungsten ore.

It is not at all what was said on the Internet in later generations. Out of friendship, the head of state felt that the Chinese were also a noble race.

Instead, we have no direct political, diplomatic or military conflicts with Hans. Instead, we have economic demands on each other.

The little mustache hopes to win over the Celestial Empire as a political pawn in the Far East, and at the same time solve the economic difficulties in Hans through large-scale arms sales in exchange for important resources from the Celestial Empire such as tungsten ore.

The tungsten trioxide grade of the raw ore mined from the mine does not exceed 10%, while the traditional method of refining tungsten ore provided by Ma Liang can reach 70%.

According to the international market price, the price of one ton of this tungsten ore refined by traditional methods is at least 7 times that of the original tungsten ore, which is 2100 pounds.

It is equivalent to 20 ocean dollars, and Hans can buy tons of tungsten ore of this quality for only ocean dollars per ton, so he will naturally be very happy.

This was not the peak of tungsten ore prices. By the end of 1941, in order to prevent Hans from purchasing tungsten ore to develop military industry.

Britain and the United States joined forces to raise the price of Portuguese tungsten ore to 6000 pounds per ton.

In 1944, in order to prevent Hans from obtaining Spanish tungsten ore, the United States directly offered Spain and Portugal a sky-high price of 7500 pounds per ton.

It also directly bought up the two countries' annual production of 1.5 tons of tungsten ore, spending a total of US$1.7 million.

That is to say, the raw tungsten ore could be sold for up to $100 million per ton, but at that time, all of China's seaports had been blocked by its navy.

The domestic tungsten ore can only be sold to Russia by land, or some shameless people who are blinded by greed can sell the tungsten ore to the enemy at a low price to make a living.

This is also the reason why Ma Liang, who knows that tungsten ore will be very valuable in the future, is now selling them at a low price as if he is clearing out his inventory.

As for why Ma Liang did not buy equipment from the cheap and easy-to-talk to America, but only bought some consumables such as grenades, he went to Hans and paid a high price to buy Hans' guns.

This brings us to American weapons. Indeed, the best rifle in World War II was the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle, which had a capacity of eight rounds, and three of them could suppress a machine gun.

But this thing is probably still a design drawing at this point, and the prototype gun was probably designed not long ago. There are a lot of problems that have not been optimized and solved, so it is completely useless.

Even for a period of time before the Pacific War officially broke out, the US military was still equipped with a large number of Springfield bolt-action rifles from the World War I era, and they played shooting games with the little ones by pulling the bolt.

Secondly, before the United States and Japan fell out, the Lend-Lease Act did not apply to Asia, and a large amount of American aid weapons did not enter China.

The extensive use of American-made weapons has caused a lot of trouble just by the problem of ammunition supply.

Instead, Ma Liang chose German weapons, the MP38 submachine gun and the Browning High-Power Pistol M1935.

The ammunition for both guns is the universal 9mm Luger bullet, which is easier to supply and more conducive to combat.

As for the G98K sniper rifle, its 7.92mm caliber bullet is completely compatible with the domestic 7.92mm bullet, and the National Army has its own production line to produce this type of bullet.