Chapter 9: Arms Violence

"Ryan, prepare the car, go to Osborne Building first, then go to the company!"

The long oak table was filled with various Chinese food. Tang Song casually ate a few baskets of shrimp dumplings without washing them, and instructed Ryan.

Instead of using the white Rolls-Royce, he drove a black Mercedes towards Manhattan.

Ryan said in a low voice in the car: "Boss, I have checked it out. The gang leader who was attacked is called Vigo. His gang is mainly engaged in arms business. Currently, one-third of the guns in the New York underground world come from his gang.

And he has a smuggling route that smuggles arms into Mexico!"

"One third of the arms share? It looks like a lot of money." Tang Song muttered to himself. He looked up and asked Ryan, "Have you found out who is the banker behind Vigo?"

To illustrate how profitable the Federation's arms business is, let's put it this way. When the Federation declared war on Japan, the federal government allocated 280 billion U.S. dollars, and arms dealers made 176.4 billion, of which the cost of weapons accounted for only 37%, and the arms dealers' profits were as high as 63%.

The federal government has waged war in the Middle East twice. In the war against Iraq, federal arms dealers made $1.07 trillion. In the war against Afghanistan, federal arms dealers made $1.26 trillion.

The Federation belongs to capital, and the interest groups formed by arms dealers can influence the direction of the Federation to a large extent.

However, the federal arms market is currently reaching saturation.

Currently, all of the Federation's high-tech weapons are controlled by the Stark Group.

Thanks to a genius boss and the sophistication of their weapons, Stark Industries' weapons are so flawless that even the guys in the Department of Defense cannot find any fault with them.

In this regard, few can compete with Stark Industries.

There is no shortage of big players competing for the low-end and mid-range weapons market in the Federation, including Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Hammer...

You have to know that although the annual federal military expenditure is as high as hundreds of billions, once it is divided up by these large and small arms companies, only a small amount is left.

Behind any arms broker or arms dealer, there must be one or more arms companies supporting him.

One-third of the weapons supply of the New York underground world is not a lot, but it is definitely not a small number, plus the amount smuggled into Mexico.

Tang Song wanted to know who was the supporter behind Vigo.

"Boss, I can't find out. I only know that Vigo sells Soviet-made weapons in the underground world! Many of them are from the Cold War era!"

"Soviet weapons!" Tang Song placed his fingers on the glass window and flicked them gently, then turned to look at the street scene outside the window.

The arms business is very profitable!

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At daybreak, two military pickup trucks stopped by the roadside. Several big black men skillfully carried the bodies onto the trucks and used a specially prepared solution to clean the bloodstains on the ground.

The five black men cooperated well with clear division of labor and skilled movements. They cleaned up the seven bodies in just three minutes.

Soon the street surface was spotlessly clean.

As the two pickup trucks drove away, Kane walked out from the shadows.

"His bounty is four million, don't let him stay!"

Next to Kane, the fully armed Punisher was playing with a projectile straight knife.

The blade of this ejectable knife can be ejected to injure the enemy. In Frank's hands, its lethality within ten meters is no less than that of a firearm.

A sharp straight knife with a layer of silver coating on the blade.

Frank asked Kane without raising his head as he trimmed his nails with the blade of a straight knife.

Kane frowned: "Don't act on your own without the boss's order!"

Behind the two men, twenty German men stood neatly in four rows.

Each person wears an LBV tactical vest, and the joints of their limbs are covered with three layers of high-strength fiber-woven bulletproof armor that is as black as ink. The surface of the armor is also coated with a PVD titanium film layer, which can effectively prevent scratches left by knives and axes.

In addition, each soldier has an integrated pig-nose gas mask hanging under his FAST Kevlar tactical helmet, and a radio communication headset is hung on the left side of the helmet through the NVG bracket slot.

The helmet's window is loaded with the AN/PVS-21 night vision goggles produced by Federal Sensor Technology Systems, which are the top-level binocular night vision goggles on the market. They are equipped with dual IR lighting and a variable-focus telescope, and can be connected to the HUD display of the SCAR rifle sight in the soldier's hand. They have a gyroscope and electronic map display functions.

Secondly, these soldiers have a Mk3a2 offensive grenade, an M8 smoke bomb, an M7290 flash bomb, a Sieg-Sauer 9mm pistol hanging on their belts, and even an M9 multi-function bayonet hanging on the outside of their tactical boots.

In short, this is a special operations team composed of twenty elite soldiers armed to the teeth. With the right logistics, they can conduct rapid armed infiltration and carry out kidnapping, assassination and rescue missions with surgical precision.

They are compact and efficient, and the cost and potential profits are off the charts. This doesn't seem like the work of a gangster at all. Using them to deal with gangsters is a waste of talent and an overkill.

Buzz buzz buzz...

Kane felt the vibration in his pocket, pulled out a military satellite phone and answered it.

"Hey, boss, yes, okay... I understand!"

"Who is the target this time?"

Punisher Frank shrugged and pressed the spring of the ejection knife in his hand. The crisp sound of the blade being unsheathed could be heard continuously.

"Vigo!" Kane said coldly, "A Russian gangster, the boss must be alive!"

"Alive?" Frank frowned. "Why don't you kill them?"

Kane was a little angry, slapped Frank on the shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "Don't question the boss's decision, Frank!"

Frank snorted, sheathed the ejection knife, and put it back in his pocket.

"I'll leave Vigo to you, and I'll take care of the vampires!"

For the Punisher Frank, he always believes in fighting evil with evil.

Frank has never had a good impression of gangsters. If it weren't for his boss, his wife and children would have died in the vendetta against that group of scum.

Although Frank did not experience the pain of losing his loved ones due to Tang Song's intervention, he was still ruthless towards gangsters.

The Punisher's reputation is still loud in the underground world, but this time the Punisher is no longer fighting alone.

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Tang's Import and Export Trading Company, located in the Fourth Street area of Manhattan, mainly engages in the import and export trade of metal ores.

The company's business scope is very wide, including copper and iron ore, non-ferrous metals, and various waste metal materials.

The company's business is not limited to the Federation. In just one year since its establishment, its business has spread to various countries, and it has managers in several famous large mineral producing areas in Asia and Europe.

The company's main business is to buy low and sell high, earning the profit difference between different countries.