The 10,000th Rebirth

Chen Luo suddenly laughed. It was not difficult to do this because there has always been anti-US military sentiment in H country.

The main reason is that the cost of US military stationed in South Korea is quite high, but it is the taxpayers of H country who have to bear the cost of supporting the US military. As early as 2007, the burden rate of H country reached 42%, and every year the US requires the H government to increase this cost.

If it is only to bear the military expenses in peacetime, it will be fine. H country can exercise the right to fight alone in peacetime, but it still has to join forces with the United States in wartime, which is equivalent to handing over the command.

The right to fight is equivalent to the sovereignty of the army, so many people think that the Korean-US Joint Forces Command in H country is a symbol of sovereignty infringement.

The Korean media has always joked that tens of thousands of US troops stationed in South Korea have made H country a vassal of the United States, and the commander of the US troops stationed in South Korea is the "colonial officer" of H country.

In addition, the H government has lent the vast land near the 38th parallel to the US military for full use. Residents around the US military bases often have disputes over compensation, and the land occupied by the bases often constitutes an obstacle to the development of the spreading cities.

Another important reason is that most of the US troops stationed in South Korea are not good people.

In 2002, an armored vehicle of the US Army ran over and killed two middle school girls, causing anti-US sentiment to surge.

Later, due to the frequent occurrence of sexual crimes, drinking and making trouble outside, and harassment of H country citizens by US soldiers stationed in South Korea, these sentiments have further grown.

The root cause of the outbreak of the march was that a soldier of the US Army stationed in South Korea broke into a boarding house, threatened an 18-year-old H country girl with a weapon, raped her many times and robbed her money.

However, the US military enjoys extraterritoriality. Even if it commits a crime, it will not accept the sanctions of H country law. If it is handled internally by the US military, it often appears that the rule of man is higher than the rule of law.

The result of this incident is that the US soldiers did not receive any severe punishment. They were just expelled from the army and then sent back to their country.

Once this case was exposed, it aroused great public outrage in H country society, and then the demonstration broke out.

However, Chen Luo did not intend to take advantage of this incident. Although he knew about it, he could not find the girl in advance, or find another girl, and let her go through that again.

Although this is H country, Chen Luo does not have much psychological burden, but this is a bit bottomless, and he can't do it so disgusting.

Compared with this incident, Chen Luo knows something more exciting, enough to detonate the entire H country.

In later generations, the US Department of Justice once accused three H country companies of manipulating bids and squeezing more than 500 million US dollars from the US military.

These three companies are SK Energy, LG Group and Hanjin Group, and these three companies plus Samsung Group are the famous four chaebols in H country.

In H country, the annual revenue of the four chaebols accounts for nearly 60% of H country's annual GDP, which makes the four chaebols play a leading role in H country's economy.

Their business scope involves almost all important industrial sectors and fields in H country, and has a significant influence on H government policies.

Moreover, the influence of chaebols on society is all-round, which can be said to be pervasive.

Not only is the economy highly controlled, but politics has also been hijacked. Almost every president of H country will be liquidated after leaving office, and most of the outgoing leaders are related to these big chaebols in H country.

This is actually unavoidable. For the sake of safety and self-protection, the H government has tilted almost all resources towards local oligarchs. The entire political system is controlled by capital giants from top to bottom and has become the defender of the vested interests of the giants.

Government officials have to follow the lead of these capital oligarchs. Maybe they still have the ideal of protecting the interests of ordinary people, but in the end they can only become slaves of capital.

These three chaebols jointly participated in manipulating the bidding plan, secretly charging extra fees for goods and services, and asking the US Department of Defense for inflated fuel fees, causing the US military to spend more than $500 million.

Although these three chaebols are kings and hegemons in H country, when they encounter a more ruthless country like the United States, they can only honestly admit their weakness and pay nearly $1 billion in fines and civil damages.

According to the US Department of Justice, the bid manipulation occurred between 2005 and 2016, during which time the fuel sellers at the US military bases in South Korea were all owned by these three chaebols.

The reason why Chen Luo said this matter was even more explosive was that it was not only the three chaebols that made a profit. The commander of the US military in South Korea had a lot of say in choosing which company's fuel to use.

The three chaebols bribed Admiral Carl, the commander of the US military in South Korea, and completed this matter through him.

And this Carl was not satisfied with this little money. Just like purchasing military fuel, Carl also had a lot of say in the armaments of the US military in South Korea, so he himself had a very close relationship with domestic arms dealers in the United States.

Before the financial crisis broke out, the H country Congress approved a $20 billion arms procurement plan submitted by the Ministry of Defense, and purchased new fighter jets from the US arms manufacturer Dominic.

And this order was the result of Carl hooking up with the three chaebols and acting as a middleman, allowing the three chaebols to operate behind the scenes.

In fact, the Ministry of Defense of Country H had three arms companies to choose from at that time. Dominic's fighter jets were far inferior to the other two in terms of performance and price.

What was even more outrageous was that, just like the three major chaebols selling fuel to the US military base, they offered an inflated price.

Originally, these fighters were worth only 15 billion U.S. dollars at most, but they were sold to the H government for 20 billion U.S. dollars.

However, under the influence of the three major chaebols, the president and the defense minister could not resist, and after receiving a lot of benefits.

Both of them chose to turn a blind eye and submitted an application to Congress. Anyway, the taxpayers' money was used in the end, and the ordinary people of H country paid the bill.

Whether it was the chaebols, the president and the defense minister, or Carl, they all made a lot of money.

Chen Luo knew these things because he had dealt with the four major chaebols when he was in H country, and he knew their secrets very well, because this was one of his pleasures back then.

These chaebols are glamorous on the surface, but in fact, I don’t know how dirty they are behind the scenes. In order to fight for power and profit, brothers and sisters killed each other, and fathers and sons became enemies. It is a common drama.

H country is different from China. Although wealthy families like the Zhang family have power and a high status, they will not affect the policies of a country.

It is different in Country H. Once you become the helmsman of a chaebol, you are directly standing at the top of the pyramid and becoming the invisible king of this country.

Now these secrets can be used. As long as they are used properly, the effect will be far greater than that of the female student incident.

Chen Luo closed his eyes and began to deduce rapidly, perfecting the entire plan bit by bit.