Chapter 1358 - Fruits of Victory (2/2)

“Ten years?” Jiang Chen laughed and shook his head, and put up one finger, “At most one year. If you don’t have enough planes, we can reimburse your tickets for free.”

“Not only people need to be withdrawn, but also weapons and equipment. Ten years is not an exaggeration. It took us nearly a century to deploy these weapons.” Kerry, who was next to Hill, quibbled.

“Your personnel can be evacuated in batches. You can transport your weapons and equipment to South Korea first, and then slowly drag them home. In other words, if you don’t have enough transport capacity, you can come to us. Celestial Trade is not only a military contractor, but we are also in the shipping business.” With his fingers crossed and placed above his one knee, Jiang Chen said with a smile as he responded to Kerry who sat across from him.

From the very beginning, he had predicted that this negotiation would be a tug of war.

Regardless of the compensation for the relocation or the time of withdrawal, the divides between Celestial Trade, Nippon, and the UA were huge.

Nippon proposed that the Yokosuka Military Base must be relocated immediately. However, the UA’s opinion was that the Yokosuka Military Base, as the headquarters of the UA Military in Nippon, should be the last to go. Celestial Trade’s requirement was that regardless of when the Yokosuka Base would be relocated, the Seventh Fleet deployed in Nippon must be withdrawn immediately.

After a week of negotiations, the two sides finally reached an agreement on troop withdrawal.

Celestial Trade would pay 10 billion Xin New dollars to the UA in one lump sum payment, and Nippon would pay 60 billion New Xin dollars to the UA over four years. The withdrawal plan would officially commence in March next year, which would be the first month after the end of Hill’s term.

Jiang Chen did not raise too many concerns for the withdrawal plan proposed by Hill, but he emphasized that it must be completed within a year, that is, by March 2022. Although this opponent had caused him a lot of trouble, in general, she was still a respectable opponent. Since it was already an unlucky run for her, there was no need to destroy her remaining dignity.

The UA made considerable concessions in terms of the amount of compensation and the time for withdrawal. In exchange, Jiang Chen handed over 10,000 NATO Coalition Force and a ceasefire agreement.

In a sense, Hill’s astronomical demand was aimed at these two points.

In addition, the Seventh Fleet was scheduled to depart for Guam at the end of this month, accompanied by two thousand Marines…

In the reception room of the New Otani Hotel, the representatives of the three parties signed their own names on three identical agreements.

After Jiang Chen collected the agreement, he was about to leave with his loot. However, Kerry blocked his way and stared right at him.

“Celestial Trade shouldn’t have existed from the beginning. You are just troublemakers. If you still have a little conscience, you should immediately dissolve your stupid company,” Kerry said one word at a time.

“Dissolve? Then what?” Jiang Chen sneered, “Depend on you to resist the colonial ship from Gliese 581? Accept the reality, we can do better than you. And with all due respect, you are the troublemakers, our existence just created trouble for you to create trouble.”

Kerry was slightly taken aback.

Jiang Chen said the last sentence in Mandarin. For a while, he didn’t understand the subject-verb-object relationship. When he realized what Jiang Chen had meant, his eyebrows suddenly raised, but when he was about to rebuttal, Jiang Chen was already long gone.