Chapter 474 Full of Harvests
At around 30 a.m. on the 5th, the South Vietnamese ambassador, diplomats and CIA intelligence personnel fled Saigon by helicopter.

At 7:53, the helicopter carrying the last group of Americans left Saigon.

A few hours later, North Vietnamese tank troops rushed into the South Vietnamese presidential palace, the Independence Palace.

Because Blackwater had helicopters and knew there was a landing point 200 kilometers offshore, they held on almost until the last moment!
They also gained a lot!

ocean:
One 2000-ton aircraft carrier, one Coast Guard armed speedboat with 5-inch caliber guns, and one radar sentry escort ship (USS Camp).

land:
41 M-22 "Walker Bulldog" light tanks;
48 M-4 "Patton" medium tanks (still in Sarawak dock warehouse)
113 M-87 armored personnel carriers;
3 M-35 tracked armored vehicles.

There were 482 light and heavy machine guns of various types, 177 mortars, 1136 grenade launchers, 16 M18429 automatic rifles, 177 XM-6937 carbines, 28355 grenades, and a number of other bullets and artillery shells, enough to arm a force of tens of thousands.

Not to mention Africa, if these things were to end up in Southeast Asia, it would be a catastrophe.

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127 Huey helicopters; (original price: $96 per helicopter)
17 Chinook helicopters; (original price: US$4700 million per helicopter)
5 F9 fighters (4 have been sold to the mainland, paid for by Wang Yuanchao himself, original price: US$74.5 each);

1 Douglas A-2 Skyraider propeller attack aircraft;
141 Lockheed C12 transport aircraft;
130 C5 Hercules transport aircraft;
7 C17 Reindeer transport aircraft.

(Not including the two ships heading north that carried away 23 Hueys and 5 Chinooks)
Look at these helicopters, they are worth billions!

Not to mention helicopters and fighter jets, the transport planes alone, if modified, are enough to start a small or medium-sized airline.

I really made a fortune.

Historically, North Vietnam has seized the following equipment from the US Army from South Vietnam:

约79.1万支M-16制式步枪、90万支其他美式枪械（例如XM-177卡宾枪、M60通用机枪等经典越战武器）、4.7万支M-79榴弹发射器等轻武器。

300余辆M-41“华克猛犬”轻型坦克、250辆M-48“巴顿”中型坦克、2000余辆M-113装甲运兵车以及M-3履带式装甲车。

1300余门各型火炮，包括M101型105毫米榴弹炮以及M1型81毫米迫击炮。

430架“休伊”直升机、36架CH-47“支奴干”直升机、73架F-5战斗机、36架A-1“空袭者”攻击机、10架C-130“大力神”运输机以及40架“驯鹿”运输机等先进飞机。

Wang Yuanchao's Blackwater Security Company, with its advance planning, made a huge profit on the plane.

There is also pressure on how to monetize these equipment.

But no matter what, it is impossible to ask them to return these equipments. They were not stopped by the US military on the way, so why should they return them?

The main thing is that the US military didn't expect that someone would dare to take advantage of the situation like this, right?
However, in order to have a perfect ending, they still arranged a transport plane to "escape" to the Philippines to show that they held on until the last moment and were successfully transferred out.

All kinds of aircraft have "aircraft-for-debt" agreements with the South Vietnamese authorities! Blackwater Security has legitimate benefits with black words and red seals!
The staff Blackwater Security arranged to go to South Vietnam were given higher qualifications, and even "signed" a strategic consulting cooperation agreement for the next ten years. Anyway, the main point was a reasonable and legal agreement that inferred the scale of cooperation based on the wealth on hand.

On April 4, Nguyen Van Thieu stepped down and Vice President Tran Van Huong took office.

On April 4, Chen Wenxiang, who had been in office for only five days, announced his resignation.

On April 4, Yang Wenming announced his inauguration.

In just less than ten days, the South Vietnamese authorities signed a life-saving agreement with Blackwater. It makes sense, doesn't it?
With those agreements in place and the professional handling of a group of lawyers and accountants, Blackwater's profits were impeccable and a model of successful business operations.

It’s just that South Vietnam collapsed too quickly, and Blackwater was powerless.

In the end, you can only take your legal property and leave that troubled place, right?

Continue to execute the contract?

Party A no longer exists!

However, in order to fulfill its responsibility to South Vietnam, Blackwater rescued many South Vietnamese civilians for free. It paid back the South Vietnamese government's debt to the South Vietnamese civilians, didn't it?
Apart from taking turns to guard the base, the other soldiers can finally go to Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, to have fun.

Many elite South Vietnamese pilots, Marines and other troops had nowhere to go, so they simply joined the Blackwater security company.

Sam led his men to take charge of the Sarawak base. As the second largest shareholder of the security company, he only needed to sit there. There were a large number of professionals to help him manage logistics and reorganize personnel.

Wenders began to visit Southeast Asian countries to promote security services and arms, focusing on local consumption.

It's very simple, do you want arms?

You do not want?
Your neighbors, or even your opponents, might want it. Do you want it?

Questioning the legality of our arms?
Are you kidding me? American weapons are illegal?
Blackwater Security is an American company!
Don't mention it. After a round of sales, the Huey helicopter is the best seller, and Blackwater's promotional price is very cheap, only $80! You have 5 helicopters, he has 10, and he actually sold 72 helicopters.

The Chinook is more tricky because the United States has restrictions on its export. In the whole of Southeast Asia, only Singapore and Thailand have a few, and the rest are in Japan and South Korea.

Other countries are still afraid when they come. There is a difference between American non-governmental organizations and the American government. Besides, the Chinook is too expensive!
So out of the 17 Chinooks, not a single one was sold.

However, half of the transport aircraft were sold, and together with the tanks, yes, only four light tanks were left at the Blackwater base, and the rest were all packed up by Indonesia, including the four medium tanks in the dock warehouse.

In total, more than 1 million US dollars were cashed in. There are too many Chinooks, and Blackwater Security is also a headache. They want to use them themselves, but they can't afford them.

For heavy helicopters, not to mention maintenance, even when they are in use, the oil is wasted like spilling it. How do they use it?
Until a solution is found, it can only be maintained at the base.

While Wenders was selling arms, Wang Yuanchao returned to Hong Kong early because the Queen of England and Prince Philip, after finishing their visit to Japan, took a special plane to Hong Kong, a city that had been ruled by the British Empire for more than a hundred years.

The then Governor of Hong Kong, Murray MacLehose, led a group of officials to Kai Tak Airport to greet her.

The Queen and her entourage first took a car to the Kowloon Public Pier next to the Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower, and then boarded the Governor's private yacht, Lady Murray, across Victoria Harbour.

When the yacht carrying Queen Elizabeth II crossed Victoria Harbour, the Tamar barracks fired cannons to express welcome, Royal Air Force helicopters circled in the sky in a formation to salute, and fireboats sprayed water on both sides to welcome her. Hong Kong extended the warmest welcome to Queen Elizabeth II by sea, land and air.

After Queen Elizabeth II came ashore, Hong Kong officials held a simple yet grand welcome ceremony.

The welcoming ceremony was held in the Grand Hall. Not only British officials from Hong Kong but also local dignitaries of Hong Kong attended the ceremony. As one of the leaders of the Chinese in Hong Kong and an active supporter of greater Englishization, Wang Yuanchao naturally had to attend the Queen's welcoming ceremony.

Even ordinary people, when they heard the news, took to the streets to see what Queen Elizabeth II looked like.

The desire to watch the fun has existed in the minds of ordinary people since ancient times.

At that time, Hong Kong had enacted law prohibiting the setting off of fireworks and firecrackers, but the Queen's visit was an exception and the ban was lifted during this period. Hong Kong held a fireworks display that had not been held for a long time.

Queen Elizabeth II saw the oriental dragon and lion dances in Hong Kong. The Queen was particularly curious about this traditional culture and wanted to find out how it was performed. She even bent down to watch the lion dancers.

The Queen had originally planned to go to the Lu Yu Tea House, which is somewhat famous locally, to try Cantonese tea, but she was rejected by the owner on the grounds that the house was full.

But later we learned that the restaurant was not full at all and the boss just wanted to entertain regular customers according to tradition.

When Wang Yuanchao learned the news, he gave the boss a thumbs up for his boldness.

Wang Yuanchao did not dare to refuse. Not only that, he also specifically instructed the society not to cause trouble. If anyone caused trouble, the entire society would be ruined.

He said it.

He now has the confidence to say this.

Because at the beginning of the year, the ICAC successfully extradited former police superintendent Peter Godber from the UK to stand trial. As a result, Godber was charged with conspiracy to embezzle and accept bribes, was found guilty, and sentenced to four years in prison.

Even the British could not avoid imprisonment. With the cooperation of the Hong Kong police and Wang Yuanchao, no society could escape.

The next day, Queen Elizabeth II went to Hung Hom, Kowloon, and held an opening ceremony for the brand new, modern Hung Hom Railway Station.

The racecourse is a cultural symbol in Hong Kong and of course the Queen cannot leave it behind when she visits.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club specially organized the first Queen Elizabeth II Cup for this purpose, and she personally presented the awards.

At that time, the private room 701 where Queen Elizabeth II watched the game was called the "Queen's Room" and was only available to the Governor of Hong Kong and 12 board directors. The room also hung oil paintings of the Queen's visit to Hong Kong, as well as autographed photos of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband.

Coincidentally, Wang Yuanchao is also one of the directors of the Jockey Club.

He is also a newly-promoted CBE, and he even took a photo with the Queen and the Prince.

This was naturally published by Phoenix Daily, which was trying to cheer for its boss.

This was the first time Wang Yuanchao appeared in a Hong Kong newspaper.

Before this, many people had only heard of him but had never seen him.

Now that it’s in the newspaper, I discovered that this Hong Kong boss is actually so young and handsome.

Countless young girls and young women have daydreams of encountering someone.

Of course, there are also people who sneer at him, some call him a gigolo, some call him a sellout, and some call him a traitor dog, because the way he smiles makes him look like a foreign slave, a lackey of foreigners!

Finally, the Queen went to Yau Tsim Mong District in the center of Hong Kong.

Watching the parade performances carefully prepared by various groups, citizens on both sides of the road were cheering and encouraging them. The key point is that whether it is a parade or a visit, the distance between the royal family members and the public is often only a few meters, or even just a little bit.

So you say, can Wang Yuanchao succeed by being careless?
Her Majesty the Queen is so down to earth!
Although the trip was only three days and two nights, she walked through every street and alley of Hong Kong, watched fireworks, participated in the float parade, watched the dragon boat race, watched horse racing, went to the vegetable market, visited a school, and so on.

If anyone really has any idea...

I can't even think about it.

If something unexpected really happened, Wang Yuanchao, as the underground president of Hong Kong, would probably not be able to stay here and would have to go to the United States to live out his life.

(End of this chapter)