Charlie had just returned from Hamed’s base. Therefore, he was very clear about Hamed's current situation.
Hamed had to be very short of money, 1
He had an army of two thousand men, and they were all without exception masters who knew how to spend money but did not know how to make money.
The few helicopters and those few armored vehicles were also money-burning machines as soon as it was turned on.
With so many people and equipment, everything involved money.
Besides that, the sphere of influence for the people in the opposition force was generally limited to those remote and desolate places as well as those valleys and places that were enclosed by mountains. So, there was no way for them to make money at all. So, they could only rely on sieging cities or foreign capital funding.
In fact, Charlie also had a lot of spare money on hand. So, it would not actually be a big deal for him to spend tens of millions of US dollars or even hundreds of millions of US dollars to fund Hamed.
If this brother of his were to win the revolution in the future, and if he were to be conferred a rank or made into the prime minister in the future, Charlie would be able to gain a big return from his small investment, then.
But Charlie was more mindful.
The business that Hamed was engaging in was part of another country's internal affairs. Generally speaking, any normal country would not interfere in this matter, let alone any individual.
If Charlie were to fund Hamed directly, there would be traces of their fund exchange. If anyone were to make a big fuss out of this matter in the future and say that he was interfering in another country's internal affairs, that would be more or less troublesome for him.
It just so happened that Sheldon had taken the initiative to appear in front of him. So, Charlie planned to use him to return the favor to Hamed.
After sending Sheldon there, he would ask Hamed to look for an errand for Sheldon and send someone to watch him twenty-four hours a day. That way, he would not be able to come up with any tricks, and he would have to behave and stay in Syria. He would also ask Sheldon to bring tens of millions of US dollars to Hamed. That way, Hamed would certainly remember this favor, and he would certainly regard it as though Charlie was personally investing in his revolutionary cause. 3 As for whether the Schulz family would get into trouble in the future because of their financial dealings with Hamed, that was not something that he would have to worry about.
So, he told Sheldon immediately, "I'll give you two hours to prepare. You'll have to prepare at least fifty million US dollars. I'll arrange for a plane to send you t o Syria. You’ll have to transfer the fifty million US dollars to my friend's account before you arrive in Syria. Otherwise, I will ask them to tie you on the armored vehicle for twenty-four hours when you arrive in Syria."
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