When Zhou Ming left the Saudi Palace, it was only ten o'clock in the evening local time. In other words, Zhou Ming had only been in the Saudi Palace for only one hour and received $10 billion in military expenditure from Prince Hariri. Although for the sake of financial security, this $10 billion in funds will be transferred to the embassy's account for custody through the Saudi royal family's overseas account for the sake of financial security, this kind of profit speed is already surprising.

Comrade Zhou Ming, before coming to Saudi Arabia, did you have already negotiated with the Saudi royal family?

Back in the car, Zhu Xi asked Zhou Ming that as a senior diplomat in the Middle East, although he had a certain understanding of the Saudis' character of a rich man who did not regard money as, it was just for what they like to do, and he could spend a lot of money at will. On the contrary, if they didn't like or even dislike something, no matter how rich he was, he would not pay a penny.

Because of this, Zhu Xi felt that Zhou Ming must have communicated with the Saudi royal family before, and today he came here just to go through a formality.

However, Zhou Ming replied: I know what you think, but I'm sorry, I really have never had any form of communication with the Saudi royal family before today. As for the communication between the central government and Saudi Arabia, I think you must know better than me as the Minister and Counselor of the Embassy.

That's why I was puzzled. Why did Prince Hariri so easily promise to give you so much money? I don't think that as a mature country leader, he would believe in your jihad theory. In addition to the fact that the entire Arab world is divided into so many countries and there are also very serious sectarian conflicts. In addition to the Western countries interfering, their own lack of unity is also a very important reason.

Zhu Xi felt incredible: I don’t believe that Saudi Arabia will regard Iraq as its own brother, but it seems that there is some reason that he has to pay the money again. Can you tell me why this is.

Zhou Ming nodded and said to him: I can believe that Master Zhu Xi, you have a much clearer understanding of Saudi Arabia and even the entire Arab world than me, but my grasp of other information is something that Master Zhu Xi does not have.

Simply put, in your opinion, this is just a Gulf War, a sanction from the United States to join forces with other Arab countries on the invaders of Iraq, but in my opinion, this is an oil war led by a superconsortium, whether it is Iraq's invasion or the upcoming attack of multinational forces on Iraq.

Zhou Ming continued: The fundamental purpose of this war is to break up the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. The consortium still needs to firmly grasp the right to speak oil in its own hands. However, as the world's largest oil-producing country, Saudi Arabia is definitely unwilling to work for others all his life, and wants to grab oil in his own hands and become his own weapon. Therefore, if it is not necessary, Saudi Arabia does not want to participate in this war at all.

This can be seen from Saudi Arabia's attitude of supporting the US military. Zhou Ming said that countries around the world pay directly for the military expenditure of this war, but only Saudi Arabia provides logistical support. Although there is a reason why the battlefield is opened up on the border between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, more of it is Saudi Arabia that does not want to participate in this war, but he does not dare to disobey the Americans, and his actions are also impossible.

If Iraq loses too ugly, then the United States will establish absolute authority in the Middle East. The power of oil spoken by Saudi Arabia finally won through various means will become a joke. Now we finally gave him an olive branch, and we are a country that has sold his ballistic missiles. At present, there is still trust. In addition, they are rich people who do not use money as money, so I can get money so easily. Zhou Ming said.

Zhu Xi did not refute Zhou Ming's words. In fact, he knew much better about the political situation here than Zhou Ming. For example, the Gulf Arab Cooperation Committee is something Zhou Ming didn't know. The GCC is not just an economic cooperation organization, but also has a military collective role. It is also for this reason. If the Arab world really wants to fight Iraq, it should be in the GCC, not just Saudi Arabia itself, which is completely forced.

Thinking of this, Zhu Xi breathed a sigh of relief and said: It is said that war is a continuation of politics, and in a country like the United States where large consortiums hold the right to speak politically is a consortium war.

At the end, Zhu Xi shook his head regretfully and said: It seems that Comrade Zhou Ming, you are not unreasonable to go to Iraq. In contrast, my horizons that only stay in the Arab world are too narrow. I actually forgot that this will be a war with many countries participating in.

Actually, this is not the case. As the Minister and Counselor in Saudi Arabia, you should study more about the situation in the Arab world. I just happened to be right. Not every time I am a blind cat, I can run into a dead mouse.

Zhou Ming teased himself and then said: But then again, the Saudi matter is over. Has the embassy helped me prepare a plane to Iraq? What's the arrangements there? Does the Saudi Embassy know?

Zhu Xi nodded and said: It is ready, but Saudi Arabia is currently seriously infiltrated by the US military's intelligence system. In order to avoid problems, the embassy's suggestion is to take Bahrain to Iraq for night flights. In the name of business, since Bahrain has many private jets flying at night, this can avoid US military reconnaissance to the greatest extent.

Zhu Xi continued: In addition, we have also contacted the Iraqi Embassy in advance, and we have made all preparations for your arrival for Comrade Zhou Ming. Please rest assured.

Zhou Ming thought that the work style of the embassy here was still very strong, and he then said: I am willing to accept the arrangements of the embassy.

Since Zhou Ming made the decision, Zhu Xi immediately cursed the microphone in the car and told the driver to drive the car directly to Bahrain Airport.

When Zhou Ming and his convoy went to Bahrain, on the other side, in the Saudi palace, Prince Hariri did not return to his bedroom after finishing his meeting with Zhou Ming, but went to the king's bedroom.

Aziz is the current king of the Saudi Kingdom and Hariri's brother. He took over the throne of his late father ten years ago and became the emperor of this desert country. Like Hariri, he also wore a snow-white robe, a headscarf and a black headband, and sat on a chair made of pure gold. When Hariri came in, Aziz asked him directly: What's wrong with seeing China and they came to us? Did he agree to launch ballistic missiles?

Sorry, my King Brothers, the arrival of the Chinese did not mention anything about the launch of ballistic missiles. I don’t think they planned to launch missiles, they just put the missiles here for an exhibition. Hariri then said, but they brought another interesting news, they were ready to support Iraq in the war against the Americans.

Facing this news, Aziz was obviously excited. He asked curiously: As far as I know, the Americans have brought a lot of very advanced weapons and equipment this time. How do they fight against them? Is they even more incredible weapons or are they ready to use some weapons that are explicitly prohibited by the United Nations?

This is not the case. They intend to use the guerrilla theory they used to in Afghanistan. Hariri replied.

This answer made King Aziz stunned at that time. Obviously he couldn't understand what the theory of guerrilla warfare was. It took a long time to say: Are you referring to the sneak attack tactics against the former Soviet Union? But after all, there are many mountains in Afghanistan, and Iraq is full of plains. Can this work?

Hariri smiled helplessly: My King, I'm afraid that only Allah can answer your question, but judging from their description of me just now, I think they are all very confident.

So what did they ask for? I don't believe they would do such selfless things. You must know that they are not descendants of the prophets, and they have no reason to do so. Aziz turned to another question.

They need 50 billion military expenditures, but I think the money is too much, but if they can really prove that the Arab soldiers have a way to block the American attack, then even more money is worth it. So I paid 10 billion to the embassy account first, and wait until he proves that he can really block the American attack. Hariri said.

Aziz nodded and said: Indeed, those oils should be gifts from Allah, but those Americans are plundering from us crazily. Through the fight with American oil companies, we almost regain our own oil rights, so they want to launch this war, but as descendants of the prophets, we will never give up, as long as there is a way.

So you did a good job. If you can prove that you can block American weapons, then no matter how much money you have, Aziz said.

At the same time, in the White House on the other side of the earth, it was two noon local time. At this time, President Walsh needed to have a lunch break, but now he is very anxious and can't sleep.

Suddenly, the diplomatic footsteps were heard, and then his national security assistant Brent walked in, and Walsh immediately asked him: Is there any news from the Chinese?

Although he felt a little bit too much about the President's excessive attention to the Chinese, Brent nodded and replied: According to the intelligence personnel's investigation and analysis of the Gulf flights intercepted at the Air Force Base, it was found that those people were impersonated aircraft. Such behavior would not be completed without the support of a national intelligence department.

So Brent, what you mean is that it is very likely that the Chinese authorities have also participated, right? Walsh asked.

Brent replied with a very likely sentence, and Walsh then asked: Is the whereabouts of that Chinese still not found?

That's right. According to the intelligence analysis, the Chinese you are looking for is likely to take another flight to Saudi Arabia. Brent replied.

Hearing this answer, Walsh was immediately confused because he didn't understand what Zhou Ming could do to Saudi Arabia. It seemed that there was nothing else there except oil, or he was planning to attack the US troops stationed there by using Saudi oil.

This idea made Walsh feel ridiculous. He shook his head and then said: So I guess he was worried that we would intercept his plane and go around Saudi Arabia, and finally went to Iraq.

Brent replied with a very likely sentence, and he continued: Then Mr. President, I immediately ordered the Saudi Air Force to take off immediately and intercept all flights from Saudi Arabia to Iraq.
Chapter completed!