() In an ordinary house in Basra, Canglong met the Arab-robed sheikh Assad, as well as several other Shia sheikhs

After bowing to the sheikhs, Badr sat down and saw the hostility in the eyes of the chiefs, but he did not care, after all, he did take advantage of the belief of the people of Basra in Allah and blaspheme the Prophet Muhammad

It was just that Canglong evacuated all al-Qaeda members in Basra province within a week, which was really shocking to them

The content of the negotiation is also very simple, Assad still asked Canglong at the beginning for the purpose of coming here, Canglong did not beat around the bush and replied directly, it was oil, which made General Badr a little strange, after all, Canglong did not say so to him, Canglong's answer made several chiefs look very bad, and the hostility deepened

Assad raised his hand and signaled the chieftains who were talking to be quiet, looked at Canglong with kind eyes, and said: "The whole world wants Iraqi oil, how can you snatch him from the world?"

"No, I'm not going to snatch it, I'm going to buy it, the oil is still Iraqis," Canglong said calmly

When the chiefs heard this, they were stunned, not only were they not happy, but they looked down on Canglong, which big country didn't come here to take away the oil here, and no one cared about the feelings of the Iraqis, so Canglong was so high-sounding, which made them even more uncomfortable

"It seems that General Badr needs to clarify it for me," the dragon, sensing the chieftains' misconduct, looked at Badr

The chiefs also looked at Badr Assad and nodded at Badr before Badr said: "Mr. Canglong represents himself, not the country behind him, so what he does here has nothing to do with the country behind him, I can be sure of this, because he is still a stateless person, and he did not grow up in the country he belongs to."

Hearing this, the chiefs all looked at Canglong strangely, and even a little incredible, Canglong came here, obviously representing Longteng International, and what Longteng International represented behind them, they knew very well, but there seemed to be some contradictions between the two

"It doesn't matter what I am, the important thing is that I can make Iraq strong," Canglong said calmly

The chiefs talked again, and Assad was expressionless for a long time before he said: "Do you want us to support you to set up another zhèng fǔ, then is this zhèng fǔ our zhèng fǔ or your puppet zhèng fǔ"

"Of course it's yours," Canglong said calmly, "I won't dominate you like the Americans, and if we start cooperating, you will know exactly how I will cooperate with you."

"You want to be a prophet," Assad asked, still expressionless

"It's just a reasonable identity," Canglong said seriously, "This is a necessary prerequisite for cooperation"

The chiefs' faces changed from hostility to anger, and in Arabic, anger began to curse Canglong Badr but did not speak, Assad calmly seemed to be thinking about something, but Canglong didn't give them too much time, just stood up and said: "If it doesn't work, then I leave for Baghdad now, presumably the US dollars are enough to get the Iraqi new zhèng fǔ majority of officials to support me in exploiting the oil here, as for the Americans, even if they don't need you, I can deal with it, but it will be troublesome, and what you can get will never be peace, but hunger and poverty."

Canglong said and walked towards the door without looking back, one of the chiefs angrily instructed his subordinates to prepare to grab Canglong, but as soon as his gun was raised, he was directly knocked out by a flying kick and a coherent elbow blow from Xiami, and the other subordinates did not react, Xiami had already rushed to their side, and they were put down by Xiami without any chance to shoot

In the end, Xiami took the AK47 and pointed at the hands of the people present, put them on the trigger, ready to shoot at any time, the chiefs swallowed their saliva, obviously they didn't expect Canglong's subordinates to be so fierce, it was Badr who was very calm, and Canglong and they played hand-to-hand combat, that is, who had better weapons than the Americans

Seeing that something was wrong with the situation, the chiefs were in a cold sweat when they were pointed at the guns, Canglong carefully pressed down the shrimp's gun and said: "If violence could make them submit, the Americans would have done it a long time ago, so"

Shrimp Mi threw the gun on the ground, but jǐng smiled at the surrounding dragons: "Give you a day to think about it, and if you think about it, come to Longteng International's branch in Basra to find me."

"This Chinese is so unreasonable, we should drive them all out, we can't give in," Canglong and Shrimp just left, and the chiefs who were under the threat of guns just now suddenly roared angrily

"Even the Americans can't conquer us, what can the Chinese do, we can't give in, let alone promise him to become a prophet," another chief added, "this is blasphemy against Allah, and you will go to hell after death."

There was a lot of noise in the house, and Badr suddenly said: "What if he is really the prophet sent by Allah to save us?"

The noisy scene suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at Badr with an incredulous face, and after reacting, they were about to point at his nose and scold Assad, and suddenly said: "Quiet, let him finish his words"

"Since the Iran-Iraq war, we Iraqis have suffered from war, who can end the war in Iraq and bring peace to the Iraqis, who is the prophet, the Americans are not British, not other Arab brothers, not because they all only want oil from Allah, but this Chinese came here does not represent his country, and the first thing he said to me was that he wanted to build this place, let there be a stable environment here, and let Iraqi oil bring Iraqis a happy life, this is his purpose," Badr smiled. That's why I say that he is the Prophet sent by Allah, and it doesn't matter what nationality he is, what his origins are, what matters is that he can end the cannibalism between Muslims like the Prophet Muhammad."

"You, you are betraying Allah," one of the chiefs cursed angrily, "Badr, you will go to hell, to hell"

"How can a foreigner become a prophet," some chiefs questioned, they didn't care at all what the dragon could bring them, they cared more about the blood and skin of the dragon

Badr was a little helpless, just when he became the target of the public, Assad suddenly coughed: "Allah is merciful, He will send a prophet to Iraq to save us, so whoever can save Iraq is a prophet, whoever plunges Iraq into war is the devil and will go to hell."

The chieftains fell silent and Badr asked, "Chief Assad, do you think we are going to cooperate with Canglong?"

"He can be a prophet, but he must do what a prophet should do," said Assad, asking Badr to come to him and whisper to him, "Do it."

"Is that okay?" said Badr curiously

"If he is a prophet sent by Allah, then Allah will naturally protect him," Assad said kindly

After leaving the house, Canglong and they drove to the nearest city of Basra, Zubayr, which has the largest oil field in Iraq and is also home to the world's major oil companies, so there are many foreigners in the urban area of Zubayr, and Longteng International naturally has also set up a branch here, although the main company is in Baghdad, but the strategic position here is the first to bear the brunt

The main oilfield project obtained by Longteng International is jointly developed with the British BP oil company, which is also the largest oil field in Iraq, the Rumaila oilfield, but at that time, the bidding was auctioned at the lowest price in the history of two US dollars, and the two US dollars are the service fees per barrel after the development of oil, which can be said to be low and frightening

However, the strategic value is very important, so the cooperative development rights of several major oil fields auctioned at that time have failed, except for the largest oil field cooperated by China and the British company, China wants to buy the right to buy oil first, so it took over the development contract at any cost

The Rumaila oil field is indeed the largest oil field in Iraq, with reserves of 20 billion barrels, and this does not include the oil fields around Rumaila, and if they are developed, the whole of Iraq will become rich

But now the main problem is that although Longteng International has pulled BP, the British Petroleum company, it is still very difficult to exploit it, and the Americans and security forces come to make trouble from time to time, so that the workers cannot start construction at all, which is the problem encountered by Longteng International now

But so far, Canglong is not ready to solve this problem, so when he went to Zubair, he questioned: "Don't you think you are wasting time negotiating with these Shiites now?"

"What a waste of time," Canglong asked rhetorically

"We're mainly solving the problems of the security forces and the Americans, getting the oil fields started and getting the oil out as soon as possible, not to mention that the Shiites are not in power at all, they don't even have a proper name," said Xiami

"Then what do you think you should do?" Canglong continued to ask

Shrimp seemed to be stumped by this question, but his idea was very simple: "Negotiate with Basra to solve the problem of the Iraqi security forces' attack first, and then solve the problem of the Americans and their hard resistance to war, we are not afraid of them."

"Yes, we are really not afraid of them in the war, with the current strength of the United States in Iraq, it is indeed difficult to make big waves, but have you thought about it, how many mercenaries there are in the United States, and how many overseas bases the United States has here," Canglong asked rhetorically, "We have no backup, and the Americans can continue to increase their troops, can you expect the country behind us to send troops over to fight them?"

Shrimp shook his head: "But what's the use of negotiating with these Shiites like this, if you really want to solve the problem, you have to rely on your fists"

"Fists are not the only way to solve problems," Canglong smiled, "especially when your fists are not hard enough, using your fists to solve problems is just playing into the hands of Americans"

"You only have one year, and you can't solve the problem in a year, and you can't do it as the president," said Shrimp Mi worried for him, "If you delay time like this"

"Soon, soon, our fists will be hardened," Canglong was not worried at all