Chapter 267: The Placement of Weights
As Zhou Ming's words were translated by the female leader, the atmosphere in the room suddenly dropped to a freezing point, whether it was Chief Gao Lan, his daughter, or the other servants who followed up, they were all looking at Zhou Ming with a look that seemed to be digging into the skin. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After a period of silence, Chief Gao Lan said to Zhou Ming: "I think there must be something wrong with this, or a translation problem, I can allow you to say it again, I hope you can discuss it with my daughter Leia this time, so as to avoid some unnecessary misunderstandings." β
From Gao Lan's words, Zhou Ming learned that the princess of Kud, who was the female leader of the guerrillas, was originally called Leia, and Zhou Ming waved his hand meaninglessly when he listened to her translation and said: "I don't think there is any need to negotiate anymore, if the translation just now is indeed to help the Salm regime against the multinational force led by the United States, then I don't think there is any misunderstanding between us." β
"Why?" This time, Leia didn't have time to translate, and directly questioned Zhou Mingdao, "Huaxia, do you know what you're talking about? You said before that you came to bring us the news of the founding of Kurdistan, so I brought you here, and now you tell me that you are here to be a lobbyist for Salm?"
In the face of Leia's questioning, Zhou Ming replied unchanged: "I am here to bring you news about the founding of Kurdistan, but at the same time, I also hope that you can send troops to help the Salm regime fight against the multinational force." β
"Why? Is it because of your ridiculous tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves? I tell you, Salm is not a good thief, but a demon!"
Leia said to Zhou Ming: "I am not very old, but I grew up watching the hatred between the Kurds and the Salm, twelve years ago, when the Salm launched a coup d'Γ©tat and became president, our Kuds and his war began, in these twelve years, millions of Kurd compatriots died at his hands, and even I saw his troops use poison gas to slaughter 10,000 of our compatriots in the town of Abia!"
"Can you imagine the pain I saw in them, and they were all unarmed old men, women and children, all of them were not any threat, he could do anything about it!" Leia became more and more excited, and at last they all roared, "So now you want us to help that scum fight, you say, what are your intentions?"
Listening to Leia's angry roar, Zhou Ming was silent for a while before saying, "I know all about the hatred between you Kuds and Salm, but I still have to say that in terms of the current situation, it is an inevitable choice for you to help Salm." β
Leia was about to say something, but at this time, Zhou Ming stretched out his hand to interrupt her and continued: "The reason is very simple, unless you can leave Iraq, you will continue to be slaughtered by the Salm army, or Princess Leia, you still want to see the massacre in Abia town again, and see your compatriots festering and miserable because of the poisonous gas......"
Before Zhou Ming could finish his words, Leia covered her ears and shouted, "Of course I don't want to! But why do you have to help Salm's demon?"
"Before I understand this doubt, I want to ask, Princess Leia, what do you think is the biggest reason why you can't beat Salm now?" Zhou Ming asked.
Leia looked at Zhou Ming in a daze, she was now completely confused by Zhou Ming, she didn't understand why Zhou Ming didn't explain why he helped Salm, why he suddenly asked such an irrelevant question, but she still replied honestly: "I think it should be the gap in equipment, he has planes, tanks, artillery, but we don't have these." β
"That's right, here's the problem!" Zhou Ming said, "Then let's see, why Salm can have these weapons? It's just because he is the central government and has the greatest resources in the whole of Iraq." β
"So now," Zhou Ming finally said, "when Salm's army was demoralized against the multinational forces, and you cooperated with him at this time, did he have to spare no effort to support you in order not to be defeated by the multinational forces?
Listening to Zhou Ming's last words, Leia suddenly realized: "So you mean to let us pretend to help Salm fight against the multinational force, but in fact, we are secretly accumulating these weapons and equipment he gave us?"
"Yes and no. Zhou Ming said to her, "You must really do your best to help Salm stop the attack of the multinational force, because after all, you are hostile, and Salm is not an idiot, and if you want to gain his trust, you must show your strength and determination." β
Speaking of this, Zhou Ming paused for a moment before he said: "But war is cruel after all, especially when the opponent is still a high-tech unit armed to the teeth by the US military, and casualties among your soldiers are inevitable." β
"As long as there is a chance to establish the Republic of Kurdistan, we Kurds will not be afraid of any sacrifices!" said Leia proudly.
Zhou Ming smiled and nodded, and he said to Leia again: "I think with Princess Leia's intelligence, she must have understood what I mean, right?
Only then did Leia realize her duty, and the conversation she had with Zhou Ming just now was all in English, so she immediately translated Zhou Ming's meaning to Gao Lan.
Compared with Leia, the performance of the Kurd chief is much more stable, he just raised his eyebrows and did not show too much emotion, but in fact, when Zhou Ming explained to Leia just now, Gao Lan could already guess a rough idea from Leia's reaction.
After listening to Leia's translation, Gao Lan fell silent, and only after a long time did he say: "Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Gulf War to win cooperation with Salm, taking the opportunity to accumulate our own weapon superiority little by little, and finally seeking independence, this is indeed a better way than we used to be." β
When Gao Lan said this, he suddenly changed his words and continued: "But the Chinese people, you seem to have forgotten one point, that is, my soldiers, they are all Kurds, their relatives and friends have died at the hands of Salm, they all want to eat all the flesh and blood of Salm, in the face of these angry people, how do you want me to convince them to help Salm fight?"
"Chief Gaolan, whether it is you or your people, I think you need to figure out a question, now you are not facing a war to help Salm, but a holy war for all Allah believers in the face of the infidel invasion, in order to preserve their faith, for Allah!" Zhou Ming threw out this answer without thinking.
Holy war?
Zhou Ming could see that Gao Lan's eyes obviously flashed a bright color when he heard this word, but he quickly retracted it to the bottom of his eyes, he thought for a while and asked Zhou Ming: "I have one last question, that is, I am very curious about why you, as a Chinese, want to participate in this war, and why do you risk your life to help Salm come to Mahad as a lobbyist?"
"It's very simple, because this war is not only a war, it is also a business war, and my competitor is on the opposite side, as for my motherland, I can sell arms, and I can also contain the opponent, why not?" Zhou Ming replied.
Gao Lan sighed and said: "I don't understand these international situations or anything, I need to go back and think about it, in the face of such a big thing, you can't say anything, even if what you say is reasonable, but as a chief, I always need to be responsible for my people." β
In the end, Gao Lan glanced at the grandfather clock next to him and said to Zhou Ming: "It's not early now, I thank you very much for the surprise you brought me, but now I think you need to rest more." My daughter will take you to the guest room and hope you can sleep well there. β
Leaving this sentence, Gao Lan explained to Leia again and left the room, Zhou Ming did not stay, and then Leia came over and made a gesture of please to Zhou Ming, Zhou Ming stood up with a smile and followed Leia to the guest room.
Gao Lan explained that what he prepared for Zhou Ming was on the west side of the palace, which was an independent villa-style building, but this was not the only one, there was another one next to him, which, according to Leia, was specially used to entertain distinguished guests.
When Zhou Ming and the others came here, the door next door suddenly opened, and several people in suits walked out, they saw Zhou Ming and his party stunned for a moment, and then frowned and asked: "How can there be a yellow-skinned monkey here?" Sure enough, it is the most evil nation in the world, I didn't expect you to even participate in this just Gulf War. β
Zhou Ming didn't understand how this white man he had never met could say such racist things, could it be that his balls were cut off by a Chinese doctor? But this did not prevent him from mercilessly pushing back: "Then white pigs, why are you here? You claim to be righteous, but all I see is that you are killing people and setting fires." β
"Babbling bastard!"
The white man cursed fiercely, but then he remembered something, and said to LΓ©a, "Although I never thought that you Kurds would be very honest, but I did not expect you to be so stupid, what are you bringing these yellow-skinned people here for? Are they also your honored guests, and you naively think that they will give you any chance to build a state? But I tell you, it is absolutely impossible!"
"Is it possible that it doesn't seem like you're up to the shots? Zhou Ming still didn't give face-for-tat, "Just like on the Korean battlefield forty years ago, you don't think that you will lose." β
The white man spat Zhou Ming in front of him and said, "Yellow-skinned monkey, you can talk as much as you like now, no matter what the purpose of your coming is, the facts will prove that you are a trash!"
After the white man scolded and scolded, he went back to his villa, and then Leia explained to Zhou Ming: "He is an official of the CIA in the United States, and he is also here to discuss cooperation with us, and he said that as long as we are willing to cooperate with them to attack the Salm regime, they will allow us to establish a state in the Sumore region in the future......"
Speaking of this, Leia suddenly covered her mouth and said with a flustered look: "Oh, I actually said that I leaked my mouth." β
After saying this, Leia hurriedly left with him, leaving only Zhou Ming and Zhang Lin's desert team, and an English-speaking servant.
Zhou Ming looked at Leia's back as she left, shook her head helplessly, and then walked into the villa prepared for herself with Zhang Lin and them.
Although it was not early now, Zhou Ming and the others were not in a hurry to rest, but gathered in the living room on the first floor first.
"Zhang Lin, what do you think of the current situation?" asked Zhou Ming.
Zhang Lin shook his head and said, "I don't know what the situation is now, but that Princess Leia's acting skills are very clumsy." β
Zhou Ming smiled: "It's not just clumsy, she is not even a qualified actor at all." But it doesn't matter, we've already met with the Americans next door, and the Kurdish chief means that we know that he has other options, or that we're just here to keep the price on the Americans. β
Zhang Lin nodded: "That's true, otherwise he wouldn't have arranged for us to live next door, and deliberately let Leia leak the identity information over there in front of us, no matter what he means, in short, our situation is very dangerous now." β