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Wright, who was dressed in a white suit, smiled politely and brought a glass of champagne from the waiter: "I am the commercial counselor of the U.S. Embassy, but it is rare to see Chinese soldiers on such occasions. ”

Shanno just doesn't know Arabic, and he doesn't lack foreign ink in his stomach after studying abroad.

As soon as Wright's self-introduction ended, he and Zhang Shaozhong already knew why Kent was so sensitive to the two.

The reason is simple: it was Wright, the commercial counselor of the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Kuwait, who exerted diplomatic pressure on Kuwait on behalf of Hughes and caused the abortion of the trilateral project to jointly develop a defense system for Iraq, Kuwait and China.

In the interim, Kuwait's attitude has changed 179 degrees from being eager to trying the project to not paying attention to it. The only reason is that the U.S. Embassy has expressed a strong tendency to interfere in this cooperation.

Don't look at Kuwait as a "developed country", and its per capita wealth ranks quite high in the world. However, in the political, military, and diplomatic fields, they have been influenced and even manipulated by the United States, and Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia are the two hands of the United States in manipulating the world oil market.

Under such a political reality, how can this country have the confidence to say "no" to the United States?

During this period of time, Shannuo and Zhang Shaozhong have been running up and down in order to promote tripartite cooperation, and these efforts are all in Wright's eyes. The C.I.A. sent him enough information about the two men to fill a safe, and Wright had memorized their photos from all angles.

At the first glance of them, Wright had already identified the two of them.

In the same way, Wright had just revealed his identity, and Shannuo and Zhang Shaozhong also knew that Wright was probably not a good person.

"Mr. Wright, are you going to kick us out for your master?" Sanno pursed the corners of his mouth, his gaze shooting at Wright's body as if it were substance.

"No, no, no, I'm the Commercial Counsellor at the U.S. Embassy, and I'm a guest at this reception. Wright smiled confidently, ignoring Sano's gaze. He shook the slender and clear wine glass in his hand, and said seductively and proudly: "How about a glass? Italian Starry Sky Moscato white wine is not easy to drink in China, right?"

"There is wine in China, and we have been studying wine drinking since the Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago. ”

Sneering at Wright's pride, Sanno picked up a glass of champagne from the waiter's plate next to him and shook it slightly, observing the temptingly colored liquid in the glass. Instead of tasting the wine, he turned around and put the glass back into the waiter's tray.

"Mr. Wright probably likes the soft, sweet taste, but unfortunately I am not used to these low-grade drinks. ”

"What?" Wright said with a half-smile as if he wanted to laugh but couldn't bear to stimulate Sanno's self-esteem, "Captain Sanno, do you know the value of the glass of wine you just held in your hand? It is about the same as a year's salary for you as the head of the regiment - maybe it is not enough." ”

"Well, I heard that there is a kind of mineral water in France, the name is Evian, right?" Sanno looked at Wright as if he didn't understand anything, and asked, "Is it that ordinary people in foreign countries can't afford this drink?"

Wright looked at Sanno with some confusion, not understanding why he had deviated the topic in this direction, and replied not very positively: "Uh, yes, Evian is a more famous brand in mineral water." However, there is still a lot of distance from luxury drinking water, which is just a high-end brand in ordinary drinking water. ”

"Its water is said to come from the Alps, so it's no wonder it's so expensive. Shanno pouted, "However, for me, I can even use mineral water like Evian to boil water for cooking and even bathing." ”

"Are you kidding? Two dollars a bottle of Evian that you use for bathing?"

Wright obviously looked disbelieving, shook his head and said, "As far as I know, the treatment of Chinese soldiers is not very good. What's more, Evian is a French brand that needs imported mineral water, and China's foreign exchange seems to be unable to afford this product. ”

"Oh, I mean, I'm drinking a lot better than this compared to mineral water like Evian. "Evian is just a small town in the foothills of the Alps, and my favorite mineral water comes from the snow-capped mountains of the Himalayas at an altitude of 4,900 meters. Not only pure and pollution-free, but also with a tall cultural brand image. Sometimes, my bath water is even made from melting ice cores that have existed on snow-capped mountains hundreds of thousands of years ago. ”

Shanno blinked his eyes and said with a smile: "How is it, Mr. Wright thinks that compared to the snow water in the Himalayan snow-capped mountains, what is Evian or starry sky wine?"

Wright's head was a little down, if you want to say that Sanno is a bun, but the snow water frozen in the Himalayas for thousands of years is really higher than any Evian mineral water or starry sky wine.

But what kind of high-end guy is he -- what kind of joke, high-end guy who earns fifty dollars a month? When the fashion industry hears this, they have to hang him in the streetlight.

No matter how powerful the CIA is, after all, it can only get the situation after Shannuo and the Chinese business delegation go abroad. As for the situation of Shanno himself in China, it is not that he can't get it, but the cost of intelligence is too high.

Could it be that this Chinese soldier was really stationed on a snow-capped mountain at an altitude of 4,900 meters?

Wright couldn't help but be in awe, perhaps it was this energy that shaped his indomitable spirit!

"If Mr. Wright doesn't have anything to do, I'm sorry I won't be with you. Sanno looked at Wright, who was in a daze, and nodded, and walked past him.

"Hey, Captain Shan, have you stayed at the Kunmujia outpost? This is fresh, even the water used by the Kunmujia outpost, there is no thousand-year-old iceberg snow water, right?"

Zhang Shaozhong asked in a low voice with some surprise, Kunmujia outpost is the highest border post in China, with an altitude of 4,900 meters. Among the soldiers selected and stationed in the military region, only the most determined and hard-working fighters will be sent to the Kunmuga outpost.

Of course, although the water used at the Kunmuga outpost is also sourced locally, the thousand-year-old ice cores need to be collected with professional equipment. The ice core was also used by researchers to study the climate and environment thousands of years ago, so how could it be used to bathe Shannuo?

"I fooled that devil's ......"

Shannuo carried Wright on his back, and his face turned into a chrysanthemum with happiness: "I'm going to go to the Kunmuga outpost, this body has already been reduced! Hurry up and find the royal family in Kuwait, this is our last chance." ”

Shan Nuo and Zhang Shaozhong walked far away, and only then did the American staff run towards Wright.

Wright, who is in his thirties, has been career diplomats for generations. Unlike those who were bought with money or who became ambassadors by virtue of their relationship with the president. The political resources entrusted to him by his family are quite abundant, otherwise it would be impossible for him to serve as a commercial counselor in a key country like Kuwait, which is related to the global strategic layout of the United States.

"Mr. Wright, do you want someone to kick those ******** people out?"

"No, no. A smile bloomed on Wright's face again, he looked at the champagne in his hand, shoved it into the waiter's hand, and waved: "Let them go, to be honest, I kind of like these ******** people." ”

Walking into the home of the cocktail party, Shan Nuo and Zhang Shaozhong felt that their eyes were not enough.

Not to mention the mouth-watering delicacies of the wine pools, or the dreamlike lighting effects and fountain pools, and the laughter and cheers of the surrounding crowd.

Just look at the center of the fountain in the middle of the cocktail party, a group of youth idol groups that seem to be from the United States, as if they are on the stage of Las Vegas, bursting with their youthful enthusiasm and dancing endlessly with their energetic carcass.

Just such a hand made Shannuo and Zhang Shaozhong feel like they had broken into a world that did not belong to them at all.

Extravagant, enjoyable, provocative and even ambiguous. His nose was filled with the smell of wine and food, his eyes were full of colorful dreams, and his ears were full of laughter.

For those who have not experienced it, it is difficult to imagine such a drinking party, as if it was to satisfy all people's desires.

"I said Zhang Ju, how do I remember that Kuwait is not forbidden to drink? When I came, the foreign affairs training also said that Kuwait even banned music?" Shannuo's eyes were dizzying, and he asked Zhang Shaozhong casually.

"I said, Captain Shan, there is one thing you forgot. Zhang Shaozhong finally retracted his gaze, shook his head and said, "What unrealistic illusions do you have about the laws of a monarchy?"

"That's right, the governor set fire to the people and light the lamp!" Sanno nodded knowingly, and then shook his head again, as if he couldn't tell how he felt about the country.

"How do we go to the royal family?" Zhang Shaozhong looked left and right, and the people around him were either black waiters shuttling around to serve people, or white Europeans and Americans in suits and leather shoes, or Kuwaitis wearing traditional clothes.

The two Chinese in military uniforms are as conspicuous as two pandas mixed into a herd of camels.

Just when the two of them were at a loss, Wright's voice, which was finally shaken off, suddenly sounded behind them.

"Who are you looking for, Prime Minister Al-Sabah?"

Shan Nuo and Zhang Shaozhong hurriedly turned around, and sure enough, Wright took a person by his side and strode over again.

"Prime Minister Al-Sabah is the younger brother of the Emir of Al-Sabah III and the first in line to the throne. If you want to sell China's strategic defense system, it is the most effective to find him. ”

Shanno looked at Wright with some suspicion, and asked vigilantly: "What does Mr. Wright mean, can you help us introduce Prime Minister Sabah? I don't quite understand why you want to help us." ”

"Is this a help?" Wright shrugged his shoulders and said innocently, "No, I'm just a little tired of playing this game with you." I have to say that the two are respectable opponents. But that's not why I'm helping you, I'm just trying to make you die completely. ”

"I will introduce Prime Minister Al-Sabah for you, and if you still can't convince the Kuwaitis, please go back to China. ”

Wright looked at Shan Nuo and Zhang Shaozhong calmly and asked, "What's the matter, Chinese soldiers don't even have the courage to face reality, right?" ”

Shan Nuo and Zhang Shaozhong glanced at each other, so they had to nod and say, "Okay, just listen to Mr. Wright's opinion." ”

When Shannuo and Zhang Shaozhong followed Wright to Prime Minister Sabah, it was already two hours later. The food at the reception was almost a mess, and the pretty girls and visitors had dispersed.

The future Sabah IV was sitting on a large sofa in the open air, drinking an unknown drink, and looked tired.

As the emir's younger brother and first in line to the throne of the kingdom, Prime Minister Al-Sabah is clearly quite trusted by the emir of Sabah III, and can exert his influence in most political matters.

Compared with those inexplicable colleagues in Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Al-Sabah obviously has a much greater sense of responsibility, and he can almost get a "Normal Person Medal" and a "May Day Model Worker Medal".

"It's Mr. Wright, and I hope you'll have a good time tonight. ”

When Prime Minister Al-Sabah saw Wright, he happily stood up to greet him personally, and there was no prime minister's stand at all. But of course, this kind of expression is only available to very few people. From the deferential and cautious movements of the people around him, it can be seen that the prime minister is always full of royal majesty on weekdays.

"Dear Prime Minister, sorry to interrupt you. Wright stroked his chest and bowed, courteous for several weeks.

"You're welcome, Mr. Wright. Prime Minister Sabah's every move was full of royal demeanor, and calmly and elegantly motioned for him to sit next to him: "Is the embassy's work going smoothly recently?

Although Prime Minister Sabah showed a very cordial appearance to Wright, after all, the difference between the identities of the two sides is not small in his bones. The previous etiquette was exhausted, showing the importance of the Americans, but when he turned his head, he didn't even have a superfluous greeting, and went straight to the point.

"Thanks to the Prime Minister's concern, the work of the embassy is going smoothly and our businessmen feel the same value and respect in Kuwait as they do in the United States. Wright made two diplomatic remarks, did not waste any more time on Prime Minister Sabah, and went straight to the point: "I think Prime Minister Sabah should have heard about the recent project of Kuish-Iran and China to develop the technology of venting key land? I hope to be able to make a final implementation with Prime Minister Sabah on this matter." ”

"There's nothing to talk about, we've terminated the project. "Prime Minister Sabah didn't even think about it, and obviously knew it by heart.

During this time, Shannuo and Zhang Shaozhong ran up and down, and met all the Kuwaiti government officials they could see. While admiration for their perseverance, the progress of the project has not changed in the slightest.

That being said, an official at the level of Prime Minister Sabah is not something that Shannuo and Zhang Shaozhong can meet.

Prime Minister Al-Sabah is now relatively familiar with one of the projects he has never seen in the client, which shows that the Kuwaiti side is not really uninterested in the project, as they say.

This is also a little reason why Wright wanted to arrange this meeting on the impromptu basis, rather than let the Chinese side continue to hold on so tirelessly, it is better to drive people away as soon as possible.

It is true that the United States can be regarded as the supreme country of Kuwait, but it is impossible for Hughes to borrow this kind of American influence on Kuwait endlessly.

Since Iraq unilaterally accepted the UN ceasefire resolution, the Iran-Iraq war now seems to have come to an end. However, as an arms company, Hughes's research on the war situation is beyond imagination.

As Hu Wenhai has judged, after the war has reached a stalemate, Iran is now able to come up with a rather limited number of means.

Until Iran agrees to a cease-fire resolution, both sides will inevitably shed their last drop of blood. Judging from the past ethics of the two countries, these two countries are regimes that can do anything. In order to seize the slightest benefit, we will not hesitate to break through any lower limit.

With the ship raid in front of the pearl, the probability of the outbreak of the siege battle is at least higher than 80%.

Kuwait, as a small country, is across the sea from Iran. It is the secular shield of Iraq that prevents Iran from exporting extremist religious forces.

In Kuwait's defense strategy, supporting Iraq against Iran is a firm direction. At this stage, Kuwait is able to refuse to cooperate among the three countries because Iraq itself has not expressed a strong will.

However, if the siege breaks out, Iraq will inevitably exert tremendous pressure on Iran to promote the development of the project among the three countries.

Before that, Wright must find a way to get the most crucial China out of the game, and Iraq will either have no way to turn to it, or it will have to buy Hughes's high-priced goods.

The Chinese must not be allowed to hold out until the outbreak of the siege of the city, which is a strategy that Wright and Hughes jointly agreed upon. Otherwise, when it comes to the stage of the siege war, the presence of the Chinese side will be a great variable.

Seeing Prime Minister Sabah's attitude, Wright smiled slightly and said: "Although Kuwait has terminated the cooperation on this project, the Chinese side does not seem to have any such results, and it is still working hard to promote it." For example, at today's reception, I happened to meet with military personnel from the Chinese side, and it seemed that they wanted to take this opportunity to meet with Prime Minister Al-Sabah. ”

"Oh?" Prime Minister Sabah frowned, as if he was a little impatient, or something else, "There's no need to meet, let them communicate with government officials if they have any questions." ”

To tell the truth, Prime Minister Sabah really did not have the need to meet Shannuo and Zhang Shaozhong, and he did not feel the mood to meet them. The two of them, just a head of a delegation and a researcher, how can they be compared with the prime minister of a developed country.

The gap in identity is the size of an Indian Ocean.

However, under the gap in status, another reason for Prime Minister Sabah's irritability is his irritability to take care of state affairs.

At the beginning of the trilateral cooperation in the development of the project, Kuwait was very interested in the project, and the progress of the tripartite contacts and negotiations can be described as rapid progress. Later, Kuwait's attitude suddenly took a 179-degree turn, purely because the United States expressed a strong tendency to intervene.

If the attitude of the Americans does not change, Prime Minister Sabah will not be able to relent. To put it simply, the Chinese have found the wrong person, and Prime Minister Sabah is involuntary in this matter.

Of course, Prime Minister Sabah cannot be comfortable in the heart of a country's leader. But since he can't lose his temper with the Americans, he can only turn a blind eye to the Chinese representatives.

Wright smiled at Shannuo and Zhang Shaozhong, who were standing outside Prime Minister Sabah's guard circle, and said proudly: "You two also heard, since Prime Minister Sabah doesn't want to see you, Chinese friends should leave first, right?"

"Mr. Prime Minister, I am a regimental commander of the People's Liberation Army of China, and this time I am tasked with negotiating the joint development of a defense system for key areas by the three countries. Standing outside the guard circle, Shanno stared at Prime Minister Al-Sabah, and said in English: "Actually, Kuwait has many roads to choose from, and the defense system of the important place is not necessary for Kuwait. With Kuwait's geography, the threat comes only from the invasion of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. However, if these two countries want to invade Kuwait, they will actually want to defend the area, no, Kuwait's entire national defense construction will be expanded tenfold, and no matter how advanced the weapons are, it will be useless, and this is the sorrow of a small country. ”

"You're so rude!" Hearing Shanno's words, the staff next to Prime Minister Sabah stood up excitedly and shouted at him.

"Is Kuwait's funding of Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war because Iraq is waging a just war?" Shanno ignored the reactions of others, only looked firmly into the eyes of Prime Minister Al-Sabah, and said: "Kuwaitis understand that the religious forces in Iran are a threat to the secular regime, and can only use Iraq as a shield against it. The war that entrusts the safety of one country on the other two countries has also occurred in the history of China. There was once a war between Japan and Russia on Chinese soil. The rulers of our Chinese at that time pinned the hopes of the country on the war between the two countries, but as a result, history proved that the victory of either side was a disaster for China. ”

"Because at the beginning of the twentieth century, China not only did not have an army capable of protecting itself, but also did not have the industrial technology to arm it. The Iran-Iraq war, or any modern war, has shown that no country can rely on the import of arms and weapons to achieve national defense autonomy and national independence. The project of the three countries to cooperate in the development of a defense system for key areas is a condition that can never be provided to Kuwait by Western countries. Not only is it cost-effective and reliable, but more importantly, we are willing to share these technologies with Iraq and Kuwait without any secrets. “

"Prime Minister Al-Sabah should be very clear about this, and no country in the world will ever have such conditions as China. Is the Government of Kuwait really going to give up such an opportunity?" )