After inviting Mina to her house for dinner that day, life returned to normal the next day, and nothing seemed to have happened.

Mina obediently stopped coming to Gu Ao's dormitory, seemingly acquiescing that this was not her territory.

However, outside, everyone can still sit down to drink and chat calmly in their spare time, respect each other elegantly, put aside disputes, and develop together.

After a few days of uneventful days, Gu Biao devoted himself wholeheartedly to his work every day, without the slightest relaxation, and his efficiency was much higher.

On this day, it was almost August, and it was another weekend.

Seeing that he was about to get off work, Gu Biao filed the documents at hand and was about to go home to fight against Xiao Sui's poetry.

The phone on his desk rang.

The voice that rang on the phone was Mina's voice: "Brother, it's me, Lieutenant Colonel Zhang has returned to China, and it's nothing, I just want to get together with you." He didn't know the number of your new dormitory, and he still used your contact information last year, so the call came to me. Are you free?"

Mina's rented house is still left by Han Ting, and she also lived there before Gu Biao was assigned a job last year, after all, a phone number that can make international calls is very rare nowadays. Before Gu Biao graduated, there were some private international businesses that were inconvenient to contact in the dormitory, so he could only go to Mina's to work.

So it's normal that Zhang Zhong only has the contact information over there.

Gu Biao thought for a while: "Zhang Zhong, did he come back from Iraq? Did you say what happened?"

Mina: "It seems that it's not just Iraq, he also stayed in Saudi Arabia for a while a while ago, so it seems that he has a secret mission to explore the way." But it's nothing to do with you, just to catch up. ”

Gu Biao: "Okay, then you can help me book a table at the Friendship Hotel, just a smaller one in the hall." I'll take Hoko with me after work. ”

Since it's a private gathering of friends, not a job, there's nothing to avoid.

In case Zhang Zhong mentions some confidential matters, let Mina and Xiao Sui go shopping at the nearby foreign exchange store when the time comes.

Bringing your girlfriend to a friend's banquet is also a form of respect for your girlfriend.

Xiao Sui, who was at home with code words, after receiving a call from Gu Biao, he also simply cleaned up his makeup and went out.

……

An hour later, the Friendship Guesthouse.

"Xiao Gu, it's been good in the past six months; Zhang Zhong was dressed in a navy white shirt and civilian clothes, and after walking into the hall, he glanced halfway around, and went straight to Gu Fu's table and greeted everyone warmly.

"Sit down, you're welcome. Gu Biao casually pointed to the seat opposite, didn't get up, and then put his arm around Xiao Sui's shoulders and introduced, "This is my lover, Xiao Sui." ”

"Hello Comrade Xiao. Comrade Xiao looks like a Sven person, and his temperament is different. Zhang Zhong politely complimented.

"Hello Captain Zhang. I'm just a student, and you've won the prize. Xiao Sui returned the salute.

Zhang Zhong is not the head of the regiment, but it is not wrong to be commensurate with his rank. The lieutenant colonels of later generations are roughly equivalent to today's main regimental or deputy regimental positions, all of which are available.

After the greetings, Gu Biao smiled and quipped: "I heard that you have made meritorious contributions recently?" Why did Iraq mix it up for a few years, and it started to mix with big dog families again. ”

Zhang Zhong waved his hand: "Eh, it's hard to say much, the Israelis are not authentic, and recently in order to deal with the Palestinians, they actually crossed the border to Lebanese territory." There are several other Middle Eastern countries where everyone is at risk.

Iraq used to carry the banner, but it was fighting with the Iranians in the quagmire and could not spare its hand to do chivalrous deeds. Therefore, a few regional powers that have money but weak national defense have begun to secretly seek to build a higher level of armed forces for self-protection...... It's hard to put into words, anyway, the Americans strictly abide by Israel's strict belief that they will never sell weapons to Middle Eastern countries other than Israel when they are doing things to other countries in the Middle East. ”

Zhang Zhong's words are not confidential, but any level analyst can basically analyze them.

To say that from the second half of 1981 to the first half of '82, this whole year, there were new military conflicts in the international community. The Falklands War, which is still brewing today, is the most impactful, followed by the conflict between Israel and Lebanon.

This conflict, in the original history, had to drag on for several months before it started - because in the second half of 81 years of history, the Israelis were busy plotting with the Iranians to jointly destroy President Hussein's plutonium reactor. After that work was done, I was free to clean up Lebanon.

However, the butterfly effect caused by Gu Biao had already manifested itself at this time: the senior mole and Major Sanders, who were ambushed by the Israelis in the Iraqi strategic equipment department, and even his other upper and lower line moles, failed to assassinate Gu Biao two years ago, and were killed by General Hussein. Therefore, the Israelis currently lack the information to accurately grasp the target fortification, and they are unable to join forces with the Iranians.

On the other hand, because President Hussein released the results of the academic research on the "imaginary Judah nation" that Professor Schromer only revealed in '08, it injected a shot in the arm for Palestinian rebels.

As a result, international aid to Palestine has increased by several percent, and the belief in protest has skyrocketed. As a result, the Palestinian rebels hiding in Lebanon acted more aggressively than at the same time in history, resulting in the Israelis being forced to attack Lebanon months in advance.

In this matter, Lebanon is strictly innocent, because the Lebanese government is not harming Israel, they are only hosting stateless Palestinian rebels. It is these Palestinians who are really fighting back against Israel, which has chosen to take direct revenge on the Lebanese Government.

The conflict that took place in the early 82 years of history was actually not large-scale, but the impact was far-reaching. It violated the previous international rules of "no connection", led to a large number of refugees, and made the suicide vest appear for the first time in human history, so it caused an international public outcry.

It also has an important knock-on effect, that is, Saudi Arabia and other countries have begun to distrust the United States and seek to diversify the sources of arms and equipment imports.

Because this war has made them see through the nature of "no matter how the Americans cover us on the surface, as long as one Middle Eastern country is at war with Israel, all other Middle Eastern countries will not be able to buy advanced American-style equipment, and the Americans will protect Israel, their own son, even if they do not make money."

This was not the case in the Fourth Middle East War of '73.

In '73, as long as the Saudis said they were not directly involved in the war, then the Saudis could still buy American-style arms. It's just that Egypt, Syria and Iraq, three countries that are directly at war with Israel, can't buy it. Now it has developed to the point that all Middle Eastern countries cannot buy it, and this kind of "strain-linked system" forces all countries to find their own way out, and it is all the extreme hegemony of the United States that seeks to find its own way.

But it also cheapened the export of equipment from China and the Soviet Union.

Gu Biao himself is engaged in international relations, so Zhang Zhong only needs a few words to dial, and he smooths out all the above causal logic.

Mina is also a "quasi-Middle East expert", so she understands it too.

As for Xiao Sui's confused face, it was just right, saving her from asking more. At this moment, she only needs to be responsible for drinking milk tea.

"So, you used the skin of China State Construction Company to negotiate a lot of deals?" Gu Biao asked playfully.

"It's not so fast, it's good to have some intention and help the upper line up. I'm a retired naval officer! How can I directly manage that kind of business business?

At the end of the day, we also want to thank you for helping pave the way - we can connect with the Saudis thanks to President Hussein's introduction. In the end, it's still your credit. Zhang Zhong is clear from the relationship.

"Then what about coming back this time, does it have anything to do with Saudi business?" asked Gu Biao sideways.

"It's not directly related," Zhang Zhong said here, glanced left and right a few times, then lowered his voice and leaned into Gu Ao's ear, "This time someone from the Naval Equipment Institute asked me to come back and visit the pre-production launch test of the YJ-5."

Since President Hussein's incident, he thought it was very easy to use, and he had spare money, and then in the second quarter, he bought an American Kidd-class. Now that the Iraqis have a tendency to surpass the Iranians in naval power, they have begun to seek to break the blockade by sea.

Didn't you get back the American gyroscopes and inertial navigation calibration systems two years ago? The research and development of our domestic Eagle Strike-5 has been accelerated for at least two years, and this experiment will be officially put into production secretly at the end of the year. I'm going to come back and look at the results of the experiment, the first-hand data, and see if there are any selling points worth publicizing, so that I can blow the bulls in advance in the Middle East and build momentum for purchasing decisions. ”

Any military procurement, is the equipment has not yet come out, first blow out the, this is the rhythm of enthusiastic work.

If you wait for everything to be done in the rear and wait for the shipment before you start contacting the customer, isn't it all delayed?

No marketing department waits for the R&D department to do everything before selling, and each stage has something to brag about.

"Is it appropriate for you to tell me about this?" Gu Biao was slightly embarrassed.

Although he has contributed a lot to this matter secretly, it is not his responsibility at the moment.

Zhang Zhong showed a rare evil smile: "What's inappropriate, how capable you are, I don't know yet." Nowadays, we Chinese have sent so many people in the Middle East, but President Hussein recognizes your face the most. Our director told me euphemistically that if you have time, you can take a look at the live-fire test together. Maybe when the final purchase decision is finalized, it will be up to you to go up the upper route to help with good words. ”

"Since it is a national need, it is my duty to do so. Gu Biao said.

Then, he also whispered in Xiao Sui's ear just right: "Suizi, maybe after a while, I have a confidential task again, and I can't be with you every day, Mina may have to follow me......"

"It's business, didn't we talk about everything that night. When you are doing things in that capacity, what's wrong with a little woman by your side. Xiao Sui said very sensibly that there was no need to say much.

After finishing the business, the wine and food ordered by Gu Biao had also been served in batches, and the group of four people ate unceremoniously.

Zhang Zhong stayed in Iraq and Saudi Arabia for more than two years, and he never returned to China for a long time, at most a few days of short-term debriefing and family visits, so he had already faded out of his mouth.

A Han person has not eaten pork for several years, which is very unbearable, and Gu Biao also knows this, so there are no beef and sheep dishes on the table today, and all kinds of pork dishes are ordered.

Zhang Zhong didn't see Gu Biao either, he just grabbed a big chopsticks and pig ears, and he was still chewing in his mouth, and immediately stuffed another spoonful of nine-turn fat intestines into it.

After eating for a while, he muttered about the daily news in Saudi Arabia, and mentioned one thing.

"Xiao Gu, sometimes I think some domestic media are also unhelpful. You said that in the first round of the World Cup qualifiers a few days ago, we finally won the Saudi team, so there is no need for the media to bury people. The Saudis are neither deaf nor blind, and the media are well-informed. They will also keep an eye on our media reports, some unfriendly humiliation, which will affect the development of business sales......"

Zhang Zhong mentioned this, that is, he just said it casually, because he was engaged in arms sales in Saudi Arabia, and he was indeed complained by some customers recently. The humiliation of the domestic media after winning a World Cup qualifier against Saudi Arabia really made it more difficult for him to build friendship.

However, when Gu Biao heard this, his heart moved: the 1982 World Cup qualifiers......

This is the closest to the World Cup before the Chinese team entered the World Cup for the first time in 02.

At that time, as long as the Saudi Arabian team did not lose more than 5 to New Zealand in the last game, China would directly qualify. But in the end, the opponent lost 5 net goals, and as a result, the Chinese team, which had been herding sheep for more than a week, had to reconvene the players and play a play-off with New Zealand......