From afar, Kempinski looks like a huge castle with a beautiful private beach and garden-like artificial island near Abu Dhabi's Royal Palace.

It is home to the largest auditorium in the Middle East, a conference system, and a world-renowned restaurant. The massive interior even requires a golf cart to make a round trip.

Its luxury is not only reflected in the domes and desert oases, but also in the more direct expression - gold! Kempinski hotels are furnished in pure gold. Picture frames, wall stripes, table and chair edges, faucets, doorknobs, tissue boxes, all pure gold.

If 11, 12 or 13 people came to rob the hotel, they had better drive the same number of trucks, or the missing gold, art, and cash would be regrettable for life.

Sioux City checked in inside the resplendent lobby. While the courteous waiter helped carry the bag, a specially invited Chinese student accompanied him and helped translate it in soft Mandarin.

Since Sioux City booked the hotel two days in advance, the pair had plenty of time to find a Chinese interpreter. It's just that in the UAE in 1988, it was really difficult to find a translator from Chinese mainland, so the young man named Li Wei they finally found was actually from Taiwan.

At this moment, while Li Wei was translating, he was still looking at Su Cheng curiously.

His voice is not loud or small, and it is exactly the volume of the hotel training: if the guest wants to listen to it, he can hear it very clearly, and if the guest wants to ignore it, he will not feel noisy......

Walking to the elevator position, the Arab waiter pressed the elevator, and Li Weicai whispered: "I used to translate for tour groups in Taiwan and Hong Kong, but it is the first time I have met mainlanders, are you doing business activities?"

Because of the relationship between the same Chinese. Sioux City nodded, "Let's bid for the oil fields in the UAE." ”

"The oil field that was just announced?"

"That's right. ”

"You're the representative of the China National Oil Corporation, right? I didn't expect ......."

Sioux City was about to speak, when there was a sound of "popping" footsteps from behind. And someone raised his voice and said, "Mr. Sioux City, you're here too, haha."

The other party's English accent was so strong that it was forbearing, but Su Cheng didn't laugh.

Because the people who came were none other than Hitoshi Moriyama of Ito Corporation and Hiromatsu Sakaguchi of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan.

"You're here too?" Su Cheng said in English with a blank face.

"We always have to give it a try, we will cooperate with the Dougson company of the United States to bid, this is also no way, Mr. Sioux City is amazing, I heard, your company has to bid alone? haha, help you succeed." There was irony in Moriyama's words. Hiromatsu Sakaguchi also smiled. The humility and obedience of the past disappeared without a trace.

Su Cheng nodded slightly and said, "You are very well-informed. ”

"Compared to Mr. Sioux City, it is surprising that your Dahua Industrial can get the news of the UAE oil field bid in advance. ”

"It's actually very simple, you told me. ”

"What?"

Sioux City doesn't hide it. Walking into the elevator, he said with a smile: "You are so eager to want Dahua Industrial's shallow sea oil drilling technology, which can't help but make people wonder." So, I did some research, and it turned out that the UAE was actually going to sell oil fields. ”

Hiromatsu Sakaguchi smiled with an ugly face and said, "Don't thank me. ”

"Thanks again. If I remember correctly, this is the first time since 1979 that the UAE has sold an oil field. Thank you, Ito Corporation, and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, without you, this trip to Arabia would not have been possible. ”

Sakaguchi Hiromatsu snorted and said, "What can you do if you receive the news, don't forget." The oil fields in the UAE in 1979 were acquired by Japan. ”

"I've picked up the leftovers of the British, and I don't know how much you have paid. ”

His casual words seemed to uncover Sakaguchi Hiromatsu's wounds, causing his face to change greatly.

When Sakaguchi tried to refute Sioux City, the elevator door closed.

The elevator goes up to the 16th floor.

The door opened, directly in the hall of the room.

Kempinski has a total of 16 palace suites, and the other 6 waiters, except for the driver, are already waiting inside, bowing at this time.

Su Cheng looked around with satisfaction, then went to the bathroom to change clothes and wash, leaving Li Wei behind, surprised as if it was the end of the world.

Although he has studied in Arabia for 5 years, Li Wei has only been to Kempinski three or four times, and has never entered the palace suite, at this moment, looking at this hotel suite, which may be 500 square meters, or 600 square meters, with 3 large bedrooms and 2 small bedrooms, as well as a formal kitchen and dining room, Li Wei can't help but think: "Mainlanders can live in Kempinski, will the missiles be far away?"

The next day, Zhang Haochang and others went to the UAE Ministry of Petroleum to inquire about the bidding issue.

Sioux stayed at the hotel for a swim and had a big meal.

On the third day, under the arrangement of the Chinese ambassador, Zhang Haochang and others went to the UAE Ministry of Petroleum again to directly ask the UAE Minister of Petroleum about the details of the tender, and after collecting information, they made an explanatory report to the Ministry of Energy.

Sioux City meets an English-speaking Arab beauty and enjoys a great meal together.

On the fourth day, Zhang Haochang and others went to the Chinese embassy and stayed for a whole day to conduct a conference call.

Sioux waited quietly at the hotel until the end of their conference call before calling back home to find out what was going on.

On the fifth day, Su Cheng slept lazily, and when he woke up, he saw Li Wei already waiting in the living room.

"You can come at noon, I'm going to have lunch in my room and go out in the afternoon. Sioux City went to the fridge to find a drink, then picked up the service slip next to the phone and prepared to ask for room service. In order to facilitate his stay, the hotel has prepared a beautiful Chinese menu, although there are few customers who use Chinese here.

Li Wei smiled, but said, "Mr. Su, aren't you here to bid for the oil field? Do you want me to help you contact the Ministry of Petroleum in the UAE?"

Su Cheng gave him a strange look and said with a smile: "Why are you so positive." ”

"Oh, I see that you don't seem to have any intention of going out to understand the situation recently, so ......" Li Wei's courage that he had finally mustered gradually collapsed under Su Cheng's stressful eyes. Slowly became a whisper: "I also studied oil, and I once fantasized about one day." Can get an oil field for China. Although, although you are from the mainland, I think it is about the same. ”

Su Cheng was stunned for a moment, laughed, and said, "That's a good idea." However, understanding the situation does not necessarily mean leaving the hotel. ”

Li Wei was a little surprised and asked: "I have read the bidding document, and it does not even state the location of the oil field." You should at least know where the oil fields are located, otherwise, don't do a site visit. How do you determine the bid price?"

"You did learn about oil. "Sioux City has chosen the food. After ordering food in English, he said to Li Wei, who was impatient: "Actually, so far, no one knows where the oil field is located." ”

"Nobody, what about the oil minister? You can find a way to meet him, in the UAE. Ministers are not as hard to see as Asia......"

Su Cheng raised his eyebrows and said, "The Minister of Oil doesn't know the location of the oil field either. ”

"How could it be ......?"

"If you study oil, then you should know that if you know the location of the oil field, it is possible to know the type of basin floor, and then guess or directly understand the local subsidence history, sedimentary history, kerogen type and its maturity, and then build a model of oil generation, you can make a rational bidding curve, right?"

"Of course. ”

"The UAE doesn't want you to make a rational bidding curve, at least not now. Sioux City flipped through. "Of course, I'm not just guessing, through some channels, I know for sure that the oil minister doesn't know the location of the bidding fields, and now it seems that the UAE wants to get some benefits first." Then the mystery will be gradually revealed, and it is estimated that it will take more than two months to give the location of the oil field. ”

"So that you don't have time to probe in detail?"

"Well, such a big place, and it's offshore, you can't prevent it, so you can only get stuck in time. ”

"But, somebody knows. ”

"The king and the crown prince know for sure. Su Cheng bowed slightly, and said half-to himself: "West Germany, the United States and Britain have already sent important officials to the United Arab Emirates, and we will wait for them to talk first......

"Wait for them to talk first?"

"That's right. By the way, you go and find me some newspapers, all the newspapers about the king and the crown prince in the last year or two, and have pictures. ”

Li Wei couldn't help but smile and said, "What's the use of that." ”

"If you have the opportunity to stay in the country for a few years, you will understand that all the news is in the newspapers. Sioux waved his hand and went to his bedroom to play the game.

Li Wei thought about it for a long time, but he didn't understand, so he had to go to find the newspaper. For this kind of request, the hotel can help, and the suite is equipped with 7 waiters to meet all kinds of strange requests of guests.

Looking for newspapers within two years, it is normal to find 200 women to have naked parties...... Or, in places like Abu Dhabi, the latter is more normal.

After a few days of reading the newspapers in a hotel, Goro finally flew to the United Arab Emirates. He had never been abroad, and despite the attention of others, the time to process his passport was correspondingly extended, and he was not able to catch the same flight.

Entering the luxurious Kempinski Hotel, he was amazed by the tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of newspaper photos in the room. With the exception of the ceiling and the upper half of the walls, the palace suite has been wrapped in newspapers.

In the hall of hundreds of square meters, all the furniture and furnishings have been emptied, the floor is full of cropped photos, and the walls are plastered with cropped photos, and Su Cheng walks on them barefoot, his eyes keep looking at them.

"What's going on?" Gorou said for a long time.

Before Li Wei could speak, Su Cheng raised his head and smiled: "Wulang is here, come to help." ”

"Oh, good. ”

"Go and cut out the pictures from the newspapers. ”

Gorou then found out that there were several waiters sitting on the balcony, all of whom were cutting out photos there.

"What are we doing?" he asked.

Su Cheng raised his head and smiled, his eyes were bloodshot, and said, "The embassy will not provide us with intelligence support, and the local private detectives will not dare to follow the king and the crown prince." Formal channels don't have anything to do with us, so we can only use stupid methods. ”

As he spoke, he picked up a photo, pasted it on the wall, and said, "Since we can't reach the king and the crown prince, or even the royal family, let's start with the people around the royal family." ”

Gorou nodded stupidly and said, "Then what should I pay attention to?"

"Inconspicuous people. The more private doctors, photographers, drivers, bodyguards, and reporters appear, the more they appear, the more they are valued by a member of the royal family, and those meetings with limited numbers can also give them extra points. In Sioux City's impression, the Iranian king's greatest trust was a photographer who defected to the United States after nine years. Chinese leaders often trust drivers more than secretaries, and the C.I.A. recruits doctors as spies to gather intelligence on foreign leaders......

These information are often not directly obtained by ordinary people, and these people around them are far easier to access than leaders and leaders.

Sioux City just needs a wedge.

Not only to leverage the royal family, but also to leverage funds.

…… (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )