Above the vast clouds, a Boeing 737 passenger plane printed with the logo of Pakistan is flying west along a fixed route, and the night lights under the belly of the aircraft are flickering frequently, just like a twinkling starlight, which is particularly dazzling in the night sky.

"I'm station M air traffic control 0526, please inform me of your flight number!"

"Pakistani Government Plane, No. 241589. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Yes sir, confirmed, welcome to Kuwait, please continue to fly along the current route........."

The voice of the Kuwaiti air traffic control personnel was clear and firm, and the Boeing 737 pilot, who was in charge of piloting the special plane, used the in-flight intercom to call the adjutant on duty in the cabin after confirming the data of the on-board navigation equipment:

"Please inform the general that we have arrived in Kuwaiti airspace!"

The adjutant on duty answered, then got up and came to a private room, the door of the private room was open, the adjutant slammed the door twice, and before he could speak, Musharraf, who was looking at the domestic report with reading glasses, raised his eyes and looked at the adjutant:

"Already in Kuwait?"

"Yes, General, we have reached Kuwaiti airspace and are expected to arrive in Saudi airspace around 10 p.m. ”

"Yes!"

Musharraf nodded, and then waved at the adjutant, and then the adjutant stood up and respectfully retreated, and by the way, he closed the door of the private room, Musharraf saw that after the adjutant left, he also put down the boring report in his hand, turned his head to look at Lu Jiadong, who was holding the American "Time Magazine" with relish, and a touch of incomprehensible worry gradually enveloped his somewhat tired face:

"Lu, I really don't know what you think, the 'Falcon' air defense missile system has been purchased by the Saudi military, but if you continue to insist, they may cancel the order, although this order is not profitable, but it is also the first export of the 'Falcon' missile, and the significance is still relatively great, why do you have to work thanklessly and have to sell the missiles to Iraq in disregard of Saudi Arabia's opinions? The Iraqis are capricious, and they will be opposed by Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia will also be opposed anyway Falcon's funders, we can't ignore their feelings!"

"Feelings? Why don't Saudi Arabia want to think about our feelings? It's like a bakery that has just baked a fresh bread and then blocks the sale of bread because of the disharmony between his partners and his neighbors.

Lu Jiadong threw the "Time Magazine" in his hand on the small table next to him, and said extremely unkindly, if there were other Pakistanis at the scene, he would definitely be scared half to death, you must know that the person who spoke to Musharraf in this tone, there is no second person in Pakistan.

Even if they can find it, they are all lying in the cold grave, and even in the international arena, anyone who sees Admiral Musharraf is respectful, so is there such a careless person as Lu Jiadong? But the strange thing is that Musharraf did not see a trace of displeasure on his face except for shaking his head in embarrassment.

Speaking of which, he has a deep relationship with Lu Jiadong, and he can sit in his current position and rule the whole of Pakistan, and this young man around him has given him a lot of help, and because of this, Musharraf has always regarded Lu Jiadong as a good friend and good partner, so he doesn't mind Lu Jiadong's attitude.........

As early as the beginning of the development of the "Falcon" air defense missile system, the sales plan to Iraq was decided, and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, which were participants in the missile system, were extremely supportive, especially Saudi Arabia.

Out of the need to enhance its position in the Arab world and its voice in the Middle East, it has given unprecedented support for this weapons and equipment project in which it participates, and even did not hesitate to use Iraq's debt to exert pressure, so that Iraq had to accept the "Falcon" air defense missile system to participate in the bidding.

But as the saying goes, there are no eternal friends, there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iraq is a good interpretation of this famous saying, during the Iran-Iraq war, in order to resist Iran's revolution ~~ life export, the two countries are indestructible allies, but as soon as the war ended, the relationship between the two countries has undergone subtle changes:

Saudi Arabia has been trying to make Iraq into his eagle dog in the Middle East, and for this purpose to invest a lot of money in Iraq in the form of loans, but Iraq has always regarded itself as an Arab lion, and its ambition to dominate the Middle East has never been extinguished, and when the two countries face the Iranian alternative of the ~!~Ye~!~ faction, they can still achieve the same hatred and hatred, and once this threat gradually subsides, the contradictions between the two countries will be highlighted.

At the beginning, Saudi Arabia was able to threaten Iraq, which was in urgent need of domestic reconstruction, with the threat of loans, but with the continuous decline of international oil prices, especially after entering 1990, the international oil transaction price fell from $20 a barrel to $14 a barrel, which made Iraq's already financially stretched situation even worse.

At this time, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and other countries, which are also financially tight, in order to alleviate their domestic financial pressure, asked Iraq for loans during the Iran-Iraq war, which made Iraq feel that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other countries were stabbing in the back, coupled with the potential contradictions in seeking hegemony in the Middle East for a long time, which made Iraq not only demand forgiveness of debts, but also publicly criticize Saudi Arabia's policy of overproducing oil.

On the one hand, Saudi Arabia has joined forces with the Gulf countries to put pressure on Iraq and urge loans, and on the other hand, it has used all available means to impose punitive sanctions on Iraq.........

"Evil is evil, business is business, it is originally an unrelated matter, but Saudi Arabia has to combine the two, he doesn't want to make money, just forget it, but he has to pull the two of us outsiders in, it's hard not to get angry!"

Listening to Lu Jiadong's indignant rhetoric, Musharraf on the side also looked helpless, in fact, he was also very conflicted in this matter, as the main participant in the "Falcon" air defense missile system, Musharraf very much hopes to use the "Falcon" air defense missile system to get a share of the international arms market;

However, in the face of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan's largest financier and foreign aid country, Musharraf does not want to be too offended, so Musharraf can be described as a dilemma between the two, and it is precisely because of this that he has done a lot of work these days to bridge the opinions between the partners of the "Falcon" air defense missile, and only hopes that the two can take a step back and get the maximum benefits from the left and right.

But it didn't come to pass, the attitude of both sides is very tough, especially Saudi Arabia, there is almost no room for maneuver, Musharraf weighed left and right, and finally chose Saudi Arabia, the reason for this is no other reason, or because of the commercial interests of the "Falcon" missile:

Although a few days ago, together with Lu Jiadong, Prince Khalid was fooled into a daze and succeeded in making him purchase three battalions of the "Falcon" air defense missile system, this is only a return on Saudi Arabia's huge investment, and it is basically unprofitable, but in any case, this is also the first equipment of the "Falcon" missile, and the demonstration effect is self-evident.

However, Iraq, not to mention the various obstacles in the process of arms procurement, just to say that their heavy dependence on Soviet-style equipment is a great difficulty, not to mention that Iraq's new generation of air defense missile procurement plan has long attracted the attention of the Soviet military industry, for the Soviet Union, which is now short of funds,

Arms exports have become a major source of foreign exchange, and the weapons and equipment they have taken out are naturally not the "monkey version" of the kind of equipment that was simply equipped in the past, and the performance is unimaginably advanced.

Anyway, if Saudi Arabia tastes the sweetness of the "Falcon" air defense missile system, Gulf countries such as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates will naturally not be able to talk about it, so why bother to cling to Iraq thanklessly? Therefore, even if he took Lu Jiadong with him during his visit to Saudi Arabia, he was trying to persuade Lu Jiadong to make concessions in this matter, and by the way, he asked Lu Jiadong to ease up his relations with the Saudi side, but he did not expect this young Chinese man to be surprisingly stubborn, and in the end, Musharraf could only spread his hands:

"Anyway, I have already made it very clear, and as for the reasoning, I think you also understand that if you can consolidate a little market, you must stand firm, not to mention that the Gulf region is not small, as for the demonstration effect of advertising, that is not the same, why do you need to keep an eye on Iraq? Do you really think that Saddam Hussein dares to start a war?"

Musharraf just said it casually, but Lu Jiadong shrugged his shoulders and asked meaningfully: "Why not?"

Musharraf only felt that Lu Jiadong was also joking, and his silent face couldn't help but have a playful smile, and he just wanted to continue talking, but he saw Lu Jiadong's very serious face on the side, he knew very well that Lu Jiadong was not joking when he was serious, and when he thought of Lu Jiadong's accurate judgment when the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan and the Anglo-Argentine naval battle, he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and then he was stunned, and asked in disbelief:

"Lu, what do you know?"

"I don't know anything, but I know Saddam's ambitions.........."

Musharraf has always admired Lu Jiadong's analytical skills and foresight, and when he heard this, he became interested, took off his reading glasses, and asked:

"Tell me about it!"

"Good!"

Soon after, the adjutant on duty outside the box received an order from Musharraf to contact the Iraqi Government as soon as possible, and he was to make a surprise visit to Iraq before visiting Saudi Arabia..........

At the same time, in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, the conference room of the spacious and bright presidential residence was brightly lit, and the heads of all the key departments of the Iraqi government gathered here, with a pair of admiration and fear, staring at Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who was sitting on the main seat.

Saddam Hussein looked around at the group of high-ranking Iraqi officials present with his cold eyes that seemed to be able to conquer everything, and finally fixed his gaze on the Iraqi chief of the general staff, General Hassan Majid, who was on the left, and asked slowly in his characteristic noble voice:

"What happened to the troops transferred to the Iraq-Kuwait border and the Iran-Saudi border?" )