Chapter 487: Two Birds with One Stone
Sarkozy's arrival surprised everyone, especially Messi and Riquelme, who were sitting at the table drinking coffee with Lu Jiadong and chatting about football, their expressions changed several times, they never expected that Sarkozy could come to the Chinese exhibition hall with a swagger, and listening to his tone, he seemed to be very familiar with Lu Jiadong who was sitting opposite, which made Messi's deep eyes suddenly give birth to a trace of vigilance.
The heart said, this Lu Jiadong and Sarkozy will not collude, right?
"Haha~~ Dear Lu, how is it? Your new anti-ship missile was introduced to my Argentine friend okay? Anyway, as a model of our cooperation, the performance of this missile is comparable to that of the 'Exocet', but so far there has been no target missile test launch, to be honest, my dearest Lu, you are indeed a little anxious!"
Sarkozy didn't think he was an outsider at all, pulled a chair and sat in the center of the table, with an exaggerated expression, patted Lu Jiadong's shoulder, and said very quickly, but before Lu Jiadong could answer, he turned his head again and continued to General Messi on the side:
"But then again, General Messi once said that they are not in a hurry to introduce anti-ship missiles and can wait for a while, so I think General Messi, you can give my Chinese friends a chance!"
Sarkozy's words were kind and pleasant, as if he was talking to two old friends who had not seen him for many years, and there was also the intention of encouraging and promoting business between the two parties, if people who did not know looked at it, this Sarkozy was definitely a good person, but which member of the Chinese military delegation present was not an extremely smart person, how could Sarkozy's implicit provocation not be heard?
What is a model of cooperation, what is not even a target bomb test-fired, what is anxious. What still needs to wait for a while, to put it mildly, it is here to dismantle the Chinese C801 anti-ship missile platform, which is clearly a match, but secretly it is sabotage everywhere, and the impression of the Chinese C801 anti-ship missile in General Messi's heart is completely destroyed!
And that's exactly what happened. After Sarkozy said this, Messi, who was already skeptical about the C801 anti-ship missile, had the impression that this Chinese-developed anti-ship missile was not as simple as damage, but was completely beaten to the abyss of no return, and even felt extremely angry in his heart.
Because Sarkozy's words made Messi conclude that China and France had colluded in advance, although Messi intended to avoid France during his trip to Europe, he did not hide his whereabouts, even if he came to the Frankfurt weapons exhibition in civilian clothes, it doesn't matter if he meets Sarkozy when visiting other pavilions. After all, it is normal for him to visit the weapons and equipment exhibition freely.
Even when he came to the Chinese booth near France, what General Messi did not expect was that France's Sarkozy was not only a very good friend of China's Lu Jiadong, but also heard the meaning of close cooperation between France and China from Sarkozy's words that seemed to be a business matchmaker:
"No wonder how China's so-called C801 anti-ship missile looks like a 'flying fish', it turns out that the root is here!"
General Messi thought in his heart, a sense of humiliation of being deceived and calculated couldn't help but rise secretly in his heart, and his impression of Lu Jiadong was not as warm and friendly as just now. Instead, he looked at Lu Jiadong with an icy cold from the South Atlantic, because in his heart. Lu Jiadong has become an unscrupulous villain and a liar who sells weapons and equipment, and he is simply a raccoon dog with the Sarkozy he hates so much.
General Messi's gradual cold change, Lu Jiadong couldn't feel it, to be honest, he didn't expect Sarkozy to come suddenly, no matter how much he thought about it, he was relieved. In any case, Argentina is one of the important importers of French weapons and equipment, from the army's AXM-13 light tanks and Milan anti-tank missiles, to the Air Force's super-flag attack planes, Mirage III fighters, and other missiles, radars, communication systems, and other supporting equipment.
But except for the United States. France can be called Argentina's second largest arms supplier, and in the face of such huge vital interests, the French, who have always recognized money and do not recognize people, naturally cannot let others snatch this piece of fat meat, and even the United States, the leader of the Western alliance, will not make the slightest concession on this point, let alone China, which has not been in the international arms market for a few years!
And in fact, it is true, since noon, Sarkozy has stayed in the exhibition hall of the French Thomson Technology Company, waiting for General Messi of Argentina to come to discuss the next step of weapons and equipment exports, but after waiting for a long time, he did not see Messi's figure, and at this time, Le Pen, who went out to negotiate, came back and told Sarkozy, who was waiting in the exhibition hall, that General Messi had a good conversation with Lu Jiadong in the Chinese exhibition hall next door.
When Sarkozy heard this, he became furious, and the "chicken" who was originally going to make an example for China actually ran to the house of the Chinese "monkey"; not only that, but this "chicken" and "monkey" also faintly smelled of joining hands to do business, and Sarkozy could not help but worry about this.
Because he knows that Argentina hopes to purchase a number of large-caliber artillery and advanced individual equipment, China has an incomparable advantage in this regard, not to mention the excellent performance of the Type 78 firearm, let's say that the matching gun-mounted grenade launcher, as well as the light automatic grenade launcher for team support, has become a model for countries around the world to imitate equipment, and the 52 times 155mm howitzer is the trump card in the hands of China's military industry.
If he hadn't seen that China was stretched thin on the exhibition funds, and had made some obscure smear reports by using the advantages of propaganda and media, China's equipment might have become an obvious weapon for the exhibition, and Sarkozy, who had not negotiated with Lu Jiadong, wanted to take advantage of Messi's visit to suppress China again, in order to force China to accept his cooperation.
In order to achieve his goal of killing two birds with one stone, but Messi's sudden appearance in the Chinese exhibition hall shattered Sarkozy's plan to kill two birds with one stone, and at the same time, the plan to export individual equipment and large-caliber artillery to Argentina may also fail completely because of China's intervention, and then fall into an embarrassing situation of stealing chickens and rice.
Because of this, after listening to Le Pen's report, Sarkozy pushed away everything he was doing and rushed to the Chinese showroom, of course, as an experienced sales director of an arms company, Sarkozy is not a reckless brave man, this kind of sabotage of other people's business naturally has to be strategic, otherwise it will not be able to highlight his noble and charming French blood.
"Of course, our Chinese friends still have a lot of good weapons and equipment in their hands, such as the Type 59 tank, which is old and strong, enduring, and can be called a classic, and the Type 63 armored car, which is said to be ordered in large quantities by Iran, and is characterized by being simple and easy to use, and simple to train......
Of course, Sarkozy also saw that General Messi was already frosty and faintly appeared on his cheeks, so his smile became even stronger, because he knew that his goal had been achieved, and it might be better than expected, as for what he had to do now, was to pour another basin of ice water on General Messi, who had already appeared in the cold, for three or nine days, so that he would completely freeze his heart.
Because of this, Sarkozy brought out the old equipment from the Chinese booth, and although he said it with great appreciation, every phrase that popped out of his exaggerated expression and dancing movements was so full of irony and contempt.
"Mr. Sarkozy, thank you for the compliment!" Just as Sarkozy was about to "praise" the products of his so-called Chinese friends, Lu Jiadong couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry, but his calm and powerful words cut off Sarkozy's gushing speech, which made Sarkozy stunned, but seeing that Messi's face had condensed into a layer of frost, Sarkozy didn't care anymore.
Because his goal has been achieved, anyway, the Argentines will not buy Chinese equipment, let him say a few words and what can he do? So Sarkozy smiled at Lu Jiadong very gentlemanly, stretched out his hand to signal Lu Jiadong to speak, while he himself took the coffee, leaned leisurely on the chair, as if watching a play, wanted to see what Lu Jiadong had and turned over the current unfavorable situation!
"However, Mr. Sarkozy has been talking about our general equipment!" Lu Jiadong still had an indifferent smile on his face, glanced at the people present with different expressions, and then continued:
"But he didn't say anything about our light weapons, in fact, our guns and grenade launchers still have a strong advantage!"
After listening to Lu Jiadong's words, Sarkozy couldn't help but be taken aback, he didn't expect this young Chinese to be so good at exploiting loopholes, and suddenly lead the topic to the field that China is best at, but what can this be? You know, if a person's impression becomes bad, it is difficult to change, and General Messi is still a very principled person, can these strengths touch the already frozen heart?
Sarkozy expected it right, General Messi did have a very bad impression of Lu Jiadong and even the entire Chinese military industry because of Sarkozy's words, so when Lu Jiadong's voice just fell, he responded coldly:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Lu Jiadong, we in Argentina don't need any individual equipment at the moment"
As far as I know, your American-made M72 bazooka has been used for more than 20 years, and the ammunition stored in it has been aged.
"This. Messi hesitated, but Sarkozy replied: "Of course not, because the Argentine side is ready to purchase the latest individual bazooka produced in France!"
"Oh?" Lu Jiadong replied, and his eyes suddenly emitted a light that was not easy to detect. (To be continued.) )