"Director Liu, how do you think we should negotiate on a fair and reciprocal standpoint?" King Fahd was ridiculed by Liu Yijiu, and he couldn't say a word, and now even if Liu Yijiu gave him steps, he didn't answer.

Prince Sultan asked the young man who had impressed them with a playful expression.

Liu Yijiu was stunned, he didn't expect that Prince Sultan would relieve him.

He knew that his words were a bit heavy, and the king's face could not pass, and he was thinking about how to make the king get by on face.

Sultan's words saved him from such troubles.

As long as you pay attention to what you say in the future, otherwise it will be over.

He immediately coughed slightly, took this opportunity to sort out his thoughts, and said very calmly: "Your Royal Highness, in the course of our previous exchanges, I said that we should not bring the demands of other countries to the arms and equipment trade between our two sides, whether it is legitimate or not. ”

This point is what Liu Yijiu has always emphasized.

"That's unfair. Missiles like DF-3A, together with the Guardian-1 rocket artillery, are urgently needed by your country and can ensure your country's strategic national defense security and even strategic weapons with complete sovereignty. Because of Israel, the United States, no matter how good its relations with your country are, will not export it; And even if the Soviet Union exports, first, no matter how many missiles, they will definitely open their mouths, and your ally Iraq's purchase of Scud missiles from the Soviet Union is a clear example, and it has always had a bad relationship with the United States, otherwise it will be sanctioned. That's one thing; On the other hand, the Soviet Union would attach a number of conditions, which were not fundamentally different from the previous ones......"

The reason why Saudi Arabia chose China. It was because the United States did not buy Lance surface-to-surface missiles with a range of just over 40 kilometers, and the Soviet Union was consulted, and the Soviet Union put forward a large number of political attachés.

Internationally, large-scale arms transactions are subject to a series of political conditions.

China's exports of weapons and equipment, no.

Because of a lot of political attachés, for China, which pursues a defensive strategy of national defense. It is not very useful at all, and it is more appropriate to have more foreign exchange that is urgently needed.

"Didn't you put forward additional conditions?" Bandar especially despised Liu Yijiu. "Director Liu, although you have not put forward any political strings attached. But is it a condition that you ask us to purchase a large number of outdated conventional weapons and equipment in your country? ”

Liu Yijiu couldn't help but smile when he heard Bandar's words.

I smiled a lot.

When the drowsiness came, someone handed the pillow. Something like that. It's a good thing for him.

I'm worried that the other party won't take the initiative to bump into it!

He immediately replied: "Your Royal Highness, first of all, please note that I am talking about political conditions. Binding the sale of conventional weapons and equipment is not a political condition, is it? Second, although there are such clauses in our contract, these clauses are not mandatory for you to abide by. And the ...... performed

"How is that possible! It is very clear in the terms of your contract that you must procure weapons and equipment totaling more than half a billion dollars. will sell 60 Dongfeng-3 armor for us at a price of 65 million US dollars each......" Sultan was immediately furious, Liu Yijiu was simply insulting their IQ.

However, halfway through the words, he reacted himself.

If $1.1 billion in conventional weapons and equipment were not purchased from China, it would not have been sold for $65 million each, and there would probably not have been 60 pieces of secondary kicking sold to them.

This is a trap that the Chinese use to mislead them in the terms of the contract!

"That's true, the Dongfeng-3A medium-range strategic missile, with a range of 2,800 kilometers, is 1,100 kilometers longer than the range of the prototype Dongfeng-3 missile, and the cost will naturally be much higher, as well as a series of expenses such as research funds. If you need to purchase more than 100 pieces, you can dilute the research funds more, and the price will naturally come down...... It is precisely because of this situation, considering that we have not established diplomatic relations between the two sides, and it is not in line with the traditional virtues of our Chinese nation to open their mouths like the Soviets, that our offer from the very beginning was very low, only 70 million US dollars per piece......"

Sometimes, it's very easy to fool non-specialists with data.

Liu Yijiu has always been good at doing such things.

How much was spent on the development of a medium-range strategic missile like the DF-3, only insiders know.

After all, in those days, many of the returned experts of the republic used local methods to solve problems in many aspects, such as the verification of large aircraft such as the Yun-10, the calculations before the explosion of the mushroom bomb, and so on.

When Americans are researching these superweapons, they are using supercomputers and other series of matching, while in China, when there were no supercomputers, some were just abacus!

This comes at no cost.

But Liu Yijiu naturally will not tell the local tycoons of Saudi Arabia like this, otherwise, the other party will know that the cost of the Chinese will be outrageously low.

Hearing Liu Yijiu's words, not only Crown Prince Sultan, but even King Fahd was speechless.

The reason why strategic weapons are strategic weapons is because of the high cost of research and development, the cost of production, and the need for a huge supporting system. The average small country simply cannot afford to support such a project!

Although Saudi Arabia has money, it has no way to face the entire huge system, and if it can buy it, it will naturally be more in line with Saudi Arabia's interests.

You know, for this project, King Fahd has prepared a special fund of 10 billion US dollars, and the Chinese sell them two kicks, 60 pieces, only 3.9 billion US dollars, and the rest can be used to support their Muslim brothers, Pakistan is engaged in mushroom bombs, and once Pakistan's mushroom bombs are successfully developed, they will naturally be provided to them.

At the same time, it is not so easy for those Jewish bastards in Israel to threaten with mushroom bombs.

"Senior Colonel Liu, in this way, conventional weapons, we can obtain these two ...... without purchasing them Kicks? "King Fahd said that the second kick is not very smooth.

Liu Yijiu nodded, "If we don't purchase conventional weapons and equipment, we will sell them at a price of 68 million US dollars, and at the same time, all kinds of follow-up guarantees will have to be calculated separately......

If we do not purchase conventional weapons and equipment, we will naturally have to make Saudi Arabia pay more for it.

Annual maintenance and subsequent upgrades are highly profitable projects.

"Of course, if the purchase order reaches the amount we requested, we will provide technical support for the annual maintenance, and only charge a nominal fee of five million dollars per year...... "Originally, the price in this regard was 10 million a year.

In order to obtain more orders for the purchase of conventional weapons from Saudi Arabia, Liu Yijiu naturally did not care about the $5 million a year.

Later, the purchasing power of money will be weakened, and it will be far less useful to China as a whole than to get more than a billion dollars at once now.

"What if it doesn't reach it?" Sultan asked, frowning.

"The annual logistics maintenance will be multiplied by a coefficient according to our domestic cost, not to mention anything else, each one must be guaranteed to be in a state of constant use, and the maintenance cost of 300,000 US dollars per Chinese New Year's Eve should be indispensable." These costs are mainly guarantees for liquid fuel and engine performance...... "Liquid fuel is not as convenient as solid-fuel missiles, and many times, it is stored separately.

However, in order to ensure that the missile is in the launch state and put into use at the fastest speed, the liquid fuel is filled into the missile, and the liquid propellant inside and the performance of the entire missile must be checked every once in a while, so as to ensure combat capability and accuracy.

Medium and short-range missiles are not too troublesome, and long-range intercontinental missiles, just for propellant refilling, take several hours, which greatly reduces combat capability.

It is for this reason that all countries that possess such missiles are desperately working on solid-fuel propellant missiles.

China developed such missiles in the early seventies, and in the international environment at that time, a total of no more than a hundred missiles were deployed, you know, this thing can hit Moscow from within China! Whether it is the Soviet Union or the United States, the number of such missiles produced is in the thousands.

Later, China did not expand the scale of deployment, but only used it for technological upgrades and used the original technology for technical research. Eventually, these missiles were all replaced by the Dongfeng-21, a solid-fuel missile that was smaller, more flexible, more concealed, and easier to launch.

"At the same time, we will also be responsible for the later stage of technological upgrading, as long as the similar technology developed in China, you need it, we will also provide the upgrade of your country's missiles......" Liu Yijiu saw that the other party fell into deep thought, and simply put forward conditions that could make them more tempting.

"So, once your country develops solid-propellant missiles to replace this missile, China will also sell them to us?" Sultan's eyes lit up.

If it is upgraded, when the time comes, the liquid propellant of this batch of missiles will be replaced with solid propellant, and the engine will be replaced with a solid-fuel engine......

This can be upgraded to a long-range strategic missile, or even an intercontinental missile!

Of course, the premise is that the Chinese are willing to provide technology.

"We'll have to talk about that later. At the moment, we haven't even negotiated the current contract......" Liu replied ambiguously. (To be continued.) )