Chapter 040, Force Majeure

After receiving the order of Canglong, Badr personally led the various detachments of the Zhijun army, and when Natasha visited Basra, he seized all the oil fields in Basra, whether they were Americans, British, or Russians, all of them were cleared out of the oil fields, and the oil wells were sealed, and all equipment was emptied.

The news spread throughout Iraq in an instant, boiling overnight in the consulates of all the countries in the Assad district of Basra, and this was the first operation against foreigners taken by the Prophet's army after the occupation of Basra governorate, and although it did not cause any casualties, it caused panic in various countries.

Natasha, who was at the Basra US military base, naturally got the news, and she looked confused at that time: "What the hell does this guy want to do?" ”

"The consuls of the governments received the simple answer from the Basra provincial government was that now all the oil fields in Basra would be closed and that the previous contracts with the central government would be null and void." Uncle Sam stood by and smoked a cigarette.

"All invalid?" Natasha felt a little amused, "How can they deny this if they don't say anything?" Unless they really break away from the central government! ”

"In fact, they have broken away from the central government, and they are just saying that they want to fight for autonomy." Uncle Sam smiled, the oldest member of the SOG didn't seem surprised by everything here.

Soon the U.S. consul at the Basra consulate called, and the consul said: "The provincial government of Basra has announced that the prophet has forbidden anyone to extract oil, because the source of the war is oil, and now Basra wants to develop agriculture and manufacturing, and build the largest trading port in the Middle East." ”

"What he did to build these things, it is estimated that in less than two months, the people of Basra will be in famine." Natasha didn't care, although she didn't know who the prophet was, but she knew very well that this prophet must have been made by Canglong, and everything was manipulated by Canglong behind the scenes.

"No, it doesn't take two months, half a month is enough, and now the grain in Basra can only last for half a month at most, although the provincial government has opened the port for fishing, it is far from enough, and the price of goods in Basra is now inflated, and the money is not worth anything at all." The consul said.

"That's fine, I don't need to clean him up, the system he established will automatically collapse in half a month, and let your people spread rumors in the city and tell the people here the real situation, but I have to leave to do all this, understand?" Natasha said.

"Yes."

"Also, there is no need to worry about the oil fields, he closed all the oil fields, he is asking for trouble, the major countries are looking at this side, and the first to worry about the oil fields is not us, but the countries that are most short of oil." Natasha didn't care in the slightest.

In order to find out Canglong's military strength, she still decided to go to Longteng International to visit Canglong.

As Natasha expected, the day after the closure of the oil field, the Russian consul, the British consul, the French consul, and the Japanese consul all began to go to the provincial government to pressure the return of the equipment and to fulfill the oil field contract signed by the central government, and the government would not allow interference with any legal oil extraction.

Unfortunately, Vivien blocked the door and saw none of them, so the consuls left angrily, and threatened to put pressure on the central government to send troops against the Prophet's army. ”

In fact, the central government of Iraq soon learned that the oil fields here were closed, Basra province accounted for more than 70% of Iraq's oil reserves, and the closure of the oil fields meant that the central government had a deficit in revenue, but now the remnants of the Mahdi Army and the Baath Party were the main culprits, and the Kurdish alliance in the northeast was also fighting for independence, but it was beyond the reach of Basra.

However, the Iraqi Council of Representatives issued an ultimatum demanding that the Basra provincial government and the Prophet's Army immediately stop infringing on the rights and interests of foreign oil companies and immediately allow the oil fields to resume production.

It's just that this ultimatum was put on Vivien's desk, but she didn't look at it, and threw it directly into a ball and threw it into the trash, which suddenly made many countries with oil interests in Basra understand that now the central government can't balance Basra at all, and it can't balance the Prophet's army, and I'm afraid I have to go to the mysterious prophet to negotiate.

At the same time, Ambassador Zhou Zheng also rushed to Basra, these days he and Yellen are busy in Baghdad to deal with the problem of the Mahdi Army and the remnants of the Baath Party encroaching on the Chinese contracted oil fields, but so far, the central government is only perfunctory, Zhou Zheng would never have thought that such a big thing would suddenly happen, so that all the oil fields contracted by Longteng International in the northern oil region collapsed.

As for the Rumaila oil field in the southern Basra province, which is now in the hands of the Prophet Army, there is no hope at all, and the most infuriating thing is that the president of Canglong actually gave all the oil workers in the south a big vacation, and even the drilling work was not carried out.

When he and Ye Lun angrily ran to Canglong's office to question, Canglong replied: "What international oil prices are soaring, domestic oil and gas are tight, it's my business." ”

Zhou Zheng trembled with anger at this sentence: "As the president of Longteng International, your wrong decision has completely collapsed the Middle East strategy, and you are fully responsible." ”

"Can this depend on me? War, it's all this damn war, if it weren't for the kind of things that the Americans did, Iraq wouldn't be full of wolves, I said you go to the Americans, why are you looking for me? Canglong understated, "This is force majeure, you know?" Force majeure! ”

"What force majeure, don't think what you're doing behind your back, we don't know, wouldn't the matter of Qatar Prison be like this if you hadn't planned it behind your back?" Yellen asked suddenly.

"Slap" Canglong slapped the table, stood up and said, "Did you talk to the president like this?" ”

Ye Lun's face changed, but he stubbornly said, "Are you worthy of being a president like you?" The international situation you think you are playing a game, hurry back to China and be your eldest young master, I don't want you to mix here. ”

"That means, Director Yelunye, you are in charge, right?" Canglong asked with a sneer.

Ye Lun's face changed suddenly, of course he couldn't bear this responsibility, the collapse of the Iraqi strategy was indeed due to external factors, but Ye Lun knew that this external cause was made by Canglong, but he couldn't come up with evidence, and now he was completely blocked by Canglong's words.

"Don't fucking talk about the international situation that makes domestic oil and gas nervous, it's just a trick for you to fool the people and want to raise prices, doesn't Russia have oil? Is there no oil in Iran? Is Iraq the only country in the Middle East that has oil? Is there no oil in South America? Canglong asked rhetorically like a cannon, making Ye Lun completely shut his mouth, "The trick of fooling the people has also been brought to me to talk about things, you are a three-year-old child?" ”

"Although Director Ye's words are very inappropriate, your actions have caused the collapse of the Middle East strategy, can you admit this?" Zhou Zheng calmed down a little and softened his tone.

"Is there any evidence?" Canglong asked rhetorically.

Zhou Zheng's face was suddenly bad, obviously unable to come up with any evidence, although they all knew that Canglong was behind the scenes with the people of the fifteenth game.

"Shut up without evidence, Your Excellency, or I can sue you for slander!" Canglong glanced at him angrily, and then sat down.

The two of them stood still and walked neither to stay, they were extremely embarrassed, and they came to Canglong to settle accounts angrily, but they were blocked by Canglong for nothing, and they felt that they had made a mistake as if they had made a mistake.

"I said a long time ago that if you want to extract oil here, you must wait for the environment to stabilize, you don't listen, now the oil fields are occupied by the rebels, right? Lang spent money not to mention, and Lang spent time, it's better to be like me, do nothing, and come to the truth. Canglong lowered his head, picked up the pen and began to draw again.

Zhou Zheng's face was pale, but he had to admit that what Canglong said was right, and only a month had passed in a year, but Zhou Zheng really couldn't imagine that Canglong could do anything amazing while staying here.

"In that case, I won't bother President Cang, I hope you can do it yourself!" Zhou Zheng left angrily, and Ye Lun followed closely to leave but was stopped by Canglong.

"What are you leaving?"

Ye Lun froze in place, suddenly regretted what he had just done, and was thinking about how to face Canglong alone, only to hear Canglong say: "Evacuate all the workers of Longteng International in Baghdad to Basra, all those oil fields are gone, and the equipment is also gone, and if you don't come back anyway, the headquarters will be located here in the future." ”

Ye Lun's face changed, which would mean that he and Canglong would not look up and see each other in the future: "I think it is inappropriate to evacuate, after all, the central government is still there, and the rebels will be suppressed soon." ”

"You are a smart person, you should know that the war will not stop, the central government actually has the ability to take back the oil fields, but they don't take it, why is that?" Canglong asked rhetorically.

"Let's retreat." Ye Lun said in a deep voice, but he was resentful in his heart, "It's not because of what you did. ”

"I know you're not convinced, when my mother was in charge of Longteng International, you were his most powerful assistant, I don't know why I came to me, but you have to go against me everywhere, of course, I don't want to know what you think in your heart, but I'm giving you a choice now, either go back to China to work, or stay here to assist me in a down-to-earth manner, you are still the director of Longteng International." Canglong said calmly.

Ye Lun didn't expect Canglong to talk to him calmly, especially after he went against Canglong again and again, if he was replaced by an ordinary young man, I am afraid that he would not die and never give up, but now he suddenly saw a kind of energy from Canglong.

And what made him ashamed was that he saw such a strength in a young man in his twenties, and he struggled in his heart for a while.

"Don't worry, think about it." Canglong said calmly, "Give me an answer in a week, go stay with you, go out." ”

Yeren didn't say anything, turned around and walked to the door, but his figure was a little lonely, like a defeated rooster, without that kind of arrogance.

"What's wrong with this Director Ye? It feels like a different person, you didn't do anything to him, did you? Vivien walked in suddenly, asking strangely.

"What I can do with him is to give him a choice." As he spoke, Canglong repeated what he had just said.

"Ha, you don't even care about the past suspicions, you really can't see it." Vivien's tone smacked of mockery.

"It's not that he doesn't care about his past suspicions, but there is really no one available, not to mention that Yellen is indeed capable, otherwise my mother would not have promoted him to the position of director." Canglong's head didn't lift, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Natasha is here." Vivien's face was solemn