Chapter 1058: Presidential Request
Guo Shucheng, who was standing next to Qian Xuesen, was as excited as Qian Xuesen and other scientists. It's one thing to know exactly how many of these weapons are, it's quite another to see them appear, especially when everyone looks surprised when they appear.
They feel that their lives are worth it, and their blood and sweat are worth it!
In fact, the most excited and deeply felt is Guo Zhuocheng, because he is reborn and roughly knows the development of weapons in his previous life, at least he can conclude that the main battle tanks and Jian-10 fighters that appear now will take at least more than ten years to be installed in the previous life, and the YJ-801 missile and blue cruise missile have appeared for a longer time.
…… The parade ended successfully, and Guo was led by staff to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he will meet again with Iraqi President Uday for a resumption of talks.
Even if it was a private meeting, the meeting was a business negotiation. There are many official contents, such as the issue of China's oil fields in Iraq's Pokhaz region, the issue of Iraq's procurement of new weapons from China, the issue of Iraq's military reform, and the issue of China's export of fruits and vegetables to Iraq.
Nominally, the negotiations between Guo and Uday are not equal, because Guo is currently only the leader of a region, and Uday is the president of Iraq, and the difference in rank is too great, so their conversation has to be conducted in private names. Of course, the main reason is that Uday trusts Guo Zhuocheng very much, and even trusts him a little, he doesn't care about Guo Zhuocheng's identity at all, and is willing to talk to him about a topic.
According to what Uday said to Guo Zhuocheng, he came to ask Guo Zhuocheng for advice, and at the same time, he also wanted to express his gratitude to Guo Zhuocheng. If it is emphasized that the two sides are equal, it will be difficult for him to have the opportunity to communicate with Guo Zhuocheng in a heart-to-heart manner, and it will be difficult for him to achieve the purpose of his visit to China this time.
Obviously, Guo Zhuocheng had selfish motives in this conversation, and he also intervened in the sale of fruits and vegetables on Qionghai Island. When the main topics of the negotiations were agreed before the meeting, Yu Gangqiu was a little disapproving of Guo Zhuocheng's pretense of public welfare and personal gain, but Guo Zhuocheng said eloquently: "Who told them that Iraq lacks fruits and vegetables? You don't know, I'm helping him, not asking him to help me. ”
As Guo Zhuocheng said, after he and Uday met again, any request that Guo Zhuocheng said did not require him to ask Uday, the president of Iraq, but as long as Guo Zhuocheng said it, Uday readily agreed.
Both of them are young people, and they are almost the same age, and Uday is only more than two years older than Guo Zhuocheng, but now he is not yet twenty years old. The officials they deal with are much older than they are, and even though Iraq has promoted many young officials because of the war and various massacres, the younger officials are basically twice the age of Uday. The average age of Chinese officials is even older, and cadres at and above the vice-ministerial level are generally over 50 years old, more than three times the age of Guo Zhuocheng.
Now that two high-powered young people are sitting together, they are naturally very happy and happy. The current situation of the two is to say that they have similar interests, to say that they are philistines who take what they need, to put it ambiguously is **, to say it elegantly is to regard it as a confidant, and to put it ugly is to say that the wolf bèi is annihilated...... Relatively speaking, Wudai has a greater need for Guo Zhuocheng, who has always taken the initiative in conversation.
The reason why Uday, who was praised as a genius by the Iraqi people, was able to ascend to the throne and change the history of his previous life and replace Saddam Hussein and become the president of Iraq is indispensable to Guo Zhuocheng.
If it had not been for Guo Zhuocheng to help him achieve tremendous achievements in the Iran-Iraq War, if it had not been for these achievements to help him establish a lofty prestige, if it had not been for Guo Zhuocheng to help him train special operations units to become the main force in the assassination of Saddam, and if it had not been for Guo Zhuocheng to help him design and suppress dissent,......, Uday would not have been able to sit on this throne coveted by everyone, and it would have been impossible for him to save his life.
Uday can't thank Guo Zhuocheng enough, and besides, Guo Zhuocheng does not have many requirements for Iraq, and the problem of the oil fields in the Pokhaz region is only to discuss how the two sides can cooperate and how to benefit both sides, and if China cannot extract oil here, Iraq will not benefit.
In order to make Iraq stronger and more stable in his ass, Uday hopes to continue to import a large number of advanced weapons from China, but China and the United States have reached an agreement to restrict the export of sophisticated weapons, and now they cannot purchase advanced weapons if they have money, and whether they can buy sophisticated weapons from China still need China to help them solve more problems.
Second, Uday also slowly realized that Iraq can no longer be too aggressive, and must calm down to carry out economic construction, and they also need funds, talents, and technology.
It can be said that the treasury under his control is now impoverished, and the Iran-Iraq war for so many years has depleted all the original foreign exchange reserves. In order to have a strong treasury and more money at his disposal, he had to develop the economy, and he knew that Iraq could not get into the high-tech field all at once, and that the result of being ambitious would be to waste money and money. Naturally, his eyes fell on China, and only here in China could he find some less sophisticated technologies that could be produced by the Iraqi nationals, so as to improve people's livelihood and allow the people to slowly cope with the current predicament.
In addition, after all, Uday is a young man, and he started his career on military exploits, not to mention for the strength of Iraq, but also to satisfy the plot of the general who commands thousands of troops in his heart, and he will not give up the idea of strengthening the army.
On the one hand, Iraq's economy does not allow for the maintenance of a large-scale army, and on the other hand, Iraq must maintain a strong military strength, and this pair of contradictions is always in trouble, and he knows that the only way to solve this contradiction is to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army and improve the quality of the soldiers.
As for how to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, if the soldier's suzhì is improved, Uday knows that he can't do it no matter how conceited he is, and he must find Guo Zhuocheng, the best teacher, to help him come up with ideas.
Everyone knows that young people, once they trust or worship whom, will always be much more reliable in their loyalty to their idols than adults. Not to mention that Guo Zhuocheng just hopes that Iraq will purchase vegetables and fruits from Qionghai Island, which is also what they need, that is, Guo Zhuocheng wants to dump some other things in Iraq that they don't use very much, and Wuday will agree.
It's just that there are too few commodities in China now, and they are in short supply, and many materials still need to be sold and supplied, and the tickets have not yet been canceled, and the commodities still need to be distributed by the relevant state departments with administrative power. China simply did not have a surplus of goods to send to Iraq.
Guo remembered that it would take nearly a decade for China to cancel the stamps, and that the meat stamps, egg stamps, and cloth stamps would only gradually disappear, and it would take even longer for the food stamps and oil stamps to disappear. In the previous life, food stamps really withdrew from the economic field after 1990, and before that, people needed to pay food stamps in addition to paying money to buy rice in grain stores. In his previous life, when he was in college, the food stamps issued by the school were still available to his classmates to exchange for eggs from vendors.
Guo Shucheng's request was not worth mentioning, and Uday agreed with his mouth. However, Guo Zhuocheng could not reply to Udaiti's demands at all, because his demands related to the relations between the two countries, especially the matter of Iraq's desire to import advanced weapons, China's foreign policy, and the commitments made between China and the United States.
Guo Zhuocheng did not refuse, but explained the situation clearly, and said openly and honestly that he did not have this power.
Uday was a little disappointed, and said angrily: "Guo, you can completely control the power of the state, and you really can't do anything without power." If my father were president, he would not dare to make such a request to you, but if you were the head of China, you would definitely agree to me. Guo, when will you become the leader, do you need my help? ......, no, no, I don't mean to interfere in the internal affairs of your country, I mean that you are fully qualified for this position with your ability. ”
Guo Zhuocheng is really helpless about this open-mouthed guy, fortunately, I Guo Zhuocheng has no ambition, I really want people to know, Lao Tzu is not worried about being divided at any time? Although China is now a socialist country, it does not allow careerists to survive.
Seeing that Guo Zhuocheng was really unhappy, Uday also stopped, and did not say any more stupid things on this issue, but changed the topic and talked about asking China to help Iraq build a civilian goods factory.
Guo Zhuocheng verbally said that this problem is very difficult, telling the other party that China is also in an era when the supply of goods exceeds demand, and it is even worse than the situation in Iraq, but in his heart he still hopes that Chinese companies can go out and build some low-tech factories in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries, so that Chinese workers can be diverted.
Because he knows that in a few years, the operation of China's state-owned enterprises will fall into a trough, and many workers will have no wages. While China will not go bankrupt on a large scale, these companies will need state subsidies for them.
Although in this life, because the military industrial enterprises escaped the tragic fate because of the sharp increase in orders for arms exports, and many enterprises that should have died in the previous life were vigorous because of the production of high-profit arms, Guo Zhuocheng was not blindly confident that all state-owned enterprises could escape the threshold of dying in the previous life.
You must know that the checkpoint is so harsh and the time is so long that "laid-off and diversion" and "reducing staff to increase efficiency" have become the mantras in the mouths of officials and the magic weapon for entrepreneurs to save enterprises.
Guo Zhuocheng soon had a clear plan in his mind, that is, to divert the workers and enterprises from the three northeastern provinces, which were the hardest-hit areas of state-owned enterprises in the previous life, and to send one-third or even more than half of the workers to Iraq, to the Middle East, and to Africa, which is poorer than China.
(To be continued)