Because he had never been to Iran in his previous life, and he rarely saw Iranian videos on TV, he didn't know where the oil fields in Iran had not been exploited, and he didn't know where they had oil fields. Naturally, he did not dare to "take the risk" of buying a piece of unmined virgin land at a low price, as he did in Iraq, so he could only negotiate with the Iranians on the existing oil fields and take down the existing oil fields.

According to Guo Shucheng's intentions, it is Chinese to simply convert the money used by Iran to buy weapons into crude oil at the current oil prices, which will be mined by Iranian oil workers and transported to Chinese oil tankers, which will be transported to all parts of the world for sale.

But this plan was firmly rejected by the Iranians.

After all, the Iranians are not stupid, and they also expect that the price of crude oil will definitely rise, and now that the price of crude oil is so low, it will be a lot of losses to provide at this oil price in the long run. Of course, the main reason is that there are too few oil workers in Iran now, and most of the young and strong laborers have gone to the front line to resist Iraq with guns, and the remaining oil workers simply cannot extract so much crude oil to supply China.

The crude oil they can extract now is all for their own use, and the amount itself is already very small, how can there be a surplus to China? The war continued, the labor force was insufficient, and they had no choice but to empty the huge reserves of crude oil.

The plan they proposed was to hand over the right to extract a piece of land to China and let China send its own oil workers to extract it. They guarantee that the oil in this field allocated to China will be able to fully cover the cost of weapons for China if it is converted into dollars at the current world crude oil price. At the same time, it is also commit If, after the deadline, less oil is extracted than promised, Iran will be responsible for extracting crude oil from other fields and shipping it to make up for it.

I have to say that this plan proposed by the Iranians is the best plan in the current situation. Only in this way, Iran, which has no money and lacks oil workers, can pay off China's debts faster and better.

After a brief discussion of the geological exploration data provided by the Iranians, and after handing them to the oil experts who accompanied him, Guo Zhuocheng pretended to be embarrassed and proposed that Iran must ensure that the information provided is correct and that there must be no elements of deliberate misrepresentation. At the same time, he asked Iran to promise to expand the area of this part by half, and extend the mining period to 99 years, so that Iran has no right to intervene in the future no matter how much crude oil China extracts on this land, so he agreed to Iran's relevant construction.

Then. He also talked a lot about the friendship between China and Iran, talked about the fact that China's labor force is also tight, and at the same time told Iran that China is also a crude oil exporter and the demand for crude oil is not urgent, and so on.

The intention, of course, was to hope that Iran would open his mouth with his lion.

The shrewd Iranians, of course, did not accept his demands in their entirety, especially with the expansion of the extractive area.

The two sides have held arduous talks on this issue, and the Iranian side, like Guo Shucheng, has talked about Sino-Iranian friendship in an attempt to hope that China will make concessions on the friendship between the two sides.

In the end, because of the tension on the front. The fighters were in dire need of weapons, and Iran, which was congenitally lacking in confidence, was finally forced to reluctantly expand the originally agreed area by a quarter.

The Iranians have little objection to the extension of the mining time. Twenty years after they came to sell the mining rights of an oil field is about the same as transferring ninety-nine years, because the crude oil in the ground is certain, and no matter whether it is mined in 20 years or 99 years, it will never form oil again, and even if it is formed, it will not be formed in just a few decades. During the negotiations, they only stressed again and again that the land was only allowed to be extracted by Chinese for oil. The land is not allowed to be used for any other purpose, especially for the construction of military bases, for the training of anti-Iranian militants and agents, and every facility on the land must be regularly inspected by Iranian intelligence, and the local security is the responsibility of the Iranian police.

As for Guo Chengcheng's suggestion, the Chinese may extract excess oil and let the Chinese dispose of it themselves. The Iranians also did not oppose it fiercely, but only demanded the principle of reciprocity, that is, if the Chinese extracted more crude oil from here than the contract, Iran could leave it alone; But if the Chinese extract less oil here than the contract specifies, Iran doesn't care. It is no longer harvested from other oil fields and sent to the Chinese as compensation as mentioned at the beginning.

This plan is equivalent to a bet, the profit is their own, and the loss is borne by themselves, which can be said to be a hammer deal.

That's what Guo wanted, but the Iranians had no opinion, but there was dissent within the Chinese negotiating team, and the economic counselor who followed Guo thought it was too risky. I'm worried about what if the land I own doesn't have as much oil reserves underneath the Iranians as the Iranians reported? Isn't the country at a loss?

But his opinion was ignored by Guo Zhuocheng. According to the division of labor and authorization of superiors. Guo Zhuocheng has the leading power and the final decision in this negotiation, whether it is the economic counselor of the embassy or the oil experts who accompany him, he only has the right to build yì. Seeing that his repeated hints were ignored by Guo Zhuocheng, the economic counselor had no choice but to hide his worries in his heart and continue to negotiate with the other party on the aspects he was responsible for.

The oil expert also felt that such a plan was a bit risky, although he believed that the other side had not miscalculated, based on the information provided by Iran, that if the exploration numbers were correct, there should be such a large reserve underground, which greatly exceeded the amount of weapons needed to pay China. But the oil is buried in the ground, and no one dares to pat their chests until the day when it is actually extracted, guaranteeing that there is 100% of it in it.

He also wanted to remind Guo Zhuocheng to pay attention, and also wanted to remind Guo Zhuocheng to follow the safest way and not assume any risks, but seeing that Guo Zhuocheng's suggestion was rejected by Guo Zhuocheng, he did not want to touch the stone again, but calmed down and carefully studied the geological data and oil field descriptions provided by Iran, and tried to find relevant loopholes from them, and carefully calculated the crude oil reserves.

After reaching these consensuses, Guo Zhuocheng engaged in a round of heated arguments with the Iranian side on the issue of law and order, and finally reached a number of consensuses: the two sides promised not to discriminate against each other; Iran has promised to allow Chinese embassy personnel to participate in the trial of criminal suspects if Chinese violate local laws; The Chinese side promised that although the residential areas in China are managed by the Chinese themselves, the local police will be allowed to patrol and search the places suspected by the police in accordance with the law with the consent of the Chinese authorities. After all, this is Iranian territory, and Guo Zhuocheng is not ready to build a ** base here. All he needed was black gold beneath the ground.

It can be said that the negotiation went smoothly. Before Guo Zhuocheng arrived, Iran had communicated with the Chinese side and made preparations for the exchange of weapons in the relevant oil fields.

Once these agreements are reached, all that remains is a matter of detail, which will be negotiated by the low-level personnel of both sides. After each of them reports to their superiors, they will strive to sign them within three days, so that China's weapons can be shipped at an early date.

Back at the embassy, the economic counselor couldn't help but voice his worries.

After listening to their report, the Chinese ambassador to Iran also asked Guo Zhuocheng nervously: What if Iran gives a fake oil field? That's hundreds of millions of weapons in exchange, it's all the blood and sweat of the people, and it can't be wasted so much.

For them who were worried, Guo Zhuocheng said lightly: "It is impossible to lose it in vain, Iran does not dare to do this now." Whether it is politically or militarily, or economically and internationally, it is impossible for them to cheat us, at most they will make us earn less. ”

When the economic counselor said that it was not necessarily, the ambassador nodded and said: "If you look at the relationship between our two countries and the long-term exchanges, they really have no reason to cheat us. They have now offended almost the whole world, whether it is the Soviet bloc or the European and American blocs, they are all opposed, they are all their enemies, and the only permanent member of the Security Council who can help them speak is China. And their adversary, Iraq, has good relations with all the permanent members of the Security Council, and Iraq has a high reputation in the Arab countries, and Iran really has no reason to lie to us, but what if they themselves don't know if there is oil underneath the ground? ”

The oil expert next to him chimed in: "There must be oil." They themselves have drilled oil here, the only thing is that it is not possible to determine exactly how much there is for the time being. ”

The ambassador hurriedly turned his head and asked, "What about your estimate?" Is there so much in it? ”

The oil expert confidently said: "If the information they provide is correct, it will definitely exceed the amount we need, including the cost of weapons, construction costs, capital interest, average exploration costs, transportation costs, and so on." ......, how much, I need to bring someone to the site to investigate before it can be finalized. ”

The ambassador was no longer worried, and said with a smile: "That's good, that's good." ......, Director Guo, you are so bold. ”

Guo Zhuocheng pretended to smile and said: "I can't bear to let the child catch the wolf." We don't know what the outcome will be, but we can't be happy sooner. ”

The ambassador, counselor, and others all nodded solemnly, but their hearts were no longer in the anxiety they had just had.

The ambassador then asked, "This is how we report to the leadership?" ”

Guo Shucheng said affirmatively: "That's it." ”

What Guo didn't tell them was that this time China made a lot of money: First, neither the Iranians nor the people in the Chinese embassy knew that the price of crude oil would soar in the future. Although Iran knew that the price of crude oil would rise, they did not know or could not imagine that the price of crude oil would rise from a dozen dollars per barrel today to more than $100 a barrel in a few years, reaching a peak of $145. Almost ten times more than now!

Second, the world (arms) is inherently highly profitable, and the average cost of Chinese weapons is much lower than the average cost of weapons in the world, but now the price is almost on par with the price of weapons in Europe and the United States because Iran is in a hurry. Profits can be said to be staggering, and it is difficult for China to make money by exchanging high-profit weapons for crude oil, which is about to skyrocket.

(Thanks to the evaluation vote of the first knife in the rivers and lakes) (to be continued)