After listening to Leon's introduction, Rashid rolled his eyes twice and said: "If it's oil, then there's no problem, but we also need to cost oil extraction, so ......"

"Regarding the price, you can rest assured that we will definitely not let our allies suffer!" Leon replied boldly, "As for the specific settlement method, is it settled in Reichsmark according to the international price, or is it some other way?" ”

Rashid listened to Leon's words, thought for a moment, and asked, "Can it be settled with arms?" ”

The reason why he chose to settle the settlement with arms was due to many considerations. First of all, they are now on the side of Lyon, which means that they will be blockaded by the Allies, but Iraq's original weapons and equipment are all from the British, so once they are blockaded by the Allies, it means that they have lost their source of weapons.

This is fatal for a country with internal and external troubles.

Therefore, for Iraq, it is more practical to bring in a few ships of arms than to get a large sum of cash.

Listening to Rashid's suggestion, Leon pondered for a moment, then replied, "It's okay to pay your arms directly, but I have a better proposal." ”

"What proposal? The Führer said. Rashid wondered.

"We can do this, we pay the Reichsmark when we settle the bill, and then you use what we pay you to buy weapons from us." Leon said.

"What's the difference between this, and you paying us directly?" Rashid is even stranger.

"Hehe, you don't care about that." Leon laughed, "Anyway, can you accept my proposal?" ”

Does it make any difference to mess around? Germans just do things, Rashid thought.

Although Rashid has a lot of complaints about the above settlement methods, after all, compared with the direct settlement with arms, the extra currency is indeed a little more troublesome, but these troubles are not enough for Rashid to refute Lyon's face, so he still nodded and agreed: "No problem, we accept it, just follow the Führer's method." ”

However, Rashid didn't know that in fact, Leon's approach was not to be idle and find trouble, but to have his own considerations.

He wanted to learn from the American imperialists of later generations and make the Reichsmark an international oil settlement currency.

Of course, the current energy of the Reichsmark is not as good as the dollar in later generations, and people will not easily agree to unify the settlement currency into the Reichsmark, so Lyon needs to increase the influence of the Reichsmark in oil-producing countries, and subtly unify the current messy oil settlement currency into the Reichsmark.

"Haha, thank you allies for your understanding and support." Leon smiled, "As a token of appreciation, we're willing to help you train a group of troops for free." ”

Of course, although Leon said that he helped Iraq train the army in order to thank Iraq, the real purpose behind it is definitely not this, after all, Leon is the person who believes most in the phrase "there are no real friends in the world, only eternal interests", "thanks" for this feeling? Inexistent.

In fact, helping Middle Eastern countries train their troops is one of the purposes of Lyon's trip to the Middle East, in addition to looking for oil, and the reason for doing so is to strengthen Germany's military presence in the Middle East.

Looking at the map, it can be seen that the Middle East is adjacent to the Soviet Union to the north (it can attack the Soviet Union from the direction of Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, and cooperate with the frontal battlefield in Europe; It can rely on Iran and other countries to keep the Soviet Union's second-line troops out of Germany's oil source area, and at the same time can contain some troops to relieve the pressure on the European battlefield), east of India (at this time India was a British colony, is a very important source of British troops and raw material producers), south of the Arabian Sea (the establishment of a naval base here can easily use the broken fleet to easily cut off all the Allied shipping lines in the Indian Ocean, so that Britain loses their strongest card - the blood transfusion of the huge overseas colonies), North Africa to the west (can support future Afrika Korps operations, so that the logistical problem of defeating Rommel in the previous generation does not arise).

In general, the Middle East is a place of contention (which is why the United States and Russia will fight here in the future), and it is necessary for Germany to maintain its military voice here.

Now that the situation in Europe is tense, it is impossible to draw troops from the Western Front that is about to start the war in a short time, so the best thing to do is to send instructors to help them train their troops, and then the instructors will control these troops for Germany's use.

In fact, it is more appropriate to help Germany train its own troops than to help Iraq train its own troops.

Lyon's calculations were shrewd, but they were not seamless, and it was easy to guess what Lyon's idea was in the presence of someone like Stalin or Churchill.

As for Rashid, the fact that he was able to climb from an officer to the current level does prove that he has some ability, but he is in the Middle East, in Iraq, a place where the coup d'état is all dependent on the military.

Therefore, his skills (or tricks) obviously cannot be compared with Lyon, Stalin, Churchill and others, so he did not guess the purpose behind Lyon at all, and foolishly thought that Lyon was sincerely grateful for his support and offered to help him train the army.

"Really? Führer, are you really willing to help us train the army for free? Rashid listened to Leon's words and asked excitedly.

"Of course it's true, I'll help you train for free." Leon smiled, "I plan to send the first batch of 300 capable officers to help you train 150,000 authentic German-style troops as mid-level commanders." And I assure you that these German-style troops trained by us are very 'German', and even if the elite British expeditionary force lands on the western shore of the Mediterranean, you can easily bring them back to the sea! ”

"Haha, that's pretty awesome." Rashid imagined for a moment what it would look like for his command to suddenly have 150,000 more 'German-style' troops on the basis of the existing 40,000-odd 'Iraqi-style' troops.

However, he is still a smart man after all, so he is happy and has some problems in mind.

"Führer, can these 300 officers you send obey my command?" Rashid put away his smile and asked cautiously, "Don't get me wrong, I'm not doubting your good intentions, but ...... You understand ......"

"I understand, I understand." Leon nodded, and then solemnly assured, "German soldiers are all in their duty to obey orders, so you can rest assured of their loyalty to the German-Iranian friendship!" ”

"Then I'm relieved!" Rashid smiled with relief.

It's a pity that he doesn't understand that Leon's words just now seem to promise him that these officers will obey his command, but in fact, none of Leon's words really talk about "guaranteeing that these officers will obey his command". However, it is not to blame that he will automatically understand, after all, this kind of superb conversation skills is something he has never been exposed to before.