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"Madame, if this continues, our British oil industry will probably be destroyed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info≦≧" said Hugh to Margaret Thatcher, a little anxious.

After another half a month, they finally couldn't hold it anymore.

"Now, the international oil price has dropped to nine dollars a barrel, and we have to lose more than three to four dollars for every barrel we produce, which has led to our North Sea oil fields, which have been running at a loss, so our British Petroleum company has been losing money, but we can't reduce production, otherwise, our oil workers should go on strike, and if the oil workers are also unemployed, our economy will deteriorate even more. However, now oil companies have been operating at a loss, and they are already facing the danger of disconnecting the capital chain. Xiun continued.

"Didn't we already lend money to oil companies through the Bank of England? Isn't it enough to make a loan of £100 million twice? Margaret Thatcher asked.

For the glory of the British Empire, in order to maintain the stability of the domestic economy, to keep her own oil industry in stable production, and at the same time, to prove that Britain could win the competition with those Middle Eastern oil producers, Margaret Thatcher gritted her teeth and lent money to oil companies twice. ≦≧However, I did not expect that the loan of 100 million pounds was already a very large amount, but this did not last until victory.

"What about the Americans? Until now, the Americans have been watching us fight an oil price war with the Middle Easterners, and then our oil industry is dragged down in malicious competition? Margaret Thatcher asked dissatisfied.

"No, ma'am, just two days ago, oil merchants in Texas, USA, came together to send a message to us that they were willing to provide funds to help us tide over this." Foreign Secretary William said.

American oil merchants? I'm afraid they can't stay profitable now, right? Why are they so kind enough to fund BP?

"What do they want?" Margaret Thatcher asked.

"They want our oil company to sell them our stake in the Texas oil field. In this way, our company will have enough funds to fight this smokeless war with the Middle Easterners. ≦≧," William continued.

I see! Margaret Thatcher saw the essence of time at once.

This time oil prices are low. In fact, it is equivalent to a reshuffle of oil companies. Those companies that are not strong will all be cleared out of this market. So, there are capital, there are powerful oilmen. I am afraid that this oil price reduction will be very welcome, and they will use this opportunity to complete the further expansion of their own oil companies, everyone knows this low oil price. It will definitely not last forever, the Middle Easterners are just competing maliciously, and the price of oil will eventually return to a reasonable level, and those companies that have broken the chain of funds and cannot continue can only sell their own shares, that is, they have become the fat in the mouths of those large companies.

If it weren't for the UK's dighta, BP would have been working on the development of North Sea oil fields. Although this would have played a big role in improving the UK's own economy and solving the employment problem, if it were not for the fact that BP has been resisting the mystery of oil prices and going all out. Well, the current BP company definitely has enough funds to carry out a new round of mergers. Get more share of oil. ≦≧

Of all the oil extractions, the most expensive undersea oil is exploited, and the loss-making operation puts a heavy burden on BP. Now, it's the turn of the British oil companies to cut the meat.

Reputedly. The current vice president of the United States is himself a big oil merchant in Texas, no wonder the United States has always refused to put pressure on the Middle East to raise the price of oil, because the United States wants to get a handful of money from Britain!

Interests, this is the best interests, no matter how good the relationship between the United States and Britain is, no matter how good the personal relationship between Margaret Thatcher and President Reagan is, it cannot violate the rules of this game.

What should Britain do now? Thinking of the last experience in the big country in the East, Mrs. Thatcher, who has always been very arrogant, is known for her toughness, and Margaret Thatcher, who Reagan called the Iron Lady, has a gloomy expression on her face, Britain, does she need to bow her head and admit defeat again?

Margaret Thatcher pushed open the window, and in the open space outside, the fiery red rose was in full bloom.

No one alarmed Margaret Thatcher, just looked at the British Prime Minister, stared at the roses that represented England blooming outside, stared at the fluttering British flag, and showed an inexplicable sadness in her eyes. ≦≧

Once, our national flag was planted in every corner of the world, and our people of the British Empire, no matter which country they went to, would be treated like nobles, and our representatives sent to all parts of the world were the emperors there, and if anyone disagreed, then the knives and guns of the British ** team would make them realize their mistakes. If the opponent is stubborn, then the English ** team definitely doesn't mind letting the opponent disappear completely, they have that ability.

But now, a former colony, a proud British royal aristocracy who never looked at the Middle Eastern natives, actually wants them to bow their heads and admit defeat!

Two years earlier, their fleet, by force, had crossed the Atlantic to retake the Falklands, and although they had won a dignified victory, the price paid by the British was very large. Now, they absolutely do not have the ability to use force to conquer Iraq in the Middle East, put aside political factors, put aside international factors, purely from a military point of view, Iraq has developed into a very strong country, and last time Iraq behaved very domineering in the conflict with Israel. ≦≧

Britain, there is no choice.

For the sake of British interests, for the sake of the British North Sea oil industry, they had to compromise. Mrs. Thatcher sighed and turned her head.

"Hand over that Iraqi spy to the Iraqi chargé d'affaires in the UK."

Although Weber did not mention the spy when he negotiated with President Qusay last time, Margaret Thatcher, including all the senior British officials, knew that the spy was a trigger for such a low oil price on the Iraqi side.

They underestimated Qusay, and even without that spy, Qusay still wanted to do it, but with this spy, Qusay was more blatant and tougher.

"Madam, then, is that all we have lost counted?" William asked.

"It's all a dereliction of duty on the part of MI5." Margaret Thatcher said: "From that man, we have not gotten anything, let MI5 continue to track down, and we must get the information back!" ”

"We restarted the Sky Flash project with Iraq, and we immediately sold the entire production line to Iraq, with a little bit of the hundreds of missiles that Iraq and Saudi Arabia had ordered in the early stage, and asked Iraq to pay off the rest of the funds immediately." Margaret Thatcher continued.

What Kusay meant was that the production line was gone, and asked the British to return the money to him and stop the project. Sensei said that Britain has no money now, and even if Britain has money, it cannot be given to Iraq in this way. Britain originally wanted to jam Iraq on this project, but now Iraq has gone one step further, kicked Britain away, and conducted research with Sweden on the active Sky Flash project.

Therefore, the sky flash of the British semi-active seeker is outdated, and its re-export to Iraq can bring new profits to Britain and can interfere with cooperation between Sweden and Iraq, after all, it will take several years for Sweden's active air-to-air missiles to be developed. And Iraq now has a very urgent demand for advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, and they no longer want to use the Sparrow imported from the United States and the Super Matra-530 missiles from France, let alone the unreliable medium-range missiles imported from the Soviet Union.

In this respect, Britain is only late in fulfilling the contract.

"As for the Hunter Pre-Jing project, we can extend the after-sales maintenance for one more year, which can be regarded as compensation for the Iraqis." Margaret Thatcher continued. In this way, the British could also gain some more experience from the Iraqis in improving the pre-jing, and they would never pay the funds to Iraq.

The first condition proposed by Qusay, she could be regarded as proposing a solution, but the second condition, the cessation of military cooperation between Britain and Israel, and the third condition, the entry of Iraqi funds into the British market, was absolutely not agreed to by Margaret Thatcher.

Britain's military cooperation with Israel and Israel has nothing to do with Iraq is nothing but interference in internal affairs. As for opening up the British market and letting Iraqi money pour into Britain, that would be even more dangerous, God knows what Qusay's idea is, and what if he wants to use all the Iraqi funds and buy half of Britain?

"Webb, you make another trip to Baghdad and convey our opinion to them, hoping that Qusay will accept our terms with good taste." Margaret Thatcher said.

That's it? Weber felt a little difficult, it was not terrible to sit on the cold bench by himself, but the terrible thing was that people did not agree at all, and the guy from Cusay was not so easy to discuss.

"Madam, what if the Iraqis don't agree? We only agreed to one of the conditions they offered. ”

"Didn't we release that spy again? That's enough sincerity, isn't it? Thatcher said: "They should agree, and if they don't, we'll show our cards, even if we sell BP's stake in Texas to an American oilman, we can't cheapen that Cusay!" ”

Margaret Thatcher was very strong-willed.

"Yes, I'll go to the Middle East again." Although Weber had a great headache to meet with that cunning Cusay, this time he must show the dignity of the British and negotiate with them to the end!