…… Pay us?

As soon as he heard this, Abdullah and his son Khalid looked at each other, and their expressions suddenly became a little strange

"I wonder how much your country can pay us?" Khalid asked tentatively, giving him a look at his father.

"Look at the rent in these two places, how about the Lou government paying you two million gold yuan a year? We can pay a lump sum rent for fifty years. Zhou Tiecheng said with a smile.

"Two million? A one-time payment for fifty years? Khalid and Abdullah, father and son, couldn't help but look at each other, and Zhou Tiecheng's words blurted out in confusion were beyond the expectations of the two fathers and sons. Why? Without him, the rent is not too low but very high. You must know that the two million in 1942 is not the two million in the 21st century, and a random ten people driving a family car on the street of a first-tier city are a millionaire.

At this time, two million a year is definitely a big reward, and people also said that if you pay the rent for 50 years at once, it is called a gold yuan coupon. According to the current exchange rate of one to one between the gold yuan coupon and the US dollar, even for a country, it is a huge amount of money.

"Are those two places buried gold or diamonds?" This was the reason that Abdullah thought of immediately, but he thought about it and shook his head with a smirk. The Middle East is not Africa, and if the Middle East can still produce ore and gold, then Allah really favors the Arabs.

However, Khaled, who was sitting behind him, couldn't help it, and asked in astonishment: "Mr. Minister, do you really want to use 100 million gold yuan to lease the exploration and mining rights of these two places for fifty years?" You know, if there is no oil exploration there, such a huge amount of money will be wasted! After all, whether oil can be explored or not depends on Allah's will. Zhou Tiecheng said sincerely: "Prince Khalid, to be honest, we don't know if we can explore oil there, but we have a saying in China called "a thousand dollars buy horse bones", which means that we are willing to use such a gesture to show our country's sincerity to your country, even if these two places do not explore for oil, we will not regret that we want to show the Arab world a foreign policy of our government, that is, we are willing to sincerely and equally interact with any country in the world. ”

A hint of intriguing flashed in Abdullah's eyes after hearing this, he nodded and smiled kindly: "Mr. Minister, from your words, I have heard your country's determination and sincerity to be willing to interact with all countries on an equal footing, and we Arabs have always been sincere in treating sincere friends, and the conditions you have offered are very generous, and it is difficult for me to refuse such generous conditions. ”

"So you agree with Luo?" A hint of joy flashed in Zhou Tiecheng's eyes.

"No, no, I'm not done yet." Abdullah shook his head, "But I also have a request here, and I hope your government will grant it." "Speak." Zhou Tiecheng realized that he was a little anxious and sat down again.

"We in the Arab world have been fighting for sovereignty and integrity since the last century, and I don't know how many lives of Arab warriors have been paid for it, but fortunately we finally achieved this goal ten years ago, but regrettably, although we have obtained it in name, the scimitar that defends us is in the hands of someone else. Saudi Arabia's defence has always been in the hands of the British, and we cannot tolerate it, so we need your country to help us re-establish our own Saudi defence force, do you see what we mean? ”

"Oh, I see." Zhou Tiecheng understood as soon as he heard it, it turned out that the Saudi defense in front of him was unwilling to let his fate be controlled by the British, and wanted to start from scratch to establish a national defense force of his own.

"And how big is the army you want to build?" Zhou Tiecheng asked noncommittally.

Seeing Zhou Tiecheng frowning, Abdullah also knew that his request made the other party embarrassed, and hurriedly comforted: "Our requirements are not high, the first step is just to establish a force of three divisions, requiring two infantry divisions and one armored division."

Zhou Tielou's thick eyebrows wrinkled into an 11 word when he heard this, helping Saudi Arabia build a national defense force means that Huaxia has to fight with Britain and other Western countries, which is much more troublesome than simply paying rent to them.

"Are you going to exchange the exploration and mining rights of the two places in the Manifa and Ghawar areas for the weapons and equipment of these three divisions?" Zhou Tiecheng leaned back in the chair. It was a matter of China's diplomatic strategy toward Britain and the United States, and he had no choice but to be cautious. However, if it is only used to exchange weapons, there is no problem.

But it was obvious that he was disappointed, Abdullah smiled slyly: "Of course not, in addition to weapons and equipment, we also need your country to train officers and troops for us in an all-round way, otherwise if we just buy weapons, we can just find a country, why bother so much"

As the founder of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah is naturally not a fuel-efficient lamp, as early as when Huaxia Zhengyi proposed to establish diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia, he knew that the other party must also be fighting Saudi Arabia's oil idea, otherwise Saudi Arabia, a country that is still sand, why is China so upside down, running thousands of miles to hold its stinky feet, even if it is enough to establish diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia and send a few small officials, why bother the dignified foreign minister to come out in person?

Since Huaxia has taken a fancy to Saudi Arabia's oil, it is easy for both sides to take what they need. Therefore, Abdullah was not polite, and asked for the equipment of the three divisions, and asked the other party to be responsible for the training of all the officers.

"Three divisions!" Zhou Tiecheng's right hand gently tapped on the armrest of the sofa and was silent, secretly calculating the gains and losses in his heart. In addition to the armor division, the armament of the three divisions is more expensive, and the equipment of the two infantry divisions is not very troublesome. However, the training of armored division officers is a problem, thinking that when the armored forces in China were just established, in order to train qualified armored officers in the shortest possible time, even Su Tong had to go into battle shirtless and become an instructor in person, and after four or five years of investing a huge price regardless of the cost, this is the prosperity of today's Chinese armored forces.

The prestige of the armored forces in China is not blown out, it is killed from one bloody battle after another. It can be seen from the fact that the main tank in service of the German army is still the "Northwest Tiger" of China, and the performance of the Huaxia tank is sharp. And Abdullah has also heard that the tanks equipped by the German Loujia troops are just a "castrated version" of the Huaxia tank, but in this way, the German armored forces have swept half the world with this tank, which shows the power of the Huaxia tank. Now that Abdullah wants to build a national defense force of his own, when will he wait for this great god in front of him?

Looking at Zhou Tiecheng, who was silently tapping his fingers on the sofa, Abdullah's father and son's hearts were uneasy, and it can be said that whether Saudi Arabia can establish a strong national defense force of its own depends on the words of the Chinese foreign minister in front of him.

Fortunately, Zhou Tiecheng didn't think about it for too long, his thick eyebrows opened at once, and a gentle smile appeared on his face, "Of course you can, it is also my country's consistent national policy to provide our friends with help within our ability, but compared to you, you also know that forming a qualified armored division is not like forming an infantry division that can be formed in a few months or half a year, and the things that need to be considered are extremely large and complex, and it is possible to be as fast as a year or as slow as two years, And it's a lot of money. The army, which is as strong as Germany, has only formed more than a dozen armored divisions, have you really thought about it? ”

"Mr. Minister, don't worry." Abdul seems to have been relieved: "We have already made up our minds to form an armed force of our own. As long as your country agrees to this condition, we are willing to extend the period for the exploration and exploitation of oil in Manifa in the north-east and the Ghahwal region in the east to your country for exploration and oil exploitation. ”

"What? Factory 100 shrugs! "Rao is Zhou Tiecheng has already experienced the realm of joy and anger, and he can't help but be surprised, if these two places really have a super-large oil field as the former president said, if they are used in Huaxia for a hundred years, it is equivalent to giving Huaxia two golden dolls for nothing...... It is equivalent to giving two gold mountains in China for nothing! With these two super oil fields in hand, Huaxia will no longer have to worry about oil for the next century.

"Yes, as a sign of our sincerity, we are willing to extend this period to a hundred years." Abdullah said in no uncertain terms.

Zhou Tiecheng suppressed the excitement in his heart, and pretended to be calm and said: "If it is a hundred years, it means that we have to pay 200 million gold yuan coupons!" ”

"Hehe" Abdullah smiled brightly: "This, this money can still be converted with weapons and equipment." ”

"Oh?" Zhou Tiecheng asked with interest: "All the 200 million gold yuan coupons are exchanged for weapons and equipment?" It seems that you are planning to arm your country's army to the teeth. ”

The weapons of 200 million gold yuan can equip ten modern army divisions in Huaxia, and now Abdullah said that he would exchange all of them for equipment without even breathing, which made Zhou Tiecheng feel that things were not so simple.

Sure enough, Abdullah's follow-up move came out again: "If you can, can you form another aviation unit for us?" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Tiecheng couldn't help but sigh secretly, no wonder the ancients said well, people are the most difficult to satisfy, this has just solved the problem of the army, and people are eyeing the air force again!