In the midst of his serious illness, Khomeini made the decision to end the Iran-Iraq war, but the bottom line was that Iraq recognized Iran as half of the Shatt al-Arab.

To achieve this goal, Iran knows that only China has the ability to do so, and only China is likely to do so.

Now, after six years of painful war, with nearly two million casualties and $300 billion in direct losses, Iran has fully believed Chinese's words, if it had listened to Chinese at the time......

But will the Chinese agree?

When the news came and the Chinese agreed to mediate, Khomeini, Rafsanjani and others all felt extremely relaxed.

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Li Deping invited his old friend, Prince Mahmoud.

In fact, Prince Mahmoud is equivalent to the director of the China Department of the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, specifically to the Chinese ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Li Deping.

After the gossip, Li Deping said: "Iran wants to end the war and asks our political axe to mediate. ”

With a slight frown, Prince Mahmoud asked, "What conditions?" ”

Li Deping said: "Recognize Iran's sovereignty over half of the Shatt al-Arab. ”

Shaking his head slightly, Prince Mahmoud said: "When it comes to this part, Saddam Hussein will not agree." ”

Li Deping said calmly: "There is enough bloodshed, and my country's political axe hopes to end here." ”

Looking at Li Deping, Prince Mahmoud said, "You want to help Iran?" ”

Nodding, Li Deping said: "Yes, if Saddam Hussein does not agree, we will comprehensively help Iran end the war." ”

Prince Mahmoud said, "What about your promises? ”

Li Deping said: "Six years should be enough, not to mention that this is to end the war, and if it continues, the people of the two countries can only suffer more." ”

After a long silence, Prince Mahmoud said: "It is unlikely that Saddam Hussein will agree, and our influence on Iraq is limited. ”

Li Deping said: "No matter what the aspect, we will never allow Iran to harm Saudi Arabia." ”

Both Iran and Iraq have played the game of bombing ships, blowing up ships on sight in the Persian Gulf, which has a great impact on Saudi Arabia, Prince Mahmoud said: "We don't want to fight anymore, I think we should be able to stop supporting Iraq." ”

Saudi Arabia is the biggest financier of Iraq, Li Deping nodded, and said: "We can fully support Iran, but neither the United States nor the Soviet Union can do this, and Saddam Hussein should know the weight of this." ”

Prince Mahmoud smiled wryly and nodded.

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In the silence of the night, the telephone rang over and over again.

Paralyzed, who is this? Zhang Tiecheng stretched out his hand in a daze, took the microphone, and put it on his ear.

"Boss, something happened, something happened in the mine!" In the microphone, there was a hurried and panicked shout.

Suddenly, as if a spring had been installed in his waist, Zhang Tiecheng sat up straight, his drowsiness disappeared without a trace, and the whole person was in the most mental state.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Tiecheng's voice is different from usual.

"There was a gas explosion in the well!"

With a bang, the blood in Zhang Tiecheng's whole body suddenly surged into his head, and he almost fell headlong.

"How many people are down there?"

"Twenty-seven."

One ten million, this is the number of iron beatings, and twenty-seven is two hundred and seventy million. It's only been five years since mining, and that's all the profits, even if you take out all the profits, it's not enough to lose money.

"Did you get helped? Is there any hope? ”

"Boss, it's District 39."

Zhang Tiecheng paused, his face kept changing, but soon, he lowered his voice and asked, "How many people know?" ”

"I've blocked the news, plus I'm only known to three people."

"Okay, you're doing a good job......"

Putting down the phone, Zhang Tiecheng fell into deep thought, and after a long time, he took the phone and dialed it, but when he dialed the last number, he stopped again.

After thinking about it, Zhang Tiecheng redialed.

When the sky was bright, three cars drove into Zhang Tiecheng's villa.

Li Jinxing, Wang Bao, Jiang Yunlin, and Zhang Tiecheng are shareholders of Qijiagou Coal Mine, and together they hold a total of 63 percent of the shares.

In the secret room, after listening to Zhang Tiecheng's words, Li Jinxing, Wang Bao, and Jiang Yunlin were all the same as Zhang Tiecheng, first shocked, and then their faces were pale, and it was difficult to see the extreme.

After a while, Li Jinxing asked, "Does Qi Yunbao know?" ”

Zhang Tiecheng shook his head and said, "I didn't tell him." ”

Jiang Yunlin said: "It's right not to tell him, he definitely doesn't dare to bear it." ”

Wang Bao scolded: "Paralyzed, there is no good thing in being an official!" ”

There was silence in the secret room, and it was obvious that Li Jinxing, Wang Bao and Jiang Yunlin had the same opinion as Zhang Tiecheng.

People die for money, birds die for food, fight.

After a while, Wang Bao broke the silence, and he scolded again: "Paralyzed, what the hell is this world, and you can't let people live?" ”

Although they did not name names, Zhang Tiecheng and the three of them knew that Wang Bao was scolding the person in Han Yuan. In fact, there are not a few people who curse the person in Han Yuan in private, but no matter how much they scold, they are scolded in vain.

In the north, there are few businessmen who don't hate Han Lihong, and now there are more and more businessmen who hate Han Lihong.

In order for a businessman to have power, one is the degree of involvement in politics, and the other is the influence on the whole society.

Intervening in politics is, to put it bluntly, a collusion between officials and businessmen, and a further step is the cultivation of agents in the political axe.

There are two main types of collusion between officials and businessmen, one is legal, such as political donations for open elections; One is illegal, such as secretly colluding together for profit.

In the north, there was no legal collusion between officials and businessmen, and illegal collusion between officials and businessmen was also compressed to the extreme by Han Lihong's high-pressure methods.

As for social influence, to put it bluntly, it is the ability to influence politics through commercial means, for example, in the United States, if businessmen do not like a president, they will reduce investment, lay off employees, and cause economic deterioration, so that the president will lose the next election.

In the North, the ability of businessmen to influence politics by commercial means is infinitely close to zero.

Han Yuan is an unprecedented monster, not only controlling the state apparatus and controlling the country's economic power, but also controlling private wealth in their hands that no one knows how much.

Therefore, the merchants of the North are one of the least powerful groups in the world.

There may be love for no reason in the world, but there is absolutely no hatred for no reason, Zhang Tiecheng and these people certainly have absolutely sufficient reasons to hate Han Lihong.

In a word, Han Lihong blocked their way to wealth.

There is coal under their feet, but these do not belong to them at all, and the resources of the whole country are under the control of one department, that is, the resources bureau directly under the prime minister.

Others may not know, but Zhang Tiecheng and these people know that the Resources Bureau actually belongs directly to Han Yuan.

Mining is strictly controlled, and only the Bureau of Resources has the right to approve it, and only two coal mines have been opened in a large resource county like Linyi.

It was difficult to obtain the mining rights of the coal mine, and they were able to obtain the mining rights of the Qijiagou Coal Mine because of the "collusion between officials and businessmen" and the cooperation with Qi Yunbao, the magistrate of Linyi County.

They are all embarrassed to talk about this "collusion between officials and businessmen" because it is too embarrassing. Compared with the benefits of "collusion between officials and businessmen" in the south, they have the heart to commit suicide.

After obtaining the mining rights of the coal mine, they first had to cooperate with a large coal mining group, give a large stake to the family, and then build a large coal mine in Qijiagou that fully meets the standards.

In these links, it is impossible to steal and play tricks, not to say that it can't be done at all, even if it can be done, they don't dare, because once something happens, the consequences are too serious.

Not to mention anything else, just the death of one person to pay 10 million is enough to destroy all other thoughts.

These are all they can, but what they can't stand the most is that their profits from mining are limited to less than 20 percent!

The profits have been strictly calculated, and the costs for the local government, the villagers, and the environment have been ...... Wait, if you want to break through twenty percent, that's simply impossible.

Living in the north, it's really dark!

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1987 was a sad year, and Taizu, the prime minister, the boss and others passed away one after another.

Han Lihong was both sad and relieved, he realized the greatest desire in his heart: Taizu, the prime minister, and the boss left without any regrets, and they smiled at Jiuquan.

Before the prime minister passed away, Han Lihong personally accompanied the prime minister and walked through the storage place where the materials were stored.

Steel ingots, iron ingots, copper ingots, lead ingots, tin ingots, ...... Iron ore, copper ore, lead ore...... Grain, edible oil...... It's not enough to describe it in terms of piles of mountains.

This is the result of 40 years of countless people's hard work, silent struggle, and continuous accumulation.

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On 31 October, Chiang Kai-shek, a 100-year-old student, said that he was not happy, and the reason for the unhappiness was that his son Chiang Ching-kuo was not in good health and was very sick.

It seems that the white-haired man has to send the black-haired man.

In addition, Chiang Kai-shek had another unpleasant reason, that is, the Chiang family's fading out of the stage of power seemed inevitable.

There are two reasons why the provinces in East China are gradually getting out of control, one is that they are deeply dependent on the north, and the other is that the power of the provinces to read out is gradually growing.

The army is the foundation for controlling the provinces, but under the influence of the general situation, the army is gradually declining, and the speed of decline is even more obvious.

Finally, there is another reason that may be more important, and that is the human factor, the influence of grandchildren is far from enough to control the powerful in the provinces.

In fact, the old man is gradually withering, and the relationship between the newcomer and the Chiang family cannot be compared with the old man, so even the influence of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo is not as good as before.

In the living room, Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo, father and son, sat opposite each other, silent.

Chiang Ching-kuo was persuading his father to recognize the situation.

Now, with the rapid development of the economy, the dependence on resources is even more serious, especially the dependence on energy.

Oil, natural gas, and electricity, only the North can truly guarantee the demand of the South, and this is absolutely fundamental to the changes in the situation in the future.

Secondly, the entanglement between the big conglomerates in the south and the north is also getting deeper day by day.

Compared with before, the current south is too small for big conglomerates, but if you want to go out, you can only be decent and beneficial if you want to go out.

If you don't follow the north and run behind the ass of the Americans, you can only be a small follower, and you may be cheated by the Americans at any time.

There are too many similar lessons.

The de facto unification of China by the North is unstoppable, so while they still hold a certain amount of power, it will be extremely beneficial for future generations to make a deal with the North.

In particular, with the help of the north, the third generation of the Chiang family can still control Shanghai.

In this regard, Yan Xishan is the best role model.

The Black God Army kept its promise, and Yan Xishan was also extremely sensible, knowing that after him, his descendants would not be able to continue to control Shanxi, so he completed the integration of Shanxi and the north before retreating.

After Yan Xishan's death, although the descendants no longer have the power they used to be, they are still thriving, and this is undoubtedly the result of the support of the Black God Army.

Chiang Ching-kuo advised Chiang Kai-shek that if he did not learn to give up now, he might end up in vain in the future.

Chiang Kai-shek understood the truth, but the difficult thing was to admit defeat.

There is not much time left for them to make decisions, this is that they are all precarious and may leave at any time, and the second is the international situation.

Because it needs China's cooperation in Afghanistan, if they make any moves, the United States will not dare to go too far, but the Soviet Union is already only struggling in Afghanistan, and once the Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan, the United States' attitude towards China will change greatly.

After a long time, Chiang Kai-shek sighed and said, "Go for it." ”

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November 23, 1987, Yanjing.

The central government reached an agreement with the autonomous provinces in the south except for Taiwan Island, and the military power was unified under the control of the central government, and the southern provinces not only did not have to bear military expenses, but also had other benefits.

At this time, except for the army controlled by the Jiang family, which still has a certain combat effectiveness, the armies of the other autonomous provinces are no longer considered armies, so for the autonomous provinces, this is both a good thing to push the boat and take advantage of it, so naturally they will not oppose it.

The significance of the unification of military power is naturally self-evident and extremely important.

The Americans naturally jumped to their feet about this, but there was no way to stop it.

This is because of the Soviet Union, but the main thing is that once the South decides to do this, the United States does not dare to really put the threat into action, because once the United States punishes the southern provinces, there is only one consequence, and that is to accelerate the push of the South to the North.

The United States has already laid many chess pieces in the south, and it will never be willing to give up until these chess pieces have worked.

What's more, Wall Street tycoons have extremely large interests in China.

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For thousands of years, which dynasty and generation did not come over like this, but now it is good, the yellow calendar has changed.

In the past, it was difficult to get promoted, but it was still easy to make a small fortune, but now, it is difficult to be promoted, and it is even more difficult to make a fortune.

In Qi Yunbao's opinion, this is Si Chen, which is against the way of heaven.

However, the problem is that his views are insignificant, and he can't change anything at all, at most, he can change Qi Yunbao himself.

The country that Qi Yunbao envies the most is the United States, and the United States is the place where people are stunned.

In the United States, it is only natural to be promoted to get rich, unlike backward China, even if you can get rich if you are promoted, that big name is also called corruption and bending the law.

In the United States, it is different, they are all doing the same thing, and people in the United States are called reasonable and legal, and there is no such thing as corruption and perversion of the law.

The United States is good, but unfortunately, he is not an American, and he cannot be an official in the United States.

Here, it's too difficult to get rich, everyone's eyes are like staring at a thief, if he finds something, a small clerk at the grassroots level dares to report him with his real name.

This is really full of righteousness.

In fact, this righteousness full of goodness is forced out.

Being a civil servant, this is the most glorious profession, not only has face, but also the salary is extremely generous, becoming a civil servant is a step into a well-off home.

Therefore, everyone should maintain this profession as if it were their life.

There is a way for civil servants to work for a job, such as the corruption of the county magistrate, if you know that you don't report it, once it is verified, it is not involved in a crime, at least it is a way to work.

There was once a county in Shandong, where the county magistrate was corrupt, and everyone in the county government knew about it.

What kind of world is this? But there is nothing to be done.

Qi Yunbao is unwilling, he is the kind of person who has firm beliefs, and being promoted to become rich is his firmest belief.

Qi Yunbao is still the kind of person who has the conditions to go up, and he has to go up if he doesn't have the conditions to create conditions, so he does everything possible to create opportunities for himself to make a fortune.

Helping Zhang Tiecheng and others take the Qijiagou Coal Mine is an opportunity created by Qi Yunbao for himself, and there is no risk.

If you come to compete in coal mines, the qualifications are not a problem, and if you are not qualified, you will not dare to ask for it, so if you do something in this regard, there will be no sequelae, and others will not find anything.

However, when the Provincial Public Security Department came to track down the missing Cambodians, Qi Yunbao sweated.

The labor cost of coal mines is very high, so in order to increase profits, Zhang Tiecheng and others secretly hired some Cambodians.

Qi Yunbao knew about this.

Originally, it was illegal to be self-employed, and now it also involves disappearance...... If it goes missing, it is very likely that something happened in the coal mine.

This time it's a real thing!

It turned out that Cambodians who came to the north to work as black workers naturally had to write letters home and send home the money they earned.

Those black workers did not send letters and money back for a long time, and the family finally couldn't bear it anymore and came to the north to find someone, but they didn't know where the family worked, so they called the police.

According to the letters of those black workers, the police quickly found out the source.

The matter was quickly clarified, and according to the law, Zhang Tiecheng and others concealed it and did not report it, which was equivalent to murder.

It is equivalent to killing 27 people, so anyone who knows the inside story will be sentenced to death, and the property of Zhang Tiecheng and others will also be confiscated.

This is naturally a very educational event, but the greatest significance of this matter is not here, but the families of those Cambodian black workers.

The treatment of black workers is equivalent to that of Chinese workers, and the family members of each black worker are all compensated with 10 million dragon and phoenix coins.

Not only that, the central political axe sent people to Cambodia to apologize to the families of the black workers in person.

This incident caused a sensation in Cambodia and caused a sensation in the whole of Southeast Asia.

In the same way, it caused a sensation throughout the South.

The central government treats Cambodians like this, so will it be worse for them?

(To be continued)