"Your Majesty, it's a pleasure to see you." In the palace of Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the dusty Osama met the current king, His Majesty Fahd.

Just a few months ago, the elderly King Khalid went to another world, and his younger brother Fahd took over as king to govern the richest country in the Middle East.

Although as a wealthy businessman in Riyadh, the bin Laden family maintains a close relationship with the royal family, but after all, they are not members of the royal family, and if they want to see the king, they still need to go back and forth complicated reports and wait, and when they heard that Osama came to meet the king, Fahd immediately summoned him, which is also a rare encounter and honor.

Of course, Osama knew that King Fahd had won the king's respect because of his bravery in Afghanistan.

Sure enough, seeing Osama, King Fahd stepped down from the throne, walked towards Osama, and said, "Osama, you are our Saudi hero!" How is it in Afghanistan? ”

Saudi Arabia is now a rich country, in such a country, there are very few people who will choose to join the army, even if they enter the army, they are so lazy that they even hand over their weapons to others to maintain, and few people will have blood, and people like Osama can take up arms and fight on the front line in Afghanistan, which is simply too rare. The Saudis need such heroes.

Regardless of how Osama fell out with the Saudi royal family in later history, at least for now, they have a very good relationship.

"Thank Allah, we are fighting well in Afghanistan now, we hit the transport convoy of the Soviets hard, and when the Soviets' large forces and air power arrived, we had already run away in the mountains." "So, the Soviets changed their tactics, and they tried in vain to cut off our logistical supply lines," Osama said. Repeatedly entering the borders of Pakistan and bombing our storage points has created a great deal of passivity for us. ”

The Soviet Union began to have constant friction with Pakistan, and King Fahd was also aware of these conditions, and he nodded: "That's true." The air power of the Soviets was too strong. ”

"Therefore, the Pakistani side wants to buy a batch of advanced fighters from the United States to equip their air force in order to confront the Soviets, but Pakistan's economic situation in recent years has not been very good, and the purchase of forty F-16s in the past has exceeded their affordability. Now, for the purchase of new fighters, they will not be able to come up with the funds. "I came back from Afghanistan to help them raise money," Osama said. ”

In terms of how to communicate with the Saudi royal family, Mhammad also thought twice, Osama has a special status, and is most suitable for communicating with the Saudi royal family, now. The Saudi state is glorifying Osama, look at the guys in the Saudi royal family. No one dared to go to the front to fight, and Osama, who also grew up in a land of abundance, did.

Hearing Osama's words, King Fahd nodded: "Indeed, if you want to confront the Soviet invaders, Pakistan can't rely only on those old Jian-6, they need advanced fighters from the United States." In this way, I call on the royal family to make a donation to our Pakistani brothers, which should be able to make tens of millions of dollars, and. I will summon the head of the Riyadh Bank and give Pakistan an interest-free loan. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Hearing this, Osama was overjoyed, and thought that he had to go through the trouble of persuading His Majesty the King to agree, who knows, His Majesty the King agreed so easily, the Saudi royal family donated tens of millions, and he called on the wealthy businessmen in Riyadh to donate, maybe he could make up a $100 million, with this fund, His Excellency Mahmad should be able to tide over this difficulty, right?

Those Soviet planes swirl over their heads all day long, and when Pakistan is equipped with advanced fighters, their own life will be much better.

"Also, I'll contact other countries, and now that our Pakistani brothers are in trouble, all because of helping Afghanistan and fighting the Soviets, it's time for us to lend a strong hand." King Fahd continued.

Coming out of the palace, Osama has been excited, this mission, completed very smoothly, and then consult with other people in the family, they should also be able to make up for it, and other rich merchants...

"Chief, there's an urgent message." As soon as Osama got into the car, Aboud, who had followed him back, said: "It's from Afghanistan. ”

Osama took the letter, which was specially coded and could only be read by those who knew the rules, and in Afghanistan they often used guò to convey their messages.

After reading the letter, Osama's face suddenly tightened.

"Chief, is something wrong?" Aboud said.

"It's not a big deal." Osama said: "After we are done here, we have to stop by Iran." ”

Going to Iran? Aboud was taken aback.

Now, in addition to the war in Afghanistan, Iran is fighting Iraq on another battlefield, and the Arab countries are helping Iraq for various reasons, that is, they are now hostile to Iran. To go to such a country, it must be a top-secret mission.

Instantly, Aboud thought of the resistance forces in the south of Afghanistan, on the border between Afghanistan and Iran, which were also aided by Iran, and now, the Free Afghan Army had launched a mighty battle in the north, but in the south, many guerrillas were related to Iran, so was it necessary to start seeking relations with the south?

This will obviously not be seen as well-intentioned, and will be seen as an attempt by the Free Afghan Army to co-opt them, so the Iranians will react strongly, which is not a good time.

Even so, Abd will never be afraid, since joining the service battalion, Aboud has been dead set on and loyal to Osama, and Osama, in turn, is following the Lion of Panjshir, His Excellency Mhammad, and everything they do is fighting for justice.

United States, White House.

This is the highest authority in the United States, and every decision made here will affect the pattern of the world.

Now, President Ronald Wilson Reagan, Vice President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberg, National Security Advisor Poindexter, Secretary of State George Schultz, White House Chief of Staff James Addison Baker, and CIA Director William Casey are all sitting at the front of a large round table, and they are having a meeting.

Reagan, with a cigar in his mouth, was halfway puffed, and said: "Pakistan has asked us again to buy F-14 fighter jets, and now, should we accede to their request?" ”

"No, President, the F-14 fighter is the main air defense fighter of our Navy, we can't just export it to Pakistan, their F-16, now it has flown to Islamabad, Pakistan has a small land area, there are F-16s, enough to guard their skies." Weinberg rejected Reagan's words in one gulp, no!

"Right now, our economy is still in decline, and as far as I know, Grumman is really running out of steam, and if they don't deal with the eighty F-14s in stock, maybe they should declare bankruptcy." James said calmly.

When Reagan succeeded in defeating his opponent and taking the presidency of the United States, he was faced with a mess in which the American economy faced double-digit inflation, 20 percent bank rates, and nearly 8 million people were unemployed. The average hourly wage for workers is down 5 percent from before 1976, and the federal government has imposed an average of 67 percent of the personal tax rate. The national debt is nearly 1 trillion yuan. Carter managed the country badly.

Reagan advocated tax cuts, smaller government, less regulation of business, and in order to end inflation, he adopted a tight supply of money, which led to a sharp recession in the US economy that began in July 1981 and bottomed out in November 1982, which is now. In later history, the U.S. economy began a dramatic economic recovery in 1983 after a recession of 1981-1982.

At least for now, the U.S. economy is very poor, almost to the brink of the worst, and large companies like Grumman, if they fail, add thousands of unemployed people.

"Grumman has been going out of business since 10 years ago, and now, isn't it still doing well?" "They're trying to put pressure on us to go out of business and get us to relent, to agree to their exit," Weinberg said. The Pahlavi government has already paid for those eighty fighters, and now they have sold these fighters for pure profit, and the president of Grumman is an insatiable businessman, who is full of copper smell. ”

Hearing Weinberg's words, CIA Director William had a sneer on the corner of his mouth, now Weinberg is trying his best to prevent Grumman from exporting fighters, in fact, he just wants to buy those F-14 fighters at the price of cabbage, as for Grumman's life or death, he doesn't care at all.

Seeing William's sneer, Reagan asked, "Did the CIA find anything?" ”

"Recently, the Soviet army has shown signs of massing towards the borders." William said: "Although we analyze that the Soviet Union will not march to Pakistan after the pacification of Afghanistan, it now seems that the Soviet Union has plans in this regard, and it is their fundamental goal to extend their hand to the Indian Ocean, and they can only achieve their goal through Pakistan." ”

The USSR is going to attack Pakistan! Hearing this, Reagan's heart suddenly tightened, no matter what, the Soviet Union is the biggest enemy of the United States!

William threw over some satellite images showing Soviet troops massing towards the border. (To be continued......)

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