Prince Sultan naturally would not make a rough judgment based on Zhao Jinsong's words, this weapon order is too big and involves a lot of things, so no matter which product he buys, he and the Saudi royal family behind him must carefully prepare and choose.

"Well, Mr. Zhao, your sales pitch is impressive, and I personally hope that one day our Saudi Air Force will be able to use advanced weapons from China, so that's all for today's talks."

Zhao Jinsong got up and saluted him, and before leaving, he said mysteriously to Prince Sultan: "Your Excellency, we hope to be able to compete fairly with all opponents in this arms deal, if someone uses any illegal means, oh, such as eavesdropping, we must think it is quite rude, hehe." ”

He ended his words with a good note, then bowed slightly to Prince Sultan, and left Prince Sultan's palace with his entourage.

As one of the few more capable members of the Saudi royal family, Sultan immediately understood what Zhao Jinsong meant, and he ordered left and right with a gloomy face: "Go, search the entire palace for me and see if there is anything that shouldn't exist!" ”

So the royal guards and waiters spent a whole day in several places where Prince Sultan stayed, including private villas and other private residences, and found as many as 63 bugs and similar devices, and even arrested a service person who had been bribed by the British.

Prince Sultan was not as angry as Zhao Jinsong imagined, looking at the listening equipment on the table, the prince seemed very calm, he just pointed to these things casually, and said to his entourage: "Give these things to our British friends, they can become our bargaining chips in the next stage." ”

The attendant replied and asked, "Your Royal Highness, I thought you were going to choose Chinese products." ”

Prince Sultan smiled and said, "Chinese? They have only recently risen in military power, and the British have been in this area for a long time. Well, objectively speaking, I think the two have their own strengths, and they are actually too flashy things to arm our Saudi army. So from the very beginning, this agreement is not just about the arms deal itself or international politics or something, we will choose whoever can bring us greater benefits! ”

Such a statement is undoubtedly quite valuable information in the competition of the arms trade, but the ears and eyes of the British were cut off because of Zhao Jinsong's reminder, but Zhao Jinsong and the Shenghua Group he represented had their own sources of intelligence.

At this time, Zhao Jinsong was sitting in a suite in a luxury hotel in Riyadh, half lying on a comfortable and soft bed, holding a confidential document in his hand. Naturally, this information comes from the 9527 Project, which is actually just ordinary news decades later, but the news decades later are of considerable value today.

According to the gossip news that was exposed, Prince Sultan not only enjoyed the luxurious reception of the British when he visited London to negotiate business, and even included a series of temptations such as sexual bribery and luxury cars, but his son Bandar also directly accepted more than $3 million in kickbacks on his behalf, and these are only part of what was exposed. In fact, not only Prince Sultan himself, but also a large number of Saudi nobles and officials with related interests have got a lot of things in this fat and oily case.

In the 80s, few Chinese companies went abroad, and even fewer knew how to use bribery as a means of public relations. In fact, no multinational company has a clean ass, from GlaxoSmithKline, which sells drugs, to energy companies such as BHP Billiton and BP, without the most effective and direct public relations means of bribery, they simply cannot get orders in some countries. The degree of social development of each country is different, just like Western countries and some developed countries are also very severe in cracking down on this kind of behavior, but they have their own set of double standards, others can't pay bribes in their own country, and they have no problem in bribing in other countries. Of course, this is also relative, so it's good not to be found out. In order to maintain the legitimacy and fairness of the law on the face, it is still necessary to give a little punishment. Let's say BAE is in Al? Yamaha fell on this project and lost a lot of executives.

If the same thing is done by the Chinese, it is impossible to be exposed in the first place. This is a systemic problem, which is enough to make many multinational companies have nothing to say. In many cases, China's support for some of its own state-owned enterprises does not seem to be as strong as that of the presidents and prime ministers who go around helping their own enterprises to sell, but from the institutional and psychological aspects, state-owned enterprises are the sons of the Celestial Empire, can they not support it?

Zhao Jinsong told Prince Sultan that the British were eavesdropping on him, and he didn't plan to have any big effect, purely to muddy the water a little more. How important is he to take down Al? Yamaha Arms Agreement is full of confidence, and it also leaves psychological leeway, not to swallow it all, but to take half of it.

Throwing down the prepared materials, Zhao Jinsong picked up the satellite phone and went to the headquarters in China.

"Good morning, boss."

"Well, Lao Zhao, it's still early in the morning when you're there."

"No problem, it's all your time." Zhao Jinsong said with a smile, and then briefly reported his itinerary and the content of the negotiation to Qi Yiming on the other end of the phone.

Qi Yiming nodded slightly after hearing this, and said: "Personally, I think it is still relatively difficult to snatch food from the mouths of the British, but if you let go of your hands and feet, the entire 9527 project and the head office will provide you with any necessary support." ”

Zhao Jinsong breathed a sigh of relief, the case itself was something he insisted on doing, and Qi Yiming's approval would be of greater benefit to the future.

Qi Yiming is also very pleased that someone can take on the role of an arms dealer so quickly, he was not familiar with the Al-Yamaha Agreement before the crossing, and only knew the name of the Centennial Agreement, and he didn't know how oily it was. After thinking about it, he said to Zhao Jinsong on the other end of the phone: "What you think is very right, Saudi Arabia has a lot of money, and it is an export object that we need to focus on cultivating in the future." Moreover, this is the time when the United States has imposed export restrictions on Saudi Arabia because of Israel's instigation, and we are very hopeful to take advantage of this breakthrough to break into the Saudi market. Well, have you ever thought about approaching the Saudis in advance to sell them DF-3? ”

Zhao Jinsong was stunned for a moment, remembering the matter he saw on the information that the Saudis bought the medium-range ballistic missile DF-3 here in China for 3.5 billion US dollars a few years later. Yamaha agreement is the mainstay.

"Boss, do you mean to take the initiative to approach the Saudis to sell this strategic-level weapon?"

"Well, it's a matter of high secrecy anyway, and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia already has a plan to buy ballistic missiles at about this time. Your sales department can make a short video to promote our military achievements, and insert our ballistic missiles into it, maybe you don't need to take the initiative to speak, the Saudis will be tempted. In fact, there is no need to be too anxious about this matter, because the meat is basically rotten in the pot, and it is just eaten early and eaten late. ”

Zhao Jinsong expressed a different opinion, saying: "If the Saudis really want ballistic missiles so much, we can tie this deal to the sale of fighter planes and make a bigger profit." ”

Qi Yiming also had to admire, just from the level of truthfulness, Zhao Jinsong's ability to be an arms dealer was much better than himself, he replied: "I'll help you report this matter, don't be too anxious first, see what kind of judgment there is above." Oh, and there are a few pieces of equipment that you can focus on recommending to the Saudis, such as our Thorn-2 anti-aircraft missiles. ”

In other words, in the conflict against South Korea, in addition to Chinese fighters, another weapon that shines is the Thorn-1 anti-aircraft missile used by the navy, which shoots down enemy planes at a long distance, which is a very high level of technology in this era, and many people have expressed strong interest in this missile.

The Thorn-2 missile is the second type of Thorn series missile, but it is not much inherited from the Thorn-1 naval version of the long-range anti-aircraft missile. The Thorn-2 is actually the Allied land-based Patriot missile in Red Alert 2, which is similar to the original Patriot after being embodied and has been vehicle-mounted. A missile vehicle is equipped with 4 square launch canisters, which is very similar to the real version of the Patriot, but the missile vehicle uses Dongfeng heavy trucks, and the shape of the launch tube has also changed, so it is not exactly similar to the real Patriot series.

This copycat Patriot system is a little stronger than the Ai-1, slightly weaker than the Ai-2, the size is slightly smaller than the Ai-1 and Ai-2, the maximum range is basically the same as the Thorn-1, 120 kilometers for the winged vehicle target, the altitude is 22,000 meters, and the flight speed is Mach 5. The Thorn-2 system can attack two different targets, aircraft and ballistic missiles, mainly using high-explosive warheads, and the operability of the overall system software is much better than that of the Patriot-1.

Well, Qi Yiming also admitted that he also had selfish motives to sell the Thorn-2, because he handed over the ownership of the Hongqi series missiles to several other research institutes, and the Thorn series missiles belonged to Goecom, a subsidiary of the current Shenghua Group.

Saudi Arabia is also the country with the strongest demand for high-performance anti-aircraft missiles, and at this time their main adversary, Israel, is the main operator of the Patriot, and it is also a technical participant, which has provided a lot of help for the development of missiles. Using the same weapons as the imaginary enemy is definitely not a good choice, and the Saudis cannot turn to the woolly bear to buy the stupid S-300, and there is no other choice for the contemporaries.

Now that Qi Yiming has come out, not only bringing the Hongqi-9 series for his own use, but also the Thorn series used to cheat money, Saudi Arabia may choose Hurricane instead of Flying Leopard, but between Patriot and Thorn-2, the latter is more likely to be chosen.