Qi Yiming returned from the United States, and shortly after getting off the plane at the capital airport, he saw Liao Huairen who came to pick him up. This guy has basically become his follower in China now, and in fact, he is also a monitor, and sometimes he is also responsible for helping Qi Yiming deal with some situations.

"Lao Liao, how are you doing, do you miss me very much?" Qi Yiming joked with him.

The corners of Liao Huairen's mouth pulled towards him: "You are a big man, what do I want you to do." I didn't want to come directly to pick up the plane, but something went wrong, about the F-14 Tomcat case. ”

Qi Yiming's eyelids jumped, the tomcat project was the thing he worked the most hard and put the most effort into, and he absolutely did not allow the slightest mistake, he rolled his eyes and asked, "Is it the Iranians who have changed their hexagrams?" ”

Liao Huairen smiled helplessly: "In fact, this matter depends on our country itself in the final analysis." Between Iran and Iraq, stepping on two boats is inherently unrighteous, and it is easy to make trouble. It doesn't have much to do with the base, and this time it's the 617 factory that is out. Do you know that these geniuses have compiled some of the information you sent to them in two months, and copied a new type of tank called the Rhino or something. ”

"They got the Rhino tank out? This is a good thing, well, although this tank is not as advanced and strong as the Type 99, but it is solid, simple in structure, reliable and durable, and it is also the most outstanding one of the second-generation tanks, compared to the third-generation tanks of the early models......" Qi Yiming said with a smile, he didn't expect that the first tank in the game was actually completed by the 617 factory, although the Rhino tank does not have much technical content, but at least it is also a very fierce game unit.

But soon, Qi Yiming, whose brain was spinning quickly, couldn't laugh anymore, and he said silently: "PLA is now dressed as Type 99, and we still provide it for free." I didn't have that spare money to go to 617 to order a new rhino, so the 617 factory took the rhinoceros to do foreign trade, right? ”

Liao Huairen nodded and said: "That's right, they first negotiated with the Pakistani side and turned all the tail orders of about 100 Type 59 tanks ordered by Pakistan into rhinoceros tanks, so that the Pakistani side also added an additional amount of funds." Later, as if they were addicted, they approached the Iraqi side, which also had a batch of tail goods that had not been delivered, and asked them if they needed a new tank model. ”

"The result?"

Liao Huairen smiled even more bitterly: "The Iraqi side is very optimistic about the combat capability of the Rhino tank, its own combat power is strong, and the operation is not particularly complicated, and there are not too many requirements for maintenance, Iraq not only changed all the more than 200 tanks that were the most difficult in the performance of its contract into an order for Rhino tanks, but then took out an additional order of more than 200 vehicles, and finally had to make up an armored unit of 500 Rhino tanks."

This should have been a good thing, and if this order of hundreds of millions of dollars can be completed, it will be very beneficial for both the 617 factory and the country. But the news reached the ears of the Iranians, who were very unhappy with our approach, and the Iranian ambassador Nuzar Nazar threatened that if we did such a business, they would suspend the transfer plan with our F-14s. ”

Hearing the cause and effect of this incident, Qi Yiming also scratched his head. If you want to say that they are sending weapons to both sides without restraint, the five hooligans of the Security Council are all doing the same thing, and venting their anger on the head of the Chinese family is also to see that China is relatively weak, and Iran is still holding a card like the F-14 in its hand.

"What is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs going to do about this?" Qi Yiming asked first.

Liao Huairen said: "Minister Wu reported the situation to Ping Lao, but Ping Lao said that you are coming back soon, and you are taking care of this matter before and after, mainly depending on your opinion." ”

Qi Yiming was quite moved by the trust and importance of Ping Lao, but this matter was indeed a little tricky. He could only say to Liao Huairen: "Help me make an appointment with the Iranian ambassador, I guess they don't completely want to break the agreement, they just want to ask for more benefits." ”

Originally, Qi Yiming wanted to return to the Red Police Base as soon as possible to check the construction of various projects, but now he has to stay in Beijing first to deal with the awkward incident in Iran.

Obviously, the main issue that the Iranians are concerned about now is the arms trade with China, so only five hours after Liao Huairen contacted them, they made time to arrange a meeting with Qi Yiming.

In the Persian room of the Iranian embassy, Iranian Ambassador Nazar looked particularly angry, and he sat there solemnly, not like a Persian, but more like a Japanese like a stone.

"Mr. Qi, my country feels cheated, and on behalf of Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranian people, I would like to express strong dissatisfaction and anger. The Iraqi aggressors have inflicted great pain on our country, which is unjust and evil, while your country is enjoying its friendship with us, and selling advanced weapons to Iraq may cause even greater harm to our country. We demand that China immediately stop such unjust acts, otherwise China will take severe countermeasures. Although the Iranian ambassador's voice was not loud, he looked angry, and his beard curled up in his mouth, which was a little funny.

Qi Yiming was frightened, not to mention that he was not as irritable as ordinary young people, he was able to grasp what the psychology of the Iranians was, so he was unhurried, he said: "I deeply regret the harm caused by the war to the two countries, but I also believe that the key to stopping the war lies in whether the two Irans are willing to stop hatred, so that they can be at the negotiating table and withdraw the troops of both sides at the same time." In addition, I don't know much about the arms sales of tanks and combat vehicles this time, and I am not responsible for the specifics, so it is difficult for me to directly bypass the relevant departments and directly stop this transaction. So, I can only say that I am sorry for this. ”

Nazar didn't expect Qi Yiming to not accept him at all, and further threatened angrily: "Our F-14 deal has not been completed yet, and the first batch of twelve F-14s has not yet arrived in China, aren't you worried that we will suspend this deal?" ”

The Celestial Empire has already transferred 12 Thunder Dragons to Iran, and a group of pilots from the Red Alert base have also begun to serve Iran, if the deal is suspended, Iran may detain this batch of aircraft and weapons, and then it will be the net loss of the Celestial Empire. Iran has a track record in a similar situation, extorting a large number of weapons from the United States for use in the war by kidnapping American citizens and officials in Iran.

Qi Yiming replied calmly: "I value the spirit of contract, and I also hope that our partners will pay attention to it. It took me a lot of effort and spirit to get to our contract. If something ridiculous and absurd is aborted, we also cannot guarantee what means will be taken to punish the party who broke the matter. ”

Nazar slapped the table and shouted, "Are you intimidating us?" ”

Qi Yiming smiled and said, "Of course not, I'm just making assumptions." Everyone knows that the deal we made is good for both parties. But if you think that you can blackmail and restrain us in a rogue way, you will look down on us too much. I've heard that Iraq is not satisfied with its air force equipment, and I don't plan to sell any air force weapons to them because of our agreement with Iran, but if the agreement is broken, I'm willing to make some money. What do you think would happen if a fighter-bomber with a super-large bomb load could drop hundreds of tons over Tehran at a time with the kind of precision-guided bombs that we provided to Iran, and hit wherever it was important? ”

After entering 1985, the Iran-Iraq war had actually entered a stalemate. In order to undermine Iran's economic capacity, Iraq began to sweep the war across the tankers of neutral countries. They used Mirage F1s, Super Flags, and even the H-6 from the Celestial Empire to sink these tankers with anti-ship missiles, causing great distress to Iran. In addition to this, the Iraqis launched large-scale air strikes on major Iranian cities and civilian facilities, and in early March, Iraq dispatched more than 300 aircraft to bomb more than 30 Iranian cities.

This period was the time when the Iranian F-14s were increasingly unable to take off against the Iraqis due to poor maintenance and lack of parts. If, by annoying the Chinese, China completely turns to the side of Iraq and provides them with advanced fighter jets such as the FC-1 and JH-7, the blow to Iran will be terrible.

Nazar's face turned blue, he thought that relying on this matter could put pressure on the Chinese, and finally be able to cut off China's arms support for Iraq, but he didn't expect Qi Yiming to be even more single, if you don't give me the agreed F-14 fighter jets, then I will provide Iraq with Thunder Dragon and Flying Leopard cheaply, anyway, Iraq has obtained a large number of loans from the Gulf countries and the West, and can afford to pay this account.

Nazar wanted to turn around and leave and break the agreement completely, but he knew that if he really annoyed China and caused one of the few arms suppliers in Iran, or a large number of arms suppliers to turn against Iran, then his own sin would be great, not only would his position be swept to the end, but in anger, Iranian President Ayatollah Khomeini would probably directly escort him back to China and shoot him to apologize.

Seeing that the Iranian ambassador's face was blue and purple for a while, Qi Yiming also knew that he could no longer force him, so he softened his tone and said: "If you want us to stop supplying tanks to Iraq, I can't do it, because everyone belongs to different systems and has different interests, and I can't decide this kind of thing." What's more, China is not like an oil-producing country like Iran and Iran, the economic situation is good, our country is short of money and foreign exchange, and any transaction is extremely important. Of course, here we will not make it completely difficult for Iranian friends. If the Iraqi side is willing to place an additional order for 30 more Thunder Dragons, I can sign a memorandum of understanding with the Iraqi side to prohibit the export of all aviation equipment to Iraq. At the same time, we are also willing to provide Iran with better equipment, for example, we know that Tehran's air defense is under great pressure, and China's newly developed Hongqi-2BM7 air defense missile can effectively intercept enemy fighters that intrude into Iran's airspace......"