Chapter 18: Friends
Hearing the authorization that Lasswell mentioned, Qin Rongshuai was a little curious, so he asked, "What is the authorization you are talking about?" β
"With the authorization to trade with you, the headquarters allows me and Mr. Qin to trade in any way." In an almost pleading tone, Lasswell said, "We must get information about the coup d'Γ©tat in Alasard." β
"I'm in Zurich, you can come right here." Qin Rongshuai hung up the phone after speaking.
Seeing that Qin Rongshuai agreed, Lasswell immediately took a business plane directly to Zurich, and in order to prevent Qin Rongshuai from temporarily repenting, she even brought Price with her.
The bearded captain was still full of anger, and he had been thinking about the 100 million check that had been cheated by James Bond, and now he didn't know where it had gone.
Lasswell was directly shocked when he saw Qin Rongshuai, and after a few days, Qin Rongshuai changed from an ordinary intelligence officer to a rich man who spent money and was extravagant.
In the huge living room, there are all kinds of banknotes piled up everywhere, like a pile of garbage and waste paper being discarded aside, and beautiful women in thin and cool clothes are shuttling back and forth with fruits, snacks and food, waiting for the super-rich.
Qin Rongshuai yawned, lazily slumped on the sofa, slowly put his legs on the coffee table, and kicked a large pile of dollars on the table to the ground carelessly.
"Tell me, what do you want?" Qin Rongshuai looked at Laswell's uninvited guest impatiently.
"Mr. Qin, I'm taking the liberty of disturbing you, but this matter is really important." Raswell took a deep breath and said quickly, "Alasad staged a coup d'Γ©tat in the early hours of this morning, the rebels took control of the barracks, schools, hospitals, occupied the television station, they were attacking the presidential palace, a large number of government officials surrendered, the whereabouts of President Afrani and his cronies are unknown, the situation on the ground is very bad, the embassy is besieged by the rebels, we don't get any news." β
"Langley headquarters asked us to find out the situation on the ground in the shortest possible time, and the White House needs to judge the current situation based on our intelligence."
Qin Rongshuai took a sip of a glass of wine unhurriedly, and said with a sneer: "Oh, it turns out that those big people in Washington are in a hurry, but it's funny, isn't the local area of your country's sphere of influence, and it's a key care area, why didn't your CIA find out something in advance?" β
"Well, it's complicated." Laswell explained, somewhat embarrassed, "Alassard usually pretends to be friendly to us, but we have been deceived by him and lost our vigilance against him. β
"And it happened so suddenly, we didn't fully expect it to happen, it doesn't make sense at all, it's unbelievable that Alasad staged a military coup d'Γ©tat, he was a close ally of President Afrani, and he supported President Afrani to come to power."
"Nothing is impossible." Qin Rongshuai said lightly, "So, can you tell me first, which side you support?" β
"President Afrani is our friend, and we brought him to power at that time." Lasswell replied.
"So you're desperate to know the whereabouts of President Afrani, and the men and cronies loyal to him?" Qin Rongshuai asked rhetorically.
"No, he's not important." Ruswell said hurriedly, then she paused and added an explanation, "Uh, I mean, uh, the instructions from headquarters are to figure out as soon as possible what Alassard is for, and whether his political leanings are good for us. β
"And what about President Afrani?" Qin Rongshuai frowned, "Don't you care about it?" β
"Well, of course we care about our friend, and he's the elected president." Laswell said embarrassedly, "We will provide him with political asylum and take him to the United States." Of course, this is subject to President Afrani's personal wishes, and we will mediate through this. β
"Personal wishes?" Qin Rongshuai sneered, "It's to see how many supporters and troops he still has." β
"You can understand it that way, too." Lasswell simply admitted.
"So what is your attitude towards Alasard?" Qin Rongshuai was a little impatient, "You have been going around with me here for a long time, and you haven't even made a clear statement, Alasad has launched a coup d'Γ©tat, don't you all come forward to say a word?" β
"Well, there's a lot of complexity involved." "After all, Alassard is our friend, too. β
Qin Rongshuai sat up straight for a moment, "I understand, that is to say, Alasard also received your money and is your person." β
"Well, you can understand it that way." Once again, Lasswell admitted it very simply.
"In other words, your friend staged a military coup to overthrow the rule of another of your friends." Qin Rongshuai felt inexplicable, "Since they are all your friends, then you are still nervous." β
"Because the military coup in Alassad was carried out without notifying us at all." Lasswell said angrily and helplessly, "This is completely out of our control, causing the White House to talk about this matter and specifically question Langley's headquarters, asking if this military coup was planned by us." β
Qin Rongshuai suddenly laughed, "If you do a lot of dirty things, if something happens in the future, everyone will definitely be the first to think of you, since Alassard is also your friend, then you can just admit it." β
"What a joke!" Lasswell said angrily, "Do you know how much it cost us to bring Afrani to power? He has only been in office for a month, and Alassard overthrew him, how can we explain it to the White House. β
"It's really hard to explain." Qin Rongshuai also had to admit that even if the CIA wanted to cheat the funds, he didn't do it.
"So what are you all prepared to trade with me?"
"What do you need?" Lasswell immediately asked rhetorically.
"First, I need all the information about Zakhaev." Qin Rongshuai raised a finger, "This one is not difficult." β
"Yes, that's fine." Ruswell immediately nodded in agreement, "The materials will be delivered in an hour." β
"Second, MI6 gave me a check for $100 million, but the bank refused to honor it, and you have to help me with this." Qin Rongshuai glanced at Price.
"No problem."
"Third, you let Conklin come to me, I have something to talk to him about." Qin Rongshuai slowly put forward the third condition.
"Who is Conklin?" Russvel froze for a moment, she hadn't heard the name, so she was a little confused.
"A hapless guy in the CIA's European zone who messed up his job, I know Langley wants to take him down, I can wait until I talk about it, I need to meet this clever ghost." Qin Rongshuai showed a strange smile.
Raswell hesitated, but quickly nodded in agreement, "That's fine, but I'll be there." β