Chapter 535: Draw lots to choose the king
The Gulf War has come to an end, but the repercussions have only just begun.
In just 43 days, the U.S.-led coalition caused about 100,000 Iraqi casualties, in addition, more than 400 planes were damaged in the fighting, more than 5,000 combat vehicles were scrapped, and Iraq's direct economic losses reached $200 billion.
As for Kuwait, as a result of the war, as much as 1.5 million tons of oil have been leaked into the Gulf, and more than 50 million tons of crude oil have been burned by the set fire in oil wells.
If you drive a car and consume 10 litres of gasoline a day, that's almost enough oil to last a car for 10 million years. The sulphide and smoke from the burning fires drifted all the way to the Himalayas.
At the same time, the technology and brand-new tactics displayed by the US military in the Gulf War have taught the world a good lesson.
In order to cope with air superiority and electronic warfare, countries attach great importance to anti-aircraft missile projects, and the air defense system represented by Russia's S-300 and S-400 series has begun to be sought after by the world.
30 years after the outbreak of the Gulf War, the speed of development of military science and technology in the world is getting faster and faster, and countries have begun to ....
Well, the British Empire has declined, the French are powerless, the Russians are eating their old books, and the five hooligans are left in the north to really chase madly, and Lao Mei doesn't know if he regrets it.
Another effect is that there is no third military power in the world. ---
However, this incident has nothing to do with Sean, Lao Tzu's big knife is already hungry and thirsty!
Over there, Lao Bu is still in the United Nations and talking to countries about how to deal with YLK issues, such as war reparations, such as the new ***.
Here, Sean has already begun to send people into the YLK area..... Ahem, I'm starting to help the YLK people with their post-war rebuilding work.
A long time ago, Sean greeted Norman privately and asked him to focus on taking care of oil-related industries such as YLK's refineries, of course, not to protect them, but to blow them up if they could be fried!
The old doesn't go, the new doesn't come!
The YLK people were defeated, but the war reparations will not be less than a penny, the domestic oil industry chain collapsed, what do the YLK people eat, drink, and how to repay?
How can we rebuild after the war without money?
Then there is only a sale of resources, this is all calculated, otherwise why would Sean take two percent alone, which is as much as the sum of Britain, France, Netherlands and others.
In addition to the sale of YLK's oil well exploitation rights, the related oil refineries, oil storage depots, oil pipelines and the like must be rebuilt, and if there is no money, they can only find someone to make a joint venture, and the economic lifeline will naturally fall into the hands of the seven sisters plus Sean.
The Umbrella Men entered YLK to lay the groundwork for post-war reconstruction, starting with the occupation of these wells and the damaged refining-related industries to prevent further damage.
To put it bluntly, it is to guard against oil thieves!
Sean had already learned in advance from Lao Bu that the results of the YLK treatment would not be delayed for too long, and the results of the 1.1 million soldiers had been agreed, that is, they would be disbanded!
YLK not only invaded Kuwait this time,It also triggered the sixth Middle East war,The casualties and economic losses caused were the largest after the Vietnam War.,In order to prevent careerists from appearing again.,And in order to warn other careerists.,For example, Kadazo.,YLK's way of dealing with it will learn from the way the book was handled in World War II.。
The YLK people are forbidden to have any more armies, and only self-defense forces can be formed, and the number is limited, and only 100,000 people may be retained in the end, and the remaining 1 million people will be disbanded in place.
It's fucking 1 million people who have fought and seen blood, and many of them are veterans who have been fighting since the Iran-Iraq war. Is the big retrenchment a joke?
Even the layoff of 1 million ordinary workers will cause great social chaos, let alone veterans with guns. How do you live after being laid off?
In addition, this is the Middle East, where the white hat religion has a huge influence, and the various sects are incompatible. Oh yes, and the national question ....
It is foreseeable that the future of YLK will inevitably be a war.
According to the information in Sean's hands, a large part of the 600,000 troops of the US coalition are maintaining law and order in major cities, including Kuwait, some are holding more than 1 million prisoners, and some are helping to extinguish fires.
The local tribes seized oil wells and abandoned refineries, stole the oil and sold it to oil smugglers at low prices to make a profit.
As soon as the Gulf War began, international oil prices skyrocketed, and Iraq and Kuwait accounted for 14% of the world's crude oil production.
Anyway, the crude oil here is coming out on its own, and there is almost no cost to extract.
Now Sean's job is to get all these wells and equipment back, and now, these things are his own! What kind of special Yilk people, what does it have to do with Lao Tzu!
Rockefeller and several other American oil companies have already sent in their employment contracts, and the security costs for the first year have been called, and the umbrella is naturally going to get into action.
On the other hand, the umbrella has once again begun to recruit personnel.
This time, about 10,000 people will be recruited, and it will be mainly the US military that is about to retire.
Of course, the umbrella has also registered a security company again in the local Iraq, beckoning a group of local Iraqi troops to do some peripheral work, and it is initially estimated that this group of people will not be less than 20,000 people.
It's not okay to mix in other people's local areas and not benefit the locals at all.
Doing business is not about fighting and killing, but also about human sophistication, all day long, you can't make people suddenly, so do you want to extract oil, but also whether to transport!
Sean can handle this very well, 20,000 people only, and it doesn't cost much.
In 1990, the per capita GDP of Iraq was GDP10468, and in 1991 the per capita GDP was 22 US dollars.... What is erasure!
It's to erase everything in front of zero!
More than 20,000 people are definitely not comparable to 1 million, but that's all Sean can give face, and it's not that he doesn't have other jobs. In the end, the interests of the US military must also be guaranteed, and some of them must be divided.
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The specific details of the work are all done by the people below, and Sean's main job is to communicate with the US military, as well as with the people from other major oil companies who are gradually sending people over.
Half a month after the ceasefire, the United Nations finally got it, and the most important one was the amount of war reparations that Iraq needed to pay.
As for the election of the new president, Sean did mix it up. He communicated with Lao Bu many times about this matter.
"I'm against another bullshit president, democratically elected or something, Sean thinks it's not suitable for the Middle East, it's better to keep the tradition of Yilk, and it's better to have a hereditary royal family come out."
"Isn't an elected president more advanced and democratic?" Lao Bu said on the phone.
"Does it have anything to do with us if democracy is not democratic?" Sean sneered, "It's just the people's election, and the credit can't fall to you, uncle, what's the point?"
"In the words of the royal family, there is nothing wrong with saying that Yilk is their private property, and it is not so easy for you to lie on Yilk and suck blood, just like Saudi Arabia and the like, which also participated in the establishment of OPEC back then, and embezzled most of Rockefeller's interests in the Middle East." Lao Bu objected.
He was a witness to that period of history, and the first oil well in Saudi Arabia was drilled by Rockefeller.
"What is bloodsucking, how can this be bloodsucking?" Sean immediately quit, "This is to help them rebuild after the war, we are on the side of justice, okay."
Lao Bu smiled and didn't speak.
"The royal family has the benefits of the royal family, and although private property will make them more disgusted with us people, it is precisely because of private property, hereditary replacement, they are more careful, and their ambitions will not be so big, these democratically elected presidents are not fucking honest people!" Sean scolded, "What a big car, what a stupid big wood, including the likes of Venezuela, one counts as one, they are all fucking capable, and they are all capable of tossing."
"It's much better than the royal family, not to mention
The top one is waste, but the family is big, for the sake of inheritance, one by one is cautious, but it is better...... Cooperate some."
"Control is not a matter of thinking, but when it comes to choosing between the interests of the country and the interests of the royal family, the first thing they consider is always the interests of the royal family." Sean sneered, like those big families in the north.
It is clearly written in the history books that they don't care who is the emperor, and it won't affect them anyway.
These emperors have no more power than these royal families in the Middle East, so what, it's not like they have to compromise with the scholar group.
The country is naturally divided into two opposing factions, which is easier to control in Sean's opinion, they can stand outside the circle as referees, as long as the balance between the two sides is ensured.
Sean, including the oil conglomerates behind him, also saw clearly, this is not a few decades ago, the era of eating alone has passed.
Win-win cooperation can be maintained for a long time.
Besides, brainwashing from young people through international students and other methods may not be less effective.
At this point, Sean has communicated with Old Man David and other companies before, and everyone also supports Sean.
This cooperation model has been tested by the market, and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Muddy are all so cooperative, and there is a mature system here.
On the other hand, if you look at the presidential system, look at Venezuela, look at Libya, they are all negative teaching materials!!
Lao Bu did not raise any objections to Sean's request, he is the president of the United States and not the president of Yike, and the specific system has a chicken feather relationship with him.
As for how to find a royal family to rule the Ilk, there are ready-made, Jordanian Hashemite families. Faisal I of the Hashemite family, established the Hashemite dynasty in Iraq in 1921.
It's just that unlike the Hashemite family in Jordan, which has been passed down to this day, the Ilkhashemite dynasty has three kings.
Faisal I, Ghazi I, Faisal II, in 1958 the July 14 Revolution led by Qasem broke out in Iraq, overthrowing the Hashemite Dynasty, all its royal family members were killed, the Kingdom of Iraq was destroyed, and the Republic of Iraq was established.
Silly Damu only came to power after overthrowing Kasem.
The reason why the Iran-Iraq war was launched in the first place was because a large part of the country believed that only the Hashemite family had the right to rule YLK legally.
Therefore, if you want to rule Iraq legitimately, and convince the Iraqi people, the religious circles will not come forward to oppose it, and the other Arab countries in the Middle East will also support it, the easiest way is to choose one person from the Hashemite family in Jordan to restore the Iraqi kingdom.
Of course, this will definitely not be chosen from the son of the current king, this does not need Sean to teach Lao Bu, he will choose a more mediocre one from other branches of the royal family to ascend to the throne.
When the new king ascends the throne, he will naturally move closer to the United States, which supports him on the throne, and it is clear who the thighs are. Jordan is already powerless to deal with the Israelis, and there is nothing to help with it!
Well, sometimes the relationship between the side branch and the main line is not much better than that of the enemy........
Although in the mouth of Old Man David, Soros is not worthy of the title of capitalist, he is just a top capital operator, good at financial analysis and stock market foreign exchange operations, but Sean needs this guy now.
Originally, I had planned to meet Soros, but I was stumped by the matter on YLK's side, Sean is not there, who is qualified to deal with Norman and discuss YLK's overall choice with Lao Bu?
Therefore, Sean can only make a phone call to Soros and ask him to come to Saudi Arabia to see him.
Old man Soros is 61 years old, his body is very healthy, his gray hair is meticulously combed, he is in a blue suit, and he walks with a tiger, and he gives Sean a big hug when he comes up.
I don't know where that enthusiasm came from.
If it weren't for Sean's invitation, Soros would still be happy in the United States, the old guy is playing with flowers, don't look at 61 years old, people are not old, they don't talk enough, their mouths come to make up, their bodies are not enough, and their equipment is made up....
The meeting took place in Athens, Greece, and Sean was originally scheduled to be in Dubai
The meeting was good, but the madman Silly Damu dumped 1.5 million tons of oil in the Persian Gulf, and half of the Persian Gulf was covered with oil, and Sean could only change the meeting location to Athens.
Fortunately, the scenery of the Aegean Sea is better, there are more tender molds here, and it is also a paradise for the rich.
The only trouble is that the special plane wants to go around Egypt, there is no way, I don't dare to fly directly, Jerusalem is a pot of porridge, Sean is afraid that the special plane will be shot down by fighter jets in the sky....
Picking people back from the airport in Greece and returning to the villa here, Sean arranged a silver party to entertain the old man. It wasn't until the afternoon of the next day that the two had time to talk about business.
In the study,
On the desk in front of Sean were six slips of paper with each of these names, all of whom were from the Hashemite family, "Which of them do you think will be King YLK?"
"Huh?" Soros looked at the note on the table in a daze, then at Sean, and laughed after a look of confusion flashed across his face.
He saw that Sean was going to give him a dismissal, and secretly pouted in his heart, indeed, he was good at finance and didn't know much about politics, but since Sean found him, it must be a financial business, and this kind of dismount couldn't scare him.
The old guy shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile, "I can't tell, besides, isn't YLK a presidential system?"
"Not right away." Sean smiled and glanced at Soros and pointed to the note on the table with a smile, "Pick one." Soros pointed to himself, "Are we going to make a bet?"
"Nope." Sean shook his head, with a faint smile on his face, and knocked on the table again, "I mean, the choice of King YLK is up to you, there are definitely not many chances of anyone who can become a king, after all, it was once the third military power."
Soros's expression changed from indifference to consternation, and his expression gradually distorted, "Me? Choosing YLK King? What a joke!"
Sean shrugged, picked up the notes one by one and turned them into balls, tossed them in his hand and scattered them on the table again, reaching out and gesturing at Soros, "Here, grab one."
Soros stared at Sean, he didn't think Sean was joking, daring to play like this must be 100% sure, so, this is fucking ridiculous!
YLK King, Soros, Draw Lots... It's not going to be next to each other, okay!
At this moment, Soros could no longer calm down, and his heart was pounding rapidly. 5 minutes ago, Soros was nothing I had ever seen!
Five minutes later, I really haven't seen this before!
Stretched out his hand in the air, his hand trembled a little, and this grasp decided the king of YLK, the hand of God!
After hesitating for a long time, he finally grabbed a paper ball and opened it tremblingly, at this time he looked like a 61-year-old man.
Sean smiled and looked at the name on it, picked up the satellite phone next to him and dialed it, "It's decided, choose...." Soros listened quietly, the flesh on his cheeks quivering.