Chapter 60: The gentry pays to suppress the bandits (monthly pass 1000 plus more)
(I never expected that the monthly pass would be doubled, spurting blood...... The editor said that the May Day shelves are gone, and it will be the 12th, when will this free period be...... )
(Ask for follow-up, insist, next Monday and Tuesday to catch up on the decision to recommend Sanjiang later, don't raise!) )
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Wang Zhen can see that Faisal is a rebel!
The gradual arming of forces is actually quite simple in Iraq.
Strictly speaking, now there are no troops in Iraq.
After the overthrow of Silly Damu in 2003, Iraq's army was disbanded by the United States, and the current Iraqi army is called the 'Iraqi Security Force', which is composed of the National Guard, the police force, the anti-terrorist force, the coast guard and the air force.
Because there is no clear Iraqi army, and the number is scarce, there are many warlords in various places, let's say Baghdad, there are more than 30 large and small armed forces.
There are many more places, large and small, and there are countless of them.
Therefore, it is not difficult for Faisal to form an armed force that obeys his orders, especially since he has defected to the United States, as long as he is obedient, it is not a problem to give his armed forces the title of National Guard or police force.
Faisal quickly figured this out, and became more and more excited, and the future was bright!
Of course, before that, it was useless for him to think about it, there was no money, there was no source of weapons.
Now, if Wang can convince the U.S. government, then nothing is a problem, and that's what Faisal thinks.
But in Wang Zhen's heart, it was Faisal who paid for it, and he asked the golden retriever to find an arms channel for this guy.
The first batch of munitions could not be used, "I think that at the beginning, Lao Tzu's team was opened, and there were only a dozen people and seven or eight guns......"
Whether the golden retriever can find an arms channel Wang Zhen is not worried, the more than 200 kilograms of ammunition he brought when he came were not sold to the arms dealers here.
Besides, Faisal's task is to cover his feet under the building, and the military will most likely not oppose the establishment of an armed force for him, and if so, he may be able to pick out another sum of money from it.
Well, you can't use a pick, it's called military cooperation!
For a long time, neither of them spoke, but Wang Zhen opened his mouth first, "Can you get people from your hometown?" ”
Faisal thought for a moment and nodded, "It should be fine." ”
"I mean, the kind of people who got guns, the Iraqi army was demobilized about 1 million people, and a large number of people were repatriated to various places, looking for this kind of people, so that they can be trained." Wang Zhen added.
The reason why so many local armed forces appeared in Iraq after the war is not for nothing, how can millions of people who took guns and eat public food suddenly dispersed?
The people of the Song Dynasty knew that they couldn't do it, and they didn't know what the U.S. government thought, and this was the disadvantage of not having a historical background.
"That's right!" Faisal slapped his thigh excitedly, "I'll arrange for someone to go back and find it!" ”
As he spoke, he was about to grab the phone, but was stopped by Wang Zhen, "Let people go back to find it, then who do they listen to?" ”
Faisal reacted immediately and nodded heavily, "Then let's go back." ”
"Don't worry, I still want the company to talk about the situation." Wang Zhen said with a smile.
When it came to Faisal's ears, it became, 'I'm going to talk to the government about the situation,' "Okay, I'll wait for good news for you." ”
After discussing, Wang Zhen got up and went out.
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"Huh? Support Faisal to build up arms? The golden retriever scratched his head, completely confused about the current situation.
We just took on a three-month conservation mission, why did so many changes suddenly occur?
It's a political donation, and it's about forming an arm, are you sure it's a task given by the building to cover your feet?
Not to mention the golden retriever, the bayonets and shovels don't understand.
Wang Zhen knew as soon as he saw their reaction, so he explained: "There is still a month and a half left in the protection mission, and now I have encountered so many attacks, and it will only become more and more dangerous in the future, I don't want to suddenly lose one person in the team one day." ”
Wang Zhen silenced a few people with a single sentence, donkey, you die...... You're so miserable!
"He has his own team, let's play and cooperate, it will be much easier, besides, you can make a lot of money if you operate well!"
"Still making money?" Shovel's eyes widened, and his face was full of incredulity.
In the past, the task was only salary and commission, but recently, Wang Zhen's various operations, picking money from middlemen, squeezing money from drug criminals, and sharing from political donations, this various income makes him feel like opening up a new world.
The task has become a small head.
"Of course you can make money!" Wang Zhen smiled, pulled over a chair and sat down, Erlang's legs were bent, his arms were on the back of the chair, and his head was raised high, highlighting a smugness.
"The gentry paid to suppress the bandits...... Ahem, if Faisal pulls up a 'legitimate' army, at least his status among the Arabs in Salah al-Din province will skyrocket, and he will be eligible for a share of profits in many places, and his status among the more than 300 parliamentarians will not be the same, and the number of people willing to give him support funds will become even more. ”
"His armament was built with our help, do you want to charge a fee!"
"Besides, pull up the arms, do you want to train? Who to train? Do you want to spend money? ”
"Where did the early munitions come from, we helped find channels, munitions, all hands are full of oil when you touch them!"
"I won't say more, it's too much!" Wang Zhen shook his head, looking a little regretful.
"There's more?" The bayonet asked with an exaggerated expression.
"With so many people and too many guns, wouldn't it be a matter of course to control an oil field in Iraq?" The corners of Wang Zhen's mouth twitched, and he said with some sarcasm: "Even if it's cooperation." ”
The expressions of the golden retrievers changed from stunned to speechless, and from jealousy to regret.
After a few years in Iraq, I have seen too many things like this, but if the oil fields want to be safe and secure, there must be armed forces involved, and there is a high probability that local forces will participate.
Some people say that the US military is fighting Iraq for the sake of oil, and oil breeds mold, so we will not evaluate whether it is right or wrong for the time being.
But from the end of the war in 2003 until January 25, 2010, ExxonMobil and Shell signed an agreement with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil to jointly develop the second largest oil field, the West Gurna-1 field, which was the first time that a consortium led by a U.S. company was allowed to develop Iraq's oil block.
More interestingly, on January 21, 2013, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that ExxonMobil was seeking a buyer for its stake in the West Khurnai-1 oilfield project for up to $50 billion, and the buyer's name was PetroChina.
During the period when the donkey was hospitalized, Wang Zhen looked up all kinds of messy information on the Internet when he thought it was okay, and he found an interesting thing: after the Iraq war, the bilateral trade between China and Iraq grew from 517 million US dollars in 2002 before the war to 17.5 billion US dollars at the end of 2012 after the war.
A large number of oil fields in Iraq are more or less full of Chinese presence.
Why is this happening?
Because the big oil companies in the United States and Britain hate trouble very much, and Iraq's chaotic law and order, the warlords are the biggest trouble, once there is an attack, the stock price will fluctuate, not to mention the death of American employees......
Therefore, they are unwilling to touch this kind of trouble, but Huaxia Fang's most concern has never been economic benefits.
Of course, it is not China that has benefited the most from Iraq's oil interests, but people like Green Booker.