"Mr. Wang Ye, I don't know if you remember, we once met."

After the Iraqi convoy stopped, the staff of the Ministry of Defense and the Iraqi staff got out of the car one after another, and it was the person in charge of the Iraqi procurement group who was surrounded in the middle.

Hearing him say this, Wang Ye quickly recalled, and then suddenly realized, and at the same time said with a little hesitation:

"You're Mr. Haider?"

As soon as Wang Ye's words fell, the Iraqi man opposite him had a more joyful look on his face, and at the same time had a rather surprised expression, he couldn't help but hold Wang Ye's right hand with both hands, shook it vigorously and said with a smile:

"That's right! That's right! Mr. Wang Ye's memory is truly amazing! ”

"When you and Prince Satler were together, we met in the big conference room, but I didn't expect you to remember not only my appearance, but also my name."

Hearing him say this, Wang Ye smiled very politely, and then made a gesture of invitation and said:

"It's a pleasure to see each other again after a few months."

"Mr. Haider, please, let's sit down and talk."

Then they got into the car, and a moment later they were back in the large conference room for reception, which had just finished hosting the Iranians at this time yesterday.

After sitting down, Wang Ye, as the host, took the lead and said:

"Mr. Haider, first of all, please greet Mr. President on my behalf."

"The scene of the last meeting is still vivid in my mind, and I will never forget it."

When Wang Ye went to the desert, he went to Iraq under the leadership of Sattler, and originally just sold weapons and equipment to the Iraqi military, but before leaving, he actually met Sa Damu, and had a simple conversation.

In fact, for Sa Damu, Wang Ye actually admires it quite a lot.

Because he also doesn't deal with the United States, he is also very strong-headed, of course, sometimes he has a bit of a feeling of "angry and indisputable", which is very similar to Cardazo, he can't see the situation clearly and can't see himself clearly, and the final result is that he was strangled to death by a rope, and he was humiliated by the American soldiers before he died, which was quite miserable.

Before the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, throughout the seventies, Iraq relied on rich oil resources and very good secularization, and the country achieved a fairly good modernization process, it is said that in the mid-seventies, Baghdad achieved the level of at least one car per household on average, and according to the "short skirt effect", the economic trend was positive at that time. As a result, beautiful girls and young women wearing skirts and stockings showing their long legs are everywhere on the streets, which is not at all the feeling of an imaginary desert country.

But the problem is that Sa Damu is too ambitious, too easily inflated, and lacks enough foresight and corresponding wrist ability.

Let's just say that the Iran-Iraq war, in 78 years there were internal changes in Iran, the change of power began, the pro-American secular official was overthrown by the faith faction, the whole process lasted about a year, and in 79 the change of power was completed, the new official because of the overthrow of the pro-American official, has completely offended the United States, so in order to protect itself, began to fall to the Soviet Union.

Then another year passed, and seeing that the new neighbor next door was cleaning up the mess in the country, and it seemed that it had not been completely cleaned up, so Sa Damu could not sit still at this juncture, and he actually inflated that he could take part of the border with Iran in a few weeks, just like Germany blitzed Poland.

And then he actually directly ordered the troops to open fire!

As a result, things were obviously completely different from what he expected, and the new Iranian forces, which had undergone a change of power, were very strong in terms of reaction speed and combat ability, and directly blocked the first wave of Iraq's attack, and then the two sides entered a tug-of-war process, and the United States and Western countries looked at the "arms market" sent to the door with a smile on their faces.

It is said that one wrong step is the wrong step.

It is because of the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted for eight years, that major problems arose within the secularized Iraq, and even the power of Sadamu was affected to a certain extent, but it returned to the religious Iran, plus it belonged to the "invaded" side, and the country was rarely relatively united, and various problems did not arise.

In the end, in order to solve the various contradictions of domestic squeezing, Sa Damu had to invade Kuwait blatantly less than two years after the end of the Iran-Iraq war.

As a result, along with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the United States also personally started the Gulf War, teaching Iraq and Sadamu a lesson.

Since then, there has been a crack in the relationship between Iraq and the United States, and at the same time, the United States has realized an important problem, that is, Sa Damu is unreliable, he is not a good material to be a dog, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States naturally began to prepare secretly in order to consolidate its oil hegemony.

It wasn't until '03 that the Iraq War began on trumped-up charges.

At that time, Iraq's economy had actually eased up, but it was still vulnerable in the face of US troops, not because the weapons and equipment of the troops were not good, but more because there was a problem in the brains of the people who used the weapons.

In the end, in forty-two days, Iraq was bulldozed, and then the United States fell into a law and order war that lasted for more than ten years, and the once rich Baghdad was beaten with thousands of holes, and the originally sexy and beautiful Iraqi woman also wore a thick black robe, a headscarf and veil, and the charm of the past no longer existed.

The country, from abundance to the abyss, misery began.

But I have to say that if it weren't for Sa Damu's set of operations, which attracted Lao Mei's attention to the desert area, what kind of encirclement and interception the country would encounter, to be honest, it is really not known.

In a sense, this is a "comrade", a good comrade who attracts firepower, so Wang Ye appreciates him.

For the suffering suffered by Iraq, Wang Ye maintained a humanitarian spirit and expressed regret and sadness, but if standing at the fork in the road of history, Wang Ye has the button to decide the direction of history, then Wang Ye will still not hesitate to press the exact same choice as before, because the dead friends do not die in the poor, which is a very simple truth.

"Haha, thank you Mr. Wang Ye for your greetings."

"I think Mr. President, you will be very happy!"

Subsequently, Haider, the head of the Iraqi procurement team, said with laughter, and the atmosphere in the conference room gradually became harmonious, and the two sides began a series of greetings.

After about ten minutes of small talk, Heider muttered for a second and pulled the conversation back on track.

I saw him look at Wang Ye, and then he said with careful consideration:

"Mr. Wang Ye, the Iranian purchasing group seems to have left, right?"

Wang Ye didn't hide this, because it wasn't a big secret, so he nodded and affirmed directly:

"That's right, I left this morning."

Hearing Wang Ye say this, Haider showed a smile, and then said to himself:

"They came a day earlier than me, and they must have placed a large number of orders for weapons and equipment with Mr. Wang Ye, and they require in the contract that they must be given priority delivery, I guess it should be like this, right?"

After he finished speaking, as if he was afraid that Wang Ye had misunderstood something, he quickly raised his hand and said:

"I understand, I understand, Mr. Wang Ye, you don't need to answer me."

"After all, in my opinion, although the relationship between us is closer, we can't embarrass you, violate the terms of the contract, and leak the content of the contract, which is not correct."

I have to say that Haider's words are very artistic, he first asked a question that Wang Ye would most likely not be able to give him an answer directly, and then bluntly said that there is no need to get an answer, so from Wang Ye's reaction, you can guess what this answer is to a certain extent.

And it also explained in a roundabout way that whether it is the Red Star Consortium or the country, the relationship with Iraq should be more intimate, as for the reason, it is very simple, because behind Iraq is Saudi Arabia, and a friend of a friend is naturally a friend, which is different from the simple business relationship between Iran.

In this regard, Wang Ye said with a smile:

"Thank you for your understanding."

Wang Ye neither denied nor affirmed, but said so vaguely.

Hearing Wang Ye say this, Haider was not surprised, looked at Wang Ye with a smile and asked:

"Mr. Wang Ye, I have a presumptuous request."

"Can I get a general idea of how much surplus production capacity we currently have in the Red Star Consortium, in addition to the production orders from Iran and other countries? With a time limit of 12 months, the current production capacity of the Red Star Consortium will be used as the benchmark, and the part of capacity ramp-up and improvement will not be involved for the time being. ”

"Of course, I understand that my question is very broad, and I can give a detailed list."

"If I could, I would like to know all the data, and if you want to keep it confidential, then I would like to be able to follow this list that we have made, from top to bottom, the part that you are willing to disclose to us, even if you disclose a broad piece of data to us."

"And I hereby promise that the data you disclose to us will be kept completely confidential!"

Accompanied by Haider's voice, Wang Ye had a feeling that the knife had opened his eyes, yesterday Iran was such a way to play, and today Iraq has changed such a game? Come up and ask about production capacity? Who can stand this! After all, even if he is a fool, hearing Haider say this, no matter how combined the context, he can guess what he wants to express!

Just when Wang Ye's brain was buzzing, Haider gave a look, a staff member from Iraq had already handed over a document, which was handed over by the staff of the Red Star Consortium and placed it on the desktop in front of Wang Ye, Wang Ye took a slow breath, and then opened the document.

This is something similar to a list of equipment, from top to bottom are fire support vehicles, self-propelled mortars, rockets, rocket launchers, grenades, grenade launchers, as well as pickup trucks and six-wheeled assault vehicles, in other words, this thing can be seen as Iraq's weapons and equipment demand orientation.

And it is not difficult to see from this list that Iraq and Iran have different needs for weapons.

Behind Iran is the Soviet Union, although the Soviet Union has a certain degree of overstretched supply of weapons and ammunition because of the war between India and Pakistan, but Iran is obviously not worried about the supply of tanks for its own troops, so it chooses more rockets and grenades, which are rapid consumables for the war.

Iraq, on the other hand, is worried about the United States cutting off supplies, and because of the high price of American tanks, the demand for armored vehicles is very high, which also proves why there were so many orders from Iraq when they were in Yanjing, because they bought a large number of 69 tanks, in case the supply of tanks for the troops was insufficient.

"Your request is not excessive."

"Do the math and tell Mr. Heidell."

After a short silence, Wang Ye closed the document in front of him and handed it to the staff next to him, and when he handed it over, he seemed to blink his eyes unremarkably, the staff member nodded, took the document handed over by Wang Ye, and then quickly left the conference room and went outside to calculate.

In fact, the output of a factory, some need to be kept secret, and some do not need to be kept secret, and no one knows whether the published data is true or false, and it may have a certain reference value at some point, but in most cases, for outsiders, this data is meaningless, and Wang Ye is not afraid to tell the Iraqis.

Then, with the departure of the staff, the conference room fell into greetings again.

After about ten minutes, there was a soft knock on the door, and the staff returned to the conference room with two documents, one given by Haider and the other provided by the consortium.

"Director, you have a look."

Under the gaze of everyone in the conference room, the staff member walked over quickly and put the second document in front of Wang Ye, and at the same time, Haidel, who was sitting opposite, obviously had some expectation and a slight trace of worry on his face, because he didn't know how many orders Iran had placed, and he was worried that Iran would eat all the output of the Red Star Consortium.

If that is the case, then it will not be good for Iraq.

At that moment, the conference room fell silent.