Chapter 259 Shelling Incident
Chapter 259 The bombardment incident
Zhu Mingyan frowned and said, "It makes sense!" Then he hurried to discuss with representatives of various countries. As Zhang Qiang expected, the seven countries took the opportunity to suppress the price as Zhu Mingyan expected. As a result, Zhu Mingyan's attitude suddenly became tough. According to Zhang Qiang's words, the seven countries suddenly softened. Not only did they agree to leave the ship, but within an hour, thousands of transport ships anchored from the docks of various countries and sailed in groups to the direction of China. And
Almost at the same time, the first batch of grain transported from China has left the port and headed towards the Middle East. In this way, while China's grain transport ships arrived in the Middle East, fleets of countries will also arrive on the Chinese coast. This will reduce the time taken from half a month to one week. The first batch of grain ships shipped and the food that was still be trapped by Israel at this time will be enough to support the food demand in the Middle East for a week. If everything goes well, the food crisis in the Middle East will be resolved.
At 10 o'clock the next morning, Zhang Qiang, representatives of the seven countries and representatives from Iraq and Iran formally held a signing ceremony in the parliament hall of Iraq. In a solemn atmosphere, Zhang Qiang wrote a lot of documents drafted in advance and signed his name with great integrity. At that moment, Zhang Qiang felt surprisingly good, solemn, proud, proud, and glorious... A farmer from China was surrounded by diplomats from nine countries. The feeling was not just that his back was straightened, but as if the remote sensing of the entire Chinese giant was straightened.
Countless political and economic critics from countries around the world began to comment on the transactions completed by China and the entire Middle East on TV, newspapers, and works. They all gave the highest evaluation. The biggest benefit obtained by the Middle East is undoubtedly the success of the famine that is likely to sweep. This benefit is of course great, but in the eyes of various critics, this is simply negligible compared to the benefits China has gained from it. Economically, the sale price of one dollar is compared to the acquisitions of one-billion yuan in China, at the current exchange rate, this means 400% profit. Excluding freight costs
And the wages paid to workers will have a net profit of more than three times. Such a huge reporting rate is comparable to drugs and arms. The Chinese government's investment has received extremely rich returns, which means that China will obtain sufficient and strong fiscal budgets in education, economy, infrastructure construction, and even military. The Chinese government, which was originally in good financial situation, has even seen a huge fiscal surplus at this time, which makes those Western governments who are suffering from fiscal deficits envious and jealous and crazy fiscal accounts. Many netizens even publicly recommend the Chinese government as the richest and most profitable government in the world today.
The economic benefits China has certainly driven economists crazy, but the political benefits China has gained from it has made many foreign political scientists depressed. In this food crisis in the Middle East, China undoubtedly played the image of a savior. Among all countries that have accepted Chinese food, China's image has become surprisingly noble and great. Many countries and China's diplomatic hierarchy have developed into strategic alliances, even first-level intimacy, offensive and defensive alliances, which has surprised many Western countries. The influence of the Chinese government in the Middle East has thus far been far inferior to that of the United States at the beginning, and has developed to truly compete with the United States and checks and balances with each other.
But these are all secondarily. China's great achievements in the Middle East this time have had an extremely profound impact on the image of a major power that China is committed to shaping. Its huge driving effect has been highly praised by historians several years later. This is what the Chinese government really likes. China's influence continues to increase internationally, causing other countries in the world to begin to re-examine their relationship with China. In the past, the general hope of relations with China would make the two countries care about everything, but in the past, they were very close to China, and hoped that this relationship could be further consolidated. As a result, the heads and presidents from all over the world rushed to Beijing. The number of receptions of the Chinese government soared instantly, and almost every day there were heads and VIPs to arrive in Beijing to meet with Chinese leaders.
Accompanying these leaders, there are countless summits, fairs and various world-renowned events. China's tourism industry is refreshing data every day. Invisibly, a large amount of wealth is pouring towards China like a torrent. Such a hot scene is far beyond the expectations of the Chairman and the Prime Minister, and they have bright smiles on their faces every day. In order to make full use of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Zhongnanhai is busier than ever before, and various meetings are held one after another. One after another, with highly targeted policies, and China's reform and opening up has entered a new realm with this opportunity.
In short, the food crisis in the Middle East has created an opportunity that has never been seen in a century. More and more arguments have begun to become popular on the Internet. Although the Chinese failed to catch up with the two industrial revolutions, they caught up with the food crisis in the Middle East, which is enough to make up for everything. Although this is a bit cramped, it undoubtedly affirms the far-reaching impact of the food crisis in the Middle East on China.
But everything is in two aspects, and there are advantages and disadvantages! China has achieved a new all-round take-off, which is a benefit, but the disadvantages are that many countries are more vigilant and wary about China. The Chinese threat theory has even appeared at high-level meetings of some countries again. However, this is not a problem for them to worry that China has gained economic and political benefits in this Middle East crisis. The benefits China has gained from the oil in the Middle East alone have made them beware of China.
The payment method advocated by China has suddenly increased dozens of oil development bases in the Middle East. With China's advanced oil production technology, the daily output of these oil fields has been close to half of the daily output of the entire OPEC, and there is a faint upward trend. Member states of the OPEC have expressed concerns about the times. Because these sudden increase in oil production makes people worried that the world's oil market will be saturated. The world's oil futures trading prices have shown a downward trend for several consecutive days.
As soon as Longteng Energy Group and China Petroleum Group Middle East Branch, these two energy companies attracted attention from all aspects of the world as soon as they rose. Of course, this also included Zhang Qiang, but he was not paying attention to Longteng but PetroChina. Zhang Qiang was a little dissatisfied. He believed that since Longteng was in the Middle East, there should be no more branch of PetroChina. Although it is a domestic company, Zhang Qiang was still a little unhappy. Because he had already sold 10% of Longteng's shares to PetroChina before, and PetroChina is both its shareholder and its competitor, which is a bit ridiculous.
This time, part of the grain shipped to the Middle East was basically exchanged for cash by the Chinese government. Even if some were exchanged for oil fields, it was a limited amount. However, Zhang Qiang's money was exchanged for oil fields, which made Longquan, Longmu and Longxi the three major companies the most profitable companies in the world, but they were also the poorest companies. It can be said that all their profits were invested by Zhang Qiang in Longteng. It can be seen how much Zhang Qiang valued Longteng. Because of the importance that Zhang Qiang instinctively had a hostility towards all competitors, even China's own company.
At present, due to OPEC's failure to cooperate, Longteng has never been able to get the share he needs. If he goes public rashly, it will likely affect the balance of supply and demand to a great extent, thus causing a big plunge in the world's oil prices and even lead to a collapse of oil futures. This is definitely not what Zhang Qiang hopes to see. He hopes to make money with oil, and of course he does not want the world's oil market to collapse. Therefore, Longteng Energy Group is still in the work of recruiting troops, vigorously exploring oil fields with abundant oil storage and injecting heavy capital to develop oil production technology. The same is true for PetroChina, and is currently in difficult negotiations with OPEC. Zhang Qiang feels it is necessary to talk to Zhu Mingyan or the Chairman before everything is officially launched, and finally let PetroChina withdraw from Iraq, although Zhang Qiang knows that this may not be easy. However, at present, the problem that Zhang Qiang urgently needs to solve is not oil, but the batch of food that is still besieged by Israel.
Since Zhang Qiang signed an agreement with the Middle East countries, Israel suddenly became silent, and Jin Kalu returned to China quietly and left Lucia alone in Iraq. However, Lucia, who survived from death, was still unhappy because of the diligent company of lightning and Shi Yuyao's caring care. She was so happy that she didn't care about Jin Kalu's whereabouts. However, just like the darkness before the dawn came, there must be a tranquility before the storm came. In this quiet atmosphere, Zhang Qiang felt increasingly uneasy, and always felt that Jin Kalu had begun to act.
Sure enough, on a bright afternoon, Lightning hurriedly found Zhang Qiang. Seeing his face full of panic, Zhang Qiang immediately realized that the storm had finally come. "Brother Qiang, something big is wrong! The Israeli fleet opened fire on my grain transport fleet!" Lightning said panting. "What!?" Zhang Qiang couldn't help but feel a little indignant when he heard it. China's grain transport fleet was all ordinary transport ships, and they had no ability to resist at all, just like a baby with bare hands. Israel launched an attack on ordinary civilian ships, and its behavior was simply outrageous.
"Jinkalu, you bastard!" Zhang Qiang rudely swears, grabbing lightning's wrists and soaring into the air like birds. Before the lightning could fully wake up, the two had already arrived over the blue sea. Seeing a ship, Zhang Qiang flashed and climbed up. Seeing the Chinese crew members with panic and fearful eyes, Zhang Qiang frowned tightly. Seeing a thorn team member like a javelin, standing proudly on the bow of the ship, clenched his fists, staring at the Israeli warship that was firing with anger. Zhang Qiang hurriedly walked over. Seeing Zhang Qiang and Lightning, the eyes of the thorn team member lit up suddenly, and he said in a stern voice, "Brother Qiang, captain, you are here!"
Zhang Qiang nodded, glanced at the Israeli warship, and said coldly, "How is the situation? Are our casualties serious?" The thorn shook his head and said, "Israel is just demonstrating now and has not really aimed at us to open fire. Except for a few crew members who accidentally fell into the water, no one was injured. However, this kind of run and bombing lasted for a long time, I am afraid that some team members will not be able to bear it psychologically!" Zhang Qiang gritted his teeth and said, "Fortunately, the Jinkalu has not been completely crazy yet, otherwise I would let the whole Israel be buried with you!"
"Listen to the Chinese ship opposite!" Israel's artillery fire gradually subsided, and a loudspeaker came from a loudspeaker. "We are Israeli warships. Now we order you to sail immediately according to the route we set. Otherwise, we will treat you as pirates and sank mercilessly!" After a while, the route they mentioned came from the grain transport ship. Zhang Qiang swept it and saw that the route was heading to Israel. Zhang Qiang sneered a few times and said, "It seems that this Jinkalu is ready to snatch us! Hum... Tell them that we can agree to their request, but they must give us some time to repair it! Just say that when the shelling just now, some crew members fell into the water and needed rescue, and some ships were damaged by shrapnel, which took some time to repair!"
The stinger team beside Zhang Qiang held his breath and sank his breath. Without any speakers, the sound was extremely clear and loud on the vast sea. After a brief silence, the Israeli warship finally agreed to give the Chinese fleet three hours of renovation time. "Brother Qiang, we have three hours now, what do you think you should do?" Zhang Qiang gritted his teeth and pondered and said, "You go and explain the situation to our embassy and government immediately, I'll find Jinkalu!" After that, he flew back to the land with lightning, and then the two parted ways and each took action.
With the propaganda of lightning, the news that Israeli bombarded China's grain transport fleet spread to the world as if it had grown wings. The whole world was in an uproar. The criticism of Israel rolled in like a wave, and the rare pen tips of major international media pointed to Israel one after another.
Chapter completed!