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Chapter 729 Fooling the King
"Your Majesty the King." Su Chen said hello before saying, "I have to say that your luck is bad. As soon as you took power, international oil prices began to fall."

Fahd didn't change his face: "Su, you go on, I need to hear some different voices."

In fact, Su Chen doesn't care whether you like to listen to it or not, because this is the truth.

"From 1983 to 1985, you cut oil production from a high of 1050 million barrels per day to 220 million barrels per day. However, in order to obtain more income, some OPEC countries did not strictly implement the production reduction agreement and secretly increased production.

At the beginning of this year, at the OPEC meeting, Yamani protested against the fruitless reverse operation, announcing unlimited production of Aramco oil. Su Chen said, "Unfortunately, Your Majesty, you lack the patience of Mr. Yamani." "

The expression on Fahd's face froze instantly.

"Fortunately, in the next few years, if my prediction is correct, the price of oil will rise, and the situation in the Middle East is unstable. If there is any disturbance, the price of oil will rise."

Su Chen said: "Saudi Arabia's economy is based on oil. I think you need to use enough strategy and patience to take the Aramco oil that originally belonged to the Americans as your own in a capitalist way."

"Mr. Su, are you as simple as an economist?" Fahd asked with a smile.

Su Chen also smiled: "I have always provided the best quality answers to those customers who ask me questions."

"What if we want to transform the economy?" Fahd asked again.

Su Chen shook his head: "You have formulated an industrial development plan in the 60s and [-]s, focusing on developing manufacturing, realizing economic diversification, and reducing dependence on oil production, but the actual effect is very limited."

"The economic transformation you mentioned, His Majesty the King, is the inevitable result of actively adapting to severe internal and external challenges. This kind of reform conforms to the historical trend and is worth looking forward to and encouraging. However, if we want to successfully realize the economic transformation, we still face many very difficult difficulties and challenges."

"Why?" Fahd asked suspiciously.

"To achieve economic transformation, the precondition is to have a relatively free and relaxed business environment and establish values ​​such as moderation, tolerance, discipline, equality and transparency, but these will greatly change the social organization of Saudi Arabia."

Su Chen still shook his head, "During the half month of my visit, I found that the local society is extremely conservative and always instinctively rejects new things that do not conform to traditional teachings."

"So, the Saudi economy can be said to be built on oil, but it's a relatively passive resource, often subject to external influences, and if you want to guarantee that prices can go up, I think you need to be able to protect those resources .”

"I understand." Fahad nodded, "You have been praised by Bandar all the time. Now it seems that you do have the ability to summarize the current economy of Saudi Arabia in just a few words. If you have the opportunity in the future, you can come to Saudi Arabia as a guest. .”

"must."

After fooling His Majesty the King, Su Chen took a cup and found a seat to sit down.

Suddenly someone sat down beside him.

Looking up, it was Wu Ying wearing a dress, but she didn't seem to be very used to this dress.

"What did the king tell you?" Wu Ying asked.

Su Chen shook the cup in his hand, "I just asked my opinion on the Saudi economy. I answered a few questions briefly. By the way, when are we going back to China?"

"Tomorrow." Wu Ying put down the cup in her hand, "Let's have a dance."

"Okay." Su Chen had no objection.

This is purely for deception.

After a short dance, the banquet came to an end.

Go back to the hotel and rest comfortably for the night. The next day, the big guys set off to return to China. It is already late December. When they return to China, it may be Chinese New Year.

The Saudi side has prepared a lot of specialties, such as wood fossils, marine animal fossils, camel bone ornaments, tapestries from the Middle East, shawls, machetes, and spices.

A lot of them.

Khalid personally delivered it to the port, and everyone boarded the ship with gifts, and waved goodbye to the group of big white robes below.

The ship whistled and the ship began to sail slowly out to sea.

Because of the weather, Su Chenmao did not go out in the cabin.

"How was the harvest during this period?" Uncle Cao came to him again, "I heard that the Saudi side admires you very much, especially your research on the economy and the history of Saudi Arabia. This time, it will make us look good. gone."

"It's just to fool them." Su Chen said with a smile, "Because they don't have as many economists as the United States. If there are so many, I will have to work hard."

"That's right, how long has it been since the founding of the People's Republic of China?" Uncle Cao also smiled, paused, and said, "Do you have any ideas about going to work in your unit? I can help you write a letter of recommendation."

Su Chen shook his head: "Forget it, I'm not used to working in the unit. I'm still used to earning money freely. I'm just not used to going to work, so I didn't go back to school to work."

"Then pretend I didn't say that." Uncle Cao picked up his cup, "I won't disturb your work."

……

Drifting on the sea for a long time, Su Chen was so bored that he didn't know what to do.

He swore that he would never go out by boat again, because it was too boring, and those people brought by Uncle Cao were all unsmiling, and he knew that there was no way to play with him.

After he wrote a lot of content on the ship, the ship finally arrived in Shanghai.

After getting off the boat, they didn't even have time to stay in Shanghai, and everyone flew back to the capital directly.

On the way, Uncle Cao sat beside him and spoke first: "Su Chen, thanks to your help on this trip, but you signed a non-disclosure agreement, so you know the confidentiality of this matter."

"Understood, I will strictly keep this secret." Su Chen nodded seriously, "Don't tell anyone."

"That's good." Uncle Cao picked up the tea mug and took a sip happily. "What do you think of Saudi Arabia's economy?"

Another one came to ask about the Saudi economy.

Su Chen thought for a while: "Saudi Arabia's economy is based on oil, but due to the unstable situation in the Middle East, he is bound to get toys that can guard the house."

"Okay, you've been away from home for so long, you'll get off the plane in a while, let's go home and have a look." Uncle Cao said, "We'll look for you when we're free."

When Su Chen got off the plane, he couldn't help shivering, the weather is really fucking cold.

It has now entered January 1987, and even the Laba Festival has passed.

Chinese New Year will be in three weeks.

Coming out of the airport, Su Chen picked up some gifts, waved goodbye to Uncle Cao and the others, and then took a taxi back to the courtyard.

As soon as he returned to the entrance of the alley, Teacher Su was stunned...

(End of this chapter)