Camels in the sand. The magnificent palace.
King Fahd at the time was looking at the list of weapons and equipment handed over by his younger brother Sultan.
"Sultan, are you sure all the weapons and equipment listed above can be purchased?"
"Yes!" Sultan said:"I repeatedly confirmed with him, and he said that as long as we have money, he can help us get any weapons."
"It was unbelievable. Who was he? How powerful was the force behind him?"
"I don't know about this either. I asked Sadamu, but he didn't know either. He only knew that he had great power."
Shaking his head, Sultan looked at his brother with a serious face."It has nothing to do with us what kind of power is behind him. It can be said that the stronger his power is, the better it is for us. In this way, we can purchase more channels, and we don't have to be controlled by the United States, and there are no additional conditions."
"Sultan, you are right."
Fahd agreed with him. In recent years, when they bought weapons from the United States, the United States would take the opportunity to make various demands and force him to take sides. This made Fahd, as the king of a country, very dissatisfied. However, the domestic military was too weak and there was no complete industrial system, so he could only be controlled by others.
"Sultan, you are the Minister of Defense. You know more about military affairs than I do. You can handle the purchase of weapons. Anyway, there is only one goal, which is to take this opportunity to strengthen our country's strength, especially the Suxiong RSD-ballistic missile. This is a national weapon. We must purchase dozens of them to deter other countries."
Fahd said to his brother with a serious expression. Sultan nodded solemnly after hearing this.
The two chatted for more than half an hour before Sultan left the palace.
He did not stay and invited Louis to his house again that night for negotiations.
Louis was satisfied with Sultan's efficiency. To be honest, if it were not for selling weapons and equipment, he really didn't want to stay in the Middle East for long. It was too hot in summer.
"Mr. Louis, these are the weapons our country wants to purchase."
Sultan gave a detailed list, which was much more detailed than what he had seen before, such as the quantity of each weapon and equipment to be purchased.
"The quantity is fine, but is your country sure you want to purchase 50 RSD-ballistic missiles?"
After reading the weapons procurement list, Louis looked at Sultan with a smile:"Mr. Prince, one RSD-ballistic missile, including the launch vehicle, costs 300 million US dollars. Are you sure you want so much?"
Dongfeng 3 can be sold for 100 million US dollars, so it is not too much to sell one RSD-ballistic missile with a longer range for 300 million US dollars, right? 300 million US dollars?
Sultan frowned.
This price
I didn't think about the price before, thinking of taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to purchase as many RSD-ballistic missiles as possible. After all, if I missed this opportunity, it would be a problem whether I could buy them next time.���
I didn't think about the price.
300 million US dollars per piece, 50 pieces would cost 15 billion US dollars.
It's not that they can't come up with such a large sum of money, but they still have to purchase other weapons and equipment, and they don't have that much foreign exchange reserves for such a large sum of money.
"Mr. Louis, may I ask if I can use the oil fields as a deduction?" Sultan asked.
"Oil field?" Louis was stunned.
"Yes." Prince Sultan nodded, looking embarrassed:"Our foreign exchange reserves have dropped seriously due to our support for the war in Iraq. We really can't come up with such a large sum of money. So, I want to ask, can we use oil fields to offset it?"
"Forget about the oil fields, I don't know much about them."Louis shook his head and refused.
Although he was a reborn person, he didn't know much about the oil fields, and what about the reserves. What if the reserves of the oil fields to be deducted were not high?
And he was afraid of trouble. After getting the oil fields, he had to consider various issues such as production and refining. He might as well sell more weapons and equipment.
Seeing Louis shaking his head and refusing, Sultan looked worried.
If he couldn't use the oil fields for deduction, where would he get more than 20 billion US dollars?
You know, their foreign exchange reserves are only 10 billion US dollars at the moment.
In the past few years, there were more than 20 billion US dollars, but after the Iran-Iraq War broke out, they lent billions of US dollars to Iraq. In addition, they recovered the shares of Aramco and invested abroad, so the foreign exchange reserves were indeed not much.
Looking at Prince Sultan with a difficult face, Louis thought for a while and said,"Prince, how about this, doesn't your country have an Aramco? How about using shares to deduct?"
"Aramco shares?"
Sultan was shocked.
"Yeah." Louis nodded and said,"I'm a trouble-shy person. If you sell me the oil field, I have to consider a series of issues such as refining and selling. It's better to exchange it for Aramco shares, so that I can get dividends every year, or if I want to sell it, I can quickly cash it out, don't you think?"
Compared to knowing nothing about oil fields, he knew something about Camel Kingdom Aramco. After all, he was also a shareholder at the beginning, and Camel Kingdom Aramco was the world's largest oil company with a market value of more than 1.8 trillion US dollars.
"this...I need to discuss this with the king before I can give you an answer."
Prince Sultan hesitated and answered.
It was no problem to sell shares in the past few years, but in recent years, the royal family has decided to nationalize Aramco. If the shares are sold to Louis at this time, it will obviously violate this plan.
"It's okay, I'll wait for your reply, but I hope time can go faster, I may have to leave Riad in two days."
When Prince Sultan heard that Louis was leaving in two days, he panicked.
"Mr. Louis, please wait a moment. I will contact the king now."
After saying that, he stood up and walked out quickly.
Louis was left alone, drinking milk tea slowly.
About ten minutes later, Prince Sultan came back. He changed his previous look of sorrow and said excitedly:"Mr. Louis, the king agrees to your conditions and can sell shares."
Hearing that he could sell shares, Louis nodded. It didn't matter to him whether to sell or not. He was not very interested in oil. If it weren't for this deal, he wouldn't want oil.
The next thing was the valuation of Aramco.
After a heated debate, Louis finally agreed to the valuation of 78 billion US dollars proposed by Sultan.
This valuation is undoubtedly the world's first at the moment.
However, as a reborn person, he knew very well that the market value of Aramco would be as high as 1.87 trillion US dollars in the future.
It has increased by dozens of times.
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