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It took Xiao Qiang only two or three days to arrange the company's affairs, and then took several heads of the engineering team, Ayu-Translator, Bai Xiaoquan and others to fly to Hong Kong, transfer to Saudi Arabia.

Su Zheng and Tian Shengying still acted as bodyguard for him as usual.

This time, Su Zheng led more people than before, with a total of more than 20 people. However, according to him, he told Xiao Qiang privately that except for him and Oda, the others were all secretly protected envoys, all going to Riyadh and to conduct secret negotiations with the Sha side.

Xiao Qiang went there so early to go to the front station for the construction brigade. He will negotiate a specific commercial contract with Prince Abu, select a site for the main control room and ground receiving station, and arrange a large number of engineering personnel to arrive and arrange a station.

The first batch of forty security personnel of the company were all with him. These people have been with him for more than a year and have already had a deep relationship with the company. As for the security work in the world, they were handed over to the ten old security team members who stayed and the newly recruited one hundred new team members.

When the plane descended from the homogenous strata and passed through the clouds, Xiao Qiang looked down from the aircraft window.

Below the plane, only a piece of earthy yellow was seen. There were rolling sand dunes everywhere, and the sun above the head was shining directly. The scorching temperature made the light refract and a hazy feeling was created in the volatile air.

Xiao Qiang looked from the sky and couldn't tell at all, where was the city or the desert!

The plane landed at Riyadh Airport at around 3:00 pm. As soon as the cabin door opened, a heat wave rolled in, driving the air conditioner out of the air conditioner on the plane clean, making people feel hot all over.

After leaving the airport, Xiao Qiang met the person who came to greet him, an American!

The American named John Nathan, who claimed to be the investment consultant of Prince Abu, came to lead Xiao Qiang and others to the hotel to collapse.

As for the prince himself, he is resting at this moment.

For Saudi citizens, the high temperatures that last about 48 degrees during the day make them almost unable to speak outdoors. After years of accumulation, in Saudi Arabia, from kings to ministers, everyone likes to work at night.

From the airport waiting hall to the parking lot, each of them sweated all over, allowing Xiao Qiang and others to experience the great heat in the desert area!

Johnson seemed polite to Xiao Qiang and others, and answered questions and answered questions.

Although he always seemed very polite, Xiao Qiang always felt that this person seemed to be indescribably hostile to him. In his eyes, what Xiao Qiang saw was a cold look.

Riyadh is Saudi Arabia's largest city. Because Saudi Arabia relies on oil for a lot of money, it spares no effort in urban construction.

Originally, the name Riyadh means garden in Arabic. This is because in the vast desert around Riyadh is an oasis with large patches of dates and palm groves.

Its location. A long time ago, three rivers passed by. However, now they are all dried up. The city is built in the valley.

From Xiao Qiang's perspective, the Riyadh roads are well built. The wide eight lanes are very stable to drive. In the middle of the road, there is a beautiful street garden.

However, generally speaking, Riyadh still seems too old.

Because Saudi Arabia has basically no water on the surface, as long as there is no cement covering the area, there is a layer of loess, which is connected to the desert in the distance. As long as the wind blows, it will bring about a gust of dust and smoke.

When the car drove into the outer city, these houses looked very new and there were many buildings with Western architectural styles. But in the old city, where he saw them, there were low houses of one to two floors. Most of the exterior walls of the houses were white, yellow, or brown.

Xiao Qiang saw through the car window that there were fewer pedestrians on the street. They were all wearing spacious Arabic robes and walking against the street, using the shadows of the houses to block the blazing sunlight.

Occasionally, there are a few policemen wearing uniforms, holding big sticks in their hands and patrolling the streets.

Johnathan explained that these Saudi religious police. Saudi Arabia is a country that combines politics and religion, and uses the Quran as its legal basis. The power of religion is very powerful. These religious police patrol the streets all the time and see someone violating the law, so they use a big stick to punish them.

Xiao Qiang looked at the city, where mosques were everywhere, men in Arab robes, and Arab women with heads covered, and truly felt that a cultural atmosphere was completely different from the places he had been to in the past.

He looked at Su Zheng, Bai Xiaoquan and others around him. They all looked at the street scene in Riyadh in surprise, but did not ask or talk.

Long before going abroad, he had instructed his accompanying staff to see more, do more, and say less in the Middle East!

There are too many taboos here that are different from us. If you don’t be alert at any time, you may offend the other party inadvertently. Some misunderstandings may even cost you blood.

Xiao Qiang came to make money, not to fight!

A huge roar of air flow roared through the distance, and quickly passed over the city.

This is the sound of a jet. And it is not a civilian aircraft, but a fighter!

He followed the direction of the sound, looked up from the car window, and looked upward. In the distance, a fighter plane flew rapidly towards the distance, leaving only a white track behind him.

f15

When Xiao Qiang saw the quickly departing fighter plane, he recognized the model of the plane at a glance.

When Johnson saw Xiao Qiang's eyes following the fighter plane, a smile finally appeared in his eyes.

"The f15 is our heavy fighter jet in the United States!" He was afraid that Xiao Qiang would not understand the model of the fighter jet, so he actively explained, "We the United States and Saudi Arabia are good friends. Their main fighter jets, such as the f15 and f16, are provided by us! Because of the full protection of the United States, Saudi Arabia's national security is guaranteed!"

Xiao Qiang glanced at him and what does it mean to say this? He emphasized the close ally between the United States and Saudi Arabia. He warned himself not to interfere?

Saudi Arabia is the most pro-American country in the Middle East, which is well-known fact. It is also the Middle East country that is most willing to pay for new weapons! The military expenditure used to purchase weapons every year has reached tens of billions of dollars!

Unlike other Arab countries, which mostly purchase Soviet weapons, Saudi Arabia's arsenal mostly comes from the West, especially the United States.

But on the other hand, the United States is actually considering its own national interests!

It is true that the United States provides military protection to Saudi Arabia and sells military equipment, but they will never sell high-tech weapons that exceed Israel!

The United States relies on the ground to sell arms to Israel and Middle Eastern countries to form a balance. But this balance should be slightly tilted towards Israel.

In this way, Middle Eastern countries are always under the shadow of Israel. In order to protect their own security, they will ask the United States for more.

Weapons, personnel training, opening military bases, and so on. The United States has entered the Middle East region step by step and has been stationed firmly, becoming a huge existence that cannot be ignored!

Xiao Qiang has no prejudice against the Middle East countries and Israel. If you want to talk about the current situation in the Middle East, you can only say that the situation is due to the situation.

One side must safeguard its own interests. The other side must have a country's foundation for existence, and no one can be wrong. Several battles have been fought and countless blood has flowed. The problem has never been resolved in the strategic competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for the Middle East.

Now that the Soviet Union has begun to retreat, the United States has rapidly expanded its military presence in the Middle East. The situation is developing in a stable direction.

Under the strong control of the United States, except for the Palestinian militants, they launched a relentless counterattack. Although the other Middle Eastern countries did not directly say that they had reconciled with Israel, they gradually reduced their support for Palestine.

Decades of war have been fought. Everyone is tired!

Xiao Qiang did not agree with how close the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States was.

Saudi Arabia has always been in a state of being in harmony with the United States. Its high-tech weapons are entirely supplied by the United States, but it has not given up on its efforts to find other weapons supply channels.

Its light weapons, basically purchased from China, are shown to the United States in this way that I will not put all hope.

All are placed on you.

Especially for the control of oil, the two sides fought openly and secretly for more than ten years before finally nationalizing the largest oil company in the country, Aramco Petroleum!

Moreover, Saudi Arabia is also resisting the US military's attempt to open a military base!

The US military had long wanted to deploy an air force at the Prince Air Force Base near Riyadh, but Riyadh never let it go. Instead, it will rely on the Dhahran Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia and Iraq as the base of the US air force.

Saudi Arabia is wary of Iraq.

Iraq has a huge army of nearly one million people armed by the United States and the Soviet Union. It has eight years of war experience with Iran. More importantly, its President Saddam, has long proposed the Greater Middle East plan, which has made Riyadh unable to feel at ease.

Therefore, in the recent incidents in which Iraq and Kuwait were quarreling against each other and accusing each other of secretly extracting oil, Saudi Arabia is most concerned, and has been mediating many times.

Iraq has repeatedly increased its troops, which has also made Saudi Arabia feel uneasy!

The United States is very good at using forms. While calling on both sides to restrain themselves, they also send special envoys to travel back and forth between countries in the Middle East, convince them to allow more US troops to enter to protect their safety!

Saudi Arabia is currently unable to withstand the pressure from both sides of the United States and Iraq. The US military from Dhahran has increased from 800 to 2,000! If the situation continues to deteriorate, it is estimated that the United States will send more military forces to enter Saudi Arabia!

Saudi Arabia’s emergency weapon orders have reached 30 billion US dollars! From fighter jets, helicopters, early warning aircraft, to tanks on the ground, they are purchasing frantically!

They also made a request to the United States to step up the training of elite National Guards.

Of course, the Americans agreed immediately, but they also have their conditions: all weapons and all use standard American equipment!

They used this method to completely eliminate the weapons exported from the Soviet Union and China from the Middle East!

When Xiao Qiang thought of this, he felt a little understanding of John Nathan's attitude.

This Johnson is probably not a simple investment consultant, that's as simple as that! He is hostile to himself, probably because he is afraid of himself, and actually represents the Chinese government, trying to expand his power while the situation in the Middle East is in chaos!

Xiao Qiang was not easy to explain his misunderstanding. The more you explained such a thing, the more you could cause misunderstandings.

He does want to expand his power, but it does not represent the government, but only represents him personally! Moreover, the power he wants to expand is also economic and cultural, not military!

When Xiao Qiang saw the five-star hotel arranged by Prince Abu for them and knew that his residence was a presidential suite, he even understood why Johnathan was so hostile to them!

Such high-standard treatment clearly shows that Saudi Arabia is full of expectations for their party!

Xiao Qiang's people were all settled on the same floor, and the innermost presidential suite was strictly protected.

Johnathan politely informed him before leaving that Prince Abu asked them to rest for one night. Then a welcome banquet will be held for them tomorrow night!

Xiao Qiang watched him disappear in the elevator. When everyone had put the things in place, he summoned everyone to ask the accompanying Arian translator to emphasize the precautions again.

As for the envoys who were with them, they did not come out again as soon as they entered the room.

Everyone was in two directions, and Xiao Qiang ignored them.

This network construction may not be as smooth as I imagined. But at this critical moment, the situation in the Middle East became tense and happened to meet the Americans' vigorous expansion of their power. If they misunderstand themselves, no, they have misunderstood themselves and want to extend their tentacles into the Middle East, then the resistance behind them will definitely be very large!
Chapter completed!