Babylonian Empire

As oil countries, Iran and Iraq are relatively rich countries. However, after the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq’s foreign exchange reserves of tens of billions of dollars disappeared. Instead, it owed foreign debts of 800 billion dollars, of which more than 400 billion were owed The arms debts of Western countries and the Soviet Union, more than 300 billion, are loans owed to other Arab countries.During the war, Iraq suffered 30 deaths, 60 injuries, and direct losses such as military expenditures, war damage, and economic losses amounted to US$3500 billion.

The Iran-Iraq War dragged down Iraq, otherwise, the shrewd Saddam would not have invaded Kuwait, and wanted to write off the debt of more than 100 billion U.S. dollars owed to Kuwait.

Now, just a year after the war started, Saddam felt that the treasury was a little tight.

Hearing Qusay said he had an idea, Saddam came to his senses: "Qusay, tell me, what good idea do you have?"

This time, Saddam did not organize a large-scale celebration party, but directly called Zhang Feng to his office, and no one else was around. In fact, this is also a gesture, which shows that Zhang Feng already has enough The ability to enter his decision-making center can provide him with various insights and ideas.

Zhang Feng knew that he had to put forward his own ideas to the president. Uday couldn't afford such a big cake like Abadan.

"Father, the reason why I have spent so much effort to draw out the defenders in Abadan City is not only to avoid the cruel casualties in the siege battle, but also to take over Abadan completely." Zhang Feng said .

The important town of Khorramshahr was taken down, but this big city had already been beaten into ruins, and every house was riddled with bullets in repeated battles.

"Abadan has the largest oil refining equipment in Iran. Before I came here, I visited the oil refinery. Those refining equipment can be put into use again." Zhang Feng said.

Saddam's eyes suddenly became sharp, and he also saw that there were huge benefits in it.

The Abadan refinery is a large refinery with 3000 million tons of crude oil refining capacity, and its refining capacity accounts for 60.00% of Iran's overall refining capacity.

This is a cornucopia that yields gold!

Due to the war, the price of crude oil in the world has risen from US$14 to US$35 per barrel, and the price of refined oil will increase by at least four times. After removing the cost, the profit of each barrel of refined oil will be at least US$100. Then, this Oil refineries can bring in $200 billion a year!About 7 barrels of oil per ton

Of course, in the most ideal situation, oil maintains a high oil price of 35 US dollars, which only lasted for a few years, and then fell back to the low level of 18 US dollars per barrel.

Are you still afraid of having no money to fight?The Abadan refinery is a banknote printing factory!

"However, the output of our southern oil fields is not large, and most of them can be refined by the Basra oil refinery. If it is transported from the northern oil fields, it will be too complicated and vulnerable to attack." Saddam Hussein Said.

The oil fields in the north are almost all transported from the oil pipelines passing through Turkey to all parts of the world.

"We don't have it, but Kuwait has it!" Zhang Feng said his idea.

Kuwait, full name Kuwait, is a monarchy country located in the northeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia and the northwest of the Persian Gulf.It borders Saudi Arabia in the south and Iraq in the north.The country's capital, Kuwait City, bears the same name as the country.Kuwait is rich in oil and natural gas resources.Proven oil reserves of 940 billion barrels, about 10 of the world's total reserves

In the Iran-Iraq War, Kuwait was the country that stood firmly behind Iraq.

Moreover, Kuwait is very close to Abadan at the southern tip, and there are so many oil resources. Anyway, crude oil is also exported, and refined oil is also exported, which can also increase profits. Buying and selling must benefit both parties. Zhang Feng feels that this Ideas should be relatively simple to implement.

However, the old and cunning President Saddam, no, it should be the politically experienced President Saddam, immediately pointed out the problem: "Kuwait has always supported our war against Iran, and also promised us War loan, but he will never join our fight."

"I didn't say to let him participate in the battle, but to provide crude oil to our refinery." Zhang Feng said.

"However, this oil refinery is in Abadan, you should be able to imagine what this means?" Saddam said.

Zhang Feng suddenly thought of it. In terms of military capabilities, Zhang Feng is very rich, but he still doesn't have a keen intuition when it comes to politics.

Abadan belongs to the Iranians and was shot down by myself. I have taken it for granted that Abadan is my own, and the oil refinery is also my own, and I can use it as I like.

However, Iran does not think so, and some other countries do not think so, they will say that they are invading.

As a neutral country, Kuwait will certainly not blatantly drive its oil tanker to the disputed Abadan to unload crude oil and load refined oil.

In this way, Khomeini, who became angry from embarrassment, would probably go on to declare war on Kuwait.

Although Kuwait is rich, its military power is not very strong, so Kuwait will definitely not be so hasty. In addition to economic interests, there are also political considerations.

I'm still a little tender!

However, looking at Saddam's expression, it seems that he has full confidence?

"Little Qusay, don't be discouraged. You are still young and don't have enough experience." Saddam said, "I'm very proud of you if you can think of this. As you grow older, you will definitely Be our Babylonian eagle."

"Father, do you already have a solution?" Zhang Feng asked.

Saddam nodded: "If we do it blatantly, it will definitely not work. However, the profit in this is very large. I think the Emir will definitely be tempted. As long as we take all measures for him, let this action It’s seamless, and that’s it.”

"Father, what should we do?" Zhang Feng asked.

"Using oil pipelines." Saddam said: "We use oil pipelines to transport Kuwait's oil to Basra, and then use ships to cross the Shatt al-Arab River and send it to the Abadan Oil Refinery. Externally, we can say that it is our Basra Oil Refinery. The production capacity is insufficient. Refined oil, we can transport it back, and this is completely fine.”

"However, it takes a long time to build an oil pipeline," Zhang Feng said.

"We have them ready."

"Ready-made?" Zhang Feng was puzzled.

"We have two abandoned water pipelines. After refitting, they can undertake the task of transporting crude oil and refined oil," Saddam said.

That's it!

Although Kuwait is rich in oil resources, it is extremely scarce in fresh water resources. Most of the fresh water is imported from Iraq, and a small part is desalinated with seawater.

Between Iraq and Kuwait, a number of water pipelines have been established. As long as they are modified, they can transport oil.

While these pipelines are being refitted, Abadan's oil refining equipment can be repaired, and after a few months, it can be put into operation.

Saddam looked at Zhang Feng with a smile. Zhang Feng knew that this strategy was completely feasible. After all, ginger is still old and spicy.

"Since you proposed the plan, then go to Kuwait and discuss this matter," Saddam said.

"Yes, father." Zhang Feng replied excitedly, and his father let him take over, so he can continue to ask: "Father, this matter must be done in secret, so the fewer people involved, the better. And, without affecting our domestic oil production at all, you see..."

"Well, I will talk to Chalabi about this matter, so I don't need him to intervene." Saddam said.

Well, finally put aside the oil minister, this matter has nothing to do with him, let him be jealous!

"Father, there is one last thing. Although Abadan is in our hands, it is still under the eyes of the Iranians. Therefore, we must strengthen our defense, especially in the air, even if the Iranian plane drops us A bomb, even a rocket from the Iranian guerrillas, will cause us a lot of trouble." Zhang Feng said: "So, I would like to ask you to let my troops be fully responsible for everything about the refinery. No one is allowed to interfere, and I want you to transfer the Phantom F1 fighter jets to the combat readiness duty to protect the airspace of Abadan." Please remember the URL, if you like "Babylonian Empire" written by Huadongzhixiong

Chapter 1 Kuwait

Chapter 1 Kuwait—

Kuwait is located in a corner of the Middle East, surrounded by Iraq and Saudi Arabia like a little brother, but Kuwait is known as the Pearl of the Gulf, all because of the huge wealth under Kuwait's land: oil. "novel"

As a typical Middle Eastern region, Kuwait's climate is between a desert climate and a Mediterranean climate.There is no oasis like Iraq in the whole territory, it is desert plain interspersed with some hills.There are no rivers or lakes, only the endless desert.The climate is extremely hot and dry, temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius are very common, rainfall is very little, and fresh water is extremely scarce.In this climate, it is simply impossible for Kuwait to grow food. Kuwaitis mainly rely on fishing and pearl gathering to support themselves until oil is discovered.

The land of Kuwait is literally floating on oil. The proven oil reserves account for 500% of the country's oil reserves, and the oil layers are buried very shallow. The shallowest is only [-] meters. The oil pressure is very high. Large, no oil pump is needed, as long as a hole is drilled, the oil will be sprayed up by itself, which is the so-called high-yield self-injected crude oil. Therefore, after Kuwait entered the oil age, the economy began to develop rapidly.

However, at the very beginning, Kuwait was always a colony, and its sovereignty was not complete. Therefore, at the beginning, the oil exploitation agreement signed with foreign oil companies stipulated that every ton of crude oil extracted would only be paid to the Kuwaiti government. 1 cents tax.Foreign oil companies compete to explore and invest there.From the end of World War II to 90, the Anglo-American "Kuwait Petroleum Company" monopolized all crude oil production in Kuwait.A large amount of profits are captured by these companies.

Since 1962, Kuwait finally got rid of colonial rule and became a monarchy, and stipulated that the emir was the head of state. "The novel `The position of head of state can only be inherited by the descendants of Mubarak-Sabah. The current head of state Jaber-Ahmed-Sabah is the No.13 emir of Kuwait.

The Sabah family, since 1756 AD, began to rule Kuwait.The Sabah family, a family with a long history, together with the Saudi family that ruled Saudi Arabia and the Caliphate family that ruled Bahrain, can be traced back to the former Anzai family, the most powerful tribe in Arabia. At the beginning of the 18th century, due to the severe drought in the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula, the Sabah family, a Bedouin living in the local area, escaped from Qatar, Bahrain and other places to Kuwait.They were accompanied by other small families.The Sabah family has ruled Kuwait ever since.

After getting rid of colonial rule, Kuwait has been struggling with foreign oil companies and implementing oil nationalization.Until 1975, it took over all the shares of "Kuwait Petroleum Company".All oil has been nationalized.