From arms dealer to king of war

Qiaojia immediately comforted the Kurds.

Provide them with safe shelter, hot food, clean clothes, respect and hope...

This is Boss Qiao's habitual routine. When entering a place, he first pulls in some of the power at the bottom.

Then he has to find an opponent, preferably one who is stronger, more resistant to beatings, and who can let P·B make the scene bigger, so that he can fully display his muscles.

Pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger has no market at all in a chaotic place. If you have a knife, you should show it first so that those who are unclear can wake up. This is respect for life.

Frankly speaking, the infrastructure of the military bases left by the United States to Iraq is still reliable.

Set aside a portion of the military dormitories for the Kurds to use, and then designate a few large warehouses for arms as restricted areas. You can do whatever you want with the rest.

P·B is not a regular army, so there is no need to be so serious. In the future, this air force base will play the role of a logistics hub together with Basra at the seaport in the south and Mosul in the north.

The bulk of Boss Qiao's money lies in this channel. As long as Isis can be driven away, a material logistics channel running from north to south can be established in Iraq.

In fact, compared with the huge profits from the oil field, P.B., which is not large enough, will inevitably withdraw from this business after Iraq stabilizes. If an Iraqi government oil field is contracted to him for 8 years, even if he can only get 30% of the income, it is enough.

If you make enough money from this kind of business, you have to quit it, otherwise you will attract jealous people and trouble will come to your door.

Just like when the old American oil company withdrew from the Shah, an exit mechanism was formulated and everyone negotiated a price in an amicable manner, thus retaining both dignity and influence.

This humanitarian channel is more practical and influential for Qiaojia.

By converting the income from the oil fields into materials and scouring this channel at a small profit or even at a low price, a market will soon be created.

This is a legitimate business, a legitimate business that no one can take away or criticize.

Even because of the aura of Princess Emina, if you dare to mention tariffs, you will be sprayed by the world's media.

‘Most Favored Trading Partner’ is a title and treatment that Qiao Jia must strive for.

The middlemen's work has come to an end at this point. When the time comes, Boss Qiao will benefit from both ends, and that will be a real steady stream.

This is much safer than his 'little white rabbit' messing around among those black-hearted energy companies.

Boss Qiao’s physical properties are all in Afika, and that’s where he can fully control them.

In other places, he is just a 'cook' who treats people to dinner. After the meal is done, P·B takes some tips from the guests, then rubs some grease in the corners and leaves.

The cook won't serve!

Steven and Eric are still focused on the oil field business. Only Chris, who understands the cause and effect, has probably touched the context of Boss Joe, and understands that Boss Joe's ultimate goal has never been the oil field.

The oil field is only the key point that leverages all the big guys, and has never been the goal of P·B.

Recognizing your abilities and finding your goals at the same time are the prerequisites for "not being greedy"!

Chris was now completely convinced. He left the military base with his bodyguard that night, went to contact the representatives of the XN faction and the SY faction, and vowed that they must sit at the table arranged by Boss Qiao.

But Steven took Ahmed, the Minister of Energy, who was stranded at the military base, to meet with Joga.

The negotiation between the two parties went smoothly because the solution given by Qiaojia met the urgent needs of the Iraqi government...

The general content of the contract is that the contracting rights of the Rumaila oil field under the jurisdiction of the Iraqi government will be delivered to P·B.

P·B will hold 50% of the oil field's equity for three years, and then the share will decrease by 10% each year. Until the remaining 20%, both parties can start a negotiation.

If the Iraqi government is interested in reclaiming the oil field rights, then they need to provide a termination fee of 20% of the current year's income * 3 based on the oil price at that time, otherwise P·B will continue to hold 20% of the rights and interests for 5 years.

P·B is responsible for the resumption of work and production in the oil field, and needs to increase the oil field production to 500,000 barrels within one year, and to 800,000 barrels after three years.

If the oil field production fails to meet the standard without war or force majeure, P·B needs to compensate the Iraqi government at a price of US$3.5 per barrel.

If the production exceeds the predetermined amount, US$5 will be drawn as a reward for each additional barrel of crude oil P·B.

At the same time, P·B needs to provide logistical support to the anti-Isis coalition in the first year, and needs to maintain a supply line from south to north on its own.

As a favor to its collaborators, the Iraqi government and the American government negotiated and handed over the four military bases left by the US military near Basra, Baghdad, Qayyala, and Mosul to P.B. for a price of 4 million.

This contract still has a lot of content, about the settlement method, about oil for materials, oil for infrastructure...

Many of the clauses here require activation conditions, but most of them are internal matters of Iraq.

Boss Qiao does not want to get involved in the internal affairs of Iraq. His attitude is that you must devote at least 30% of your share to the reconstruction of Iraq. This must be done on paper to provide me with a stable political situation. .

I can deposit the specific remaining share into an account designated by the Iraqi government, and it has nothing to do with me how you use it.

Ahmed saw the strength of Choga. 500 Kurds plus the continuous flow of arms and supplies are actually a bit scary for today's Iraq.

Before, this guy only wanted money, and Steven promised him that as long as the contract was in effect, he could arrange for his family to go to the United States.

But now he feels that I also want money, and it is best not to lose my position as Minister of Energy, because it seems that I can last for a few more years.

Compared to Ahmed, the assistant Salim was very excited...

The conditions proposed by Choga were not too harsh. The Rumaila Oilfield had been suspended for a long time and had experienced war for many years. There were still militiamen nearby.

Not only do they need to invest huge amounts of money to resume work, but they also need to balance the interests of the militias, plus the cost of mining. If they follow the content promised by P·B, they will probably not make much money in the first two years, and there will be a lot of money. Small risk.

Salim, a professional, naturally knows that Boss Qiao will attract energy companies from China to come in and pay the bill, but when doing business, you can only calculate the accounts on paper. No matter how capable they are, it has nothing to do with you.

Salim actually doesn't care about Choga making money from Iraq. What he cares about is the hope of integrating Iraq's oil resources.

In the eyes of Salim, a patriot, Iraq has a huge amount of oil, and the people here should not suffer poverty.

End the war, integrate resources, and even if everyone joins in to drink Iraq's blood, as long as there is enough time, Iraq will be able to prosper again.

And now P·B can provide huge help in these two key aspects.

It seems that he is the only one who can make European and American energy companies give up their greed and quickly resume work in Iraq's oil fields.

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Salim did not understand that what was blocking the resumption of work by energy companies was not only the war, but also the hostility of local people, huge labor costs, and most importantly, the local uncertainty caused by the corruption of the Iraqi government.

Qiao Jia seized this moment and encouraged the already impatient American energy companies to release their contracting rights.

It’s very funny to say that the United States worked hard to defeat Laos, but in fact, at this stage, American oil companies only occupy less than 12% of Iraq’s oil reserves.

The majority is in the hands of the Russians and the British, with the Russians accounting for 20%, the British plus Malaysians accounting for 38%, and China also accounting for 21%.

Of course, these are just mining rights, and because the equity ownership of several large oil fields is complicated, most of them cannot be started.

The United States won the war but did not go to the oil fields with desperate measures, also because he controlled the upstream interests of the currency and actually controlled the Iraqi government.

There are many good places for energy companies in the United States. There is no oil flowing in their own backyards in Central and South America, and the infrastructure there is much better than in Iraq. They don't have to fight with the locals who hate them in Iraq.

Therefore, the plan formulated by Steven passed very smoothly. Everyone happily agreed to Boss Joe's win-win cooperation plan and joined the lobbying team to urge Congress to pass the secret fund output of 500 million US dollars, which was to remove the dead chess piece. live.

And the Chinese people hope that through Boss Qiao, they can really open up a hole so that they can actually start transporting crude oil to their homes. Otherwise, just taking the shares will be useless?

They took care of Boss Qiao's oil field business by the way. By winning the contracting rights for Lao America's share, they would be able to save a lot of trouble when transporting crude oil to the outside world.

Big companies have their own position. They must cooperate with the government and cannot start wars with local armed factions without authorization.

To be honest, in Iraq, you can't defeat them without joining the regular army.

Only the intervention of a company with the status of P·B can balance the benefits of all parties.

Do big companies care about spending money to buy peace of mind?

They don't care!

But they can't be taken advantage of!

There must be someone standing there who can supervise the performance of local armed forces. The Iraqi government does not have this ability, but P.B. can!

Boss Qiao is not only willing to share profits, but also has the ability to punish breach of contract.

P·B is a mercenary company. If there is a real trouble, as long as the big money are willing to pay, he will dare to go to war with the "bandits" in Iraq.

Coupled with the common interest of counter-terrorism, the support P·B can obtain under such circumstances is unimaginable by ordinary people.

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While Qiaojia was talking to Ahmed, a Panamanian freighter passed by the American aircraft carrier fleet and slowly sailed into the Iraqi port.

Thousands of containers were unloaded at the port, and then under the command of a few Chinese with energy company badges, the containers were labeled P.B. Then a large number of locals, protected by an armed security force, began to use Container trucks deliver those containers to Baghdad.

This big move made the mercenary giants headquartered in Basra a little frightened.

Everyone knew that P·B was the convener of this big business, and everyone waited patiently, hoping that Isis would be more cheerful, so as to give them room to raise the price.

But something seems wrong now...