Chapter 984: Forget everything after having a full meal!
Looking at the man with a turban, Lin Hao looked at him with some surprise.

"Hello, I'm Daud, a merchant from Persia. I heard that I can buy miracle medicine here?" The merchant named Daud said respectfully as he saw Lin Hao.

Hearing this, Lin Hao looked at Meng Fan in surprise, as if asking, where the hell are you from?
"Captain, this is the Persian merchant introduced by Felix." Meng Fanle said hurriedly.

Hearing this, Lin Hao suddenly realized that Berlin should not give up the Middle East Railway from Baberlin to Gheda.

If they can open up this lifeline, they will gain access to more oil resources.

In fact, Lin Hao also has ideas about the Middle East. After all, he knows how rich the oil resources in the Middle East are.

"You are talking about penicillin, right?" Lin Hao said with a smile, squinting his eyes.

"Yes, yes, it's penicillin. Felix said you can buy it here. It's simply a miracle drug. Do you know that our king relied on this medicine to miraculously cure pneumonia!" Daoud said excitedly.

As Daud told his story, Lin Hao finally understood why he came here.

In order to build a railway transportation line, Berlin invested a lot of money to win over these native people from the Middle East.

Upon learning that the Persian kingdom was seriously ill, a box of penicillin was immediately sent by plane for the king to take. As a result, within a few days, the king's condition not only improved, but also recovered.

This was an unexpected surprise for the people in Berlin, and they also discovered that penicillin was even better than they had imagined.

Not to mention that Germanic later expanded the purchase of penicillin, the Persian king and other Middle Eastern natives who were cured had decided to cooperate with Germanic.

At the same time, he inquired about the origin of the medicine. Naturally, more of this kind of miraculous medicine should be prepared, and Daud was the representative sent.

You have to know that it is not easy to survive pneumonia these days. It is not a self-healing disease. Without anti-inflammatory treatment, you will just wait for death.

Lin Hao was not surprised that penicillin cured pneumonia. For people who did not have drug resistance, 100,000 units of penicillin were enough.

"The price of this medicine is very high!" Since a wealthy man has come, Lin Hao will naturally not be polite.

"What's the price?" Daoud asked cautiously. This time he was shouldering the heavy responsibility of the king.

"40 dollars for a bottle of penicillin, five in a box." Lin Hao said, stretching out his finger.

He originally wanted to say small yellow croaker, but the other party didn't know what small yellow croaker looked like, so he had to say gold.

At this moment, a 1.1-ounce small yellow croaker is worth $38.5, which is about $40.

Well, no problem.

"However, we only accept gold of equal value!" Lin Hao added.

Daud was quite excited at first, but when he heard that they would only accept gold, he felt embarrassed.

Most of Persia is a desert area, so there is not much gold. Moreover, due to years of oppression by the British army, their king is very poor. Even with the oil subsidy, there is not much.

"But we don't have enough gold." Daoud said depressedly, "How about oil? Oil is the only thing we can offer."

"They are indeed rich dogs!" Lin Hao cursed secretly. These rich dogs really have a mountain of gold.

In fact, Lin Hao is not short of oil, or at least he is not short of oil at the moment, because he does not have many mechanized equipment, and the fuel he has purchased is enough for consumption, so he is not so thirsty for oil.

But the Germans are short of oil. If they had enough oil, they would be able to ignite and start more tanks.

Thinking of this, Lin Hao said with difficulty:

"We can trade for oil, but can you ship out the oil? And the oil you control is not much, can you afford it?"

Oil was not that expensive at that time because the consumption was not large. Although the price rose due to the war, the problem was that the Allies did not lack oil.

The Axis powers that were short of oil could not buy it, and the Allies did not allow oil exporting countries to sell to the Axis powers, so the current price of oil is actually still very cheap.

Based on the price of $40 for a box of penicillin, converted into oil, that means one box of penicillin can be exchanged for 32 barrels of oil, which is enough for an A tank to run thousands of kilometers.

"Well, we have several small oil wells privately, which are enough to pay for the price of medicine." Daud thought that Lin Hao thought they could not afford the oil, so he hurriedly explained.

Lin Hao's mouth twitched when he heard this. These wealthy people were really too rich. It was no exaggeration to say that they could find oil just by digging a few times with a shovel under their palaces.

So it would not be surprising even if Daoud told him that these oil fields were dug out from the royal palace.

"Sure, as long as you can afford the oil, these are not a problem." Lin Hao said indifferently:

"But I'm curious, how do you get the oil out? And are you really going to fall out with Da Ying, or overthrow their rule?"

"Uh~!" Hearing this, Daoud sighed, shook his head and said:

"Sir, what you said is exactly what we are worried about. It is precisely because we cannot transport it out that we want to drive the big ying away from our land!"

"You have also come into contact with the British Army. The current combat effectiveness of the British Army is just so-so, even worse than some third-rate troops. But they insist on forcing us to buy our oil at a low price. I think we can definitely drive them away!"

As expected, people die for money and birds die for food. In order to make more money, the natives of the Middle East want to gain independence while Da Ying is too busy to take care of other things.

"But~!" Daoud hesitated for a moment before saying:

"But we don't have weapons, or our weapons don't have enough ammunition. We are no match for the British army. We can't let our people fight the British army with bare hands!"

"So!" Lin Hao smiled and said, "In addition to wanting penicillin, you also want me to sell you a batch of weapons, right?"

In fact, Lin Hao also has a crazy plan, which is to cut off the Suez Canal, the main artery of Britain, so that Britain will lose its overseas supplies.

The unrest in the Middle East was nothing more than a minor incident in Lin Hao's view, but as long as they could cause chaos to the country, Lin Hao was happy to support them.

Once Persia starts to resist and declares neutrality, the British army will be in trouble without oil.

Once Persia succeeds, it means that more countries will follow suit. At that time, the system established by the British army will completely collapse, and the British army without blood transfusion will completely become a third-rate country.

Thinking of this, Lin Hao's eyes showed excitement, and even a hint of madness.

"Can you provide us with weapons? We need a large quantity, and it's not something that can be done with just a few hundred guns." When Daud came, he brought a box of jewelry to Felix. As a result, Felix told him that he could buy enough weapons from Lin Hao.

Hearing this, Lin Hao smiled and said, "How many do you want? Are 100,000 enough?"

During this period of time, Lin Hao conquered half of the country's territory and seized more than 100,000 weapons. He can get more as long as you can eat them.

"Hiss~, of course the more the better, but in our situation, we only need equipment for 10,000 people for now, and only after we drive away the big ying, we will have enough oil to pay for the goods!"

Daud is not as honest as he appears. As for his true identity, Lin Hao did not ask, nor was he too lazy to ask, and he was even too lazy to check his memory.

His plan was to sell arms crazily and disrupt the British military system.

Then Lin Hao took Daud to the shooting range and gave him the British Type 77 rifle, also known as the Lee-Enfield rifle, for trial use.

These were all seized from Daying's arsenal, and most of them have not even been used yet. The caliber of these Ying14s is different from Lin Hao's M. In order to avoid logistical confusion, Lin Hao sealed up all these guns.

Another reason is that when Daud and his men fight with Daying in the future, they can try using weapons of the same caliber as Daying, which will make it easier to obtain supplies.

After hearing why Lin Hao recommended the Yingqiqi, Daud was not stupid. He immediately realized that in addition to guns, the ammunition supply was the big problem.

After testing the gun, Daud placed an order on the spot: "We want this gun, 10,000 first!"

"Okay!" Lin Hao nodded and continued:
"I have hundreds of thousands of guns here, as well as grenades, mortars, artillery and the like, and they are all British-made weapons, so it will be very convenient to resupply them in the future!"

"Well, I want to ask if you have tanks? I heard that you have A32 tanks. Can you sell us a few?" Daud said somewhat embarrassedly.

"Of course!" Lin Hao said with a smile:

"It's just that the price is a little bit high, but it shouldn't be a big problem for you. After all, there is plenty of oil!" "But, can you play with tanks?" Lin Hao looked at the other party in surprise.

You know, not everyone can operate a tank. Even he has only managed to put together a crew of more than a dozen tanks.

Although the name of the Persian Kingdom sounds very domineering, it is not much better than him. After all, it has the foundation of the national army. As long as it finds the corresponding talents, it will not be difficult to form an armored force, and it can also expand rapidly.

"Well, we have an armored regiment, but we don't have the right tanks. And although the German tanks are superior, they don't sell them to the outside world!"

"The key is that we can't buy any good tanks, and the great powers won't sell them. We heard that you have A32 tanks, so we want to buy a few, so that we have the confidence to drive away the British army." Daoud expressed his thoughts.

"Your armored regiment has no tanks?" Lin Hao was a little surprised and asked curiously.

"Yes, but they are very old models and are no match for the British Army!" Daoud complained.

Hearing this, Lin Hao looked at the other party, thought for a while and said, "Yes, there is, but can you really play it?"

Lin Hao had some ideas in mind. The A32 was originally a light tank, and Lin Hao also felt that the firepower of this tank was a bit weak.

Not only the tanks, but also the 500-ton gunboats, Lin Hao felt that they were a bit small.

Previously, considering the lack of naval personnel, smaller gunboats would be easier to operate. Although this naval battle was won, Lin Hao was still a little worried. If he encountered larger warships in the future, it would be funny if he couldn't break the opponent's defenses.

Therefore, Lin Hao had the idea of ​​replacing these heavy equipment and simply selling the A32 and replacing it with T34-85, or directly installing the 59 tank.

The gunboat Lin Hao planned to use was the "Fletcher" class destroyer.

It’s still the same reason. It’s not that Lin Hao doesn’t want to use a larger ship, but that there are not enough people to drive the ship.

Even a Fletcher-class destroyer requires more than 300 people to start.

Back to the topic, Daoud was naturally very happy when he heard that Lin Hao was willing to sell the A32 tank.

But thinking about the payment, he asked anxiously:

"Well, can we wait until we drive Da Ying away before settling the payment? After all, the British warships in the Indian Ocean are not pushovers!"

Lin Hao was speechless. After all this time, he was just trying to get something for nothing. However, considering their current problems, Lin Hao thought for a while and said:

"How about this, you guys prepare the oil and we'll transport it ourselves, but the price won't be the landed price, but the price at the place of origin!"

"No problem!" Daoud said excitedly, "If that's the case, then we need more tanks and rifles!"

"How many do you need?" Lin Hao calculated the inventory. There were hundreds of thousands of British Type 77 rifles and nearly a hundred tanks. He thought that for an armored regiment, a hundred tanks would be enough.

Moreover, one hundred A32 tanks are enough to sweep away the British troops stationed in Persia.

"Fifty!" Daud stretched out his hand, seeing that Lin Hao's expression was not right, and said quickly:
"If it's fifty, five is fine, but at least three. One is definitely not enough!"

"We can be responsible for delivering the goods to your home!" Lin Hao said lightly.

"Ah!" Daoud was pleasantly surprised that there was no need to pay for the goods.

"That would require fifty. No, fifty is not enough. We need at least a hundred!"

Lin Hao nodded and said, "That's it. One hundred A32 tanks will be delivered to your door, and you can also receive one hundred tons of oil!"

In the end, Daoud left satisfied, leaving behind a list of more than ten pages.

It's a pity that the transaction is made with oil, which makes Lin Hao a little bored. It would be better if it was gold.

But the oil is not a loss either. You have to know that the German demand for oil is unlimited, and you can get more gold from them by just selling it.

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"Felix, are you short of oil?" When he saw Felix again, Lin Hao asked calmly:
With nearly one million tons of oil in hand, Lin Hao naturally had to find a buyer for them, as he couldn't use so much himself.

Moreover, he does not have an oil refinery now. He may build one in the future, but he does not have one at the moment, so the oil needs to be sold as soon as possible and exchanged for gold and various machinery and equipment.

"Of course it is!" Felix rolled his eyes. Everyone knew that what Germany lacked the most was oil. If they had enough fuel, how could they have suffered such a disastrous defeat?

"I have nearly one million tons of oil in my hands. Are you interested?" Lin Hao asked with a smile.

Felix was stunned, his eyes rolled, and he immediately understood: "How many medicines did Daoud buy? He actually paid for a million tons of oil?"

"They didn't buy much medicine, just a few thousand boxes. They weren't expensive!" Lin Hao waved his hand and said nonchalantly, "I just sold them a batch of weapons and equipment."

"What?" Felix was stunned. Selling weapons to these camels?

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?" Lin Hao asked puzzledly. Aren't they just some weapons? At most, a few A32 tanks. That stuff is nothing.

In other words, he didn't want to buy too many, and the military factory needed to switch to producing T34-85, otherwise it would be no problem to make a few hundred vehicles.

Moreover, Lin Hao decided to start industrial layout, and at the same time, he would also carry out large-scale construction and infrastructure construction, such as roads, railways, etc.

At present, the US military factories will continue to produce T34-854. Once the basic construction is completed here, Lin Hao will produce the 59 tanks by himself.

"Of course there is a problem. Don't you know about the arms embargo?" Felix said unhappily.

Hearing this, Lin Hao narrowed his eyes and said coldly:

"What the hell does the arms embargo have to do with me? What does it have to do with me? Your embargo is your business, what does it have to do with me?"

Lin Hao said disdainfully: "We have an embargo on you even after the agreement. Didn't I sell tungsten ore and oil to you?"

After being scolded by Lin Hao, Felix broke out in sweat on his forehead and felt like he was crying because of his own stupidity.

"Don't talk to me with your arrogance. You have no right to act in front of me. I'm just letting you know."

Lin Hao said word by word: "Remember, you are not qualified, nor do you have the strength to speak to me so loudly!"

"Without my supplies, how many people would have frozen to death or starved to death on your eastern front?"

"Can you hold the Dnieper Line without me?"

"Can you fight back without me?"

"I'm sorry, sir, I was wrong!" Felix apologized quickly.

Looking at the other party's sincere expression, Lin Hao snorted. These Sandezi are no different from the big weaklings. They are stronger than them, but they are as obedient as grandsons. If they have no strength, they will be the first to bite you.

"Let's get back to the original topic. Do you want this one million tons of oil? If not, I will sell it to Da Ying."

"No problem, but the carrying capacity of the newly established transportation line is not very large, so it cannot consume so much at one time." This time Felix's tone was no longer as arrogant as before, and his attitude was very humble.

Hearing this, Lin Hao pondered and said, "I can deliver it to your door!"

"That~!" Felix gritted his teeth and finally decided to tell the truth: "Actually, our finances are tight, the higher-ups~!"

Before he could finish, he was interrupted by Lin Hao: "Forget it if you don't want it. I won't force you to do this. Please go back!"

Knowing that Sandezi had some ulterior motives, Lin Hao was too lazy to argue with him and just chased him away.

"Don't, Mr. Lin~!" Felix saw that Lin Hao was angry and quickly explained:

"It's not that we don't want it, but we need to wait half a month. After all, the previous oil needs time to digest. If you ship the oil here now, we have no place to store it. If the Allies find out, it will be unimaginable. They will definitely send planes or spies to sabotage it!"

Lin Hao knew that Felix was just making up an excuse. What was the problem with not being able to digest it? Before Sandezi was blockaded, hundreds of thousands of barrels of American oil entered the port every day. Could it be that American oil was more noble, so he had a place to store it, but his own oil was not noble enough, so he had no place to store it?
I can only say that after having a big meal, I forgot everything else and even forgot my own last name!

(End of this chapter)