Chapter 682 The Iran-Iraq War ends (asking for monthly votes)

When I woke up, it was already noon.

The person beside me was gone.

I rubbed my eyes, got up from the bed, stretched, and unconsciously rubbed my waist with my fists.

I signed an order worth more than 10 billion US dollars, which was too exciting. It was rare to score three goals.

After washing up, I put on a clean pajamas and looked at the bed and the floor. The torn clothes and stockings were gone. Obviously, they had been cleaned up in the morning.

Liu Tao walked in the yard, thinking.

He had a lot of things to do next, including developing nuclear submarines, light aircraft carriers, carrier-based aircraft and armed helicopters.

Except for armed helicopters, all other things had to be completed at Yangcheng Shipyard.

After taking a walk, it was time for lunch.

After staying in Beijing for a few days, Liu Tao first returned to the headquarters of Panshan Group, handled official business, and arranged the group's party group meeting next month.

Then he set off for Yangcheng Shipyard.

Yangcheng Shipyard, Liu Tao's exclusive office.

Liu Tao is thinking about nuclear submarines. Since it is a new type of nuclear submarine, all indicators must be world-class. This means that it cannot be based on China's existing nuclear submarines, because the Type 091 nuclear submarine has a surface displacement of 4,500 tons and an underwater displacement of 5,000 tons, and the Type 092 nuclear submarine has a surface displacement of 6,500 tons and an underwater displacement of 8,000 tons, which are too small.

Since we are going to develop nuclear submarines, we will not develop one type of nuclear submarine, but two types of nuclear submarines.

One is an attack nuclear submarine and the other is a strategic nuclear submarine.

For attack nuclear submarines, the surface displacement should be 7,000 to 8,000 tons and the underwater displacement should be around 9,000 tons; for strategic nuclear submarines, the surface displacement should be around 18,000 tons and the underwater displacement should be around 30,000 tons.

Nuclear submarines are expensive, ridiculously expensive.

Attack nuclear submarines are expensive, and strategic nuclear submarines are even more expensive.

For example, the US's 'Ohio-class' ballistic missile nuclear submarines, which started construction in 1974, now cost an average of more than 2 billion US dollars per ship. The cost is getting more outrageous as time goes by. The latest 'Ohio-class' ballistic missile nuclear submarine is said to cost more than 3 billion US dollars.

The budget submitted by the US Navy last year is expected to build 29 Seawolf-class submarines to replace the early 'Los Angeles' class nuclear submarines, which is estimated to cost 33.6 billion US dollars in total, an average of 1.158 billion US dollars per ship.

Similarly, the cost of Soviet nuclear submarines is not much less.

China wants a new type of nuclear submarine, which is a deterrent, that is, it will not be built in large numbers. Now at most one type will be built. In order to play a deterrent role, Liu Tao will pursue performance.

In the following time, Liu Tao was immersed in the development of nuclear submarines.

Just when Liu Tao was wholeheartedly developing nuclear submarines, China's fourth Persian Gulf escort fleet set off again.

Not long after the fourth Persian Gulf escort fleet arrived in the Persian Gulf to carry out escort operations, after several rounds of negotiations between Iran and Iraq, the two sides finally signed a ceasefire agreement in Riyadh, ending the 10-year Iran-Iraq War.

The news quickly spread around the world.

International oil prices fell immediately, directly breaking the price of $30 per barrel.

Since the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War, international oil prices have soared, maintaining a high level of $35 per barrel for many years, and even due to some emergencies, they will break through $50 per barrel or even approach the $60 per barrel mark, but that did not last long, and returned to a high level of $35 per barrel as the emergencies ended.

During this period, the United States did not fail to take rescue measures, including releasing reserve oil, increasing domestic oil production, and increasing oil imports from Latin America. The United States even forced Saudi Arabia and other major Middle Eastern oil-producing countries to significantly increase oil production in order to suppress oil prices and thus snipe the Soviet economy, but OPEC members did not agree to increase production.

In addition, China's annual net oil exports continued to decline, and later it became a net oil importer.

In addition, other countries are concerned about oil security and have established strategic oil reserve strategies. As a result, although the world economy has been sluggish in recent years, oil prices have remained around $35 per barrel.

Now with the end of the Iran-Iraq War, oil tankers in the Persian Gulf have resumed safe passage, freight and insurance premiums have fallen sharply, and international crude oil prices have fallen sharply until they stopped falling at $25 per barrel.

Then it fluctuated between $25 and $26 per barrel.

The end of the Iran-Iraq War is good news for other oil importing countries, because it means that the same amount of oil costs less to import, and inflation can be reduced. But for other oil exporting countries, it is not good news, because it means that the money earned from exporting a barrel of oil has become less.

In the luxurious palace in Baghdad, Iraq, Saddam looked very unhappy.

This war lasted for ten years and invested a huge amount of money, but in the end nothing was gained. The Iraqi army retreated to the pre-war border and failed to achieve the goal of expanding territory.

Iraq also failed to establish hegemony in the Persian Gulf region!

"Damn it! Damn the Persians!" Saddam's face was grim.

He called his confidants to a meeting. After all, the two sides had signed a ceasefire agreement, so he had to withdraw his troops to Iraq within the specified time.

"What do you think about destroying the Persian oil wells?" Saddam said.

The areas occupied by the Iraqi army are all fertile lands, and they are also the most oil-rich areas in Persia.

Sadm was holding back his anger at this time, and wanted to destroy these oil wells when he retreated.

If he couldn't get it, the Persians wouldn't get it either.

Once the oil wells were destroyed, it would not be so easy to rebuild them.

Coupled with the damage done to the Persians by the war, I'm afraid the Persians wouldn't be able to recover for fifty years.

Many people's faces changed involuntarily.

They didn't expect that Sadam would actually want to do this, which was a great disapproval of the world.

If Sadam really did this, it would be a real fight to the death with the Persians.

But Sadam had supreme power and prestige, and they were all Sadam's confidants, so what could they say?

Rashid hesitated for a moment, but in the end he didn't say anything.

To be honest, he was against doing this, because once he did this, the Persians would absolutely hate the Iraqis, and the two sides would really fight to the death; moreover, from his personal interests, the oil dividends he had received over the years were hundreds of millions of dollars.

But at this moment, seeing Saddam's determined expression, Rashid did not dare to say anything, lest Saddam would think of him. He is now a national hero of Iraq and a famous general in the Arab world. It is not easy to get to this point.

He knows that if Saddam really removes him from his position regardless of everything, he has no way to resist and can't make any waves at all.

Compared with Saddam, he has too much power, his skills are not a little different, and his prestige is incomparable, and his foundation is too shallow.

But this does not prevent Rashid from secretly informing his friends.

After the meeting, Rashid called his old friend through a private satellite phone and asked him to make good preparations.