Chapter 149 wedges
From the distance, the Kempinski Hotel is like a huge castle, located near the Abu Dhabi Royal Palace, with a very beautiful private beach and an artificial island like a garden.
Here is the largest auditorium, conference system, and famous restaurants in the Middle East. The huge internal structure even requires a golf cart round trip.
Its luxury is not only reflected in the dome and desert oasis, but also in a more direct way - gold! The interior furnishings of Kempinski Hotel are mostly made of pure gold. Picture frames, wall stripes, tables and chair edge strips, faucets, door handles, and tissue boxes are all pure gold.
If 11, 12 or 13 people come to rob the hotel, they'd better drive the same number of trucks, otherwise the missing gold, art and cash will definitely be regrettable for life.
Su Cheng checked in in the magnificent hall. While the attentive waiter helped carry his bag, a Chinese student entourage specially invited him to help translate in soft Mandarin.
Since Sucheng booked a hotel two days in advance, there was enough time for convenience to find a Chinese translator. It was just that in the UAE in 1988, it was really difficult to find a mainland Chinese translator, so the young man they finally found, named Li Wei, was actually from Taiwan.
At this moment, while Li Wei was translating, he was still looking at Su Cheng curiously.
His voice was not loud or small, which was the volume after the hotel training: if the guests wanted to listen, they could hear it very clearly, and if the guests wanted to ignore it, they would not feel noisy...
When I walked to the elevator position, the Arab waiter pressed the elevator. Li Weicai whispered: "I used to be a translator for tour groups in Taiwan and Hong Kong. This is the first time I have met mainlanders. Are you doing business activities?"
Because of their relationship with both Chinese, Su Cheng nodded and said, "Let's bid for the oil fields in the UAE."
"That oil field that was announced?"
"That's right."
"You are the representative of China National Petroleum Corporation? I really didn't expect..."
Su Cheng was about to speak when a "pa" footsteps came from behind. Someone sang: "Mr. Su Cheng? You are here too, haha."
The other party used a strong English accent that made people laugh, but Su Cheng didn't laugh.
Because the visitors were Moriyama Nori from Ito Business and Hiromatsu Sakaguchi from the Ministry of Otaku Province of Japan.
"Are you here too?" Su Cheng said in English expressionlessly.
"We always have to give it a try. We will cooperate with Dougson in the United States to bid. There is no way. Mr. Sucheng is amazing. I heard that your company actually wants to bid alone? Haha, help you succeed." Moriyama Nori's words were full of irony. Hiromatsu Sakaguchi also smiled. The humility and respect of the past disappeared without any trace.
Su Cheng nodded slightly and said, "Your information is very well-informed."
"It's really surprising that your Dahua Industrial can get news of the UAE oilfield bid in advance," said Mr. Sucheng.
"It's actually very simple, you told me."
"What?"
Sucheng did not hide it. He walked into the elevator and smiled and said, "You are so eager to see Dahua Industrial's shallow sea oil drilling and drilling technology, which makes people confused. So I did some investigations and found that the UAE is actually going to sell oil fields."
Hiromatsu Sakaguchi smiled with a very bad look and said, "Don't thank me."
"I still have to thank you. If I remember well, this is the first time that the UAE has sold oil fields since 1979. Thank you Ito Commercial and the Ministry of Industry and Industry. Without you, there would be no trip to Arabia."
Hirotsuko Sakaguchi said with a "hum" and said, "What can you do if you receive the news? Don't forget. The UAE oil field in 1979 was obtained by Japan."
"I just picked up the leftovers of the British, and I don't know how much you have paid."
He said casually, as if he had opened Hirosong Sakaguchi's wound, causing his face to change drastically.
When Sakaguchi wanted to refute Sucheng, the elevator door was closed.
The elevator is directly raised to the 16th floor.
The door opens and is directly in the lobby of the room.
Kempinski has a total of 16 palace suites, and six other waiters, except for the driver, have been waiting inside and bowed to salute.
Su Cheng looked around with satisfaction, then went to the bathroom to change clothes and wash, leaving Li Wei behind, astonished as if the end of the world was over.
Although Li Wei has only been to Kempinski three or four times for studying in Arabia for 5 years and has never entered the palace suite. At this moment, looking at this room with maybe 500 square meters, or 600 square meters, with 3 large bedrooms and 2 small bedrooms, as well as a formal kitchen and restaurant, Li Wei couldn't help but think: "Mainland people can live in Kempinski. Will the missiles be far away?"
The next day, Zhang Haochang and others went to the UAE Ministry of Petroleum to inquire about the bidding documents.
Siucheng stayed in the hotel to swim and had a big meal.
On the third day, under the arrangement of the Chinese ambassador, Zhang Haochang and others went to the UAE Ministry of Petroleum again, and directly asked the UAE Minister of Petroleum about the details of the bid, and after collecting information, they explained the report to the domestic Ministry of Energy.
Sucheng met an English-speaking Arab beauty and tasted a big meal together.
On the fourth day, Zhang Haochang and others went to the Chinese Embassy and stayed for a telephone conference.
Su Cheng waited quietly in the hotel, and only called back to the country to learn about the situation until their conference call ended.
On the fifth day, Su Cheng slept in a nap. When he woke up, he saw that Li Wei was already waiting in the living room.
"You can come only at noon. I'm going to have lunch in the room and go out for a walk in the afternoon." Su Cheng went to the refrigerator to find some drinks, then picked up the service list next to the phone, and prepared to ask for room service. In order to facilitate his accommodation, the hotel has already prepared a beautiful Chinese menu, although there are very few Chinese customers here.
Li Wei smiled, but said, "Mr. Su, aren't you here to bid for the oil field? Do you want me to help you contact the UAE's oil ministry?"
Su Cheng looked at him strangely and smiled, "Why are you so active?"
"Oh, I think you don't seem to go out to understand the situation recently, so..." Li Wei finally mustered up the courage, and gradually collapsed under Su Cheng's pressured eyes. He slowly whispered: "I also studied oil. I once fantasized about one day I could get an oil field for China. Although, although you are from mainland China, I think it's about the same."
Su Cheng was stunned for a moment, laughed out loud, and said, "I thought it was good. However, you don't have to leave the hotel if you understand the situation."
Li Wei was a little surprised and asked: "I have read the bid, and it doesn't even explain the location of the oil field. At least you must know the location of the oil field, otherwise, no field investigation will be conducted. How to determine the bid price?"
"You have indeed learned oil." Su Cheng chose the food and ordered the meal in English, and then said to Li Wei who was impatient: "Actually, so far, no one knows where the oil field is located."
"No one? Where is the Minister of Petroleum? You can find a way to meet him, in the UAE. The minister is not as hard to see as Asia..."
Su Cheng raised his eyebrows and said, "The Minister of Petroleum does not know the location of the oil field."
"How could it be..."
"You are studying oil, so you should know that if you know the location of the oil field, you may know the type of the pot bottom, and then guess or directly understand the local sedimentation history, sedimentation history, kerogen type and its maturity, and then establish an oil generation model, and you can make a rational bidding curve, right?"
"certainly."
"The UAE won't want you to make a rational bidding curve, at least not now." Sucheng turned around and smiled and said, "Of course, I'm not a pure guess. Through some channels, I have confirmed that the Minister of Petroleum does not know the location of the bidding oil field. Now it seems that the UAE first hopes to get some benefits. Then it will gradually uncover the mystery. It will probably take more than two months to give the location of the oil field."
"So there is no time for everyone to detect in detail?"
"Well, such a big place is near the sea, so you can't defend against it, so you can only stop it."
"But, someone will know."
"The king and the crown prince must know." Su Cheng nodded slightly, half muttering to himself: "West Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom have sent important personnel to the UAE. Let's wait for them to talk first..."
"Wait until they talk?"
"That's right. By the way, you go and find some newspapers for me. In the past one or two years, all newspapers about the king and crown prince will be found, and there must be photos."
Li Wei couldn't help laughing and said, "What's the use of that?"
"If you have the opportunity to stay in China for a few years, you will understand that all the news is in the newspaper." Su Cheng waved his hand and went to the bedroom to play the game console.
Li Wei thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so he had to go find a newspaper. For example, the hotel can help with such requests. The 7 waiters in the suite were equipped with to meet the customers' strange requests.
It’s normal to find newspapers in two years to find 200 women to have naked parties...or, in places like Abu Dhabi, the latter is more normal.
Su Chengwoo flirted through newspapers in the hotel for a few days, and Goro finally flew to the UAE. He had never gone abroad. Despite the care of someone, the time for applying for a passport was extended accordingly and he was unable to catch the same flight.
Before entering the luxurious Kempinski Hotel, he was amazed by tens of thousands of newspaper photos in the room, perhaps hundreds of thousands of newspaper photos. In addition to the upper half of the ceiling and walls, this palace suite was already wrapped in newspapers.
In the hall of hundreds of square meters, all the furniture and furnishings were emptied. The ground was filled with cut photos and the walls were covered with cut photos. Su Cheng walked barefoot on it, his eyes kept looking at them.
"What's wrong?" Goro took a long time to put this sentence.
Before Li Wei could speak, Su Cheng looked up and smiled, "Wuro is here, come and help."
"Oh, OK."
"Go and cut those photos from the newspaper."
Goro then found that there were several waiters sitting on the balcony, all of whom were cutting photos.
"What are we doing?" he couldn't help asking.
Su Cheng looked up and smiled, his eyes were covered in blood, and said, "The embassy will not provide us with intelligence support. Local private detectives dare not follow the king and crown prince. There is nothing wrong with us in the formal channels, so we can only use stupid methods."
He said, picking up a photo, sticking it on the wall, and saying, "Since we cannot reach the king and crown prince, or even the royal family members, let's start with the people around the royal family."
Goro nodded foolishly and said, "Then what should I pay attention to?"
"Inconspicuous people. Private doctors, photographers, drivers, bodyguards, and journalists appear, the more they appear, the more they are valued by a certain royal family member, and those meetings with limited numbers can also give them points." In the impression of Sucheng, the Iranian king trusts the most is a photographer who defected to the United States after he followed him for nine years. Chinese leaders often trust drivers more than secretary. The CIA recruits doctors to be spies to collect intelligence from foreign leaders...
These messages are often not directly accessible to ordinary people, and these people around them are far easier to contact than leaders and leaders and staff.
Siucheng just needs a wedge.
It is not only used to leverage the royal family, but also to leverage funds.
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Chapter completed!