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After listening to Lyon's introduction, Rashid rolled his eyes twice and said, "If it's oil, then there's no problem. It's just that we need costs to extract oil, so..."

"Regarding the price, don't worry, we will never let our allies suffer!" Leon replied boldly, "If the specific settlement method is to be settled in Reichsmark at the international price, or another method?"

Rashid listened to Leon's words, thought for a while, and asked, "Can it be settled with arms?"

The reason why he chose to settle with arms was due to various considerations. First of all, they are now standing on Lyon's side, which means that they will be blocked by the Allies, but Iraq's original weapons and equipment are from the United Kingdom, so once they are blocked by the Allies, it means that they have lost their weapons. source.

This is fatal to a country with internal and external troubles.

Therefore, for Iraq, instead of getting a large amount of cash, it is more practical to send a few ships of arms.

After listening to Rasheed's suggestion, Leon pondered for a while, and then replied, "It's fine to pay you for the arms directly, but I have a better proposal."

"What proposal? The Führer is free to speak." Rashid wondered.

"We can do this, we will pay the Reich Mark at the time of settlement, and then you will use us to pay your Reich Mark to buy weapons from us," Leon said.

"What's the difference between this and you directly paying us for arms?" Rashid was even more strange.

"Hehe, don't worry about it." Leon chuckled, "Anyway, can you accept my proposal?"

Does this make any difference? Germans just do things, Rashid thought.

Although Rashid has some criticisms about the above settlement methods, after all, compared with the direct settlement with arms, the extra currency is indeed more troublesome, but these troubles are not enough to make Rashid refute Leon's face, so He still nodded and agreed: "No problem, we accept it, and let's do it according to the head of the state."

However, Rashid didn't know that Leon's approach was not just idle, but he had his own considerations in it.

He wanted to learn to imitate the American imperialists of later generations and make the Reichsmark an international oil settlement currency.

Of course, the current energy of the Reichsmark is not as good as that of the US dollar in later generations. People will not easily agree to unify the settlement currency into the Reichsmark. Therefore, Lyon needs to increase the influence of the Reichsmark in the oil-producing countries, and subtly convert the current messy oil. The settlement currency is unified into the Reichsmark.

"Haha, thank you allies for their understanding and support." Leon laughed, "In order to express our gratitude, we are willing to help you train a batch of troops for free."

Of course, although Lyon said that he helped Iraq train the army to thank Iraq, the real purpose behind it is definitely not this. After all, Lyon is the most believer in the phrase "there are no real friends in the world, only eternal interests". The feeling of "thank you"? nonexistent.

In fact, helping the Middle East countries to train their troops is one of Lyon's other purposes of this trip to the Middle East besides finding oil, and the reason for this is to strengthen Germany's military presence in the Middle East.

Looking at the map, we can see that the Middle East is adjacent to the Soviet Union to the north (Jin can attack the Soviet Union from the direction of Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan to cooperate with the frontal battlefield in Europe; Shou can rely on Iran and other countries to block the Soviet Union's second-line troops from the German oil source area. In addition, it can also contain some troops to ease the pressure on the European battlefield), east to India (at this time, India was a British colony and a very important source of troops and raw materials for Britain), and south to the Arabian Sea (a naval base is established here). , you can use the broken fleet to easily cut off all the allied sea lines in the Indian Ocean, and make the United Kingdom lose one of their strongest cards - the blood transfusion of huge overseas colonies), and North Africa to the west (which can support future Afrikaans operations. , so that the logistical problems of defeating Rommel in the previous life no longer arise).

In general, the Middle East is a place to be fought for (which is why the United States and Russia are fighting here in later generations), and it is necessary for Germany to maintain a military voice here.

And now that the situation in Europe is tense, it is impossible to draw troops from the western front where the war is about to begin in a short period of time, so the best way is to send instructors to help them train the troops, and then let the instructors control these troops for German use.

In fact, rather than helping Iraq train its troops, it is more appropriate to say that it is.

　These abacuses of Lyon are very shrewd, but they are not seamless. If someone like Stalin or Churchill is present, it is easy to guess what Lyon is playing.

As for Rashid, his ability to climb from an officer to this level has indeed proved that he has some skills, but he is in the Middle East, in Iraq, a place where the coup depends entirely on the army.

Therefore, his skills (or tricks) are obviously not comparable to those of Lyon, Stalin, Churchill, etc., so he did not guess the purpose behind Leon at all, and foolishly thought that Leon offered help only because he really thanked himself for being able to support him. Train the army yourself.

"Really? President, are you really willing to help us train the army for free?" Rashid asked excitedly after hearing Leon's words.

"Of course it's true, I'll help you train for free." Leon laughed, "I plan to send 300 officers with excellent abilities to help you train 150,000 authentic German troops as middle-level commanders. And I guarantee that the combat effectiveness of these German-style troops trained by us is very 'German-style', even if the British elite expeditionary force landed on the west coast of the Mediterranean, you can easily shoot them back into the sea!"

"Haha, that's really great." Rashid imagined that his command would suddenly have 150,000 more 'German' troops on the basis of the existing more than 40,000 'Iraqi' troops. .

However, he was still a smart man after all, so he also considered some issues while he was happy.

"Führer, can the 300 officers you send follow my command?" Rasheed put away his smile and asked cautiously, "Don't get me wrong, I'm not doubting your kindness, but...you understand... …"

"I understand, I understand." Leon nodded, and then solemnly assured, "German soldiers are bound to obey orders, so you can rest assured of their loyalty to the German-Yi friendship!"

"Then I'm relieved!" Rashid said with a relieved smile.

It's a pity that he didn't understand that Leon's remarks seemed to assure him that these officers would obey his command, but in fact, not a word of Leon's words actually mentioned "guarantee that these officers will obey him. command". But it's no wonder that he will understand automatically, after all, this kind of superb conversation skills is something he has never been exposed to before.