Chapter 824 - The Cause of the War (1/2)
Translator: _Min_ Editor: Caron_
In the same afternoon, Shatov returned to Russia on a Russian military plane. Jiang Chen gifted him the “Sword Shuttering-1” from the warehouse to bring back as a sample to show the Kremlin.
As for whether or not Russians would reverse engineer the “Sword Shuttering -1,” Jiang Chen wasn’t worried about this issue.
There was a gap in technological understanding. Even if the Russians studied the “Sword Shuttering-1” for ten years, they wouldn’t necessarily be able to create their own EMP weapons with a dozen or so limited samples.
What’s more, Sword Shuttering-1 only covered a 100,000 square kilometer zone, equivalent to only a quarter of California. As far as strategic weapons were concerned, it wasn’t a top-notch weapon, and it could only be regarded as an early-generation strategic EMP weapon.
At least Dolphin-10 intercontinental missiles deployed on the seafloor were equipped with EMP combat components in the million square kilometer range. Those were the ultimate tools of destruction. It wouldn’t an exaggeration to call them the killers of modern civilization!
The Kremlin didn’t make Jiang Chen wait for a long time. On the third day after the meeting on MLL Island, the Russian side took the initiative to contact Jiang Chen. At Natasha’s invitation, Jiang Chen went to the Russian Emba.s.sy.
What made Jiang Chen even more surprised was that he ended up talking to the President of Russia, Putin!
No extraneous words were exchanged. After the phone was connected, Putin directly discussed the issue and put forward his own requirements.
“Twenty pieces of Sword Shuttering-1 combat components. If you don’t want to sell related technology, I hope you can at least open arms sales.”
“No problem. If you run out of these 20 Sword Shuttering-1s, I can sell you 20 EMP weapons at a lower price. But I request that we send a commissioner to you. We must at least confirm that our ‘gift’ was used on the battlefield or in exercises and not taken apart in the laboratory,” said Jiang Chen.
“What’s the lowest price?” asked Putin.
“3,400 million Rubles.”
Putin was somewhat caught off-guard after he heard Jiang Chen’s offer,
Not because of the price – 3.400 billion Rubles was equivalent to 5 million US Dollar. When compared to its effect, this price was fair. What really surprised Putin was that Jiang Chen proposed to settle in Rubles.
If he remembered correctly, he previously negotiated a few arms sales contracts with Xin, all of which were in US Dollar.
“Do you not want US Dollar?” Putin said.
“Intuition tells me that the Ruble will be very valuable soon.” Jiang Chen laughed.
In short-term it may fall, but in the long run, it would at least be worth more than it is now. However, Jiang Chen’s reason for doing so wasn’t entirely due to the appreciation of the Ruble. There was another major reason.
At the end of the conversation, Putin laughed.
“Haha, using the idiom of the Chinese people, I’ll borrow your words.”
“It seems that our deal has reached an agreement?” Jiang Chen couldn’t stop smiling.
Although he failed to pull the WASP consortium across the ocean into the chariot, he successfully pulled the Russians into the game. The Freemasonry in Europe could no longer freely exert pressure on Xin. The threat from the East would directly approach their hinterlands.
“I wish us the best of luck.” Putin smiled.
“Best of Luck!”
While the situation in MLL Island continued to escalate, the Ukrainian crisis once again entered into the eyes of the people around the world. With Russia’s high-profile increase of 100,000 troops, deployed at the Crimean Peninsula and the Russian-Ukrainian border, Europe once again reached a tipping point.