readx; After careful consideration, Chen Jingyun met with the Persian delegation again, and this time Chen Jingyun said: "The business and trade cooperation between the two countries is feasible, and your company can have detailed contact with our enterprises on specific cooperation matters." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAs for military equipment, I personally understand and agree with your country's hope for a solid national defense! ”

In this short sentence, it has been generally determined that Chen Jingyun has agreed to military cooperation with the Persian side. Of course, the specific cooperation plan cannot be said to be a copy of the Persian side's demands.

In addition to the crown prince of Pahlavi, the Persian delegation will also include some high-ranking generals of the Persian military, and they will hold a series of talks with the Chinese foreign ministry and military to discuss specific military cooperation matters.

On May 16, 1933, China and Persia formally signed the Sino-Polish Treaty of Friendship and Commerce, which was naturally part of the commercial and trade cooperation between the two countries, including Persia's purchase of petroleum equipment from China and other parts of industrial equipment. However, the real core content is the requirements for military procurement, and the content of these military cooperation is naturally kept secret.

In the military cooperation treaty, China provided Persia with a low-interest loan of up to 50 million Chinese yuan, which will be used to purchase various military equipment made in China, including various light weapons, rifles, machine guns, mortars, etc., which are enough to arm two divisions, and also purchase a number of Chinese-made artillery, mainly 75 mm series artillery that the Chinese Army has begun to retire in batches. In addition, the Persian side also purchased a batch of 105-mm howitzers in service with the Chinese Army.

The amount involved in this batch of army equipment is also a bit large, but more importantly, these equipment plus the military equipment purchased by Persia from China before, then more than half of the military equipment in the Persian army is made in China, and considering the continuation of the caliber, then if Persia continues to purchase military equipment, then it will also consider continuing to purchase China's military equipment, after all, Persia's own industrial strength is almost equal to zero, and it lacks the power to manufacture advanced weapons and equipment.

Behind this large-scale purchase of military equipment, the Persian side also asked China to provide some industrial equipment and technology to help them establish a weapons production system, limited by the Persian own weak strength, they did not expect to be able to manufacture tanks, airplanes and new artillery, but rifles and machine guns on small arms and heavy weapons maintenance factories still need them.

In fact, it is the aid and construction of these defense industries that is the bulk of this military procurement contract.

In addition to army equipment, the Persian Air Force has also purchased dozens of Chinese aircraft, these aircraft are mainly based on China's upcoming mothballed F2 improved series fighters, although China's F2 fighter surname can not be bad, some of the early surnames can also be retired or modified early, now the remaining F2 fighters are all late models, the surname can be said to be passable in the early thirties, of course, the most critical these F2 fighters are cheap enough, and the more advanced F3 fighters China is not saying that it is not willing to sell, but the Persians can't afford it.

At present, the F3 fighter is the latest cutting-edge fighter of the Chinese Navy and Air Force, after experiencing several improved models, China's F3 fighter surname can still rank among the ranks of the world's super-first-class fighters, it is an exaggeration to say that it is invincible all over the world, but other series of fighters in the world do not dare to say that they can surpass China's F3 fighter in the surname.

However, the replacement of the aircraft in this year is too fast, the Chinese F3 fighter in 1931 was only mass-produced and put into service because of the Sino-Chinese war, but two years later, the surname of the F3 fighter also began to dissatisfy the Chinese Air Force, because after the war in 1931, the war between China and the two countries led to a rapid rise in the surname of the fighter jets of the two countries, so that Britain, France and the United States and other countries are feeling the huge pressure, and they have begun to design new aircraft. The P26A of the US Army Aviation has begun to enter service in batches this year, and it is not inferior to China's F3 series fighters in terms of surname, and it is said that the Navy's Type 96 carrier-based fighter has also entered the test flight stage, in order to continue to take the lead in the new generation of fighters, and the Chinese Air Force and the Chinese Navy have entered the research and development of a new generation of fighters after the Sino-Chinese war, and have been successfully tested for flight, although they have not yet been put into large-scale service but according to the Air Force research and development plan, Next year, the F4 fighter, a new generation fighter of the Chinese Air Force, will be able to enter service in small batches.

So this F3 fighter was hidden like a baby in China two years ago, and even its ally the Russian Air Force refused to provide it, but now the Russian Air Force has also begun to equip China's F3 fighter jets in batches, so China is willing to sell F3 fighters, but the Persians can't afford it.

The ex-factory unit price of the latest F3 series combat F3G land-based fighter produced by the Chuzhou Aircraft Company is 23,000 yuan, and this price is only the internal ex-factory price, and if it is to be exported, although it will not be doubled so much, it will cost more than 30,000 units.

But the F2 series of fighters, because they are all retired second-hand goods, the price is half sold and half given, one is only **1,000 yuan, and now the Persian Air Force is in the initial stage, what is needed now is a large number of cheap aircraft for the expansion of the Air Force, plus Persia will not break out in the short term, so they are not interested in buying a large number of advanced aircraft.

After all, the Persians are not stupid, they know that the development of aircraft is too fast now, and if they buy F3 fighters now, they are still advanced, but next year and the year after, F3 fighters will be backward, and the role they can play will not be much greater than that of F2 fighters.

After such consideration, the Persians chose the extremely inexpensive F2 series fighters, and according to their own intentions, it is estimated that these F2 fighters will be used as training aircraft.

In addition to fighter planes, they also purchased a number of reconnaissance planes and transport planes, but as for the bombers, they did not purchase much, but only purchased a few, because they themselves knew that Persia, which was weak in national strength, could not afford to play an offensive air force, and if it could not control air supremacy, those bombers would be of little use if they were targets, so their goal at this stage was to establish a defensive air force, and the main goal was to use fighters.

The Persians don't want to sell bombers, in the final analysis, there is still no money, bombers are much more expensive than fighters, the Chinese Air Force has just successfully flown a test, and the unit price of the B11 four-engine heavy strategic bomber that has not yet had time to enter service in batches is as high as 180,000, even if the Chinese Air Force is equipped with a more mature B8 tactical bomber, the unit price is as high as 80,000, and the Persians simply cannot afford it.

In addition to the Air Force and the Army, the Persians also purchased several warships, of course, the Persians could not purchase any expensive warships, and they could not even afford new destroyers, so they could only buy some old ships decommissioned by the Chinese Navy, including a Suiding-class destroyer decommissioned by the Chinese Navy, in addition to three newly built coastal defense ships with only about 500 tons.

This series of equipment procurement plans for the army, navy, and air force is not large in scale, and the amount of money involved is limited, but its political significance is far greater than its military significance.

Not only did it allow China to successfully intervene in the military and political affairs of the Persian side, but it also made the Persians discourage the idea of obtaining military assistance from Germany and Italy and France, knowing that in the process of building up the Persian navy, the Italian and German sides were very active.

This series of cooperation plans was enough to make China the third largest power on the Persian side, to counter the power of Britain and Soviet Russia on the Persian side.

When a series of cooperation plans between China and the Persian side were launched, the British side also reacted strongly and lodged a serious protest against China, which was expected by Chen Jingyun, and when he decided to intervene in the Middle East, Chen Jingyun was already mentally prepared for this, so in the face of the strong protest of the British side, the Chinese side on the one hand assured the British side that China had no intention of changing the existing pattern in the Middle East, and still less had no intention of competing with the British side for Persian oil. He has repeatedly assured that this military equipment procurement plan is only a normal trade between China and Persia.

Despite these assurances, the British side continued to protest, but protest is protest, the military cooperation between China and Poland continued, and at the same time, several military academies in China began to accept students sent by Persia, and the issue of military instructors was forced to abandon because of strong opposition from the British side.

After all, selling equipment can be said to be normal international trade, but the meaning of sending military instructors is different, in order to avoid too much stimulation of the British side, China has given up the plan to send military instructors.

The Persian side has not yet finished its affairs, and Nanjing, China, has welcomed visitors from Afghanistan again.

As early as the end of World War I, when Britain launched another attack on Afghanistan, China secretly provided Afghanistan with a lot of weapons and equipment, so that Afghanistan could withstand the British attack.

Subsequently, the relationship between Afghanistan and China is also relatively close, Afghanistan is in China, Britain, Soviet Russia among the three, the strategic situation can be said to be important and intense, otherwise Britain will not launch several attacks on Afghanistan, but the terrain of Afghanistan is too bad, Britain spent a lot of money and army casualties failed to take Afghanistan, and finally forced to give up the attack on Afghanistan.

Subsequently, China also provided Afghanistan with a lot of weapons and equipment, and Chinese-made guns are standard equipment of the Afghan Army.

Seeing that the Persian side and China have carried out large-scale military equipment cooperation, the Afghan side also sent people to say that they want to buy equipment for military cooperation, Chen Jingyun also strongly supports this kind of thing, anyway, it doesn't take a few dollars, China has a large number of mothballed retired weapons and equipment, and it is not difficult to sell them cheaply.

Moreover, China does not want to directly occupy Afghanistan like Britain, and chooses a policy of support, the biggest purpose is to use these two countries to contain Britain and Soviet Russia, rather than to directly occupy them or obtain a lot of resource benefits from them.

This successive layout has also laid the foundation for China's layout in the Middle East.

In addition to the layout of the Middle East, Chen Jingyun did not forget to make some small moves in Southeast Asia, such as supporting the Chinese in Southeast Asia to obtain sufficient social status, such as Thailand, the only remaining reading power country in Southeast Asia, to obtain economic and military cooperation, and even supporting the national reading power armed forces in Vietnam and Myanmar.