Chapter 1290: Arms Companies Make Huge Profits!

Li Jun came back from Moscow about a week later, and then he quietly flew back to Moscow.

This time, the merger of the financial systems of East and West Germany made the Empire Group a profit of nearly 50 billion US dollars, which was definitely a lot of money in the early 1990s.

The most important thing is that the Empire Group did not pay much.

After Li Jun left Hong Kong and returned to Moscow.

Yang Ming has been paying attention to another major event that is about to happen.

Iraq invades Kuwait.

Historically, Yang Ming still remembers this news very clearly.

And now from the situation of international news, Iraq is likely to invade Kuwait.

Why is that?

In fact, this is because Iraq's own economy has already had serious problems.

In addition, this is also a way for Iraq to divert internal conflicts.

The reason why Yang Ming is concerned is related to his establishment of an arms company.

Last year, Yang Ming had already established an independent arms company, but in fact, he had been planning for a long time. Now, a large amount of second-hand arms are purchased from the Soviet Union and the member states.

Among them, in addition to the first batch of arms, such as those warships, Yang Ming sold them to domestic and foreign countries.

There is also a steady stream of arms.

Yang Ming has long been eyeing the big dogs in the Middle East.

Among them, Kuwait is the first.

Why is Kuwait the first.

Because it has a very obvious enemy.

Iraq.

According to Kuwait's strength, if there is no external intervention, it is impossible to be Iraq's opponent. In fact, it is the case.

Iraq easily took Kuwait.

However, there is the United States behind Kuwait, which means that Iraq will eventually lose.

However, during this period, especially from the end of last year to the first half of this year, Iraq and Kuwait have been in constant friction. In addition to Iraq's own problems, Iraq has long been eyeing Kuwait, a fat sheep.

The reason why the Gulf region affects the nerves of the United States and many other countries is mainly due to the extremely rich oil and natural gas resources in the region.

As of January 1990, the Gulf region has proven oil reserves of 651.7 billion barrels, accounting for 65% of the world's proven oil reserves (1001.5 billion barrels), and natural gas 24 trillion cubic meters, accounting for 13.7% of the world's total natural gas resources.

The daily oil production is about 14.5 million barrels, accounting for about 23% of the world's daily oil production (63.6 million barrels); the daily oil exports are about 12 million barrels, accounting for about 43% of the world's daily oil exports (28 million barrels).

The five major oil-producing countries in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates) are all in the Gulf region.

Eleven of the world's 20 largest oil fields are in the Gulf region. The oil produced in the Gulf region is mainly for export. A considerable part of the oil imported by the United States, Western Europe and Japan comes from the Gulf region.

According to the energy intelligence statistics of the United States, the net daily oil import volume of the United States is 7.661 million barrels, of which 2.064 million barrels are from the Gulf region, accounting for 26.9%; Western Europe imports 8.235 million barrels of oil per day, of which 4.276 million barrels are imported from the Gulf region, accounting for 51.9%; Japan imports 5.48 million barrels of oil per day, of which 3.54 million barrels are imported from the Gulf region, accounting for 64.6%.

Oil is the "blood" of today's world economic development and the driving force of modern armies. If Iraq annexed Kuwait and then occupied Saudi Arabia, it would control more than half of the world's oil resources, which would be like choking the throat of major Western industrial countries.

In other words, although Kuwait is small, it is rich in resources such as oil and natural gas.

It was Iraq that set its sights on Kuwait, a fat sheep. In addition to hoping to swallow Kuwait to solve its own losses and economic crisis caused by the Iran-Iraq War, it also wanted to divert Iraq's own contradictions.

However, Iraq did not know that it had to face the whole world.

In this case, even if it had just swallowed Kuwait, it would soon spit it out.

Yang Ming was watching the news, and Lin Xiuzhi, He Chaoxuan, Alina, Yingla and others beside him knew that the boss had been paying attention to international news recently.

Especially the news about the Middle East.

They knew about the independent arms company under the Empire Group.

However, not many people in Hong Kong knew about the Empire Group, an independent arms company.

This time, the Empire Group sold a large amount of Soviet second-hand arms to Kuwait, a big dog. In fact, it really made a lot of profit.

Although Kuwait was also very rich before, and its main arms came partly from the United States and partly from the Soviet Union, but now, under the promotion and brainwashing of the arms company under the Empire Group, it bought a large amount of these Soviet second-hand arms.

The most important thing is that it is much cheaper than the arms they originally bought.

In addition, the arms company under the Empire Group provided Kuwait with a lot of useful information, which also gained the trust of the Kuwaiti royal family.

In other words, since the official establishment of an independent arms company last year, it has probably made billions of dollars so far.

It seems to have made a lot of money.

However, compared with the game company under the Empire Group, it is still a lot worse.

"Sir, do you think Iraq will definitely attack Kuwait?" Yingla asked.

Historically, Yingla was also a very powerful female politician.

However, she could not fully see that Iraq would definitely attack Kuwait.

"This is inevitable."

In fact, from the current news information and the information fed back to Yang Ming from the information department of the arms company, Yang Ming also knew that Iraq was already preparing.

Now it seems that the two sides are negotiating.

However, a large number of Iraqi troops have appeared on the border of Kuwait.

On the other hand, Iraq is also preparing a large amount of arms.

"Will it not affect the global crude oil?" Yingla reacted immediately.

"This is inevitable."

Yingla was able to think of this, and Yang Ming knew that the other party had learned a lot from him.

In fact, last year, Yang Ming also asked his First Shipping Group's tankers to buy a large amount of crude oil from the Middle East and other countries, and then put all this crude oil in Huicheng.

In the industrial zone of Huicheng, the Empire Group has hoarded a large amount of crude oil.

In fact, the global crude oil has risen a lot compared to last year.

When Iraq officially invaded Kuwait, the global crude oil was affected by the Kuwait war, and the global crude oil price continued to be affected, and it was not until the Middle East crude oil supply was normal that it could recover.

In fact, this is really a big gain for the Empire Group.

In addition to selling a large number of Soviet second-hand arms to Kuwait, some arms were also sold to Iraq through other channels.

There is also crude oil, which the Empire Group can sell to the world.

In addition, there is crude oil futures, which also brings huge profits to the Empire Group.