Upon receiving a phone call from Qin Fenglie, the Minister of Defense, the Iraqi military began shelling and bombing Kuwait about half an hour after the ultimatum expired. Zhou Yongtao didn't ask for further details. About an hour later, Lin Shiping received the most critical news.
Emperor Abbas III of Kuwait had reached the "Zhu Shijian" carrier and was about to travel to Riyadh on a transport plane.
It wasn't until then that Zhou Yongtao let his secretary, Luo Youbin, call Nong Chengpei, instructing him to proceed to Riyadh to act as the Grand Secretary's special envoy.
Having rescued the Emperor of Kuwait, they definitely needed to properly appease him.
Despite Kuwait being a tiny state, the oil imported from that country accounted for nearly thirty percent of the Empire's total oil imports, and at a relatively cheap price.
"Should we announce that Abbas III has fled from Kuwait?"
Zhou Yongtao pondered for a while before asking, "And the Crown Prince?"
