1977: It all started with a wrong love

Chapter 45 Flying to the Provincial Capital
After nearly an hour of flight.

The helicopter landed at a military airport near the provincial capital.

When they got off the plane, a black car was already waiting at the airport. It immediately took the three of them and drove straight to the Guomao Hotel in the provincial capital.

On the way here, Lu Yifan already had a general understanding of the situation.

The target countries for this arms sales are both our western neighbors, one is the white elephant and the other is the sheep.

As for why these two western neighboring countries would come up with the idea of ​​engaging in military trade with us.

Actually, it is simple.

As our relationship with our giant northern bear neighbor becomes increasingly frozen and hostile.

My sister saw an opportunity and came up with the idea of ​​winning us over. Taking advantage of our geographical location, we could attack the northern bear together, defeat it, and eat it...

Right now, the idea of ​​preparing for economic reforms is being conceived in the country.

My sister has been working with us on a small-ball ice-breaking diplomacy tour since five or six years ago.

Although the White Elephant was severely beaten by us a few years ago, it is in a very miserable state.

But he has always been very successful in the international circle, and has played the role of a middleman to pass information and exchange information between me and my sister many times.

The other Baba Yang is a South Asian brother that my sister has always focused on winning over.

Therefore, my sister wants to make peace with us.

These two neighbors from the west may have been instructed by my older sister and older brother, or they may have been attracted by the good quality and low price of our killer weapon.

So recently, looking for an opportunity, they all rushed to the country almost at the same time, waving money and preparing to make large purchases. They wanted to get practical benefits, curry favor with their older sister and older brother, and establish a good relationship with our family at the same time.

As for why representatives of the two families appeared in the provincial capital of Qinxi.

In fact, after the two representatives came to China, they have been running around several military factory areas in the country and entered the factories for so-called procurement inspections.

The No. 1387 Factory in the provincial capital of Qinxi has been the last location that the relevant authorities have opened to the two representatives for purchasing inspections.

It is naturally clear from the above what the two western neighbors are really planning.

They are simply coming for our long-distance express delivery product line.

However, how can such a national treasure be given to others easily?

However, the country was in urgent need of it, and had to negotiate successful arms sales and foreign trade business with two wealthy dealers who came to its doorstep.

There’s no way, I’m too poor.

In recent years, my sister has loosened her grip on the Western world's high-tech blockade.

Many of the advanced industrial technologies and foreign machines that we used to covet can now basically be imported into China as long as we have money in our pockets. For example, the precision CNC machine tool equipment of Fuxian Hongxing Agricultural Machinery Factory was successfully purchased at a huge cost of foreign exchange under such a major premise.

There are so many good things I want to buy in China.

Unfortunately, my pockets are empty, foreign exchange is in short supply, and the reality is helpless.

As the saying goes, a penny can make a hero fall.

Nowadays in China, anything that involves earning foreign exchange is the highest priority task.

Therefore, leaders at all levels are willing to sell everything they have to make this arms sales and foreign trade deal a success!
Seeing that the purchasing personnel from the two companies also failed to find what they wanted during their visit to the 1387 Factory, they have begun to back off.

It is simply impossible for us to expand our super express business indiscriminately.

Our staff was so anxious that they were desperate to try any possible means. Suddenly, someone mentioned that the Red Star Agricultural Machinery Factory under the jurisdiction of the 1387th Factory had recently launched a multifunctional military shovel project. The rumors in the circle were very bizarre, and people said that it was the top king of light infantry cold weapons and a close combat weapon...

So, the military sent a helicopter to summon Director Wang of the Agricultural Machinery Factory and Lu Yifan, the original designer and inventor of the multi-functional military shovel, to come quickly to participate in the negotiation of this temporary, urgent military mission involving the arms sales and foreign trade business.

After understanding the above basic situations.

Anyone with a discerning eye could clearly see how nervous and anxious Director Zheng and Factory Director Wang were as they hurried all the way to the provincial capital. But at the same time, Lu Yifan felt a weird feeling as if he was participating in a truly major historical event.

In my previous life, I had seen a declassified archival material on the early history of our army.

Coincidentally, it happened to be a record of the military's foreign arms sales in the 1970s, including a large number of conventional army weapons sold to two western neighboring countries, and a successful case of how to make small profits and quick returns to exchange for foreign exchange...

soon.

The three were led by the hotel staff.

Came to the door of a closed conference room.

"Dong dong dong..."

The staff knocked on the door.

Suddenly, accompanied by bursts of noisy sounds, a billowing cloud of thick smoke rolled out.

The female staff member who pushed the door immediately covered her mouth and started coughing lightly.

Glancing again into the conference room, the sky was filled with smoke and fire. In front of the long conference table in the room, there were two densely packed groups of people in military uniforms. Some of them had their legs crossed on the table, some had their buttocks half stuck on the armrests of the chairs, and they were leaning sideways and arguing fiercely with their neighbors.

At a glance, almost everyone present was sitting in a crooked and crowded position.

They sat next to each other, each holding a cigarette in his hand. He puffed smoke and shouted and quarreled loudly, one of them was dissatisfied and the other was angry.

The first impression one gets is: this is a room full of a bunch of old smokers!

Lu Yifan frowned. To be honest, he, who never smoked, was very reluctant to step into such a place and be attacked by the secondhand smoke of a room full of old smokers.

What made him even more unable to adapt was:
The image and conduct of the men in military uniforms in the conference room were really too disgraceful.

Compare him with the image of a tough soldier like my elder brother.

To put it bluntly, this room of people looked just like a ragtag army that had just surrendered during the war.

Such a group of people, and what he expected, of course, was very likely the kind of positive scene he was used to seeing in movies and TV dramas in his previous life, where the relevant personnel of our side sat in the conference room in order to negotiate a military trade order, holding military trade samples and seriously discussing the plan. That was a hot and exciting scene...

They are simply two extremes.

The visual contrast is too strong.

In short, his biggest feeling was that this group of people was too depressing.

It's not the kind of team that can get things done.

Director Wang and Director Zheng had already stepped into the conference room.

Seeing Lu Yifan standing at the door, he stopped and looked thoughtful with a frown on his brow.

Director Zheng turned around and took a step back, saying in a low voice:

"Comrade Yifan, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

Director Zheng just thought that Lu Yifan would not be able to adapt and feel unwell due to the hurried journey, both by plane and by car.

Lu Yifan got excited and said rudely:
"If the military sales and foreign trade negotiation team this time is such a loose group of people who have no military image at all, I'm sorry, I will withdraw and cannot cooperate!~~"

As he spoke, he coughed forcefully a few times on purpose, and then used his hands to fan away the smoke that was coming out in front of him.

Director Zheng's expression suddenly fell. In fact, he couldn't stand the unbridled old smokers in the meeting room.

It was just very cold outside, and everyone probably just wanted to keep warm, so no one opened the windows and doors of the conference room. However, Lu Yifan described it as loose and unpresentable.

This aggressiveness is directed at a group of military cadres.

That's really going too far.

Director Zheng quickly winked at the dazed staff member standing nearby.

He also hurried into the conference room and quickly opened the window to ventilate the room and let in fresh air from outside.

The door to the conference room was open at this moment.

Lu Yifan still had no intention of stepping in.

The dozen or so heavy smokers present at the meeting should have come to their senses by now.

Someone reacted quickly and put out the cigarette.

Some, even if they realize it, still do as they please and continue smoking the cigarette in their hands.

Among them was a man with an old face, a bald hairline, a fat body, a circle of fat on his neck, and a greasy red face. He even tilted his neck back and blew out a smoke ring in a provocative manner.

Director Wang was standing at the door of the conference room.

He was under a lot of pressure at the moment, and his calves felt inexplicably tight.

"Lu Gong..."

"Lu, Lu Gong..."

Director Wang turned his head and called out softly, waving his hand slightly at the crotch of his trousers, indicating that Lu Yifan could come in.

At the same time, he did not forget to nod and bow, and put on a smile to everyone in the conference room, trying to save his reputation and resolve this sudden awkward situation for everyone.

Lu Yifan ignored Director Wang's kindness.

Of course, he didn't. He just stood there stupidly at the door of the conference room, being watched by the old smokers inside.

He turned around and leaned against the door of the conference room, with a cold face and said nothing.

In his heart, he had many doubts: In history, was the military trade with the White Elephant and Babayang countries, the large-scale army weapons business that earned foreign exchange with small profits and quick turnover, really negotiated by such a group of people? It was obviously seriously inconsistent with the records in the archives. If these people had really negotiated, there would not have been the incident of the three of them being called in for emergency rescue...

Director Zheng and the staff had already opened all the doors and windows for ventilation.

At this moment, some participants suddenly started to speak in a sarcastic tone.

"Hey, Lao Zheng, what's going on? It's just a meeting, why did you find such a sissy guy? Why is he so precious that he can't smell the smell of cigarettes..."

"Old Zheng, what exactly are you doing at Factory 1387? We agreed to invite military shovel R&D experts to give us advice, but what is that thing outside the door? They are so nagging and throwing tantrums as soon as they get here. What do they think of us?"

"Haha, we're sitting close to the door, so you probably didn't hear the pretty boy outside the door complaining to Director Zheng that we're sloppy and have no image at all. It seems like he doesn't think highly of us rough guys, tsk tsk tsk..."

"Hey, hey, we've been soldiers for most of our lives, and this is the first time we've been criticized by an ordinary citizen for our lax discipline and lack of image..."

"Hey, hey, you kid standing outside the door, I'm talking to you! Don't fucking pretend you didn't hear me. The smoke in the conference room is gone now. You can condescend to come in and have a chat with us, a bunch of sloppy, uncouth guys with no image! But looking at your cowardly look, your calves must be trembling, and you probably don't have the courage to step through this door at all!"

"Ha, then go home and help your mother take care of the children!"

"Hahahahaha..."

In the conference room, everyone present laughed even louder.

(End of this chapter)