1977: It all started with a wrong love

Chapter 49: Taking on the Heavy Burden
"At this point, we have no choice but to ask people from our two western neighboring countries to brave the snow and make another trip to the Fu County Red Star Agricultural Machinery Factory."

"Director Wang, call the factory right now."

"In any case, before the guests arrive at the factory, let all the workers who can return to the factory return. In addition, you should also think about what else the factory needs to prepare and let the factory prepare everything in advance..."

Faced with such a predicament, Director Zheng did not complain or blame anyone.

He didn't even say yes. He criticized Lu Yifan out loud for acting too rashly and irritated Director Liang and his group, causing them to collectively quit their job.

In fact, there are many factors that have led to the situation evolving to this point.

Lu Yifan's series of harsh words and actions were nothing more than igniting a fuse.

Director Liang and his people always say "a good cook cannot cook without rice", and repeatedly emphasize that we cannot sell what others want, and what we want to sell is not worthy of others...

That's bullshit!

If the country really opens up the door to expand long-distance express delivery business overseas.

Then why do they need to negotiate with the representatives of the two western neighboring countries?

As soon as the news gets out, wouldn't there be dozens or even hundreds of countries around the world scrambling to negotiate the expansion of express delivery business?
Even my sister might be tempted and want to get involved.

The military trade representatives from the two neighboring countries to the west were served attentively by Director Liang and his team. In one week, they flew across almost half of the national border and visited all the factories open to foreign military representatives along the entire third-tier national defense depth line.

But what is the result?
With just one word from others, they still couldn't see the killer weapon that made their hearts beat fast...

Then, there is no more?
When they were completely out of ideas, they suddenly heard about a product project of a multifunctional military shovel, the king of cold weapons. So they asked the 1387th Factory, the Red Star Agricultural Machinery Factory, and Lu Yifan, an ordinary man, to come to their aid and cooperate with them, braving the snowstorm and not caring about staying at home for the New Year. They immediately rushed to the scene with product samples as if the house was on fire...

Now, because they are afraid of being held responsible and because there is something wrong with the samples they brought, they all suddenly quit...

Just like what Lu Yifan had mocked in public at the beginning:
If these people really took our army's "Three Don'ts" spirit seriously and truly put the country's highest interests in their hearts, would they have been so passive and been led by the nose by the military procurement representatives of the White Elephant and Babayang families? !

What happened to our army's weapons?!?
Compared to my sister's, it's indeed a little lacking in quality.

After all, we don’t have Black Hawk helicopters, we don’t have fourth-generation fighters, we don’t have aircraft carriers, we don’t have high-altitude reconnaissance U-2, we don’t have long-range bombers…

But the problem is, apart from our long-distance express delivery business, which has been closely watched by our two western neighboring countries, is it true that our other top military equipment of the army and infantry have no merits at all?

Isn’t our 107 rocket launcher good?

Isn’t our Type 56 semi-automatic good?
Isn’t our Type 65 twin-barreled anti-aircraft gun great?
Isn’t our Type 69 medium tank good?

Isn't our Type 66 152mm self-propelled howitzer good?

(The above is Director Zheng’s psychological perspective. The author is a military novice, so please just read it as it is.)
(In addition, after aiding Korea in the fight against the United States and fighting the 17-nation coalition without being defeated, our army had a strong psychological advantage in the ground warfare and dared to compete with any opponent. And because of the mentality of "serious firepower shortage fear", a series of army conventional weapons were given priority development after the war. At least in terms of concentrated fire coverage and strike capability, it was indeed at the world's advanced level at that time.)
"Director Zheng, Director Wang, let's not make a hasty decision..."

"Would you mind if I had a few more words with you two?"

Lu Yifan stopped Director Zheng who was anxious to make arrangements, and was about to grab the phone on the table in the conference room to call Director Wang at the agricultural machinery factory.

Seeing his calm tone and serious attitude, the two were stunned: This kid, he can really keep his composure...

"You said, but we really need to hurry up."

Director Zheng was stunned for a moment, nodded to Director Wang, then looked at his watch and held up three fingers to Lu Yifan, "I'll give you three minutes..." Director Wang understood what Director Zheng meant in an instant, walked forward, picked up the phone, shook the dial a few times, and then started talking to the operator in a hurry.

As the Chinese New Year is approaching, the factory has already given way to holiday.

Even if the call can be dialed immediately, there is no guarantee that there will be someone at the agricultural machinery factory who can answer the call.

"Director Zheng, if we want to conclude a military trade deal with our two western neighbors, the key is not whether we can get the multifunctional military shovel made of super light composite steel. So it is a bad idea to arrange for foreign guests to fly to the Red Star Agricultural Machinery Factory. Even if we can convince the foreign guests to make this trip in the snow, we will still be passive and be led by the nose by the foreign guests..."

Director Zheng raised his eyebrows when he heard this: This kid really hit the nail on the head.

So he nodded and motioned Lu Yifan to continue.

Lu Yifan smiled and said:
"In fact, we are confused by the situation and have not understood the true meaning of the two western neighboring countries coming to us to seek arms purchases. As the saying goes, the real work is outside the matter. In fact, if we look a little further ahead and raise our attitude a little, and carefully analyze the cause and effect of the matter, it is not difficult to find an indisputable fact: that is, the two western neighboring countries' actions should be a show for the outside world to see."

"To put it bluntly, when they come to buy our products, in my opinion, they are just putting on a show for their mistress. Director Zheng, please think carefully about whether this is the case..."

After hearing these words, Director Zheng thought about them for a while, and his expression suddenly became brilliant.

"Comrade Yifan, are you saying that the representatives of the two neighboring countries to the west are also eager to complete this military trade deal?"

"It's about 70% to 80% possible! Of course, this is just my bold guess! We still need to collect more relevant materials and do in-depth analysis and verification..."

Lu Yifan rarely said something modest.

He couldn't just tell him bluntly that in history, the two neighboring countries to the west wanted to curry favor with their sister, and also wanted to take advantage of our confusion to make a fortune and gain face in front of our sister. At the same time, they ripped us off and took away a large number of our high-quality and low-cost army main battle equipment at almost the lowest price in the global military trade circle.

Of course.

In the original timeline, no one expected that the two western neighboring countries would slaughter us so ruthlessly that a large number of inexpensive and high-quality army main battle equipment would appear in Afhan within two years, causing the then northern bear giant neighbor to be completely trapped in the super empire graveyard of Afhan for ten years, and finally directly turned into a giant bloodletting pool for the collapse of the northern bear giant neighbor empire...

It is because we know the original historical process of this huge arms trade business.

Therefore, from the moment he was suddenly summoned to the threshing ground in Renhe Village and learned that he would be involved in this emergency military trade mission sequence.

Lu Yifan never thought about the possibility that the mission could not be completed.

At first, he was indeed just thinking about whether there was really a chance to help the Red Star Agricultural Machinery Factory attract a foreign trade business for multi-functional military shovels.

If I could really make such a deal happen.

But it can be considered as making some extra contribution to my hometown.

After all, it’s a good idea to take advantage of a bargain that comes right to your doorstep, right?

In addition, White Elephant and Baba Sheep want to use tricks, like the original historical line, to use extreme pressure tactics, taking advantage of our eagerness to achieve success in arms trade, and then showing their true colors at the last moment and taking the opportunity to slaughter us.

Since this annoying thing has happened.

No matter what, we have to correct it in time, right?
If he didn't have such inside information and confidence, how could he have embarrassed Director Liang and his team in the first place?

I just can't stand that bunch of ragtag people who are just sitting there doing nothing...

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