Material Empire

After reading the official letter, Wei Baolin smiled. He walked around the desk, shook hands with Zhu Chongwu, and said, "It turned out to be Director Zhu, who has neglected, neglected. You have to transfer Comrade Xiaoqin to help, and we strongly support it." , Supporting the soldiers is our duty."

Zhu Chongwu smiled slightly and said: "Then I would like to thank Director Wei. It will not take a few days for us to invite Comrade Qin Hai to come over. We will send him back as soon as the task is completed."

"It doesn't matter, you can go for as long as you want." Wei Baolin said generously. After finishing speaking, he turned his head to Qin Hai again, reached out and patted his shoulder, and said, "It's Xiao Qin, you have been in the factory for so many days. , I didn’t even bother to go to the dormitory to see you. Director Zhu and the others transferred you to do a very meaningful national defense key task, you must do a good job and win glory for the factory, you know?”

"I would like to follow the instructions of Director Wei." Qin Hai replied cheerfully. As the saying goes, if you stretch out your hand and don't hit a smiling face, Wei Baolin treats him with a look of love and care. Of course, he doesn't want to embarrass Wei Baolin.

Zhai Jianguo covered his face with gauze, stood beside him and gritted his teeth, but he couldn't step forward to challenge Qin Hai. People from the military came here to invite Qin Hai, and they said it was a key task. Even the office director of a small agricultural machinery factory bared his teeth? Normally speaking, Wei Baolin had stepped forward to encourage Qin Hai, how could he, Wei Baolin's dog, be left behind? However, with his current appearance, how could he have the face to say passionate words to Qin Hai?

Qin Hai saw Zhai Jianguo's expression, but in front of Zhu Chongwu and Ge Dongyan, it was difficult for him to show his internal conflicts. After all, this was a family scandal, and it was inappropriate for outsiders to see it. He said a few words of determination to Wei Baolin, then followed Zhu Chongwu and Ge Dongyan out of Wei Baolin's office, went downstairs and boarded a military-branded jeep. Ge Dongyan sat in the driver's seat, Zhu Chongwu sat in the back row, Qin Hai sat in the passenger seat, and then started the car.

Under the watchful eyes of passing cadres and workers, the jeep drove out of the Qingfeng factory and onto the provincial road leading to Hongze. After driving for a while, Qin Hai turned to Ge Dongyan and asked, "Platoon Leader Ge, can you tell me what's going on now?"

It turned out that not only Wei Baolin didn't understand the whole story, but even Qin Hai himself was baffled by the matter. As soon as he got to work this morning, Ge Dongyan brought Zhu Chongwu to the foundry workshop and called Qin Hai to the factory office building. Qin Hai never saw the official letter that Zhu Chongwu showed Wei Baolin. He only knew that Wei Baolin had approved his leave, and he would be allocated by Zhu Chongwu from now on.

Hearing Qin Hai's question, Ge Dongyan chuckled, pointed to the back row, and said, "I'd better ask Director Zhu to explain this to you. In front of Director Zhu, I'm just a driver."

"Little Ge, what kind of trick are you playing? Didn't you figure this out? I'm just here to help you act, okay?" Zhu Chongwu put away the serious face he pretended in Qingfeng Factory, and said to Ge Dongyan with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll say it." Ge Dongyan then began to explain to Qin Hai.

The cause of the incident was naturally the dagger and the engineering shovel with advanced ideas made by Qin Hai.

It is said that after Ge Dongyan obtained these two artifacts that day, he returned to the provincial military station in Hongze overnight. Early the next morning, he excitedly brought his things to Commander Yue Guoyang's office. He used to work as a security guard for Yue Guoyang, and his relationship with Yue Guoyang was extraordinary, so it was common for him to go in and out of Yue Guoyang's office.

"Xiao Ge, why are you here? What's the matter?" Yue Guoyang, who was reading the documents, asked inadvertently when he saw Ge Dongyan coming in.

Ge Dongyan smirked, put his hands behind his back, and said, "Commander, I just got a baby, do you want to see it?"

"Oh, where did you get a good knife, and I'll appraise it for you." Yue Guoyang knew Ge Dongyan's hobby. In fact, Ge Dongyan learned this hobby from Yue Guoyang. Yue Guoyang's obsession with good knives and guns is well known throughout the military region, and his appreciation ability is also very good.

Ge Dongyan took out the military dagger hidden behind his back, brought it in front of Yue Guoyang, and said, "The commander guessed half right. This is a dagger I asked someone to make when I went home to visit relatives this time, and I asked the commander to identify it. "

Yue Guoyang didn't ponder Ge Dongyan's words carefully, his eyes were attracted by the dagger Ge Dongyan presented. He took the dagger in his hand, looked at it carefully, flicked the blade with his fingers, heard the sound of metal, and praised: "It is indeed a good dagger, but I don't know how hard it is."

Ge Dongyan had already prepared for this. He took out a piece of thin wire from the following military satchel, handed it forward, and said, "Commander, you can try this."

"Cutting wire?" Yue Guoyang was a little surprised, "Are you really willing?"

A good military dagger can certainly cut through iron wire, but most dagger owners are reluctant to do so. The edge of a dagger also has a fatigue limit, and if it is repeatedly used to cut hard objects, the edge will be easily damaged. Ge Dongyan got a new good dagger, but he was willing to let Yue Guoyang use cutting wire to test it, which made Yue Guoyang feel strange.

Ge Dongyan said calmly: "It's okay, Commander, just cut it up. If it's broken, it's mine."

When Yue Guoyang heard the words, he was not polite. He left the desk, walked to the middle of the room, put the thin wire that Ge Dongyan handed him on the concrete floor, swung his dagger and chopped it down.

With a muffled "click", the wire was cut in half without any suspense. Yue Guoyang picked up the dagger and took a look, only to see that the blade was as good as new, without any trace of damage. Look at the broken part of the wire, flat and flat, like tofu cut by a kitchen knife.

"Where did you get such a good steel?" Yue Guoyang is a man of knowledge, and after looking at the results, he knew that the dagger Ge Dongyan got was made of excellent steel.

"This is a military secret." Ge Dongyan joked with the commander with a smile. He had just turned 18 when he became a security guard for Yue Guoyang, and Yue Guoyang treated him like his own child, which made him a bit of a kid.

"Fart, there are still some military secrets in front of me. It's fine if you don't tell me, I confiscated this dagger!" Yue Guoyang ignored Ge Dongyan's teasing, and took the dagger directly to himself. He returned to his desk, opened the drawer, took out a wallet, and said, "How much did you spend, I will pay for it."

"Commander, is this not good? Is this considered a warlord's style?" Ge Dongyan still protested with a smile. In fact, he brought this dagger to see Yue Guoyang, so he wanted to present it as a treasure. For someone like him who had been a security guard, he would immediately think of giving it to the chief if he had any good things.

Yue Guoyang pretended to be angry and said: "What kind of warlord style, I haven't said that you are a soldier style. An active platoon leader does not need standard equipment, and finds someone to make military daggers. Does this meet the requirements of the regulations?"

"Hey...it's really crushing people at the top level, not to mention you are the commander in chief, and I'm a small platoon leader." Ge Dongyan sighed pretendingly, and then muttered pretending to himself, "Fortunately, I didn't Get something else out..."

"What did you say?" Yue Guoyang heard Ge Dongyan's hint, and then remembered that Ge Dongyan said that he was only half right, so he immediately became vigilant, stared at Ge Dongyan and asked, "Tell me honestly, is there anything else in the satchel?" thing?"

"No, no!" Ge Dongyan was protecting his satchel with both hands, and the expression on his face was so exaggerated that he almost engraved the words "There is no silver here" with a knife.

"Obey the order and obey the command, hand over the things in the satchel!" Yue Guoyang ordered.

"Actually...it's just a shovel." Ge Dongyan took out Qin Hai's engineer shovel from his satchel with a reluctant look, and handed it to Yue Guoyang.

"You made a shovel so mysterious..." Yue Guoyang couldn't help being disappointed when he saw that what Ge Dongyan took out was indeed a shovel. He pulled the shovel with his hands, and frowned slightly, "This What kind of shovel is it, and why is it shaped so weirdly?"

"Hey, Commander, haven't you seen it?" Ge Dongyan couldn't help being proud of his success. He picked up the engineering shovel and skillfully fiddled with it: "Let me show you... This is an engineering shovel, this is a pickaxe, This is a wire cutter, I have tried it, and it cuts 5mm of iron wire like cotton thread, this is a wrench, this is a cutter, this is a saw..."

Following Ge Dongyan's demonstration, Yue Guoyang's eyes became more and more focused. He was no longer playing with a soldier with a new toy, but was researching a new equipment that could greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the troops.

"Where did this come from?" Yue Guoyang asked impatiently after Ge Dongyan's demonstration came to an end.

Ge Dongyan is a person who knows what is important. He came to see Yue Guoyang with this engineering shovel, in order to report the situation of this new equipment to Yue Guoyang. Of course, he can no longer be silly at this time. He reported: "It was made by an agricultural machinery factory in my hometown."

"Agricultural machinery factory?" Yue Guoyang only felt that he had been struck by lightning. He tapped the surface of the engineer's shovel, thought for a while, then tapped the dagger he just got, and asked Ge Dongyan: "These two things, Is it from the same factory?"

Ge Dongyan nodded: "Yes, the same steel is used."

"What a rich agricultural machinery factory." Yue Guoyang gasped, "Using such a good steel to make a shovel, why can't this shovel be sold for hundreds of dollars?"

"This is what I want to report to you." Ge Dongyan said, "The man who made this dagger and this shovel is a worker from Qingfeng Agricultural Machinery Factory in Pingyuan County, named Qin Hai. These steel materials are not original to the agricultural machinery factory. It’s a steel formula that he researched and smelted by himself. He wants to ask if we intend to cooperate with him.”