Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

"Director Tang, your Factory 112 is indeed the leading enterprise in our aviation industry. The cafeteria even has a special dining hall for cadres, quite impressive."

Director Tang laughed heartily, "That's natural. Besides providing meals for cadres, this cafeteria also hosts leaders from higher authorities and guests from outside. For example, those foreigners today need a special place to eat, right? Eating with ordinary workers would be too shabby and would make our country lose face."

"I went to Factory 132 some time ago, and the cadres there also have to eat in the regular cafeteria and use meal tickets."

At this moment, just as they entered the cafeteria, the smile on Director Tang's face stiffened slightly.

President Qin's words had a deeper meaning!

"I heard that the 'Great Northern Wilderness' liquor is popular in the Northeast. I haven't tried it yet. Director Tang, we don't need any fancy wine, just the 'Great Northern Wilderness' will do."

Director Tang looked at the Moutai already set on the table, his heart sinking.

"Let's continue talking about the modification of Sixth Master's aircraft. This modification still requires Israeli technology, so we need to discuss it further..." Qin Yang could only hint this much, the rest was up to him to figure out. However, the modification of this Sixth Master's aircraft still needed to be discussed in detail.

While Qin Yang was introducing the concept to Director Tang, in the modification workshop, Natalie was also discussing with her subordinates.

"It seems that the Easterners are indeed very advanced in airborne radar technology," Adam said. "We need to deepen our cooperation with the Easterners, especially in airborne early warning aircraft."

"They have already put forward conditions. Only if we provide a batch of spare Boeing 707 engines will they let us see that early warning aircraft. This price is still too high!" Natalie said. "We can't do such a losing business."

"That's right, we only saw it from a distance, and we don't even know if it's real or just a model," another person said.

"Ms. Natalie, I have an idea," Adam said. "The most difficult part of advanced airborne radar is the processing of the planar slotted antenna. We can propose the specific data of the radar antenna and ask the Easterners to help with the processing, and then exchange the radar antenna for engines."

"We can order them from the United States, why use their antennas?"

"This way we can confirm whether they have this technology," Adam said. "It can also confirm our next direction of cooperation."

Natalie nodded: "That's right, we can only see it from a distance now, and we haven't personally touched their airborne radar. We can't be sure if those are real. We must try!"

"Shhh, someone's coming!"

A female cadre walked over with a smile: "Everyone, you don't need to be busy anymore. Our director has asked you to go eat."

"Okay, then let's go eat first."

Natalie led her subordinates to the special car outside and arrived at the cadre cafeteria. After entering, they saw a table full of dishes.

In the very center was a large basin containing oddly colored cabbage and something resembling noodles, with reddish meat trembling on top, which looked very appetizing.

Different places have different specialties. She scanned every dish, not finding any with a full plate of chili peppers, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Everyone has come from afar and started working as soon as you arrived, you must be tired. It's getting late, let's have this meal to welcome you and wash away the dust," Director Tang said enthusiastically, picking up a bottle of 'Great Northern Wilderness' liquor at the same time.

Seeing the liquor bottle, Natalie felt a little apprehensive: "Thank you for your kindness, but we don't drink alcohol."

"When you come to our Northeast, you must drink alcohol. Drinking alcohol can warm your body."

"We don't drink!"

"Okay, then please help yourselves."

"How about we have some beer?" Adam said, seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward.

Eastern liquor is really strong, often fifty or sixty degrees. It feels like a fire burning in your stomach when you drink it, unbearable!

"Beer? Good, do you want it at room temperature or chilled?"

"In this cold weather, of course, it's room temperature."

"Okay, Cuihua, go to the warehouse and get a crate of room temperature beer."

Beer in this era was generally placed in plastic crates, 24 bottles per crate, which was also convenient for loading into vehicles.

Watching the beer being brought up, Adam casually picked up a bottle from it, but immediately put it down: "It's so cold?"

He looked down carefully and saw that ice cubes had already frozen inside the beer bottle!

"This is room temperature?"

"Room temperature is the outside temperature, twenty or thirty degrees below zero," Qin Yang introduced from the side. "Chilled means it's in the ice cellar, with a temperature of about zero degrees."

A group of Israelis who had never seen the world were stunned. Can it be like this?

"Come on, let those beers thaw a little first, everyone eat first. When you come to our Northeast, you must try the Northeast sauerkraut, it's a must."

"Ms. Natalie, please try it," Nie Xiaoqian again skillfully sat next to Natalie and picked up food for her.

Sauerkraut?

Looking at the things in the bowl, Natalie was a little suspicious. Isn't this just shredded cabbage? It's just that the color is a little strange. She picked up the sauerkraut with chopsticks and put it in her mouth, and a sour taste instantly stimulated her every taste bud.

Not bad, this feeling is very good, much better than the spicy food in Chengdu.

"Not bad, not bad, there is also a sour taste in this meat, very unique!" Adam also tasted a piece and gave a thumbs up.

Just as everyone was enjoying themselves, Qin Yang was thinking about how to bring up the matter of drones, but Natalie spoke first.

"President Qin, we have a business deal we want to do with you."

"Business? What business?"

"We will use spare Boeing 707 engines to exchange for the planar slotted antennas you produce, what do you think?"

Qin Yang's heart was as clear as a mirror. These guys only looked at it with their eyes and were still not at ease, so they decided to continue testing. Good, then let's talk about this matter first.

"Of course, no problem," Qin Yang said: "One JT3D engine for one radar antenna, one-for-one, fair and reasonable. Considering transportation costs, the exchange starts with twenty pieces, how about it?"

Fair and reasonable?

Natalie almost spit out the mushroom she had just eaten.

How much does an engine cost? Even if they, the Israelis, purchase it from Pratt \u0026 Whitney, it would cost two to three million US dollars per unit. If the Easterners were to purchase it, it would cost at least five million US dollars or more! And what about the radar antenna?

If Israel were to order from the United States, one million US dollars would be enough, after all, the entire radar equipment is only a few million US dollars, and the antenna is just one component.

One-for-one, how is that fair and reasonable? And the exchange starts with twenty pieces?

Natalie didn't know what to say.

Adam shook his head over there: "Unfair, unfair, President Qin, it doesn't cost that much to process this radar antenna. The United States..."

"The production costs of the Americans are different from our production costs," Qin Yang retorted in one sentence: "If you think it's expensive, you can buy it from the United States."