The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Liu Tao looked at the news and showed a thoughtful look.

Japan's current situation is likely to happen to China in the future.

This is the inevitable thing when being a younger brother. Unless you turn over and become the boss, you will definitely be suppressed by the boss when you develop to a certain extent.

To sum it up in academic language, it is the Thucydides Trap!

However, China also has its own particularity, that is, China is a country with complete sovereignty and independence.

In this regard, it is incomparable to countries such as Japan and West Germany.

In recent years, Liu Tao has put a lot of energy on the development of weapons and equipment, and even delivered them to the troops at a low price, and even accepted installment payments and tax deductions, because he knew that China must have a strong national defense force to protect the fruits of hard construction, rather than the fruits of hard construction being stolen by jackals and tigers.

The basic colors of those jackals and tigers have never changed. They plunder, burn, kill, kidnap, lie, etc. They have no morality or civilization at all.

If pirate culture is also a kind of civilization, they belong to pirate civilization.

For the benefit of China, he started to lay out overseas ports a few years ago, because he knew that the Chinese navy would sooner or later go to the blue ocean, and China's interests would sooner or later need the Chinese navy to protect it, and the Chinese navy's escort needed supply ports along the way.

He only hoped that when China faced the covetousness of jackals, tigers and leopards one day, there would be shotguns to deter jackals, tigers and leopards. If jackals, tigers and leopards dared to move, then the shotguns could kill them.

Instead of being like Japan now, the United States is the knife and Japan is the fish.

The United States is sharpening its knife to pigs and sheep, and Japan can only be slaughtered.

Although Japan's foreign trade surplus has hit a record high, in fact, Japan's economic bubble has been growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When it reaches a certain level, the economic bubble will be punctured with a needle, and Japan will usher in a lost decade, a lost twenty years, a lost thirty years, or even a lost forty years.

This day.

After dealing with the company's affairs in Hong Kong.

Liu Tao, Ho Ying-tung and others attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the 'Island Line MTR'.

After such a long period of preparation, the 'Island Line MTR' finally met the conditions for construction.

Governor of Hong Kong David Wilson also attended the groundbreaking ceremony.

The previous Governor of Hong Kong, Youde, died of illness during his term of office, and David Wilson became the Governor of Hong Kong.

The leader of the working group also brought people to attend the groundbreaking ceremony, in addition to some celebrities in Hong Kong.

The construction of the Island Line MTR is of great significance. It will greatly improve traffic efficiency, and the value of land around the subway entrance will increase significantly.

It can be said that the interests involved involve all aspects.

In the past year, with the efforts of the working group and the Hong Kong government, the Hong Kong MTR has been planned. According to the Hong Kong MTR plan, the total length of the Hong Kong MTR has reached 264 kilometers.

Even if the construction of the Island Line is completed, the total length of the Hong Kong MTR will only be 37 kilometers, which means that Hong Kong will build another 227 kilometers of MTR in the future.

After the return, as a special administrative region, Hong Kong can use its fiscal revenue to build people's livelihood and develop Hong Kong, which will make Hong Kong soar like a flying bird.

However, things like building subways are destined to be monopolized.

Because other people don't have this technology at all.

Liu Tao always has a smile on his face. In the future, Hong Kong will build 227 kilometers of subways, which means that the big contracts of 300 to 400 billion Hong Kong dollars in the future will fall on his side.

"Comrade Liu Tao, can the Hong Kong Island Line subway really be built in two years?" The leader whispered in Liu Tao's ear.

The Hong Kong Island Line subway is expected to be completed and opened to traffic on March 1, 1989.

In other words, the construction time is about two years.

Two years is not long, but it is also very short.

The leader participated in the construction of the Beijing subway. At that time, the Beijing subway was constructed using the open cut and fill method. The total length was 23.6 kilometers. The state listed it as an important war preparedness project. After four years of hard work, it was finally completed.

However, although the Hong Kong Island Line subway is short, it is an advanced subway, using a lot of advanced technology. To be honest, the leader has no idea whether it can be completed in two years.

"Don't worry, leader, it will definitely be completed in two years." Liu Tao smiled.

This subway is all underground, directly excavated by a shield machine, and then the subway entrance and exit are built on the ground.

This is also his training of the construction team. Once the Hong Kong Island Line is successfully completed, it means that they can build subways in coastal cities in the future.

And although the construction this time is 10.5 kilometers, they are coordinating with the Hong Kong government, hoping to extend the subway line so that the length of the Hong Kong Island Line reaches 16.3 kilometers.

Liu Tao whispered: "Leader, this subway matter still needs your help. It is important to build it all at once to avoid the trouble of starting construction in the future."

As the general contractor, they have coordinated with the Hong Kong government several times, but the results are not very ideal. The Hong Kong government does not want to pay the extra money.

"Don't worry about this. Governor Wei disagrees now, and this matter will be implemented after July 1." The leader said.

July 1 has entered the countdown.

Time is getting tighter and tighter, and the working group has significantly improved its capabilities after several years of experience.

Time is on our side, and we have obvious advantages in terms of economy and military.

If you don't agree now, it doesn't matter. After July 1, Hong Kong will turn a new page and we can make our own decisions.

When Liu Tao heard the leader say this, he was secretly relieved.

With the support of the leader, this matter can be said to be implemented in nine out of ten cases.

"I heard that your security company is equipped with heavy machine guns?" the leader asked.

Liu Tao lowered his voice: "In order to be on the safe side, we have equipped some, not many, just 50 Type 78 heavy machine guns."

The leader laughed dumbly.

Heavy machine guns are already considered heavy firepower.

In addition, the security company is located in a dangerous position and has 3,000 people. It can be said that it can decide the outcome at a critical moment.

At worst, it can hold on until the reinforcements arrive.

"Don't do this in the future. Some voices are not good now." The leader whispered.

Liu Tao nodded, but he didn't say anything in his heart.

In order to avoid accidents, he not only equipped the security company with 50 heavy machine guns, but also prepared 10 anti-aircraft machine guns, 100 vanguard missile launchers and 1,000 vanguard air defense missiles, 50 shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles and 500 anti-tank missiles, and even 60mm mortars and 82mm mortars.

This kind of preparation is to reverse the situation and turn the tide in the worst case.

He has done it very covertly, but he didn't expect that there would be other voices from the outside world.

"Has your Tiger Brigade arrived in Pengcheng?" the leader asked.

Liu Tao nodded and said: "Just after the Spring Festival, the Tiger Brigade was officially incorporated into the army and urgently dispatched to the Pengcheng military camp."

The Pengcheng military camp was specially prepared for the Hong Kong garrison for the final training, repair, and to adapt the Hong Kong garrison to the environment here.

Not only the Tiger Brigade, but also the naval brigade and aviation brigade of the Hong Kong garrison arrived in Guangdong Province early.