industrial overlord

Chapter 236

The next day, Mr. Qiao Hai came to the venue of the China Pavilion as scheduled, and Lin Zhenhua introduced him to Gao Zuxing.Gao Zuxing talked with Qiao Haishen for more than an hour, and completely dispelled the doubts of this overseas Chinese. Qiao Hai immediately said that he would invest 500 million US dollars in China and establish a joint venture with Hanhua Heavy Industry. The factory site is naturally chosen in Xunyang .

As for the waste equipment and spare parts in the yard that Ma Jie and the others were looking at, Qiao Hai promised that as a meeting gift, all of them would be given to Hanhua Heavy Industry for free, and he would also pay the full cost of the sea transportation from Germany to China.Lin Zhenhua talked about it, and Qiao Hai agreed that the freight for this trip would be borne by Hanhua Heavy Industry.

This kind of move between the two sides rushing to pay can only happen among the Chinese.Shipping this batch of equipment back to Xunyang from Germany cost more than 1 US dollars in sea freight, but even a stingy person like Wei Jingwen didn't feel distressed by the money.Just repair a machine tool casually, and the more than 1 US dollars will be earned back.

The exhibition in the next few days was not as lively as before, and many deals had entered the signing stage.Several foreign trade staff brought by Gao Zuxing were so busy all day long that they didn't even have time to eat.However, even if everyone is so hungry that their stomach hurts, they are still happy.According to the summary report obtained by Gao Zuxing, the order signed by the entire exhibition group this time is close to 4 million US dollars, which does not include the uncertain business such as the Siya tribe in South Sudan.

During this period, a more sensitive matter occurred.On the day when the exhibition was about to close, several buyers from the Soviet Union walked into the Chinese exhibition area and asked Zhu Jinwen about mechanical processing.Among the few Soviets, there was one leader who spoke good English but didn't know much about machinery. The other two were obviously professionals but couldn't speak English well, and they confused some concepts.

After listening for a long time, Zhu Jinwen didn't know what the other party wanted to say.Helpless, he had no choice but to borrow Wei Jingwen from Lin Zhenhua. This old gentleman had learned Russian in his early years and had a good foundation.After chatting with the Soviets for a few words, Wei Jingwen's expression changed, and he quickly found an excuse to come out and report to Lin Zhenhua.

"Xiao Lin, have you seen those Soviets?" Wei Jingwen asked in a low voice.

"I see, why, what equipment do they want to buy?" Lin Zhenhua asked casually.He did notice the Soviets coming to the exhibition area just now, but he didn't think much about it.

"They are asking about equipment for processing complex surfaces," Wei Jingwen said.

Lin Zhenhua couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart: "Complicated surface processing? What do they do?"

Wei Jingwen said: "I doubt that they are colleagues with Director Liu. The question they asked has a lot to do with the question of the imitation five-axis machining we did last time."

Lin Zhenhua was a little surprised: "How could they come to us to learn about complex curved surface processing technology? No matter from any aspect, the Soviet Union's machining capabilities are no worse than ours."

There is a situation here that Lin Zhenhua does not understand.The level of heavy industry in the Soviet Union is generally very strong, but there are still short legs in some aspects, especially in the aspect of finishing, there are many bottlenecks.In order to improve the level of machining, the Soviet Union tried to obtain some high-precision machine tools from the West, and because of this, there was a so-called Toshiba incident.

The Soviet Union obtained several five-axis machine tools from Toshiba through secret transactions, which did not completely solve the problems faced by military industrial systems in machining, and it was very difficult to obtain more equipment from Western countries.At this time, the spies in Shanghai sent back an important message that a submarine of the Chinese military was undergoing sea trials, and the noise of the submarine was below 90 decibels, which is lower than the background noise of the ocean.According to the analysis of the Soviet military industry department, the Chinese must have solved the problem of complex curved surface processing of propellers in some way.

At the Frankfurt Equipment Exhibition, the Soviet Union sent two military engineers and technicians, and the person who cooperated with them was Piyuzin, the head of the Soviet KGB in Western Europe.Their original purpose was to contact Western equipment manufacturers at the equipment exhibition to see if they could exploit loopholes and get some advanced machine tools.Unexpectedly, after wandering around for a few days, they failed to succeed. Those manufacturers in the West strictly implemented Batumi's policy of restricting shipments and refused to provide advanced equipment to the Soviet Union.

When passing by the exhibition area of ​​the Chinese Pavilion, Piuzin remembered the intelligence brought back by the spies, and walked in with two technicians.He didn't intend to get the equipment they needed from China, but he wanted to find out what the Chinese said and what kind of technology the Chinese had mastered so that they could solve the problem of processing submarine propellers.

"Xiao Lin, go and meet them." Wei Jingwen said, "I don't know what to say and what not to say."

Speaking of which, Wei Jingwen is more than twice as old as Lin Zhenhua, but when it comes to such sensitive political issues, Wei Jingwen is completely a primary school student.Although Lin Zhenhua is young, he has historical experience brought by later generations, so he has more knowledge than Wei Jingwen.

Lin Zhenhua followed Wei Jingwen to the Soviets, and Wei Jingwen introduced to the Soviets: "Everyone, this is Mr. Lin Zhenhua, the deputy general manager of our Hanhua Heavy Industry Group. I would like to invite him to come to the question you just raised. Answer you."

Lin Zhenhua's eyes flicked across the faces of several Soviet people. When he saw Puyujin, he couldn't help but think. With a half-smile expression on his face, Lin Zhenhua of later generations has seen him on TV more than once or twice.

"Excuse me, sir, what's your name?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

"My name is Pyuzin," replied Pyuzin, who was not as well-known at this time as he was later, and therefore did not realize the need for anonymity.

It really was him, Lin Zhenhua looked at this future figure with admiration.It was he who, more than ten years later, took power in Russia, rectified Russia's domestic and foreign affairs with an iron wrist, and revived Russia that was on the verge of collapse.Although there are various comments on the merits and demerits of this gentleman, no one can deny that he is a key figure in the future Russia.

In any case, this line must be connected now, Lin Zhenhua thought secretly in his heart.

"We are all engineers of the Ural Machinery Complex. We have encountered some technical problems in production, and we really want to communicate with our Chinese counterparts." Pyuzin said.

Lin Zhenhua secretly thought it was funny, if he didn't have the golden finger of the traverser, he might have been fooled by Pyujin.This man is worthy of being an elite of the KGB, he is obviously telling lies, but there is a touching sincerity in his eyes, Lin Zhenhua even wonders if he has practiced the legendary mind control technique.

"Mr. Puyuzin, we are very interested in exchanging technical issues with our Soviet counterparts." Lin Zhenhua said pretendingly.

Of course Pyuzin himself did not understand mechanics, he just played the role of connecting the strings.After he exchanged pleasantries with Lin Zhenhua, the two Soviet technicians who came with him began to ask Lin Zhenhua one question after another.They used English mixed with Russian, some of which Lin Zhenhua could understand, and others that Wei Jingwen needed to help translate.

Lin Zhenhua was on guard in his heart, so he naturally knew what to say and what not to say.He had a heated chat with two Soviet technicians, convincing the other party that the Chinese had fully mastered the technology of complex curved surface processing, but he had no way of understanding the details of this technology.The more so, the more interested they are in Lin Zhenhua.

"Mr. Puyuzin, I'm just a manager of a factory, and I don't know much about the specific technical details. I think that if your company is interested in this technology, we can arrange several times for engineers to work together in the future. What do you think of the communication between them?" After Lin Zhenhua had caught the other party's appetite, he sent an invitation to Puyujin.

Pyuzin nodded stoically: "We're very interested in that."

After the two parties left their contact information, Piuzin left with two technicians. The two were still talking to each other enthusiastically in Russian as they walked. It seemed that their emotions had been completely influenced by what Lin Zhenhua had just said. mobilized.

Seeing the Soviets walk away, Zhu Jinwen pulled Lin Zhenhua aside, and asked nervously, "Xiao Lin, you told them so much just now, did you involve any state secrets?"

Lin Zhenhua turned around and shouted: "Schumann!"

Schumann responded and handed a notebook to Lin Zhenhua.Lin Zhenhua took the notebook, handed it to Zhu Jinwen, and said, "Director Zhu, I know that Sino-Soviet relations are still very sensitive, so I asked Schumann to record all the content I exchanged with the other party just now. This is the conversation Please read the full text of the document, if it is authentic, please sign it, and then take it back to the professional department for identification, if the content I introduced involves leaking secrets, I am willing to take full responsibility."

Zhu Jinwen hesitated for a moment, took the book, read it carefully, then signed his name on it, and put it in his bag.He did this not to find Lin Zhenhua's fault from these conversation records, but to use this conversation record to protect Lin Zhenhua.Lin Zhenhua had contact with the Soviets and talked about many technical issues, which many people have seen.If someone twisted his mouth and said that Lin Zhenhua leaked the secret, then Lin Zhenhua would not be able to tell clearly with his mouth all over his body.With such a record, Lin Zhenhua can prove his innocence.

After putting away the notebook, Zhu Jinwen said in a critical tone: "Xiaolin, since you also know that Sino-Soviet relations are very sensitive, in fact, you don't have to say so much today."

Lin Zhenhua said: "Director Zhu, do you know who these people are?"

Zhu Jinwen shook his head.

Lin Zhenhua said: "If I'm not mistaken, they are technicians from the Soviet military industry department, and they are engaged in cutting-edge technology. As for the person in charge of their team, I'm sure he is a KGB."

"No way!" Zhu Jinwen turned pale with shock, "Xiao Lin, since you know this, you can't even contact them."

Lin Zhenhua said: "Director Zhu, I have an idea, of course it is very immature. I think that the easing of Sino-Soviet relations is an inevitable trend. It is entirely possible for China and the Soviet Union to exchange technologies on the basis of mutual benefit, so as to realize Win-win. What they just asked me about is related to one of their core military technologies. If we can transfer this technology to them, they will definitely be willing to exchange other technologies that we urgently need. Doing so will be beneficial to our country The development of military technology is also very beneficial.”

Lin Zhenhua's words can only go so far.In fact, he has a further idea, which is to aim at the general situation of the disintegration of the Soviet Union a few years later.After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a large number of military technicians and equipment were out of control. Whoever acts quickly will be able to get these precious heritages of the former Soviet Union.Lin Zhenhua hopes to build a bridge between China and the Soviet Union through cooperation with Pewzin, so as to get a share of the future situation.

But how could Lin Zhenhua tell Zhu Jinwen Wenming about such things in advance?
Zhu Jinwen frowned and said, "Xiao Lin, you stretched your hand too far. As an elder, I want to remind you that you are very talented, but you have too little political experience. It is not your responsibility to deal with military affairs. It is very dangerous to be able to intervene, do you understand?"

After being scolded, Lin Zhenhua had no choice but to nod and said: "Director Zhu, you are right. My idea is that we will discuss this matter with the military industry department after we go back. If the military industry feels willing to facilitate such an deal, then we are now connected to the other party, which will facilitate future contact. If the military industry thinks such a deal is not interesting, it doesn’t matter if we refuse the other party? I have not disclosed our technical details from beginning to end. At the same time, no promises were made."

Zhu Jinwen hesitated for a while, and asked Gao Zuxing to be invited, and told Gao Zuxing about the matter.Gao Zuxing nodded and said, "It's appropriate for Xiaolin to handle it like this. However, if there is such a thing in the future, you should say hello to us in advance. Regarding the relationship with the Soviet Union, the central leadership had already discussed the relationship with the Soviet Union three years ago. Instructions have been given to normalize Sino-Soviet relations. The Ministry of Foreign Trade has opened border trade with the Soviet Union this year, so economic and technological cooperation with the Soviet Union is also allowed by the policy.”

"However, will it be more sensitive when it comes to military industry?" Zhu Jinwen reminded.

Gao Zuxing said: "Old Zhu, you don't know. Xiao Lin's identity is very important. He is a person named by the Navy's Equipment Department. The Xinxin Electromechanical Company in his hand helped the Navy turn over warships."

Zhu Jinwen said: "Yes, yes, I remembered, there is such a thing. So, Xiao Lin still has a solid foundation in this matter?"

Lin Zhenhua said modestly: "Don't dare, dare not. I just instinctively feel that this may be profitable, and I want to help the navy connect this line first. In fact, the technology they want is not a very complicated one. Technology is not difficult for families, but it is not difficult for families. Let’s help them in this area and exchange one or two technologies we urgently need, but it is very cost-effective.”

"Xiao Lin's business mind is really faster than those of us who have been engaged in foreign trade all the year round." Gao Zuxing said in a tone of appreciation or criticism, "I can warn you, Xiao Lin, it is good to use your brain, but it is good to use a crooked brain. You can’t do it. You can’t make up your own mind about this matter before you ask Minister Zhang for instructions, understand?”

"Understood!" Lin Zhenhua replied.

(End of this chapter)