industrial overlord

Chapter 730 The Unsung Hero
"Haha, Sissey's stumbled hard enough."

In a high-end restaurant in Xunyang, Lin Zhenhua is telling a group of relatives and friends the story of his battle of wits and courage with Xi Sai, and incidentally, the incident of encountering Xi Sai in Hornby's Taige factory several years ago is also very vivid. Say it again.Some of the audience have heard of this interesting incident in the past, but after looking back now, they still feel that it is quite dramatic.

This is during the Spring Festival in 2012. Lin Zhenhua and Yang Xin hosted a banquet for the family of their younger sister Lin Fanghua who came home from the capital for the New Year.Sitting at the banquet were Yang Chunshan and Wei Suping, who once took care of the two brothers and sisters and later became Lin Zhenhua's parents-in-law; , An Yan and their son Xiao Hei.

At the banquet, the adults toasted and mingled, and the conversation was full of excitement.Several children opened a small table separately, talking about topics of interest to them in their age group. When it came to joy, Yang Tao's son even stood up and performed an "aircraft carrier style", which made everyone laugh.

"Xiaohua, look at how fast time is. I still remember when you returned from the army and gave Xiaoxin a cool cloth." Wei Suping said with emotion, "At that time, a piece of cold cloth was really cold. More than ten yuan. I remember that dress, Xiaoxin has been wearing it for four or five years."

"And then throw it away?" Lin Zhenhua turned to look at Yang Xin and asked.

Yang Xin glared at him and said, "How can I? Later, I got fat and couldn't fit anymore, so I kept the bottom of the box. I originally planned to give it to my daughter-in-law as a souvenir when I married her. Who the hell?" Knowing that Xiaofei was born, who would wear it now? It’s really cool.”

"I still remember that my brother gave Uncle Yang a bottle of good wine, but Uncle Yang was reluctant to drink it and asked my brother to give it to the factory manager." Lin Fanghua said with a smile.

Mentioning this matter, Yang Chunshan was still angry, pointing at Lin Zhenhua and said: "This Xiaohua was disobedient at that time, and asked him to give gifts to the factory manager, but he refused, so he was assigned a job. Porter, it really pissed me off."

Lin Zhenhua said: "Dad, how many years have passed since this happened? Do you remember? Actually, I thought about it at that time. It doesn't matter what type of job I do. With the reform and opening up, there are many opportunities. You see, now I don't Are you also a director?"

"Just brag. At that time, you knew you could be the chairman?" Lin Fanghua was still arguing with her brother as she did when she was a child.

"I may not have thought that I could be the chairman, but I do know that our country will undergo earth-shaking changes." Lin Zhenhua said leisurely.It has been more than 30 years since he traveled to this world, and the context of history is not much different from what he remembers.However, because of his time travel, some things have also changed. For example, Xunyang in this world is already a prosperous city in China that is as famous as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. This is completely incomparable with the previous life.

Yang Xin said: "Xiaohua, if I hadn't experienced it myself, I really wouldn't believe it. Do you remember that when you asked the Americans to give our factory an American-made CNC machine tool, everyone was like a baby, and specially built it. A glass house was used to house it. Now that I think about it, that machine tool is too bad, and a machine tool that our machine tool company casually exports is a hundred times better than it.”

"Yeah, it's been ups and downs, how many years have passed." Brother-in-law Ma Jie said, "I just graduated from university and came to work in Hanhua. I followed my elder brother to Frankfurt for the first time to participate in the equipment exhibition. When I came back, I was so depressed. Yes. The gap between us and others is really too big, and I think that in my lifetime, I will definitely not be able to catch up. At that time, thanks to my elder brother who encouraged me, he said that we would definitely be able to develop.”

Lin Fanghua pursed her lips and said: "You still have the face to say it, do you want me to take out the disheartened letter you wrote back then for everyone to read. It was also a wicked day, and I received two letters at the same time. In this tone, one is written by you, and the other is..."

Speaking of this, she stopped. Another person who wrote to her was Du Xiangyang, who was in the same class as Ma Jie. At that time, both of them were pursuing Lin Fanghua.Later, Ma Jie stayed in China, made great contributions to the development of Hanhua, and finally won Lin Fanghua's heart.After Du Xiangyang went abroad, he fell in love with the colorful world of the United States, and finally stayed abroad. Now he has become a columnist who writes articles that slander China, under the pseudonym Ping Tuzi.

"You mean Xiangyang, right?" Lin Zhenhua spoke out the rest of the words for his sister.

"I don't want to mention his name, he is a disgrace to Huaqing." Lin Fanghua said angrily.Although she said so, the slightly red eye circles revealed the true sadness in her heart.

Ma Jie patted Lin Fanghua's arm and said, "Xiaofang, don't blame Xiangyang too much. He went the wrong way at first, but then he couldn't help himself. In fact, his talent has always been above mine. ,Pity."

"What's involuntary, he can obviously come back to China. Besides, even if he stays in the United States, he doesn't have to rely on scolding our country to eat, right?" Lin Fanghua said angrily.

Lin Zhenhua didn't continue to talk about this topic. He smiled slightly, looked at his watch, and said, "The time is almost up. Tonight, there is another guest who will come to our banquet. Please stay safe, everyone."

As soon as the words fell, there was a burst of hearty laughter outside the door. An Yan's eyes lit up, and he said to Lan Wufeng: "Fengzi, listen, Brother Chen is here, let's go and greet him."

Everyone stood up together.Although Yang Chunshan and his wife were elders, they also stood up. They knew that Chen Tian was the son of a high-ranking cadre, and they had taken care of Hanhua a lot these years, and they were regarded as Lin Zhenhua's nobles.

The door was pushed open, and Chen Tian walked in carelessly. He bowed his hands to everyone and said hello. When he saw Yang Chunshan and his wife, he trotted two steps quickly, stepped forward and bowed: "Uncle, aunt, Xiaotian Happy New Year to you."

"Oh, Xiaotian, don't be polite, don't be polite." Yang Chunshan and his wife hurriedly held hands, and for some reason, they each had a thick red envelope in their hands.

"Xiaotian, what does this mean?" Yang Chunshan hastily declined.

"It should be, it should be." Chen Tian smiled, "It's Chinese New Year, this is a red envelope from the juniors."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to the children at the table and shouted: "Come and call uncle, the loudest red envelope is the loudest."

"Hello, uncle!"

"Hello, uncle!"

The children shouted wildly, among them, Xiao Hei called Chen Tian his uncle, because Chen Tian always called An Yan his sister.Chen Tian took out a handful of red envelopes from his pocket and handed them out one by one.In fact, these children are the rich second generation, and no one is short of money. This is what everyone wants.

After the fuss, An Yan stepped forward to say hello: "Brother Chen, it's not easy for you to come from such a long distance, please take a seat, I'll wait for you... Well, no, sister Qi Yue didn't come, Brother Lin has reserved two seats for you guys." Woolen cloth."

Chen Tiandao: "Xiaoyue is spending the New Year with the old man at home, and she won't come over today. Zhenhua reserved two seats because I told him that there is another guest... Lao Ping, Lao Ping, why don't you come over?" Don't come in!"

Except for Lin Zhenhua, everyone was taken aback for a moment, wondering who Chen Tian was referring to as Lao Ping.At this time, a person slowly walked in from the door. More than half of his head was shaved, his hair was gray, and his back was slightly curved.Standing at the door, looking at the people in the room, he seemed a little shy and a little excited.

"Xiangyang!" Ma Jie recognized the other party first, his expression changed drastically, and he stepped forward to hold the other party's hand.It turned out that this person was Du Xiangyang that everyone just talked about. Chen Tian called him "Lao Ping", probably because he was making fun of his pseudonym Ping Tuzi in the United States.

"Du Xiangyang?" Lin Fanghua also recognized it. She took two steps forward, her lips were trembling, and it took her a long time to say bitterly, "You still have the face to come back!"

Tears flowed down Du Xiangyang's face: "Little Ma,...Xiao Fang, how are you all?"

"Okay, you are very popular in the United States, right? We often read your masterpieces." Lin Fanghua said coldly, but anyone who knew her could tell that her voice was not the usual tone when she was angry. She was using this tone to conceal the turbulent emotions in her heart.This emotion may be hate, it may be pity, it may be sadness...

"Xiaofang, you misunderstood Xiangyang." Lin Zhenhua stepped forward, took Du Xiangyang's hand, and let him take the seat.

Ma Jie felt that there seemed to be some mystery in this, and he quickly persuaded Lin Fanghua to return to his original seat and sit down, and then asked Du Xiangyang: "Xiangyang, what's going on? Why are you with Director Chen?"

Chen Tian picked up a glass of wine and said to everyone: "Everyone, for the first glass of wine today, I want everyone to pay tribute to Comrade Du Xiangyang. Over the years, he has endured many people's eyes, fought on the secret front, and made a great contribution to the country. An immortal feat."

"What? The secret front!" Lin Fanghua was stunned. The Du Xiangyang in her impression was scolding China in the United States every day. Could it be that all this is an illusion?
Chen Tiandao: "Xiao Du was imprisoned in the United States for several years because of Carter's framing. After he was released from prison, he joined our organization. For more than ten years, he has been appointed by the organization and used the identity of a reporter as a cover. , specializing in the collection of industrial intelligence. Zhenhua, do you still remember that the intelligence that European equipment companies planned to jointly sanction Chinese companies was collected by Xiao Du, and this information played an important role in formulating your countermeasures. It works."

"I remember, but unexpectedly, Xiang Yang got this news. It's really not easy." Lin Zhenhua replied.

"It's just a trivial matter, and it's Director Chen's absurd praise." Du Xiangyang said modestly.

"But... why do you write articles criticizing China every day? I remember you wrote a very influential article called "China is about to collapse". Do you know how irritating this article is?" Lin Fanghua looked at Du Xiangyang Said.

Chen Tian said with a smile: "Xiaofang, do you know that because of this article, the top leaders of the United States decided that China would not become a threat to the United States, so they made up their minds to launch the Iraq War and continue to expand the Afghanistan War. This article , It won a full 10-year period of strategic opportunities for China. A central leader recently pointed out in an internal speech that Comrade Ping Tuzi who wrote this article, that is, Comrade Du Xiangyang, can be worth 10 soldiers.”

"Wow!" Xiao Hei, who was eavesdropping on the sidelines, jumped up, "Uncle, you mean, this Uncle Du is the legendary head of the North American branch of the Bureau of War and Humiliation!"

"What is the war?" Chen Tian was puzzled, he was in the system, and he had never heard of this system.

"Strategic deception bureau!" Xiao Hei said to Chen Tian bitterly, "Isn't it the department in your system that makes up nonsense to fool the enemy? You still keep it from me."

"Crap!" Chen Tian patted Xiao Hei on the head, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Brother Chen, what you said won't affect Brother Du, right?" An Yan reminded Chen Tian.Although the people in this room are all relatives and friends, it seems that Du Xiangyang's identity is not suitable to be exposed here.Especially with a group of children nearby, if the children accidentally said something, Du Xiangyang would be in trouble.

Chen Tian waved his hand and said: "It's all right now. Xiao Du's mission has been completed. According to his own application, the organization agreed that he should return to China and transfer to a local job. I have already made an agreement with Zhenhua. After Xiao Du comes back, he will When you work in Hanhua, the specific location will be arranged by Zhenhua. Of course, the things mentioned here today must be kept secret and cannot be leaked."

Hearing that his friend did not go on an evil path, on the contrary, he was a hero of the country, Ma Jie felt happy from the bottom of his heart.He said to Du Xiangyang: "Xiangyang, it's great that you can come back. We have been looking forward to your return. How about this, if you don't dislike it, come to work in our Hanhua Technical Information Research Institute, you As the dean, I will be the deputy."

"Xiao Ma, thank you very much, but my major has been abandoned for many years, I'm afraid I won't be able to pick it up again." Du Xiangyang said.

"I believe in you, you have always been more capable than me." Ma Jie said, he pushed Lin Fanghua, and said, "Xiaofang, please persuade Xiangyang to go to the capital to work together."

Lin Fanghua listened to everyone's words, as if in a dream, she picked up her wine glass, stood up and said to Du Xiangyang: "Xiangyang, I'm sorry, I've been blaming you wrong. Welcome back."

Du Xiangyang quickly stood up and picked up his wine glass.His hands were shaking with excitement, and the wine was spilled.He said: "Xiaofang, you did not blame me. I am a person who has gone wrong. Thank Brother Lin for never giving up on me. When I was in the most difficult time, he helped me without hesitation. This glass of wine , please allow me to apologize to everyone, to ... the motherland!"

"Xiangyang." Lin Zhenhua stopped Du Xiangyang and said, "You don't need to apologize, the motherland will not blame any child. Over the years, you have suffered grievances that ordinary people can't bear. You have worked hard. Come on, let's raise our glasses together, For our yesterday, but also for our tomorrow!"

"For tomorrow!" Everyone shouted in unison.

(End of this chapter)