To Chen Geng's surprise, there was a heating system on the railway construction site command car.

After all, it is a cold winter, and it is just in the subtropical Guangdong Province, but before the train passes through Qinling, the temperature in the car has dropped sharply, and Chen Geng, who has sufficient psychological preparation and does not have the luxury of expecting such a car to have air conditioning, is very prescient to let everyone bring a few more winter clothes, especially down jackets, but before everyone can change into thick clothes, Chen Geng found that there is heating on the car.

"The boiler for boiling hot water in the car is connected to radiators," looking at Chen Geng's dumbfounded appearance, Comrade Lao Ding finally found a little comfort in his heart: You also have such a dirty bun? Comrade Lao Ding, who has a big heart, fiercely admired Chen Geng's appearance of a turtle, and then said quietly: "As long as you open a switch valve, you can connect several sets of radiators in the car...... Anyway, the whole car is only more than 70 square meters, and it doesn't take a few sets of radiators to ensure the temperature in the cabin. ”

"That's it......" Chen Geng nodded again and again, too, this is also the on-site command car of railway construction, such a high-end and high-grade thing, there is no parking heating system, is it possible to make a stove in the car in the winter? He asked curiously: "Is there such a heating system in the ordinary car?"

“......”

Comrade Lao Ding's face suddenly darkened: Nima, you really can't open which pot to mention!

It was Comrade Zhang Qiaoqiao, this comrade is a good comrade, and she replied cheerfully: "There is no ordinary car." ”

"Why?" asked Mirren with wide-eyed curiosity, "Aren't they cold?"

She has been teaching Chinese on her own since she started working beside Chen Geng, and now there is basically no big problem in conducting simple daily conversations, and the surrounding language environment has been Chinese in the past few days, and his Chinese level has improved rapidly.

"It's not cold. ”

"Huh, how can it not be cold?"

"Because there are so many people. ”

"It's impossible not to be cold when there are a lot of people. ”

Mirren has never taken a train in China, and subconsciously thinks that the so-called "crowded" means that all the seats on the train are full, which is already the limit of her imagination - the passenger train in the United States has never been full of half people.

Chen Geng couldn't explain to Mirren what the train in Huaxia was now: what the canned sardines sold in the supermarket looked like, and what the train looked like now.

Many people think that the Spring Festival transportation in 30 years is the peak of the train's carrying capacity?

Immature!

Let me tell you, the train in the eighties and nineties is called amazing, you can have a place to put down the small horse to sit then your luck is too good, as for the sleeper ticket, it is necessary to go to the train station with a letter of introduction and a work permit to coordinate, before you reach a certain level you want to sit in the sleeper?

What do you think?

Chen Geng knew what the concept of "sardine canned car" was, but he couldn't say: How could a Chinese-American, who had lived in the United States since childhood, know so clearly about the situation in China?

Comrade Lao Ding felt that this issue could not be further discussed, and if the discussion continued, what if the interest of the foreign guests was aroused and they wanted to go to the ordinary carriage to have a look?

And I saw that there were chickens, ducks, and geese on the train in addition to the passengers, and maybe someone was holding a sheep, and the chickens, ducks, geese, and sheep didn't know how to go to the toilet to solve the problem.

He glanced at Zhang Qiaoqiao and said with a smile: "You said that it was a few years ago, right? How do I remember that it seems that it was four years ago or three years ago, and our trains began to be equipped with heating?"

"Huh?"

Zhang Qiaoqiao was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly nodded: "Yes, yes, yes, I remembered when you said that, it was a heater, well, a heater was installed......"

Chen Geng: "......"

If you're happy, it's fine.

Ding Haijun hurriedly diverted the topic and asked Chen Geng: "Brother, how much do you think Iran's affairs have an international impact?"

Ding Haijun's "Iranian affairs" refers to the revolution that happened in Iran in December that overthrew the Iranian Shah Pahlavi......

"Very big!"

"I've seen a report that Iran has stopped supplying oil to the international crude oil market since the end of December, resulting in a daily shortage of up to 5 million barrels of crude oil in the international crude oil market," Chen said. Now the amount of crude oil consumed in the world every day is about 50 million barrels, and the supply is suddenly reduced by one-tenth, and the price of a barrel of crude oil has begun to approach $10.

If it's just a price increase, it's okay to say, but the worst thing is that even if the price increases, you can't refuel, which city in the United States do you see, isn't there a long convoy waiting to refuel?"

Comrade Lao Ding nodded silently, indeed, outside many gas stations in the United States, there are either long queues waiting for refueling or hanging "sold out" signs, this kind of scene seen with his own eyes is particularly shocking: Who would have thought that the United States, as one of the two poles of the earth, would have so many people who can't even fill up gasoline?

Chen Geng continued: "Modern warfare is about logistics, and oil is the blood and driving force of modern warfare. But I'm a businessman, and I don't have much research on the military, so I can only talk about it from the perspective of business and politics, and as for whether it's allowed or not, don't take it seriously, let's just grind our teeth and play with ......."

That's what Comrade Lao Ding wants to hear!

The outbreak of the Iranian oil crisis this time gave a huge shock to the country, and he asked him to find an opportunity to talk to Chen Geng and listen to what Chen Geng thought about this matter...... Since Chen Geng's children can do business so successfully, at least they still have vision, and his views should still be more valuable for reference.

As for Chen Geng's statement that he didn't understand military affairs, Ding Haijun didn't expect Chen Geng to be ugly about the Iranian revolution from a military point of view, and hurriedly said: "Cheng, let's grind our teeth...... Qiaoqiao, you go get some peanuts and melon seeds, and then make two cups of tea. ”

Small talk, you have to have a small talk, how can you miss peanuts and melon seeds?

Peanuts and melon seeds are coming, Chen Geng is not polite, he also hopes that the republic can seize the opportunity to make a lot of money: "The Iranian revolution has led to a big gap in the international crude oil supply, many countries and organizations are panicking, many institutions predict that according to the current development of the situation, the international crude oil price may exceed 12 US dollars or even 13 US dollars a barrel, which is true, but in my opinion, all this means that the trouble has just begun." ”

"The trouble has just begun?" Ding Haijun was stunned for a moment: "What do you say?"

"Simple, if you zoom in a little bit, don't just zoom in on the country, zoom in on the entire Middle East, you will find that the current Middle East is completely a powder keg, and a little spark will explode. ”

Zooming in on the entire Middle East?

Although Ding Haijun is a rare diplomatic talent in this era, it is a pity that he has been working in North America for the past few years, and he basically has no attention to the Middle East, and his face is red for a while.

Chen Geng didn't see Comrade Ding's somewhat embarrassed face, and then said: "Now that the revolutionary movement in Iran is in full swing, the Pahlavi Shah is retreating one after another, and even has lost the support of part of the army. ”

In fact, why wait so late, on January 19, Iranian Shah Pahlavi will take his wife and children to "visit abroad", and the Pahlavi dynasty will officially end...... it!

Chen Geng suddenly reacted: It seems that today is January 20th?!

"What's wrong?" Seeing that Chen Geng's face was a little wrong, Ding Haijun hurriedly asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"Before I came back, I did an analysis that the Iranian revolution should have an extremely critical inflection point in the next two days, and if this can be confirmed, it means that my next analysis is correct......"

“......”

Comrade Lao Ding was dumbfounded!

He looked at Chen Geng stupidly, as if he were looking at a magic stick: "Do you think the Iranian revolution will have a major turning point in these two days?"

Chen Geng smiled bitterly and nodded: "But we can't verify it now, if we can verify it, I will be more sure of it next." ”

Comrade Lao Ding pursed his lips tightly, his fingers lightly tapped on the table, and he did not speak.

As a middle and senior cadre of the country, he knows a lot more than ordinary people, for example, although the passengers in this carriage have no way to contact the outside world, but in fact, the train can be contacted with the outside world, and now there are three main ways, one is the railway cable special line telephone arranged along the railway line and the maintenance telephone on the route, if there is an urgent need, you can get in touch with the outside world through these telephones;

In addition to this wired telephone, there is also a train on-board wireless telegraph system, and the third way is the on-board radio station, in the mid-70s, China has completed the finalization and production of 150MHz train-specific transistor radio stations, and took the lead in the North China Plain and East China to carry out the construction of base stations and relay stations, very coincidentally, Chen Geng and others took this train has such a 150MHz train special radio station.

The first one does not need to be considered, the second and third communication methods are in the hands of the conductor, and Comrade Lao Ding is now considering whether to get in touch with the train to confirm Chen Geng's analysis?

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PS: It's a little late, brothers, please rest assured, it's still 2 more today.