Chapter 97: Trams?
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Three days later, Liu Wenyue, who was far away in Hong Kong, arrived in Leipzig with an An-124 transport plane that was going to Hong Kong to urgently replenish its goods.
On the first day of its opening, the Union Market in Berlin sold 6ooo million in sales, which is equivalent to 2ooo East German marks per person out of the 300,000 visitors on the same day.
Before the opening of the market, the 45o tons of commodities that the An-124 strategic transport plane urgently flew over from Hong Kong sold more than 2oo tons on the first day; Liang Haiping saw that the shape of the stock was not good, and the next day he only released 2oooo people to seal the shopping entrance of the market, and the Soviet Red Army Command in Europe even dispatched three An-124 transport planes to Hong Kong overnight.
When Liu Wenyue walked into the suite of the Honor Hotel, Liang Yuan was leaning on the sand and looking at the materials of the Carl Zeiss company in East Germany.
As one of the oldest surviving optical manufacturing companies on the planet, Carl Zeiss has always been known for its excellent manufacturing products, and the optical instruments produced by Zeiss were used in the U.S.-led Apollo moon landing, the Hubble Space Telescope program and the Soviet-led Mir space station.
Before the end of the Cold War, the two split Zeiss companies located in East and West Germany respectively, from the high-tech military industry in outer space of the planet, have been competing to civilian ordinary cameras, it can be said that it is difficult to entangle, but it is a pity that with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 9O, the entire GDR was swallowed by the Federal Republic of Germany, and Zeiss AG in West Germany also naturally annexed Zeiss in East Germany.
In the not-too-distant future, Zeiss in East Germany, which once had billions of dollars in assets, was only occasionally mentioned in the mouths of a few camera lens enthusiasts. All other glories were annihilated in the ethereal torrent of time.
Liang Yuan saw Liu Wenyue come in, and casually threw a copy of the information around him. said: "Lao Liu, look at this." ”
Liu Wenyue took the information of East Germany Zeiss and roughly browsed it, and asked: "Yuanda Shao's participation in the Leipzig exhibition this time is related to East Germany Zeiss?"
"Yes. Liang Yuan nodded.
"Lao Liu, you have been in the company for more than a year, and you also know the operation of the Hong Kong company. Liang Yuan pondered for a moment. before continuing.
"Lao Qi told you about the F14 fighter, right?" asked Liang Yuan.
Liu Wenyue nodded.
"In the future, the company's business is very likely to expand to the military industry, and this time I urgently transferred Lao Liu to Germany mainly for several things, one is to take over my uncle's position in the Berlin Union-level market. ”
Liang Yuan had just finished talking about the adjustment of the management of the level market, when the door rang, and Liang Haiping walked in from outside.
"What about the two little girls?" Liang Haiping asked with some surprise when he saw Liang Yuan staying alone in the suite.
"I went to Angelina with the embassy interpreter. The three of them said they wanted to learn the language from each other. Liang Yuan said.
In order to facilitate Liang Haiping's work in the GDR, Huang Jiaming, the ambassador to Germany, enthusiastically transferred two translators for Liang Haiping, planning to accompany Liang Hai to talk about official business, and the other to accompany Liang Yuan, who was regarded as a family member, and two loli to play.
Liang Yuan, a guy whose German level is similar to that of the local natives, would use a German translation, and under the enthusiasm, Liang Yuan called Angelina, who was very interested in learning Chinese. The two little girls also joined in the fun, as long as Liang Yuan didn't go out, the three of them were learning the language in Angelina's room.
"Uncle, it's really time for you to come back. Liang Yuan smiled.
"I just mentioned to Lao Liu that Uncle was removed, and it hasn't been 1o seconds yet. Uncle came in, and I really doubt that Uncle has been lying outside the door and eavesdropping. Liang Yuan said with a smile.
"Xiaoyuan. Get me out of here. Liang Haiping laughed.
"Staying in Berlin these days, I can understand Wen Yue's hard work at the beginning. Liang Haiping said with deep feelings.
Although the Soviet Red Army Command in Europe was definitely an emperor in the GDR, there was no harmony between the GDR and the European Command in daily work exchanges, and conflicts between the two sides often broke out.
As an outsider, Liang Haiping said that although the current market is hung with the needs of the Cold War, this well-known golden signboard, but the door to do business must not be open to the sky, and it is impossible to live forever.
Although the high-level road has been unimpeded, the relationship between the middle and low-level has to be built by the market itself.
Liang Yuan threw a copy of the information of East Germany Zeiss to Liang Haiping, and then said: "The second thing is to cooperate with East Germany Zeiss, and wait until Hong Kong introduces AN/AXX-O1 optical TV, Lao Liu wants to strive for technical support from East Germany Zeiss, I estimate that in the future, the shopping center should generate a very large cash flow of East German mark, or try to spend some of the best." ”
Seeing that Liang Haiping had finished reading the information of Zeiss in East Germany, Liang Yuan took out a few newspapers from under the coffee table in front of the sand and handed them to Liang Haiping and Liu Wenyue.
"This is the Frankfurter Review's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from the Federal Republic of Germany the day before yesterday, and I asked Angelina to buy it from the international train, and Uncle Liu and Lao Liu looked at the front page of the newspaper. ”
"Xiaoyuan, Uncle can't read German. Liang Haiping took the newspaper suspiciously.
"Picture, uncle, look at the picture on the front page first. Liang Yuan said with a smile.
Liu Wenyue took the "Frankfurt Review" handed over by Liang Yuan, and after unfolding it, he realized that almost the entire front page of the newspaper was occupied by pictures.
Liu Wenyue looked at it carefully, and suddenly felt that this map was very familiar, and he suddenly remembered that this was a panoramic map of Berlin that integrated East and West Berlin.
Sure enough, Liu Wenyue easily appeared as a landmark building in Berlin, the Berlin TV Tower with a height of more than 3oo meters that is prominently marked on the map.
Not far from the right side of the Berlin TV Tower, there is also a building similar to a circular stadium, looking at the winding curve in the middle of the circle, Liu Wenyue knows that it is the Berlin Union Market that has just opened.
Underneath the Berlin TV Tower and its own market is a long black and white line that starts on the outskirts of West Berlin and ends on the outskirts of East Berlin.
Liu Wenyue's suspicions are confirmed by several images below the map of Berlin, which feature a five-car train formation that stands still on a platform or runs on an elevated line, looking like a new type of urban tram.
Could it be that this is a tram transportation plan? Liu Wenyue secretly guessed.
After a while, Liang Haiping also finished reading the newspaper.
Liang Yuan looked at the two of them and raised their heads, and said with a smile: "Uncle and Lao Liu should have guessed about the same." ”
"It looks like a traffic plan that traverses the whole of Berlin. Liang Haiping said.
"Xiaoyuan, is this the big movement you said? Liang Haiping asked curiously.
Liang Yuan nodded, took the newspaper handed back by Liang Haiping, spread it on the coffee table in front of him, pointed to the map of the entire Berlin city including east and west, and said: "This is a plan put forward by the Federal Republic of Germany in the first half of this year, and the Federal Republic of Germany proposed that East and West Germany cooperate to build a transportation system across Berlin. ”
Looking at the incredible expressions on the faces of the two, Liang Yuan smiled and continued: "After Gorbachev, the general secretary of the CPSU of the Soviet Union, put forward a new diplomatic thinking, and after easing the confrontation in the Cold War, the foreign policy of the GDR also followed suit. ”
"Erich Honecker, now general secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of the GDR, made a speech last year, in which he proposed that in the future, the GDR would strive to promote the normalization of diplomacy with Western countries, and the most important thing would be to strive for 10 to 15 years to achieve the regularization and normalization of relations between Germany and Germany, and to realize the free flow of people, goods, and commodities between East and West Germany."
"Sounds incredible. Liang Yuan said.
In '88, the armed GDR soldiers on the Berlin Wall were still vigilantly watching inside and outside the wall, but there were already signs of easing at the top level, and the warsaw pact's internal economy, which was riddled with holes, was no longer enough to support the entire bloc to continue the confrontation with NATO, and the voices of reform in the Warsaw Pact were rising one after another, and the people were more and more dissatisfied with the shortage of daily necessities caused by the ossification of the economy.
Because the GDR was located on the European front line adjacent to NATO, this special political and geographical environment made it necessary for the ruling party of the GDR to pursue a policy of alliance with and closely following the Soviet Union, and the GDR's constitution clearly stipulated that the GDR was "an inseparable part of the big socialist family" and that it would "forever and unswervingly form an alliance with the Soviet Union".
Therefore, when the general secretary of the CPSU, Mikhail Gorbachev, proposed the complete elimination of nuclear weapons around 2ooo, the dissolution of the two major military systems of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, and the prevention of the militarization of space (Note 1), Erich Honecker also proposed the normalization of relations between the two Germanys.
"Whether or not it can be done, General Secretary Erich Honecker's speech was published in the GDR newspaper. Liang Yuan opened the Frankfurter Review on the coffee table, pointed to a large piece of German letters, and said: "These are all reprints of the Federal Republic of Germany." ”
"Now that East and West Germany have been in contact with the question of building a transport system across Berlin, I have confirmed this news on Angelina's side. ”
In fact, if Liang Yuan had not intervened, nothing could have been achieved in the construction of a trans-Berlin transportation system, and the GDR side was half-heartedly engaged and did not reach any meaningful agreement until the collapse of the GDR a few years later.
"Looks like it's supposed to be a tram line. Liu Wenyue looked at the five-car train formation in the newspaper and said.
"But what does this line have to do with us? Could it be that Xiaoyuan plans to undertake the business of building tram lines," Liang Haiping asked.
"Uncle, the road building thing has nothing to do with us, it's about these trains, and this thing is the big thing I'm talking about. Liang Yuan pointed to the very streamlined car body in the newspaper and said.
Note 1: I really can't help but want to complain, Ge Bald is really not an ordinary biao.