Chapter 59: A Tiger Skin

Tang Chen snuggled up to the wooden bed in the room physically and mentally, through the white mosquito net, looking at the blue sky like the sea outside the window, and sighed with a wry smile, what is this called!

As the director of the Party Office of the Tourism Department of Gui Province and G City, he was assigned to various places to inspect and negotiate ship ordering, which is unreliable.

Some people may say that the ship is a large-scale fixed asset, and the person responsible for the procurement should be a beautiful difference, why is Tang Chen as unwilling as his dead father?

This has to start with a foreign-related turmoil in Guishi in May.

As a world-famous tourist destination, G City is famous for its unique karst landforms and picturesque landscapes, which attract Chinese and foreign tourists.

Among them are many leaders of various countries.

In particular, since the normalization of Sino-US relations, Western leaders visiting China have made G City a necessary stop during their visit to China.

The Chinese side is also very concerned about this, because by taking a boat along the river, you can not only enjoy the unique scenery of the two sides of the strait, but also finalize many major international issues that are difficult to resolve at the negotiation table in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere.

For example, in the late 70s, when the Prime Minister of Singapore was received, the two sides set the basic tone for attracting Singapore investment when visiting the beautiful scenery on the river.

It is precisely because of this that the fleet under the tourism department of G city has become a very important existence, not only to undertake the reception task of the party and state leaders, but also to deal with the status of important foreign guests, so if nothing happens, it is a major event.

And the turmoil in May was a major event.

Because the boat responsible for receiving Luxembourg Prime Minister Pierre Tunner to visit the river view suddenly broke down and could not run normally, and the No. 2 cruise ship, which was used as a backup ship, also stopped halfway for some reason.

The two ships were all anchored, and the remaining ships could not undertake the task of receiving foreign guests due to facilities and environmental reasons, so the relevant personnel of the entire city of G, who was responsible for receiving the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, were collectively blinded.

Fortunately, a foreign affairs cadre at that time was extremely excited, and communicated with the state secretary in charge of the prime minister, and changed the prime minister's original tour of the river scenery to a visit to the karst cave, which avoided an unnecessary diplomatic embarrassment.

However, although the reception of foreign guests has passed, the superiors have severely criticized the performance of G City, and it is also true that if it were not for the inspiration of the foreign affairs cadre, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg would still be able to tour the river scenery according to the formation, and it would not be the face of G City, but the whole country.

As a result, while making a deep review to the central and provincial governments, G City also made an unprecedented decision - to change to a new ship!

As for why he was chosen, the Party Committee of G City naturally considered it sufficiently, because Tang Chen was the captain of a certain type of ship in the fleet before serving as the director of the Party Office of the tourism department, and he was very familiar with the business knowledge of cruise ships for sightseeing.

The Party Committee of G City defined it like this, even if Tang Chen was no longer willing to borrow this hot potato, he would pinch his nose and bear it.

After Tang Chen officially entered the role, he found that this hot potato was even hotter than he imagined, because the construction indicators listed by G City were really frighteningly high, especially in the facilities and comfort of the ship, and it was also set as a maddening year in terms of delivery time.

Because the Queen of Denmark will visit China in mid-October next year, and the city of G has heard that it is already among the candidates for the queen's visit.

Tang Chen is going crazy, and now it is no longer a question of whether he understands or not, but the requirements of the G City Party Committee are too harsh.

One year of construction, maybe building a house can barely be done, shipbuilding, it's a dream, do you need time for design? do you need time to produce drawings? do you need time for lofting? do you need time to build? do you need time for outfitting? do you need time for the final mooring and testing?

Several processes added together, good guys, it would be a miracle to be completed in two years, and this does not include the two hard indicators of luxury and comfort, if they are all counted, two years will not be able to stop.

In fact, just as he expected, in nearly a month, he went from Han and Hubei on the Yangtze River to Jinling and Zhongdu, which are close to the mouth of the sea, and then went north to Luda, Jinmen, and Ludao, and more than 20 shipyards, large and small, but none of them undertook it.

Just when he was running into a wall and was a little cornered, a professor from the Han'e Shipyard who he met on the train told him that the excellent shipyard in the southern city of LH was very good at inland waterway ships, and where to look.

So Tang Chen went south in the starry night, and as soon as he arrived in LH City, he ran to the Excellence Shipyard with a letter of introduction, but he was closed before he could say a few words, on the grounds that the Excellence Shipyard was receiving foreign guests, and the leaders were busy, so he asked him to come back another day.

In desperation, Tang Chen could only stay in the city guest house first and wait for the so-called "another day"!

"I hope the excellent factory can solve this thorny problem!"

Thinking of the lively production scene he saw on the slipway of the Excellence Factory that day, Tang Chen's collapsed confidence recovered a little, so he looked at the blue sky outside the window and muttered half sighing, half praying, and even if he yawned, he was ready to sleep.

As a result, as soon as his eyes were closed, and he was about to meet his wife in a dream, the door of the room was knocked on by "Knock~~", and Tang Chen, who was disturbed from his dream, was full of reluctance, and even the localization of G City came out: "Oh?"

However, the people outside the door didn't seem to hear it, and still knocked on the door, Tang Chen's anger when he got up was also a little gone, and seeing that no one responded, he could only put on his clothes and pants indiscriminately, and ran to the door to open the door.

As a result, a young man who looked Sven and wore a straight black tunic stretched out his hand to him with a smile: "Hello, I am He Cheng, the director of the Endeavor Shipyard, I heard that your city wants to order two river cruise ships, and our factory attaches great importance to it after learning about it, and specially sent me to meet you, I don't know ......."

As soon as he heard that it was from the shipyard, Tang Chen's dream of a private meeting with his wife immediately woke up, and he hurriedly politely let He Cheng into the house, poured two glasses of water himself, and enthusiastically handed him a glass, and then asked a little confused: "I'm really sorry, I'm not familiar with Linhai, so I've only heard of the excellent factory, this Endeavor factory ......."

"It's normal that I haven't heard of it, our factory used to mainly undertake the construction of military ships, and the civilian ships did very little, so the popularity was not as loud as the excellent factory, isn't it? Just half a month ago, we also received an order for four dredging ships in the Kandong Marine Police District......

Meng Jianye and Jiao Dalin were still thinking about how to use the tiger skin of the navy, but as a result, He Cheng didn't want to put the tiger skin on him directly!