Lu Jiadong and Musharraf can discuss the cooperation plan seamlessly, but they do not have the final decision, not to mention that it also involves technical cooperation, personnel training, financial exchanges, equipment assistance and other aspects, which have long exceeded the scope of their competence and risen to the top national level, but fortunately, both of them have a good understanding of their own countries.

Therefore, early the next morning, Musharraf and Lu Jiadong took a special plane back to Islamabad, and as soon as they got off the plane, they hurriedly took this cooperation plan to the Pakistani president and the chief of the general staff of the armed forces to report and expound on it.

However, the meeting reached a deadlock at the beginning, and many army generals and industrial officials questioned the feasibility of this plan, and the most important thing is to focus on China's technical ability to develop new tanks, you must know that the basis of tanks is a country's automobile industry, but any tank research and development power is not a big automobile manufacturing country, the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany, and the United Kingdom are all as good as that.

But on the other hand, in the current China, in addition to the two-wheeled bicycle, the four-wheeled car has not been up to the mark, so the car on the street is a rarity, such a country that even ordinary cars can't be built, how can you build a good tank, not to mention that the tanks currently produced and manufactured in China are not Type 59, or Type 62 improved on the basis of them,

All of them are outdated tanks, so many people are not optimistic that China can develop breakthrough new tanks, so some senior Pakistani officials believe that it is still in accordance with the previous plan to implement foreign procurement, and at most China's new tanks will be included in the tender list as an alternative.

For the Chinese automotive industry is weak. Musharraf is well aware of the fact that the performance of tanks and armored vehicles is lagging behind, and based on this fact alone, even if Lu Jiadong is eloquent and talks about the new tank, Musharraf only smiles slightly. Unmoved, the most important reason why he was able to move him and Lu Jiadong to promote this cooperation plan together was the content of joint research and development.

If Musharraf, like the senior officials of various departments attending the meeting, was only at ease to be a peace officer, and if he had some benefits in his pocket, as he had been a few years ago, he would have spent his old age in the position of deputy chief of staff of the army with peace of mind, he would not hesitate to reject Lu Jiadong's proposal, but now it is different. Musharraf has bigger goals, he wants to go into politics, he wants to be the president of Pakistan, he wants to lead the country to dominate South Asia.

With such a lofty goal, it is inevitable that the style of action should not only look at a small area in front of us, as in the past, but take a long-term view, win prestige and public opinion, and Pakistan is still an agricultural country today. The industrial base is extremely weak, if it is possible to pass the opportunity to develop a new tank jointly with China. The introduction of maintenance workshops and even assembly lines will have a qualitative leap in Pakistan's industrial level.

At that time, Pakistan will not only be among the few advanced countries in the world that can develop and produce tanks, but the industrial base on which it depends will also be able to guarantee the self-sufficiency of the army, not having to be choked in wartime, and will also be able to produce through large-scale industry. While enhancing the strength of the country, it will drive other related industries, thereby creating tens of thousands of jobs and promoting the development of people's livelihood!

In this way, once these prestigious projects, meritorious projects, support, and popular opinion are completed, Musharraf will be an active advocate. Since then, a broad road has been paved for high-spirited progress, and it is precisely for this reason that Musharraf spared no effort to argue on the basis of reason at the meeting, and put on a posture of fighting against the masses.

Of course, Musharraf was not stupid enough to discuss the technical issues of Chinese tanks, but focused on the introduction of relevant technologies and industrial production lines, and its role in promoting Pakistan's future development, in this regard, neither the United States nor Germany could do it, so under Musharraf's targeted offensive, most of the senior Pakistani officials slowly changed their original attitudes.

In the end, if it weren't for the president's re-election bid to gain public support for Musharraf, the endless debate might have continued, but even so, the one-day meeting was planned to last for nearly four days before it was finally concluded, and of course Musharraf's last-minute concessions were one of the reasons.

Musharraf doesn't care about this, as long as he achieves his goal, and it's not a big deal to keep the existing bid, anyway, no matter how he bids, in his eyes Musharraf it's almost like going through the motions, and when the time comes, as long as he produces his own tanks, he doesn't need to talk more, and the opposing guys themselves will shut up!

Although Lu Jiadong has proposed similar arms sales plans in many meetings and submitted documents, it is not small to find that the difficulties involved are not small until they are put into practice, but unlike Musharraf's overall opposition, the Chinese side does not have much sense of rejection towards the overall transfer and sale.

After all, in recent years, foreign arms sales have made many people taste the sweetness, especially the recent arms sales to Iran, just hundreds of 62 tank orders have made several tank production plants work overtime and keep busy, in addition, 63 type armored vehicles, supporting related ammunition have made the major military factories return to the hot production era, the efficiency of the factory is good, the hearts of the workers in the factory have also stabilized, as for the army.

Therefore, it is not a problem for Pakistan to sell tanks, and no one will think that it is a problem to make more money, but it is a good thing, and as for the construction of tank production plants in Pakistan, it is not a big deal, more than 10 years ago, China helped build more factories in Albania and other countries, and at that time it was all free aid.

However, now Pakistan is taking real money to pay back, no matter how it is calculated, it is a good deal, anyway, the experience of building the third line is still retained, and the matter of building factories can be said to be difficult for some countries, but for such an authentic expert as Chinese military workers, it is not difficult at all.

However, the crux of the matter is that the tanks that Pakistan needs are not the Type 59 and Type 62 tanks that China can produce on a large scale and are relatively mature in technology, but are new high-performance main battle tanks; in this regard, although China has never stopped exploring and researching, it has not made any breakthroughs; under such circumstances, how can we ensure that Pakistan's new tanks can be successfully completed? It is precisely for this reason that the Chinese side has many misgivings about jointly developing new tanks with Pakistan.

In his view, although there are certain difficulties in developing new tanks, it is not without technical reserves to respond; in any case, China has been continuously producing the Type 59 tank for nearly 20 years, and the research and development of new tanks has never been interrupted, and it has long been thoroughly engaged in the development and manufacture of tanks, and has trained a large number of skilled technical workers and scientific and technological workers.

However, these two mountains in the eyes of Lu Jiadong, is not an insurmountable natural danger, advanced design ideas are sometimes a layer of window paper, as long as there is the right guidance and related objects, Lu Jiadong believes that mastering advanced ideas for those domestic experts with a solid technical foundation is not difficult, as for such as high-power engines, vehicle observation systems, high-performance fire control systems and other weak areas in China.

We can use Pakistan's hand to seek external assistance, and then introduce it into the country, without spending a penny, study and learn from these shortcomings, and then develop similar domestic models to be applied to new domestic tanks, which can further improve the combat effectiveness of the troops while promoting the development of related industries.

It's just that Lu Jiadong's idea is good, but it is not something that can be clearly explained in one sentence or two, so in nearly half a month, Lu Jiadong has completely become a trapeze, flying back and forth between Islamabad and Beijing, and then reporting to Tan Bin and Liu Haotian on specific plans and plans, and at the same time, he also has to participate in various seminars to explain the feasibility of the plan, and even made two reports to the old chief, and finally with the approval of Comrade Xiaoping, the old chief directly made a decision to formalize the matter

After nearly a month of negotiations and consultations, the signing ceremony of the agreement between China and Pakistan on the joint development of new tanks is being held here; just now Liu Haotian has signed an overall framework agreement with the Pakistani chief of general staff on behalf of China, and Lu Jiadong, who is now sitting at the table, signed a specific agreement on joint research and development and related technology transfer with the Pakistani military represented by Musharraf on behalf of China's Hanli Science and Technology Company.

When Lu Jiadong and Musharraf took up a pen and signed their names on the text at the same time, an assistant next to him affixed the legally valid seal to it, and then the two of them got up with the text, and Musharraf immediately stretched out his hand to Lu Jiadong:

"The initial start-up capital of $20 million will be transferred to your company's designated account within a week!"

"Thank you for your support!" Lu Jiadong replied politely, and then stretched out his hand: "I wish us a happy cooperation!"

"Happy cooperation!" Musharraf said, his big hands clasped tightly in mid-air, and then celebratory applause broke out in the small auditorium (to be continued......