Lu Jiadong smiled secretly in his heart, as early as when he got the fire control system provided by the United States was M25A64D, he knew that his opportunity had come. The control chip of the M25A64D fire control system uses a large number of Z425 military chips produced by Texas Instruments in the United States, which is durable and durable, with good performance, which can be called a milestone in military chips, and many military equipment are using this chip.

However, when the development contractors of the American Gage Cinda Company launched the M25A64D fire control system, in order to pursue the so-called unparalleled high performance, they required the programmers to integrate as many design elements as possible into the source code of the control program, so that there were several serious bugs, especially when the temperature and cross wind reached a certain special value, the program would be wrong, resulting in a deviation in the firing accuracy of the shells. Desert areas with large temperature differences between day and night under certain parameters and unpredictable instantaneous winds are one of the cases where mistakes are made.

Because of course, the combination of many parameters is relatively special, and many countries equipped with the fire control system do not necessarily encounter such a situation, so the hidden BUG of the M25A64D fire control system has not been paid attention to for a long time, and even if there is an error in some countries, it is often attributed to the operator's error, and it is rarely thought that this is a defect in the M25A64D fire control system itself.

Even if some countries were suspicious, for various reasons, or the deliberate intervention of the United States, they did not say it until after the Gulf War, when several U.S. Marine Corps M60A3 tankers who had operated the system made the matter public and stabbed the problem in the Washington Post, causing an uproar for a while. At this point, contractors, including Gage Cinda, had to come forward and explain and state that they would upgrade the fire control systems of a large number of problematic M25A64D.

Naturally, there is the support of the U.S. government. and the consistent hegemony of American arms dealers, but more importantly, at that time, the Soviet Union had collapsed, the Cold War had ended, and the countries that used the relevant fire control systems had lost the real threat, and the fire control systems of various countries were about to be upgraded, so there was not much accountability.

At this moment, however, the Soviet Union was at the peak of its national power. If this matter is not to be poked out, but to be secretly told to the Soviets, it will be tantamount to making the American tank deaf and blind, and Paulson, as the senior technical director of the Gage Cinda company, is not unable to understand such a serious problem.

What's more, Paulson himself is well aware of M25A64D fire control system, because such a mistake has already occurred in a certain accidental internal test. Gage Cinda treated the matter as a core secret, forbidding anyone in the know to leak it, and secretly organizing people to study the cause of the error. Try to solve the problem internally before it is exposed, and then replace the program chips on the M25A64D fire control system that were sold in the name of system upgrades, so as to avoid an irreparable loss of control.

However, Paulsen never expected that he still underestimated the young man in front of him who always had an indifferent smile, and he did not expect that he actually had such secret information, and he mentioned it to him when they were in a desperate situation. Of course, he would not believe that Lu Jiadong had only accidentally discovered this secret during the test, and the environmental parameters he said were exactly the same as those set by Gage Innovent during the internal test. How can there be such a coincidence in the world? Not to mention, from Lu Jiadong's face. He didn't see a hint of indifference, more of a gloating expression.

"Mr. Lu, have you revealed this to anyone?" asked Paulson worriedly.

"Mr. Paulson, Mr. Phelps, we are friends. How could I tell someone else such a thing first?" Lu Jiadong behaved quite righteously.

Listening to Lu Jiadong's words, both Paulson and Phelps breathed a sigh of relief, especially when Paulson finally loosened his straight waist: "Oh, that's great, this thing." We don't want more people to know. ”

"But ......," Lu Jiadong continued, "I heard that the KGB of the Soviet Union is desperately trying to collect intelligence in this area, and there are branches of theirs in Bei~~~ Beijing, if I write a paper to discuss the design flaws of the M25A64D fire control system, and then list the detailed data and publish it in a professional journal in China, do you think they will be interested?"

"No! you can't do this!" Paulson blurted out, causing the guest house attendant who came in to pour the water to look sideways, wondering what kind of dispute had occurred between this foreigner and the young man from the outside unit. After Paulson finished shouting, he realized that he was too reckless, and hurriedly lowered his voice and said: "Mr. Lu, you should know what kind of losses I and our company will suffer if such an article is published in a magazine. ”

"I think, the loss is not very big?" Lu Jiadong pretended to be stupid and said, "I remember you said that the M25A64D fire control system has produced no less than thousands of sets along with the M60 tanks so far, plus the other allied troops deployed in Western Europe, it is less than tens of thousands of sets, anyway, these tanks can still be used when upgraded, as for the cost, it is hundreds of millions of dollars, which is nothing for a company as large as your company." ”

"How can you use a tank with the fire control system removed? A few hundred million dollars is not a big deal?" Paulson said with a bitter face, "What's more, this is not only a matter of recalling M25A64D fire control system, all our company's products will be questioned, and the company's brand loss will be far more than hundreds of millions."

What is even more serious is that once these tanks, especially those deployed on the front lines of Western Europe, lose their combat capability because of this incident, then the already fragile defense line against the Soviet Union will be even more like paper paste, and in the face of the Soviet Union's armored torrent, we can only be slaughtered, and we, who are in the free world, will inevitably become the dinner of the Soviet butchers!"

"Then what do you say?" Lu Jiadong had an innocent expression on his face.

Paulson pondered for a moment, and quickly exchanged glances with Phelps beside him, although the two of them were in a predicament at this time, they were not mediocre and incompetent, and from Lu Jiadong's words, they quickly saw some kind of unexpected opportunity, so they were in this lightning and flint. The two reached an agreement with their eyes, and then Paulson looked at Lu Jiadong opposite, and continued with a helpless wry smile on his face:

"Mr. Lu, could you please please publish the paper you are going to write? and then pretend that you don't know that this happened. As for the conditions, you can open it casually. ”

Lu Jiadong was also very straightforward, glanced at Paulson and asked, "What." You mean to say that you guys Gage Cinda are going to use the favor to keep me shut?"

"This ...... Of course not that's what it means. "However, we just hope that you will give us some time, and we are now organizing personnel to correct this problem, and I am sure that in the meantime, this problem will not bring any loss of combat effectiveness to your country's new tanks." Of course, for keeping you silent on this point. We feel very sorry, so I can ask the company to give you a very generous return, and the same is true for you, Mr. Lu, for example, 200,000 dollars should fill you up Mr. Lu!"

200,000 US dollars in the early 80s of the 20th century is an astronomical amount of money, the US dollars in the North ~~~ Beijing underground trading market has been sold to a 1 to 10 ratio, if Lu Jiadong gets the 200,000 US dollars, as soon as he changes hands, he can exchange 2 million yuan in the North ~~~ Beijing underground trading market. This figure was enough to be proud of the crowd in the era when even 10,000 households were rare animals at that time. Before Bowers came to China. He has done a lot of research on the situation in China, so he has some understanding of the income level of Chinese, and he believes that such a huge amount of money will definitely make Lu Jiadong excited.

It's a pity that Paulson came across. It is a time-traveling person from the 21st century, and in the 10s of the 21st century, 200,000 US dollars is no longer an unattainable dream for a Chinese middle class, let alone a distant dream. Lu Jiadong knew that the secret he had in his hands was worth far more than $200,000, and if he sold it for $200,000, wouldn't he be a fool?

"Mr. Paulson, I am a man of principles, and I will never do such a thing as collecting money and sealing my mouth. Lu Jiadong said righteously.

"I know...... But ......" Paulson was speechless, but then a hint of intriguing smile appeared on his face, as the saying goes, anything that can be solved with money is not a big deal, Paulson himself understands this truth, and naturally knows that Lu Jiadong, who is sitting opposite, is even more clear, so throwing money to buy is just a temptation, and even Paulson himself knows that the probability of success is very low.

Because he knows that he can let Lu Jiadong go in this matter, he can only come up with a really large enough meal. What's more, isn't this exactly what he was looking forward to, because of this, Paulson didn't think it was a terrible bad thing, but felt that Lu Jiadong was simply an angel of good luck. Although he has the impression that Chinese have practiced kung fu, maybe the angels who have practiced kung fu can double their good luck......

Just as Paulson was a little stunned, he saw Lu Jiadong wave his hand and continued: "For the sake of the friendship between the Chinese and American peoples, and also out of reverence for your company, I have decided not to accept a penny and not publish my paper for the time being. ”

"This is great!" Paulson let out a long sigh of relief, looking at Lu Jiadong on the other side, the more he liked it, and he couldn't wait to hug Lu Jiadong and kiss him, "Mr. Lu, we will not use money to insult your personality, but for the sake of our friendship, I can ask the company to give you and your country some help in the field of military research and development." ”

"I'm not done yet. Lu Jiadong interrupted Paulson and continued: "In fact, I not only found that there are defects in your company's products, but also conducted in-depth research on the causes of the defects, and came up with some results. I've rewritten a program for your control system that perfectly solves the problems I've found so far. I'd love to know, would your company be interested in buying this program that I wrote?"

"You're saying that you found a bug in the source code and gave you a patch to fix it?" asked Paulson in surprise, shaking his head and saying, "This is impossible, the source code of our program has never been released, and you can't know what kind of problems exist in the source code." ”

Lu Jiadong didn't say much, tore off a piece of paper from his notebook, wrote a few program codes and handed them to Paulson on the other side:

"Mr. Paulson, don't be too subjective. This is a bug that I found and a patch that I designed, you can send it to your software programmers, and if they think I'm right and the patch I designed is working, then let's talk about the deal, how about it?"

Paulson took the piece of paper and asked hesitantly, "Mr. Lu, are you just relieved to hand over your results to me?" Aren't you afraid that I will lose my promise?"

Lu Jiadong said: "I know that Americans are the most trustworthy, do I have anything to worry about doing business with Americans?"

Lu Jiadong smiled with satisfaction: "Yes, yes, of course we are trustworthy." ”

Lu Jiadong changed his words: "Of course, it is indispensable to guard against others, and I will not let myself take risks." In fact, I found a total of three bugs in the control source code of the M25A64D fire control system produced by your company, involving six different parameter settings. What I'm submitting to you now is just one of them. The other two will be submitted to you after we have signed a final cooperation agreement. Of course, you can also refuse to cooperate with me, and I think the KGB must be looking forward to what I have to say, and I am sure of that. ”

"No, no, Mr. Lu, that won't happen. Although it was the weather at the end of February, Paulson felt sweaty, and the young man in front of him was really terrifying, this was simply a blatant robbery. In any case, his situation is pinched by others, and people can blackmail him as much as he wants, and he has only one way to admit it.

"I'll give the two gentlemen three days to think about it, I think, shouldn't it take so much time to test a patch?" said Lu.

"Thank you, Mr. Lu, I'll send this back to the company right ......away!

"Don't worry, Mr. Paulson, we are friends, and I won't embarrass my friends. Lu Jiadong said amiably. (To be continued.) )