As the saying goes, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, if you want to strengthen your strength, it is far from enough to have enthusiasm and advanced technology, if you don't have enough funds to support, even if you have advanced ideas, it is useless, in the end you should get off the horse, you should cut it down.

Lu Jiadong didn't want the weapons and equipment under research in China to end up with the Yun 10, just for the development of 30 million yuan to cut down the world's large aircraft projects, maybe the people at that time didn't feel anything, but as a later generation of Lu Jiadong clearly knew such a cut,

It is not just the prototype of the rack that is cut down, the entire industrial chain, thousands of skilled technical workers, and scientific research workers who work day and night are all in the dark in the years of Hanhai in the future.

And then it is necessary to reorganize the scientific research team, train skilled workers, and build production lines, which costs more than 30 million, 100 and 30 million, and this is just a sad microcosm of China's military industry at present, and there are similar examples of other projects.

If you want to look back in the future and no longer sigh, if you want the army to support the glory of the past, and if you want the country to have the ability to fight back at a critical moment, you must fill the bag first, only in this way can you have the confidence to buy all the belongings you need, so that the people who are obscene and snooping are afraid, and then retreat.

Lu Jiadong understands this truth very well, otherwise he would not have proposed the establishment of Hanli Company, let alone personally led the immature sales team to go around the world to sell weapons and equipment produced in China, although the effect of various disturbances in the early stage was not obvious.

However, with Miller brought to justice, United Technologies suffered a huge penalty, and the International Arms Federation was forced to go to rest. The results of sales turned from cloudy to sunny in an instant, and before and after Blomberg came to Greece to meet with Lu Jiadong, Lu Jiadong and others had already received several groups of interested buyers.

Both Shi Jianfei and Cao Xiaodong are busy, and Lu Jiadong is even more so, even the time to receive Blomberg is squeezed out of his teeth, but even if he is busy. Everyone's face did not show half of the sadness, but they were all happy to devote themselves to the tedious and boring work.

After all, compared with the current sales results of nearly 400 million US dollars, that bit of bitterness and tiredness is nothing at all, but it has become the driving force for Shi Jianfei and Cao Xiaodong and others to keep forging ahead, of course, this huge performance is made up of the purchase orders of several countries and regions, most of which are just the purchase of some guns and ammunition and light automatic grenade launchers, or conventional light weapons such as Type 69 rocket launchers, and a little better will buy a few Type 59 tanks or Type 63 armored vehicles, but the number will naturally not be too much.

The real share is in the hotspots that are experiencing war. Among them, Iran is the most generous, from ordinary guns and ammunition to tanks and artillery, as long as they can be found in the current Chinese army's arsenal, they do not want it, and the transaction volume of nearly 300 million US dollars also makes Iran's orders far exceed the sum of all orders, accounting for more than 70% of the total sales.

As a result, Iran has also become a veritable big customer of China Hanli Company, and Lu Jiadong personally appeared and presided over the reception and negotiations. As in a small-scale meeting like the current one, Lu Jiadong would rather abandon his long-time friend Blomberg. I have to rush back as soon as possible.

What's more, in addition to the Iranian officials who have been in contact with him in normal times, Jarad, director of the armament planning department of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who has just taken over the power of Iran's arms procurement after the elimination of Nasrallah, also came in person.

In addition to Lu Jiadong's personal charm and outstanding eloquence, the most important thing was the set of transportation plans and the rapid delivery efficiency proposed by Lu Jiadong, when Lu Jiadong guaranteed the reliability and safety of the transportation work carried out by the DPRK as a third party, and promised to deliver the first batch of weapons and equipment within half a month. Jarrad didn't care, he just felt that Lu Jiadong was boasting.

You must know that at that time, the international community's sanctions against Iran were shrinking day by day, and all types of merchant ships entering and leaving the Strait of Hormuz would be subject to overt or covert interrogation by Britain and the United States and other countries. What's more, Iran's weapons and equipment needs are not a small amount, and China's military factories cannot produce them in such a short period of time even if they are running at full capacity.

Because of this, Jarad didn't believe that Lu Jiadong could do it anyway, but in less than half a month, a surprising scene was really staged in front of Jarald's eyes, when the merchant ships flying the North Korean flag sailed into Iranian ports unscathed, and when all the well-maintained weapons and equipment were unloaded and loaded and transported to the front line, Jarad couldn't believe his eyes.

It wasn't until a long time later that I understood the doorway, and the use of North Korea to carry out transportation relied on his position as a rat trap for the United States and South Korea on the 38th parallel, so that the warships deployed by the United States near the Strait of Hormuz naturally had to be scrupulous, and since the United States had some scruples, then the other little brothers would not be willing to be bored and make trouble for themselves.

As for the ultra-high efficiency, Jarad was deeply moved by China's sincerity at the same time, because these equipment were specially allocated by China from the warehouse occupied by the Soviet Union, and not only was the equipment in very new condition, but also the maintenance was also very good, and it could be unloaded from the ship and directly sent to the battlefield.

In particular, the latest 52-caliber 155mm howitzers of a battalion were transferred from China's active forces, and it was not long after I heard that the Chinese artillery battalion had just been equipped with modified artillery, and all of them were provided to Iran in order to complete Iran's arms sales orders.

After learning this news, Iran's top brass can be said to be grateful, and praised China's credibility and moral character, and even Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini demanded in a secret conversation that Iran's arms procurement should be tilted in favor of China as much as possible, saying that only China is the real angel.

In this regard, Jarrad, who is in charge of specific affairs, is naturally happier than anyone else, because at this time he has established a good personal friendship with Lu Jiadong, although this young Chinese man is more than ten years younger than himself, but his outstanding talent, meticulous thinking and excellent reputation really make Jarard admire, and thus break through the age limit and become a good friend who talks about everything.

And Lu Jiadong is also happy to see this, otherwise he would not have suggested that Liu Haotian and Tan Bin use reserves and active equipment, anyway, those combat readiness equipment against the Soviet Union has been in the warehouse for several years, and the annual maintenance cost alone is astronomical, and it is gradually falling behind in performance, so it is better to take it out and sell it so that it can replace a batch of more advanced weapons and equipment troops.

As for the eighteen 52 times caliber 155mm guns of the independent artillery battalion, the equipment was for experiments at that time, and now dozens of defects have been found through actual use, for which the Wanshan Plant has completed the production of improved artillery and is preparing to re-equip the independent artillery battalion.

In this way, under Lu Jiadong's operation, China's Hanli Technology Company can be described as fame and fortune among the Iranians, and the Iranians are not only moved by China's sincerity, but also frequently send people to contact Lu Jiadong and others.

"The performance of the new 52 times caliber 155mm howitzer is really good!" Jarald took a sip of soda with ice cubes, his face filled with irrepressible joy:

"A few days ago, I accompanied the Supreme Leader to the front line of Abadan to inspect and see the actual combat effect of this artillery, but I didn't expect that only one artillery battalion would hit the two Iraqi artillery regiments opposite, and the Supreme Leader ordered to purchase two more regiments of modified artillery, so I also want to tell you Mr. Lu this time that 80 52 times caliber 155mm guns and 10 base numbers of auxiliary ammunition will be added to the previously finalized agreement!"

"That's no problem!" As soon as Jarrad's voice fell, Lu Jiadong nodded in response, and then his mind turned around and roughly calculated the value of this batch of munitions, and then continued:

"As for the price, it's the same as last time, $900,000 a piece, plus auxiliary equipment, logistics supplies and related ammunition, adding up to almost $100 million!"

"That's not much!" Jarrad waved his hand nonchalantly: "One battalion can top two regiments, and those two regiments are the strength of four to six artillery divisions, which is really not much when calculated as only 100 million US dollars!"

This price is indeed not much, if the 155mm heavy artillery units of the two regiments can play well, they can indeed suppress more than four divisions of Soviet-made artillery, and the Soviet-made artillery of these four divisions must exceed 200 million US dollars, not counting ammunition and personnel training, and close to 300 million US dollars to be fully equipped.

Because of this, Lu Jiadong always felt that such good equipment was too good and cheap, but if he let Liu Haotian, Tan Bin and others know that his jaw would drop, because in their opinion, 900,000 US dollars is already a wild slaughter, and if it is higher, it will be killing people and overselling goods, and Lu Jiadong can only reluctantly accept this, and only hope that he can slowly change in the future (to be continued......