Leaving the Academy of Sciences Guest House, Paulson personally drove Phelps to the nearby post and telecommunications office almost at the speed of a racing car, to be honest, they could have gone to the US Embassy to make this crucial phone call, but judging from yesterday's situation, Blomberg must have someone who can speak in the US Embassy in China, and it is precisely because of this that Paulson and Phelps must not go there to make this phone call that is related to the turning point of their two fates.

It's just that it is now close to six o'clock in the evening, and the post and telecommunications office is preparing to leave work at this time, and Phelps, who is anxious, gets out of the car, regardless of whether it is indiscriminate, and as soon as he enters the door, he takes three steps and two steps to the counter, and shouts anxiously at the salesman who is packing up his things, which startles the salesman a lot.

Fortunately, Paulson was still sober, lying in front of the counter, and said in his broken Chinese to the salesman who was still a little frightened:

"Mr. NONO salesman, comrade, Yes! Comrade We are foreign guests from the United States, we have an urgent matter, and we want to make an international call to the United States, can you please help us connect it?"

Paulson did a lot of homework before coming to China, Chinese needless to say, even how to deal with Chinese he also studied thoroughly, otherwise it would be impossible to easily use a high hat to make Xie Chaoyang and others in the northern factory dizzy, and then get what they wanted, of course, Lu Jiadong is an exception, but there are a few people like Lu Jiadong in China.

Ordinary Chinese are nothing to Paulson, just like the current situation, he is very clear about the status of his "foreign guest" status in China, so he naturally bites the word "foreign guest" very hard, and then handed over the documents he carried!

"Foreign guests?" the salesman at the counter paused for a moment, then put down what he was holding. took the document that Paulson handed over, looked at it twice, and then looked at the two obviously different faces of Paulson and Phelps outside, and nodded:

"Since it's a foreign guest, that's no problem, I'll do it right away. ”

I heard that it was a matter of foreign guests, and the salesperson had a very good attitude. Without saying a word, he returned Paulson's documents, took out the slip and handed it out, and asked Paulson to fill it out.

To be honest, the attitude towards foreign guests has nothing to do with the mentality of inferiority or what kind of elbow to turn out, of course, those righteous angels who claim to be "patriots" are exceptions, they hold high the so-called "patriotic" gimmick all day long, but do things to isolate China and foreign countries. In the end, it is not a good thing for the country and the people, in fact, a truly cultivated person is humble and courteous to anyone, especially for guests who come from afar.

China is an ancient civilization, as early as thousands of years ago, the Chinese were accustomed to paying respectful to the Yi people and the Fan people. During the Han and Tang dynasties, when China's national power was at its strongest, when the surrounding weak countries came to China to make a pilgrimage to the Son of Heaven, they were often well received and were given rich rewards. This tradition of respecting foreign guests actually reflects the grace and bearing of a powerful nation. Only the nouveau riche would dictate in front of their poor relatives in the countryside.

It's just that China at this time is not rich, and there are many facilities that lag behind the world trend. Take the long-distance telephone of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau as an example, in the early 80s, the international long-distance telephone could not be connected by directly picking up the dial pad and dialing 001, but it was necessary for the long-distance telephone bureau to manually dial the number, and then notify the people here to answer after dialing.

While the post office clerk was in contact with the long-distance telephone operator, Paulson and Phelps were walking around the small business hall like two hungry beasts in a cage. The anxious look of the fire made people wonder if the home of the two Americans was on fire.

It seemed that half a century had passed, and the salesman finally spoke: "Mr. Paulson, your call has been connected, and the other party has agreed to bear the call fee." Please go to that phone room to talk. ”

Paulson rushed into the phone booth, picked up the microphone, and spoke in an extremely anxious tone of disbelief to Gage Cinda, senior vice president of the company, who was far away across the ocean:

"Peter, something is wrong, the thing about wind speed and temperature is right, right is the fire control system, the fire control system, the fire control system of the tank, yes, it's the one we did together, you know, I called back from China, there are some things I think you know better than me, you understand

I mean, I got the news that someone has found all the flaws in the source code of the M25A64D fire control system, and is ready to make it all public, yes, I swear to God, I didn't drink too much, and I didn't see hell, I've already read the relevant information, and I'm sure that many hostile countries, especially the Soviet Union, will be very interested in these public contents Oh, yes, I'm sure you don't have to worry about it first, I've already persuaded him, he has now become my friend, a very good friend.

He promised not to do it for three days, but he wrote me a patch and asked me to take it back to the company to test it, and if the company was interested, he was willing to sell it to us. Peter, you wake the technical director out of bed right now, I'm going to read the program to that bastard and let him record it. That's right, all the people in the tech department are bastards, and their programming skills are not even as good as a Chinese...... who is just in his early twenties."

The phone call lasted nearly an hour and a half, but fortunately the cost was paid for by Gage Cinda, who was not short of money, otherwise the little foreign exchange that Paulson and Phelps had brought with them in a hurry would not have been enough to cover such an expensive estimated long distance. When Powers came out of the telephone room with light steps after a long sigh of relief, Phelps, who was waiting in the business hall, was looking at him anxiously.

"Those bastards have obviously gotten the news that we have fallen into a trap, but fortunately this call went in time, and now they are verifying, presumably they should be in a hurry now!" Paulson wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his hand, glad that his transformation was timely and accurate.

In fact, when Lu Jiadong said that there was a flaw in the M25A64D fire control system, Paulson's extremely fast brain did not hesitate to decide that this was an excellent opportunity for him to reverse the unfavorable situation, M25A64D the source code flaw of the fire control system was discovered by Chinese. Thousands of tanks and armored vehicles confronting the Soviet army in Western Europe are likely to become blind and deaf, and the Western world is more likely to lose all its defenses as a result, and the entire free world will face collapse.

Such a sword of Damocles is in the hands of the Chinese, not to mention the equivalent exchange, that is, to buy time for the modification, but also to come up with some passable conditions to make the Chinese feel at ease. In this way, returning the production line of the Northern Plant, distributing some CNC machine tools and advanced precision machining equipment, and importing some fire control systems and armor technology are nothing at all, because compared to this, the armored torrent of the Soviet army and the safety of the free world are the focus of everyone's concern!

However, this focus is well grasped by Paulson, who can not only cover up his previous mistakes, but also ignore the threat of Blomberg, and other than that. With his outstanding determination and unique role in this matter, he Paulson can not only become a hero of the company, but also a hero of the entire Western world, such a status and achievement that he could not even dream of, but now he is like a bag of things, so easy to obtain, how can this not make his heart bloom.

It's not just Paulson. The same is true for Phelps, who is not just promoted within the company. Earning a higher salary as a consultant, or owning more shares in a company, is an honor that cannot be measured with money, and with a little packaging, it is not difficult to enter politics and step onto Capitol Hill. Even if you settle for the next best thing and set up your own business, you can also rely on this honor to attract more capital investment, so when he listened to Paulson's words, Phelps's face immediately flashed a relieved smile:

"That's good, that's good. Anyway, those bastards who hide behind every day should be in a hurry!"

Paulson and Phelps chatted with a relaxed face, but the salesman of the post and telecommunications office stood at the counter and looked at them in surprise, in fact, this can't be blamed on the salesman, who made these two foreigners anxious as if their house was on fire before, but now they are like two deflated balls slumped on the chair, and there is still a gloating smile on their faces, Paulson was as careful as a hair, and soon noticed the surprised gaze of the salesman:

"Well, it's just a technical problem that I can't solve, so I need to consult the company's technical staff. Paulson covered up in extremely broken Chinese: "I'm sorry, I'm delaying you from work, this is a little meaning, please be sure to accept it." ”

As he spoke, he pulled out two $10 green bills and shoved them into the salesman's hands without blinking an eye. The salesman was stunned for a moment, glanced at the green ticket in his hand, and accepted it casually.

Americans are really rich, and they are 200 yuan as soon as they make a move...... Today's overtime is really profitable, and the salesperson is happy

At this moment, the Gage Cinda Company in the United States is in a mess, M25A64D the fact that there are defects in the fire control system, if it is really exposed, the tanks of the entire Western world will collectively become deaf and mute, once the Soviets take advantage of the loopholes, the entire West may be wiped out, and for the Gage Cinda Company, there is no other conceivable ending except for the ashes.

When the manager of the technical department took the telephone receiver to record the program code dictated by Paulson, he already knew that this program was completely correct, which showed that the other party had thoroughly understood the source code program of the M25A64D fire control system, and even understood it more thoroughly than all the programmers of the entire Gage Cinda Company in the United States.

In fact, the bugs in the source code are sometimes just a layer of window paper. No one knows what's going on until it's pierced, but once it's pierced, everyone will find that it's actually very simple. The bug pointed out by Lu Jiadong is nothing more than a bug in the source code architecture that will occur when the parameters are set to a certain set of temperature changes, but if someone hadn't pointed it out, no one would have found this bug so deeply hidden.

In real history, the Israelis were the first to discover the error of the source code of the M25A64D fire control system, but they did not crack the source code, but summed it up from the long-term experience of using the M60 tank, so they only knew that the program would go wrong in a specific situation, and as for the location of the specific error in the source code, they could never find it.

It wasn't until a few years later, when the fire control system was on the verge of retirement and sent to a university laboratory as a research sample, that hundreds of millions of parameter combinations were simulated with the help of a high-speed computer, that the problem was identified and a correction was proposed. However, at this time M25A64D fire control system has long since retired from the first-line armor sequence of the major powers.

As a military expert who came back later, Lu Jiadong remembers many details of this case, although he could not use future disassembly technology to completely restore all the source code of the M25A64D fire control system, but he was able to write a few bug patches. In the past few days, he stayed in the guest house of the Academy of Sciences and desperately recalled many details of the development of the 99A tank fire control system, wrote out a few patches, and then took this killer weapon to attack Paulson and Phelps.

The technical department of the American company Gage Cinda conducted an emergency test, and the test results showed that the patch sent back from China was very successful, and perfectly solved the defect under special parameters. However, Paulson's other sentence sent back to them frightened them, and that was that the M25A64D fire control system was not the only flaw, and the other party asked Gage Cinda to come up with a cooperation plan within 72 hours, otherwise they would have to work with the Soviets to find a patch for the defect in a Chinese academic journal, and the entire Western world would probably tremble.

"No, we have to get all the defect patches in the hands of this Chinese, and then take the initiative to secretly upgrade the control circuit board for all the tanks installed with the system, and strangle the existing threat in the cradle." Williams, the chairman of the company, ordered.

Peter, senior vice president of Gage Cinda, said: "Mr. Williams, Paulson said, the Chinese is very smart, and the conditions he put forward are not as simple as we imagined. ”

"Give him money!" Williams continued without question: "How much does he want? We have already returned the production line of the North Plant, and we have provided the relevant core technology, and it doesn't matter if we add another million dollars on top of that." (To be continued.) )