Basic research first, then applied research, then pre-development, and finally engineering development.

This road is in line with the objective law of the development of aviation power models.

However, because Huaxia inherited the industrial model of the Soviet Union, it is now, like the Soviet aero-engine industry, it is to first determine the specific engineering development model, and then engage in basic research, applied research, and advance development, intending to promote the progress of the entire aviation power industry through a model.

It turns out that this path is unscientific and is bound to fail.

Independent research and development, its difficulty, and time consuming, must be much more troublesome than direct copycats.

However, if this is not done, the momentum of China's aviation industry will repeat the old path of Yang Weiping's previous life. Therefore, no matter how difficult and hard it is, Yang Weiping must unswervingly go on this road of independent research and development.

In terms of basic research, Huaxia is not too bad at present.

With the establishment and operation of Huaxia First Precision Machine Tool Industry Group, Huaxia's precision machine tools and precision machining capabilities will inevitably develop rapidly, and it is only a matter of time to complete the industrial upgrading of the basic industrial system.

Since the United States opened up arms purchases to China, Sino-US relations have naturally become closer.

Encouraged by the diplomatic and political factors of the United States toward China, Rolls-Royce adopted the suggestion of its shareholder Sir Yang to invest a one-time investment of US$500 million and Rolls-Royce's Spey series gas turbine technology and production license, and merged the three turbine engine factories of Huhai, Jinling and Harbin to form Huaying United Industrial Power Co., Ltd. (Group), the first Sino-foreign joint venture in China.

The company's headquarters is located in Huhai, and plans to build a new plant in the Pudong enclosure. Huafang holds 51% of the controlling stake, and Rolls-Royce holds 49% of the shares, and the day-to-day operation and management of the United Group Company adopts the current management model of Rolls-Royce. The chairman of the board of directors is Yang Weiping on a part-time basis. The president is from the British side. The implementation project of the shareholding system reform of Huaxia state-owned enterprises was officially launched.

Yang Weiping is now not only the director of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, but also the chairman of Huaxia First Aviation Industry Group and the chairman of Huaxia First Precision Machine Tool Industry Group. Now he has the position of chairman of Huaying United Industrial Power Group.

In view of the fact that he wore many hats and had too many daily affairs, Yang Weiping listened to Jiang Tiegang's suggestion and set up a special secretariat. Jiang Tiegang served as the director of the department, and six young cadres with outstanding ability and professional proficiency were transferred from the General Office of the Central Committee of the State Council, the Central Committee of the State Council, and the Central Committee. Serve as a secretarial worker.

At present, the three large-scale smelting bases jointly invested by the Abt Mining Investment Company, Leighton International Financial Investment Company, and Claude International Venture Capital Company, with a capital of 1.5 billion US dollars in place for the first phase of the project, have formally signed an investment agreement with the Huaxia government, and at the same time broke ground in Baiyun Boe, Liangshan, and Ganzhou.

Bazel International Venture Capital Co., Ltd. invested 50 million US dollars in Shenzhen. Construction of a large-scale integrated circuit electronics factory.

Cecil Marine Investment Co., Ltd. invested US$750 million in Shenzhen, Shenzhen and Shanghai to build two deep-water wharf ports, and registered and established Cecil Ocean International Shipping Group. Headquartered in Huhai.

McGee International Ventures invested $240 million. Acquired the third, fifth and eighth factories of Huhai cotton spinning, and established the first wholly foreign-owned large-scale garment company in Shanghai.

Hall International Venture Capital Co., Ltd. acquired the No. 2 and No. 9 Factories of Ducheng Radio, which were sluggish in business, and invested $150 million at one time to establish the first wholly foreign-owned household appliance manufacturing company in China.

At the same time that Yang Weiping secretly transferred foreign funds to China for investment, multinational corporations and international consortia from more than 30 countries and regions, including the United States, Britain, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Austria, also began to land on the mainland of China.

For this phenomenon, Yang Weiping is too lazy to hype, regardless of whether you like to vote or not.

After all, now that the whole world knows that China and the Soviet Union are engaged in a military confrontation, no one knows whether war will break out between these two major powers, both of which possess nuclear weapons.

Yang Weiping estimated that if Huaxia did not show the might of a great power on the southwest border and beat the Vietnamese monkeys down, the vast majority of foreign businessmen would take a wait-and-see posture and would not take out real money to start a business in mainland China.

A country's political stability and social harmony are the investment bases that businesses pay the most attention to before investing.

Fast forward to mid-June 1978.

At the Ningnan Air Base in Gui Province, the 42nd Division of the Air Force of the Southern Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, a C130 military transport plane painted in military camouflage and with a golden shield logo on its fuselage and wings slowly descended from the sky, and after taxiing more than 1,000 meters after landing on the runway, it was guided into the tarmac by a BJ212 military jeep.

As the C130 came to a halt and the tail compartment opened, a team of heavily armed Rock mercenaries dressed in jungle camouflage special combat uniforms came out of it.

There are a total of 72 Rock mercenaries in this team, ranging in height and shortness, but all of them are physically strong and fierce.

Although the mercenaries were all wearing jungle camouflage ointment on their faces, it was still possible to tell that one-third of them were non-Chinese.

At this moment, another BJ212 open-top jeep sped up and quickly stopped in front of the Rock Mercenaries, which were neatly lined up in four horizontal rows.

Meng Shouzheng and Guo Shangyi, dressed in black slim round-collar Tang suits, jumped out of the car and opened the door on the left side of the back seat.

Yang Weiping, who was wearing the same style of black slim Tang suit, got out of the car with a serious face.

The middle-aged Chinese mercenary in front of the Panshi mercenary team trotted in front of Yang Weiping, stood up and saluted, and shouted loudly: "Boss, Tu Zhiqiang was ordered to lead all the members of the Panshi No. 1 Squadron to report for duty, please instruct!"

Yang Weiping raised his hand with a smile on his face and returned the salute, then reached out and patted Tu Zhiqiang's arm lightly, and said with a smile: "Hard work, old Tu, how does it feel to return to the motherland?"

"Steadfast!" Tu Zhiqiang replied happily.

Yang Weiping smiled and nodded, walked to the front of the Rock Mercenary Team, walked back and forth, randomly picked a mercenary, walked up to him, and checked the weapons and equipment that the mercenary was carrying.

Yang Weiping didn't pay much attention to weapons such as firearms, he mainly looked at the individual communication system.

In special operations, in addition to soldiers possessing strong individual combat capabilities, another core factor for success in special operations is the combat command and communication system.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Rock Mercenaries, Yang Weiping explained this to Tu Zhiqiang, Wilson and others.

Battlefield communications, in the eyes of professional veterans like Tu Zhiqiang and Wilson, are more important than weapons.

With the level of electronic science and technology in today's world, of course, it is impossible to develop a single soldier radio station that did not appear until the 90 s, but it is also possible to achieve battlefield communications in a small area by using wireless pagers and short-wave walkie-talkies to improve them.

Wilson offers a number of practical suggestions. The transmission and reception power of the best wireless walkie-talkies in Britain has been increased, and the pagers have been used to receive simple combat command information, which has basically barely achieved the effect of individual radio stations in the future.

However, in this way, a 30-member special operations detachment, logistics and communications support must be equipped with 35 people to take charge of this area.

More than three months ago, Yang Weiping informed Tu Zhiqiang and Wilson that he was going to use the method of confrontation with the Chinese Army to test the current combat effectiveness of the Panshi mercenaries. After receiving this news, the entire rock base was boiling.

The Chinese Army, in the eyes of the soldiers of various countries in the Western world, is mysterious and powerful. Because they not only defeated the US-British coalition twice, but even defeated the mechanized forces of the USSR.

Now there is a chance to fight militarily against the strongest main force of the Chinese Army, which is definitely a rare honor for the warlike and strong Rock Mercenaries.

As for Tu Zhiqiang, Zhang Shufang and others, of course, they were even more excited. Because they finally have a chance to deal with the troops again.

When the 12 veterans of the Korean War first arrived in Hong Kong, their boss told them that everything they were doing now was laying the foundation for the modernization of the Chinese army.

Familiar with the training methods of the Chinese Army, after coming into contact with the British army's special forces training and tactical thinking at the Panshi base, they deeply understood the good intentions of the boss.

"Old Tu, what is the farthest distance of the individual soldier in the rock now?" Yang Weiping took out a wireless pager the size of a palm from the Chinese mercenary in front of him, turned to Tu Zhiqiang and asked.

"1500 meters in the wilderness, 200 meters in the city. Tu Zhiqiang happily replied: "Through our enhanced on-board transmitter station and relay station, the data transmission rate can reach 18 kilobits per second. After being processed by the computer of the station, it can realize wireless dialogue and information transmission between individual soldiers. We have a corresponding number-letter code combination for each tactical move and deployment. ”

"Hehe, it's basically okay to use as a solo radio. Yang Weiping nodded with satisfaction and smiled.

"Individual Soldier Radio?" Wilson on the side muttered to himself after hearing this, his eyes lit up, and he excitedly shouted: "Boss, this idea of yours is simply wonderful! If every soldier can have a single soldier radio, it will be very helpful to the battlefield command." ”

"Flexible battlefield communications are the foundation for our Rock Mercenaries to win and gain a foothold on the battlefield in the future!" Yang Weiping said solemnly: "This is also the fundamental reason why I did not hesitate to invest more than 20 million pounds in the research and development of the Rock Battlefield Communication System at the beginning of the establishment of the Rock Stone. (To be continued.) )