Chapter Seventy-Four: The Puppet of the West
"Go on!" Pang Jindong gasped, "Don't stop!"
"What's wrong with you?" Cheng Hechu was stunned for a moment: "Ah, I understand, you are asking me to praise you!"
Pang Jindong nodded very honestly: "That's right!"
"I'll praise you so much today, and I'll talk about it later when I have a chance. Cheng Hechu smiled: "Look at how you do!"
"I'll do it well!"
"Don't talk too much," Cheng Hechu smiled meaningfully...... "Just now we talked about Aung San Suu Kyi, and we said that this woman, although she has different political views from the military government, she will not allow the country to split." ”
Pang Jindong nodded heavily: "I know this." ”
"Since she is a puppet of the West, it is easy to get the support of the West in the Kokang War. After a pause, Cheng Hechu said deeply: "The challenge you face is not small!"
"Win the Western camp away from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and I believe I can do it. ”
Cheng Hechu patted Pang Jindong on the shoulder: "I have confidence in you." ”
If Jin Lingling was present at this time, she would definitely tell Pang Jindong that Cheng Hechu rarely praises others.
To be praised by Cheng Hechu, even though it is just a very simple sentence, is really a thing to be proud of.
However, Pang Jindong's mind at this time is not on the gains and losses of personal reputation, because there are too many things to pay attention to: "I talked about MD for a long time, and I forgot to ask how DDX is going!"
"Just the technology that we have now digested and absorbed can improve the technical level of China's warships by about ten years on the existing basis...... It stands to reason that this is something that should be happy, but Cheng Hechu's tone is a little worried: "The research center you set up has now completed the necessary theoretical preparations. I arranged for them to conduct some experiments in some arsenals and shipyards, and they also made a full-scale model, and the results were very satisfactory. The next step should not be limited to theoretical research and experimentation, but should start construction in earnest. ”
Cheng Hechu's mention made Pang Jindong feel very helpless: "According to my original plan, after returning from Changqing Mountain, I will find a way to do the work of the upper level, carry out some diplomatic mediation, and allow me to establish a shipyard in MD." But I didn't expect the situation to become what it is now, I became the deputy commander-in-chief of the rebels, and the MD government said that it would not allow us to build warships in their country......"
Pang Jindong smiled helplessly, although DDX's technology can help the country improve its military technology level, but the warship as a whole can only be built by Pang Jindong himself.
Cheng Hechu also felt very helpless: "If this problem is not solved by a lot, such a good warship can only stay on the drawing paper......"
"Before there is a better way, let's make as much theoretical preparation as possible, and there is no harm in perfecting the theory!"
Cheng Hechu said with great regret: "It takes a long time to establish a shipyard itself, and this process has been enough to improve the theoretical work. If there is no sufficient practical work, and problems are constantly discovered and solved in the process of hull construction, then no amount of theoretical work is useless. ”
The establishment of a shipyard in MD is a process of starting from scratch, which inevitably requires a long construction time, which, combined with the construction of the warship itself, is almost unbearable.
Although Pang Jindong decided to purchase a lot of equipment and parts directly from the world in order to save time, the main part still needs to be built by himself.
More importantly, the DDX built in country M was handed over to several companies, and the electronic system alone was completed by many companies.
Now Pang Jindong's DDX, except for a part of which can be purchased, the rest must be completed independently.
In general, a warship can be roughly divided into four parts: the hull, the power system, the electronic system, and the weapon system.
The hull, of course, was to be built by the factory;
The power system is customized by domestic enterprises in Russia, and Cheng Hechu can coordinate this channel;
The electronic system can be partially procured and partly developed by itself;
As for the weapon system, according to Cheng Hechu's idea, the technology and blueprint will be provided to the country, and the country will develop and produce it.
Some of them do not have the production conditions in China, so they can only create basic production in the shipyard.
There are many problems even in the part of procurement, one is that only those for military and civilian use can be procured, and it is difficult to get those for purely military use;
Second, it can be sold in the international market, and the technical level often does not meet the design requirements of DDX.
Therefore, the factory that needs to be built is called a shipyard, but it is actually an arsenal, and it is a large-scale comprehensive arsenal.
Whenever he thought of this, Pang Jindong felt a trace of despair, and even felt that the original decision was a little impulsive.
Pang Jindong really doesn't want to wait for a warship for more than ten or twenty years, even if it is successfully built by then, I am afraid that it will no longer be leading in technology.
At this time, Pang Jindong suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Do we have to hang ourselves on the tree of MD?"
At the same time that Pang Jindong raised this question, Cheng Hechu also realized that the original decision was a little inappropriate, not only because of the unstable domestic situation of MD, but also because MD was not so reliable after all: "What country is very friendly with us, can be called an alliance partner, and trusts us enough to completely open up the military field? And can help us develop and produce some equipment?"
Pang Jindong looked at Cheng Hechu and quickly proposed a country: "Northern Goryeo?"
As soon as Pang Jindong's voice fell, he and Cheng Hechu shook their heads in unison: "No!"
Soon, Pang Jindong thought of another country: "Pakistan!"
"Yes!" Cheng Hechu patted his thigh lightly, and agreed with Pang Jindong's opinion very much: "This country is nicknamed Pakistan Tie, and its relationship with us is really iron!"
"It looks like I need to find a chance to meet General Jin again!"
"It is only fitting that General Kim should be approached for this matter, because he is in charge of Sino-foreign military exchanges and cooperation, has visited Pakistan several times, and has extensive contacts in both military and political circles. ”
Pang Jindong nodded: "But the most important thing at the moment is in the Kokang region, and we have to wait until this problem is solved!"
After saying goodbye to Cheng Hechu, Pang Jindong returned home, and Masaharu Kazama handed over a letter: "That Miss Parker came just now and left you this letter!"
Pang Jindong then remembered that he hadn't seen Miss Parker since he returned to China, and he didn't know how she was doing recently.
Miss Parker's letter smelled of her usual perfume, wrapped in a pink envelope on the same pink letterhead, embellished with roses.
With Miss Parker's cold, tough disposition, it seems that such a feminine and somewhat childish thing should not be used.
Pang Jindong looked at the letter, and suddenly felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart, and he didn't dare to open it for a while.
Masaharu Kazama noticed Pang Jindong's strangeness, and asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?"
"It's nothing!" Pang Jindong shook his head and asked, "Where is Miss Parker now?"
"I left this letter and left, I didn't say anything, I just told that this letter must be opened by you personally!"
"Got it, go get busy!" Sending away Masaharu Kazama, Pang Jindong slowly unfolded the letterhead, and the smell wafting on it was like Miss Parker's body fragrance.
The content of the letter is very simple, and Miss Parker tells Pang Jindong in it:
"Dear Jerry,
By the time you read this letter, I was already on the plane, flying to a distant land. I don't know where I'm going to end up, but maybe I'm going to wander around the world from now on.
Please forgive me for saying goodbye, I really can't stay here to face you, and I know that I can't really enter your current life, maybe I used to be in the past, but now you are not the same person you used to be, and I am no longer the little girl I used to be.
And my life's work has been in the Corbino Center, and the eventual collapse of the center is inextricably linked to you, so I wrote this letter as soon as I knew that you had returned home.
Of course, it's also because I can't adapt to your life here, it's too boring for me, and I don't know what I should do every day.
It was also at this time that I suddenly realized that I didn't know anything about life, and that I had to start all over again.
The dissolution of the Corbino Center cost me my family, the internal struggles of the center cost me my only loved one, and now that I am alone, the best life is to be a carefree bird to fly into the sky instead of recreating a cage for myself.
Maybe one day in the future, we will meet again, or maybe we will never see each other again. In any case, on the day of the final judgment that everyone will have to face, I will be waiting for you in heaven or hell.
I wish you all the best and this is Miss Parker."
As soon as Pang Jindong saw the letter, he had a premonition that maybe he was going to be separated from Miss Parker, so he was reluctant to read the content of the letter.
Now that the premonition has been confirmed, the amazement occupies Pang Jindong's heart.
The past, including those years at the Corbino Center, came to Pang Jindong's mind.
But at the same time, Pang Jindong felt that such a separation might be a good thing.
"Heaven or hell......" After a wry smile, he was silent for a long time, and Pang Jindong muttered: "Miss Parker, you and I are not qualified to enter heaven, one day in the future, let's meet in hell!"
In the days after returning to China, Pang Jindong was very busy, on the one hand, he controlled the affairs of the Blood Lion Legion and the Kokang Republican Army, and on the other hand, he began to deal with the work of the Imperial Holding Group.