Alexandria, Virginia, USA, U.S. Army Materiel Command.

A well-dressed American officer strode down the corridor with two retinues to the door of the reception room, and the soldier standing by the door duly pushed open the door of the reception room and made a gesture to the officer. The officer nodded slightly, then walked into the reception room.

On the sofa in the reception room, there are 6 Chinese, namely Liang Rongjian, Luo Kaimeng, Xiao Weihao, Qin Hai, Ning Mo, and Yu Haitao. The first three were representatives sent by 70X to the United States to promote new body armor, and Qin Hai and the other three basically came to see the excitement. Originally, Xu Guoquan just hoped that Qin Hai could accompany Liang Rongjian and his party to the United States so that he could answer some technical questions at any time. But Qin Hai said that his little brothers Ning Mo and Yu Haitao were quite interested in the American soldiers and wanted to go with them to see the excitement, so Xu Guoquan had no choice but to nod and agree.

On the issue of selling new body armor to the US military, the Science and Technology Commission hesitated a little, but it could not resist Xu Guoquan's repeated pleas on the phone, and finally had to agree. As Xu Guoquan himself analyzed, this new type of body armor is not a product included in the scope of military research, and it is difficult to define its secret level. Considering that the 70X Institute is indeed in financial difficulties, and is anxious to wait for this extra money to buy rice for the pot, the leaders of the Science and Technology Industry Commission are happy to pretend to be deaf and dumb and allow Xu Guoquan to act cheaply.

After confirming that he could do this business, Xu Guoquan immediately arranged for Liang Rongjian, Luo Kaimeng and Xiao Weihao to go to the United States on behalf of 70X. In fact, when they came from Tongjiang Province this time. There is already such an arrangement, otherwise it would not have been specially brought to Jintang with an interpreter.

Since the development and production of body armor were completed by Qin Hai, Xu Guoquan asked Qin Hai to arrange for him to arrange a technician to accompany Liang Rongjian and his party to the United States. What he never expected was that Qin Hai actually offered to go out in person. In this regard, Xu Guoquan naturally raised his hands to welcome, Qin Hai can earn hundreds of millions of net worth at such a young age, he must be a business wizard, and he can make Qin Hai out, and the certainty of success on this trip has doubled.

Qin Hai agreed to go to the United States with Liang Rongjian and others on the condition that he would bring Ning Mo and Yu Haitao, which Xu Guoquan naturally would not refuse. Anyway, Qin Hai said it. The travel expenses of himself, Ning and Yu are all at their own expense, and they do not need to be borne by 70X, so what reason does Xu Guoquan have to object?

The group took a plane in Pujiang and flew directly to New York. Then he took a turn to Alexandria. Something about liaison with the US military. It is Xiao Weihao and Liang Rongjian who are in charge. Although Qin Hai is quite capable, he still can't do this kind of thing between the military.

After a lot of twists and turns. They finally got permission from the U.S. Army Materiel Command to go to the headquarters to negotiate the sale of body armor. After they sat in the reception room of the Army Materiel Command for a few minutes, the main owner finally arrived.

"Mr. McKanis, we meet again."

Seeing the American officer enter the door, Liang Rongjian was stunned for a moment, then stood up and walked towards the man, while greeting him affectionately in English.

The US military officer was McKanis, deputy director of the Second Bureau of the Army Materiel Command, and he had been notified the day before that a Chinese company was coming to visit today to promote the new body armor they produced, and he would be in charge of receiving it. He did not expect that there were his acquaintances among the sales representatives of Chinese companies.

Liang Rongjian and McCarnise have not only met before, but are also good friends. It's a long story, and it goes back to the time of the so-called "model of peace" in the 80s. After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States in 1979, there was a period of "honeymoon period" between the two countries, in order to deal with the common enemy of the Soviet Union, the United States carried out a number of military cooperation with China, including providing China with some advanced military equipment, which was called a model of peace at that time.

Liang Rongjian, as a member of the military scientific research system, was sent to the United States for a year-long study during that period, and McCarnise was the responsible person of the United States at that time, and he had a long deal with Liang Rongjian and had a very close relationship. This time, Xu Guoquan arranged Liang Rongjian as the person in charge of sales in the United States, and he also took a fancy to his experience of studying in the United States.

At the end of the 80s, relations between China and the United States broke down, and the model of peace project naturally came to an end. After that, Liang Rongjian never heard from McCarnis, who would have thought that they would meet again on such an occasion.

Hearing Liang Rongjian's greeting, and then taking a closer look at the other party's face, McCarnise also laughed, stepped forward, and gave Liang Rongjian a bear hug without saying anything.

"Oh, Mr. Liang, it's such a pleasure to meet you." McCarnise said unabashedly.

Americans don't have so many concerns about whether politics is right or wrong. Speaking of which, Sino-US relations are still on the eve of breaking the ice, and there are still some taboos between them. McCarnise was able to treat Liang Rongjian with such enthusiasm, which made Qin Hai, Xiao Weihao and others light up.

"Mr. Liang, is there any reason why you are not wearing a military uniform?" McCarnise beckoned Liang Rongjian to sit down, then sat down on the sofa opposite him and asked Liang Rongjian.

"I'm no longer in the military." Liang Rongjian replied with a smile.

"Really?" McKanes looked at Liang Rongjian, a hint of laughter flashing in his eyes.

Liang Rongjian nodded seriously and said, "I have left the military circles, and now I am the sales representative of China Qilin Company, and I have made a special trip to the United States to do business. ”

To sell body armor to the US military, of course, you can't use the name of 70X, because the relationship between the two sides is still a little tense, and it is too sensitive to directly carry out transactions between the military. Liang Rongjian came this time in the name of a company named Qilin. This "Qilin" is actually the homonym of 70 of 70X, and this company was only temporarily established a day before Liang Rongjian left Jintang, and even the link of industrial and commercial registration was completely omitted, and it is a complete leather bag company.

McCarnise is a smart guy who has dealt with the Chinese military a lot and knows some of the rules of the Chinese military. Liang Rongjian said that he had left the military circles, what kind of salesman of Qilin Company, McCarnise knew very well in his heart, knowing that this was just a cover for people's ears, and people like Liang Rongjian, even if they really took off their military status, they must be inextricably linked with the military secretly.

"I heard that you have developed a new type of body armor, is there anything special about it?" McCarnis no longer asked about Leung's identity, but went straight to the main point of today's talks.

"We created this new body armor with a new type of fiber that is different from Kevlar, and theoretically it is 2.5 times as protective as Kevlar. We have also developed military helmets based on this new fiber. Liang Rongjian replied according to the tone he had discussed with Qin Hai along the way.

McCarnise asked, "Did you bring samples?" ”

"Brought." Qin Hai got up and took a backpack, took out a body armor and a helmet from it, and handed them to Liang Rongjian. After Liang Rongjian took it, he handed it over to McKanis.

"Such thin body armor?" McCarnise got the body armor and helmet, and he was slightly stunned. From the appearance, he can see that this kind of body armor is lighter and thinner than Kevlar's body armor, and even if the protective performance is similar, its technical level is higher than that of Kevlar's body armor. In his mind, the equipment level of the Chinese army is far behind that of the US military, and he did not expect that in such a field as body armor, the Chinese would actually go to the front.

After looking at it for a while, he handed the two pieces of equipment to the two attendants who had just come in with him, and asked them to study them as well. The two attendants looked left and right with body armor and helmets, and their faces gradually became solemn.

"What kind of fiber do you use, can you tell us about it?" One of the attendants studied for a while and then asked Liang Rongjian.

“HSHMPE。” Six letters popped out of Qin Hai's mouth.

"High-strength and high-modulus polyethylene?" The attendant directly reported the full name of the abbreviation. Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene can also be called high-strength and high-modulus polyethylene, which has been around since the 70s, but has not yet been industrialized. There are also people in the United States who are working on the industrial production of this material, so this subordinate of McCarnise knows something about it.

"Mr. Seitzler specializes in high-strength fibers, and he has a deep understanding of Kevlar fibers." McKanes pointed to his entourage and introduced him to Liang Rongjian and the others.

"Dear sir, as far as I know, high-strength and high-modulus polyethylene fiber cannot be industrialized at present, if your body armor is made of this fiber, can it ensure sufficient production?" Seitzler asked bluntly.

Qin Hai smiled slightly and said: "Mr. Setzler, the situation you know is outdated, in fact, we have already achieved mass production of high-strength and high-modulus polyethylene, and if you need it, we can guarantee to provide no less than 50,000 pieces of this new type of body armor every month." ”

"Mass production? How do you do that? "Setzler was a little surprised, he knew the difficulty of this technology, and he had not heard of any accumulation in China in this area before, why all of a sudden, the Chinese claimed to have solved the mass production technology?

Qin Hai smiled and said nothing, Seitzler's question was too abrupt, when it comes to core technology, who would reveal it lightly?

"Sorry, sorry......" Setzler also reacted, knowing that he had asked a question that should not be asked, he explained: "Sir, please don't get me wrong, I don't want to know your technical secrets, but I wonder when you started to research this fiber, as far as I know, the Dutch company that first obtained the patent for high-strength and high-modulus polyethylene fiber could not achieve large-scale production, otherwise, this fiber would have been used in the manufacture of body armor a long time ago." (To be continued......)