The three of them got on the train, and John. Martin looked at the cabin-like compartment of an airplane and sighed, "Is it good that the car we brought in to East Germany has this underneath?" ”

Navali pointed to the carriage and said, "I don't know if I haven't seen it, judging from the picture information, the luxury level should not be much the same as this, but the details may be worse." ”

"I hope that the latest DBME series buses in the GDR will not be too bad, otherwise the boss will be very disappointed."

Navali shook his head and said, "I don't know, it's all unknown." ”

"The unit is going well." After saying John. Martin pulled his baseball cap down and leaned his back back into his eyes.

The distance between Bonn and Leipzig is about 500 kilometres, and after the reunification of the two Germanys in the new century, it would have taken more than an hour to travel by ICE express train, but now it is different, and the train between Bonn and Kassel is running at a speed of 160 km/h under the traction of the Class 103 locomotive. Four hours later, the train passed through the city of Kassel and slowly entered the Gotha customs office in the GDR.

The train stopped at the Gotha customs office for about 30 minutes, and the train restarted after changing the tractor nose, checking passports and tickets.

After entering the GDR, Navali felt that the speed of the train was a little slow, looking at the distant scenery outside the window, he estimated that the speed of the train was estimated to be about 120 kilometers, and he thought to himself, in Gotha Customs, it should be the latest 242 train in the GDR, and he must go to the front to see after getting off the train.

During the German Empire, Leipzig was famous for its fairs, and after the founding of the GDR in '49, Leipzig became the second largest city in East Germany. During the Cold War, the annual exhibition in Leipzig turned into a large-scale trade fair between the members of the Warsaw Pact.

The annual Leipzig exhibition is not open to Western companies, but when Ambrera through the Canadian Embassy in the GDR, it is possible to introduce the country's locomotive technology, the East German government agreed, in fact, every year many Westerners apply to participate in the Leipzig Fair, East German products are cheap and high-quality, so it attracts a lot of people who want to come here to pan for gold.

After getting off the train, Navali pulled John. Martin deliberately ran to the nose of the plane to take a look. As expected, the traction locomotive at Gotha Customs has been replaced by a West German Class 103 locomotive with a red and white painted East German Class 242 locomotive.

Navali said to the square-headed and square-headed Type 242 locomotive: "John, this locomotive is called the Type 242 electric locomotive, which is produced by the East German Unified Locomotive Consortium. ”

John. Martin looked at it a few times and said; "It's not a good thing. Not only is he a slow runner, but he doesn't look very good. ”

Navali laughed and said, "John, you are wrong, the West German Class 103 locomotive is much more ugly than this, and in my experience, this Class 242 locomotive is much stronger than the Class 103, although it is not as fast as it." ”

"Well, since Japan introduced the Shinkansen in 1964, many developing countries have begun to electrify it, but the Central and South American countries have been short of funds, so the plan has remained on paper for more than a decade. Southeast Asia has developed rapidly in recent years, and is building new electrified railways, especially in Thailand and India in South Asia, where the construction of railways is very fast, as long as the 242 type electric locomotive is really as reliable and durable as the information says, and the price is not too expensive, the 242 type is very suitable for them. "John. Martin said like a few treasures, it can be seen that he has put a lot of effort into the train during this time, otherwise he would not be so serious.

"I still have some connections in Thailand that I can use, but I can't do anything in India, you know that when you do business with them, you don't know what they want."

John. Martin understood what Navali meant, it was difficult to do business with the Indians, even harder than waiting for the moon. No matter what you say, he always says no problem, no problem. If you really think it's okay, then it's a mistake. Because the other party is not satisfied with whether you need it or not, and always answers you with no questions, so that many times, you always have to guess what the other party needs, and no matter how you guess, you can't guess for sure, so although the market in India is very large, there are not many Western companies that have established branches in India, and even if they have a firm foothold in the local area, the scale will not be very large.

If you want to do business in India, you have to work with the local landlords.

"Two gentlemen, it's time for us to go." Linus reminded from the side.

Both of them were big names in Ambrera's company, and when they spoke, Linus stood behind him all the time, and when he saw that the people on the platform were almost gone, he reminded them.

"Let's go." Then the three of them left the platform.

Follow the flyover out of the train station. No one came to greet them, and standing in front of the square at Leipzig station, Lesby looked at the map and said, "It's the third hotel in Leipzig, let's take a taxi." ”

On the right side of the square in front of the station, a neat row of East German-made Trabant taxis is parked, and three people walk over and get into the carriages. Linus pointed to the map to illustrate the location, and the driver made a clear gesture and raised his hand to start the car, and Trabant's characteristic 2-stroke engine first scrept, then slammed away, and the taxi was gone in the dust after a puff of smoke.

From time to time, the sign of the sickle and axe flashed outside the car window, and the first generation of East German leaders, Walter ? Ulbrich's portrait can be seen everywhere on both sides of the street, the slow-moving round-headed round-headed two-section buses are left behind, and the Volga cars that often cross the opposite side of the shoulder, the style of the buildings here is very different from that of the West, after a few streets, Navali looked at the unchanged street scene on the side of the road and said with some feeling: "This place is not comparable with West Germany, except for the neatness of the real nothing, Bonn is much more beautiful than here." ”

John. Martin nodded with emotion and said, "For some reason, it always gives me a very depressing feeling, no wonder so many people climb over the Berlin Wall every year." ”

Linus, who was sitting in the front row, turned his face and said, "Two gentlemen, we are now on the soil of East Germany, and here are their stasi, we should be careful when we speak. ”

The Stasi was the political police agency of East Germany, responsible for intelligence gathering, surveillance and counterintelligence.

Stasi was founded to thwart the sporadic rebels against the communist regime, which was established after the Soviet Red Army occupied eastern Germany, but he soon became the largest secret service in East Germany, and exercised a terrifying spy rule on the East German people.

According to later historical records, 600,000 people served the Stasi during his existence, which is the same number as the Gestapo during Nazi Germany.

Between 1950 and 1989, Stasi had 17 prisons, about 91,000 officially hired agents, 175,000 official notification collaborators in the GDR, known as "IM", and 20,000 "IM" notification collaborators in the Federal Republic of Germany. Therefore, Stasi has a total of 286,000 cooperative agents, and the intelligence network is dense and effective.

Think about it, how many people did East Germany have? But with hundreds of thousands of spies, just thinking about it makes people shudder, that Valli and John. Martin was used to staying in the West, and his speech was quite casual, and he casually complained about the East German government in the taxi, but it would cause trouble, so Linus, who was sitting in the front seat, had to remind his two leaders that the ghost knew if the driver was a Stasi.

"Sorry, we won't." The two reacted as well, apologizing to Linus and then shutting their mouths.

The Third Hotel Leipzig is a 12-storey Soviet-style auditorium-style building, with light gray wall tiles on the outside of the building, and a large number of trees planted seven or eight meters away from the building.

The taxi stopped directly in front of the turnstile on the first floor through the driveway, paid the fare and entered the lobby, checked in at the front desk, and went upstairs to his room.

This is a triple room, Linus looked around but couldn't find the air conditioner, and finally turned on the fan switch in a corner, and Navali on the side said: "There is no air conditioner, and the room needs three people to sleep, oh!" God, it's just too bad, do they think the three of us are "glass"

"Bear with me, you must know that we are here to introduce train technology, and if we complete the task assigned by the boss, we will be freed." John. Martin said.

"May the trip go well, all well gentlemen, good night." After saying that, Valli was the first to fall down on the bed in the middle, and fell asleep in a short time.

"Good night Linus."

"Goodnight John."

The three of them got up early. After breakfast, head straight to the main venue of the exhibition in Leipzig.

Unlike the Leipzig Fair, which focuses on agriculture and light industry, the Leipzig Fair in autumn is the GDR's largest industrial export exhibition, with the participation of all the major industrial sectors of the GDR that are leading in the socialist camp.

Linus looked at the map and introduction of the pavilion that he had received from the hotel in the morning. Pointing to a building with a curved dome above, he said, "The transportation machinery and heavy machinery manufacturing and equipment we are looking for should be in Hall 1." ”

Navali said, "Okay, let's go to Hall 1 first." “

"Then let's go to Hall 1 first, and then go to Hall 2 Machining Machinery and Hall 4 Central Information Processing System, can we, Mr. John?"

John. Martin nodded and said, "Okay, I'd love to see what their computers look like, too?" ”

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