What Ling Shizhe didn't expect was that the entire two buses were completely chipped.

"Navali, are you too radical, we just did the first train exactly according to the East German drawings, but you have automated the whole coach, and if something goes wrong in the test, it will be very difficult for us to find out the cause. Many times you don't know if it's the hardware or the software, and you have to check them one by one. ”

Navali replied with a smile: "Boss, what you see is only a superficial phenomenon, in fact, the automation of the whole bus is not as high as you think. We just improved the appearance, the door was replaced with an electric plug door, the bathroom was changed to a vacuum collection, the faucets were all changed to induction, and finally equipped with an automatic dry cleaner, a total of these, it looks advanced and bluffing, but the lining has not changed at all, it is still the original system. ”

Ling Shizhe was shocked when he heard this, got up and went up and down around the bus to take a closer look, and found that it was really as Navali said, all the automation was bluffing.

Seeing Ling Shizhe's question, Navali explained, it turned out that after the arrival of the DBME bus of East German origin in July last year, a group of experts from the Ambrera Systems Engineering Laboratory and engineers from the Bombardier company of the Institute worked together to solve one of the DBME buses, and the MC ≮OM was dissected, so as to study how to fully realize the automation of the bus.

After a month of careful investigation and analysis, they decided to divide the automation of the double-decker bus into two parts, one part is to make a fuss about the degree of luxury that is relatively easy to achieve, and after the completion of this part, the double-decker car is officially finalized and can be mass-produced. What Ling Shizhe sees now is this kind of bus.

The other part is the more difficult train control system automation that is invisible to ordinary people. There are many departments involved in this part, and even researchers from the metallurgical materials laboratory are involved. Navalli plans to develop a fully automated train monitoring system in two years.

The train's automation system. Before Bombardier was acquired by Ling Shizhe, it had done research for many years, so it didn't take much time to take out the automation system solution for the train, and in December last year, it took out the system sample, and successfully passed the test in the laboratory, and then with the help of East German experts, the subsystems were installed on each DBME train for road tests, and all the monitoring subsystems were successfully completed. It was then put together on a single passenger car for the overall test, and the last point of the problem was gone, and then it was applied to the trains produced by Ambrera.

"What were the results of the experiment?" Ling Shizhe asked.

"There are good and bad," Navali said a little helplessly: "The good is that there are no big problems with the overall idea, and the bad is that there are all kinds of small problems, we have modified the design twice, and it seems that it will be carried out three times, four times or even more than five times, and we have installed four passenger cars for each subsystem, and these trains are currently doing road tests in Canada." It will also be sent to tropical areas, plateau areas, humid environments with high temperature and high salt, and deserts for road tests. ”

The automation control and monitoring system for the train has been the biggest challenge for the Ambrera Systems Engineering Laboratory since its inception, and the entire system is not only designed to change the hardware and software, but also to change the structure of the train. It requires close cooperation from multiple departments.

Because the environment encountered by the train during the journey is extremely harsh and changeable, it is still plain in the morning, and it reaches the hills at noon. In the afternoon, we arrived at the plateau again, and the train traveled all the way. The weather varies from place to place, so an automated train control system is required. It must have high adaptability and reliability in various harsh and extreme environments, and at the same time have high durability, high maintenance and easy repair requirements.

Such a high requirement, it is not too much to describe it as a perversion, Canada is a high-latitude cold zone country, just in high latitudes have encountered so many problems, not to mention other regions, Navali intends to use two years to complete the automatic control system of the train, Ling Shizhe seems to be very hanging, according to his estimates, there is no five to seven years, the train automation control and monitoring system is not even to think about it.

Why does it take so long? Because this is only a passenger car, you also have to count the locomotive head, you must know that the system center of the whole train is concentrated on the locomotive, so that the train driver can have an overall grasp of the operation of the whole train, and all the power systems and control systems on the train are also concentrated on the locomotive, so the locomotive head is even more complicated.

Ling Shizhe stood up, stretched his waist and said, "You have no problem thinking, but you can't do it in two years, prepare for a long-term hard struggle." By the way, is there a buyer for the bus? ”

"There you have it, China."

"Taiwan/Bay?"

Navali said with a smile: "No, it's your old enemy of the Kuomintang, Chinese mainland." ”

"What a continent! What's going on? Ling Shizhe jumped up, "Don't you know that Taiwan/Bay and the mainland are in a state of confrontation, how did you get in touch with them?" ”

Navali shrugged his shoulders and said: "What's strange about this, Bombardier had business contacts with the mainland as early as the 50s, but later many countries led by the United States began a long-term blockade of Chinese mainland, and we directly cut off business contacts, otherwise with our good cooperative relationship with the mainland, Bombardier's business with the mainland will continue to be done." ”

"You did business with Chinese mainland in the 50s? Can you tell me about it? Ling Shizhe was shocked by Navali's words, and he didn't care about anything else, and wanted to know the reason eagerly.

"Well, I don't know a lot," Navali explained, "I only know that Bombardier's first cooperation with China was in 1954, when Bombardier's leader was Mr. Joseph-ArmandBombardier, when Bombardier's railway division was just established and was in urgent need of business, Joseph-ArmandBombardier visited many places around the world to sell trains, and since we were new to trains, In addition, our train production technology is much behind other companies. As a result, no rail operator is willing to buy Bombardier's trains.

Joseph-Armandbombardier had no choice but to go home, and the international traffic at that time was mainly by boat. While passing through Hong Kong, Joseph-Armandbombardier unexpectedly made contact with the mainland. So we started working together in business. ”

Navali said faintly, his face full of remembrance; "It was Bombardier's greatest moment, and it was also the largest and only mega order ever received by Bombardier's train division since its inception, with 3,000 refrigerated cars, power cars, coaches and dining cars. With this list, we can keep us busy for five years, and this list is completed, and there is an even bigger list.

Unfortunately, this good thing did not last long, and the United States began a total blockade of China, and nearly half of our trains were stored in warehouses and could not be delivered to each other. Bombardier has been hit hard as a result. It didn't take long for Bombardier to start going downhill and never improve until it was acquired by you. ”

It took Ling Shizhe a long time to come back to his senses, no wonder the later generations of Bombardier were so open in the mainland, just the train joint venture factory in China built three, and also built a large regional aircraft assembly plant in the mainland, as well as a super-large aircraft parts factory, and it took a long time to get the roots here.

I always thought that the reason why Bombardier was so open in China was because of their good public relations. Now it seems that it is not all, mainly because they played a key role in this special history with Chinese mainland in the 50s.

According to the memories of his previous life, Ling Shizhe knew that there was something about Navali that he didn't say right, or that he deliberately said it wrong. That is, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea took place in 1950. Since that time, Western countries, led by the United States, have imposed a comprehensive blockade on China, rather than starting the blockade later. At that time, the mainland's only window to the outside world was Hong Kong.

Many Hong Kong people made their first pot of gold by smuggling with the mainland, such as the Huo family in Hong Kong. Bombardier as a Western enterprise. To dare to do business with the mainland at this time is to take a huge risk. Perhaps it was the experience of that special period that established Bombardier's special position in China for later generations.

Ling Shizhe sighed slightly, it was really cut, and it was messy. Over the years, I have been careful to avoid cross-strait political conflicts, but I did not expect to go around and return to the original point.

Time flies so fast, it has been 13 years since I was reborn in this time and space, and I think about how strange I was from everything around me when I first came to Hong Kong, and how far away politics was from me at that time......

76 years, the most unquiet year for all Chinese, January 8 - ** Vice Chairman of the Central Committee, Premier of the State Council, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Zhou / En / Lai passed away. Then the masses in major cities across the country spontaneously mourned Zhou Enlai and denounced the "Gang of Four".

On July 6, Zhu De died; Passed away on September 9**; The collapse of the "Gang of Four" in October ushered in the reform and opening up, and opened up a magnificent road for China to move from backwardness to prosperity and strength.

Ling Shizhe used to think about how to avoid the political whirlpool between the two sides of the strait, and never thought about how to deal with the mainland one day, but today's words from Navali made Ling Shizhe understand that he had actually dealt with the north from the beginning.

Lin Wencong came from the mainland, Professor Wang Haihua is a typical leftist figure in Hong Kong, and Lin Wencong's uncle Tao Chengan, Ling Shizhe is 100% sure that he must be an underground party member sent to Hong Kong by the CCP. Even the Ling family's big housekeeper, Old Man Tao, Han Laosan of the Yingyi Society, and his pillow man Zhao Xiaoyun, Ling Shizhe were suspicious.

Otherwise, as soon as Li Li contacted China Resources, why did the other party agree to provide penicillin to Ambrera so painfully? The price is still so cheap, it is impossible for the mainland not to know the price of penicillin in the European and American markets, although the mainland also has to make money, but it is impossible to supply it to him at such a cheap price.

The person responsible for contacting China Resources Company was none other than Han Laosan, and it was he who led Li Li to make transactions with the other party, which also made Ling Shizhe wary of Han Laosan.

If there were no China Aircraft Aviation Industry Company lying there, they would have dealt with the mainland by themselves, and the Taiwan authorities had no way to deal with Ling Shizhe anyway, but he still undertook the task of developing fighter planes for the authorities, and the acquisition of Bombardier in the first place also took this into consideration.

Now that Wali and they still have contact with that side, this makes Ling Shizhe have a dilemma, in the end do you want to do business with them, if it is now the nineties, Ling Shizhe will not be so distressed, because at that time Xiao Jiang has been dead for several years, cross-strait relations have also broken the ice, and normal non-governmental business exchanges have been for a few years, and even some Taiwanese businessmen in the early eighties, quietly invested in Shenzhen to build factories, but now it is the 70s, and his Ling Shizhe's name is too big, Every move is watched by the whole world.

Do you want to deal with the north now? Ling Shizhe stood by the window and thought for a long time, and asked, "How many cars do they want to buy for this bus?" (To be continued......) u