The follow-up work on the port project in the Saint-Goga Islands has little to do with Lin Zhenhua, and as a dignified chairman, he naturally does not stay there to play the role of a contractor -- the day after the project agreement was signed, he took a short-haul flight from the Saint-Goga Islands to Sri Lanka, where he changed planes and returned to China.

The flight from Sri Lanka to China landed at Hongqiao Airport. Lin Zhenhua has been struggling on the plane, thinking about whether he should go to see Liu Xianghai. In the past, when he came to Shanghai to do business, if he had time, he would usually visit Liu Xianghai, but this time the situation was different. At the beginning of the Lunar New Year, he scolded senior naval officials, including Liu Xianghai, who knows if people still hold grudges against him?

This problem was solved when he walked out of the gate of Hongqiao Airport, and he saw a row of uniformed naval officers standing neatly outside the gate, led by three people Lin Zhenhua all knew, namely Duan Yaoxi, the commander of the navy's base, Yu Tianfang, the commander of the fleet, and Liu Xianghai, the vice president of the Naval Research Institute. Beside them, there were also several soldiers, one holding a large sign with the words "Warm welcome to Comrade Lin Zhenhua, a meritorious member of the Navy," and several others holding flowers in their hands, which were undoubtedly intended to be dedicated to him.

As soon as Lin Zhenhua walked out of the airport, Liu Xianghai and the other three stepped forward together. Due to their positions, it was inconvenient for them to salute Lin Zhenhua, but Lin Zhenhua was caught off guard, and hurriedly stood up to salute several leaders, and then Liu Xianghai and others saluted Lin Zhenhua and shook hands, and the soldiers holding flowers next to him also stepped forward and gave the bouquets to Lin Zhenhua and He Fei, who arrived with him.

"Commander Yu, Commander Duan, Dean Liu, I am so ashamed to let you greet me here." Lin Zhenhua said with embarrassment on his face, although he usually deals with ministers, generals and other high-ranking officials, but others greet him with such a grand etiquette, which still makes him feel flattered. Especially, he had scolded each other before.

"It should be, it should be." Yu Tianfang smiled, patted Lin Zhenhua on the shoulder, and said: "Comrade Xiaolin, you are the hero of our navy, Minister Zhang is right, except for you, no one else can talk about the supply port of the Santa Goga Islands." ”

Lin Zhenhua waved his hand again and again: "How dare I dare, I am making a contribution, and I really don't dare to call myself a hero." ”

"Credit? Where does sin come from? Duan Yaoxi asked knowingly.

"Two commanders, during the Spring Festival, I was also in a hurry, and said some disrespectful things on the phone, your general can run a warship in his stomach, so don't worry about me." Lin Zhenhua said.

Yu Tianfang smiled: "Where is it, Xiaolin, what you said during the Spring Festival is very good." It is true that our navy cannot be nested in its own territorial waters all day long, the times have changed, and our country also has its own overseas interests, and our navy should go out to defend the lives and property of the country and the people. ”

"Don't laugh at me......" Lin Zhenhua pretended to be pitiful. Of course, he knew that the other party didn't care about his angry words, after all, there has always been a lot of cooperation between the two sides, and this kind of close relationship cannot be destroyed by one or two over-the-top words. However, he always has to make a gesture of admitting his mistakes, and people don't care, it doesn't mean that he can be complacent, this is the minimum common sense of life.

Liu Xianghai stepped forward, also patted Lin Zhenhua's shoulder, and said, "You Xiaolin, now you know that you are wrong?" Honestly, did you drink too much that day, and talk nonsense after a little stimulation? ”

"Dean Liu Shengming, I did drink a little more that day." Lin Zhenhua followed Liu Xianghai's words and said, in fact, he didn't drink at all at that time, and the emotional fluctuations were completely because he heard the news of He Lan's injury. …,

Liu Xianghai also knew this, he deliberately said that Lin Zhenhua had drunk too much, naturally in order to excuse Lin Zhenhua on this occasion. After he pretended to reprimand Lin Zhenhua a few words, he began to introduce Lin Zhenhua to the officers who came to greet him at the airport today. The lowest rank of these people is also lieutenant colonel, and they are all officers such as fleet, captain, and political commissar, and it can be seen from this lineup that the courtesy given to Lin Zhenhua by the navy is indeed very high.

It is no wonder that supply ports are a very important part of the navy's going to the open ocean. A supply port like the Saint-Goga Islands, which allows naval garrisons, is, to put it bluntly, an overseas naval base, which will be the most reliable rear support for the ocean-going fleet in the event of war. Lin Zhenhua negotiated such a base for the navy, and it is not an exaggeration to call him a hero.

After the welcome ceremony at the airport, the next step is naturally to receive a reception. Lin Zhenhua had the heart to apologize to the navy for the previous incident, and it was inevitable to punish him for drinking and other pretentiousness, but the result was that he was drunk and slept in the hotel until noon the next day.

"Good fellow, how much alcohol did you drink yesterday?" Liu Xianghai accompanied Lin Zhenhua to ask for a few light dishes in the hotel restaurant, and asked Lin Zhenhua while eating.

Lin Zhenhua smiled bitterly: "Who knows, under normal circumstances, I have more than a pound of liquor, and last night I estimated that it was at least more than doubled." ”

"The comrades in the army have a good amount of alcohol, and with the wheel war, it's no wonder if you don't fall." Liu Xianghai shook his head and said, "Your eldest sister Qin still complains about me, saying that I shouldn't let you drink so much." ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "If you don't drink it, you can't do it, after all, I'm in the first place, how can I show sincerity if I don't drink more." ”

Liu Xianghai understands Lin Zhenhua's thoughts, this is the wine culture with Chinese characteristics, if you want to resolve grievances, you must get yourself drunk, otherwise it will be useless to say anything. He sighed and said, "Alas, that's fine, after drinking this scene, even if the Spring Festival incident comes to an end, no one will mention it again in the future." Actually, everyone's impression of you Xiaolin is very good, but after all, you said some very heavy things, and it is impossible to say that people have no guilt in their hearts. If you can apologize with wine, you will have nothing to say. ”

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "If I knew this was the case, then I wouldn't have bothered in the Saint-Goga Islands." You see, I negotiated the supply port for you, and this meal still hasn't escaped. ”

Liu Xianghai said: "Drinking is drinking, negotiation is negotiation, the former is a private matter, the latter is a public matter, and it cannot be generalized." Escorting ships in the Indian Ocean is only the first step for the Navy to go to the open ocean. In the future, we will have to go to the South Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean, and we will need more supply ports, and I am afraid that we will need to ask your local comrades to assist in the development of these supply ports. ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "What, you have tasted the sweetness, and you plan to rely on our private enterprises to stand up for you?" ”

Liu Xianghai said: "Practice has shown that this is a very good model, and the effect is much better than if we negotiate directly in the name of the military." ”

Lin Zhenhua said proudly: "This is the difference of the times, in today's world, the economic power has exceeded the military power. What ultimately impressed the government of the Saint-Goga Islands was the income and jobs we created. Look, one day, I'll be able to rent a port in New York for our navy to resupply." ”

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult." Liu Xianghai said with a smile, in his heart, he just regarded this sentence as Lin Zhenhua's joke, where could he have thought that 10 years later, Lin Zhenhua would really do it.

After lunch, Liu Xianghai called a car and, together with Lin Zhenhua, went to the shipbuilding base on Changxing Island to inspect the new naval ships being built there. Chang-Xingdao is an island located in the heart of the Yangtze River, 7.5 km north of Pu-Dong. Changxingdao is 34 kilometers long from east to west and 5 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 160 square kilometers, and its southern shore has nearly 20 kilometers of deep-water coastline, and the deepest water depth can reach 22 meters, which is very suitable for the construction of wharves and shipbuilding berths.

With the vigorous development of China's shipbuilding industry, the original space of the two major shipyards in Jiangnan and Hudong has been far from meeting the needs, and at the beginning of the century, the two shipyards moved to Changxingdao at the same time to build a new factory, making Changxingdao become the largest shipbuilding industrial base in the Yangtze River Delta and even the country overnight.

Changxingdao also has a special advantage as a shipbuilding base, that is, it is far away from the urban area, hanging alone at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and there are few idle people, which is convenient for secrecy. At present, the 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier designed and built by Liu Xianghai is hidden in a very large workshop at the Changxingdao shipbuilding base, surrounded by a cordon, and there is even an air defense missile battalion on standby not far away, ready to meet uninvited guests.

The jeep in which Liu Xianghai and Lin Zhenhua rode passed through a tunnel under the river to Changxing Island, passed through several checkpoints, and finally entered the military port area. Liu Xianghai pulled Lin Zhenhua out of the car and introduced to Lin Zhenhua like a few treasures:

"Kobayashi, you see, what is being built over there are two anti-aircraft destroyers, both with a full load displacement of more than 9,000 tons. Now military fans outside call them the Chinese Aegis, which is not comparable to the American Aegis. The power of the ship is still your Hanhua gas turbine. Several of the destroyers built before were built with your gas turbines, and the navy reported that the performance was very good, and the maintenance was not very difficult. Everyone said thank you very much. ”

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "We are an enterprise, you are a customer, logically speaking, we thank you." ”

Liu Xianghai said: "Xiaolin, others don't know, but I know, in order to conquer the technology of gas turbines, you have invested a lot of money, far exceeding the price we ordered from you." If you change to other enterprises, I am afraid it will be difficult to choose to lose money to develop equipment for the navy. ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "Lao Liu, I remember telling you many years ago that everyone has a dream of a strong country in their hearts. Although we are an enterprise, we are not mercenary, and it is also our honor to be able to contribute a little to the country. Besides, we invest heavily in the development of gas turbines, and the return is also very large. In addition to marine engines, we have also developed electric gas turbines and chemical process gas turbines based on this prototype, which are all highly profitable products. ”