Chapter 1218 - Asking for Help

In order to keep the Grenada training unit secret, their newly established anti-aircraft missile company and anti-ship missile company were secretly carried to Cuba by cargo ship for training, and after meeting certain technical requirements, these servicemen were secretly transported back.

Of course, this is a high-tech branch of the armed forces, and Grenada, which has never had a missile before, cannot properly operate these weapons, and there are also a large number of Cuban technical troops mixed in.

Long before the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuba, with the help of the Soviet Union, had trained and trained a large number of missile technicians, and these technical arms had nothing to do, so that they could use their spare energy to attack the Americans.

In addition to the missile troops, Cuban servicemen have also joined Grenada's tank forces and air defense positions, and although Grenada has purchased less than 20 tanks, Grenada still cannot muster so many people.

It can be said that because of the addition of Cuban servicemen, Grenada's combat effectiveness has undergone a qualitative change.

There is still a big disagreement between the top leaders of Cuba and Grenada on whether the troops are training openly or quietly. At the beginning, most of the top leaders believed that in order to prevent the United States from invading, it was necessary to train troops openly and on a large scale, and to let the United States know that if they invaded Grenada, they would pay a great price and become a deterrent to the United States, and they would not dare to invade.

But their motion was rejected by the Cuban head of state, who believed that even if Grenada was well-trained and most armed, the island nation would still not be able to deter the United States, and they would not be afraid. On the contrary, they will regard Grenada's large-scale introduction of weapons and military training as a provocation, which will further stimulate the nerves of the Americans to send troops ahead of schedule.

The only way for Grenada to stop the United States is to hurt the other side when it invades, letting him know that the cost is too great and the gains outweigh the losses, so they will hesitate. will consider whether to retreat.

For a big country like the United States, they will not raise the whole country's troops to fight a war when they invade Grenada, but will gather troops depending on Grenada's military strength, and if Grenada hides its strength and makes the United States mistake Grenada's strength, thinking that Grenada's military strength is still the same as before, they will only send a small number of troops to complete the occupation, in that case, Grenada will have a chance to defeat them. Let the United States engage in refueling tactics.

As long as the United States carries out the tactics of adding fuel and is unable to take the islands for a while, not only will there be many voices opposing the United States sending troops in the international community, but there will also be anti-war voices within the United States, and then Grenada's opportunity will come.

The Cuban head of state asked those who figured out how to show off force to deter the United States from sending troops: "How can Grenada show its force?" Is there a strong force in Vietnam? The United States did not attack Vietnam until Vietnam had beaten them badly. We just have to hide our strength, we have to catch them off guard, so that their soldiers have suffered huge casualties, so that they can be honest and know that Grenada is an iron thistle, and sending troops here is only troublesome and no benefit. They will retreat. ”

Cuba, Grenada, and Halleps do not know that the United States is determined to take Grenada, and they either do not do it, or once they do, they will go all out to greatly boost the military prestige of the US military. To convince NATO allies that the US military is powerful, if they retreat halfway, it is better not to do anything, and they can only laugh at themselves by adding to the Soviet camp. It will damage the prestige of the US military even more.

Just when Grenada and Cuba were intensively preparing for the invasion of the United States, Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar led a group of people to promote his "The Sinking of the Petrel" in the United States according to Guo Chengcheng's request. And Haleps and a team of people he hired are carefully preparing for the establishment of the Night Pearl Island.

Guo Shucheng, Chu Xuji, Bao Heng and others are busy at the end of the year. Government agencies in China. The end of the year is undoubtedly the busiest, not only have production tasks to sprint, there are projects to wrap up, there are summary work to be carried out, and more importantly, there are still many meetings to be held, what mobilization meeting, acceptance meeting, commendation meeting, publicity and implementation meeting, ......, in addition to the grassroots cadres and masses to inspect, the garrison to condole, the old comrades to visit......

Even though Guo Zhuocheng has rich experience in meetings and a strong physique, he is still busy and exhausted in the face of so many meetings, his buttocks are numb, his throat is hoarse, and his right hand is a little swollen because of the handshake......

The only thing that is fortunate is that everyone is jubilant, whether it is the cadres who came to the meeting or the masses they met when they went down to the grassroots level, everyone was happy, because everyone felt that this year was another bumper harvest year, another year of doubling income, and everyone was convinced that next year would be better.

Because of this, everyone's attitude towards Guo Zhuocheng is friendly and respectful, and they all admire and appreciate Guo Zhuocheng from the bottom of their hearts, and no one doubts that this young man will build Qionghai Island into the richest region in China, and will make the Qionghai Administrative Office upgrade to a province, which will become a treasure land that people in China and even the world yearn for.

However, the news from the United States that Pedro Almodóvar was not optimistic, and the results of the sales of films to American film distributors and theaters were very bleak, as he feared before his departure, those arrogant Americans were not interested in films from China, some of them respected director Pedro and talked to him about the film for a while, and some of them simply disappeared.

The reason for this extreme situation is also related to the bad time for Pedro and others to go to the United States, because December has Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year's Day and other holidays, which is the golden age of movies, and various movie theaters have already arranged the movies that will be released.

Pedro also has a lot of different opinions on choosing this time to attack, but Guo Shucheng emphasized that this time is the best, and only by defeating key opponents at critical moments can he show his strength.

Pedro doesn't know where Guo's self-confidence comes from, why is he so sure? You must know that Guo Zhuocheng has prepared a capital budget of 10 million US dollars for this purpose, and this fund is only to open the door to the North American film market, which does not include the publicity costs of future distribution, which is only equivalent to the pre-operation costs, or public relations costs.

You must know that now 10 million US dollars is a huge amount of money, not to mention that the filming cost of "The Sinking of the Petrel" is not so much, even the shooting cost of those so-called world blockbusters, and there are not many who can exceed this number.

Of course, this is also a worst-case plan, if you go along with it, there is no need to spend this budget, or even spend much, as long as the film impresses the film distributor, people will take the initiative to negotiate, and the contract can be signed without spending money.

In the future, the operating costs and publicity costs will also be borne by the issuing company, which is very common, because the purpose of the issuing company is also to make more money. Pedro and others, who promote the film, are even treated as honored guests of the distributors, who are invited to a banquet and a free dinner.

"This kid is really rich, and he just treats so much money as a number." Pedro Almodóvar secretly said in his heart, "Do I really have to use money to open the way? ”

As the director of this film, Pedro didn't know what effect this money would achieve, and he was really a little worried that the huge amount of money in addition to the shooting cost would be wasted, and that Princess Madeleine would blame him when the time came.

Artists are sometimes not afraid of the powerful, but when the powerful are his immediate boss and decide his own fate, he still has to be afraid.

He became more and more suspicious, and even blamed Guo Zhuocheng for being too subjective and arbitrary, if he had followed his plan and screened it in Spain, Hong Kong, Macau and other places first, Gen would not need these troubles, even if there was no Princess Madeleine and Guo Zhuocheng in these places, he Pedro could handle it himself.

You must know that he is not only famous in Spain, not only a famous director in Spain, he also has a wide network, especially those cinemas in Spain, they are proud to be able to show his films.

It can be said that if it was in Spain, it would not be Pedro begging for others, but others vying to cooperate with him.

Thinking that he could be the object of other people's stammering, but now he has become a bitter begging for others, Pedro was angry for a while, and kept slandering Guo Zhuocheng in his heart, if he hadn't insisted on taking the United States first, how could this have happened?

"Mr. Pedro, I have great admiration for Your Excellency's artistic skills, and I appreciate your films, and I have no doubt that you have created a miracle in China. But, I'm very sorry, we have a full schedule, and we can't make way for a film that has already signed a contract for the sake of good art, and we can't suppress our film because it's from China. After all, our children want more of our own movies and like our own movie stars. ”

A red-faced man smoked a cigar and said with a smile, although his attitude was kind, the arrogance in his eyes radiated to Pedro Almodóvar and his assistant.

Pedro had no choice but to say again: "It's a shame, I have to say that you missed the first opportunity to screen such a good film. ”

The other party said, "Yes." It's a shame that maybe we'll show it in the third or fourth batch, as long as your films can really move our audience. ......, by the way, we can't find time to attend your film reception due to manpower constraints, and I sincerely apologize for that, if it were next month. ”

Pedro smiled bitterly and said: "I think it's a pity for both of us, maybe a loss. ”

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