The flight from Jiangbei to Beijing is only at night, the factory office sent a car to send Lu Tianming and his entourage to the airport, everyone carried simple luggage through the security check, sat down in the waiting room, outside the glass curtain wall is the brightly lit airport, an airbus painted by China Eastern Airlines is waiting quietly, and the airport staff uses forklifts to send aviation food and luggage into the baggage compartment of the belly.

"Just take the train, why take the plane, it's so expensive." Lao Wen is used to being thrifty, and he has set up two tickets to the capital for Ye Zhiqiu's assertions, and he is still haunted by it.

Lu Tianming smiled heartily: "Wen Gong, you are outdated, now the plane ticket is cheaper than the high-speed rail ticket?" And it's safer than high-speed rail, let's fly together, and we can chat on the road to relieve boredom, how good. ”

The secretary quipped: "Wen Gong, it's not good for Mr. Lu to spend public money to invite you to take a plane to open foreign meat!" ”

Lao Wen said with a smile: "There is nothing easy to sit on the plane, Yun 5, Yun 7, Yun 8, Trident, Zhi 5, Black Eagle, Dolphin, and Little Antelope have all been seated, but this is really the first time for the passenger plane." ”

"Wen Gong, what rank did you have when you were a soldier?" Ye Zhiqiu asked, although Lao Wen was his master, he rarely mentioned his own affairs.

Lao Wen smiled faintly: "It's a captain, an army captain." ”

"Tell us about the past." Ye Zhiqiu said wistfully, Lao Wen hesitated, that memory was a scar he didn't want to touch.

When it was embarrassing, the broadcast began to board the plane, everyone picked up their luggage and tickets, passed through the ticket gate in turn, walked to the tarmac, boarded the gangway to find their seats, Ye Zhiqiu helped Lao Wen put the luggage, and asked him to sit by the window, ten minutes later, the plane taxied into the runway, took off and flew north in the night.

Lao Wen looked at the night outside the porthole, couldn't help but think a thousand times, and a young self appeared in front of him, wearing a brown-green 87-style army uniform, carrying a golden captain's epaulettes, a white shirt and a black tie, heroic, and magnificent.

But all this only lasted for two short years, because of the accident of the new model of weapons, he became a scapegoat, and then divorced, expelled from the military, the glorious future became a dead end, he left the base with his young daughter in a daze and helplessly, tossed and turned several units, and finally took root in Jiangbei Chenguang Machinery Factory and became an unknown ordinary technician.

Later, he suffered from severe kidney disease, and the factory was on the verge of bankruptcy, and his daughter followed him and suffered for more than ten years.

It all started with that runaway missile.

For a long time, cruise missiles have been an undying nightmare in Lao Wen's heart, and it was not until that day that Lu Tianming proposed to let him lead the team to develop a simplified version of the ultra-cheap cruise missile, and he suddenly woke up, and if he wanted to break this curse, he had to get up from where he fell.

Lao Wen is a high-achieving student who graduated from Harbin Engineering University, and has worked as a project leader in the most cutting-edge research institute in the military, although it was all old 20 years ago, but the foundation is still there, and these technical requirements put forward by Lu Tianming are simply pediatrics in his opinion.

Lu Tianming's visit to Beijing this time was to find old relations to clear up and strive to include the cruise missiles produced by the Chenguang Factory in the procurement plan of the General Armament Department, and at least let the above know that the Chenguang Factory had materials, and for this reason they had prepared a lot of materials and also entrusted a lot of relations, and the success or failure of the Chenguang Factory could not be said to be a crucial battle in this move.

"Wen Gong, lie down for a while." Ye Zhiqiu handed over a small pillow, interrupting Lao Wen's thoughts.

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The flight from Jiangbei to the capital airport is not long, it took an hour and a half to fly, and it was already half past eleven o'clock in the middle of the night when it landed, after leaving the airport, a military Toyota Kaoss took them to the five-star hotel in the city to stay, Lao Wen lived in such a luxurious hotel for the first time in his life, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

It was already very late, but the host party proposed to set up a banquet to entertain them, and it was difficult to resist the hospitality, Lu Tianming had to sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman, and Lao Wen went back to the room to rest first because he was old and in poor health.

In the middle of the night, Lao Wen was awakened by the noise, and when he opened his eyes, the light in the bathroom was on, and the sound of vomiting came.

Lao Wen hurriedly patted Lu Tianming's back and helped him get a hot towel, Lu Tianming wiped his face, waved his hand and said, "I'm fine, it's not so easy to pour me down." He staggered to the bed, fell headlong and began to snore like thunder.

Early the next morning, Lu Tianming woke up from his sleep and found himself lying on the bed with his shoes on the ground.

"Oops, shame on me yesterday." Lu Tianming got up and said: "Seven people drank ten bottles of Wuliangye, I didn't drink it like this when I was in the army before, I'm old, and I'm not as young as I am young."

Lao Wen turned around and said: "Yesterday you went to bed without taking off your clothes, I can't move you alone, I want to ask them for help, no one cares how to knock on the door, I think maybe I drank too much, so I didn't alarm them again." ”

Lu Tianming said: "The two of them blocked a lot of wine for me, alas! That's how to ask someone to do things, sacrifice your life to accompany a gentleman! I have to drink it at noon and night today, Wen Gong, you are busy with yours, leave us alone. ”

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Lao Wen came to Beiqing University to see his daughter for the first time, Wen Xue was very excited, and dragged Lu Jin to accompany his father to visit the campus, and saw that his daughter's living and learning environment was very good, and Lao Wen was also very pleased.

In the evening, Wen Xue invited her father to dinner near the school, but she didn't see Han Bing during the banquet, and Lao Wen wondered, "Xiaoxue, what about your classmate?" ”

Lu Jin hurriedly replied: "Han Bing has something to do at home, and he has been very busy recently." ”

Lao Wen didn't ask any more, after all, young people have their own world.

"Xiaoxue, the project that Dad is responsible for has been accepted, if it can be put into production, the benefits will be considerable, and if you stay in the capital to work in the future, Dad will be able to get a down payment for the house." Lao Wen mentioned the project he was proud of, and his face was full of spring breeze.

"Really? That's great. The two female college students were also excited.

Just when Lao Wen and his daughter were reunited, Lu Tianming was still fighting at the wine table, he had a comrade-in-arms, and now the headquarters is in charge of military procurement, although he is only a colonel, but he has a lot of power in his hands, Lu Tianming went to his office with all the information in the morning, and the two sides talked very happily, and at noon it was a reception banquet to drink in the dark, and went to Houhai to drink tea in the afternoon, and then drank in the evening.

The dinner was held in a prestigious hotel in the capital, the decoration was extremely luxurious, the private room was large enough to play basketball, the service staff were carefully selected beauties, the large round table was scary, and the people sitting opposite could not see clearly.

This time Lu Tianming kept an eye on it, and got some yogurt to cushion the bottom before drinking, but he still drank too much, vomited in the bathroom for a while, his mind was a little clearer, and he came to the front desk to check out, the capital's consumption is not as shabby as the locality, and it cost tens of thousands of yuan for a supper last night, and this meal is afraid that it will not be able to get down without 50,000, but for the sake of the order, I admit it.

The front desk clerk looked at the computer and quoted a number: "68,000 yuan." ”

Lu Tianming almost sat on the ground, and the Chenguang Factory received 300 million venture capital, but the money was not blown by the wind, and a casual meal was the price of a car, and he couldn't accept it emotionally.

But he still took out his bank card to settle the bill, holding the ** hand is trembling, such a huge amount of entertainment expenses, if it can't be done again, how to explain to the employees of the factory.

His old comrade-in-arms came out of it: "Lao Lu, why did you run away, this can't be done, three glasses of wine will be punished." As he spoke, he dragged him in.

"Lao Zhang, I really can't drink anymore, take it slowly." Lu Tianming said to him.

The old comrade-in-arms was also reasonable, found a private room with no one and sat down, Lu Tianming took out Chinese cigarettes and gave him them, but he took out his cigarette case and said, "Smoke mine, special supply." ”

"Lao Lu, why did you secretly settle the account and not give me face!" Lao Zhang asked, when Lu Tianming was the head of the regiment in the past, he was the political commissar, the two had been partners for a while, and the relationship was very iron.

Lu Tianming smiled: "It should be, it should be." ”

"That'...... You see if our missiles will work. ”

"Hehe, yes, yes, yes......, yes, yes, As far as military weapons are concerned, the gap is still very large. ”

Lu Tianming was dumbfounded, and he didn't know how to interface.

Lao Zhang burped and said: "Old regiment leader, you should know that the production of a weapon, from project establishment, design, testing, finalization, production, to equipping troops, and then to the formation of combat effectiveness, at least ten years or even longer, fighting a war is not a child's house, you can go into battle with a few model aircraft, and besides, you are really not good at this thing, slow speed, not stealth, and you will be shot down with an automatic rifle, so let's fight for it, purchase some target aircraft to use, you see how it is." ”

As soon as Lu Tianming heard this, a cold sweat fell: "Lao Zhang, listen to me, although the accuracy of this missile is slightly inferior, it is better than cheap and good, several launched together, can make up for the shortcomings of lack of accuracy, for the third world countries that cannot afford to buy precision-guided weapons, it is the best choice!" ”

"Old comrade-in-arms, it's not that I don't help you, the water is too deep, and I can't be the master, you know, the entry of a new product is related to how many people's jobs, if you export weapons, it is a political task, and it is even more sloppy, old regiment leader, it's not that I criticize you, your Chenguang factory has limited strength, it's okay to produce some lightning protection vehicles and the like, high-tech weapons are still as little as possible, to put it mildly, you can make new things out of a small factory with an investment of 100,000 yuan, Let those research institutes that take hundreds of millions of dollars a year be embarrassed, and how can you let people mix. ”

Lu Tianming's eyes dimmed suddenly, although the words of his old comrades-in-arms were harsh, but this is the reality, the missiles he worked so hard to develop were actually used as target aircraft, which is a difficult fact to accept, but it is better than investing all the money, and he can only accept it with all his anger.

"Lao Zhang, thank you."

"Okay, how many years of old comrades-in-arms, don't you have any face, rest enough, let's go, drink."