At the Pentagon, a new joke is secretly circulating among employees, and this joke is closely related to the main business of the Umbrella Military Industrial and Security Services Group: a few days ago, at the Pentagon, an arms procurement delegation from the Russian Imperial Government almost met with an arms procurement delegation from the Japanese Imperial Government, and yet it became known that the two countries were about to go to war. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Unfortunately, the joke was not just a joke, the fact is that when the Russian delegation, which had just walked into the main entrance of the Pentagon, turned en masse to the right, the Japanese delegation came from the left, ready to leave; Fortunately, as the members of both delegations focused on the brochures and gifts distributed by the companies, neither of them noticed each other.

But even so, the account manager who was responsible for arranging the reception was still the manager of Rachel. Mcbride. Ms. Yi scolded a bloody dog.

The Pentagon, of course, does not want the two delegations to face each other. While it is extremely common for arms dealers to sell arms to both sides at the same time, just as banks provide war loans to both sides at the same time, and politicians and bureaucrats in various countries are well aware of it, it is always embarrassing for everyone to have representatives of two countries meet head-on at the company's headquarters, and then it will affect the company's business.

If the situation is even worse and is stabbed in the newspaper by some ignorant tabloid reporter - of course, Umbrella has the power to prevent American newspapers from publishing this kind of news, but it is not only American journalists who care about Russia and Japan, paparazzi are all over the world, and if the news leaks to Europe or South America, it is not for the Pentagon to intervene - then the joke will turn into a scandal and eventually a farce.

Umbrella can not care about his own image, but the Russian people will be angry, and the Japanese, every employee who has heard those jokes of Qin Lang is full of malicious fantasies, these guys who love the motherland and are easily impulsive and bold enough to attack the Russian crown prince, will shout the slogan "God will punish the country" and cut down the bureaucrats and delegation members who proposed to buy the weapons of the Great Viper Company.

Lower gram up. Many Pentagon staff members have heard that this is a time-honored Japanese tradition that means that subordinates kill and behead their unpleasant superiors -- for these white Americans and blacks, "gram" means "kill," which is pronounced similarly, and of course means the same thing.

Of course, it is also for this reason that the Pentagon staff is always careful when spreading that joke and absolutely does not disclose it to people outside the company: after all, no one wants to see the business that is about to be sold disappear because of their own recklessness, even if the company has signed contracts with the Japanese army and navy. Everyone knows that those contracts are just appetizers for bigger contracts in the future, and that nothing is absolutely safe until the main course is put in front of you, and then put in your mouth with a fork and swallowed.

They were all very careful and cautious, and Rachel took decisive action to eliminate the potential crisis: to prevent the same incident from happening again, and of course for Umbrella's real economic benefit, she sent all the Russians to Stockton to see Caterpillar's new toys.

And - not only Rachel, but also the employees who dealt with the Russian delegation - there was no need to keep the Russians in San Diego: unlike the Japanese, who wanted to buy everything, these Russians did not come to buy rifles, machine guns, and ammunition.

After all, the Russian army did not have the same problems that the Japanese army faced, and it had been armed with Type 1891 three-line rifles, dragoon rifles and Cossack rifles a few years earlier, and had opted for machine guns designed by Maxim, although the country's weak industrial base and the tsar's disregard for his "gray cattle" had led to a somewhat slow pace of production of these weapons, but out of the pride of the Russian nation and the belief that the current stockpiles of weapons were sufficient for a war with Japan, St. Petersburg has no intention of procuring firearms and ammunition.

Mortars, the only thing that the Russian delegation intends to buy. The events of 1898 in China made the Russian Army interested in this weapon, and in that same year the Tsar ordered his military engineers to design the same weapon, but because of Russia's thin industrial base, the progress of this work was not optimistic, and the last two to three years have not been fruitful. In addition to this, there seems to be some problems with the thinking of the designers - or, rather, in line with the thinking of the time - they adopted a super-caliber design, intending to use a 76.2 mm caliber gun and fire 85 mm caliber shells.

Claude and his colleagues agreed that the design was flawed, and that even if it was barely completed and put into production, it would soon be obsolete. The members of the Russian delegation disagreed with them, but in any case, since Russia's own mortars were still a distant thing and war was imminent, the national pride of the Russians could only temporarily retreat to make way for the mortars made by the Great Viper Company.

The Russian delegation chose a 120-mm mortar and a 160-mm mortar, which has not yet completed testing. For this reason alone, their choice is fully in line with the unique nature and long-standing tradition of Russians who love large-caliber artillery. To Rachel's joy and worry, the Russians directly issued an arms order worth $7 million, requiring the Viper Arms Company to deliver 450 and 240 mortars of two calibers and 40 bases of ammunition to the Russian Army within seven months. There is no doubt that business is good business, but it has exceeded the company's production capacity.

Six hundred and ninety mortars may still be a task, but with forty base ammunition, it is really difficult.

Ammunition isn't just a matter for the Big Viper Arms Company. As in previous years, DuPont remains the company's sole supplier of explosives and propellants, and even if its production capacity can meet demand, DuPont will disguise itself as a false expression of insufficient production to demand higher prices for explosives and propellants.

Although the economic impact of DuPont's possible price hike had been factored into the cost of being part of the $7 million contract, to be borne entirely by the Russians, Rachel was unhappy: she didn't want to give more than a penny. It's just that it's not up to her to decide, the customer is God.

To be precise, the valuable customer is God - not everyone who buys a product can become a god, the rule is always clear, whoever pays more is worth more and gets better treatment - and those who exceed a certain limit will get the title of God.

Although the Russians are not qualified gods: apart from two mortars, and matching ammunition, they do not want to buy anything else.

Rachel hates things like this: as a woman who has spent the last few years trying to prove that she can do better than men, and an arms dealer who can partner with Qin Lang, if she can't squeeze the Russians' wallets to the fullest, then doing business with the Russians will be a shame for her.

So she sent all the Russians to Stockton, on the one hand, to eliminate the possibility of the Russian delegation meeting with the Japanese delegation, and on the other hand, to let the Russians see Caterpillar's new toys, hoping that they would help the company get new orders.

So the Russian delegation went to Stockton, where they saw something new and interesting to each of its members in a deliberately rugged clearing: two modified Ford small trucks and two tracked construction machines, one a bulldozer and the other a tractor.

However, the terms "truck", "bulldozer" and "tractor" are not accurate descriptions and are not comprehensive enough to fully explain their characteristics. The Russians soon found the official Umbrella instructions in the pamphlet they were given: Armed trucks, armoured vehicles, armoured bulldozers, and medium artillery tractors, apparently new weapons for the army - no one knew what such an unarmed and untowed artillery thing could do in the army except the armored bulldozer - but O'Connor knew.

He arrived in Stockton with the new toys, a day before the Russians, and before that he had supervised their field testing in Area 51 until he received a telegram from Rachel - it must be noted that O'Connor did not like Rachel's idea at all.

It was undoubtedly a bad idea, and field tests at Area 51 showed that the maneuverability and reliability of the two tracked machines were all terrible, even when they were unloaded, the maximum speed was only thirteen miles per hour, and the maximum range was only thirty-five miles, and even more unfortunately, even this little distance could not be successfully completed, and it could only be driven normally for an hour at most, because the traveling gear and transmission system were always faulty, and the diesel engines were not very reliable.

If Qin Lang hadn't foreseen this situation and pointed it out to him, Caterpillar's engineers and technicians would have been severely reprimanded, their salaries deducted, or even directly fired. Not only because of the situation of the tests, but also because they claim that the problem of mechanical reliability cannot be solved in a short period of time.

This is by no means good news, for a simple reason: the so-called "short period" for these purely technical personnel, is two years.

It's so troublesome, it's so bad, but Rachel wants to sell the two tracked machines to the Russians as full-fledged commodities. O'Connor didn't want to blame anything, after all, she was a businessman, thinking all day about how to make more money, and she didn't know anything about technology, but he always felt that her idea was a disaster.

And to send two machines from Area 51 to Stockton to show the Russians was an even greater disaster, a tragedy - although, thanks to the railroad company, Las Vegas had a railroad in 1895, but they always had to go to Las Vegas on their own, the traveling gear and drivetrain continued to wear out, and the frequency of failures became more and more frequent, but fortunately Caterpillar still had many standard parts that could replace the damaged parts immediately, otherwise O'Connor doubted that they would be able to operate when they arrived at Stockton - If these are not tragedies, what else?

In the face of all these problems, O'Connor could only resort to maneuvering and secretly praying that the Russians would never pay attention to the two crawlers in the corners and would not make a maneuvering display, let alone be interested in them.

For a while, he thought his goal had been accomplished, and the Russians had indeed focused their attention on two converted Ford small trucks.

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