In the evening, Liu Zhengtai asked Zhang Jin and other old buddies to have dinner together, originally for a simple chat and fart, who knew that a supplement to "Datang Daily" attracted everyone's attention. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the table, seven or eight dishes had already been served, and the waiter had already poured water and wine, and as a result, a group of young men in their twenties and thirties, each holding a newspaper, could not finish reading. The waitress is a Vietnamese girl, who has just been able to speak Chinese neatly, and she doesn't know a few Chinese characters, she only knows that what can make these old men so attentive must be a big deal.

The eldest Zhang Jin rubbed his eyes after reading a report about a tofu cube, and saw a table of people reading the newspaper, he couldn't help but quip: "This situation can't help but remind me of the past, everyone played with their mobile phones when they had a meal, and it took a while to start eating." ”

When everyone heard this, Liu Zhengtai was more vigilant, and he said to the Vietnamese waiter: "You don't need to help here, thank you." ”

After all, the table is full of people, and it is inevitable that they will talk about some more intimate topics, and for so many years, some things can't be said in front of outsiders.

Glasses said: "There's no need to be too nervous, this waiter's little sister is probably not even familiar with Chinese." ”

Liu Zhengtai said: "There is no big mistake in being careful. ”

Zhang Jin sighed, shifted the topic to everyone's newspaper, and said, "Look at it like this, it's really going to fight." ”

Later, Jiang Ming, an engineer who became familiar with this group of people and worked in FAW, said: "This kind of thing should not be surprising at all, Bai Nan has tinkered with so many things over the years, I'm afraid they are all revolving around the war against the Qing Dynasty." ”

Liu Zhengtai said: "There are plans above, at least the country has done well in recent years." ”

Kuroko smiled: "That's right." You, Boss Liu, are now standard vested interests. ”

Zhang Jin scolded with a smile: "It seems that you didn't make money with it." ”

Kuroko said: "Everyone earns." Everybody earns. Rather. Brother Zhang's vision is good, a few years ago, the shipyard was dismantled, and now the ship has been dismantled, and the production capacity of the Long Beach shipyard is insufficient, and the orders for French man-made warships have been given to you. ”

Zhang Jin smiled bitterly: "It's all hard-earned money, this is a subcontract, and a large part of the profits are deducted by the people of Long Beach." ”

Jiang Ming said: "But Brother Zhang, you have also taken this opportunity to become a military industrial cooperation unit, and the quality of the military industry itself is a good reputation and advertisement." Besides, if this is really going to start, the navy will definitely order more warships, and now that Long Beach can't play there, it will naturally be picked up by Brother Zhang's West Coast Shipyard. ”

Zhang Jin smiled, he was also optimistic about the advantages of supplying the military, so he began to lay out a few years ago, his slipway is now the largest except for the Long Beach Shipyard, although there must be a shortage of warship technology, but in order to supply orders, the military will definitely find a way to support. Technology and resource tilt are not a problem, so Zhang Jin will take advantage of a big advantage.

"Exactly. Can you keep up with the new armored vehicles that you GM and FAW supplied to the military? Zhang Jin asked curiously.

Liu Zhengtai and Jiang Ming glanced at each other, and both saw a little worry, Liu Zhengtai said: "To be honest, the half-track car project is a big step forward for the military, although it is not enough to pull the egg, but there are still a lot of troubles." This thing itself is not simple, but the military also emphasized to us the serviceability and reliability, isn't this perfect, you must know that the German 251 type half-track vehicle during World War II is one of the most outstanding half-track armored vehicles in the entire World War II period, which can ensure continuous and trouble-free driving, that is, two or three hundred kilometers of action. ”

Zhang Jin asked, "How much can you do now?" ”

Jiang Ming was not afraid of revealing the ugliness, and said: "If you can reach 100 kilometers of trouble-free driving, you will burn high incense, which is not at the same level of technical difficulty as the barrel car we made before." This car is really very leather, but in terms of reliability, we really don't have a very good way, the industrial base is like this, if it fully meets the requirements of the military, hehe, we must at least have the industrial level of the sixties of the twentieth century. ”

Zhang Jindao: "But the military still ordered." ”

Liu Zhengtai said: "Look at this, the military is a conspirator to fight, this thing is in great demand, and now the three regiments of the first brigade have all been changed to mechanized troops, even if the reliability is poor, they also need it, after all, compared to the lightning fast horse made before, the role of the half-track armored vehicle is much greater." ”

The half-track vehicle jointly developed by FAW and GM has been delivered to the troops for some time. Its official designation is the SZ-77, also known as the Type 77 armored vehicle. Although Liu Zhengtai and Jiang Ming did not have a good way to change the reliability problem of the 77-style, from oil and water leakage to engine breakdown, there were many small problems in the 77-style. However, once this car is put into the battlefield, there is no doubt about its role. The 10+2 crew design allows an entire infantry squad to fight in a chariot. The half-track format allows the car to pass through some of the more difficult road conditions without being slow. Its base weapon is a 12. 7mm heavy machine gun, there are shooting holes in the car, and there are modified versions of this car, and Liu Zhengtai and they have been busy with these recently.

Originally, they wanted to install the military's 105-mm howitzer and make it capable of assault guns, but there were too many problems to solve. In the end, they successfully tested the installation of a 37mm small-caliber gun on the hull, as well as a twin 120mm rocket launcher. The rockets they fired were ordinary individual rockets, and although they had a limited range, their firepower was also useful.

Jiang Ming said: "It is estimated that it will not take a few days, and it is time to receive a new order, I am really embarrassed to mention the reliability of this thing, and the military can only order a large number of goods to make up for the possible battlefield losses, but it is cheaper for us." ”

Zhang Jindao: "Could it be that we are too optimistic about this war?" After all, this time we are going to fight the Qing Kingdom, which is in its heyday, not the British who are laboring on expeditions and fighting across the sea. Although the strength of the Qing army is worse, but the depth is also large, we still don't know what kind of strategic intention it is, in case we are not careful, we will also fall into a quagmire of war, but we will be in trouble. ”

Liu Zhengtai said: "I suspect that everyone may have some of this thing, but I think at least there is no problem in winning the war, those bigwigs in the cabinet are still very capable, the question is what benefits we will get after the fight." ”

"The resumption of trade is certain, it's like a copy of the Opium War."

"It's just that, with Qianlong's character, will he agree to a "Nanjing Treaty"?"

Jiang Ming said: "Who knows, I think that if we fight this battle, it will not be the same as the Opium War, we need more from the Manchu Dynasty, and with the character of Bai Nan, if Qianlong blocks him, eighty percent of Qianlong will be finished." ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and Zhang Jin said: "I think it's really possible, Bai Nan is doing things, which one doesn't have the courage to cover the sky?" ”

As ordinary traversers, everyone is not particularly afraid of some of the characters above, and they have all been in contact with Bai Nan. Men also like to talk about political things to show their horizons.

The glasses sighed: "That's Qianlong." ”

Jiang Ming said: "What's wrong with Qianlong, for us, it's not much better than those wild monkeys who drink blood." ”

Heizi smiled, and he said: "If Qianlong is really tied up, I think I can make a lot of money just by doing exhibitions, and everyone goes to take pictures with Emperor Qianlong, how interesting." ”

Zhang Jin shook his head helplessly: "You really treat people as monkeys in the circus." ”

Liu Zhengtai said: "If you want me to say, go directly to the Qing Kingdom and come to the next province, which coastal province does not have a population of 10 million now, and with the population, our country can develop." And I think it's probably not as complicated as everyone thinks. Although the Qing State is not weak now, and it is very rich, but the atmosphere of erosion is already very sufficient, in essence, China in 1840 and China at this time, there is not much difference. The military is weak, the officialdom is corrupt, the traditional economy is disintegrating, and the social contradictions are deep, and this is already on the eve of change. ”

Jiang Ming said: "I hope that the above is not afraid of trouble, occupy a province, and when the time comes, it will definitely modernize and develop the newly occupied places, and our FAW and family cars are now inseparable from your GM, but there have been rumors from the top recently, and the ban on the export of our passenger cars in Europe may be lifted, but if the Chinese market is won, the others can stand on the sidelines." ”

Glasses said: "But I heard that the Chinese at this time were very conservative, Cixi couldn't stand the sound of the steam engine, let the eunuch pull the train car on the railway, and the local area felt that the black smoke of the factory destroyed Feng Shui, our cars are all new, and there will always be resistance." ”

Jiang Ming looked confident: "It's different, we are outsiders to a certain extent, and we are outsiders who come with power, some people have opinions about our technological products, no problem, we can throw them to Borneo or Hawaii, we don't need to think about any ancestral traditions and too many gentry classes." The old way, grasp the problem of food and clothing for the working people at the lower levels, go to the people, mobilize the people, one hand is a stick, the other hand is a carrot, can you still be afraid that it will not be handled well? ”

Zhang Jin clapped his hands and said: "I can't see it, our Chief Engineer Jiang is still very politically insightful." I also think that those conservative forces that have been able to reject the nascent national industry and foreign civilization so much in history are, in the final analysis, these people who are engaged in foreign affairs in China are either not thinking about foreign affairs, or their influence is too small. Our muscles are strong enough, and whoever is not in harmony will let them go to the colony to spread out for us Chinese, and those who accept the new model will soon become rich and developed, and eventually they will all succumb. (To be continued.) )