Half a month after Qi Yiming arrived in the United States, a piece of news appeared on the front page of the New York Times, and caused a shock in the United States and the whole world. The Islamic Republic of Iran transferred all its F-14 Tomcat fighters originating in the United States to the People's Republic of China at a price of $10 million each. Immediately after that, China sold 70 self-produced FC-1 Thunder fighters to Beibang and sold two ZDK-03 early warning aircraft. The news soon showed that North Korea simply could not afford to spend large sums of dollars on so many military planes, given the deal's history of circumventing the war embargo between China and Iran, and that there was no doubt that these things were being used as bargaining chips in exchange for Iran's F-14s.

This explosive news directly detonated the attention of people from all walks of life around the world; The Soviet Union condemned China's sale of military weapons to Iran in violation of international law as if it had never done it itself; The United States has begun to discuss what it means for China to have an F-14.

Soon, the "Washington Free Beacon Times" broke the news that an unofficial Chinese delegation visiting the United States a few days ago had formally submitted an application to the US Government to purchase 30 F-14 Tomcat fighters, and proposed to cooperate with the arms giant Grumman Corporation to develop an upgraded version of the Tomcat fighters.

As soon as the news came out, Grumman's stock soared 6% on the same day, and some sources were generally optimistic about arms exports this time. Of course, there are voices of opposition, saying that China is an evil and despicable red country, and that the Tomcat is one of the most outstanding weapons of the United States, and that exporting to China will face unpredictable risks. However, the entire public opinion circle has gone through many rounds of warm-up before, and many people are talking about strengthening military cooperation with China, and even more so to promote China to become the next ally of the United States, and the huge economic benefits brought by cooperation with China have also made many people optimistic about the sale of F-14s to China.

Only two days after the news was brewing, the US Congress passed a bill to relax military export controls to China, and at the same time approved Grumman to export 30 F-14 fighter jets to China.

A country that claims to have a legal system is in fact nothing more than a piece of waste paper that can be amended at any time. At this time, it was also the era of Batumi (the Paris Coordinating Committee, Western countries banned the export of military-related goods to socialist countries), but the United States had sold a variety of weapons to China before, such as the S-70 Black Hawk helicopter and the false claim that it was a civilian version, but the Mk-46 torpedo could not be used by fishermen to blow up fish.

When it came to the F-14 case, the United States didn't even know what shame was, and a member of the House of Representatives openly said that under the influence of the United States, China, which was originally rigid and backward, was ready to gradually open up its market economy and join the global liberalization market. ”

In a luxury hotel in Manhattan, New York, Qi Yiming, Grumman and some related personnel held a grand celebration banquet. And before this banquet, Qi Yiming specially proposed the 1 he had prepared. $200 million was delivered to Grumman as a deposit for the deal.

Although he only got a 10 percent deposit, Grumman was all excited. CEO Bilworth shook Qi Yiming's hand and said warmly: "Congratulations, Mr. Qi, you have finally received the reward as you wish, and I also believe that there will be a happy cooperation between China and our Grumman." ”

Qi Yiming smiled and said, "That's right, the cooperation is pleasant." ”

Bilworth patted his chest and said, "Several of our important engineers have packed up and are ready to follow you back to China." We hope to complete the maintenance and repair of the F-14s handed over to you by Iran as soon as possible, and at the same time work with the Chinese technical personnel to make certain improvements to meet the various needs of our customers, that is, the Chinese side. ”

Qi Yiming nodded and smiled, and raised his wine glass: "Cheers!" ”

According to the plan, because the first batch of aircraft purchased plus the transfer from Iran, the total number is 100, and Grumman agreed to transfer an overhaul line to China. With the help of the Red Alert engineers sent by Qi Yiming, they will complete the repair and maintenance of the Iranian F-14s. At the same time, they will also work with Red Alert engineers to modify these F-14s into the version required by the Chinese side for key parts such as avionics, power, and weapons.

After messing around with these things, Qi Yiming's main goal of coming to the United States this time has been completely achieved, and the next step is the digestion and absorption of the Tomcat fighter on his side. He has a lot of plans in his head on how to transform a tomcat, but it seems to be a lot of miscellaneous, and many of them are unrealistic. Excluding some obviously unreliable content, Qi Yiming still intends to let the Tomcat further strengthen its air supremacy and become the best guardian to protect the sky of the Republic. As for the multi-purpose function, if the J-10 enters service in large numbers for a while, the requirements for the Tomcat are not so serious.

It is said that the ground attack has always been the short leg of the Celestial Empire Air Force for a long time in later generations, and the early model of the J-11 basically does not have any ground attack capability.

And not to mention that the J-11 did not have the ability to attack the ground at the beginning, the J-10 positioning is also high-altitude and high-speed, and there is a J-7 Flying Leopard plus Lian is quite old-fashioned, and the Qiang-5 that pulls while eating can take care of this function. Compared to today's Qi Yiming, it is not more miserable. In short, the Red Police base is equipped with a large number of PLA Air Force J-10 and J-7 with excellent ground capability.

Qi Yiming originally wanted to think about these issues, but he was quickly disturbed by the chaotic environment of this party. The celebration itself was mostly attended by Grumman and a few other guests, and the atmosphere was much more relaxed than the charity reception of the day, and the music played by the band was also swinging, Broadway-style, with guests dancing freely on the dance floor, holding small goblets and chatting with men and women.

At this time, a familiar figure came to Qi Yiming's face, it was Jacqueline, the daughter of the Morgan family? Miss Morgan. She showed a smile that captivated the country and the city, and gently raised her glass and said, "Congratulations, Mr. Qi, you have completed the mission of this visit to the United States." ”

"Thank you."

Jacqueline blinked her big eyes and said, "So are you leaving the United States and returning to China soon?" ”

Qi Yiming said: "Yes, in about a week, I will finish some other things, and I will return to China." Does Miss Jacqueline want to go with me? ”

Jacqueline smiled, "That's a great idea. ”

She immediately looked left and right for a while, and asked, "Where's your beautiful girlfriend?" Why didn't you come over? ”

Qi Yiming said with a smile: "Watching TV in the suite at the back, she said that she didn't like this environment very much, and the lights were dark, which made her feel less at ease." ”

Jacqueline also smiled: "Yes, it's very similar to me, I don't like the environment here, look, there's a big bottle of 151 degrees over there, you're leaving, how about we have a drink together?" ”

Qi Yiming didn't expect this beautiful-looking white girl to have such a hobby, she obviously had a special meaning in her eyes when she looked at the bottle of spirits, Qi Yiming had made a lot of alcoholic friends everywhere, and he understood very well that it was clearly the drunkards' gluttony.

"Are you sure? It's 151 degrees in Bacardi, not our Chinese dry dry, and the taste of drinking it is not so pleasant. "Bacardi 151 degrees is one of the top ten spirits in the world, the category belongs to rum, Qi Yiming is no stranger to this thing, he also drank it abroad before crossing. To say that a Chinese drinking foreign spirits is actually quite unsuitable, such as Bacardi's 151 degrees, with an alcohol content of 75. 5 degrees, but when you drink it in your mouth, it's the same as drinking sticky water, and even if you don't drink much, you find that you can't even drink 20 cups.

But this wine pit people are pitted in the pit will never be like a good Chinese baijiu, after drinking it needs to wait for a while, and then the strength of the wine will come up, and the feeling of suffering can make people feel that the entire esophagus is covered with alcohol the next day, and the mind can not be clear all day.

Before Qi Yiming could raise any objections, he was dragged into his room by Jacqueline. Jiang Huayan was sitting on the bed holding a pillow and watching TV, and was a little stunned when she saw the foreign girl pulling Qi Yiming in.

"Hey, Jiang, borrow your boyfriend, let's have a drink together."

Qi Yiming could only show a helpless wry smile to Jiang Huayan.

Jacqueline took a few glasses on the table, poured the liquor with a clatter, stuffed it to Qi Yiming and Jiang Huayan, and shouted, "Cheers, my friends!" ”

As she spoke, she gulped the liquor that was not mixed with other drinks into her throat, and Qi Yiming's eyes were about to fall when she saw it.

"Qi, drink, everyone is happy together!" Jacqueline seemed to have completely lost her upper-class celebrity reserve after drinking, kicked off a pair of high heels on her feet, revealing a pair of white and smooth little feet on the hotel carpet.

Qi Yiming shook his head, picked up the wine glass and sipped it gently.

Jiang Huayan seems to know that this beautiful American woman has a very good background, and it will be of some help to Qi Yiming's career, so she is also curious about these foreign wines, and after Qi Yiming helped her mix the accompanying drinks, she also tasted such a little. Sure enough, the little girl found that the so-called liquor was not strong at all, and began to pretend to be bold and change glasses with Jacqueline.

Qi Yiming wanted to stop it, but instead he was pulled by these two girls, Jacqueline boldly put her arms around Qi Yiming's neck, brought the wine glass to his mouth, and said charmingly: "A gentleman will not let a lady pour herself a drink alone, come on, Qi!" ”