Liao Huairen sat in the cockpit of this plane that he thought was luxurious, touched the soft leather seats, and jokingly said to Qi Yiming next to him: "You are doing a capitalist style, such a good plane is not equipped even by the big leaders, but you got it as your transit plane, and you also got a fighter plane to escort you, it's too corrupt." ”

Qi Yiming smiled and turned out to be a cup of Longjing tea handed over by the flight attendant lady wearing the uniform of Air China in the future, and also jokingly protested: "This is not a fighter escort, it is clearly just a transfer with you." And this plane was not mine in the first place, and when I finished borrowing it this time, it was going to be sent to the capital as a special plane for Ping Lao. ”

Liao Huairen looked at the plane back and forth, and couldn't help but say: "Thirty years later, will our country be able to build such a good civil airliner?" I don't know anything about aviation, but I know that it is more difficult to build a civil aircraft than a fighter plane. ”

What he said is not a lie, military aircraft can still tolerate noise, frequent maintenance, frequent breakdowns, short life and other problems, but the pursuit of absolute comfort and safety of civil aircraft, manufacturing is only much more difficult than military aircraft. Therefore, the Celestial Empire created a fifth-generation fighter, but it could not make a regional airliner.

Qi Yiming shook his head regretfully and said: "Before I crossed, the country had already made a type of regional airliner, and the real domestic large aircraft had just been test-flown and really put into use, I am afraid it will take at least ten years." The plane we are riding now has the credit for the improvement of the base, and even if it is directly obtained thirty years later, it will be treasured by COMAC. The special plane that the two are flying on now is the first large aircraft developed by China 30 years later, the C919 narrow-body passenger aircraft produced by COMAC.

The development path of the C919 was similar to that of other aircraft developed in the Celestial Empire, and it was ill-fated. There have been a lot of mistakes, because of various problems, the progress has not been able to keep up with the expectations of the people, and the first flight time has been repeatedly postponed. Maybe everything in the Celestial Empire has to follow a rule that good things are more grinding.

The Red Alert base can manufacture C919 is an unexpected joy for Qi Yiming, although C919 is a large aircraft, but no more than 200 seats, or a narrow-body passenger aircraft, although it has good avionics and new performance, but can not fly intercontinental routes, but domestic routes are completely sufficient, fly half a continent, but there is no problem with the ocean.

Qi Yiming values this aircraft more because it can improve the version of multiple military aircraft on this basis. Driving a phased array antenna becomes an AWACS aircraft, changing the interior into an oil tank becomes a tanker aircraft, and adding an anti-submarine mission module becomes an anti-submarine aircraft. In short, an excellent civilian platform can change out the special aircraft that the PLA needs in the future.

Some people asked what military special aircraft should be changed from civilian platforms to Lu, and why should not be changed from military transport aircraft. That's right, the first generation of the PLA AWACS aircraft Air Police-2000 and Air Police-200 were all modified from military transport aircraft, and this only solved the problem of whether there was a success. There are many advantages in changing civil platforms into special aircraft such as early warning aircraft and tankers.

First, the mass production of civil aircraft has helped to evenly share the cost of special aircraft. Second, the civil aircraft platform has low noise, high safety and long service life, which is more suitable for special tasks such as air early warning command and anti-submarine. Third, because it is common to most parts of civil aircraft, it can be repaired and maintained directly at the station of the civil airport, which is a cost saving and more convenient to use.

Considering that early warning aircraft, anti-submarine aircraft, and tanker aircraft are not aircraft fighting in the first line, other requirements are far less important than cost, maintenance, reliability, etc., so there are natural advantages in changing civil aircraft to special aircraft.

Liao Huairen said with a smile: "In short, now we have such a good big plane, the domestic aviation industry is booming, more and more civil aircraft demand comes out, if you want to buy foreign aircraft, it will waste a lot of foreign exchange at this stage, after all, we are not the trillions of dollars in foreign exchange reserves in 30 years." In addition to the production of fighter jets, I think the production of civil aircraft is the most valuable, economical, and easy to use, but also by the way to stimulate patriotism and pride, after all, it is our country's own production of aircraft. ”

Qi Yiming also laughed and said: "You think too well, I can tell you that the air command department of the base is now producing fighters for the needs of the Air Force and the Navy at full capacity, where can I open this capacity for you to produce large civil aircraft." ”

"Didn't you add another tank factory to produce equipment specifically for our enterprise? I think it is also necessary to open another air finger to produce civil aviation products, not only can we use it ourselves, but we can sell such a good aircraft to foreign countries and make money for ourselves. Liao Huairen said quite economically minded.

Qi Yiming patted his brain and said, "I'm stupid, I obviously sat on such a big gold mine, but I didn't expect it." If this business can be done, then I can directly buy the resources I need, and I can set up funds to support public welfare undertakings such as education and environmental protection. ”

Liao Huairen didn't think about it, but it actually aroused Qi Yiming's strange idea of selling arms, and hurriedly remedied: "Our country's arms trade has always been subject to various requirements of the United Nations, and it is responsible, you can't mess around." ”

Qi Yiming smiled, patted Liao Huairen's shoulder, and said: "Mu has a relationship, you nod and say yes or no, I'll do it, even if it doesn't work, the arms trade is a big cake of tens of billions of dollars every year, do you think about how much it will help if this money is used for our economic construction?" ”

Liao Huairen was also a little moved by Qi Yiming's words, in 1985 China's foreign exchange reserves were only 2.6 billion US dollars, and the Celestial Empire needed to purchase too many things, advanced production equipment, all kinds of raw materials in their own countries, etc., at this time, the Celestial Empire's foreign exports were mainly handicrafts, primary industrial and mining raw materials, low added value, at the bottom of the value chain, and were not valued. If the Celestial Empire begins to export large civil aviation aircraft, advanced fighter planes, and advanced tanks and artillery, if it is assigned to Liao Huairen to do so, the country will basically be picking up money for nothing.

When several companies have obtained the corresponding technology for production, they can follow up and create huge profits for these companies, so that they can continue to inject funds and continue to develop technology.

Doing this is more of a gesture for Qi Yiming, he is just entrenched in Inner Mongolia to mine, occasionally digging across the border to run to the underground of Outer Mongolia and the Soviet Union, no one knows the way, and then when he establishes a dock in the coastal area, he can produce marine engineering equipment, to the South China Sea, the East China Sea and other places to extract oil. A large number of resources can support his rapid development, and constantly expand the scale of his base, so that the base is divided and the production capacity is increased.

With the strong production capacity of the base, basically as many resources are mined, as many resources are utilized, and the utilization rate is nearly 100%, without any waste. He can now operate up to 2 Barracks, 2 Chariot Factories, 2 Airfinger Units, and 2 Dockyards, until he reaches Base 2 before he can add more operational Production Buildings.

Liao Huairen pondered for a moment and said: "This matter is very important, I will help you talk to the above, if it is done, it will indeed be of great help to our country, you can also think about it, what kind of buyers you can find, what kind of products you can sell." I propose to try to sell some things that are not particularly advanced, and try to choose those technologies that our companies can quickly transform and absorb, and then we can also assign some orders to them, which is good for everyone. ”

Qi Yiming himself did not intend to make money for himself, and did not express doubts about Liao Huairen's proposal.

After this matter was put down, Liao Huairen remembered the purpose of this trip again, and couldn't help complaining to him: "You said that you should stay in Inner Mongolia well, why do you have to go to the war zone in Yunnan, although the intensity of the war is not large, but if something happens, the country and yourself can't afford this kind of loss." ”

Qi Yiming stretched, smiled casually, and said, "I seem to be like an important person." ”

"Aren't you just an important person, maybe second only to a few big chiefs!" In fact, Liao Huairen secretly said in his heart that it may be more important than the big chief.

Qi Yiming comforted him and said: "It's okay, anyway, I'll stay in the rear, it's my soldiers who go to the front line to fight, no matter how great the Vietnamese are, they can't fight hundreds of kilometers all the way from Wenshan to Kunming, hehe, I have never been to Spring City, I want to have a good time." ”

Seeing that Liao Huairen was still not satisfied, Qi Yiming told him the bottom and said: "My base can't be upgraded without fighting, so I have to accumulate combat experience, of course, I don't need to go to the battlefield myself, but I must command my Red Police soldiers to fight." This thing has already nodded and has to be done, so instead of regretting it, it is better to do it more thoughtfully. ”

Liao Huairen knew that there was no change in this matter, and the two of them had already taken the flight from Dalinor to Kunming, so they could only ask: "Then how do you plan to fight this battle, the big leaders don't seem to give you the highest command, but only promise that you can have a certain amount of freedom to assist the generals of the Nanjing Military Region in the battle, that is to say, Commander Fu They have the right to veto all your combat plans, everything is transferred by our victory, and it is impossible for you to come to the field to fight." ”

Qi Yiming smiled and said: "I am fully prepared, and the tactical campaign support that I can provide to the troops is definitely something they can't imagine, but once they see it, they will immediately fall in love with it, and they never want to lose it again." ”