Chapter 1336 I Lied to You as a Puppy
January 27th, Monday, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Little New Year.
At six o'clock in the morning, Li Ye and Wen Leyu both got up, quickly washed up, and went downstairs to have breakfast.
Because the inspection teams that Li Ye and Wen Leyu were in both had inspection projects in the neighboring city of Tula, Deputy Director Liang and Team Leader Zhou discussed it and decided to go to Tula City together today.
Although the two delegations have different inspection projects, they need to be accompanied by relevant departments when they go to Tula City. If they are divided into two groups, they will have to go through the process twice. It would be fine if they feel annoyed, but it would be unacceptable if misunderstandings arise.
Doing business is a psychological game. Your flower grower goes there today and tomorrow. You come and I come. People still think that the scrap copper and rotten iron in their hands are treasures! If you don't raise the price now, when will you?
Don’t think that people in Su’e who don’t understand idioms don’t know how to wait for a good price or ask for an exorbitant price; all unscrupulous businessmen in the world are the same.
After the two inspection teams finished breakfast and gathered, Moscow sent several accompanying personnel to Tula City. The person in charge who occupied the C position was Deputy Director Sofia, who was only 24 years old.
Seeing this young woman acting so serious, Li Ye felt that this world was truly magical.
If it were the flower-growing family, no matter what, they would never let a 24-year-old young man be in charge of such a project.
Li Ye took a break and asked Sofia: "Comrade Sofia, in the enterprises we visited in Tula today, are there any cases where Western companies bought out workers' shares?"
Sofia could hear the resentment in Li Ye's words. After all, the appearance of Li Ye and others gave Kamaz's workers hope, so they began to be reluctant to sell their shares, which also helped Sofia.
As a result, Kamas turned around and played a trick on the flower-growing family, pulling a white elephant to play the "highest bidder wins" game. The flower-growing family has communicated with Kamas several times in recent days, but the other party was always perfunctory and indifferent.
Now that Sofia has meddled in Tula City's project again, Li Ye can't help but wonder what she's up to.
But Sophia glanced at Li Ye and smiled faintly: "I'm sorry about Kamas. I will make sure you get what you want today, okay?"
Li Ye said suspiciously: "Let me get what I want today? Are you serious about what you said?"
Sophia's lips curled up in an evil arc: "I'll borrow a proverb from you flower growers to prove it. I want to lie to you that I'm a puppy, okay?"
Li Ye: "."
Okay, that's great. If you don't keep your word today, I'll have to listen to you yelling. By the way, the saying "If you lie to me, I'm a puppy" is not a proverb, but one of the lies that women are best at telling.
But a few hours later, Li Ye found out that Sophia really didn't lie this time.
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The city of Tula is located 180 kilometers south of Moscow. According to the Su E map, there is a super interstate highway connecting it, so Li Ye thought it would take only two hours to get there.
In the end, Li Ye and his companions walked for four hours.
"No wonder we have to leave so early in the morning! Otherwise we won't be able to make it in time for lunch."
Can you believe that some sections of this super interstate highway are gravel roads?
There has to be a limit to bragging, right?
Moreover, Li Ye saw that his convoy could arrive in four hours, while many other vehicles would be lucky if they could arrive in one day.
Because there are six or seven checkpoints on the road, ordinary civilian vehicles have to wait for a long time to be checked there. It seems that there are not many cars in line, but the traffic jam is so severe that you will be in tears.
But Li Ye thought about the situation in the mainland in the 1990s. Forget it, eldest brother, let alone second brother, no one should look down on anyone!
However, after Li Ye and others arrived in Tula City, they were warmly welcomed by the local reception department and were treated to a very sumptuous lunch.
This made Li Ye and others wonder. After all, the incident at the Kamaz Automobile Factory left a bad impression on everyone. Now that he was being treated with care for no reason, could he be a traitor or a thief?
But when the tour started in the afternoon, Li Ye understood these people's difficulties.
After all, Moscow is the capital of the Soviet Union. No matter how difficult the situation is, the government will still take care of it. So if companies in Moscow can still eat steamed bread, companies in Tula can hardly even afford porridge.
Tula was one of the important industrial cities during the Soviet era. It had many large enterprises, among which the Tula Imperial Arsenal was the most famous.
The Mosin-Nagant rifle from decades ago was a masterpiece of the Tula Arsenal, and the later "Dog Smash" assault rifle is also widely known among game fans.
But what is not well known is that the Tula Arsenal also produces anti-tank missiles, portable air defense missiles, and Gatling-like multi-barrel rapid-fire weapons, and so on.
Therefore, the inspection team that Wen Leyu is in is quite interested in the inspection project of the Tula Arsenal. Now the gap between the mainland and the Soviet Union in military industry is not only in those dazzling advanced aircraft, but also in many small details that need to be learned and referenced.
Then why has a place with such excellent technology fallen to the point of having to eat porridge?
Just look at the large number of "military-to-civilian" people who grew up in China and you will understand.
After the Cold War, military-industrial enterprises had no orders. The Kamaz Automobile Factory at least had a competitive advantage in civilian cars and was able to survive. However, the Imperial Arsenal was shut down and was in a semi-shutdown state.
This is also the reason why they are so enthusiastic about Li Ye and others.
Just like in 1992, everyone knew that the Russian SU-27 Flanker was a very advanced and rare product, and the Soviets did not want to sell it to other countries. But if they really did not sell it, the aircraft manufacturing plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur would not be able to survive.
He wanted to sell the MiG-29 to the flower-growing family, but the flower-growing family didn't want it at all. He already had a beautiful girl at home, so why should he marry the ugliest one?
So don't say that China made a huge profit by buying SU-27. They didn't just sell it to China. Irkutsk Airlines exported it to White Elephant, Malaysia, and Algeria. Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Factory exported it to China, South Vietnam, and Venezuela. It was all a mutual agreement, and the price was very cheap.
Of course, Li Ye’s target of inspection was not the military industrial enterprises, but the Tula Ferrous Metal Smelter and the Kosaia Gora Metal Smelter.
As for the level of metal smelting in mainland China in the 1990s, it might really be "30 years behind the world" as some public intellectuals said. A large amount of special steel had to be imported.
At this time, Su'e's smelting technology may not be as good as that of Germany, Japan, and the United States, but there are many things that the flower growers need to learn, such as tank gun barrels and aircraft carrier decks, which are all high-end technologies.
Why can’t they have enough food to eat even though they have advanced technology?
Because the application range of many special steels is too narrow, just like what the public intellectuals of later generations said, "A flower grower cannot make ballpoint pen balls." It takes one month to produce, but the backlog lasts for more than ten years. How can you make any money?
This is the case with the two metal smelters in Tula.
When Su-E was in power, they could rely on the vast markets of multiple member states and their sphere of influence to support their continued production. Now they have to rely on Russia's market of more than 200 million people. Going hungry for nine meals in three days is no joke.
So after just one afternoon of visiting, the two sides finalized the preliminary intention of cooperation, and the Kosaya Gora Metal Smelter said that as long as the flower grower paid a part of the deposit, the technical information could be taken away now.
As long as people are extremely hungry, they are willing to buy on credit!
Deputy Director Liang was also a straightforward person. He immediately handed a list of materials to Director Redevich of the Kosaya Gora Metal Smelting Plant and said that if he was satisfied, he could pay the deposit today.
Li Ye scanned the list and felt that it looked familiar. Wasn't that the list of materials provided to the Kamaz Automobile Factory?
After Director Redwich looked at the list of materials, he kept squinting his eyes and kept saying that he wanted these materials now.
Then, Li Ye's engineers began to check the technical data.
I have never seen such a happy businessman.
Liang Furu immediately said to Li Ye: "Li Ye, can you cooperate today and complete the handover of materials?"
Li Ye replied: "Of course, but as you can see, Director Liang, there are many checkpoints on the way from Moscow. It may be troublesome for us to deliver it ourselves. Please discuss with them and see if we can hand it over in Moscow."
Liang Furu immediately asked the translator to tell Redwich, who immediately waved the list of supplies at his people and made a lot of arrangements.
Then the workers at the smelter happily drove out more than a dozen trucks as if it were New Year's Day, and there were armed escorts in charge of the transportation.
Li Ye and Sun Xianjin were dumbfounded.
He's just moving some stuff, but he even brought an assault rifle with him?
(End of this chapter)
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