Chapter 1335: Being Controlled by Others Is Not Pleasant

Chapter 1335 The feeling of being controlled by others... is not pleasant

After returning from Zhu's father, Du Fei breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, the localization rate of this aircraft is less than 70%, and he was also worried.

This means that this improved J-8 II, except for the shell and engine, has almost nothing of our own. The main electronic equipment inside, radar, flight control, are all other people's things.

In the eyes of the older generation, this is definitely not acceptable.

But now with Zhu's father's approval, at least this cooperation project is no problem.

What needs to be done now is to move forward as soon as possible, and not to be like the project he did in the world before he crossed over, which was procrastinated and dragged on, and finally got a mess and wasted precious funds.

After Du Fei returned, he immediately called the main person in charge of the cooperation project and directly determined the current plan. The next step is to implement it as soon as possible.

As for America, it was also quite cooperative. After receiving the plan, it happily took out all the equipment needed.

In fact, although these things are much more advanced than those in China, they are not the best in America.

In this respect, America is no different from Speed ​​Union. The so-called "advanced weapons" sold to allies are all castrated versions, not to mention Huaguo, a quasi-friend.

If it weren't for the current special situation and Nico's personal political ambition, these things would not have been handed over to us smoothly.

The first batch of 50 sets of complete modification equipment, the price of each set of these equipment is as high as 4 million US dollars, and two sets are equivalent to the price of a gunship sold by Du Fei to Bushi.

It can be seen that the profit is huge. The first batch of 50 sets is 200 million US dollars, and it is planned to modify 50 J-82s.

But in fact, only 40 can be made, and the remaining 10 sets of equipment are sealed for backup.

Including Du Fei, Huaguo is very sober, and the cooperation with America is not tomorrow.

It is said to be the first batch, but it is not certain whether there will be the next batch. According to the contract, the two parties will modify a total of 120 J-82s, divided into three batches.

The first batch is 50, and the second and third batches are 35 each.

It is said to be a modification, but in fact, according to the new design plan, it is equivalent to re-manufacturing a new type of aircraft.

These things of the Americans are a poison pill. If you take them, you will be strangled by others. Once they are in a bad mood and tighten the rope, let alone the follow-up plan, even the current fighters that look advanced will become consumables that cannot be replenished and repaired.

The remaining ten sets of parts are to prevent this situation and prepare for future replacement.

Rather than installing them all on the aircraft and then tearing down the east wall to repair the west wall, it is better to make advance preparations.

Du Fei knew that after taking the poison pill, the countdown began.

We must race against time to disassemble, imitate, research and develop, and improve... Turn these things into our own technology before the relationship between the two sides deteriorates.

However, Du Fei can't do much in this regard. This requires a very large system, including universities, research institutes, and a large number of scientists in various fields.

Fortunately, our country already has this system. Although this system is still relatively thin and simple, it does exist.

So far, the new J-8 II has been finalized. It is determined that the first two aircraft will be assembled at the Beijing Aircraft Factory, and then the other 38 will return to the Shenfei Factory for continued manufacturing.

As the foreign responsible person of the project team, McKeown will follow up the whole process.

Because there are too many places to modify, the original J-8 does not have room for modification, but many problems that existed in the previous J-8 itself have been solved.

With the arrival of the first batch of imported equipment, the first batch of two prototypes were quickly assembled at the Beijing Aircraft Factory.

For this batch of equipment, Bushi specially got a C141 transport plane to directly airlift the equipment.

As expected, there were also some photographers from newspapers accompanying them.

Originally, Du Fei thought there would be interviews and the like, but they left after taking pictures. It seems that at this time, they understand what it means to start with a picture and the rest depends on editing.

Du Fei doesn't care. They can say whatever they want. Anyway, he really gets the benefits.

...

In the blink of an eye, it is late May. The weather in Beijing is hotter today than last year.

Many people on the street have already put on half-sleeved clothes, because the textile and clothing group produces a large amount of elastic cotton cloth, making T-shirts of various styles and colors flood the streets.

This kind of T-shirt is very cheap, usually 20 cents a piece, no need to use cloth coupons, and the better ones are no more than 50 cents. You can hardly see people wearing patched clothes on the streets of the city.

During this period, Nanyang was completely settled.

As expected by Du Fei, the number of people who finally arrived in Nanyang was far less than 20 million, and the exact number was about 15 million.

The last batch of people who got off the ship also built a village, and no accidents occurred.

This is mainly due to the killing of chickens and monkeys in Kuching, which made many people with some unrealistic thoughts extinguish bad thoughts.

Du Fei was really too cruel. No more than 300 people survived the more than 5,000 people that day, and all the participants were deprived of their land in units of villages.

This is the most cruel, killing people and making their relatives and clansmen hate them to death.

At the same time, the first batch of 15 gunships produced for Bushi began to be delivered.

These aircraft were transformed into AC-130 gunships of Lockheed Corporation in all documents and reports of America, with a purchase price of 43 million US dollars.

But in fact, the unit price was only 8 million US dollars in Du Fei's place.

In addition, after these two months, the project team transferred from Shanghai to Beijing to transform the passenger aircraft has made great progress.

The project was officially named K-8 regional airliner. After the drawings were completed, Du Fei upgraded and began to produce prototypes.

The superiors also attached great importance to this. This was the first time that a large civil airliner was produced after the liberation of Huaguo.

At the same time, Beijing Aircraft Factory expanded its scale again and began to build workshops 9 and 10, which were prepared to be used specifically for the production of K-8 passenger aircraft in the future.

At the Shanghai Aircraft Factory, the drawings of the Yun-9 were also steadily advancing, and the first version of the drawings was finally produced.

It should be said that the technical capabilities of the Shanghai Aircraft Factory are indeed the best in the domestic field.

Although there are references to the H-8 and Yun-8, it is not easy to come up with a version of the drawings from scratch in such a short time.

However, this can only be a preliminary draft. I plan to ask Du Fei to go over and take a look, and then gather experts to discuss and modify it before proceeding to the next step.

Du Fei did not go, but asked them to transport the two sets of drawings directly to Beijing by plane.

This made the Shanghai side a little confused.

Objectively speaking, it is much more convenient to ask Du Fei to go there than to transport the drawings to Beijing.

But there is no way, who lets him be the leader, since Du Fei said, no matter how troublesome it is, he has to do it.

There are quite a lot of drawings, so a Yun-8 transport plane was specially used for this purpose, and the drawings were divided into twelve large waterproof and moisture-proof wooden boxes, loaded on the plane, and transported to Beijing.

After arriving, Du Fei directly found an opportunity to receive one of them in his personal space for upgrading and optimization.

After a few days, several young technicians were selected from the aircraft manufacturing plant, and after signing a confidentiality guarantee, the two drawings were compared, the differences were marked, and the direction of improvement was marked on the original drawings of the Shanghai Aircraft Factory.

This is a relatively safe method that Du Fei thought about. The Shanghai Aircraft Factory and the flight are completely under his control, and he certainly cannot directly take the upgraded drawings over.

After waiting for nearly a month, Du Fei asked someone to send the revised drawing back. When the people at the Shanghai Aircraft Factory saw it, they were all shocked.

Lu Zhandou immediately called and asked Du Fei what was going on.

It was understandable that one copy was missing, as Du Fei kept the archive, but what about the modified parts on the drawing?

Du Fei smiled and said on the phone: "Old Lu, don't get excited. If you take it back intact, what's the point of asking you to send the drawing?"

Lu Zhandou choked, it was really the case, and then he suddenly thought of the current situation in Beijing, and blurted out: "It's an American..."

Du Fei didn't expect Lu Zhandou to take the initiative to help him find an excuse.

This is also easy to understand. Lu Zhandou is an old man in the aviation industry, and he knows the situation in China very well.

The technical strength of the Shanghai Aircraft Factory is already the most luxurious. If you want to say that it can provide this kind of nearly dimensionality reduction guidance, it can only be America.

Du Fei laughed, neither admitting nor denying, just letting Lu Zhandou acquiesce that he guessed it right.

But Lu Zhan Dou couldn't figure out what Du Fei did to get the American people to help.

This was obviously not within the scope of the previous cooperation project. Could it be that money really makes the devil go?

Lu Zhan Dou couldn't figure it out, so he simply gave up and organized people to start modifying according to the direction indicated on the drawings, striving to produce the second version of the drawings in a short time.

According to Du Fei's instructions, basically after the second version of the drawings is out, the prototype can be manufactured.

When he thought that the giant transport aircraft was about to be manufactured in his hands, even though Lu Zhan Dou was a veteran on the battlefield and had seen big scenes, he couldn't help but get excited.

Just when the Shanghai Aircraft Factory received the modification opinions on the drawings and adjusted the design intensively, Du Fei's K-8 passenger aircraft progressed faster.

Compared with large transport aircraft, it is almost not difficult to change the Yun-8 into a K-8 passenger aircraft. It only needs to make the fuselage smaller, without considering the load problem, and is more inclined to range and comfort.

Although Du Fei positioned the K-8 as a "cheap and easy-to-use" regional airliner that "adapts to any harsh environment", he still had to take some comfort into account where he could.

For example, the sound insulation performance of the fuselage, the coaxial reverse engine of the WJ-8 is loud.

There is no problem on the transport aircraft, but if it is used on a passenger aircraft, there must be targeted modifications, so that passengers cannot leave with their ears buzzing when they get off the plane.

Then there are some safety settings, and the mainstream safety facilities that passenger aircraft currently have must be available.

If not, with the nature of the West, they will definitely hold on to it and slander it in a long series of articles.

With these, plus the ability to retain the Y-8 as a military transport aircraft and take off and land at a field airport, the core competitiveness of the K-8 passenger aircraft is.

…

It was more than two o'clock in the afternoon that day when Du Fei came to the unit happily.

Zhu Ting's period was late this month. With the experience from last time, she was not stupid. This morning, she went to see the doctor with Du Fei to check her pulse. Sure enough, she was pregnant again~

Du Fei accompanied her and sent Zhu Ting to work after the treatment.

Unexpectedly, she saw an old acquaintance as soon as she entered the door.

"Hashim?" Du Fei looked at Hashim, who was selling milk in the shade of the tree in the front yard, in surprise. There was a familiar looking big man next to him.

This man was tall and full of military temperament. He was obviously on equal footing with Hashim.

He was not an ordinary person at first glance.

"Du! My brother~" Hashim immediately came up with a smile on his face and hugged him.

The fruit route they cooperated on through Bagoda to Libya has been put into operation. At present, there are ten Y-8 aircraft in the first batch.

If it weren't for the intervention of Correction Bushi in the middle, who wanted to buy dozens of gunships and diverted the production of Y-8 aircraft, the second batch of aircraft here would have been put into use.

Even so, the effect of this route is still beginning to show, bringing Hashim considerable income.

And a large part of this money was given to Colonel Ka.

This surprised Colonel Ka and was also very pleasantly surprised.

In the past few years of knowing Du Fei, he has been spending money outright. This is the first time he has seen money coming back.

He also values ​​Hashim, his confidant, more.

After the hug, Hashim said, "Du Fei, let me introduce you to Mu Barak from Aiji."

Du Fei suddenly realized what was going on. No wonder he looked familiar just now. It turned out that he had always seen him on TV for a while before he crossed over.

This person is the future commander-in-chief of Aiji, an important figure in the Middle East.

Mu Barak stretched out his hand: "Mum Barak, Hunis from Maihama, Mr. Du, it's an honor to meet you."

Du Fei shook hands: "I am also honored, Mr. Mu Barak."

Neither Hashim nor Mu Barak mentioned his current identity, so Du Fei simply pretended to be confused.

Although Mu Barak is not the commander-in-chief now, he is already the confidant of the current commander-in-chief. This trip is definitely not for tourism.

As for what they are here for, Du Fei has a rough idea in his mind.

After the greetings and introductions, Du Fei took the two to the reception room outside the office in the inner courtyard.

"Zhang'er, pour a cup of tea for the two guests." Du Fei instructed a young man in his early twenties.

The young man is Zhang Yunsheng, currently Du Fei's secretary.

Du Fei had never had a secretary before, but as the business grew bigger and bigger, he had to hire one.

Originally, Yu Jiajia and Zhou Xiaobai were both good candidates in terms of their ability to handle affairs.

However, it was not appropriate for Du Fei to have a female secretary, and Yu Jiajia and Zhou Xiaobai were a widow and a girl, and rumors would spread if things went wrong, so he simply hired a man.

Zhang Yunsheng was a college student assigned to him last year. He was an alumnus of Zhu Ting and also graduated from Yanda. He was very capable and smart.

After answering, he quickly made the tea and put it on the coffee table and went outside.

Du Fei smiled and said, "Mr. Mubarak, try our Huaguo tea."

Mubarak nodded and raised the cup to gesture.

Hashim was much more casual, and said with a smile: "Du, I really didn't expect that your gunships are so useful."

Du Fei smiled and took a sip of tea: "Of course they are useful. This kind of gunship can completely crush the opponent as long as the opponent does not have air superiority. How about it~ Omar still wants it?"

Hashim said with a smile: "You guessed it right. We decided to add 20 orders to ensure that at least three gunships will arrive at any place of conflict within an hour in the country."

Du Fei showed a happy face. According to the price sold to Colonel Ka before, it was 10 million US dollars per gunship.

Adding 20 gunships means 200 million US dollars in revenue!

Du Fei now knows why those Western countries are so rich. Once they are equipped with technology, big guys like airplanes are really making money!

During this period, not counting other things, only selling gunships, Colonel Ka sold 25 gunships at a unit price of 10 million; Correction Bushi sold 60 gunships at a unit price of 8 million; Li Yuanchao bought 5 gunships at a unit price of 6 million US dollars, which is 600 million US dollars.

This is 600 million US dollars in the 1970s. Except for the order from Li Yuanchao, which made less money, the profit of one aircraft was only more than 3 million, and the other two orders were doubled.

This is just for now. The Huang family in Surabaya also plans to buy five, and the four kingdoms of South India Du are also discussing the purchase of gunships.

This time it is not to deal with Xinde Li, but there are many unstable factors within them.

I saw the effect of Du Fei using gunships in Kuching before, so I couldn't help but be tempted to buy a few and go home to suppress the ominous.

What we want is "quick response" and "fierce firepower" to deal with emergencies.

Before, Ailul sent someone to blow the wind, but the specific price and quantity have not been negotiated.

Ailul hopes that the price of a gunship should not be higher than 7 million US dollars, and their four kingdoms can buy eight together.

Du Fei hopes that the unit price is 8 million, of course 7 million can also be considered, but the number must be more than 15.

If this order is included, the fire equipment company has sold more than 800 million US dollars this year just for gunships.

In comparison, Colonel Ka is rich and powerful, and he didn't bother about the price at all.

Instead, Hashim made a new request.

Du Fei frowned slightly after listening: "You mean, Omar wants to send us a group of reserve officers studying abroad?"

Hashim nodded: "Yes, according to the feedback from the workers of the aircraft manufacturing plant who received training here, your teaching is quite selfless, and you really want us to learn. Unlike those cunning Westerners, they say nice things on the surface, but they are actually dirty-minded. They only talk about the surface and have no intention of teaching us the real things."

Du Fei said, "Of course, we are brothers!" But he thought to himself, of course we have to teach them well. These students from Libya are all elites. When they are in their forties or fifties, they will definitely be the backbone of Libya.

What's more, after the training, these people will have to intern for free for one to two years in Du Fei's own aircraft manufacturing plant.

If they fool around, that would be a pitfall for themselves.

As for teaching the apprentice to starve the master to death, Du Fei is not worried at all.

Huaguo itself does not have the most advanced technology. If they are so servile, how can they talk about catching up with the advanced.

Teach them what we have now, and when they learn it, we will definitely have more advanced and better ones.

It was just an accident, but it actually won more favor from Colonel Ka, and he decided to send more international students.

Du Fei must be happy to see them, the more people they come, the better.

Especially those in the army, who are used to Huaguo weapons, practice Huaguo drills, various technical tactics... In the end, their weapons and equipment and logistical supplies can only be those of the Hua system.

Moreover, with Colonel Ka, a super performative personality, acting as a propagandist, Du Fei will certainly open up a larger market in Africa.

Another reason is also an important reason that prompted Colonel Ka to make up his mind to send students abroad this time.

Although Colonel Ka is arrogant now, he is still a young leader who is very hardworking and diligent. When he wiped out a disobedient tribe in the south of them, although he won the victory with the absolute advantage of equipment, his troops and commanders at all levels performed quite poorly.

Originally, Colonel Ka wanted to find Sulian, but Huaguo had shown amazing explosive power through Li Yuanchao before, and the influence of those who were trained here in Du Fei made him change his mind.

That's why he decided to spend money to send people to study in Huaguo.

However, this request exceeded Du Fei's authority. Although he was sure that there would be no problem, he could not go beyond it and had to go through the procedures.

Hashim also understood that he knew that Du Fei would report to the higher-ups, and he expressed his understanding and said there was no need to rush.

Then the topic turned to Mu Barak.

Hashim said: "Du, I know there is a story in Huaguo that says there was a man who served as prime minister of six countries at the same time in ancient times..."

Du Fei was slightly surprised, knowing that Hashim was talking about the allusion of 'Su Qin worshipping the seals of six countries during the Warring States Period'.

It seems that Hashim has studied Huaguo history a lot.

He smiled and nodded, indicating that this happened.

Hashim said: "Now Mubarak is the commander-in-chief of the air forces of Ai, Syria and Jordan."

Du Fei knew a little about the situation over there, and knew that they were allies, but he didn't expect that they were so close.

And the fourth Middle East war will break out in the next few months.

At this point in time, Mubarak appeared here, and Du Fei was sure that this person must be here to give him money.

He said enthusiastically: "Oh~I'm sorry!" His attitude was even more enthusiastic than the last time with Sadamu.

Although Sadamu is the God of Wealth, he is in the future and cannot bring real money orders immediately. He said before that he wanted to buy the H-8, but he couldn't make the decision.

Du Fei knew that the Babylonian Kingdom could not buy weapons of the H-8 level in its current situation, so it tried hard to promote the next-level H-7 bomber.

At that time, Sadamu was also very tempted and said that he would definitely buy it, but there was no movement after he went back.

It is obvious that his proposal was rejected.

Du Fei did not care. It would not be too late for Sadamu to come to power in a short time. It would not be too late to talk about it then.

Mu Barak was different. Although he was not in power at present, he was the confidant of the commander-in-chief Sadat and now he almost represented Sadat.

More importantly, they were about to go to war, and they must have come with a purpose at this time.

Du Fei had a hunch that he would definitely make a lot of money today.

However, Mu Barak was quite shrewd. After Hashim started, he did not rush to get to the point. Instead, he talked about Hashim's airline company.

"Mr. Du, I am very optimistic about this route. I wonder if it is possible to join it?" Mubarak asked seriously: "We are also very short of fruit supply in Aegea. I believe that our cooperation in this regard will be promising."

Du Fei was surprised: "Egypt is also short of fruit? It is said that with the latitude of Aegea and the nourishment of the Nile River, there should be no shortage of fruit, right?"

Although Aegea is very famous and is known as one of the four ancient civilizations, Du Fei's understanding of Aegea is quite limited except for the pyramids and the Sphinx.

Mubarak said helplessly: "Du, you don't know that our Nile River basin is very limited. We have to feed more than 40 million people. Now we can barely grow grain and cotton, so where is the room for growing fruit."

Du Fei knew that part of the cotton of domestic textile and clothing groups was imported from Egypt.

But Mubarak wanted to join. Du Fei certainly had no reason to refuse this strong man who would control Aegea in the next 20 to 30 years.

Now is the best opportunity to establish a relationship.

If we really wait until Sadat is assassinated and Mubarak takes power to establish a relationship, how can it compare to "getting to know each other in obscurity"

Moreover, participating in the fruit route is not about buying and selling equipment.

Buying and selling equipment is a public matter, but this is a private matter, involving personal interests. Once joining this route, it means that Du Fei has established a private relationship with his mother Barak.

This is what is important.

Just like Du Fei and Hashim, Sadamu, Park Zhe, Natasha, and Jiao Zhibushi, these are all private relationships, and there are private interests between them, rather than simply official business.

These people are mainly connected by two fruit routes.

Afterwards, Barak did not make any other requests, but further discussed some issues about the fruit route.

The most important thing is to increase the number of aircraft on this route.

Originally, according to the previous agreement between Du Fei and Hashim, this fruit route to the Middle East and North Africa would have 50 Y-8s running.

Now that Aiji has joined, Barak feels that it is far from enough. In order to increase his share and voice in this route, he proposed to add 20 additional aircraft, and he would provide the funds.

The capacity of these 20 aircraft is mainly supplied to Aiji.

Du Fei certainly agreed to this request.

Not only can the aircraft make money, but it can also expand the trade volume of Borneo fruits.

The three of them talked happily, but Barak still did not raise the issue of weapons and equipment in the end.

This made Du Fei a little confused. Did he think wrong?

After sending Hashim and Barak away, Du Fei immediately went to Zhu's father to report the situation.

The most important thing was Hashim's proposal to send reserve officers to study abroad.

In the office, Zhu's father was smoking a cigarette. After listening to Du Fei's description of the situation, he asked, "Do you think it's worthwhile to continue to invest more energy in Libya?"

Du Fei's heart moved, and he asked back, "Dad, do you think... Colonel Ka is unreliable?"

Zhu's father pursed his lips and said, "It's not that he is unreliable, but that he is not good enough, not magnanimous enough, and he is too proud of himself. Sooner or later, something will happen."

Du Fei was surprised. It can be said that Zhu's father is really good at judging people, but this "sooner or later" is a bit too late. Colonel Ka can still be arrogant for more than 30 years.

Du Fei said leisurely, "Dad, you are right. Colonel Ka is indeed a bit lacking, but don't forget that this is North Africa, not East Asia. Colonel Ka's skills are not enough to be a colonel in our family, but there he is a general among the dwarfs. He still has some ability, at least the troops are holding tight now. I think ~ at least there will be no problem in the next 10 to 20 years."

Zhu's father said "um" and motioned him to continue.

Du Fei said: "Besides, Libya's position is very delicate. With the character of Colonel Ka, as long as he has a certain strength, he can definitely stir up trouble in that position. Radiating to Africa in the south and stirring up the Mediterranean in the north should give those people in Western Europe a headache."

Speaking of this, Du Fei paused for a moment: "In addition, Hashim brought another person today, who is from the Middle East..."

After briefly talking about the situation of Mu Barak, Du Fei threw out his judgment: "Dad, based on the current situation, I think something might happen in the Middle East this year."

Dad Zhu's heart trembled and said in a deep voice: "Tell me in detail."

Du Fei repeated some of the situations. He was doing the questions with the answers in hand, and he spoke clearly.

He emphasized: "Now the three countries of Syria, Syria, and Jordan are secretly preparing for war. They will definitely fight. It's just a matter of time."

Dad Zhu frowned slightly, thought for a moment and said: "How sure are you?"

Du Fei said: "At least 80%! Their target must be Youtai. As for the time... I think it is likely to be the second half of the year, and it will not be until next spring at the latest."

Dad Zhu attaches great importance to Du Fei's judgment.

Du Fei had proved his ability to judge the general situation time and time again. So far, almost all of Du Fei's opinions have been correct.

If he is right again this time, the Middle East will definitely cause a greater shock if a war breaks out.

After Du Fei reminded him, he turned and said, "Dad, this time Barak and Hashem will not come here just for a fruit shipping route. His real purpose is probably to seek weapons and equipment. Do you think there are any restrictions?"

Dad Zhu raised his eyebrows: "What restrictions are there? We have no interests involved with them. As long as the price is right, don't worry."

At this point, Dad Zhu suddenly sighed: "I guess he came this time because he saw the things we sold to Colonel Ka. Although Sulian sold them weapons, there were many restrictions. They were all defensive weapons, not offensive. Even so, a lot of performance was castrated. I heard that Sadat was quite annoyed by this."

Du Fei didn't know these situations, but this was in line with Moscow's style.

From the beginning, they didn't like these fruit companies in the Middle East very much. They supported them just to fight against the enemy.

Including the later Sadamu, who bought a lot of weapons and equipment at high prices, but they were all castrated versions. The famous T-72 tank, in Sadamu's hands, became a monkey version tank with frequent failures, thin skin and large fillings.

Du Fei heard what Zhu's father meant, and then sighed: "Yes! This is being controlled by others~"

Zhu's father looked at him deeply: "It's good to know~ The feeling of being controlled by others... is not pleasant."

Du Fei understood that Zhu's father was reminding him that he should be aware of the cooperation with America.

Du Fei said: "Dad, I understand, I will go back first if there is nothing else."

"Go~" Zhu's father responded and continued to be busy with other work.

When Du Fei came back from Zhu's father, he received an expected call as soon as he arrived at the unit.

()