Chapter 609: You can be a good middleman, which is a great achievement in itself.(1/2)
Still at Uncle Xu's home or in the study, Cao Zhiqiang once again saw Uncle Lin in casual clothes.
This meeting was a typical work report, so both parties did not have too many polite words and went straight to the topic.
Fortunately, this is not the first time that Cao Zhiqiang has done this kind of thing. He has already prepared a plan, so he just needs to follow it.
In this way, all of Cao Zhiqiang's previous actions, including suddenly abandoning his affairs here and secretly accompanying a Japanese girl to Xiangjiang, went straight to Guangzhou when he came back from Xiangjiang, then chartered a flight from Guangzhou to Hainan Island, and landed in Hainan Island.
There are reasonable explanations for a series of operations in buying a car and a house.
Without him, Cao Zhiqiang's operations were just following orders. The people on the other side of the "Mist" asked him to do so.
In other words, according to Cao Zhiqiang, he suddenly received a small note in the capital, asking him to go to Xiangjiang to meet up immediately, so he went to Xiangjiang immediately.
As for accompanying a Japanese woman during this period, it was purely accidental and also for cover.
When he was in Xiangjiang, Cao Zhiqiang met the contact person sent by the other party.
Although the two parties still faced each other when they met and did not know what the other party looked like, the other party gave him the address for the next transaction.
Cao Zhiqiang followed the other party's instructions and went to Haikou privately, and then bought a suite on a secret seaside in Haikou.
During the whole process, Cao Zhiqiang never met the other party. It was not until Cao Zhiqiang bought a house that the other party suddenly appeared and transported the supplies at an extremely fast speed.
After hearing this, Uncle Lin said with a serious face: "In other words, from the beginning to the end, the other party took the initiative to find you and gave you instructions. You followed the other party's instructions, but you did not know the other party during the whole process.
Who is your contact person?”
"Yes." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.
Uncle Lin nodded: "Including during this period, you did not contact me, and you did not contact me until afterwards. Is this their instruction?"
"That's right!" Cao Zhiqiang said again.
Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang added: "Well, it's not that I didn't think of contacting you in advance, but the situation at that time was special, and I always felt that I was being watched all the time. After all, the other party could find me every time. This was obviously a constant surveillance.
Hold on to me.
In this case, since the other party has said that before the supplies arrive, I am not allowed to inform you, no, our people here, so in order to complete this transaction and avoid scaring others, I fully cooperated.
I didn’t contact you before the matter was completed.”
Uncle Lin smiled slightly: "Don't worry, in fact you did the right thing."
Speaking of this, Uncle Lin continued: "I now understand a little bit why the other party only wants you to be the middleman, because you are more obedient and don't mess around.
In fact, the most feared thing about this kind of thing is that the middleman will mess around, which can easily disrupt each other's plans.
And the other party didn't let you notify us in advance, probably to prevent accidents."
"Yes, that's what they said too." Cao Zhiqiang said quickly.
After a brief pause, Cao Zhiqiang added: "By the way, when I was in Xiangjiang and in contact with their contact person, I once talked about this matter.
I said at the time, since you know that I am just a middleman and the real buyer of the transaction is our country, why not notify us in advance and let us prepare in advance, so that we can save both parties trouble and save a lot of trouble, but you know what he said
?"
"Oh?" Uncle Lin chuckled and said, "How did you say that?"
Cao Zhiqiang said: "Well, he told me at the time, of course they know that if I inform you in advance and send people to prepare in advance, it will save a lot of trouble, but it must be a reliable transaction partner.
And you, no, it's us, some of us are actually unreliable and have a lot of moles."
"Are there a lot of moles?" Uncle Lin narrowed his eyes, "Where do we start? And if there are a lot of moles, who are the moles?"
Cao Zhiqiang blinked and said: "I also asked the same question, but the other party said that he was just a contact person and did not know the detailed information. This was what his superior told him.
He also said that he did not know who the mole among us was, and even if he knew, he would not say it, because that would only increase the distrust between the two parties and make us think that they have ulterior motives.
However, he is certain that there are indeed a large number of moles among us, and we must be careful."
"Did he really say that?" Uncle Lin asked with a frown.
"Of course." Cao Zhiqiang deliberately smiled bitterly, "Fourth uncle, you know that I don't think I have achieved anything small now, but at most I have a little money. How dare I say this nonsense? Of course this is what others say."
Uncle Lin nodded: "But why would he tell you this?"
Cao Zhiqiang said: "I asked him that too, and he said he hopes I can send a message to you so that you can be more vigilant and never reveal the secret transactions with them.
He also said that we should know very well the value of the things he gave us, and we should also know that the price they asked for was not expensive, it was almost like giving it away for free.
The reason why we ask for money is secondary to the value of the thing itself, and mainly to the internal rewards of the organization's personnel.
After all, they have to take great risks to obtain these technologies and equipment, and organizing transportation is also expensive. It is unreasonable not to ask us for money.
However, although they are very optimistic about us and want to support us, after all, they are a secret organization that cannot be seen in the light.
Once Western countries discover them and suppress them collectively, it will be very difficult for them.
They think their internal problems are not big, but they are afraid that they will be leaked to us.
So, let’s be careful.”
"That's it." Uncle Lin nodded, "If you say that, it makes sense.
However, the situation of that organization is already our top secret. The people we can contact are all truly reliable people and there will be no problems. When you contact them again, please reassure them."
Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "Okay, I'll talk to them later."
Uncle Lin smiled slightly: "Is there anything else?"
Cao Zhiqiang paused, and then said: "This, there is another one, it is related to one of our confidential projects."
"Secret project, what confidential project?" Uncle Lin asked.
Cao Zhiqiang said: "It seems to be a project for a mainline civil aviation large aircraft. What is it called Project 708? Do we have this?"
Uncle Lin frowned: "Is there any problem? Don't worry about it. Just talk about it."
Cao Zhiqiang nodded and said, "That's right. Although there are a lot of supplies they shipped to us this time, there are actually three things that are the most important.
The first one is the shield machine project. It is said that this is an important weapon of the country. Currently, there are only a few countries that can master this technology. Once we study it thoroughly, it will play an unpredictable role in our country's infrastructure construction.
The construction of infrastructure is directly related to a series of industrial upgrading.
As the saying goes, if you want to be rich, you must first build roads. However, our country's terrain is complex, with mountains and hills. If you want to build roads well, shield boring machines are indispensable.
The second one is the large ethylene project, which is also an important asset of the country.
The large ethylene project is not a simple plastic project. It is the basic raw material for many key products, involving industries such as building materials, electronics, electrical appliances, etc.
Although the equipment given to us this time is small, the technology is comprehensive. As long as we understand it thoroughly, it will not be a problem to make our own large ethylene equipment.
The last one is the large aircraft project.
This time they gave us all the technical information on the Boeing 737 aircraft, including the CFM56 aero engine.
With these, we can apply these technologies to the mainline civil aviation aircraft we are developing in Shanghai.
He said that although the Y-10 aircraft we are developing still has some problems, it is relatively mature.
What is even more valuable is that there is a mature research team and a certain amount of technology accumulation. What is missing is continued capital investment and more advanced technology.
They cannot provide funds, but technology can.
With all the technologies of Boeing 737, especially the aero-engine technology, we can avoid many detours.
He also said that the large aircraft project is a real national asset.
Even though it is just a civil aviation aircraft, it actually involves a huge industry and huge military interests. It is absolutely not possible to abandon the aircraft in a hurry due to temporary financial difficulties, let alone disband the research team.
This kind of project is easy to stop but difficult to start. Once you stop now, it will be extremely difficult to start over again in the future.
Because technology is constantly developing and accumulating, aviation standards will become more and more stringent.
Now, because everyone's technical gap is not big, the corresponding civil aviation standards, that is, airworthiness certificates and the like, are not too strict.
But once Western countries develop newer civil aviation technology, allowing their large aircraft to make less noise and consume less fuel, they will introduce more stringent civil aviation standards, such as how low the noise of the aircraft must be, otherwise they will not be provided with suitable equipment.
Flight certificate.
In this way, the R&D path of late-developing countries will be blocked.
Because when later countries want to research and develop, there will definitely be a gap with the more advanced and mature large aircraft technology in the West at the beginning. If we strictly follow the rules of the West, we will only lock up our own technology tree, and then we can only buy their aircraft.
I've always been stuck with them.
In the end, we will not be able to build large aircraft ourselves, and we will have to rely entirely on Boeing and Airbus aircraft. The price is what they say.
Therefore, if you want to avoid being stuck, you must not lag too far behind the West, or at least reach the level of others.
With its vast territory and large population, our country is the best and largest market for large civil aviation aircraft.
Even though our people are relatively poor now and not many can fly, it does not mean that they will not be able to do so in the future.
Moreover, there are only a few countries in the world that can produce qualified large aircraft, which in itself is a good export and foreign exchange-earning project.
Therefore, even if we are short of funds in various ways, we must grit our teeth and persevere. For this reason, we will not hesitate to issue national bonds.
Especially the engine, never dismount.
Aeroengines require technological accumulation. If the scientific research team breaks up and technological accumulation stops, we may never be able to catch up in the future.
However, the CFM56 aero engine technology they provided this time is itself the most advanced high-bypass ratio turbofan engine today.
To be continued...