Chapter 303 The Essence of the Great Northern Country 1

After leaving the train station, Goncharova was going to stay at the Metropolis Hotel, while Wang Weidong wanted to take Ivan the Great and Konstantin to Pancailovna's house where he stayed when he last came to Moscow.

A car stopped not far from the four people. Goncharova glanced at the car and turned back to Wang Weidong and said! "Mr. Wilton, when you are in Moscow, it is best to leave someone alone to wait for the call at Pancailovna's house. This

I’m going to take you to meet a few people in a few days.”

Then the three of them took a taxi to Pancailovna's house on Arbat Street.

The old lady was very happy to see Wang Weidong's arrival and invited the three people into the house.

"Comrade Pancailovna, this time when we come to Moscow, we will stay in your home again." Wang Weidong said.

"Mr. Virton, I welcome you very much!" said Pantailovna.

After not seeing her for a year, the old lady's body seemed to have become a lot more stooped, and there was a strong smell of onions in the whole room.

In the large northern countries, onions and cabbage, also known as kohlrabi, are the two vegetables most commonly eaten by the poor, and the staple food of the poor is potatoes.

Wang Weidong took out the money and asked Ivan the Great and Constantine to go to the GUM shopping mall not far from Arbat Street to buy more things.

He chatted with Pantailovna in the drawing room.

Wang Weidong was surprised to find that the TV in the living room was playing a documentary about Yuri Gagarin taking off on a rocket, as if traveling through time and space.

The bookshelf in the living room is filled with various video tapes, all of which are movies, TV series and documentaries from the period of the former northern power.

Pancailovna, an old lady, has been relying on these videotapes to numb herself in the past few years, allowing herself to still live in the past era.

Most of the concepts in the large northern country are still Western-style. Although Pantselovna also has children, they rarely come to visit her mother, let alone live with her and take care of her.

"Mr. Wilton, since you came to Moscow, I have paid more attention to the news about China. I heard that your country's economic development is very good."

The old lady Pancailovna raised her hands tremblingly and then put them down helplessly and said: "Look at what a mess we are here! In just a few years, the big northern country has become a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor!

Several people I know died quietly at home, and were not discovered until a long time later. An old man in his eighties fell on the snow while receiving bread and never got up again."

Wang Weidong looked at the TV, where Yuri Gagarin was speaking. He said: "I looked around after going into space and did not see the shadow of God!"

Big Ivan and Constantine came back, and they bought a lot of vegetables, rice, macaroni, fruits and wine.

"Tomorrow we will buy a larger refrigerator and come back." Wang Weidong said.

That night Goncharova came to see Wang Weidong.

She drove here by herself. Just when Ivan the Great and Konstantin also wanted to get in the car, Goncharova said: "You two don't need to go. The location is not far away, just a few hundred meters away."

place."

What Goncharova said was absolutely correct. The place she took Wang Weidong to was really not far at all. It was only more than 200 meters away from Pantselovna's home.

And it was a building that was exactly the same as Pantselovna's home. Goncharova and Wang Weidong got out of the car and walked to the building and rang the doorbell.

The door was opened by an old lady. When she saw Goncharova standing at the door, she turned around and shouted: "Comrade Balentin, Miss Goncharova is here!"

Goncharova took Wang Weidong into the room, and the old man standing at the door of the living room with a cane greeted them.

Wang Weidong felt that this old man was older than Pancailovna. His face was covered with wrinkles like the ravines of the Loess Plateau, and only two eyes were still energetic.

"Hello, Uncle Balentin! This is Mr. Wilton from China," Goncharova said.

Then she turned to Wang Weidong and said: "This is the academician of the Academy of Sciences, General Engineer Mr. Ballentine! He is the best vacuum tube scientist in our country!"

"It's a great honor to meet you, Mr. Balentine!" Wang Weidong said.

Although he doesn't know who Balentin is now, he must be a very awesome old man when he heard Goncharova mention the title of Academician General just now.

While helping Balentin into the living room, Goncharova said to Wang Weidong: "The Academy of Sciences of the former northern power was directly under the leadership of the Council of Ministers, so my father is very familiar with these scientists."

The former northern power still leads the world in many aspects of science and technology. For example, in vacuum tubes, that is, electron tube technology, it has the world's most advanced technology. At that time, they even used electron tubes to produce the best-performing electron tubes at that time.

computer.

Western countries have developed rapidly in semiconductors and transistors, leaving the northern powers far behind. However, because Wang Weidong produces radios, he is very interested in and knowledgeable about household appliances.

For a long time, domestic technology in electron tubes was not up to par. In the early 1980s, the country established many black-and-white TV factories. These TV factories had to import picture tubes from abroad until they failed to close down in the early 1990s.

Electron guns and cathodes, and even picture tubes are directly imported.

The reason is that these parts imported from abroad will not break down until the TV is scrapped, but it is difficult to guarantee the service life of domestically produced picture tubes.

Now that Goncharova brought herself to see the authoritative scientist on vacuum tubes in this large northern country, she would definitely not ask this old guy to popularize knowledge about vacuum tubes. Wang Weidong vaguely guessed what Goncharova was thinking.

"Uncle Balentin, doesn't the country now allow you to give lectures at universities and bring graduate students?" Goncharova asked.

"They are all gone. Their apparent reason is to go to the United States to study and learn more advanced knowledge. In fact, I know that someone is secretly wooing them to immigrate to the United States. Those Western bastards, while

The newspapers ridiculed us for conducting technical research in the garbage heap, and the technology of vacuum tubes was garbage that had been eliminated! But secretly, they sent people to us to win over our technical talents and spent a lot of money to buy our technology.

Information!" Balentine replied.

Wang Weidong and Goncharova sat at Balentin's house for less than an hour before leaving.

Sitting in the car, Wang Weidong asked: "Miss Goncharova, what are your thoughts?"

"Instead of letting Westerners take away all these technologies, it would be better for us to cooperate in building a vacuum tube factory in China!" Goncharova said.
Chapter completed!