the world is at stake

How long has China had an aircraft carrier?Compared with the United States, it is really far behind, so we should not underestimate ourselves.

Robert's words were eloquent, but Uncle Zhou didn't let go.All he said was that '$[-] million' was too expensive to sell at all.Besides, God knows what these materials contain, so I have to check the goods first.

Inspection?

This word seemed to inspire some kind of thought in Robert, he avoided Zhou Qingfeng and ran to a distance, he didn't know who to call on the phone in the warehouse, and he didn't come back until an hour later.

"Harden, [-] million dollars is indeed not a small amount, but the price really cannot be lowered. We may be able to make up for the money behind you from other directions."

What Robert said was mysterious.

Zhou Qingfeng knew that the profiteer colonel was going to have another whim.

"Didn't I say it before? The lords of Congress want us to sort out all the paper and old storage materials. But this job is extremely professional, and ordinary people can't do it.

And those who can do it are reluctant to do it, because it requires a lot of people, but Congress allocates very little money.

If you can find a group of professionals to inspect the goods, by the way, the work of sorting out the data will be done.We can pay you the appropriation from Congress as your wages, and the two will offset each other.

If this deal is made, we can also give away the materials of the 'Kitty Hawk' class and 'Enterprise' class aircraft carriers for free.how do you feel "

Zhou Qingfeng curled his lips when he heard this, and teased: "You want to make money, and you want to find a group of cheap professional technicians to work, it's a good idea.

I can speak for you.But what is the result?If you can provide more gifts, this transaction may go more smoothly. "

"Do you still want a gift?" Robert shook his head in embarrassment. "There are not many opportunities to clean up the data of this kind of decommissioned equipment."

"Really?" Zhou Qingfeng thought for a while, and reminded: "Shouldn't the Ohio class and Seawolf class be retired?"

Ah... Robert shook his head violently, "This is not acceptable, absolutely not."

Chapter 33 Also Absolutely Not

'Victor is Chinese' This is no small matter.

Lao Xiao's first reaction was disbelief, and he asked Qin Qing to report in detail all the details of his experience in Raymond, and sent people to the Raymond fab for follow-up investigation.

But such investigations quickly became unnecessary.

Zhou Qingfeng had known for a long time that 'Guoan' was suspicious and had a lot of trouble.Xiao Jinlang is too cautious, good things can easily turn into bad things accidentally.So he supported Qin Qing so that his sister would not suffer for no reason.

The day after Qin Qing returned, Yilan in the imperial capital relayed Zhou Qingfeng's words to Lao Xiao——Victor and Qin Qing met, and the two had a good relationship.

When relaying this, Qin Qing, who had been in contact with 'Victor', had already been quarantined by his own team.Due to the importance of the matter, it is impossible to release the half-yearly report according to the routine.

But Zhou Qingfeng asked Qin Qing to connect with 'Holy Light' by name, and even share part of Lao Xiao's work.

On the third day of quarantine, Qin Qing's first detailed report was handed over to Xiao Jinlang.After reading it, Lao Xiao deliberately went to the room where Qin Qing was isolated.

After several months of expansion, the 'Victoria's Secret' team has its own dedicated office space.

Qin Qing was sitting on a wicker chair, the sunlight shone through the windows made of bulletproof glass, shining mottled bright spots on the wall.Under the light and shadow, the girl's face was a little thin.She didn't sleep well for several days, and her eye sockets were slightly dark.

When accepting the "National Security" training, Qin Qing read a large number of cases of domestic and foreign intelligence incidents, and thought he had a deep understanding of this special industry.

But when I went through specific tasks, I realized that this work is really not something ordinary people can do.

Although the strange things experienced by Zhou Qingfeng were unexpected, they were still acceptable.But when he came back, he was immediately suspected by the organization and then isolated, which greatly shocked Qin Qing's psychology.

Although similar things can be seen in various archives, they can be found in various periods in China.But boring written records and personal experience are still different.

The intelligence system is like this, everything needs to be thoughtful, otherwise it is easy to make a big mess.But being careful in everything brings enormous psychological pressure.

Xiao Jinlang entered the room and sat in front of Qin Qing.He didn't speak immediately, but just looked at the young man carefully—beautiful, dignified, well-mannered, enthusiastic and enterprising.

Qin Qing didn't wait, but took the initiative to say: "Zhou Qingfeng once told me that what he hates the most is rivalry and distrust from his colleagues, and he would rather let it out than be a caged bird.

I don't quite understand why he said this, but now I feel a little bit of that guy's unwillingness to be restrained.He said that he has received professional lurking training, but he still likes to be deviant. "

Old Xiao smiled wryly. He was also young before, so he could understand young people's thoughts, so he could only comfort him a little: "This is the organization's regulations. Any expatriate will have a quarantine period when they come back."

Not much to talk about, the topic changed...

"Xiao Qin, I'll just skim through your report. You mentioned 'Victor', that is, Zhou Qingfeng, who is very familiar with us and took extra care of you.

We're looking into the name, but nothing so far.

In addition, Elan took the initiative to ask us yesterday, asking you to connect with 'Holy Light' by name.Including your sketch of 'Victor', Elayne confirmed.

These cases have been reported.After obtaining the permission of the elders of the Standing Committee, the information about the true identity of 'Victor' will not be retained and will not be disclosed to any outsiders.

We also don't make it public within our own team.Including the report you just wrote, and that sketch, have been destroyed.

The name Zhou Qingfeng is currently only known to you and me.Even the elders said that secrecy is the first element, and they are not interested in who 'Victor' is. "

After Qin Qing listened, the little bit of grievance in his heart disappeared.It seems that there is a kind of daring concern, knowing that she will be quarantined, and made it clear to the country early on.

'Victor' didn't really need to do this kind of thing, but he did.

Xiao Jinlang didn't say anything else.

Qin Qing is a very serious person, and he described the incident in detail. Not only did he write about the rainy night gunfight, Kajia who didn't know his origin, but also the strange relationship with Zhou Qingfeng.

Although it was not clearly stated between the lines, Lao Xiao could clearly feel that Zhou Qingfeng had an unspeakable love for Qin Qing in less than ten hours of contact—as if a couple who couldn't be together could only watch from a distance.

The same feeling lingered in Qin Qing's mind, especially after reading a bunch of books on love psychology and recalling Zhou Qingfeng's focused eyes on himself, it was clear that a boy accidentally met a girl he liked but couldn't recognize each other.

Uncle Zhou is not someone who can hide his thoughts, all his thoughts are on his face.

The phrase "Can we meet again" at the time of parting directly pierced Zhou Qingfeng's heart—Qin Qing always felt that after he left, the man would either be saddened or shed tears of pain.

Where is this doing intelligence work in an enemy country?It is clearly acting in a spy war love movie.

It's still the third-level kind.

"Comrade Qin Qing, on behalf of the organization, I announce that your quarantine period is over and you are back to work." Xiao Jinlang ended the conversation with a big laugh, and gave a letter, "Yilan asked me to hand it over to you. "

The letter was simple and unsealed.

Qin Qing took out a thin piece of paper from the inside, handwritten it, took pictures, transmitted it over the network, and then printed it out.A smiling face was drawn on it with a simple strokes, and three words were written...

cheer up.

puff.

Qin Qing really smiled.Always calm, she whispered reluctantly with a disdainful expression, "boring..."

Old Xiao also saw these three words, and his teeth were almost sore.He looked again at the several love books on the table in the room, shook his head, and thought to himself:

"Who is this? A lover? Across the world, at great risk, just to get a date just to write three characters."

Zhou Shaoxia, do you need a woman?

Qin Qing tore up the note and threw it into the trash can, and resumed her usual calm and indifferent smile, "Thanks to the organization for trusting me, I can work immediately."

But after Xiao Jinlang encouraged her to leave, she looked at the trash again, frowned, and picked up the torn pieces of paper, put them back together, pasted them with tape, and used them as bookmarks.

work, work, work...

Sister Qin Yu returned to her office and took over part of Xiao Jinlang's coordination tasks with 'Holy Light', starting with the simple one - finding a factory for the US Department of Defense Logistics order forwarded by 'Holy Light'.

This is similar to the coastal foreign trade companies finding foreign customers and then contacting domestic manufacturers.Such orders are basically handed over to the military industry system with high confidentiality.

Regarding the order, the 'Victoria's Secret' team told Yilan that they reminded 'Victor' that there is no need to always solicit domestic orders, and that confidentiality is the number one priority.

But Uncle Zhou is particularly enthusiastic about collecting American wool.If you don't let him squeeze, his morale can be reduced by half, and he feels too boring.Let him pluck him, and he will be excited—wish he could pluck the sheep bald.

But for the domestic military industry system, the order that Uncle Zhou got is really good!

The domestic military industry system is really suffering, and the large equipment industry is okay, at least the attention is high.There are also many military-industrial enterprises for food, drink, lodging, and transportation.

Some military factories give up on themselves because they have no money and no tasks.

In order to survive, some factories take the initiative to seek foreign trade orders-but most of them are the needs of poor and small countries, and they produce some military uniforms, military boots, water bottle backpacks, helmet goggles and the like.

After finally selling some heavy equipment, they are also poor people like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Thailand.

Developed countries in Europe and the United States have lucrative orders, and they are also open to global bidding, but domestic military factories are not at all involved—their bidding documents clearly state that Chinese manufacturers are not allowed to bid, and they will not buy Chinese products.

Even if it is indirect—for example, the Chinese bullets that were aided to Albania back then cannot be purchased for the puppet military in Afghanistan no matter how cheap they are.

This is the plot of the movie, and it is also an express regulation of the Pentagon.

But... to make money, rules are meant to be broken.

'Holy Light' changed orders for US military quilts and drinking water.

For domestic military factories, this is more than two to three hundred percent of the profit.With the relationship of Deputy Director 'Harden', the Defense Logistics Agency still pays in full and does not press funds.

A few military quilt factories with a number starting with a number can tell who the buyer is after looking at the samples, but the whole factory is forbidden to speak - everyone shut up, work hard, and there is a big year-end bonus.

This is a state secret, dare to go to prison blindly.

Taking American money to support our own personnel and technology, this kind of good life is beyond our dreams.

With the deepening of the cooperation between the two parties, the original non-sensitive products and services could no longer meet the needs of the Defense Logistics Agency, and Lieutenant General Miller faced some very difficult accumulation problems that needed to be resolved.

For example, the maintenance of heavy equipment of the US military.

American soldiers deploy weapons all over the world, showing off their power and spending a lot of money at the same time.Simple eating, drinking and lazing are actually easy to solve, but the maintenance of weapons and equipment is also a problem.

The military spending of the U.S. military is really limited—this is not a joke, regardless of the annual budget of 7000 billion to [-] billion U.S. dollars, but the U.S. military has too many places to spend money, and it will be stretched when it falls on a certain project.

For example, the overseas deployment of the US military, tanks, fighters, and ships are all in a high-intensity operating state for a long time, and they play with bumper boats at every turn.The annual maintenance tasks are very heavy.

Some small problems can be solved at the frontline base, and some major repair tasks need to be brought back to the country to solve.

For example, in the desert of Arizona, the famous Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is the largest aircraft cemetery in the world.The full name of its establishment is 'US 309th Aviation Maintenance and Reconstruction Center'.

The reason why the base is full of fighter planes is that apart from the scrapped and sealed by the army, there is also the fact that the maintenance force is too small to repair them.So that over time, more and more.

The same situation exists in the U.S. Army and Navy. The Defense Logistics Agency has "limited funds" and cannot embezzle funds from other projects to strengthen maintenance forces.

It wasn't Lieutenant General Miller's fault either, but he needed to fix it.Otherwise, every time the Pentagon holds a meeting, the Secretary of Defense will raise this issue-why can't the logistics maintenance keep up with the front-line needs?

To put it simply, the efficiency of spending money is not high. The annual funds are spent, but the tasks are not completed-again, too many experienced service personnel are lost.

With an annual salary of only [-] to [-] U.S. dollars, who wants to do those dirty and tiring jobs?

It happened that Colonel Robert was talking to 'Harden' about the '[-] million US dollars' private work, and the two sides had an inspection session——Dear Harden, with an annual salary of [-] US dollars, can you get me a group of experienced maintenance technicians? Come?

"Experienced maintenance technicians are very valuable anywhere, only 5 annual salary? A beggar on the streets of New York earns more than that."

'Harden' snapped his head, "This is not going to work, absolutely not."

Chapter 34

"Harden, you really have to help me. In the past two years, our overseas deployment has been very intensive, including in the Middle East, Central Asia and East Asia. Not only is there a shortage of funds for logistical maintenance, but also a shortage of people.

For example, since the "Asia-Pacific rebalancing", more than half of the destroyers of the Seventh Fleet have been deployed beyond the deadline.The personnel are extremely tired and the equipment is in urgent need of maintenance.

But the docks at our shipyard are always full, and maintenance is repeatedly delayed.The Pentagon keeps asking DLA to come up with a timetable, and we just can't.

If this situation is not alleviated, the fleet deployed overseas will definitely have big problems.At that time, it will not be a maintenance fee of tens of millions of dollars, but a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars. "

The battery car left the spare parts warehouse of the Newport News Shipyard. Colonel Robert made a request to Zhou Qingfeng, hoping that the latter could solve some problems in his work.

The first thing is to recruit people. There are a large number of vacancies in the logistics system of the United States, which need to be filled by skilled technicians and senior engineers.But there is a shortage of similar positions all over the world.

Uncle Zhou didn't agree easily, he shook his head and said, "Your request is equivalent to asking a senior maintenance engineer with an annual salary of 20 US dollars to do a job with an annual salary of 5 US dollars. This is simply impossible."

Robert blinked his eyes, "Aren't Chinese engineers very cheap?

We can offer advantages in green card and naturalization.As a defense contractor, your 'Holy Light' is fully capable of engaging in this business. "

"Can you be inexperienced?" Zhou Qingfeng pouted.

Robert flatly refused, "Of course not. We are also serving the country anyway, so we can't be so perfunctory."

"Where are the engineers from Eastern Europe? Or from Japan and South Korea?"

"There is no developed manufacturing industry in Eastern Europe, and the few engineers who meet the requirements are in Western Europe. Japan and South Korea do have them, but their labor costs are also high."

"It's still not enough money! How about India? There are enough, at least they can be cultivated."

"Ah... don't mention India, it makes me angry." Robert looked angrily, "We had a plan in this regard before, training a group of Indian engineers to do logistics maintenance.

The Indians hired pat their chests and promise to do a good job.Ask anything and they all shake their heads, smile and say 'yes, sir. No problem. '

Indians are as confident as if it is okay for them to have children, and you will feel guilty if you have any doubts.

But as long as you hire an Indian as a supervisor, he would like to get all the relatives from his hometown, and the entire department will be replaced by Indians.

It turned out that these guys had to be supervised by white people to do anything, and once they organized themselves, they couldn't do anything.It must be watched by white people, but not by black people.

Even so, the equipment repaired by them is not usable at all.They can screw up even the simplest job.

After careful investigation, it was found that many of the Indians recruited had no professional training, and even their academic qualifications were expensive.