Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 198: A New Era of Trading

Just as the car gradually disappeared into the darkness, suddenly the lights in the rooms in the building lit up at the same time. If you look closely, you can see that all the lights are on on the second floor, and they are all on in a row. The second floor of the building is full of special forces, so you don't have to guess what the lights mean at this time.

They were bidding farewell to Li Zhijie and Xie Jianwei. It was a silent farewell, but it contained the deep affection between comrades. They had been together for so long, and they all knew each other's temper and personality. Coincidentally, Li Zhijie got along well with everyone, and his personality was well known by everyone.

Since the banquet was held, everyone knew that Li Zhijie was going to leave the Soviet Union and go to an unknown place to do something extremely mysterious. Although they didn't know what it was, those who had been special forces had a hunch that it must be very dangerous, otherwise they wouldn't have held such a large banquet, and Li Zhijie's tone was different when he was drinking.

They all knew that Li Zhijie didn't want to see the sad scene of everyone bidding him farewell, so he chose this silent farewell, including Lu Shaohua. Although Lu Shaohua left early and returned to his room, he did not sleep. If it was not necessary, he was unwilling to let Li Zhijie form a mercenary group, but for the sake of the future, he had no choice but to do so.

Parting is always sad, no one wants to be seen as vulnerable, including those special forces. Although they are usually cold and cruel, living people have feelings, they are not cold-blooded animals. Suddenly a comrade has to go out to do a dangerous thing, some of them feel bitter and reluctant to leave.

Once upon a time, when they were in the army, when a comrade was going out to perform a mission, they would choose this silent farewell, because they all knew that this comrade might never come back. Similarly, Li Zhijie and Xie Jianwei might never come back this time, so they could only pray for their comrades silently in their hearts and say silently, "Take care, comrades!"

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Sitting in the car, Li Zhijie and Xie Jianwei became much calmer. Lu Shaohua gave them a lot of security guarantees on this trip. To put it bluntly, they bought a lot of new and advanced equipment from the Soviet military. There are many weapons and equipment with high lethality, such as fighter jets and tanks. If conditions permit, they can also bring the entire missile system to Africa. However, it is doomed to be impossible now, because they are just starting to form, and when they grow stronger and have their own base, they can really buy whatever they want.

But at that time, do they still need to buy the weapons and equipment they want? This is worth studying. Don't forget that Lu Shaohua has added scientists who study weapons to the list of talents to recruit! As long as they can be recruited, researching and producing weapons does not seem to be a difficult task.

Li Zhijie left, taking Lu Shaohua's hopes with him. Lu Shaohua had no idea what difficulties, dangers, and challenges they would encounter. The only thing that could be guessed was that as long as they were a little more careful and cautious, then with their skills, safety might not be a problem. Of course, if they were careless, they might lose their lives.

"Oh! Let's just leave it to fate." Lu Shaohua sighed and climbed onto the bed to sleep.

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Days passed one by one, and the day after Li Zhijie and his team left, Chen Guobang came to the military base again. Buying frigates only looked like buying frigates on the surface, but in fact, it had another purpose. Yes, he came to test the attitude of the military high-level officials and lay a solid foundation for Lu Shaohua's next move.

After entering the heavily guarded base, Chen Guobang went straight to the back of the base. He wanted to meet the top figure in the military, whom he usually called the "general."

Walking into a house that looked ordinary on the outside but was very different on the inside, Chen Guobang saw an old man with yellow hair and wrinkles on his face. He smiled and said in Mandarin: "Haha! Hello, General!"

"Hello!" The old man whom Chen Guobang called the general responded in very standard Mandarin, and then he said another sentence in Russian. "#%%**..."

Just as the old man finished speaking, suddenly, a young man in ordinary military uniform stood up next to him and said in extremely standard Mandarin: "General, please sit down." Obviously, he was an interpreter.

As a Soviet citizen and a general of the Soviet military, he seldom spoke Chinese, but the old general could greet him in Mandarin. Chen Guobang felt happy because the word "hello" was taught to the general by Chen Guobang.

Chen Guobang doesn't flatter, but he still says some polite words, like "You speak standard Chinese" to praise the old general.

Chen Guobang's words were transmitted to the general through the translator's mouth word for word, and he burst into laughter.

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"Haha! General, I came here today to buy one more thing." After joking, Chen Guobang's face became serious and he stated the purpose of today.

When the old general heard the young translator translate Chen Guobang's celebration, his eyes lit up, his face was full of smiles, and he said something in Russian to the young translator.

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Through the translation, Chen Guobang knew that the old general was asking him what he wanted to buy. He nodded. Since he had entered the main topic, he did not waste any more words and simply said, "Frigate."

After saying that, Chen Guobang stared at the old general without blinking. This time, his main purpose was to test him, so he would not let go of the old general's expression. Chen Guobang wanted to see his reaction when he heard that he wanted to buy a frigate.

If the old general's eyes lit up when he heard Chen Guobang wanted to buy weapons and equipment, then now his eyes can be described as shining. The new Soviet frigate is undoubtedly advanced in the world today. Chen Guobang wants to buy it, which means he can raise the price very high. If the price is high, the money he gets will be...

No one who can sit in the position of general is a simple person. Not to mention that he has fought in countless battles, in terms of personality, the old general is very calm, so calm that he has no expression at all. If he had not just heard the word "frigate" and could not suppress the excitement in his heart, his natural reaction of brightening his eyes was caught by Chen Guobang, and people might have thought that he heard nothing.

As a general, his own interests are important, but he still keeps calm. There are some things he has to consider, such as what is Chen Guobang buying frigates for? The fighters and tanks last time were easy to explain, they were used by mercenaries, so is the frigate also for mercenaries this time?

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Complex psychological activities, thinking of all kinds of possibilities, the old general did not say a word, had no expression, supported his forehead with his hands, closed his eyes as if he fell asleep.

The ticking sound of the second hand of the dark old clock hanging on the wall indicated that time was passing. Ten minutes passed, then twenty minutes passed, and the old general still maintained his original sleeping posture, with no sign of waking up.

Finally, thirty minutes passed. The old general put down his hand that was supporting his forehead, slowly opened his eyes, and a smile appeared on his wrinkled face. He stared at Chen Guobang without blinking, as if he wanted to penetrate the thoughts hidden beneath Chen Guobang's flesh and blood.

Chen Guobang had expected this situation. He looked at the old man without showing any weakness, and smiled as well. However, his smile was more sly. Yes, it was a sly smile. This sly smile seemed to tell the old man, "You will agree to sell it to me."

In fact, as early as the moment the old general opened his eyes, Chen Guobang seemed to have grasped something. He was 100% sure that he had defeated his selfish desires in this short half hour, so Chen Guobang smiled at this moment. This seemingly treacherous smile was still telling people that he had won and he had seduced the old general with money.

The two looked at each other for a while, the old man turned his head and muttered something in Russian to the young translator, then leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes again.

"Hello, Mr. Chen, the general agreed to your arms purchase, but the general also said that the Soviet Union's new frigate technology is now top-notch in the world, so the price may be a bit higher." said the young translator.

Nodding with satisfaction, Chen Guobang pondered for a moment before saying, "I know this. Please tell the general that we can negotiate the price, but the important thing now is that you come up with a price, so that I can go back and tell our boss and then we can discuss the price."

The young translator did not answer Lu Shaohua's words, but just nodded, then leaned over to the old general's ear and whispered something in Russian.

Then, the old general opened his eyes and nodded, indicating that he would do as Chen Guobang said.

After getting the promise, Chen Guobang stood up, stretched out his right hand and shook hands with the old general sitting on the chair, saying, "General, I'm leaving first. I'll come back tomorrow."

After saying that, Chen Guobang did not wait for the translator to translate for the old general, he let go of his hand, turned around and walked out. There is no doubt that Chen Guobang was in an unusually good mood at this time. Needless to say, it means that in the future, if he wants to buy weapons and equipment, he only needs to make a list, and he does not need to wait for their reply like today.

"Haha!" After walking out of the door, Chen Guobang laughed and laughed crazily. Because he was so happy, at this historic moment, he could only use laughter to vent his joy.

After laughing, Chen Guobang looked around. When he saw the guards looking at him like a monster, he stopped laughing and walked quickly towards the parking lot, trying to hold back his laughter. No! It shouldn't be called walking, because he only took two steps, and then he had to run.

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