Chapter 125 Qin Tao’s friend is my Nikolai’s friend
The water of the Amur River flows slowly.
On the banks of this river stands Komsomolsk, Lao Maozi's most important industrial city in the Far East. The city is divided into two parts by the river. The west side is where the administrative, commercial and cultural centers, steel plants and shipyards are located, and the east side is the industrial area dominated by oil refineries and aircraft factories. At the same time, it is surrounded by low mountains to the east, west and north, and there are lakes and swamps in the south. The scenery is very nice.
In 1932, this was still an ordinary Permskoye village. A large number of Communist Youth League members came here and built it into a city with their hard-working hands.
After the establishment of the Amur Steel Plant, it quickly developed into a large industrial center with heavy machinery manufacturing and shipbuilding industries. The oil extracted from Sakhalin Island was refined here, and factories for wood processing, building materials, and paper making were established.
Gagarin Aircraft Factory, you can tell how famous it is just by listening to its name. This factory is named after the first astronaut who flew into space. The code name for Lao Maozi is Factory 126.
There is a long runway on the aircraft factory, and the special plane of the inspection team landed on this runway.
When we got off the plane, we were greeted by Alexey, the director of the aircraft manufacturing plant, Nikshev, the chief designer of the Su-27, and the famous meritorious test pilot Pugachev. Simonov, the chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, led the team and stood in front of these people. He happened to be inspecting here. He heard that guests from the East were coming, so he happened to receive them here.
In addition to them, there were also several officers from the Far East Military Region. When Qin Tao got off the plane, he was stunned.
Among the crowd, he suddenly saw Nicholas' figure!
When their eyes met, Nicholas was also very curious. Isn't Qin Tao a treacherous man? Why are you hanging out with these people?
This is just an inspection and will not involve specific negotiations, so the atmosphere is very friendly.
Everyone entered the aircraft factory and looked at the Huangpi Su-27 being produced inside.
There is no assembly line for aircraft production. It is a station-based production. In the large production workshop, there are countless installation stations and various high platforms. Workers push parts to the stations and install them one by one.
Although it is inefficient, it is also an internationally accepted method.
Everyone was very fascinated by it.
Qin Tao slowly fell behind the crowd and stood with Nicholas. When others were not paying attention, Nicholas asked in a low voice: "My friend, you haven't been here for a long time. I I’m even starting to worry about you.”
After several business transactions, Nicholas made a lot of money, and he still expected Qin Tao to come to him to do business. Who would have thought that Qin Tao never showed up again.
"My friend, I'm really sorry. My newly recruited secretary was actually born into a military family. I was confused and made some mistakes. As a result, I can only be with my secretary. Recently, I have been helping my future father-in-law. ,there is no time."
Zhao Ling was also among the people who visited and inspected, so there was no way to hide this matter, so Qin Tao simply told Nikola Ming.
"Don't mention it, my old friend." Qin Tao said: "I prefer to live the life I had before. By the way, can you help me? Let me gain some face with my future father-in-law."
“Of course, I’ll cover it.” Nicholas was very generous.
After a whole day of inspecting the aircraft manufacturing plant and watching the Su-27 flight show the next morning, most of the delegation returned on a special plane, with only the navy personnel remaining.
"Everyone, since you are Qin's friends, you are my friends." Nicholas looked at a few people in the navy and said, "I will take you to inspect more of our factories. Now, let's go to Gongqingcheng for shipbuilding first. factory, I will take you to inspect the most advanced submarine manufacturing factory of our Soviet Navy!"
Wu Shengli and others were excited for a while.
Qin Tao bartered several times and got back a lot of good things. Of course the navy knew that Qin Tao had already hooked up with Nicholas, but they didn't know what the relationship between the two parties was.
Now, Nicholas said this, which is very embarrassing for Qin Tao. The two are good friends.
Komsomolsk not only manufactures aircraft, but also ships. It began building submarines in the late 1930s. During the Cold War, it manufactured a variety of advanced nuclear submarines, including Y-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines and D-I-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines. , began building Victor-III class attack nuclear submarines and Akula-class attack nuclear submarines in the late 1970s. (All are NATO code names. Lao Maozi here are all numerical numbers. For example, the Akula class, their number is type 971. The Kursk that tragically sank in the Barents Sea belongs to class 949.)
Hearing Nikolai's words, Qin Tao was slightly modest: "My friend, there are a lot of secrets in your submarine manufacturing factory, right? Is it convenient for us to inspect like this?"
"Of course there is no problem." Nicholas patted his chest: "Our Type 877 submarine has begun to be exported to the outside world. With your level, you can have access to it."
Only then did Qin Tao realize that Nikolai still had a plan. It was of course impossible for us to visit nuclear submarines, but conventional submarines were different. This Type 877 submarine was the latest in Lao Maozi's equipment sequence. The famous conventional submarine, nicknamed by Lao Maozi himself, is Flounder, and the West is more accustomed to calling it the Kilo class.
That’s right, it’s the famous ocean black hole, the Kilo-class submarine!
This submarine also has a great relationship with the motherland. One of the Kilo-class submarines later imported by the motherland was built at the Komsomolsk Shipyard. Therefore, although Qin Tao felt a little regretful about Nicholas's proposal, he still readily accepted it.
“In that case, let’s go take a look at the Soviet Union’s most advanced diesel-electric submarine.”
Wu Shengli nodded.
The inspection team left some people to continue the visit, and Lao Maozi would of course continue to receive them. However, since Nicholas took the initiative to take the remaining members of the inspection team to visit, Lao Maozi's superiors could safely and boldly send these people to visit. The man was handed over to Nicholas.
Nicholas led everyone to the shipyard.
It is already June, the weather here is very refreshing, and the Komsomolsk Shipyard is also a bustling scene.
Who would have thought that in a year and a half, the huge empire would collapse, and these shipyards would become motherless children?
Qin Tao's heart was filled with emotion.
(End of this chapter)