Chapter 344 Brown's troubles
Brown never expected that Lu Jiadong would hold the reporter's nose in a few words. He couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He wanted to come forward and kick the headless reporter out. But in public, Brown just thought about it, but no matter what, Brown could no longer let this free advertisement continue.
After all, Brown was neither a saint with a broad mind nor a philanthropist. So Brown's blue eyes turned slightly, then walked to the Middle Eastern man and whispered to him a few words. The Middle Eastern man was shocked after hearing this, but then Brown's slightly gloomy words came to his ears again:
"I'll just say a few words to you about the forty tons of arms. Isn't this business worthwhile?" The middle-aged man named Hussein heard Brown's words, and the black beard on his lips raised slightly to both sides, and nodded gently with a strange smile. When Brown saw this, he also had a cold look that was not easy to detect...
At this moment, Lu Jiadong was introducing the Type 78 assault rifle, light automatic grenade launcher and other weapons and equipment made in China to the reporter in front of him. Although Lu Jiadong just told the reporter in detail, his voice was just right to make the people around him listen to it very clearly. In addition, his already outstanding eloquence and meticulous thinking logic, he used extremely easy-to-understand language to vividly and interestingly describe the boring equipment performance and technical and tactical indicators.
Everyone around him nodded frequently and became interested in weapons and equipment made in China. Cao Xiaodong and Shi Jianfei, who were standing next to Lu Jiadong, even their eyes shone brightly, and they all stared at Lu Jiadong. No matter what, they did not expect that Lu Jiadong would actually use a reporter to sell weapons and equipment.
The number of merchants he attracted and the flow of visitors set records since the exhibition of the Deanli Company, which made the two of them ecstatic, and they both kept their eyes open, raised their ears and looked at Lu Jiadong's every response, listened to every word he said, and then recorded it carefully in their minds so that they could study it carefully as valuable learning experience.
In addition to the crowd around and the two assistants behind him, the defense newspaper reporter standing opposite Lu Jiadong was also very surprised. He did not expect that the young Chinese man in front of him, who looked a few years younger than him, had such agile ability to adapt. Of course, compared with this, what interested him more was the weapons and equipment made in China. You should know that although the French Marseille International Defense Exhibition is not big.
But it was the first show of Chinese arms companies. Even if they can't compare with those traditional international arms giants, they can't stand the freshness. Since they have a freshness, they are news-oriented. With news-oriented, their own manuscripts can be adopted, and their salary this month will be settled.
Thinking of this, the reporter asked several questions of interest to the weapons and equipment introduced by Lu Jiadong. At the same time, merchants from all over the country around could not suppress their curiosity and asked about the specific situation of Chinese weapons and equipment from time to time. Lu Jiadong seemed to be prepared and gave extremely satisfactory answers to these questions:
"Mr. Lu, I really didn't expect that China's weapons and equipment have such excellent performance. Most of the more valuable things have been tested in actual combat. I think China's equipment should become a good choice!" After hearing this, Lu Jiadong knew that the reporter in front of him had enough news materials and was about to say a few polite words to end it. Although he felt a little regretful about such a short interview, Lu Jiadong also knew that since it was free to make him use it to this level, it was considered sufficient, so he nodded politely at the reporter with a bright smile:
"Thank you Ji Yan, Mr. Reporter, our Chinese weapons and equipment..."
"After talking, they were all light weapons, and they didn't say a single one of the old main combat equipment. I really don't know what to show off!" Before Lu Jiadong finished speaking, a burst of broken English with a strong West Asian accent suddenly came from the crowd. Although the voice was not loud, it seemed to be talking to people, but it was just enough for everyone present to hear it. Lu Jiadong was no exception and quickly looked in the sound.
The Middle Eastern man who had just followed Brown was looking at him proudly, while Brown, who was standing in front of him, had a gloomy smile, and he kept his head down from time to time and was talking to the Middle Eastern man. Then the two of them showed strange smiles at the same time. Seeing these two people like this, Lu Jiadong's thick eyebrows couldn't help but frowned slightly.
But at this moment, the surroundings sounded again, but they were not discussing the guns and large-caliber team support equipment they were interested in, but they kept talking to the main combat equipment such as Type 59 tanks and Type 63 armored transport vehicles in the exhibition area. From their expressions and occasional words, it is not difficult to see that the merchants around the country surrounded by the surroundings have been influenced by the words of the Middle East men, and once again questioned the weapons and equipment made in China.
In fact, not only the attitudes of the merchants around him changed significantly, but even the two assistants behind Lu Jiadong were the same. The nerves that had just relaxed were once again tense by the sudden words and the changes around him, and their faces suddenly became nervous because they knew in their hearts that compared with those international arms giants with advanced performance, the heavy main combat equipment exhibited in their exhibition area had no advantage.
It is precisely because of this that Lu Jiadong attracted everyone's attention to light weapons with competitive advantages, but unexpectedly, he was completely disrupted by the words of the Middle East man behind Brown. This inevitably made the two of them worry again, and their blank eyes immediately focused on Lu Jiadong.
The reporter standing in front of Lu Jiadong was also the reporter standing in front of him. He thought that he had enough news materials for China. After all, even if China was fresh at such a large exhibition, it was just a small family that was just a fledgling family and was not a key point at all. The editor-in-chief of the Defense Newspaper was concerned about those international arms giants, which was the main force that made the headlines.
As for China's report of hundreds of words in the corners of the supplement, it was already very good, so the reporter asked a few questions and prepared to end the interview. However, the sudden words of Hussein, who was standing behind him, suddenly made the reporter's eyes lit up. Hussein was right. He was just concerned about understanding the light weapons made by China, and almost forgot that they had exhibited several heavy main combat equipment. Since light weapons are so excellent, if heavy weapons also achieve such achievements, wouldn't it become a unique news point?
Thinking of this, the reporter opened the closed notebook again, and continued to ask without asking Lu Jiadong's opinion:
"Mr. Lu, you have heard what Mr. Hussein said just now, and his words are exactly what I want to ask. Looking at the simulation models of the heavy main combat equipment exhibited by your company, most of them are imitations of Soviet equipment in the 1950s and 1960s. Now it has entered the 1980s. Is there any new development in China on this basis?"
Although the reporter's question sounded neither anxious nor slow, every sentence was tricky. The people present were all old birds who had been in the arms industry for many years. They could see the performance of a device based on the appearance of the simulation model. Seeing that those models were old-fashioned equipment, it would be harder to say anything new unless they were bragging out of thin air. Because of this, everyone's eyes were all focused on Lu Jiadong. Even Brown and Hussein looked at him with sarcastic gaze, wanting to see what kind of thing Lu Jiadong could say with his mouth!
"Our heavy equipment is indeed very innovative based on the predecessors!" Lu Jiadong's words made the people around him stunned, but before everyone could react, Lu Jiadong took out a new 52x 155mm caliber simulation model from the display cabinet beside him to display it in front of the reporter:
"Mr. Reporter, you see, this cannon is a new military division-level suppression large-caliber heavy artillery developed and produced by China. It creatively uses 52 times the caliber body tube, optimizes the structure of the medicine room and uses an auxiliary power system. After actual tests, the maximum range of ordinary grenades is fired exceeds 40 kilometers. If we use the latest date-core grenades, it can reach more than 45 kilometers. Not only that, this cannon has also participated in the artillery combat operations on the Sino-Vietnam border, achieving extremely good practical results. This is a battle situation report..."
Lu Jiadong talked again with the new artillery model and the picture album specially made for it. Brown's face turned pale and gave a wink at Hussein beside him. After Hussein understood, he shouted loudly at Lu Jiadong before he could finish his words:
"Just talking about the meaning of a cannon, we need to know whether the performance of your tanks and armored vehicles is really eggshells as the industry says, and it is not banned at all on the battlefield. You can even pierce the forks for eating!"
As soon as Hussein finished speaking, the people around him couldn't help laughing, and Lu Jiadong also instantly stepped on his eyebrows and glared fiercely at Hussein not far away. Seeing Lu Jiadong's glaring eyes, Hussein did not avoid it, and raised his head proudly, just as the king of ancient Babylon looked down at his subjects.
At this time, Lu Jiadong couldn't help feeling a little upset, thinking that Hussein knew from the reporter in front of him what good he had taken Brown, and he actually helped Brown everywhere. Unable to understand, Lu Jiadong's eyebrows instantly twisted into a bump...
Chapter completed!