After staying in Ulyanovsk, Russia for more than a year, Lao Fan from China Eastern Airlines Maintenance finally returned to China. Not only did he save thousands of An-2s for the company, he also used the Supreme Pill to show off
Xiongfeng completely hooked up Mao's sister Shaneva, and the two officially got married.
In the eyes of others, Lao Fan's trip abroad was regarded as a rejuvenation. His newly married Russian wife was extremely beautiful, and she was also very virtuous.
As for someone jokingly reminding Mao Mei that the "shelf life" is expired, Lao Fan directly responded with one sentence: If you have money, you can take good care of it, but if you don't have money, you will become dregs.
Yes, Lao Fan is rich.
Before going abroad, Lao Fan was an ordinary mechanic with only some aviation maintenance skills. After returning to China, the couple were directly awarded five million by the 'Wasteland Trade' for their outstanding work - the electric modified 'An-2' was very outstanding.
It's great for short-distance freight transportation in the wasteland.
Lao Fan had no idea that the electric 'An-2' he and his wife had built had become a battlefield taxi for the Aurora Legion. Especially after occupying Mexico, the Legion urgently needed a transport aircraft that could quickly mobilize troops and supplies.
Used for low-intensity combat.
The production of 'An-2' was very large, and many of them were retired. Zhou Qingfeng got more than 3,000 aircraft back from Russia for modification, but they could only barely cope with the vast wasteland of Mexico.
This time when Lao Fan came back from Russia, it was not that the An-2 modification task was completed, but that he was promoted to the person in charge of a new modification project.
In addition to light transport aircraft, the Aurora Legion also needs a large number of ground light armored vehicles. Complex security operations do not require dealing with powerful enemies. The trouble is that in order to restore order in the wasteland of Mexico, they have to face a large number of bandits roaming around.
In addition to the Aurora Legion, the Chinese forces in the wasteland of Africa also face the need for a large number of low-intensity battles. The enemies are not strong, but they are very numerous and like to run around.
The French, known as the "African Gendarmerie", are equipped with many light armored vehicles specifically to deal with various rebellions and conflicts in Africa. When the Aurora Legion also faced the same problem, they found that the Rabbit Family did not have the corresponding equipment for Zhou Qingfeng
.
Of course, new designs and manufacturing are possible, but the price is not cheap. So Zhou Qingfeng simply continued to seek Mao Xiong’s legacy from Xiong Da, picking up rags and sending them abroad - Mao Xiong worked hard to produce countless armored vehicles back then.
Most of this equipment is now retired.
Back then, when the Third World War was being considered, Rabbit mobilized the country to produce equipment, but the result was only hand grenades and bazookas and other inferior items. Real industrial countries didn't even bother to play with these things. Back then, Mao Xiong only produced more than one item for the war.
We thought it was very hard to produce a "59" tank for only 10,000 units. Mao Xiong's T-54/55 series easily produced tens of thousands of units, and this was just one model. Later, the T-62,
T-64 and T-72 are equally numerous.
By the way, how many people know that in addition to main battle tanks, Mao Xiong also produced IS-4, -7, T-10 and other heavy tanks after the war? There were just a few thousand of them. Back then, rabbits were afraid of Mao Xiong.
The torrent of armor coming from the north is no joke.
The tank is too heavy and inconvenient to use. It is enough for Zhou Qingfeng to have his own "59", but he lacks armored vehicles. As for Mao Xiong, there are BMP series tracked armored vehicles and BTR series wheeled armored vehicles. Huge quantities of these were produced that year.
The equipment is now gathering dust in some nook and cranny.
Wasteland Trading, as a private company, purchased a large number of decommissioned armored vehicles from the Xiong family in the name of importing scrap steel. The total number was more than 5,000. Lao Fan returned to China this time to renovate these armored vehicles that were not in good condition.
There is also a Russian of unknown origin.
When the first batch of 300 BTR60 wheeled armored vehicles passed through the northeastern border and entered the territory of Rabbit, Lao Fan looked at the armored vehicles covered with oilcloth on the railway trailer and sighed, "Russia is actually quite powerful.
We can get so much equipment."
The identity of the Russian traveling with him was quite mysterious, and he was taciturn and did not speak much along the way. When he was delivering this batch of equipment, he heard Lao Fan's emotion and couldn't help but said: "If the Soviets could put the resources used in military industry for civilian use
Realm, we won’t collapse.”
These words were so miserable that Lao Fan couldn't help but feel sorry for Russia, "Aren't you doing well recently? Your economic and military strength have begun to recover."
"Haha..." The Russians who were traveling with him laughed dryly, "If they brag about raising taxes, the Russian government will definitely go bankrupt. Those bureaucrats know how to fool people with some PPTs, but in fact that's all they can do."
This..., there is no way to go on with this.
Lao Fan was blocked and speechless, but the Russian continued: "Your flower gardening family has become rich, and we have become poor. You have been laughing at us recently, saying..."
Xiong Da: I want to study stealth fighters.
Rabbit: You have no money.
Xiong Da: I want to study stealth bombers.
Rabbit: You have no money.
Xiong Da: I want to build a Buran class aircraft carrier.
Rabbit: You have no money.
Xiong Da: I want to develop a new destroyer.
Rabbit: You have no money.
Xiong Da: Can you not mention the money? This is too shocking.
Rabbit: Your electronics industry is in shambles, half of your shipbuilding industry is in Ukraine, your technical experts have been poached by China, the United States and Europe, and the rest have not been able to get funding for a long time. You haven’t built a large-scale one in thirty years.
Warships, the market for you to sell weapons is getting smaller and smaller, you...
Xiong Da: Stop, let’s talk about money again.”
The Russian fellow traveler laughed and laughed non-stop after he told the joke. Lao Fan heard his laughter full of misery and sadness, and his self-deprecation could not conceal his despair and unwillingness.
"Don't worry, you will get through the current difficulties. We suffered more than you back then, and we got through it just the same." Lao Fan could only use these words to comfort him.
But the Russian twisted his neck and asked with hatred: "You have to ask your elders first, will they give us this opportunity? I think they are happy to see us continue.
Let it rot."
this…….
The Russians left after delivering these armored vehicles. During the whole process, Lao Fan didn't even know his identity or name. The conversation between the two was very little, but Lao Fan had a very deep impression of this man.
Three hundred BTR armored vehicles continued to be transported by rail to a vehicle machinery factory in the Northeast. Lao Fan, as a representative of the 'Wasteland Trade', supervised the modification of these vehicles. The condition of this batch of vehicles was very average, most of them needed to be replaced, and a few even
The engine needs to be replaced and the suspension repaired.
The old fire control system needs to be completely dismantled and replaced with a batch of export-type simple fire control devices from Rabbit. This kind of modification is very cheap, it is said that it is less than one-fifth of the price of a new car.
Because these vehicles were so worn out, they didn't look like a particularly confidential mission. During the modification process, many people came to ask Lao Fan how he got these armored vehicles? And who were they sold to?
Bought as scrap metal, refurbished and sold to small countries in Africa.
Every time Lao Fan said this formulaic answer jokingly, he always thought of the Russian who laughed maniacally during the delivery. There was too much sadness behind an inconspicuous arms transaction.
"Oh, we have to keep working hard! We must not end up like Xiong Da now. There are too few countries in this world that can truly control their own destiny."