Standing at the door of the office, Secretary Jian calmed down and knocked twice on the door.

It’s not that he is rude, but that the owner of the room is getting older and his hearing has decreased. If he doesn’t knock hard on the door, the other party may not hear it, which will delay the matter.

"Come in!" Through the door panel, I heard a Sichuan dialect coming from inside.

Secretary Jian gently pushed open the door and entered the house.

The office is about thirty square meters, with pale yellow wooden floors, and the door opens in the right corner.

On the left side of the door, there was a wide and large old-fashioned office desk beside the wall. The surface was painted light yellow and a desk lamp was placed. A hardwood chair was placed behind the table. In order to slow down the burden on the elderly when they were sitting in office, a cloth pad was tied to the backrest.

However, the elderly usually don’t work at this desk, only the desk lamp is on, and a stack of documents and a few tea cups are neatly placed on the table.

On the left side of the door, there is a glass wooden rack that is more than one person tall, with some small ornaments given by the head's family.

Resting against the wooden rack, two old-fashioned sofas were placed, and there was a short wooden table in the sofa.

Chief No. 1 was sitting on the sofa inside, wearing reading glasses, looking at the document in the light of a floor lamp behind him. There was also a lit panda smoke between his right fingers. The cigarette was rising, and the ash had grown apart.

Secretary Jian looked at the cigarette and frowned slightly. He went to help him open the window and opened the curtains to let the smoke gathered in the house dissipate some of it. He comforted him: "Chief, why are you smoking again? The doctor advised you to smoke less, which is not good for your health."

"I'm just talking, I'm just this little hobby, you have to stop it!" The leader No. 1 didn't raise his head, and was still looking at the documents. He was unmoved by his advice. He buckled the ash in the ashtray, put it to his mouth and took a sip. Then he snatched the only little cigarette mouth in the ashtray, and raised his head, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

Secretary Jian opened the folder and took out a few pages of letter sign paper from it: "The expert group who went to the People's Party's military sub-district to inspect sent back a petition letter and applied to promote the vacuum electric slag remelting furnace on a large scale in China. According to their investigation, the improved vacuum electric slag remelting furnace in the military sub-district is impact-resistant and tougher than similar steel types in China, and its service life is more than four times that of similar products in China. It is of indispensable importance to domestic improvement of national defense technology, aerospace, metallurgy, machining, and chemical pressure vessel manufacturing, they said..."

As a secretary, it is not just about serving tea and water, but also about handing over the documents to the superiors. The most important task of refining the theme of the document and reporting it to the chief in the most refined words and sentences, so as to avoid the superiors wasting too much time in unnecessary bamboo slips.

Only extremely important documents will be presented to the head, and carefully read them word by word, slowly straighten out their ideas and give instructions as they read.

The old man waved his hand and signaled him not to continue talking for the time being.

"Hahaha, needless to say, it's just how important this project is, not how much loss it is. To put it bluntly, it's just asking for money!" Chief No. 1 put down the documents in his hand, took off his reading glasses, and pinched his nose tiredly.

After all, I am an old man in his seventies and I am unforgivable. I just returned from a visit to the United States and my health has not yet received enough rest. After working for a while, I felt a little exhausted.

"Money, money, now the country has begun to restore its economy, and people are asking for money from all directions. But there is only so much money, I need money for food, clothes, and production and construction. I am fighting with Vietnam, and I spend money like flowing water. Where can I still have money?" The old man sighed tiredly in a strong Sichuan accent, "The unanimous opinions of the experts, I don't know that I should pay attention to it, but I really don't have money!"

He turned his head and his eyes fell on the branches of the courtyard. He looked at the branches that had just bloomed in early spring, and was a little confused.

If you don’t be a leader, you don’t know how expensive it is.

The calls for money from all directions were rampant, and they seemed to be unable to do anything without money. They cried and shouted that they were asking for money. Last year, a large number of educated youths spontaneously returned to the city, and local governments did not dare to stop them. They did not buy tickets when they got on the bus, and the flight attendants also had to receive warmly.

Millions of educated youth returned to the city. In order to solve their employment problems, the county and city had white hair. If the local government could not solve them, they reached out to the province; if the province could not solve them, they reached out to the central government. But who could they reach out to? Only by asking local governments to find ways to solve them themselves, the result was that even though they knew that they would lose money, they still opened many street companies such as match factories and glass factories that did not make money, and tried every means to resettle unemployed young people. The word unemployed young people was invented, referring to these young people who had no jobs and were waiting for the government to help them find jobs at home.

This obviously fooling method certainly doesn't work.

Most unemployed young people do not buy it at all and refuse to go to the street factory, thinking it is embarrassing.

They do nothing all day long, relying on their youth for the country, either drinking and causing trouble, or doing things in groups on the streets, and social security has seriously deteriorated. Vicious cases such as extortion, teasing and rape have suddenly risen, and even the baseline for major vicious cases is constantly improving.

All these central governments see them, but to restore social security, they must eventually return to a reasonable work placement. It would be useless to rely on the public security organs alone if they do not fundamentally solve the work arrangements.

But the key to the problem is that the central government cannot solve it!

The country has just rectified the situation and is still working hard to restore the social order and chaos caused by the decade, the factory is paralyzed, and the supply of materials is in short supply.

Yes, there is always a thing that can be squeezed into money. If it really doesn’t work, it’s not a problem to add a little or even a few points, hundreds of millions, billions, or hundreds of billions.

But this deviates from the essence of currency as an exchange equivalent!

Compared with money, the supply of means of production is more important!

If the original mess is not straightened out and the factory is not allowed to start construction, there will be no sufficient supply of materials. Without raw materials, no matter how many factories are built, they cannot be guaranteed to be put into operation. Once they are put into operation, they can only start construction for a period of time, rest for a period of time, and maintain difficulties. In the end, they can only be left like this, waiting for the equipment to fall into dust.

Putting aside economic construction, the army now needs money to fight wars. The just-concluded battle in southern Xinjiang cost more than one billion in just one month!

Of course, this battle should be fought, but it must be fought.

Not fighting is not enough to shock the surrounding areas and win a peaceful development environment; not fighting is not enough to test the combat effectiveness of the troops and invest in economic development with confidence; not fighting is not enough to prove China's international status, thereby gaining more bargaining chips in foreign exchanges.

Facts have also proved that the People's Liberation Army can still fight.

Although the regular troops of both sides are 200,000 to 100,000, the level of troops sent by both sides is not on the same level: most of the elite domestic troops are deployed on the Sino-Soviet border, and are always wary of Soviet invasion. The self-defense counterattack war only mobilized border defense forces; while the Vietnamese side clamored for the strategic idea of ​​"winning on the front line", "winning on the border", and "not allowing a abandonment of a town, a county, a province or city", and transferred three of the four fully-organized Soviet armed divisions who were the strongest combat power and known as the ace division. In addition, the other side also mobilized 150,000 militias, shouting the slogan of "giving full advantage and carrying out national wars", requiring the frontline troops to "win the first battle" and "destroy the first echelon of the enemy's offensive."

Moreover, the border is located in mountainous areas, with inconvenient road traffic, very complex terrain and difficult to transport materials. The Vietnamese side built a large number of permanent fortifications with steel and cement in each terrain, intending to defend the enemy with a high position. However, our army was feinting from a low point and could not charge quickly.

If this terrain is left to the People's Liberation Army to defend, even if there is less battle, there will be confidence that the position will not be lost, at least the front will not collapse.

But in fact, the People's Liberation Army had just one impact and achieved a complete defeat. In just ten days, it broke through twenty to fifty kilometers, completely breaking through the mountain defense line of Vietnam and overlooking the plains. If the Soviet Union had not been furious and threatened to use nuclear weapons, it would be better to destroy its country!

Before the battle, the opponent boasted that one of them beats ten three ace masters, one was completely wiped out, and two were severely damaged and almost all were destroyed.

Of course, this battle also exposed many problems within the PLA.

For example, due to the criticism of the competition, the combat effectiveness of officers and soldiers has decreased, especially the commander's command is stiff. In many places where there are obviously better solutions, the commander ordered the spirit of "one is not afraid of death, two is not afraid of hardship" to lead the troops to attack, causing major casualties to the troops.

For example, in order to make it easier and insufficient fighting will to the enemy, some soldiers tied themselves to tanks and armored vehicles while marching. As a result, they could not deploy quickly when encountering an enemy assault, so many soldiers were killed in tanks.

For example, due to poor maintenance of some weapons and ammunition, military factories have weak sense of responsibility, and there has been a blowout and a fire, which has caused many soldiers to sacrifice unnecessary sacrifice.

The biggest loss was that the various departments were chaotic contacts and poor communication. Especially when they finally withdrew their troops and returned to the country, their superiors did not find out where each department was and arranged the sequence of covers in sequence, and announced their withdrawal. As a result, each department ran backward, causing some troops to be seriously disconnected, losing flanking covers, and being surrounded by the enemy. After being surrounded, the regiment commander and political commissar panicked. Instead of ordering the troops to defend on the spot, they ordered the scattered breakthrough. As a result, the command was paralyzed, resulting in most of the entire regiment being captured!

However, although there were all kinds of unsatisfactory, overall, the battle achieved its intended purpose.

Our army suffered 20,000 casualties, and the enemy's casualties of 60,000 militias (roughly estimated). The results of breaking through the enemy's mountain defense line, the commanders and soldiers showed their fearless fighting spirit and continued to rush hard in the rugged mountainous areas, proving that the People's Liberation Army can still fight, but the losses were a little too big.

Don’t be afraid of problems. If we win, we will have enough time to buffer to find out the problem and solve it.

What I fear is that if I defeat it, the enemy will gain a better position and we have to passively resist it. That is the most terrifying thing.

The problem of disorderly command only needs to re-examine the communication link and strictly enforce responsibility and discipline; the problem of rigid command is to lock the troops back to the barracks and train hard to solve; the large number of inferior weapons and equipment of troops is a big problem, and a major rectification of military-industrial enterprises is needed, and the military standard system submitted by the General Secretary should also be issued - I heard that the establishment of this military standard has also partially adopted the standards of the People's Army; as for details such as being tied to tanks, each unit needs to summarize it themselves to avoid such incidents from happening again...

Overall, this battle has more advantages than disadvantages, and more benefits than disadvantages. After this inspection, I believe that the domestic senior management is more confident in the PLA protecting national security, and that China will have a peaceful internal and external environment for a longer period of time. It can also convince them to turn the national focus to economic development at the congress held at the end of the year.

Chief No. 1 rubbed his swollen forehead and sighed a long time.

When the country is big, it becomes very difficult to make a major change, and all aspects are incredibly great. Every decision must be repeatedly considered and tried to convince other comrades, and after implementation, the results may not be as good as you expected.

From 1976 to now, it has been three years since, but the work of straightening out the production relations across the country has not been completed. The country's focus has shifted to economic construction, and from 1976 to now, there has not even been a comprehensive consensus within the party: under the leadership of a child general, the economic development of the People's Party next door has made rapid progress. Everyone agreed to list economic construction as the center of attention, but they are afraid of threats from the Soviet Union.

Everyone should be relieved to fight this self-defense counterattack, which is of great help to convince other comrades...

Secretary Jian held his breath and treated himself as if he did not exist. He stood quietly aside, not daring to interrupt his thoughts.

After a while, Chief No. 1 finally took his eyes back from the courtyard, preventing the secretary from seeing his fatigue and helplessness, and said lightly: "What kind of vacuum furnace is also the one from the People's Party, the little guy named Guan Fei, right? Did he put forward any conditions?"

"No!" Secretary Jian seemed to be on standby at any time. As soon as the chief's question was over, he immediately answered, "Before the expert group had spoken, he provided all the design parameters. The experts praised it in the letter, saying that those formulas are extremely important to us, and this is an important information that cannot be bought with money, and is more precious than gold. With these formulas, the country can scientifically design vacuum electroslag remelting furnaces of various sizes according to our needs, which is of great significance!"

"Oh? We are kids who like Chow Chow who likes to move everything to their homes. This time we are so generous?" Chief No. 1 casually put his hand on the armrest of the sofa and laughed.

Secretary Jian did not dare to perform himself, but just retelled the contents of the letter: "The letter said that the other party gave the full set of data first. However, I hope we can help solve the transportation problem and build a railway to the base. In addition, they also want to ask us to produce an arc production line with an annual output of 4 million tons of stainless steel based on their drawings, and include a supporting continuous casting production line..."

"Hahahaha! Hahahaha! This is him! I have known for a long time that this Sichuan fellow who claims to be from Chengdu is more sophisticated than a mouse. It would be strange if he wants nothing but gives us information!"

A low laugh broke out from the throat of the leader No. 1. He patted his thigh with one hand and pointed at Secretary Jian with the other hand, laughing so hard that he leaned back and forth.

"Then how do we reply?" Secretary Jian's eyes also showed a slight smile.

"How much vacuum furnace do they want to build? How much does it cost?" Chief No. 1 gradually calmed down his smile, pondered for a while, and asked slowly.

"I want to build 17 vacuum furnaces, including ten forty tons, five for twenty tons, seventy tons, and one for one hundred tons, and one for another two hundred tons, and then another super-large electric furnace of two hundred tons." Secretary Jian didn't even look at it, so he reported the correct number.

The No. 1 leader waved his hand and said firmly: "I only granted seven seats to them, but there is no more! Two hundred tons, one hundred tons, and seventy tons are all one. The others are as per the People's Party. Don't make so many experimental models! There is only so much money, and every minute is spent on the edge of the knife!"

"Where is the People's Party?" Secretary Jian asked for further instructions.

"The railway should be built! If their things are to come out, we should also go in. With the railway, it will also facilitate our border control, which is also beneficial for preventing the restless country in the south. The production line depends on the domestic production progress and can be included in the plan. If there is a surplus of production materials and raw materials, we can help them produce." The chief leader No. 1 said indifferently.

"I understand." Secretary Jian quickly remembered the head's instructions without missing a word, and prepared to write them down after going out later.

"Is it okay?"

"No more, I'll go down to arrange the work now." Secretary Jian walked briskly, left the office and brought it to the door.

Seeing the office door closed, Chief No. 1 did not start working immediately, but maintained his posture, his eyes were a little dispersed, and he was obviously thinking about something.

"Bullet-proof materials, bullet-proof insert plates, vacuum furnaces, and now they will produce 4 million tons of special steel production lines annually... What do he want to do? If he wants to fight with the headquarters, he will not use such a good thing to deal with the defeated generals. Could it be that he is really preparing with the ambitions of liberation?" He murmured, his brows slightly, and his eyes were a little solemn.

After a while, he accidentally saw the document he was reading just now and sighed softly.

"Forget it, we have too much to take care of ourselves. We will have a meeting in less than ten months. If we persuade comrades in the party to reach a consensus, they feel that there is not enough time. They have no time to think about other people's affairs. They can do whatever they like. They have to do not have a good relationship with the West and the Soviet Union, and no one will interfere with anything. If he really makes it good for us, it will be nothing more than to work hard to bring people back. If he can't cause big storms, just wait and see what happens."

He decided not to think too much, put on his glasses, lowered his head, and looked at the documents seriously.
Chapter completed!