Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 303 The Essence of the Great Northern Country One
After leaving the train station, Goncharova was going to stay at the Metropolitan Hotel, while Wang Weidong wanted to take Big Ivan and Konstantin to the home of Pantsailovna, who had stayed in Moscow last time.

A car stopped not far from the four people, Goncharova glanced at the car and turned to Wang Weidong and said! "Mr. Verton, when you're in Moscow, you'd better leave someone behind and wait for the phone call at Panzerovna's house. I'm going to take you to meet some people in the next few days."

Then the three of them took a taxi to Pancilovna's house on Arbat Street.

The old lady was very happy to see Wang Weidong's arrival, and invited the three of them into the house.

"Comrade Pancarovna, this time we are going to live in your house again when we come to Moscow." Wang Weidong said.

"Mr. Verton, I welcome you very much!" said Panzerovna.

I haven't seen her for a year, and the old lady's body seems to be bent a lot, and the whole room smells strongly of onions.

In the big northern countries, onions and cabbage, or kohlrabi, are the two most commonly eaten vegetables for the poor, whose staple food is potatoes.

Wang Weidong took out the money and asked Big Ivan and Constantine to go to the Gum Mall not far from Arbat Street to buy more things.

He was chatting with Panzerovna in the drawing-room.

Wang Weidong was surprised to find that the TV in the living room was playing a documentary about Yuri Gagarin's rocket launch as if traveling through time and space.

The bookshelves in the living room are full of all kinds of video tapes, all of which are movies, TV series and documentaries from the period of the former Great Northern Power.

Pan Cailovna, an old lady, has been relying on these video tapes to numb herself in the past few years, so that she can still live in the past era.

Most of the concepts of the northern country are still Western. Although Pantselovna also has sons and daughters, they seldom come to visit their mother, let alone live with her and take care of her.

"Mr. Verton, since you came to Moscow, I have paid more attention to the news about China. I heard that your country's economy is developing very well."

The old lady Pancalovna raised her hands tremblingly, then put them down helplessly, and said, "Look at us, it's a mess here! The great northern country has become a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor in just a few years! Several people I knew died quietly at home, and it took a long time for others to find out. An old man in his 80s fell on the snow while receiving bread and never got up again."

Wang Weidong looked at the TV. On the TV, Yuri Gagarin was speaking. He said, "After I ascended into space and looked around, I didn't see the shadow of God!"

Big Ivan and Constantine came back, and they bought a lot of vegetables, rice, macaroni, fruit and wine.

"Tomorrow we will buy a bigger refrigerator." Wang Weidong said.

That night Goncharova came to Wang Weidong.

She came by herself in a car, and just when Big Ivan and Constantine wanted to get in the car, Goncharova said: "You two don't have to go, the location is not far, just a few hundred meters away place."

What Goncharova said was absolutely correct. The place she took Wang Weidong to was really not far away, and that place was only more than 200 meters away from Pantselovna's home.

And it was the exact same building as Panzerovna's house.Goncharova and Wang Weidong got out of the car and went to the front of the building and rang the doorbell.

An old lady opened the door. When she saw Goncharova standing at the door, she turned her head and shouted: "Comrade Ballentin, Miss Goncharova is here!"

Goncharova led Wang Weidong into the room, and the old man standing at the door of the living room greeted them with a cane.

Wang Weidong felt that this old man was older than Pancalovna.The wrinkles on his face are like the ravines on the Loess Plateau, only his two eyes are still alive.

"Hello, Uncle Ballentin! This is Mr. Verton from China." Goncharova said.

Then she turned to Wang Weidong and said, "This is the academician of the Academy of Sciences, general engineer Mr. Barentin! He is the best vacuum tube scientist in our country!"

"It's a great honor to meet you, Mr. Ballentine!" Wang Weidong said.

Although he doesn't know who Barentin is at all now, he must be a very old man when he heard Goncharova mention the title of academician and general just now.

When helping Barentin into the living room, Goncharova said to Wang Weidong: "The Academy of Sciences of the former northern power is directly under the leadership of the Council of Ministers, so my father is very familiar with these scientists."

The former northern power still leads the world in many, many sciences and technologies. For example, it has the most advanced technology in the world in terms of vacuum tubes, that is, electron tube technology.At that time, they also used electronic tubes to produce the best electronic tube computer at that time.

Western countries have developed rapidly in semiconductors and transistors, leaving the northern powers far behind. However, because of the production of radios, Wang Weidong is very interested in and understands household appliances.

For a long time in China, the technology of electronic tubes is not good enough. In the early 80s, the country launched many black-and-white TV factories. These TV factories had to import electron guns and cathodes for picture tubes from abroad, and even directly imported picture tubes until the early 90s.

The reason is that these components imported from abroad will not be broken until the TV is scrapped, while it is difficult to guarantee the service life of domestically produced picture tubes.

Goncharova now brought herself to meet the authoritative scientist in vacuum tubes in this big northern country, and she definitely would not let this old guy popularize the knowledge of vacuum tubes for herself.Wang Weidong vaguely guessed Goncharova's thoughts in his heart.

"Uncle Ballentin, isn't the country allowing you to give lectures at universities and lead graduate students?" Goncharova asked.

"They're all gone. Their ostensible reason is to go to the United States to study abroad and learn more advanced knowledge. In fact, I know that someone is secretly wooing them to immigrate to the United States. Those bastards from the West, while The newspapers ridiculed that we are doing technical research in the garbage dump, and the vacuum tube technology is garbage that has been eliminated! But secretly, they sent people to us to win over our technical talents, and bought our technology at a high price Information!" Ballentine replied.

Wang Weidong and Goncharova left after sitting in Ballentine's house for less than an hour.

Sitting in the car, Wang Weidong asked, "Miss Goncharova, what are your thoughts?"

"Rather than let the Westerners take all these technologies, we should cooperate to build a vacuum tube factory in China!" Goncharova said.

(End of this chapter)