Go back in time and be a chaebol

Chapter 676 Good morning, Dongning (second update, please subscribe)
"Hey……"

The rejection from an old friend made Li Yian sigh.

Some things cannot be stopped after all.

After Weiran let out a long sigh, Li Yian, who was standing by the window, slowly walked to the large teak desk, then looked at the report on the desk, opened it again, and then browsed it again.

"Okay, finally the moment has come."

……

In the dead of night, outside a factory in the "Atomic City" in the hinterland of Nanyang, military police with live ammunition guarded the factory expressionlessly. In a lounge inside the factory, after drinking a glass of milk, Liang Yiyi took a deep breath and began to teach his apprentice. He put on the bulky protective clothing with the help of others. Even though there was air conditioning in the lounge, he was still sweating when he put on the protective helmet.

After putting on his helmet, he walked out of the lounge.

As the company's senior technician, Liang Yiyi and twelve other senior technicians were selected to join the factory at the beginning of the year.

In order to process special parts, they started simulating practice operations as early as half a year ago, but at that time they used steel for practice. In the past six months, each of them has processed several tons of steel.

Then he hung up the phone.

This is no ordinary steel ball, not because of its high cost, but because of its lethality.

In the early morning of October 10, the 16-kilogram plutonium ball in the core of the atomic bomb was ready.

"Don't be so nervous. It will definitely be no problem for you to complete this work. Relax for a few minutes, drink a glass of milk, and then go back to work."

In the early morning of two days later, on October 10, the heavily guarded convoy drove out of Atomic City. After traveling 20 kilometers, it approached the river bank. Then the car drove into two of the landing craft. Under the escort of the escort boat, the convoy moved down the river. Straight down, it was almost evening, and the fleet docked at the dock near the river mouth. The fleet once again sailed into a mechanized landing ship. Under the escort of two destroyers, it sailed out of the Makassar Strait and joined forces with the "Katsuragi Aviation" and After the other two destroyers merged, they headed eastward towards Dongning.

After half a year of hard work, everyone, including Liang Yiyi, was able to accurately and skillfully operate special lathes and other tools to process special parts while wearing protective clothing.

Although he is an ordinary worker, Liang Yiyi also knows that processing actual raw materials requires not only endurance and skills, but also courage, because radiation is fatal!

At the same time, in various manufacturing workshops in the Atomic City, all components of the atomic bomb, including explosive prism castings, neutron reflectors, uranium cores, ignition devices and electrical accessories, have been transported to the assembly workshops under the command of engineers - in fact , in the past year, they have conducted hundreds of detonation tests with coreless atomic bombs. Now it's just assembling the parts of the atomic bomb.

"Then let's get started!"

But after the cast special parts were clamped on the fixture, Liang Yiyi began to process them carefully. What he wanted to process at this moment was an extremely deadly metal plutonium ball.

……

Two days later, after all the preparations were completed and after receiving a positive answer from the engineer, Colonel Cheng Guoliang, the head of the Atomic City military, made a call to the official residence through the dedicated phone line. The content of the call was very simple.

The Geiger counter chirped.

Even if you wear protective clothing, special masks, and special gloves, your body will still be exposed to a certain amount of radiation. In order to reduce physical harm as much as possible, the six best workers each undertake part of the processing.

The moment he received the call, Li Yian originally thought he would be very excited, but at this moment, he was unexpectedly calm, as calm as if he was facing a small matter.

Liang nodded with satisfaction, then entered the lounge again, drank a glass of milk, smoked another cigarette, put on his protective helmet again, and then returned to the lathe to start again. This time he was more careful than the last time, and occasionally paused to check the dimensions accurately. Process, measure, adjust step by step, and then process.

"Your Excellency, good morning, Dongning."

Big beads of sweat dripped from his forehead. Seeing this scene, the person in charge, Sun Chenghai, walked up to them.

Early the next morning, the Navy Department issued a notice that the Navy planned to conduct military exercises in the waters around Truk in early November.

After this announcement was issued, there was no reaction from all walks of life. It seemed that for Chang'an's diplomatic community, this was just a normal reaction.

"Is this a response to the incident on the peninsula?" Ambassador Kirk asked inside the US Embassy.

"I'm more inclined to think that Nanyang is demonstrating with force. That's what they told me."

Frank said dryly.

"They are extremely dissatisfied with the Mindanao incident. Officials of the Manila authorities are harming everyone's career for their own personal interests. The corrupt behavior of the authorities will only lead to the intensification of the "Hook Movement."

"Are you sure they are really suppressing "Hook elements" in Mindanao?"

Kirk asked rhetorically.

Frank thought for a moment and then said:

“I don’t know what’s going on there, but from what my colleagues in Manila say, if the authorities in Manila are half as capable as the Autonomous Council of Mindanao, or even as clean as they are, then the Philippines will definitely become the United States in Asia. The "Pig Window" is not a joke."

He put the report away and said.

"The current naval exercises of the Nanyang Navy are mainly to demonstrate to the Philippines, and secondly, they may also be to join them on the peninsula. I guess they are very likely to send the navy."

"Navy, we don't need it..."

Grinning awkwardly, the black-rimmed glasses on Kirk's face reflected the lights above his head, and the two round eyes behind the lenses shone brightly. He pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose.

"However, it is better to send out the navy to participate than to show no sign at all."

"Yes, there is finally some expression, and more than one billion US dollars in aid has paid off."

At this point, Frank couldn't help but laugh, as if he was talking about something ridiculous. "No, for more than a billion dollars, we got a powerful ally."

Seeing him like this, Kirk knew that this guy might not understand the deeper meaning:

"Nanyang is now one of our business cards. The economic success achieved by Nanyang in the past few years can prove to the world that with the support and help of the United States, a backward country can grow rapidly. Isn’t this the best proof of becoming an economic power?”

Kirk continued.

"Frank, in Washington, many senators said... If our aid targets are like Western Europe and Southeast Asia, then we will definitely win the competition with the Russians, but... don't forget, the Philippines gets more , but what happened? The money was said to have turned into their deposits in Swiss banks!”

He shrugged his shoulders helplessly. Like many American officials, Kirk was also very helpless about the Philippines. On the one hand, he resented the Philippine officials for turning a large amount of US aid into foreign deposits. On the other hand, he was afraid that the Philippines would turn red after the aid was stopped. In fact, this is also the biggest headache for U.S. foreign aid.

It is precisely because of this that the United States has a good impression of Nanyang, because the US aid it received has indeed been effective, which means that what they have gained is an economically powerful ally.

"Yes, it's a pity that it's the Philippines. Otherwise, I would be more inclined to support the comprehensive autonomy of Mindanao. At least in terms of managing the country, the Tang people are indeed better than the Filipinos!"

After pondering for a moment, Kirk said.

"In other words, there is nothing worthy of attention in this military exercise?"

"Yes, Mr. Ambassador, except for one thing..."

Frank said directly.

“They are very unhappy with the Philippines!”

(End of this chapter)