The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 546 Heavy weapons?
Liu Tao looked at the news, looking thoughtful.

Japan’s current situation is likely to happen to China in the future.

This is what is inevitable when being a younger brother. Unless you turn the tables and become the boss, when the younger brother develops to a certain extent, he will definitely be suppressed by the boss.

To sum it up in academic language, it is the Thucydides Trap!

However, China also has its own particularity, that is, China is a country with complete sovereignty and independence.

In this respect, countries like Japan and West Germany cannot compare.

In recent years, Liu Tao has focused a lot of energy on developing weapons and equipment, and even delivered them to the troops at low prices. He even accepted installment payments and tax deductions. This is because he knows that China must have a strong national defense force to protect the fruits of hard work, rather than having the results of hard work stolen by jackals and tigers.

The nature of those jackals, tigers and leopards has never changed; they plunder, burn, kill, kidnap, lie, etc. They have no morals or civilization at all.

If pirate culture can be considered a kind of civilization, then they belong to the pirate civilization.

For the benefit of China, he started planning overseas ports a few years ago, because he knew that sooner or later the Chinese Navy would have to head for the blue ocean, and sooner or later China's interests would need to be protected by the Chinese Navy, and the Chinese Navy's escort required supply ports along the way.

He only hopes that when China faces the threat of jackals, tigers and leopards one day, there will be hunting rifles to deter them. If the jackals, tigers and leopards dare to move, the hunting rifles can kill them.

Instead of being like Japan today, where the United States is the knife and Japan is the fish.

The United States is sharpening its knives to target pigs and sheep, and Japan is just waiting to be slaughtered.

Even though Japan's foreign trade surplus has hit a record high, in fact Japan's economic bubble has been growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When it reaches a certain level and the economic bubble is burst with a needle, Japan will usher in a lost decade, a lost twenty years, a lost thirty years or even a lost forty years.

this day.

Finished dealing with the company's affairs in Hong Kong.

Liu Tao, Ho Ying-Tong and others attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the 'Hong Kong Island Line Metro' together.

After such a long period of preparation, the 'Hong Kong Island Line MTR' is finally ready to start construction.

Hong Kong Governor David Wilson also attended the groundbreaking ceremony.

The previous Governor of Hong Kong, Edward Youde, died of illness while in office and was succeeded by David Wilson.

The leader of the working group also brought people to attend the groundbreaking ceremony, in addition to some celebrities from Hong Kong.

The construction of the Hong Kong Island Line subway is of extraordinary significance. It will greatly improve traffic efficiency and the value of land around the subway entrances will increase significantly.

It can be said that the interests involved cover all aspects.

Over the past year, with the efforts of the working group and the Hong Kong government, the Hong Kong Metro has been planned. According to the Hong Kong Metro Plan, the total planned length of the Hong Kong Metro has reached 264 kilometers.

Even if the Hong Kong Island Line is completed, the total length of Hong Kong's subway will only be 37 kilometers, which means that Hong Kong will have to build another 227 kilometers of subway in the future.

After the return, as a special administrative region, Hong Kong’s fiscal revenue can be largely used for people’s livelihood construction and the development of Hong Kong, which will make Hong Kong take off like a bird with wings.

However, things like building subways are destined to be monopolies.

Because other people simply don't have this technology.

Liu Tao always had a smile on his face. In the future, Hong Kong will build 227 kilometers of subway, which means that the big contracts worth three or four hundred billion Hong Kong dollars will fall into his hands.

"Comrade Liu Tao, can the Hong Kong Island Line subway really be built in two years?" the leader whispered in Liu Tao's ear.

The Hong Kong Island Line subway was scheduled to be completed and opened to traffic on March 1989, 3.

In other words, the construction time is about two years.

Two years is not a long time, but it is also very short. The leader had participated in the construction of the Beijing Metro, which was constructed using the open cut and fill method. It was 23.6 kilometers long and was listed as an important war preparedness project by the state. After four years of hard work, it was finally completed.

However, although the Hong Kong Island Line is short, it is an advanced subway that uses a large number of advanced technologies. To be honest, the leaders have no idea whether it can be completed in two years.

"Don't worry, leader, it will be completed in two years." Liu Tao smiled.

This subway is entirely underground. It was excavated directly using a tunnel boring machine, and then the subway entrances and exits were built on the ground.

This is also how he trains the construction team. Once the Hong Kong Island Line is successfully completed, it means that they can build subways in coastal cities in the future.

Although the construction this time is 10.5 kilometers, they are coordinating with the Hong Kong government, hoping to extend the subway line so that the length of the Hong Kong Island Line will reach 16.3 kilometers.

Liu Tao whispered, "Leader, we need your help with this subway project. We need to complete it all at once to avoid the trouble of starting construction later."

As the general contractor, they coordinated with the Hong Kong government several times, but the results were not very ideal and the Hong Kong government did not want to pay the extra money.

"Don't worry about this. Even if Governor Wei disagrees now, this matter will be implemented after July 7st," said the leader.

The countdown to July 7st has begun.

Time is becoming increasingly tight, and the working group's capabilities have improved significantly after several years of experience.

Time is on our side, and our advantages are obvious both economically and militarily.

If you don’t agree now, that doesn’t matter. After July 7, Hong Kong will turn a new page and you can be the master of your own house.

When Liu Tao heard his leader say this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

With the support of the leadership, this matter can be said to be 80% certain to be implemented.

"I heard that your security company is equipped with heavy machine guns?" the leader asked.

Liu Tao lowered his voice and said, "Just in case, we have equipped them with some, not many, just 50 Type 78 heavy machine guns."

The leader burst out laughing.

Heavy machine guns are already considered heavy firepower.

In addition, the security company is located in a strategic location and has 3000 people, so it can be said that they can decide the outcome at a critical moment.

At worst, we can hold on until reinforcements arrive.

"Don't do this anymore. Some of the voices now are not good." The leader warned in a low voice.

Liu Tao nodded, but he didn't say anything in his heart.

为了避免意外，他可不仅仅给安保公司配备了50挺重机枪，还准备了10挺高射机枪、100具前卫导弹发射具及1000枚前卫防空导弹、50具肩扛式反坦克导弹和500枚反坦克导弹，甚至于连60毫米迫击炮、82毫米迫击炮都有。

This kind of preparation is to be able to turn the situation around and save the day when the worst happens.

What he did was already very covert, but he didn't expect that there would be other voices from the outside world.

"Has your Tiger Brigade arrived in Pengcheng?" the leader asked.

Liu Tao nodded and said, "Just after the Spring Festival, the Tiger Guard Brigade was officially incorporated into the army and urgently deployed to the Pengcheng military camp."

Pengcheng Military Camp is specially prepared for the Hong Kong Garrison for final training, rest and to help the Hong Kong Garrison adapt to the environment here.

Not only the Tiger Brigade, but also the naval brigade and aviation brigade of the Hong Kong garrison arrived in Guangdong Province early.

(End of this chapter)