8: Gu Ming: How can this be tolerated? Get out of here!

Why are we building aircraft carriers and large destroyers?

It's so that you won't bully us anymore, and you still want to shit and piss on our heads?

Gu Ming suppressed his anger, and William whispered, "Actually, the price is negotiable..."

"Show him out!!!"

Gu Ming shouted, and the laboratory guards immediately escorted William out.

"Rude Dragon Xia people, you will never be able to develop high-strength arresting cables in your lifetime!" William clamored.

Gu Ming slammed his fist on the table, William immediately shut up and slinked away.

However, his goal had already been achieved—to disgust Dragon Xia and interfere with Dragon Xia's progress in researching arresting cables.

For this, the Pentagon offered a high price of 12 million USD to prevent Dragon Xia from successfully purchasing arresting cables.

Of course, even if Dragon Xia swallowed its pride, William would only sell them the second-generation arresting cables developed by Locke Dongde Company, the quality of which could not be compared to the super arresting cables with the Julong logo that they had procured.

After driving William away, Gu Ming reported the situation to the Navy Headquarters.

The headquarters affirmed his actions and requested that the Arresting Cable Procurement and R&D Department accelerate the development process; if they needed money, they would get money; if they needed people, they would get people; in short, everything was given the green light.

Gu Ming immediately summoned all the arresting cable research experts and issued a new mission in the form of a military order, requiring the development of high-strength arresting cables to be completed within one year.

"Director, why don't we solicit from the private sector to see if any enterprises can participate in the development?" a newly joined researcher suggested.

Gu Ming refused without a second thought: "Military technology is not something ordinary enterprises can participate in. Our laboratory has gathered the top experts from Southern Heavy Industry. If they can't achieve anything, then private enterprises certainly won't be able to."

"That's true. The Eagle Sauce Locke Dongde Company has been working on it for nearly twenty years to achieve its current leading position, and we can't expect to become a giant overnight."

Everyone chimed in, affirming Gu Ming's idea.

Private sector involvement in military R&D is not feasible!

Gu Ming pondered, "The Eagle Sauce won't sell us arresting cables, so we need to give them some trouble too."

"Director, what do you have in mind?"

"Didn't the diplomatic department mention earlier that a private enterprise's seamless pipes and gas cylinders were converted into rocket launchers by the Desert Camel guerrillas? Tell that company to increase production!"

"Director, that's a great idea, but does that company know their products are being used to manufacture artillery?"

Gu Ming pondered, "The local industrial and commercial department has investigated, and to this day, they still think it's the Desert Camel Company that needs the gas cylinders."

"Hahaha, I really wonder if the company leaders will be scared when they find out the truth one day."

"Let's stop the idle chatter. Each research group should accelerate their R&D. As for the guangyu silent aircraft carrier, let the comrades in the Navy wait a little longer."

It was precisely because of this that the production capacity of the Qin Chuan Julong Steel Factory was released again.

The following month, under the coordination of Director Zhou Wen, a special freight train bound for Desert Camel departed.

The train cars were packed with thousands of seamless pipes and gas cylinders, and half a month later, the firepower of the guerrillas in the Desert Camel region was enhanced again.

Lu Shenwei, seeing the news, muttered, "Uncle Ma, why do you think this guerrilla firepower comes and goes in waves?"

"They were so poor they couldn't even afford food last month, so why did so much heavy firepower suddenly appear this month?"

Ma Quanlin replied absentmindedly, "Who knows, maybe there's some large arms company supporting them behind the scenes."

Another half month later, the Eagle Sauce Defense Department announced an increase in sanctions against the Dragon Xia Qin Chuan Julong Steel Company.

They listed Julong Steel as a first-tier international war sponsor and even listed Lu Shenwei and Ma Quanlin as targets for sanctions.

Lu Shenwei laughed it off upon learning about this: "Uncle Ma, we've got some status now, being sanctioned globally by Eagle Sauce. I reckon nobody else in Qinchuan has that, right?"

Ma Quanlin laughed, "Not just Qinchuan, we are the only one in the entire Northwest. Our Julong Steel is now an international war sponsor."

"If we don't like a company, we'll send troops to destroy it immediately!"

Lu Shenwei laughed heartily, and Ma Quanlin casually handed over a document: "This is the speech draft for the end-of-month event. Director Zhou hopes you can deliver it without reading from the script."

"Uh, Director Zhou wants to build an outstanding entrepreneur persona for me. Can I not go?" Lu Shenwei said with a wry smile.

Ma Quanlin shook his head: "The city water plant has already signed a supply agreement with us. If we back out now, Director Zhou will probably eat us alive."

"Fine, I'll memorize the script over the next two days," Lu Shenwei said helplessly.

Over the past two months, while working overtime to produce steel pipes and gas cylinders, he hadn't been idle either.

He spent 20 million yuan to redeem mature small drone production technology from the system mall and handed it over to the Xiong Ying team to digest and absorb.

According to Lu Shenwei's estimation, if things went quickly, the Xiong Ying team would be able to manufacture the first batch of small drones by early next year.

"Uncle Ma, our drone R&D has recently made some progress. Could you help us think of a good name for it?" Lu Shenwei said casually.

Ma Quanlin laughed: "Isn't this something for the R&D team to think about? Asking an old guy like me to rack my brain is really putting me on the spot."

"They were the ones who asked me to think of it. I was thinking, we are the Julong Steel Factory, and the team is Xiong Ying Technology, so how about calling it the Longying Drone?"

Ma Quanlin pondered for a moment and clapped his hands in approval: "Longying, Julong Steel Longying Drone, that's a good name, sounds great!"

The next day, Lu Shenwei officially announced to the entire factory that the Julong Steel Factory had ended its single-pole development status and achieved dual-engine, multi-mode development.

The workers in the whole factory cheered, and the Chief Engineer of the Xiong Ying drone team was even moved to tears.

"Longying, this name is great. The Chairman hasn't forgotten our roots."

"I'm sticking with Chairman Lu from now on. If anyone speaks ill of the Chairman in front of me, I'll be the first to not let them off!"

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Lu Shenwei was looking after the emotions of the drone R&D team members.

They were sold to Julong Steel for 60 million by their former boss, so it would have been normal for the company not to use their original brand name.

But Lu Shenwei specifically took care of their feelings and named the drone the Longying Drone.

"We're all our own people. You've worked hard these past few months. I don't know much about the technical side of things; it's all up to you."

Listening to Lu Shenwei's polite words, the drone R&D team was stunned.

Listen to that, what a humble expert he is, still saying he doesn't understand drone technology, when the entire drone design plan was provided by the boss himself.

And he still says he doesn't understand technology, how humble!

"Starting from this month, our technical team will all receive a salary increase, with a minimum salary of 15,000!" Lu Shenwei announced loudly.

The dozens of people on the drone R&D team were too shocked to speak. Boss, are you this capricious? Can you be even more capricious?

"Everyone, focus on R&D. You are responsible for the technology, and leave the sales and market to me and Director Ma!"

Lu Shenwei guaranteed by patting his chest, but as soon as he finished speaking, Ma Quanlin came to him in a rush.