The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 1014 Millennium Spring Festival

During the Spring Festival, Liu Tao's family always felt like something was missing.

There was one person missing from the reunion dinner.

However, it was the first time that Liu Jingming did not celebrate the New Year at home.

Since being selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 23rd pick in the NBA draft, Liu Jingming officially started his basketball career. Now, through his own efforts, Liu Jingming has secured his position as the main small forward of the Lakers with his performance.

This Lakers team, now has 'Big Shark' O'Neal at his peak, the best center in the NBA, and 'Peter Pan' Kobe has also grown into a superstar. Under the leadership of the 'OK combination', the Lakers' record ranks first in the NBA, and they are also aiming for the NBA championship.

This Lakers team is not strong. The only one who can easily score more than 30 points is O'Neal, the only one who can easily score more than 20 points is Kobe, and the only one who can easily score 10 points is Horry.

The scores of other people were all below 10 points.

Liu Jingming now averages 13.9 points per game, second only to the 'OK' combination.

Although Liu Jingming has only received professional basketball training for a short time, as a former swimmer, he has good physical fitness, high flexibility, fast speed, long arms, strong defensive ability, and a soft shooting touch with a high hit rate.

As the first player to enter the NBA through the NBA draft, and with Liu Jingming's previous fame, CCTV and Hong Kong Satellite TV broadcast the entire draft live. After Liu Jingming entered the NBA, he has always been under the spotlight.

This year, when Liu Tao and his friends had their reunion dinner, they didn’t watch the Spring Festival Gala, but the Lakers game.

After the children finished their reunion dinner and received their red envelopes, they went out to play happily.

By now, Liu Tao’s youngest child is already 7 years old.

Liu Yingqing was specially admitted to Southwest Associated University last year and started preparing for the Olympics this year.

Liu Qing'an and Liu Manhua are currently ranked among the top 300 in the world in tennis, and their performance is improving rapidly. They will also compete in this year's Olympics, in both men's and women's singles as well as men's and women's tennis competitions.

As for Liu Yiyong and Liu Dini, who are already 7 years old, they have no interest in sports. Liu Dini's dream is to be a painter and calligrapher, while Liu Yiyong's dream is to be an actor and travel around the world as freely as "Xiao Jian".

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After the broadcast of "Return of the Condor Heroes", it became an instant hit across the country. Two consecutive TV series made the leading actors of "Return of the Condor Heroes" famous one after another.

Liu Tao does not interfere with his children's interests and hobbies. Whatever they want to do, as long as it does not harm the country and the people, he lets them do what they like.

After all, they work hard so that their children and grandchildren can live a better life and have more choices.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

A gala is being held here in the military camp. A cultural troupe has come to perform, singing, dancing, skits, and crosstalk, making the soldiers laugh and applaud from time to time.

The Spring Festival dinner is also much more sumptuous than usual, with all kinds of delicacies from land and sea.

This was the first batch of volunteer troops withdrawn from Cambodia, totaling 5 people.

As the flames of war were basically extinguished, a major war would no longer break out, and the next step was to suppress the bandits, and Cambodia and other countries began to withdraw their volunteer troops.

After treatment and psychological counseling, a considerable number of volunteers will choose to retire. Some will receive a considerable severance pay, while others will choose a small amount of severance pay and then get a stable job, live an ordinary life, spend time with their families, and then get married and have children.

In fact, many volunteers have already married and had children in the local area and decided to stay and develop in the local area.

Some even choose to acquire a large piece of land and then bring their parents to Southeast Asia.

This is just the first batch of volunteers. In the next two years, a total of 200 million volunteers will be withdrawn to Singapore, Cambodia and Laos. These soldiers who have experienced the baptism of war are completely different from ordinary soldiers.

They are more powerful in the battlefield.

After all, it is completely different whether a soldier has seen blood or not!
These 50,000 volunteers are Cambodia’s first batch of volunteers. They have been fighting for two years and have probably experienced no less than fifty battles of varying sizes.

Of course, some people died and some were injured.

The problem of acclimatization cannot be completely solved even now, no matter how good the logistical and medical support is.

There were ten medical ships to treat the wounded soldiers, and there were also field military hospitals, but hundreds of thousands of soldiers still died.

The soldiers who died were often buried locally, and martyrs' cemeteries were built there.

In Cambodia, there is nothing else but all kinds of seafood, pork, chicken, duck and vegetables.

Today is the Spring Festival, and we have held a Spring Festival Gala so that the soldiers can spend a happy and peaceful new year.

By the end of the party, some soldiers had already used their mobile phones to call home. When they heard the voices of their parents or wives and children, these tough men couldn't help but burst into tears.

Sacrificing one's own family for the sake of the public may seem like just a simple sentence, but there are so many sad things behind it.

The man did not shed tears, but he did not go to the sad place.

Sometimes, just hearing one word from your parents can make you burst into tears.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, teams of soldiers lined up neatly on the prepared trains and boarded them. They would take the trains home.

Even those who choose to stay in the army can get three months of vacation.

They wore commemorative medals and medals of honor on their chests and carried a bag on their backs. They lined up in neat rows. One train could carry 2268 people, so 22 green trains were mobilized.

It was not until noon that all 22 green trains had finally departed.

In the train, the soldiers' eyes were filled with anticipation, but of course they also had a complex feeling of being homesick and feeling timid.

Some people haven't been home for three or four years. They don't know if their hometown has changed, if their parents' hair has turned white, or if their children, who were born not long ago, are afraid of their fathers.
Inside the soldier's backpack, there are bank cards, a set of military uniforms, special products prepared by the army for the soldiers, and other gifts given to the soldiers as rewards for their service.

The only thing missing was a gun, dagger or saber.

Except for those who have reached a certain level, they are allowed to carry a pistol when visiting relatives. Others are not allowed to carry weapons when returning to their hometown to visit relatives.

On the train, some soldiers couldn't help but call their families to tell them that they were going home. Some soldiers could even have hot meals at home in the evening.

The green train is not fast, far inferior to the EMU, but in places like Cambodia and Laos, the China-Laos-Cambodia Railway has greatly improved transportation conditions and is a major transportation artery.

Many things that are common in China are rare in many places.

In China, as high-speed railways are built and opened to traffic, people have become accustomed to taking them, and some people have even become accustomed to taking planes for business trips.

But in Laos and Cambodia, railways are already considered a very fast means of transportation!

(End of this chapter)