The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 1048 Agricultural Products for Arms
Kalimandu railway station.

Some soldiers are boarding the train station and being transported to the defense line or the front line by train.

As the capital of Nepal, it is the political center and cultural center of Nepal.

Compared with peacetime, Kalimandu now has a more solemn and murderous atmosphere. Since the outbreak of the war, Kalimandu has faced two air raids by the Indian Air Force. Although both times were defeated, it also made Kalimandu nervous and had to conduct air defense drills from time to time.

At the train station, a train is arriving, and it has 50 carriages.

After the train arrived, the staff began to unload and continuously move things from the train. There were boxes here, both large and small.

"Gurung, this is the list. After you finish the inventory, you have to sign it so that I can report back!" Yang Lin took out a list and handed it to a Nepalese officer in military uniform.

Gurung, a Nepalese officer with the rank of colonel, was responsible for handing over the arms list.

According to the rules, the list is not complete until the other party signs it.

The China-Nepal Railway is an extension of the Southern Tibet Railway and uses China's standard track, which is 1435mm standard gauge.

In Nepal, due to historical reasons, the railway regulations are more complicated. There are both 1000mm meter gauge and 1676mm wide gauge, and the 1676mm meter gauge is placed inside the 1000mm wide gauge. The meter gauge is used to connect with different regions, so there is no need for frequent changing and reversing, and two specifications of locomotives and vehicles can be used.

A train that is suitable for the 1435mm standard gauge naturally cannot run on the 1676mm wide gauge.

So the goods were transported to Kalimandu Railway Station, and then transported to the front battlefield using Kalimandu Railway Station as a transit station.

Gu Long smiled and said, "Yang Lin, I have no reason to worry about what you guys are doing."

As Gurung spoke, he picked up a pen and signed two copies of the list, one for each party.

Gurung went to Shijiazhuang for further studies for four years and can speak fluent Mandarin. This time he was appointed as the handover person here at Kalimandu Railway Station.

古隆看了一下，78式自动步枪5节车厢，共有10万把；7.62× 39毫米步枪子弹6节车厢2000万发；78式通用机枪1节车厢，3万挺，相应子弹3节车厢1000万发；78式重机枪1节车厢2000挺，相应重机枪子弹6节车厢300万发；78式高射机枪1车厢1000挺，相应子弹6节车厢300万发；木柄手榴弹21车厢6.3万箱共计132.3万枚。

This is the ammunition in these 50 carriages.

Except for the wooden-handled grenade, all others are in service.

Prior to this, all firearms produced before 78, including pistols, had been cleared out of stock.

This was later, and a batch of 56 semi-automatic rifles were also produced.

However, since 2000, the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle has not been produced. At most, the Northern Ordnance Industry Corporation accepts orders from outside to produce it.

As for the Type 78 automatic rifles, they are all second-hand.

Since the decision was made to replace the troops with small-caliber automatic rifles, the troops began to replace them with Type 00 automatic rifles in batches last year.

The Type 00 automatic rifle was launched as a project in 1982 and was continuously improved before it was finalized in 2000. As for the finalization in 2000, it was naturally because in 2000 the authorities decided to replace the troops with small-caliber rifles, so it was named Type 00 automatic rifle.

After more than ten years of continuous testing and modification, the Type 00 automatic rifle has excellent performance and is in a leading position in the world.

This can also be regarded as accelerating the deployment of the Type 00 automatic rifle.

As for wooden-handled grenades, more than 40 billion wooden-handled grenades were stored at that time. After so many years of use in wars and foreign trade, there are still a large number of wooden-handled grenades. In more than 20 years, a total of one-quarter of the wooden-handled grenades have been consumed, and this is still the consumption in normal training.

Although the wooden handle grenade has some disadvantages, its advantage is also obvious, that is, it is cheap! Such a wooden handle grenade only costs 50 RMB, which is due to the price impact of the large number of grenades from Polar Bear.

With the half-sale and half-gift-off model, a wooden-handled grenade now costs only 25 RMB, which means that these 132.5 million wooden-handled grenades only cost 3312.5 million RMB.

Yang Lin put away the signed list. He did not get on the train, but waited for the goods to be loaded.

If you come with a full truck, you won't return empty-handed. That would be too costly.

When I went back to load the fruits, I saw boxes of fruits being carried into the car. There were oranges and apples, as well as mangoes, papayas, bananas, etc.

50 train carriages can carry nearly 3000 tons of fruit back, with a value of about 1000 million yuan.

What Nepal can offer in exchange are agricultural products, fruits, poultry, etc.

When the goods were loaded, Yang Lin and Gu Long waved goodbye. It would take at least two or three days for Yang Lin to come again.

Liu Tao was in the capital, constantly acquiring intelligence from all sides.

At this moment, Liu Tao felt that a storm was about to come. Since George Walker took office, the Eagle Sauce's style has changed drastically. He has become more tough and more willing to use force to solve problems.

Unlike the previous eight years, when the U.S. military was under pressure and everyone was mainly engaged in a war of words, their differences were ultimately resolved through negotiations. No matter how fierce and harsh the war of words was, and no matter how harsh the words were, the overall situation was controllable, and it was nothing more than an exchange of interests.

China is the largest trading partner of the United States, and the United States is also the largest trading partner of China.

China's high-quality and low-priced products allow the United States to suppress inflation.

China makes a lot of money every year through export trade.

But as George Walker came to power and began to favor the use of military force, the meaning began to change. First, the huge military expenditure of 3700 billion US dollars, the huge increase is really shocking, the US military expenditure is equal to the total military expenditure of the next nine countries, much more.

Next was the provision of $135 billion in military aid to India, followed by an $80 billion interest-free loan.

Britain provided 50 billion pounds of military aid and a 20 billion pounds of interest-free loan. Liu Tao would never believe that the Americans had no contribution to this.

There were also other news coming back one after another.

Liu Tao did not have a peaceful time during the entire Spring Festival holiday.

China is celebrating the Spring Festival, but people overseas are not.

In the world, energy prices, food prices have risen sharply, gold prices have also risen sharply, and even the US military industry sector has ushered in years of strong growth.

Everything related to the war is rising.

And because it is a grain-producing area that exports a large amount of grain to the world every year, now that war has broken out, not only may it be unable to export grain, but it will need to purchase grain from other places. This has caused the price of grain to rise, and many experts even say that the world will face a food crisis.

Over in Africa, the war is still burning. Batch after batch of refugees want to leave for the paradise "Europe", but this road is destined to be full of ups and downs. Many people die of illness on this road, and some die in shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.

Millions of African refugees have entered Africa, and there is a big debate in Europe about how to resettle the refugees.

(End of this chapter)