Chapter 57: Blackened Chief of Staff
"Captain Dong's words are right. The Navy is raised by his stepmother! If I were asked to make a new choice, even if I couldn't become an army, I would have to go to the Air Force and never come to the Navy!"
Lu Bin, who had just come out of the conference room of the Fenjin Factory, complained angrily as soon as he got on the bus. Guo Huaisheng, who got on the bus together, seemed to hear nothing, silently opened the car door and got into the passenger seat.
Lu Bin looked at Guo Huaisheng's look of turning a blind eye to the outside world, and was really angry. He wanted to curse a few words and vent his anger, but when the words came to his mouth, he stopped helplessly, and finally he could only turn into a helpless sigh.
The Chief of Staff Dong in his mouth was nothing else, but Dong Yimin, deputy chief of staff of the N fleet who commanded two frigates to conduct garrison exercises some time ago.
Due to outstanding performance in the exercises organized by the new Navy leadership team, the word "deputy" in Dong Yimin's position was removed and he officially became the chief of staff of the N Fleet.
However, being promoted does not mean that one's personality changes. Chief of Staff, who is rigorous in a way of jokingly training his subordinates, is as uncomfortable as ever to his superiors.
At the Navy Headquarters headquarters' meeting not long ago, the chief of staff who was frank and dared to advise against the headquarter, because of the problem of garrisoning the vast South China Sea islands and reefs.
It is hoped that the Navy Headquarters can allocate funds to build permanent fortifications on several strategically important islands and reefs so that the army can garrison and guard.
The Navy Headquarters neither opposed nor clearly supported Dong Yimin's opinion, but gave an ambiguous answer: "Report the question to the Central Committee as appropriate!"
If it were someone else, he would no longer insist. But who is Dong Yimin? He was the most important person who wanted to be approved by the headquarters for the preparation of a main destroyer.
Want to send him a perfunctory answer? It's just a joke!
So the next thing can be imagined. Dong Yimin had a fierce argument with the leaders of the Navy Headquarters, and during this period he said something well-known to many naval leading cadres.
Angry, an old navy leader slapped the table on the spot. Ask such an angry speech, how dare Guo Huaisheng, a logistics director stationed in Begang, comment?
"Chief Staff Dong is for the grand strategy of the entire navy. It is impossible to say a few angry words, and you, Chief Staff Lu, just for a few dredging ships. What? Do you feel embarrassed?"
Just as Lu Bin sighed, the car door suddenly opened, and Huang Kang sat in. Lu Bin was not surprised, but just gave Huang Kang a blank look: "I have been a soldier for more than 20 years. I have always been talking about one thing and two thing, not like today, I have been compromising and giving in, and I just licked my face and begged others. My old face has been beaten so hard that I can't see it."
Looking back on the initial excuse of booking a ship into the conference room of the Fenjin Factory; to propose that the barge modification progress is fast so as to listen to the detailed report on the construction of the Fenjin Factory; to the water police district providing relevant equipment to the assembly of the Fenjin Factory, which made the Fenjin Factory confused, and finally even the assembly costs began to be stingy...
Lu Bin intuitively had never done such a shameful thing in his life, but what could he do if he didn't do this? Their water police district could not afford to book a new ship at all, and even if it was modified, he had to pick up the cheapest one.
Otherwise, why did he and Huang Kang choose Fenjin Factory? It was not that the construction period of Fenjin Factory could be compressed to an outrageous level, nor that they could provide ship training, but that Fenjin Factory was small and cheap enough for them to bully the navy's tiger skin.
"After all the time, Chief of Staff Dong wants to build permanent fortifications on the South China Sea islands and reefs, but the Navy headquarters can't afford the money at all. How to repair it? The same is true for Chief of Staff Lu. If you have money, just go to the big shipyard to go and talk to it. Why bother with a small shipyard?"
Seeing that Lu Bin was still depressed, Huang Kang sighed with emotion: "The Navy just looked like that during the founding of the People's Republic of China, and since then, it has been less than half a bottle. Having no money has long become the norm for the navy. Don't the older generation of navy know? They know, but they insist, and even insist on it even if they don't have any shame."
Huang Kang said suddenly, and then looked at Lu Bin with a solemn expression: "You only saw Chief of Staff Dong set up a table with the Navy Headquarters leaders because of an angry word, but you didn't see him guarding the approval of the headquarters leader day and night for the start of a destroyer! He said that angry word, but that was because he was angry that our navy was poor and the navy was weak, rather than really regretting becoming the People's Navy!"
The loud words echoed in the car for a long time, so that the vehicle mechanical vibration sound was overwhelmed. Guo Huaisheng, who was sitting in the co-pilot, didn't even dare to look back. As for Lu Bin, he looked at Huang Kang for a while, then scratched his head awkwardly and said embarrassedly: "I don't regret it. I just feel that it's really shameful to bully the Fenjin Factory like this. After all, I am also a deputy division-level cadre in the water police district."
"I feel sorry, so I will help others in other aspects from now on. No matter what, this time the Fenjin Factory has helped you a lot of help in the water police district. If it were those big factories that looked on the surface but actually valued export and foreign exchange earnings more than life, you wouldn't have gained so much today!"
Huang Kang's words are correct. This time, the Fenjin Factory promised to help their water police district build four barge-constructed dredging ships within five months for the dredging work of berths in the berths of each of the subordinate berths.
This really solved a big problem for Kandong Water Police District, and also gave Lu Bin confidence to receive the inspection of the head of the Navy Headquarters at the beginning of next year.
Thinking of this, Lu Bin was no longer worried about being face-saving and nodded meaningfully: "You are right. If you have the chance, our water police district will definitely help them to enter the factory."
However, before he finished speaking, Lu Bin suddenly remembered something and reached out to pat Guo Huaisheng in front of him: "Xiao Guo, Xiao Jiao said just now that the dredging ship of Fenjin Factory was made by betting with you because you despise others' technical strength?"
When Guo Huaisheng heard this, his face turned green and he wanted to turn directly to the bottom of the car seat. It would be fine if Jiao Dalin mentioned it in the conference room. Why did you, Chief of Staff Lu, still hold on? Do you know that this is a slap in the face, and it is embarrassing!
"Okay, the man is afraid of embarrassing. I will give you a task. If you have time, go to the factory and tell Jiao Dalin that their factory can't even build a fire boat, and then make a bet with him!"
"Uh...well...ah? Chief of Staff, he's still betting!"
Guo Huaisheng nodded in response at first, but he felt something was wrong in a blink of an eye. He immediately turned around and looked at Lu Bin, who looked like a natural look on his back. His surprised expression was filled with the words "I heard it right."
"What are you looking at? Not all of them are forced by money. It's done well. I'll invite you to drink. If it's not done well..." Lu Bin smiled coldly: "Hmph, the holiday at the end of the year will be cancelled!"
Chapter completed!