Expedition to Europe

The Coconut City Expo started to be prepared about half a year ago.

The reason why Qin Zhiyuan wanted to hold the Coconut City Expo was completely due to an accident.

In August of this year, the 11th World Expo will be held in Paris, France. This "World Expo" is not worldwide, but only in Paris.

The "World Expo" these days is not as grand as that in the 21st century. Basically, no matter which country it is, as long as it holds an expo and randomly invites a few foreign merchants, it can be called "world".

The "Paris World Expo" was also held in this context.

Originally, based on the relationship between Lan Fang and France, Paris should have invited Lan Fang to send a delegation to participate in the Paris World Expo. However, it is not known whether it was due to the negligence of the organizer or some other reason, Lan Fang did not receive the invitation, so Qin Zhiyuan decided to hold an expo belonging to Lan Fang in Coconut City.

As soon as the news that Coconut City was going to hold an expo came out, it immediately caused a strong response in Lan Fang. Almost all Lan Fang provinces responded positively. Even Japan, which was almost a colony, formed a delegation to participate in the Coconut City World Expo with Japanese traditional handicrafts as the main project.

The only things the Japanese can show off now are traditional handicrafts. After Japan's defeat, the originally underdeveloped heavy industry was completely destroyed by Lan Fang. Factories were either demolished or blown up. Light industry has not yet recovered. Only these traditional handicrafts can represent Japan's industrial level.

The Coconut City World Expo was held in the suburbs of Coconut City. In order to successfully hold the first World Expo, the Lan Fang government approved a special land for the construction of exhibition halls, hotels and other supporting facilities.

The Lan Fang government still underestimated the enthusiasm of businessmen. Although the Lan Fang government prepared six exhibition halls covering an area of ​​more than 1,000 square meters, it was still not enough to accommodate all the exhibits, so that even the hard ground and lawn near the exhibition halls were used, which barely met the needs of the exhibitors.

When Old Renault and Jean Pierce arrived at the exhibition area, the World Expo had already been going on for the fifth day. In the plan of the Lan Fang government, the first World Expo would only last for one week, but now it seems that one week is definitely not enough, and some exhibitors are still on the way and have not arrived in Coconut City, so the Lan Fang government has announced that the time will be extended to half a month.

Although it is already the fifth day, the exhibition area is still crowded and bustling. The busiest area is the translation area. In order to ensure that the exhibitors can communicate smoothly, the Lan Fang government has prepared more than one hundred translators. Now these one hundred people have been added to three hundred people, but it still cannot meet the needs of everyone.

Old Renault and Jean Pierce do not need translators. Avoiding the busiest civilian products exhibition area, Old Renault took Jean Pierce directly to the heavy industry exhibition area.

"——The Eagle transport aircraft is the most advanced transport aircraft of Lan Fang. This transport aircraft can carry 20 fully armed soldiers and fly to any place within 1,500 kilometers within five hours. It has a very wide range of applicability. The Eagle does not have high requirements for the site. Even on the grass, the Eagle can take off and land smoothly, which ensures that the Eagle can be used in almost any environment. If a country is equipped with 200 Eagles, it is enough to ensure that the country can transport a brigade to any corner of the country at the fastest speed. This has a great advantage in dealing with emergency affairs-" In the military transport aircraft exhibition hall, engineers from the Jinzhou Aircraft Manufacturing Plant are talking nonstop. Standing opposite the engineers are two military representatives from the United States.

The Coconut City World Expo is divided into two major categories: military and civilian. If subdivided, there are more than a dozen subcategories. Military transport aircraft is definitely the top priority. In the past few days, military representatives from the United States, France and the United Kingdom have expressed great interest in Eagles.

"Look, this is the masterpiece of Lan Fang's military industry. It's hard to imagine that they have made such great progress in such a short time. And you may not know that the Eagle Eagle is not Lan Fang's most powerful transport aircraft. Lan Fang's most powerful transport aircraft is 50% more advanced than this one." Old Renault waited for the Americans to walk away before explaining in detail to Jean Pierce.

Although Jean Pierce seemed to have no expression, the slightly twitching corners of his mouth still betrayed his excitement.

Jean Pierce had been exposed to transport aircraft design a few years ago. At that time, transport aircraft were still at a relatively primitive level. The maximum load capacity was no more than 500 kilograms, and the flight distance was within 500 kilometers. This was certainly not comparable to the Eagle Eagle, let alone the performance of the Kangaroo.

It is estimated that if Jean Pierce knew the specific data of the Kangaroo, he would definitely lose his composure.

A few steps to the side is the armored vehicle exhibition area. The exhibits here are richer than those in the transport aircraft exhibition area. From the earliest "Bulldog" to the latest "Matador", everything is available here.

At present, the development speed of automobiles is still relatively fast, and new technologies appear almost every year. Relatively speaking, Lan Fang Automobile is still at the forefront worldwide, thanks to Qin Zhiyuan's advanced ideas.

"——This is an armored vehicle we developed specifically for desert areas. This model is called 'Camel'. Just like what you see, 'Camel' has wide tires to adapt to the desert terrain, which can ensure that they can gallop in the desert without getting stuck in the sand. Considering the crude weapons of the enemy in the desert, 'Camel' does not have too thick armor, but it can defend against the shooting of Enfield rifles from a distance of 100 meters. Even these glasses are the same. These glasses can withstand the test of bullets without shattering. Soldiers riding in armored vehicles will not be troubled by broken glass-" There are also people visiting here. Looking at the military uniforms on their bodies, they are French.

The commentator is still quite cunning. When facing the French, they will use the Enfield equipped by the British as an analogy. If they are facing the British, then the Lebel rifle equipped by the French will be unlucky.

"If the French government can equip a large number of 'Camels', then once there is any problem in North Africa, French soldiers can rush to the incident area as quickly as possible, which is very conducive to quickly solving the problem. Time is everything, isn't it?" In order to get the order, the commentator is also very hard.

"This looks good-" A French colonel nodded repeatedly.

"At least better than the big fool of Renault-" Another colonel echoed.

If the French army needs equipment, the first choice is still the French Renault Company, but Renault without the old Renault is obviously not worthy of its name. Listening to the conversation between the two officers, they are not satisfied with the products provided by Renault.

"Hush-" The colonel who started talking obviously found the old Renault and smiled a little awkwardly.

The popularity of the old Renault in France has reached the point where everyone knows it, especially the soldiers. I am afraid that all French soldiers will remember the big nose of the old Renault.

The old Renault did not mean to greet anyone. He nodded casually and continued to move forward with Jean Pierce.

"Although Lan Fang Automobile started late, it has made rapid progress. The output of one of Lan Fang's automobile factories in Jinzhou exceeds that of the entire Renault Company, and Lan Fang has three such automobile factories." There was not much sadness in the tone of old Renault, who had shares in all these automobile factories.

"It must be said that we have cultivated a strong opponent." Jean Pierce finally couldn't keep silent.

The original text is available at Liu # 9 @Shu/Bar!

Objectively speaking, it was the Chinese who worked in the Renault factory during the World War that created the miracle of Lan Fang Industry. Jean Pierce's role must be praised. If it weren't for Jean Pierce's unreserved teaching, the Chinese would not have learned so much, and learned so well.

"Face the reality, Jean. Even if Lanfang doesn't rise, the Americans will squeeze out Renault. Have you heard of Ford? Their products in one month can make us produce in one year. It was only when I arrived in Lanfang that I realized how stupid it was for us to stick to Paris. We should have come out long ago to see how fast the world is developing." Old Renault did not think that the Lanfang people were the opponents of the French, and Lanfang should not be the enemy of France.

"The Americans - they are another trouble!" Jean Pierce did not deny what old Renault said.

Jean Pierce had a bad impression of the Americans. In order to get the support of the Americans, the French and Lanfang terminated the alliance. As a result, the United States gave France far less than the French imagined, and there were also many additional conditions, which made the US "aid" look like a chicken rib.

Going further ahead is the light weapons exhibition area, where there are a little fewer people and it is relatively deserted.

This is also reasonable. The world war has just ended a few years ago, and the stocks of light weapons in various countries are not small, so the demand for light weapons is not very large.

There are also many highlights here, especially the B-2 rifle. This semi-automatic weapon has attracted great attention, especially from Americans. Americans have ordered a batch of rifles to go back for testing. If they pass the verification, Americans will buy a production license from Lan Fang.

However, some people disagree, such as Jean Pierce. After learning about the selling point of B-2, Jean Pierce was not without contempt: "This design is not very good. I had a similar idea during the World War, but it did not pass the demonstration in the end. It is indeed good to equip such a rifle, but it will drag down Lan Fang's logistics. I doubt whether Lan Fang's logistics has such a strong guarantee capability."

"Guarantee?" Old Renault's expression was a bit strange. Pointing to the eagle and camel next to him, Old Renault was confident: "These things can not only be used to transport soldiers, but also to transport supplies. This is the confidence of Lan Fang's logistics."

Yeah, it is indeed confident.