...Sitting with a green face, both of them have a sense of change of life. ※

Although to outsiders, the two met during the Middle East War in Secret Year. At that time, Lin Muxun introduced Pei Chengyi to Iranian President Ahmadinejad and the supreme spiritual leader Hash, they met during the South China Sea War that had been in great force for many years. At that time, Lin Muxun followed Lin Yanbo to Laos to discuss investment, while Pei Chengyi participated in the command of the war as Xiang Yinghui's assistant. Of course, the meeting did not leave a deep and mysterious impression on the two. After all, Lin Muxun and Pei Chengyi were still small roles at that time and could not be on the table.

From a personal perspective, Lin Muxun and Pei Chengyi are not close.

First of all, starting from Lin Muxun's standpoint, as an old businessman who has been in the mall for decades, he cannot not know that for a person who wants to make a name for himself in politics, whether after he takes power or before he takes power, he must draw a clear line with the interest groups, and at least do this in public. That is why Lin Muxun rarely takes the initiative to contact Pei Chengyi, and basically enters the Three Treasures Hall only if he has something to do. From another perspective, from Pei Chengyi's standpoint, the situation is the same. Although most people do not distinguish Lin Muxun from businessmen because he was elected as a representative of the general congress, that is, most people

In his eyes, Lin Muxun is still a businessman and a very successful businessman, but without the possibility of achieving greater business achievements and not wanting to live a retirement life too early, entering politics has become Lin Muxun's only choice. Because there is no foundation in the government and the army, Lin Muxun cannot target the leader of the Republic like Pei Chengyi, and can only gain political discourse power through the path of running for representatives. In this way, regardless of whether Lin Muxun attaches great importance to the political future, Pei Chengyi cannot get too close to him, so as not to lose the support and trust of other representatives.

When Lin Muxun was looking through the war plan, Pei Chengyi wanted to go to the wish made in the Dehei.

After a few years, neither of them has free time and are always busy with things like this.

This is no exception.

Pei Chengyi just recalled the past, and Lin Muxun closed the paper document. Obviously, he read it very quickly, so he did not read it in detail.

"It's similar to what I expected." Lin Muxun said, and habitually picked up the cigarette. "I can't understand it, I can't understand it at all. Don't think I've been in the mall for decades and have a slight understanding of industrial production, material procurement, and equipment research and development, but I just don't understand what your army is. Is it necessary to make it that complicated?"

"Complex?" Pei Chengyi noticed Lin Muxun's little move of squirting the ashes.

Before becoming a representative of the general congress, Lin Muxun kept smoking cigars, and they were all Cuban cigars. In Lin Muxun's words, he also tried to quit smoking, but the more he quit smoking, the more he quit, he simply stopped quitting. After being a general congress, in order to follow the trend, Lin Muxun quit cigars and changed to smoking domestic cigarettes. Of course, it was a cigarette specially made by the leader of the country, and replaced nicotine with a fragrance, which was basically harmless to the body, but the smell of tobacco was still unbearable.

Lin Muxun nodded and blew up the ashes again. It seemed that he was still not used to smoking cigarettes.

Maybe, in private, he still likes to smoke cigars.

"I have seen it myself this time, and a lot of technical things have been deleted."

"Lao Pei, I'm not talking about this."

Pei Chengyi frowned slightly, realizing that he was beginning to think too directly, and Lin Muxun was just looking for topics.

"After the barbecue dinner, I met several main representatives and exchanged opinions." Lin Muxun quickly wiped out the cigarette that had only been taken a few sips, put his hands on his chest and said, "Everyone has the same attitude, understands and supports the government's decisions, but we all think that there must be a suitable reason."

Pei Chengyi nodded, indicating that he understood Lin Muxun’s meaning.

"Of course, this war plan has convinced me and can convince other representatives." Lin Muxun glanced at the documents placed on the coffee table, turned his eyes to Pei Chengyi, and said, "I am not an outsider, so I will not waste time with you. A war plan is just a requirement on the table. For us, what we want to know more is what will happen in a few years, that is, whether our current investment can be guaranteed."

Although Lin Muxun said it very obscurely, his meaning was expressed very clearly.

As a businessman, he naturally has to consider the safety of investment. More importantly, Lin Muxun is not talking about money investment at this time, but political investment.

From Lin Muxun's standpoint, if he supports this plan, the war will be delayed by several years, then he will not support Yan Jingyu, but Pei Chengyi. In this way, before making a decision, Lin Muxun must figure out two very critical issues: one is whether Pei Chengyi will run for the head of state in two years, and the other is whether Pei Chengyi will fulfill his current promise.

Actually, this is one problem, not two.

To be precise, it is whether Pei Chengyi will fulfill his promise in a few years and start a war with his own hands. If the answer is yes, then Pei Chengyi will have to run for the head of state in two years and win. Of course, if the answer is no, there is no need to talk about what comes later.

The problem is that Pei Chengyi is also very hesitant on this issue.

As mentioned earlier, according to the current political system of the Republic, coupled with the second "Senior Revolution" promoted by Yan Jingyu, even if Pei Chengyi became the second leader of the country, he would not wait to become the head of state in the new election in the year of the year, at least he was not sure. It can be said that this is definitely an improvement, and a very remarkable progress. Even if Pei Chengyi's personal interests are threatened, as long as he is still a soldier who puts international interests first, he has to accept the new rules of the game. In a sense,

Yan Jingyu was able to invite Pei Chengyi to partner in the second year of the year and received more than 90% of the representatives' support because many people believe that Pei Chengyi is a politician who does not focus on personal interests and a trustworthy politician. Although in this case, the possibility of Pei Chengyi winning the election in the new year is almost 100%, from an objective standpoint, before that, he could never express any ambition to win, let alone make the outside world think that his goal is to become the country's number one leader.

Of course, this is a matter of face.

What is important is that in the Republic, the problem of face is the biggest problem.

That's why Pei Chengyi hesitated for a long time when facing such an important issue.

Fortunately, Lin Muxun knew what Pei Chengyi was worried about, so he acted very patiently.

"Anyway, I don't want the next conversation to be heard by the third person. Pei Chengyi broke the silence. He paused for a moment before continuing, "First of all, I have to explain that the head of state delayed the war for a few years, not to compete for me for me, but the actual difficulties we face. As we all know, on the day I left the army and entered the Ministry of Defense, military merits were of no value to me, and I no longer needed military merit. You started out in an industry and should know the basic situation of our country. Although we have been preparing for war since six years ago, increasing national defense spending year by year, and slowly bringing the country into the track of war, but for such a big country, we really have to prepare for war, for six years, for such a large country, we have to prepare for war.

Too short. Judging from the standards of the world war, the preparation time will take at least ten years. Even considering the reality, especially the progress brought by science and technology, it will take eight years. When planning for the war, we made this clear. In recent years, we have started from basic industries and public facilities and carried out preparations step by step according to the original plan. To be honest, we have considered speeding up the preparations for war and have done so. The direct result is that the economic situation deteriorates rapidly, forcing us to consider the overall economic situation in the fiscal budget, especially the national defense expenditure of the war, rather than blindly using the war as the purpose. Otherwise, the national defense expenditure in recent years would not have had such a big fluctuation.

While Pei Chengyi was speaking, Lin Muxun took out a packaged cigar from his suit.

"Perhaps some people think that I am taking the opportunity to suppress the head of the head. Of course, this must be a big mistake." Seeing Lin Muxun bit off the head of the cigar and lit the cigar indifferently, Pei Chengyi smiled and shook his head, and then said, "In the face of major events that concern the interests of the country and the nation, I have a completely consistent view with the head of the head of the country, that is, put the national interests first and personal gains and losses second, otherwise the head of state would not agree to my proposal and would take the initiative to convince you.

Of course, it is hard to say whether the goal can be achieved. Although from the overall situation, we have absolute initiative. As long as we still have an advantage in the aerospace field, the US authorities will not rashly trigger a war, but as the situation develops, when our advantages become obvious enough to make the US authorities realize that continuing to drag on will only have no chance of winning, the war will break out. In other words, I am not sure whether it can be dragged until after the New Year."

Lin Muxun smiled, sniffed two cigars, and his expression seemed much calmer.

"The key question is not when to fight, but when to fight is the most beneficial to us." Pei Chengyi knew that Lin Muxun was definitely not the kind of person who could fool us. "At the beginning, we set a grand war goal. When we did the specific preparations, we found that many of our basic conditions were not met, or were not perfect. Take our army's modernization construction in the past few years as an example. Because the early goals were too large, the scale was too large, so many dress-up work has not been started yet, let alone in place. Not to mention other things, the merger of the Sky Army and the Air Force alone has caused us a huge burden. Money is still a small matter, and the key is whether it is fast or not.

It takes more time to get up. I don’t think there is much explanation for the dressing work of the Republic’s army. You are the chairman of the Military Commission, and you can grasp the relevant situation through Sanjian Group and other arms companies that you hold. As the theoretical basis for war preparation, we built the world’s largest open supercomputer group a few years ago, and have been enhancing the computing power of the computer group through secret expenses for several consecutive years. To be honest, the simulation branch has never stopped and is still in progress. The results of each simulation analysis are used in the war plan, and this determines the modernization project of our army.”

"What is the realistic basis for simulation analysis?" Lin Muxun asked a very direct question.

"Pei Chengyi answered the information in all aspects more directly, because he felt that there was no need to fight Lin Muxun on this issue. Haha, you should know that the Lin family where Lin Muxun is located was able to return to China in the past year, which was closely related to the Military Intelligence Bureau. "The first priority of the war preparations we are engaged in is not to formulate a war plan or a comprehensive dressing plan, but to use the military to calm down and integrate all intelligence agencies. Finally, we formed a special focus and publishing agency. Among them, the Military Intelligence Bureau is mainly responsible for foreign-related intelligence work related to national defense and security, that is, to collect military intelligence from hostile countries and potential hostile countries. I don't think there is much explanation for the capabilities of the Military Intelligence Bureau. No matter how the outside world views Liu Xiaobin, I believe that you should have enough understanding and confidence in him."

Lin Muxun nodded without objecting.

"All in all, all the information we have proved that the United States has always been behind us. It is chasing us very tightly

"The problem is that it is impossible to just drag it down like this and Lin Muxun took a turn and brought the topic back.

Pei Chengyi smiled faintly and said, "This is of course. In fact, as early as six years ago, after we determined that we could only defeat the United States through war, war was inevitable. Of course, it is not only us who recognize this, but also the United States, to be precise, the interests of the United States. If you pay close attention to the recent US elections, you will find that since Landers became president, the Republican Party has won the election four times in a row. In fact, in the past ten years, the Republican Party has not done much praise enough, and it can even be said to have put the United States in a state of half-dead. If it were in the past, the Democratic Party would have been Taiwan long ago. Although the reasons for this situation are very complicated, such as the People's Republican

The split of the dominant party into two political parties creates the best conditions for the Republican Party to dominate, but in the final analysis, the Republican Party was able to rule for 16 consecutive years not because the Democratic Party or the Democratic New Year Party was too weak, but the interest groups of the United States, especially several major consortiums and several joint unions that hold millions of votes, stood on the side of the Republican Party, and in the name of maintaining social stability, they achieved the highest record for the Republican Party's continuous rule in this century. In other words, the interest groups in the United States also knew that war was inevitable, high, and the gap with us was huge. To prepare before the outbreak of war and defeat us in war, we must ensure the continuity and consistency of policies and the unity of American society.

"If it were us, we would have made the same choice." Lin Muxun seized the opportunity to hint Pei Chengyi.

"In fact, we did make the same choice, otherwise I wouldn't sit here." Pei Chengyi responded very cleverly to Lin Muxun's suggestion and immediately said, "The problem is that this situation cannot be maintained. Even if we and the US authorities do not want to start a war too early. Being constrained by the objective laws of economic development, when huge national defense spending makes the economy of either side unbearable, the war will come. Starting from subjective will, instead of being passively involved in the war after the economic collapse, it will be difficult to get involved in the war.

, It is better to actively launch a war. Mu Yong doubted that because he took some relatively correct measures and various social factors, our ability to bear is obviously greater than that of the United States, so it is definitely not us who seeks change before, but the United States. At the beginning of last year, the Military Intelligence Bureau received a relatively reliable piece of information. If everything goes well, in next year's general election, the winner will definitely not be the third presidential candidate elected by the Republican Party within 20 years, nor is it likely that the Democratic Party's presidential candidate will be the third presidential candidate.

"You are, right?"

"As with our choice, when we realize that war is inevitable and about to break out, the American interest groups have no choice but to send the most suitable wartime leader to the White House in advance." Pei Chengyi paused for a moment, "Although this information has not been confirmed, judging from the preparations for war with the United States, especially the speed of economic deterioration between us and the United States, it will definitely not be delayed until the next US election. In such a big issue, there is no need to underestimate the collective wisdom of the American interest groups."

"Duchway?"

Pei Chengyi nodded and said nothing more.

"So we have no choice."

Pei Chengyi smiled bitterly and said, "It's not us, it's me that I don't have a choice, and you still have the right to choose. After all, the Republic does not lack warriors like me.

"Anyway, you have taken off your military uniform and are no longer an active-duty soldier."

"It seems that you have never been a soldier."

Lin Muxun was stunned for a moment, not understanding the meaning of Pei Chengyi's words.

"So you don't know about soldiers. Even if you only wear military uniforms for a day, as long as you live, you will be soldiers."

"Old Pei, you're too serious."

"I'm telling the truth, and that's what I'm saying."

Lin Muxun then realized that Pei Chengyi had expressed his attitude through this sentence. During the war, what the Republic needed most was a military commander, and taking off his military uniform did not affect Pei Chengyi's identity. Therefore, two years later, Pei Chengyi would definitely participate in the competition for the head of state and was determined to win.

"It seems that I've got the answer I want

“That is, I don’t need to continue wasting my saliva?

Lin Muxun smiled and stood up and said, "No matter what, until now, I have never believed that the dinner I lost more than ten years ago was not in vain."

“The problem is, you haven’t fulfilled it yet.

"Pei Chengyi also stood up.

When the two eyes met, they laughed at the same time, because in this moment, the two republics knew that an unbreakable alliance had formed between them!
Chapter completed!