I just want to deliver express, but you insist on recruiting me?

Chapter 279 Liberal Arts Students

The conference was scheduled for two days, with the highlight being the large-scale seminar on the second day.

The participants of the conference were very complex, including some military theorists and some commanders and fighters from the front line, but the most important ones were the equipment manufacturers represented by Chen Chen.

Because no matter what requirements Party B puts forward, Party A must be able to fulfill them.

At this meeting, Zhang Mingrui's identity was more popular.

He used to be an equipment demonstration expert and belonged to Party A.

Because of this relationship, he can talk to the commanders and fighters on the front line.

But now he is also an equipment manufacturer, and he is very familiar with the current industrial development and industrial capabilities, and can organically combine Party A's needs and Party B's production capacity.

So when Zhang Mingrui expressed his opinions, everyone listened very carefully and applauded spontaneously from time to time.

However, the first day's meeting was mostly discussion, with each party putting forward its own opinions, so not much constructive consensus was reached.

After the recess.

Cui Guosheng sent an officer to accompany them, named Xu Xingcheng, and gave him a strict order to accompany the guests well.

So Xu Xingcheng racked his brains, arranged a big meal in the cafeteria, and then took the guests for a walk outside the camp.

"Mr. Chen, the headquarters is quite remote and there are no entertainment facilities nearby. I can only take you two to enjoy the scenery." Xu Xingcheng said modestly.

"It's okay. If you want to have fun, I'll go wash my feet. We're here for a meeting." Chen Chen looked out at the valley and felt refreshed.

"Yes, if Secretary Xu hadn't brought us here, I'm afraid I would never see this kind of scenery in my life."

As he spoke, Zhang Mingrui took out his mobile phone to take a picture.

It is true that the local office is located in a remote area.

But the more remote it is, the more beautiful the scenery is.

The confluence of the rivers creates a canyon with many bends and turns among the mountains.

The mountains are surrounded by curling mist, which is extremely beautiful.

Isn’t this better than a 5A-level scenic spot?

You can just take a photo and use it as your computer desktop.

"When I was first transferred here, I was indeed fascinated by the scenery in front of me." Xu Xingcheng stood on the suspension bridge and looked out at the valley, and couldn't help but sigh. "The breeze blows across the mountains and the sky, and the scenery is so moving and moving."

Zhang Mingrui thought the two sentences were well-formed and gave a thumbs-up: "Secretary Xu is a liberal arts student, right?"

"Yes, I study international relations."

Zhang Mingrui nodded enviously: "That's great. I also want to say something when I see this kind of scenery, but I don't have any ink at all, so I can only say 666."

At this time, there was a gap between liberal arts students and science students.

Even if Zhang Mingrui is given enough time to think.

The best he could say was, "The river is so wide, the mountain is so high, and the fog is so thick."

But he can't be the only one to show up.

He wasn't the only science student at the scene.

So he poked Chen Chen's elbow.

"Mr. Chen, what do you think of this valley?"

Chen Chen said simply: "Beautiful."

"You're not as good as me, blurting out words one by one?"

Chen Chen pointed at the bend in the distance and said, "Those convex banks are river accumulation landforms. The land is fertile, and whatever you plant grows. The lower layer of soil on the opposite concave bank replenishes the convex bank, resulting in a lot of mayflies and fish here. If you stand on the birch tip and cast a few times, you will definitely catch a lot of fish."

Zhang Mingrui looked at him with a stern face: "Such a beautiful scenery, and all you can think about is fishing?"

"There's something else. If we build a firing point at the first bend, we can control the entire river navigation."

Hearing this, Xu Xingcheng looked at Chen Chen with admiration: "General Chen has a good vision. Our army originally wanted to build fortifications along this river."

People in the circle want to come in, and people outside the circle want to get out.

As a liberal arts student, Xu Xingcheng always feels that he is a bit bookish.

He admired the extreme rationality of liberal arts students.

Like Chen Chen.

When seeing beautiful scenery, the first thing that comes to mind is strategic issues, not all sorts of other things.

However, Zhang Mingrui envied Xu Xingcheng's literary talent and felt that life this way was more interesting.

After strolling outside for twenty minutes, they had almost finished their food. Xu Xingcheng looked at his watch and tactfully urged the visitors to return to the camp to continue the meeting.

Although Chen Chen and Zhang Mingrui were a little reluctant, they had no choice but to do it.

The afternoon meeting was not about equipment, but about strategy.

Those who participated in the meeting were all experts in strategy and tactics, and the theme of the meeting was how to deal with threats from the southwest.

But Cui Guosheng still specifically asked Chen Chen and Zhang Mingrui to attend.

This shows how much he values ​​these two people.

After returning to the meeting room, other people arrived one after another.

The personnel composition is much simpler.

Most of them were commanders of front-line troops, and the few who were not in military uniforms were all international relations researchers.

Cui Guosheng spent twenty minutes making his introduction, listing some of the things that had happened on the border in the past six months and briefly analyzing the other party's intentions. He then handed the microphone to others, wanting to hear their opinions.

Several professional scholars gave a brief discussion.

The other party's intention is just as Cui Guosheng said, they don't want a big fight, but to constantly provoke disputes.

As we all know, the first shot is never fired.

So they indulge in this kind of thing endlessly, and sometimes they inevitably go too far, hoping to use friction to turn it into a small-scale conflict and profit from it.

Think from the other person’s perspective.

Anyway, rabbits have a bottom line, but they don’t have one.

After listening to the first phase of the discussion, Cui Guosheng nodded and said, "I agree with everyone's opinions."

"As a rule, we don't fire the first shot."

"Others take advantage of our principles to do evil."

"So I'm wondering if I should adjust my strategy and take some initiative without violating my principles."

Hearing this, everyone started to sit up straight and picked up their notes and notebooks.

Because at this time, only by pretending to take notes can you appear busy and avoid the leader's attention.

For a difficult problem like this, who can come up with a solution in a short time?
According to the leader's idea, the goal is to beat them back without a hot war breaking out, or to prevent the other side from coming out.

It's hard.

Especially for these front-line troop commanders.

As long as you can shoot, it's a matter of three rounds of fire coverage.

If three rounds are not enough, then six rounds.

Half a day is enough.

But if they don't shoot, their minds go blank.

Seeing that no one was talking, Xu Xingcheng felt that his words were insignificant and decided to throw out some ideas to ease the awkwardness.

"Chief, I have an immature idea."

"There is no such thing as maturity or immaturity. This is just an exchange meeting." Cui Guosheng is open to all opinions.

"We can build more settlements in disputed areas."

As soon as the words were spoken, there was a murmur of discussion in the meeting room.

This is a good method.

Some disputed areas are basically fought back and forth.

Especially here, it’s all high-altitude mountainous areas with harsh terrain and blocked roads.

It is difficult to supply troops when they are stationed there for a long time.

But if we don't send troops, it will be easy to lose control.

The terrain on the opposite half is flat, so motorized troops can move in, which gives them the natural advantage of waiting for the enemy to tire themselves out.

The only way to demonstrate control is to establish settlements.

But doing so is also very difficult.

"It's possible to build a settlement, but the key is where the people are going to come from?" an officer said politely. "People are living well in the hinterland, with water, electricity and internet. Who would want to move to a remote mountain area?"

Xu Xingcheng explained: "We can send troops to take off their uniforms and pretend to be herdsmen. There are fishermen with short flat heads on the beach, so why can't we have herdsmen with short flat heads?"

Upon hearing the solution, the officer who raised the question immediately sat down.

Don’t say that, Li Jufu.

What we want is a settlement, it doesn't matter who lives in it.

Xu Xingcheng continued, "We can spend some money to build a better settlement, and design it like the most prosperous new villages in the inland."

"Of course, you can't grow anything there."

"We'll just do animal husbandry."

"Buy dozens of cows and eat the meat while grazing them."

"We slaughter one every day, right under their noses. They can't stand it."

Zhang Mingrui, who had been distracted, suddenly couldn't hold it anymore after hearing this and poked Chen Chen under the table.

He whispered, "This liberal arts student is quite abstract in his schemes. What's the difference between this and shitting on three heads?"

Zhang Mingrui was also convinced.

It turns out that Xu Xingcheng’s focus is all on slaughtering cattle.

I originally thought that building settlements would occupy territory and constitute physical damage.

I didn't expect it to be all magic damage.

Cui Guosheng was also stunned for a while, and then everyone laughed at him.

In fact, Xu Xingcheng’s suggestion is not bad, and settlements can indeed be used as an alternative.

"We need to discuss the settlement issue in depth. Does anyone else have anything to say?" Cui Guosheng said, looking at Chen Chen. "Mr. Chen, Chief Lin always told me that you are a hawk. What do you think?"

Chen Chen took this opportunity to stretch his body: "It's not a brilliant idea, but I have thought about similar issues."

"Oh, come on, let me hear what you guys who work on equipment think about this issue."

Chen Chen stood up and walked to the map: "Aren't there just a few rivers here?"

"Hmm."

"These rivers are rich in water resources, and their source is in our country. We can build a dam here." Chen Chen pointed to the precise location on the map. "Then dig a canal to change the flow of these rivers to the northwest."

"..."

While Cui Guosheng was stunned, Chen Chen added: "This will improve our northwest environment, turn the Gobi Desert into fertile fields, and most importantly, prevent floods in downstream countries."

"No... the flood has eased, but they have no water to drink."

Chen Chen waved his hand: "I checked, people over there don't drink much water, it won't have any impact."

(End of this chapter)