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First class window seat.

Lin Kaifeng held his chin with one hand and looked at the floating clouds outside the window with a serious look.

Something is very wrong.

The fact that Dongzhi Company sold CNC machine tools to Sumeng would not be fully exposed until two years later.

It is now 1985. Even though the United States has noticed some clues, it has not placed its suspicion on Dongzhi Company.

Until the end of this year, a senior employee of Dongzhi Company had a falling out with the company over salary issues and was eventually fired by Dongzhi Company.

In a fit of rage, this man sold the machine tool transaction information he had to the United States.

Starting the next year, the U.S. CIA conducted a year-long secret investigation and formally arrested all the people involved in the case in January 1987.

Nearing evening, the plane arrived at the Beijing airport.

There were two green military vehicles parked on the runway.

An officer in military uniform took Lin Kaifeng into a military vehicle, left from another exit of the airport, and headed straight for the military building.

"Comrade Kaifeng, what do you think of this sudden incident?"

In the office, General Liu spoke in a serious tone.

Lin Kaifeng took the initiative to report to his superiors that the island country and the Soviet Union were trading five-axis CNC machine tools.

The Long Kingdom was waiting behind the scenes, and Lin Kaifeng suggested that the higher authorities make advance arrangements.

Lin Kaifeng said, "Old General, this matter is strange in every way. Assuming that the news leaked from within the East Company, I think it is very limited. In the absence of complete intelligence, the CIA cannot make a big move. They must conduct both internal and external investigations."

"You told me on the phone before that Martinez, the head of the US CIA, led a large group of his men from the US to the island country three days ago. Soon after arriving on the island country, he immediately began a blanket investigation. His actions were a bit too fast."

"It seems that we have the same idea. This matter is indeed strange."

General Liu said in a deep voice: "Before you came back, the relevant departments had already held a meeting to discuss where the problem was. The Soviet Union purchased a five-axis linkage CNC machine tool to solve the problem of propeller noise in nuclear submarines. The transaction was handled by the Soviet Union Intelligence Department."

"We know the capabilities of the Soviet Union's intelligence department. They will never be careless in their work and will not leave any clues that are disadvantageous to them."

"Old General, we don't have to worry too much."

Lin Kaifeng consoled him, "The fact that Dongzhi Company exported five-axis CNC machine tools to the Soviet Union was discovered by the United States, so it won't have much impact on us."

"Our overseas comrades have neither revealed their identities nor left any clues. Even if the East Company has any guesses, it will only suspect the countries in the Eastern Bloc."

"After all, these are the only countries that cannot buy five-axis CNC machine tools."

"There are a lot of Eastern Bloc countries near the island country, so they won't investigate us for a while."

General Liu nodded in agreement and said, "That's true, but it's not a good thing to have the truth exposed."

"When the United States has enough evidence, even if Dongzhi Company doesn't die, it will suffer a lot."

"No matter how arrogant the United States is, it will definitely learn a lesson from this and further restrict the flow of high-end technology to the Eastern camp."

Longguo had long since left the Eastern Bloc dominated by the Soviet Union and had developed significant relations with the United States, but some things cannot be generalized.

The United States and the West can sell other goods and technologies to Longguo, but it is absolutely impossible to sell strategic-level and control-level goods to Longguo.

No matter how much money Longguo pays, the United States and the West will not sell it.

A few days later, the matter was completely exposed.

Within one day, the CIA arrested dozens of Dongzhi Company employees, more than half of whom were senior executives.

Ichiro Kumamoto appeared in the media as a tainted witness.

After careful cooperation between the CIA and the island country's Metropolitan Police Department, a smuggling case that shocked the West was made public.

As a core member of the US global strategy, the island country's affiliated companies were not only bold enough to sell five-axis machine tools to the Soviet Union.

Soon after, they exported two sets of CNC machine tools to another Eastern Bloc country.

Sold strategic weapons to enemy countries twice in a row.

When Western people learned the news, one word came to their minds.

madman.

"Mr. President, distinguished members of parliament, the truth of the machine tool incident has been thoroughly investigated. All of Dongzhi Company, from the top management to the heads of relevant departments, are involved."

"Sumeng purchased a total of four five-axis machine tools from Dongzhi Company at a price of US$6 million per set, and also provided Sumeng with a large number of core technologies related to five-axis machine tools."

"The testimony provided by Ichiro Kumamoto, the department manager of the East Company, is highly consistent with the information leaked to us by the informant, which proves that every word the informant said is true."

Across the ocean, a circular office.

President Reagan suppressed his anger and waited patiently for Martinez to report the results of the investigation.

Looking around at the cabinet members, President Reagan said murderously: "Gentlemen, with the influx of five-axis machine tools into the Soviet Union, our national defense security has encountered serious challenges."

“In addition to five-axis machine tools, will there be other strategically controlled commodities flowing into the Eastern Bloc?”

"The machine tool smuggling we know about may only be the tip of the iceberg. There are more strategic controlled items flowing into the hands of the Soviet Union in places we don't know about."

"Dongzhi Company sells not only machine tools, but also our lives and our national security!!!"

President Reagan roared, "This matter must be dealt with seriously. My opinion is that this company should disappear."

"At the same time, economic pressure on island countries was launched in advance."

Born into an elite family and having received a good education since childhood, President Reagan rarely gets angry.

Once you are angry, even God cannot stop you.

The transaction between Dongzhi Company and the Soviet Union is no different from attacking the United States.

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The United States has always held a disdainful attitude towards the Soviet Union's naval forces, especially its nuclear submarine forces.

The Soviet Union's nuclear submarines carry strategic weapons, but if they cannot solve the noise problem, their strategic weapons will always be a joke.

As long as the noise problem is not solved, the United States can easily locate the location of the Soviet nuclear submarines.

As soon as the submarine sets out, it will come under the full surveillance range of the US Navy.

Now, everything has changed!

Five-axis CNC machine tools can not only solve the noise problem of nuclear submarines, but also other equipment processing problems.

If we don't make an example of Eastern companies, other Western companies are likely to follow suit.

Continue to smuggle strategically controlled commodities into the Eastern Bloc.

Minister of Commerce Bernard hesitated again and again, and said: "Your Excellency the Great Commander, please calm down. We need to punish the East Company, but if we directly dissolve this company, I am afraid it will bring a lot of negative impact to me."

"Mr. Bernard, do you want us to let the East Company go?"

Martinez said in a dissatisfied tone: "Please think about it. If we are kept in the dark, and one day we go to war with the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's nuclear submarines appear in front of our fleet and launch nuclear bombs at our aircraft carrier battle group, countless Americans will die as a result."

"The CNC machine tools sold by Dongzhi Company to the Soviet Union have become weapons that kill us!!!"