Chapter 499 It's Been a Year
Several comrades watched and communicated, and even took up paper and pen to do some calculations.

When they finally finished looking at it, they looked up and said, “Dear leaders, this craft has a way.”

After hearing this, the comrades finally felt relieved.

It's good to be able to recover part of it. Nowadays, we are very short of money.

To enhance the persuasiveness, several comrades explained: "This process uses physical and chemical methods to separate and remove other components in the charge without destroying the black powder components and ensuring safety, and basically guarantees the performance of the black powder taken out. Moreover, the process is relatively simple, there is no too dangerous operation, and the price of the equipment and chemicals used is not expensive."

Another comrade added: "I just calculated that if this process is used, the recycled black medicine, even if it is downgraded, is 60-70% cheaper than new production."

This is very high, and some things are a question of whether they are enough, not whether they are expensive. It is great to be able to recycle so much.

After everyone discussed it, they decided to follow Gao Zhendong's complete plan.

The equipment accelerated test evaluation system is fully adopted to check the reliability and life of all ammunition containing No. 4 charge. The gunpowder recovery process or improved process provided by Gao Zhendong is used to recover the usable part of the old charge.

After the meeting, the leader of the Defense Work Committee called Gao Zhendong and said a few words.

"Thank you. What you provided helped us recover a lot of losses."

Gao Zhendong hung up the phone and was in a very happy mood.
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But among the Russians in the north, Comrade Sergeyev was not in such a good mood.

He held a report in his hand, the content of which was very simple and direct.

"Request for additional imports of computers, operating systems, e-mail systems and printers to comrades in the south."

This is a commonly used title format for official documents, which strives to allow people to see the core content at a glance and quickly judge the importance of matters.

For example, Comrade Sergeyev now understood the content of this report at a glance through the title.

But he was not in the mood to praise the comrade who wrote the report for his good title. Instead, he felt very frustrated.

"Comrade Petrovich, I need an explanation as to why this list is getting longer and longer and larger in number?"

"I think it's because their stuff is really easy to use. Comrade Sergeyev, the report in your hand comes from the distant Arctic Circle. It was sent from there just this morning, and you can hold a copy and read it right now because of the email system and printer mentioned in it." Petrovich shrugged.

"That's an excuse, Petrovich. Teletypewriters and telegrams will do the same thing." Sergeyev was no fool.

Petrovich nodded. "Yes, my comrade. But they sent this long document in less than a minute, using only the telephone lines we had set up. They did not require a typist or telegraph operator to sit in front of a teletype machine or radio for a long half hour."

Sergeyev realized the difference: "I think this will be more useful for the people in Lubyanka. For us, time is still affordable. We don't need such expensive equipment, let alone such expensive equipment in the south!"

The ability to send messages quickly using ordinary telephone lines may make them more interesting to the comrades in Lubyanka.

Petrovich shook his head. "Comrade Sergeyev, time is precious to everyone. This email has another advantage. It does not require cooperation from two parties. This is very convenient for everyone. Moreover, it is very easy to copy. You just need to print it out directly with a printer."

"Then we will produce it ourselves! I've had enough, Comrade Petrovich!"

For Sergeyev, everything is worth it as long as he can get rid of the shadow of his southern comrades.

"Have you forgotten? We have asked our scientists to take a look. They need time to make adjustments and match them. By the time they have completed the adjustments, I don't know how things will develop."

DJS-59 is the easiest to copy because everything about it is exposed and the manufacturing requirements are not high. The only problem is that it takes some time to adjust and match the peripheral resistors and capacitors to the Russian-made transistors.

The Russians still have transistors, but that's not the bad news.

"Moreover, if we take into account the investment, the price of our own products will be much higher than the price quoted by our southern comrades. Comrade Sergeyev, I think this is not the time to cling to prejudice."

"What about software? Operating systems, email systems, I think those can be copied."

The Russians' mathematics are not to be trifled with, not to mention that there is basically no encryption in current software.

Petrovich shrugged his shoulders. "You are right. The southern comrades understand very well and are even ahead of us."

These words made Sergeyev feel deeply malicious. He looked at Petrovich and asked, "What do you mean by that?"

"Comrades from the South have also thought about this problem. They have very considerately proposed a new means of transaction. They will provide us with the email protocol and source code of the email system at one time. If we use it for our own use, we will no longer have to pay them any fees." Sergeyev was pleasantly surprised, and then realized that things might not be that simple.

"My comrade Petrovich, what is the price, then?"

"We don't charge any price. They have reached an agreement with the comrades in charge of equipment, and we just provide them with something they are interested in. You see, this is perfect."

In fact, this was a decision made by comrades from the Ministry of Foreign Trade based on the situation analysis provided by Gao Zhendong.

Email is something that is very easy to copy given the Russians' capabilities. Instead of keeping it, it's better to change it.

This thing is very useful, but there is not much need to keep it secret because with the Russians' ability, it is easy to make a substitute.

Instead of doing this, it's better to do that. Hey, I'll be open with you. Don't start a new one. Just hang yourself on our tree. And take the countries in the Economic Support Association with you. With your big brother as an example, they will follow. Once this system is formed, you can't change it whenever you want.

And within a certain period of time, they actually sold quite a lot of things, because the Russians had a limited number of DJS-59s. Now that they had their own software, wouldn't you want a few computers?
It would still take time and effort to transplant this thing to the Russians' own computers. The extra machines sold plus the technology obtained in exchange, it's not a loss after all.

As for selling it to other companies, I'm sorry, you can use it yourself, but you can't sell it. On this point, the Russians still have some shame, and they won't do that before they completely tear their faces apart.

"What about the operating system?"

"They said this thing is not mature yet, so they can't provide source code for the time being."

This is the truth. Gao Zhendong believes that the operating system is indeed not mature, so he will not provide the source code. That would harm comrades in the north.

This answer once again made Sergeyev a little angry. He said fiercely: "Printer! Tell our comrades to make a copy of the printer! At most, import another batch!"

Being able to reject a product seemed to give him some psychological balance.

Petrovich shrugged. "As you wish, my dear Comrade Sergeyev."

Petrovich walked out of the office and increased the number of printers on the import list five times. This thing is cheap, so buy more.

Comrade Sergeyev has just decided that we can only buy this batch, so we have to prepare more for the comrades. This thing is really damn useful.

Comrade Sergeyev has the final say on whether to buy or not, but Comrade Petrovich has a say on how much to buy.

When the comrades from the Ministry of Foreign Trade received the list returned by the Russians, they laughed.

"It seems that the printer business won't last long in Russia. This is just a one-time deal."

"That doesn't matter. With them as an example, the economic assistance countries will still come to us. By the time they finish copying this thing and the production capacity increases, we don't know whether it will be this year or next year."

"Well, and the profit margin of this thing is not particularly high. The reason why it is exported is mainly because of the need for complete sets of equipment."

In fact, once a device is successfully integrated into a system, it will most likely form path dependence. Before there are major changes, few people are willing to change it because no one will take responsibility.

This is just like Gao Zhendong's previous life. Many domestic manufacturers who used cheap MCUs were forced to switch to domestic MCUs due to a shortage of MCUs due to major special circumstances. Only then did they discover that domestic MCUs were actually of good quality, had more powerful functions, and were damn cheaper.

The more special and important the industry or department, the more this is the case.

For example, the airport shuttle bus does not have a high level of technological content. It is just a low-floor bus, but it is expensive because no one is willing to take the responsibility to replace it at will.

In short, the printer may be sold out after this order to the Russians, but it can still be sold in other economic aid countries.

No matter how many more we have, the production capacity will not be enough. Now the computing institute is preparing to build its own new factory, and the original number of staff is really not enough.

A similar thing happened to Gallic chickens.

Mr. Senna looked at the documents in his hand and glanced at Le Goff with an unfriendly look.

"Le Goff, I remember I said I wouldn't think about this for a year!"

Le Goff smiled and said, "Mr. Senna, you said this in December 1960, but now it is 12, a year has passed, hasn't it?"

(End of this chapter)