Chapter 568 Before you find the Chinese, we have

While Chang Haonan and Ding Gaoheng were planning how to provide security for the domestic jet airliner platform.

Paris France.

Compared with the Chinese Navy, which summed up its experience and lessons in the joy of victory, the French's reaction was another story.

Although the French army does not regard the Japanese as allies (in fact, the French army from the 90s to the early 21st century may not really regard the US military as an ally), therefore this matter does not involve the siege of friendly forces and can be regarded as a simple matter. to expel unfriendly third-country ships.

But blowing up someone else's submarine is a big deal after all.

Therefore, after leaving China, fleet commander Laurie Wauer immediately reported the situation to the mainland via radio.

Two staff officers were also dispatched to transit via Singapore and fly back to the mainland in advance with a detailed incident report and some video and imaging evidence.

Firstly, it is to prevent the Japanese who are living a good life from taking a bite in advance, and secondly, it is to blame themselves.

After all, all the data can prove that until the Harushio-class submarine surfaced, the joint military exercise fleet "mistakenly believed" that it was an imaginary enemy target preset for the exercise.

Of course, some of the Lieutenant General's own emotions were also added to it.

For example, Eurocopter is shameless and engages in false propaganda regarding the performance of its helicopters. The products they make are not as good as other people's imitations. We were slapped in the face during the exercise and could not hold our heads up at all. This goes on. If there is no country, how can we talk about restoring the glory of France...

Of course, it deleted his own psychological activities of setting up a trap to make the Chinese people look bad before the exercise, and did not mention that before the fleet set off, a fellow countryman had conducted a PY transaction with him...

Minister of Military Affairs Alain Richard was flipping through a naval report in front of him with complicated emotions.

Because it was written temporarily on the ship, the binding is relatively crude, and there are even many parts with blurred writing.

If someone dared to hand over something like this in normal times, he would definitely make a note of it in his heart.

But now, Richard's mind was in a mess.

Compared with the reports that I have seen too many times, presented by civil servants, with gorgeous words but incomprehensible meaning, and needing to find the key points between the lines to avoid being fooled, the thin pages in front of me are clear in ideas, concise and concise, and are all useful. dry stuff.

But the problem is that it's a bit too dry.

As a new minister who took office in January this year with only three months of experience, his proficiency in business is not high enough.

so. There was so much information that he didn't know where to start.

Not even the minister's secretary, Alv Busson, knocked on the door but came in.

"Mr. Minister, are you okay?"

Busen looked at his minister who had been motionless for several minutes and whose facial muscles were constantly twitching, as if he was about to have a stroke or go into shock at any moment. He shouted with some concern.

The last minister he served before was exposed for tax evasion, the last deputy minister was forced to resign due to a sex scandal, and the last MP was unable to perform his duties due to illness...

In short, although Busson thinks that he has done nothing wrong, if the man in front of him makes another mistake, it will definitely cause a new blow to his professional reputation.

Fortunately, Richard was in good health and kept himself clean. He was just meditating just now, and he immediately reacted after being called.

"Oh, Elvy, I'm fine."

He put the report back on the table, stood up and stretched his somewhat stiff body and facial muscles:

"I'm just reading a very...rich national defense report. Do you have anything to ask me about?"

While talking, he poured two more glasses of sparkling water, one of which was handed to Busin.

The latter belongs to the "Secretary of State" in the French administrative system, not Richard's personal secretary. Although there is a relationship between the two, they do not belong to the same system. In many cases, they are more Similar to cooperation.

"Yes, much more important than the defense report."

Buson put the thick stack of documents he was holding on the table, then took the goblet:

"May is coming soon, Labor Day and Victory Day in World War II. The Ministry of National Defense regularly organizes a celebration dinner every year, and I need you to sign some invitations."

After speaking, he pointed to the file box on the desktop:

"I've already divided it into categories for you. Just sign in your name or yours and your wife's name as required."

As a member of the old money countries in Europe, France still needs to have a certain tone.

Of course, ordinary people can use printed signatures, but at the upper levels, they still have to sign by hand to show etiquette and attention.

Just like the New Year greetings messages from China, there are also group and single messages.

Richard looked at the document, which was half a meter high, and almost threw the cup away with a trembling hand:

"Is this more important than the defense report?"

Busson drank all the sparkling water in the cup and nodded:

"No one will know about the national defense report even if you don't read it, but if the invitation is not issued or is sent late, it may offend many important people. If they agree in advance to participate in activities organized by other departments, it will not be easy for us here. It’s pretty…”

"This one is different. It was sent back urgently by the visiting fleet commander General Vojour. It involves foreign relations, equipment development and... in short, many issues."

Speaking of this report, Richard suddenly felt that the sparkling water in his hand didn't taste good anymore. He quickly sat back on the chair and pulled out the report that was suppressed by a pile of invitations.

Fortunately, after this incident, his mind was much clearer than before.

In the final analysis, the submarine incident was caused by the Japanese side being unreasonable and just issued a note to condemn it. Anyway, even if the matter got serious, they would be the ones who would be embarrassed in the end.

What really makes the Ministry of National Defense lose face is the performance of the French army during the exercise.

According to Vojul, Jean Bart was completely cheating during the whole process...

"Oh, how come the army has become like this!"

He organized his thoughts and raised his head again to look at Bussen:

"Alvey, please draft an official letter immediately. I will attach an excerpt of the report and send it to the Aerospace Industry Association to see what they have to say."

……

the other side.

In fact, there was no need for Alvey to send the official letter at all.

Vojour sent two confidants to fly back to Paris. One went to find the Ministry of Defense, and the other directly found Le Maire, the vice chairman of the Aerospace Industry Association who had had PY transactions with him, and gave the latter a letter. .

In the letter, the lieutenant general tearfully denounced the fellow countryman's inhumane behavior, saying that the anti-submarine exercise had made him miserable and almost disrupted the planned exercise plan.

He also hinted that although the purpose of "promoting French products to China" was not achieved, and it was even counterproductive to a certain extent, I didn't even give up face for your words, brother. You can't go back on the position you agreed on before. .

Flamel shook his head slightly.

He felt that with his shame, he might not have the chance to enter politics in this life.

"The Ministry of National Defense will probably send us an official letter asking about the situation soon."

Flamel put the copies of the letters and reports back into the drawer, turned and looked at Kurt Jean Pierre sitting on the sofa next to him:

"You should be able to start making preparations over there. Wrangling with those countries will probably take some time."

"It is estimated that the Netherlands will be easy to convince, and Germany may be a little more troublesome. What I am most worried about is the Italians. AgustaWestland and Fiat both have core interests in the NH90 project, so they may not give in so easily."

After saying this, the atmosphere between the two fell into an eerie silence.

Flamel noticed something strange in Pierre's eyes:

"is there a problem?"

"Do not……"

Pierre scratched his head, seeming to be thinking about how to make the next words less hurtful:

"Actually, after I came back from Singapore, I have already been communicating with several partners about this matter, but you don't know it..."

"Agusta Tower sent me a memo two days ago. I think you need to read it. You may not know the contents yet..."

He took out two pages of paper from the briefcase he carried with him and handed them to Flamel opposite.

The latter took it in his hand, glanced at the contents quickly, and then his face froze:

"Ah?"

The contents of the memo are concise and concise——

It doesn't matter, before you came to the Chinese people, we had actually started to cooperate with them.