What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 343 Indirect Actions
Great Bay.

Next to the small airport, a strange-looking runway has been newly built.

It's much shorter than the first one, only a little over two hundred meters long, and it extends at an angle with several ropes at the end.

This is a 1:1 replica of the "Super Yorktown" runway layout.

Not only were the layouts recreated, but the landing aids on the aircraft carrier were also simulated on-site, maximizing the simulation of real-world conditions.

Lei Zhan piloted the A4E fighter jet, making a nimble low-altitude approach and lowering the carrier hook.

Amidst everyone's expectant gaze, the landing hook caught the third arresting cable, and the nimble A4 glided a short distance along the angled runway before being pulled to a stop, retracting slightly.

The maintenance crew and other pilots rushed over.

As the best pilot in the air regiment, Lei Zhan was the fastest to get up to speed with the A4E. This was his fifteenth successful arrested landing, and the eighth time in a row he had hooked the second and third arresting cables.

Tang Wen also came over:
"How does it feel?"

"Effortlessly controlled!"

Lei Zhan pinched his fingers and said a phrase he had just learned from a chat room, a famous internet slang term from the renowned "Tang Shao Quotes".

Tang Wen nodded. Currently, there are five pilots in the Greater Bay Area who have mastered the A4E and completed more than five arrested landings, which is enough for a small squad.

It turns out that flying this kind of small jet aircraft is not difficult, but arresting landings are extremely demanding in terms of skill and talent; at least all the other amateurs failed.

The club's flight training program has indeed selected some talented pilots. Many of them successfully hooked the arresting cable while piloting the carrier-based version of the CJ-6 independently, and they are worth further training.

"What about the carrier landing and go-around maneuver? Have you practiced it?"

"No problem, Instructor Allison has strictly followed the training regulations in formulating the plan."

Although Geigin was an untrained pilot, Captain Allison possessed the operational procedures for jet carrier-based aircraft, and his training protocols were flawless, perhaps even more comprehensive than those of the regular forces in the South China Sea Fleet.

Seeing that everyone's training had basically met the standards, Tang Wen said:
"Our (heavyweight) cement (heavyweight) aircraft carrier model is almost finished! Since everyone is confident, let's take it out for static landing training next week. Are you confident?"

"must have!"

Everyone got excited; all that hard work and extra training had been for this moment!

Tang Wen was very satisfied with their spirit and energy, and his mind was already filled with plans for the future:

With these five elites as the seeds, the flight class trainees are ready, and at least one squadron will be trained this year.

Then, by continuously recruiting and training students, the number will snowball, right?
Aircraft maintenance and flight time are not a problem for him at all; at worst, he can simply scrap them and replace them with new ones. At this rate, he could probably build several aircraft carrier battle groups in just a few years.

Tang Wen, feeling like he was playing a simulation game, fantasized for a while, then sent a round of subsidies to the air force and returned home, where he saw a ship girl trying on black stockings, showing off her long legs that seemed to disregard human life.

After thoroughly studying the internal design of the warship, Tang Wencai realized the difference between humans and steel, and began to ponder the origin of the universe and the significance of his transmigration.

Transmigrator, oh transmigrator, how could you have fallen so low?

Tang Wen decisively went to the study, logged into the chat room to find some bugs and optimization points for Gaijin Network, and then found that the most popular chat room was buzzing with messages.

When I clicked on it, the network was slow and it took a long time to load "9999+".

I glanced at it; it was about the US and the Second Fleet. Looking at the second-ranked chat room, it was still "Witness," but this time the discussion was about the Choi Rat smuggling case.

Seeing such high popularity, Tang Wen felt something was off and got up to rummage through the newspaper basket.

He simply flipped through a few mainstream newspapers, and decades of online experience made him realize that someone was constantly pushing the hype, elevating it to an inappropriate level.

Of course, this is not surprising. Gai Jin and Tang Wen are both very famous now, so it is normal for them to be implicated.

At that time, the media style was quite bold and unrestrained, and the opinions expressed were diverse.

Some have used the "kitchen knife theory" to prove that it has nothing to do with Gai Jin, but many more are digging deeper into "why the fishing boat that Gai Jin rented looks like a warship".
Both Korean and foreign media outlets have concluded that it "is a warship," citing the following reasons:
If a fishing boat looks like a warship, has the strength of a warship, and even has water cannons, then it is a warship!
Domestic media outlets, upon seeing this, exclaimed: "That's exactly right!"
As a result, all sorts of guesses emerged. Some speculated that it was a decommissioned warship that had been converted into a modern warship, while others thought it was a prop reused in a tourist attraction.

Surprisingly, local media didn't pay much attention to the South Korean demand for an apology from Tang Wen; their focus was entirely on whether the fishing boat was actually a warship.

Tang Wen didn't care about the above, but he did notice a media outlet's unique perspective:
[Gaijin: An elaborate scam]

The title itself is quite exaggerated, and the author begins by listing detailed evidence:

Geykin obtained oil drilling qualifications in an extremely extravagant manner; Geykin legally owned warships and used corporate power to fight against monkeys; Geykin spent huge sums of money to purchase aircraft; Geykin even sold warships!
These all share a common characteristic:
It defies common sense, attracts attention, and costs a huge amount of money.

In this day and age, such conclusion-driven "facts" are quite sensational.

The author states that Gekin is a complete replica of the Süd and Giant Groups, an even more outrageous super fraudulent group, and its collapse would bring unimaginable heavy losses to the entire country.

Selling warships to fishermen is just a small part of the scam, aimed at breaking corporate ethics to gain greater profits.

The discovery of 20 billion tons of oil is a scam, operating warships is a scam, protecting domestic interests is a scam, and buying airplanes is also a scam!

Tang Wen read the entire text carefully, and his impression was:
That seems to make sense; I must be a liar.

In this era of extremely limited information access, the characteristics this guy listed all echoed those of the first two "scammers".

According to the common sense of ordinary people, if you follow this line of thinking, it really is true!
However, he immediately realized that all the "evidence" in the article was intended to induce the public to question the official legitimacy of Gaijin's qualifications. On the surface, it was condemning Gaijin, but in reality... Even Tang Wen had to admire the audacity of intellectuals.

He's an expert, let him see who it is.

Southeast Metropolis Daily, Dou Liqing.

Tang Wen vaguely remembered this old fellow. He had thought there were too many cockroaches to kill, so he hadn't bothered with it. But now it seemed he had to take drastic measures, otherwise he and Lao Zhao would be in big trouble.

Tang Wen thought for a while, then picked up the satellite phone and called Wang Hu directly, giving him some instructions before hanging up.

As for the Koreans... Although Tang Wen didn't care about their reaction at all, he saw on the news that Lao Zhao was discussing trade there, so it was probably inevitable that they would be affected.

He immediately called the other party and asked about the progress of the negotiations.

"It is a bit troublesome, but this time the parties involved are LG and Daewoo, which are inherently difficult to negotiate with. We can come back in a while."

Although Zhao Hande said he didn't care, Tang Wen still felt a little guilty.

If he continues to cause trouble for the Koreans under his own name, it will probably backfire. He can only try to find a way indirectly.

Feeling the blinding sunlight outside the window, he closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)