Raun Udel sat in a sports wheelchair.

"How do you feel?" Chen Qiang asked.

"It's OK, it's just a little squeezed," Udel replied.

"It's right to squeeze, it's safer to squeeze a little. There's also a seat belt, so you have to tie it." Chen Qiang helped Udel tie it up.

"No problem, I can adapt. I used to be a pilot. To be honest, the space in the cockpit of the plane is not spacious." Udel said.

"Okay, try to move." Chen Qiang walked a little further.

Udel pushed the main wheel of the wheelchair, and the sports wheelchair immediately moved.

"So light! This wheelchair is much lighter than mine!" Udel couldn't help but sigh.

"I used aluminum alloy material to reduce weight." Chen Qiang replied immediately.

"It turned out to be an aluminum alloy. When I was flying a plane, I just sat in an aluminum alloy shell. I didn't expect that now I am in a wheelchair or in an aluminum alloy." Udel replied with a smile.

Chen Qiang directed from the side: "The operation of a sports wheelchair is somewhat different from that of an ordinary wheelchair. Sports wheelchairs are often in a state of high speed movement, so you may need some body gravity when turning."

"I understand, I have to try this a few more times." Udel said.

Ordinary people probably don’t have any chance to take a wheelchair, and they don’t know how to turn when sitting in a wheelchair. In fact, the turning of a wheelchair is very easy. If you rotate the wheels on both sides in the opposite direction, the wheelchair will turn naturally. You can turn one hand without moving and the other hand without turning one of the wheels, and you can also complete the turn.

Of course, this turning method can be used in sports wheelchairs, but in wheelchair basketball games, the efficiency of this turning method is a bit low. Using this turning method, you must first stop the wheelchair and then turn the wheels in the opposite direction. In wheelchair basketball games, everyone's wheelchairs are moving at high speed, and there are not many opportunities to stop and turn.

Therefore, in wheelchair basketball, the gravity of the body is a major factor in turning, which is like a motorcycle competition. It is a truth that the player will tilt violently when turning. During high-speed movement, it is not realistic to expect to turn the handlebars in turn.

Udel is worthy of being a fighter pilot. For him, it is not difficult to control a sports wheelchair by adjusting his body's center of gravity. He quickly became familiar with the operation of a sports wheelchair and could gallop freely on the court in a wheelchair.

"If you fall accidentally, it's easy to get up. You just need to lie on the ground, then stand up while your legs are shrinking forward, and then you can get up." Chen Qiang continued to explain.

Udel fell to the ground on purpose and then tried it, and with his pilot's physique, he could easily get up from the ground.

Chen Qiang took a basketball, handed it to Udel, and said, "Try dribbling."

Udel took the basketball and tried to push the wheelchair while dribbling. After trying several times, Udel spoke: "This is a bit difficult. When playing basketball, one hand dribbles and the other hand was idle. But now both hands have to do movements at the same time, one hand dribbles and the other hand pushes the wheelchair. It is difficult to coordinate. This may take a long time to get used to it. The key is that it is difficult to master the direction. If you push a wheelchair with one hand, it is difficult to make the wheelchair walk in a straight line. I have to change hands to adjust the direction."

"So what wheelchair basketball requires is to push the wheelchair with both hands and then dribble with both hands." Chen Qiang said with a smile.

"Dribble with both hands? Isn't that a second dribble?" Udel asked in confusion.

"This is a wheelchair basketball, which is different from the rules of ordinary basketball." Chen Qiang said to explain the rules of wheelchair basketball.

Basketball is a one-handed dribble, but wheelchair basketball allows dribble with both hands. When wheelchair basketball players push the wheels with both hands, then transport the ball once, then push the wheels with both hands, and transport the ball again. With the length of the basketball court, it can be pushed to the opponent's half-court in two or three strokes. It is also because of this dribble method that the dribble of the wheelchair basketball is basically in front of the athlete, not on the side.

The secondary dribbling regulations for wheelchair basketball are that every time you drive twice, you must dribble once. If you don’t dribble more than twice, it is an offense. That is to say, if you want to drive twice, you must dribble the ball in the middle. The so-called driving means pushing the wheel, whether it is pushing one wheel or two wheels, it doesn’t matter whether it is pushing forward or backward.

In addition, wheelchair basketball also stipulates that any part of the body except hands is prohibited from touching the ground, and any part of the wheelchair except tires is not touching the ground. In other words, if you fall to the ground to save the ball, it is a foul in wheelchair basketball.

Chen Qiang roughly introduced the rules of wheelchair basketball, which immediately aroused Udel's interest.

"It sounds like wheelchair basketball is really a very interesting sport. Unfortunately, I am the only one, so I can't have a five-on-five match." Udel said with regret.

"Mr. Udel, I actually have ten sports wheelchairs in total. You can ask your friends to come together. As long as you gather the number of people, you can have a five-on-five contest." Chen Qiang replied.

...

Chen Qiang and Udel had dinner together. After some conversation, Chen Qiang learned that Udel is currently working in the Veterans Administration of the United States.

The U.S. Veterans Administration is the future Department of Veterans Affairs, and is the cabinet department that provides services to U.S. veterans and their families. In the future, this department is responsible for the management of more than 21 million veterans and more than 70 million families and survivors in the United States. That is to say, one-third of the U.S. population is related to this department. Even in peacetime, the budget spent by this department will account for one-seventh of the U.S. dollars.

In 1917, just in World War I, after the United States joined the war, it established a veteran security system for soldiers and veterans, including insurance and compensation and rehabilitation programs for disabled soldiers. In 1930, the Veterans Administration Bureau was established, and in 1943, Roosevelt signed the Veterans Rights Act, which is called "the greatest law in the United States in the 20th century." However, the scope covered by this law does not include black soldiers and female soldiers. In other words, black soldiers and female soldiers in World War II were not guaranteed. On the battlefield, death was in vain, and injuries were in vain.

Now that World War II has just ended, 400,000 soldiers in the United States were killed and 10 million soldiers were discharged. The deaths and retired soldiers involved half of the United States' families, so the Veterans Administration has become an extremely important department and a very powerful department.

It is precisely because the Udel family is a well-established political family in the United States that even though Udel is already disabled, he can still enter a real-powered department like the Veterans Administration to hold important positions.

The next day, Udel came again, and this time he brought several friends, some of whom were physically disabled and had normal health, and they got together and played a five-on-five wheelchair basketball.

After a game, although Udel was so tired that his arms were sore that he almost couldn't lift them up, he was particularly satisfied.

"I thought I would never be able to play basketball again in my life, but I didn't expect that I would still have the chance to appear on the basketball court." Udel sighed.

"Yes, for people with leg injuries, this is indeed a good sport, but unfortunately this sport has not been promoted yet. Otherwise, more people will benefit." Chen Qiang said.

"Mr. Chen, I think this sport is great. I want to promote this sport so that those disabled people who have lost their legs like me can come back to the basketball court. But I don't know how to promote sports. I want to know how to promote a new sport?" Udel asked.

"First of all, we need to let people understand this sport. This is not difficult for wheelchair basketball. After all, wheelchair basketball is derived from basketball. People have already learned about basketball, and it only takes a few minutes to understand wheelchair basketball. Secondly, more people need to participate in this sport. The higher the mass participation, the faster the promotion of the sport will be. The third is to hold competitions, which can stimulate people's interest in this sport. If a sport does not have a competition, it may not last long." Chen Qiang explained slowly.

"I can promote wheelchair basketball in the name of the Veterans Administration. We have a lot of publicity work on disabled veterans. We just took the opportunity to promote this wheelchair basketball, so that at least more veterans can understand the sport." Udel said immediately.

"In addition, cost is also a very important factor. Just like tennis, which was once called aristocratic sports, is because the manufacturing cost of tennis rackets is high and expensive, and most people cannot afford a tennis racket. Wheelchair basketballs will also face this problem. The material used in sports wheelchairs is aluminum alloy, which is much more expensive than ordinary steel." Chen Qiang said.

In the 1940s, the production of aluminum alloy was not high, so the price was naturally expensive. But even in the future, the price of aluminum alloy was cheaper, and the price of sports wheelchairs was still very high. A sports wheelchair that could be used to play basketball would cost about 50,000 yuan, while an ordinary wheelchair would cost only a few hundred yuan, and the better ones could be bought in just one or two thousand yuan.

Udel thought for a while and said, "The price of a wheelchair is indeed a problem, but disabled soldiers should have received government subsidies. They can afford the price of sports wheelchairs. I can also give it a try and apply for some subsidies from the Veterans Administration. Any disabled soldiers who purchase sports wheelchairs can get a certain share of subsidies."

"It would be better to let the Veterans Administration directly purchase a batch of sports wheelchairs, and then sell them at a discount to disabled soldiers, or simply send them!" Chen Qiang said, looking at Udel with a smile, wanting to see what Udel's attitude was.

It is obvious that Chen Qiang is planning to do sports wheelchair business.

As we all know, the money in the US budget is the best to make. The United States has so much defense budget every year, and a little bit of it can make a company make a fortune. In order to allow the US government to increase its defense budget, the United States' military-industrial enterprises always deliberately create an enemy and then exaggerate how powerful the other party's military power is. Later, other countries also learned their lessons. The cutting-edge weapons were unveiled from December to June of the following year, and important equipment was also equipped from December to June of the following year, which avoided the time when the US Congress reviewed the defense budget.

With the end of World War II, relocating veterans has become one of the most important things for the US government. If this opportunity can be taken to make sports wheelchairs a military supply, Chen Qiang can also make a lot of money.

It was the US military who vigorously promoted wheelchair basketball in history. In order to calm the emotions of disabled soldiers and to find something for disabled soldiers to avoid making trouble, the US military vigorously promoted wheelchair basketball after World War II and held various competitions, so that wheelchair basketball was able to develop in the United States.

Udel was born into a big political family and understood what Chen Qiang meant in seconds. He said, "It's probably a bit complicated when it comes to government procurement."

Chen Qiang also knew that defense budget procurement is not as simple as going to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. It involves many interests, and it is really not a business that Chen Qiang can do. Therefore, Chen Qiang can only count on Udel, with the power of the Udel family, it should affect the procurement of the Veterans Administration. If Raun Udel is willing, Chen Qiang can join forces with Udel to make the money.

At this time, Chen Qiang even felt that it would be great if Master Kong was there. With Master Kong's ability, he would definitely find a way to bribe officials from the Veterans Administration Bureau and ask them to purchase sports wheelchairs.

No one can't get over money, Udel also knew that this was a good opportunity to make a fortune from the national defense budget. He thought carefully for a long time, but finally shook his head helplessly: "Now it is not a wartime period, and the procurement of the Ministry of Defense is more stringent than before. Sports wheelchairs are not essential for war, and procurement approval will be very complicated. What's more, procurement involves too many interests. Many large military-industrial enterprises are staring at every purchase like hungry wolves. But we are still too weak and it is difficult to start this business."

Since Udel said that, Chen Qiang also knew that the wool in the national defense budget would not be easy to remove.

"I have another idea, that is, to cooperate with large military-industrial enterprises and hand over the production and sales links to them. We only charge patent fees. For every sports wheelchair they sell, they can give us a little patent fee. Let those large military-industrial enterprises eat meat and we drink some soup." Chen Qiang paused and continued: "I have registered patents for such wheelchairs."

Udel thought about it carefully for a long time: "This method is feasible."

"As for the promotion of wheelchair basketball, I can leave it to me. This year's All-Star Basketball Weekend is coming soon, and I can add a wheelchair basketball exhibition game to it." Chen Qiang said.

"This is a good idea. It is best to let disabled soldiers perform, which will also be a beautiful public relations for the Veterans Administration." Udel and Chen Qiang hit it off.

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Chapter completed!