Because of the experience of dealing with the youngest general in Huaxia who was more cunning than a fox in front of him, Bruce Willie had long been mentally prepared.

In line with the idea of waiting for the other party's sky-high price first, and then he sat on the ground to bargain, Bruce Willie said solemnly: "General Yang, what kind of chips do you think you need to be satisfied?"

"Of course, the more the merrier!" Yang Weiping replied with a smile: "For example, your Kitty Hawk conventional-powered aircraft carrier, you can get three or four, anyway, your US Navy doesn't need conventional power, all of them have changed to nuclear power, and it is a waste of resources to put them away!"

Bruce Willie scolded to himself, you really dare to make a bid, three or four Kitty Hawk class conventionally powered aircraft carriers, do you know how much does a Kitty Hawk class cost?

Besides, the price is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the US government can allow China to dominate on land, but don't even think about the ocean!

"General Yang, please stop kidding, don't mention aircraft carriers again. Bruce Willie said with a wry smile.

Yang Weiping pondered for a moment, and then said: "One 1,000-ton large gantry crane and two 200-ton movable tower cranes; Hughes's AN series radar technology; six 2,000-ton missile frigates retired by the US Navy can dismantle the main guns and missile launchers on the ships; the US Government has publicly stated that the South China Sea is China's inherent territorial waters within nine sections; in addition, I have always wanted to buy a small island to build a holiday villa, and I hope you can sell the Diaoyu Islands to me. ”

Bruce Willie replied without thinking about it: "Other conditions are fine, but not Diaoyu Island!"

Bruce Willie, of course, is well aware of the US strategy in the Asia-Pacific region.

Huaxia is a large country with nuclear submarines, and the Diaoyu Islands are one of the only four deep-water sea lanes in the Pacific Ocean where China's nuclear ships enter the Pacific Ocean.

As a maritime power, the United States is extremely sensitive to the nature of these waterways.

Moreover, the strategic position of the Diaoyu Islands is very prominent. South Africa can support or encircle Taiwan. To the north, it can directly threaten the East China Sea. The RAND Corporation's think tank highlighted the strategic importance of the Diaoyu Islands.

Although the U.S. Navy does not have troops stationed on the Diaoyu Islands, it has installed a column of microphones underwater to monitor every move in this deep-sea waterway at all times.

It's peacetime. So the US Navy did not station troops on the Diaoyu Islands. However, this strategic island was deliberately entrusted to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.

In the event of a real war, 100 kilometers east of the Diaoyu Islands will be a number of islands such as Naguni, and if you count the upper and lower airfields, there will be seven field airfields. It is equivalent to seven unsinkable aircraft carriers staring at the waters of the East China Sea.

Although these airports were built by the Japanese army during World War II, they now exist as civilian airports. And with these airfields have a wartime garrison overall plan.

At present, the islands regularly mobilize Japanese people to organize anti-earthquake exercises. The drill consisted of quickly filling a large pit 5 meters deep and 15 meters in diameter with stones, cement, steel plates and other fillers in three hours.

The purpose of this was to repair the airfield during a simulated war. Because a bombshell dropped is almost such a pit.

Since the 60s, the US Government has listed Diaoyu Dao as a key strategic point. Although China and the United States are now in a honeymoon period, the United States can support China in its struggle for hegemony on the Asian land, but it will definitely not allow China to gain maritime interests.

As the South China Sea is China's inland sea, it is of course necessary to recognize China's sovereignty over its territorial waters. Anyway, Annan was a puppet of the Soviet Union. China can be used to stop the Soviet Union's claws from extending to the South Pacific.

This young Huaxia general was indeed very cunning, and he must have realized the strategic importance of the Diaoyu Islands, and he knew that the US Government would never agree to return the islands to the Huaxia Government, so he proposed to use the name of private purchase.

Hmph! You are stupid to be an American! Who doesn't know that you Director Yang is a hardcore hawk figure in the Chinese military. Is there any difference between selling Diaoyu Dao to you and selling it to the Huaxia government?

If you really sell this island. It is equivalent to tearing a hole in the first island chain carefully constructed by the United States, which is equivalent to putting Huaxia's nuclear submarines into the Pacific Ocean, which can threaten the west coast of the United States at any time.

The Chinese navy is in your inland sea, and the US government will not take care of it. But if it wants to get a deep-sea passage into the depths of the Pacific Ocean, the US Navy will never agree to it.

The only way for Chinese submarines to enter the Pacific Ocean is through the Bass Strait in the northern part of the South China Sea.

In order to keep an eye on this deep-sea passage, the US Navy has stationed six nuclear submarines on Guam.

As for the three passages leading to the open ocean in the East China Sea, there are submarines, anti-submarine planes, and fleets from Japan and Taiwan that are constantly watching.

The U.S. imperialists of dogs and Japan have really been planning about the Diaoyu Islands for a long time! Yang Weiping secretly cursed in his heart.

Since the 70s, they have been focusing on Diaoyu Island, no wonder the little devils died in the previous life, let the little devils stand in front of the stage, and they hid behind the scenes and controlled them single-handedly.

"General Yang, we will definitely not sell Diaoyu Island to you as a private resort. Bruce Wiley smiled and said, "However, in order to strengthen your operations with the Annam Navy in the South China Sea, as compensation, our country can lease a number of modernized Keeling-class destroyers for your South China Sea Fleet to use." ”

Hearing what the other party said, Yang Weiping's mind suddenly appeared with relevant information about the Keeling-class destroyer of the US Navy.

The Keeling class is a copy of the Alan Sumner class, but with slightly larger dimensions. A total of 105 ships were built between 1945 and 1949, 80 of which were completed before the end of World War II, but it was too late to make a mark on the Pacific theater.

In addition, more than 50 ships have been cancelled. After the end of World War II, a large number of ships were reclassified as DDE, DDK, DDR and EDD, and the USS Kiat was changed to DDG, becoming the first guided missile destroyer in the United States. In the 60s, a number of "Keeling" classes were modified with FRAMI/II and were not retired until the early 80s. A large part of them were transferred to the navies of other countries, and became the lead ships of these countries and were active at sea.

The full load displacement of the Keeling-class missile destroyer is 3,480 tons, the main dimensions are 119.02 meters in length, 12.50 meters in width, 3.81 meters in draft, 32 knots, and 367 in crew.

Although the garbage is a little rubbish, it is still much stronger than the Type 65 Jiangnan-class frigate that our Navy is now the main force of.

Anyway, it is to be used for ocean-going training by the navy and coast guard, and it will be used for two or three years to deal with it first, and then it will be good to return this garbage to the Yankees when Lao Tzu designs and manufactures a new type of missile destroyer and frigate.

Even if TQYH78 steel is not transferred to the United States now, the U.S. Navy will develop the HSLA series of high-strength easy-to-weld special marine steels in the mid-eighties. Now if you can exchange a few dollars, it will be a few dollars! No way, who let our shipbuilding capacity fail!

With the large gantry crane and movable tower crane provided by Meidi, we can come out of the cottage to solve the most critical hardware equipment for large-scale shipbuilding.

Ship shaft processing requires 10,000 tons of hydraulic press and 1,000 tons of hammer forging machine, China now has mature technology and equipment, gas turbine and steam turbine have the cooperation of Rolls-Royce, and they have also been solved.

We also have a precision CNC gantry milling machine for processing large marine propellers, take your time, and then only need to process large confidential lathes for large ship axles and some pipelines may need basic equipment such as giant boreholes, and basically live.

Although Yang Weiping was very unhappy, he still reached this skill transfer deal with Bruce Willy.

All 30 Keeling-class missile destroyers will be handed over to the South China Sea Fleet within half a month at a symbolic lease price of $5 million per year. The lease is for three years. Use first, pay later.

Large gantry cranes and mobile tower cranes will also be shipped from the United States within a month to be installed and debugged on Changxing Island off the coast of Shanghai.

The AN series radar technology of the Hughes company was prepared before Bruce Wiley came. He seemed to have expected that Yang Weiping would ask for technical information in this regard.

Huaxia's 7010-phase air array radar technology is relatively mature, and in this regard, the US Government has no intention of engaging in any technical blockade.

The US Government is also quite trustworthy, and immediately after receiving the complete set of TQYH78 steel techniques handed over to them by Yang Weiping, a spokesman for the White House held a press conference to criticize the Annan Government's unreasonable encroachment on China's Nansha and Xisha areas. He claimed that the nine-dash line in the South China Sea is China's inherent territory, and no country has the right to infringe on a country's territorial sovereignty.

After completing this transaction, Yang Weiping ended his short vacation and took Ye Xiaoqiao, Jiang Tiegang, Guo Shangyi, and Meng Shouzheng to Changxing Island in the Shanghai Sea.

At present, Changguang Island has become one of several key projects under construction by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The Jiangnan Shipyard was relocated to the island as a whole, and an engineering unit of division size rushed to dig and build large docks and floating docks on the island day and night.

The large-scale wooden mold factory attached to it was basically completed, and the factory once made a one-to-one ratio wooden model for China's first nuclear submarine.

The construction of several special supporting gas production centers is also in full swing.

In Yang Weiping's plan, Changxing Island in the Shanghai Sea and Dalian Changxing Island will become the two largest shipbuilding bases in China.

Jiangnan Shipyard is currently the shipyard with the strongest technical strength in China.

China's largest Yuanwang No. 1 scientific research ship at that time, was completed and launched in Jiangnan Shipyard on August 31, 1977, with a total length of 191 meters, a beam of 22.6 meters, a height of 38 meters, an average draft of 7.5 meters, and a full load displacement of 21,157 tons.

Under the guidance of Yang Weiping, the light aircraft carrier planned for the 202 Project has improved the original design scheme, and the standard displacement has been increased to 21,202 tons, which is just within the maximum manufacturing capacity of the Jiangnan Shipyard.

Yang Weiping came to Changxing Island this time to see how far the perching progress of China's first aircraft carrier had come. (To be continued.) )