"How did you become interested in the Black Sea Shipyard? Our domestic shipbuilding industry is also in a period of development, there is no need to copy the Soviets, besides, in terms of civil shipbuilding technology, Jiangnan Heavy Industry and so on are quite good. Ye Ziping was obviously a little surprised when he heard his son talk to him about wanting to dig up some technicians in the Black Sea shipyard and go back.

At this time, the cadres still had a very superficial understanding of talents, and they did not realize how much impact a complete technical team could have on the domestic shipbuilding industry.

"Can an aircraft carrier be built domestically?" Ye Kai blocked Ye Ziping's words back with a word.

"China does not need aircraft carriers, and we do not engage in hegemonism." After stopping for a long time, Ye Ziping said.

Ye Kai pursed his lips, when did this statement come to be recognized, and now there is such a big market.

If a country wants to become strong, it is impossible to achieve the goal only through self-reliance and self-reliance, and when it comes to a certain time, it must take the road of foreign expansion, and the rise of a country means the enslavement of neighboring countries.

When appropriate, a full-fledged deterrent of force is also necessary.

Besides, doesn't China need aircraft carriers? The South China Sea issue alone requires more than one aircraft carrier group to resolve the dispute, not to mention the rest, the Americans' Seventh Fleet has caused trouble for the Chinese for more than half a century.

The so-called China does not need aircraft carriers, but it is just self-deception.

"A politician with a mature mind should not say such naïve things." Ye Kai was not embarrassed to give his father a political lesson, and just said so in the end.

Is it really that easy to rise peacefully? Ye Kai was very skeptical of the existence of this possibility, almost zero.

This world believes in the law of the jungle, the law of the jungle, if you don't bully others, others will bully you.

In fact, even the military in China has a relatively shallow understanding of the role of aircraft carriers.

At that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had enough of the losses of foreigners to build ships and artillery, gritted their teeth, tightened their belts and bought a large number of the most advanced ironclad ships, and wanted to improve themselves, but they were completely defeated by the Oriental devils, which has always been ashamed.

Because of this matter ahead, even if the navy occasionally wants to mention the construction or purchase of aircraft carriers, it will always be dismissed as unrealistic, so happy, and after a long time, no one wants to mention this matter anymore.

In addition, there are objective reasons, with the development of the situation, both in terms of offense and defense, the role of aircraft carriers has declined.

In the case of the U.S. Navy, aircraft carriers became a symbol of U.S. naval strength in the post-World War II period.

Before the eighties, the firepower of small warships was mainly short-range artillery fire. But with the development of long-range missiles, almost all destroyers, cruisers and attack submarines are now equipped with Tomahawk missiles. They have already attacked targets longer than carrier-based aircraft, and they do not have to risk the lives of pilots.

In contrast, aircraft carriers are bulky, consume a lot of energy, and have large targets.

Not only is the cost of the aircraft carrier itself staggering, but in order to protect the aircraft carrier, it also costs a lot of money to build a convoy fleet.

Many in the U.S. Navy also believe that the Navy, which has some large aircraft carriers, should be transformed into a Navy with many small ships. Moreover, the more small warships the navy builds, it can also better confuse the opponent and make it easier to gather intelligence.

Because of the emergence of this concept, in the 80s, when Sino-US military relations were becoming closer, the United States was "happy to see China manufacturing aircraft carriers" and invited Chinese leaders to visit US aircraft carriers on many occasions.

Chinese naval officers were also invited to visit the Nimitz, which was anchored in the waters off Hong Kong, and the American said, "You can see whatever you want." ”

The Chinese were deeply shocked by this trip, because they saw the great strength of the US Navy, and when you board the aircraft carrier, you feel that you have become the master of the sea. In addition to the size of the aircraft carrier, weapons and equipment that shocked them, embarrassed and envied, the living facilities on the aircraft carrier were also impressive.

However, the military middle and high levels have deep concerns about whether to build aircraft carriers, the cost of aircraft carriers is too high, China cannot afford to build them, even if they are built, even the Americans feel that the later maintenance costs and use costs that burn money, can the Chinese afford it?

If, like the Soviet Union, it engages in an arms race with the Americans, does it not end up destroying its own economy? Chinese will certainly not fall for the Americans, and it takes a few hearts and minds to communicate with them.

Ye Kai thought of these things, and he was a little at a loss, but he always felt that it was always right to dig up some people to come back, and the shipbuilding industry would definitely come in handy for a long time, and the idea of opening a shipyard by himself was definitely not unreasonable.

Ye Kai told Ye Ziping about this, not to ask for his consent, but to think that if this matter was told by government officials, the Soviets would find it more credible and would actively cooperate.

At the very least, the director of the Black Sea Shipyard would have been very happy, and this would have solved his great difficulties.

After Ye Ziping learned about his son's economic strength, he stayed for a long time, and finally reluctantly accepted this fact, but after he understood, he began to actively operate this matter, and the Black Sea Shipyard also felt very excited, this is a good way to solve the problem of reemployment of laid-off workers!

In the end, the two sides signed a relatively formal He Tong, which sent a total of 3,000 mature technicians and skilled workers to China within three months, and the family problem was subsequently resolved.

Because of such a big burden, the Black Sea Shipyard also sent out some technical information that was not too sensitive, and as a reward, this Ye Kai accepted it very quickly, don't be in vain.

In the following week, Ye Ziping and Ye Kai, father and son, visited several industrial bases in Ukraine, and even military heavyweights.

Ye Kai threw out a total of millions of dollars for this, but he didn't feel distressed at all, because he knew very well that after a while, these investments would be recovered with interest.

Soon it will be the end of the month, and it will be time for the whole delegation to return.

However, at this time, there was suddenly very unexpected news that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was going to meet with Ye Ziping and his party.