Whether it is Zhang Zongjun or Zhang Lan, even if it is an ordinary person, they all hope to be able to make their own contribution to the prosperity and strength of their country, and they will be sincerely proud of their contributions, but this contribution cannot become a tool for some people to seek personal gain, this is a bottom limit.

Zhang Zongjun and Zhang Lan, father and son, who already knew the habits of government officials, understood in their hearts that the more they were at this time, the less they could show their cards, and in the process of dealing with these bureaucrats, the latter was the king, and only the latter could grasp the initiative.

So let Lao Liang talk around there, as long as Lao Liang didn't take the initiative to speak, Zhang Zongjun and Zhang Lan were happy to pretend not to know. Since he Lao Liang is willing to talk to him about the mountain, then accompany him, and he can let the number one person in the military in China accompany him to talk about the mountain, and it is enough to be worthy of his own power.

Since they were begging for themselves, Zhang Lan didn't believe that this old Liang would be able to hold back for as long as he could

This is probably the most depressing conversation Lao Liang has encountered in his life, when he wanted to do something in the past, where did he need to be so troublesome? Because of the position he was in, before he could speak, those people came up to the pole, like this bastard father and son, not only did not take the initiative, but also wanted to take the initiative?

But immediately, Lao Liang felt a trace of sadness in his heart: others are afraid of the first vice chairman of the Military Commission who has taken office as a new official, but will the father and son in front of him be afraid? These two are the masters who once tossed Lao Jiangtou and his boss and almost couldn't get off the stage

Holding back to the end, seeing that Zhang Lan and Zhang Zongjun, father and son, refused to open their mouths even if they were killed, and they didn't take the bait no matter what, Lao Liang couldn't hold it back, and simply said directly to Zhang Zongjun and Zhang Lan, "We have encountered some hardships in the process of repairing the 'Varyag', if possible, we hope that you will provide some assistance as much as possible." ”

Since you took the initiative to speak, there is no problem.

Zhang Zongjun smiled and nodded, "Of course, it is the duty of every Chinese citizen to contribute to the country, as long as we can help, you can speak...... If I'm not mistaken, we signed a contract for the transfer of special steel technology with high yield strength for aircraft carrier decks, right? In many places, you can refer to that contract. ”

It's okay to contribute, but if you want us to contribute to you for nothing, then don't think about it.

As soon as this bastard Zhang Zongjun spoke, Lao Liang was suddenly depressed in his heart.

When the Alice Group introduced special steel with high yield strength for aircraft carrier decks from the Alice Group, the Alice Group transferred the technology of special steel for aircraft carrier decks to the country at a symbolic price of one dollar almost free of charge, but the Alice Group left a foreshadowing in the contract, and the signed contract clearly stated that if the country needs to build aircraft carriers, the Alice Group will get orders for at least three aircraft carriers. Orders for one-third of the fleet's combat ships and all orders for logistical support vessels

As far as China is concerned, in accordance with the world's current principle of using the "three ones" of one aircraft carrier for one amendment, one training, and one on duty, if we want to effectively deter the waters of the East China Sea and form an effective strategic deterrent against the US forces stationed in South Korea, the US forces stationed in Japan, and Japan and the ROK, and at the same time let the disobedient little boys in Taiwan behave a little bit, in terms of large and medium-sized aircraft carriers like the "Varyag," at least four aircraft carrier battle groups are needed to be able to meet this strategic requirement.

And if you want to form an effective deterrent to those clowns in the South China Sea at the same time, so that those white-eyed wolves and anti-bone boys in South Asia will honestly no longer dare to jump up and down, then at least a total of six aircraft carrier battle groups will be needed to meet the needs.

According to the principle of using the "three ones" of aircraft carriers, only by ensuring that there are six aircraft carrier battle groups can we ensure that one aircraft carrier battle group will be deployed in the waters of the East China Sea and the South China Sea at any given time, so as to form an effective deterrent to countries and small countries in this region.

Six aircraft carrier battle groups, what a huge deal this is, thinking of such a huge amount of money, even the well-informed Lao Liang feels a little dizzy, but if he really does things according to the contract signed before, assuming that the country really wants to produce and deploy 6 aircraft carrier battle groups in the next 20 to 30 years, Alice Group will get half of the aircraft carrier order, in addition to the combat ships worth more than these three aircraft carriers, Logistics support ships and so on account for almost one-third of the total number of orders.

Thinking that such a large sum of money was about to fall into the pocket of Alice Group, Lao Liang felt that his heart was pumping, he wanted to take blood pressure medication, and he wanted to call a health care doctor to come to all levels to take a look for himself.

Because an aircraft carrier is not just an aircraft carrier, from the perspective of foreign history, the aircraft carrier is a catalyst for industrial development, and the construction of aircraft carriers plays an extremely important role in stimulating China's entire industrial upgrading.

The aircraft carrier formation is the only form of giving full play to the combat strength of the aircraft carrier, therefore, China is bound to build an aircraft carrier formation while developing the aircraft carrier, and the aircraft carrier formation is a huge system engineering, involving combat units including aircraft carriers, carrier-based aircraft, auxiliary ships, etc., which means that the aircraft carrier formation market cake is huge, and conservative estimates that it will take about $10 billion to build a complete aircraft carrier formation.

If we take into account China's need to protect the sea rights in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, even if only two aircraft carrier groups are built, if one aircraft carrier group is deployed in the East China Sea and one in the South China Sea, the total investment will reach about 20 billion US dollars, or about 130 billion yuan.

Similarly, the 100 billion yuan feast of aircraft carrier formation investment contains many investment opportunities, and we have analyzed the relevant beneficiary sub-industries and companies in the entire aircraft carrier formation industry chain according to the four major directions of equipment manufacturing, power systems, high-end materials, and information systems.

The equipment manufacturing industry is the basic industry for building aircraft carrier formations, and it is also the direct beneficiary of aircraft carrier formation investment; The manufacture of hulls, carrier-based aircraft, and weapons and equipment will directly benefit from the construction of aircraft carrier formations.

The power system is the heart of the aircraft carrier formation, and it is also a difficult point that needs to be broken through in the field of military science and technology in China. At the special point in the current aircraft carrier formation construction, based on the country's firm determination to develop aircraft carriers and the key role of power in aircraft carriers, we are optimistic about the development prospects of this field, and the large-scale investment of funds and the urgent need for application fields will promote the industry to enter a stage of rapid development, of which carrier-based aircraft engines and ship gas turbines based on them are the focus.

High-end materials are the cornerstone of building aircraft carrier formations; The construction of aircraft carrier formations provides a rare historical opportunity for the technological upgrading and import substitution of high-end materials, and alloy steel, titanium alloys, composite materials, etc. are expected to achieve technological upgrading and then transfer to civilian use through military orders for aircraft carrier construction.

As the brain and nerve center of the aircraft carrier group, the information system integrates all combat units and makes them a large-scale organic whole. The completion of the aircraft carrier formation will provide the best combat platform for the improvement and upgrading of the electronic information system, and will be integrated with the Beidou navigation system.

An aircraft carrier fleet is 10 billion US dollars, even if inflation is not considered, the total cost of 6 aircraft carrier formations will exceed 60 billion US dollars, and such a huge piece of cake, Alice Group must be divided into at least 40% Thinking of this number, the old man felt that his heart was pumping even more When he signed the contract, many old immortals thought that they took advantage of it, but now look at it, it turned out that the biggest advantage was their Alice Group, If it weren't for the fact that the Alice Group really couldn't provoke them, the old man would have the intention of killing people at this time

Of course, at this time, Lao Liang didn't think that even if he really handed over this money to various scientific research units and shipyards in the country, would it really be more cost-effective than handing it over to Alice Group? With such a large amount of funds, can these state-owned units really play a positive role in promoting the national economy?

What about the debt? Lao Liang blushed and found that he was actually pondering this problem, but the result also made him feel a little sad: the country seemed to be unable to bear the consequences of its default, and as a powerful economy that had just won a wrestling with the world's two major conglomerates, it seemed very unwise to offend them because of the "meagrely" $24 billion.

After a long time, Lao Liang gritted his teeth fiercely, "Your Alice Group has strong R&D strength, if you can, I hope you can develop a catapult for the military to use on aircraft carriers." ”

"Catapults on aircraft carriers?" Zhang Lan glanced at her father and nodded, "No problem, how long is the research and development period?" What are the technical requirements? Steam catapult or electromagnetic catapult? Also, we have to figure out, is this "Varyag" used on it now? If it were to be used, the 'Varyag' would have changed a lot."

Lao Liang was a little big for a while, where did he know so much? waved his hand a little depressedly, "As long as you take this order, that's fine, and there are special technicians who will communicate with you in detail about the specific details." ”,

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Speaking of communication, those guys really came quickly, and these guys came from a big background, and they turned out to be from the National Ship Research Institute.

As the core unit engaged in the research, design, and development of warships in our country, and also the cradle of our country's military ships, this behemoth of 28 subordinate ship research and design units sent a delegation headed by the executive vice president of the research institute. It's a coincidence that people on both sides are now in the capital.

Zhang Lan is full of respect for the National Ship Research Institute, similarly, in the field of technology, technical geniuses only admire people who are more genius than him, as the experts of the National Ship Research Institute, what they admire most is naturally the outstanding achievements made by the Alice Group in the field of ship research and construction, especially the Alice Group scientific research ship built by the Alice Group that is more than 500 meters long, which frightened all the technical maniacs in this unit.

Since no one puts on a "I'm good" look, the next communication is naturally much simpler.

"It is a great honor for us at Alice Group to discuss and research with you. At the same time, I am proud of the glorious task of the country asking us Alice Group to assist you in the research and development of catapults for aircraft carriers, and at the same time, I also feel the huge pressure on my body: "Zhang Lan, who was in charge of the main talk, first praised these experts and scholars who have made great efforts for the coastal defense construction of the republic, this time they are sincere, and these people are the most respectable people."

The respect from the master always makes people happy, the smile on the faces of the experts of the National Ship Research Institute directly betrayed their true thoughts at the moment, Guo Qingsong, the executive vice president of the team who led the trip, waved his hand happily and modestly, "I have won the award, I have won the award, I am ashamed to say it, compared with the achievements of your group over the years, all my colleagues feel very ashamed, and I am sorry for the country's careful care of us over the years." ”

"Hehe, we won't talk about this, if we continue to rip it off, it will be the same as those retreating bureaucrats, which is very annoying." Knowing that it is best to talk directly about technical problems with these technicians, Zhang Lan laughed and said to Guo Qingsong.

Sure enough, for Zhang Lan to enter the technical link so directly, all the experts were not angry, but breathed a sigh of relief one by one, Zhang Lan's words were very appetizing to them.

It seems that the technicians under the world are indeed the same in many places, and they are very annoyed by the bureaucrats who talk at length all day but have nothing to say...... When you have that time, you might as well think about how to do more practical things.

"Well, that's right." Guo Qingsong is very refreshing, and it seems that he is also very annoyed with this kind of boring entertainment.

"Well, first of all, we need to first determine what kind of power system will be used for the next generation of aircraft carriers developed or likely to be developed by the country? Is it conventional power? Or nuclear-powered? The choice of these two power is directly related to our design ideas in catapult design. Zhang Lan first threw out the first question.

Guo Qingsong glanced at Zhang Lan with a difficult face, thought for a while, and then replied, "If possible, please ask your company to design two sets, one is the catapult system applied to the conventionally powered aircraft carrier, and the other is the catapult system applied to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier." Of course, according to the previous mandate given to us by the state, no matter what scheme is adopted, we will pay the design fee in full if it is not adopted. ”

"Of course that's fine." Zhang Lan nodded. He understood very well why Guo Qingsong only needed two sets of plans, because on this issue, the country still had some concerns: if he directly told Alice Group the choice of aircraft carrier power, as long as he carefully analyzed it, wouldn't he even be able to guess the many performances of the next-generation aircraft carrier? To be on the safe side, it's better to spend some design money and let them make two plans, so let them guess.

In Zhang Lan's view, unless the Alice Group is willing to transfer the corresponding technology to the state, the country will not adopt such a radical plan in any case without mastering this technology, even if it is for security considerations.

If the safety of the technology he transferred can be guaranteed, then for Zhang Lan, it is nothing to transfer some large-scale marine fuel cell power system technology to them to a limited extent, but for this mysterious country, Zhang Lan must consider the problem of leakage, since Guo Qingsong and they don't open this mouth, then Zhang Lan is naturally happy to pretend not to know. ,

"So the second question, does the state want us to make achievements in steam catapult, or is it more radical to make a breakthrough in electromagnetic catapult?" Zhang Lan asked Guo Qingsong with a smile, "A little disclosure, our Alice Group still has a little bit of achievements in electromagnetism. ”

As soon as Zhang Lan's words came out, the participants on both sides of the entire conference room chuckled, this guy is a little modest, Alice Group has not only made some achievements in electromagnetism, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are unique in the world in electromagnetism.

However, although the military is more radical in many places, but in some key places, it also appears to be more conservative, after careful weighing, Guo Qingsong hesitated, and finally said the military's opinion, "For many places of the aircraft carrier, our understanding is not very enough, in terms of insurance and safety considerations, steam catapult technology has been used for decades, and it is still very guaranteed in terms of safety, and the country's opinion is that it is best to develop steam catapult technology first, When the technology accumulates to a certain extent, electromagnetic catapult is being developed. However," after a moment's hesitation, Guo Qingsong added slightly, "From my own point of view, I hope that your group can make greater achievements in electromagnetic catapult." ”

"Well, I see." Zhang Lan nodded, but she was a little disappointed in her heart, when the Americans developed steam catapult technology, did they have a corresponding mature technology before? Now that the Americans have begun to develop more efficient and energy-saving electromagnetic catapult technology, we have only just begun to develop steam catapult, and we have not aimed at the most advanced technology in related fields and achieved a leading position in the international market of some key technologies, how can we please play the role of the current catch-up?

The leaders of the two sides reached a preliminary framework opinion, and there is nothing Zhang Lan to do with the specific content of the negotiations below.

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Three days later, the Politburo Standing Committee convened a meeting attended by members of the Politburo Standing Committee and senior military generals, at which the military generals represented by Lao Liang submitted to the Politburo Standing Committee a national defense explanatory report on vigorously developing the maritime combat force of aircraft carriers and transforming China's navy from a coastal defensive navy to a navy with both offensive and defensive capabilities in the ocean