Chapter 89 Japanese Arms Sales
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The tallest building in the world? Zhang Chenguang was a little dizzy in an instant, as a media person and a senior intellectual, of course he knew that the world's tallest building was the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The Burj Khalifa is one of Dubai's iconic buildings, 828 meters high, with a total of 162 floors, and the original cost was $1.5 billion, including large shopping malls, artificial lakes, and slightly lower towers, using 330,000 square meters of concrete, 62,000 tons of reinforced steel bar, and 142,000 square meters of glass to complete.
Zhu Wei saw that Zhang Chenguang was already stunned, so he smiled and said: "I didn't say anything about playing, I specially checked the information, the tallest building in Tokyo, Japan is the Skytree, with a height of 634 meters, which is the second tallest tower in the world." Let's build more than Dubai, build an 888-meter one. ”
Zhang Chenguang and Shang Qinghai hurriedly took the notes.
Zhu Wei slowly said his idea, and there were two reasons for the construction of this tower, one reason is that the current TV towers in many cities are facing radio transmission obstacles caused by the high-rise buildings in the city center. Therefore, it is very important to design and build a digital wireless TV signal transmission station as a super-tall building in advance.
Secondly, if Ming Guo wants to become a world-renowned city, it is not possible to have a few landmark buildings, this will become the first landmark of Ming Kingdom, and the future will be a combination of shopping, commerce, TV communications, sightseeing, and office buildings. At the same time, the wireless TV signal transmission station is also provided to other TV stations in Mingguo for a fee. In addition, the commercial and shopping segments will also be profitable for TV stations in the future.
Zhu Wei proposed to spend 2 billion gold dollars to do this, with a budget far exceeding the Burj Khalifa's $1.5 billion, with the aim of far exceeding the Burj Khalifa.
Shang Qinghai did not give up this opportunity to make a fool of himself: "This is a great thing, such a good project should be given by His Majesty." ”
Zhu Wei said: "Well, let's call it Lingxiao Tower." ”
As a result, Mingguo's plan to build the world's tallest building, the Lingxiao Tower, was thus decided. The reserve for the Tower project is 2 billion gold yuan, and the Tower will also integrate shopping, commerce, TV communications, sightseeing, and office buildings in the future, and will also provide four other TV stations mainly for the Oriental BroadcastingSystem (OBS), Yingzhou TeleVision (YTV), MingBroadcastingSystem (MBS), EnzoeComicTeleVision (ECTV), a company based on Yingzhou Animation & Broadcasting, provides high-quality wireless television signal transmission services.
At the same time, the Imperial News Agency will also release the news worldwide and bid all over the world, and the news will surely cause a sensation in the world.
At this time, the Japanese mission also set off, and unexpectedly did not go to the United States, but flew to Ming first, because the Japanese Prime Minister (Prime Minister) Shinzo Abe finally decided to win over Ming Guo after repeated discussions.
After all, Japan and the Ming Kingdom have no territorial disputes, and Japan already has two enemies in the Asia-Pacific region, South Korea and China, and there are still territorial disputes with Russia.
Not to mention that Shinzo Abe has great ambitions, hoping that Japan will lift the ban on self-defense in the future, and he will seek to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council in the past two years, of course he needs the vote of his little brothers.
At the same time, he also wanted to get some arms orders from the Ming Kingdom, although Japan had the "Three Principles for Arms Exports," that is, it was forbidden to export arms to countries in the socialist camp, countries that imposed arms embargoes under United Nations resolutions, and countries that were parties to international conflicts or countries in danger of conflict. These principles were subsequently supplemented to effectively impose a total ban on arms exports.
However, Japan has been taking advantage of policy loopholes and has characteristics that are different from those of other countries in the arms export market, such as the active trade in light weapons and the export of weapons technology and parts in the form of exporting technology and civilian products. In 2011, Japan and the United States formally relaxed the three principles of a comprehensive ban on arms exports, thus giving the green light to participate in international joint development and production and the provision of humanitarian equipment.
The lifting of the ban on arms exports is a major turning point in Japan's postwar security strategy and an important step taken by the Abe administration to build itself into a military power. In this way, the Abe government is trying to strengthen Japan's defense industry, loosen restrictions on its own industrial and industrial enterprises, and let them fend for themselves in the context of the global economic downturn. It also highlights Japan's military influence in the Asia-Pacific region.
So after repeated discussions in the cabinet, it was decided to change the previous plan, and he first came to Ming to find out the tone of Ming Guo, and the meeting with Abe was still the imperial prime minister Song Ximo.
After Song Ximo met Abe Shinzo, the two began a private meeting, during which Abe first praised the economic development speed of Ming Guo in the past year, and then apologized for the fishing boat incident that occurred in Xuandao before, and Song Ximo accepted. Abe saw that Song Ximo did not seem to have malicious intentions towards Japan, so then Abe mentioned that his country's weapons were also very good, and he hoped to recommend the Japanese-made US2 seaplane to Ming Guo.
The US-2 amphibious aircraft, manufactured by Japan's latest aviation technology, is the active equipment of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the most advanced amphibious aircraft in the world. The aircraft has a maximum range of 4,700 kilometers, a maximum flight altitude of more than 6,000 meters, a cruising speed of 480 kilometers per hour, a maximum speed of 560 kilometers per hour, and can take off and land on the water surface with a wave height of 3 meters. Designed for air-sea search and rescue missions, the US-2 amphibious aircraft is equipped with a computerized fly-by-wire flight control system that improves the safety and maneuverability of the aircraft. In addition to search and rescue missions, the US-2 is capable of performing various operations such as maritime patrols and anti-submarine operations.
Song Ximo said: "It's a pity, Your Excellency, I don't think your country's weapons are bad, but the procurement of arms from the United States and Europe is the idea of His Majesty the Emperor and Privy Envoy Jason, who has taken away $10 billion in cash management, and Ming has no extra money to use." ”
Abe Shinzo said: "Actually, according to the agreement between our two countries last year, we provided your country with a low-interest loan of 500 billion yen, which is to be purchased in our country, but your country has not fulfilled it, and if we don't fulfill it, we will get the money back." ”
Want to take it from my bowl? No way, Song Ximo said: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, you are wrong, this money is about 4 billion US dollars, right?" We have included it in this year's budget, and we know that your country has a high level of land reclamation, and we intend to use this money to ask your company to help us build 7 square kilometers of artificial islands. ”
Abe is happy, that's right, the Japanese are the most experienced in artificial islands, and it's not bad to build 7 square kilometers for 4 billion US dollars. I'll lend you money to boost my domestic demand, that's right. Abe said: "I will send domestic companies to negotiate with you this time." I still hope that Your Excellency the Prime Minister will first take a look at our country's weapons, and as for the question of money, it is still easy to say. ”
Abe told Song Ximo that Japan attaches great importance to its relations with Ming and that Japan is willing to export weapons in the form of ODA assistance. Since the Ming government could not afford to purchase Japanese arms for the time being, Japan was willing to settle the problem by providing low-interest ODA financial assistance to the Ming government. If possible, the Japanese government is willing to implement a package of economic assistance to the Ming country, including another 300 billion yen ODA (Official Development Assistance) fund for the purchase of arms including Japan's US2 seaplanes.
Although the Ming government was not interested in Japan's US2 at all, Zhu Wei was happy to use Japanese money to buy Japanese weapons, and finally one day to fight the Japanese, it must be very interesting, Zhu Wei immediately instructed Song Ximo to buy 10 US2 seaplanes, the total amount is 200 billion yen, and the remaining 100 billion yen Zhu Wei is used to purchase a large number of advanced electronic equipment such as Japan's advanced listening equipment and robotic equipment. As the research object of the main brain.
Of course, the budget for the whole year of the Imperial Empire's expenditure has already been completed, and it is impossible to make any additional expenditures. The money will either go to Jason's defense budget or to the Ming royal consortium of Zhu Wei. Juwei chose the latter.
After sending off the happy Abe, Song Hee-mo also rushed to the United States, where he was invited by the President of the United States to discuss joining the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement). In fact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPEP) is a trade agreement between Pacific countries led by the United States, and joining this agreement will immediately reduce all tariffs of all partner countries and all tariffs within 12 years. But this is also an ABC agreement, Anyonebutchina, which means that anyone can join, except for Huaxia.
Although Ming is a completely tariff-free free port from the beginning, it still has to pay tariffs to the exporting country when exporting to TPP members, which has always affected the economic interests of Ming, and the United States is now taking the initiative to invite Ming to join the TPP is a good signal, so Song Ximo decided to leave early.