This environmentalist didn't know that Guo Zhuocheng's mind was not here at all. Guo Zhuocheng's drastic reduction of construction investment and construction projects on Night Pearl Island is not because of environmental protection, nor is it because of the opposition of his so-called minister of environmental protection, but because Guo Zhuocheng does not want Night Pearl Island to be built too well and attract too many tourists, so that the secrets of Night Pearl Island are exposed in advance, and he does not want Night Pearl Island to have an impact on the tourism industry of Qionghai Island because of the large number of tourists it attracts and competes.

However, Guo Zhuocheng saw that Mulville looked proud, and looked proud, but he smiled in his heart and did not say anything. Guo Zhuo said sincerely: "It's okay to make this guy happy, these environmentalists still have a lot of power, and now aren't there newspapers starting to say good things about Night Pearl Island?" ”

Early the next morning, the US Navy sent a helicopter to pick up Guo and Halleps to the missile cruiser Ticonderoga, the flagship of the US fleet.

Guo Zhuocheng took Halleps to go happily.

According to international practice, Guo Zhuocheng, as the head of a country, should not pay a visit to a country's general, no matter how high the general's position and power are.

However, Night Pearl Island has not really been established now, and many things are still in urgent preparation and consultation, and Guo Zhuocheng cannot appear in front of others as the lord of the country now. The second is that the United States also took care of this relationship and sent a lieutenant general for the first time.

Guo Zhuocheng's official status in China is the head of a region, and Qionghai Island is at most equivalent to a state in the United States, and because it is still under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, it does not even have the status of a state. It was only because Guo Zhuocheng had served as a substantive leader in the Third Aircraft Department, and his status was at the level of deputy minister, so in order to win over Guo Zhuocheng, the Americans deliberately sent a lieutenant general with a much higher status than a deputy ministerial-level leader to come forward. Therefore, Guo Zhuocheng can only go to visit the other party. Instead of the other party coming to visit him.

Besides, the independence of the Night Pearl Island still needs the support of the United States, and if Guo Zhuocheng overemphasizes his identity and his future identity, it is very likely that the gains will outweigh the losses. Although the United States hopes to get rid of these poor natives on the Pacific islands, and although it does not want to bear this heavy economic burden, it has not reached the point of settling with the Pearl Island.

They also know that it is probably wishful thinking on their part to win over Guo Zhuocheng, and that they have a bright future in China, and they may not have much interest in the owner of a small deserted island. And they also know that Guo is a smart man, and once he leaves the support of the Chinese government, his role and importance will be greatly reduced.

In other words, the biggest possibility is that Guo Zhuocheng will be his owner on the Night Pearl Island, but he will leave the United States. If there is a war between China and the United States. It is very likely that the other side will work with China to deal with the United States and become an enemy of the United States, and will not betray its own motherland because the United States once helped him and helped the overnight Pearl Island to become independent.

The reason why the United States is still willing to support the Night Pearl Island is partly because they really want to get rid of their poor relatives on the Pacific islands. You know, these poor natives have nothing but their mouths to eat. According to the laws of many states in the United States, as long as they are U.S. citizens. The government must provide them with employment opportunities, living conditions and the necessary recourse for citizens who cannot find work. On the surface, the government does not have much responsibility for these policies, but it is difficult to put them in place. Now it is difficult for Turkish citizens to find work.

Moreover, the United States is a country where political parties take turns in power, and in order to win voters, all parties attack each other in order to curry favor with voters. If the government completely ignores these tinkling Pacific Islanders, they are left to fend for themselves. The parties that want to come to power will not give up this opportunity to attack the government, and will attack the incumbent government for its indifference and mistreatment of the poor. Although they themselves do not like these poor relatives in their hearts.

As a result, the U.S. government would have to spend huge sums of money to help these poor people. Even if the per capita investment of several thousand dollars per year, including food subsidies, local infrastructure, medical and health subsidies, etc., the United States needs to pay at least billions of dollars a year in order to take care of hundreds of thousands of indigenous people scattered on various islands, plus the high cost of transportation back and forth.

Now is the critical moment of competition with the Soviet Union, defeating the Soviet Union, the United States can become the world's premier hegemon, how can it be possible to watch these huge sums of money thrown into this bottomless pit? How nice would it be to be able to make them "independent" and to be able to make them self-sufficient? As long as their national defense is in their own hands, and as long as this sea area is still under their own jurisdiction, they can toss as much as they want. This is equivalent to the United States itself enjoying only the benefits without taking responsibility.

And the inhabitants of the small Pacific islands are naturally not stupid, there is such a big thick leg to hold, and the Yankees can eat and drink spicy food, although they cannot be compared with the people of the United States, but they are much better than relying on the sky to eat in the past, and the life of living with the United States is simply paradise, and they are no longer willing to return to the primitive life of the past, naked, hairy and bloody. So apart from those chieftains, those who are power-hungry, few ordinary people are willing to be independent.

In the previous life, the Pacific island countries came out on their own one after another, and it was this kind of policy of the United States that caused the United States to leave its hands alone, and only needed the other side to ensure that its warships could be stationed at any time and place.

It is in this context that Night Pearl Island gets its chances.

The second reason why the United States supports the independence of the Pearl Island is that it hopes to deepen cooperation with China, especially in military operations. Different from the previous life, because of the rise of China in this life, the military strength of the United States is not as obvious as in the previous life, especially the Falklands War, the battle between Israel and Syria in the Bekaa Valley, so that the United States has no self-confidence in the previous life, because the fear of the Soviet Union is greater than in the previous life, and the mood to suppress the Soviet Union is naturally more urgent.

In the previous life, the United States was so unique in its military power, but it was still afraid of the Soviet Union's invasion of Europe and sending troops to South Asia and the Middle East. In the previous life, the United States took the initiative to make friends with China and implored China to deal with the Soviet Union, but in this life, it hopes that China can assume greater responsibilities, especially that China can play a role in the Pacific Ocean and help the US military erect a solid barrier on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, so that the US military can focus more on Europe to protect the core interests of the United States and its allies.

However, China is obviously very slippery, unwilling to act as cannon fodder for European and American countries, and has always emphasized that it is a non-aligned country and has always emphasized its independent foreign policy. China has little interest in the olive branch extended by the United States -- the joint development and establishment of a global anti-ballistic missile system -- but is willing to send some scientists to participate in the research of certain subsystems, let alone participate in the US military's encirclement of the Soviet Union.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, the Americans have to give China a little sweetness and a little benefit to attract Chinese to side more with the United States.

Compared with the army and air force, China's navy is completely a shortcoming. In the eyes of the United States, China's warships are so rudimentary and backward that they can only be called coast patrol units, and their combined capabilities are less than a quarter of the US Pacific Fleet.

The only thing that is shrouded in a veil of mystery are several submarines that are copied from the Soviet Union, still copied from the USSR decades ago. Submarines have not yet left the military port, and they can be heard by high-quality sonar at a distance of more than 130 nautical miles with a noise of more than 130 decibels, like beating a gong and a drum.

The United States knows that once the Pearl Island becomes independent, China will definitely use this island as a supply ground for its navy's ocean-going training, which will help increase the Chinese navy's ocean-going capability, and this is a benefit given by the United States.

It's just that they don't know that the Chinese have dug a submarine base in the mountains, and they don't know that China has now developed a new type of submarine, and the quality has improved significantly compared with the past Soviet-style submarines.

When the helicopter that Guo and Halleps were flying in arrived over the US fleet, although Guo Zhuocheng did not speak, he still had to admire the strength of the US Navy and the advanced work of the United States. The huge ships on the sea made Guo Zhuocheng's mouth water: "It would be nice if China had such warships." ”

The largest warship below is the new cruiser Ticonderoga, which began construction at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Company in the United States in January 1980, launched in April 1981, and entered service in January of this year (1983). At first glance, it looks like a city on the water. The class is 1,725 meters long, 168 meters wide, and has a draft of 95 meters; The standard displacement is 7260 tons, and the full load displacement is 9600 tons; The power plant is 4 LM2500 gas turbines, 80,000 horsepower; The speed is more than 30 knots, and if the speed is calculated at 20 knots, the endurance can reach 60,000 nautical miles; The establishment is 395 people, including 37 officers.

The ships of this class are equipped with strong offensive and fire resistance, and two MK41 missile vertical launch systems are installed. The vertical launch system usually stores missiles, and when they are launched, the missiles can take off as long as the deck launch port cover is opened and the launch power is turned on. The launch port cover is made of plastic, and it can be launched without lifting the cover in an emergency, and the missile breaks out of the cover and responds very quickly.

According to the vertical launch scheme, the two missile depots can hold 122 missiles, and can be mixed with cruise missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, and anti-submarine missiles. There are also two quadruple anti-ship missile launchers in the stern. The class is also armed with two novel MK45 127-mm naval guns, two Phalanx 6-barreled 20-mm close-range defense systems, capable of firing 3,000 rounds per minute. In addition, there are strong anti-submarine capabilities, equipped with two anti-submarine helicopters.

One of the anti-submarine helicopters used to pick up Guo Zhuocheng and Haleps was used.

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