"Of course, this is just an ordinary transformation plan for aircraft carriers and warships, if three billion dollars are invested in the deep modification of the formation, in terms of operation, the manpower will be reduced by one-third, and the hardware maintenance cost will be greatly reduced, and the normal maintenance cost will be three to four hundred million dollars a year, but the upfront investment of this plan is a bit large, and the time period for putting into use is also a bit long," Lion continued.

The first of the two schemes will have low maintenance costs and will soon be able to form combat effectiveness, but the maintenance costs will be somewhat high in the future.

The second option, on the other hand, is diametrically opposed to the first, with low maintenance costs, high maintenance costs and a long service life.

Which one to use?

Each has its own benefits, and Xu Ziling is not decisive for a while.

"How long does it take to make a deep makeover? Just get him right, how long will it take to carry out an ordinary transformation? After thinking about it, he asked the lion again.

"Then it depends on the work efficiency, if it is handed over to several shipyards separately, it only takes a little more than half a year for the deep transformation, and it is almost three months for the ordinary transformation."

From the lion's mouth, several people immediately thought of a troublesome matter, that is, even if one of the aircraft carrier formations was obtained, where would these rotten things be repaired? Macura doesn't have that right now.

At this time, everyone regretted that they had been crippled in the first place, and they knew that they should have left some leeway.

It's just that it's obviously too late to think about these things at this time, and the thoughts flashed, and they immediately returned their minds to business.

"Anyway, let's take them down first." It is definitely not a simple matter to get the aircraft carrier and warship right, but Xu Ziling doesn't want to lose this piece of fat, so he can only eat them in his mouth first, and as for swallowing them, take his time.

The others don't have any good ways to solve it for a while, but like Xu Ziling, this is an aircraft carrier formation, if they get it themselves, not to mention the cost of tens of billions of dollars, it will take at least three or four years to complete, and they are really reluctant to give up.

"Okay, let's get our hands on the things first, it's a big deal that we can get a shipyard here ourselves, if we only have maintenance and modification functions, we don't need to be as big as a shipyard at all, and we won't need much money." Yang Kaiming said that in the past two years, he has been to the Jiangnan factory many times, and he also understands some basic conditions of the shipbuilding industry very well, so it is also feasible to say so.

There are still dozens of hours to go, and there is no need to be in such a hurry, but a few people decided to let Nie Yunjie inform Oprah, because there are a lot of things involved, and it is necessary to negotiate with Oprah, although if the military factory has a tough attitude, a small country like Netan has nothing to say, but after all, the two of them are now close allies, and it is not good to turn their faces for this matter.

After this blow, the Mi people did not want to rescue the two aircraft carrier formations, and as for Svilan's ground troops, they had already stopped their original appearance of being ready to move, and stayed on the northern border of Svilan, forming a "confrontation" with the troops mobilized by Nitan to this line. The originally tense situation suddenly returned to its previous peaceful appearance.

Contact Oprah, and Nie Yunjie is in charge. The war ended temporarily, and Yang Ruolan and his managers also left the command center one after another to do their business, and finally Xu Ziling and a few of them stayed inside.

Of course, the few of them had nothing else to do, just chatting and paying attention to the movements of the two aircraft carrier formations.

After two attacks, many people in the formation were killed and wounded, and when the Mi army proposed negotiations, they also put forward a request to provide medical assistance to the two formations, and Prince Oprah and Xu Ziling both nodded and agreed.

Now, a few hours have passed, and the advance medical team of the Mi Army has reached the aircraft carrier formation of the Sixth Fleet, but the fifth formation has not been able to achieve effective rescue for the time being because it is too far away from the surrounding Mi military bases and is not within the range of helicopters.

"Actually, I still admire the ambition of the Chinese people." Watching the helicopters of the medical team arrive on the aircraft carrier so quickly from the satellite footage, Li Cheng sighed with emotion, "If they didn't have ambitions, they wouldn't have established so many overseas military bases, and if they didn't have these military bases, they would never have been able to rescue so quickly when they encountered something like today." ”

"No way." Li Cheng also spoke, but there was a helpless look on his face, "People have money to support us, if our country has these bases for us, we won't be able to feed it......"

This is really good, from an economic point of view, the Celestial Empire and the United States are really not comparable. There are more than 300 overseas military bases of the Mi army in the world, nearly 400 of them, distributed in more than 140 countries and regions, and these bases have a few hundred troops stationed at a small number of troops and a large number of tens of thousands, and according to an undetailed report, the Mi army has as many as 300,000 troops stationed at overseas military bases.

Not to mention the cost of the base's hardware facilities and equipment required, how much does it cost to eat, drink, and Lazarga for these 300,000 people for a year?

When you think about it, it's going to be a huge expense.

Nearly 400 bases, how many Franklins do you need to be able to feed?

Of course, on the other hand, where there are interests, there will be overseas military bases, and where there are no interests, the people of the United States will not establish military bases at all, from this point, Xu Ziling also admires the people of the United States, who can have such huge ambitions to plunder wealth in the way of war, and can be so high-sounding.

When will the Celestial Empire be able to do this? He had some wistful.

He doesn't need to invade other countries, but he hopes to be able to attack island countries when he wants to attack them, and if he wants to fight Vietnam and the Philippines, he will fight them.

"We should have some too." Coming out of his thoughts, Xu Ziling pointed to the area from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean on the map, "If possible, we should establish our base in this area." ”

Long-distance cargo transportation, of course, is the most cost-effective way of shipping, from the Celestial Empire, whether it is to Africa, or the Middle East, Western Europe and other regions, the waterway along Southeast Asia is the most important, and the most important waterway here: the Strait of Malacca, the Celestial Empire does not have a little right to speak.

Xu Ziling once knew some things on the shipping lanes, in addition to the Gulf of Aden, the world's most famous pirate gathering place, the Strait of Malacca is also extremely large in this area of pirates, once passing by ships did not dare to approach any ships, even if the canoe is as small.

And the United States, on the other hand, borrowed this reason and teamed up with their ally, the New State, thus reaching a certain level of control over the Strait of Malacca.

In the final analysis, the people of the United States acted like this, firstly, to curb the international shipping lanes of the Celestial Empire, and secondly, for the same reason as supporting the Philippines and Vietnam behind their backs: oil in the South China Sea.

And now the military factory has moved from China to Makula, for a long time, the domestic spare parts will be from the Strait of Malacca to guò, and then transported to Makula, so, Malacca such an important channel for the people of the United States to grasp in their hands, Xu Ziling is a little uneasy, not to mention, from the planned transfer of the military factory to Makula, he thought about this as a reason, gradually infiltrate the Strait of Malacca, after this and the battle of the United States, want to come to the military factory is also a little famous, if there is a suitable opportunity, He will never let it go.

The establishment of a military base in this land has also been discussed by several of them, but at that time it was about the country, and now Xu Ziling is talking about themselves.

Yang Kaiming and Li Cheng, when they heard Xu Ziling mention this again, they knew that he had a mind in this regard, but they were not very optimistic about these things, because several countries in this region did not have much good relations with the Celestial Empire. It's too difficult to build a base here with your own armed forces!

"This kind of problem, for the time being, there is no need to think about it, those countries will definitely not let us in, but we have enough economic capacity to support a country there, and when the time comes, let their countries have disputes, this is our opportunity."

"What if the South China Sea issue is resolved in a tough manner?" Xu Ziling suddenly thought of a way.

"What tough attitude?" Yang Kaiming and Li Cheng immediately became interested.

"Lease of some reefs and islands in the South China Sea!" Xu Ziling replied word by word.

……

This plan is a bit too fantastical, and Yang Kaiming and Li Cheng suddenly couldn't react at all.

Xu Ziling looked at their appearance, and knew that his method was a little "strange", but he felt that there was a possibility of realizing it, and couldn't help but explain: "Lease or buy reef islands from the state, and then expel all the oil rigs in the South China Sea, and re-bid to control the marine resources here." ”

"This ...... How is this possible? Yang Kaiming was so shocked by Xu Ziling's idea that he stammered a little when he spoke, "I don't say whether the above will agree, even if I agree, if I do, if you really want to expel the existing oil rigs in the South China Sea as you said, it is tantamount to declaring war on several countries, and we don't have the ability now." ”

The South China Sea not only involves Southeast Asian countries, but also involves Western countries such as the United States, once the use of force to expel it, it is completely equivalent to declaring war with the United States, as well as a number of Southeast Asian countries, not to mention, this region is already a sovereignty dispute, once the military factory does this, it will really attract countless people to resist, if there is no absolute force value, this thing can not be done.

"I didn't say now." Xu Ziling smiled lightly and said to the two: "It's just such an idea now, if you really want to implement it, it will take at least one to two years to prepare, this year will soon pass, and things will definitely not be able to do much, next year, I plan to launch our own space-based weapons, and then get the aircraft carrier formation up, and the unmanned attack submarines will be ready, and then we will be ready to solve the affairs of the South China Sea." ”