On the evening of December 29, in a luxurious private room of the Nine Star Hotel, Cheng Xianhou introduced to Zhou Rui: "General Zhou, this is Ms. Joanna, Ms. Joanna is very energetic in the Barbarian Empire.

Moreover, Ms. Joanna is very sympathetic to our rebels and has donated a lot of supplies to our rebels free of charge. ”

Zhou Rui didn't expect that the fox merchant of the Barbarian Bull Empire introduced by Cheng Xianhou turned out to be a fox beauty in her thirties, with a value of at least 85 points.

Zhou Rui felt that he had to have a good talk with Hu Yi when he went back, Ganyang City was the base camp of the Zhou family, but the "ghost" didn't even figure out whether this fox businessman was a man or a woman.

Joanna picked up her wine glass and said with a smile: "It's an honor to meet General Zhou, I came to Ganyang City thousands of miles this time to discuss a big business with General Zhou. ”

Zhou Rui followed with his glass, "Ms. Joanna is very welcome to come to Ganyang City as a guest, I don't know what Ms. Joanna is referring to when she talks about big business?" ”

Joanna glanced at Xiong Da, Niu Ben and the others who were standing behind Zhou Rui, "General Zhou, is it convenient to speak here?" ”

"Ms. Joanna, I have a lot of trust in Mr. Cheng, and I feel that there is no need for Mr. Cheng to avoid the conversation between us."

Since Zhou Rui didn't even know the details of Joanna, of course he wouldn't talk to Joanna alone, and let Xiong Da and Niu Ben stay by his side, which is necessary to be cautious.

When Joanna heard this, she said bluntly: "Presumably General Zhou already knows that the Admiralty of the Barbarian Bull Empire has ordered the cancellation of all the construction plans of all main gun battleships, and the seven Punisher-class all-main gun battleships under construction are also ready to be dismantled.

Otherwise, the rebels would not have been able to help General Zhou this time, and they recruited 108 shipyard technicians and 1,254 shipyard workers at once. ”

Cheng Xianhou interjected at this time: "General Zhou, this time we were able to successfully recruit so many technicians and workers from the shipyard, thanks to Ms. Joanna's help.

And without Ms. Joanna's help in dredging the relationship, it would have been impossible for so many technicians and workers, as well as their families, to leave the Wild Bull Empire at one time. ”

In order to prevent the loss of human labor at home, the six major orc countries do not allow humans to go abroad.

If humans want to leave the six orc countries, they can basically only rely on smuggling, and the risk of smuggling is very large, once they are captured by the orc army, they will be immediately executed.

Joanna continued: "General Zhou recruited many shipyard technicians and workers, probably in order to establish his family's shipyard.

Presumably, General Zhou should be interested in the three large shipyards of the Barbarian Bull Empire, those docks and equipment that make large warships. ”

Sure enough, as Zhou Rui expected, this Joanna really came to sell shipbuilding equipment to him.

Although Zhou Rui was secretly happy in his heart, he said quietly on the surface: "I do plan to establish a ship repair shop that can maintain large warships.

Of course, I'm interested in the docks and equipment for the three shipyards of the Wild Bull Empire to manufacture large warships, but I'm afraid that the Admiralty of the Wild Bull Empire won't agree to this deal. ”

Joanna picked up her wine glass, took a sip of the wine in the glass, and then said slowly: "General Zhou, don't worry, I can come to you to discuss this business, and I naturally have the ability to transport the dock and equipment for manufacturing large warships to the port of Ganyang City."

The question now is whether General Zhou has enough funds to eat all the docks and equipment used by the three shipyards to build large warships? ”

At the dinner table, Zhou Rui and Joanna reached an agreement.

Zhou Rui will buy 10 25,000-ton docks, 12 20,000-ton docks and 20 15,000-ton docks from the three large shipyards of the Manniu Empire at a price of 97 million silver coins.

Joanna will be responsible for dismantling, transporting and reassembling the 42 dockyards.

At the same time, Joanna will help Zhou Rui and continue to recruit human technicians and human workers who have been laid off in various shipyards in the Wild Bull Empire.

In addition, Zhou Rui is very interested in the 7 unbuilt Punisher-class battleships with full main guns, the hulls, steam turbines and boilers of these 7 Punisher-class ships have been basically completed, and the completion rate of the 7 Punisher-class ships is above 70%.

Only weapon systems and some auxiliary equipment remained uninstalled.

Since the Wild Bull Empire is preparing to dismantle these 7 Punisher-class, why not take them out and sell them!

Zhou Rui was willing to pay a high price to buy these 7 unbuilt Punisher-class, and then pay a high price to buy the weapon systems and various auxiliary equipment needed by these 7 Punisher-class.

According to the information learned by Zhou Rui, the Punisher-class all-main gun battleship of the Barbarian Bull Empire is designed to have a full load displacement of 22,000 tons and a maximum speed of 19 knots.

It is equipped with 5 twin 40x caliber 300 mm main guns, 16 45x caliber 150 mm secondary guns, 12 30 mm anti-aircraft guns, 20 13 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, and 4 500 mm torpedo tubes.

The broadside armor belt was from 120 mm to 250 mm, the main deck armor was 60 mm, the main turret armor was 300 mm, and the full crew was 940 people.

Although the Punisher class is weaker than the latest all-main-gun battleships of the other five major beast countries, it also has good combat effectiveness, after all, it is a full-main gun battleship.

Regarding Zhou Rui's desire to buy 7 unbuilt Punisher-class all-main gun battleships, Joanna promised that after returning to the Barbarian Bull Empire, she could help Zhou Rui ask the Admiralty of the Manniu Empire if he was willing to sell 7 Punisher-class battleships.

However, Joanna believes that it is very unlikely that the Admiralty of the Wild Bull Empire will agree, after all, the all-main gun battleship, even if it is an unbuilt all-main gun battleship, once it is sold to a human country, it will inevitably cause an uproar within the territory of the Manniu Empire and even among the other five major beast countries.

After the agreement was reached, Joanna left first with 3 million silver coins worth of the Wild Bull Empire's golden yuan coupons, which were the deposit paid by Zhou Rui.

Zhou Rui then said to Cheng Xianhou with emotion: "To be honest, if this Joanna was not brought by Mr. Cheng, I would even think she was a liar."

After all, this deal sounds hard to believe.

This is equivalent to wiping out the large docks of more than 15,000 tons in the Manniu Empire, which is simply fantastic. ”

At present, there are only 42 large docks of more than 15,000 tons in the Manniu Empire.

Cheng Xianhou said with a smile: "Young Master Zhou, don't worry, this time, the newly appointed Navy Minister of the Barbarian Bull Empire, Larion, is determined to carry out his 'Swarm of Fish Plan', and is ready to build the Barbarian Bull Empire Navy into an offshore defensive navy with destroyers and torpedo boats as the main combat ships.

And as far as I know, another important reason why Larion wants to carry out the 'Swarm Fish Project' is that the Wild Bull Empire's navy is seriously underfunded.

From the 42 large docks of the Barbarian Bull Empire, only 7 Punisher class all-main gun battleships are under construction, it can be seen how short of money the Barbarian Bull Empire's navy is, and the large docks of the other five beast countries are all crowded with warships under construction.

If it weren't for the fact that the Barbarian Bull Empire's navy was about to be unable to open the pot, how could it be that even 7 Punisher-class battleships with full main guns that had been built 70% were ready to be dismantled.

That's why the three large shipyards of the Wild Bull Empire are in a hurry to deal with these large docks, hoping to recover some losses. ”

Zhou Rui asked with some surprise: "The newspaper said that the financial revenue of the Barbarian Bull Empire last year was as high as 6 billion silver coins, how could the navy of the Manniu Empire be short of money?" ”

Cheng Xianhou explained: "The Manniu Empire was originally dominated by the army, and the navy of the Manniu Empire was not satisfactory in several wars, so that the military expenditure of the Manniu Empire's navy was reduced year by year.

Moreover, a considerable part of the financial revenue of the Wild Bull Empire needs to be handed over to another world every year, so the share of the Wild Bull Empire's navy is even less. ”

"Another world?"

"It's the other side of the Alternate Space-Time Node."