Chapter 213: New Year's Surprise
The design blueprints of the aircraft carrier that Su Yi brought back from the world of the Han Kingdom were bought by the clone soldiers from the Erlu Kingdom, one of the three major powers in the world over there, at a high price, and they were the design drawings of a light aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of 17,000 tons in the Erlu Kingdom Navy more than thirty years ago.
Su Yi transported a lot of gold from the Tang Empire through the Star Gate to the Han Kingdom, so the clone soldiers sent to collect all aspects of science and technology were not short of funds in their hands.
The currency used in the Han Kingdom was the Han Yuan, which was originally worth about 180 Han Yuan in the territory of the Han Kingdom, but because of the depreciation of the Han Yuan due to the war, and the fact that the Han Kingdom needed to pay a huge amount of compensation to the Gothic Kingdom, the price of gold in the Han Kingdom continued to soar, and when Su Yi entered the Han Kingdom, the gold price had reached 400 Han Yuan per gram.
In this way, a ton of gold is worth almost 400 million won, and the clone soldier spent 50 million gothic coins to buy the backward light aircraft carrier design blueprints, which is equivalent to 400 million won or a ton of gold.
Gothic coin is the currency of the Gothic Kingdom, and it is also the world's international currency, before the Gothic Kingdom and the Han Kingdom went to war, the exchange rate of Gothic and Han Yuan was maintained at about one to five for a long time, but due to the impact of the war, the Han Yuan depreciated sharply, and now the exchange rate of Gothic and Han Yuan has become one to eight.
The Han Kingdom needs to pay 4,000 tons of gold to the Gothic Kingdom for the war indemnity, according to the current gold price, it is 1.6 trillion Han Yuan, you must know that the gross domestic product of the Han Kingdom in 1669 in the Han calendar is just over 3 trillion Han Yuan.
And because the Han Kingdom could not compensate the Gothic Kingdom with 4,000 tons of gold at once, it could only be paid in installments every year and paid in 20 years, which made the Han Kingdom still need to pay a large amount of high interest to the Gothic Kingdom every year, and in the end, the war reparations from the Han Kingdom to the Gothic Kingdom would be far more than 4,000 tons of gold.
Su Yi was not very satisfied with just getting a design drawing of a light aircraft carrier, not to mention that it was designed more than 30 years ago, so Su Yi asked the clone soldiers to get more advanced aircraft carrier design drawings as much as possible, and money was not a problem.
And after thirty-six Zhenyuan-class super dreadnought battleships and thirty-six Dingyuan-class battlecruisers joined the sequence of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, seventy-two docks of more than 50,000 tons were vacated in various shipyards of the Tang Empire at once.
Because the design of the aircraft carrier was not yet completed, Su Yi ordered the shipyards of the Tang Empire to build another batch of super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers.
Even if aircraft carriers are built, battleships still have an irreplaceable role in naval warfare in a short period of time, so Su Yi doesn't mind building more super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers, forcing other naval powers to invest more resources in super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers.
The super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers built this time will use 406 mm guns, and according to Su Yi's order, the super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers will each build thirty-six at the same time.
According to the design of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, the super dreadnought battleship with five twin 45 times caliber 406 mm guns was named Jingyuan class, with a full load displacement of 47,500 tons and a maximum design speed of 25 knots, and a battle cruiser with four twin 45 times caliber 406 mm guns was named Zhiyuan class, with a maximum design speed of 31 knots.
Later, Su Yi saw that Yingluopa, Sharad, Noomi and other naval powers, and made great efforts to build super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers, and after discussing with Wang Chengliang, commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, and Zhang Qihui, deputy commander-in-chief, he ordered the shipyards of the Tang Empire to rebuild or build a number of large docks, and added orders for twelve Dingyuan-class, twelve Dingyuan-class, twelve Jingyuan-class and twelve Zhiyuan-class ships to these shipyards.
In this way, the Tang Empire, like the Yingluoba Empire, will build one hundred and twenty capital ships in the country at the same time.
However, there are even more crazy countries than the Tang Empire and the Yingluoba Empire, and the Noomi Empire is preparing to start building seventy-two super dreadnought battleships and seventy-two battle cruisers at the same time.
Not far behind, the Sharad Empire also planned to build fifty-four super-dreadnought battleships and fifty-four battle cruisers at the same time.
The Monia Imperial Navy, which suffered extremely heavy losses in the war, was also not thrown off by several other major naval powers, and used the four billion lari taken out by the Monia royal family to also formulate a huge reconstruction plan, preparing to build fifty Fantasy-class super dreadnought battleships with 381 mm guns and fifty Tornado-class battlecruisers with 381 mm guns.
For example, the Gisk Empire, the Ruierland Empire, and the Orenza Empire, although they are also working hard to build super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers, but these three countries are limited by the problem of funds, and their investment in the naval arms race has opened a gap with the five countries of Datang, Yingluoba, Noomi, Sharad, and Monia.
In the face of this frenzied naval arms race among the world's major powers, people of insight in various countries around the world have become anxious and have called on the major powers to stop the naval arms race and not to let this naval arms race become the fuse for the next world war.
It is a pity that several major powers, including the Tang Empire, have simply ignored the voices calling for an end to the naval arms race, and while frantically building capital ships, a larger number of other types of warships have also begun construction in many small and medium-sized docks in shipyards in various countries.
On the evening of January 2, 1671 in the Han calendar, Su Yi's figure appeared in the world of the Han Kingdom again, and the time of the world there was the afternoon of May 2, 3015 in the Tang calendar.
Now the location that Su Yi crossed over is no longer in the mountainous area between Tianhuang County and Changting County in Dongchang County, after the Gothic army weakened the encirclement and suppression of the remnants of the Dongchang detachment of the rebel army, Su Yi took some clone soldiers and left the mountain in disguise.
Later, Su Yi used the funds exchanged for gold to buy a villa covering an area of tens of thousands of square meters in Dongchang City, the county capital of Dongchang County, and even in order to hide his identity, he also acquired more than a dozen jewelry stores in Dongchang City and various counties under the jurisdiction of Dongchang County, becoming the largest jeweler in Dongchang County.
As for the gold and silver jewelry and various gems sold in these jewelry stores, they were all brought by Su Yi from the Tang Empire.
What makes Su Yi happier is that the emotional intelligence of clone soldiers is no different from that of ordinary people, and their learning ability is even stronger than that of ordinary people, and the managers of more than a dozen jewelry stores are all clone soldiers.
Su Yi opened the interstellar gate, and as soon as he came to the basement of the villa in Dongchang City, he showed a surprised expression.
It turns out that due to the influence of space-time turbulence, the system is independent of each other in the two worlds, so in the world where the Han Kingdom is located, when the new year begins, the system also has a New Year's gift package for Su Yi, which includes a diamond treasure chest and a gold treasure chest.
Unexpectedly, there was such a surprise waiting for him, Su Yi rubbed his hands, and opened the golden treasure chest first, and then two new cards appeared in the item warehouse.
Navy-type combat clones (unit price of 10 million yuan, monthly purchase limit of 5,000 people).
Air Force combat clones (unit price of 50 million yuan, monthly purchase limit of 200 people).
Seeing these two newly appeared cards, Su Yi's eyes lit up, you must know that he can have F-15 fighters, F-16 fighters, Burke-class missile destroyers, Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers and Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers in his hands, and now with naval and air force combat clones, Su Yi can immediately form his own navy and air force in this world.
However, after thinking about the current situation in the Han Kingdom, Su Yi felt that he still couldn't extract the fighter jets and warships for the time being, and now Su Yi could be said to have no foundation in the world here, and Su Yi was still very clear about the reason for his guilt.
Next, Su Yi also opened the diamond treasure chest, and a total of seven cards were opened.
Heavy oil (unit price 1,500 yuan/barrel, monthly purchase limit of 300 million barrels).
Diesel (unit price 1,400 yuan/barrel, monthly purchase limit of 300 million barrels).
Gasoline (unit price 1,200 yuan/barrel, monthly purchase limit of 300 million barrels).
Crude oil (unit price of 500 yuan/barrel, monthly purchase limit of 1 billion barrels).
Anthracite coal (unit price 600 yuan/ton, monthly purchase limit of 1 billion tons).
Rice (unit price 5,000 yuan/ton, monthly purchase limit of 30 million tons).
Flour (unit price 5,000 yuan/ton, monthly purchase limit of 30 million tons).
Su Yi saw the seven cards drawn from the diamond treasure chest, and felt that in the future, he should not be short of money in the world of the Han Kingdom.
After Su Yi walked out of the basement, he came to the living room of the villa, and at this time, Xiao Wenzhong, a clone who was appointed by Su Yi as the housekeeper, hurriedly greeted him, "Young master, you are back, do you need someone to prepare dinner immediately?" ”
There was a difference of four hours in each day between the two worlds, and it was more than one o'clock in the afternoon when Su Yi left from the Tang Empire, while it was already more than five o'clock in the evening on the side of the Han Kingdom.
The housekeeper Xiao Wenzhong was selected by Su Yi from a large group of clone soldiers, and after Su Yi returned to the world of the Tang Empire, all the things in the world of the Han Kingdom were handed over to Xiao Wenzhong to be responsible, and Xiao Wenzhong did not live up to Su Yi's trust and did everything in an orderly manner.
Originally, the clone soldiers called Su Yi the commander, but after entering Dongchang City, in order to hide people's eyes, Su Yi asked the clone soldiers under his command to call themselves young masters.
Su Yi waved his hand and said, "I'm not hungry now, has there been anything going on in the past few days since I came?" ”
Butler Xiao Wenzhong immediately took out a small notebook, "Young Master, three days ago, the Gothic Kingdom announced that it would once again withdraw 300,000 troops from the territory of the Great Han Kingdom and close more than 80 military bases, so that the number of garrisons of the Gothic Kingdom in the territory of the Great Han Kingdom will be reduced to 250,000, and the number of military bases will also be reduced to less than 50. ”
Su Yi pursed his lips and said: "The Gothic Kingdom invaded the Han Kingdom this time, but the brains are full of fat, and the war reparations alone cost 4,000 tons of gold, if you add the high interest paid by the Han Kingdom in the past 20 years, the Han Kingdom will finally lose 8,000 tons of gold to the Gothic Kingdom, it is time to get out as soon as possible, anyway, the Gothic Kingdom deserves everything, according to the current situation of the Han Kingdom, it is impossible to get out of the control of the Gothic Kingdom at all." ”
In May of 1670 in the Han calendar, after the Gothic army launched a nationwide large-scale encirclement and suppression of the rebels in various parts of the Han Kingdom, the Gothic army accelerated the pace of withdrawal from the Han Kingdom, and by the end of 1670 in the Han calendar, the garrison of the Gothic Kingdom in the Han Kingdom dropped from more than 3 million at its peak to 550,000.
Butler Xiao Wenzhong said: "Young master, according to the media reports of the Gothic Kingdom, as of the end of last year, the Gothic Kingdom has invested more than 250 billion Gothic coins in this war with the Han Kingdom, which has put the Gothic Kingdom under a lot of financial pressure, which should also be one of the reasons for the large-scale withdrawal of the Gothic army from the territory of the Han Kingdom." ”
Su Yi nodded slightly, and asked the housekeeper Xiao Wenzhong, "How is the situation of the rebels?" ”
Steward Xiao Wenzhong said: "Because the royal family of the Han Kingdom personally came forward to persuade them to surrender, most of the rebels in various parts of the Han Kingdom chose to surrender to the local defense forces, although the Gothic Kingdom asked the Han Kingdom to try the personnel of the rebels, but the king of the Han Kingdom withstood the pressure of the Gothic Kingdom, declared patriotism innocent, and did not liquidate the personnel of the rebels, and even many of the officers and soldiers of the rebels were secretly incorporated into the new national defense army. ”
Su Yi sighed and said: "It's no wonder that the royal family of the Han Kingdom can still get the support of the people after signing such a humiliating treaty, the reason of patriotism and innocence makes people feel a little surging when they hear it, if it weren't for the fact that the military strength of the Han Kingdom is much worse than that of the Gothic Kingdom, it shouldn't be so easily defeated." ”
Butler Xiao Wenzhong then looked at the small notebook in his hand again, and then said: "Young master, we sent out to collect personnel from all aspects of science and technology, and we have sent back more than a dozen materials in the past few days, which also include a full set of design drawings of the two first-generation main battle tanks, and even the design drawings of the engines on the two tanks. ”
"Which country are those two first-generation main battle tanks from?"
"Young master, these are the two first-generation main battle tanks equipped by the army of the Kingdom of Niga, and these two first-generation main battle tanks are still in service with the army of the Kingdom of Niga."
"How's the big aircraft carrier design drawings going?"
Butler Xiao Wenzhong shook his head and said: "Young master, there are only seven countries with the ability to manufacture aircraft carriers, and these seven countries have always kept the design drawings of aircraft carriers strictly secret. ”