Li Kongrong had already given a precautionary shot last year, and now he does not dare to really believe in the figure of 8.35 million, because prices will definitely rise after the start of the war, and in addition to various unexpected circumstances, the cost of the aircraft carrier is basically set at $9 million in his heart. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info In this case, the five aircraft carriers totaled $45 million, which should be within $50 million.

The first three of the five aircraft carriers carried seventy-two aircraft each, and the last two carried ninety-five aircraft, for a total of 400 aircraft. If there are 400 combat aircraft, taking into account the training factors, the actual purchase of aircraft will be at least doubled, and with the addition of the three squadrons that returned to China to fight in 40 years, the total number of combat aircraft required by the Navy is 900, compared to 500 before Pearl Harbor. $50,000 is $45 million, and the related accessories should be within $50 million.

In addition, there are Boeing 314 seaplanes, which are divided into two types, one is a refueling model, the other is an early warning model, and it is planned to order the first batch of 12 aircraft, with a unit price of 420,000 US dollars, and here it is 5 million US dollars. With seaplanes, you need a carrier to carry seaplanes, twelve need at least four specially built seaplane carriers, fortunately, this is not expensive, even the main engine of the aircraft carrier is only around 1.5 million US dollars, the hull of a merchant ship is 100 US dollars a ton, and 10,000 tons is only 1 million US dollars, so this money is 10 million US dollars, plus the aircraft is 15 million.

Pilot training is still a large cost, but the loss of carrier-based aircraft training has been deducted from the carrier-based aircraft, plus the introduction of psychological tests in the training, and the fact that there is only one pilot for all combat aircraft, and other factors, it is roughly estimated that the training fee for each pilot is 20,000 US dollars, and the total of 500 pilots is 10 million US dollars. But if you include the carrier-based aircraft that cost 50,000 yuan per unit for training, the training cost per pilot will increase to 70,000 US dollars.

It is impossible to have an aircraft carrier without oil tankers, and five aircraft carriers need at least five oil tankers, minus the Japanese oil tanker captured by the Ninghai, and four other cruise ships are needed, otherwise the strategic itinerary of the fleet will be greatly affected. Oil tankers are naturally more expensive than merchant ships, but Li Kongrong is still unclear about how expensive they are, and he estimates that each ship will be about 3 million, a total of 12 million US dollars.

In this way, the hardware facilities alone will cost the entire fleet $13,700, and the training, maintenance, and salaries are not included, and the total amount will exceed $150 million. Fortunately, the launch date of the last two aircraft carriers will be placed after Pearl Harbor, and although the first three ships were launched before Pearl Harbor, the training fee and military salary are likely to be obtained in the form of mercenaries - after the aircraft carrier is launched, it will work for the British Empire escort, and then move freely when there is enough money.

Li Kongrong counted the economic accounts, while going around the dock to look at the Tatsuda Maru, when he walked to the bow of the ship, he saw the mark of the Great Nippon Yusen Shipping Company on the bow, and couldn't help but think of one thing: since his own people have already committed treason, the blue sky and white sun flag is not good to use, so it is necessary to choose a flag as a temporary naval flag, otherwise it is very inappropriate for the fleet to have no flag.

"Brother Hansheng, this is the Xi'anbi cruise ship, we just bought it this year, and now we are preparing to change her into a training aircraft carrier." Li Kongrong only paid attention to the Tatsuda Maru, and did not want to have a cruise ship converted aircraft carrier next door to the dock.

"This is the Xi'anbi cruise ship?" Li Kongrong naturally remembered the Xi'an Bi, which he actually bought with his idea, and he still remembered the final contract price, 100,000 US dollars, which was really cheap.

"Yes. We are going to install the boiler of the Tatsuda Maru on this training aircraft carrier, so that it can have a speed of about 25 knots, and it is no longer an inland paddle wheeler, and it can go to the open sea. Although slower than a regular aircraft carrier, it is enough for training. Ma Deji said.

"When will it be retrofitted?" Li Kongrong asked, and he found that the passenger ship was also being dismantled.

"This will have to wait for the construction period of Longtian Maru, and the boiler of Longtian Maru will be dismantled and installed again, and the time should be the beginning of next year." Ma Deji mentioned the construction period again, and it seems that he is not satisfied with the shipyard's construction schedule.

"Early next year? For the time being, it seems that there will be no delay. Li Kongrong said. He remembered one more thing, and asked, "Have you named both ships?" ”

"After taking, Commander Chen set two names, Xi'an Bi was renamed Tongji after it was launched, and Longtian Pill was renamed Ninghai after it was launched." Ma Deji said the names of the two ships in the dock, which was basically a copy of the names of the earlier fleet. Tongji was originally a training ship of the Chinese Navy, and Chen Jiliang named the training aircraft carrier Tongji, and it seems that he has also become a thorough aircraft carrier faction.

"Have you named the aircraft carrier in the back?" Li Kongrong smiled, "Are Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ......?"

Li Kongrong guessed correctly at all, Ma Deji looked at Zhou Maobai, and pondered for a while before saying: "The second and third ships are planned to be named Yangwei and Chaoyong, and the fourth and fifth ships are intended to be named Dingyuan and Zhenyuan......

Ma Deji was talking, but Li Kongrong laughed, and he said, "Isn't this another Beiyang Fleet?" What about Zhiyuan, which one will Zhiyuan be? ”

Ma Deji was inexplicably laughed at by Li Kongrong, he didn't understand whether Li Kongrong was in favor or against, but fortunately, Li Kongrong said again, "But it's better than Zhongshan and Yixian." It's okay for Commander Chen to have a habit of naming, but I mean to see if the name can charge some naming fees, for example, if a big guy wants to be famous, then as long as he pays a sum of money, he can use his name as the name of the warship. Isn't Li Guoqin, who is engaged in antimony mining, very rich? He only needs to pay a naming fee of two or three million US dollars, and this aircraft carrier will be called Li Guoqin, do you think he will do it? ”

"Huh!?" Ma Deji was stunned, but Zhou Maobai laughed. He added: "Since private individuals can be named, so can companies, and Xinzhong will definitely name one." ”

"Isn't the money in the new middle school the money of the navy?" Li Kongrong shook his head in disapproval. But since it comes to the company, the two brothers Hu Wenhu and Hu Wenbao on the Nanyang side may really pay to name one, and the name is likely to be Tiger Label Wanjin Oil, since the two tigers are named, Chen Jiageng may also pay to mark one.

The dock turned around and came to the office of the shipyard, where Ma Deji moved out the drawings of the aircraft carrier again, and there was also a dug deputy chief designer of the aircraft carrier. At this time, Li Kongrong's brain was very high, and he didn't listen to what the gentleman named Smith introduced. Finally, when he woke up in the apartment, Chen Jiliang and Lin Xianxin had come from New York.

The apartment arranged by Zhou Maobai is naturally wider than that of a submarine, and the bathtub is also extremely comfortable, but the weather in June is hotter. Chen Jiliang and Lin Xianxin were wandering around the shipyard when they heard that Li Kongrong had woken up, so they quickly rushed over. At this time, Li Kongrong was eating, not Chinese food, but an American-style fast food, fried chicken and hot dogs.

"Hansheng has worked hard." Chen Jiliang didn't have any general's style, and when he came in, in addition to greeting, he shook hands with Li Kongrong, who was wearing pajamas.

"Hansheng, you are too risky, can't you arrange for Zunzhi to handle the submarine matter? What if you have an accident with the Navy? Lin Xianxi's face was cold and warm, but his words were blamed. In fact, Lin Zhun was reluctant to do it, so it was best for Gao Guangyou to do it.

"I'm at least a little more experienced." Li Kongrong didn't care, no matter whether he thought about the good or the bad, Lin Xianxi couldn't do without him. "Many times confidence is the most important, I don't go to everyone's lack of confidence, success or failure is the line between the line."

"Well said, well said." Chen Jiliang glanced at Li Kongrong with some surprise when he heard this, although his words just now were simple, they were exactly the necessary qualities of a commander -- any choice on the battlefield has the possibility of success, and a clever staff officer formulates a plan with a higher success rate, and a less clever staff officer formulates a plan with a low success rate, but if the commander lacks confidence and hesitates in decision, then no matter how clever the plan is, it will not be able to return to the sky.

"How long is Hansheng going to stay in the United States?" After all, Lin Xianxi was not the chief officer of the fleet, and he didn't understand Chen Jiliang's surprise, he just cared about Li Kongrong's time in the United States, and there were many things for him to deal with here.

"You have to leave by August." Li Kongrong said, he smiled again after speaking, "Isn't the plan to capture the German cruise ship done by the General Staff?" One of the purposes of my trip this time was to capture two German cruise ships, and then to prepare for the Battle of Guinan, the next step of the Japanese should be to occupy Nanning, and the U-38 should appear. ”

It's late June, and there were about forty days in the U.S. before August. Lin Xianxin nodded and said, "That's good." There are a few tricky things on the American side, one is that the 50,000 pieces of Tang porcelain, which the appraiser sent by Mr. Seligman thinks are only worth $5 million, which is too far from the $20 million we think. When we went back last month, he said that because of the shortage of funds, he could not provide loans for the time being, which ......"

"You're too late." Li Kongrong shook his head and sighed. As soon as he was 'treasonous', the Jewish bankers refused to take out the loan, after all, it was the Chinese government that accepted the Jews, not the navy. "I'm going to pay a special visit to Mr. Seligman, not just about the porcelain mortgage but about other things. Europe is about to go to war, but our cash has become industry, the plant machinery cannot be put into the stock market, and we need to borrow a lot of money in the past few months. ”

"Want to gamble again?" Lin Xianxin was stunned when he heard about the stock market, the last time 15 million US dollars were smashed into the stock market, his heart beat wildly, but fortunately, he won the bet in the end. This time, Li Kongrong mentioned the stock market again, and he had a feeling of vertigo.

"If we don't gamble, we won't have any money." Li Kongrong knows his cash flow situation. Now the funds are not tightened, it is because there is still a balance, and then the US military has ordered more than 100 helicopters and paid an advance. But it was not enough to put the money into the stock market, he wanted to raise $20 million to invest in the stock market in August, and then withdraw after the stock price rose sharply in October.

"Is the message accurate?" Chen Jiliang interjected. He knew about Li Kongrong's connections in Germany, but the problem was that he had already left Germany.

"Absolutely." Li Kongrong was convinced that history had not been changed by himself, and that Hitler would have acted against Poland in September.

"Okay. I'll listen to you this time. Lin Xianxin dragged out a long sentence, he didn't know how to make money, he could only listen to Li Kongrong in this regard. Hansheng, we still have a big gap in military spending, the cost of aircraft carriers far exceeds our estimates, and there are airplanes, Boeing's seaplanes are 420,000 US dollars each, and we buy 12 in one go, which is ......"

"Boeing's seaplanes are a necessary addition to the aircraft carrier fleet. Refueling aircraft can make carrier-based aircraft attack farther, AWACS aircraft can defend the enemy outside the opponent's combat radius, and can also clear submarines on the bottom of the sea, ensuring that the aircraft carrier fleet is foolproof. The value of this more than 10 million flowers. "Li Kongrong explained the role of the seaplane fleet." We don't have battleships, cruisers, destroyers. Although the aircraft carrier anti-aircraft artillery is equipped with a lot, the anti-aircraft artillery on the aircraft carrier alone is not enough. ”

"Can a radiosonde really fit into that kind of seaplane?" Chen Jiliang was more interested in aircraft carrier operations, and when Li Kongrong described the role of seaplanes in the fleet, he immediately followed up with questions.

"Absolutely. This is the same as the radar should be installed in a high place. Li Kongrong said. Assuming that the radar detection range is 300 kilometers, then the seaplane can move in a circle with the fleet as the center and a radius of 600 kilometers. This is equivalent to increasing the detection range to 900 kilometers, or 485 nautical miles.

Under normal circumstances, because of the limitations of range and navigation, the combat range of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft is only about two or three hundred nautical miles, but with early warning aircraft and refueling planes -- one can provide accurate navigation and enemy detection, and the other can provide fuel, then our combat radius will exceed 500 nautical miles, and even reach 1,000 nautical miles, and the key is the fatigue of the pilots. ”

"A thousand nautical miles?!" This time it was Chen Jiliang's turn to be dumbfounded. "It's not ...... It's not ...... Did you fly straight to Tokyo? ”

"Yes, you can hit Tokyo." Li Kongrong nodded, "But time doesn't allow it." ”

"Time doesn't allow it?" Chen Jiliang was puzzled.

"The biggest task of the aircraft carrier fleet is still in the South Seas, and the Yunnan-Burma Highway is related to the overall situation of resistance against Japan, and once the domestic arms are cut off, it will be difficult to continue, and the army will be thankful that it can hold its existing positions, not to mention the counteroffensive." "We can't waste our time in the Pacific Ocean. Of course, we have time after a single aircraft carrier is launched, but before it is put into the South Seas, but there are not many carrier-based aircraft on a single aircraft carrier. It is necessary to attack Japan with several hundred aircraft, and the focus of the attack is on the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet to be substantial, so I say that time does not allow it. ”

"According to the plan, the first aircraft carrier will not be launched until the end of 41." Chen Jiliang said regretfully.

"The end of 41 is too late, it must be brought forward." Li Kongrong said, "The construction period cannot be affected because of the relationship of funds. ”

"And what about the other two aircraft carriers?" Lin Xianxin understood that Li Kongrong was talking about the Longtian Pill that was being modified.

"The other two will also be launched by mid-41 at the latest. If we can successfully capture those two cruise ships in September, the refit time will be twenty-one months, which is almost the time for a regular aircraft carrier to be built. Li Kongrong said.

"But the question is, where are we based? Brazil, you're in no veto. Chen Jiliang asked. This issue has been discussed several times.

"France has many overseas islands, and if France loses in 40 years, we can negotiate with the French government-in-exile to lease several of their islands in the Caribbean as fleet bases." Li Kongrong said his plan.

"Will this work?" Chen Jiliang didn't expect Li Kongrong's solution to be this.

"Surely. At that time, the attitude of the French did not matter, as long as Britain and the United States did not oppose it. Li Kongrong said, "We are only on a short-term loan, and we are not always occupying it." (To be continued.) )