Chapter 69: The World's Fifth Great Maritime Power
Of course, Van Mock knows what Yang Feng's arms are, and they are eliminated in his place, but in terms of the world, they are the most advanced, who has ever seen a four-kilogram automatic rifle with a twenty-round magazine?
At present, the best Garand will be nearly five kilograms, not to mention that it is a semi-automatic rifle, with a maximum of eight rounds, and the fully automatic Browning BAR with a twenty-round magazine is used as a light machine gun, weighing 7.5 kilograms, and all the rifles of various countries are overshadowed in front of Yang Feng's automatic rifle, even the best S**44 of the Prussians can only bow down in front of this rifle.
The S**44 also has to be almost five kilograms.
Not long ago, the Britons just asked for dozens of them back for research with a cheeky old face, and the results of the test on the shooting range stunned the generals of the British Army, and the barrel life and accuracy were all beyond people's reach.
Of course, it is impossible for these large countries to be equipped with similar automatic rifles in the short term, and in the absence of a large-scale war, they will not replace all their soldiers with a new type of bullet rifle without firing the tens of billions of rounds of ammunition stored in the arsenal, even if the rifle in their hands is outdated.
In fact, at this time, automatic rifles are not rare at all, there are things in the First World War, decades of history, but limited by the materials and the level of industrialization of various countries, so no one has ever paid attention to it, but only from the perspective of mechanical design, it is simply a small trick that is not worth mentioning, until the level of materials has reached in recent years, the weight has been reduced, and the stimulation of war has begun to be really used on a large scale.
Especially after the surrender of the Prussians, S**44 has long been familiar, it is the ancestor of AK.
But the Netherlands are different, they are still at the point of picking up rags all over the world, the American-made Lee Enfield M1917, Johnson M1941, no matter which one is scum in front of Yang Feng's automatic rifles, even if these rifles are taken back as light machine guns, and when used as sniper rifles, the combat effectiveness can be rapidly enhanced.
Yes, of course.
In fact, Van Mork also knew that this was Yang Feng making a deal with them, after all, with the arrival of a large number of hungry people, as well as his previous actions in West Borneo, the mind of His Excellency the Führer had been revealed.
However, it is not a bad thing for the Dutch government to exchange a piece of land of little value for a strong enough ally, and with the signing of the Limbudye Agreement, the Javanese have officially obtained the management of the three islands of Java, Sumatra, and Madura. Dutch refugees in concentration camps began to be released en masse, the British had begun to withdraw from the East Indies, and a large number of Dutch troops had begun to take over the cities they had previously controlled, and so far more than 50,000 Dutch troops had been deployed to the major cities of Batavia, Semarang, and Palembang.
Similarly, the Javanese controlled the countryside and most of the small towns, and although there were still occasional clashes, the two sides remained generally peaceful.
Of course, for everyone, this is temporary, no one is ready to actually implement the Limya Coconut Agreement, the Dutch government is still continuing to build up troops, the Javanese are also continuing to expand their army, and war is only a matter of time.
And Yang Feng's navy and air force already have the ability to influence the situation.
Now the Netherlands, which is almost poor and its military spending accounts for nearly 10 percent of the gross national product, does not have a few decent warships, but Yang Feng has a powerful fleet that ranks almost in the top five in the world, from aircraft carriers to heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers.
This is really not an exaggeration, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and France will be the Ming Empire next, and Yang Fuhrer accidentally became the world's fifth largest maritime power.
Similarly, the Netherlands, which is in ruins, has no money to buy more combat aircraft, but Yang Feng has a huge air force in his hands, from heavy bombers to fighter jets, transport planes and even carrier-based aircraft, which he has promised to help the Dutch government.
And all the Dutch government needs to pay is a hundred thousand square kilometers of virgin forests with gold mines exhausted, and there is neither oil, coal, nor steel and aluminum, and the deal is completely reasonable.
Van Mock reported directly to the Dutch government on the island of Ambuna, and received the reply he expected very quickly.
Yang Feng exchanged enough arms to arm two divisions and a million pounds sterling in exchange for a commercial contract.
"In order to help the people of the Ming Empire, who had fought side by side with us and jointly defeated the Japanese Empire, the Dutch government will sell all the land in West Borneo to Yang Feng, the head of the Ming Empire, and Yang Feng, the head of the Ming Empire, will own all the land and underground minerals held by the original Dutch government in West Borneo, and enjoy tax exemption.
Your Excellency, this is the agreement for the sale of land signed by Her Majesty the Queen herself, and as for the original, it will soon be flown in from the Netherlands. ”
Van Mock smiled and handed a telegram to Yang Feng.
"Your Excellency the Governor, if you wish, you can take the first batch of munitions with you now."
Yang Feng also said with a smile.
In this way, the old and new colonists completed the transaction of this land without the knowledge of the people of West Borneo, so that everything in West Borneo belonged to Yang Feng privately except for a meaningless sovereignty that belonged to the Netherlands.
Of course, the land owned by the original Chinese landlords and capitalists and the land kings was still owned by other people, and what Yang Feng bought was only a part that did not belong to them.
In fact, the vast majority of West Borneo does not belong to them, because the vast majority of the land there is simply no one there.
As for how much land Yang Feng bought......
This is not even counted by the Dutch government, he says as much as he wants, who dares to fight with him?
Well, in that case, he'd put the cannon on the other man's head.
Of course, the people of West Borneo will cheer, and more than three-fifths of the population there are Chinese, except for the Dayak headhunters in the forests, who are not included in the population.
In a few years, when the Dutch people get out, this land will be incorporated into the Ming Empire.
As for the Gauls...
"Admiral Leclerc, you only need to recognize the Ming Empire and establish formal diplomatic relations with us, then everything you see here is a gift from me to you and General de Gaulle, including fifteen thousand automatic rifles, which you have just experienced for yourself, and probably less than two thousand general-purpose machine guns, five hundred heavy machine guns, and ten million rounds of ammunition in the warehouse over there."
In the strategic reserve of the Ming Empire, Yang Feng pointed to the countless wooden boxes in front of him and said to General Leclerc, the commander of the Gallic Far East Army.
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