Chapter Thirty-Four: South Asia's Little Tyrant
To Yang Feng's surprise, what the Britons wanted was not to sell the Radiance class, but to sell him a Centauri-class aircraft carrier under construction.
In fact, at this time, in the shipyard of the British, there are still a bunch of things under construction, when it comes to the explosion mother, the Britons are no worse than the United States, at present they still have six Solemn class, four Centaur class, three Eagle class are under construction, originally four, fortunately, the Malta has not yet started, this is a heavy fleet aircraft carrier larger than the Essex class.
Konima, now that the Japanese have surrendered and the war is over, can this be done?
There is no money, and Britain's finances are now supported by the green pieces of paper printed by Britannia's husband! The whole country is in ruins, where will the noble capitalists in Congress get money for the Navy to continue to build a dozen aircraft carriers?
What's more, what did you do with it? Is the sun never setting in Portsmouth for the Empire that never sets?
If you don't build it, the shipyard can't stand it.
The British government's headache now is not only financial, but also the mass unemployment that will inevitably occur after the sudden shift of industry from a wartime state to a state of peace, and the construction of a dozen aircraft carriers provides hundreds of thousands of jobs, and all work is stopped all at once, how many workers are unemployed? What about these unemployed workers? Because of the large-scale demobilization of the army, the employment situation in Britain is very serious, coupled with the impact of unemployed workers, it will be a big problem, you must know that some people are waiting for this kind of thing!
So what the Britons want to do most now is to sell these aircraft carriers, and then maintain the production of those shipyards, selling a ship that was originally ready to be decommissioned is simple, but at most it can get a little money to spend, and that little money is just a drop in the bucket when it is put into Britain's huge financial expenditure, but there can be a lot of benefits in continuing to build one, and it is not money that can be measured by stabilizing the domestic situation alone.
"Centauri? Why not the Eagle? I remember you still have three Eagle-class ships under construction, right? Yang Feng looked at Lord Mountbatten, who personally came to the door to sell, and said.
"Well, Your Excellency, I don't think you need that much, and Congress may be prepared to continue buying them for the Navy." Mountbatten said embarrassedly.
The Britons are not stupid, it is not a big deal to sell him a Centaur, it is nothing more than a light aircraft carrier of more than 20,000 tons, even if Yang Feng has it, it is also something that the British Navy can trample to death casually. In fact, they were still thinking about giving the skinhead a one, which is what they did in history, but the skinhead failed before he could receive it, and the matter was over, so it can be said that the Britons did everything they could to keep their factories running.
But if you sell Yang Feng an Eagle-class, it will be different, if this guy has a little ambition in the future, it will not be easy for the British Navy to take him casually, after all, this guy is not a good bird, and the Britons have to guard against him.
"Centauri is Centaur, but it must be handed over to me by the end of forty-eight, and before that, you will have to lease me a Tejour-class, so that I can train my soldiers while I wait, and then return it to you after the new aircraft carrier is delivered." Yang Feng thought for a while and said.
"No problem!" Mountbatten said overjoyed.
"Your Excellency, do you need a crew? We can provide a pool of retired naval officers to help you train your crew. Then he added.
"Of course you are welcome." Yang Feng said with a smile.
In terms of light cruisers, the Britons have no restrictions, which one can be, and in the end he chose two colonial classes, with a standard row of 8,000 and a full row of 10,000, but it must be the original version of the twelve main guns, not the simplified version of the nine main guns that were later transformed, although the Southampton class is better, but it is used too many people, and now Yang Feng's principle in the selection of weapons is to use as few people as possible.
Destroyers don't need to choose, they are directly on the combat level, anyway, they have more than a dozen of them ready to be directly scrapped or dismantled, it is nothing more than to draw four old ones from the fleet and sell them to Yang Feng, and then pick four more from those that are directly abandoned when they are launched to the navy, this kind of thing is a small role that is not worth mentioning in the huge Royal Navy.
As for bombers and fighters, this is also not worth mentioning, even the Lincoln bomber is a trivial matter, and the Lincoln is better, the Afuro company will be very happy, they are already dissatisfied with the Congress's drastic reduction in orders! The fighter jet directly pumped seventy-two Mustang Ds from the British Air Force to him, and the carrier-based aircraft and the aircraft carrier could pack the Seafire MK3 together, and even if the pilot wanted to, he would simply pack it directly, anyway, the Royal Navy would have to retire a large number of carrier-based aircraft pilots.
Of course, this deal will not be between the Ming Empire and the Kingdom of Britain, but will be purchased by the Kingdom of the Netherlands from the Kingdom of Britain, and then the Kingdom of the Netherlands will be resold to the Ming Empire.
As for the payment, Yang Feng smiled and took out a gold coin still on the table and said, "I'll pay with this." ”
"Your Excellency, this is a huge amount of money, even hundreds of millions of dollars." Lord Mountbatten said with a smile on his face.
Now the British government likes this, although the people of the United States printed a bunch of small green pieces of paper for them, but if that thing wants to be exchanged for gold, it depends on the face of the United States government, and disobedient people will not exchange it for you.
It is nothing more than to go to the United States to buy materials, and the final result is to desperately help the United States maintain economic growth, and even the British government wants to maintain the gold standard of the British pound, and finally has to take the small green piece of paper as a reserve, otherwise they simply do not have enough gold to maintain the gold standard, and the gold has already been taken to the United States to buy materials, and even the currency must be maintained by the dollar, so what is the difference between Britain and a state in the United States?
"Hundreds of millions of dollars, that is, hundreds of tons of gold?" Yang Feng said exaggeratedly.
"Yes." Mountbatten nodded.
"Okay, then I'll pay with this!"
Yang Feng waved lightly, and the beautiful bodyguard behind him held a huge gold coin weighing twenty-five kilograms and smashed it directly in front of Mountbatten, with four big characters on it: "Daming Heavy Treasure." ”
Mountbatten swallowed hard.
He didn't know that this guy had saved more than 500 tons of gold and more than 1,000 tons of silver so far, and although this guy had not been able to open the treasury of the Federal Reserve, he had looted the treasure troves of several ancient European and American families and the vaults of jewelry tycoons, which was enough for him to squander.
He did it on purpose, on purpose, to stuff gold into the countries of Europe.
The hegemony of the dollar after World War II actually relied on the fact that all the gold was concentrated in their hands, and European countries had to submit to the United States, because they had to use the dollar to lick the feet of the United States, and at the same time beg them to exchange some gold for themselves to rebuild their own collapsed monetary system. Keynes planned to be slapped back by the Americans in Bretton Woods, because the Britons did not have enough gold, and they waved a gorgeous balloon with only the glory of the past, which was smashed into an illusory bubble by the Americans with an equally huge golden hammer.
What if the countries of Western Europe had enough gold in their hands? So will they rebel against the Bretton Woods system?
Yang Feng is looking forward to the results of his experiment.
In the future, he will continue to throw gold coins all over the world until he pries up the huge vault of the Federal Reserve on the other side of the scale, and at the same time uses these gold coins to exchange himself for powerful force, and then firmly presses the other scale, the oil balance that is gradually being pressed by the people of the United States, firmly in place, so that the entire world order will go on a completely different path.
"No hurry! There are still decades to go! ”
The guy looked at Mountbatten's back as he left and muttered to himself.
His Excellency left in a hurry, not so much because he was shocked by his domineering 25-kilogram gold coin, but because there had just been an accident or scandal in Temasek.
More than 100 officers at or above the rank of junior in the Japanese army, including General Itagaki, commander of the Japanese Army's Seventh Army, have all absconded and disappeared without knowing their whereabouts, and just half an hour ago, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East had just sent an order to the Southeast Asian Theater Command to arrest Itagaki for war crimes and escort him to Tokyo for trial.
This is definitely a scandal, Lord Mountbatten has been made into a false fire, he really doesn't understand what else can his people do with those wastes, even a group of prisoners of war actually can't look good, especially Itagaki, an important person in close surveillance, actually used a shoddy substitution, from under the noses of dozens of soldiers, swaggering out!
Of course, the supreme commander of the Allied Southeast Asian theater of operations, who did not know all this, was the chief director who watched him leave from behind.
As Temasek's Anglo-Indian Army launched a large-scale manhunt, their targets had been sent to the east bank of the Johor River by fishing boats arranged by Hua Kee, and then followed a smuggling trail into the dense forests of the mountains towards the uninhabited coast of the eastern Malay Peninsula.
At this time, His Excellency the Head of the Ming Empire, who had ended his trip to Temasek, also boarded a British destroyer to return to Ambuna Island under the cheers of people from all walks of life, but after the destroyer sent him more than 200 kilometers away from Temasek, he encountered the flying ship that came to greet him, and then His Excellency the Führer boarded the flying ship and continued to return to his own country. Of course, the sailors on the returning destroyer did not know that as soon as they disappeared from the radar screen, the flying ship turned around and sailed to the east coast of the Malay Peninsula in the darkness of night.
At midnight, the bow of the European bison was pressed against an uninhabited desert island not much larger than it, and as the hatch slowly opened, Itagaki and more than a hundred Japanese generals emerged from the woods where they were hiding.
"Itagaki-kun, don't come unharmed!"
Yang Feng said with a smile while waving his hand while standing on the bow deck of the ship.