In fact, Comrade Li did not entangle Yang Feng with this trivial issue, when 5,000 centrifuges were being installed, naturally he said whatever he wanted, and a special account was soon established in the Imperial Bank, and in the future, 30 percent of the payment for all the trade of materials purchased from Xinhua by the Ming Dynasty was transferred to this account and used as a margin for the transaction.

As for how Comrade Li handles it, it doesn't matter to Yang Feng.

In fact, Comrade Li's side paid the full amount in RMB at domestic prices to the factories and mines and supply and marketing cooperatives below, and there was no currency exchange rate problem at all, and his and Yang Feng's finances were completely two worlds, and the deposits in this special account did not affect the source of supply in Xinhua's country.

With this special account, those Ming merchants don't have to worry about it when doing business with the north, anyway, even if there is a problem, there is a place to claim it, and there have been many cases in the past that need to claim but have nowhere to deal with it, which is also an important reason for affecting the trade between the two sides.

And at this moment, in the distant Newport News, in countless salutes, fireworks and applause, a super battleship more than three hundred meters long slowly left the berth, and the huge steel body gradually began to accelerate on the slightly turbid sea like a mountain on the sea, but unlike other warships, there was no smoke coming out of its acceleration process.

Because this is a nuclear-powered warship.

This is the USS Enterprise nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, a steel behemoth with a full load displacement of more than 90,000 tons, which was finally completed and delivered to the US Navy after three years of full construction. It was less than a year ahead of the original historical Enterprise.

Drive this ship worth $450 million. Or three hundred and sixty tons of gold for eight nuclear reactors. A 70,000-horsepower steam turbine is powered by two heated steam, and the combination of eight nuclear reactors and four steam turbines can provide it with a terrifying 280,000 horsepower, giving the largest warship ever built by mankind a speed comparable to that of a destroyer at 35 knots. Because of the use of nuclear power, the endurance can reach 400,000 nautical miles, enough to circle the earth thirteen times, in the sense of combat, it can almost be described as unlimited. After all, it is impossible for a warship to have a mission mileage that needs to circle the earth thirteen times.

And what is equipped with this supercarrier is also the most gorgeous carrier-based aircraft wing of the US military.

F4 Satan carrier-based fighter.

Of course, at present, this fighter is still in the midst of intense test flights.

A6 Intruder attack aircraft.

Of course, this attack aircraft is also in test flights.

E2 AWACS.

Of course, this AWACS aircraft has just completed its first flight.

So on the current Enterprise, these three planes are not seen, at this time there are only Crusaders, Skyhawks and E1 Trackers on its deck, but this does not hide its brilliance, just 90,000 tons and nuclear power are enough to make the people of the United States high. What's more, there are two identical aircraft carriers next to it that are in the final outfitting, that is the second ship, the Assaulter, the second ship, and the third ship, the Duli, and in the dock next to it, there is also the fourth ship of the enterprise class, the Kitty Hawk, which is under construction, and the fifth ship, the Constellation. The keel of the sixth ship, the Mi Guo, has also been laid.

What is the demeanor of a great country? What is domineering side leakage? What does it mean to be angry?

This is called the demeanor of a great country, and this is called domineering side leakage. It's called bullishness.

Six 90,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, in the next four years at most, the United States will have six ninety-thousand-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, this is the strong industrial strength of the United States, this is the suffocating national strength of the United States, which is like the Ming Dynasty, to build such an aircraft carrier, it has been built for four years and has not been launched, look at the United States, it is later than them to start construction, and now the first one has been put into service, and there are two more ships to be commissioned soon.

In short, the service of the enterprise made the people of the United States like a long-standing resentful woman who suddenly got a fiery holy weapon, and suddenly became so high.

And not only that, when the Enterprise sailed out of Newport News with a colorful glow, a battleship with a huge square head slowly greeted it, and after seeing it, the people on the shore couldn't help but let out a scream of excitement again. This is the nuclear-powered cruiser Long Beach with a displacement of 17,000 tons, the world's first warship equipped with phased array radar, and the world's first all-missile warship, that is, it has no main guns. There are two MK10 double-cantilever launchers in the bow of the ship, a total of 120 Beagle ship-to-air missiles, and an MK13 double-cantilever launcher in the stern, with a total of 46 Brass Knight long-range ship-to-air missiles, and the main weapon of the whole ship is these 166 ship-to-air missiles.

Among them, the latter is actually dual-purpose air defense and anti-ship, with a speed of more than Mach 2, a range of more than 100 kilometers, plus a powerful warhead, it can easily destroy a frigate-level target with a single bomb, of course, it uses a high-altitude ballistic, and does not have the ability to skim the sea, which means that it is easy to intercept, in fact, the original history of the United States people used brass knights to intercept brass knights, and the success rate can reach 100%.

These two warships officially form the all-nuclear-powered fleet of the United States, in addition to the same experimental nuclear-powered cruiser Bainbridge will also join this fleet, as for the future, it is the Typhon system cruiser California-class in the design, because the development of the Typhon system is too difficult, the first four of the large nuclear-powered cruisers designed and built eight have just begun to lay keels.

In order to meet the needs of the United States, 24 Hilai-class conventionally powered cruisers are being built at full speed to provide escort for the first three nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the first ship, the Shilai, has been launched, and the remaining 23 will all join the fleet in the next two years. This is an air defense cruiser similar to the Qi Jiguang-class destroyer, with a full load displacement of 8,000 tons, and an MK10 twin launcher equipped with 60 Beagle ship-to-air missiles.

In this way, the composition of the United States fleet in the next five years is already very clear, six enterprise-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, two Forrestal-class, four Midway-class heavy conventional-powered aircraft carriers, as for the Essex-class will be gradually retired from active service, they really have no money to maintain more aircraft carriers.

And the escort of these twelve aircraft carriers will be twenty-four Shiley-class air defense cruisers, two nuclear-powered cruisers, as for whether the Typhon system and California-class nuclear-powered cruisers can be completed during this period, even the Pentagon does not know.

It's just too hard.

And it's too expensive.

If it is to meet the continuous power supply of five megawatts of the large phased array radar, close to the peak power supply of two hundred megawatts, this cruiser will not be smaller than the Long Beach, and of course the cost will not be lower than the Long Beach, which has already cost more than 300 million, even if the construction of large quantities can reduce the cost, 200 million dollars is the lowest.

200 million US dollars, those senators in the US Congress are gritting their teeth and looking at the budget.

Of course, 200 million dollars also have to be built, because at this time, Yang Feng's two super battleships known as nuclear-powered battle cruisers have already started, and he dares to build nuclear-powered battle cruisers, why doesn't the United States dare to build nuclear-powered heavy cruisers?

In addition to the cruisers, there are three Farragut-class destroyers, ten Koontz-class destroyers, and at least more than twenty Adams-class destroyers, all of which are conventionally powered, mainly Tatar medium-range ship-to-air missiles, and the Spruance-class, which is also nuclear-powered and gas turbine-powered destroyers of the Typhon system, is still in the design, and at least the first batch of the California-class will not be built until the first batch is completed, and the problem with this destroyer is also too expensive.

Although it uses a reduced low-power version of the Typhon system and medium-range ship-to-air missiles, its displacement must be close to 10,000 tons, and the minimum cost is more than 100 million US dollars, and it is planned to build at least 24 ships, and these 24 will cost 3 billion US dollars alone, of course, even this must be built, because Daming's 8,000-ton destroyer is already ready to lay the keel, and the United States has already lagged behind in the air defense ship, and this time it must not lag behind.

Twenty-four large Typhon destroyers plus eight Typhon cruisers will add up to a nuclear-powered fleet of $5 billion.

And this is only the cost of the warship, not plus the development cost of the Typhon system, in fact, this cost is the real big head, if you add the six nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, as well as the supporting carrier-based aircraft, the people of the United States will pay at least 10 billion US dollars for their all-nuclear power fleet, if you add the development costs of various subsystems, this fleet will cost more than 15 billion and may even close to 20 billion US dollars.

This figure makes the senators of the United States have a feeling of vomiting blood, this is the dollar in the era of the gold standard, if it is calculated purely according to the gold content, this is a full 16,000 tons of gold, and all the gold reserves of the United States do not add up to these now.

Of course, they have to grit their teeth and persevere.

This is the lifeblood of the United States, without overwhelming maritime superiority, what will the United States use to act as the master of the world order? Unable to act as the master of the world order, what can the United States use to plunder the world's resources? What to do to make the whole world use the waste paper they print as wealth? The Bretton Woods system relies not only on the gold reserves of the United States, but also on the powerful fleet that can appear in any corner of the world at any time, and the ability of the United States to maintain global intervention operations.

And the core of this capability is the aircraft carrier group.

For the future of the United States, come on, Sam-kun! (To be continued.) )