Chapter 663: Old and Young Come Out

After sending Henderson away, the "angry" Yang Qiu found an excuse to end the visit and return to China early, leaving Chen Shaokuan and Jiang Zuobin to continue the negotiations.

Although "Yang Qiu" was angry and ran away, the negotiations held more than half a year later than history did not go well. Influenced by Rìmoto's reluctance to continue to limit himself, Italy, which had always valued high-speed large destroyers and cruisers, also announced that it would withdraw from the negotiations. Italy withdrew, and France was naturally not stupid enough to sign. None of the three Washington signatories were willing to limit their cruisers and destroyers, and the anxious Prime Minister MacDonald lashed out.

On the other hand, the United States does not matter, anyway, Hoover could not develop the navy when the economy has just improved.

Seeing that the negotiations were about to fail, the Chinese delegation, which had always expressed dissatisfaction, suddenly agreed to sign on the condition that it refused to limit the destroyer's displacement to 1,850 tons. Although Britain was dissatisfied with China's picking, it had someone to save face, so it promised China to adjust its cruiser quota to 230,000 tons. Among them, 120,000 tons of Class A and 110,000 tons of Class B.

There were already tons of Taiwan-class in China, and later 4 10,000-ton Wuhan-class ships were built, and only 2 heavy cruisers could be built with a displacement of 28,000. Due to the consideration of the two oceans, the Republic of China Navy plans to build at least four warships per batch, so after careful consideration, the Navy decided to abandon the continued construction of treaty heavy cruisers in accordance with the president's opinion, and allocate all the quotas to aircraft carriers and light cruisers.

Thanks to the large number of technical reserves in the process of frantically building new warships in recent years, the Navy quickly came up with a plan and decided to purchase two more Sichuan-class aircraft carriers from 31 years, and build four new Xiangjiang-class 10,000-ton light cruisers, and finally build four 4,000-ton Xin'anjiang-class fast-laying mine-laying cruisers, of which the last eight cruisers will be built for the first time using the surfacing process.

At the same time, after learning that China had signed, the broken rì was also slightly relieved, and soon after, he subjectively believed that China would use the newly acquired tonnage to build heavy cruisers, and in addition to the lack of cruiser constraints, it also began to brew ships. However, because the Washington Naval Treaty could not be built for the time being before the expiration of the treaty, and because it stubbornly believed that the 10,000-ton light cruiser was a huge waste, it put all its attention on the heavy cruiser in an attempt to completely overwhelm China and the United States at this level. Based on this idea, the Navy immediately proceeded to purchase four top-class heavy cruisers. Unlike in history, which was disguised under the guise of a light cruiser, this time it was a direct heavy cruiser from the beginning.

It also makes sense that Rì chose to suppress China's cruiser group by relying on heavy cruisers, because Rì Ben has a narrow territory, scarce resources, and only a few colonies are also underproduced, so it is impossible to take care of both light and heavy cruisers. Moreover, the power of 203 mm is also greater than that of 155 mm, and in the case of the temporary weakness of the capital ship, it is normal to choose a heavy cruiser as a breakthrough. The news that Rì Ben continued to build heavy cruisers made the voices within the Republic of China Navy gradually rise to the sign of a treaty to tie his hands and feet, and even Sa Zhenbing, who was idle at home, was alarmed, and threatened to go north to find Yang Qiu to "comment".

But President Young has no interest in the arms race, and he still has a lot to do. It takes four or five years for the purchased equipment and technology to be run in and absorbed, and various major projects also need to be started as soon as possible, people's livelihood reform, industrial combing, infrastructure construction, and so on, and the most important Saudi statehood is just around the corner, so the navy must immediately return all the capital ships to the dock to rest and prepare just in case, and even require the Nanjing battleship to join the active service before the end of December and take on combat duty.

However, Yang Qiu is not easy to fool, since Rì chose to give himself eye medicine at sea, he might as well get something disgusting and disgusting them, so after discussing with An Guoliang, the National Guard paid for the purchase of 2 United Force-class battleships that had been decommissioned and ready to be dismantled, and then removed all the weapons and excess armor, installed an 85mm Gaoping dual-purpose naval gun and a few 40mm speed guns, and added tools such as water cannons and fishing net cutters, and finally installed three seaplanes, It was converted into a fishery patrol boat and handed over to the coastal guards to protect the fishing grounds.

"15,000 tons of fishery patrol boat haha."

There was a lot of laughter in the Sa Mansion in Zhu Zifang, Fuzhou, and Sa Zhenbing pinched the newspapers and newspapers that published the converted fishery administration boat, which made Zhang Xiaozhun, who came to visit him on behalf of Yang Qiu, secretly wonder, what is so funny? Rì Ben had a bunch of old battleships, and doing so would only lead to follow-up, so he didn't welcome the project very much.

Sa Zhenbing glared at him, and said with an expression of hatred: "What do you army understand? To change the ship, the cannon and armor must be removed first, so as not to violate the naval treaty. It's easy to dismantle, but it's hard to reinstall, and the cost is greater than building a cruiser. Rì Ben regarded those broken boats as expensive, and he had been maintaining them for so many years just to re-enter service, so he was willing to dismantle and change the fishery administration boat. ”

The whole country is in terms of seniority, there is no more powerful than this old guy, Zhang Xiaozhun dared to answer, and quickly changed his words: "General Sa system, in addition to coming to see you and the old navy on behalf of the president this time, there is another thing I hope you can help with." ”

Sa Zhen Bing has been at home for 10 years, and his bones hurt all over his body, but he became excited when he heard that he had something to help himself, put down his favorite teapot, and asked anxiously: "Don't sell it, just open your mouth if you have something." Old man, although my body bones are a little worse, I haven't reached the point where I can't walk. ”

Listening to his nagging and boasting, he almost compared himself to the Ying Lian clan who could still eat and fight rice and meat ten catties in the year of the sixtieth year, Zhang Xiaozhun was secretly amused in his heart, and said with a smile: "The old man of the Sa system is a young man, and the younger generation really admires it." The President has asked you to take a trip as a retired officer. ”

Go to rì Ben? Sa Zhenbing was a little puzzled. The contradiction may not be big in the eyes of the Chinese people, it is nothing more than a few battles for the recovery of the homeland, but the rì itself is very serious. Because Rì's biggest dream is to expand his living space to the mainland, and now his claws have been cut off, and the efforts of several generations have been in vain. It's strange if you don't hate the Republic of China. In this case, it is not surprising that the Republic of China is regarded as the number one enemy, so why should you go to the Rì Ben yourself?

Seeing that he had doubts, Zhang Xiaozhun took out Yang Qiu's handwritten letter and handed it over and said, "Mr. Sa will understand after reading this. ”

Sa Zhenbing took the letter and read it carefully. Although the letter was not long, it analyzed in detail what happened during this time, explained why it was close to the United States, why it offended Britain, and finally told the story of supporting Saudi Arabia to establish a foothold in West Asia. Sa Zhenbing had never known about these things before, so after reading them, he suddenly slapped his thigh and sighed: "Hey! The old man still looked down on the president. I think I have been listening to my husband talk about the national strategy when I was studying in the UK, but unfortunately I was young and ignorant, and I didn't know what these four words meant. Although I can see more clearly as I get older, I always feel that I can see flowers in the fog, and now this letter makes the old man finally understand the truth of these four words. ”

Zhang Xiaozhun is one of the few people who know the overall situation in the whole incident, although Yang Qiu has never said what kind of strategic goals he wants to achieve, but since the silver crisis has pulled the Jewish group, the wonderful layout of jīng like nine consecutive rings has made him and all those who know the inside story praise, and I am afraid that there are few people in the world who can play strategic means to such a point. So when he heard Sa Zhenbing's feelings, he also said: "Yes, I'm afraid the president's mind is not just as simple as the prosperity of the country and the strength of the people, and it can be seen from these things that I am afraid that he wants to lay the foundation of our people's immortal cause for a hundred years." ”

Sa Zhenbing nodded, picked up a match and burned the letter, and then straightened his waist: "Runnon went back to tell the president that for the prosperity of our country, Sa Mou will definitely live up to his trust." Zhang Xiaozhun doesn't like to drag mud and water, and when he saw that he promised, he immediately got up and said goodbye. This capable style made Sa Zhenbing quite satisfied, and asked Sa Bendong to send off guests on his behalf.

Sa Bendong was the most talented of the Sa family's generation, and during his stay in the United States, he showed high attainments in mathematics, physics, and electronics. Not only did he study at Stanford University, but after graduation, he also worked as an engineer at Westinghouse in the United States for several years, so he was also on the list of this major recall. But because Yang Qiu was away from home, these people had been resting at home for a while. After sending Zhang Xiaozhun away, he returned to the small courtyard and saw Sa Zhenbing alone in a daze, and asked, "Grandpa, but you have something on your mind?" ”

As the head of the family, Sa Zhenbing attaches great importance to the younger generation, and as long as he meets the conditions, he will try his best to send them to study abroad, and he will never use the quota of the national public grant. In his words, the number of places for public study abroad is already scarce, and it should be reserved for those students whose families are not wealthy, and the Sa family should not increase the burden on the state. His example caused many navies and officials to give up embezzlement of public quotas, and it became a good story.

Sa Zhenbing values Sa Bendong very much, and he won't hide anything from him before. But this time the stakes were so high that he didn't dare to be tired in the slightest, and hurriedly waved his hand to indicate that it was okay.

Seeing this, Sa Bendong had no choice but to withdraw first, but he was stopped after only two steps.

"I heard you're going to chóngqìng in a few days?"

Sa Bendong nodded: "The day after tomorrow." I heard that there are more than 2,000 in Fujian alone, and I am afraid that there will be no less than 20,000 in the whole country. The grandson went to Lenovo under the Chóngqìng group, and I won't know what to do until I get there. ”

"It doesn't matter what you do, what matters is that since you want to do it, you have to make a name, don't lose the face of my Sa family." Although Sa Zhenbing didn't know why Yang Qiu concentrated so many technical talents in Sichuan, he was completely convinced through the letter just now, so he took special care of it. In the end, he sighed with envy: "It's good to be young, your generation is really catching up with the good years, and there is a good president." Old, old. ”

The voice became lower and lower in the end, and Sa Bendong looked up, but at some point Sa Zhenbing was already sitting on the rattan chair with the teapot, quietly and thoughtfully.

Two days later, Sa Bendong and more than 2,000 Fujian technical experts boarded a special train to Sichuan, and shortly after he left, Sa Zhenbing quietly boarded a ship to Keelung in the early morning, and from there diverted to Rì Ben...... (To be continued.)