Fight the autumn wind!?

Looking at Chen Shaokuan's appearance that would burst into tears as long as Qin Wei dared to say no, Dai Li understood why the commander-in-chief of the navy tried his best to have a relationship with Qin Wei as soon as he came up, and the alarm that had just lit up in his heart was lifted...... Just kidding, the commander-in-chief of the Navy came to fight the autumn wind, and he didn't pour the country's wealth, so he was really "swept away by the autumn wind". And even if you have the wealth of the country, it is useless, you can resist the first "autumn wind" blowing over, and you can resist the second ...... The third set of estimates will also go bankrupt. Not to mention individuals, it is a country like Japan, which was blown up and sunk two battleships by the air force sent by Qin Wei, and it has been tearing up and hurting until now. If it weren't for the fact that there was nothing to do with Qin Wei, he would have been killed by the sky and eaten alive.

Of course, Qin Wei is rich, and Kong Xiangxi, the richest man in China, may not be able to get on the stage compared to Qin Wei. But no matter how generous Qin Wei is, I'm afraid he won't dare to bear the "autumn wind" blown by Chen Shaokuan.

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"Brother Houfu, you ...... Want me to pay for the Navy to buy warships? ”

Chen Shaokuan's expression was so obvious, Qin Wei could naturally hear the meaning of his words, and he couldn't help but shrink his neck.

"I also know that this is difficult for some strongmen, especially now that almost all of our coastal areas are occupied by the Japanese, and we can hardly find a base. But Brother Qin, don't you plan to snatch all the French Indochina from the French this time, and there is also Hainan Island...... I don't ask for anything else, as long as I can have a few destroyers. Chen Shaokuan grabbed Qin Wei's hand vigorously, for fear that he would run away.

"A destroyer is enough?" Qin Wei struggled, but failed to break free of Chen Shaokuan's grasp, so he had no choice but to give up. However, when he heard Chen Shaokuan's request, he couldn't help but be a little surprised. This commander-in-chief of the navy is a wonderful flower of the Chinese navy. Of course, this is not that Qin Wei looks down on Chen Shaokuan. Instead, he knew that Chen Shaokuan had submitted a naval construction design plan to Lao Jiang, a very "powerful" plan. At that time, it was still 1928, and Lao Jiang had just seized the position of the central government, and Chen Shaokuan was not yet the commander-in-chief of the navy, but only the commander of the second fleet of the Chinese navy. Chen Shaokuan asked Lao Jiang in the plan to spend 20 million yuan to build China's first aircraft carrier! …… I have to say that Chen Shaokuan is really very far-sighted. Because at that time, the navies of various countries in the world were still discussing the advantages and disadvantages of large ships, huge guns and aircraft carriers, and many countries still insisted on taking battleships as the main force of their navies. Therefore, Chen Shaokuan was indeed very prescient to think of building an aircraft carrier first. However, although this plan can be called a bombshell in China's military circles. But there is no practical workability. Because China really didn't have this strength at that time, and Lao Chiang was still trying to exterminate the Communist Soviet areas in Jiangxi and other places, how could he take the money to build any aircraft carriers? But Chiang Kai-shek didn't want to pay money, and he didn't want to lose people's hearts. It used the top mastery of Chinese officialdom: the word Dafa of "dragging". Five years, ten years. drew a big cake for Chen Shaokuan. In a blink of an eye, it was the War of Resistance. The Chinese Navy's little family background in Jiangyin made Chen Shaokuan tossed away. But although the navy has been basically wiped out, Chen Shaokuan is still dreaming of becoming a naval power: from Liaodong to the Sino-Vietnamese border in the South China Sea, he has divided China's waters into four major theaters, and plans to build 20 aircraft carriers, each costing about 1.8 billion yuan...... This is really a "grand cause," and it has all said at once the practice and ideals of the Chinese Navy in the coming decades. And in the face of such a plan. Lao Jiang didn't say he agreed, he didn't even bother to look at it, and he became more and more unkind to Chen Shaokuan.

But Qin Wei didn't expect that the "naïve" was like Commander-in-Chief Chen. When he was caught "fighting local tyrants", he only opened such a "small" mouth.

A couple of destroyers will do?

This is really not worth mentioning compared to the magnificent naval design.

"If it's just money for a few destroyers, I'm afraid it's really not a problem for me, and there will be a squeeze." Qin Wei smacked his lips, he originally wanted to tell Chen Shaokuan his thoughts directly, but now he couldn't help but be a little curious, "Brother Houfu, are you really only satisfied with a few destroyers?" ”

"Of course, it would be good if we could have more, but I also know our current situation." Chen Shaokuan still held Qin Wei's hand tightly, not letting go of it, "And we can't build warships, the war in the world is also in the ascendant, and all countries are in desperate need of naval ships...... If I can buy a few destroyers, I'll be satisfied. ”

"Chief Chen, you also said that it has only been long since the World War began," Dai Li interjected, "In that case, which country is willing to sell warships that can build warships, and can sell warships to us?" ”

"United States." Chen Shaokuan said, "Only the United States!" ”

"The Americans dragged Lao Tzu for so long for a few planes, I was so angry that I wanted to drag Roosevelt out of his wheelchair and beat him up a few times, and they would sell us warships?" Qin Wei asked with a smile.

"That is, I am afraid that the warships of the Americans themselves are not enough, how can they be sold to us again? Besides, although the destroyer is not a big ship, it will take a year and a half to build it now, right? Is there time to come? Dai Lian also agreed.

"I'm not talking about the warships that the United States is currently serving, let alone letting them build them now." Chen Shaokuan said solemnly: "I'm talking about their 'ghost fleet'!" ”

"Ghost fleet?"

Qin Wei and Dai Li glanced at each other, of course they knew about the Dao Ghost Fleet. Don't look at the name of this fleet, it sounds very powerful, but in fact, the warships in this so-called "ghost fleet" are not high-grade at all, because it is just that the navies of some countries will use the used ships in peacetime and retire them into active service and mothlock them in a certain port, and at the same time maintain them to ensure that they can be used at any time in the event of an emergency. In other words, the ships of the "ghost fleet" are actually decommissioned, or even close to being scrapped. At present, there are only two more famous and large-scale ghost fleets in the world, one is the US National Defense Reserve Fleet, and the other is the British Reserve Fleet.

Not to mention the British, in the face of the German attack, it now has no reserve ghost fleet, and all ships, including civilian merchant ships, have all participated in the war...... Therefore, now only the United States is left among the great powers and the "ghost fleet". The U.S. "ghost fleet" was created in 1925 under the management of the Federal Maritime Administration, and the U.S. government at that time considered that all the decommissioned warships and transport ships of the United States should be mothballed in three locations on the continental United States, and in the event of a world war or the United States intervening in a full-scale war, these old warships might come back to use. Day after day, the old warships of the United States are accumulating more and more, and the scale of the "ghost fleet" is getting bigger and bigger, and the "ghost fleet" in the James River has more than 100 warships and transport ships of various types.

Not long ago, because of the rampant operation of German submarines in the Atlantic, a large number of British merchant ships were sunk, so that Britain, which was heavily dependent on external supplies, almost suffered a fatal blow. However, Britain simply did not have any surplus ships to escort merchant ships, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who had served as Secretary of the Admiralty, appealed to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt for help. Considering that the United States was still pursuing a policy of neutrality at that time, and that the domestic people and Congress were opposed to intervening in the war between Britain and Germany, Roosevelt started the idea of mothballing these warships. Eventually, 50 old ships were leased to the British, providing strong support to the allies. Otherwise, even with the strength of the Americans, where will they find 50 destroyers for the British? To put it bluntly, it's all old goods.

And it was Roosevelt's move that made Chen Shaokuan think of the method of reorganizing the Chinese Navy, and compared with the broken copper and iron of the Chinese Navy at the beginning, the quality of the American "ghost fleet" is not even slightly better.

"How about it, Brother Qin, do you think this is feasible?" Chen Shaokuan asked Qin Wei again.

"I'm afraid that's enough." Qin Wei thought about it and shook his head slightly. Although the Americans' "ghost fleet" has a lot of ships, he really can't look down on it. If he really had to, he would rather wait a few more years, and after World War II was over, he would find the Americans to buy a new "ghost battleship". As a result, as soon as World War II ended, most of the warships were decommissioned, making the total number of its "ghost fleet" as high as more than 2,000...... That's when it's a good time to start. What's the use of buying those backward "scraps" now?

"Brother......" Chen Shaokuan's hand couldn't help but clench a little tighter, and his crying voice became heavier: "I beg you, I don't ask for too much, even if it's a destroyer......"

"Brother Houfu, I don't know if you know that our plane has entered the Philippines along the route of Hawaii, Wake Island, and Guam?" Qin Wei was grabbed by Chen Shaokuan and took a breath, but after earning it, the other party still refused to let go, and he could only continue to endure: "Now, we have nearly 400 fighter jets on duty at the US military airfield in the Philippines. ”

"So what? What does it have to do with us? Chen Shaokuan asked.

"Don't you want all these fighters to be put around on an aircraft carrier by you?" Qin Wei asked.

"What do you say——?"

Chen Shaokuan's hand was released, and he jumped up.

"Qin Wei, what nonsense are you talking about? Aircraft carrier? Where did the aircraft carriers come from? Dai Lian was also startled and jumped up. There's no way, it's not that he's unstable, the key is that Qin Wei's words just now are too shocking...... Aircraft carrier?!

"Little Japan didn't want to give up the three divisions in North Vietnam, and he was reluctant to ...... Therefore, they have already formulated a rescue plan, protected by heavy naval forces, and sent the two brigades they urgently put together to the back of Sun Liren's new 1st Army, and cooperated with Baiwu Qingji and others to attack before and after to lift the siege of North Vietnam! Qin Wei smacked his lips, "This is not to take Lao Tzu in his eyes." Last time, Lao Tzu spared them once, only to blow up and sink their battleship, but I didn't expect them to know how to ...... Since they are so shameless, then don't blame me for beating him facelessly. This time, Lao Tzu not only had to beat them crying dad and mother, but also had to capture their entire fleet, even people and ships! (To be continued......)