The mustache soon contacted Yang Feng with the French Vichy government, at this time Petain's life was not easy, this French national hero during the First World War was struggling to support the most reluctant dignity of this former power at the cost of his honor, and it was difficult to preserve the last hope for France's tomorrow in internal and external troubles, but even so, Yang Feng, a shameless profiteer, still had to pit him.

"Mr. Yang, 50 million dollars is absolutely not enough to buy the Richelieu and Dunkirk, and you should know very well that the cost of the Richelieu alone amounted to 1.27 billion francs." Reival, the No. 2 man in the Vichy government, said with a sincere face that of course this business was very much expected by him, but the price was a little unacceptable.

"Your Excellency, we don't mention the exchange rate of the franc now, but even according to the pre-war exchange rate of 1.27 billion francs, it is at most 30 million US dollars, and even if it is priced according to the monetary stability agreement between the United States, Britain and France in 36 years, it is worth 50 million US dollars at most, but now the Richelieu has been severely damaged, and it will definitely not be valued according to the standard of a new ship at most, so I think it is very reasonable to buy these two ships for 50 million US dollars." Yang Feng said lightly.

The franc is now as much waste paper as it is internationally, the dollar and the Reichsmark are the real hard currency here, and the Chinese fiat currency is also very popular, which once made the bald man excited. In 1936, the Monetary Stability Agreement of the Three Kingdoms stipulated that the franc was worth 105 to 1 against the pound, but France was unable to maintain this exchange rate, and by the time of the Daladier government in 38 it had been reduced to 175 to 1, while the US dollar was 4.68 to 1 against the pound in the same period, and the construction of the Richelieu was exactly throughout this period, and if it was valued at the exchange rate, it would be worth 40 million US dollars.

Of course, the cost of a battleship must not be so simple to calculate, but in any case, a 150,000 horsepower. The cost of a battleship with more than 30,000 tons of standard platoons and eight 380 main guns in the United States will not exceed 70 million, 220,000 horsepower, more than 40,000 standard platoons, and nine 406 main guns.

As for the Donkirk battle cruiser, which has a standard row of only more than 20,000 tons, this kind of warship is one class behind. If it weren't for the fact that it wasn't good for the bishop to be alone, Boss Yang wouldn't be interested in buying it! What's more, the Dunkirk was also beaten by the British some time ago, and even sank, and it was barely driven back to Toulon after repairs, and it also had to be repaired on a large scale after buying it himself.

Reival smiled bitterly, he knew that it would be good if someone could buy it at this time, the Vichy government kept the navy purely for the sake of face, and there was no place to deal with it, except for the United States and China in this world. Other countries don't dare to sell even if they want to buy France. To Germany, then the British navy would sink it as soon as it left the port, and to the British, then the Germans would not hesitate to destroy what was left of France, so Petain forced himself to stay in the port and let it rot.

"In addition, I will not only buy these two warships, but also hire the sailors on them, you should understand what I am buying them back for, don't you want to avenge the civilians of your country who were killed in the great tusha of Saigon. With the current situation in this world, it is probably very difficult for your country to have such an opportunity to take revenge on itself. But in my place, your navy soldiers can teach the Japanese a hard lesson in another way. Yang Feng said.

The French were very fond of Saigon, and they were clamoring to fight to the death with Japan in Asia, but unfortunately before they could do it, they let the Germans cut it down, and now Japan is rampant. The strength has reached the point where France can only look up, and revenge is naturally even more distant, but Yang Feng can give them this opportunity.

This made Reival a little moved, and now the Vichy government was facing a wave of revolt in the country, and even had to take repressive measures. They knew very well that if the trouble was to go into trouble, the Germans would use this as an excuse to destroy France directly, and it was obviously a good idea to sell these ships in this way, use the proceeds to appease the country, and at the same time increase the prestige of the government by taking revenge on Japan.

In this way, Yang Feng and the French Vichy government reached an agreement, 50 million US dollars to buy the battleship Richelieu and the Dunkirk battlecruiser, and bought two utopian-class destroyers in the port of Toulon, in addition to the four battleships on the sailors all hired, after solving these problems, Yang Feng was a little gift to the French, and gave them the order of 30 high-speed torpedo boats asked by the Pakistanis, this kind of small work is not uncommon for the Americans, but it is a surprise for the French in economic difficulties.

Of course, the Richelieu and the Dunkirk cannot be brought back for the time being, and must undergo some overhaul and modification, especially the need to add a large number of anti-aircraft guns, this can be selected as a double three-seven anti-aircraft gun, and a part of the four-mounted 14.5 mm machine gun, these two weapons have been copied in a large number of Beiping now, but in order to insure Yang Feng is still ready to make a batch of original ones to add, this job can also be handed over to the French, anyway, there are shipyards here in Toulon.

Get the French here, the purchase of warships on the American side is very simple, whether it is the Essex-class aircraft carrier or the Baltimore-class heavy cruise, it is just a sentence for him, Roosevelt wants this kind of good thing, although now the major shipyards in the United States are full of orders, but even if it is even, it has to be given to him, Boss Yang has made so much money from the United States over the years, and now he has finally come back to scatter money, so he can't applaud and welcome.

Although Yang Feng is very short on time, this is not a big deal for the huge industrial scale of the United States.

After solving the problem of his Indian Ocean fleet, Yang Feng began to seriously sort out the military strength in his hands, and he had to prepare for the Sino-Japanese war. First of all, the Air Force, 400 old Liberator bombers, 100 latest turboprop bombers Kunpeng, the fastest speed can exceed 800 kilometers, and the combat radius can still exceed 2,000 kilometers when carrying six tons of bombs. And with three pylons that can hang two-ton cloudburst bombs and fly at an altitude of more than 15,000 meters, this is specially prepared for the bombing of Tokyo, and this altitude is unattainable for any anti-aircraft gun. And there is also the armor protection of titanium alloy, which is now produced in small batches in Beiping, of course, not for aircraft shells, but for engines, because of the production problem, it is not generally expensive.

The fighter side is more messy, about 500 old twin demons, 150 turboprop version of twin demons, this is a special night fighter, for bomber escorts, using the kind of radar sight mounted on the sixth master, beating the Japanese moonlight is the same as playing, they just get the aurora and electric light out in advance, and the last one is also Roulin's goods.

600 Thunderbolts, including 300 early models and 300 later models with engine changes, and 200 turboprop Mustangs, these fighters, including the old twin demons, have been equipped with imitation optical sights, and it can be said that Yang Feng's fighter unit has reached the level of the late forties in the original history.

In addition, there are more than 50 six masters, this thing is used as a strategic deterrent, rarely appears in public, most of the time is hidden in the base in northern Sichuan, as long as it arrives in Beiping, it means that Boss Yang is going to exert power, in fact, in addition to the last war, this kind of aircraft has appeared in Beiping no more than a slap in the face, but many pilots have experienced it in the past.

In addition, there are ten self-produced jet fighters, Beiping's imitation of the Liuye engine has not been successful, but it has created a slightly smaller thrust, and it has been used to create a twin-engine subsonic fighter, the appearance is similar to the Liuye, the fastest can fly more than 1,000 kilometers, the engine life is about the same as the original version of the Liuye, in fact, this is already the most advanced fighter of this era, whether it is Lockheed's meteor or the mustache's Me262 is weaker than it by a level, In the future, Yang Feng will prepare for mass production of this thing.

In terms of dive bombers, there are still old-fashioned Skyhawks, a total of 400, and a hundred turboprops, which are actually modeled after the law enforcers he originally obtained, although the performance is a little worse but not much worse, not to mention that when a bomber is a fighter jet, it can abuse the vast majority of fighters now.

However, this kind of dive bomber is no longer Yang Feng's favorite, this cargo is recently asking the Academy of Sciences under the Aviation Power Research Institute and the aircraft factory to cooperate with the aircraft factory to study whether the turboprop can be based on the turboprop, to get the turboshaft out of him, and now they have imitated the turboprop, although the performance has dropped a lot, so it has not been installed on the aircraft, but that is mainly because Yang Feng has enough turboprop five supply, not that their skills are not good.

With a turboshaft, you can build a helicopter, although the piston engine can also be, but the volume makes people speechless, Boss Yang is in pursuit of perfection, although he can't be a black eagle and an Apache as soon as he comes up, but at least it has to be Huey, Cobra level, or a little doe, of course, this thing is estimated to be difficult to see in the war against Japan, this has to be kept to deal with the monkeys in Southeast Asia in the future, Agent Orange plus frog jump, see which monkey dares to be disobedient.

This point must be prepared in advance, after the end of the World War, such a big fat meat needs to be received, war is inevitable, especially in Southeast Asia, these monkeys are now mixing well with the Japanese, if they change China as their master, they will definitely be a little uncomfortable. Especially in Vietnam, in Yang Feng's plan, this country needs to be annexed directly, and if it is not good, it will have to create a big war similar to the Vietnam War, and it will not work if you don't prepare early. (To be continued......)

PS: Also, make up for yesterday's.