Ukrainian economic officials were greatly excited when they heard that China actually had a plan to provide economic assistance to Ukraine, and Lai Zhenping quickly separated from Zhao Jinsong, because economic matters were his specialty, and he entered into the discussion of economic cooperation with the Ukrainian side. The details are about a low-interest loan of $200 million from China to Ukraine, and the collateral is tens of thousands of hectares of fertile black soil in Ukraine, as well as two iron mines and a manganese mine. If Ukraine cannot repay, these things will be left to China to develop for half a century without compensation.

In addition to low-interest loans, Lai Zhenping also promised to invest $200 million in Ukraine, but compared to the vast majority of industries that Ukraine must open to China, including some manufacturers that were proud of the Soviet era, such as the Antonov Aviation Plant, Karkov-Morozov Machine-Building Design Bureau and other important military enterprises, China has also shown interest in taking shares. Some Ukrainian enterprises, both state-owned and private, want to make acquisitions, and these Ukrainian companies are all benign assets, but they have encountered operational difficulties, but as long as there is capital and market investment, they can immediately turn over.

However, the most Chinese enterprises directly invest in Ukraine, especially in industries related to people's livelihood, such as the Lianhua supermarket chain, which is already quite famous in East Asia, intends to take this opportunity to enter the Ukrainian market, and some of China's advantageous service industries, including retail, finance, telecommunications and other companies, hope to take advantage of Ukraine's illness and weakness to occupy the commanding heights to form a monopoly position.

There is no doubt that if China completes this round of economic aid (infiltration) and assistance, Ukraine's economy and people's livelihood are likely to be held in the hands of Chinese.

However, at this time, the Ukrainian government can not care so much, obviously the Chinese are very good at how to save a country's economy, and Ukraine also wants to become a second Yugoslavia and get out of the economic predicament.

In order to get China's economic assistance, then the aircraft carrier deal must be conceded, and to the slight relief of the Ukrainians, the Chinese are obviously more benevolent than the Westerners, and did not ask for those two aircraft carriers in vain. The Varyag was sold for $16 million, including all the technical information involved. Because the construction of the Ulyanovsk was not completed, China allocated $80 million to continue the construction of the aircraft carrier.

This expenditure is more or less, and the Varyag is actually sold to China at the price of iron, while the Ulyanovsk is somewhat worth the value of an aircraft carrier. Combined with the cost of subsequent transfer to China for further transformation, the total cost of the Varyag into the army is about 60 million US dollars, while the Ulyanovsk needs 200 million US dollars. The above calculations include the ship's own weapon systems and avionics equipment, but do not include carrier-based aircraft.

In this way, compared with building a Type 002 aircraft carrier (4 billion yuan cost), it is a lot more cost-effective, a 65,000-ton and an 80,000-ton Soviet aircraft carrier, which adds up to slightly more than half of the Type 002. In this way, China has taken advantage of it.

The cost of refit is not expensive, and it is mainly related to the great increase in the construction capacity of Chinese shipyards and the maturity of technical level under the support of Qi Yiming. However, Qi Yiming took a look at the production schedule of domestic shipyards and couldn't help but smile bitterly, because several major shipyards with modification capabilities simply did not have spare capacity to engage in these two ships.

The big ship itself is an aircraft carrier manufacturing base, the Hebei has been manufactured, the second ship Hunan is also being built on the slipway, and the big ship also has orders for the amphibious assault ships Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia, and there is no way to transform the Soviet aircraft carrier. The situation in Jiangnan is similar, they mainly build cruisers and destroyers, and there are many civilian ships in Jiangnan, and the profits of large LNG ships are higher than those made for the navy, so refitting a Soviet aircraft carrier is really not a welcome job.

However, the capacity of Huangpu, Hudong, Qingdao and other shipyards is slightly lacking, and the modification of such a large ship is bound to transfer personnel from the big ship and Jiangnan to support, and it is difficult to say whether the construction period can be guaranteed.

In this case, Qi Yiming didn't bother these busy people, anyway, he paid for the purchase of the ship this time, in the spirit of saving and saving, Qi Yiming decided to tow the hulls of the two aircraft carriers to the Red Police Shipyard and Red Police Repair Plant in Huludao, and directly refit them, without spending a penny.

How to modify these two aircraft carriers, Qi Yiming also had an idea, the Varyag is also the Liaoning, basically in accordance with the technology of the 001 aircraft carrier in the other plane, anyway, he already has the Gagarin aircraft factory in Komsomolsk, Amur, where it can produce Su-33, get the J-15 out, and match it on the Liaoning, although the non-ejection load and combat radius are relatively limited, but Qi Yiming feels that such an aircraft carrier is very suitable as an escort air defense ship for the PLA Navy amphibious battle group, Specializes in providing air superiority support for a large amphibious fleet.

In addition, after the Liaoning is refitted, it is basically not a problem to bring 30 fighters, and if you put 20 J-15 and 10 Qiang-7, the mission flexibility will be relatively large. The J-7 vertical take-off and landing, the catapult is not needed or anything, but when it is modified, it is about necessary to improve the anti-burning ability of the flight deck. It is also equipped with two Shangzhi-18 Sea Bat early warning helicopters, 12 Z-20 anti-submarine direct/general purpose lifts, and four Z-16 mixed Jianglong large transport helicopters.

With such a fighter configuration, it is not a problem at all to deal with a war of medium and low intensity, and this is different from the situation of the Chinese Navy on the other side, except for the Liaoning, the Navy is currently in service with two aircraft carriers, one is about to enter service, and these three are 80,000 tons of nuclear-powered steam catapults, and the Liaoning is not alone.

The refit of the Liaoning is easier to say, but the continuation and transformation of the Ulyanovsk is more complicated. The ending of this ship is tragic on another plane, which makes many military fans sigh. Immediately after the construction of this ship was stopped due to lack of funds, a Norwegian shipowner ordered a number of civilian ships from the Black Sea shipyard, and for the sake of the shipyard's livelihood, these civilian ship orders had to be taken. But the slipways of the Black Sea shipyard are occupied, and someone wants to get rid of the Ukrainian ship.

That's when a U.S. scrap mill approached the door and wanted to buy the entire ship at $450 per ton above the market price, so that the shipyard could get as much as $15 million. Under the temptation, the Black Sea shipyard dismantled the Ukrainian ship, and at this time the Norwegian shipowner said that because of market changes, the order was canceled, the deposit was not needed, and the ship did not need to be built. The U.S. scrap mill also said that it did not understand the international market before, and could not fulfill the contract, and if it wanted to continue, it could not be purchased for $450, but for $150.

With such a toss, the Ukrainian ship ceased to exist, and the Black Sea shipyard received only a meager income. It was later found out that the Norwegian shipowner and the American scrap steel mill were actually leather bag companies, and the United States specially used them to dismantle the Ukrainian ship and made the conspiracy.

Let's talk about the transformation of the Ulyanovsk in this plane, Qi Yiming can't tolerate the ship to keep a slip jump deck, China has mastered the technology of a mature and reliable steam catapult, the sliding jump plus catapult seems good, but it is completely unnecessary, and the front end of the take-off deck at an angle is actually not conducive to parking fighters, so in the process of continuing the construction of the Ukrainian Black Sea shipyard, the Chinese side asked to straighten the angle (no kidding, this can really be done).

Ukraine is not responsible for installing any systems, the nuclear reactor of the power system will naturally be installed with China's own, and the radar and electronic warfare systems will be even more so, and the catapult and landing equipment will also be towed to China for modification, and the Ukrainian side will simply end the hull sooner or later.

The Ukrainian ship will be renamed Jilin, installed with four catapults, capable of operating more than 80 aircraft at most, and its combat power is relatively close to China's self-built Type 002 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, in fact, the technology used by the two types of aircraft carriers is relatively similar, the same carrier-based aircraft (F-14CN), the same phased array radar, the same catapult and landing equipment, but some of the details of the design are different.

Together with these two Soviet heritage aircraft carriers, two aircraft carriers produced by the Red Alert base, and two aircraft carriers built by the shipyard itself, China will have six aircraft carriers, five of which are nuclear-powered with a displacement of more than 80,000 tons. For China, a traditional land power country with only one side facing the ocean, a lineup of six aircraft carrier battle groups is sufficient. At that time, Qi Yiming hopes to deploy one aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean, preferably one in the Atlantic, another in the South Pacific, and three in the mainland, which will basically be enough to protect China's overseas interests. (Locally deployed, including training and overhaul)

The beneficiaries of Qi Yiming's looting of the Soviet naval legacy were not only China, but also the Nanyang Republic, his younger brother of China, who had bought something from Ukraine at a low price, that is, a Glorious-class cruiser. The cruiser, with a displacement of more than 11,000 tons, the Komsomol (later renamed Ukraine), also had an affair with China, and was 96% complete by the time the Soviet Union collapsed. However, the design of this cruiser has not kept up with the times, and it was also dilapidated at that time, and China will not spend that unjust money to buy a ship that cannot form combat power.

The Republic of Nanyang paid $100 million for the Glorious-class cruiser, and the Black Sea Shipyard will be responsible for completing the cruiser after receiving the money, but in the end the ship will have to be sent to China like the two aircraft carriers. Soviet-made radars, weapons and other will not be matched with the Chinese standard used by the Nanyang Defense Force, and the base has also given a new transformation plan: the complex various equipment on the deck will be recombined, equipped with 96 vertical launch systems, which can launch missiles such as YJ-83, Thorn-2, Thorn-3, and Changying-5, and the bridge will also take a certain break to reduce its radar emissions, and equip the flat panel array antenna phased array radar used by 052D on all sides in four directions.

The tonnage of the modified cruiser will be slightly larger, and its impressive 16 thick basalt anti-ship missile launchers will be replaced, but it will become an Aegis ship, and its combat effectiveness will naturally be very different from that of the original Glorious-class cruisers. This will also be the first Aegis ship of the Nanyang Defense Forces Navy.