"As for me, I want to pay out of my own pocket to add some equipment to our fleet, so I asked you two to be a staff officer." Qin Hao said with a smile.

"Huh? Sir, are you going to pay out of pocket? How much does it cost? Lorenzo's jaw dropped when he heard this, although Qin Hao had paid double salaries to the soldiers of the fleet out of his own pocket before, but compared to the armed fleet, that money was nothing compared to the armed fleet.

"Money...... I'm going to come up with two hundred million yuan. Qin Hao thought for a while and said, because the second batch of smuggled ghost energy crystals had already arrived in Nicole's hands, and there should be about two billion after getting rid of it, and when he got rid of it, it was almost twelve or three billion, so that Qin Hao would have two hundred and thirty billion in cash in his hands.

"Good guy......" Lorenzo opened his mouth wide, he didn't expect Qin Hao to be so rich.

The corners of Han Yihang's mouth twitched slightly, but his expression was still relatively calm.

"Do you have any suggestions?" Qin Hao asked.

"Sir, how are you going to change the law? Replace the whole ship, or just buy some equipment and modify our warship? Lorenzo asked.

"It's all right, it depends." Qin Hao really had no idea, otherwise he wouldn't have come to ask the two of them.

"That's right, the cost of Federal-type warships is generally between hundreds of millions and tens of billions, and if it's just frigates, we may be able to buy a few newer second-hand ships." Lorenzo really has some interest in that.

"Can't you buy a brand new one?" Qin Hao asked.

"Sir...... You're kidding, unless you can get the approval of the High Command, how can the Federal Shipyard build you a new ship? Lorenzo said with a shrug.

"If I can get the approval, will I still have to pay out of my own pocket?" Qin Hao rolled his eyes, although many fleets have been quietly privatized, and they have completely become the private army of those family forces, but the rules on the surface still have to be followed, and it is impossible for the federal shipyard to privately build warships without the approval of the command and the review of the federal parliament.

But if the relationship is strong enough, like the liver door bias, people can completely buy 99 new "decommissioned" warships from the regular first-line fleet, and even these new warships have just entered the front-line army service, and the captain's ass is not yet hot, they will find an excuse to "retire".

This kind of thing seems like a fantasy, but with the current level of corruption in the Federation, this kind of thing happens from time to time, and the major families are turning a blind eye to each other because they are doing this.

At present, although the third, fifth, and seventh mixed fleets of the Federation fleet claim to be the absolute main force, their equipment is not sophisticated at all, and many new ships have not even been transported to these three fleets, but have just gone through a process in the text, and they have been retired halfway through and then sold to the second-tier fleet.

The main reason why the power of the federal president has been continuously weakened is that the three major fleets under the president's command no longer have absolute dominance at this time, and the other second-tier fleets, although smaller, are equipped with the latest elite warships.

Moreover, each big family controls more than one fleet, once a certain family integrates the fleet under their command, its scale is probably not weaker than the three main fleets at all, and in the relationship with good equipment, the three main fleets may not be the opponents of others.

Under these circumstances, how is it possible that the power of the president is not gradually evisceed?

Since ancient times, power has come out of the barrel of a gun, and now the barrel of a gun is not easy to use, but it has become who has the final say who controls a powerful fleet.

However, for Qin Hao, he still can't touch such a deep thing, but judging from the current situation, he will definitely not be able to enjoy the kind of treatment that Gangmen Bizuo, even if he has a good personal relationship with Gangmen Bizuo, people will not use a large amount of family resources to help him buy a warship, this is a matter of principle, and Gangmen Bizuo is not the kind of person who can stick a knife in his brother's ribs, so Qin Hao doesn't even think about it.

"And how much stronger are the decommissioned frigates you are talking about than what we use now?" After Qin Hao found that he couldn't get a new ship, he could only retreat.

"It's not much better, although our warships have been in service for many years, but the maintenance is not bad, even if we buy a new warship, it is not much stronger? Unless you want to expand your fleet. Lorenzo said.

"That's not good......" Qin Hao waved his hand, although senior officers privately added some equipment to their fleet, and the command would turn a blind eye, but it was absolutely impossible for you to expand the army privately, this matter did not have the approval of the parliament, and it didn't matter if the president said it.

"Then I don't think we need to change ships unless you have a way." Lorenzo said.

"Do you have any comments?" Qin Hao looked at Han Yihang, this kid has never said a word since he came in. There he just kept his head down, and he didn't know what he was doing.

"Sir, if you're planning to update your equipment, here's my list for you!" Han Yihang's hand was taken out from under the table, and at the same time, he had a pen and a sticky note in his hand.

"I'll rub!" Qin Hao was really dumbfounded this time, the process he had just discussed with Lorenzo didn't take long, that is, about ten minutes, but this kid didn't say a word, and actually made a large list of lists.

"What are you doing here?" Qin Hao took the list, and then asked while looking at it.

"Judging from the current intensity of missions that our fleet can perform, we can at most fight against pirates of medium and lower scale, so I have allocated this list to you based on the funds you provide, and the prices here are all the most recent black market transaction prices." Han Yihang said.

"Black market?" Qin Hao was stunned for a moment, then looked directly into Han Yihang's eyes and asked, "How come you even know the price of the black market?" ”

"Sir, you just need to keep an eye on this website." Han Yihang said as he wrote a website address to Qin Hao, this black market is actually not as secret as Qin Hao imagined, it is almost semi-public.

"It's all right!?" Qin Hao didn't expect that this so-called black market could still buy things like battleship main guns, this is an armament!

But think about it, the ghost energy crystal can be used on the black market, and it is obvious that this black market is also inseparable from those wealthy families on the earth, so it is not surprising that you can buy a battleship cannon.

"Wouldn't it be a waste to tell Nicole not to bring up the money if I knew it!" Qin Hao suddenly slapped his thigh, this money laundering costs a lot of money, if the battleship equipment can be purchased from the black market, then there is no need for him to launder money at all, just use the money from the sale of crystals to buy the battleship equipment on the black market.

(End of chapter)