Chapter 54 Purchase of Decommissioned Battleships
"I can transfer a batch of shells, but I also have to send someone to supervise the use of these shells, the battleship is now in the naval base of Linhai Mansion and now there is only one warship that has been decommissioned, this is a World War II Tian-class super battleship, it is a super battleship produced in the late war, it has a history of forty or fifty years now, although it has undergone many modern modifications during the period, but his age is too big, so he had to retire it a year ago, Now the navy several battleships made at that time will face retirement, to be honest, although the navy of all countries in the world has lost the trace of battleships, but only our Ming navy still retains the position of battleships, and now most of the senior generals of our navy still have a soft spot for battleships, although now all the major powers in the world, including our Ming Dynasty, have been aircraft carriers as a symbol of naval strength, But our Ming navy believes that the position of battleships in the navy is unshakable, especially the status of missile battleships after modernization, and if I were asked to choose, I would rather choose battleships than aircraft carriers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the current naval warfare, the survivability of battleships is far greater than that of aircraft carriers, and if you and the missiles on a super missile battleship are fully capable of destroying an aircraft carrier formation in a saturation attack, and under the same configuration, an aircraft carrier formation may not be able to destroy a battleship formation with super missile battleships. After all, the air defense and anti-strike capabilities of the battleships of the same fleet are not comparable to aircraft carriers, and the range of missiles is now far greater than the range of aircraft, and these are the results of many naval exercises of the Ming Navy.
In fact, in the initial period after World War II, the navy also wanted to remove the battleship from the naval sequence, after all, at what time did the world's major powers successively eliminate the battleship of the warship, and the battleship uselessness theory also spread throughout the world, and the missile at that time was just emerging as a new thing, everyone did not really fully realize the role that missiles can play in the future war, for this matter at that time, the Ming Empire War Department also held dozens of meetings, In the end, the result of everyone's discussion was that the battleships were not eliminated, because the United States did not eliminate the battleships at that time, so the empire did not eliminate the battleships, and even rebuilt a new battleship every five to ten years, you can test the performance of the new technology of the Ming Dynasty on these battleships, and you can also use these newly built battleships to replace those old battleships that are about to be decommissioned, and just last year, a newly built nuclear-powered battleship entered service into the ranks of the navy. So this grandfather-class battleship, which has been in existence for decades, was eliminated. So we're going to send him to you, and if you want this battleship, I can also decide for the military to sell this battleship to you. After finishing speaking, Yao Mingchun looked at Zhu Lei and waited for his decision.
"General Yao, if I want to buy this battleship, how much money can I buy, and if I buy this battleship, can General Yao go to sea normally, after all, if I can't go to sea if I buy a battleship, then it's better not to buy it." Zhu Lei asked.
"Yes, as long as you register with the Ministry of War, you can go to sea freely, but you can't sail into the territorial waters of other countries, after all, this is a naval warship, not an ordinary ship, if you are not careful, it will cause war, although we don't have to be afraid of other countries at all, but war is always bad.
If you really want this battleship, as long as you pay 200 million, you must know that when this battleship was first manufactured, it was ten times the price, and the price of several modernization modifications in the middle is about the same as the price of building a new ship, so this price is already very cheap, even if it is the price of selling scrap iron, it is about this price. After all, this battleship has now been eliminated, and if you buy it, we will have a deputy captain on this battleship, and most of the anti-ship missiles and some big future weapons and ammunition on the battleship will be removed, of course, the necessary self-defense weapons and the giant cannon that symbolize this battleship will still be retained, after all, the nature of this battleship after you buy it is the same as the nature of the royal guard in your territory. General Yao Mingchun looked at Zhu Lei and replied after thinking for a while.
"Well, General Yao, I don't have that much cash right now, I don't know if I can buy it with gold or diamonds. If you must need cash, it will take a few days to give it to you, after all, no one will put so much cash at home. Zhu Lei said directly, the gold in the past two days Zhu Lei specially asked Xiao Lori to change some in the mall, although not a lot but a total of dozens of tons, and the diamonds did not continue to buy in the mall, as far as the batch of diamonds in his hand is enough, if it is released, it will already cause price changes in the international diamond market, and if you buy from the mall, it may cause the collapse of the diamond market.
"Gold is okay, even if it is a diamond, we have no use for diamonds, and now the military still has a lot of diamonds, and we can directly hand over gold to the Ming Household Department for money, or gold is affordable." After hearing this, General Yao returned without thinking about it.
"That's fine! Then please you and General Jiang wait here, I'll go and get the gold, anyway, these are for you, it's better to take advantage of the fact that you are directly handling the matter, and I will have to run to the capital again when I am in the province, and I have to go through all kinds of procedures, now I will give you the gold, and the formalities of the battleship will be handed over to you to handle, after all, my factory has just reopened, and there are busy things every day, so I can't leave, so General Yao will trouble you. After Zhu Lei finished speaking, he stood up and walked out of the conference room.
Jiang Zheng, who was outside the conference room, saw Zhu Lei walk out, but Yao Mingchun didn't come out, so they walked into the conference room again.
Zhu Lei first drove a truck in the garage at the entrance of the factory, drove in the direction of the grain depot in the fiefdom, and after arriving at the warehouse, he first took in another 100 tons of grain inside, and then took out a ton of gold from the mall and put it on the car and drove in the direction of the factory.
After returning to the factory, Zhu Lei gave them the gold, and today's international gold price, the price of this ton of gold is 920 million, in addition to the 200 million for the navy, the rest of the gold Zhu Lei also asked them to exchange it for cash and hit Zhu Lei's account, after all, Zhu Lei and their factory will use more money in the future!