Chapter 192: Bargaining
As the supreme leader of Russia, Comrade Lao Pu is very sad, he finally won the election to regain control of Russia, but it didn't take long for the outbreak of the zombie virus, he took the people out of Moscow, to northern Siberia, and then left Siberia to Murmansk, 150 million people are still 860,000, not as good as a mayor.
Russia has never been a rich country, and although this country has a huge geographical area, but the developed areas are pitiful, in Murmansk, there is a very important ice-free port in Russia, Lao Pu and his people gathered here, thinking that if this place still can't get along, then lead the people to the North Pole, anyway, here is not two steps away from the North Pole.
In this kind of place, food has become one of their biggest problems, and now in winter, the temperature here has reached extremely cold, and coal has become one of their urgent supplies, but the Russians do have their special rough routes, no coal, no heating, Lao Pu gave an order, Russia's two Boreas-class nuclear submarines were directly transformed into water nuclear power plants, each nuclear submarine has two nuclear reactors with a total power of 450 megawatts, directly supplying electricity to the survivors of the entire Murmansk.
When the information from the Chinese side reached Lao Pu's ears, he immediately became interested, anti-aircraft missiles? What do the Chinese want anti-aircraft missiles for now? Against whom? Defend against me? There are only a few dozen fighter jets I can use now, and with the zombie virus developing for so long, who still has enough aviation fuel? Is it to defend against the United States? What's even more nonsense, how can the Americans have time to care about the situation in Asia?
However, Lao Pu thinks about things and Americans think about things are completely two routines, Lao Pu called a meeting of his subordinates to discuss, and when others also said that such high-end weapons could not be sold to Chinese, Putin asked rhetorically: "What if you give Topol M to China now?" Without satellites, can they use it? And you don't have to worry that they will plagiarize your technology, the reason is very simple, now the world's population has plummeted to an extreme number, so few people, want to restore the previous industrial base, it is impossible to have more than a hundred years, a hundred years are optimistic estimates, because the population is here, not only to replenish the population, a lot of academic and scientific talents are exhausted, people need to pick up again, which takes a lot of time, and heavy industry, especially high-tech heavy industry, military industry, It takes a lot of industrial talent, it takes longer to accumulate so many talents, so what about selling the S-500 to the Chinese now? ”
Everyone thought carefully for a moment, and agreed with Putin's words, and Putin said at this time: "After all, although many technologies have not disappeared, but it is too difficult to actually turn them into products, not to mention building missiles, and now it is difficult to even build tractors. How many people do you need for smelting? How many people do you need for forging? How many people are needed for various equipment? Who makes the rubber and who makes the tires? Who will make the engine? ”
As soon as Putin said this, everyone was a little desperate, no one thought about the impact of the zombie virus on human civilization to such a large extent, Putin is right, all the industrial bases are interlocking, the population has decreased sharply, and if you want to reorganize the entire industrial chain, it is simply a fool's dream, too difficult.
"Food is the most practical thing for us." Putin said lightly: "It just so happens that we have deployed a large number of anti-aircraft missiles in Murmansk, not to mention the S-500, as long as the Chinese want, the air defense radar can also be dismantled to them." ”
Soon, Russia reached a consensus, and gave Xie Tian a positive reply, S-500 air defense missile system, Russia currently has a total of more than 60 sets, equipped with all parts of the country, there are more S-400, as well as a large number of advanced air defense radars, among them, S-500 air defense missiles, each set of 100 tons of grain, wheat, rice, S-400 is sold for 60 tons, radar system each set of 80 tons, how much to have.
Russia's offer is quite a bit of extortion, after all, these things are now a pile of scrap iron for them, but they have to be exchanged for dozens or hundreds of tons of grain, which makes Xie Tian a little unacceptable, and then, Xie Tian immediately contacted the Russians and said: "Your price is too high, we can't accept it, and we don't want two sets, you make some concessions on the price, in order to facilitate this deal between us." ”
The Russian replied: "Sorry Mr. Xie, this is the result of a joint agreement between President Putin and the members of the parliament, and we cannot make any concessions on this result, please understand." ”
Xie Tian frowned, and then said: "Okay, I just treat you as the price of door-to-door delivery, I want ten sets of S-500 and ten sets of S-400, as well as six sets of ground air defense radars, you can directly air these goods I want to Shanghai, I will prepare the grain, and after the transaction is completed, you can bring it back." After that, Xie Tian said: "You should try to be as fast as possible, I hope to see the goods I want in Shanghai within a week, that's all, goodbye." ”
Xie Tian cut off communication with the Russian side, but the Russians were stunned for a while, and then the news was reported to Putin, who only felt a tightness in his chest after hearing it, and almost didn't catch his breath.
He really wanted to knock on China's bamboo pole, but he didn't expect Xie Tian to ask for his own door-to-door delivery, although Russia is very large, but at present there is no such a strong airlift capacity, Xie Tian asked for all these weapons and equipment to Shanghai, and the Russians have not been able to resume the production of aviation fuel, aviation fuel is also very scarce.
"Your Excellency." One parliamentarian said: "The Chinese is pure nonsense, he wants to buy things from us, why do you want us to deliver them to your door?" ”
The Minister of Defense said with a wry smile: "Arms sales are different from other sales, they have always been delivered to the door, not only to deliver to the door, but also to be responsible for completing the assembly, commissioning and training in other countries. We sell the Su-27 to the Chinese, do we let them come to our land on their own, and then fly over a large part of our land with the Su-27 and return to China? ”
"This" parliamentarians are dumbfounded, these people are usually concerned about the law, internal security, economic development and other issues, in military and national defense issues, they are simply ignorant, and what the Minister of Defense said is exactly international practice, but all the sale of weapons, the seller needs to load the weapons on the ship, load the machine to the buyer, thank God This is clearly a great problem for the Russians, just like the Russians in the Arctic are hungry, while the Chinese put a lot of inexhaustible bread in the Antarctic.
"We don't have the capacity to transport these weapons and equipment." After the outbreak of the zombie virus, General Isolov, who is in charge of the entire Russian military and civilian aviation, said: "If we want to use these weapons and equipment to exchange food with the Chinese, we must make certain concessions and let the Chinese send their own transport planes to transport their grain and our weapons and equipment back." ”
The Minister of Defense said, "Shall we try the sea route?" Depart from the port of Murmansk and head to Shanghai, China. ”
"It's a long way." The commander of the navy shook his head and said: "Not only is the distance very long, but it is also very dangerous, you have to pass through many straits, and now there is no guide, no navigation, and it is easy to have problems sailing such a long distance." ”
Putin said lightly: "Then don't think about the sea route, the sea route is not good, the land route is not good, the only thing we can choose is air transportation, which is fast and safe, but we do not have the ability, we have to let the Chinese transport it themselves." ”
The Minister of Defense said: "But the Chinese side asked us to send it over according to the custom, and besides, the practice is to transport it to the Chinese port by sea, and then the Chinese political axe will complete the reception at the port." ”
Putin ignored the words of the Minister of Defense and asked: "Do we have professional personnel who can debug, maintain and teach these weapons and equipment now?" ”
"Yes." The Minister of Defense said: "There are still more than 300 survivors of the air defense forces, and all of them are now integrated into the army. ”
Putin nodded and sighed: "No way, the Chinese are very shrewd in business, and if they want to take advantage of them, they are basically fools' dreams, so let's cut all the offers in half and let the Chinese take them themselves." ”
"Cut in half?" The Minister of Defense was surprised and said: "In this case, our losses are really too great." ”
"Losses?" Putin asked rhetorically: "Are these things useful for you to keep?" ”
"It's useless." The Minister of Defense shook his head wryly.
Putin said lightly: "What are you doing if it's useless?" Where can you mention the loss if it's useless? That's it, tell them. ”
"Okay."
Putin cut the price in half by himself, thank God in his heart is still acceptable, after all, it is a business, both sides should not go too far, and he also needs this batch of Russia's top air defense forces to completely consolidate the defense of Shanghai and Zhangshu, otherwise if the East Window incident occurs one day, and Lao Mei will be involved, Lao Mei's plane can be blocked by himself.
After the price was determined, Xie Tian began to prepare grain, his grain materials are still very sufficient, and there are still a large number of granaries around the area that have not been developed, otherwise you can find tens of thousands of tons of old grain if you look for it, and the total transaction with the Russians is only more than 1,000 tons of grain.
The Russians were not idle, and began to prepare all the weapons and equipment needed by Xie Tian as quickly as possible, and three days later, Russia officially informed the Chinese side that all the weapons and equipment were ready and all were waiting at the Murmansk military airport.
Xie Tian has already prepared the food, he has prepared the Il-76 military transport aircraft, as well as the Boeing 747-8F civilian all-cargo aircraft, the 747-8F is a FedEx cargo aircraft, the maximum load of each aircraft reaches more than 130 tons, and the capacity is very strong.
The airport assessed the recent weather conditions, as well as the current weather conditions in Russia, and decided to take off from Shanghai tomorrow morning, Xie Tian also decided to go in person, but his parents and Zhao Ziye did not understand why Xie Tian had to go in person every time to rest assured, when Xie Tian said that this batch of air defense missiles was important to China, everyone around him expressed full understanding.
Just when Xie Tian was imagining the situation when he arrived in Russia tomorrow, his subordinates reported a message to Xie Tian: "US President Obama hopes to pay a friendly visit to China in the near future. ”
"What's the situation?" Xie Tian asked with some curiosity: "Obama took the initiative to visit?" ”
"Yes." The subordinate nodded, handed a document to Xie Tian, and said, "This is a diplomatic letter issued by the US Congress. ”
Xie Tian took it over and looked at it carefully, the general content of the diplomatic letter is: In the zombie virus outbreak for such a long time, China and the United States have made outstanding contributions to all mankind in the fight against zombies, the United States believes that China and the United States carry the hope of the whole world, so the United States hopes to have a face-to-face conversation with China's senior leaders on this topic, hoping that China and the United States can become strategic partners, and share resources to complete the stability of the eastern and western hemispheres, and enhance the connection between the eastern and western hemispheres. In this regard, the United States is willing to provide China with a large amount of advanced weapons and equipment, and the specific matters can only be confirmed after the interview. ”
At this time, the Americans see themselves as the saviors of the Western society and China as the savior of the Eastern society, which means that I am the boss of the Western Hemisphere, you are the boss of the Eastern Hemisphere, and the two of us will be the boss of the world, and at that time, the world will be the two of us, but since we want to be the boss together, we will inevitably form an alliance, we have a large number of advanced weapons and ammunition, and you have a large number of people, fuel, and food materials, helping each other and benefiting each other.
Xie Tian scoffed at this diplomatic letter, but because this is a diplomatic letter, it is not up to him to call the shots, at least, he can make decisions if he is not his true identity, this matter still has to be decided by Chairman Han, if Chairman Han doesn't ask, then he can use Patton's identity to directly reject Obama, if Chairman Han wants Obama to come over, then the problem is somewhat difficult to solve, thank God can fly all the American planes that were secretly brought to the camphor tree, and can dive all the submarines underwater. But such a big aircraft carrier, where can thank God to hide? But in the future, Chairman Han will also be wary of this.
Xie Tian personally sent the diplomatic letter to the Provisional Military Commission, and Chairman Han brought Patton and himself into his office, and said with a smile: "Zhengxuan, Xiao Xie, Americans, can't hold their breath too!" In the past, he was waiting for others to invite him to visit, but now he took the initiative to visit us with a straight face. ”
Xie Tianying controlled Barton and said: "The Americans really have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, they have a request for us, and the previous proposed transaction intention was rejected by us, so we came up with this method, the president personally came to mediate, but we must not give the Americans a chance, if the Americans really re-emerge through us, then it will definitely be a big trouble for us in the future, in my opinion, directly refuse his request for access." ”
"This is a very serious diplomatic problem." Chairman Han smiled: "If you reject him, it is clear that you don't take him seriously, the Americans are here to ask for help, so he has some hope, but if you reject them directly, it will make the Americans desperate, and won't this become an enemy?" ”
"It doesn't matter if you're an enemy." "As it stands, we're not necessarily inferior to the Americans," Patton said. ”
"Many friends, many roads." Chairman Han said lightly: "We can't let Obama come, otherwise his plane hasn't landed yet, and when he sees their aircraft carrier parked in the port, he will definitely turn around and go back immediately, and then return home and declare war on us, but if we don't let Obama come, we can send people over, on the one hand, to probe the bottom of the Americans, and on the other hand, to bring food over, which can make the Americans have nothing to say." ”
"Okay." Barton nodded and said, "Then I'll go back and contact Obama, and say that you are too old to fly long distances, and I will fly to the United States in person in a few days and bring some supplies." ”
"Yes." Chairman Han nodded and smiled: "That's right, and after you arrive in the United States, you have to learn to show weakness, and you have to let the Americans know that we are not really doing that well at present, especially in terms of our national defense capability, we must reassure the Americans and let them think that we are still far behind them." ”
"I see." Patton nodded very instructively, and at this time, Chairman Han looked at Xie Tian himself again and asked, "Xiao Xie, you are going to Russia tomorrow?" ”
Xie Tian nodded and said: "Yes, Chairman Han, the plane will take off tomorrow morning, we have prepared the food, the Russian side has also prepared the weapons and equipment we need, and the professional personnel are also ready, and we will come back with that batch of equipment when the time comes." ”
Chairman Han smiled slightly, and said: "Since they are talents, then don't let them go again, I think the Russian political axe doesn't care about such a few professionals, our air defense force must be strong, so as to ensure that we can cope with all air strikes, among the threats we may encounter now, the air threat is the largest, as for the ground threat, it is nothing at all, because we have a strong air strike force as a guarantee, just like before we fought the Indians in Kashmir, they have no air supremacy, No matter how many troops on the ground there are, they will be killed, and in addition to these two, the rest is the threat from the sea.
Maritime threats, we don't need to worry about at the moment, because our fleet is strong enough, and if we fight a landing battle, the other side is not our opponent at all, and our air superiority is here, don't worry.
I'm most worried about missiles, I'm not afraid of nuclear missiles from the U.S. mainland, because it's impossible for them to launch missiles into China now, but I'm worried about strategic nuclear submarines, if they approach us based on the ocean, it's hard for us to be on guard! ”
(To be continued)