Chapter 191: Ignoring America
In this special era, the population has also become a resource, Saudi Arabia except for 10,000 people left, the other 150,000 people were all transported to China by steamship, bypassing Shanghai, through the Yangtze River estuary, directly disembarked in Nantong, all of them were arranged near Nantong, the military transported a large number of tents and ordinary supplies, these Saudi Arabians, from now on, all live here, Chinese farming experts, also with a large number of seeds, fertilizers and farming machinery to come, almost non-stop, Began to teach and instruct the Saudis in growing winter wheat.
China is a big agricultural country, seeds, fertilizers and agricultural machinery, even in the last days will not be lacking, but because the current population has dropped to less than 10 million, it is enough to support the current development of China's agriculture into a fully mechanized agriculture, and pesticides are basically no longer needed, because the words of agricultural experts make Xie Tian amused.
"Now the biological chain has completely collapsed, not to mention animals, even insects are pitiful, now growing food and vegetables, it is impossible to infest pests, so all our new food can be regarded as pollution-free and residue-free, and the use of chemical fertilizers is also organic fertilizer."
Xie Tian sneered and said, "That's right, now in these years, I can't even find a grasshopper." ”
The agriculture and forestry expert smiled: "Even if there is no outbreak of the zombie virus, it is impossible to see grasshoppers in this season, and it is already winter." ”
Xie Tian said embarrassedly: "I'm just joking, let's talk about it casually." Immediately, Xie Tian asked, "Can you solve the problem of retaining seeds?" ”
"Of course." The expert said lightly: "Next year we will leave enough seeds, you can rest assured." ”
Xie Tian nodded and said: "These Saudis, I will leave it to you, we must train and manage them well, and we can't let them be lazy, if the farm work here is almost busy and there is no need for so many people, tell me that I have another job for them." ”
"Okay." The expert nodded and reminded: "Chief Xie, if you want to start planting winter wheat on a large scale, then you must hurry up, there are still twenty days at most, if twenty days pass, winter wheat will not be able to be planted." ”
Xie Tian hummed and said: "Starting tomorrow, we will use 60 passenger planes of all kinds to travel between Shanghai and Kashmir, which can transport back at least tens of thousands of people every day, and within 20 days, all the 700,000 people of Pakistan will be transported to China. ”
"No problem." The expert reassured: "It's no problem to leave the farming affairs to us." ”
Although they have lost their mansions and cars, and no matter what their background, they have all become hard-working farmers, but they seem to have integrated very quickly, which makes Xie Tian a little unbelievable, because among these 150,000 people, there are more than 20,000 people worth more than one million dollars, and it is very common for them to be worth hundreds of millions.
After observing for two days, Xie Tiancai understood that for these Saudis, being able to eat well at present is the greatest happiness, and other things are not important to them, and the Nantong area where they are located is very safe, there is no shadow of zombies, and a large number of troops are stationed, which makes them very relieved and satisfied.
The number of passenger planes in China is very huge, and there are more than 200 idle Boeing and Airbus passenger planes at the two major airports of Shanghai Hongqiao and Pudong alone, but the number of pilots in Xie Tian is too small to use more planes at all, so we can only barely scrape together the pilots of 60 passenger planes, and the other pilots have to be responsible for the guard work in Shanghai and Zhangshu.
Sixty passenger planes began to continue to travel back and forth between China and Pakistan, the planes are no longer carried according to the prescribed number, generally are full of people, before taking off and returning home, the Pakistanis are very obedient to the Chinese arrangement, basically from beginning to end, no one will ask a word, as long as they land, they will obey the orders of the [***] side, they landed at an alternate airport in the south of Yancheng, after landing, everyone was arranged in a few nearby towns, where there is a huge area of arable land, Not to mention 700,000 people, it is impossible to fully utilize this arable land by doubling it.
For the Pakistani people, the grain is supplied according to the amount of 600 grams per person per day, regardless of adults and children, to ensure that they have enough food, and can have a certain food balance, and the surplus of the grain, they can directly send people to Shanghai, exchange it for rice tickets, and then save it or exchange it for other materials, but for those Saudis, thank God did not give them the food. Instead, he sent a team of nearly 1,000 chefs to cook specifically to keep the Saudis fed, but he would not give them any surplus.
The news that China has brought the vast majority of the population of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to its own country soon spread all over the world, this news is undoubtedly very shocking, after all, it is an unprecedented thing, and there are many countries that are unbelievable, why did the Saudis and Pakistanis leave their homeland and go to China to farm, but when they learned that China has given enough food to the people of these two countries, people in other countries will also understand. Even some countries that don't have enough to eat are trying to move their whole country into China.
Western countries are not interested in this, but what they are most interested in is that the Chinese have such a strong air transport capacity at this time, and can dispatch a large number of planes to air more than 700,000 Pakistanis back to China in a short period of time, which is what surprises them the most and is the most jealous, at this time, most countries do not even have the strength to let 700,000 people move a hundred kilometers, but China's air transport is so powerful, proving that they have sufficient aviation fuel reserves, Thinking of their ultra-low price purchase of oil from Saudi Arabia, Western countries conclude that China has resumed the production of jet fuel, that is, China has the ability to transport 700,000 Pakistanis in a short period of time, and also has the ability to transport hundreds of thousands of soldiers to any corner of the world in a short time!
Western countries have always been wary and even hostile to China, but now that the Chinese have the ability to drop a large number of soldiers and weapons and equipment in a short period of time, how can they not worry?
The Americans have a population of more than two million, but the number of soldiers is very small, less than 50,000, which has a great relationship with their previous situation of garrisons around the world, their native soldiers, not even more soldiers sent out, so that when the zombie virus broke out, they simply did not have the ability to gather a large number of troops, and most of the military bases and soldiers stationed abroad were destroyed by zombies one by one, and their current tens of thousands of soldiers, extremely lacking pilots and naval forces, plus the loss of scientific research personnel, The United States is now unable to train even a navy that can operate an aircraft carrier, let alone enough pilots to make the aircraft carrier capable of actual strikes.
To use a simple analogy, without nuclear experts and senior ordnance experts, those nuclear submarines and nuclear-powered aircraft carriers located on the mainland of the United States cannot be used and maintained, and how can a group of army officers and soldiers who can only shoot guns learn how to use naval and air radars and missiles without being taught?
Washington Andrews Air Force Base in the United States is the only air base currently in the hands of the Americans, and there are countless fighters, bombers, early warning planes, reconnaissance planes, and transport planes here, but in order to defend Washington, the United States has bombed a 300-kilometer-wide no-man's land around Washington, and has almost exhausted all of their aviation fuel reserves, and the only remaining aviation fuel is only a few thousand tons, which is almost equivalent to nothing.
The Americans did not realize at first that the war with the zombies not only did not gradually subside with the zombies being wiped out, but became more and more difficult because of the gradual strength of the zombies and the super gathering of the surname, if the Americans also thought of a way out at the beginning, or found a way to open up a material base for Washington like Xie Tian opened up Shanghai, the current Americans will not be so difficult, but the United States does not have such good geographical conditions in China, two metropolises in the north and south, not only have two natural hazards, but also an elevated railway connection.
The military power of the United States focuses on the sea and air, and now, the most practical for them is the air force, in the face of the zombie pressure of their own country and Canada, Mexico, there is no air force, only the army of the Americans to resist is very difficult, for a period of time, the Americans do not dare to consume aviation fuel, because they must ensure that when the United States can not keep it, the president and the existing dignitaries can leave by air, so during this time the defense of the Americans mostly rely on guns in the hands of soldiers and survivors, Fortunately, guns are very common in the United States, and the legalization of guns has made them more effective in the last days than other countries, but the consumption of bullets is also unbearable for Americans, and the only arsenal in Washington state has reopened, but there is an extreme shortage of materials needed to make bullets, such as copper and steel, as well as chemical raw materials.
In order to improve the situation, the current US secretary of state, appointed by the president, contacted Xie Tian and proposed a deal: "The United States hopes to buy 100,000 tons of aviation fuel from China, and for this reason, the United States is willing to exchange ten C-17 transport planes for twenty C-130 transport planes." ”
Thirty transport planes for 100,000 tons of aviation fuel, this deal seems to be a lot of money, the Americans thought that China has always lacked excellent transport planes, and would definitely agree to this deal, but they did not expect that Xie Tian refused when he opened his mouth.
Why refuse?
First of all, Xie Tian now has a large number of transport planes that can be used, whether it is military transport planes or civilian transport planes, and there are a complete range of types, from domestic military transport planes to Russian and American ones, in addition, he not only has a large number of ready-made civilian transport planes in his hands, but those passenger planes can also be easily converted into transport planes. What's more, he has both C-17 and C-130 transport aircraft.
Secondly, it is not possible to give the Americans aviation fuel anyway, for this country with an extremely developed aviation industry, aviation fuel is their blood, and once they have enough blood, they have the ability to get out of the situation in a short time.
After Xie Tian decisively rejected the Americans' offer to trade, the Americans were still wondering if the temptation they gave was not enough.
The US president summoned the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense and other dignitaries at the White House, and said hesitantly: "The Chinese rejected our deal, and I am considering whether to add ten F-16 fighters to the Chinese in the deal." ”
“f-16?” Secretary of Defense Locke, who had just taken office after the outbreak of the zombie virus, frowned and said: "Your Excellency President, the F-16 is already a fighter that we are about to eliminate, the Chinese's J-20 has been officially equipped with troops as early as a year ago, although that fighter is not comparable to our F-22, but it is basically comparable to the F-35, at this time, take the F-16 to exchange with them, I am afraid that they will not be able to look at it at all." ”
"So what?" Obama asked rhetorically, somewhat depressed: "Do you want me to trade the F-35 with them?" ”
"I think so." Locke nodded and said: "First of all, the F-35 is not our best fighter, our best fighter, always the F-22, the F-35 is only a cheap replacement, and we have been doing F-35 export, but the F-22 has never considered selling, so I don't think there will be any problem with using the F-35 as a bargaining chip to trade with the Chinese." ”
"Nope." The Secretary of State blurted out: "If the Chinese are given the F-35, they will dominate the whole of Asia in a short time!" That is a complete upend to our Asia policy for so many years! ”
"Wrong!" Locke glanced at the Secretary of State and said mercilessly: "Women don't understand military affairs at all!" China has the ability to transport 700,000 Pakistanis to China in more than ten days, let alone Asia, and no country in the world has this capability at this time, and if the Chinese want, they can use their air force to strike any corner of the world, even the United States. ”
"That's too bad!" The secretary of state said with a miserable face: "If the Chinese want to strike at us at this time"
"Don't worry." Locke said lightly: "Washington's air defense capability is not trivial, even a large number of satellites cannot be used, our radar network and anti-aircraft missiles are enough to ensure the security of the entire Washington, besides, the Chinese do not have any need to attack us, there is no benefit to them, looking at their recent formation, it should be in active development, there will be no time and energy to engage in hegemonism." ”
"What about later?" With a sad face, the president said: "We can only make sure that the urban area is safe, there is no arable land in the urban area, and we can only grow some food crops in the limited gardens, parks and gardening of private houses." And the Chinese from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan hire farmers to cultivate their vast arable land, and next year they will not run out of food, and our people will go hungry! Now the entire 300-kilometer vacuum around Washington has been bombed, and there are no weeds growing in that kind of place! ”
"Your Excellency." Locke said, "Now if we can't solve the problem of jet fuel, we will be overwhelmed by the large number of zombies that continue to flock to Washington." ”
"Hurry up and get in touch with China." The president blurted out, "Let's just say that the White House has decided to add ten more F-35s and see what they mean." ”
"Yes." The secretary of state immediately picked up the phone, called the communications center, and said, "Help me connect to the communication of the Chinese political axe." ”
A moment later, Xie Tian grabbed the phone, and when the Secretary of State finished saying the new conditions, less than two seconds, Xie Tian flatly refused: "Sorry Your Excellency, Secretary of State, we are currently not interested in your country's aircraft, in addition, if you want to do business with China, please pay us back first, all the fruits of our Chinese people's hard-earned labor are lent to you Americans, you have not repaid the money, the zombie virus broke out, let the Chinese people pay for your national defense and the people's advanced consumption, this money, If it is used to buy F-35, you don't have enough F-35 fighters in the country to pay, please don't call me if it's okay, I've been so busy lately, I really don't have time to talk nonsense with you, goodbye. ”
The chest of the secretary of state continued to rise and fall, and everything Xie Tian said on the phone, other political leaders around him also heard it clearly through the amplification system, and they were suddenly speechless, but if you think about it carefully, the Americans did take advantage of China's great advantage, and a considerable part of the money they borrowed from China before was used to expand military spending, and part of it was used to solve the political axe deficit, and now the world has collapsed all of a sudden, and this money is naturally a loss for the Chinese.
"The Chinese are not interested in aircraft, so what about other weapons and equipment?" The secretary asked, "Think about what China needs most right now." ”
"Population." The president stood up and said angrily: "They have a population of eight million, but they are not satisfied, and even began to engage in immigration activities, it is obvious that the hardware base of the Chinese is now far beyond the scale of eight million people, I estimate that they can feed at least fifteen million people, damn how they have not weakened after the outbreak of the zombie virus for so long, but have become more and more powerful!" ”
"Do you want to send a reconnaissance plane to China to have a look?" The Minister of Defense said: "Our military satellites and spy satellites are basically no longer usable, so it is better to send a reconnaissance plane to conduct a careful aerial photograph of the area controlled by China's political axe to assess their current national strength." ”
"We're running out of jet fuel!" The Secretary of State blurted out: "Sending a reconnaissance plane requires a lot of aviation fuel, and aviation fuel is too precious for us now!" ”
"Yes." The commander of the Air Force said: "The maximum range of our reconnaissance planes is only more than 10,000 kilometers, and if you want to conduct a careful reconnaissance of China, you must be accompanied by an air tanker to fill the reconnaissance plane with fuel when approaching China, and then you can ensure that the reconnaissance plane can complete the reconnaissance mission. And what good will it do us to investigate the situation in China? We are now too busy to take care of ourselves, and even if the Chinese are now launching new satellites and have the ability to use intercontinental missiles, what can we do? It's nothing more than defending the zombies in front of us and finding a way to feed our people. ”
"If we have enough jet fuel, we will not only be able to repel the zombie attack, but we can also use helicopter gunships to search for supplies in other states." The Minister of Defense frowned and said: "But we don't have enough aviation fuel now, and if we run out of fuel now, once we can't resist, we won't even have the ability to retreat." ”
"Negotiate with the Chinese again!" The president stood up and said, "If the negotiations are not good, I will ask President Han to pay a visit to China, and no matter what, I will find a way to get some aviation fuel back." ”
The Americans then drew up a list of deals again, to which were added ten Apache helicopter gunships in addition to the ten F-35s.
Xie Tian still refused, if in order to get some benefits, and let the Americans take the opportunity to turn the situation around, then he would rather not, in short, the world reshuffle is imminent, it can be said that now is the most critical moment, the zombie virus can be passed one day, the zombie crisis can be solved one day, at that time, the pattern of this world will undergo earth-shaking changes, at this time, the heart must be ruthless, it is possible to benefit the country.
Seeing that the Americans wanted to get help from China to no avail, a group of people discussed for a whole day, and came to the conclusion that they decided to send the Navy to the Far East on warships, the most important destination of which was Guam, the United States had long been worried about the military supplies on Guam, but because the number of soldiers was not large, they had to be responsible for the defense of the entire Washington, so they could not get away, but at present, the United States has basically reached a dead end, even if Washington's crisis is serious, they must send a force to Guam.
In the eyes of the Americans, Guam must be rampant with zombies at this moment, and it is very difficult for troops to land, so there must be enough military cover before it is possible to board the air base, so the United States political axe decided to send 10,000 troops to Guam on four Aegis-class warships, and it is quite difficult for the Americans to draw out 10,000 troops. The whole country was expecting the soldiers to gain something on Guam, but they did not know that Guam at this moment had almost become an empty island, and most of the weapons, ammunition, fuel, and other materials had been taken away by Xie Tian, and even the northern coastline of Guam was covered with a large number of mines
But at this moment, Xie Tian did not know that the Americans were finally going to Guam, and he was holding a meeting at the Provisional Military Commission as Patton, and when he said that the Americans were going to use dozens of fighters of various types in exchange for aviation fuel, the person in charge of the Air Force laughed for a while, and he said happily: "We only have more than 200 pilots in total, but there are hundreds of standard planes, and there are more than 60 planes on the aircraft carrier. Even if they give us so many planes for nothing, we don't have a place to put them now. ”
Xie Tian nodded and asked, "How many pilots do you think we have enough to use?" ”
The person in charge pondered for a moment and said: "The number of fighter pilots must be at least two hundred, respectively in the aircraft carrier, Shanghai and Zhangshu Military Airport, and then civil aviation also needs a certain number of pilots, if the number of pilots can reach four hundred, it should be enough." ”
"I'm afraid training pilots won't happen overnight." "I'm afraid it will take a long time from the beginning of your training to the time the pilot can fly the plane into the sky. ”
"It's not a big problem." The person in charge explained: "Special moments and special methods, our current pilots are very experienced old pilots, but we in addition to single-seat fighters, all other types of aircraft need two pilots to control together, so we can try to train a group of co-pilot pilots out, as long as a certain theoretical education, and then by our experienced pilots with one to teach, take the flight, think it will not be long before you can be competent for the task of co-pilot, in this way, our old pilots, You can take a large part of it. ”
"I see what you mean." Xie Tian nodded and said, "Since this is the case, then you should hurry up and start selecting flight cadets, and then set up an aviation school at Zhangshujun Airport." ”
"Okay." The person in charge nodded: "This thing is easy to carry out, and now the Zhangshujun Airport has been expanded, and three extra-long runways have been built, so it is very suitable to set up an aviation school there." ”
Xie Tian said: "We secretly took Lao Mei's things, this matter can't contain the fire, Lao Mei will know sooner or later, I'm afraid that Lao Mei will jump off the wall at that time, after all, their surname is more impulsive, don't be desperate to fight with us at that time, the air defense forces of Shanghai and Zhangshu still need to be strengthened, and we must ensure that nothing goes wrong." ”
"This" A military expert in charge of air defense said: "We have no problem with our current ability to defend against ordinary fighters and reconnaissance aircraft, but there is a certain deficiency in the defense capability of the Americans' F-22 and B-2. ”
"Contact the Russians." Xie Tian said: "Contact them, I want to buy their latest S-500 air defense system, a full set, the more the better." ”
The air defense expert said with some embarrassment: "I'm afraid that the Russians will not be willing to sell it at all, after all, it is their top air defense system, and it has been less than a year since it was installed in the army, and many countries have shown their intention to buy it, but the Russians have publicly said that within ten years, they will not consider selling the S-500 to any country." ”
"Don't worry." Xie Tian said confidently: "Their food is a big problem now, and the temptation of food to them is much greater than that of missiles!" ”
(To be continued)