12dz Chapter 314 Purchase of Aircraft Carrier
Chapter 314 Purchase of Aircraft Carrier
William suddenly appeared from behind and shouted at Wang Meng.
"King, please think about it!"
The more Wang Meng looked at William, the less he looked like an assistant to the U.S. Defense Minister. Instead, he looked like a complete profiteer.
"William, you took advantage of me today, and you want to trick me again?"
William's big blue eyes showed sincerity and kindness.
"King, it seems that you have misunderstood me. I'm sure you will be interested in what I want to talk to you about this time! Moreover, you will be grateful to me!"
Wang Meng looked at the confident William, and scanned him up and down, left and right with a suspicious look.
"Really?"
William did not refute, but took out a photo, put it in front of Wang Meng, and smiled triumphantly.
"Wang, I'm sure you are interested in this?"
William guessed correctly, Wang Meng's pupils had begun to dilate, and he was even so attracted to the photo that even his eyes began to become blurred.
"William, is there anything to talk about?"
"Of course, these are the models we originally planned to provide to British Fatty Qiu. As long as the price is right, we will deliver them together with the aircraft production line!"
"Okay, I'll take it! How much?"
"Wang, do you want all of them? Or just one?"
That’s right, the photo William took out was a photo of an aircraft carrier formation, with a total of nine warships, including aircraft carriers, battleships, and cruisers.
The military and government of Country M have long known that the Independent Column has no navy. Although there is no need to create a navy now, it has set up a ship research institute, so it is natural to have this idea.
Moreover, the M government has recently seen that the Independent Column's international reputation has gradually surpassed Chongqing, and it has also won several major victories.
Therefore, they want to establish a deeper level of communication with Pingshun. It is possible that Pingshun will replace Chongqing in the future.
Therefore, Louis entrusted William to propose this business to Wang Meng, as a gesture of good will under the banner of military aid!
This photo shows an entire aircraft carrier formation, including:
Fleet carrier Yorktown and light aircraft carrier Langley.
Battleships USS Washington, USS North Carolina, USS South Dakota.
Light cruisers Santa Fe, Biloxi, Mobile, and Oakland.
Wang Meng circled the photo with a sharp look in his eyes.
"I want it all!"
William's heart was pounding, and he felt like a nouveau riche.
Considering that the most expensive York City costs 3100 million U.S. dollars, it’s not too much to ask Lao Wang for 5000 million U.S. dollars, right?
By this calculation, the nine warships would cost at least more than 300 million US dollars, which, based on the price of penicillin, would be at least 500,000 bottles of penicillin.
"Wang, I roughly calculated that it would cost 500,000 bottles of penicillin. Can you accept that?"
Wang Meng also did some calculations himself. Five hundred thousand bottles of penicillin was about half a year's production, so there shouldn't be any problem.
"William, I can only deliver these 500,000 bottles of penicillin slowly. I can't give them to you all at once. After all, there are production limits and many uncontrollable factors!"
William already had a plan and took out a contract.
"Wang, don't worry. As long as you sign the contract and reach an agreement with the Ministry of National Defense, we will immediately make a public commitment internationally to conditionally donate these warships to the Chinese Independent Column. Of course, the details will not be disclosed! So, don't worry!"
Only then did Wang Meng dispel some of his doubts. Country M now regarded itself as the "big brother" and would definitely not do anything to violate its promise.
Therefore, before the falling out, this contract is still very secure!
"Okay, then I'll give you 500,000 bottles of penicillin! You must deliver these nine warships before May next year! I'll deliver 500,000 bottles of penicillin to you on an average monthly basis!"
"make a deal!"
Before Wang Meng put pen to paper on the contract, he proposed two more ideas.
First, when making a statement, one cannot specifically state that it is delivered to an independent column, so as to avoid attracting attention.
Second, he still had to send at least one thousand soldiers, and Nicholas also recruited three thousand Chinese for him to intern on the warships of Country M to learn ship operation and command.
The reasonable request was naturally accepted by William and written into the contract as a supplementary clause.
After signing the contract, Wang Meng immediately contacted Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang via the radio and reported to them.
Out of trust in Wang Meng, Pingshun replied with two words: Agree!
But there is nothing to say about this. After all, it was Wang Meng who got the penicillin production line, and he had the right to distribute it. He only asked Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang out of respect.
Besides, Wang Meng has always been reliable and would never do anything that would harm the Chinese people and the Independent Column, so they are very relieved.
After Wang Meng signed the contract, he looked at William who seemed to have succeeded.
"William, have you guys already planned this? Are you planning to rip me off?"
"No! No! No! King, we are just getting what we need. You need weapons and equipment, and we need penicillin."
Wang Meng looked at William's as if it was a matter of course and had no time to argue with him, so he agreed that these selected soldiers would also be sent to Kunming Airport within seven days.
Wang Meng returned to Pingshun without stopping and immediately held a meeting with Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and Lin Shubing.
Finally, it was decided that Lin Shubing would select ten technical backbones from the Aircraft Research Institute and 90 students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electronics and other majors of Pingshun University to go to Country M to study aircraft manufacturing and supervise the progress of the aircraft production line.
However, sending 1000 soldiers to learn ship operations is a bit of a headache.
Because although China now has a navy, all of its troops have gone ashore.
In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese Navy was extremely vulnerable and weak. It had only a number of old ships, and there were only 121 of them. In the end, 88 of them were sunk, and 25 of them sank themselves.
Among them, the story of suicide is particularly heartbreaking and tragic.
After the Japanese occupied Shanghai, they prepared to send warships along the Yangtze River all the way to Wuhan and Chongqing in order to quickly destroy China.
However, with the combat power of China's navy and air force, it is impossible to stop them. There is only one plan...
On the evening of August 1937, 8, on the surface of the Yangtze River in Jiangyin, following an order from Chen Shaokuan, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, 12 Chinese warships and merchant ships, which had already been filled with sand and gravel, opened their underwater hatches and began to slowly sink.
Soon, all these ships sank in the Yangtze River. These were the last remaining ships of the Chinese Navy.
Among them was the "Haiqi", which had participated in the coronation ceremony of the King of England and cruised in South America to protect Chinese expatriates. It was launched in 1909, spanning two generations of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and finally made its last contribution to China's war of resistance in Jiangyin:
Firmly block the main channel of the Yangtze River and prevent the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet from going up the river to threaten the Chinese army's flank.
In the end, only 15 small ships were left, and their activities were mainly limited to the Sichuan River area.
Since then, the Chinese Navy no longer has large warships, but the navy without warships is still fighting the Japanese...