Chapter 16 On Selling Ships and Keeping Ships
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Jin Batian changed the topic, "I don't know what the minister thinks about ships. Our Nanyang shipyard is quite large in scale. Many aircraft carrier battleships have been launched and are in the installation stage, and there are many of them in the process of building. We also accept reservations and can build ships according to your requirements."
"Why can I not know the importance of this navy from the sea? The old and sluggish naval warships should have been replaced long ago, but the battleship aircraft carriers are worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions. When you were testing the gun just now, I sent a telegram to ask. The chairman's intention was to buy a few U-shaped submarines to ambush the Japanese sea route."
Jin Batian nodded: "Indeed, Hans' U-shaped submarine shone brightly in battle, but the submarine is just a naval dagger. A soldier can't go to the battlefield with only a dagger. No general gave the soldiers a dagger to let them fight. Not to mention that the sonar technology of destroyers now has strong anti-submarine capabilities. Even Hans technicians from the Nanyang Shipyard also revealed that Hans has also been studying new battleships in recent years. Our new battleship references Hans' style in the hull structure. A naval power must be a complete navy with battleships as the main body, assisted by aircraft carriers, equipped with cruiser destroyers and submarine torpedo speedboats."
"I understand what Jin Yishi said, but the burden of raising iron armored ships is no less than buying ships. Otherwise, the Beiyang Navy would not have been defeated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 because of less than enough wages and equipment. This is also a century-long pain for our country."
"Since we have sold the ship, the maintenance work will naturally be borne in the future. Don't worry, it will definitely be free. However, has Minister Song ever thought of using the method of selling ships to support the navy in a virtuous cycle."
"Selling ships and raising ships?"
"Yes, our Nanyang Shipyard can continuously provide the National Navy with a large number of high-quality and low-priced warships. The National Palace can only buy the first batch by itself, and the second batch of ships can be paid for by the first batch of ships. In this cycle, the National Palace can not only maintain a world-class navy, but also earn money to buy ships and maintain ships."
"This is a good idea. But is there such a big market for warships?"
"Minister, don't worry, there are more than a hundred countries in the world, but only five or six countries have the ability to build battleships, but no one dares to easily sell the new battleships of their country. This is a powerful weapon to control the country and the highest secret of a country's naval technology. The shipbuilding technology of our Nanyang Shipyard comes from five or six countries, and we don't care about it, and we sell it. After all, it turns out that it is theirs. As for the market, I heard that the Bald Eagle family had a feud with Mexico some time ago, and Mexico hopes to buy ships from outside to compete with the Bald Eagle family. South America, Brazil, Chile, Argentina 3
The relations between countries are also very tense and want to dominate the ocean. Only by saying that one country buys ships, the other two countries will definitely follow up. The 20-year armistice agreement in Europe during World War I is almost expiring, and it is inevitable to build ships to check and balance maritime forces. When we really fight, we have mastered the seller's market. It can be said that the prospect of selling ships is very broad. The most important point is that our silver-standard countries, most of the Western countries are gold-standard countries. They can buy warships without using their national gold reserves. This is a very cost-effective thing for both of us."
"What if they lack silver reserves?"
"Bargo, Mexico's crude oil, well, the reason why he had a feud with the Bald Eagle family was that he confiscated the Bald Eagle family's oil company's industry and returned to the country. Intelligence, Argentina, Brazil, South America, minerals, tobacco, cocoa, coffee, European industrial products and machines, which one can't be exchanged for silver. In other words, we are just a company and have no identity to negotiate with the country in a relative manner. Otherwise, I really want to do this transaction myself."
After a few words woke up the dreamer, Minister of Finance Song Ziwen suddenly realized that, and as expected, he didn't even remember. He was a businessman, so he forgot his original name after only a few days of being the Minister of Finance. This is not good, not good.
"That's right, I'll send a telegram to Nanjing."
Song Ziwen took people out, and after a while, he was full of spring breeze and came back. "Jin Yishi, Nanjing has agreed to your proposal. Let's discuss the price of the warship."
"The price is still negotiable? By the way, this set of warships packed a standard displacement of 100,000 tons, 150 million oceans, which is only a few, 50 million US dollars. That is, a battleship of the Bald Eagle family costs a little more. That is, the Nanyang labor is cheaper, but those foreign technicians hired with high salaries are not cheap at all."
"Last year, the government's finances were already deficit. Looking at the battle of the Great Wall this year, the deficit this year is probably not small. I am in charge of the capital. To be honest, I really don't have this budget. I have thought about this money. In general, it is also a deal for our Jiangsu and Zhejiang Consortium to raise funds, and tens of millions of oceans can still be taken out. It is still too much to take out 150 million oceans at a time."
Liar, don’t think I don’t know how much money the four major families have. Youdao is the Chen family in the Jiang family and the Song family sister Kong family. Although it is not yet time for the four major families to make money from the national crisis to dig out capitalism (why is it so awkward), its Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortiums must have a net worth of more than tens of millions. After 80% of them, they bought houses and even arranged houses after they had money.
"I wonder if Minister Song has heard of installment payments?"
Although Song Ziwen has never heard of it, the literal meaning is very simple. "What does Jin Yishi mean? This money doesn't have to be taken out at once."
"The reputation of the government is still guaranteed. You can pay the money in three months. You only need to pay a small part of the first month after delivery. The price can also be negotiated. We can suffer a little loss in Nanyang shipbuilding. 120 million and 20 million. The first time we cooperate, we will pay for the money. As long as we can do business, it will be easy to say."
Song Ziwen thought that he could find the next company to take over in three months. The Navy could also conduct adaptive training in three months. As long as the ships were bought back continuously, they would not care whether they had sold some.
In this way, it was better than what Jin Batian thought. He reached a deal for the first advanced modern fleet of the National Government with an ocean of 120 million yuan. The two parties reached an agreement that the navy would pick up the ship in the waters near Qingdao. Within three days after receiving the ship, whether to buy or not. If you buy, the money would be paid in three times to Jin Batian's account in Bank of Communications. If you are not satisfied with the ship within three days, you can return the goods unconditionally.
For naval officers and soldiers who are still serving on ships of the former Qing Dynasty, this is a great deal if there is a new ship. Where can I find any problem? None of the ship types selected by Jin Batian are out of date, and there are even those that are used until the end of World War II. Naturally, there is no need to worry about the quality of shipbuilding technology in various countries.
Jin Batian did not fully agree with the statement that the battleships were about to fall behind in the rise of aircraft carriers. If the battleships of the Anti-Eagle and Aid Korea had not been fired by the Pacific Fleet for half a month with naval guns near the 38th parallel, the United ** would have been driven out of the Pacific Ocean to feed fish. There was no such thing as the later negotiations between the Shangganling Campaign and Panmunjom. The Bald Eagle's Iowa-class battleship was modernized and even participated in the Gulf War in the 1990s. A 406mm caliber naval gun can destroy a position as big as a football field. Even in the modern war, this power is quite amazing.
Principal Jiang of Nanjing was not in a good mood these days. Since the Nanjing government merged with Ninghan, the Northern Expedition successfully drove away the last man of the Beiyang government, Zhang Dashuai, and persuaded Zhang Xueliang to change his flag and enter the pass. A battle in the Central Plains forced Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang to step down. The Guangxi clan returned to his hometown in Guangxi. He thought that the Zhongtian family could develop like this.
But the Japanese quit. The most shameful Zhongtian family is that a unified Zhongtian family rose by their side. First, it was September 18, 128 Songhu, and this year it was the Rehe Great Wall. It was almost a year to make a mess. You say fight, you only have hundreds of thousands of Central Army soldiers and horses. In this era when you speak according to your strength, you will be nothing if you lose your troops. It is not okay if you don’t fight. The young marshal has already made the young marshal bear the jar. This time, like Songhu, no one has come out to take the post for him. Sending the elite 17th Army to resist to a limit is also a helpless move, and save the outside world scolding himself every day without resisting.
There is still some good news today. Song Ziwen found a high-quality and low-cost arms dealer in Peking. Sample guns and aircraft can be sent to Nanjing today, and heavy artillery and tanks are also installed on the military line today. If this line can be stabilized, the sixty reorganization divisions envisioned by Hans' military consultant can be launched. According to Hans' consultant's idea, there are nearly two million troops of these sixty reorganization divisions. The Nanjing government can fully respond to any emergencies.
This German reorganized division is different from the reduced version trained by Beiyang. The reduced version has only more than 10,000 troops and about 10,000 combat soldiers. A squad leader and deputy squad leader of the reorganized division has 12 soldiers, and each infantry squad has 10 rifles and a Czech light machine gun. The infantry platoon is under the jurisdiction of three infantry squads and a 12-person machine gun squad with three 60 mortars. This platoon has fifty people plus the chief and deputy platoon leader.
The infantry company has three infantry platoons and a machine gun platoon with four anti-aircraft cannons and four Maxine heavy machine guns. In addition, a company with two hundred people in a company is zero. The infantry battalion has three infantry companies and a machine gun company with 37mm anti-aircraft cannons and 75mm mountain cannons. Each battalion has a total of 900 people. A regiment consists of three infantry battalions and a mountain cannon anti-aircraft cannons, with more than 3,000 people. The regiment is still in the three-three system. The brigade level is set up with field artillery battalions, and the division level is set up with howitzer regiments.
Such a reorganized division is a combat soldier of more than 30,000 people. The firepower and force can fully resist a division of the family - if both training and fighting will be kept up, in fact, the elite forces of the Central Army, such as the Fifth Army of the 19th Route Army and the Teaching Corps of the Tax Police Corps, fought very well when the equipment was backward in the 128th Songhu War.
As I said, the human resources of Zhongtian family have never been a problem. If the money and weapons problems are solved, there will be no problem. This made Hans consultant burst into tears. If Hans had such a rich human resources, he would have been to Paris and Moscow in the battle. Minister Song was usually in charge of money, but today seems to be an exception. Not only did the Finance Minister who had been overturned by him due to financial problems, but he even found a source of weapons for him.
Chapter completed!