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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 73: What are you afraid of?

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    Compared with the maintenance costs of warships, the navy's salary is simply insignificant. When the navy does not have ships and does not go to sea, it still needs to pay wages (the river fleet is lying), even if it is difficult to open the country, the salary must be paid.  Going overseas is just an additional overseas subsidy.

    ??And the main income of the navy is not salary but the expansion of financial resources. You must know that the navy of a big country often goes abroad to visit or escort. This represents the face of a country.  Every time we go to sea, we bring some local specialties and sell them locally, and the profit can be several times or more than ten times the profit. This is also the practice of the navy, so we can just turn a blind eye and understand it in our heart.

    The Peiping Military and Administrative Ministry and Nanjing had a good idea. While selling a Zhongshan-class battleship at a high price, they bought a Zhongshan-class battleship at a low price, earning the difference in profit while calming the bad public opinion among the people and the navy.

    Jin Batian was very pleased that the Zhongtian family could still actively buy ships after the war, and finally their efforts were not in vain.  In fact, the symbolic significance of the armored battleship at this time was far greater than its combat effectiveness at sea.  It is reasonable for the public to oppose the sale of ships.

    As an arms dealer, what do you fear most? If anything, it is world peace.  After world peace, a large number of ships will be retired, and newly built ships are even more delusional. The least that Jin Batian has to do now is to add fuel to the fire and show off again in the 1930s when battleships were most glorious, right?  On the train back to Peking, Jin Batian thought about how much benefit he could get before and during World War II.  I accidentally calculated how many houses I could buy and how many theater troupes I could support.

    Why should we raise a troupe? As material civilization and spiritual civilization are both important to grasp, there are four new people. Of course, this must be grasped with both hands.

    When Jin Batian returned to Peiping and once again guaranteed that the Nanyang Military Trade Union would provide a Zhongshan-class battleship within five to six days, the trend in the newspapers the next day changed. Of course, the Nanjing government would not say that it would not sell the ship but that the central government would  The Navy will maintain the size of the two Zhongshan-class battleship formations during peacetime to deal with various emergencies.

    From the perspective of the navy and the people, this naturally means that public opinion is respected and the government compromises, but in fact it is the government that sets the scale of the navy.  When the first Zhongshan-class battleship was put in place, some naval officers and soldiers who had not bought a new ship for more than ten years were rolling on the deck after boarding the ship.  By the time the second Zhongshan-class battleship was in place, the Japs surrendered without a fight, and the morale of the military and the people reached its peak.

    But there are still very few people who know that contentment is enough. Nanjing believes that the ship was bought by the state with debt (it is still being paid in installments), and it naturally has the right to sell it after the war.  But when the news leaked a little, it was met with a massive wave of opposition. The principal's reaction was naturally that he didn't know how valuable food and rice were.

    Nothing comes just by thinking about it. Of course the principal also wants to have as many battleships and aircraft carriers as possible (Jin Batian lies down). Naval officers and soldiers can be trained, but money will not fall from the sky.  In order to limit the expansion of the Navy from constantly making its voice heard, the principal had to use euphemisms to limit the size of the Navy.

    Six days later, Qingdao.

    As the third transaction, this time involving a tripartite transaction between two countries, Jin Batian also arrived at the scene as one of the attach¨¦s of the Northern Bureau.  By the way, this is the first time Jin Batian has seen the Zhongshan-class battleship besides the one in the album.

    The crew of the first battleship Zhongshan in service transferred all their personal belongings to the new Zhongshan, while the Hans people were busy painting out the three words "Zhongshan" and changed it to "Bismarck"  .  This was originally used as the name of the first new Hans family battleship and was moved here because it fell behind on the drawings. After all, the name of the Iron-Blooded Prime Minister was worthy of this super battleship.

    The people on board this time were a group of more than 300 staff and advisors from the Hans family who were preparing to return to China. They could only simply control the ship to go home and were unable to exert its full combat effectiveness. Also on board were international students who were going to the Hans family.  There are fifty people in the navy, one hundred and fifty people in the army, and five hundred people in various sciences.  These 700 international students will learn German and simple etiquette during the several-month voyage.

    After boarding the Bismarck, the temporarily appointed fleet commander of the Hans family said: "Although it is not the first time I have seen her, I still have to say that she is really beautiful. One hundred and sixty million marks (equivalent to eighty million in today's oceans) is very  It matches her worth. Even being her temporary commander is an honor for me. This will be recorded in my diary as the most glorious moment in my life."

    Although Chen Shaokuan, the captain, had moved to a brand new ship, he was still a little reluctant to leave the place where he had lived and fought. When he finally disembarked from the ship, he politely hugged the temporary commander of the Bismarck: "The friendship between the two countries lasts forever.  ."

    "friendship all way long."

    ??This 80 million cash ship transaction was completed by the Hans family with a quarter of the cash and three-quarters of the goods, which meant that Jin Batian had to continue to wait for the installment payment.  When Jin Batian came this time, in addition to watching the ceremony, he also brought a questionnaire.After-sales service personnel, symbolically ask if there is anything that needs improvement on the ship.

    In fact, the space in Jinbatian¡¯s dock is limited (100,000 tons).  If there are no buyers, the assembly line of the 100,000-ton ship will automatically stop production because the warehouse is full. This is of course a scene that no businessman wants to see. The backlog of factory products and the shutdown of the assembly line mean a steady stream of small money.  Is it going to be cut off?

    But the navy officers and soldiers did not solve Jin Batian's problem. Apart from agreeing, they made some boring suggestions, such as adding a collision angle - do you think it is still a medieval naval battle (the Dingyuan is lying on the gun)?

    Looking at the ships setting sail and the list of boring suggestions, Jin Batian thought to himself: If the military is really going to be converted into civilians, then the Shanghai Shipyard will be closed down. He is not here to attack the national industry.  As for the explosive fishing boats, don¡¯t even think about it. It¡¯s better to protect the offshore fisheries.

    An old farmer driving cattle looked in the distance in the direction where the ship was leaving, and said to himself: "My dear, how much steel does this ship need?"

    This reminded Jin Batian on the side: Yes, we can sell the materials directly.  Now it is no better than when I came back, the annual output of a large steel plant can easily reach tens of millions or hundreds of millions of tons.  The country's annual output is only tens of thousands of tons of steel and hundreds of thousands of tons of iron. It would be a good idea to dismantle the ship. There are various diesel units, generator units, turbine units and even magnet telephone lines and telegraph machines on board.  These should be very popular items. Thousands of tons of steel plates can be removed from a ship with a standard displacement of 10,000 tons.  Dismantling ten or eight ships a year is equivalent to doubling the national steel production. If we sell the surplus steel ingots from the refinery more ruthlessly, it seems that there will still be sales, but our thinking is rigid.

    Opening the system, Jin Batian casually canceled all the assembly lines except for the Zhongshan-class battleships that were being produced, and replaced them with the production of alternative battleships.  The steel plate of this newly designed 10,000-ton battleship is only a thin two millimeters thick. This thickness cannot even withstand the puncture of a swordfish. The bridge is just a two-meter-high rectangular double-layered iron box.  In addition to loading the largest number of diesel engines, generators and steam turbines, there are also a plurality of magnet telephones and radio stations.

    Ten days later, a newly opened Limin ship-breaking yard in Tanggu area of ??Tianjin welcomed its first customer. A specially-built 10,000-ton ship sailed into the simple dock of Limin ship-breaking yard. There was no reason why the ship did not sink on the way.  It is because there are no three-layer compartments for going out to the open sea and inside.

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