I, the super rich crown prince, will build the richest country

(The price in the previous chapter was wrong, too little, corrected to 830 million Han Yuan)

When we bought the "Kunpeng" class destroyer, we spent 680 million US dollars per ship.

Developed by ourselves, although the cost of the shipbuilding hull is higher than that of Longguo, the weapons can be much cheaper.

To put it bluntly, a warship is expensive because of its weapons.

As for the cost of the hull, it is very little.

Just like when Xinhan bought a dock landing ship before, a 20,000-ton warship was bought for only 130 million US dollars. It was so cheap because it was just a landing ship. It was not equipped with anti-ship missiles, anti-aircraft missiles and other weapons, and radars were also weakened a lot. So it can be seen from this that the warship is mainly expensive because of its weapons.

"Chief Engineer Zhou, when can this ship be built?"

After careful study, Wang Wenyuan was very satisfied with the paper data of this warship. It has very strong combat power and can be used as a main battleship.

What kind of frigate? In Xinhan, the warships with anti-ship, air defense, ground attack and anti-submarine capabilities are the most suitable.

There is no doubt that this destroyer code-named "Yinglong" meets these points. Although the anti-submarine capability is a bit poor, it can be fully enhanced through the anti-submarine helicopter on board.

"It depends on the needs of the military. Once the demand is confirmed and the order is placed, our shipyard can start shipbuilding operations."

"Let's start with two ships. After these two ships are launched and their performance meets our military needs, it will not be too late to add more."

Wang Wenyuan thought for a while and said.

He was still a little worried that he could not achieve the data on paper.

Xiao Yunhai didn't have this worry. Zhou Haiyang was a system warrior. Since he could list it, he must be able to achieve it. Moreover, many weapons are ready-made and are not just being developed now.

For example, active phased array radar, anti-ship missiles, and cruise missiles have been put into use on the "Yingyu" class battleships. The technology is fully mature, and it is nothing more than an integration problem.

"Let's start with 9 ships, and deliver 9 ships in 3 years." Xiao Yunhai interjected.

Seeing Wang Wenyuan and others looking at him, he explained: "The current international situation is a bit tense. Whether it is in Europe or Southeast Asia, friction is increasing. my country's coastline is too long and the sea area is large. Our main warships are still 10 Kunpeng-class destroyers and 22 Yingyu-class battleships. If they are used to deal with Southeast Asian countries, there is no problem.

But now the friction and conflict between major powers are intensifying, so it is necessary to prepare in advance.

Building 9 Yinglong-class destroyers can greatly enhance my country's surface ship combat capabilities and consolidate my country's coastal defense."

One ship costs 300 million US dollars.

Building 9 ships is only 2.7 billion US dollars.

It will still be delivered in three years.

This amount of money is still affordable for Shinhan, whose annual military expenditure is close to 15 billion US dollars.

In addition, the large-scale equipment of the army is nearing completion, and the next step is to strengthen the navy.and air force combat strength.

660 As an island country, the development of the army is destined to be secondary.

It mainly depends on the air force and navy to fight and keep the enemy out of the country.

What's more, the equipment used by the army, such as tanks, armored vehicles, rocket launchers and other weapons, has a very short production cycle.

It doesn't need to be like the navy, which takes one year to launch and two or three years to form combat effectiveness.

"Your Highness, this, this is too aggressive? You can produce two ships first, and if there are any problems, you can improve them."

Wang Wenyuan suggested in a low voice.

Xiao Yunhai glanced at him and said in a light tone: "Is your navy short of military funds?"

"Uh..."

Wang Wenyuan didn't know how to respond to this.

This year's military expenditure for the navy is not much, nor is it little. It has been allocated 84 Han yuan, which is almost 3.3 billion US dollars, less than a quarter, but it has increased a lot compared to last year.

If we don't buy warships, we can live comfortably.

After all, the current size of the New Han Navy, including the Marine Corps, is only more than 35,000 people. The salary of personnel alone is less than 3 billion Han Yuan a year.

Military expenditures are mainly spent on daily patrols, military exercises, warship maintenance, ammunition replenishment, military port construction, etc.

In short, for a navy that does not build warships, a military expenditure of 3 billion US dollars is enough to live comfortably.

It is a lie to say that there is a lack of military funds.

If you say there is no shortage, you are afraid that you will give less next year.

"Your Highness, you are right. The international situation is changing and becoming increasingly tense. We must indeed speed up the construction of warships to be prepared."

After thinking for a while, Wang Wenyuan finally chose to agree with Xiao Yunhai's statement and build 9 ships first.

If there are really problems, we can make modifications in time after receiving the first batch.

The rest of the people followed suit.

Seeing that everyone understood, Xiao Yunhai did not remain silent and said to Zhou Haiyang who was sitting on the side: "Build according to the technical standards on the drawings, 9 ships in the early stage, and complete delivery within 3 years."

"Okay, Your Highness."

Zhou Haiyang happily agreed.

The 9 warship orders will give the shipyard something to do.

"In addition, have you conducted research on submarines?"

"Submarines?"

"Yes!"

Zhou Haiyang shook his head: "For the time being, we don't have technical reserves in this area, and we haven't specifically studied these."

"You can consider setting up a submarine attack team to specifically develop the submarine project. Don't worry about the funding issue. I will let the Royal Investment Bureau inject 1 billion Han yuan into you as research funds to specifically study submarines."

At present, the weakness of the new Han shipbuilding industry is submarines.

As for other military vessels, such as aircraft carriers, they are of no significance to Shinhan.

It is not a long-distance battle. In Southeast Asia, with the help of tankers, basically the entire Southeast Asia is fighting.aircraft within the range of cruise operations.

Besides, it costs a lot to maintain an aircraft carrier battle group.

With that money, it is better to build more warships and fighter jets, which are more useful.

However, submarines are still very useful, especially nuclear submarines, which are a must as a strategic counterattack force.

And at present, the only submarines that can really fight in the Xinhan submarine force are the 4039B submarines, which were purchased from Longguo at the beginning.

Putting it in Southeast Asia, it is not excellent.

Before, there was no money.

The economy was weak.

Now that there is money in hand, it is natural to hope to strengthen armaments.

The purpose of strengthening armaments is not to bully others, but not to be bullied by others.

To ensure the existing achievements of Xinhan.

Hearing Xiao Yunhai's request to set up a submarine attack team and willing to spend 1 billion Han yuan as research and development funds, Zhou Haiyang naturally did not object and readily agreed.

The next day.

Xiao Yunhai went to Wanghai Shipyard for inspection.

Now Xinhan has three major shipyards.

That is, Wanghai Shipyard, Labuan Shipyard and Kuching Shipyard.

Labuan is actually a commercial repair shipyard, mainly engaged in ship dismantling and repair, and provides repair services for ocean-going cargo ships.

Kuching Shipyard, located in the south, is just a small shipyard that can build some fishing boats of several hundred tons for fishing at sea, and dozens of tons of inland boats.

Wanghai Shipyard is the only shipyard that can build large warships at present, and its foundation is still the military procurement cooperation with Longguo.

At the beginning, it was agreed that several warships were to be built in Xinhan’s local shipyard. In this way, large equipment needed for shipbuilding such as gantry cranes and docks were purchased from Longguo, which enabled Wanghai Shipyard to have the ability to produce large warships.

There are two docks, which can build 8 10,000-ton warships at the same time.

At the beginning, more than 2 billion Han yuan was invested in the expansion of Wanghai Shipyard.

It makes Wanghai Shipyard reach the level of a large shipyard.

Of course, infrastructure is useless without orders.

So, after the inspection, Xiao Yunhai suggested that we could try to use existing technology to take some commercial ship orders.

After listening, Zhou Haiyang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Your Highness, let alone we don't have the ability to build large container ships, oil tankers and bulk carriers, even if we have the ability to build, we can't catch up with the shipbuilding of South Korea and Longguo, lack competitiveness, and their costs are much lower than ours."

"And the reputation has already been established, those international shipping companies will not take the risk of building what we order."

Xiao Yunhai was speechless for a moment.

It is an indisputable fact that Longguo has low labor costs.

As for South Korea's shipbuilding industry, it is mainly political factors, and South Korea's market share in the shipbuilding industry has declined significantly in the past two years.

It is really meaningless to compete with Longguo in the shipbuilding industry.

And there are island countries among the top three in the shipbuilding industry.

"Change the gameHow do you think?"

"Your Highness, what did you say?"

"Isn't the Kuching Shipyard capable of building hundreds of tons of civilian ships? You can consider entering the civilian yacht industry, so that you don't have to look abroad for domestic orders, and you can also maintain operations through yacht orders and civilian fishing boat orders."

After thinking for a moment, Xiao Yunhai made a suggestion.

In a word, you can't be idle, you must move, otherwise the shipbuilding industry will shrink due to lack of orders over time.

Zhou Haiyang touched his chin and thought for a while, then nodded and said, "This is a solution. ”

Xinhan has a developed tourism industry and many islands, so the demand for ships of dozens or hundreds of tons is very high.

After chatting for a while, Xiao Yunhai bought technical data of the Columbia-class strategic nuclear submarines and Virginia-class attack nuclear submarines of the United States, the Husky-class attack nuclear submarines and the Borei-class strategic nuclear submarines of the United States, and the Triumph-class strategic nuclear submarines of Gaul from the system.

In addition, technical data of conventional-powered submarines, such as the technical drawings of the island country Canglong, the Long country 093c, the Gallic shortfin barracuda class, and the German 212 series, were all bought out at once.

And recruited 500 people from the system Submarine and shipbuilding technicians.

To strengthen research.

Absorb global technology, learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, and develop Shinhan's own conventional-powered submarines.

The main direction is still to push towards pure electric.

After all, Shinhan now has the world's most advanced battery technology, and it is not a lithium battery.

Many of the disadvantages of lithium batteries can be completely shielded.

As for why conventional-powered submarines should be studied, it is to save costs and expand the submarine fleet.

After all, Shinhan's submarine force, after all, actually belongs to the inland sea fleet.

And strategic nuclear submarines and attack Nuclear submarines are more likely to roam in the deep sea and open waters. As a national counterattack force, they usually do not take action.

After all, taking action means exposure.

To put it bluntly, strategic nuclear submarines are used to deal with world powers, or military powers such as island countries and South Korea (referring to weapons and equipment and scale), to play a counterattack and deterrent role, just like nuclear bombs.

To deal with these Southeast Asian countries, conventional submarines are enough.

Just when Xiao Yunhai was working hard and increasing his military farming efforts.

In Kuching, a family of ordinary people was gloomy.

Lu Tingting is Chinese, used to be Malay Chinese, and later after Sun Hungary seized Sarawak, they became Sun Hungary citizens. A while ago, the family just succeeded in naturalization.

The family of four, all ordinary people.

The family runs a small business and opens a Chinese restaurant.

The annual income is more than 200,000 Chinese yuan, which is considered good in the local area.

She has a brother who is three years older than her. After graduating last year, he couldn't find a job because his major was very unconventional. He has been unemployed at home and helped in the family restaurant.

But her brother, Lu Ming, has no interest in inheriting the family business. He thinks it is too hard to get up early and work late.I always wanted to find a job that could make money faster.

As a result, I was deceived and went to Gao Jinguo.

Not long after, the kidnappers called and demanded a ransom of 200,000 US dollars, otherwise they would kill me. In desperation, the whole family took out 200,000 US dollars and remitted the money. As a result, not only did they not release me, but they also went further and extorted 300,000 US dollars.

300,000 US dollars is not a small number for the Lu family. (To read the exciting novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

But in order to save their son, the Lu family borrowed money from others to raise 300,000 US dollars and remitted it again, but they couldn't contact the person.

The anxious Lu family had to call the police.

However, it was a transnational case.

It was extremely difficult to solve it.

So the Lu family lost the heart to run the restaurant.

Seeing her parents with sad faces and worsening health, Lu Tingting was also anxious.

I can’t even concentrate on reading.

“Tingting, why don’t you go to Chang’an to petition?”

My best friend made a suggestion.

“Petition?”

“Yes!” My best friend said, “Go to the palace in Chang’an and find the king or the crown prince. Only in this way can we save your brother.”

Lu Tingting also thought of this method. She shook her head and said self-deprecatingly, “I have thought about your method. We ordinary people can’t even see the crown prince and the king.”

“That’s true, but you can give it a try. You just wait outside the palace. If the crown prince is going to inspect somewhere, won’t it be a good opportunity? Besides, do you have a better way?”

“This...”

Lu Tingting was stunned. []

Yes.

I called the police.

It’s useless.

The only way is to report the matter to the King or His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so that they can be taken seriously.

Thinking of her parents who shed tears every day and are getting older and older, Lu Tingting's eyes became firm.

No matter whether she can get it or not, she should try it first, which is better than sitting and waiting.

After thinking it through, Lu Tingting hurriedly thanked her bestie: "Amei, thank you!"

"Thank you for what? I just said it casually. I don't know if it will work, but I suggest you give it a try."

"Hmm~~"

Back home.

Lu Tingting gathered her parents together and said: "Dad, Mom, I plan to go to Chang'an, go to Chang'an to find His Majesty the King and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and go to them to petition. Only in this way can my brother's case be taken seriously and have a chance to be rescued."

"Petition?"

Lu's father and mother were shocked.

"Yes!"

"But can we meet the king and the crown prince?"

Mother Lu frowned.

Tingting Lu said firmly: "Whether we can meet them or not, we have to try. It's better than staying at home and doing nothing!"

As soon as these words came out, Father Lu agreed: "Wife, Tingting is right!"

"It's better to do something than not to do it., what if I have a chance to meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? "

Seeing her husband say the same thing, Mother Lu thought about it and realized that it made sense.

All the available means have been used.

The only thing left is to go to Beijing to petition.

"Okay, let's go to Chang'an! ”

The next day, in the morning.

The family of three flew to the capital Chang'an.

And found the location of the palace.

However, they were stopped by the soldiers of the Royal Guard near the edge of the palace.

No matter what they said, the Royal Guards were not allowed to enter the security zone, let alone pass on messages.

In desperation, the three of them had to stay nearby and took turns squatting outside the palace, hoping to meet Xiao Yunhai entering and leaving the palace.

Don't say it, they really got the chance.

That day, Xiao Yunhai went to inspect Gaoyou County and Chencang County and investigated the local situation.

"Girl, look, is that the motorcade of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? "

Outside the palace, on a highway, Father Lu, who was squatting, pulled his daughter's sleeve and pointed at the convoy coming out of the palace and asked.

Hearing the voice, Lu Tingting hurriedly looked over.

I saw the police car leading the way and coming out of the palace again.

Even if it's not the crown prince, it must be an important person.

I hurriedly stood up and said, "Whether it is or not, there must be an important person in that car."

After that.

He ran over with his feet spread out, shouting loudly while running: "Your Highness!"

While shouting, he waved his hands as hard as he could.

Seeing this, Father Lu followed suit.

"Your Highness!"

The shouts of the two immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding guards, who hurriedly stopped the two..