Chapter 192 Bargaining
As Russia's supreme leader, Comrade Lao Pu was very sad. He finally won the election and regained Russia, but soon the zombie virus broke out. He took the people away from Moscow, to northern Siberia, and then left Siberia and went to Murmansk. The population of 150 million was still 860,000, which was not as good as a mayor.
Russia has never been a rich country. Although this country is proactive in geographical areas, it is pitiful in the developed areas. In Murmansk, there is a very important unfreezing port in Russia. Lao Pu and his people gathered here, thinking that if they can't survive here, they will lead the people to the Arctic. Anyway, this place is no more than two steps away from the Arctic.
In such places, food has become one of their biggest problems. And now winter is coming, the temperature here has reached extreme cold, and coal has become one of the materials they are in urgent need. However, the Russians do have their special rough route. Without coal, they cannot keep warm. At Lao Pu's order, two Russian North Wind God-class nuclear submarines were directly transformed into water nuclear power plants. Each nuclear submarine has two nuclear reactors with a total power of 450 megawatts, which directly supply the electricity of the entire Murmansk survivors.
When the Chinese information reached Lao Pu's ears, he immediately became interested in air defense missiles. What do the Chinese need to do now? Who should we prevent? Do we prevent me? I can only use dozens of fighter jets now, and the zombie virus has developed for so long. Who has enough aviation fuel? Is it to prevent the United States? It's even more nonsense. How can Americans still have time to deal with the situation in Asia?
However, Lao Pu thought about things and Americans thought about things. Lao Pu called his men to discuss. When others said that such high-end weapons could not be sold to Chinese people, Putin asked back: "So what if you give Poplar m to China now? Can they use it without satellites? And you don't have to worry about them plagiarizing your technology. The reason is very simple. The population in the world has dropped to an extreme number. It is impossible for such a small number to restore the previous industrial foundation without more than a hundred years. A hundred years are optimistic estimates, because the population is placed here, not only to supplement the population, but many academic and scientific talents have been exhausted, and people need to pick it up again, which takes a lot of time. Heavy industries, especially heavy industry with high-tech content, military industry, require a large number of industrial talents. It takes longer to accumulate so many talents. In this way, what if we sell S-500 to Chinese people now?"
Everyone thought about it carefully for a moment and agreed with Putin's words. Putin said at this time: "After all, although many technologies have not disappeared, it is too difficult to actually become products. Not to mention building missiles, it is difficult to build tractors now. First of all, let alone steel problems, how many people are needed to mine? How many people are needed to smel? How many people are needed to forge? How many people are needed to various equipment? Who makes rubber, who makes tires? Who makes engines?"
When Putin said this, everyone was a little desperate. No one had thought about the impact of the zombie virus on human civilization to such a point. Putin was right. All industrial foundations are linked together and the population has dropped sharply. It would be a dream to reorganize the entire industrial chain again.
"Food is the most practical thing for us." Putin said lightly: "It just so happened that we have deployed a large number of air defense missiles in Murmansk. Not to mention the S-500, as long as the Chinese want, the air defense radar can be removed to them."
Soon, Russia reached a consensus and gave Xie Tian a positive reply. Russia currently has more than 60 sets of s-500 air defense missile systems, equipped with more s-400s and a large number of advanced air defense radars. Among them, s-500 air defense missiles, each set of 100 tons of grain, wheat and rice, is available, and s-400 is sold at 60 tons, and each set of radar system is 80 tons, so how much does it cost.
Russia's quotation is quite a bit terrifying. After all, these things are now a pile of scrap iron for them, but they have to be exchanged for dozens or hundreds of tons of grain, which made Xie Tian a little unacceptable. Then, Xie Tian immediately contacted the Russians and said, "Your price is too high, we can't accept it. Besides, what we want is not one set or two sets. You can make some concessions on the price to promote this transaction between us."
The Russian replied: "Sorry, Mr. Xie, this is the result agreed by our President Putin and the members of the parliament. Moreover, we cannot make any concessions in this result. Please understand."
Xie Tian frowned and said, "Okay, I just think that this is the price of delivery to your door. I want ten sets of s-500, ten sets of s-400, and six sets of ground air defense radars. You can directly transport the goods I want to Shanghai. I will prepare the food. After the transaction is completed, you can take it back." After that, Xie Tian said, "Your speed is as fast as possible. I hope to see the goods I want in Shanghai within a week. That's it, goodbye."
Xie Tian cut off the communication with Russia, but the Russians were stunned for a while. Then, the news was reported to Putin. After hearing this, Putin felt a suffocation in his chest and almost didn't breathe.
He really wanted to knock on China's robbery, but he didn't expect Xie Tian to ask himself to deliver goods to his door. Although Russia is very large, it does not currently have such strong air transport capabilities. All the weapons and equipment required by Xie Tian arrived in Shanghai, and the Russians were unable to resume the production of aviation fuel, and aviation fuel was also in short supply.
"His Excellency President," said a member of parliament. "The Chinese are purely nonsense. He wants to buy things from us, so why do we still need to deliver goods to our door?"
The Minister of Defense said with a wry smile: "Martial sales are different from other transactions. They have always been delivered to their homes. They not only have to deliver goods, but also have to be responsible for completing assembly, commissioning and training in other countries. Which country did you see that sells weapons and lets buyers come to ship them by themselves? We sell them to the Chinese Su-27, and do we let them come to our territory by themselves, and then drive the Su-27 through our large territory and then return to China?"
"This..." The members of the parliament were stunned. These people usually pay attention to issues such as law, domestic security, and economic development. They had only a slight understanding of military and national defense issues. What the Minister of National Defense said was an international practice. Whenever weapons were sold, the seller needed to load the weapons on ships and ship them to the buyers. Xie Tian clearly posed a huge problem for the Russians, just like the Russians in the Arctic were hungry, while the Chinese were putting a lot of bread in Antarctica.
"We are not able to transport these weapons and equipment." After the outbreak of the zombie virus, General Isolov, who is in charge of the entire Russian military and civil aviation, said: "If we want to use these weapons and equipment to exchange food with the Chinese, we must make some concessions, let the Chinese send their own transport planes to transport their food and transport our weapons and equipment back."
The Minister of Defense said: "Do we want to try the sea route? Depart from the Murmansk port and head to Shanghai, China."
"This is too long." The Navy Commander shook his head and said, "It is not only very long, but also very dangerous. You have to cross multiple straits. There is no guidance or navigation beacon. It is easy to have problems if you sail such a long distance."
Putin said lightly: "Then don't consider sea routes. If the sea routes are not good, even more so by land routes. The only choice we can choose is air transport, which is both fast and safe, but we don't have the ability to transport them by ourselves."
The Minister of Defense said: "But the Chinese people require us to send it according to the customs. Moreover, the custom is to transport it to China's ports by sea, and then the Chinese government will complete the reception at the port."
Putin ignored the words of the Minister of Defense and asked: "Do we have professional personnel now that we can debug, maintain and teach these weapons and equipment?"
"Yes." The Minister of Defense said: "There are more than 300 people in the air defense force who survived, and these people are now all incorporated into the army."
Putin nodded and sighed, "There is nothing more. The Chinese are smart in doing business. It is basically a fool to want to take advantage of them. Let's do this, cut all the quotes half and let the Chinese take them by themselves."
"Cut off half?" said the Minister of Defense in surprise: "In this case, our losses will be too great."
"Loss?" Putin asked back: "Is it useful for you to keep these things?"
"It's useless." The Minister of Defense shook his head angrily.
Putin said lightly: "What are you doing if you don't have any use? Where can you get the loss if you don't have any use? Just settle it, tell them."
"good."
Xie Tian was still acceptable to Putin cut the price by half. After all, it was a business and neither side should go too far. Besides, he also needed this group of top Russian air defense forces to completely consolidate the defenses of Shanghai and Zhangshu. Otherwise, if the incident broke out one day and started working with the United States, the United States' plane would be blocked by him.
After confirming the price, Xie Tian began to prepare food. His food resources were still very sufficient, and there were a large number of granaries around him that had not been developed. Otherwise, he could find tens of thousands of tons of old grains at will. Moreover, the total transaction with the Russians was only more than a thousand tons of grain.
The Russians were not idle either. They began to prepare all the weapons and equipment Xie Tian needed as quickly as possible. Three days later, Russia officially notified China that all weapons and equipment were ready and all were waiting at the Murmansk Army Airport.
Xie Tian had already prepared the food here. He prepared the Il 76 military transport aircraft and the Boeing 747-8f civilian all-cargo aircraft. The 747-8f is a FedEx freight aircraft. The maximum load of each aircraft reaches more than 130 tons, and the transportation capacity is very strong.
The airport assessed the recent weather conditions and the current weather conditions in Russia and decided to take off from Shanghai tomorrow morning. Xie Tian also decided to go there in person. However, his parents and Zhao Ziye and others did not understand why Xie Tian had to go there in person every time to be relieved. When Xie Tian said the importance of these air defense missiles to China, everyone around him expressed their full understanding.
Just as Xie Tian was thinking about the situation when he arrived in Russia tomorrow, his subordinates reported a message to Xie Tian: "U.S. President Obama hopes to pay a friendly visit to China in the near future."
"What's the situation?" Xie Tian asked curiously: "Obama takes the initiative to come and visit?"
"Yes." The subordinate nodded, handed a document to Xie Tian, and said: "This is a diplomatic letter issued by the US Congress."
Xie Tian took it over and looked carefully. The rough content in the diplomatic letter was: For so long as the zombie virus broke out, China and the United States have made outstanding contributions to all mankind in the struggle with zombies. The United States believes that China and the United States carry the hope of the whole world, so the United States hopes to have face-to-face conversations with Chinese senior leaders on this topic, hoping that China and the United States can form strategic partners and share resources to achieve stability in the eastern and western hemispheres and enhance the connection between the eastern and western hemispheres. In this regard, the United States is willing to provide China with a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, and specific matters must be confirmed after the interview."
At this time, Americans regard themselves as the savior of Western society and China as the savior of Eastern society. The implication is that I am the boss of the Western Hemisphere, you are the boss of the Eastern Hemisphere. When we join forces, we will be the boss of the world. By then, the world will belong to the two of us. However, since we want to be the boss together, we must form an alliance. We have a large number of advanced weapons and ammunition, and you have a large population, fuel, food and supplies, help each other, and benefit each other.
Xie Tian scoffed at this diplomatic letter, but since it was a diplomatic letter, it was not something he could decide. At least, it was not his true identity. Chairman Han still had to decide this matter. If Chairman Han didn't care about it, he could use Patton's identity to directly reject Obama. If Chairman Han wanted Obama to come, the problem would be somewhat difficult to solve. Xie Tian could fly all the American planes he had secretly brought to the camphor tree and could dive all the submarines underwater, but where could Xie Tian hide such a large aircraft carrier? But I think that Chairman Han would also be concerned about this.
Xie Tian personally sent the diplomatic letter to the Interim Military Commission. Chairman Han brought Patton and himself into his office and said with a smile: "Zhengxuan, Xiao Xie, Americans, can't hold back! In the past, they were waiting for others to invite him to visit, but now they are calm and willing to visit us."
Xie Tian controlled Patton and said, "The Americans are really going to enter the Three Treasures Hall without any trouble. They have something to ask for us. The intention of the transaction proposed before was rejected by us. Then we came up with this solution. The President came to mediate in person. However, we must not give Americans a chance. If the Americans really rise again through us, then it will definitely be a big trouble for us in the future. In my opinion, we will directly reject his request for access."
"This is a very serious diplomatic problem." Chairman Han smiled and said, "If you reject him, it means you are clearly not taking him seriously. Americans are here to seek help, so he has some hope, but if you reject them directly, it means you are making Americans desperate. Wouldn't this become an enemy?"
"It doesn't matter if it becomes an enemy," said Patton. "In this case, we are not necessarily inferior to Americans."
"Multiple friends, multiple roads." Chairman Han said lightly: "We can't let Obama come, otherwise his plane has not landed and he will see their aircraft carrier parked at the port. He will definitely turn around immediately and declare war on us when he returns home. However, if we don't let Obama come, we can send people to explore the bottom of the Americans on the one hand, and on the other hand, bringing food to the Americans, which can make Americans have nothing to say."
"Okay." Patton nodded and said, "Then I'll contact Obama and say you're old and it's not convenient to fly long distances. I'll fly to the United States in a few days and bring some supplies."
"Yeah." Chairman Han nodded and smiled, "That's right. Moreover, after you arrive in the United States, you must learn to show weakness and let Americans know that we are not really that easy at the moment, especially in terms of national defense capabilities, you must reassure the Americans and make them think that we are still far behind them."
"I understand." Patton nodded very much. At this time, Chairman Han looked at Xie Tian himself again and asked, "Xiao Xie, are you going to Russia tomorrow?"
Xie Tian nodded and said, "Yes, Chairman Han, the plane takes off tomorrow morning, we are ready for the food, Russia has also prepared the weapons and equipment we need, and professional personnel are also ready. We will come back with that batch of equipment at that time."
Chairman Han smiled slightly and said, "Since they are talents, don't let them leave when they come. I think the Russian government doesn't care about such professionals. Our air defense force must be strong, so that we can ensure that we can deal with all air strikes. Among the threats we may encounter now, air threats are the greatest. As for ground threats, it's nothing at all, because we have strong air strike forces as a guarantee, just like before we printed and saved people in Kashmir. They did not have air supremacy, and no matter how many ground troops there are, they will die. Apart from these two, the rest is the threat from the sea.
We don’t need to worry about maritime threats at the moment, because our fleet is also strong enough, and if we fight landing wars, the other party is not our opponent at all, and our air superiority is here, so there is no need to worry.
What I worry most is missiles. I am not afraid of nuclear missiles from the United States, because they are simply impossible to launch missiles to China now, but I am worried about strategic nuclear submarines. If they approach us based on the ocean, it will be difficult for us to be wary of it!"
Chapter completed!