After Liu Hai returned to his villa, he could finally rest for a few days. During this period, he was very busy. In the Qing Dynasty, it was the reorganization of the Hunan Army, and back in the modern era, it was the reception of various equipment.
There is no place left without him.
For several days in a row, Liu Hai accompanied Wang Fang to stroll around the major shopping malls in City T. In fact, it was Liu Hai who was wandering around, while Wang Fang was anxiously buying various wedding items.
Seeing that both of them met their parents, both parents agreed to the marriage. The most important thing is that they are both grown up, and Liu Hai's parents called every three days, constantly urging them to get married quickly so that they could have grandchildren.
In the end, Liu Hai had no choice but to agree to get married on the National Day.
Seeing that the time was coming again, Liu Hai was a busy person and often could not be seen, so all these things fell on Wang Fang.
But Wang Fang enjoys it. Although she is still busy with the company's affairs, she has longed for marriage for a long time.
Therefore, when it comes to wedding matters, Wang Fang is completely responsible for making wedding items, contacting hotels, and wedding companies. Liu Hai is completely the hands-off shopkeeper.
On this day, Liu Hai accompanied Wang Fang to a bridal shop to take wedding photos, because it might only happen once in a lifetime. Wang Fang was very picky and ordered several waiters around.
Those who served Wang Fang did not complain because Liu Hai paid a lot of money. From then on, they moved out all the wedding dresses in their bridal shop and let Wang Fang try on them one by one.
Liu Hai was sitting aside, a little bored, and took out his phone to check what new news there was on the Internet.
At the beginning, it was just some entertainment news, some third party got involved, or some celebrity cheated on me again.
But as time passed, a piece of information suddenly caught his attention.
It turned out that they were the last few Iowa-class battleships left over by Citigroup during World War II. Because they were too old, the Citigroup government was planning to sell them to a scrap iron company to remanufacture them.
Liu Hai immediately became interested. In modern society, these battleships are completely useless and can even be said to be targets for missiles.
But once these battleships returned to the Qing Dynasty, they would be a big killer.
With these battleships, Liu Hai even dared to compete head-on with the British Empire fleet.
Then Liu Hai checked the performance of these battleships on the Internet.
Standard displacement: 44500, full load displacement: 55710 tons, total armor weight: 18466 tons, total length: 270.4 meters, waterline length: 262.1 meters, maximum width: 33 meters, maximum draft: 11 meters, main engine power: 212000 horsepower,
Maximum speed: 33 knots, Endurance: 15,900 nautical miles/17 knots, Main gun: 9 50 times caliber 406 mm (3 3-seat twin mounts), Secondary guns: 20 127 mm guns (10 10-seat twin mounts), carrier-based aircraft
: 4; catapults: 2.
With its large-caliber main gun and its strong armor, currently no warship can pose a danger to it. Even the future Dreadnought-class battleships will not be enough in front of the Iowa-class battleships.
However, Liu Hai thought about it and realized that even if the Iowa-class battleships were to be dismantled into scrap metal, the Citigroup government would not be able to sell them to Xia State. It seemed that they would have to find Madagascar.
After Liu Hai thought about it clearly, he looked at his savings, which was about 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. He didn't know if the money would be enough to buy these four warships.
So Liu Hai thought of Zhang Tao. After working together for such a long time, Zhang Tao also understood his character. If he borrowed money from him, the country would not have any other requirements in the future.
So Liu Hai did what he said and dialed Zhang Tao's phone number at that time.
"Hey, is this Mr. Liu?"
"Brother Zhang, what are you busy with? Let's get together when you have time."
"I'm not like Mr. Liu who is a big boss and can be a hands-off shopkeeper. I'm just doing my part."
"Okay, okay, I won't joke with you anymore, I really have something to tell you."
"What's wrong with Boss Liu? Don't give me any problems. My heart is not feeling well right now."
"What problem can I give you? I just want to loan you some money, which is a matter of hundreds of millions of dollars."
Zhang Tao was a little surprised when he heard this. Liu Hai was not short of money. He had more than one billion US dollars in the bank. It seemed that the other party had another big project.
"Boss Liu, the loan is okay, but you have to explain the purpose clearly to me, and I have to explain it to the superiors."
Liu Hai was silent for a moment, and finally thought about it, let's tell the truth. This matter cannot be hidden from others, and after buying it, Xia Guo's shipyard will need to transform it. Otherwise, how can the warships from decades ago be used?
He immediately entered the water to fight.
"Well, I saw on the news that several Iowa-class battleships from Citigroup were for sale, so I wanted to acquire these battleships."
Zhang Tao was silent for a while after hearing this, and then said helplessly: "Mr. Liu, what do you want these old antiques for? You can just buy a few ordinary destroyers from our Xia Kingdom, and their combat capabilities will exceed hers, and it will save money."
"Have I never seen a battleship before? I want to keep this for myself."
Zhang Tao naturally knew that Liu Hai was deceiving him, but after thinking about it for a while, he agreed to Liu Hai.
"Okay, then I will make the decision privately to bring you 500 million US dollars, but you have to think clearly, this battleship is really no longer viable."
Next, Zhang Tao began to recommend Xia's retired battleships to Liu Hai, such as various frigates and Type 051 destroyers, and he almost exaggerated these weapons.
In the end, Liu Hai had no choice but to say to him: "Old Zhang, we have an old relationship. Let me tell you the truth. I really can't afford those warships you mentioned. A single missile would cost millions of dollars."
I'm afraid that I will have nothing left after a war. The battleships seem to cost a lot of money now, but the shells only cost so much, so I can barely support it."
After listening to Liu Hai's words, Zhang Tao had to admit that what Liu Hai said was true. Although the missiles on the 051 ship did not cost millions of dollars, they still cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Compared with the artillery shells, they were really expensive.
The old nose has money.
So Zhang Tao could only change the subject: "I have sent the batch of cloth you ordered to the warehouse. If you sell well, we can start work here at full capacity."
After hearing this, Liu Hai glanced at his mouth, how much money could these cloths earn in the Qing Dynasty?
But this time Liu Hai was really wrong. Back then, the British Empire relied on cloth to make its fortune, and there were even rumors of sheep eating people.
After Liu Hai put down Zhang Tao's phone, he immediately made an international call to Madagascar President Josh Hamilton.
"Is it the master?"
"Josh, I have something I need the Madagascar government to come forward with."
"Master, if you have anything to do, just ask."
"The thing is, I got news that the US government wants to auction four Iowa-class battleships at the price of scrap metal. I am very interested in these battleships, but you also know that my identity is a bit inconvenient, so
I hope that the Dajia government can participate in this auction, buy all these strategic ships, and then send them to Xia Kingdom for modification."
"There is no problem at all. The Madagascar government will serve the owner wholeheartedly."
"Well, you should do this quickly. I think the auction over there is about to start. I won't be leaving for a few days. If you have anything to do, call me."
After Liu Hai finished speaking, he hung up the phone and continued to accompany Wang Fang to flip the wedding dress.
At this time, the President of Madagascar, Josh Hamilton, began to get busy.
He immediately convened a meeting and asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue a notice to the Citizen government, hoping to participate in the bidding for four Iowa-class battleships.
At this time, the Citizen Defense Department suddenly received a notice from the Madagascar government that they also wanted to purchase four Iowa-class battleships.
This made the Citizen government immediately alert. Although these battleships are said to be useless, they are still giant ships of more than 50,000 tons. If they don't understand what the buyers want to use these battleships for, they may have to sleep with their eyes open.
With one eye open.
So the document was delivered to Secretary of Defense William Howe that day.
After receiving the document, William Howe read it carefully, and then immediately contacted the intelligence department and asked them to immediately find out what the Madagascar government was going to do with these battleships?
When it comes to Citigroup’s intelligence department, it is the largest and most technologically advanced intelligence organization in the world.
Soon they found out that the President of Madagascar had a consultant from Xia Guo, and according to insiders, the relationship between the speaker and the consultant during the call was very friendly.
So the intelligence department quickly followed this line and speculated that the final buyer of these four battleships might be the Xia government.
This immediately alerted the U.S. Citizen government. They knew that the Xia government was an infrastructure madman. Maybe these four battleships would soon turn into aircraft carriers and appear in front of the Americans.
After analyzing the intelligence, the Secretary of Defense immediately reported it to the commander-in-chief of Citigroup.
The current commander-in-chief of the United States is an anti-Xia maniac, and he is currently blocking Xia at all costs.
After receiving the notice, he immediately summoned his staff and hoped that they would analyze the specific effects of these four battleships on the Xia Kingdom.
As a result, these aides did not find out what Xia Guo wanted these four battleships to do after analysis. Their only use was for target shooting at sea and to simulate the tonnage of aircraft carriers.
After receiving the document from his staff, the Citizen leader became even more confused as to what Xia Guo wanted these battleships for?
In the end, the staff directly suggested that the top leaders of Citigroup adapt to the situation and agree to Madagascar's participation in the purchase.
Then he raised the price during the bidding and asked the Xia people to pay a lot of blood, then removed all the important weapon parts from the battleship, allowing Xia to get a real battleship from the World War II era.
The commander-in-chief of Citigroup smiled after listening to his staff's suggestion. If the Xia government bought back these battleships, it would cost a lot of money. Maybe the money could be used to add more battleships to the Citigroup government.