Through the wealth life

Chapter 1293 Weapon Configuration
On the next morning, Li Guangyu, Cao Weiqing and Zhang Ziyu, accompanied by Prince Charles of England and the deputy commander of the Royal Navy of England, came to the Naval Naval Port in London to visit some surface ships of the British Navy.

The focus is on the Type 23 frigate that England has served for a few years. This is also a type of warship that Bentley Island is planning to buy. This is a type of ship that England is refitting for its Royal Navy.

It is equipped with Seawolf anti-aircraft missiles, yellow snapper light torpedoes, and two Lynx MK.8 anti-submarine helicopters.

This time, the Bentley Group plans to order four Type 23 frigates. At the same time, it will also establish a military port in the northeast of Bentley Island and maintain the shipyard. These are all equipment purchased from England and technical personnel are also needed here.

This is a fairly large arms sales order for England, including warships, missiles, anti-submarine helicopters, and Bentley Island naval port and maintenance shipyard equipment, etc., with a total cost of up to [-] million pounds.

It’s just that the frigate is not very expensive, only 4000 million pounds a piece, and the other expenses add up to be more expensive. Fortunately, it is only the shipyard equipment for repairing the Type 23 frigate. If it is other, the price will only be more expensive.

This time Li Guangyu not only ordered frigates, but also ordered 24 Mirage 2000c fighter jets from France equipped with various types of missiles. The purchase price there would exceed [-] million US dollars.

Those on land will also order Leopard 2 tanks from West Germany, with an order quantity of 36. At the same time, there will be armored infantry vehicles, artillery, and various types of light weapons, with a total value of about 1 million US dollars.

This time Li Guangyu came to Western Europe to visit these equipments and confirm the contract.

If he was just a businessman who did his duty, how could Li Guangyu spend such a huge amount of money to build these? You must know that this is still the initial cost, and the later maintenance cost is even higher. Without hundreds of millions of dollars per year, it is impossible to play at all. If the training is more frequent , even billions of dollars.

Moreover, with such planning, the area of ​​Bentley Island is obviously too small. Li Guangyu still needs to communicate with the British government and the royal family to buy several small islands around Bentley Island to share the pressure on Bentley Island. At the same time, reclamation will be carried out. land.

Of course, these islands are still under British jurisdiction. Otherwise, Li Guangyu would not even think about it. At that time, these islands can only be hung under the Dominion of Bentley Island. If it is sold to other countries and forces, even if it is transferred, the nature of this territory is still British territory, otherwise it will cause public anger.

England is very willing to transfer and lease these small islands to Li's consortium. Anyway, these small islands are also uninhabited, and they don't have the mind to develop these areas now.

Now that the Li family group is willing to pay a sum of money to obtain the right to develop and use the island, the British government and the royal family will have no objection. Anyway, this is still British territory, so they bought land with the British mainland, and some of them have 999 years of use. Just the same, the islands are no different.

It was just transferred from the British Indian Ocean Territory to the British Bentley Island Territory, which did no harm to them.

England hopes that the Lee Consortium will make Bentley Island bigger and more prosperous. This will be very beneficial to them. England has also approved the reclamation of the Li Consortium. The land reclamation area of ​​Bentley Island and related islands is also owned. Dominion of Bentley Island.

The ultimate goal of the British royal family and the government is to hope that Bentley Island can become an overseas leader with strong influence in the Indian Ocean and control the strategic location of the Indian Ocean for England.

There are [-] British Overseas Territories plus the current Bentley Island. Only Bermuda and Bentley Island have the highest rank. They can have their own Legislative Yuan and can elect their own chief executive. The power of the Governor is relatively weak, and it is more of a symbolic meaning.

Some overseas territories have no legislative councils at all, and all powers are in the hands of England, while Bermuda and Bentley Island have their own independent economic, foreign trade, administrative and other powers, and sovereignty and diplomacy are in the hands of England.

Of course, this kind of overseas territory cannot be compared with some self-governing territories, such as Canada and Australia. Although these also have a governor appointed by England, and the honorary head of state is also the Queen of England, they are normal countries and can be independent in all aspects.

Moreover, since Bentley Island is surrounded by the sea, it is more about the navy to develop the military, and they have a huge advantage in England. As long as the Li's consortium invests in military development, they will receive a lot of arms sales orders every year.

At the same time, in order to cope with the pressure from the surrounding countries, Bentley Island can only be attached to England, so that no force will dare to touch Bentley Island. Once Bentley Island becomes troubled, the surrounding countries will be enough for him to embarrass.

England has always been not worried about Li Guangyu's ambitions. Only one person with huge ambitions is the most beneficial to England. Bentley Island is located in the north and east of the Indian Ocean, with Sri Lanka and India to the north, Indonesia and Malaysia to the east.

Not far from the northwest is the capital of the British Indian Ocean Territory. There are no residents there. There are only 3000 NATO troops stationed there. The entire British Indian Ocean Territory is a deserted island with few people living there.

Bentley Island used to be a part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. If the Lee Consortium hadn't invested heavily, it would still be deserted.

In order to enable people to live normally on it, Bentley Island has invested nearly 30 billion US dollars in the establishment of fresh water plants, power plants, natural gas supply companies, and various infrastructures.

In the future, Bentley Island will still be a gold-eating beast. It is not yet known how much money will be invested in it. As for Bentley Island's own financial support for its development, I don't know if it can be done after the 21st century.

Although the investment in this area is huge, Li Guangyu still thinks it is worth it at present. The Li family has the right to use these areas for 999 years. As long as the third world war does not happen, this place is quite safe.

Of course, if a world war happened unfortunately, it would be the same wherever the Lee Consortium was located. At least Bentley Island still had some force, and other areas could only be slaughtered by others, without the slightest ability to fight back.

Of course, Britain is not without any restrictions on it. Bentley Island is absolutely not allowed to possess chemical weapons and nuclear weapons, nor can it possess intercontinental missiles and ultra-long-range missiles. Submarines are also restricted.

Yinglun allowed the Lee Consortium to stir up troubles in the Indian Ocean, not because Li Guangyu had some weapons that threatened the British mainland.

It's a pity that Yinglun has a good plan. Li Guangyu has no intention of creating tension in various places. The frigate is going to escort himself and his allies. In the future, it is said that the Somali pirates are very powerful. Fighter planes can also make a turn around the western Indian Ocean.

As for the army, after this purchase, it is estimated that tanks and artillery will not be purchased for many years. This guy is too useless. In the future, he will mainly be on the fleet. He will mainly be an escort.

Moreover, Li Guangyu will learn from Bermuda, and Bentley Island will also set up its own exchange and issue its own currency. The gold of Tianyu Bank is the confidence.

The main reason for this is that the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar and the US dollar are fixed. Li Guangyu does not want to be tied to death like this.

In the future, the Bentley Island Exchange will mainly attract some companies from South Asia, East Africa, Southeast Asia and Greater China to list.

Especially with the rapid development of the Internet today, it is not a big disadvantage for Bentley Island to be in the Indian Ocean because it will be able to conduct direct online transactions in the future.

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