Great warships

Chapter 545 Buy MAZ7907 and go back to pull wood?
Speaking of big oil countries, there is one name that will not be ignored.

Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, even far surpassing Saudi Arabia. However, compared with Saudi Arabia's crude oil that can be sprayed up by drilling a hole, they have to drill wells and extract them, so the cost of extraction is far higher In Saudi Arabia, moreover, the quality of their oil cannot be compared with Saudi Arabia.

Of course, even if this is the case, it can't stop Venezuela from making profits from oil. In the 70s, they made a lot of money, then survived the low oil price period of the 80s, and entered the glorious 90s. They are currently in A period of rapid economic expansion.

Now that you have money, what should you do?

Venezuela is taking a completely different path from other countries: improving people's livelihood.

In terms of daily necessities, because they cannot produce their own products and import prices are high, they subsidize imported products, thereby lowering their domestic prices.In terms of education, they directly implement 12 years of free compulsory education, so that all ordinary people can go to school.Medical care is free for all.Because there were not enough doctors, they simply went to Cuba to fool thousands of doctors back.What if there is no house?We have a dedicated housing protection program for low-income families!
In such a country, the welfare system far exceeds that of Saudi Arabia and other countries, which is the envy of countless people. (It is estimated that the big guys are also very envious. The country can control food, drink and lax just by lying down. Long live such a country.)
However, the high-welfare system in the West has been proven to be unworkable, and the welfare system that only relies on the accumulation of oil wealth will not last long.

Venezuela originally had other paths. For example, in the 90s, they used oil wealth to rapidly develop other domestic industries, support local agriculture, and achieve balanced development. Even if oil prices were low in the end, they could survive.

But they had to go all the way to the dark, and their lameness became more and more serious, so in the end, they became a country with serious global inflation. that's it.

So, these are very emotional.Especially as an oil country, there is not even a qualified oil industry in the country. When future generations confront the world police, they will even need Parthia tankers to transport refined oil to them, which is even more embarrassing.Iraq has experienced wars, and its domestic oil industry has been destroyed. What about Venezuela?Not at all.

However, in the 90s, they still had money, but the money was used to develop domestic welfare undertakings, and their navy was not doing well.

If Qin Tao remembers correctly, this country should only have a few frigates, two 209 submarines that barely leave the port, a few patrol ships and tank landing ships.

What is this country going to do, to purchase an aircraft carrier?Qin Tao felt a little curious. Why didn't they come when the International Defense Exhibition was held a few days ago?
Could it be that after the international defense exhibition was held and gained momentum, these talents took a fancy to their own products?In the past, they didn't even look at their side?Only this guess is the closest to reality.

"Venezuela will not spend more money on the army if it wants to implement a high-welfare policy in the country. Therefore, they should not buy weapons such as aircraft carriers, and at most they will buy two frigates and other warships." Qin Tao Said: "And, maybe they will use their oil to barter."

"Yes, I think so too, but no matter how you make money, you make money." Xu Zhengyang said: "Even if we trade oil, we can still make money. Anyway, our strategic oil reserve has also begun construction."

After discovering a huge natural cave in Xiaolie Mountain, Mingzhou Group did not act immediately, but first conducted a detailed geological demonstration to determine that the natural cave in Xiaolie Mountain would not cause serious damage as an oil reserve. For the environmental pollution problem, a thorough survey of the interior was carried out, and some possible leaks were plugged. Now, the natural cave has been built and can be filled with oil at any time.

Qin Tao nodded, leaving the country to take care of the aspects that have not been taken care of by him, which is a matter of convenience anyway.

Mingzhou Group.

Qin Baoshan seldom shows up now, but when his son was away, he was still the director of the shipyard in name, so he accompanied the foreign visitors to walk around the shipyard.

"The slipway on our side is used to build liquefied natural gas ships. This is the most important civilian product of our shipyard at present. The order has been scheduled for five years." Qin Baoshan pointed to the slipway where the arc sparks were flying: "Lopez Sir, do you have natural gas resources? Do you need to order this kind of natural gas ship?"

The Venezuelan navy sent Lopez to lead a team to investigate the Mingzhou Group. Hearing Qin Baoshan's words, Lopez shook his head: "We are here to inspect military ships, and we are not interested in civilian ships."

"Oh, if that's the case, you can follow me. Let's go over there to see the construction of the 022 missile boat. This kind of missile boat is the most advanced catamaran missile boat in our country. It can move at a speed of more than [-] knots."

Qin Baoshan has a big head, he doesn't dare to take these customers to other ship construction sites, after all, those are confidential, to be on the safe side, it's better to go to see the catamaran missile boat first.

Although the Mingzhou Group has started to build various ships, there are always orders for catamaran missile boats. Although there are only three or five ships a year, they are still under construction.

Qin Baoshan didn't know that his erroneous blunders actually made the client fall in love with him.

"Can it drive to fifty knots?" Lopez's eyes widened.

"That's right, the hull is still very small. If it is in a stormy weather, it is difficult to be detected by the enemy's radar from a long distance. The missiles it carries can attack the enemy from tens of kilometers away."

Lopez was enthusiastic: "The performance of this missile boat sounds very good. Why didn't you show it at this international defense exhibition?"

Of course not, the missile boat is only the first step for Mingzhou Group to get involved in the construction of warships, and the aircraft carrier is the top step. They can build aircraft carriers. This missile boat is just a child's play. No one will pay attention to it, and no one will pay attention to it. Will take missile boats seriously.

Hearing what Lopez said, Qin Baoshan felt speechless. How could we put that kind of thing on display? After a long time, you don't know us at all, so you came all the way here.

Qin Baoshan took Lopez around the shipyard all day, and Qin Tao came back the next day.

"Mr. Lopez, you are welcome to visit. I am very sorry. I have something to do, and I have been delayed for a day before I come back."

"President Qin, we are too presumptuous." Lopez was very polite: "You are a busy person, and we came here without communicating in advance. Even if you don't have time to receive us, it is normal."

"You have been looking at it for a day, did you see anything?"

Qin Tao's question was a bit inappropriate. Although he watched it for a whole day, he was looking around the 022 missile boat, and he didn't see anything else.

"We found the missile boat produced by you, which is very suitable for our navy."

Hearing Lopez's words, Qin Tao was speechless immediately, only looking at the missile boat?Then why are you coming back?
There is no need for me to come back to this kind of sesame mung bean business!At first, I thought that the other party wanted to buy a large warship, and even compared with other countries to buy an aircraft carrier.

"Well, this kind of missile boat is the most suitable choice for offshore defense. It can use ports or offshore oil platforms as bases to attack the enemy at any time, and use wolf pack tactics to make the enemy frightened." Now that he is back, he can only be A few perfunctory words.

"However, I heard that the missiles used on this missile boat have a range of only tens of kilometers. We are somewhat dissatisfied with this missile. In your navy's equipment sequence, it seems that there is an anti-ship missile with a range of [-] kilometers. Supersonic, can you equip us with this kind of missile?"

These guys also crammed last night, got the brochure from the International Defense Exhibition, and got some materials about the original exercise, and immediately became interested in the big killer Eagle Strike-12.

Although warships like No. 138 can't be bought, you can buy that kind of missiles.

Hearing that, Qin Tao was speechless. We don't have missiles of this level. We just squatted a special launcher outside No. 138 to scare people. You actually took it seriously.

Seeing Qin Tao shaking his head, Lopez was a little surprised: "Why? Are you unwilling to export such advanced weapons?"

"Of course not." Qin Tao said: "This kind of weapon is meaningless to you. After all, if you install this kind of missile, then you should worry about how to find the target [-] kilometers away. The weapon is a system, even with this kind of missile, you can only hit the target at a distance of about [-] kilometers at most."

With a range of [-] kilometers, it must be able to detect the formation at sea [-] kilometers away. The radar carried by this kind of missile boat will definitely not work. It needs special marine satellites and special maritime reconnaissance aircraft. A country like Venezuela is engaged in Uncertain.

Lopez nodded. As a naval officer, he can also understand the necessity of what Qin Tao said.

Since you can't find a target [-] kilometers away, why do you fight?

"If your side needs it, we can upgrade the anti-ship missiles carried on it to the C802 model, with a range of 120 kilometers, which is more than enough for your side."

"Okay!" Lopez agreed: "We will order ten missile boats like this!"

Missile boats don’t cost much, and one is worth several million. Even if you buy ten ships, it’s only tens of millions. For Venezuela, which is now relying on oil wealth to get rich, even if it wants to implement a welfare policy in the country, it is still possible. Squeeze out the money.

Having money is good.

Now that the customer has come, of course he can't just let it go!Qin Tao had a smile on his face: "For you, it is unwise to develop large surface ships. You should follow the same path as we did before, and develop air-submarines quickly. By the way, what happened to your submarines? "

"Submarine? Our navy hasn't equipped a submarine yet." Lopez said.

No?

Qin Tao's eyes suddenly brightened.

Even if Qin Tao is a traverser, it is impossible to remember everything clearly. He just knows that the country has two 209 submarines, which are still Type 1800, and the displacement is not small, but when these two submarines were equipped, Then it is not clear.

Now it is finally confirmed that the other party does not have a submarine yet!
If the other party does not join, then you can fool the other party into purchasing.

"Then you should purchase two submarines." Qin Tao said: "At critical times, submarines can launch the most violent attack on the enemy. In that naval battle, the largest cruiser in the Weeping Country at that time was sunk by a submarine. For a country with a small naval budget, as long as the submarine is driven out, the enemy will be scared back hundreds of nautical miles."

"Can you produce submarines? Why haven't we seen them?" Lopez asked curiously.

Although those warships can't be seen close, they can be seen from a distance, but the submarine is still really missing.

"Submarines are produced in the workshop." Qin Tao said, "Come on, I'll show you."

Qin Baoshan heaved a sigh of relief, Qin Tao came, this kind of thing can be left to him, he is still not good at it.

At present, the submarine production workshop is producing the second foreign trade submarine, and the sections are being welded one by one. Lopez is an eye-opener. He never thought that the production process of the submarine is actually like this.

It's completely different from shipbuilding.

All kinds of internal equipment were actually welded in directly when the hull was welded. Those decks and all kinds of equipment looked decent.

"Everyone, here is the special AIP compartment, which allows the submarine to maintain long-term low-speed navigation underwater, without the need to float up to the snorkel state to run the diesel engine. Its appearance is a revolution in submarine technology."

Of course Qin Tao wanted to pick the tall ones.

Seeing that Lopez and others were eye-opening, they really came here after seeing the popularity of the International Defense Exhibition. The East can actually produce so many advanced equipment, especially the aircraft carrier, which is too powerful, so they decided to come here Inspection, if appropriate, the Navy will purchase a batch.

They first took a fancy to the missile boat and thought it was very suitable for them, but now, after seeing the submarine, they couldn't move anymore.

"In the future, when you have this kind of submarine, you can enter the ocean to lurk at any time. If someone wants to harm you and show off your power with you, then you can launch a counterattack against them at any time. This submarine can not only carry torpedoes , can also carry the C802 anti-ship missiles used on missile boats, and it can also facilitate your logistical support."

Lopez was very satisfied: "Yes, we do need to equip this advanced submarine. How about its price?"

"Two hundred million dollars a piece." Qin Tao said: "This price already includes five years of free maintenance costs, which is quite cost-effective. Compared with western submarines, its displacement is twice as large and the internal space is larger. And there is a dedicated AIP system.”

A business of several million or tens of millions is nothing. Now that Qin Tao is here, of course he wants to do a big business worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Hearing the price of hundreds of millions, Lopez frowned a little, expensive, this is too expensive!He didn't expect to spend so much money!

"Moreover, at least two ships must be purchased to form a large scale. In case one of them is under maintenance, the other one can also be dispatched." Qin Tao continued to introduce: "If you have not operated a submarine in your country, you also need to develop a submarine." Construction, there is a special submarine dock, preferably a cavern, so that the enemy's reconnaissance satellites cannot detect it."

Return two ships, this is [-] million US dollars!
"Why, is it difficult for you?" Qin Tao was a little curious.

"That's right, Mr. Qin, if we invest so much at one time, I'm afraid we won't be able to get so much out."

Even if this money is hurting, if it is taken out, it will definitely affect their domestic welfare.

"Then you can exchange it with oil." Qin Tao immediately came up with a plan: "Anyway, the construction of a submarine will take a year or two. During this time, you only need to provide us with equivalent oil." gone."

Oil in exchange?
Lopez's eyes brightened. If it is still oil in the next two years, then there will be no problem. After all, their oil production is still considerable now!

"President Qin, please give me a few days, we need to report to the country."

"Of course there is no problem. Once you are sure, you can directly connect with the sales department of our factory." Qin Tao is also very straightforward.

I don't have time to waste time here, anyway, my subordinates have been trained, even if he is not here, he can still complete various operations.

However, just when Qin Tao had already packed his luggage and was about to go to the plateau to find his wife, another unexpected guest arrived.

"President Qin, a few more guests have come and said they want to see you." Xu Zhengyang reported to Qin Tao.

"Let other people treat it, I don't have time." Qin Tao said, pointing to the box on the ground: "Put the box on the car, it's all Xiaoling's favorite food."

Although Zhao Ling is already the mother of the child, she is still pampered by Qin Tao.

"Mr. Qin, they came from North Kimchi Country, and what they want to buy is not our products, but those two MAZ-7907s."

Qin Tao was taken aback for a moment: "What do they want our two cars for?"

"Transporting logs."

pull wood?
Qin Tao was also amused by this request. The thing to be pulled was really similar to wood in appearance.

"They are willing to pay a high price." Xu Zhengyang said.

Qin Tao shook his head helplessly: "We can't sell them at a high price. Just these two cars. If they are discovered, someone will find an excuse. Our Mingzhou Group is a large multinational company, and we are already walking a tightrope. If we do this, we will be sanctioned in the future."

Although there is no reason for the world's police to sanction some companies, Qin Tao has to be on guard and not give others legitimate excuses.

The appearance of these two short vehicles in the factory is too obvious, and there is no third vehicle in the world, and the North Kimchi Country is a country that has always been paid attention to. It won't be long before rumors will be flying everywhere.

Even if Mingzhou Group does business with Anxi State, it is open and generous. It is a civilian port and shipyard project. Others can't fault it. However, it is easy to be caught by selling wooden vehicles. handle.

"Then I rejected them?" Xu Zhengyang asked.

"It's not necessary. We don't sell it. Other companies in our country can sell it. You can introduce business to them." Qin Tao said: "Then take half an hour and inform the airport that there are weather problems and the flight is late. Take off in half an hour."

"Ok."

In the meeting room of Mingzhou Group, several people sat there with anxious expressions.

They are all in suits and leather shoes, with yellow skin and black hair, but they are not tall, and they are all very thin. After all, there is only one fat man in their country.These people are also straight when they sit, and they look like professional soldiers.

"Welcome everyone." Qin Tao walked in from the outside and said with a smile: "Although we haven't had much contact with each other, we are still neighbors separated by a strip of water. If you have any needs, just ask."

"President Qin, my name is Yin Chengze, and I am the person in charge of this purchase." Yin Chengze spoke, and he could speak Chinese fluently. It seems that he was also a carefully selected person: "We saw that there are Two MAZ7907s are undertaking the transportation task, I wonder if you can sell them to us.”

Qin Tao smiled: "It's okay to sell it to you. The question is, do you have such a big log? Besides, there are only two of them, so what's the use?"

The people from the North Kimchi Country on the opposite side were taken aback for a moment.

What the other party said seems to make sense.

The North Kimchi country developed ballistic missile technology very early. Around 69, they obtained 54 sets of "Moon" series of ground-to-ground tactical rockets. The range of this missile is only 1 kilometers, and it can threaten the capital of neighboring countries. Based on the missile, they imitated the Hwasong-[-].
In the 70s, they made persistent efforts and successively developed three models of "Mars-2/3/4".Among them, the first two are only minor adjustments, and the range has not changed. The latter is a short-range ballistic missile developed on the basis of the S-75 surface-to-air missile, which was also cancelled.

It can be said that during this period of time, they have just started. The real development will start when they secretly obtained two "Scud-B" short-range ballistic missiles from abroad, and they imitated them.

"Mars-5".And relying on this missile, they have also embarked on their own unique path: sell the developed ballistic missiles to make money, and use the money to continue to develop ballistic missiles.Just from the export of Hwasong-5, they earned a billion dollars in revenue.

After that, they made persistent efforts and developed several follow-up models. The latest one is "Mars-7". There is no need to use such a big guy from the Mingzhou Group!

The labor missile of later generations eventually developed into an intercontinental ballistic missile, with a self-weight of more than 100 tons. Only this kind of big guy needs this kind of launch vehicle from Mingzhou Group. The other party is really planning ahead and buying a car for the project 20 years later?

(End of this chapter)