The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 498: Small Punishment or Big Beating

Liu Tao had to postpone his departure from Beijing.

In order to deliver this batch of orders to Libya, he had to coordinate some missiles with the military first.

Otherwise, with such a large quantity, emergency production would be too late.

In addition to the military coordinating some missiles, the air defense missiles of the combined brigade must also be coordinated first.

Taking into account inventory and production, it will take about a month to complete delivery.

When Liu Tao left Beijing, he had already received news that the mercenaries had transported 355.5 tons of gold to Tazania and were preparing to ship it back to China in batches.

It is naturally impossible to transport such a large amount of gold at once.

Because the risk is too great.

This risk comes from nature. When a ship sails on the sea, it is inevitable that it will capsize. If the ship sinks, everything will be lost.

At the same time, risks also come from people, such as islands. There are always pirates in the vast ocean. Every year, countless merchant ships are robbed by pirates. In addition to pirates, there will inevitably be other mercenaries, and even other countries will get the news and try to steal the gold.

Therefore, such a large amount of gold must be shipped back in batches, and it cannot be just shipped by sea, but also by air.

United States, Pentagon.

The news of the sinking of the Perry-class frigate has been passed back to the Pentagon.

It’s not that there was anyone alive on the frigate who could send back a message, but that the Perry-class frigate had lost contact. The Navy Command took the initiative to contact the Perry-class frigate, but never received a response.

An investigation process was then initiated, and it was quickly determined that the Perry-class frigate had been sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 10 nautical miles off the coast of Libya.

This news undoubtedly made the Pentagon extremely angry.

Because since 1945, the United States Navy has replaced the British Royal Navy and become the world's maritime hegemon, and few countries can sink US Navy warships.

The most recent one was during the Vietnam War, when the USS Card was bombed and sunk in the harbor by Vietnamese frogmen.

Now, Libya even dared to attack US warships and sank a Perry-class frigate.

This is a declaration of war on the United States!

Afterwards, the Pentagon chief went to the White House with several people.

Then we saw that CIA Director Rosencolby was reporting this to Reagan.

Reagan's usual elegant and smiling image was replaced by a tough and fierce expression that made people shudder. He said angrily: "America's patience is limited. We must not remain indifferent to such provocations and declarations of war. We must punish them!"

"You must come up with a specific plan. One month. I only give you one month!" Reagan's eyes were spitting fire.

He never thought that Libya would dare to sink the Perry-class warship.

If there is no retaliation for this matter, he will surely be drowned in the saliva of the angry people.

And for him, this is also a good opportunity.

Outsource the conflict and shift the nation's focus.

Since taking office, Reagan has tried to save the US economy and lead the US out of the quagmire of the economic crisis. To this end, he proposed a series of economic policies, which are known as the "Reagan New Economics."

Although his efforts were effective, they failed to lead the United States out of the quagmire of the economic crisis. The high oil prices made the United States suffer terribly, and it had to give up a large number of manufacturing industries and transfer a large number of manufacturing industries to places where labor was cheaper. In addition, the size of the national debt rose rapidly.

When he first came to power, the U.S. national debt was less than $1 trillion, but now it has reached $1.6 trillion. That is to say, in just a few years, the U.S. government has borrowed more than it did in the past hundreds of years, and much more.

The United States can survive by issuing national debt.

However, in recent years, the yield on government bonds has been very high. For example, the interest on ten-year government bonds in 1980 reached 15.83%. Although the interest on ten-year government bonds issued in other years was not so high, it was still over double digits.

This caused Reagan to be criticized a lot, and if no one was willing to take over this mess before, it would have been difficult for him to continue in this position.

The public anger in the country is already very high and needs an outlet.

Libya is a good target.

Soon, the news spread throughout the United States and quickly spread around the world.

Everyone's eyes involuntarily turned to the United States, the Mediterranean, and Libya.

The entire United States was in an uproar, and Colonel Kamagra was being criticized.

This year is definitely not a good year for the United States.

The high unemployment rate, double-digit inflation rate, and the continuous influx of immigrants have made Americans angry.

In particular, on January 1, the space shuttle Challenger was launched from the Kennedy Space Center. 28 seconds later, the shuttle exploded at an altitude of 72 meters. All seven crew members were killed and the loss exceeded three billion US dollars. The explosion was the worst space accident in the world, shocking the whole world and greatly shocked Americans.

The space shuttle is the pride of Americans.

But this pride has now suffered a great blow.

This time, the Perry-class frigate was sunk by Libya, and 180 officers and soldiers sank into the sea. Americans are all angry at Libya and hate the dictatorial tyrant Colonel Kadyrov.

They don't wonder why their country's warships are heading to the Libyan coastline.

After all, the United States is a great empire!
The people of the empire never think about these things.

While the whole world was discussing this matter, the first batch of delivered goods had already officially sailed from Yangcheng Port to the African continent.

Liu Tao watched this batch of goods set sail. As for whether this batch of goods would be intercepted, he didn't care, because it had nothing to do with the Southwest Ordnance Industry Group. Libya paid for the transportation itself and signed an agreement with others.

"Libya will probably suffer a great loss this time!" Liu Tao sighed secretly. Every day's news is about this aspect. Liu Tao can feel the Americans' tremendous anger and the undercurrent in which the whole world is caught.

He had to admire Colonel Ka's courage. This courage was truly shocking. Even now, Colonel Ka's voice was still loud, intending to raise the banner of the Soviet Union.

After all, in the world today, the only country that can challenge the United States is the Soviet Union.

In the past, Libya was on the same side as the Soviet Union and even imported a large amount of weapons and equipment from the Soviet Union.

However, Colonel Kadcy's repeated jumps and his constant approach to Europe in recent years have made the Soviet Union quite dissatisfied. It is only because Libya's strategic position is too important that the Soviet Union has been trying to win over Libya to prevent Libya from falling into the arms of the United States again.

Liu Tao was very curious whether the United States would use force to teach Colonel Kamagra a lesson this time. If it did use force, would it be a minor punishment, or would it be a war that would lead to the destruction of the country and the genocide?

Judging from the current news, it seems that a major war is going to happen, but if a major war is to happen, it will require a long period of material and troop transportation, and at least one or even two aircraft carriers will have to be dispatched to the Mediterranean.

This project is no small matter.

(End of this chapter)