Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
"Twenty million yuan once, twenty million yuan twice, twenty million yuan three times, deal!"
As the auctioneer's hammer fell, the state-owned companies that had been disrupting the situation watched helplessly as Chuanglu won the bid for the Varyag.
The one who is most unwilling here is Foot Basin. It is the one that least believes that China will buy this ship to use as a casino.
Although it did not believe that China could turn this semi-finished product into a real aircraft carrier, it still wanted to nip this trend in the bud.
But there was nothing they could do. They had not expected that Wukolan would organize a public auction, which made them panic.
Now we can only watch China buy the aircraft carrier.
This time they really have nothing to say.
The auction was over, and under the notarization of the notary public, both parties paid the money and signed the contract. From now on, the Varyag was considered the first of its kind.
Now that we have the aircraft carrier, many things will start happening right away.
The first thing to do after photographing the aircraft carrier is to transfer the blueprints.
The transaction documents for Varyag were signed, and Xu Pin also obtained the release documents for the drawings.
Asnaev told Xu Pin that the drawings were in the database of the technical building of the Nikolayev Shipyard.
That night, Xu Pin contacted the embassy and prepared the plane.
Early the next morning, Alexei's men drove eight trucks non-stop to the Nikolayev Shipyard.
Alexei's mission in Wukolan was to protect Li Mingze, but what surprised Wan Feng was that this guy actually formed a unit here, code-named Red Duck.
Red duck? Isn't it roasted?
"You know shit. Why don't you go to the European mercenaries and ask them what the red duck means?" Alexei, driving a bulletproof jeep himself, sneered at Wan Feng's words.
Judging from Alexei's tone, the Red Duck seemed to be very famous.
"Haha! If you knew what ducks do in our country, you wouldn't be so proud."
Oops! That's not right! It's too early to say that. The word hasn't appeared yet. It will probably take a few more years for the word "duck" to be given a new meaning.
I wonder if Alexei would be furious if he understood the meaning of the duck?
After several hours of non-stop driving, the convoy arrived at the Nikolayev Shipyard again at ten o'clock in the morning.
Wan Feng met Makarov again.
Seeing Wan Feng appear here for the second time, Makarov's face looked a little gloomy. This big ship was finally sold.
Xu Pin handed the documents to Makarov.
After checking the procedures, Makarov immediately arranged for the movers to start moving the drawings from the drawing warehouse in the technical building to the truck brought by Wan Feng downstairs.
The total weight of all the drawings and the iron boxes is about forty or fifty tons.
Wanfeng gave each worker an extra 200 hryvnia, which motivated the workers and they loaded the iron boxes onto the truck in more than an hour.
When Wan Feng said goodbye to Makarov before leaving, the old man's eyes were filled with tears.
Wan Feng didn't feel nervous when he went there, but he was extremely nervous when he went back. He wondered if he would be robbed on the way.
"Alexi, there won't be any robbers or anything on this road, right?"
"Are you worried about being robbed on the road?"
Wan Feng nodded.
"Haha! The person who dares to rob Red Duck in Ukolan hasn't been born yet."
Is this true or false?
Alexei was not bragging. After several hours of bumpy ride, when the convoy arrived at the jeep airport at dusk, nothing really happened along the way.
Two transport planes dispatched by the embassy from the country are already waiting here.
As soon as the car arrived, the drawings were loaded onto it and flown back to China overnight.
Yang Jianguo was forced to go back by Wan Feng, saying that he was escorting the drawings, but in fact he was worried that something might happen to Yang Jianguo's wife.
Wan Feng felt relieved after receiving the drawings.
The next step was to start towing the boat, as they had nothing else to do in the jeep.
The day after the plane took away the drawings, Wan Feng, Xu Pin and Li Mingze took the express train back to the Nikolayev Shipyard.
Li Mingze hired two high-powered tugboats from an ITC shipping company, which would tow the Varyag back to its home port.
On September 28, two high-powered tugboats towed the Varyag out of the Nikolayev Shipyard, one in front and one behind.
The tugboat towed the aircraft carrier at a speed of only five or six knots per hour, and it took several days to move south to the Prussian Strait.
The Prussian Strait is a narrow waterway connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. It is 30 kilometers long and is divided into two parts, Europe and Asia, by this strait.
Even if the aircraft carrier is slow, it will take four or five hours to cover 30 kilometers at a speed of four knots.
However, in the previous life, the Varyag was stranded in this 30-kilometer strait for as long as a year and a half.
Dr.: The Prussian Strait is not the high seas, but according to relevant international treaties, ships from non-warring countries can pass through the strait.
Except during war, Türkiye has the right to block the strait and not allow enemy ships to pass through.
It’s just that this international channel is like toilet paper at times. For example, the aircraft carrier purchased by China almost failed to pass through this strait.
When the tugboat was towing the aircraft carrier southward towards the Prussian Strait, Wan Feng left more than ten people to follow the tugboat, and he arrived at Tuerqi in advance with Xu Pin and others.
Han Meng and Zhao Gang were left on the tugboat by Wan Feng, and they took five people with them to follow the tugboat south with sufficient supplies.
Before leaving, Wan Feng told Han Meng and Zhao Gang that the aircraft carrier would drop anchor in the open sea when it reached the Prussian Strait.
Since we have to go back anyway, we might as well drop anchor at the mouth of the strait to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Wan Feng and others arrived in Tuerqi in advance and immediately submitted an application to the Tuerqi Ministry of Maritime Affairs for passage through the strait.
Originally, Tuerqi had no intention of making things difficult for the ship, but after a certain country's kind reminder, Tuerqi began to make things difficult for the Varyag.
The Ministry of Maritime Affairs of Tuerqi reported the matter to the Ministry of State Affairs of Tuerqi.
The Turkish Ministry of State is the department in charge of the oceans, and its minister is Mirzaoglu.
In the previous life, Varyag was made to suffer in every possible way by this guy.
It turned out that the opinions of the local government were also very inconsistent. The Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were both inclined to release it, but this guy refused to release it, which eventually led to the government suddenly discovering that there was profit in it.
Not only did they obtain China's then-advanced rocket artillery technology, they also extorted 1 billion euros from China.
Wan Feng is not going to be a sucker in this life. If Mirza Olu is sensible and lets him go, he will not only continue to be his minister but will also receive a generous reward.
If he still thinks he is so great and refuses to let go, Wan Feng is going to release all the negative information he has collected about him over the years and let him go home to farm.