It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when Wan Feng and his group got off the plane.
Although it is not snowing in Beijing in January, it is still freezing cold.
As soon as Wan Feng walked out of the waiting room, he saw an unexpected acquaintance at the exit, or two to be exact.
"Grandpa! You weren't waiting for me here, were you?"
Wan Feng did not notify the country when he came back. How did he know that I would get off the plane at this time?
Zhu Guoxiong actually appeared here, not in plain clothes but in formal military uniform, looking very solemn.
When Wan Feng saw another acquaintance, his eyes became warm.
His younger brother Wan Jun was dressed in a well-tailored suit and looked handsome and stylish.
"I brought him from the military academy specially to see his heroic brother."
"Grandpa, is this against the rules? He's studying and you just called him here. If it delays my brother..."
"Stop talking so much nonsense, get in the car!"
Zhu Guoxiong took Wan Feng to the jeep without saying a word, and after many twists and turns, he finally brought Wan Feng to a place he had been to before.
What was the name of the place where we negotiated and trained with the Soviets?
I can't remember.
Wan Feng had a brief conversation with Wan Jun in the car. It was not that he didn't want to talk, but there were simply too few topics to talk about.
Wan Feng originally wanted to know about his younger brother's experience in the military academy, but he couldn't say this or that, and the journey was not too long, so he didn't say a few useful words.
Here Wan Feng saw many soldiers again, most of whom were from the navy.
What Wan Feng couldn't handle was that these soldiers saluted him in unison.
A naval general held Wan Feng's hand tightly with tears in his eyes.
Next came the banquet. Wan Feng was living among the generals, feeling terrified.
"Xiao Wan! You did a great job this time. We really didn't expect you to buy an aircraft carrier and even reach the Aegean Sea in just four months. That's incredible."
Zhu Guoxiong's face was flushed. He was the one who introduced the person, so now he was able to buy the aircraft carrier, so he naturally felt proud.
"The aircraft carrier is still in the Aegean Sea and it will probably take another year for it to come back. I think we should wait until the aircraft carrier reaches our territorial waters before we can say it has truly arrived home. It seems a bit early to celebrate now." Wan Feng expressed his concerns.
"It's okay. It's all high seas down there. We have guards so it won't be a big problem."
After drinking with these generals, Wan Feng felt that he would be drunk into a pulp.
But surprisingly, the generals did not urge him to drink much.
Although he was not allowed to drink at the table, he was dragged to a meeting after the banquet.
Naturally, I asked about some things related to aircraft carriers.
Wan Feng recounted the entire process of purchasing the aircraft carrier without reservation, including what happened in the Prussian Strait.
This cannot be concealed, even if he wants to conceal it, he cannot. Xu Pin's people are with him, so how can he conceal it?
"Oh! So you have already started planning for this aircraft carrier?" asked a general.
"In the late 1980s, when I was doing business with the Russians at Heihe, I dealt with a lot of military items, so I had some knowledge of the Russian army. At that time, I knew that the Russians had a third-generation aircraft carrier more than halfway through construction. At that time, I didn't expect to buy it one day, so I collected some information about it for fun. As you know, at that time, this was top secret with the Russians, and I didn't gather much information. It wasn't until the Russians collapsed that I saw their current state and saw that they couldn't keep this unfinished aircraft carrier. I thought, let's see if we can get it back. We didn't have it yet. Around 1992, I hired some people to start collecting information about this ship."
Wan Feng paused here and took a sip of water.
"What happened next?"
"I didn't even think about buying it at the time. The people I hired reported back that Ukrainian wanted 400 million euros, and then 2 billion euros. We couldn't afford it, so we just dropped the idea. It wasn't until last spring that they told me no one was interested in the aircraft carrier. Then I decided I should do something. I didn't know if it would work, so I told the generals about this idea, and everyone knows what happened next."
"I never thought that a businessman like you could have such strategic vision. It's not easy. We got the Su-27, Hyundai and Kilo through you. At that time, I couldn't believe that these were done by an ordinary person, and such a young person, what a talent!" A general sighed.
"Thank you for the compliment, I'm just lucky." Wan Feng was very humble.
"Comrade Xiao Wan, Lao Zhu said you have a very special mind. You often come up with fantastic ideas, some of which have already come true. Since we're sitting together today, why don't you tell me about your fantasies about our navy?"
Wan Feng scratched his head: "I'm just imagining it, don't take it seriously."
"It's okay, just think of it as us chatting together, and you telling us old guys a story."
Telling a story? I can't just make up this story. Where should I start?
The navy in the 1990s was very shabby, and it was considered a good thing if it could launch one warship a year.
They are all Luhu, Luhai, Jiangwei and other things. The only ones that can be shown off are the four modern ships bought from the Russians.
Decades later, a retired general who was known as the director of the Strategic Research Institute talked about some things that happened in the navy back then and burst into tears in public.
How should Wan Feng describe it to them? If he describes it realistically, will these people be able to sleep tonight?
Let’s just start with the aircraft carrier.
"Since the generals have allowed me to speculate, I'll just let them do their thing and you can just treat it as a story. Let's start with this aircraft carrier. Just to be clear, I'm not a member of the military. Although I pretended to be a soldier for over a month, it wasn't real. If anything I say inadvertently touches on confidential matters, please correct me."
"Go ahead, everyone's waiting to hear it."
Wan Feng took a deep breath and started to read Liao Zhai.
"Since we're starting today with the aircraft carrier, let's start there. According to my assumptions, this ship will be anchored in a port for at least two years. Even though it looks like an abandoned child during this time, our engineers will be incredibly busy. Understanding hundreds of thousands of drawings is no easy task. Once these drawings are understood, the next step will be to restore the designed components, followed by finding a suitable manufacturer to produce or purchase the components. This will probably take another three to four years. Once these issues are resolved, we'll begin assembly of the ship, followed by launching and outfitting. This busy process will probably take ten years."
This process is the real process of the Varyag's previous life.
In the previous life, this ship arrived at Bohai Port around 2002, and it was not until around 2012 that it was pulled out for sea trials.
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