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Chapter 435: Severe blackmail

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    While Zhou Weiguo was dealing with these government affairs, Fatty Qiu was having a headache on the distant British Isles.

    Now the families of soldiers captured by China are putting pressure on the government. This is one of them.

    Secondly, in order to rescue those captured soldiers, according to China's wishes, compensation must be paid.

    But not only was he unwilling to pay it, but even the Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Simon, was even more unwilling.

    But if you don¡¯t want to, then you have to fight, fight with China, and defeat China on the frontal battlefield.

    But the problem came again. This time they lost four battleships, two aircraft carriers and a series of other ships. This has caused them to lose a lot of naval power.

    If we send another one, we will have to send a more powerful naval force there.  But the current situation is that someone from the Navy has already raised questions.

    China¡¯s navy is not strong, but to defeat them, they must destroy their aircraft on land.  How many planes will be assembled?  How many aircraft carriers will be sent there?

    Now that the situation in Europe is tense, it is simply impossible to mobilize aircraft.

    As for the Army, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of War, a huge set of financial expenditures blocked Fatty Qiu¡¯s mouth.

    The only way now is to negotiate, but he has approached Zhao Tingzhao, the Chinese ambassador to the UK, several times before, and others insisted that this was the order of the domestic chairman.  Reparations must be made.

    If you don¡¯t pay compensation, don¡¯t mention these things.

    So Fatty Qiu thought about it over and over again, and finally thought of America.

    Isn¡¯t the relationship between the United States and China very good now?  Military delegations have been sent.

    This peace negotiation was also led by the United States, so under Fatty Qiu¡¯s actions.

    Karl, the ambassador to China approached Jason again and discussed with him for a long time. Finally, on January 16, 1940, he approached Zhou Weiguo again.

    The place where they met today was not in the VIP Building of the Government Affairs Council, but in the Zhou Mansion.

    Zhou Mansion, study room

    "Mr. Karl came to see me. Did he agree to pay compensation?"

    Zhou Weiguo asked with a smile on his face. Although he knew that Ying Guoguo would not agree, he still wanted to say it to disgust him.

    "Mr. Big, we came to you today just for this matter. Now Britain, France and other countries are about to resist the German attack. If you ask them to pay financial compensation at this time, it may not be good for the next war, so you see  Can you change the method?"

    Jason spoke instead of Karl, but Zhou Weiguo didn't care. He knew that the two countries were wearing the same pants.

    "Another method? What do you want to change?"

    The smile on Zhou Weiguo's face disappeared, giving the impression that he was not interested in their alternative approach.  This also made Jason and Karl feel a little uneasy, and they didn't know whether Zhou Weihui would agree.

    "I heard that the return country is very short of oil. Now it is reorganizing the modern army and developing the navy. I guess the return country must be very short of oil. We can provide you with a certain amount of oil for free every year to make up for these indemnities. You  What do you think?"

    This time it was not Jason who spoke, but Karl.

    Zhou Weiguo curled his lips inwardly after hearing this, these Ying country guys are really cunning.

    Oil?  He is not short of oil, but of course he is short of oil in the eyes of outsiders.

    The cunning thing about these Ying Guo guys is the oil. Is this oil their own?

    They also have no oil in their own country. The places they control that have oil are areas such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East, which are oil-rich places.

    Using other people¡¯s things to pay off debts is indeed their style.

    What they said was better than what they sang. In the end, they themselves didn¡¯t suffer much loss.

    "Haha! Our country is not short of oil. I heard that many oil fields have been explored in Siberia. We don't need it for the time being!"

    Zhou Weiguo refused, meaning you should try another way!

    When Karl, Gosmer and Jason looked at each other, they knew it was not that simple.

    But fortunately, Karl and the others were prepared.

    "I heard that your country has built many new shipyards and arsenals. Now our country is urgently expanding its armaments. I wonder if your country is interested in accepting external orders?"

    This time Karl threw out another bait, and this time Zhou Weiguo raised his eyebrows.

    To be honest, there are indeed many civilian shipyards, airports and munitions now.The company is established.

    But Zhou Weiguo¡¯s support for them cannot be too great because of financial problems.

    Zhou Weiguo cannot place too many orders with them. He can only place orders with them based on the current financial situation.  Most of the remaining weapons still have to be taken out of the system.

    "I wonder how many orders there are?"

    Zhou Weiguo did not rush to agree, but raised his eyebrows and asked.

    "I heard that your country has a very advanced battleship. I wonder if you can build a few more and sell them to us?"

    "These idiots, I was still thinking about how to sell the Yamato-class battleship to you, but now you have come to me."

    Zhou Weiguo was very happy after hearing this. How do you say this?  When you want to sleep, someone will give you a pillow!

    "Thisthis is our country's latest battleship!"

    Zhou Weiguo said with some embarrassment, as if he was unwilling.

    However, there was no look of embarrassment on the faces of Jason and Karl. Instead, they were happy because they could hear that Zhou Weiguo did not refuse directly.

    ¡°Price is not an issue!¡±

    Karl spoke again.

    "Four hundred million dollars!"

    Zhou Weiguo spoke decisively and stretched out four fingers.

    But everyone present was frightened.

    Two hundred million dollars?  How much is this?

    Take the Colorado-class battleship currently equipped by Citi as an example.

    The cost of building a Colorado-class battleship is US$27 million, which means that US$200 million can build seven Colorado-class battleships.

    The actual cost of a Yamato-class battleship is 280 million yen. According to the current ratio of yen to US dollars of 4.3:1, the cost of a Yamato-class battleship is actually 65 million US dollars.

    Zhou Weiguo¡¯s price more than tripled in one fell swoop, although they didn¡¯t know it.

    But at 200 million US dollars, this price is really scary.

    "Mr. Big, is 200 million US dollars too much?"

    Karl looked at Zhou Weiguo and said tentatively.

    "Is it much? Not much at all! It's just twenty-five million pounds for your country!"

    Zhou Weiguo looked at Karl and said lightly, but these words made Karl want to curse.

    Twenty-five million pounds is not much?

    How much does one of their battleships, HMS Prince of Wales, cost?  ¡ê7.39 million.

    "You ask for twenty-five million pounds, which is not much.

    It was enough for them to build three King George V-class battleships, and there was still more than two million pounds left.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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