Are the Germans conditional? There must be, but in international relations, there can be no living Lei Feng, and some comrades may say that they may not be able to, what conditions did the Celestial Empire have for providing free assistance to Vietnam, Albania, and Black Africa?

Yes, many people accuse Taizu of being too stupid and indignant, but I have to be fair, the Vietnamese are indeed white-eyed wolves, and they don't recognize people when they turn their faces, the problem is that in the 60s, people haven't shown the essence of the white-eyed wolf, and no matter how bad this white-eyed wolf is, it is stronger than the US imperialism directly stationing troops on the Indochina Peninsula and threatening the border line of Yunnan and Guangxi, right?

To put it bluntly, the reason why Vietnam is supported is actually for its own security, which is also an interest appeal. Besides, Albania, this product is indeed not a good thing, and it is also the owner of the mother with milk. However, considering that there was a verbal war with the Soviet Union back then, such a dog was also needed to bark twice in Europe. As for Black Africa, to be honest, there were no poor "brothers" in Black Africa for 71 years, and it was so easy for the Great Celestial Empire to restore the legitimate seat of the five hooligans? Compared to the position of the Big Five, the little aid given to Uncle Black Africa is nothing.

In other words, even if these three examples were previously thought to be loss-making businesses, they actually reflect Chiguoguo's national interests. It's just that the calculation of national interests is not linear, and it is not as simple as one plus one equals two. Under specific historical conditions, doing loss-making transactions is actually to safeguard national interests, and we can't say that if you are full after eating the second bun, then you don't need to eat the first bun.

There are similar examples, such as the Dawes Plan and the Marshall Plan launched by US imperialism after the end of World War I and World War II. Spend money to help Europe out of its predicament. From the point of view of pure interest. No matter how you look at it, it's a loss-making business. But what about the actual results?

Dawes's plan hung the last breath of the Germans, giving the Germans the ability to bleed Britain and France again, and indirectly pulling Britain and France from the core position of the first group that dominates the world. The Marshall Plan revived the economies of Western Europe and prevented the communist chain reaction from crushing the whole of Europe and cutting the walls of imperialism. In the long run, although these two plans were money-paying transactions, they ensured that the United States would take over the baton from the British, and who could say that the money was not well spent?

Of course, this topic is a bit off the rails. Returning to the story itself, what conditions did the Germans have?

"Of course, our government can only help some of the spare parts, after all, these spare parts belong to the German people, and our government cannot give them all away......"

Although Akimovich said it very contemporarily, Li Xiaofeng understood it, and it was obvious that the Germans were preparing to do business. The part of the accessories that are given away is for fishing, or stepping stones, and the main purpose is to get closer. Lay a solid foundation for the next transaction.

However, for Li Xiaofeng, spending money on supporting equipment for German-made warships is not a big problem. Before, he had a headache that Russian and German accessories were not compatible. Nowadays, the Germans are taking the initiative to sell spare parts on their doorstep, which is tantamount to solving the most troublesome big problem.

However, Li Xiaofeng is more interested in which parts the Germans are ready to give, and which ones must be bought with money.

"Some of the armor, boiler water pipes, and consumable parts can be given to your country by our government free of charge," Akimovich said as he took out a stack of papers from the briefcase beside him and handed them over, "As for the barrels, bolts, and ammunition of the guns, as well as other precision equipment, as well as the turbine blades and boiler pressure-resistant parts, this part is really not available to you." ”

Li Xiaofeng understood it, to put it bluntly, it is worthless and non-technical consumables sent by Germany, and those that really have technical content, and Russia does not have or temporarily produces more troublesome parts have to spend money to buy. I have to say that the Germans are still very shrewd in their calculations.

Li Xiaofeng casually flipped through the text handed over by Akimovich and put it aside, he didn't have much interest in these things, what he really wanted to talk about was the accessories that cost money.

"Are the design and construction drawings of your capital ship for sale?" Li Xiaofeng asked with a smile.

Akimovich was impressed as soon as he heard this, because he thought it was a big deal: "Of course, you can't sell it through regular channels. He replied.

Li Xiaofeng nodded silently and asked again, "What price?" ”

Akimovich was stunned and asked rhetorically: "All of them?" ”

"Of course!" Li Xiaofeng replied very sternly.

Akimovich took a cool breath, before the domestic think tanks thought that Russia did not have such a big appetite, at most it was to buy part of the drawings, who knew that people would directly wrap it up! So what price is better to sell for?

Just when Akimovich was carefully calculating how to make a price, Li Xiaofeng continued: "I am also very interested in the relevant drawings of your country's Cologne-class light cruisers, let's calculate the price together?" ”

Akimovich became more and more happy, and felt that this trip was really the right one, and if he could sell these drawings at a high price, it could be regarded as making up for a certain amount of losses for the country. So he became more and more cautious.

Li Xiaofeng, who was sitting opposite Akimovich, was very relaxed, not at all like he was talking about a big deal, but like buying side vegetables in the vegetable market. So why is a certain immortal so calm?

Before discussing the question of why someone is calm, we must first understand another question, what does a certain immortal buy these design and construction drawings for? There may be comrades who think that someone is buying drawings and preparing to copy them directly, just like what is written in many travel novels, as long as there are drawings and blueprints, it seems that they can be done in one qiē.

It's a pity that the reality is not so simple, first of all, the German shipbuilding technology standard is completely different from the Russian standard, and this standard is very important, not simply take the drawings and start construction.

Secondly, the supporting products used by Germany's capital ships and light cruisers, from armor, artillery, engines to fire control, are all German goods, while Russia does not have similar products, if you want to copycat, you must first copy all these downstream accessories of Germany (or find similar substitutes), otherwise, it will not be possible to build according to the drawings.

In the end, even if the above two problems can be solved, the more important and the most critical problem is the most important. Why does Li Xiaofeng make these knockoffs? Is it a big capital ship? Now someone has too many capital ships on hand. And what's the point of making those German dreadnoughts that are already outdated?

Obviously. A certain immortal asked for these drawings not for copycats. So what do these drawings do?

Of course it is useful, first of all, you need drawings for repair, and without drawings, those damaged parts know how to repair? Let's put it this way, if there are no drawings, you have to re-map these warships first, and deduce the construction drawings in reverse. And this is a very time-consuming work, you don't see that after the Great Celestial Empire got back the Varyag aircraft carrier from Ukraine, the first few years were spent on surveying and mapping. If the Germans are willing to sell the drawings. Then this stupid kung fu doesn't need to be done.

This is still the first role, and the second role is to learn from the reference. Let's put it this way, Russia is relatively backward in terms of ship design, since the pre-dreadnought era, part of the Russian Navy's capital ships are directly imported, and the other part is commissioned to be designed abroad, and then brought back to revise and revise the drawings and then build them domestically.

For example, the most interesting example is the Gangut-class battleship, at that time Russia basically did not have the experience of designing Dreadnought-class battleships, so it was initially invited to a global tender, and the design of the German B&V shipyard at that time was recommended by the Russian Navy's technical department. And the design of the Italian designer Cunibetti was favored by the staff of the Navy.

If it had not been for the sharp deterioration of relations between Russia and Germany, the Gangut class would have been produced in Germany in the first place. Because the relations between the two countries are terrible. In the end, the Russians simply bought a full set of drawings for the B&V shipyard.

Then it comes to the construction problem mentioned above, there is still a considerable difference between German technology and Russian technology, and after getting the drawings, the Russians found that they could not build according to the drawings in full. The Russians, who were inferior in technical ability, had to ask for foreign help again, and asked the British John Brown Company to carry out the later design on their behalf, absorbing part of the design of Kunibetty and introducing part of the Italian technology (that is, the triple main gun).

All of this should be understood what level of Russian ship design is, right? To put it mildly, even Italy, which was very weak among the great powers back then, could not be compared to (interjection, although the Italian army is not very noodle, but some military concepts are very advanced, such as Duhei's air supremacy, such as the aforementioned Kunibetti, in a sense, this Kunibeti can be regarded as the father of the dreadnought, and the concept of fully armed heavy artillery at the core of the dreadnought was first proposed. ）。

Of course, Li Xiaofeng wants to change this backward situation, but there is no one step to the sky in this world, and for Russian designers with a very narrow vision, they must open their eyes and absorb more advanced concepts. It is a pity that in this year, Russia's relations with Britain and the United States were very bad, and there was no way to draw nourishment from those two countries, and Li Xiaofeng had no choice but to use the Germans' designs to help them open their eyes.

Although the ship design of the Germans is not advanced, let's just say that the Germans have almost no achievements in this field back then, and the design of the capital ships of the High Seas Fleet is basically copied from the Royal Navy, for example, the overall layout of the Kaiser-class is simply a copy of the Sea King class. In terms of creation, even Italy and the United States are not comparable (this is really true, look at Italy's first dreadnought Dante, and then look at the Kaiser and Aquaman, who started construction in the same year, it can only be said that the starting point of the noodle country is still very high).

Let's put it this way, the German Navy is actually following the Royal Navy step by step, it is the design of the copycat, and there is nothing advanced in the overall idea. It's just that in the specific details, the Germans still strive for excellence. In fact, it is more about the craftsmanship of the Germans that is more about these details, and neither Britain nor the United States is an opponent of the Germans. Li Xiaofeng very much hopes that Russia will learn from the Germans' ability to deal with detailed problems.

For him, the problem of the overall design of the battleship did not require the help of Germany, and for the crossing party, the problem of this general direction was not a problem. However, he was able to tell the Russians the trend and trend of history, but he could not change the rough process and process design of the woolly bear, which was outrageously rough in this regard.

Therefore, if a certain immortal wants to introduce some German elements, if the woolly bear can learn from Germany and learn to deal with the details a little better, it does not need to reach the height of the Germans, and even a little worse than the Americans is completely acceptable.

And the design and construction drawings of the Germans are a stone of the mountain, to put it bluntly, a certain immortal is to use the German standard to teach the thick and leafy woolly bear a lesson. Of course, drawings alone are not enough. This piece of beautiful jade that is too rough in Russia needs to be quite powerful.

So while Akimovich was still silently calculating what kind of price to open. Li Xiaofeng said: "I am also quite interested in your country's metallurgy, chemical industry, steam turbine, diesel engine and precision gear processing industry. Are you interested in selling? ”

Akimovich was stunned, he had not yet finished calculating the price of the drawings, and the big deal behind him came to the door again, and the problem of money was very troublesome for the current German government, because they were about to face a huge war reparation, which almost made them lose their pants.

Li Xiaofeng also knows how difficult it was for Germans to live here in history, and after losing all export markets, Germany's own market simply could not satisfy the appetite of the world's second-largest economy before World War I. It's saturated in minutes. The German industrial giants without a market soon closed down and went bankrupt, and a large number of talents and technologies were lost outward, such as the little devils in World War II who dug into the walls of the Germans during this period and obtained some of Zeiss's top optical technology.

It was also during this period, in order to circumvent the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles and to preserve their own military industry, the Germans secretly exported some technology through a series of cooperation methods, military cooperation with Switzerland, Sweden and Russia. For example, Erikong, who later became famous in the anti-aircraft artillery world in Switzerland, had German blood as the source of its technology.

Li Xiaofeng knows this period of history. Only then did I know how big the treasure of Germany was, for backward and blockaded Russia. The most desired thing is technology and talent. And in both respects the Germans were rich (as opposed to the affluence of backward Russia), and there was a perfect basis for cooperation. For example, Li Xiaofeng very much hopes that NORINCO will use German technology to carry out industrial upgrading, and move closer to a comprehensive military industrial group from merely producing light weapons. For this, he has prepared a large amount of gold.

Money doesn't solve all problems, though. First of all, the Germans are not stupid, they will not sell everything like a supermarket discount, especially to the dangerous Russia. Because, selling technology is tantamount to supporting potential competitors, and Russia, a large country with abundant resources, is undoubtedly the most terrible competitor of that kind; Finally, the Entente was not an idiot and would not let the Germans "fund the enemy".

Therefore, before Akimovich came, the domestic explanation to him was that the main thing was to sell ready-made war surplus materials, and to dispose of this part of the "rags" that were worthless to Germany at a good price. Secondly, it is also possible to sell more existing industrial products, but it is better to sell only products, and if the Russians want technology, they can only sell a part of the less sensitive.

And the technologies that Li Xiaofeng asked for just now are undoubtedly relatively sensitive, and they are all among the important items that cannot be sold, and these Akimovich really can't agree.

"I'm sorry, Andrey. Mr. Petrovich, the technologies you mentioned are all areas of great concern to the Entente, and they forbid us to export them, especially to you, who are very dangerous, so please understand our situation......"

Li Xiaofeng smiled, and seemed to be very dissatisfied with Akimovich's answer, in his opinion, the Germans just didn't want Russia to be too strong, so they didn't let go. When it comes to Japan, which has no interest in it, it is completely different, and even sophisticated optical technology dares to sell casually. And Li Xiaofeng didn't like this differential treatment very much, so he casually returned the so-called gift catalog that Akimovich handed him before.

"What do you mean by that?" Akimovich asked.

Li Xiaofeng said very indifferently: "I don't have any interest in this garbage, if your government thinks that using this garbage as a stepping stone can open the market, I have to say that you are too naïve!" ”

Akimovich was a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "You misunderstood, we can sell the ship's drawings!" ”

"I'm not interested in those either," Li Xiaofeng waved his hand, "Do you think we can't repair those warships without drawings?" Or do you think we can't do anything without German parts? Mr. Akimovich, the fleets captured from your country do not mean much to me or to my government, and they can be used as soon as they can be used, and if they cannot be used, they will be returned to the furnace to make steel. It's that simple! ”

While saying that, Li Xiaofeng shrugged his shoulders contemptuously, as if in his eyes, the high seas fleet was a pile of garbage. Akimovich changed his complexion, and as a salesman, he was a failure. Originally, he thought that the Russians would attach great importance to the High Seas Fleet, but who thought that they didn't care at all, which was so different from his previous expectations that he didn't know how to continue his work.

"Anything else? Mr. Akimovich? ”

Li Xiaofeng seemed to be already serving tea to the guests, but Akimovich didn't want to leave like this, and hesitated for a long time before he gritted his teeth and said: "Mr. Andrei, for technical issues, in fact, it is not non-negotiable, but you must know that this will put our government under great international pressure, so ......"

Li Xiaofeng laughed again, so that he was not satisfied with the concessions of the Germans, but complained again: "So you can open your mouth with a reasonable lion and prepare to sell it for a sky-high price?" (To be continued......)

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