The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 580 The outcome is decided
Rosamund Kwan bought a lot of gifts: "Brother-in-law, this is all to thank you. Thank you for your great idea. It's a good thing my company isn't listed yet, otherwise it would have been hitting the daily limit for a whole month."

"Then why don't you go public?"

"I'm not short of money," Rosamund Kwan said matter-of-factly. "The company is all mine now. Why would I listen to those shareholders' opinions after it's listed on the stock exchange? I'm not sick, why would I make myself uncomfortable?"

"But going public will bring in more money."

Rosamund Kwan shook her head: "Money can't buy my happiness."

Liu Hua said with a smile, "You look more like a Beijing local than I do now."

“That’s right, my Beijing dialect is fluent now,” Rosamund Kwan said with a smile. “I have a little teacher.”

"Teacher? A junior teacher?"

"Mr. Kwan's granddaughter, Xiaotong," Rosamund Kwan said with a smile. "The little girl has already entered the entertainment industry. She started acting in TV shows when she was 4 years old, and she also acted in a movie last year, playing the young Qingcheng in The Promise."

"You treat him like a teacher?"

Rosamund Kwan laughed and said, "I'm free now, and I often take her out to play. Her family knows that she wants to be an actress in the future, so they often ask me to take her out."

Don't pass on your bad habits to your child.

What bad habits could I possibly have?

Liu Hua shook his head: "Your biggest bad habit is that you're not faithful in relationships. If you were a man, you'd be a playboy. The words used to describe women are too vicious, so I won't go into them."

"This world is always full of malice towards women."

“Stop it now.” Liu Hua waved his hand. “I feel like you’ve been poisoned by Western ideas. If you continue like this, you’ll develop a tendency toward privilege.”

"That's the truth."

Liu Hua waved his hand: "It's a bit inappropriate not to discuss this topic. Anyway, don't teach this bad habit to Xiao Tong."

“That’s called being easygoing, how can it be called a bad habit?” Rosamund Kwan retorted, “Brother-in-law, you’re just looking at people with prejudice.”

"Whatever you want, just treat me like an old-fashioned relic."

"Brother-in-law, are you going on another business trip?" Rosamund Kwan asked curiously, noticing the suitcase next to Liu Hua's feet. "Why are you getting busier and busier these days?"

Liu Hua said with a smile, "Just like Spider-Man's uncle said, with great power comes great responsibility. It's just that I have too many things to do and I have to go on business trips every few days."

This time, Liu Hua's business trip took him directly to the southern tip of our motherland, to our vast South China Sea.

The previous high-speed missile boat proposal was rejected by the navy because it was too dangerous for the sailors on board.

Later, on Liu Hua's recommendation, they went to learn about unmanned operation, and this time they came to see how the unmanned missile boat performed.

Although we already have the Type 052E destroyer, a massive vessel capable of posing a significant threat to aircraft carriers, the navy would not refuse a more efficient and cheaper alternative. Currently, there are twelve unmanned missile boats at sea, and importantly, the combined cost of all twelve is less than that of a single Type 052E destroyer.

Today, the two sides on the offensive and defensive are the Type 052E destroyers and missile boats. The Type 052E is used as a hypothetical target, mimicking an aircraft carrier, and is surrounded by a series of destroyers and frigates.

The twelve unmanned missile boats are the attackers; frankly, this situation is a bit unfair.

The defending side has at least twenty ships, with aircraft in the sky and submarines on the water; this is a standard aircraft carrier battle formation.

The attacking side only had twelve unmanned missile ships, whose combined tonnage was less than one-tenth of the total tonnage of the opposing ships, making it a completely asymmetrical war.

Battle was imminent. As our satellites and reconnaissance aircraft located the coordinates of the enemy aircraft carrier, the missile boats immediately began to approach.

At first, everything was normal. They were moving slowly at a speed of about 20 knots towards the aircraft carrier's defensive perimeter. Once they reached the vicinity of the carrier's defensive perimeter, the twelve missile boats began to maneuver.

The speed quickly increased to fifty knots. To put that into perspective, if it were simply a matter of using ships to chase it, no ship could catch up with the unmanned missile boat.

The chief engineer smiled and said, "Inspired by Academician Liu, we developed a small artificial intelligence system. It's similar to the Xiao Ai smart speaker. Right now, it only has very simple functions, which is to evade attacks and rush as far as possible into the area. Once it reaches the designated area, it will start launching missiles."

Everyone in the world knows how powerful an aircraft carrier battle group is. These 12 missile boats are like agile fish swimming around in the ocean.

As they were getting close to the aircraft carrier, four of the twelve missile boats had been destroyed. These four were not sacrificed in vain; before they could no longer avoid the enemy, they had already launched their missiles, destroying six enemy destroyers and frigates.

This is why eight unmanned missile boats survived, since one-third of the carrier battle group had already lost its combat capability.

The unmanned missile boat finally broke through to the aircraft carrier, and eighty anti-ship missiles took off. At least thirty of them were aimed at the aircraft carrier, and some were distributed to the surrounding ships.

The moment the missile soared into the sky, the naval leader slammed his fist on the table: "The outcome is already decided. From the moment the missile was launched, there was no suspense."

Sure enough, more than a dozen missiles hit the fake aircraft carrier, and five or six destroyers in the vicinity were also destroyed. The outcome of the battle was already decided.

"If I send twelve more missile boats at this point, this entire carrier battle group will be wiped out." The leader said with a smile, "The effect is really good, and it's cost-effective."

Another naval leader said with a smile, "With this unmanned missile boat, we can build fewer large ships, since our current budget is still very tight."

Liu Hua shook his head: "We still need to build large ships. If a war really breaks out, these things can only deal with surface ships. You need large ships to transport troops, guard key routes, and carry out regular patrols, right?"

Liu Hua pointed to the unmanned missile boat that was smoking on the sea and said, "This thing can be a loyal companion to manned ships. In a real war, each fleet can send dozens of them. Once an encounter occurs, these things can go up and wear down the enemy, and then the manned ships can come to clean up the mess."

The naval leader nodded and said, "Both sides have their own reasons, and we need to continue exploring its application."

"We definitely need to continue exploring. If one day we can achieve global control and fully intelligent control," Liu Hua said with a smile, "then we can send unmanned missile boats out to guard all the key sea lanes."

As soon as he finished speaking, the eyes of the leaders and engineers lit up.

(End of this chapter)