What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 145 Special Contribution
Returning to the computer, Tang Wen immediately opened the BBS and started refreshing it.

The Hornet was presumably docking for refueling and must have been seen by the public, so they waited for the news to be uploaded.

After diligently browsing for about half an hour, a new post popped up:
[Fish that loves diving: Shocking news, I saw the domestically-made aircraft carrier! ]

[Fish Who Loves Diving: This is really big news! I'm a gantry crane driver at Echeng Port, and an aircraft carrier just entered the port!]

[Fish Who Loves Diving: There's a national flag hanging on the island, and lots of sailors standing on the deck. It must be our aircraft carrier!]

[Fish Who Loves Diving: It seems that only the webmaster can post pictures directly on the BBS. I changed the format of the picture and recompiled it using ASCII code. I copied it to my local computer and then converted it to PNG format so that it can be viewed. I hope the webmaster can post it directly if he sees it. @唐家大少]

Become!

Tang Wen felt a sense of accomplishment like the last boss to appear. He quickly saved the picture according to the method of "Fish Who Loves Diving", and then used the webmaster's authority to post it and pin it to the top.

We have no choice but to prevent netizens from posting pictures. The website is too simple and loading pictures takes up a lot of the limited 36K bandwidth. We have to sacrifice this function to ensure smoothness.

In less than two minutes, a picture of the aircraft carrier taken from a high vantage point appeared below the post, almost level with the Hornet's island.

From the photo, you can just see a huge aircraft carrier docked on the shore, with a fuel pipe connected to the side of the hull.

Not only can you see standing sailors on the deck, but also two shining steam catapults at the front of the deck.

[Tang Jia Da Shao: The picture has been posted. The authenticity is unknown. Please judge for yourself.]

Dawang BBS is now a popular forum in China. After posting the picture, I refreshed it and saw several more replies:

User 8225: @The Fish Who Loves Diving, these days there are all kinds of people who can spread rumors with just a mouth.

User 8225: Wait, I just saw the picture, it seems real?

Jackal: Oh my god, it really is an aircraft carrier. Is the picture real? I can see the catapult.

Bai Yang: @Fish Who Loves Diving, I'm a reporter from the Goose City Evening News. Is the aircraft carrier still there? I'll go check it out right away.

[Fish who loves diving: @Bai Yang, come quickly. A large ship like this takes at least several hours to refuel. If you arrive too late, the port might be closed and you won't be allowed in.]

The daily activity of BBS is not low to begin with. In this era of Internet scarcity, many people will lurk on familiar websites.

This post immediately attracted many users. Tang Wen could see that the backend traffic was rising at a terrifying rate. He did not bother to refresh the post and hurriedly started the backup server for fear that it would crash due to the crowding.

……

"Mr. Tang, Mr. Tang!"

Lin Qi rushed into the office and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Tang Wen hunched over the monitor, then pulled him out.

The latter was dragged into the hotel room in confusion, and then saw a group of officers standing inside. He recognized Lao Zhang at once, but the latter was standing in a relatively marginal position, so he just greeted him with his eyes.

Some of them were old acquaintances of his, and they followed Lynch through the door and boarded the Yamato.

But now they looked very anxious, sitting restlessly in the room waiting for something. They only breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Tang Wen being pulled over, and then they accurately took out the latter's mobile phone and put it aside.

"Sorry, Mr. Tang, the agreement we're about to sign needs to be kept confidential. Let's leave the phone here for now."

Tang Wen: "I understand the principle, but there's no need to turn off the phone, right?"

"It's too urgent... ahem, you sit down first."

Tang Wen was pressed against the suite's single sofa, facing a genial, elderly officer with thick, black and white hair. On the coffee table between them lay a pile of paper documents.

The gray-haired officer saw the others' anxious expressions and said with some dissatisfaction:
"You guys, you guys, forget about bringing me thousands of kilometers here, but at least be polite to Xiao Tang!"

Only after hearing the apology did he look at Tang Wen with a smile:

"Comrade Xiao Tang, it's not a good habit to hide good things."

Tang Wen secretly guessed the other party's identity, but replied helplessly:

"I know aircraft carriers are very useful, but battleships have long been withdrawn from the main battlefield, and we don't have the technology to convert them into arsenal ships. So, the navy can't use them for the time being, right?"

"That's not necessarily true. These 70,000 tons of steel alone are a treasure. Ask them, who would dare to fight to the death if they say they want to abandon this ship?"

After the white-haired man finished speaking, he pointed to the document on the table:

"To be fair, this battleship is worth three billion, but our navy is poor. We just paid out ten billion, and we really can't come up with more funds.

Of the 1 billion yuan for the ship purchase, only 200 million yuan can be advanced for the time being, and the remaining amount needs to be paid in installments within a year, so we have proposed some compensation plans."

Tang Wen picked it up and took a look. The first few sheets were memoranda, which were informal written terms and would serve as additional conditions to the Yamato ship purchase contract.

"- Expanding the oil and gas exploration qualification of Gaijin to the entire NSQD and promising 3 years of free and fully independent development rights for three islands and reefs;
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Provide Gaijin Fisheries with 10 unrestricted offshore and nearshore fishing licenses for 15 years and a five-year tax exemption;
Gaijin has obtained import and export qualifications for ships, machinery, and aviation;
Tang Wen was awarded the "Special Contribution Award for Aircraft Carriers" and invited to serve as a visiting professor and honorary vice president of the Dalian Naval Academy.

After reading the four items in total, Tang Wen exclaimed that it was unbelievable.

In order to embrace the Yamato, the Northern Fleet mobilized almost all its strength and gave everything it could.

In particular, the 3-year right to completely free development of the three islands and reefs in the Nansha Islands. Note that it is "complete" development, including but not limited to mining, fisheries, tourism and all other uses. Others can forget about it.

Tang Wen was not very interested in the fishing license, but the import and export qualifications were very impressive, which meant that Gai Jin could obtain first-hand import and export rights directly without going through a foreign trade company, which was definitely something many people envied in this era.

It is no exaggeration to say that you can make money just by lying down with this certificate, while others have to kneel down and beg for money.

As for the last point… setting up an award specifically for Tang Wen himself, and still being able to be the principal?
"Xiao Tang, see if it's okay. If not, we can discuss it again. We won't force it."

“That’s fantastic!”

Tang Wen nodded without hesitation. These four rights were truly something that could not be bought even with money. Overall, he even thought that he had gotten a good deal.

In order to prevent them from going back on their word, Tang Wen signed and put his fingerprints on the contract without even looking at the other clauses. When he looked up, he saw that the officers were all grinning from ear to ear.

Tang Wen had an idea and directly spent 10 silver coins in the system to buy an R-series level 6 commander and placed it directly on the Yamato.

When choosing the character, I deliberately chose a type that looks very old and is relatively old.

There was a knock on the door immediately. Lin Qi pushed the door open a crack and heard Tang Wen say:

"It's my man, let him in."

Lynch then opened the door, and everyone was surprised to see a man wearing the old-style dark blue uniform of the Combined Fleet. He had a wrinkled face, was not tall but had a straight posture, and looked very energetic.

Tang Wen: "This is Yujiro Taguchi, who participated in the construction of the Yamato from beginning to end. With him, the Yamato can reach its destination safely no matter what happens.

If you don't mind, you can let him familiarize himself with the ship as an advisor."

(End of this chapter)