Great Power Industry: You're a private company building an aircraft carrier?

Three days later, at the gate of Laiyang Factory.

"Xiao Chuan, we're all ready." Seeing Qin Chuan return, Master Wang greeted him. "We're going to convert some small warships into bulk carriers, right? Don't worry, we've got that covered!"

"No need," Qin Chuan shook his head. "We just need to prepare for the welding..."

As Qin Chuan spoke, he looked at the car parked to the side and asked, "Have we had guests?"

"Yes, people from Qingdao Shipyard came and said they wanted to talk business with us."

Discuss business?

Qin Chuan frowned and walked into the factory. Just as he reached the office door, he heard hearty laughter coming from inside.

"Haha, Director Qin, your son is amazing! He went to Guinea alone to negotiate. This project used to require relevant national departments to go out and negotiate many times before it could be finalized, but you managed to get it done so easily!"

"Well..."

"We're both in Dongshan Province, we're brother companies, and we'll need to help each other in the future. In business, we're partners..."

Qin Jianguo didn't know how to answer, but Qin Chuan had already walked in: "Dad, who is this?"

"You must be Qin Chuan. I'm Wang Minggang, the deputy director of Qingdao Shipyard. Just call me Lao Wang!"

"Uncle Wang, what brings you here?"

"I heard you wanted to transport iron ore by waterway from inside Guinea, Qin Chuan. You have such an imagination! Only you could come up with such a method! You must need a lot of inland waterway vessels, right? Our Qingdao Shipyard..."

“Uncle Wang, this project is handled by the Pacific Group and has nothing to do with our Laiyang factory. If you want to promote inland waterway transport vessels, you have to go to the Pacific Group.”

Wang Minggang stood there, stunned.

What did you say

Pacific Group? We already found out that this is a shell company that was registered less than a month ago. We don't even know where their office is. Are you trying to fool us?

You're clearly the boss behind it all, so who else should we turn to if not you?

"Uncle Wang, the Laiyang factory has installed a new rolling mill that can produce steel plates up to 5.5 meters wide, including shipbuilding steel plates. Since your Qingdao shipyard builds ships, we'll be business partners from now on! Since you're here, come on, I'll show you around. Just tell me what kind of steel plates you like, and I guarantee the lowest price!"

Wang Minggang was completely dumbfounded. He came here to sell ships, but unexpectedly, Qin Chuan was trying to sell him steel plates instead.

Five-and-a-half-meter steel plates are good, but they're expensive! Our shipyard welds together two three-meter steel plates, which is much cheaper than five-and-a-half-meter plates. We can't afford those steel plates!

"Well, well, oh, I suddenly remembered that I have some things to take care of at the factory, so I have to go back right away. Um, Director Qin, let's keep in touch!"

Wang Ming hurriedly walked out, got into the car, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Dad, have you been getting a lot of sales pitches lately?"

"Yes. There are people selling inland waterway transport ships, and others selling bulk carriers for sea transport. Since you're not here, we can't make the decision..." Qin Jianguo has been truly exhausted these past few days.

"If anyone comes looking for us again, tell them to go to the Pacific Group. It has nothing to do with our factory in Yangchang," Qin Chuan said.

“Okay, but… Xiao Chuan, we also need to consider the transportation issue.” Qin Jianguo frowned: “I heard that it’s going to go from the inland to the sea via rivers, which requires inland waterway transport ships, and then it needs to be transported from the seaport to our side, which requires bulk carriers for sea transport. Should we… outsource all of that?”

"Dad, the inland waterway transport ship issue has been resolved, and the sea transport issue will be resolved soon as well," Qin Chuan said. "By the way, we need to hurry up and dig a big pit on the beach these next few days."

"How big?"

"Three hundred meters long, seventy meters wide, and as deep as possible."

Qin Jianguo's eyes widened. "What did you say? This sounds like a shipyard? But... you absolutely can't build a shipyard on the beach!"

As they spoke, a roaring sound erupted on the beach. Li Jianshe had gathered a large number of excavators and dump trucks, and they were getting to work with great enthusiasm.

……

That evening, at the Laiyang Factory canteen.

"Viewers at home, this is international news. At 2 PM this afternoon, the retired Russian Pacific Fleet heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser Minsk suddenly caught fire at its mooring location. Due to the suddenness of the incident and the lack of rescue efforts, the warship sank from the harbor after burning for three hours..."

The outline of a huge warship appeared on the television screen.

Although it is said to have sunk, it did not actually sink completely, because the dock was only 15 meters deep, while the Minsk had a draft of 7.4 meters, so it sank 7.6 meters. That's equivalent to the height of three internal decks.

From the outside, the aircraft carrier's hull is about ten meters above the sea surface, the flight deck is still exposed, and the hangar is not flooded, making it look more like it has run aground or sunk.

The camera lingers on the vast flight deck and the massive superstructure, looking weathered and worn...

Upon seeing this message, Yang Xue's eyelashes fluttered slightly, her gaze complex.

"What's wrong?" Qin Chuan asked Yang Xue while eating at the table. "Are you grieving for a lost empire? There's a saying that goes, 'A half-dead old Russian is the best old Russian...'"

“No.” Yang Xue shook her head: “Brother Chuan, I’m worried about you! What if things are exposed…”

"If things are exposed, the first one to suffer will be Khmellinov," Qin Chuan said. "The second one will affect the honor of the entire Russian Navy. As for me? I'm just an insignificant nobody. I only offered an opinion. It was Khmellinov who couldn't control his greed. What does it have to do with me?"

"They might be fine, but what if they take their anger out on you?"

"Who's angry? Russia is rotten to the core from top to bottom," Qin Chuan said. "Although the Minsk has been decommissioned, it's still a symbol of its era. Such a major incident as a fire should prompt Moscow to immediately set up an investigation team to investigate and uncover the truth. What do you think their reaction will be?"

The news was still playing on the television.

"Moscow has decided to publicly auction this decommissioned warship..."

Moscow didn't pursue any responsibility! Why? Of course, it's because Khmelnynov had already smoothed things over and then complained: "We haven't been paid in ages! We can't even manage active-duty warships, let alone decommissioned ones..."

Everyone from top to bottom took his money, so who will investigate?

So, the next step is to hold a public auction!

"If this warship were intact, even just a hull, many people would be watching it. But since it caught fire and sank in the harbor, it has lost all value for modification," Qin Chuan continued his analysis.

In later years, when the Minsk and Novorossiysk were publicly auctioned by Russia, they attracted many companies.

Finally, the South Korean shipbuilding company bought it back at a high price. Although they promised to scrap it, it was actually worth no more than 13 million US dollars. The South Koreans wanted to repair it and use it as their own aircraft carrier, but then they encountered an economic crisis. The Novorossiysk was scrapped, and the Minsk was sold to the East and eventually converted into an aircraft carrier park.

Now that the warship is on fire and has sunk, with hidden damage to its hull, no one will be interested in it anymore.

It's supposed to be a public auction, but in the end, Khmelnynov will definitely send someone to buy it, and the price will be very low.