"That destroyer was lent to you by my grandmother? And she's giving it to you?" Harrison's face was full of astonishment. To build a vessel of this magnitude required much more than just a few billion US dollars.
Docks, maintenance personnel, and supporting equipment and facilities, all these minor details together approached nearly ten billion US dollars, even for a developed country like England, it was not an amount of money readily available.
At the time it took to build these few destroyers, the nation had tightened its belt, using a large amount of resources and manpower to construct this one destroyer. Although its value might not rival that of an aircraft carrier, it was still extremely important, even indispensable to the territorial sea force.
Such an item, the Queen of England suddenly wanted to give away? And Zhang Menglong should cry if she didn't want it? Wasn't this ridiculous?
