Back to 1980: Please Love Me Again

Chapter 419 Are We Capable?
Huaguo, Badain Jaran Desert.

Zhugexian's experimental base is about 6 kilometers away from Biosphere 20 of the Junmu Group. Now two vertical, two horizontal, and four expressways pass through this former no-man's land, which greatly improves the traffic conditions of the two bases.

The Biosphere No. [-] experimental base, which is under construction, is far away from the crowd again, heading deeper into the desert for more than [-] kilometers.

There is a real no-life zone, and transportation can only be carried out by expensive all-terrain vehicles and aircraft.

Yes, Bio[-] has its own small airport.

It's so arrogant.

Zhuge Xian, whose hair is already half white, is leading several graduate students to watch the 78th experimental facility under construction.

Since Zhao Wenmu undertook the $4700 million required for the first experiment, experiments on gravitational fusion have continued 77 times.

Also failed 77 times.

This greatly exceeded Zhuge Xian's original expectations.

Not only did the number of experiments far exceed expectations, but the cost of experiments also skyrocketed.

According to Zhuge Xian's original experimental plan, the cost of a single test was about 5000 million US dollars. However, after the first experiment, he changed the experimental plan based on the experimental results.

The second experiment cost $2 million!
For the third time, it exceeded 3 million US dollars.

...

The recent 77th experiment cost a staggering $10.8 billion!
Zhao Wenmu has invested a total of 304 billion US dollars!
When the two talked, no one expected that it would reach such an astonishing level.

Fortunately, these efforts have reaped great rewards.

Although controllable nuclear fusion is still far away, at least they can see that the progress bar is moving.

In the words of Zhuge Xian after the first experiment, "I saw the progress bar moved to 0.01%".

One in ten thousand.

A number that makes people somewhat desperate.

Who knew that Zhao Wenmu laughed out loud when he heard the news, and his heroic words were still ringing in his ears:

"Okay, that's great! The moment the boss reveals its health bar, it's already lost!!"

Controllable nuclear fusion, in the former parallel world, has never revealed its full difficulty. People don't know whether they have reached 30% or one in a billion.

Now, under the leadership of Zhuge Xian, with the support of Zhao Wenmu's 304 billion US dollars of funds, the progress bar of gravitational fusion has reached 32.88%!

This data is not just a random slap in the face.

After 77 experiments, it was supported by countless experimental data, and the chief experimenter Zhuge Xian patted his head...

Zhuge Xian published 12 papers in one breath, and published them in top journals at home and abroad.

It is these papers that laid the foundation for gravitational fusion research and established Zhuge Xian's status as the father of controllable nuclear fusion.

At the same time, he also published an article explaining in detail the process and cost of 77 experiments.

And the real source of money!
Ke Lindun stared at the words "Zhao Wenmu" on the newspaper, as if there was a flame in his eyes that wanted to burn it up.

"That damn Zhao actually provided more than 300 billion US dollars for controllable fusion research, where did he get so much money?!"

He looked at Brett in front of him.

"Bill, calm down. The FBI has already found out that Zhao Wenmu has a lot of property in Sakura, and his total personal assets are more than 1000 billion US dollars. These are all public."

Part of the assets transferred from Wujing Songgen was placed under the name of Zhao Wenmu. These years of operation and the profits of Jingyi health care products have brought Zhao Wenmu's overseas worth back to more than [-] billion.

This does not include the more than 300 billion donated to Zhuge Xian.

"Bill, don't be angry! Senator Zhao's assets exceed trillions of dollars, and he is inextricably linked with various industries in the country. Why do you have to go against her?"

Brett was still trying to persuade him.

Most of the former Wujing Songgen Group's assets were under Zhao Wenqiu's name, and the other half belonged to Rong Zhenyi. After so many years of operation, the total market value has now exceeded 1.5 trillion US dollars.

More than 1.3 times the total GDP of Huaguo that year!
And during the Nasdaq dot-com bubble two years later, this figure reached a staggering $4 trillion!

Zhao Wenqiu took the opportunity to cash out more than 8 billion U.S. dollars.

She cashed out before the peak of the bubble, and in the process kept reminding of risks, warning that the valuation of Internet companies listed on Nasdaq has been inflated, and persuading the market to calmly invest.

Indeed, many investors were discouraged.

And when the bubble burst and the market fell irrationally, they bought stocks with real money.

I repeated Zhao Wenmu's standard practice when the cherry blossom stock market crashed in 1989.

He made a lot of money and gained a good reputation.

Because of this, her cash out this time, not only did not attract criticism from the people of the beautiful country, but it once again pushed up her personal reputation.

People from all walks of life in the beautiful country praised Zhao Wenqiu as a noble "investment queen".

Facing Brett's persuasion, Colin Dun's face turned livid.

What came to his mind was the picture that Zhao Wenqiu posted on his personal social account. What was she implying?
What the hell does this woman know?
Thinking of this, Colin Dun felt as if there were two icy eyes staring at him behind him.

He couldn't help shivering, took a deep breath calmly, and said in as calm a tone as possible:
"What do you think of the international cooperation in controllable fusion research that Zhuge Xian said?"

While publishing his thesis, Zhuge Xian proposed to set up an international joint institution to carry out related research.

In his article, he bluntly stated that the progress of controllable fusion research is less than one-third, and the follow-up still needs hundreds of experiments and hundreds of billions of dollars in funding, which is not something a country can afford.

Moreover, the research prospect of controllable fusion is related to the future of all mankind, and it should be jointly promoted by all mankind.

Very high-sounding.

In the final analysis, there is still one sentence: take the money!

The prospect of gravitational fusion is very clear, according to Zhuge Xian's research, it is absolutely feasible.In this case, Zhao Wenmu does not intend to continue to be taken advantage of.

Why do I have to pay for all the research results that benefit all mankind?

He has done his best.

It is precisely because of the 300 billion US dollars invested by Zhao Wenmu that people are able to know that gravitational fusion is feasible!

Now that we know that this road is feasible, no matter whether Zhao Wenmu continues to invest in it or not, there will always be someone who will continue to move forward on this road.

Why didn't all countries in the world try this route in previous lives?

Isn't it because people subconsciously think it has no future?

As Zhuge Xian said a few years later:

"The credit for the research on controlled nuclear fusion does not belong to me personally, at least I think half of the credit belongs to Mr. Zhao Wenmu!"

Facing the President's question, Ms. Secretary of State replied seriously:

"Controllable nuclear fusion is related to the future, and the beautiful country must not be left behind! The biggest question now is, do we have the ability to carry out experiments alone?"

(End of this chapter)