Back to 1980: Please Love Me Again

Chapter 420 The Dust Settles
Pretty Country, Washington, DC.

Ms. Secretary of State's words successfully asked Mr. President.

Ten hours later, a meeting chaired by the Secretary of State was held at a military base in the beautiful country. The participants were the best nuclear physicists and controllable fusion research experts in the United States.

At the meeting, Bright raised only three questions:

"Is the gravitational fusion mentioned by Zhuge Xian really feasible? Given enough funds, how long can you complete the gravitational fusion research? If we choose to cooperate, can we win the project leadership?"

The experts discussed intensely for a full four hours, and finally gave the answer to Ms. Secretary of State:
"If Zhuge Xian's thesis is not falsified, then there is a 90% probability that gravitational fusion is feasible."

"According to the current knowledge we have, independent research is impossible to complete relevant research in advance, and it will be at least 5 years behind."

Unless you can steal, uh, get all the experimental data and theoretical modeling of Zhuge Xian, otherwise you will not be able to catch up with them in 20 years.

This is the conclusion drawn by military experts in private.

"Theoretical modeling is in the hands of Zhuge Xian, and they have invested more than 300 billion yuan and conducted experiments for ten years. It is impossible for us to win the dominance."

All of these are within Brett's expectations.

After all, the world does not revolve around the beautiful country all the time.

"Then, what is the possibility of Zhuge Xian's academic fraud?"

She asked one last question.

Even she herself wasn't sure what the answer she wanted to hear was that question.

"Extremely low. Zhuge Xian has a very good character, and it is very unlikely that he would do such a thing."

An official from Homeland Security replied.

They have sorted out all of Zhuge Xian's resumes and his many visits to the United States, and have conducted multiple rounds of analysis by top psychologists.

The final conclusion is that the possibility of Zhuge Xian's academic fraud is less than 1%.

After returning to the White House, Bright reported all the situation to Colin Shield.

"Bill, it's time to make a choice! Otherwise, we will fall far behind each other in the energy field!"

Colin Shield was still hesitating.

However, when the two were arguing, a staff member walked in and handed a document to Bright.

"The oil-producing countries in the Middle East have issued a statement that they are willing to fully fund Zhugexian's controllable fusion research. The first batch of 200 billion US dollars has been allocated and can be allocated to Professor Zhugexian at any time."

No one expected that the first to extend an olive branch to the research of controllable fusion would be the oil-producing countries in the Middle East led by Saudi Arabia.

The really rich chiefs are really anxious now. Once the controlled fusion is successful, will the oil fields under their buttocks have to be greatly depreciated on the spot.

The rich and big families are different from the world police who are causing trouble everywhere. The first time they got the news, they didn't think of physically destroying Zhuge Xian and his experimental facilities.

but cooperation.

Only cooperation, betting on both sides of traditional energy and controllable fusion is the best choice.

Only in this way can it be guaranteed that even if the big ship of controlled fusion is launched, they can still have a standing ticket, at least they will not swim naked in the sea.

In this regard, the big dogs are not stupid at all.

Isn't it hundreds of billions of dollars!
Over the years, they have handed in certificates to the United States, and the annual military expenditure has also reached this amount.

Brett, who received the briefing, froze. She threw the briefing in front of Colin Dun and said helplessly:

"Bill, we can't wait any longer."

Colin Dun looked slumped, he nodded after a while, and said to Brett:

"You should go there yourself. After all, we must strive for the greatest rights and interests. Star Island is our card."

...

Three days later, the International Joint Research Institute of Controlled Fusion was inaugurated in the Badain Jaran Desert in Huaguo.

The 38 countries that participated in the initiation pledged to jointly invest 3800 billion US dollars for research on gravitational fusion and its commercial application.

Each country has a certain share of the research results.

其中华国享有30%份额，远超漂亮国的18%和樱花、德国、沙特的6%、5%和4.7%。

The amount of capital contributed by each country and its share are not in a linear relationship from beginning to end.

For example, Saudi Arabia, which accounted for less than 5%, contributed as much as 11.7%. After all, they made almost no contribution in terms of technology.

On the same day, the United Nations issued a resolution stipulating that for the research results of gravitational fusion, the International Institute of Controlled Fusion has 50 years of patent rights from the date of its commercial application.

In other words, once gravitational fusion is successfully researched, the 38 countries participating in the research today will not only be able to give priority to using this technology, but also gain huge profits in its commercial promotion.

The 3800 billion US dollars invested will be returned by ten times or one hundred times the profits.

At the same time, the 52-day blockade on Xingchen Island was lifted quietly and completely.

The beautiful US Navy aircraft carrier battle group retreated quietly in the early hours of the morning.

Zhao Wenmu sent a condolence wave to the other party the next morning with great interest:

"Thank you Lieutenant General Cole for taking care of the home for 52 days. I am very reluctant to part with you. I will send you a firework to express my heart."

Ten minutes later, the heavy-duty carrier rocket independently developed by Xingchen Aerospace was launched from Xingchen Island.

Send one of the world's highest resolution reconnaissance satellites into space.

Since then, all the 30 square kilometers of sea area around Xingchen Island have been included in the 24-hour all-weather monitoring.

Cole responded lightly to Zhao Wenmu's slightly mocking letter:
"There is no need to thank you for your duty. I look forward to riding on Xingchen Island next time and having a drink with you."

"This Cole is quite interesting, haha!"

Seeing Cole's reply, Zhao Wenmu laughed.

Now that the blockade of Xingchen Island has ended, various tasks can be officially carried out.

In the following month, Xingchen Aerospace launched six rockets, successfully sending the customer's 14 satellites into orbit.

The cumulative loss exceeded 7 million US dollars!
It's just a big loss!
The cost of a single launch vehicle of Xingchen Aerospace is 1.8 million US dollars, which is more expensive than the most advanced rockets in Europe, America and Japan.

Compared with the launch cost of about 3000 million yuan per satellite, it is almost a loss to grandma's family.

But there is no way!
The satellite launch fee is based on the space shuttle, but in order to avoid stimulating the White House, Xingchen Aerospace can only choose to use rocket launches for the time being.

Rockets cost far more than their space shuttles.

The latter, after all, can carry 40 tons of cargo at a time and can be reused.

The cost of a single launch does not exceed 4000 million U.S. dollars, which is the total after including the depreciation and maintenance costs of the space shuttle, that is, only 100 million U.S. dollars per ton.

Xingchen Company's fee is 500 million US dollars per ton, which is obviously profitable!
The zipper door incident has been happening for many days, and Zhao Wenmu decided it was time to give President Colin Dun a big gift.

A true gift.

(End of this chapter)