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Chapter 1348: The Leader in Science (Second update, please subscribe)
NBC is open to business most of the time.

As a merchant nation, NBC has always upheld the principle of putting business first.

NBC can sell anything if it has the money.

This is definitely not the kind of verbal sell-out that can sell everything.

But they will really "sell out everything".

For example, NBC once sold the atomic bomb manufacturing technology to Britain.

It has also sold rocket technology to the United States.

Of course, the U.S. also sold the world's most advanced electronic computers to the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union even used long-range bombers equipped with turbofan engines sold by NBC to shake their wings at NBC.

So, NBC is definitely a country where business comes first.

As long as there is money, or as long as the other party is willing to pay a high enough price, NBC can sell everything.

In fact, this is a common characteristic of businessmen.

So, in time of need, the Soviets once again turned to NBC.

"They want to buy the dark blue from us!"

In the office of the "new official residence", Cheng Peng'an looked at His Excellency and reported.

"Not only do they want to buy the Deep Blue 2000 supercomputer, but they also want to be able to buy Athlon chips from us."

When he heard the term "Athlon chip", Li Yian raised his head slightly and then said with emotion:
"You see, from a technical point of view, the Soviets' attention to the technology of the Western world is far greater than we can imagine. How long has it been since the electronics company launched the Athlon chip?"

Li Yian's rhetorical question was certainly well-targeted and had its reasons.

This chip is the most advanced technology of this era!

A 50-micron chip with more than 3000 transistors is theoretically another world. European and American countries only launched similar chips around 72.

But on NBC, it was a full 9 years earlier!
Although the computing power of the Athlon chip is certainly not as good as that of the 72-year-old chip, it is definitely the black technology among the black technologies in this era.

The reason why the international electronics company developed this chip was not because of civilian needs, but because of the needs of the "Chang'e Project".

Because like the Soviet Union, NBC also chose to use multiple small rockets in parallel to provide thrust to build the moon rocket.

NBC selected 27 small rocket engines.

In another world, Korolev chose N30 with 1 small rocket engines in parallel! But his attempt failed.

It was not his attempt, but after his death, his idea failed. So for a long time, countless scientists tried to deny Korolev's design in various ways.

They believe that this approach is unlikely to succeed.

However, decades later, Musk proved that it is feasible to provide thrust by connecting multiple small rockets in parallel. Korolev's design and ideas were correct. The reason for the failure of N1 was that the control system was not yet fully developed at that time.

Therefore, the failure of the N1 rocket is inevitable.

However, what Li Yian did not know was that NBC also chose the solution of connecting small rockets in parallel, but chose a different method.

Li Yian is not sure whether this parallel method can be successful, but in Wanhujiao, in order to achieve this goal, they are cooperating with international electronics companies and other companies to develop new chips.

The purpose is to improve the rocket's control system, or to improve the performance of the rocket's control system, so as to ensure the successful launch of the rocket.

This is also NBC's advantage. Compared with the Soviet Union, NBC's electronic technology is more advanced, which also destined NBC to take a completely different path from the Soviet Union.

However, NBC had just made a breakthrough two months ago, and the Soviets had already obtained this intelligence.

It has to be admitted that the Soviets were very concerned about the search for scientific and technological intelligence. This was the Soviet Union's advantage. In the same world, whenever the United States developed some advanced technology, the Soviet Union would obtain the corresponding intelligence. Of course, they only obtained information in this regard.

"That's less than two months, sir. This means we must have quite a few Soviet informants here."

As the director of the Intelligence Bureau, Cheng Pengan knew the channels through which the Soviet Union obtained information about the Athlon chip.

Li Yian nodded and said.

"This is inevitable. After all, for many people in this world, the Soviet Union is the light of humanity."

Apart from other things, why was the Soviet Union able to infiltrate Downing Street like a sieve? The "Cambridge Five" never sold out Britain for money, they sold out for their ideals.

There are such people in the UK and in NBC. Li Yian admires these people with ideals.

After all, to some extent, it is these people with ideals who promote the progress of human society, but of course it is not just them.

"We will communicate with the Security Bureau and investigate this matter thoroughly."

Li Yian did not object to Cheng Pengan's decision. After all, appreciation is appreciation and reality is reality.

Some things always need to be done by someone. Of course, Li Yian doesn't care about this at all. Compared to this matter, he is more concerned about why the Soviet Union bought this chip. "If nothing unexpected happens, the Russians must also buy it for the moon landing! The computing power of this chip is not the strongest, but its control ability is first-class. The Soviets can't do without it for the moon landing. Of course, it can also be used in intercontinental missiles."

This is "dual-use technology". Moon landing is for civilian use, while missiles are for military use.

With a slight smile, Li Yian said:
“Let the company reject them, and then have them provide them with some chips through special channels.”

"I see,"

Unlike many people, Cheng Pengan’s greatest strength is that he never asks why, but obeys 100%.

"Aren't you curious why they were provided with this chip?"

"Because the Soviets need it, Your Excellency needs to make the Soviets need it."

Hearing his answer, Li Yian burst into laughter.

"You haven't changed at all in all these years."

Stand up, Li Yian said.

"Indeed, I need to get this chip to the Soviets. After getting it, the Soviets may be able to realize their moon landing project. If they have a chance to get ahead of the Americans, it would be great."

Li Yian said this and walked to the front of the map, looking at it and said.

"For us, the existence of a strong Soviet Union, or a Soviet Union that can suppress the United States, is a good thing.

If the Soviet Union had landed on the moon before the United States, the entire American would have been extremely shocked and would have felt an unprecedented threat, just like the last time the Soviets launched an artificial satellite.

In that case, all their attention will be on the Soviet Union, and they will ignore us.”

Cheng Pengan nodded and said.

"Yes, sir, the Soviet Union is a greater threat to the United States than we are."

"Yes, that's why we need the Soviet Union to get the Athlon chip. We need to use this method to strengthen the Soviet Union. Only in this way can the United States feel the real threat."

In another world, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States became the only superpower. In that world where only one superpower existed, how did the United States do things?
The United States does whatever it wants.

If there was no Soviet threat, the next target of the United States would be NBC.

Therefore, from the perspective of NBC’s own interests, a strong Soviet Union is more in line with NBC’s interests.

After thinking for a while, Cheng Pengan said:
"But, sir, if we provide them with Athlon chips, will it pose a threat to us?"

"It may pose some threat to us. But in the long run, the threat is extremely minor."

Li Yi'an said:
"Do you know what the Soviet Union's greatest success is? They can get our scientific progress at the first time, just like they learned about our Athlon chip at the first time, and then they will buy this chip from us, and then they will imitate this chip, but what's the point of this?"

Li Yian sneered:

"This is the Soviet Union's success, but it is also their failure. They successfully obtained the scientific and technological intelligence in this area. Then, what will they do? Just follow closely..."

"Follow closely!"

As he repeated this sentence, Cheng Pengan spoke as if he had suddenly realized something.

"I understand, because they have been following us to learn, just like now, they can buy Athlon chips from us, and of course they can also imitate this chip, but when they succeed in imitating this chip, we have already developed a new chip.

They may be able to get intelligence in this regard, and they will still copy new chips. But in this process, they are actually following behind us all the time!"

"Yes, that's right. They keep saying they want to surpass us, but they never do. They always follow behind us. This is not a bad thing, because they are following closely, so we can make more progress, and their learning..."

Looking into the distance, Li Yian said:

"In fact, it means giving up the ability of self-development. Therefore, there is no need to be afraid of such opponents. After all, they can only follow behind us forever."

In fact, this is also one of the fundamental reasons why the Soviet Union failed in another world - the Soviet Union has always followed whatever the United States did.

This meaningless blind obedience directly led to the Soviet Union always being one step behind the United States.

And at the same time?

While they were closely following the development of the United States, they neglected their own innovation capabilities. Even for Soviet scientists, whoever copied American science and technology first would definitely win the grand prize.

Therefore, during this process, the Soviets gradually gave up their own research and development capabilities, but can such close pursuit help them surpass the United States?
Of course it is impossible. After all, the follower can never surpass the leader.

All NBC needs to do is become a leader in this world.

"Their learning is just learning. Of course, their learning will spur us to make progress to a certain extent. After all, there are people following closely behind them!"

This is also the fundamental reason why Li Yian did not mind providing advanced technology to the Soviet Union.

Just like automobile technology, by the time the Soviets mastered it, the technology was already outdated. This is the helplessness of being a follower!

(End of this chapter)