The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 445 Launch Vehicle
Yunnan Province, Kunming City, next to Dianchi Lake, Panshan Group Headquarters.

laboratory!
Liu Tao is busy manufacturing parts for launch vehicles.

At the beginning, it was naturally impossible to build those large launch vehicles as the cost was too high.

For practice and testing purposes, a small launch vehicle will be enough.

The launch vehicle is very complex, but it is also very simple.

In the future, even undergraduate students in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics will be able to build launch vehicles, but they will be small launch vehicles.

After returning to Kunming, Liu Tao finished his business and began to develop a small launch vehicle.

The first step is to complete the design of the three major structures of the rocket: the body structure, the power unit system and the control system!

If others want to do it, even if they only need the simplest structure or copy the structural design of other rockets, this work cannot be completed in a day or two.

However, Liu Tao has an item upgrade system, which makes this aspect much simpler. His work efficiency alone is equal to that of a rocket research and development team.

It took a full month to complete the manufacture of a 7.6-meter-long carrier rocket.

During this month, the production of the rocket body, engine, fuel tank, etc. was completed.

The 7.6-meter rocket was carefully transported ten kilometers away, and all work was arranged, including monitoring, etc. Liu Tao's carrier rocket was finally ready to launch.

The launch vehicle has a carrying capacity of 3 kg.

The launch site is called a launch site, but in fact it is a concrete floor that has been under emergency construction for more than a month. Here are engineers from the aerospace system who were organized and coordinated by Liu Tao. A group of engineers are staring at the computer screens.

"Begin the countdown!" Liu Tao looked at the time and counted down: "10, 9, 8, 7"

"3, 2, 1! Ignition!" The ignition program starts automatically, and the igniter inside the rocket responds accordingly.

Hot flames spurt out from the bottom of the rocket, generating a powerful airflow that propels the rocket into the sky.

During this time, the rocket took off accompanied by the loud roar of a tiger.

The rocket was seen rising steadily into the air and flying towards the clouds.

Various data and situations are constantly reported to Liu Tao.

The rocket continued to rise and break through the clouds. When the ascent fuel was completely burned out, the launch distance reached 26.3 kilometers, and it had entered the stratosphere.

It can be said that this launch has achieved the predetermined goals.

Liu Tao began to improve this launch vehicle. After all, it was a small launch vehicle before, and the next step would be a large launch vehicle.

Of course, a large carrier rocket cannot just launch rockets, it also has to carry experimental satellites.

When you are in a serious state, time always passes quickly, and before you know it, it is already September.

September 9nd is a day destined to be recorded in the history of Japan and the world.

Plaza Hotel, New York, USA.

The Plaza Hotel was built in 1907 and is located on th Street in New York, USA, across the street from Central Park and adjacent to General Plaza in the east.

The Plaza Hotel is one of the landmark buildings in New York City. Due to historical reasons, it is no longer a simple hotel. It has witnessed the development of New York, carried the historical changes of New York, and has become the symbol of the city of New York. There was once a saying to introduce the Plaza Hotel: "Nothing that happens in the Plaza Hotel is unimportant."

Since its opening in 1907, the Plaza Hotel has been the preferred choice for celebrities from all walks of life to stay when visiting New York due to its unique geographical location.

The guests served by the Plaza Hotel range from kings, presidents, ambassadors to celebrities, business figures, and social elites. Everyone who can stay here is no ordinary person.

And on September 9, the Plaza Hotel once again witnessed history, a historic moment that will ensure that the Plaza Hotel will continue to be well-known for decades to come.

This historical moment was naturally marked by a five-nation agreement.

Just today, the finance ministers of five developed industrial countries, including U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker, island nation Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita, Federal German Finance Minister Gerhard Stodenberg, French Finance Minister Pierre Bergber, and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, as well as the governors of the five central banks, gathered at the Plaza Hotel in New York for a closed meeting that lasted several hours.

Afterwards, the finance ministers and central bank governors of the five countries signed the "Plaza Accord" known to the world in later generations, under the watchful eyes of reporters and media who rushed to the scene after hearing the news.

The agreement stipulates that the yen and the mark should appreciate significantly to restore the overvalued dollar. After the signing of the Plaza Accord, the five governments will jointly intervene in the foreign exchange market to lower the dollar and make it depreciate in an orderly manner.

Once the Plaza Accord was announced, it was quickly reprinted and widely publicized by media from all over the world.

In preparation for this day, Liu Tao arrived in Hong Kong one day in advance.

When the news from across the ocean reached Hong Kong, Liu Tao couldn't help but jump for joy.

The time to skin and cut Japan's flesh has finally arrived. The next ten, twenty, thirty or even forty years of loss will be for Japan.

The five countries signed the Plaza Accord, which nominally stipulated that the yen and the mark should appreciate significantly to restore the overvalued dollar price.

In fact, it is nothing more than the United States needing to recover its blood, and the knife in its hand is directed at its allies "Japan" and "West Germany". Perhaps it is not appropriate to call them "allies", because perhaps in the eyes of Americans, they are fat sheep or their own dogs.

Sure enough, when the news of the Plaza Accord spread throughout the world, the next day, which was Monday.

As expected, the USD/JPY exchange rate fell rapidly, closing at 250 points last week and opening at 241 points this week, a drop of 9 points.

Such a plunge can be regarded as a 'black swan event'!

And this was just the beginning, because the flapping of Liu Tao's butterfly wings caused the US dollar to fall faster than in the previous life.

At the close of the day, the USD/JPY exchange rate had fallen to 1:220, a single-day drop of more than 10%, which was beyond everyone's imagination.

You have to know that this is currency, and there is a national credit system behind it to support it. Moreover, it is the currency of the most powerful country in the world - the United States. In the past 40 years, it has been the common currency of the entire world.

When this situation occurred before, it was very likely that the country was in a state of war and was losing the war.

There are two reactions in Japan. The appreciation of the yen may be a good thing for ordinary people, especially those who have never been abroad. Ordinary people do not have so much foreign exchange. For them, the appreciation of the yen means an increase in purchasing power. However, it is not good news for Japanese companies and the Japanese government that have stored a large amount of US dollars in order to expand abroad.

Currently, Japan has purchased more than $100 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds, plus U.S. dollar cash and other securities. In order to maintain a balanced relationship with the Americans, it is impossible to sell all of them at once.

If Japan dares to sell U.S. debt all at once, then the U.S. troops will dare to march directly into Tokyo.

This is the helplessness of a country that does not have complete sovereignty. Many times, they are forced to do things against their will and cannot do whatever they want.

Because there is a US military base!

Guns are sometimes more useful and more intimidating than anything else!

(End of this chapter)