Chapter 109: Very Angry
Fan Ren watched the busy command hall, and only now did his face darken.
The Baiyue Alliance, led by the United States, had repeatedly and outrageously targeted Xinghai in various ways.
Now they had even set their sights on the space elevator project for which he had invested 500 billion.
By now he had realized that if this space elevator was destroyed, Xinghai would not have the capability to rebuild it in a short time.
This would cause all the ongoing substantial investments in related projects to come to a standstill.
Meanwhile, the Baiyue Alliance could take advantage of this time to make massive aerospace investments, attempting to catch up with Great Xia’s pace.
Don’t think the Baiyue Alliance lacks the ability to catch up; a skinny camel is still bigger than a horse. After all, the Baiyue Alliance is a group that has led the world by hundreds of years.
At that time, even if they were still behind Great Xia technologically, they could at least stand on the same competitive starting line with Great Xia again.
“Surprised?”
Liu Shengzhan finished arranging the various orders and walked over. Seeing Fan Ren like this, he couldn’t help but smile.
This young man, who had always remained calm and mature, finally seemed to have some temper now.
Fan Ren sighed, nodded, and said, “Repeatedly, really treating me like I have no temper.”
Hearing this, Liu Shengzhan laughed, patted his shoulder, and whispered lowly, “Elder Ye has already ordered the entire army to level one alert. Don’t worry. Once this matter is handled, it absolutely won’t end here. Just wait.”
Hearing this, Fan Ren was somewhat surprised. Since the founding of Great Xia, level one alert had been issued a total of six times.
Basically every time it was due to particularly major international incidents.
But then he felt relieved. Although the space elevator was Xinghai’s investment project, after completion, the greatest beneficiary would be the promotion of Great Xia’s overall industry, as well as escaping the embarrassing situation of South Australia’s ore exports arbitrarily increasing prices.
A warm current flashed through his heart.
But this wasn’t over. After thinking, he didn’t avoid it and picked up the phone to call Linhai.
Linhai, Xinghai Headquarters.
Jin Qiaoying had already learned of this emergency matter and was sitting anxiously in the office waiting for the result.
At this moment, the urgent phone bell rang, startling her directly.
“Does Xinghai have enough money in the account now for the subsequent lunar base expansion plan?”
Listening to Fan Ren’s somewhat angry voice from the receiver, her heart sank.
“Enough. The budget was calculated early through our supercomputer, and it can fully be provided now. Is the space elevator untenable?”
Hearing her panicked voice, Fan Ren immediately realized his words had worried her.
“No, no. The space elevator should be salvageable. Now we’re just waiting for the space station to fall to the designated position, and our missiles can strike it to deviate from the predetermined path.”
“Phew.” Jin Qiaoying breathed a sigh of relief; even her breathing could be transmitted through the receiver to Fan Ren’s ears.
“That’s good. Then why are you asking?”
Hearing her confusion, Fan Ren said with an angry expression, “This time we won’t give them a harsh one; they probably won’t take it seriously. I can even imagine that after this incident, they will definitely say the space station deviated from the original path during re-entry into the atmosphere due to accidental factors—anyway, they just won’t admit it.”
Fan Ren clenched his fist and lightly smashed it against the wall.
“Arrange it: Starting now, Xinghai will raise prices by 200% on all exported overseas related patents and chips. At the same time, nuclear fusion reactors will not be sold abroad, and our overseas strategy will fully contract.”
He was confident that once the space elevator was officially completed, the funds needed for subsequent investments could be fully earned back from just the Great Xia market.
Moreover, he still had quantum communication technology not fully released to the market.
After that, grit his teeth and complete the moon space elevator construction, persisting until large amounts of low-price tri-titanium alloy flooded into Great Xia’s basic industry.
At that time, Great Xia’s industrial commodities, after incorporating this super-strong metal, would have product competitiveness unmatched on the global market.
As long as the Baiyue Alliance’s cost of collecting ordinary crystal stones in the moon mining project couldn’t match Xinghai’s, they would forever completely lose the leading position over Great Xia that they had maintained for centuries.
“No room for negotiation?”
Jin Qiaoying asked a key question, which determined her subsequent company development arrangements.
“There is: Cancel tariffs on all Xinghai Technology export products and sign a permanent agreement!”
Liu Shengzhan nearby, hearing this, had his eyelids twitch.
He had just said he had no temper, and now he had turned around and set his sights on that piece of export tariff meat.
Although he was the military commander, he also had a general understanding of Xinghai Technology.
Currently, 80% of the world’s battery business came from Xinghai’s patent authorization, and high-voltage radio technology was basically completely monopolized.
Graphene chips held an absolute monopoly position.
There was also the nuclear fusion reactor worth up to 20 billion per set. Although currently only a few overseas enterprises had purchase intentions, the subsequent development potential was huge.
It was imaginable that if Xinghai Technology’s commodities withdrew from relevant countries, the public would inevitably complain bitterly, and at that time, all those polls would be done for.
You couldn’t possibly ask the public, after getting used to mobile phones with thinner, lighter batteries with several times the capacity of previous lithium batteries, to go back to using outdated previous products.
This was unrealistic in the consumer market.
Especially in the chip field, nowadays global enterprises default to using computing power to improve productivity. Star Calculation No. 1 costs 400,000 per unit and is still in short supply.
Referencing Star Transport No. 1: Under its massive computing power, the designed hull structure succeeded perfectly in a single launch test. This was previously unimaginable.
Truly ruthless.
If this condition was met, it would at least bring 30% additional revenue to their overseas income and give absolute leading advantage in competition with similar products.
Fan Ren hung up the phone and looked at Liu Shengzhan, a relieved smile appearing on his face.
“Won’t mess it up, right?”
Liu Shengzhan knew Fan Ren still had the moon space elevator plan, and would also build a large ordinary crystal stone refining plant in space, directly completing the tri-titanium alloy refining process in space at that time.
“Won’t. But I estimate they will drag it out for a while, so I checked the company’s funds situation.”
Seeing him speak so easily, Liu Shengzhan didn’t plan to persuade, after all, this was Fan Ren’s wholly owned company, and he could decide it himself.
“Commander Liu, the quotas for Xinghai’s recruited space engineers currently preparing to go to the lunar base have basically been determined: 800-1000 mining operations personnel expected, plus 200 personnel including doctors, chefs, machine repair and maintenance, logistics support, etc., totaling possibly 1200.”
Fan Ren looked at the big screen, speaking of the next plan.
At this time, there were still 3 hours until the final impact.
