Chapter 84: The Speed Of Great Xia
Australia, capital.
Mo Han processed documents while listening to the news on television.
“Great Xia’s manned spacecraft launched this morning has now completed docking with the space station. This is the fifth manned spacecraft Great Xia has launched in the past six months.
According to relevant persons, Great Xia plans to carry out the manned lunar exploration plan in the remaining half of this year.”
Hearing this, Mo Han frowned.
After thinking for a while, he called in his secretary and asked: “Great Xia still hasn’t given a specific reply?”
Hearing this, the secretary’s face also showed confusion.
During this time, they had raised the price of ore exports to Great Xia three times, and now it was 8% higher than the original price.
He had even used private relationships several times to indicate that as long as Great Xia told Australia about the use of ordinary crystal stone, Australia would immediately lower the ore price back to the original level.
But Great Xia seemed completely oblivious to all this, making no reply, and even to the ore price increase, they only protested mildly as usual during foreign affairs meetings.
Very strange.
He shook his head. After Mo Han secretly cursed “useless thing,” he waved his hand impatiently and shooed him out.
Alone in the office thinking for a long time, Mo Han still had no reliable answer, so he picked up the telephone and dialed out.
The call was quickly answered, and Mo Han spoke without delay: “Is this President Wells’s office? This is Mo Han from Australia.”
Soon, the call was transferred to Wells.
“Hi, Mo Han. What matter requires you to call my office personally?”
Hearing the female president’s voice from the other end, Mo Han hurriedly replied: “It’s like this. I believe you know about Great Xia’s heavy investment in aerospace projects recently. This phenomenon is not normal. Does your United States have any related intelligence on this?”
“Oh, like that. With the recent rise in ore export prices to Great Xia, Australia has made quite a bit of money, huh.”
Mo Han was stunned hearing this.
Is this the top figure that the great and beautiful country has elected now?
Can a president say something like that?
He had always thought he was shameless enough, but he didn’t expect Wells on the other end of the phone to have no bottom line in this regard.
Who has ever seen a country’s president soliciting bribes from the president of the same force?
Mo Han felt insulted and immediately wanted to hang up. But Great Xia’s unusual actions during this time still made him uneasy.
After thinking it over, he finally vaguely expressed that a sum of money would be transferred to the other’s anonymous account.
And Wells on the other end, after getting the desired result, was also very trustworthy.
“According to our intelligence department’s information, Great Xia’s break from convention this time to vigorously develop the aerospace undertaking is mainly because several technologies from Xinghai Technology greatly improve aerospace development.
Moreover, most of the funds come from Xinghai, so it should be said that under Xinghai’s support, Great Xia suddenly gained the determination to vigorously develop the aerospace undertaking.
Presumably, Xinghai also wants to become an aerospace company like our United States’ Spitz Company.”
The call ended, and Mo Han’s suspended heart finally settled. It seemed there were no major changes.
After all, the pricing of ore was in Australia’s hands, so Great Xia could only reluctantly accept it.
Thinking this through, his face regained its steady appearance.
Central Great Xia, Aerospace City, Xinghai Aerospace Base.
Fan Ren stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window in the top-floor office of the base, where at the distant horizon, a towering rocket stood like a sharp sword piercing straight into the clouds before disappearing.
This was the last manned launch mission of the month, and the sixth in half a year.
After this launch, the Aerospace Department’s launch missions would pause for a while.
“Second Brother, stop looking. Ours are way more awesome than that.”
Behind him, Liu Jun had his legs crossed, a cigarette in one hand. After a long time without seeing him, his waist now had a belly.
Fan Ren turned and looked at him, shaking his head helplessly, unable to do anything about his appearance.
Four years after university graduation, the once suave and dashing rich second generation had, after countless drinking parties, turned into this.
“When you’re done here, remember to get your teeth cleaned before leaving. If Su Yu Rou finds out you’ve become like this from smoking, she’ll come complain to me.”
As he spoke, he also walked to the sofa, picked up a cigarette, and lit it.
“Does she dare? Watch me spank her.”
“Heh.”
Fan Ren gave him a thumbs up. He believed that like a ghost.
“Not talking about that, it’s boring. Second Brother, are we really putting all the money into this?”
Liu Jun pursed his lips, then looked at him with heartache, full of disappointment in someone’s lack of progress.
“Yes, Elder Ye and several department chiefs have already helped me set up the framework. Next, it depends on us. But it’s already good. Taking advantage of this momentum, with the Aerospace Department’s tacit approval, we’ve recruited many graduates from related majors. After these few months of cultivation, they can be put to some use.”
Thinking of the hundreds of young engineers recruited from various universities in the base, Fan Ren showed a sincere smile on his face.
In the past half year, with the help of Li Jiandong and Aerospace City’s chief engineer Yin Shangjin, the new engineers recruited by Xinghai Base could visit and learn at the Aerospace City launch base at any time, even doing hands-on work under the master craftsmen there.
Half a year ago, after a series of discussions and negotiations.
Finally, with Elder Ye’s approval, Xinghai injected 20 billion into the Great Xia Aerospace Department and reached a strategic partner relationship with the Great Xia Aerospace Department.
There were benefits like technology sharing, mutual talent cultivation bases, and other cooperation advantages between the two.
At the same time, with ample funds, the Aerospace Department planned to launch six manned spacecraft missions in half a year to complete the construction of the Immortal Palace Space Station at the fastest speed.
And dozens of cargo launch missions to complete the final work of the lunar exploration project at the fastest speed, finishing the communication system, trajectory, landing measurement, and return voyage test trials.
This high efficiency not only left Fan Ren dumbfounded, but also made the nerves of other global forces sensitive.
What was wrong with Great Xia?
What madness was this?
Investing 20 billion at once, concentrating the launch tasks for the next two years into half a year.
While shocked by Great Xia’s mysterious operation, they also sighed that among the current global forces, only Great Xia had this high efficiency to safely and successfully complete these tasks in a short time.
But only Fan Ren and a few informed persons knew.
This time, Elder Ye changed his long-held idea of “steady slow steps,” largely because he was inspired by the great blueprint described by Fan Ren.
Of course, a small part of the reason came from Australia’s repeated arbitrary control of ore export prices, and Great Xia’s helplessness about it.
