Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 1970 Project Start

Gu Qing didn't know how much "harm" his arrangement had caused to the officials of Indu Aerospace.

"Jiuzhou Xinghai Company said that their project work pressure is too great and they cannot always predict the spaceship load space for us. Starting from this month, the cost of bringing back will increase by 5 million Xia Yuan every month. If we agree to the previous resource delivery, it means that the mineral resources will increase by 5% every month.

They didn’t take up the free take-home offer we offered them.”

When the official staff of Indu Aerospace reported this information to the senior management, all the senior management of Indu Aerospace were surprised.

Of course, they understood the subtext of Jiuzhou Xinghai Company, which was urging them to make a quick choice, either give up or pay the money quickly.

but……

"Damn it! What does Jiuzhou Xinghai think of us, Indu Aerospace? Not only are they unwilling to bring back our Chandrayaan-3, but they also want us to pay so much?"

"I suggest restricting Jiuzhou Xinghai Company's cooperation projects in our local market, so that the company knows that it is their honor to serve us! Daxia's rice company has to contribute assets to us, let alone a branch of Jiuzhou Technology!"

"This is a provocation to us! If we agree to Jiuzhou Xinghai Company's request, there will definitely be more things that will lower our bottom line and we will have to face them in the future. We must not open this door! Moreover, our budget cannot support such a high cost."

"We still have Chandrayaan-4 and Chandrayaan-5. With this money, we can definitely launch more lunar probes! We can even land on the moon before NASA does!"

"You want us to pay? Jiuzhou Xinghai Company is currently the world's top space exploration company on Blue Planet. Why should we, the backward ones, pay?"

After a long discussion, considering the financial constraints, the top officials of Indo Aerospace all chose to give up bringing back Chandrayaan-3 when they took the final vote.

Liu Hai, the project docking manager of Jiuzhou Xinghai Company, was not surprised after learning about this situation.

As early as when the wreckage of "Chang'e 3" was first discovered, Jiuzhou Xinghai Company's robots had already sent the scanning and analysis data to Jiuzhou Xinghai Company's Blue Star server, which was then tested and evaluated by a group of engineers.

The final result disappointed many people. Indo Aerospace did not have the so-called independent lunar probe manufacturing technology at all. Many parts of Chandrayaan-3 were improved products of commercial products manufactured by Daxia Enterprises...

This kind of thing, let alone millions of Xia Yuan, not to mention the cost of rockets and other equipment, the manufacturing cost of just the core structural components of the probe might be only one million Xia Yuan.

Even if Jiuzhou Xinghai Company asked Jiuzhou Factory to manufacture the products, the cost would be less than 70 Xia Yuan.

In addition to the official officials of Indu Aerospace, Jiuzhou Xinghai Company, in accordance with Gu Qing's instructions, has successively sent information about the lunar probes discovered by the company in other countries and regions to the corresponding units, so that these aerospace agencies are also faced with the choices that only Indu Aerospace can make.

Of course, the payment standards are still differentiated as always.

Space agencies that have good cooperative relations with Jiuzhou Technology or Jiuzhou Xinghai Company, or neutral space agencies that have never had any non-positive interactions with Jiuzhou Xinghai Company, not only do not have to delay the fees, the cost of bringing back the wreckage of their equipment is only one million Xia yuan.

And those aerospace agencies that have had many negative contacts with Jiuzhou Technology or Jiuzhou Xinghai Company enjoy the same treatment as the officials of Indu Aerospace, and have to pay extra.

All aerospace agencies that received letters from Jiuzhou Xinghai Company quickly made a decision.

After all, although the lunar probe lost contact on the moon, the storage device inside the lunar probe may contain extremely important data, so many space agencies readily paid the money.

One million Xia Yuan is a huge sum of money for an individual.

But for space agencies in major countries and regions, it is actually not that much money.

As for those space agencies that were charged high prices, some chose to hold their noses and pay the money to get the lunar probe back, while others were so angry that they refused Jiuzhou Xinghai Company's spacecraft bring-back service.

As a result, a clear-cut camp was quickly formed in the global aerospace field of Bluestar, which was almost a replica of Jiuzhou Technology's operating scale in the global market.

Just when all the aerospace agencies on Blue Planet thought that the matter had come to an end, Jiuzhou Xinghai Company officially announced the launch of the lunar base construction plan on an ordinary day without any special holidays.

Within Jiuzhou Technology, the Titanium Star Department, the Biomedicine Department, and other departments jointly announced the official launch of the "Pioneer Project".

All the rules proposed by Gu Qing at the beginning were not reduced, and some individual rules even had additional restrictions.

For example, all Kyushu registered engineers who want to sign up for the Pioneer Project must not only obtain written consent and video consent from all surviving immediate family members, as well as encouragement and support from two good friends, but now also need to seek permission from more than half of their colleagues in the project team. At the same time, they must be in good health and have not undergone bionic mechanical prosthesis surgery before they are allowed to apply for the job.

After all, not everyone can shoulder the banner. After some core members of the project team leave, even if the major project teams within Jiuzhou Technology are elites, there is still a gap between elites and geniuses.

The rules proposed by Gu Qing are to select top scientists with physiques comparable to special forces and powerful brains. The optimized rules will also ensure that the members of the "Pioneer Project" have excellent organizational skills and affinity on this basis.

After the previous meeting, the senior management of Jiuzhou Technology had been guarding against any leak of information while at the same time conducting subtle lobbying work on the core engineers of their own department's projects.

This includes but is not limited to buying houses, cars, and introducing partners to these core elite engineers. Some managers even arranged travel and free admission to senior citizen universities for the parents of project team members.

The main idea is to be like a family, and the idea is to allow this group of elite engineers to gain a foothold and not submit applications when the "Pioneer Project" is made public.

However, even though these managers attached so much importance to it, after the announcement of the "Pioneer Project", all the official employees of Jiuzhou Technology were excited.

In the employee community of Jiuzhou Technology, countless posts asking about the "Pioneer Project" appeared in just a few minutes, almost occupying the entire chat page. Of course, these posts were posted by ordinary employees and engineers who have not yet been relieved of their core projects. For those senior engineers who have already worked on core projects, after hearing the news, they showed their magical powers.

Some of them directly found the management and inquired about the specific situation of the project. After all, it was announced by multiple core departments together. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that it is a major matter and is definitely not a trivial matter.

But what they were faced with was: "What can I say? What I know is the same as what you know. There are just a few rules. If you meet the requirements and are really willing to compete for this project, our department will not stop you too much. After all, we are all family.

You will work and live in the lunar base in the future, and we will also take care of your family affairs."

When faced with the company's major projects, the management never thought of standing up and opposing them.

Because everyone knows clearly that if they stand up to oppose the "Pioneer Project", they are opposing the position they are sitting in...

Some engineers and scientists, on the other hand, look for intelligent program AIs such as [Xiezhi], [Tiangong], and [Sinan], because their identities and authorities are high enough, so they also know clearly that within Jiuzhou Technology, high-authority identities can often ask intelligent program AIs for information that ordinary managers cannot know.

This consultation actually helped them understand some project details.

For example, the "Pioneer Project" not only requires project participants to live and work at the lunar base, but also requires project participants to undergo a "physical examination" on the moon. At the same time, it also requires participants to agree to exercise within the specified time while living at the lunar base... These are either important or simple situations.

The importance of the "Forerunner Project" is not hidden by these intelligent AI programs.

[The "Pioneer Project" refers to a scientific research project that selects highly qualified people such as scientists and engineers who meet the requirements for astronaut selection, and enables them to live and work stably on the lunar base according to certain standards and procedures.

The project was proposed by the company's founder Gu Qing and discussed by think tank experts and project leaders such as @! #￥……

Although it has not been stated how much resources will be invested in the project, none of the elite engineers at Jiuzhou Technology will ignore the authoritative nature and influence of this project when they see the proposer and research team of the project.

  What if the project fails halfway?

That's even more impossible.

Soon, the engineers and scientists within Jiuzhou Technology began a vigorous campaign to canvass for votes.

After all, if you want to get more than half of your colleagues in the project to vote in favor, you naturally have to compete with other people in the group who want to apply.

"Lao Liu, you are not young anymore, and you have elderly parents and young children at home. Let me apply for the 'Pioneer Project' this time. I have been single for almost 30 years, my parents have a pension, and I don't have any children to raise..."

"Xiao Zhao, what are you talking about? Everyone knows that we will be exposed to space radiation when we go to the lunar base. You don't have any children yet, and this is the time when your body is at its healthiest. Your top priority is to quickly find an excellent woman who is healthy both physically and mentally to marry, and then reproduce so that my eldest brother and sister-in-law can have grandchildren sooner!"

"Old Liu, I also participated in the Future Warrior Project. Although I didn't pass the cross-country training assessment, my scores in other projects were not low. If you want to compete with me, my physique can definitely allow me to stay in the lunar base for a few more days!"

"Hehe, it's not like the company hasn't prepared human body optimization fluid. Who knows, after I come back from the moon, my body might be better than you youngsters."

It is true that the lunar base and the "Forerunner Project" are both large projects in the field of aerospace science that are not low in risk.

But that also depends on who is the organization that implements the project!

With President Gu taking the lead, no one thought that these two projects would fail!

And now everyone understands one thing, that is, the company's development in other industries can no longer be like the initial entry into the industry and overturn the table and become the sole technology supplier.

Daxia officials will not sit idly by, and other companies in the industry will not watch this happen. Now the company is in a very sensitive position, and if it wants to get rid of it, it must look up and develop in the universe.

In addition, there is another extremely important reason, that is, many engineers and scientists know that the current world is not safe, and they will not even feel surprised if a hot war breaks out one day.

If they can speed up the construction of the lunar base and allow their loved ones to live in the lunar city, they are willing to sacrifice their lives for it.

When everyone's interests are directed in the same direction, the power that erupts can turn the world upside down or recreate it.

  Ten hours after the announcement was released, the number of applicants for Jiuzhou Technology’s internal “Pioneer Project” exceeded 100,000!

These are not 100,000 unqualified people, but strong men who have passed the Kyushu registered engineer assessment, are in good health, and have convinced half of the project team members as well as their relatives and friends.

When Gu Qing learned of this exaggerated data, he couldn't help but sigh in surprise: "One hundred thousand people, the Monkey King faced only one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals back then..."

Of course, in addition to his feelings, he also immediately instructed [Xuanwu] to carefully select the best of the best and strive to select enough "participants" from these 100,000 people.

The initial Pioneer project does not require long-term detention at the lunar base. In the plan designed by Gu Qing, the time the Pioneers live at the lunar base will gradually increase from "two months" to "one year", "two years", "three years" and finally five years and ten years.

In addition to the income from main jobs every month, there are also project subsidies from the "Pioneer Project", which will definitely ensure that participants will not spend their time and energy without receiving the due rewards.

When Gu Qing was making relevant work arrangements, the news that the lunar base project was officially launched also caused the outside world to start to boil.

First of all, the senior management of Daxia Aerospace Group immediately contacted Jiuzhou Xinghai Company and Jiuzhou Technology Company through exclusive communication channels to learn about the project.

Even at the beginning of the communication, many officials from Daxia used their own channels to try to understand the real situation.