Global Treasure Hunting: From Penniless to Billionaire

"Cough cough..."

Zhao An coughed lightly and said, "You can rest assured about this. Only you can't think of it, and there is nothing I can't do."

Now Zhao An has only arranged a dozen Patrick robots to settle in the lunar gold mine, and the daily production capacity is not very high, but this is just the beginning. After Zhao An continues to transport the robots up, the future production capacity will increase step by step. Enhance it.

Moreover, the current production capacity is also constrained by energy sources. Although the Patrick robot can be charged by solar energy, the charging efficiency is still very low.

And if the space center can send a fusion power station, even a small one, to help recharge it, Zhao An's mining business on the moon will achieve a qualitative leap.

......

The two chatted like this, and the Zhiyuan arrived at Jiangcheng Tianhe Airport before they knew it.

After the plane landed, Fang Diwei parted ways with Zhao An.

Lao Fang went back to his home in Jiangcheng, while Zhao An rushed to Cuiping Villa under the joint escort of Wang Bing and Zhu Tian.

In the car, Zhao An asked Zhu Tiandao: "Brother Tian, ​​do you feel a little free recently?"

Brother Tian is a more social name, and Zhao An just means joking with Zhu Tian.

Zhu Tian is not a fool, he said with a smile: "The boss calls me like this, it's a little unreasonable, just call me Xiaotian, otherwise I feel ashamed."

Zhao An didn't speak, as if waiting for him to answer his own question.

Zhu Tian thought for a while and replied: "Actually, it's okay. The past month has been relatively stable. This is actually a good thing for a mercenary, and the salary given by the boss is also enough..."

Zhao An chuckled and said, "Then I will arrange another task for you and your parents-in-law. Go to Vanuatu to help Gao Qiang with some things. He has a shortage of trustworthy manpower recently, and you can just go there to help."

In the three caves of the cunning rabbit, Zhao An plans to build a more secure base for himself outside of Cambodia and Mauritania.

Vanuatu is the final base chosen by Zhao An.

This place is located in the center of the South Pacific Ocean, surrounded by the sea, it seems that there is no depth, but the defense system built by Zhao An will cover and defend against air attacks from any direction, coupled with a solid coastal defense system, it will also target submarines covert attack.

And like attacking here with a ship, Zhao An would just laugh and say nothing.

Who would be so short-sighted with the Carl Vinson jewel in front...

Zhu Tian smiled and agreed: "No problem, in fact, I like islands with a bit of original flavor the most. For me, this is a public-funded tour..."

At the beginning, he traveled to Nosy Be Island in Madagascar in his spare time, and by chance, he rescued Ai Qingrou and others who were kidnapped by the CIA in a trap against Zhao An. Therefore, he became attached to Zhao An again and joined Zhao An team.

The couple also benefited from Zhao An and became super fighters.

Zhao An said: "Then you have to take it easy, don't call his hometown your hometown."

While talking, the brightly lit Cuiping Villa appeared at the end of the road. Li Zhiyuan knew that Zhao An had returned with a full load, and specially turned on all the lights in the manor for him.

Welcome back the heroes who belong to their family!

Chapter 854

At this time, the Cuiping Villa was brightly lit, as bright as daytime.

Not only that, Li Zhiyuan also lit a bonfire, just like the night they got married, to celebrate Zhao An's heroic king's return.

Wang Bing parked the car in the center of the courtyard of the manor, Zhu Tianxia just opened the door for Zhao An, who did not know who ignited clusters of fireworks, and the fireworks like fiery trees and silver flowers bloomed in the air one after another, lighting up the entire Cuiping Mountain area. The night sky shines brightly.

When Zhao An got out of the car, the first thing he saw was Li Zhiyuan who was holding Xiao Yuqi and smiling.

"Welcome Dad to come back from exploring the moon smoothly..." She looked at her baby, and at the same time looked at Zhao An, speaking in a baby's tone of welcome.

Zhao An laughed twice, strode forward to the mother and daughter, and kissed her directly on the lips regardless of the presence of the crowd, then looked at Xiao Yuqi's watery gaze, looking at him curiously, and smiled again. For a moment, he kissed her forehead.

"It's very grand!"

Zhao An looked back at Wang Bing and Zhu Tian and said: "Then don't leave today, you will be here tonight, and join us in the party, how crowded~!"

Saying hello to her parents again, Lu Xiufen patted Zhao An's shoulder proudly and gratifiedly, and said, "Just come back, go wash up!"

Zhao Dacheng was also in a good mood, he was the one who lit the fireworks near the wall just now.

At this moment Zhao Dacheng came over, the father and son looked at each other, Zhao An couldn't help laughing and said: "Dad, this is probably the first time you set off so many fireworks, right?"

Zhao Dacheng laughed twice: "What's the matter, such a good thing, not to mention so many fireworks, it's not too much to put another hundred boxes."

Went to the hot spring pool for a wash, Zhao An changed into comfortable short pajamas and came out, Li Zhiyuan had already brought out the ingredients at home, Lu Xiufen helped to hold Xiao Yuqi, Zhao Dacheng and Wang Bing helped to bring the ingredients Cut it and thread it into a string.

After Zhu Tian asked Li Zhiyuan for instructions, he went to pick up Rebecca and Han Suyu.

"Haha, it's all done..."

Zhao An took Xiao Yuqi from Lu Xiufen's hands. The two-month-old little Yuqi was now chubby, her face was round and round, her arms, thighs and calves were like lotus roots in autumn. It's a joy to watch piece by piece.

"I haven't seen you for more than a month, but your daughter doesn't recognize her birth at all." Lu Xiufen sighed with a smile: "Maybe this is the family relationship where blood is thicker than water."

During the training camp at the Moon Landing Center, Zhao An had videos with Li Zhiyuan every day, and Xiao Yuqi often chatted with Zhao An through the videos.

Zhao An hugged Xiao Yuqi and walked out of the courtyard, where it was already grilled, the smoke burst up, and the fragrance of the ingredients permeated half of the courtyard.

"Eat and drink tonight!"

Although Zhu Tian joined not long ago, Zhao An also regards him as his confidant, firstly because he is Zhu Feng's younger brother, he is trustworthy, secondly because of Zhu Tian's ability and level, and his mercenary career. With his seasoned experience, he is also a good hand.

"Boss, that's what you said!"

Han Suyu is not very polite to Zhao An: "I know that Mr. Zhao has a lot of good wine here."

Zhao An found a chair and sat down, changed a comfortable position for Xiao Yuqi, and said: "Today, I'm open to drink, you can drink whatever you want, I told you!"

Then he changed the subject and said: "No matter how much you Han Suyu drinks today, or what kind of wine auction will be held next time, please pay attention to me. Any famous wines such as vintage Moutai, Laijia Moutai, etc., in any case, first Buy it for me and talk about it."

Having said that, it is still too short for Zhao An to rise up, and there is still a long way to go from the deep background.

Although there are many collections at home, all of which are valuable valuables, but these are just dead objects, and even if they can be shared with others, they are only the resonance of the artistic conception.

But Zhao An didn't have any good wine, especially white wine.

Han Suyu smiled and said: "It's not a problem at all. I just don't have much work recently. If I find something suitable, I'll buy it for Mr. Zhao first, but I have to charge a commission."

Zhao An smiled and said, "It's easy to say, I will not only pay you a commission, but if there is an opportunity like today, I will invite your Wang Bing to taste it together."

"The boss is mighty, the boss is generous, the boss is one hundred and eight...uh..." Han Suyu praised bluntly, but when she said the last two words, she swallowed them back abruptly and replaced them with another sentence: " Boss is looking for one hundred and eight more treasures!"

Zhao An glanced at Li Zhiyuan with a half-smile, and in exchange for a supercilious look, he stuffed a bunch of barbecued meat into his hand and said, "It's just in time for you to come back. My vacation is coming soon, and I have to be a police officer." The office is at work."

The maternity leave of civil servants is generally more than 90 days. Li Zhiyuan has already extended her leave. Although Zhao An is not short of money, Li Zhiyuan has her own career ideals.

Zhao An hurriedly said, "Don't ask me for a while?"

Li Zhiyuan snorted twice and said, "Your family opened the police station?"

"Since you have chosen this job, as my family member, you should also do your part well, and at least be fair..."

The overall fairness and justice of the society is what Zhao An himself advocates. This is true for his employees, and the same is true for the concept of charity.

As for Li Zhiyuan's vacation, Zhao An could find a way to extend it, but as Li Zhiyuan said, it would be unfair to other people in the police station.

Although there is no absolute fairness in real life, since you are advocating it yourself, it is better not to violate it.

And this matter, before he participated in the training at the moon landing center, Li Zhiyuan had discussed it with him.

After figuring out the joints, Zhao An said with a bitter face: "Okay, I understand, I will take Xiao Yuqi well."

Li Zhiyuan came over and took his arm and said, "You don't have to be like this, there are parents at home, and I'm still in the administrative class, working from [-] to [-] on weekends..."

Li Zhiyuan was originally the deputy captain of the criminal police team, but she was transferred from her post after she became pregnant, and she is still working in the archives room.

Han Suyu looked at Zhao An's pitiful appearance, and couldn't help joking: "Mr. Zhao doesn't have to worry about this at all. You can bring the little princess to the company. There are many girls in our company. Don't be too worried about helping Xiao Yuqi." Simple."

But Zhao An flatly refused, "No need, I can take care of it myself."

Chapter 855 The reason

It was a particularly difficult day for Musk.

The court ruled that his eldest son should disown him and even choose to change his gender.

Said that although he is a man, he thinks he is a woman in his heart, so he is exactly the transgender person in the current Western population.

According to the theory of who is weak and who is right in the Western world, such gender-discriminating people cannot be discriminated against. On the contrary, mainstream society gives more support.

What they say is that on the surface I am a man, but in fact I am a woman, a sub-gender woman who is the object of discrimination, and if you don’t agree with it, you are discriminating against me.

You not only discriminate against me, you oppress me...

Because I'm weak, I'm justified...

Therefore, on the basis of Musk's absence from the court hearing, the court's judgment came into effect, judging that his eldest son severed the father-son relationship with him, and recognized his request for gender change as legal.

This is not a big deal, the key is that he has high hopes and placed huge ambitions on the Starlink satellites. Most of the more than 2000 Starlink satellites have lost contact inexplicably, and there are only more than 70 left, which can barely maintain.

His original plan was to launch more than 4 satellites into space to form a huge satellite network that could provide WiFi signals to any corner of the earth.

Once such a network is formed, he can become the overlord of the communication industry, and the ubiquitous satellites can monitor the source for him. 9:8!! Any corner of the world, even these satellites, can be developed into weapons.

But now, it's all gone...

The minimum cost of launching and maintaining a satellite is more than 100 million US dollars. For these more than 2000 satellites, he has invested no less than 200 billion US dollars in cash from the establishment of the project to the present.

All this money was obtained by selling Tesla's stock options...

Especially when he has just acquired Twitter through the issuance of bonds, and the bitcoin he invested with a lot of money has encountered an unprecedented avalanche.

Among them, the U.S. military also sponsored him a lot, not only gave him a lot of money, but also gave him a lot of technical support.

The current situation is almost equivalent to failure. The next time he wants to launch a satellite, he may not be able to raise so much money, and the US military may no longer support him.

The capital world is so cruel. It is easy to talk about success. Once it fails, most people are willing to beat the dog in the water.

He sat silently in his office. He didn't have time to eat breakfast, and he couldn't eat lunch at all. He was so full of anger. He didn't understand how these people were so stupid.

The Starlink satellite, which he spent so much effort and paid such a high price, just lost contact inexplicably.

Just then, his secretary Alice knocked on the door and came in.

Before the other party could speak, Musk shouted angrily: "Get out, didn't I say that no one should disturb me at this time?"

Alice said with a look of grievance: "Sorry, chairman, there is an emergency. Tesla's stock continued to fall in the afternoon, and it has fallen by five points."

Musk was shocked, and quickly got up and asked: "What's going on, is someone maliciously shorting?"

Alice shook her head and said: "No, I heard rumors that it is our Starlink satellite project, which is implicated in Tesla's car project..."

"Who is the one who leaked the news!"

But after thinking about it, Musk breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not just malicious shorting, just do a good job in administrative public relations and show your attitude that Starlink satellites have nothing to do with any of Tesla's projects."

Tesla has been his biggest source of cash in recent years, and Starlink plans to have little income until the network is perfected.

The secretary went out, and Musk rubbed his tired face. He pulled himself together and prepared to go to the Pentagon to explain to them the disappearance of the Starlink satellite.

It's not terrible to lose money. With his current asset level, this amount of money is still within the acceptable range.

But once he loses the trust from the military, Musk doesn’t want to try again. When his Falcon rockets failed one after another, he just begged all kinds of investors to invest in him, and no one was willing. Vote for his case.

It wasn't until his Falcon [-] Dragon spacecraft was successfully launched and recovered that there were a large number of people waving money to invest in him.

So if he succeeds, he can say anything, but if he fails, a lot of people are ready to eat his flesh and blood.

At [-] pm local time, Musk rushed to the Fort Hood military base under the escort of bodyguards. After entering, he got out of the car and went straight to an office building.

He found his old acquaintance, Lieutenant General Phils, in the office building.

Phils was sitting in the office in a summer military uniform, smoking a cigar. When he saw Musk coming, he politely smoked one and shook it at him: "I knew you would come..."

Musk waved his hands in astonishment, and asked curiously: "Why, Lieutenant General Phils still has the ability to predict the future?"

Phils shook his head and said: "No, such a big incident on the Starlink satellite is naturally a big blow to you, but you just don't know the reason, and the information I know is exactly what you want. a bit more."

Musk's expression changed drastically, he walked to Phils's desk, put his hands on it, leaned over to look at Phils and said, "You know what's going on?"

The tone of this question was quite a bit of gnashing of teeth.

The Starlink satellite is one of his grandest plans. Once completed, Musk can become the king of the world's communications industry.

Any smart product, whether it is an Android system or an Apple system, can connect to the WiFi network of Starlink satellites in any corner of the world.

Last year, a total of 13.5 smartphones were sold worldwide, with more than 30 billion holdings worldwide, not counting other smart products, such as cars and drones.

If these products all use the Starlink satellite network, that is the beginning of Starlink satellite earning a steady stream of wealth for him.

But now his throne and even the cornerstone of his throne are shattered...