"How much?"

Kuretta asked incredulously, plucking out his ear, thinking there was something wrong with his ear.

Wu Qian spread his hands and said with a smile: "Thirty million, uh...... Dollar. ”

Kuretta was visibly stunned when she heard the price, and then quickly released the palm that was holding Elizabeth's arm, as if she was afraid that she would accidentally break the android.

He thought that the price would not be cheap, and he might need $1.8 million a piece, but he didn't expect that the cost would be as high as $30 million, which is the cost price, which is about to catch up with the cost of half of the S400 anti-missile system......

"It's too expensive...... Oh my God, let's urge Orr Hanwen to continue to train the soldiers of the Patriotic Army, 30 million dollars is enough to train at least five excellent fighter pilots. ”

Kuretta felt that it was better to train real people, and he looked at Elizabeth with a regretful look, the advantages of androids were obvious, their country had done some related experiments, and it turned out that in some specific cases, robots were more reliable than real people.

Because the simulator has no emotion, there is no pain.

However, the high price discouraged Kuretta, and no one could afford to build it, and he was reluctant to use it himself......

"Haha, Kuretta, the cost of 30 million US dollars is indeed not low, but this is only the situation at this stage, I bought 20 artificial intelligence-related companies and laboratories, I believe that it will not be long before the cost will be effectively reduced, and it should be viewed from the perspective of development. ”

Wu Qian could feel the kind of longing of Kureta, and he also had a related idea, in his opinion, war is a clash of science and technology, and it is impossible to avoid it, and it is good to say that some people can be sacrificed less in the war.

But in the end, due to cost and some technical reasons, I held back my thoughts.

"If the cost can be compressed to less than five million dollars, Wu, we can really consider forming a bionic army, I believe that whether it is obedience, coordination or actual combat ability, it will surpass real soldiers, oh my God, I seem to see a picture of future warfare." ”

Some of the things Kuretta didn't say in front of too many people, although androids are expensive, as long as they are not completely destroyed on the battlefield, they can be put into use again after recovery and repair, which is something that real soldiers can't do.

Wu Qian heard Kuretta's words, looked at Elizabeth who was standing quietly on the side, and said with a smile: "It is possible to achieve, I hope this day will not be too long, the future prosperity needs advanced technology to guard." ”

Xiong Yali hadn't seen Wu Qian for a while, she stood aside and listened quietly to the two chatting, due to language problems, she could only understand 70% at most, but the information leaked in it had shocked her beyond measure.

Looking at Wu Qian, she recalled the picture when the two met again at the dinner, the young boy was long gone, and he had grown to an amazing height.

At noon, the group had a light meal in the canteen of the military factory, which was basically full of Maoziguo's special food, after all, many people working here were Maoziguo people.

After lunch, Wu Qian and Kuretta went to the area where the AI researchers were temporarily stationed, where Kuretta met with Elizabeth's other two "sisters", and he learned a lot about the researchers at the Stanford laboratory.

Wu Qian saw that Kuretta was so interested, and he proposed an idea on the spot.

"Is it possible to integrate the research and development of weapons and artificial intelligence to a certain extent, jump out of the mode of the current stage, and create a new generation of military weapons?"

Wu Qian's sudden hypothesis made both the scientific researchers present and Kureta fall into deep thought.

Kuretta fantasized hard, and a scene that only existed in science fiction appeared in his mind, a troop formed by androids, a mobile mass killer, completing tasks that were difficult for ordinary people to complete, and if it could be realized, the whole world would be amazed.

Wu Qian's proposal was approved by the vast majority of people on the spot, and artificial intelligence should be extended to various fields.

Application is the ultimate goal of scientific research.

According to the actual situation, Wu Qian ordered troops on the spot, dispatched a part of the scientific research personnel to the military factory, and set up a new scientific research group, named Shuguang.

Since then, the Dawning Institute has been born, and the madness of Soviet arms researchers and artificial intelligence experts have come together to try to rewrite the traditional model of warfare.

No one would have imagined that in the Horn of Africa, a small country that is just starting to grow, there is a scientific research institution that will shock the world in the near future, and when tradition and the future merge, it is destined to change the rules.

Wu Qian stayed in Solan, accompanied Xiong Yali to plant trees in Baibera during the day, received and received bosses and friends who were interested in investing in Solan, or went to the military factory to see the production line being built, and sat on the beach at night with Lao Maozi Kureta drinking beer and eating barbecued sausages, carefree.

During this period, Yao Xinlu sent a message informing Wu Qian that the matter of cooperating with Britain, France, and Germany to build an aircraft carrier had been prepared.

After all the technicians rushed to France and demonstrated the relevant technologies, the three parties immediately carried out detailed calculations on this, and finally decided that Wu Qian would provide eight billion euros for the construction of aircraft carriers in addition to the three main technologies.

As Mr. Mark said at the beginning, 5 billion euros is the basic cost of materials and labor, and the other 3 billion euros is the various costs of sharing technology.

At that time, according to the agreement, four aircraft carriers will be built, with a hull deck length of more than 300 meters, a width of 70 meters, and a displacement of 100,000 tons.

The tripartite alliance officially became the quadripartite alliance, but this news has not been announced to the public for the time being, except for a very small number of people.

It can be seen from the data that the aircraft carrier jointly built by the four companies is aimed at the Ford-class aircraft carrier of the United States, and as for the armament of carrier-based aircraft and other aspects of the aircraft carrier, it is in charge of each other.

Wu Qian is the most funded among the four parties, although the technology he provides is critical, but the overall proportion is too low, and he needs to use too much military technology from several other companies, and the most money is reasonable.

For this result, Wu Qian was very satisfied, he paid more money was a reasonable result, unexpectedly, due to technical reasons, his name ThyssenKrupp successfully won the steel supply business......

Four 100,000-ton aircraft carriers, each of which requires about 50,000 tons of special steel smelted by thyssenkrupp, and four ships with a total of 200,000 tons of special steel, this order has cost Wu Qian nearly one billion US dollars.

Time passed day by day, and the general election in the United States was in full swing.

Since the Orlando debate, Kama Harrison's popularity has soared into the sky.

The support lost during the downturn has returned, as have lost sponsorship, and even other candidates within the Democratic faction have withdrawn from the election in favor of Kama Harrison.

With sufficient funds and popularity, Kama Harrison is full of confidence, and with the cooperation of many external forces, she has won more than 10 state factional votes in succession.

Joe Den, the former king, who had already anticipated his defeat and barely appeared in the media after the Orlando debate, returned to his hometown and lived in an apartment, almost isolated from the outside world.

Due to various scandals, Jorden's approval rating fell again and again, and even hardcore supporters and companies finally abandoned him because of public opinion.

There is no permanent friendship in the world, only permanent interests, everyone is connected by interests, and in the end they parted ways because of interests, and there was nothing wrong with it.

In the face of the former rivals in the democratic faction who announced their withdrawal from the general election, Jordon did not express his opinion, he was surprisingly quiet, did not announce his withdrawal, did not continue to fight for himself, and waited quietly for defeat to come.

Jordon was utterly defeated by the mistakes he had made.

Although it is not yet the final moment, the pattern within the democratic faction has been decided, and everyone knows that Kama Harrison will represent the democratic faction and compete with Mr. Prang of the Republican faction for the final throne.

And this battle for the throne will start in January of the following year.

After Harrison's position was secured, the contact between the Ten of Spades and Wu Qian was a little more frequent than before, and basically every other day there would be a brief report on the situation of Cama Harrison.

And Kama Harrison herself will have a phone call with Wu Qian every once in a while, mainly discussing energy issues, she has already paved the way, and through various media publicity, the whole country knows her position and measures.

Now it is necessary for a strong rise in international oil prices to prove Kama Harrison's ideas and initiatives.

However, more than 10 days have passed, and international oil prices have fallen instead of rising.

With the high-profile announcement of the National Energy Bureau to increase shale oil production across the country, as well as the strong promotion of the shale oil industry by the popular candidates in the general election, the international crude oil price, which had been stabilized at 167, was hit hard again.

The price of international crude oil has been falling like Jordon's approval rating, falling from 167 to 112, and the lowest point during this period has touched the integer level of 10 US dollars.

If the international crude oil price falls to single digits, it will make crude oil energy a big joke, and at the same time, it will also make countless people lose a lot.

Regarding this phenomenon, Wu Qian and Kama Harrison have shown due calmness and have not been confused by the drop in oil prices.

Of course, Wu Qian will not panic, the more oil prices fall, the higher the profit of the short order in his hand, and Kama Harrison fully trusts Wu Qian, she believes that the man who helped her create miracles will not let her lose her trust in everyone.

In early December, Wu Qian, with his assistant, bodyguard and Elizabeth, embarked on the smiley face A380, and the end of the route was in New York, the United States.

(The United Nations headquarters is not in Geneva, there is a mistake in the previous article, it is in New York, Geneva is only an office, although there are also meetings, but most of them are in New York.) ）

He decided to go to the United Nations headquarters in person to observe this special meeting on Solan's vote to become a sovereign state.

When the Smiley A380 landed at JFK Airport, it was unsurprisingly surrounded on the tarmac by a group of CIA investigators.

After Haspel passed that phone call with Wu Qian, she fully understood that it was not easy to trouble Wu Qian outside of the United States from now on.

It is not easy for Wu Qian to be in Europe or Africa, not to mention that if Wu Qian returns to the Celestial Empire, she will have no way at all.

Haspel was unwilling to suffer such a big loss, although she did not send anyone to find Wu Qian's trouble, but she did not relax her basic monitoring of Wu Qian.

When Wu Qian's exclusive car took off from Ethiopia, Haspel made a deployment, which was bound to make Wu Qian pay for the sacrifices of his subordinates.

"It's better to settle the grievances than to settle them, it's all settled, why bother?"

Wu Qian looked at the situation in the tarmac through the porthole and muttered softly.

Looking at the black suits that appeared not far from the tarmac, Wu Qian didn't have to think about it to know that it was someone from the CIA, he didn't think about hiding and hiding when he came to the United States, and he had to appear on the land of the United States in the open.

Wu Qian asked Cooks to open the plane door and walked down the boarding ladder generously.

"Mr. Wu, our director, Hespel, wants to talk to you about Alex, please cooperate with our work. ”

More than a dozen CIA investigators surrounded Wu Qian, who had just gotten off the plane, and said honestly and unceremoniously.

Kukus and the others did not give an inch to guard Wu Qian in the center, as long as there was no order from the boss, they would not retreat.

Wu Qian tilted his head, looked at the person who spoke from the shoulder of a member of the spade troops, looked into the distance again, and then showed a smile and said, "I'm sorry, Ms. Hespel may have to queue up if she wants to talk to me about things." ”

As Wu Qian spoke, several jeeps clad in camouflage drove from far and near to the Smiling A380.

A group of American soldiers dressed in camouflage uniforms got out of a row of jeeps, led by a person with two five-pointed stars inlaid on his neckline, obviously a two-star major general in service.

The soldiers who suddenly appeared at the airport naturally attracted the attention of the black suits, and a bad premonition appeared in their hearts.

The two-star major general lined up everyone and walked in front of Wu Qian, stretched out his hand and said, "Mr. Wu, hello." I'm Brian, Commander of the USS Stennis Fleet, and Minister Mark is waiting for you, sir, please come with me. ”

Wu Qian first shook hands with Major General Bryande, and then shrugged his shoulders at the black suits who were blocking the side, and said, "I have an appointment with Minister Mark in advance, I'm afraid I don't have time to see your minister, I'm really embarrassed." ”

Before coming to the United States, he approached Minister Mark, and after showing Minister Mark some of the mature technology of electromagnetic catapult, Minister Mark expressed his intention to conduct joint research and development.

Of course, this is just a cover for Wu Qian, but it is still very useful as a shield, at least to block Haspel's people.