Of course, the fact that the United States has been approached with export restrictions on components needed for deep space technology does not mean that they are giving up. Rather, they resorted to more comprehensive means of repression.

The new year is coming, but the international market is not calm. Every day, a huge change is taking place that has not been seen in the past decade.

"In the past month, the prices of several raw materials that we are in short supply have generally risen by about 50 percent. In the office, Meng Xiaobai listened to Deng Yun's report.

"How is Shanxin Group over there?" Meng Xiaobai asked.

"At present, Shanxin Group's steel output is stable, but some scarce metal raw materials are still very scarce. Shanxin Group has sent five groups of employees to Senilla to mine the mine. Deng Yun said.

"Hmm. Meng Xiaobai motioned for her to continue.

"In addition, the EU antitrust enforcement authorities have opened a case against us for using abnormal business practices to monopolize the market in the European market. "If the investigation is successful, they could give us a billion euros in fines." ”

"Monopoly?

"The reason is that we refuse to provide technology patent authorization to relevant European companies in chip and holographic projection technology, which undermines normal market competition. Deng Yun said.

"Hehe, they also want to get this kind of reason?" Meng Xiaobai smiled, "Do they still have less technology to restrict us?"

"Not a lot, indeed. Deng Yun cooperated.

"If they want to investigate, let them investigate. "But we refuse to open these technologies to them, because these are state-level confidential technologies and we will not authorize them." If they want mobile phone chips or holographic projection components, they can come to Deep Space Technology to purchase. ”

"If they have to issue a fine, appeal first, and if the appeal doesn't work out, then we'd rather withdraw from the European market. Meng Xiaobai said.

……

Mo Yiran, the head of the European Union, the anti-monopoly law enforcement department, and the French headquarters of Deep Space Technology, euphemistically expressed Meng Xiaobai's meaning to investigator Carlisle.

"Thank you for your cooperation, we will look into it. Carlisle sent Mo Yiran away, and then sighed helplessly, "The investigation can be suspended." ”

"Why, Mr. Carlyle, we have every reason to give them a ticket!" the secretary asked.

"Yes, this is our territory, and we can certainly find countless reasons to give them a sky-high ticket. According to EU rules, violations of the Anti-Market Monopoly Law can result in fines of up to 10% of a company's global sales. "But they're not going to take it." ”

"I can imagine that once we get a ticket, they will prosecute us very quickly. Or, to exit the European market. The people are used to their products, and the time has come for them to scold us. "What's more, they don't have any problems with their country's technology secrecy treaty." ”

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At the same time that the EU gave up issuing fines for deep space technology, Meng Xiaobai was also making the group's deployment in the new year.

The original company remained largely unchanged, and he reinvested in several businesses. In addition to some manufacturers in the upstream and downstream of the supply chain, Deep Space Technology Group has added four major subsidiaries.

First of all, the financial system of the Deep Space Technology Group was separated and the Deep Space Financial Investment Co., Ltd. was established, which was dedicated to fund management and project investment.

The second is the establishment of a Deep Space International Trade Co., Ltd., which specializes in foreign trade transactions and other business activities.

The third is Bluestar Heavy Industry, which separated a part of the personnel and equipment from the Bluestar Automobile Manufacturing Group to set up a heavy industry enterprise that manufactures heavy equipment and begins to develop and manufacture large-scale machinery and equipment.

The last one is Deep Space Exploration Technologies.

This company is Meng Xiaobai's highlight this year, and the purpose of deep space technology from the beginning of its establishment is to explore the deep space of the universe. But because he has no funds and strength, Meng Xiaobai has never tried before.

This year has reached the fourth year of the establishment of deep space technology, and today's deep space technology is not what it used to be, and it has the ability to start climbing to a higher technology tree. That's why Meng Xiaobai registered this deep space exploration technology company.

Strictly speaking, this company should be a subgroup. Because Meng Xiaobai has already planned, he will set up a number of subsidiaries under Deep Space Exploration Technology Co., Ltd., including aerospace technology, transport rockets, communication network satellites, etc.

These subsidiaries or sub-groups will form a group group of deep space science and technology, aerospace and outer space science and technology.

Of course, Meng Xiaobai doesn't have that much money at present. Aerospace science and technology is a big money-burner, this kind of thing, casually hundreds of millions, billions can be burned in minutes!

Therefore, Meng Xiaobai started with aerospace technology, invested money to establish the Institute of Aerospace Technology for Deep Space Exploration, and formed a team.

The matter of deep space science and technology throwing money on aerospace technology attracted a discussion, but because there was no follow-up report, the news quickly fell silent.

Meng Xiaobai first went to Bluestar Heavy Industries to guide the research and development of heavy machinery and equipment. Among them, the equipment required for mining is a top priority.

The price of raw materials in the international raw material market has skyrocketed. In order to prevent competitors from getting stuck in the throat of raw materials, Meng Xiaobai wants to increase the mining speed of raw materials, so he first promotes the research and development of large-scale mining machinery.

"High-powered excavators, electric forklifts and drilling rigs are the top priority in mining equipment. Meng Xiaobai looked at the drawings and said to himself, "This is another new challenge." ”

The mechanical knowledge he learned was not enough to design heavy equipment. So Meng Xiaobai started studying again, and his teacher was naturally Jin Mu from the planet Cybertron.

Meng Xiaobai stayed in Bluestar Heavy Industry for two months, learning, designing, manufacturing, improving, etc., two months, with the help of Jin Mu, he finally designed a batch of qualified heavy industry equipment, and all of them were manufactured.

This is also due to the improvement of the metal smelting process of Shanxin Group and the technology accumulation of Bluestar Machinery Manufacturing Plant.

In the past two months, Shanxin Group bought two minerals in Senilla and Kaila Tuwang and obtained mining licenses.

"Bring our heavy machinery and go to Senilea to test the waters!" Meng Xiaobai commanded.

The group's personnel immediately began to operate, exporting the newly produced heavy machinery and equipment to Senilea for transportation by ocean-going freighters.

And Meng Xiaobai, after being well prepared, embarked on the journey to Senilea again. This time, he not only has to test the equipment, but also has to reach an agreement with the king of Kayla and the king of other states of Senilea to completely solve the problem of raw materials.