"Aite, I've heard of you, I heard about you when you first arrived in Canada, because I'm also a hockey fan, and I watch all kinds of hockey, and you're a bad boy on the court. But I have to say that you are a great person in business, and no one can match your investment vision, but why haven't you bought a penny of Boeing stock, aren't you optimistic about this company?" This is a 55-year-old man with a goatee, a thin figure and a wide suit. He was a former executive at GE Aircraft Engines, a native of Texan, and although he was in a management position, he spoke very straight and had a tough cowboy flavor.

"It's not that I don't buy it, it's that I don't dare to buy it! If I don't change my nationality, you won't even let me participate in this meeting, and if I hold hundreds of millions of dollars in Boeing stock, your defense minister will not be able to sleep!" Hong Tao happened to say cool words, in fact, when he invested before, he really didn't think of Boeing, not because it was too low-key, but because the areas of focus were different. Hong Tao even bought Coca-Cola stock, but he didn't realize that there was a big guy here.

"But you dare to invest a lot of money in this project, are you very optimistic about its prospects? Let me be honest, as the initiator, we are not very optimistic about this project within the company, and there are too many aspects involved. Levin didn't intend to let Hong Tao slip over so easily, it is estimated that he is still not sure why Hong Tao suddenly got involved, maybe he still asked for others, and that person or those people also seriously doubted Hong Tao's motives.

"I'm not pessimistic about its prospects, but I'm not very optimistic either, and I'm investing in this project. The vast majority of this is due to my personal preference. I want to build a spaceship myself someday. Then launch it with your own company's rocket and go around space to see what it looks like. Do you think my idea can be realized? If so, I think the future of this project will be very bright! How much does it cost to launch a rocket now?" Hong Tao is now taking his dream seriously, and his eyebrows are fluttering.

"The cost of a small launch vehicle is about 30 million US dollars, the medium one is almost 80 million to 100 million, and if you want to carry a lunar spacecraft, I am afraid it will cost 2-300 million. Levin didn't scoff at Hong Tao's, and chatted with him back and forth.

"Even if it's 100 million, the moon landing is still a bit far away, and it's enough to go around space first. If we succeed with this Sea Launch Platform. The cost of launching can save $20 million. A manned spacecraft can seat three or four people, right? Let's sell two places, $3 or $40 million per person, and the cost of this launch will come out, and this rocket and spacecraft are not specially built for space tourism, but just take two people up by the way, so this is a good deal to make money. When the time comes, we can cooperate with another space tourism company, and I will buy seats from you, and then I want to sell them all over the world!" Hong Tao brought out the private space tourism plan that the Russians played in the later generations.

"Your idea is really different from ordinary people, and it is not difficult to achieve it technically. But will anyone be willing to spend this money?" This thing sounds like a dream talk to ordinary people, but to the ears of a professional like Levin, it is very reliable, and technology is not difficult at all. Cost and legal provisions are what matter.

"I'll be the first to sign up, and then I'll sign up for my sons, just for my family's places. That's enough for four or five launches. And we can also sell used spacesuits and helmets to them as souvenirs, which is another income. If the recycling bin can be sold, it will be better!" Bragging about X is the strength of his strengths.

"It's a pleasure to chat with you, what you said has inspired me a lot, why not? But this qiē still needs to wait for the opportunity, you are still young, don't be too anxious! Do you have your own ideas for the current project?" Levin was about to pull his beard off, so that Hong Tao was so flickering, he also felt that the Sea Launch Platform project was a bit reliable, at least more confident. It's not that he has soft ears, but Hong Tao's reputation for investment accuracy, and he has to add some points to the projects that can make investment geniuses optimistic.

"I do have a complete plan, this is what I spent more than a month to come up with, I originally wanted to put it forward at the first formal meeting, since you asked, then I'll let you see it first!" In addition to bragging X, Hong Tao also has a top-level talent skill, that is, talking nonsense, it is already at the MAX level, and it can't be upgraded again. Whether it is in terms of tone, expression, body movements, and those subconscious details, he has done his best, even if he asks the FBI interrogation experts to come, he still has to believe it.

"I'm honored to ...... What is this?" Levin actually just asked so casually, but he didn't expect Hong Tao to really open the big briefcase he was carrying, and mysteriously pulled out a wad of white paper from it.

"My plan! Renderings, just like the kind of renderings drawn before the house was renovated!" Hong Tao stood up with his fists, pulled away the water cups and ashtrays near him on the conference table, and began to unfold the pile of white paper, folding and folding, and turning to the end, the paper had reached the opposite side, and the conference table more than 2 meters wide was still a little small.

"Oh God, what kind of rocket is this?" Hong Tao's actions had already attracted everyone on the half of the table, and when the drawing was fully opened, five or six people immediately stood up, and the rest did not sit down, all of them lay on the table, staring at the drawings on the white paper, with all kinds of expressions.

This huge picture of 2 meters by 2 meters was painted by Hong Tao when he was idle in Stalin's villa in Sochi, and he specially invited several painters to help him paint it, to say that at this time Russian labor is really cheap, and the professional professors in art universities only need more than 30 US dollars a day, which is not as much as Hong Tao's money for smoking cigars. According to the sketches, they used artistic techniques to express the meaning of Hong Tao on paper, which looked more like a realistic oil painting. Although it is not as good as those world-famous paintings, the proportions, lines, seawater, flames, and the rocket that rises in the flames are also vivid.

The layman looks at the liveliness, and the insider looks at the doorway. These people here, except for a few financial and accounting personnel, are basically technical experts who have been in this industry for most of their lives. It only took one glance for them to see something interesting on the picture, so they called the other half of the table over, and more than 30 people surrounded the city for three floors and began to comment on the picture.

What is Hong Tao's drawing? It is the memory in his head, the memory of the Sea Launch Platform in later generations. On the sparkling sea, a huge platform with ten cylindrical legs stood silently, from which rockets were launched. Not far away, there was a big chubby steamer, which was obviously different from the other ships in that it had a lot of butterfly antennas installed on its top deck, like a small mushroom with a head.

This large platform is the semi-submersible sea drilling platform called "Odyssey", which was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan in the mid-80s, and has been producing oil in the North Sea oil fields, but due to a fire, the superstructure was burned out, and it was dragged to a port in Ireland as scrap metal and abandoned. In later generations, the initial choice of this sea launch platform was not to use the sea drill platform as the launch site, but to consider large oil tankers, container ships, and even large submarines and abandoned aircraft carriers, and finally remembered the sea drill platform. This delay, argumentation, and calculation took more than 8 months, and now that Hong Tao has joined, he can't let his money be wasted so much. Take it out directly to remind them how good it is, as for whether it will succeed or not, Hong Tao believes that with their professional vision, they will not look away.

The ship in the distance is the "Commander" control ship, which is a newly built special ship in the later generations, not only has a large number of rocket debugging and control equipment piled up in the superstructure, but also has a huge rocket assembly workshop in the cabin, as long as the different parts of the rocket are loaded in, you can sail to the destination while the rocket is assembled into a semi-finished product by experts and technicians in the cabin. After arriving at the predetermined position and converging the launch slip, these parts of the rocket are hoisted onto the platform, and finally assembled in a closed assembly plant, which can be erected together with the launch frame on the platform, and then complete all the preparations before launch. Once the final commissioning is completed and the command ship leaves a safe distance, it can remotely control the rocket to ignite and launch into the air.

Of course, this is just a relatively general rendering, the specific design, calculation number jù, size is not there, even if there is, Hong Tao does not dare to write it, then it is really bragging X blowing, and he will be invited to tea by the US Department of Defense every minute. In fact, Hong Tao is smarter than these experts, and it is only this idea, he doesn't need to provide any accurate numbers, he just needs to come up with an idea, and those experts will do a better job in the later work.

"I don't understand, this is a sea drill platform, right? How do you get it to the predetermined sea area?" The first thing that came to mind was the creator Hong Tao, or Levin.

"Yes, the sea drill platform is the kind of semi-submersible sea drill platform, which has the best stability and can be moved after modification. You see, I have a sketch here, which is what the bottom of the platform looks like in the materials I found, and it looks like my catamaran, but each hull is a little smaller. If we enlarge the hull at the bottom of the platform, and add the propulsion and control system, then it should be able to sail on the water on its own, right?" Hong Tao took out a long piece of white paper from his briefcase, this time much smaller, only half a meter square, and on it was a sketch of a semi-submersible sea drill platform drawn in pencil. But it is already different from the ordinary semi-submersible sea drill platform, under the ten thick columns, it is no longer two small hulls, but many times larger, just like the sea drill platform with two large submarines under its feet. There are also a lot of propeller-like things on the hull, front, back, left, right, and up. (To be continued......)