Chapter 941: Space-themed hotel

The entire outer space summit lasted for two days, while Jiang Chen stayed in Canberra for a whole week. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoHalf of the day was spent in meetings, four days were spent discussing business, and two days were spent walking around Canberra with Aisha to appreciate the customs of Australia.

However, there has been little to visit in recent times, and many shops in Canberra have been temporarily closed due to this high-level summit.

The harvest of this summit is quite amazing, and it can even be said that it was beyond Jiang Chen's expectations in a sense. Originally, he thought that not many people would cooperate with him when he proposed such a harsh cooperation framework without seeing the profit point at all, but this was not the case.

The first to express his willingness to cooperate was the Moro Kingdom, after all, he was the number one junior brother of the new country. However, Jiang Chen was very suspicious that Santos didn't understand what a space elevator was. In addition, Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand, Madagascar and some small African countries have all accepted Transwarp's proposed cooperation framework.

After a period of research, China and Russia have also expressed their willingness to accept the cooperation framework proposed by Transwarp Trade.

The representative of Huaguo proposed to establish a microgravity laboratory for the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the gravity-free section of the Star Ring City, which will be used to carry out experiments on a total of 51 national scientific research projects, such as two-phase flow, microgravity combustion, gas phase epitaxy, and metal alloy nucleation and supercooling, with a price of S$1.57 billion.

The conditions for building a microgravity laboratory on the ground are quite difficult, and the United States has been trying to prevent China from participating in the International Space Station project, so that China's microgravity experiments can only find a way out on the surface, after all, it is too expensive to maintain a large space station on its own.

In order to simulate the gravity-free environment in the experiment, Huaguo's solution was to design a very tall tower that simulated a microgravity environment through free fall. In the National Microgravity Laboratory officially approved in 95 years, the design of the 100-meter drop tower, in which the microgravity time of the drop cabin system has reached 3.5s, and the microgravity time of the drop tube system has reached 3.26s, which has been at the top level in the world.

This achievement is enough to be proud, but it is also very frustrating, because everything is forced.

After the summit, the first thing the Chinese delegates did when they approached Jiang Chen was to propose to build a microgravity laboratory on Star Ring City, and made an offer of S$1.07 billion. Converted into RMB, this is a huge sum of more than 7 billion yuan. But that's nothing compared to the tens of billions of dollars spent on building a space station on its own, and the unimaginable cost of maintenance.

Since China is the first country to reach cooperation with Transwarp Trade on space elevators, the microgravity laboratory cooperation document signed with China has also become a blueprint for subsequent negotiations with other parties.

Subsequently, Russia also reached an agreement with Transwarp Trade to invest S$950 million to build a relatively small microgravity laboratory in the gravity-free section of Transwarp, replacing the original plan to expand the Russian area of the International Space Station.

However, the bulk of the income is not these, what really makes Jiang Chen make a lot of money is the private company that comes to the door.

Originally, space was still an unattainable thing for ordinary people. If you are not a rich man, I am afraid that only by signing the "deed of sale" of the SpaceX Mars program and getting on a one-way spacecraft to Mars can you have the opportunity to realize your space dream.

Now, though, things seem to be turning around.

Transwarp Trade announced the ticket price of the space elevator on its official website, and the basic price of the adult ticket price before tax is only S$1,500!

It's crazy!

Seemingly overnight, space tourism, which only the wealthy can afford, with an investment of more than 10 million, has become an ordinary trip abroad that even ordinary people can afford.

After SpaceX, the second company to find Jiang Chen was not a space company, and its business was not even related to aerospace, but a chain hotel.

The company that found Jiang Chen was the well-known Hilton Group. As early as the beginning of the development of the new tourism project, the two sides have established a good cooperative relationship, aiming at the tourism prospects brought by the space elevator.

Almost as soon as the United Nations summit ended, Christopher Naseta, president of Hilton, approached Jiang Chen and put forward an invitation to cooperate straight to the point.

"Mr. Jiang Chen, we are quite optimistic about the tourism prospects of the space elevator. We have studied the information about the space elevator you have announced, and we hope to be able to rent a space-themed hotel with a total area of 24,000-30,000 square meters in the gravity-free, low-gravity, and surface gravity sections of the Star Ring City. ”

A large part of the cost of building a space station is due to the high cost of freight. After the completion of the space elevator, the price of synchronous orbit construction has become incomparable. In the case of the $50 billion International Space Station, for example, if Transwarp Trade wanted to build an identical one, it would probably cost less than one percent. If you want to expand the same living area on Star Ring, the cost can even be reduced to less than 100 million dollars.

Star Ring City is located in a synchronous orbit, and the developable area is only a lot more than that of Penglai City. If a year ago, the Hilton Hotel wanted to build a space-themed hotel with a living area of more than 10,000 square meters in geosynchronous orbit, and it would not be able to pay that price if it sold them all.

But now, for only S$1.3 billion, they can win the project.

However, there is one more issue that needs to be clarified before signing a contract.

That is the opinion of the US government.

Hilton is an American company, but the United States has not yet made any statement on whether to accept Transwarp's cooperation framework. Jiang Chen has no opinion on the Hilton Hotel's desire to settle in Star Ring City, but if the U.S. Department of Commerce makes things difficult for him, he is a little worried that the Hilton Group will not be able to withstand the pressure.

After listening to Jiang Chen's concerns, Mr. Naseta laughed and said indifferently: "Mr. Jiang is too worried, we are also a multinational company, even the White House can't stop us from making money." We have a wholly owned subsidiary of Hilton on the island of Koro, and the laws of the United States can only govern as far as Hawaii, so it has no impact on our cooperation. ”

After hearing this, Jiang Chen also smiled and stretched out his right hand.

"I wish us a happy cooperation. ”

As soon as he grasped Jiang Chen's right hand, Mr. Naseta shook it vigorously.

"Happy working together!"

The contract was signed the day before Jiang Chen returned to the new country.

Early in the morning, Naseta came to the door with his secretary and personally delivered the contract to Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen has received an electronic version of the contract and sent it back to Transwarp Trade Headquarters, where it has been reviewed by a professional team of lawyers for three rounds. After getting the paper contract, Jiang Chen just scanned it with his watch, and after comparing and confirming that it was the same as the electronic version of the contract, he picked up the pen and signed his name.

After the contract was signed, Christopher Naseta warmly invited Jiang Chen to have a meal together, and Jiang Chen readily accepted his invitation.

Having just signed a billion-dollar investment project, Naseta is naturally extraordinarily enthusiastic. Favors can be eaten anywhere, especially for the president of a large group like him, what can determine his continued sitting in this position is largely not a simple ability, but more importantly, the network resources he masters.

Xiang Jiangchen is a "super high-quality customer" who is naturally the object of his best befriending.

After the dinner, Christopher Nasetasse gave Jiang Chen a black diamond card.

According to Naseta, this Black Diamond Card is more prestigious than the Diamond Card, and it is not publicly available to the public at all, and only important customers of Hilton can get one. Customers who hold this Black Diamond Card can enjoy the treatment of staying in the Presidential Suite directly at any Hilton hotel in the world. Even if you don't have a listing, they'll be able to figure it out for you. As for the free meals, afternoon tea or something, there is no need to mention it.

Happily accepted the black diamond card, Jiang Chen said goodbye to Naseta, and returned to the hotel where he was staying.

After taking a shower, I went to bed, clicked on the holographic screen of my watch, and browsed the web.

I'm going to board a plane back to my new country tomorrow.

Just as he yawned and was about to go to bed early, a video of the number of weekly views breaking through the sky caught his attention. The video was uploaded a week ago, and the timing coincided with the opening ceremony of the first passenger orbit of the space elevator...... (To be continued.) )