Volume 1, First Pot of Gold, Chapter 670, Russian Cake

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The supply of the International Space Station is not only an international obligation of several space powers, but also a good opportunity for all countries to develop their own space science and technology. Profiting from these tens of billions of rubles, the country's space companies have the money to develop new aircraft engines and improve existing launch technologies.

Contracting to Transwarp Trade can certainly reduce the budget in this area, but it is undoubtedly bad news for the country's space companies. After all, there are so many launch plans every year, and with the exception of the United States, which can make money on commercial launches, most space companies are supported by national projects.

What Natasha said is what the Russian leader meant.

If Transwarp Trade intends to sell rockets, Russia is of course happy to buy them, but if Transwarp Trade is only planning to contract launch projects, there is no need to talk about it at all.

"Don't you plan to listen to the price on my side?" Jiang Chen said helplessly.

Natasha shook her head.

"The Kremlin won't nod its head, even if you're offering a tempting price. ”

It's a bit tricky.

However, Natasha's words are not unreasonable, if you consider this problem from the perspective of cost savings, why didn't Lao Maozi outsource the project to the United States? The Falcon rocket, which has the technology of first-stage rocket recovery, can compress the launch cost to a terrifying figure.

Although this matter seems to be nothing to talk about, Jiang Chen has never been the kind of person who will give up lightly.

After a moment of contemplation, he spoke.

"I really don't want to talk about the price? I mean the RM-320 rocket engine. ”

"I said it was okay...... Wait, what are you talking about?!" Natasha was suddenly stunned and looked at Jiang Chen in shock.

"Didn't I say that clearly enough? the price of the RM-320 rocket engine. Jiang Chen smiled.

Putting away the shock between her eyebrows, Natasha looked at Jiang Chen silently, and said quickly.

"What do you want?"

According to the materials submitted by Transwarp Trade and the observations of Russian experts, the performance of the RM-320 rocket engine. More than one level higher than the RD-180, which Russia is proud of. Even the Merlin 1D engine could not match it.

A combustion chamber that can withstand 500 atmospheres and a push-to-value ratio of 1:300. The cost of production is only half that of the Russian RD-180!

On more than one occasion, the Russian Space Corporation has offered to the Kremlin the hope of taking advantage of Russia's friendly relations with the new country. Order a batch of RM-320 rocket engines back. Although it may not be possible to imitate it, at least it can be borrowed from the following part of the design.

Natasha never thought that Jiang Chen would actually agree to sell the engine, so she didn't mention it at all.

Happiness came so suddenly!

Jiang Chen's gaze swept over Natasha's body, and said in a playful tone, "Guess?"

Natasha's cheeks rose into two red clouds in the face of that undisguised gaze, but she soon sensed the banter in that gaze. glared at Jiang Chen fiercely.

"I can't guess. ”

Jiang Chen stretched out five fingers.

"Five years. Within five years, Russia's ISS replenishment project was contracted by Transwarp Trading, and five years later, we sold samples and blueprints of the RM-320 rocket engine to Russian space at market prices. ”

It's a bargain to trade a five-year contract for an obsolete piece of technology.

As for why it is said "outdated", it is naturally because when the space elevator is made out by Jiang Chen, the rocket launch technology will be outdated.

Because of the advent of the space elevator. The cost of launching tens of millions of dollars will be directly reduced to hundreds of dollars. This is also the reason why launch vehicle technology has been completely halted at the end of the 21st century.

“…… I can't give you an answer, I'll have to ask my superiors first. Natasha said with difficulty.

Jiang Chen made a gesture of please.

Natasha nodded. He stepped aside, took out his mobile phone, and dialed it to the KGB headquarters in Moscow.

After making this call for a long time, I saw that she suddenly looked abrupt, and walked to Jiang Chen's side with the phone in her hand.

"Our superiors want to consult with you personally. ”

After speaking, she handed the phone to Jiang Chen's hand and took two steps back.

Putting the mobile phone to his ear, before Jiang Chen could speak, there was a strong Russian English over there.

"Up to three years. ”

This voice was somewhat familiar, but Jiang Chen couldn't remember where he had heard it for a while.

"Three years is too short. ”

"We have to think about the technology change. ”

"You can rest assured. Not to mention five years, even eight years from now. The RM-320 engine still maintains its lead. Jiang Chen replied in an affirmative tone.

There was silence on the other end of the line for two seconds.

"Three years, three years later you sold us the RM-320 engine technology. A resupply mission for the International Space Station. We outsource to you for eight years at a price of 400 rubles. ”

"Deal!" Jiang Chen said without hesitation.

Although the expression on his face did not change at all, Jiang Chen's heart was so happy that he almost laughed out loud. 40 billion rubles is probably equivalent to more than 600 million dollars, and he will be able to get a space elevator out in two years at most, and the cost of delivering supplies to the space station can even be reduced to less than one million!

This is not talking about the dollar, or the ruble......

"It seems that we have agreed. After receiving Jiang Chen's affirmative reply, the voice on the other side was obviously a lot more relaxed, and he didn't realize that he had been pitted miserably.

"I always feel that your voice is a little familiar, before hanging up the phone, can I ask who you are?"

"Didn't our detective sue you?"

"She only told me that you were their superior. Saying this, Jiang Chen was suddenly stunned.

Wait, Natasha uses "we", not "my" superior.

The other side was silent for a moment, and then spoke in a relaxed tone.

"You can call me Pugin. If you have the opportunity, you are welcome to visit Moscow......"

Holding the phone in his hand, Jiang Chen was stunned.

Wait, it was the President of Russia who was talking to me about business just now?!

And I still pit him?!

……

The 12th quantum satellite was successfully launched, and Transwarp announced that it would provide paid coverage II services to Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Morocco, Malaysia and other countries. According to the cooperation project with local telecom operators, as long as the user has handled the service, they can get 12 hours of ii experience time. After the experience time is exhausted, users can apply for service packages with different network speeds according to different regions.

At present, Transwarp Trade is discussing cooperation with telecom operators in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and other countries, and is considering promoting the global II to North America and Western Europe.

On the other hand, the war between the Future People Group and the Boston Consortium continues. However, neither side made any new moves, but they were in a stalemate in the areas where they had already made moves. The U.S. Department of Justice is still collecting evidence on the antitrust investigation, while the Boston consortium is still busy trying to save the bank's fire.

What's more troublesome is that the color responsible for providing security services for Bank of Boston has comprehensively upgraded its server firewall and upgraded its defense against hacker attacks.

According to Xie Lei, the upgraded security system of Bank of Boston is like an iron bucket, and the original loopholes have basically been filled. Unless you can get an internal computer as a backdoor, even with a quantum computer as a broiler, it is no longer so easy to hack remotely.

After all, they raised so many technicians, and they didn't eat for nothing.

On the other hand, Jane collected news about the two companies on the Internet, summarized it and presented it in front of Jiang Chen.

"The Federal Reserve injected $100 billion into First National Bank in Boston. The Pentagon convened a number of cybersecurity companies to hold an Internet Security Summit. Information security in the financial sector is the focus of the summit. ”

"The Federal Reserve actually took action, and it seems that the Bank of Boston is stable for the time being. Jiang Chen frowned slightly.

Just when he was thinking about what to do next, Xia Shiyu's phone suddenly called.

"Hey, what's the matter?"

"Someone came to you and wanted to talk to you face-to-face. ”

"Who?"

Carson Lodge is a shareholder at First National Bank in Boston. (To be continued.) )