"I've made up my mind, and I'm here to tell you about this decision, not to ask for your opinion. "Chen Xu knows that no matter how much he discusses, he can't talk about a reason, even if he explains it, the entire senior management of the company will not approve the project of the Sky City, and in the end he can only use the prerogative of the president to force the resolution!"www.biquge.info

The cost of the space city is huge, and the continuous investment in this is like a massive arterial hemorrhage for the two companies, and if the speed of blood transfusion cannot match the blood loss, both companies will be dragged down.

Chen Xu's investment has always been very cautious, whether it is a short-term or long-term project, it can be seen and touched and profitable. For example, the nuclear power plant project, which cost a staggering $50 billion, even the imperial capital was frightened, and on the day the news was released, he made thirteen phone calls in a row to inquire about the situation.

I was shocked, but everyone had an account in their hearts, although the initial investment in the nuclear power plant was huge, but after the completion of the power generation, it can be profitable. What's more, each power station can generate electricity for 70 to 100 years, which is tantamount to a stable source of income for a company, and there is no need to worry about bankruptcy within 100 years.

Not to mention that Chen Xu took the lead in buying the low-priced shares of Westinghouse Nuclear Power by virtue of the convenience of placing bets in the bank, and waited until the stock rose after the news was announced, which was equivalent to earning back a nuclear power plant.

The reason why people disagree with Chen Xu's plan is that in his proposal, the space city needs far more money than the nuclear power plant project, reaching a daunting $80 billion. You must know that the China National Space Administration's ten years of funding are less than this.

The China National Space Administration is very economical in its use of money, and the cost of the lunar exploration satellite can also build a two-kilometer highway, and one yuan is used as a hundred yuan.

Chen Xu spent so much money lavishly, what about the final landing on Mars? Is it to travel thousands of miles just to bring back a pile of Martian soil?

No one can imagine the reason why this investment can pay off, and the construction cost of the project will definitely rise sharply as time goes by, and then 80 billion US dollars may not be able to stop the car, forming a situation where it is difficult to ride a tiger!

If the project is interrupted, all the upfront investment will be wasted. Continuing to invest is a bottomless pit, and no one knows how much it will cost in the end.

No matter how you choose, it's a huge loss!

It turns out that even the smartest leaders can get out of the way. Everyone agrees that the Sky City project is definitely throwing money into the fire, and if you don't dissuade it, the consequences will be very serious.

But the problem is that the system of the flower grower is that the big leader decides everything, and even if the subordinates know that such a project is a life-and-death adventure for the company, they can only applaud. Because Chen Xu had already said that anyone who dared to contradict would be sent to the African jungle to work as an arms salesman, and Chen Xu's stern appearance did not look like a joke, which made no one dare to object. As Chen Weiguo said, the company's meeting is indeed Chen Xu's word, and no one can question his decision.

"You will completely collapse the company like this, what means do you use to fill such a big financial loophole?" The eldest brother desperately pushed away the tea handed over by the person next to him, and he found that as one of the top leaders of the company's management, he actually had even the slightest influence on his younger brother's thoughts.

Chen Xu, as the creator of Southern Heavy Industry Group and Panda Group, and made the company so big by himself, his rights are no longer controllable.

"In fact, it is not a bottomless pit, when our spacecraft enters space, it will become the largest space laboratory in history, and then we can attract global enterprises to pay royalties for space experiments at a relatively low price, which is a monopoly business, and the annual income is not low." Chen Xu reminded everyone in the conference room that the spaceship is not simply a gold-eating beast, it can also create benefits.

"Space lab? That income is a drop in the bucket compared to the money you invest. "Big brother stubbornly believes that exploring in the unknown will only lead to a bloody head in the end.

"I don't quarrel with you, so it's endless, and I'll never finish talking. In the next few days, all departments of the company will start the preliminary exploration and construction of the infrastructure of the space city in accordance with the requirements of my plan. This is a super-large high-tech engineering project, and the manpower and material resources that need to be raised in the early stage must be very huge, so all departments should strictly check to ensure the smooth completion of the construction period. Chen Xu closed the folder in front of him, then got up and nodded to everyone, signaling the meeting to end, and then turned around and left with one hand in his trouser pocket.

Chen Xu finally raised his fighting spirit to take the initiative to plan a large-scale engineering project, so he did not allow anyone to change his decision, even if this plan may eventually become the most failed scientific and technological engineering project of mankind, but it could not prevent him from turning the space city from a paper plan into a reality.

'Space City' is not the name of this project, Chen Xu didn't think of what kind of name should be given to such a bullish project as landing on Mars for the time being, the U.S. imperialists' moon landing operation was named 'Apollo moon landing program', and the Soviet space shuttle project was called 'Buran program', which sounds very powerful, Chen Xu certainly can't give his Mars program vulgarity, and must have a domineering name, so that everyone is full of confidence in this plan.

If you want to ask the biggest trouble of the Mars landing plan, it is that the funds have not yet been settled, and the group needs to spend a lot of money, not to mention the investment of 100 billion yuan in education, investment in university laboratories, etc., almost every day to take money out of the company's account, and there is no spare money to do this.

If the money is advanced from the company's account, it will definitely crowd out the funds of other scientific research projects, which Chen Xu does not want to see.

After thinking about it, you still have to find a way to raise money, of course, you don't have to really get 80 billion US dollars, this figure is Chen Xu's conservative estimate of the funds, it is not accurate, and the plan will definitely not cost so much money to really implement, but Chen Xu wants to make the Mars plan bigger and more successful, the more money you throw in, the higher the success rate, the high-tech industry is obviously burning money, and it is not impossible to land on Mars when the funds are smashed to a certain extent.

In the sixties, the United States was able to send spacecraft to the moon, and at that time, the computers on the spacecraft were more than ten times slower than those of mobile phones. Now that there are not only supercomputers, but also more advanced materials science, there is no reason why a more advanced spacecraft cannot be built than Apollo.

In the end, if the landing on Mars is not successful, the next best thing to land on the moon will keep the project going.

What resources are on the moon? Chen Xu doesn't know! But the United States and the USSR knew for sure. The Apollo program came to an abrupt halt in 1972, and the $25.5 billion space program came to a halt.

Either there is something remarkable on the moon that the Americans do not dare to send more spacecraft to it.

Either there is nothing on the moon, and continuing to spend money on sending spacecraft to it is just a pure waste of funds, and if it cannot produce economic benefits, it can only be helplessly stopped.

However, Chen Xu of course hoped that the United States would find something on the moon in the Apollo program, but he couldn't get it back for the time being, and it happened that the Soviet Union's N1 moon rocket failed to launch continuously, and the moon landing program failed, so the United States left it there.

Otherwise, it will not be the Tiangong plan and the Chang'e moon landing plan of the flower planter to begin the countdown. The U.S. imperialists hurriedly picked up the space program that had been interrupted for 30 years, and NASA paid for the technology to support Musk's Dragon spacecraft program to send humans to Mars to establish colonies.

Since Musk can send a spacecraft to Mars tens of millions of kilometers away, the moon 300,000 kilometers away is naturally handy, and it is very easy.

The Americans didn't do it sooner or later, but the flower planters wanted to land on the moon, so they started the space hegemony plan, and it is a bit unreasonable to say that there is no conspiracy here.

Chen Xu felt that since he was able to travel through time and space with his soul, it was not strange that there were strange things on the moon. Even if there are really any alien relics, they can't compare to the scientific truth behind the fact that he traveled through time and space!

In fact, when Chen Xu is usually fine, he also likes to wonder what principle caused his crossing, it may be that some kind of time and space travel conditions were triggered when the passenger plane fell, or something happened to be hit by a crashed passenger plane under the Pacific Ocean, causing time and space travel, in short, there must be a scientific principle that human beings have not yet discovered.

As a good young man who grew up under the red flag, Chen Xu believes that everything has a scientific basis, but human beings can't discover the principle, so he uses the theory of gods and ghosts to cover up his heart and ignorance, and Bruno's insistence on heliocentrism during the Renaissance is a clear example of being burned alive by the church.

No matter what is on the moon, within three to five years, Chen Xu will launch a rover and reconnaissance satellite on it, and then the truth will naturally be revealed to the world.

Before landing on Mars, Chen Xu must first conduct a landing experiment on the moon before daring to go to Mars for a long-distance flight. After all, it only takes three days to go to the moon at the earliest, and it takes three months to go to Mars at the earliest.

If the cost of transportation equipment from the earth was too expensive in the past, Chen Xu might choose to directly land a nuclear-powered spacecraft carrying tens of thousands of tons of engineering equipment, park it on the surface of the moon as the first lunar base, and then rely on this to gradually expand the lunar base.

According to the lunar rock samples collected by the Apollo lunar exploration program, mankind already knows that the iron on the moon is iron oxide, in other words, the iron ore on the moon is super rich ore, and it can be directly made into steel when it is dug up. The second is that the moon is also rich in rare earth minerals, according to the analysis of the data obtained by the lunar probe, there are at least 100 kinds of minerals on the moon, many of which are rare minerals on the earth, and even mineral resources that are completely absent on the earth.

One of them is the well-known helium-3 resource, a very pure thermonuclear fusion energy source that does not produce any radiation when burned in a fusion furnace. This is a mineral that does not exist on the earth, and the preliminary estimate of at least 1 million tons of helium-3 resources on the moon is still the most cautious estimate, human beings have only explored the surface of the moon, and what minerals below the surface of the moon are not known at all, maybe the helium-3 reserves on the moon are more terrifying than human imagination, and can be used by human beings for 10,000 years without being exhausted.

This also means that if several large nuclear-powered spacecraft land on the moon. Because the space inside the spacecraft is large enough, it is possible to install mineral refining equipment. If the rare ore from the moon is ground and refined and then transported to the earth, the capacity of each transportation is large enough, then the transportation cost should be reduced to an acceptable level.

If mineral refining equipment can be sent to the moon, then it is not impossible to use the extracted iron ore to smelt into steel, and then use steel as the main material for expanding the lunar base.

Therefore, Chen Xu's Mars plan is not crazy, if the implementation of the plan is smooth sailing and there is no launch accident, basically 80 billion US dollars can make the entire plan successful.

With the success of the plan, the planter will establish a sound aerospace industry system, inject a strong impetus into the country's aerospace science and aerospace economy, and the civilian scientific achievements derived from the Mars program will not be less than 10,000, the people's lives will be greatly improved, and people's daily life will become more convenient and have a sense of science and technology. (To be continued.) )