Chapter 878: Spy Satellite
The Tiger Roar base, famous for its arms, has a great reputation on the African continent, and also has a great reputation on the European continent, but the so-called reputation on the European continent is notorious, because it is an arms smuggling organization, and many of the arms that appear in the European black society are from the Tiger Roar base.
Although the control of arms in Europe is not very strict, but the large number of arms into the European market still increases the crime rate in Europe, the law and order is chaotic, and the people in Europe have protested, but the political axes of European countries without exception have no way.
If you want to solve such a thing, there is only one way, and this way is to exterminate the Tiger Roar Base, but is the Tiger Roar Base so easy to exterminate? Not to mention extermination, even the United States, which has the strongest militarily, does not dare to provoke the Tiger Roar base, let alone other countries in Europe.
In the end, the political axes of various European countries had no choice but to adopt the method of treating the symptoms rather than the root cause, intensifying their efforts to crack down on the gangsters in order to bring the situation under control, and also trying to cut off the smuggling arms network at the Tiger Roar base.
However, the wish is beautiful, but the reality is always cruel, the ability of the Tiger Roar Base is not ordinary, and it is not easy to cut off the arms smuggling network of the Tiger Roar Base, and in the end, the political axes of European countries can only turn a blind eye and pass like that.
It is conceivable that in the European continent, the strength of every country is extremely strong, and there are several international powers in it, but such a battle cannot deal with the Tiger Roar Base, just ask how strong the Tiger Roar Base is.
There is such a base, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the greatest guarantee for Lu Shaohua's personal safety, on the contrary, when it comes to Lu Shaohua's part, relying on the previous status of a national general, Zeng Jianguo's future grandson-in-law, Deng Lao's godgrandson and other false names are no longer of much use, and they will not have much effect.
On the contrary, the strength speaks for itself, if someone wants to deal with Lu Shaohua, the Tiger Roar Intelligence Network collects intelligence, and then sends the Tiger Roar mercenary group to exterminate it, and in the end, if you are still not convinced, use the United Nations to talk about things, and then use the military force in the Tiger Roar base to fight.
This is a system, a three-in-one system, which constitutes a very powerful guarantee for Lu Shaohua's personal safety, and at the same time, it is also an indispensable help for Lu Shaohua's ultimate plan. Of course, the current Tiger Roar Base has actually formed a big boost, because the current Phoenix Group needs to use the Tiger Roar Intelligence Network to assist in many places.
How can Lu Shaohua not develop such a base, no, not only must it be developed, but it must also be vigorously developed, so that it can continue to develop, whether it is in military strength, intelligence force, or the armed forces of mercenary regiments, it must be vigorously developed.
Development is inseparable from money, scientific research requires a large amount of money, the development of the intelligence network also requires a large amount of money to recruit troops, and the development of mercenary groups and armed forces also requires a lot of money. All in all, no matter where it is, it takes a lot of money.
Fortunately, the Tiger Roar base has been smuggling arms, which is a high-profit business, and the sales are good, but it can provide a large amount of money to supply the development of the entire base, and Lu Shaohua has made up subsidies from time to time, but there is no shortage of funds.
But when Lu Shaohua transferred $150 billion, Xie Jianwei was overjoyed, and the next morning, Xie Jianwei boarded the flight, embarked on the journey, and hurried over to Hong Kong.
Since the end of 1987 in Africa, Xie Jianwei has never returned to China, has not set foot on a piece of land in China, if it were not for this very important matter, I believe Xie Jianwei would not have come to Hong Kong.
Xie Jianwei is very in charge of the secret base, although he is one of the three giants of the Tiger Roar Base, but he usually does not show up much, making him the most mysterious giant in the Tiger Roar Base.
It is precisely because of Xie Jianwei's mystery that many people do not know him, and there is even less information about him, which makes Xie Jianwei not receive any attention when he sets foot in Hong Kong, just like a Chinese returning to Hong Kong from Africa to visit relatives.
"This is a research project at the secret base, and it needs your approval." Xie Jianwei didn't have any extra nonsense, and when he entered the door, he took out a document directly from his briefcase and handed it to Lu Shaohua.
As soon as he received the news that Xie Jianwei would return to Hong Kong, he thought that Xie Jianwei might not have returned to China for many years and wanted to return to China to take a look, of course, Lu Shaohua didn't think that Xie Jianwei was simply returning to China, there should be some things to deal with, but Lu Shaohua never thought that Xie Jianwei would return to China to apply for approval of a project, which made Lu Shaohua feel strange.
There is no other reason, what projects to be researched by the Tiger Roar Secret Base are not approved by Lu Shaohua, Xie Jianwei They have the right to decide whether to start the project, but now they are taking it to Lu Shaohua for approval, which shows that this matter is not simple.
With curiosity, Lu Shaohua opened the document, carefully read every line of words in it, and it took nearly half an hour for Lu Shaohua to finally understand the content of this project.
However, it was precisely knowing the content of the project that made Lu Shaohua couldn't help but be excited and shocked, and asked in a trembling tone. "Are you sure we can research this project with our current capabilities?"
"Yes, surely." Xie Jianwei gave a very positive answer, and then did not forget to explain. "Now the technologies in the secret base have matured, well, in fact, you can start researching as early as two years ago, but because the funds were not abundant back then, it has been delayed again and again, until now, well, to be clear, it was delayed until yesterday when you allocated 150 billion US dollars."
Lu Shaohua understood and understood why Xie Jianwei came to Hong Kong, it turned out that he came for scientific research projects. Speaking of this scientific research project, Lu Shaohua was excited and shocked, as for why the shock and excitement came from this project.
"Military satellites!"
This is the content of the project is to develop two military satellites, well, the current Tiger Roar base has three military satellites in space, and it seems that it is not difficult to develop military satellites again, and it does not need to be approved by Lu Shaohua.
The problem arises here, the two military satellites described in the project are not simple national satellites, these two satellites are spy reconnaissance satellites, satellites with cameras, that is to say, if this project is successfully developed and the satellites are launched into space, then there will be no place on the whole earth that the Tiger Roar base cannot see.
The high-pixel camera, which can take pictures of any corner of the earth, also has functions such as electronic reconnaissance, missile warning and ocean surveillance, and is completely a high-tech and most technical military spy satellite!
Lu Shaohua remembers that the Americans were the first country in the world to develop such a satellite, but they only launched it at the end of 2008, which shows how difficult it is to develop such a satellite.
However, listening to what Xie Jianwei said, the Tiger Roar Base is already capable of developing such a satellite, how can Lu Shaohua not be shocked, and how can he not be excited.
It's been several years in advance, that's a few years, and a few years means a head start. Well, even if it takes a while to develop this satellite, it's faster than the Americans, isn't it?
What's more, it is noted in the project approval document sent by Xie Jianwei that it is roughly estimated that the satellite development cycle will be about three years to develop, and another year will be debugged, and then it can be launched.
Four years, it took four years to complete such a military spy satellite, and then calculate the time, it is now 2001, and four years later it will be 2005, and in 2005, the military spy satellite of the Tiger Roar base will be monitoring every corner of the earth in space.
Compared with the United States, the Tiger Roar Base is three years ahead of schedule, which shows how big the gap is.
Of course, it is expected to be expected, and it is possible to shorten the time to develop, or it may delay the time to develop, which is unpredictable, but no matter what, it can be developed, no matter how long it takes.
At the same time, another question arose in Lu Shaohua's mind, this question was whether it was necessary for Xie Jianwei to ask him whether to start this scientific research project?
"You can make full decisions about the affairs of the Tiger Roar Base, and you don't need to ask me at all." Lu Shaohua said lightly.
Xie Jianwei didn't answer in a hurry, smiled bitterly, and said. "Look at the budget behind it!"
"Oh?" Lu Shaohua frowned, and couldn't help but curse himself in his heart. Muttered. "I'm too anxious."
Yes, Lu Shaohua only looked at the content of the document about military spy satellites, but did not look at the budget of funds, and now listening to Xie Jianwei, Lu Shaohua took a look at the bottom of the capital budget column attentively.
"$80 billion!"
This is the cost of scientific research on this military spy satellite, Lu Shaohua couldn't help but glance at Xie Jianwei and asked if Xie Jianwei had written this number wrongly.
But Xie Jianwei nodded, indicating that this number was not written wrong, and finally added one more sentence. "This is only a preliminary budget, not a final budget, which means that it may be significantly exceeded by the time it is developed in the future, which may exceed $20 billion, and may exceed $50 billion."
"Why is it so much more?" Lu Shaohua couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
In Lu Shaohua's cognition, the cost of a satellite does not need so much money at all, well, this is a military satellite, and it is also a military spy satellite, which requires a little more money to accept, but this number is too big, a full 80 billion US dollars, and it is also a preliminary budget result, and it will have to add money during research and development, which makes Lu Shaohua unacceptable.
Lu Shaohua was waiting for Xie Jianwei's explanation of why it took so much money to develop such a satellite.
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(To be continued)