There are not a few people who are as fortunate as Elon Musk, although the United States government has been very supportive of high-tech companies before, but this is the first time that such a large-scale investment has been made. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Of course, SpaceX has not taken these investments without a price, including Bill Gates, whose shares in the hands of previous shareholders have been diluted and SpaceX has changed owners.

Entrepreneurs in the United States are much more open in terms of shares than Chinese entrepreneurs, they do not attach importance to the controlling stake, and the founders of many great enterprises do not hold a high proportion of shares. Of course, this is also closely related to the business culture of the United States. So, even if Elon Musk's stake drops to single digits, he is still happy. The day after receiving the investment, Elon Musk began to reconsider the development of SpaceX.

"Bill, I think we should consider the aerospace project." Elon Musk discussed with Bill Gates, "I don't think our previous roadmap is enough, starting with rockets, transitioning to space shuttles, and turning to aerospace aircraft, according to this plan, I'm afraid our aerospace aircraft project will not be able to start in 20 years." ”

"But are you sure about the space plane?" Bill Gates asked rhetorically.

Elon Musk is a little lacking.

"Actually, I agree with you. Now that SpaceX has ample funding, it should consider increasing the speed of its R&D. However, so far, our understanding of aerospace aircraft is very limited, and we don't even have a starting point, so it is a bit risky to start the aerospace aircraft project rashly. Bill Gates advises from his own experience.

Elon Musk said: "I've thought about these too, but I think we might be able to look at it from a different angle......"

"Oh?"

"Bill, you should know that before the Chinese, in the era of Misu's hegemony, the concept of aerospace aircraft had been proposed......"

Bill Gates nodded, before the birth of aerospace aircraft, these were unpopular information, and not many people knew about it. Like many scientific and technological ideas in history, they have been thrown away from the trash can and disappeared from the public's eyes before they have been realized.

However, after the debut of Space One, the concept of the aerospace plane became popular, and the history of previous research was turned over and over by the media. Not to mention Bill Gates, even ordinary people know this.

“…… I talked to the head of NASA, who conducted research on this back in the early 60s of the last century and has accumulated quite a lot of experience in this area...... 8 years ago, DARPA also had the XS-1 program, preparing to develop an aerospace aircraft ......"

"Is this project still going on?" Bill Gates asked.

Elon Musk shook his head: "Due to insufficient funding and the emergence of an aerospace plane on Penglai Island, the Ministry of Defense questioned the prospects of the XS-1, and the plan was finally shelved." ”

Bill Gates nodded in understanding, and in his opinion, the key to the failure of the XS-1 program should be the second factor. With his understanding of Mi Guo Technology, even if the Ministry of Defense wants to develop an aerospace aircraft, it will be experimental at best. And with Penglai Island's aerospace aircraft Zhuyu in front, the old men of the Ministry of Defense are likely to look down on these.

It's like in the era of Microsoft's rise, it wasn't that no one developed other operating systems, but under the impact of Microsoft's Windows, it passed away before it came out.

“…… All this time, I wondered if the decision of the Ministry of Defense was the right one. In their normal minds, they are not wrong. Others have already built mature aerospace planes, and we can imitate and learn from them, so why waste manpower and material resources on those meaningless researches? But until now, although we have boarded the aerospace plane of Penglai Island several times, we still know nothing about the technology of Penglai Island, let alone imitate it......"

Bill Gates' face was solemn, he took Space One seven times before and after space travel and moon travel, in the process, he was also deliberately studying Space One, but he found nothing but shock.

“…… I suddenly asked myself if we were wrong in the first place! Elon Musk continued, "We want to take a shortcut and simply abandon our own research, which has been proven to be correct in modern world history, and Fuso and Huaxia's technology surpasses that of the United States and Europe, and it is this road." Because of this, we take it as common sense. But Bill, common sense isn't always right! ”

"You're right, Elon!" Bill Gates immediately understood what the other party meant, "We all used our common sense to make a common sense mistake, that is, to believe too much in the correctness of common sense!" ”

"Exactly! Since shortcuts and imitation will not work, why don't we rediscover the value of previous experience and develop a different aerospace aircraft from China? Although in the short term, our products may not be as good as them, but as long as the technology of the United States continues to improve, we will catch up sooner or later, and then surpass Huaxia! ”

"Then do it!"

Lu Yang didn't know that Elon Musk and Bill Gates had established a strategy to catch up with and surpass Penglai Aerospace, of course, even if he knew this, he probably wouldn't care, but smiled indifferently. After possessing the third-level technology, the aerospace plane is just an appetizer for Lu Yang, and his future goal is to run rampant spacecraft in the universe.

However, if he can see this scene, Lu Yang may be very pleased, this kind of inspirational picture of catching up with and surpassing opponents in science and technology has happened in China before. Now, the feng shui takes turns, and it has become a rice country enterprise to catch up with Huaxia Company.

Lu Yang also visited Pakistan Railway, and after inspecting the achievements of the other side's economic construction, Lu Yang and Pakistani Railway President Hussein inspected their army building together.

Pakistan is one of the nuclear-armed countries and a military power in the world, with a standing army of 600,000, ranking seventh in the world. They are adjacent to their greatest enemy, the Three Kingdoms, and have fought countless battles between the two sides over the past 70 years.

"In the past decade, our country's military strength has improved significantly, and the gap with the enemy is narrowing." Hussein introduced to Lu Yang, "Our eternal friend Huaxia has been of great help to us......

Hussein's words are not polite, Huaxia is really good to the little brother of Ba Tie. As Lu Yang can see, much of the equipment of the Pakistani Railway Army is made in China.

"We have asked our friends in China to be able to buy a fifth-generation fighter ...... the J-20," Hussein said at the air base near Fort YSL.