Boeing executives held a meeting overnight to discuss the matter of Penglai Aerospace Company. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Boeing is not only the world's largest manufacturer of civil and military aircraft, but also the main service provider of NASA, operating the space shuttle and the international space station.

That being said, there is direct competition between the two companies in aviation and aerospace.

Boeing attaches great importance to Penglai Aerospace Company, and Boeing, the industry leader, is very nervous about such a peer that can produce aerospace aircraft. Nowadays, in many fields, the companies of Huaxia and Mi are like two countries, each other's biggest rivals.

In 2017, Boeing's business in China accounted for more than 10% of the global civil aircraft business, and this proportion will further expand in the future. According to Boeing's prediction, in the next 20 years, Huaxia will become the first aviation market with a scale of more than one trillion US dollars, so they began to deepen cooperation with Huaxia two years ago, in order to be able to seize the opportunity.

The last thing Boeing wants to see is the rise of Huaxia's local airlines, before the C919 made in Huaxia was not in Boeing's eyes, but Penglai Aerospace Company is different, this is a giant that can influence the world's aerospace industry!

Boeing Chairman Philip Condit personally presided over the meeting, and the participants were also Boeing's senior executives, President McNani, CEO Millenberg, and commercial aircraft head Ryan were not absent, in addition, Boeing Huaxia head Tang Yien, Boeing Finance head Ma Allen was specially asked to attend, both of them are responsible for or in charge of the Huaxia market, the most familiar with Huaxia.

Before the meeting began, Philip first showed them a promotional video that Song Minglun had uploaded to the official website of Penglai Aerospace Company.

"This is a civilian airliner manufactured by Penglai Aerospace, and according to the assessment made by our technicians based on these images, this aircraft is about the same size as our Boeing 747-400, but it has the ability to fly at supersonic speeds!" Philip sent the data from the assessment to the participants.

"It can't be!" Ryan glanced at the data and exclaimed in surprise, "How can such a huge passenger plane reach a speed of Mach 2?" Supersonic flight consumes a lot of energy, and if such a huge aircraft flies at supersonic speed, it will run out of fuel in less than an hour! ”

Ryan's words caused the others to nod their heads again and again, and even those in the room who were not from technical backgrounds had an extraordinary understanding of airplanes.

So far, only one or two civilian airliners have the ability to break through the speed of sound, why? It's not that the technology can't reach it, it's that it's not cost-effective. For a fighter of small size, there are no problems with supersonic flight, since the fighter has only 1-2 crews. And a large passenger plane must have at least 100 tourists, coupled with its huge size, even if it is full of fuel, it can't help but consume supersonic flight.

Moreover, the supersonic aircraft itself is expensive to manufacture and operate, technically difficult, and unsuitable for civil aviation.

Ma Allen said: "I don't think this data is surprising, everyone should not forget, who is our opponent......"

Ma Allen gave everyone a wake-up call, and these people immediately remembered that their competitor this time was someone who could even build an aerospace plane of more than 300 meters, and not long ago, the other party's aerospace plane had carried 300 astronauts to the moon!

"That's exactly what I'm going to say!" Philip looked at them, "This time, we will face the most formidable opponent since the founding of Boeing!" ”

The Boeing executives in attendance fell silent, thinking back to Philip's words.

"Why, are you afraid?" Philip asked rhetorically.

"Boeing is not afraid of anyone!" "We are the largest aircraft manufacturing company in the world, and we are also the strongest space company, and we have had countless opponents who have challenged us, but in the end only Boeing has won!" ”

"The main question now is how to compete with Penglai Aerospace." Ürrenberg nodded, "In the field of aerospace, they are ahead of us, but in the aviation industry, the Chinese are not our opponents. Since Lu Yang wants to compete with us, we should let them know that challenging Boeing will definitely not end well! ”

Obviously, these people attach importance to Penglai Island, but it is far from being afraid, because Boeing is closely connected with the United States, it is not only the boss of civil aircraft, but also the boss of military aircraft, every year the military purchase of the United States government alone can make Boeing full, not to mention that it also sells military aircraft all over the world. Last year, Boeing generated $38 billion in arms exports alone.

"Yes, Ryan, we need to speed up the development of the Boeing 797, I have a hunch that the 787 may be difficult to compete with the Chinese!"

Almost at the same time, Airbus in Europe held a similar meeting, and both companies began to actively prepare new products to compete with Penglai Aerospace. At the same time, they began to launch a huge information network to collect intelligence on the civil aircraft of the Penglai Aerospace Company. Both companies have the support of the government behind them, and they are both the largest arms companies in the world, and their intelligence networks are all over the world.

"The luxury sky villa of the richest man in the world, you can also have it!"

Song Minglun stepped up publicity and began to reveal more about the performance parameters of the Happiness to the outside world. Of course, all he revealed was cut down and in no way more than half of his real figures. Seeing this, Lu Yang nodded secretly in his heart, he knew the grievances between Song Minglun and Boeing, and now that he ********, he will definitely take revenge. At such a time, Song Minglun remained sober in his heart, which made Lu Yang very pleased.

Song Minglun's propaganda was still very effective, and Lu Yang received several phone calls after that, one of which was Salman, the king of Shat, and the two were old friends, and he trusted Penglai Island's technology very much. Although only one civilian aircraft has been built on Penglai Island, no one doubts their aircraft technology.

Xiong Wenbo was the first person to come to Penglai Island, and with the rise of other companies in the Penglai Group, the importance of the Penglai Marine Development Company he was responsible for rapidly decreased, and within the Penglai Group, Xiong Wenbo was only in the third echelon.

For this reason, Xiong Wenbo held back his strength, and he was convinced that the potential of marine development is endless, and the prospect is no worse than the development of lunar resources.

One of Xiong's attempts was to develop technology to extract precious metals from seawater, such as gold.

Many resources are scarce on land, but there are many in the vast seas, such as gold. It is estimated that the total amount of gold contained in the ocean is more than 50 million tons, which is by no means comparable to that on land. Some of this gold sinks to the bottom of the sea, and most of it is integrated into seawater, which averages 0.0.mg/t, which means that 0.4-2 grams of gold can be extracted for every 100 million cubic meters of seawater.

There are also some seawater areas around the world that contain much more gold than that, such as the Caribbean, where the gold content is more than 700 times higher, reaching 15-18 mg/t.

The extraction of gold from seawater has not been thought of before, and has been studied by many institutions. However, the gold content in seawater is so low that the cost of extracting 1 gram of gold is much higher than the value of 1 gram of gold, and so far, there is no economical technology.

Xiong Wenbo is well aware of the rebellion of his boss's technology, and has repeatedly suggested to Lu Yang to develop this technology. In the end, Lu Yang gave Xiong Wenbo a set of Level 3 techniques, which he purchased from Tiandao Mall at a price of 700,000 credits, which was specially used to refine the gold element in seawater.

Xiong Wenbo was overjoyed and immediately organized people to conduct experiments, and after two months of work, they refined kilograms of gold in the waters around Penglai Island.

"Boss, this technology is completely feasible, our experimental work this time, all the costs are less than 100,000, and the price of 1130 grams of gold is more than 240,000, and the profit margin is amazing!" Xiong Wenbo happily reported to Lu Yang.

Lu Yang was actually not interested in refining gold, he could have bought this technology a long time ago, but he didn't buy it, the reason was that this technology was too expensive, and the speed of refining gold was too slow to be worth the investment.

The third-level civilization is the energy civilization, and their application of energy has reached a realm unimaginable to the second-level civilization. They can use energy to create various magnetic fields, and they can also use energy fields to refine various elements in seawater, and the technology for refining gold purchased by Lu Yang uses this principle.

However, in the face of Xiong Wenbo, who was highly motivated, Lu Yang was not easy to pour cold water on him.

"Boss, I'm going to build ten refining centers in the Caribbean Sea first, where the sea water is high in gold. At our rate, each refinery will be able to refine 2,000 kilograms of gold a year, and ten refineries will be 20 tons, and in less than two years, we will be able to recoup the cost......," Xiong Wenbo gushed out his plan.

"Not bad, not bad."

Xiong Wenbo said: "Then I'll arrange it immediately!" ”

Xiong Wenbo's Penglai Marine Development Company's current main industry is Penglai seawater desalination plant, with an annual output value of only 5 billion, less than a week's revenue of Penglai Intelligent Electronics Company, and one of the least output values among all the subsidiaries of Penglai Group. Xiong Wenbo has always wanted to change this situation, and now he is very happy to seize an industry with an annual output value of nearly 5 billion.

"Ten refining centers will be built this year, double next year, and expand again in 2020...... In the future, just by refining gold, the output value of the Ocean Development Company will be able to exceed 10 billion! Xiong Wenbo thought ambitiously. (To be continued.) )