With the announcement of the completion of the manned lunar landing program within ten years by the Tang Empire, the world was shocked, and the United States and the Soviet Union immediately launched relevant lunar landing programs, and the space race between the Tang and the United States and the Soviet Union began.

As early as 1950, the Tang Empire, under the impetus of Zhang Meng, took the lead in launching the first human satellite X1 into space. Although X1 is just a radio satellite, playing Chinese songs to the world 24 hours a day to promote the strength and superiority of the Tang Empire, its stay in the air lasted only three months before it crashed into the atmosphere because the battery ran out, but the shock to the world was that the Tang Empire had gone to outer space.

Since then, the United States and the Soviet Union have been developing their own satellite systems, with the United States launching its first satellite two years later, and the Soviet Union not sending its own satellite into space until the third year.

Now, the United States and the Soviet Union have just made small progress in the field of satellites, and the Tang Empire has set off a manned lunar landing program, which makes the United States and the Soviet Union a little unbearable, but they have to follow the pace of the Tang Dynasty.

In particular, astronomers in the United States and the Soviet Union also discovered an unusual impact event from the far side of the moon, and they were worried that something unusual would reach the moon, so they did not want to be monopolized by the Tang Empire, so they had to invest a lot of money, manpower and material resources into this huge space race.

At the end of the fifties, the Tang Empire surpassed all countries in the world in terms of various power indicators, and its total economic output reached 1.1 trillion Tang Yuan, ranking first in the world. The United States ranks second in the world with an economic aggregate of 520 billion Tang Yuan, and the GDP of the Soviet Union is estimated to be around 230 billion Tang Yuan, because the Soviet Union has kept their economic data strictly secret, allowing Datang and the United States to speculate for half a century.

After the war, the Tang Empire relied on its leading position in science and technology, and was in an absolute position in the fields of electronic computers, biomedicine, wireless communications, atomic energy, electric energy, and space science, leading the world into the fourth industrial revolution.

Meantime. The population base of the Tang Empire has doubled, human resources have finally kept up with the speed of industrial development, and there is a huge market in the world, especially in Asia, where the population accounts for more than half of the world and the consumption capacity is huge.

Moreover, the Tang Empire controlled the Middle East, the main source of oil and energy, while the Western world confronted the Soviet Union, Europe could not get the oil and gas supply from the Soviet Union, although the United States also had a lot of energy. It's a pity that the global strategic channels and key positions are all occupied by the Tang Empire. This makes it impossible for the United States to compete with the Tang Empire in the field of energy supply. In the end, the Tang Empire controlled 90% of the energy supply in Asia and Europe, monopolized prices, and made a fortune.

Another important aspect is that the world has entered the age of electricity and radio communications. The use of alternating current and radio has skyrocketed. The Tang Empire, with its strong military strength, unilaterally revoked Tesla's statement on the free use of alternating current patents, and re-imposed a patent fee of 1 Tang yuan per kilowatt-hour of electricity from alternating current pantograph power generation companies around the world.

The time chosen by the Tang Empire was very good, it was just after the end of World War II, when the Tang Empire had nuclear weapons and other countries did not have nuclear weapons, the Tang Empire carried out nuclear blackmail against the whole world, forcing countries around the world to sign an agreement on the use of alternating current and pay patent fees for the use of alternating current to the Tang Empire.

That's a lot of money. The wealth of the Tang Empire began to skyrocket from that day, you must know that alternating current has become a key energy source for all countries in the world, even if the Tang Empire has to levy a patent fee of 1 Tang yuan per kilowatt-hour of electricity, they also think that it is more cost-effective than direct current and coal.

In the first few years, the Tang Empire plundered 50 billion Tang Yuan of patent fees from all countries in the world in terms of alternating current patent fees alone. Soon the United States and the Soviet Union successively possessed nuclear weapons and began to say no to the Tang Empire, but because they were still far behind the Tang Empire in terms of military strength, they did not dare to completely tear their faces with the Tang Empire, but they launched public opinion and political pressure around the world.

In the end, in the face of public opinion and political pressure from all countries in the world unanimously condemning and demanding free alternating current, the Tang Empire announced that if Tesla died, it would stop collecting alternating current patent fees.

At that time, Tesla was already 100 years old, and the governments of various countries did not want to tear their faces with the Tang Empire, thinking that Tesla would die soon, so they agreed to the conditions of the Tang Empire.

However, what made countries collapse was that the Tang Empire extended Tesla's life at a huge cost, and finally let Tesla live to be 106 years old, and ruthlessly pit all countries in the world, because in those six years, the world's new alternating current patent royalties were as high as 500 billion Tang Yuan, and the Tang Empire was almost equivalent to directly grabbing money from the central banks of all countries in the world, which made governments almost collapse in anger.

This is just alternating current, the world has entered the era of wireless communication, and Tesla's radio patent rights have been restored by the United States. At that time, the U.S. government and all countries around the world did not want to give Marconi radio royalties, so they unanimously supported the U.S. government's announcement to revoke Marconi's radio patent rights and return the patent rights to Tesla.

As a result, the Datang Empire soon announced the news that Tesla was still alive, and all countries in the world were as if they had been slapped hard by the Datang Empire, and they were extremely sad, and they began to pay radio patent royalties to Tesla, which eventually flowed into the pockets of the Datang Empire.

In addition, because of the guidance of Zhang Meng, the Tang Empire, in various key fields in the future, especially in the high-tech field, almost 90% of the world's patent rights have been registered, and the annual patent fee alone is equivalent to the total annual GDP of a medium-sized European country.

In addition, the post-war global financial system was centered on the Tang Empire and designated the Tang Yuan globalization system, the Tang Yuan was based on gold reserves, and each country had its own currency pegged to the Tang Yuan, which also made the Tang Empire continue to overissue the Tang Yuan, making the Tang Empire have the highest welfare in the world in terms of national medical care, insurance, pension, housing, etc., and half of the funds seem to be paid by the people of the world.

Someone made a statistic that showed that if the average daily consumption of each person in the world was 5 Tang Yuan, then 1 Tang Yuan would fall into the pockets of the Tang Empire.

In this environment, the Tang Empire announced a ten-year moon landing plan, with a planned expenditure of 120 billion Tang Yuan, which will actually be quietly distributed to the heads of people all over the world, and the whole world will pay for it. In order to stabilize their domestic currencies and not expand, they can only buy the treasury bonds of the Tang Empire on a large scale, but they dare not let their own people know the truth, because they can't change the situation, but it will cause civil strife.