"After this battle, even if someone shorts my Bluestar Technology Group in the future, it will not be so dead." Zhang Bowen said.

An executive at the meeting said with a smile: "This time, hundreds of short-headed predators are estimated to have retracted into a corner and licked their wounds silently." ”

"Haha, you deserve it."

The senior executives in the conference room laughed, this time it was really relieved.

Zhang Bowen put away his smile and said seriously: "It was difficult to win this time, although we won a big victory, we became the one who had the last laugh." But it doesn't mean that the future of Bluestar Technology Group can sit back and relax, on the contrary, the future may face a more serious crisis than this year, we have completely offended the Americans, and the United States is now itching our hate. ”

Everyone also put away their smiles one by one, and one of the executives at the meeting said: "That's right, if you are not afraid of thieves, you are afraid of thieves." ”

Zhang Bowen said: "We don't want to have a bad relationship with anyone, we just want to run the company well and conduct normal business activities, but others may not think so." When I talked to Mr. Luo that day, I still remember what he said: avoiding conflict with others is not to blindly avoid, the way to avoid conflict is to prepare for conflict. ”

Luo Sheng is not in the company today, and when everyone heard this name, they couldn't help but be in awe, and they couldn't help but worship it beyond measure.

Everyone knows that if it weren't for the existence of this man, there would be no such situation today.

Luo Shengzhi's authority on Bluestar Technology, for the Cote d'Azur, Shengfeng Capital, etc., has been unprecedentedly strengthened.

He has established an unparalleled prestige in the hearts of everyone, regardless of age, age has been ignored by everyone a few years ago, and people will only clearly remember how he resolved crises again and again and continued to forge legends.

Zhang Bowen who attended the meeting looked around and said: "2013 is tomorrow, the strategic goal of the group company in the new year has already been set, that is, the three major strategies of Mr. Luo, to develop new business in emerging market countries and regions, before we were picky, difficult areas are unwilling to develop the market over there, resulting in over-reliance on the developed markets in Europe and the United States and faced this time by the other party half to death, now to be hungry and do not choose to eat, as long as you can't eat the dead people have to eat." ”

None of the executives in attendance said a word, and everyone was either holding their heads down and holding a pen to record the meeting, or staring at their work computers, and the occasional keyboard tapping sounded quietly.

To develop the business of emerging market countries and regions, this is a major long-term strategy formulated by Luo Sheng for Bluestar Technology Group, to put it bluntly, it is the way of "rural areas surrounding cities", and Huawei has proved that such a policy is feasible with itself, so the company is required to learn from the former Huawei and go through the road of the rise of Huawei in the past.

Earlier, Lao Zhang had arranged for the executives of Bluestar Technology to go to Pengcheng to visit Huawei, Huawei was more difficult than the current Bluestar Technology, even so, it also achieved a counterattack rise from the major communication giants in Europe and the United States from the cracks, and achieved the status of today's generation of world communication giants.

Zhang Bowen's eyes wandered, said: "The second is to deeply expand the business market in Greater China, which is the top priority, Mr. Luo has repeatedly emphasized that the mainland market is the foundation to ensure that my group company can be invincible, I think I don't need to say too much, the third strategy is the next five years to invest 150 billion US dollars in scientific research, an average of 30 billion US dollars per year, master the core technology to have international competitiveness." Ladies and gentlemen, please keep in mind that the share lost by Bluestar Technology in the developed country market this year will be regained in the future, and we will definitely make a comeback. ”

The participants are also high-spirited, confidence is unprecedentedly strong, North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and other developed countries and regions of the vast majority of customers have been lost, but Bluestar Technology did not announce its withdrawal from these markets, but has always been rooted there, even if it is not profitable, but also through the profits of other markets to provide for its blood transfusion.

A fool will pat his ass and walk away, which is exactly what competitors are happy to see.

Luo Sheng will not make the low-level mistake of Google's arrogant withdrawal from the Greater China market, and the withdrawal from the Greater China market has made Google lose a lot, at least making tens of billions of dollars less in revenue every year.

If Bluestar Technology does this, it will lose hundreds of billions of dollars, and it will make competitors continue to grow and seize other market shares.

……

As time passed, the first month of the new year of 2013 finally arrived.

Science and Technology Complex Building.

"The bears have fully ebbed, Bluestar Technology stocks continue to rise, and Soros admitted in an interview with Bloomberg yesterday that he lost more than $10 billion in the process of shorting. This time, all the short sellers exceeded $280 billion at the time of the highest book loss, and the actual loss exceeded $248 billion. ”

Qin Weimu, who came to report on the work, said.

At this moment, she and Luo Sheng were in the living room, and the latter said with a smile: "The company's circulating market value is only 18%, we can appropriately sell some stocks to enhance liquidity, but also to return funds, Bluestar Technology's debt ratio is now thirty or forty percent higher than before, and it has to spend money to pay off debts, $150 billion research and development strategy, and develop emerging markets." ”

In terms of the company's current cash reserves, the shares transferred to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Office have obtained $88 billion in foreign exchange cash, $52.2 billion in foreign exchange cash for bank loans, and $23.9 billion in public offering financing, plus the company's own cash flow, the cash reserves in Bluestar Technology have soared to a terrifying $170 billion.

The state-owned assets office and the low-interest loans of the bank were supposed to be taken out to consume, but the circulating market value at that time was getting smaller and smaller, and the short seller did not think that it would decide the winner in the stock market, but to lay the final victory outside the stock market.

Because Bluestar Technology has already been burdened with a heavy debt burden for this, Wall Street bears have carefully calculated that Bluestar Technology will not last long and will detonate a debt crisis, and heavy debt will become the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

But people are not as good as heaven, and a public offering action instantly made the short seller fall apart in the face of a crisis of confidence, and the situation ushered in a big reversal between the flips.

In the face of a huge crisis of confidence, the bears on Wall Street gave them 10,000 dares not to take this risk, and those bears are risk-takers and gamblers, but they are not fools.

Indeed, Bluestar Technology is now burdened with a heavy debt burden, and if the debt is subtracted, the current cash reserves of more than $170 billion are far from enough to repay the principal, let alone pay off the debt with interest.

First of all, it owes as much as 52.2 billion US dollars to the five major banks, although it is a low-interest loan, but it cannot stand the base is too large, and the interest generated in it is still scary.

Secondly, a total of 126.8 billion US dollars of debts owed to these brother companies such as Cote d'Azur, Shengfeng Capital, and Life Science Fund, although they are all Luo Sheng's funds or companies, the debts that should be repaid and the interest that should be given are available, but they are relatively small, but they can't stand the base too large.

The principal amount of these two debts alone is as high as $179 billion, which is already more than the current total cash reserve size of Bluestar Technology.

This is still without calculating interest, and at the same time, Bluestar Technology's revenue was cut in half at this time, the debt burden soared, and the money earned was less, and the company's operating expenses were astronomical.

This series of problems all show that the hidden debt of Bluestar Technology may explode at any time.

In order to repay debts, not to mention the $150 billion R&D budget strategy, in order not to detonate the debt crisis, it is inevitable to shelve this strategy, and at the same time, it is necessary to further reduce R&D investment, and even large-scale layoffs, sell data centers and other heavy assets, and free up money to pay off debts.

This leads to a vicious circle.

It's a pity that the scene imagined by Wall Street bears can only become an eternal fantasy in the end, and reality does not go according to their perfect schedule.

Bluestar Technology Group finally survived.

Now the situation is completely different, the shares repurchased by Bluestar Technology can be sold one after another with confidence, and under normal circumstances, the repurchase of shares to reduce liquidity can enhance the confidence of investors.

However, the current situation of Bluestar Technology is different, and the liquidity is too poor when such a thing happens.

Sell a portion of the shares to liquidate the company's operations and strategy, while also alleviating the current debt burden.

It is worth mentioning that in this public offering, Bluestar Technology received $23.9 billion in financing, but in fact only $720 million was raised, and the rest of the money was financed by Luo Sheng's family fund.

Luo Sheng was quite surprised, there were really people who were not afraid of death who would follow the car here, so he simply let these people get on the car, which can be regarded as a reward for their trust, and it is a rich reward.

In this round of financing, Luo Sheng's family fund increased its holdings by 4.5% of the shares, and with the previous bottom-buying, the family fund currently holds 16.5% of the shares of Bluestar Technology Group, which is the third largest shareholder after the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Office and Luo Sheng.

Luo Sheng glanced at Qin Weimu and reminded: "There has been such a big disturbance during this time, your side is temporarily restrained, and the family fund can be exposed as late as possible, and it is best to hide behind the scenes forever." ”

It's not that he's afraid of exposure, even if it's really exposed, it's just like that, all the money earned is reasonable and legitimate, at most, he will add some unflattering titles such as "international speculator" and "big short" to Luo Sheng, and classify him among characters like Soros.

But as long as it is not exposed, it can hide its true strength, and it can always be used as a trump card to turn the tide at critical moments, such as the planning of this public offering.

If it is exposed, it is simply impossible to successfully divide the airdrop institutions on Wall Street.

Qin Weimu said with a smile: "Last year, Wall Street's short funds were basically fighting with you, and therefore missed the great opportunity for Greece to go bankrupt, I think they must also know, but there is nothing they can do if they know, the funds are trapped in you and dare not move, you can only watch the opportunity missed, and in the end, the two ends did not get the benefits." ”

Luo Sheng couldn't help laughing, it is estimated that the other party is so angry that he has closed his rhythm now.

"The layout here in Greece, how much profit did you take away?"

There is no shortage of liquidity in the family fund, which can ensure that Bluestar Technology is on the same line with Wall Street bears, and at the same time, it can also free up funds to deploy in Greece.

Qin Weimu said proudly: "7.8 billion ...... Euro! ”

Luo Sheng lowered his head and pondered, with a deep expression, but after a moment, he looked up at her and said sincerely: "How can I praise you, I will reward seven or eight billion essence yuan." ”

……

Time flies, and it is February 2013 in an instant.

The share price of Bluestar Technology Group has changed from last year's decline since the beginning of the year, with a total increase of 26% in the month since the beginning of the year, which is still under the premise that Bluestar Technology takes the initiative to release the circulating market value to withdraw funds.

The bears who are bearish on the BTC share price are about to be scrapped.

The current cash flow reserves of Bluestar Technology have reached 268 billion US dollars, no matter how hard the previous capital war is to burn money, no matter how much it loses, as long as it becomes the final winner, all the previous losses can be earned back with interest.

However, soon, Bluestar Technology's cash flow fell to $208 billion.

First of all, under Luo Sheng's decision-making, the $52.2 billion low-interest loan borrowed from the five major banks was repaid ahead of schedule and all of them were repaid.

In fact, this fund was not used at all after the fight, because the opponent fell too suddenly, which belonged to the rhythm of sudden death on the spot.

Many executives in the company's management did not recommend Luo Sheng to repay the money in advance so early, because this is a low-interest loan, and the interest rate is too low.

However, Luo Sheng did not adopt it, this is not the business of robbing the National Bank?

Although the bank won't say anything, Luo Sheng will definitely not make a mistake in stealing business with the state.

The second is to slowly pay off the debts between the brother companies, so you don't have to be too anxious, you can repay it slowly, Luo Sheng can't force the debt to himself.

……

Venture Capital Fund, General Manager's Office.

"Mr. Liu, Shengfeng Capital released the 2012 annual report data, the asset management scale reached 967 billion yuan, the liquidity reached 340 billion yuan, and the net profit last year was 13.28 billion yuan."

Liu Wen's assistant closed the document after the report.

The venture capital fund and the manager of the investment fund, Liu Wen, are Luo Sheng's old friends, and the venture capital fund came to support the A round of financing in the early stage of Bluestar Technology.

When Shengfeng Capital was established, it also won the market, and made many subsequent investments.

But last year, when Bluestar Technology and Wall Street bears had a grand war, Luo Sheng pulled Shengfeng Capital into the water, which made Liu Wen and other investors very dissatisfied, and what was even more angry was that Shengfeng Capital also froze all the assets of investors who were prohibited from investing and did not redeem the fund.

After Liu Wen learned about it, he was also angry and scolded his mother.

But at this moment, he was like a different person.

"It is inconceivable that Shengfeng Capital, an investment fund that focuses on long-term investment in cutting-edge technology, invests hundreds of billions of venture capital every year, and can still make tens of billions of profits year after year under such huge sunk costs."

Liu Wen sighed with emotion, and after a while, he immediately instructed his assistant to add: "You go and arrange it, there are 6 billion private equity funds on the books of the venture capital fund, all of which will be invested in Shengfeng Capital." ”

After speaking, he smiled and said, "You can always trust the 'Luo Sheng effect'." ”

This was so real that it caused his assistant to feel extremely uncomfortable.

When there was no winner between Bluestar Technology and Wall Street bears, he had seen his immediate boss roar in the office, Luo Sheng effect? Bullshit!

And now?

Licking it so without hesitation.

Liu Wen's assistant just complained about his boss in his heart, but he quickly implemented it.

Once the money is invested in Shengfeng Capital Investment Fund, after the transaction is completed, the funds will be frozen for three years, and the fund cannot be redeemed during the closed period of three years, but it can be packaged into bond transfer, or other financial derivatives, as long as someone is willing to take over, the debt can be transferred, so Liu Wen is not afraid that if he needs to cash out in these three years, he will convert the debt.

Although the fund was frozen by Shengfeng Capital before, it was possible to do so, the question is, who would dare to take over this hot plate at that time.

Everyone thought that Wall Street would definitely win, and Shengfeng Capital would also be pulled into the water by Bluestar Technology and die without a place to be buried.

It's just that the result was unexpected by everyone, Liu Wen was also constantly looking for a debt conversion target before, but unfortunately no one dared to take this plate, and they were all going crazy at that time.

Not only Liu Wen, but also the funds and brokerages that had invested in Shengfeng Capital were like ants on a hot pot at that time.

And now, Liu Wen is very glad that no one took this plate at the beginning, otherwise Zhen Nima would have lost a lot.

In turn, those who refused to take over are now full of regrets.

At present, not only venture capital funds have begun to lick wildly, but other fund companies have staged a large-scale "real fragrance" scene.

What is the use of face? Can it bring profit to the performance?

I have to say that Qin Weimu, as the head of Shengfeng Capital, is now a thunderous presence in the capital circle.

The major VCs are known to everyone, and they are also known in the army of technology entrepreneurs, and are regarded as real "investment angels", because in addition to capital operation, venture capital only invests in start-up technology companies.

Her current position in the investment world is like Luo Shengzhi in the technology industry, many VCs who are engaged in investment in the field of science and technology are not sure which startup company has prospects, so they simply invest directly in Shengfeng Capital.

It's just that the money earned in that way is relatively small, but it's practical.

This is why Shengfeng Capital's asset list has swelled rapidly to more than 1 trillion yuan in just three or four years.

Qin Weimu himself is talented in the financial field, and he is with Luo Sheng, and the relationship between them is in the upper circles, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that this brings another layer of protection.

This time the fiasco of Wall Street bears has undoubtedly further enhanced the mysterious aura of the "Luo Sheng effect", and the industry has gradually formed a blind consensus - believing that the "Luo Sheng effect" is equivalent to making a lot of money.

Entering February, not only did not a single investor ask to redeem the fund, but this thing seemed to have never happened at all.

On the contrary, from the first month of the new year to the beginning of February, Shengfeng Capital obtained a total of 120 billion yuan of asset custody in 35 days, which also pushed the AUM of Shengfeng Capital to a new height of 1.08 trillion yuan.

Two years ago, it became the largest private asset management investment fund in China, and in February this year, it became the first private equity investment fund in China with assets under management exceeding one trillion yuan, and has been known as "China's Blackstone Fund Company".

However, Shengfeng Capital is still small compared with the assets under management of Blackstone Group.

Blackstone's own total assets are comparable to those of Shengfeng Capital, but it has $5.4 trillion in assets under management worldwide.

……

Entering the new year in February, the Spring Festival holiday is about to be ushered in, and now the crisis has been passed without danger, whether it is Bluestar Technology or the Cote d'Azur, its employees can have a good year with peace of mind.

However, Luo Sheng did not return to his hometown for the New Year, and after leading the company through this major crisis, he put his energy on Pan Technology, mainly Star Arrow International.

Also did not go home for the New Year are Liu Jianwei and other scientific research teams.

……

Star Arrow International R&D Experimental Building.

Today is the Spring Festival, but Liu Jianwei's team is still working, and in their eyes, except for a few rest days, every day is a working day.

Scientific research and scholarship are almost the whole of their lives, and in addition to talent, this kind of round-the-clock struggle has a great relationship with the front line.

Luo Sheng also came here today, and he was in the laboratory with Liu Jianwei at the moment.

The two of them are standing next to a laboratory bench with a transparent closed isolation tube, and inside is the latest achievement of Liu Jianwei's team, a new material for making carbon fiber nanotubes up to half a meter long.

"The half-meter-long pipe has already broken the world record, Professor Liu, your progress is much faster than I expected, but we need a pipe with a length of at least 36,000 kilometers, is there any way to make a pipe of this length in the future?" Luo Sheng stared at the carbon fiber nanotubes inside and said, "Professor Liu, you don't have to be stressed, I mean at least there is a theoretically feasible direction." ”

Hearing this, Liu Jianwei didn't think much about it and frankly expressed his opinion: "I haven't thought about this, I think that only a breakthrough in nanorobot technology can take on this important task, and nothing else." ”

Luo Sheng: "Nanorobots? Breakthroughs in nanotechnology are no easier than new materials, if not more difficult. ”

Liu Jianwei nodded and said, "That's right." Nanobots, virus-sized robots made of molecules, carbon fiber nanotubes are made up of hexagonal carbon atom structures, while nanobots are small enough to build this structure at the microscopic level. As long as there is enough carbon material, nanorobots can create carbon fiber nanotubes tens of thousands of kilometers long, which is absolutely feasible in theory and extremely efficient. ”

Luo Sheng couldn't help but fold his arms and nodded silently, if nanotechnology can make great breakthroughs and applications, it can not only bring revolutionary breakthroughs to the application of new materials, but also have infinite imagination space for medical clinical applications.

Perhaps, the biggest significance of building a space ladder is not deep space exploration, but to use this as an opportunity to light up various cutting-edge technologies of human beings, after all, the space ladder requires too many technologies, and its derivative technologies are unparalleled in other fields.

Liu Jianwei looked at Luo Sheng: "Mr. Luo, a scientific team of Harbin Institute of Technology has made a 600 nanometer robot the year before last, and I believe that in the future, more intelligent and miniaturized nanorobots will soon arrive, but in terms of the current speed of technological development, we may have to wait for many years, ten to fifteen years or even longer." ”

Hearing this, Luo Sheng was keenly aware of some subtexts of the other party's words, and immediately asked curiously, "Oh? Professor Liu, do you know this scientific team at Harbin Institute of Technology? ”

"The leader of this scientific team is an old friend I have known for decades, and his expertise in ......the field of nanotechnology is second to none in the country and even the world," Liu Jianwei nodded and smiled, showing his admiration between the lines.

Who is Luo Sheng?

After a little thought in his heart, he instantly understood the professor's thoughts, Liu Jianwei has joined Star Arrow International for more than half a year, although Luo Sheng has not spent much time with him, but he also has a full understanding of him, and he is embarrassed to speak directly about things outside of work.

Luo Sheng believes that if it weren't for his work, he wouldn't even mention this old friend, who is a little bad at new materials experts, after all, people's minds are obsessed with academic research.

"Professor Liu, can you do me a favor and write a letter to this old fellow of yours, I want to invite him and his team from Harbin Institute of Technology to Star Arrow International." Luo Sheng asked directly after thinking about it.

Sure enough, Liu Jianwei's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he nodded without hesitation: "No problem, I will definitely go all out to assist you in digging him up." ”

It's really direct, and most of the school leaders of Harbin Institute of Technology have crooked noses when they hear it.

Luo Sheng also showed a frank smile, and he couldn't help but think of the famous sentence in Asimov's "Galactic Empire" again: The reason why the vast majority of scientists are ninth-rate administrators may be because they are accustomed to dealing with natural phenomena with less elasticity, and do not know how to deal with fickle human hearts.

The reason why Liu Jianwei always fails to apply for R&D funds may also have a lot to do with his "upright" side, in a sense, Luo Sheng has become his Bole, and people like him really need the support of people like Luo Sheng in order to achieve scientific research achievements faster.

……

In the afternoon, Luo Sheng invited Liu Jianwei to the Science and Technology Complex Building.

Although I don't know what the young financier's intentions are, he still temporarily put down the work at hand and was invited, although he was a little "upright", but he was not exactly a simple scientist with negative emotional intelligence.

"Professor Liu, I invited you here today to show you something."

Luo Sheng was leading Liu Jianwei to the circular hall inside the building, the latter was also quite curious, when the two entered an empty closed circular hall, Liu Jianwei couldn't help but be stunned when he saw the picture in front of him.

"It's ......"

In the middle of the hall is a huge model, and the height of this hall has reached more than 30 meters.

"This is a scale model of the space ladder that I spent three months and built with supercomputing and rigorous calculations." Luo Sheng looked at the complete model hanging in front of him, and then turned his head to look at Professor Liu and said with a smile: "The extra-large figure, Emperor Qin can compare to me." ”

At this moment, Liu Jianwei didn't know what the figure and Qin Huang were, he walked forward without saying a word, looked up at the model in front of him and looked at it carefully, his mouth was also subconsciously slightly open.

After seeing this model, Liu Jianwei was even more convinced that Luo Sheng really wanted to build a space ladder, not just talk about it, although this is a great project of the century.

It was too high, reaching more than thirty meters at its highest point.

It can only be said that being rich is capricious.

"Professor Liu, please come here."

Luo Sheng immediately took him to an elevator next to him, which can reach different heights, and there are corridors at different heights, so that you can intuitively look at this king-size figure at different heights.

"At least Professor Liu's team is responsible for the rope problem, and the progress is quite gratifying, and there is a theoretically feasible solution, but there are too many technical difficulties in the space ladder, and the next thing to solve is the operation of this ladder." Luo Sheng looked at the space station at the top and opened the chatterbox.

Liu Jianwei examined the exquisite, sci-fi super-large model, but for a moment he ended his silence.

"In science fiction author Arthur C. C. Clarke's book The Fountain of Heaven, there is a description of a space ladder that uses an old-fashioned hub elevator to pull people or goods into space before there is electricity, which is very slow or even takes days."

Luo Sheng smiled: "Professor Liu also reads Clark's works? Yes, but in reality we certainly can't go to space in this way, and I already have two ideas for how this ladder will be driven. ”

Liu Jianwei retracted his gaze and fell on Luo Sheng, and said in surprise: "Have a plan?" ”

Luo Sheng motioned for him to look at the model weighing several tons in front of him: "The first plan is the current model, which is to electrify the entire cable, add wheels to the ladder, let the wheels clamp the cable, and rely on the electricity on the cable to go directly to the space orbit, so that the speed of climbing the ladder can be as fast as the high-speed rail driven by electricity." ”

Liu Jianhong immediately expressed the doubts in his heart: "But this space cable is tens of thousands of kilometers long, whether it is from the ground or the space station, the electricity may be lost in large quantities due to resistance, or even directly cut off." ”

Luo Sheng nodded and said: "That's right, so to ensure that the space ladder has enough power, we need to add a layer of superconducting material to the cable, but the problem is that superconductors at room temperature have not been solved by humans so far." ”

It seems impossible to build a space ladder without lighting up cutting-edge technology.

At this time, Liu Jianhong thought of a conservative method, pointed to a few positions on the model and said, "Can you hang a few generators on the ladder to maintain electricity?" For example, in the atmosphere we can use helium balloons, fans to generate electricity, and outside the atmosphere we can use solar panels and so on. ”

Hearing such a suggestion, Luo Sheng had no choice but to silently give Liu Jianwei the title of "design genius", it seems that the professor is still engaged in new materials, and he really doesn't dare to compliment anything else.

Luo Sheng just came up with this idea for a moment, and Liu Jianwei shook his head to himself and denied himself.

"No, no, this method is too stupid, it obviously increases the load and construction difficulty of the space ladder, and it is not conducive to stability and mobility."

Luo Sheng originally wanted to say this, but since Liu Jianwei had already said it, he skipped it.

"Another option is to give the ladder a few solar cells, and the power to go up and down to the ground comes from strong laser beams from space and the ground. This approach may seem too sci-fi and unreliable, but someone has already implemented it. In the 2009 Beam Energy Challenge in the United States, a scientific team used a powerful laser to send a lift equipped with solar panels to an altitude of 900 meters. Unfortunately, the speed is only 3.9 m/s. ”

Hearing this, Liu Jianwei thought for a moment and sighed: "It's difficult, it's still difficult, in the construction of the space ladder, laser propulsion needs to consider the distance of tens of thousands of kilometers and the problem of laser scattering, and the speed can't be too slow, so how big does this laser panel have to be." ”

Luo Sheng smiled: "Indeed, but technology will always improve, we are not saying that we will build this ladder next year, and it is possible to consider a specific implementation plan after ten or even twenty years, as for what we need to do now is technology accumulation and precipitation." ”

Liu Jianwei: "That's the same. ”

Luo Sheng looked at the model again: "We have a feasible solution to the cable and propulsion problem in the future, and we just need to continue to focus on solving the technical pain points." But there's more to building a space ladder than that, and the next thing we need to do is solve the problem of space station and site selection for this ladder......"

Over the next few hours, Luo Sheng and Liu Jianwei walked on the circular corridor at different heights to observe, while constantly communicating.

The space ladder is a facility that is stationary on the ground in most cases, so the space station at the top of it is also relatively fixed. Therefore, the location of the space station must be in geosynchronous geostationary orbit, that is, above the equator, 36,000 kilometers above the surface.

At this moment, the two have returned to the ground, Luo Sheng pointed to a globe in front of him and said to Liu Jianwei: "The equator is the closest region to geosynchronous orbit, but the problem is that the only two launch sites near the equator are not equatorial countries. ”

Liu Jianwei nodded silently, the reason is also very simple, most of the equatorial region is ocean, and there are few equatorial countries.

Luo Sheng turned the globe a few times and continued, "These only few equatorial countries, to be honest, their economic level and technology are quite worrisome, simply put, there is nothing that can be beaten, and our current synchronous orbit satellites are through complex orbit changes to the equatorial area, this process is very energy-intensive, this ladder is the project of the century, with the current carrying capacity of human space technology, the strength of the country can not build this ladder." ”

The cost is too high.

Luo Sheng pointed to the equatorial line of the globe and gestured to the other party and said: "Launching directly from the equator can save a lot of money, based on this situation, if we want to establish a space ladder, we must cooperate with countries in the equatorial region." ”

"First build a space launch port on the equator, this launch port will become a ground base station and transportation hub for the space ladder, and can also bring a steady stream of economic value to the host country, I believe that no country will refuse to cooperate, on the contrary, will rush to bid."

"However, the equatorial region is far from enough, and it is necessary to meet the two major conditions of the equatorial region and the sea, that is, to have developed waterway transportation to provide international capacity, and at the same time to have a certain infrastructure and a stable local political situation.

"If the site is to build a ladder in Latin America, Lao Mei will definitely ask to get on the car and play together, and even if this ladder is built, it will be an end to the Panama Canal Zone, and Latin America is their back garden for Lao Mei, and it is the end of the world for us."

Speaking of which, Luo Sheng decisively crossed out the three countries of Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia in Latin America.

"So the location of the ladder can only be in Indonesia, and the water transportation is also very good, not far from the Strait of Malacca, one of the busiest sea arteries in the world. If it is here, the countries that invest may include ASEAN, Asia and other countries, but the most investment must be China, as for the sovereignty of the ladder and the launch port, Indonesia does not have to worry. ”

Luo Sheng withdrew his hand from the globe, stared at the map of Indonesia with his arms around his arms and said: "In short, before building the ladder, we need to establish a base station and a space launch port on the equatorial ground. ”

Liu Jianwei is now speaking less and listening more, and he can see that Luo Sheng is very concerned about the project of this century, and he has a clear step-by-step plan between the lines.

"After solving the problem of siting and ladders for the ground base station, the next step is to provide a solution to the construction problem of the space station."

After a while, the two came to the twenty-two-meter-high circular corridor, Luo Sheng looked at the model in front of him and said: "The cable of the ladder will be subjected to two forces, one from the earth's gravity below the synchronous orbit, and the other from the space centrifugal force above the synchronous orbit, so we have to build two space stations." ”

Liu Jianwei nodded, the model in front of him had two space stations.

Luo Sheng continued: "These two space stations, the space station located in geosynchronous orbit as a spacecraft and satellite docking port, and the other is the counterweight space station at the top of the ladder that is responsible for enhancing the balance between centrifugal force and gravity. ”

According to the theoretical data verified by the supercomputer obtained by Cortana, the port of call should be located in a synchronous orbit of 36,000 kilometers, and spacecraft and satellites at this position can move around the earth for a long time.

Obviously, this area of outer space is also a good place to build a space city and a space dock.

Space real estate is really no joke, Luo Sheng's vision has already thought of the layout in thirty or even fifty years.

Of course, it is not mainly used for commercial housing development, but to create a base for space industrial clusters.

Many high-tech and industrial products are made in the gravity-free environment of space, and the performance of products is incomparable to that of ground manufacturing, and some components must be manufactured in this special environment to meet the requirements.

The space industrial base is an inevitable product of the maturity of the fourth scientific and technological revolution of mankind.

At the same time, if human beings want to go to deep space across planets, they must have larger flying vehicles, which are impossible to build on the ground and too expensive.

If there is a space industrial base, plus the space dock support, you can transport raw materials from the ground, process and complete modular manufacturing in the space industrial base, and then complete the supporting final assembly in the space dock.

Modularization and supporting are the inevitable trend of high-end industrial manufacturing in the future, because the efficiency will soar and the cost will drop sharply, which is most suitable for super-large man-made facilities such as space stations and aircraft carriers.

However, these space cities and space docks must be at a certain distance from the port of mooring, otherwise the stability of the space ladder may be affected.

At this time, the two came to the top of the circular corridor, Luo Sheng pointed to the top of the model and said: "This area is a power station that provides counterweights and additional power, it is located at a higher altitude than the synchronous orbit, considering the problem of gravity, this space station needs to have a large mass, and this mass can be filled with solar panels and power generation systems." ”

Luo Sheng retracted his gaze and looked at Liu Jianwei, and said with a smile: "After building these two space stations, we can build a space ladder on this basis." Look at this, a space launch port built at the Earth's equator will come into play, and the spaceport can use recyclable rockets to quickly transport building materials and people to and from Earth and geosynchronous orbit, and Musk and I are both racing on recyclable rocket technology. ”

"When the construction of the two space stations above the equator is completed, the ladder rope can be erected, and this process needs a landing vehicle with a rocket engine to complete, so as to ensure the stability and maneuverability of the rope when it lands, and the whole process also needs to maintain a vertical tension state, and the landing vehicle will drop as much rope as possible."

Liu Jianwei nodded and said concisely: "It's not a good thing for tens of thousands of kilometers of rope to dance in the wind. ”

Luo Sheng: "When the landing vehicle lands and binds to the ground base station, the construction of the space ladder has come to an end, and this kind of rope may have to erect many groups to ensure the safety and stability of the ladder, and finally to electrify these orbital cables, at that time, the space ladder can be put into operation, and that day has come, ordinary people may spend a few thousand dollars or so to go on a space tour." ”

After speaking, Luo Sheng couldn't help but smile, and Liu Jianwei couldn't help but look forward to this picture of the future.

If this ladder is successfully built, the future space tourism industry will be super vigorous, but Luo Sheng's own Star and Arrow International will monopolize space transportation and tourism.

Just look at the current traditional tourism industry to see how profitable the tourism industry is.

If a person can really enjoy a space tourism with only a few thousand yuan in the future, it will definitely be in short supply after three or five years of queuing for an appointment, and when the commercial space tourism project is opened in the early stage, let alone a few thousand yuan, a ticket tens of thousands of yuan is not worried about no customers.

Buy early and enjoy early, buy late and discount.

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Ps:

promised to break out at the end of the month, and a total of 15,000 words were updated today, which is equivalent to the usual six chapter updates.

In addition, by the way, let's talk about the plot point of the space ladder or the space elevator, presumably everyone who reads the science and technology article is already too familiar with it, and it is indeed not easy to write new ideas about this science and technology point.

First of all, let me explain.,You see that some people here may think that this book has reached the late stage.,No.,In fact, it's been written so far.,The progress is just a third of the way through.,The space ladder appeared in the plot.,But it's really done in the middle and late stages.,That is, outside 2030.,And the timeline in the book is only 2013.。

There are many derivative technologies in the space ladder, such as nanotechnology, new materials, and superconducting materials mentioned in the article, and one of them does not necessarily have to be used in the space ladder first, such as in the military, semiconductors, medical treatment, civilian products, and so on.

Technology is systematically progressive, and the application scenarios are also wide-ranging, and at the same time, they are also interactive.

Some people say that the space elevator is a "spectacle misleading the country", and it is better to engage in this than to directly engage in aerospace aircraft and light up controllable nuclear fusion technology, this Xiaoyu does not make an evaluation, because the concept of science fiction that does not exist in reality may now agree that the view is right, or it may be right to oppose the view.

But that's why I have the idea of writing.

In this book set by Xiaoyu, relatively speaking, the entire technical system is iteratively progressed step by step, and the reason why the space ladder is written also has this level of metaphor.

At the same time, the space ladder is also a good choice for human beings to develop space in depth before mastering controlled nuclear fusion, and the related technologies of the space ladder can also shine in other fields.

It is a fantasy that science and technology can only create a powerful application facility - the space ladder - by systematic progress.

In reality, there is also the familiar aircraft carrier, this artificial steel giant is the culmination of human industrial manufacturing technology.

As for controlled nuclear fusion technology, it is precisely because these super technologies have not yet been lit up that the space ladder has a chance to appear.

Controlled fusion technology is the later technology of this book, and now the progress of this book is only one-third of the way, because once this thing is lit, it will not be a change in a certain technological product, but will change the pattern of the entire human world.

At the same time, because controlled fusion technology will drive human beings to move from planetary civilization to stellar civilization, this is not an inevitable orientation that does not depend on personal will, unless Xiaoyu ignores this logic and writes hard, for example, if you have mastered controlled nuclear fusion technology, you just can't live or die on Earth, which is very illogical.

Because the plot of this book takes place on the earth and around the earth's orbit, the controlled fusion technology is arranged to appear in the later stage, otherwise there is a chance that the book will collapse before Xiaoyu shows all the content of the outline.