Luo Jia told everyone about the mergers and acquisitions that have taken place in the agricultural field in recent years, first of all, Sinochem Group's acquisition of Syngenta of Switzerland, which is the beginning of giant competition, and then Dow's acquisition of DuPont and Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto, which is a response to Huaxia's strong entry into the agricultural field.

As a result, unknowingly, the global agriculture industry has formed three giant enterprises, Sinochem Syngenta Group on behalf of Huaxia Power, Dow DuPont Group on behalf of North America, and Bayer Monsanto Group on behalf of European Power.

Luo Jia frowned and said: "The three major agricultural giants together account for more than 80% of the global market share of pesticides and seeds, which has never happened in the long history of the earth. ”

"In this highly monopolistic market, we have reason to be concerned about agricultural safety, but this is not the most important thing, the important thing is that we have started the space program, and from now on, all departments of the company will serve the space program, including the life sciences department, including the agricultural program."

"We're also going to serve the space program?"

"Wouldn't it, the space program still needs agricultural assistance?" Luo Jia's words aroused everyone's doubts.

Nodding slightly, Luo Jia said with a smile: "Of course, the space program needs agriculture, for example, we plan to set up a permanent colony base or space station in synchronous orbit, on the moon and Mars, how can the colony base solve the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation when it is far away from the home planet?" It takes an average of two hundred days to travel from Earth to Mars, and it is obviously uneconomical and unrealistic to use a spaceship to transport food. ”

"Assuming that we master the technology of artificial meat, we can use cell division to produce fresh meat in large quantities, which will greatly improve the quality of life of the colony's employees."

"For example, if one day we go further out of the solar system and into the far reaches of deep space, we must master two key technologies, one is cryonics and the other is space agriculture, both of which are branches of the life sciences."

"If that's not enough to convince you, I can give you a third example, as we all know, Mars, and most of the planets in the universe, are not suitable for human survival, assuming that in the distant future, we can master the technology of cultivating super space plants, so that plants can adapt to survive in the harsh environment, which will bring unimaginable help to our interstellar colony transformation work."

Luo Jia talked eloquently and drew huge blueprints, causing everyone to go crazy.

Agriculture is certainly not very high, but if you add the word space and become space agriculture, it is a different matter.

……

After Luo Jia finished speaking, he left the life science department, and did not assign tasks to everyone, nor did he point out the focus of research and development.

After all, he is not omnipotent, so far, the Golden Dome has not brought Luo Jia any data about life science, in short, Luo Jia does not understand life science.

Luo Jia just told the Wen brothers to follow the path he designed, and at the same time started two projects of cosmetics and artificial meat, the former to collect money and transfuse blood for the space program, and the latter to ensure the safety of agriculture and ensure that people across the country have meat to eat on their tables.

Although he is not very old, Luo Jia loves to read history, and he has seen too much hunger from history, and he has seen too much suffering brought to the Chinese nation because of hunger.

As a descendant of farmers who have been facing the loess for generations, Luo Jia attaches great importance to agriculture is a natural thing, and he stubbornly believes that the problem of eating is the biggest problem in the world.

After returning from the Department of Life Sciences, Luo Jia continued to devote himself to the research of heavy-duty launch vehicles, focusing on rocket engine technology.

As the saying goes, there is no impermeable wall under the sky, and the fact that Xingchen Technology was preparing to study a 550-ton thrust engine soon spread out, attracting the attention of the global scientific community, and then the launch of a large-scale rocket race.

In the existence of rockets, there is no only one engine installed, all of them are multi-engine linkage, and the liquid oxygen methane engine with a thrust of 550 tons per machine is already very amazing from the perspective of design and parameters.

As we all know, Musk has designed four types of rockets for his space program, arranged from small to large, namely Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Large Falcon, and Super Falcon.

Among them, the Super Falcon rocket with the highest performance is equipped with an engine called the Raptor, the Thrust of the Raptor engine is two hundred tons, which is not high, but it can achieve large-scale team operation, twenty units, or even twenty-four or twenty-eight, Raptor joint operations, which can provide extraordinary impetus for the Super Raptor.

Of course, Xingchen Technology's rocket engine can also work in teams, but the thrust is nearly three times higher than that of Musk's Raptor, which is obviously the rhythm of things.

Others are 200 tons, 300 tons of engines, Xingchen Technology is directly 550 tons, which is by no means the result that the West wants to see.

"It's coming! It's really coming! ”

Seeing that it was about to enter July, the hottest season of the year, An Ran suddenly rushed into Luo Jia's office excitedly, and couldn't help but put the tablet in front of Luo Jia's eyes.

"You guessed it right, they all got it!" Enron said.

They?

Luo Jiahu was suspicious, "So besides North America, there are other people who have also jumped out?" ”

"Actually, it's not an accident, it's Lao Maozi, their character has always been like this, North America hasn't moved yet, they can't hold their breath first." Enron shrugged his shoulders and replied.

Maozi wants to do something?

Luo Jiahu was suspicious, looking at the tablet that Enron gave him, the news source is the largest news media in Russia, Russia Today, in the country of Mao Xiong, the status of Russia Today is equivalent to Xinhua News Agency, with extremely high level and credibility.

Here's what the news is about.

Russia and recently tested the world's largest rocket engine, the RD-171MV.

Weighing 10.3 tons and having a thrust of more than 800 tons, the RD-171MV engine ranks first in the world, and it is more powerful and smaller than the North American F-1 engine installed on the Saturn 5, while also being reused about 10 times.

When the engine is running, the combustion chamber will produce 27 million kilowatts of thermal power, equivalent to the power of a large hydroelectric power plant, and 180,000 kilowatts of engine turbopumps, equivalent to the power of three nuclear power units of a large nuclear-powered icebreaker.

Maozi is awesome!

This Nima is a divine assist!

Luo Jia was so excited that he almost shouted directly, he couldn't help but be excited, because Maozi, a rocket engine with metamorphosis parameters to the point of explosion, is not in the manufacturing stage, let alone in the design stage, but has already been tested!

"God!" Luo Jia shouted: "When did Maozi get this big guy?" A single machine thrust of 800 tons!? Is this thing going to shoot a frigate into the sky!? ”

An Ran said excitedly: "What's more, Maozi has always done things unexpectedly, you continue to look down, there are surprises." ”

And the surprises?

Luo Jiahu was suspicious, and continued to read, only to see that it was written like this at the end of the news.

"It is reported that the Yenisei heavy-lift launch vehicle is also under development, it may consist of 12 boosters equipped with RD-171 engines, as well as a core stage equipped with many RD-180 engines, if nothing else, there will be no launch vehicle in the world in ten years, can qualify as a rival to the Yenisei."

Luo Jia was simply stunned, just 12 RD-171 engines are 9,600 tons of thrust, if you add an unknown number of RD-180 engine assistance, the Yenisei rocket is a proper 10,000-ton super rocket!

It's worthy of Maozi, this thing is crazy and even beats himself!

What is the concept of thrust breaking 10,000 tons?

So far, the rocket with the largest thrust ever made by mankind is NASA's Saturn V, with a thrust of 3,400 tons.

Although the rockets of Xingchen Technology, Musk's rockets, and even Boeing's SLS rockets must have a higher thrust than Saturn V, the first of these rockets has not yet been officially unveiled, and the second is not so much higher. That's too much of a stimulus for the whole world.

At this time, Luo Jia's phone rang suddenly, he looked down, then pursed his lips, and said to An Ran: "The general called, it seems that even his old man can't hold his breath now." ”