"Haha, Mr. Musk, I can hear it, you're complimenting me, I'm embarrassed." Dong Chen picked up his wine glass and said with a smile.

"If you want to pour me wine, just say it, if it weren't for your Western face, with your fluent Chinese accent, I would have thought I was back on the wine table in China."

Seeing Dong Chen pick up the wine glass, Musk also picked up the wine glass and touched it with Dong Chen and said with a smile, "Hehe, Mr. Dong Chen really has an Oriental tradition, he is too modest, what I said is not an exaggeration at all." ”

"Now everyone knows the importance of the Chinese market, the world's richest man Mr. Dong Chen's mother tongue is also Chinese, and its group employees also use Chinese, if you want to cooperate with your company or the Chinese market, you can get a lot of goodwill bonuses if you can speak Chinese."

"Therefore, learning Chinese is now very popular in the world, and your company's smart Rubik's Cube helmet is really easy to use, which is very convenient to learn, and it is very convenient for us "foreigners" to learn quickly. ”

I have to say that having a preconceived impression, especially a good impression, is still very good for the two of them to get along.

Dong Chen had a good impression of Musk, and felt that he was also one of the few people on the earth who was obsessed with the starry sky and kept moving forward, although there was no contact after the last meeting, and the things that said that he wanted to cooperate were not carried out, but it did not prevent Dong Chen from feeling that he was almost the same kind of person as himself.

The smell is ...... Only people with similar interests can become friends and have a common language.

And Musk also said in the chat that the reason why he couldn't cooperate, not because he didn't want to, but because he really didn't have time.

As a well-known private space group in the United States, they were not only invited to participate in the reverse engineering of the space flight technology of the Atlantis civilization on the original island of the United States, but also undertook a lot of transportation work for the assembly modules of the new International Space Station.

In addition to these government-subcontracted businesses, they only have some business orders that they have received before.

When the private business orders are completed, they will no longer take any regular business orders, and they must invest 100% of their manufacturing resources in the business subcontracted by the government.

However, I can't take the task, but the relationship with the previous customers still has to be maintained, so Musk will participate in the event invitations sent by some customers to maintain the relationship and ensure that these customers will choose them after they complete the government's subcontracting business.

Otherwise, when they complete the government's subcontracting business, and there is no new business, and the normal business channels cannot receive the business, then they will be enough to choke.

And because he has sufficient business relationships, he at least doesn't have to worry about the business of the aerospace company, which gives him more time to maintain customer relationships, and also gives him more time to think about his future and plan his Martian dream.

“…… Alas, don't look at the fact that we are now undertaking a lot of government launch missions, but I still worry about the future of the space company every day. Musk sighed as he took a sip of wine.

"What's going on, now that the earth's aerospace industry is developing rapidly, it is a good time for aerospace companies to show their talents, and your Musk Aerospace's financial statements must be very beautiful, how can you worry about the future?" Dong Chen asked curiously.

"The financial statements are beautiful, and every workshop is busy, but we're just repeating the production of launch vehicles and launching the station modules and modules as fast as possible, and we haven't innovated for a long time, and my Mars colonization plans may be delayed." Musk said sullenly.

"Technological innovation...... Dong Chen asked suspiciously, "Aren't you cooperating with the government of the United States?" ”

"Now that the whole world knows that you are jointly researching the interstellar navigation technology of the Atlantis civilization, and the technology will soon surpass the space technology of our Arc Group, I don't believe that you have no technological innovation."

Hearing Dong Chen ask this, Musk's face became even more unsightly, "Technology is innovative, but it is really optimistic to say that it surpasses your aerospace technology, and I personally feel that the gap with the previous one has not changed." ”

"The interstellar navigation technology of the Atlantean civilization is indeed very advanced, but it has little effect on the current stage of the earth's space age, after all, you can know the gap here in the literal sense."

Their "interstellar navigation technology" focuses on ultra-long-distance flights between star systems, breaking through the planetary atmosphere and flying within the star system is no longer the main focus, but the difficulty of our "aerospace technology" is precisely the technology that no one has studied to break through the atmosphere. ”

"And many of their core technologies are different from the technology trees we ordered, so how can the technologies on both sides be connected?"

"The most important and basic aircraft energy and engine technology have not been solved, and it is useless to study anything, otherwise how could they still use rockets."

Saying that, he looked at Dong Chen and continued, "And they are too proud, when you haven't appeared, they didn't pay attention to the aerospace technology of other countries on the earth. ”

"While everyone is circling the Earth, they have set their sights on deep space, and even sold me these technologies that they think are backward, so that I can deliver them and maintain the dilapidated space station for them."

"And after your rapid development and birth......"

Through Musk's slightly drunk words, Dong Chen can be regarded as understanding some of the current situation in the United States.

These things are not classified but they can't be passed on under normal circumstances, because these things are very scattered and will not be recorded, that is, the staff will only talk about them in private, and then let Musk know.

Because of their arrogance, they feel that even if they don't pay much attention to rocket technology, they will not be surpassed in many years, even if they sell the old technology to a private space group, it will be world-class, so they can study their deep space exploration technology with peace of mind.

This has led to the fact that their rocket technology is old, the space shuttle has been decommissioned, there is no new carrier vehicle to take over, and the deep space voyage technology is immature, not enough to support the mask, and the International Space Station is still broken into slag, so that they do not have a technology for a while but to compete with the aerospace technology of the Arc Group, they can only watch the Arc Group slowly occupy the Earth's orbit and occupy the moon.

It was only here that they panicked, and began to urgently tackle these technologies again.

And at this time, the sudden appearance of the initial island made them see hope, so they hurriedly hugged the technological thigh of the Atlantis civilization, thinking that with the technology of the Atlantis civilization, they would have everything.

But they don't look at what era the earth is now, their technology is not very good, it is too early to study these things, there is no core power system and energy system, research is useless, and it is useless to study it.

And due to the differences in culture and technology, without the accumulation of time in years, the progress of reverse engineering will not make much progress at all.

If it is replaced by the Arc Group, it may be about the same, because the Arc Group has almost reached this stage, and it is not a problem to break through the planet's atmosphere.

With the technology they are showing now, even if it is a little difficult to walk around the star system, it is not impossible, so they are about to face the technical hurdles of getting out of the star system.

Even if there is still a generation gap with the Atlantean civilization, it must be much smaller than the generation difference on the side of the United States, after all, it is still difficult for the United States to produce an earth.

It's a pity that Arc Group doesn't look down on these technologies, or Dong Chen doesn't look down on these technologies, because he is better.