Chapter 400: High 'Price'!
The more peaceful the era, the more necessary it is to develop the military, because only when the fist becomes harder can we continue to maintain peace.
Although in order to prevent other countries from mastering their latest military level, all countries are secretive when developing their militaries. But when necessary, you still need to show your fists.
Military exercises are a good platform for display.
The White House and the Pentagon, with the help of Pablo's space-based weapons satellites, want to conduct a military exercise to shoot down satellites in order to shock the world, which in itself is understandable.
But the key point is that in this military exercise, Wen Ming needs to fund the enemy.
This made Wen Ming very unhappy.
It is true that he is not from this world, and although the China of this world is very similar to the China of the world in which he grew up, it is not called China after all. Moreover, his career is also in the United States, and only in the United States can he make himself the richest man in the world in such a short period of time.
The most important thing is that only in the United States can he establish the Umbrella Arms Company to manufacture military products such as Guardian and Umbrella I armor.
In China, which is very similar to China in another world, Wen Ming feels that he must have won a lot of honorary certificates, as for the umbrella company?
But in the final analysis, Wen Ming is wearing after all, although his body age has become younger for unknown reasons, he still has yellow skin and black hair.
It is not so easy to give up the cause of the United States to go to China for the sake of so-called patriotism, but it is not so easy for the United States to beat China.
"It's really tangled!"
Wen Ming sighed in his heart and asked, "General Nick, what I want to know is whether you have mastered the manufacturing technology of space-based weapons?" By Pablo. ”
The Pentagon announced the suspension of the space-based weapons satellite, which is not completely useless, after calculating the cost of developing and manufacturing such weapons and the results that such weapons can achieve.
However, when someone has developed a complete space-based weapon satellite technology and has successfully launched a space-based weapon satellite, how can the United States not want this technology?
Major General Nick did not hide anything from Wen Ming in this regard, and said: "Yes, although Pablo has eliminated all the technicians, their research results have already reached our hands, and as long as we want, we can create space-based weapon satellites again at any time." Even, is more powerful than Pablo's space-based weapons satellites. ”
Wen Ming was stunned and said: "Then congratulations, you have saved tens of billions of dollars in research and development costs, as well as related manpower and material resources." ”
Pablo's investment made a wedding dress for the United States, which Wen Ming could not envy, because he could not snatch people from the US government and military. Of course, he doesn't need to be envious, the technology of creating space-based weapon satellites has already been stored in his brain at the end of the last daydream.
As long as Wen Ming needs it, he can also create space-based weapon satellites.
Major General Nick dispelled Wen Ming's idea of continuing to 'chit-chat', and asked again: "Regarding our plan, what are you preparing to start, and how long will it take?" ”
Wen Ming frowned, and after being silent for nearly a minute, he said: "When I first showed the guard to the Pentagon, I said that it was only the first generation of guards. And, as I said, I'm working on the second generation of guardians. ”
Major Nick became interested and asked very expectantly, "You mean, you want to install the second generation of guards on our satellite?" ”
Wen Ming nodded and said, "Yes, the second-generation guardian is more suitable for your needs in terms of functional performance." However, the price of the second-generation guardian is really not cheap. ”
Major General Nick laughed and said, "You are already the richest man in the world, why do you always emphasize the price with me?" Do you think the Pentagon will run out of money? Or, do you think that we, the United States, will run out of money? ”
As the world's largest economic power with an annual GDP of $18 trillion, even if they are in debt, they will not have armaments that they cannot afford. The difference is whether they want to buy it or not.
Wen Ming also laughed and said, "The price I'm talking about is not just money. As you said, I'm already the richest man in the world, and money is really just a long number for me. ”
When Major General Nick was immersed in a long series of numbers, Wen Ming's heart became more determined.
He figured out a problem, that is, space-based weapons and satellites are his cause and effect, and he must solve this cause and effect. It is difficult for him to participate in this US attack on the satellite in other ways, and the only way for him to participate is to install the guard on the satellite and build the world's first real attack satellite.
He couldn't care about the enemy or something. Only by constantly improving one's own strength can one decide whether one should be an enemy or not, and whether one should not be an enemy.
To put it simply, it is involuntarily.
Since this is the case, it is necessary to take advantage of this opportunity to gain more benefits for yourself. And the benefits that Wen Ming needs now cannot be offset by money.
Major General Nick's smile retracted, he knew that Wen Ming was about to start making conditions, and asked, "So, what do you want?" ”
Wen Ming's smile was still on his face, and he said: "I want the R&D and manufacturing power of satellites and fighter jets, and I want to build my own rocket launch site." In other words, that's me going into aerospace. ”
It is very easy for Wen Ming to make an airplane, but a fighter jet is different from a civilian aircraft, and it is not something that you can manufacture by opening a company and building a factory, even in the United States.
The satellite industry is even more difficult to enter, not only because of the difficulty of satellite manufacturing technology, but also because of the restrictions of various countries on the manufacture of satellites. Needless to say, the capabilities of satellites do not require much to be said, and no country would want to have satellites in the sky that are not under their control.
Companies like Google, Wal-Mart, or telecom companies that have their own satellites, their satellites are not made by themselves. They just buy the satellites they need from companies that have the right to make satellites, and then find countries that have the launch qualifications to launch the satellites they buy.
Just like Google's satellites, from the development and manufacturing of satellites to launch, they can't have zero-distance contact with the satellites they purchased, which shows how high the threshold of the satellite industry is.
Compared with the current Apple company, a listed company like Google is stronger, both in terms of the number of users and the amount of funds in hand.
And Elon Mascu, who was a pit before Wen Ming, although he also has his own aerospace company, but it is in cooperation with NASA, that is, NASA, and he is not completely owned by him.
Wen Ming's current request is to do it himself, whether it is to build fighter jets or satellites, he also needs to have his own rocket launch site.
In the face of this request, Major General Nick's face turned very dark, and he said in a somewhat unhappy tone: "Do you think that no one can help us build an attack satellite except you?" Or do you think we must attack the satellites with attack lasers, not ramming. ”
Wen Ming continued to laugh and said, "You don't have to tell me this, I don't think there is any need to argue between us, before I meet the Roosevelt family you mentioned." ”
The subtext of this sentence is that after meeting, the two sides will either become a camp, and there is no need to argue and only seek cooperation. Either...... If you become an enemy, you naturally don't need to argue anymore, as long as you keep destroying the other party's plans.
Major General Nick also thought of this and said, "It's not that I have to argue with you, but I don't think it's possible for them to agree." I'm talking about them, not the Pentagon, do you understand? ”
Wen Ming continued to laugh: "Of course, I know that there are many people who will not agree, but I think the Roosevelt family should still have some energy. So, do you want to talk to your boss first, and then decide whether to reject me outright or report my offer to the Pentagon? ”
Major General Nick looked at Wen Ming for nearly a minute, but he could only see Wen Ming's smile.
"Then you just wait."