Chapter 058: Base Start
While An Yang was busy training, his two followers were efficient.
Martin Morris was responsible for site selection, investment negotiations and business construction, and he selected a large vacant lot of land in Melbourne's western suburbs according to the plan.
The total area is about 12,300 acres, more than 12,000 acres, what is this concept? It's already bigger than Melbourne!
Melbourne (including the metropolitan area) covers a vast but truly "city" area, from the CBD in the city center to the surrounding business districts, marinas and beaches, adding up to no more than 10,000 acres.
Morris spent a few lines on the map and quietly selected the "city" over Melbourne.
Next comes the purchase negotiations.
Most of the land is owned by the state government, about 70 percent, but the remaining small part is owned by suburban ranchers and farm owners who want to buy it at a high price.
Especially along the banks where rivers pass by, the price of pasture and pasture is not low; There is also an area close to Melbourne's new CBD to the east, where many people are stocking up in advance.
The state government has little doubt about selling land in the suburbs, it is idle anyway, and if it is sold, it can be exchanged for tens of billions of dollars of investment, who would be stupid?
But private land is difficult to say, Morris does not have the concept of "forced demolition" in his head, but his methods of red face and black face are not bad.
First, they negotiated with each other and were willing to buy 30% more than the land, guaranteeing that the money would be used to buy a larger piece of land elsewhere.
Don't want to?
Of course, our company will not force it, but if we build an industrial center in the future, it is inevitable that there will be noise and emissions that are allowed by government laws and regulations.
At a cost of $700 million, nearly 5,000 hectares of land were swept up, with a maximum width of 6 kilometers and a maximum of 10 kilometers, equivalent to Manhattan, New York.
Not to mention a few companies, thousands of companies are no problem to settle down. You can also build a central park, a stadium, a school, and even an airport.
According to intelligent calculations, the investment of at least one trillion dollars to impact the third-level civilization can be built into a "private city".
The number of employees may exceed 100,000 when major enterprises enter the city, so the commercial districts, supermarkets, hospitals, etc. that a city should have can be designed.
In terms of urban management, there are naturally private security guards on private land, and AS International is just the right to do it, playing the role of a "private policeman".
In a way, Anyan can be called a lord.
After Morris's large-scale plan was submitted, the Victorian and even Australian governments paid attention to it, and the government could give a lot of preferential treatment for big investment projects.
The idea that Anyan had previously considered that builders were bidding from all over the world for speed, more for Chinese businesses and workers, was also being discussed.
Australia's population is small, more than 20 million, and most people do not know how to do this kind of manual work, and recruiting workers from abroad is already an inevitable way.
It's just that the authorities are concerned that a large number of workers may face the problem of illegal immigration. Australia's welfare is good, it is difficult to ensure that after the foreigners land, the passport will be torn off and disappear.
The issue of overseas labour and immigration is being discussed.
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On the other hand, the follower Peter Cowell is in action.
Contrary to Morris's business orientation, he is more responsible for the use of force and equipment, and AS International's plan to expand its security department is being implemented.
The company's higher-end PMC business, which will also restart after a period of sluggishness.
For countries like Australia, PMCs are hard to make money, unless there is a war. Only PMCs like the United States, where troops are stationed all over the world and cause trouble, will prosper.
But Anyan does not seek to make a profit, his purpose is to cultivate forces to go deep into chaotic regions, such as the Middle East, such as Africa, once the United States does not care, no one can take care of it.
The current situation is an example, the United States has left a mess and withdrawn its troops, and chaos in the Middle East has come again, and even if Anyan provides coordinates for the US military to bomb, the efficiency is not high.
He simply asked Cowell to expand the PMC branch overseas, hire locals or soldiers from other countries, and train them into an armed force.
In the legitimate name of PMC, de facto mercenaries can go deep into the countries of the Middle East and across Africa to carry out the work of cleaning up infected people and maintaining order.
Cowell and his helpers have now arrived in Iraq and are about to register a "strategic consulting firm" that the business administration is considering as a pretense there.
The company's main strength is concentrated in Iraq, and the original business is supported with US dollars, and the security services are provided to local foreign enterprises, foreign businessmen and personnel.
As for the black work, An Yang does not plan to let the company accept orders from the outside world, he does not lack this money, and the black work is only for his own family, which is confidential and secure.
Cowell, who was instructed, quickly assembled his forces.
He has been in this industry for many years, and his circle and network are huge, as long as he pays a higher salary than his peers, many people will be willing to change jobs.
With more money, he can build safer camps and use his position as a contractor to buy armored vehicles, helicopters, transport planes and equipment.
An Yang is a layman and does not interfere in PMC construction.
But in order to improve the efficiency and safety of his subordinates, he will design a batch of equipment suitable for special operations.
Military training was reduced to six hours, and Anyan worked more than 15 hours a day, meaning that he was busy except for eight hours of eating, drinking, and sleeping.
Ordinary people may not be able to withstand this kind of work intensity, but it is not the limit for enhancing people, or they are too busy to take care of other things at all.
He shipped the parts he had taken from the Chinese authorities last time to Australia.
Wearing AR glasses, he is familiar with the assembly, which is divided into crawler armed robots, walking transport robots, and intelligent drones.
The quadruped robot walking in front of An Yang is the crystallization of technology.
The four legs were like a dog, but they were much larger, and they were running lightly, climbing stairs, and jumping over obstacles.
The robot dog stumbled, and its exoskeleton balance system immediately acted, speeding up the frequency of limb swinging, flexibly adjusting, and continuing to walk.
The force of An Yang's kick is enough to make ordinary people fall to the ground, but the kick does not fall to it, which is indispensable to the balance of artificial intelligence chips - this is his strongest project.
Whether the robot is autonomous and flexible or not is closely related to intelligence.
If this guy is used on the battlefield, it can handle complex terrain and areas that people can't reach; If you add weapons, it can fight invincible.
If its exoskeleton is removed and transformed into one that adapts to humans, then the combat level of individual human soldiers will also be greatly improved.
Anyan stopped it and checked the energy consumption.
The robot can run and fight, which will greatly improve the safety factor, but its flaw is the battery life, and the current battery is absolutely not capable of work.
If the solution conceived by the US military is to burn diesel, it will make a lot of noise and is not conducive to covert and rapid special operations.
"Do you want to design a new type of battery?" An Yang frowned, but at the moment he was busy enough, except for sleeping and working, he couldn't pull out.
"The battery project is postponed, starting with equipment with small size and low energy consumption. ”
"Drones?" An Yang looked at the aircraft.
UAVs are now very popular and both military and civilian have them, and he designed the quadrophone. Wing drones are not just used for reconnaissance.
He had considered transforming the horizontal axis of the UAV into a parallel electromagnetic trajectory for dual use, and installing ammunition at one end to provide the necessary firepower.
Drone + fire. For a medicine weapon, the recoil caused by firing may overturn, but if an electromagnetic weapon is used, the recoil is greatly reduced and stable enough.
The amount of ammunition is not too much, three or four rounds are enough, and the role of the drone is to sneak attack, silently like an assassin, and retreat after killing the enemy with one bullet.
Intelligence comprehended the idea and projected an improvement plan: "A drone integrating reconnaissance and combat is simple and durable, and easy to mass-produce." ”
"Not bad." An Yang thought of it together, ground robots face all kinds of problems, but lightweight drones are easy to popularize.
So he called Morris: "The progress of the robot factory?" ”
Morris replied: "A production line has been built, the machines are imported from Germany and the United States, highly automated, and only a few people are required to operate. ”
"It's time to go." Anyang is satisfied, it is good to have its own factory, no longer need to ask for people from the outside world, and can mass produce by itself.
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