Chapter 29: The Helium 3 Business

The distribution of electricity is over, and by and large, Nana's plan is very reasonable, filtering out most of the unconventional needs, and the rest is what they are now in short supply.

Therefore, when the decision and reasons were presented to the participants, no one expressed dissatisfaction, at most a few complaints, and then they did their own things.

"Is the host satisfied with my assignment?"

"Of course, you're really getting more and more capable, and if someone wants to appeal, I'll use a sentence that you can compete with artificial intelligence, you can get over, you say yes."

Nana was silent, wondering if she really understood what Cao Chuan was saying.

Cao Chuan strolled outside, where Wang Xian was receiving the Moon-Leaping Class No. 4 spacecraft that had just been manufactured.

"You're here, the new ship looks good, and after a few rounds of test flights, there are only a few minor problems." Wang Xian said, there were also employees of the research department in charge of manufacturing debugging beside him, and he saw Qiao Hehe sitting alone in the spaceship, with a nervous look on his face, and asked curiously: "What are you going to do?" Why is this guy too? ”

Wang Xian looked back and said expressionlessly: "That's the case, now the trade department plans to expand the scale of space tourism, starting from the back, the quota will be increased to 30 per month, and in addition, we plan to contact countries to find some sales for helium-3." ”

"Now the production of helium-3 is much greater than demand, consuming less than 1% of the production capacity, at least a few hundred kilograms of helium-3 per month that cannot be used, I know this, but why do you bring him?"

"Of course, it's to facilitate contact with the Night Rabbit Country." Wang Xian said, "Don't you know, he is an out-and-out second generation of the canal, and there are many ways, so it will be convenient and quick to find the right internal relationship when the time comes." ”

Cao Chuan smiled slightly after hearing this: "That's right, it just looks like he has a sad face." ”

"Probably because of the pressure, Miss Sophia of the Exploration Department offered to lend him to us temporarily to assist us in this matter in order to gain access to the Moon-By-Five spaceship."

"Well, it looks like he's got a lot of weight on his shoulders."

Because of the publicity in advance, many people on the earth have long known about the latest moves of the East Galaxy Company - the trade of helium-3, as well as the packaged sale of fusion power station technology.

No one will refuse the temptation of fusion energy, which will be the main source of electricity for mankind in the next hundred years, and will have a decisive effect on solving a series of social problems.

When the shipship of the trade department returned to Earth and visited various countries, secret negotiations began.

The Polar Bear Country was the first to be breached, due to the huge influence of Sophia's father Ymir in the country, as well as the relatively efficient government, the decision-making process was extremely fast, and the negotiation team led by Wang Xian signed the contract not long after.

"East Galaxy provides 50 kilograms of helium-3 supply at a price of 2 million per kilogram every month, and according to the demand of the polar bear country, it will increase year by year, and recalculate the supply and price every 5 years."

"If the supply of the month cannot be met, the polar bear state will have the right to confiscate the assets of the East Galaxy Company in the territory and restrict all activities of the East Galaxy Company as a punitive measure."

"East Galaxy will provide a full set of fusion power station construction technology until the construction of a fusion power station in the polar bear country is completed and stable operation."

"In exchange, the Polar Bear State will recognize the legitimacy of the East Galaxy Company and conduct all kinds of normal business activities in the country, while protecting the relevant interests of the East Galaxy Company from being infringed."

Seeing Wang Xian's report back, Cao Chuan found that the progress of the negotiations was quite gratifying: "I didn't expect the polar bear country to be really easy to deal with, is it because the confrontation was serious in the past few years, which led to the decline of national strength, and new technologies are urgently needed to increase national strength?" ”

"Just looking at the purchase volume of the other party has been able to prove that the other party is quite optimistic about fusion energy, 50 kilograms of helium-3 are all used to produce electricity, enough to cover 30% of domestic power generation, and the cost is only 100 million per month, even if it is added to labor costs, maintenance fees, transmission costs, it is also cheap."

"At that time, the reduction of electricity prices will lead to a decline in manufacturing costs, a decrease in the cost of daily life for residents, and a more sound public facilities system for electronic management... If there is a breakthrough in battery technology, electric energy vehicles and electric energy planes are estimated to be popularized, not to mention not to use to generate electricity, reserve to build atomic bombs, after all, helium-3 is cheap, isn't it? It didn't say it had to be used to generate electricity. ”

In the polar bear country, in addition to the negotiations around helium-3 trade and fusion power stations, the trade team led by Wang Xian also discussed some other things, such as directly establishing a large space tourism tourist distribution center in the territory of the polar bear country, specifically for them to dock spacecraft for maintenance.

Acquire backward production equipment in the polar bear country, package it and send it to the sky, continue to use it if it can be used, enrich their industrial system, and put it directly in the warehouse to eat ashes, and even include some military equipment, such as tank manufacturing lines, aircraft manufacturing lines, etc., which are also decided by a few "military fans" in the trade department, mainly because the price is too cheap, and the money they have in hand has no place to use it.

At present, the foreign exchange on hand of the trading department is quite abundant, and the total amount is about to exceed 500 million, and the most crucial reason is that the self-sufficiency of the lunar base is quite strong, and its dependence on the outside world is not as great as before, so it has generated a large surplus of foreign exchange.

In this way, it is a pity to spread the technology of fusion power stations for no reason, and it is a good thing that it should be a technical blockade for a few more years, and it is a good thing to concentrate on eating the technological dividends, and now it is exchanged for more practical benefits.

The East Galaxy Company signed an agreement with the polar bear country, and the rest of the countries reacted differently, on the one hand, they saw the huge benefits, compared to the price to pay for the purchase of helium-3, they got too much; On the other hand, they are worried about the union strikes, demonstrations and protests that will lead to the elimination of backward production capacity, and the covert obstruction of other vested interests, so they have not made up their minds so quickly. There are also countries that are quietly trying to obtain fusion energy technology through other countries, and they don't know how they are going.

However, in Cao Chuan's view, the leakage of fusion energy technology is a good thing, as long as the East Galaxy Company controls the supply of helium-3, there is no way to bypass them, and it will only cause a further increase in helium-3 demand, unless it finds a way to also establish a base on the moon, which cannot be done in a short time.