Noon, 12:30 p.m.

After Li Qingye ate in the canteen of the Sky City, he came to the command center.

Jose, Antonio and others are busy.

He didn't bother, but sat down in a VIP room and quietly looked at the big screen outside, through which the Ape-Eater Eagle 1 could be seen on the launch tower.

The launch tower is located 4.5 km from the command center.

At this time, the sky is cloudless, which is very suitable for space launches.

As the debut of the Ape-eating Eagle class launch vehicle, the official launch of this one is a brand new body, not the one used in the previous test, because that test rocket has been reused 6 times.

Soon the launch was ready, and everyone in the command center went about their duties and began the countdown.

Li Qingye, who was in the VIP room, also saw the countdown on the big screen beating.

［10…… ］

［5…… ］

Drip......

Rumble! The Eater Eagle 1's stout four methane liquid oxygen engines, as well as two auxiliary solid rocket boosters, erupted pale blue scorching flames.

Zizizi...... In the cooling pool at the bottom of the tower, a large amount of cooling water is instantly evaporated by the high temperature, emitting a dense white mist.

The auxiliary supports of the launch tower quickly popped off to the sides.

Ape-eating Eagle 1 soared into the sky, with a thrust of up to 4,500 tons, propelling the rocket all the way to outer space.

"Start adjusting your flight posture."

The engine vent was slightly reoriented, and then the Ape-eating Eagle 1 tilted a little eastward, in order to use the angular velocity of the earth to allow the launch vehicle to fly out of the atmosphere with more effort.

Everyone in the command center was staring at their computers.

Although after the previous 6 test firings, there would be basically no problems with the Ape Eater Eagle 1, but when it came to the end, they still couldn't help but get nervous.

Li Qingye was not too nervous, after all, the Homo sapiens company could afford to fail.

You must know that after the large-scale mass production of the Ape-eating Eagle launch vehicle, the average cost is only about 6.37 million gold yuan.

With the resources, manpower and technology invested by Homo sapiens in the aerospace field, it is converted into gold dollars, which is about 253.4 billion gold dollars in 23 years.

This investment is almost dozens of times that of NASA, and the capital efficiency of both sides is not the same.

Homo sapiens really spent every penny on the ground.

NASA is no longer the NASA of the last century, and now they have lost the ability to develop and manufacture their own spacecraft, and they need to engage in spaceflight through bidding.

That means NASA has to relinquish a significant portion of its profits to contractors like SpaceX, Blue Origin, General Electric, Boeing and Rockmartin.

Will the private sector disadvantage itself and help America develop aerospace?

Don't dream, they won't be able to engage in aerospace without profits.

The pursuit of profit is a nature that is difficult for all private companies to overcome before it has developed into a giant enterprise.

Even if the Council of the City on the Hill comes forward and asks major companies to lower some of the inflated prices, the profits that should be retained still have to be kept.

After all, this is the foundation of America, capital in the process of operation, always have to pursue profits, if you don't pursue profits, it is not in line with America's values.

Of course, due to the rise and squeeze of Homo sapiens, the Council of the City on a Hill now has to make a change and no longer continue to engage in neo-freedom, which is actually impossible to continue.

In order to counter Homo sapiens, the big families of capital, such as Morgan, Rockefeller, Cleveland, DuPont and Mellon, also took the lead in paying taxes, and at the same time forced the middle class, the small rich, and the emerging big rich in North America to pay taxes.

For example, Musk and Warren Buffett and others were charged a large amount of taxes.

Now the combined tax in North America has risen to about 63% of their personal income.

The council has no choice.

Thomas Morgan, who dominates the Wall Street financial group, after looking around the world, silently gathered the voices of other big families and decided to increase the intensity of harvesting within North America.

The reason why Thomas Morgan made such a decision is very simple, because he found that America could no longer cut the meat of other regions.

The EU has just been cut by them once, and now only a skeleton remains.

Lucia had been severely damaged by the harvest in the nineties of the last century, and she has not recovered until now.

Dongying and South Goryeo are not large enough, and their blood cannot feed the Americana.

The only blood bag that can revive America with full blood, and he is a slippery old chess player.

As for the other periphery of West Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin America, there is simply not much meat to cut.

Coupled with the fact that Homo sapiens is now eyeing each other, once America harvests too hard, it may force the other party to the side of Homo sapiens.

In the end, Thomas Morgan could only look at the North American mainland that they parasitized.

To be precise, it is to look at the middle class and the small rich and the new big rich.

In fact, Thomas Morgan is very envious and jealous of the model of Homo sapiens.

The current predicament of North America is actually that wealth is enriched, but it is not completely enriched.

The major capitalist families and the big and small billionaires account for about 80% of the asset wealth in North America, and in this case, they automatically form groups such as Wall Street financial groups, military-industrial complexes, and emerging technology companies.

Then it can be further subdivided according to the concept, region, race, and industry.

This led to the formation of hundreds of large and small groups (more influential groups) within North America, and they grew savagely in the free land of North America.

However, resources are limited after all, and when they find that they cannot meet the interests of various groups within themselves by plundering the outside, it means that fierce fighting will break out within them.

Although this kind of fighting did not appear in the open war, its tragedy was more than that.

Now Thomas Morgan feels that the mechanism of the council limits the strength of North America, and a lot of resources are consumed in unnecessary internal friction and waste.

Homo sapiens is a penny for three points.

America is doing a penny for three cents.

The current aerospace field is a typical example.

If America wants to achieve the same output of the space industry as Homo sapiens, it needs to invest at least 5 trillion US dollars in the space field.

5 trillion US dollars, which is simply an astronomical amount.

Unless one Morgan family is sacrificed every year, the money will not be paid at all.

Thomas could only look helplessly at the huge resources of North America, but it was difficult to mobilize these resources.

He even wanted to create a Morgan company similar to Homo sapiens, but the existence of other big families made it difficult for him to transform America into Morgan Company.

In fact, other big families have similar ideas.

It's just that they pull each other internally, and it is destined that in a short period of time, it will be difficult to change the system of the Council of the City on the Mountain.

This bloated system can only be used by sewing and mending.

Now Thomas and they are just restoring the old version, using the old version of the model, to improve the overall efficiency of the interior.

However, the underlying logic of some systems is a congenital problem, and unless it is overturned, it can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

There are always two sides to the development of things.

The decline of Americaka's global hegemony, coupled with a drastic reduction in external plunderable resources, should have collapsed outright.

But because of the emergence of Homo sapiens, they were forced to join forces to deal with the threat of Homo sapiens.

It was precisely because of the external pressure that the pressure was so high that America did not fall to the ground.

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