Chapter 222, It’s Better to Rely on Yourself than Others
"Xiao Li, although you have undertaken the construction of the Huashan, you cannot give up the business of building the Dumbo and Dumbo spacecraft. You must continue to increase production, otherwise it will be difficult for us to meet such a huge demand for resources in the future."
When Wang Aiguo heard Li Fu mention the mining of asteroid resources, he couldn't help but frown. Only Fuyun Group can manufacture the Dumbo and Dumbo spacecraft, and the Chinese government has not yet mastered this technology.
Now that Fuyun Group is going to build the "Huashan" space battleship and occupy the space factory, the construction of the Dumbo and Dumbo spacecraft will be greatly affected. Without these two spacecrafts, it is even more impossible to mine asteroids. So the problem now is whether to use eggs to hatch chicks first or to eat the eggs to meet the demand first.
Although Wang Aiguo is the person in charge of the Chinese space field and holds great power, he is also very helpless in this matter. Even if Fuyun Group is willing to open technology to the Chinese government, the Chinese government will not be able to manufacture these two spacecrafts for a while.
"I will definitely not give up. We are going to build a larger space factory. The output will be higher at that time. Of course, the most important thing is to develop a spaceship with greater thrust. If we can mine hundreds of millions of tons of asteroids at a time, it will be enough to have several such spaceships to go back and forth a few times."
Li Fu smiled bitterly. If he did not undertake the construction of the "Huashan", Fuyun Group could slowly expand its production capacity, but now its rhythm has been completely disrupted.
"That's good."
Wang Aiguo nodded with satisfaction, and then continued to inspect accompanied by Li Fu.
As the Chinese government officially determined the important national policy of building a powerful space army with the "Huashan" space battleship as the core battleship, the entire huge China began to run frantically like a machine with a spring wound up.
A huge space army is not just one or two space battleships, but a very large system and a very huge project. China plans to devote all its energy to complete this grand historical goal in the next ten years.
As time goes by, the outer space of the earth becomes busier. Not only China is concentrating on building a space army, but other countries on the earth are also aware of China's huge actions. They all know that China is building a powerful space army.
So whether it is for self-protection or fear, other powers in the world have also proposed their own space army plans, making the increasingly fierce space race more and more intense.
At the space factory of Fuyun Group's "Sky City", Li Fu, wearing a space suit, and Chen Bin, Yu Liang, Cao Haitao and others are inspecting the construction of the "Huashan". At this time, the "Huashan" space battleship cannot be seen at all, but a 10-kilometer-long pillar in the void tells the world that Fuyun Group has not stopped at all.
This huge pillar is 10 kilometers long and 100 meters in diameter. It is the pillar of the future "Huashan" space battleship. Just to build this pillar, Fuyun Group spent more than a year and used up dozens of asteroids with a mass of 10 million tons.
There are already reserved interfaces on the huge pillar. These interfaces are used to connect the skeleton of the battleship. Only after the skeleton is built can the shell of the battleship be built. Of course, various large equipment must be installed first during the period.
Super-sized power systems, attack systems, etc., many large equipment need to be installed at one time. There is no way to disassemble and assemble them. All links must be seamlessly connected to perfectly build a powerful space battleship.
"Finally, the main beam is built. Now we will start to build the skeleton."
Chen Bin looked at the huge main beam in the void. Countless mechanical arms were constantly busy on it. In order to build this main beam, the entire Fuyun Group has been extremely busy for more than a year.
The main beam is like the spine of a human for a space battleship. Its importance can be imagined. There can be no mistakes at all, otherwise it will not be able to bear the huge mass of the space battleship.
"Skeleton? I think it's difficult. We have just started now. The resources originally promised to supply us have begun to be greatly reduced. Otherwise, it would not take more than a year to build this main beam. At most, 10 months would be enough. But because other people took away the resources, we spent a few more months."
Speaking of this, Yu Liang on the side could not help but speak out angrily.
The thing is, all aspects of China are working hard to build a powerful space army. Among them, Fuyun Group is responsible for building the "Huashan" space battleship, several major heavy industry groups in China are responsible for building other frigates, and the military industry group is responsible for building huge space fighters and space combat spacecraft. In addition, all other aspects are working hard.
Therefore, the steel resources in space became very scarce all of a sudden. Major military industrial groups, heavy industrial groups, and domestic capital forces in China were all madly competing for steel resources. Asteroids mined from the moon and the asteroid belt were suddenly in great demand, and the price of steel soared.
The steel resources that Wang Aiguo had promised to supply to Fuyun Group were snatched away by others for various reasons, especially several major heavy industrial groups and military industrial groups. These were all enterprises under the official Chinese government, which could be said to be the sons of the family. The sons of the family always had various excuses.
Today they wanted an asteroid, tomorrow they wanted another, and so on. Even if Wang Aiguo tried hard to fight for Fuyun Group, it was not something that Wang Aiguo had the final say. The sons of the family always had various ways to get resources from their parents.
As for Fuyun Group, it was a private enterprise after all. Although it had built the most core and important "Huashan" space battleship, it was definitely not as good as others in the competition for resources.
Another important reason is that Fuyun Group has mastered the technology of large engines, but is unwilling to share it with the Chinese government. It has eaten the cake of mining asteroid spacecraft alone, which makes major heavy industry groups and military industry groups very dissatisfied.
The price of Dumbo and Dumbo spacecraft is very expensive, and the profit is very amazing. These large groups have been eyeing them for a long time, but they have been suffering from the lack of technology, so they can only watch Fuyun Group eat alone.
Long ago, these groups have expressed their dissatisfaction to Tang Yunshan, Wang Aiguo and others, hoping that the Chinese government can put pressure on Fuyun Group to let Fuyun Group share the technology of large plasma engines with the Chinese government.
Of course, Tang Yunshan and Wang Aiguo naturally understand the actual interests, and they all know that these large groups are typical representatives of eating up the mountain. They are naturally very happy to give them technology, but when they are asked to invest huge sums of money to research technology, they will refuse to do so, or simply use this as a cover to defraud huge funds.
In the past, China has never really had its own aviation engine, which is the best example. The country has invested a lot of money in this field, but year after year, day after day, the money has been invested, and talents have been given, but China has never had its own aviation heart.
It is very ridiculous to say that even in the early 21st century, China could not really mass-produce its own aviation engines, and had to import aviation engines that they had been able to produce in the last century from the polar bears. No matter how amazing the J-20 fighter jets are, there is still a huge controversy about whether the core engine is domestically produced.
The real change in China's aviation and aerospace fields came from Li Fu. With the help of Li Fu, the team led by Liu Shiying developed a plasma engine, and the plasma engine technology directly surpassed the original gas engine. So to be honest, in the field of gas engines, China is still not as good as the West.
Tang Yunshan and Wang Aiguo, who are very clear about the power relationship, will naturally not force Li Fu to share technology, so these big groups will do bad things to Fuyun Group in this regard.
Anyway, everyone has insufficient resources now, and everyone has a mission to fulfill. In particular, the leaders of these large groups are under tremendous pressure. They are not like Fuyun Group. If they do not do a good job, these people will be dismissed, so they naturally use all their tricks to ask for resources from above.
Naturally, they have more resources, and the resources supplied to Fuyun Group are less. Although Wang Aiguo intends to help Fuyun Group, sometimes he is very helpless because these groups are all fair and justified.
They want resources not for the interests of their own small groups, but also for the construction of space battleships, space fighters, etc., and they are also contributing to China's space power. They are well aware of the truth that the crying child gets the milk, and they are even more unscrupulous in grabbing resources.
"Brother Fu, we must find a way. Otherwise, it will not only affect whether we can complete the Huashan space battleship on time, but also the other businesses of our company will be greatly affected. Now the sale of these asteroids cannot be normalized in the market. We can't buy them even if we have money."
Speaking of this, Cao Haitao said anxiously.
"It is better to rely on ourselves than on others. Since we can't buy them, we will mine them ourselves. When it comes to mining asteroids, we are the pioneers!"
After listening, Li Fu thought carefully, then smiled and said.
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