Chapter 937
Such a huge amount of tax revenue is already nearly 35% of Xiangzhong's GDP after leaving out Future Technology itself, so Xi Changlin couldn't be sloppy. Even the No. 1 leader had to issue an order of the highest level of importance on this.
"Alright, since Secretary Xi has good intentions, we can't postpone it, let's reluctantly accept this piece of land, turn around and have someone hurry up the construction, it's best to buy the surrounding land all together and put together a bigger airport."
"Understood."
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The next day, Li Linfei was preparing to go to Yuezhou today to settle things there, but then, Tan Gang came, so it had to be postponed for a few days.
"Minister Tan, do you have something to do?" Li Linfei asked.
"I'm here on this occasion because I have two main matters, and both of them are related to your company." Tan Gang said.
"Please speak."
"The metallic hydrogen we bought from your company has been almost consumed so far." Tan Gang had a satisfied smile on his face, he was very satisfied with every transaction he had made with Li Linfei, including the expensive metallic hydrogen.
"I have to say that the quality of your company's metallic hydrogen is, indeed, fantastic, using those thirty tonnes of metallic hydrogen, we have not only pushed the research of the ambient temperature controlled fusion device, to a new level, but also experimented with the launch of five satellites using metallic hydrogen as rocket ignition fuel, with surprisingly good results."
"In addition, in terms of magnetic levitation, according to our experiments, if the 'metallic hydrogen' material is added and room temperature superconductivity is achieved, the speed of a magnetic levitation train may well reach the point of breaking the speed of sound."
Maglev trains? Supersonic trains, too, fall under the category of maglev trains, except that the supersonic trains in Future Tech City generally pass in a vacuum environment.
Without air, there is no sound barrier, and they can easily break the speed of sound, reaching Mach 5 at the fastest speed, and their tunnels even run through the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Asian and European continents.
In time, it may not be possible to form a spider web of underground tunnels.
"It's a waste to use metallic hydrogen as a material for rocket ignition."
"It's a bit of a waste." Tan Gang did not deny it.
"But after the test, we are also more sure of the dominance of metallic hydrogen in the future world, but the preparation of metallic hydrogen is very troublesome, our scientists, who have put their heads together and tried countless ways, are unable to get a gram of finished metallic hydrogen, I have to say, your company is ahead of the world in this aspect of technology."
Hearing that something was wrong, Li Linfei raised his eyebrows and busily said, "Minister Tan, if you are here to ask for technology, then let's ......"
"No no, don't misunderstand, Mr. Li, I'm not here to ask for technology this time, I just had some emotions, don't think too much about it."
Tan Gang hurriedly interrupted Li Linfei and said, "At present, the metal hydrogen we bought last time, has been used up, this time I am here to offer to buy metal hydrogen from your company once again."
"How much do you want?" Li Linfei asked directly.
"Now the military is tight, it's still thirty tons, too much and you can't get that much money." Tan Gang said.
Li Linfei nodded, but teased, "Minister Tan, you guys are too deductive, the US side bought two hundred tons from me as soon as they came up, you guys are only buying sixty tons before and after this."
Tan just rolled his eyes and said, "The old American side, their annual military expenditure is in the trillions of dollars, not even the hidden budget, it's six or seven times ours, can it be compared?"
"It is too." Li Linfei had heard about this aspect of intelligence from Li's bite.
The United States, as the current world hegemon, and China, as the second most powerful country in the world, although the two sides were only one place apart.
However, it was an undeniable fact that the US economy was still more prosperous than that of China.
Perhaps in the future, China will catch up with the United States, but right now it is still unable to compete with the United States economically, and it takes a lot of money for various domestic development and construction, plus the constraints of the United Nations, so it is inevitable that there is a gap in military spending between the two sides.
"Okay, thirty tons is thirty tons, I'll have someone order all the goods for you guys first, and the other countries' goods will be backed up." Li Linfei said.
"Haha, that's good, it's rare that you are so young and still have this heart towards the country, not bad, not bad, better than those guys who eat out of the bag." Tan Gang laughed, grinning and showing his white teeth, but said as if he meant something.
Li Linfei's expression moved and he asked with a smile, "Why Minister Tan, hearing this from you, is there someone in the country who is against the country?"
Tan Gang's gaze stared and said with a bitter smile, "That's not true, it's just that they didn't reach a unified opinion with us on the economy, and as a result, they gave money to the old US and those European countries."
"Oh, can you tell us about that?"
"It's not an uncommon thing, you want to hear it, Little Ye, you tell it." Tan Gang didn't refuse, he just let his secretary Ye Lan recount it to Li Linfei.
Upon hearing this, Ye Lan organised his words and hurriedly spoke to Li Linfei, "Mr Li, this matter, to put it mildly, has something to do with your company."
It has something to do with me? Bullshit, I didn't do anything wrong to the country.
"Because your company has gained so much momentum internationally, it has offended many companies, which includes some of the manufacturers of electronic products, for example, your company's mobile phones are superior, and according to the current situation, I am afraid that in less than three to five years, it will dominate the global mobile phone market."
"And as a result, it will cause many, many companies operating mobile phones to go bankrupt and close down."
Hearing this, Li Linfei interjected with disdain: "The shopping mall is like a battlefield, aren't the current mobile phone manufacturers stepping on those previous mobile phone manufacturers that went out of business to get to the top? No one doesn't understand the principle of the survival of the fittest, right? Still talking about interests being violated like a primary school student, childish, ridiculous."
Seeing that Li Linfei was not too happy, Ye Lan quickly smiled and explained, "Mr. Li, don't be angry, listen to what I have to say. Your company has violated the interests of those mobile phone manufacturers, and they feel unconvinced, and when they feel that they can't fight back against you technically, they want to use their connections to oppress you."
Chapter 938
Li Linfei frowned.
"However, after the minister and Fan Lao learned of this, they immediately rejected their request and also launched a strict investigation and scrutiny of all their operations."
"Before that, they also booked some products from us, such as aircraft, cargo ships, satellites and basic materials."
"But because of an unpleasant incident, they immediately withdrew their cooperation and switched to Airbus in Europe and Boeing in the United States for their planes, and ordered their cargo ships from Royal Caribbean in the United States, and got the United States to help launch their satellites."
Hearing this, Li Linfei sort of understood it completely.
In a nutshell, it means that the rise of Future Technology has touched the interests of many guys in the country, and may even bankrupt them, and they are not willing to let Future Technology step down, so they want to use the power of the state to put pressure on Future Technology, so as to achieve the effect of turning a dead tree into a spring.
Unfortunately, the cooperation between the military and Future Technology was far from being as deep as they could have imagined, so they failed.
After the failure, plus the state's strict investigation, they were naturally annoyed and felt that the state did not favour them but favoured Future Technology, so they cancelled all the previously booked cooperation.
That's why Tan just said they had been cheating on him, and it's a sad story when you look at it.
"Can I ask, how much is the total value of these products they booked?" Li Linfei asked.
Ye Lan sighed, "It's about seventy billion RMB, these things are basically almost finished producing, and now that they've backtracked and don't want them, we can only get the deposit that we neglected at first, and then we have to go and find the next family, the minister has been worried about this matter recently."
Li Linfei smiled, "It's only 70 billion RMB, just over 10 billion USD, not much."
Li Linfei just thought it was a big deal, but it turned out to be just over US$10 billion, which was not much.
You know, in July, his company's tax revenue exceeded US$20 billion, and in September, although it hadn't been counted yet, because of the US$100 billion deal with the US, the tax revenue wasn't much different from August.
Whether in terms of potential or actual benefits, Future Technology was far more powerful than those down-and-out guys, so it actually made sense for the military to choose Li Linfei over them.
Tan Gang smiled bitterly, "To you, ten billion dollars is not much, but to us it's different, ten billion dollars, it can do a lot of things."
"Is that so?"
Li Linfei picked up his cup of tea, took a sip, looked at Tan Gang and asked, "By the way, Minister Tan, don't you have a second thing to say?"
"Well, there is."
Tan Gang said, "This second matter is about the nuclear fusion device."
"Oh?" Li Linfei had a few guesses in his mind.
"Although our scientists have made some breakthroughs in their research on controlled nuclear fusion devices, they are still too far away from the proverbial doorstep."
Tan Gang frowned and said, "I'm not afraid to tell you, according to the information our spies have fed back from the old American side, they will most likely come up with a controlled fusion device the year after next, while we, at least, have to wait until two years later."
"To say that if they get it up before us, they will be able to press us hard in terms of international status is not good news for our entire nation."
"So, how about I also come here this time on behalf of my country and want to take lessons from your company?"
After saying this, Tan Gang stared at Li Linfei with a glittering gaze, his expression actually hid a bit of apprehension, it turned out that he was also afraid that Li Linfei would refuse.
"How do you know that my company has mastered nuclear fusion technology?" Li Linfei, however, said breezily.
"Really?" Tan Gang's eyes lit up, before this, he was not sure, but Li Linfei's words made him feel it.
"There is, but it's not perfect." Li Linfei didn't hide it.
Because it wasn't just Tan Gang who had mentioned this question, almost all the rest of the countries that had bought metal hydrogen from Future Technology had raised questions about it.
It was just that Li Linfei did not tell them the real situation.
"Brother Li, the technology of controlled nuclear fusion is very important to our country." Tan Gang's breathing was gradually ragged, and the fine aura in his eyes flashed with intensity and excitement.
Li Linfei smiled, "Minister Tan, as I said, our technology is still immature and cannot be released to the public for the time being, including to you, however, if you can provide the corresponding research materials, I will let the laboratory under me help you make a controlled fusion device for free, of course, whether it can be prepared successfully or not, I don't dare to guarantee it."
"Is this true?" Although Li Linfei said that he would not give information, but to get the finished product of the controlled fusion device directly, that was not much different from Tan Gang's expectation, and even more exciting.
After all, according to the current progress of the military laboratory, it would only take until two years before the technology could be mastered.
In fact, this is not a long time. Tan Gang's concern is that the United States has researched a controlled fusion device before them, and this is a matter of priority dominance in terms of international status.
As long as China has the controlled fusion device before the US, then everything is fine.
As for Li Linfei's claim that it could not be made, Tan Gang selectively ignored it because, in his opinion, Future Technology was leading the world in technology and would certainly have the capital to develop a controlled fusion device.
Even Tan Gang was suspecting that they had already worked it out long ago.
"Seriously, what we are talking about is very important, I wouldn't dare to lie to you." Li Linfei laughed.
"Good, good, with that from you, the stone in my heart has fallen."
Tan Gang turned his head to Ye Lan and said, "In a moment, you should inform the people in the laboratory to make a list of all the materials for the preparation of the nuclear fusion device, and inform the people below to send it to Xiangzhong City as fast as possible."
"Yes, Minister!"