The Moon belonged to all mankind. Who belonged to all mankind?
In 1967, the Outer Space Treaty was signed, and in 1969, Neil Armstrong planted the Stars and Stripes on the surface of the Moon.
The so-called United Nations resolution was just a piece of paper, just like the United Nations itself. Belonging to the entire human race was bullsh * t. The Moon's territory belonged to the countries that had the ability to land on the Moon. It belonged to whoever occupied it.
On the surface, Jiang Chen was opening up channels for investors from other countries to develop lunar resources. In reality, he was just tying international capital to the chariot of Celestial Trade to help him expand territory on the Moon.
No matter how those investors developed lunar resources, they were all based on the recognition of the sovereignty of Lunar City. The expansion was also limited to the territory of Lunar City, and it was impossible to create a new New York or a new Moscow.
Taking a step back, if someone really dared to declare independence, Jiang Chen would cut off the water, electricity, and air for them to see how long they could stay on the Moon. Controllable nuclear fusion power generation technology was the threshold for interstellar colonization. After a few decades, other countries would have figured out the method of helium-3 power generation, and the Moon would already be covered with Celestial Trade factories.
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After the flight from Celestial City to Lunar City was established, Celestial Trade opened the ticket sales channel on its official website and issued 500 tickets a day at a price of 10,000 Xin New Dollars.
With a distance of nearly 400,000 kilometers and a maximum flight speed of close to 10 kilometers per second, it could reach the Moon's synchronous orbit in half a day. The ticket price of 100,000 Xin New Dollars may be an unaffordable price for ordinary people, but there would never be a shortage of rich people in the world.
For those rich people who had too much money to spend, whether there was anything worth seeing on the Moon or not, it was a great honor to be able to go there. At least in the future, when they attended a high-level party and met an old business friend, they could say a few words when they clinked glasses, "Hey, look at the Moon in the sky, I've been there. The scenery on it is probably the most beautiful I've ever seen in my life. I recommend you to go and see … "
Now there was only one SS Seagull. The transportation resources from Celestial City to Lunar City were quite precious. In addition to people, it would also carry some goods from Earth. The most important thing was that Lunar City could only accept 10,000 tourists at most, and it was not the time to develop the low-end tourism market.
In fact, Jiang Chen still underestimated the appeal of Moon tourism to the rich. On the first day of the flight ticket sales channel, tickets for seven flights within a week were sold out in almost one second. If it wasn't for the fact that they could only book a week's worth of tickets, the entire month's worth of tickets would have been sold out in a matter of seconds.
The boss of a real estate company had foreseen that there might be a panic buying trend, so he had the foresight to order his secretary to find more than a hundred people from his company to squat in front of the computer to help him buy the tickets. Just when he thought that victory was in his grasp, he didn't expect to lose to the delay of a few milliseconds in the end. Looking at the secretary standing in front of him with a perturbed expression, he couldn't help but slam the table and curse.
"A bunch of trash! You only know how to play with your phone screen all day long. You guys can't even get a single ticket for me! "
With a tearful face, the secretary explained, "Boss, you can't blame us for this. This is not a train ticket, and there are only a few hundred of them in the world. And I suspect that someone must be using a software to snatch it! "
As soon as he heard this, the boss suddenly became angry. "Others use software to snatch it, why don't you use software? I asked you to find people to help me buy the tickets, and you found one or two hundred workers from the construction site? I might as well do it myself! "
"But, but we don't have software …"
"There are so many programmers in the company, why don't you find two strong people to write your own! I asked you to find people, but I asked you to use your brain! "
The secretary simply stopped talking. He knew that the boss was now angry and just wanted to find someone to vent his anger on. At this moment, lowering his head and taking the scolding was more effective than any explanation.
Just then, the company manager rushed in.
"Boss! It's sold on the black market. "
The boss was overjoyed and immediately asked, "How much is one?"
"Three days later, one million … USD."
The boss suddenly cursed in his mind. [Fu * k, it's almost the price of a house.] But after thinking about it, it was just a house. He was in the real estate business, and there were plenty of houses. So he calmed himself down and endured the pain.
"Hurry up and place the order, buy me … buy ten tickets!"
Originally, he only planned to buy three tickets and take his wife and son to have a look. But after he thought about it, the ticket price might increase again. If he bought a few more tickets and sold them, wouldn't he get the money back?
Therefore, in the face of the hungry market, with a large group of people adding fuel to the fire, the ticket price on the black market was directly inflated to more than ten times the price, and the highest price was even more than ten million USD.
Another interesting phenomenon was that the closer it was to the first flight, the higher the price of the tickets were. Especially the ticket for seat 001 on the first day of the flight, it was said that it was bought by a Middle Eastern tycoon for 15 million US dollars.
Although 1012 people had already landed on the Moon, everyone wanted to be the 1013th. Even if history would not remember the name of the 1013th person on the Moon, it was still something worth bragging about. Jiang Chen admitted that he underestimated the curiosity of the rich. The inflated ticket price had seriously affected the normal operation of the Seagull flight.
As a result, those who had already sold their tickets were let go. From the second day onwards, the sale of tickets began to be linked to identity information. Ticket holders must have the same visa and passport as the ticket buyer to board the ship. As soon as this measure was introduced, it immediately strangled the scalpers who just tasted the sweetness in the cradle.
In the ground command center, Kelvin looked at the green dot that marked the Seagull on the radar. He smacked his lips and said, "I think our tickets are still too cheap.
"I think we sold our tickets too cheaply. The price of one ticket is already 10 million USD on the black market. We can totally set the price at 200,000 XND per ticket. At the current price, the flight will earn at least 50 million XND. "
The power system of the Seagull used a nuclear fusion generator function. The total value of helium-3 batteries and cesium metal blocks consumed by a flight was less than one million XND. Even including the maintenance costs and labor costs of the ship, the cost of a flight to the Moon was only two million XND.
With the current ticket price, this flight to the Moon was a windfall!
The Moon colony that burned money for almost an entire year, after breaking even through the sale of electricity and rare earth mining, finally became profitable through tourism! Two days before the flight opened, Kelvin was still in tears from excitement, but now he began to complain that the ticket price was too low.
The speed at which he changed his attitude was unparalleled.
"The ticket price will come down sooner or later. The enthusiasm of the rich won't last long. What's more, we have a mountain of gold behind us. Do you still care about the few coins in the workers' pockets? "Jiang Chen joked.
"Isn't there a saying in Hua? No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat. "Kelvin shook his head and said regretfully.
"There is also a saying in Hua, those who achieve great things don't care about small profits."
Jiang Chen laughed, patted Calvin's shoulder, and left the dumbfounded Calvin behind.
Kelvin stood next to the route map for a long time. His brows furrowed as he thought about what Jiang Chen just said.
After a while, he squeezed out a sentence with a serious face.
"… Why do I remember that the correct grammar of the saying should be, those who achieve great things don't care about small things?"
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