As the heart of the European Union, the victory of the Frankberg Revolution inspired the people of Europe.
The collapse of the Rothschild Empire accelerated the pace of "de-rightward" in European countries. People began to reflect on whether the choice made two years ago was correct and whether the far-right parties really brought their countries in a better direction after coming to power.
Contrary to the turbulent situation in Europe, the economy of Asia on the other side of the world was steadily rising.
In particular, the country located in the western Pacific Ocean with a vast sea area, the GDP grew by leaps and bounds as if it was on a space elevator.
On June 10th, a delegation from the Nippon government took the initiative to come to Coro City and led the Chubu Power Company and Tepco to promote an agreement to expand electricity imports. The total amount of electricity imports in the second half of the year was increased by 31% to replace the two nuclear power plants that had been shut down.
At present, the mining speed of helium-3 in Lunar City was far greater than the consumption speed. The second nuclear fusion power station was about to be completed, and there was still considerable surplus in production capacity. Jiang Chen, of course, welcomed such an agreement with open arms.
Not only Nippon, but the Hua market that Jiang Chen coveted the most also relaxed in terms of policy and sent many delegations from power companies to Xin for inspection. As the world's largest electricity consumer, Hua's electricity market was larger than the second-ranked UA and the third-ranked India combined.
Even if Hua eliminated half of its thermal power, it could make Celestial Trade insane.
By the beginning of June, the Global Grid Plan had completed the most critical first step. With the efforts of multiple parties, Celestial Trade's submarine cables had successfully covered the entire Australia and 80% of countries and regions in Asia, and the output accounted for 88% of the total domestic electricity output.
Benefiting from the dividends brought by cheap electricity, based on the proportion of imported electricity in the country's total electricity consumption, the industrial costs of the Global Grid Plan countries fell by 1.7% at the highest and 0.3% at the lowest. Don't underestimate the drop of one or two points. When reflected on the GDP of trillions, the energy generated was unimaginable!
This did not include a series of benefits to the ecological environment, investment environment, competitiveness of export products, promotion of the electrification process, and weakening the dependence of domestic industries on the energy market. In short, governments that tasted the sweetness also released positive signals and sent their own entrepreneurs to Xin to negotiate to see if they could expand imports.
The New York Times even claimed that Xin had become a country on a telephone pole. The Washington Post, on the other hand, had a very satirical cartoon. Dog leashes extended from the Western Pacific Ocean and chained up the surrounding countries, big and small.
No matter what the media reported, the countries that bought the tickets were already on the high-speed electrified train. After tasting the sweetness, they naturally had no reason to jump out of the train. Through the submarine cables, Jiang Chen harvested not only a steady stream of cash but also real diplomatic capital.
Why has the US dollar been able to dominate the global market for more than half a century? One of the main reasons was that any country that wanted to develop light and heavy industries couldn't do without oil, and the US dollar happened to be pegged to oil. If the domestic crude oil production can't meet the domestic demand, then you can only reserve more foreign exchange to avoid risks.
It was the same now. Asian countries were increasing their holdings of SGD.
When the rise and fall of the Xin New Dollar could already affect the industrial and domestic electricity costs of many countries, even if Coro City was not the world financial center, the Xin Reserve had the potential to leverage the hegemony of the US dollar.
It had nothing to do with finance. This was raw power.
…
There were still five days before the Outer Space Security Summit. Jiang Chen had already sent invitations to ten major countries around the world and vaguely mentioned in the invitation that the topic of the meeting would be related to extraterrestrial civilization.
So far, the ten countries that received the invitation said that they would send high-level foreign ministers to visit.
There was no suspense in the holding of the meeting. For Jiang Chen, the key issue was what kind of evidence to present at the meeting.
At present, the space telescope he transported from the apocalypse was installed on the space elevator and sent to the geosynchronous orbit. Jiang Chen wasn't very clear about the specific coordinates of the colonization ship, but he knew where it would come from and where its destination was. That was enough.
Gliese 581 galaxy, about 2 degrees north of Beta Libra, 20.5 light-years away from Earth. As early as a week before the invitation was sent out, the astronomical observation team of the Celestial Trade Space Department conducted several days of observation and analysis of the galaxy and finally came to a shocking … news that was already within Jiang Chen's expectations.
The possibility of life existing on Gliese 581g had reached 90%.
"Unbelievable …" With a stack of astronomical data in his hand, Calvin walked into Jiang Chen's office and said in disbelief, "Your conjecture is correct. There is indeed the possibility of life being nurtured there. But I can be sure that even if there is life there, it is absolutely impossible to breed a civilization above the Stone Age. "
Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow and asked with a smile, "Oh? Why? "
"First is the tidal lock. The habitable zone of the entire planet is only around the twilight line, which determines their living space." Calvin took out a spectrogram from the document and placed it in front of Jiang Chen. "Then the most critical. The elemental composition of this planet contains a large amount of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon, but it is extremely lacking in mineral elements such as iron and aluminum. Referring to the gravitational data analysis we observed, the most likely possibility of this planet is the existence of a group of arthropods along the twilight line, and not even mammals exist! "
Hearing this, Jiang Chen nodded with approval.
Although it was with the help of observation equipment from the 22nd century, it was quite impressive to be able to analyze so much valuable information from limited information.
"Have you considered another possibility?"
"Another possibility?" Calvin frowned.
"We have always thought that the development of civilization is linear, from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, then from the Feudal Age to the Industrial Revolution, and finally through the Information Age into the future."
"What's wrong?" Calvin didn't think so.
"Conclusions drawn from only one reference system can't be universal. We can't deny the possibility of other forms of civilization just because the development of human civilization is linear," Jiang Chen said.
"You mean a group of insects can breed a civilization? Stop joking, they … "Calvin shook his head. Just as he was about to say they didn't even have hands, he suddenly stopped.
He suddenly remembered Celestial Trade's military action in the northern Finnish tundra some time ago. There, the Power Armor Brigade that Celestial Trade was proud of seemed to encounter a group of mutants that crawled out of insect eggs.
Why did Jiang Chen ask the Celestial Trade Space Department to observe the Gliese System? Why did Jiang Chen suddenly go to Finland before the X2 bacteria incident? Why was Jiang Chen so sure of the danger of the nest from the beginning …
All the clues connected in Calvin's mind.
He looked at Jiang Chen blankly and squeezed out a few words from his throat in disbelief.
"You mean …"
"That's right." Jiang Chen nodded and said seriously, "The beginning and end of the X2 bacteria is not just a research accident as the outside world claims. From the beginning, this was a conspiracy of the extraterrestrial civilization."
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