At noon the next day, Jiang Chen met with Elon Musk, who flew from the Western Hemisphere, in the conference room of Future Building. This Silicon Valley legend, who was nearly 50 years old, still looked energetic at first glance. He did not look like a 50-year-old person at all.
"Sit." Jiang Chen looked at Elon Musk who walked into the conference room, pointed to the chair next to the conference table, and said with a smile.
"Thank you." Elon nodded politely, sat down, and looked at Jiang Chen.
Just as Jiang Chen looked at him, Elon was also looking at Jiang Chen.
He had always heard that this young man in his twenties built a technology empire that spanned the world in less than five years. Now that he saw him in person, he was indeed extraordinary.
From the Internet to new energy, from new materials to aerospace, Future Group's tentacles almost covered all aspects of human production and life. As long as people could imagine the future, Future Group turned it into reality.
Elon Musk still couldn't figure out what Jiang Chen's brain was made of. In the country that was least likely to give birth to a great man, it was incredible that such a monster was born.
"Mr. Musk, you didn't come all the way here just to chat with me, right?" Jiang Chen smiled, leaned back in the chair, and crossed his fingers in front of his knees. "You and I are both busy people with hundreds of thousands of dollars per minute. Let's get straight to the point."
Elon Musk stared at Jiang Chen for half a minute and finally sighed.
"Before I came in, I was thinking about how to convince you."
Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow.
"Oh? You don't want to now? "
Elon Musk shook his head and then said, "Thinking is thinking, but when I saw you, I knew it was basically impossible to convince you."
"Can I hear the reason?" Jiang Chen said with a smile.
"Because we are the same kind of people." Elon Musk looked at Jiang Chen and said seriously, "Once you decide on something, you won't easily change your mind."
Elon Musk's words made Jiang Chen fall into deep thought.
However, this contemplation only lasted for less than ten seconds before Jiang Chen spread his hands and said in a relaxed tone, "You are right. If you are here for the Earth Fleet project today, I can tell you very clearly that you can go back."
When Elon Musk heard that Jiang Chen almost sentenced the future of SpaceX to death, his expression turned bitter.
"Can't you give Silicon Valley companies a chance to compete fairly? Our aerospace technology is far superior to other countries' aerospace companies. Whether it is cost or quality, we definitely won't lose to Russia and China's aerospace companies. The Earth Fleet is related to the future of mankind. Are we going to neglect the future of Earth just because of a little diplomatic friction — "
"Just because?" "The UA fleet is in Guam, right on the doorstep of Xin. Do you call this' just because '?"
Faced with the speechless Elon Musk, Jiang Chen's finger tapped on the table and he said emotionlessly.
"In my opinion, as long as the funds are in place, no advantage will last forever. You can obtain today's technological advantages because of the space race during the Cold War era, which allowed you to receive a large budget from Congress. "
"We have fifty years or even a century to prepare for this war. In the face of such a time scale, the advantage of starting point is completely negligible."
"What's more, in my opinion, your technological advantage is nothing."
It was nothing much …
Jiang Chen's understatement negated NASA's half-century of achievements and denied SpaceX's position as the world's second.
Although Elon Musk was full of unwillingness, he looked at Jiang Chen and couldn't say a word. There was only a bitter smile on his face.
He could only blame the fact that the space elevator was built in the Western Pacific Ocean. He could only blame Celestial Trade for strangling the world's aerospace companies. In the face of such a gap, not to mention the second in the world, even the second to the 100th in the world combined would be nothing in front of Celestial Trade.
With this thought in mind, Elon Musk shook his head and stood up.
Since there was nothing else to talk about, he didn't need to waste time here.
Although SpaceX and a group of Silicon Valley and Seattle companies were excluded from the pie of the Earth Fleet, Celestial Trade didn't completely leave them a way out. At least the asteroid mining project was still profitable, and major aerospace companies could still share some of the profits from the outsourcing projects … However, the trillion Xin New dollar market was out of their reach.
Under the stimulation of trillions of Xin New dollars, even a pig could run forward. As Jiang Chen said, in the next few decades, the UA's aerospace technology would only gradually be left behind by the members of the Earth Defense Alliance, unless the UA Congress showed the courage of the Cold War era and spent trillions of dollars on aerospace projects.
But was this possible?
The gap between the UA and Xin was separated by a 36,000-kilometer space elevator.
Perhaps there was no way to negotiate this matter from the beginning …
Just as Elon Musk got up and was about to leave, Jiang Chen suddenly smiled.
"Of course, things are not without room for maneuver."
Jiang Chen's understatement was like a bomb thrown into Elon Musk's heart that had sunk to the bottom. He turned around abruptly and looked at Jiang Chen sitting at the conference table.
However, after he met Jiang Chen's gaze, his originally pounding heart quickly returned to calmness.
He knew very well that the so-called room for maneuver was probably in quotation marks.
The expression on his face changed several times, and he looked at Jiang Chen. "What do you mean?"
"There are many UA entrepreneurs in Xin," Jiang Chen said with a smile, "There is an old saying in Hua, people go to higher places, water flows to lower places. Since SpaceX can't find a way out in Silicon Valley, why not consider Penglai City and Celestial City? "
Elon Musk paused for a moment, and his expression suddenly became strange.
He originally thought that Jiang Chen would make some excessive demands, but he didn't expect Jiang Chen to be so blatantly trying to poach him?
"Mr. Jiang, you must be joking," Elon Musk said with a fake smile. Elon Musk said with a smile that did not reach his eyes. "Do you think a company like ours can just leave like that? In addition, you should worry about the imminent problem. "
"The imminent problem?" Jiang Chen laughed and spread his hands. "I don't know what the problem is? Why can't I see it? Can Mr. Musk give me some advice? "
"The aircraft carrier is already at our doorstep. Isn't it a problem?" Elon Musk stared into Jiang Chen's eyes. He couldn't tell if Jiang Chen was arrogant or confident. He tried to find the fearless capital from his pupils. "In fact, if you take a step back, we can all survive."
After a long silence, Jiang Chen suddenly smiled.
"When did Silicon Valley become a lobbyist for Capital?"
"I didn't say anything."
Knowing that his final persuasion failed, Elon Musk shook his head and no longer wasted time. He pushed open the door of the conference room and walked out.
Without looking at Elon Musk, Jiang Chen clicked on the holographic screen of his watch, casually glanced at the calendar, and seemed to be talking to himself.
"It's almost time to start."
Take a step back?
Taking a step back is hell.
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