After staying in Kuala Lumpur for three days, Jiang Chen returned to Coro Island in his Gulfstream G650 and began to prepare for his next trip.
Shortly after his return, Celestial Trade sent an engineering ship to the sea between Ange Island and the New Malaysia Special District to begin construction work. Laying this kind of submarine transmission line was much more troublesome than building elevated transmission lines on land. However, for Celestial Trade, which often engaged in submarine engineering, this trouble was nothing at all.
The person in charge of the project assured Jiang Chen that the transmission line could be completed by the end of March at the latest.
On the Moon colony, the colony's director, Tang Weijie, also assured Jiang Chen via video call that the long-distance transmission equipment would be completed by the end of this month (February). On Celestial City's side, the device used to receive lasers was also under construction.
Calvin assured Jiang Chen that by mid-March at the latest, all of Xin would be able to use the electricity generated by the Moon's nuclear fusion power station. Coro City's nuclear power plant, which had been criticized for years, could also be retired from the stage of history.
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Jiang Chen spent almost all of February on the plane.
Following Malaysia's agreement to connect its power grid with Xin, Celestial Trade's negotiations with Australia, India, Japan, South Korea and other countries were also in progress.
Just as Jiang Chen expected, at 1.2 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity, no one could reject the unimaginable profit margin of electricity. Some people speculated that Celestial Trade was using solar energy, and some people speculated that there were a large number of uranium and plutonium isotopes on the Bennu asteroid, but no one thought about nuclear fusion.
Because it was too difficult to achieve nuclear fusion, no material could withstand the reaction temperature of tens of millions of degrees required for nuclear fusion. The legendary cold fusion had even harsher conditions to achieve, to the point that it was beyond the realm of science fiction.
In fact, even in the 22nd century, it was impossible to find materials that could withstand temperatures of tens of millions of degrees.
If there really was such a material, it would not be a problem to fly into the sun to mine. After all, the temperature at the center of the sun was only more than 20 million degrees Celsius.
However, in the not too distant future, there was a magical technology that could confine particles in a certain space, maintain its own high temperature, and prevent it from contacting other materials. Instead of a material container in the traditional sense, it was held by a pair of invisible hands.
That was magnetic confinement technology.
However, even with magnetic confinement technology, nuclear fusion power generation was still an almost impossible problem for most people. Devices that used magnetic confinement methods to confine charged particles were invented as early as the end of the 20th century. However, using magnetic confinement technology to confine uncharged helium-3 and deuterium involved particle physics, which couldn't be explained by current physics.
In short, the negotiations with Australia were successful. Australia agreed to build the submarine cable, but insisted that the construction and maintenance of the submarine cable must be done by Australian companies. Jiang Chen gladly accepted this proposal. If it was really handed over to the offshore construction team of Celestial Trade, they wouldn't have the time to do it. They could only schedule the construction period to the completion of the submarine cable between Ange Island and the New Malaysia Special District.
Australia's annual electricity generation is almost twice that of Malaysia, close to 400 billion kWh. And because of institutional reasons, the Australian side did not interfere with the negotiations between Celestial Trade and domestic enterprises as Malaysia did on the specific amount of imported electricity.
Australia's electricity was basically monopolized by the two major companies. AGL, dedicated to the development of alternative energy, was quite generous. After hearing Jiang Chen's offer, they signed the 100 billion kWh contract without hesitation and obtained the priority to cooperate in the Australian market.
The market in the southern hemisphere would bring more than one billion AUD to Celestial Trade each year.
As for India, the negotiations were even smoother.
As an emerging economy with the world's fifth-largest electricity generation, India's annual electricity subsidies were a terrifying number. But when negotiating with India, Jiang Chen completely understood what it meant to dawdle. The price had clearly been agreed upon, but the entire negotiation was inexplicably unable to come to an agreement.
In the end, Jiang Chen simply left the follow-up work of the negotiation to Future Bank's branch in India. Those professional negotiators represented the entire negotiation, and then he set off for Nippon.
He still had a lot of things to do and didn't have time to waste in one place.
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At the foot of the Alps in Europe, in a manor under the name of Rothschild, four or five fruit farmers were working in front of rows of wooden racks with grapevines hanging on them. The planting techniques they used were inherited from the traditional planting techniques mastered by the Medici family in the 14th century.
The Rothschild family believed that only traditional planting techniques could produce the most authentic wine. The red wine produced from this winery was also comparable to the value of gold and was sought after by the entire upper class in Europe.
Next to the vineyard, a man in casual clothes was reading the newspaper in his hand and sitting on a wooden chair made of rattan.
If they didn't walk closer, no one would know that this man with a Jewish face was the uncrowned king of the entire European underground forces.
After the tragedy of the Pilsen Cathedral, he, who integrated all the power of the Freemasonry, was indeed worthy of the title "uncrowned king". In the entire 33rd Council, only he had the most seniority. As the Lord, he not only held the power of the Freemasonry, but he also controlled the wealth of the entire Rothschild family.
However, at this moment, the young king's expression was melancholy.
A Mercedes-Benz stopped at the door of the winery, and Johnson in a suit walked into the winery. He was Rothschild's personal bodyguard and his most loyal subordinate. Since he was selected by Rothschild from the French Foreign Legion, he had been working for Carmen.
Even the Ber tragedy that shocked the world had his shadow behind him.
Without looking back at Johnson standing behind him, Carmen turned to the next page of the newspaper and asked in a casual tone.
"It's been taken care of?"
Like a merciless war machine, Johnson answered.
"It's all taken care of."
Just two hours ago, all the voices of opposition within the European Union were extinguished.
The corner of Carmen's mouth curved up slightly as he closed the newspaper in his hand.
The butler standing next to him was slightly surprised. It was the first time he saw his young master smile today.
Putting the newspaper aside, Carmen stood up and smiled.
"What about our enemies? Did they notice? "
Johnson shook his head.
"Very good."
Looking at the Alps not far away, the smile on Carmen's face was even brighter, just like the snow that had just melted on the Alps not far away.
"It's almost time for me to go."
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