Venus, Illuminati base.
In the orbit of Venus, a brand new starport is under construction. It was jointly designed by Tony, Hank, and Charles, and then built by 300 engineering steel armors for outer space and Magneto.
Millions of tons of steel are continuously transported to the orbit of Venus through Magneto's ability. In order to prevent the sudden appearance of this starport from being observed by astronomy enthusiasts on Earth, Dr. Hank also camouflaged the entire space base.
At the same time, the first starport on Earth, the Sky City, finally began construction under the impetus of all parties. However, the size of the Sky City was much smaller than expected.
Tony's original design was a real base that could accommodate 10,000 people. In the end, the size of the Sky City was reduced to accommodate only 2,000 people. And there was no way to set up an ecological cycle inside this starport.
In fact, the design of the ecological cycle originated from the Illuminati base on Venus. It was jointly developed by Dr. Hank and Professor Charles.
It includes genetically modified fruit trees, rice and wheat, and automatic water filtration systems as well as oxygen and fertilizer decomposition systems. The entire system relies on the Ark Energy to achieve a basic ecological cycle.
As long as the Ark Energy has electricity, the ecological cycle can be maintained. According to the original design of the Sky City, it should be able to accommodate 10,000 people to work and live, and a single energy replenishment will allow the starport to last for ten years.
If the Arc Reactor is built on the starport and a spacecraft is sent directly from the starport to the moon to mine Helium-3, the cost will be lower than on Earth.
The simplest point is that the cost of a solid rocket to transport a spacecraft through the atmosphere is astonishingly high, and it is a one-time use.
There is no need to consider these things when taking off and landing spaceships in the starport. There is no atmosphere to break through here, and you do not need to accelerate to the third cosmic speed.
Tony even ingeniously thought of the possibility of directly airdropping ores from the starport in the future, as long as safety precautions are taken and the final landing deceleration is slowed down. This way, the transportation cost will be greatly reduced.
However, due to various considerations, various countries finally reduced the entire Sky City plan. Including the space elevator and artificial planetary belt around the Earth proposed by Tony.
This huge plan was the plan after the Sky City in the starport. It was also proposed and discussed during the internal meeting of the Illuminati. The specific approach was to use the space elevator as the skeleton, and a space elevator would extend into the sky. Then a ring of buildings would be built with these bones.
The entire circular spaceport rotated synchronously with the Earth. The Earth was the central axis, the space elevator was the spokes, and the circular spaceport was the outer circle. The structure was similar to that of a bicycle tire.
This was a grand and domineering project, but in fact, Li Jie and Rogers weren't very optimistic about it at first. Tony's plan was too domineering and a little presumptuous. There was no way the governments would agree to such a thing.
Just promoting the Asia-Europe Super-High-Speed Rail Plan was already full of obstacles. If it wasn't for the fact that China and Russia joined in to ease the pressure of international public opinion, Li Jie was worried that relying on Latvia's strength alone would cause more conflicts.
After China and Russia joined the Ultra High Speed Rail, the traditional influence of these two countries was included in the direction of the railway extension. China is willing to fork out five trillion yuan of interest-free or low-interest loans to build this super railway.
Of course, this loan had certain conditions. Just like Latvia's loan to Ukraine in exchange for 30 years of railway operation rights.
China's requirements weren't as harsh, but they also maintained 15 to 20 years of operation rights as collateral. Russia was also exerting its strength, but because Russia itself wasn't a rich country, most of the domestic funds were controlled by a few oligarchs.
Therefore, Russia didn't exert much force, but it also showed an attitude. The Ultra High Speed Rail was imperative. Captain Rogers and the entrepreneurs around him were also persuading Congress to implement the High Speed Rail Plan. In fact, the U.S. railways were really bad. Some places still had railways from the 1960s.
The demands and slogan of those entrepreneurs and financiers for the laying of the Ultra High Speed Rail was simple – Return to manufacturing! The U.S. had been shouting this slogan for almost a decade, but it had little effect.
The unemployment rate in traditional manufacturing cities was high. Detroit, which was once glorious and known as the world's automobile city, had become a ghost town. The entire city center was so desolate that one could play the real version of Escape.
Detroit was just a microcosm of the entire U.S. manufacturing industry. [Increase staff mobility and distribute job opportunities equally!] This was the slogan of the Ultra High Speed Rail in the U.S.
The people in the Illuminati mobilized all their strength to push in this direction. The humanities and financial scientists funded by the Horizon Foundation proposed the concept of [International Manufacturing Cooperation 2.0].
"The company's factories have geographical limitations. If the increase in staff mobility overcomes the geographical limitations, then the possibility of obtaining a work plan will increase."
In fact, some companies had begun to try this. Osborne Group and Stark Group signed an agreement with the Chinese government.
It just so happened that western China was desolate and barren because of the Lord Man's years of rebellion. The Western Development Plan was imperative. And the strength and determination of the push were not comparable to the Earth in Li Jie's previous life.
Stark and Osborne Group were willing to build new heavy machinery processing plants in western China. Some of the personnel were recruited from Chinese employees, and some were recruited from Eastern European engineers and senior technicians.
In fact, the traditional heavy industry of the former Soviet Union was still very strong. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, those high-level scientists might be poached by other countries. However, outstanding engineers and skilled technicians would not be able to do so. After the factory went bankrupt, many people lost their jobs or went to work in small factories.
These people had a high level of technical skills, especially in Ukraine. Now that the entire Ukrainian economy was in turmoil, even traditional large companies were on the verge of bankruptcy. Engineers' wages were also very low, and working in China could offer a much higher salary.
And the main reason why many people did not want to go abroad to make a living was that they did not want to live abroad. But the super-high-speed railway would change all of this.
The two groups had signed a letter of intent with the Chinese government. The immigration procedures for this batch of recruited foreign employees were simplified. This way, they could spend 20 minutes on the super-high-speed railway home on weekends after working in China for five days. This way, they wouldn't have the loneliness of working abroad.
This made many people willing to try to work outside the country. And on the other side. Other businessmen, including China and Russia, also saw the huge opportunity.
Because the average wages of China workers increased year after year, China's manufacturing jobs were also shrinking. Some businessmen smelled the business opportunities, and a large number of jobs flowed to South Asian countries. But the average education level of these countries was not as good as China, and there was also a gap in technology.
So in the future with the super-high-speed railway, could they create a large technology outsourcing team to solve the technical problems faced by these countries?
These businessmen were also planning for all of this. In an era of global upheaval, no country can monopolize all the benefits. There are gains and losses, and it depends on how the gains and losses are weighed.
Of course, there is also the strangulation of Hydra's industries promoted by the Illuminati that has slowly begun. As long as the time is right, it will not be difficult to catch them all.
And now, Li Jie is inviting the other two members of the Illuminati. He has something important to say.
"Do you have to close the door?" After Tony walked into the conference room, he watched Li Jie close the door and lock it with encryption and asked in confusion.
Rogers just shrugged: "Maybe there is something important to announce? Are you going to get married? "
Li Jie snorted: "It's good to get married. Speaking of which, Tony, you have to find a way to get the other ring back for me. "
"I said, I can't do it!" Tony said without shame: "It's harder to take the ring off Pei Bo's hand than to go to heaven. You'd better wait. "
"What's wrong with your eyes? Do you have serious dark circles? "Rogers noticed that Li Jie's eyes were a little dark.
Li Jie waved his hand: "I don't sleep well, the Alaskan Malamute and Samoyed at home are just barking every night."
Tony raised his eyebrows: "I haven't heard of you having a pet dog?"
"That's not the point, I'm not here to talk about this today." Li Jie took a deep breath and looked at Captain Rogers and said: "Captain, I need to tell you a piece of news, you can't be too excited after hearing this news."
Rogers smiled, he sat in the chair and grasped the armrest very cooperatively: "Go ahead, I'm just short of putting on a safety belt now."
Li Jie looked into Captain Rogers' eyes and said: "I found Barnes Bakis. He is not dead yet. "
Li Jie saw calmness in Captain Rogers' eyes, blue eyes as calm as a lake. Eh? Something doesn't seem right? Li Jie was a little surprised. Did the captain not care about his good friend at all?
Just as Li Jie was confused, Captain Rogers asked even more confused: "Who is Barnes Bakis? Do I know him? "
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