Chapter 440 The Eastern Sun Shines on the World

"You mean, they saw that they couldn't exchange those ten spies from us through conventional methods, and then they actually wanted to put pressure on us through ITER? And while putting pressure, they also wanted us to share technology?"

When Lin Xiao learned the news from Ma Gaoliang, he was extremely surprised.

Listening to these words, why does it feel like I am dreaming back to 1919?

"What do they think? Why do they have such unrealistic ideas? Are their think tanks crazy?"

Lin Xiao felt very ridiculous.

"Hey, who knows, and according to what they said, if we don't agree, they might even consider kicking us out of ITER."

Ma Gaoliang said: "That's why I called you this time to ask for your opinion on this point."

"If they really kick us out of ITER, will it have any impact on your Golden Crow plan?"

Lin Xiao snorted coldly and said: "Don't worry, it won't have any impact at all. ITER means nothing more to us than some technologies, but for us now, these technologies are of no significance. Those technologies are no longer useful to us now anyway.”

Hearing what Lin Xiao said, Ma Gaoliang felt certain in his heart, and then immediately said: "Okay, with your words, I will feel relieved."

"Um."

"Hehe, when the time comes, Academician Lin, just wait for our good news. Since their tricks are useless to them, we can't be soft this time. We must let them vomit out everything they have eaten before. .”

As he spoke, he snorted with a little annoyance and said: "This bullshit ITER has been established for many years, and we have invested countless billions of funds into it, but the result has not been seen until this year. They lit a fire or something.”

"Originally, according to the original schedule, the first ignition was to begin in 2025. However, they did not even complete the construction of the device. Those so-called research partners only thought about the benefits, and no one thought about it. Give first and then get.”

"This time we must use this opportunity to get back all the billions of dollars we invested in research for your Golden Crow Project, okay?"

Listening to Ma Gaoliang's complaints, Lin Xiao smiled, and then said: "It's good to get used to this kind of thing. Can we still be unclear about other countries?"

"Hey, I just feel a little unlucky."

Ma Gaoliang said.

"Okay, then I will report your side of the story to the superiors first, and then hang up. I will tell you the good news when the time comes."

"okay."

Lin Xiao said, then put down the phone and hung up.

After hanging up the phone, he sighed again. Sure enough, as the system said at the beginning, for the entire human civilization on earth, this kind of internal strife between civilizations is indeed what causes the development of civilization to stagnate. .

There is nothing that can be done about it, after all, their civilization has not yet felt any pressure from the outside world.

After all, only pressure can make a ball of loose sand coalesce again.

But obviously, this pressure can only come from the universe.

But for now, they must continue their "internal strife" over this conflict of national interests.

"Chief Engineer Lin, Chief Engineer Li is asking for a meeting with you. It's the list of units you mentioned last time that are qualified to undertake magnetic fluid generators."

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and a staff member came in and said to Lin Xiao.

"okay, I get it."

Lin Xiao nodded.

After this meeting, the manufacturer of the magnetic fluid generator will probably be determined. In this way, every part of the entire Golden Crow fusion reactor has been arranged. Next, it is time to wait for the final ignition moment.

Lin Xiao felt slightly certain in his heart and put all the previous worries behind him. If he wanted to resolve the internal strife, it could not be achieved through non-violence and non-cooperation.

In the absence of external pressure to condense a ball of loose sand, the mass of one of the loose sands can only continue to become larger and larger, until it is finally large enough to be able to attract other surrounding sands through gravity. Gathered.

…

France, Cala d'Ache.

ITER is located in Karadash, and of course, the work location of the relevant organization's board of directors is also here.

At this moment, a meeting bringing together representatives of all ITER council members is about to be held.

However, although the time for the meeting is approaching, there is still a delegation of one member country that is not present, and this member country is the core of their meeting.

"Why haven't the people from China arrived yet?"

The American representative frowned and said.

However, in response to his words, the other parties basically said nothing. On the contrary, they all lowered their heads, as if it had nothing to do with them.

Of course, for representatives from other countries, they naturally hope that Chinese representatives will not appear.

Otherwise, they won't know what to say later, because in terms of room temperature superconductors, none of them want to offend China.

If they couldn't resist, they wouldn't want to come here.

Of course, there is another country's representative present that I am not afraid of, and that is the representative of Russia.

The Russian representative leaned back in his chair with a tactic, and then said sarcastically with a smile: "You'd better stop talking. If they really come, others will say 'impolite'."

Representatives from other countries had embarrassed expressions on their faces. After all, it was not a pleasant feeling to be called the center of attention.

Of course, at this time, the Russian representative said again: "But I say, you are a person who obeys orders, and you should also know that if the final situation is not good, you, as the person in charge, may have to bear all the responsibilities in the end." What? Think about yourself!"

The person in charge of the U.S. side couldn't help but glared at the Russian representative and said: "I advise you not to talk too much. You are not invited to this meeting today. Since you are just joining in the fun, then I will treat you well." Lively."

The Russian representative shrugged his shoulders and said: "Who said that you just join in the fun without an invitation? Besides, who said that those who join in the fun can't talk?"

"you!"

Just when the American representative was about to get angry, the door of the conference room was suddenly knocked, and the Chinese delegation walked in.

Several Chinese representatives looked very calm and even seemed to be smiling.

The leader of the delegation first nodded to everyone present and said with a smile: "I'm sorry to keep you waiting. It just took a lot of time to collect the bills."

bill?

Hearing this word, other representatives present felt a little confused.

Does the bill have anything to do with the meeting they are having today?

But at this time, the American representative who had been impatient for a long time immediately said without any nonsense, "Okay, let's not talk about these useless nonsense now. I think you should also know what we mean in today's meeting." , several technologies that you have achieved major breakthroughs in controllable nuclear fusion, as members of the ITER Council, you are obliged to hand over and share them with our ITER organization."

"I hope that while you claim to be a responsible big country, you will also fulfill your responsibilities as a responsible big country. ITER was established to alleviate the energy shortage problem that humans around the world must face, so every Each member state should selflessly contribute its technology to the benefit of all mankind."

Listening to the righteous words of the American representative, a Chinese representative could not hold back his nerves and laughed out loud.

The American representative frowned and asked, "Why are you laughing?"

"Oh, cough, sorry, I just thought of happy things." The Chinese representative suppressed his smile and said seriously.

"What happy thing?" The US representative didn't believe it and asked again.

"Uh..." The Chinese representative thought for a moment, and then said doubtfully: "My wife... gave birth to a baby?"

"Pfft..." The chief representative of the Chinese side also laughed out loud at this time.

The American representative's face suddenly became even more ugly, and he asked again: "Why are you laughing again?"

"Uh..." The chief also thought for a moment and finally said, "My wife also gave birth to a baby."

At this time, before the American representative could speak, the Russian representative next to him couldn't hold back and laughed out loud.

Of course, strictly speaking, everyone present was laughing, but except for the representatives of the three permanent members, everyone else was holding back their laughter.

"You... are bullying others too much!" The American representative couldn't bear it anymore. He stood up and said angrily.

At this time, the chief representative of the Chinese side restrained his smile and said: "Okay, it was just a joke, don't be angry."

Then his face straightened and he said: "Sorry, we do not accept your proposal. If it is really for the sake of all mankind, I hope you will reflect on your behavior first before asking others."

The U.S. representative was obviously not in the mood to be conciliatory anymore because of what had just happened. He immediately sneered and said, "I'm sorry, your response made us all very dissatisfied. It seems that we will not be satisfied with the next agenda." We can discuss the suspension of all cooperation between ITER and you. Before you decide to share technology, you will no longer be able to obtain all technical information and related equipment materials from us!"

"No need to discuss."

The chief representative of the Chinese side smiled, then took a piece of paper from the side and said: "Now that you insist on suspending cooperation with us, before that, all the council members are also asked to announce that we will join ITER since then. All the US$10 billion invested later will be returned to us. If all is not returned, we will consider suspending cooperation with all member states in certain aspects."

As he said this, he seemed to have remembered it inadvertently, and asked another representative next to him, "It seems that in three months, it will be the delivery time of the next batch of room temperature superconductors?"

"Yes." Another representative nodded and said with a smile: "To be specific, it is two months and twenty-four days."

After hearing the conversation between these two Chinese representatives, representatives from some other countries suddenly took a breath of air.

Good guy, this is no longer a secret threat, this is a direct and obvious knife on the table.

The American representative was not afraid at all. They were not qualified to buy it anyway, so he immediately said: "Oh, this is of no use to us."

The Chinese representative smiled and turned to look at other representatives from his own side, such as the European side, Japan and South Korea, and then he said meaningfully: "Whether it is useful or not, let's talk about it later."

Then he turned his head and said to other Chinese representatives: "Let's go, we no longer belong here."

"Then don't you have a good celebration?"

"That's right."

While talking, they also left here.

After listening to their words, the American representative snorted and turned around to lead the people away. The same was true of the Russian representative. Of course, the Russian representative was also talking and laughing. After all, those 10 billion US dollars were obviously not needed. They come to return it.

As for who is going to pay back the 10 billion?

The few people left behind looked at each other.

Europe, Japan, South Korea and India all have only one thought in their minds at this time, is the clown actually ourselves?

"We were tricked by the Americans again!"

A European representative was on the point of crying.

Either pay back the 10 billion, or stop trying to get the room-temperature superconductor.

Obviously, Americans just hold on to the idea that they can’t buy it, and you can’t even think about buying it easily.

So it is almost certain that they can only repay the US$10 billion.

At this time, the Japanese representative said: "But why is there 10 billion US dollars? Did they really invest 10 billion US dollars?"

"this……"

Others also looked at each other.

Although among all the ITER council members, China is the most generous and does give a lot of money, but does it really have 10 billion US dollars?

If it were true, their ITER wouldn't have become popular since its establishment twenty years ago, right?

They looked at each other and saw the distress in each other's eyes.

At this time, the Indian representative got up first, left here directly, and ran in the direction of the Chinese representative.

Seeing this, how could the remaining three parties not know the Indian side's plan? After all, the Indian side has both sides, but they cannot envy it.

Then, the remaining three parties looked at me and I looked at you.

Now, they are jointly responsible for the 10 billion refund.

But they can only accept this and regard it as spending money to eliminate disasters.

Thinking of this, they all couldn't help but sigh.

…………

…

The news of China's withdrawal from ITER spread quickly. In the foreign media, it was a rhetoric with modifiers, while in the domestic media, it was natural to retell the incident as it was, and then to other countries. He was severely criticized and finally stated his request for a refund of US$10 billion.

In this matter, Chinese netizens naturally had a very heated discussion. Obviously, they were basically scolding ITER for not being trustworthy, although some of them felt that what foreign countries said was reasonable, which in turn made people reflect. The reflection is strange.

However, as two weeks passed after this incident, Europe, Japan and South Korea conveniently returned the US$10 billion in full.

As for India, it also used some means to avoid this incident.

When Lin Xiao learned the news from Ma Gaoliang, he was very surprised.

"They actually paid so readily?"

It's only been two weeks, and it's really surprising that they paid the money so quickly. Is this being honest?

Ma Gaoliang smiled and said: "After all, they have already given us the money for this batch of normal temperature superconductors. Although we do not ship the goods, it does not prevent us from keeping the money in our hands. One thousand meters away Room-temperature superconductors cost 10 million dollars, or US dollars."

"This means that whether they pay or not, we will still make a profit, but whether they pay or not, we will still lose. It's just that if they pay, the losses will be smaller, so of course they have to pay."

Hearing Ma Gaoliang's words, Lin Xiao's eyes suddenly widened: "What? One thousand meters for... ten million? Or US dollars?"

Ma Gaoliang said with a smile: "Yes."

Lin Xiao held it in for a long time, and finally said: "Damn, you guys are so cruel!"

He remembered that the cost of their consumables was only 3,000 yuan per 100 meters, which was equivalent to 30,000 yuan per 1,000 meters. Although equipment costs, labor costs and other costs were also included, in terms of marginal cost, It is impossible to reach 50,000 kilometers.

As a result, he now knows that when they sold it to outsiders, they actually sold it for tens of millions of dollars?

One meter is equal to ten thousand dollars, and the cross-sectional area is only 2.5 square millimeters. The overall mass is...

Lin Xiao can only say that gold is considered a der.

Ma Gaoliang chuckled and said: "That's basically it anyway. If you calculate it this way, the US$10 billion they gave us is minus the more than US$2 billion we actually invested, which means we earned more than US$7 billion. ...Well, actually you can’t say that. The total cost we spent on ITER also includes time cost, labor cost and so on. It can be added up to 10 billion. Anyway, it’s just right to invest in the first phase of your Golden Crow Project. With all the money back, the other two billion should be enough for your future expenses, right?"

Hearing that they had directly made a net profit of more than 7 billion U.S. dollars, Lin Xiao no longer knew what to say. He could only say, "gan-de-piao-liang".

"Enough is enough, this must be enough."

Lin Xiao said, "It is still in the experimental stage now. Once the verification is completed, a reactor of the same specifications will probably cost only 30 billion."

"Yes, I understand." Ma Gaoliang said with a smile.

Regardless of the fact that a fusion reactor costs 30 billion to build, what you need to know is that the cost of a second-generation fission reactor is 1,300 US dollars per kilowatt, which is equivalent to 1.3 billion for a fission reactor with a generating power of 1,000 megawatts. US dollars, almost eight to nine billion yuan.

And a fusion reactor can generate power many times that of 1,000 megawatts.

Therefore, Ma Gaoliang knows very well that after a fusion reactor is destroyed, the savings may be hundreds of billions in power generation costs every year.

It's absolutely a guaranteed profit.

"By the way, Academician Lin, I would like to ask, when will you be able to complete and start the first ignition?"

Lin Xiao pondered for a moment, then smiled and said: "Next year, the Spring Festival."

"Next year? Spring...Festival?"

Ma Gaoliang was suddenly surprised.

"It's September now, doesn't this mean..."

"Well, that's right, in a few months."

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "Now, we are ready, all we need is the final reaction device and generator."

"Five months is enough."

"It would be rude to wait any longer."

"After all, during our Chinese New Year, we need to properly entertain those 'friends' abroad who have been thinking about us for a long time."

Hearing Lin Xiao's words, Ma Gaoliang was stunned for a moment. After a moment of silence, he said with a smile: "Yes, we really need to entertain them well. We can't let them down who have been nervous for so long."

At this point, both of them laughed immediately.

Thinking about the various reactions abroad during this period, it is indeed time for them to calm their nerves with faster success.

Because when everything is settled, their tension can only change into acceptance of the facts.

"Then I wish you success in advance, Chief Engineer Lin."

"Thank you." Lin Xiao said: "I also wish the sun will start burning in the east first!"

Hearing Lin Xiao's meaningful words, Ma Gaoliang laughed, and then said: "Then let the eastern sun shine on the world!"

…

Time passed quickly, and the following schedule was still the same as before, without any changes.

At most, the news that America's Secretary of State was fired again made Lin Xiao pay attention. I heard that this matter had something to do with him.

Of course, he couldn't control this matter, and what he was more concerned about was that the Golden Crow Project was getting closer and closer to success.