Chapter 92: Former Idol
After Fan Ren told Li Jiandong that he wanted to meet Mark, the other party showed up at the Xinghai Space Base the next day.
In the office, Zeng Yingying's smile was particularly charming today.
He made tea for the two of them and then left very sensibly.
Li Jiandong watched her pretty figure disappear at the door and glanced at Fan Ren with a smile.
"I was wondering how the sister and brother arranged by Mr. Ye were brought to Aerospace City with the sister staying in Linhai. It turns out there is a trick involved."
Hearing this, Fan Ren was not embarrassed at all and said with a smile: "Thanks to Yingying for taking care of my daily life all these years, I can't let her down."
Li Jiandong's eyes showed admiration. He knew Zeng Yingying's background. There were several people in her family and their conditions were not very good.
Of course, this was all in the past. Now this girl earns a million dollars a year, and her family has changed a lot.
But Fanren didn't care about these and showed their relationship openly.
Indeed, with this kid's current achievements, there is no need to consider the family conditions of his future wife.
"Why did you suddenly remember to meet Mark? Is there any saying on Mars?"
Li Jiandong pulled his thoughts back and started talking about business.
"Mars is definitely worth developing, but it's very unrealistic for the current level of human technology. It's too far away." Fan Ren sighed in a low voice.
Indeed, because Mars and the Earth revolve around the sun, their relative positions are changing all the time.
In addition, the orbit is not circular, but elliptical.
The farthest distance between the Earth and Mars is 4 million kilometers, and the closest distance is 5760 million kilometers.
The difference is nearly 7 times.
According to the plan released by Mark, during the near-Earth launch window three years later, their spacecraft will fly in deep space for 180 days before reaching Mars.
It’s really too far.
Even if there are extremely precious resources on Mars at present, they are of little significance to the current human development.
Li Jiandong nodded. Not only he knew this, but also the scientists of Daxia Aerospace Department and even Mr. Ye who didn't know much about technology understood this. That's why Daxia has not paid much attention to Mars and has only launched a few exploration satellites.
Mark proposed this plan several years ago, and although it was shelved for a while, now, no matter what, they have finally taken the first step towards this great goal.
"Then what do you mean?"
Li Jiandong was puzzled again. He knew that Spieth's company had contacted Xinghai some time ago and wanted to buy its high-voltage radio technology and graphene chips.
But they were all rejected by Jin Qiaoying on the grounds that they involved Daxia’s security issues.
"I don't care about any high-value products on Mars. At present, all our energy is still focused on the lunar mining project, and this will not be shaken.
But you should also know that their H-20 rocket's carrying capacity is tons less than ours."
When Fan Ren said this, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.
Li Jiandong nodded, still confused as to what it meant.
"A 20-ton difference is very important for an ultra-long-distance space flight.
I thought, why don’t we take this opportunity and work with Mark?”
At this point, Li Jiandong gradually came to his senses. The confusion on his face gradually turned into contemplation, and then slowly turned into surprise. "You mean, we provide them with launch vehicles?"
"Yes!"
Fan Ren nodded heavily.
"Although we can't sell them the technology, we can provide transportation services. He knows better than us the importance of a 20-ton gap in the long journey between Earth and Mars."
Li Jiandong's thoughts gradually opened up. He stood up and paced back and forth for a while, muttering, "As long as we provide them with launch vehicle services at a very low price, then given the nature of Spieth as a listed company and the huge gap between them and us, they will not focus on rocket technology research and development for a long time. This will ensure that Daxia has an absolute leading position in this field!"
"Yes, that's right. Not only that, during this process, we can also take this opportunity to collect navigation data between the Earth and Mars, so that we can save a lot of time in the future when we need it. We can also use this as a publicity stunt to provide deep space transportation services to users around the world."
To be honest, at first Fan Ren just wanted to provide some help within his ability to his former idol. After all, an extra 20 tons of payload will greatly increase the success of the Mars project.
But later I discovered the many wonderful uses of this idea.
Won Ma.
"Well, I'll go back to Kyoto and report this idea to Mr. Ye. If nothing unexpected happens, I'll arrange a meeting between you and Mark in the next few days!"
Li Jiandong was a man of decisive character. After saying this, he stood up and left in a hurry.
Three days later, Xinghai Space Base.
After Mark received the news from Daxia, he immediately boarded a private plane and flew tens of thousands of kilometers to the nearest airport.
In the reception room, Fan Ren looked at the man in front of him who was once full of vigor and vitality in his memory. His expression was no longer the same as before, but gave him a smooth feeling.
"Haha, Mr. Fan, I've heard of your name for a long time, but I've never had the chance to meet you. As soon as I received the news of your meeting, I immediately set off and rushed over."
"Mark, please sit down."
Fan Ren was not tired of being polite and directly led the other party to a seat.
Mark sat down with him awkwardly, and the secretary behind him was very sensible and ignored it.
"Mr. Ma, don't you think that the payload of the Hunter-9 spacecraft used in the first phase of Spieth's Mars Project is a little disappointing?"
Fan Ren went straight to the point and didn't try to beat around the bush.
Mark on this side heard this and looked puzzled.
During this visit, he was prepared to spend a huge amount of money to purchase the high-voltage radio and graphene chip technologies from Xinghai.
But now the young chairman turned the topic to their company's "Mars Project".
Mark put away his smooth attitude and asked: "Mr. Fan, I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean. You also know that the purpose of our coming here this time is to put pressure on Xinghai."
"I can't sell those two technologies to you. This is not something I can decide. Do you understand?"
Fan Ren interrupted him directly and pointed upwards with his finger raised, his meaning was very clear.
Seeing this, Mark looked extremely disappointed.
If that’s the case, then what’s the point of him coming all the way to Daxia?
"The next Mars launch window will be about 7000 million kilometers from Earth. Spike's H-60 heavy-lift rocket has a payload of only 30 tons and is 400 meters shorter than our Star Series rockets, but weighs tons more. Needless to say, you know that it is not comparable to our Star Series rockets in terms of range."
Listening to these ruthless comparative data, Mark's face gradually turned darker.
(End of this chapter)
