Great Power Technology.

Chapter 568 Bidding
Two days later, the General Technical Office released the general introduction and basic technical documents of the "Taishang" large-scale fusion device, formally established a project team, and began to recruit partners around the world.

According to the requirements of the general principle, the cooperation seats are divided into four levels according to the level of technical confidentiality, A, B, C, and D. Among them, the first level is limited to the participation of strategic partners including Mao Xiong, and the seats from the second level will be similar to "auction". through public bidding.

As soon as the news came out, the entire international public opinion was instantly stirred up.

The authenticity of this technology is unquestionable. Judging from the basic technical documents released by Huaxia, they not only have directional plans, but have made subdivided theoretical results for each plan. Once the bid is won, the cooperation The only thing Fang needs to do is to invest sufficient resources to realize these theoretical achievements into reality within the specified time.

According to the specific results and contributions, Huaxia will allocate the right to use the equipment in proportion after the fusion equipment is installed, and grant corresponding patents to ensure that the partners can recover the cost in a short time.

This is a profitable business. It can even be said that this is the biggest pie that has ever appeared since mankind entered the 21st century.

Needless to say, a big country, if it is a small country, is willing to gamble its own national fortune and provide enough resources to participate in the project, it is also likely to be allocated a huge amount of benefits after the project is completed, so as to achieve cornering overtaking.
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Although under the trend of integration, the meaning of the so-called "overtaking" has been greatly reduced, but any country with a sense of crisis will not refuse the opportunity to make itself stronger.

The world may be peaceful and united, but people will always have differences.

In this context, the letter of intent for bidding flew to the mailbox of the General Technical Office like a snowflake. Since this was not a formal bidding, some countries even sent the same email dozens of times, in order to make themselves more eye-catching.

Ye Zhou, who personally handled these emails, couldn't help but smile bitterly. For the first time, he felt that in some matters, the leaders of a country were not as rational and mature as he imagined.

But at the same time, he also noticed another intriguing detail:
In these letters of intent, some countries are absent.

And these countries are all members of the previous "Consciousness Uploading Alliance".

Ye Zhou vaguely felt that the so-called "Consciousness Uploading Alliance" had gradually broken away from the event-driven temporary alliance and began to transform into something like the old "Allied Powers Group".

Instead of having a clear technical direction, they started to move in a more obvious, political direction.

This is very alarming.

After thinking for a moment, Ye Zhou reported the news to his superiors. If the situation really develops as he guessed, then, in this large-scale bidding event, Huaxia must be prepared for the possible actions of the alliance.

At this moment, in Italy's capital, Italian Prime Minister Abigail, who is the rotating representative of the Alliance, is having a serious discussion with his technical staff.

".So, do you think we should strive for this cooperation opportunity? But why?"

The staff member on the opposite side spread his hands and replied:
"If I were to answer it from a technical point of view, you might say 'this is giving me a headache' again, so I will give you the simplest reason: all countries are participating."

"One thing, when everyone is trying their best to fight for it, it will prove that it must be profitable. This is the simplest criterion for judging."

"If we don't participate, the benefits will be distributed to those countries that participate, and our strength will decline rapidly—of course, I'm talking about a relative decline."

Abigail nodded and said:
"I understand the logic of what you said, but that's not what I want to express."

"Alfred, you are a technical official, and you may not know much about economics, but you should also know that this so-called 'bidding' is actually an economic behavior—it is an investment ,Is it right?"

Before the other party answered, she continued:

"Investment requires capital. Judging from the other party's propaganda, even for the lowest-level seats, we need to invest more than 600 billion Dole in the next five years, and the benefits will not be reflected until at least eight years later."

"This is still an optimistic estimate. According to a pessimistic situation, since the lower-level seats do not have priority in allocation rights, our capital recovery cycle may even be extended to 10 years."

"Alfred, do you know what ten years is?"

Alfred shook his head and replied:
"I don't know what ten years is."

"I only know that there is an island country in Africa called Mauritius. They released news that more than 70% of the country's fiscal revenue will be mobilized to fight for lower-level seats and focus on the field of control software that they are relatively good at."

"A small country with a population of just over 100 million has such courage. Should we instead watch the opportunity slip away?"

Looking at Alfred, who showed strong unwillingness in his eyes, Abigail explained:

"No, it's not the same thing."

"The pillar industry of Mauritius is tourism, but in recent years, this industry has been severely impacted. They have to seek transformation and have to put all their eggs in one basket."

"But we are different, we are not without retreat."

"We just have no way out!"

Alfred interrupted without waiting for her to finish, and then asked angrily:
"Abigail, are you still treating this as a purely technical cooperation? Let me tell you, it's not!"

"This is a ticket to the new world. There are only so many seats. If we don't buy it, we will be left behind and watch them go away!"

"You should know what the consequences are. It's like you rejected the steam engine when the age of steam came, and you rejected the power station when the age of electricity came!"

"We're not just going to fall behind, we're going to die!"

"You misunderstand what I mean."

Abigail stood up, patted Alfred on the shoulder reassuringly, then walked to the side and brought a cup of coffee that was already cold, and put it in front of him.

"Take a sip, I feel that you are not calm enough today."

"However, I can understand."

"After all, for a technician like you, the temptation of nuclear fusion is too great."

"It's not temptation, it's."

"I know I know."

Abigail interrupted him gently, and after sitting down again, looked straight into the other's eyes and said:
"I quite understand what you're saying—I mean, I understand everything."

"But, haven't you noticed that there is a fatal loophole in your logic?"

Hearing this, Alfred was taken aback subconsciously, and then asked:

"What loophole?"

Abigail took a deep breath and replied:

"There may be more cabins in this so-called big ship."

"I mean, if this is the Ark to save mankind, then should its seats really be sold in this way?"

"No, it should be free."

(End of this chapter)