Great Power Technology.

Chapter 569 A Simple Game
On the other side, the country.

Minister of Economics and Investment Muller is also discussing with his staff about bidding for the Taishang project, but unlike Italy, they have already decided to devote themselves to precision manufacturing and smelting as soon as the bidding announcement is released. direction, and at the same time undertake a small number of core component manufacturing work classified as Class B.

The former part is their traditional strength, which can guarantee the completion of project requirements with less investment, so as to obtain the distribution of benefits; the latter part is the nature of technology exploration. They hope to use this project to obtain corresponding technical support from Huaxia, so that Improve the overall level of the country's nuclear industry.

This is a common strategy for all countries participating in the bidding, and the difference is only in the field selection and capital investment.

After browsing through the preliminary strategy, Mueller put down the report in his hand and said to Schmidt, the technical staff in front of him:

"If we follow the current direction, we will need to spend 200 billion marks every year in the next three years, and this part of the expenditure will be mainly used for Jingdiao manufacturing."

"After three years, our main manufacturing work has been completed, and the expenditure has been reduced to DM 100 billion, which is used for core construction application research and development."

"This is just a rough figure. If we can fully mobilize and optimize the allocation of relevant industrial sectors for a period of time in the future, then the cost of the manufacturing stage will decrease; if Huaxia can provide technical support that exceeds expectations, then the cost of component R&D will also decrease." will fall."

"In all considerations, the cost we will invest in this bidding is about 1000 billion marks --- 200 billion marks is a redundancy premium, which is used to kill our competitors."

"As far as I know, the island country is also very interested in this bidding. In terms of precision manufacturing, he is on par with us."

"So, we have to overwhelm them with investment to avoid accidental loss of bids."

Schmidt looked at the report in front of him, thought for a moment, and said:
"I'm not too sensitive to economic figures, but is the 200 billion premium a bit too high? If it's 25%, should it be reduced to 10%?"

"You know, large expenditures in a short period of time will inevitably crowd out resources in other fields. The Ministry of Science and Technology has also put forward many technical proposals this year, all of which need financial support."

Mueller shook his head and replied:

"Let them wait."

"All the so-called 'techniques' they've come up with, taken together, are less important than one scrap of large-scale fusion technology."

"They can wait, but nuclear fusion can't wait—the Chinese can't wait either."

"It is impossible for us to miss this opportunity. If we really fall behind, neither history nor the people will forgive us."

Hearing this, Schmidt nodded solemnly, and then said:
"I see, then do as you say."

"Within two days, I will provide a detailed cost breakdown report, listing the costs required for all subdivisions. At that time, we will bid on the basis of this report."

After a pause, Schmidt sighed and said:
"The time is really tight this time. For such a huge project, the bidding preparation period is only given for one week. Isn't this a joke?"

Mueller smiled helplessly and replied:

"You don't understand, this is where the Chinese people are smart."

"Actually, there is no problem with the project itself. The reason they want to release it is purely that the speed of capital expansion cannot keep up with the project schedule."

"You also know how terrifying the speed of their technological development in the past few years is, and some new technologies even seem to appear out of thin air."

"The same is true for this large-scale fusion. They must have already solved all the technical problems, and they just need to distribute the application work to the appropriate countries."

"So, does it really take a long time to think about what each country is good at and where each country's advantages lie?"

"For example, we, we are good at machinery and precision manufacturing, Maoxiong is good at core-related program control and material extraction, Ukraine is good at high-hardness metal welding, and Ugly is good at material synthesis. These do not require precise research and analysis. Any country's Management knows it all.”

"So, there's only one thing they really need to screen for: intent."

"They want to determine how willing other countries are to participate in the project, given the technology is up to scratch."

"And this intention is shown through the bid amount."

"For example, island countries, if converted into a unified soft sister currency, they may be willing to pay 8000 billion, but if we are willing to pay one trillion, then Huaxia will definitely choose us."

"It's an easy game, isn't it?"

Schmidt nodded slightly, he was a little confused by the bombardment of this series of numbers, hundreds of billions and trillions at every turn, even for a country, it is already astonishingly high.

What is the concept of 1000 billion marks?
Converted into food, in extreme cases, it can feed all the people of the country for three years.

Or, it could buy a fleet of three full-fledged carriers, the Ford-class kind.

But now, all this money is going to be invested in a field that is completely unknown to this country. This is no longer a risk, but more like a desperate gamble.

However, there are actually many desperate things that this country has done, such as blitz
Schmidt quickly withdrew his chaotic thoughts, coughed and changed the subject.

"I've just had a call from Italy's technical department - it's personal and they don't seem to be interested in the project."

"No, it's not quite accurate to say not to participate. Judging from the information he disclosed, they seem to intend to use some method to persuade the Chinese people to open up technology, and let countries open it independently."

Hearing this, Mueller smiled contemptuously and replied:
"You want to be free, right? Why are the Italians still so naive until now? Haven't they realized that the situation has completely changed?"

"Who knows. It's a good thing for us, at least, one less competitor."

Schmidt paused, then subconsciously lowered his voice and said:
"If——I mean, if their plan can achieve certain results and put a certain amount of pressure on Huaxia, maybe we can win this project at a lower cost. That would be great, right?"

"There's always someone going to be the bad guy, since they jumped out of the gate"

He didn't go on, but Mueller got his point across.

"It seems that your expertise is still in the purely technical field. It's useless. No matter how much pressure Huaxia receives, their goal will not change."

"This project is not a profit-oriented project, but a result-oriented project."

"It is an unchangeable goal to realize the installation of the Taishang device within five years."

"In order to achieve this goal, the cost we need to invest has a lower limit. Once the bidding price is lower than this lower limit, they will abandon us without hesitation."

"So, if the Italians do this, it will not bring us any benefits other than to cause us trouble."

Having said that, Mueller frowned slightly.

"You did remind me."

"It's not okay for them to do this. We have to give them a little warning."

"At least on an official level, we must express our attitude."

"The Huaxia people will definitely fight back. At that time... I don't look like I was accidentally injured."

(End of this chapter)