Great Power Technology

"Shenguang 4's inertial nuclear fusion ignition was successful and steady-state discharge was achieved!"

"Humanity has entered the fusion era!"

"The flames of war are ignited in Chengdu, and China has opened the door to the human energy revolution."

The news of the successful ignition of Shenguang-4 was quickly made public, just as everyone expected. Even though the project had been publicized many times in the early stage, when the day actually arrived, the shock that people felt was still not there. Any weakening.

Nuclear fusion, this technology has always been regarded as the key to human civilization entering the next stage. All major countries in the world are working hard to create this key. However, after decades of research, the progress made by mankind can almost It is said to be minimal.

But on this day, with the unremitting efforts of tens of thousands of people, this technology finally gained ground and skipped the laboratory stage and entered the commercial stage where steady-state discharge is possible.

On major online platforms, netizens also exploded because of this news.

"Fuck, that's awesome. Once nuclear fusion comes out, should we immigrate to Mars next?"

"What are you thinking about? We already have nuclear fusion, so why do we need to immigrate? Once the energy is sufficient, you can do whatever you want with this earth, including Jingwei's reclamation of seas and Foolish Old Man's move of mountains."

"Aren't we working on the Tongtian River project now? How many people opposed the project when it first came out, saying it was a waste of resources and energy. What about now?"

"If commercial fusion power generation can be rolled out in the future, what is this energy?"

"So in fact, the country is playing a big game of chess - well, this sentence is bad, but I have to say that this is often the case."

Of course, among the voices of admiration, some people expressed different opinions.

"Your ideas are too optimistic. We have only achieved ignition and steady-state discharge in experimental devices, but there is still a way to go before it can be commercialized."

"At least the technical difficulty of large-scale fusion devices is not comparable to that of experimental devices. I think if the first fusion power station can be built within five years, it will be considered a great achievement."

"The one upstairs is half a million, right? Why do you always pretend to be a successful client?"

"Upstairs, you only have 500,000 yuan, right? Don't just learn a new word and use it everywhere. That's a fair analysis. From an objective fact, it's not that easy to generate electricity. He's just giving it to you. They are just getting vaccinated."

"When it comes to 500,000, the one who said that fusion power generation is worse than universal medical care is really 500,000. On the surface, he is doing it for everyone's benefit, but in fact, he is taking it out of context to hide evil intentions. If you need to, go to him."

"Damn it, where is he? I'll rip off his head!"

Looking at the comments from netizens, Ye Zhou showed a knowing smile on his face. After repeated education, the network environment he sees now is much better than what he saw a few years ago - of course , which is largely due to RSA decryption technology.

"How did other countries react?"

Ye Zhou looked at Chen Hao opposite and asked.

"There are several aspects, where should we start?"

"Let's talk about the Middle East first - if batteries only shook their energy foundation before, once nuclear fusion came out, it really subverted it completely. They should have started to jump on it, right? "

Chen Hao nodded slightly and replied:

"It's not just as simple as jumping up. In the past few days, the Middle East has become a mess."

"All oil companies are on strike and all freight channels are closed. If we hadn't accumulated a large amount of oil in the previous energy battle, we would have been affected by this wave of impact."

"The oil financial market has completely collapsed. Even if we join forces with Ugly State, we cannot control it. Now Ugly State has officially applied to us, intending to use RSA technology to directly control oil prices for a period of time, so as to allow a smooth transition of industry replacement. .”

"In addition, the social environment there is also in chaos. The people are forcing the officials to find a solution, but what can the officials do? Under the impact of this technology, the economic foundation they established based on oil will inevitably collapse. of."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou frowned slightly, and then asked:

"Aren't we going to take action?"

"We must take action. We cannot afford the consequences of such turmoil - we have already started negotiations with several major energy countries. We will give priority to exporting fusion technology to them in the future. It is estimated that after the news is released in a few days, they will The unrest over there will calm down temporarily.”

"At that time, the energy pattern of the entire world will have completely changed, and the pattern originally divided by geography will become divided by technology."

"We are the first holder of technology, and all the profits generated by this technology will automatically flow to us - of course, we will divide some of it to stabilize the situation of the original energy countries."

"But, generally speaking, we will really rely on this technology to achieve our global strategy."

"Didn't we have a Qualcomm tax before? Now we can also start collecting a fusion tax."

Ye Zhou smiled, shook his head, and said:

"This statement sounds weird, as if we are landlords and wealthy people."

"We should change our thinking. We are helping other countries in the world move towards a new energy future. It is reasonable to charge some tolls in the process, isn't it?"

"It's indeed reasonable."

Chen Hao nodded, took a sip of water and continued:

"Except for the Middle East, Europe and America have basically maintained a stable situation, and there is no trend of economic collapse for the time being. However, their officials are also very anxious."

"Europe has offered various conditions to get the first pick for subsequent technology application and promotion. Now we finally know why the Ugly people are so kind. They are also competing for the first pick."

"Moreover, the conditions they proposed are absolutely unimaginable. It's a choice between two options."

"What I want to know is that we can either help them realize the application of fusion technology, or provide them with BCI's algorithms and databases?"

Chen Hao looked at Ye Zhou in surprise, who spread his hands and said:

"There is nothing surprising about this. Judging from the current situation, the ones that have the greatest impact on the world are BCI technology and nuclear fusion technology. It is not surprising that they want one of them."

"The only thing I don't know is how they plan to obtain these two technologies? They won't require us to fully disclose the technical documents, right?"

"That's not the case. They only asked for complete export, plus some technical cooperation. They still believe that magnetic confinement fusion has great future and hope that we can carry out larger-scale cooperation in this field."

"Probably they also know that inertial confinement fusion, a technology that is highly relevant to the military, is not negotiable, so they settle for the next best thing."

"So what's our strategy?"

"The results of the preliminary discussion above are for them. Although nuclear fusion is said to be able to determine the power of this world, the problem is that our most important thing now is not to fight for hegemony, but to survive."

"So, it is also important for us to share technical results to a certain extent and let them help us share some of the pressure."

"As long as we pay attention to ensuring basic technical differences during cooperation, our leadership position will basically not be shaken."

"Understood."

After a pause, Ye Zhou continued to ask:

"What about their sincerity? Do they have anything else they can exchange with us?"

"Don't tell me, it's true."

"What is it?"

"A technology integration package that includes pump technology, special steel technology, ultra-high-precision machine tool technology, etc. It can be said that this technology integration package will solve all our technical barriers in the civilian field."

"Those technologies that originally had to rely on imports can be fully domestically produced in the future - from what I have seen so far, at least fire trucks can be produced by ourselves in the future."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou asked in surprise:

"You mean we couldn't even build a fire truck before?"

“It’s not that ‘even fire trucks can’t be built’. The chassis, ladders, and water pumps used by fire trucks all have very high technical threshold requirements. If we invest a lot of resources in research and breakthroughs, the cost will be too high, and the gain will not be worth the loss.”

"So we have been using imported fire trucks. Although they are a little more expensive, they are still much cheaper than the big R\u0026D ones."

"There are many areas like this. Isn't the previous ballpoint pen incident a typical case? After getting this bag, these problems will completely disappear."

"That's pretty good. I guess they are sincere."

The two looked at each other and smiled. At this moment, they both knew in their hearts that the other party was willing to exchange these things, which was enough to illustrate the status of fusion technology. In essence, after transferring almost all the superior technologies in the civilian field- ——Even if these are not the most cutting-edge technologies, it means that the U.S. has completely given up on restricting China’s development through patents and technology.

This is a major progress, and may even be the beginning of a true "great unity of the people of the world."

"Any other news?"

Chen Hao hummed, and then said:

"There is news, but the specific situation has not been reported yet. However, the departments involved in the investigation felt that this matter might be important, so they notified their superiors in advance. I only obtained part of the information."

"What's going on?"

Ye Zhou asked curiously.

"In a small county in the mountainous area of ​​Guizhou, something very strange happened."