Universe dominance

When Li Fu returned to his hometown in Meijiang County, it was already November of 2019. In a blink of an eye, 2019 was about to pass. He had been busy for a whole year at the National Space Administration.

In the previous few months, he had been carefully considering and demonstrating the details of the manned lunar landing. After the successful completion of the manned lunar landing in October, he still stayed at the Space Center for more than a month. Almost every week, there were space shuttles between the earth and the moon in China. Only when all aspects were familiar and the lunar base had already been established, top scientists such as Li Fu and Liu Shiying could relax.

Longling Town, a township around Sanjiang Town, has a relatively flat terrain. Fuyun Space Exploration Company was placed here in Longling Town.

Fuyun Space Exploration Company covers a very large area. More than half of the land in Longling Town has been included in it. After nearly a year in 2019, more than a dozen large construction companies and nearly 100,000 construction workers worked day and night. At this time, the space exploration company was already quite magnificent.

A very large airport, covering an area of ​​5 square kilometers, is the place planned by the company for traveling to and from space in the future and testing the aerospace planes produced by the company. At the same time, a ground command center and a control center are also built. The standards and equipment are completely based on the Jiuquan Space Satellite.

A huge astronaut training and living area, this area was established by Fuyun Group to train its own astronauts, with various equipment and instruments for training astronauts, as well as areas for astronauts and their families to live.

The company is very clear that astronauts are treasures for any country, and it is absolutely impossible for the company to poach them, so it must be trained by itself. Otherwise, it will not work if there are only advanced equipment but no personnel to drive them. The company's plan is to set up a special astronaut training school in the future, open to the public for training.

There is also a large industrial park. The industrial park is naturally the aerospace vehicle production company of Fuyun Group. It is close to the airport, and the aerospace planes and spacecraft produced in the future can also be tested and taken off nearby.

In the huge park, Fang Zheng, Chen Bin, Yu Liang and others were driving the car while accompanying Li Fu to inspect the area. Throughout 2019, Li Fu was almost not in the company, and Fang Zheng and others were responsible for all matters, including the Longling Space Center.

The total investment in the Longling Town Space Center exceeded 300 billion US dollars, which is the largest investment of Fuyun Group except for the research institute in Yuantou Town. It can be said that more than half of the profit from virtual machine sales this year has been invested in it.

"It's well built. How are the preparations for other aspects?"

The car drove around the space center for more than 2 hours before it was completed. Li Fu nodded with satisfaction. Although the investment was huge, it had to be invested. If Li Fu wanted to make a difference in space in the future, a space center of his own was absolutely indispensable.

"We have already started recruiting personnel. Since the second half of this year, we have recruited tens of thousands of fresh graduates from major universities across the country. We are currently training them. Many of them are quite good. In addition, we have recruited about 200 retired pilots from the Air Force and are preparing to train them into astronauts." "It's just that there are still some problems with the aerospace plane that our company has studied, and we have not solved them yet." Chen Bin, a young man who has only graduated for two years, is now the head of Fuyun Group's Space Exploration Company. He reported the situation of the Space Exploration Company to Li Fu in detail. He, Yu Liang, Yang Yiping, and Cao Haitao have all participated in the research of the "Shenjian" aerospace plane, and have made significant contributions and won the title of Chinese Academician. However, when they really led the team to independently study the aerospace plane, they encountered many problems. After almost a year, they still couldn't come up with Fuyun Group's own aerospace plane. At this time, they seemed a little ashamed and didn't dare to look directly at Li Fu. "The aerospace plane is a very large system work. Let alone our small company, even if many countries gather their own national strength, they may not be able to develop their own aircraft, let alone the aerospace plane."

"Although we have the funds, and we have already mastered the core plasma technology, we still have only a limited understanding of many other aspects. It is normal that we have not come out yet. Now I am back. If there are any problems later, we will discuss them together. There are always more solutions than problems."

Li Fu seemed to have been mentally prepared for this. He did not mean to blame at all. Participating in the research of the national aerospace plane, Li Fu knew very well how huge the aerospace plane was.

This is definitely something that can only be researched by the strength of a country. It involves power, physics, mathematics, electronics, materials, chemistry. Machinery and other huge projects that involve almost all the natural sciences of mankind. Although my company is now strong, it is really not so easy to manufacture such a huge project as the aerospace plane.

"If Brother Fu were here, we would definitely be able to come up with our own aerospace plane this year. In fact, it is not difficult to research our own aerospace plane. The difficulty lies in how to mass-produce it and reduce the cost."

When Yu Liang heard that Li Fu was going to join the project team, his eyes immediately lit up. He knew how powerful Li Fu was, and there were almost no problems that Li Fu couldn't solve. When he first participated in the research on the "Arrow" aerospace aircraft, Many of the major problems encountered were almost all solved under the leadership of Li Fu.

Without Li Fu, China would never have had its own aerospace aircraft, let alone achieved the current manned landing on the moon and established a permanent base on the moon.

"Yu Liang is right. In fact, if we just follow the example, we can now create an aerospace plane. However, the cost will not be much cheaper than the national aerospace plane. It will cost at least more than 3 billion. We will use Chinese coins to build an aerospace plane, and this is because we can obtain black gold materials at cost price.”

"We are still too poor in terms of material processing and processing accuracy. We consume a lot of materials and the scrap rate is too high. This cost has never been reduced. Even if the black gold material is produced by ourselves and can be obtained at cost price, we The cost is still very high.”

Chen Bin also nodded. On the one hand, good materials are good. On the other hand, processing is also very important. The accuracy of processing is a crucial thing. In this regard, not to mention Fuyun Group, the whole of China is here. It is also a shortcoming.

Although Fuyun Group uses imported advanced processing equipment, although these processing equipment were purchased at a huge cost, they can only be regarded as second-rate. First-rate advanced equipment will not be sold to any country. Moreover, for many things, even if you are given equipment, you may not be able to achieve the same processing accuracy.

"It costs more than 3 billion. This black gold material is produced by our own material company. The scrap rate is too high."

When Li Fu heard this, he immediately frowned. Li Fu knew very well the cost price of black gold materials. Although it was sold to the country in grams, the manufacturing cost was actually very low because the materials used were rare. There are very few metals, they are all common things, and the price sold to the country is hundreds of times the cost price.

The cost of black gold materials is low, but Chen Bin even said that if he made his own aerospace plane, the cost would be more than 3 billion. It can be seen that in the field of material processing, the scrap rate of Fuyun Group is really terrible. This cost will directly increase in a straight line.

"The scrap rate is very high. We process dozens of parts and sometimes we may not be able to obtain a qualified product. Now this is also a headache for us. Batch after batch of materials are delivered, but our processing has always been unqualified. , We also spend a lot of money to find talents in this aspect, but there is still no big improvement.”

Yu Liang also nodded helplessly. Only when you are truly involved in the whole process will you know the difficulty of manufacturing an aircraft. There are many problems in almost every detail.

"Especially in the processing of blades, the curved surface processing involved in the blades is very complicated. The blades we processed by ourselves have reduced the thrust of our plasma engine by several levels. Obviously, there are many The problem is that there may be a slight flaw on one blade. After the entire assembly is completed, countless flaws will accumulate, and the power of our plasma engine will be greatly reduced. "

Chen Bin shook his head and said with some sigh, the plasma engine can be manufactured, but the processing accuracy is too far behind, and the thrust of the plasma engine is greatly reduced.

"Don't be afraid if there is a problem, just be afraid that there will be no problem. We will start from scratch. Whatever aspect we fail to pass, we will conquer that aspect. This time we are not just going to manufacture aerospace planes, we are going to integrate all aspects of aerospace." We have thoroughly understood all the technologies related to the spacecraft, and it has just begun. If we encounter problems, it will not be a big deal. It will be really scary if we are still helpless because the material processing accuracy is not up to standard. "

While Li Fu listened, he kept thinking in his mind. After a long time, he slowly spoke, obviously making up his mind.

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