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The principle of the wooden barrel is very simple. Although when the wooden barrel is tilted, it is the longest piece of wood that determines the water storage capacity of the wooden barrel, but who would tilt the wooden barrel to fill the water?

The wooden barrel principle is very applicable to the army, and when the length of each plank of the big wooden barrel of the army is increased, the combat effectiveness of the entire army will increase, and naturally it will not be a one-plus-one increase.

"What I want to know is, how much does the research result you mentioned affect each individual, and how much does it cost?"

The Minister of Defense who asked this question looked calm, but in fact his heart was very restless.

Although the demonstration of Wen Ming's research results is not over yet, he, who has seen Aaron Martin's combat effectiveness before, naturally knows that Wen Ming's research results have already succeeded, so he is not worried that the demonstration will fail.

Compared with devouring this kind of weapon that can be used regardless of cost, it is natural to consider the issue of cost for strengthening the physical fitness of individual soldiers.

Wen Ming laughed, just as he said to Downers, he was going to be a liar this time.

Just like the scientists and military enterprises in those movies, in order to get orders from the US government or other governments, and support research funds, they started to fool around with an immature idea.

In the end, even if there were no research results, they were just cut off from the funding supply.

In the process of flickering, they themselves have gained a lot of benefits.

Therefore, he replied: "I call this research result 'enhancement', and the medicine we injected into his body just now is a 'laboratory type enhancement' to strengthen his physical fitness and improve his talent level." Potion'."

When he heard the laboratory model, the fire in the Minister of Defense's heart was quenched by a basin of cold water.

Sure enough, he heard Wen Ming continue to say: "At present, the manufacturing cost of a strengthened potion is 10 million US dollars."

The expression of the Minister of Defense froze immediately, and the expression of the Chief of Staff of the US Army who asked the question just now also turned livid.

Ten million dollars each?

Even if the strengthening effect is as Wen Ming said, it can make an ordinary soldier reach the level of a soldier king, but what's the point?

From the point of view of the Delta Special Forces, there are only more than 400 members.

If it is to be fully strengthened, it will cost 4 billion US dollars based on 400 people. This is still a special force with a very small number of people. If it is to strengthen the SEALs with more than 1,600 members, it will cost 16 billion U.S. dollars.

The U.S. government is indeed rich, and its annual military expenditure is close to one trillion U.S. dollars. It can spend 20 billion U.S. dollars. Is it really meaningful to strengthen the Delta Special Forces and the SEALs?

In modern warfare, high-tech weapons are compared, whose satellite positioning is more accurate, and whose missiles are faster, can hit farther, and are more powerful.

Hand-to-hand combat is really less and less in modern warfare.

Therefore, the Chief of Staff of the Army said directly: "If the cost cannot be reduced, I don't think we need to waste time here."

Such a direct statement did not change Wen Ming's expression. The other party was the Chief of Staff of the Army, and he was in charge of hundreds of thousands of U.S. Army. His status was not much worse than that of Wen Ming now, and Wen Ming's current status was The supplier, the other party is the customer, so it is naturally impossible to be angry.

What's more, Wen Ming's real identity is a liar now, how could Wen Ming be angry before he succeeded in deceiving him?

Being a liar also requires professionalism.

The Secretary of Defense also stated at this time: "Although our investment in individual soldiers is the most in the world, even if we agree to the investment of 10 million US dollars per person, the White House will not agree, and the Senate will not agree. of."

Wen Ming laughed, he really wanted to bring the company's combat troops over.

The training standards of his combat troops are completely based on the Delta Special Forces, but the number of personnel is configured according to the standards of the SEALs.

Although the number of all members is a little less than the 1600 members of the Navy SEALs, only 1100 members, but these people have all undergone physical strengthening. According to the price he said, Wen Ming's investment in these people has already exceeded 11 billion US dollars.

But in fact, are there really that many?

"If the cost can't be reduced, I can't let you generals who can represent the U.S. military waste time here." Wen Ming said with an expression on his face that the customer is God, "The reason why the cost is so high now One of them is that the raw materials we need are not only very scarce, but also very difficult to cultivate. We have made preparations in this regard. I believe that in the near future, after we have more raw materials, the cost per unit will increase significantly. decrease in magnitude."

The Minister of Defense subconsciously wanted to ask what kind of material it was. If Wen Ming didn’t have it, they could provide it for Wen Ming. But he suddenly thought of Wen Ming’s current level of wealth and influence, and thought that the so-called raw material was definitely Wen Ming’s biggest secret. One, so he didn't ask.

But the Chief of Staff of the Army asked.

Wen Ming looked at the Chief of Staff of the Army with a half-smile, and said, "The most important material needed to strengthen potions does not exist in nature, but we have cultivated them in the laboratory. You can understand it as, like It is like the dinosaurs bred by my Jurassic Island Research Institute. Before the overall technology is developed, the difficulty of our cultivation cannot be reduced, and the cost cannot be reduced."

Seeing the disbelief on the face of the Army Chief of Staff, Wen Ming did not explain much, and continued: "There is another reason for the high cost, that is, we have not completely deciphered the code of human genes."

"To put it simply, improving human's physical function talent depends on changing human genes, just like those genetically modified crops. Through my Jurassic Island Research Institute, we have made a lot of progress in genetics. Only progress can be made to develop strengthening agents. However, our understanding is not enough to strengthen human beings in the simplest and most effective way."

"For example, we don't have a supercomputer, and we can only use a calculator to calculate a formula, which is naturally very difficult. When our technical level improves, we can have a supercomputer, which can calculate in a few seconds. It takes a calculator months or even years to calculate the formula."

"At that time, the cost will naturally drop significantly."

Wen Ming paused for a moment, and after seeing that everyone in the Ministry of National Defense inspection team was interested, he concluded: "According to our budget, the final cost may drop to about 500,000 US dollars. Do you think this price is acceptable?" ?"

500,000 US dollars is actually the funds that Wen Ming needs to make a normal strengthening potion now.

For the Minister of Defense and others who don't know the truth, the drop from 10 million US dollars to 500,000 US dollars, although the overall cost is still high, is not so difficult to accept.

The Minister of Defense had already guessed Wen Ming's intentions, so he simply asked directly: "Does the research on strengthening medicine also need the help of our US military?"

Wen Ming snapped his fingers and said, "Yes, although I believe in the research capabilities of my team, but with the full support of the US military, I think these processes will be accelerated a lot."

"Of course, like the research on 'Swallow', if the U.S. military is willing to join, the final research results will be shared by both of us. At the same time, on behalf of Umbrella Corporation, I will announce that Umbrella Corporation will never be involved in the U.S. military If it is not allowed, sell the results to any country, private organization, or individual."

The Minister of Defense pondered for a while. He was not unwilling to agree, because the benefits of such cooperation for the U.S. military were much greater than those for Wen Ming.

But he was very worried about how long it would take for Wen Ming to succeed in his research. If he had already retired by then...

Or, as he hoped, Wen Ming could help him get a longer term?

"We need a meeting to discuss it."