Super Copy of Great Power Technology

"Wife, didn't you go back to school to write your thesis? When did you come to Ruida Space City?" Qiao Ruida asked, holding Du Qingqing's hand.

"I heard that you returned from the moon. In order to see you as soon as possible, I drove to Ruida Space City overnight."

"Honey, it's all my fault. I insisted on going to the moon and made you worry."

Just as the two of them gathered together and whispered to each other, the welcoming crowd came over.

For today's welcome ceremony, the Manned Spaceflight Office sent a Director Tang. His specific position is unknown, but the reception level is quite high.

Director Tang walked at the front of the welcoming team, shook hands with Qiao Ruida first, and said enthusiastically: "Mr. Qiao, congratulations on your triumphant return!"

"Congratulations, without the logistical support provided by your space agency, this manned lunar mission would not have been so smooth." Qiao Ruida's words were not a polite remark. The National Space Administration has made a lot of efforts behind the manned lunar mission, including the subsequent discovery of the Purple Moon alien spacecraft. Including the formulation of the lunar landing plan, equipment manufacturing, food customization, deep space positioning, technical consultation, communications and many other aspects, the national team is deeply involved. Including the space plane developed by Ruida Aerospace, the new extravehicular space suit, the lunar soil 3D printer and other advanced equipment, they were finally produced with the help of the country's complete and perfect industrial system.

Following behind Director Tang was Cao Yifei, general manager of Ruida Aerospace. He was the second to shake Qiao Ruida's hand and said, "Boss, you've worked hard all the way. Can you still hold on? Do you want me to help you down and take a rest?"

"It's not a big problem. My physical fitness is no worse than those professional astronauts. On the way back, I only experienced two days of weightlessness, which is not a big problem. My hands and feet were a little weak when I walked up the gangway just now, but now I have adapted to the gravity environment of the earth again, so I can stand for another day without any problem."

After exchanging a few words with Cao Yifei, Qiao Ruida continued to shake hands and greet the people behind him. The entire welcome ceremony lasted for half an hour. Qiao Ruida kept smiling throughout the whole process, and the muscles on his face were a little stiff. Qiao Ruida has always hated formal things such as welcome ceremonies, opening ceremonies, and anniversary celebrations. He would not hold them if he could avoid them, and would not participate if he could avoid participating. However, the general environment was like this, and even Qiao Ruida, the founder of the company and the richest man in the country, had to follow the crowd, participate in some activities, and bite the bullet to socialize.

After the welcoming ceremony, Qiao Ruida and two other astronauts attended a press conference, released some photos and video clips of the manned lunar landing, talked about their feelings about the moon landing, and provided some reporting materials for the reporters who came to interview. Of course, all information about the Purple Moon alien spacecraft was top secret, and not a word was mentioned at the press conference.

At the press conference, we also encountered several foreign reporters with ulterior motives who asked some very tricky questions. For example, a reporter from India asked in his curry-smelling Mandarin: "According to relevant United Nations treaties, the moon is the public property of all mankind, and no country or individual may declare sovereignty over any area of ​​the moon. Your Chinese lunar landing team is mining on the moon, building a lunar base, and even occupying all the water resources at the South Pole of the moon. Aren't you afraid of other countries jointly launching protests?"

Regarding the obviously confusing and deliberately provocative question raised by the Indian reporter, Qiao Ruida curled his lips in disdain, turned on the microphone, and said, "I don't know which UN convention this reporter has read. He will not mistake the Antarctic Treaty for the Moon Convention. According to what I have learned, the Moon Convention signed by the United Nations in 1979 clearly stipulates that the sovereignty of lunar territory follows the principle of first come, first served. For manned lunar landers that successfully land on the moon, the land within a radius of kilometers with the landing point as the center shall be the territory of the lander's country. According to this provision, all activities of our Chinese lunar exploration team on the moon, whether prospecting, mining helium-, or mining water ice, are carried out within the lunar territory belonging to us China, and what does it have to do with other countries. If you Indians are not convinced, you can launch a manned spacecraft to land on the moon and compete with our Chinese lunar exploration team for land and minerals. After all, the moon is so big that there are plenty of unowned lands for everyone to occupy."

The United Nations is also interesting. As early as the late 1970s, it established the "Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies" (commonly known as the "Moon Convention") to regulate the exploration and utilization activities of various countries on the moon and other celestial bodies. The agreement emphasizes that the moon, other celestial bodies and their natural resources are the common property of all mankind, and prohibits any country from claiming sovereignty. Human beings, a primary civilization that has just mastered some aerospace technology and has just stepped out of its home planet, want to use a piece of paper to assign all the resources of alien planets to humans. How arrogant and ignorant is this? Have you asked the opinions of those alien civilizations?

Moreover, the "Moon Convention" has many inconsistencies. It stipulates that the natural resources on the moon belong to all mankind, but then it says that the lunar territory is based on the principle of first come, first served, and each country has the right to mine in its own lunar territory. Qiao Ruida's speech also borrowed some provisions of the "Moon Convention" to attack the enemy with its own spear. Later, he indirectly mocked India, saying that its aerospace technology is not very good and it can only talk nonsense. Qiao Ruida's words are a bit of a map cannon. Among all the countries on Earth, only three and a half have the ability to land manned on the moon. The three countries are China, Russia, and the ugly country. The half country is the European Union. The reason why the European Union can only be considered half is that the EU member states are not of one mind. When they put aside their differences and work together sincerely, they are capable of completing some great scientific research projects, such as the CERN Large Hadron Collider, the European Joint Tokamak, the Concorde supersonic airliner, etc. However, the projects led by the European Union are more often stranded halfway due to internal struggles among member states, such as the difficult-to-birth Galileo navigation system. Apart from these three and a half countries, it is a pipe dream for other countries in the world, including island countries and India, to complete the manned lunar landing project alone because they do not have the technology or investment.

Of course, the reporters who disrupted the press conference were a minority after all. Most reporters were very restrained in their questions and would not touch upon sensitive content. It was not the first time for Qiao Ruida and the other two astronauts to face reporters, so they were quite relaxed in dealing with them. After the press conference, the three went to the medical center for a comprehensive physical examination. After all, they had lived on the moon for nearly a month and often went out for activities. It was inevitable that they would be exposed to some cosmic rays and experience some low-temperature and low-gravity environments, which would more or less cause some damage to the body. Now it is necessary to return to Earth and undergo a comprehensive physical examination.

That evening, a grand celebration dinner was held in the staff cafeteria to celebrate the initial success of the manned lunar landing project. The dinner was particularly lively, with at least several thousand people attending the celebration dinner, including Ruida Aerospace's own employees, technicians from the National Manned Spaceflight Office, experts, scholars, reporters from some mainstream media, and archaeological experts, text research experts, translation experts, etc. Qiao Ruida, as one of the protagonists of the banquet, also appeared at the banquet, but he didn't like socializing very much. He hurriedly ate some food to fill his stomach, then apologized, left the cafeteria, and returned to Villa No. 1.

It is said that a short separation is better than a new marriage. Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing had just been married for a short time. They were in love and in love, but Qiao Ruida went on a business trip to the moon, which is billions of kilometers away. He was gone for a month. Now that he has finally returned, he naturally wants to have a good exchange and talk about his feelings. This is confidential and involves personal privacy, so I will not go into details here.

Next, Qiao Ruida continued to stay in Ruida Space City for a week to handle company affairs and sort out the gains from this trip to the moon. Until this day, his mentor, Academician Wang, called Qiao Ruida and informed him to return to Beijing immediately to follow the school team to attend the Science and Technology Awards Conference to be held the day after tomorrow. This is a big deal, and Qiao Ruida is likely to win an award at this conference. Qiao Ruida naturally did not dare to neglect it. He immediately finished the work at hand, returned to the villa to pack his luggage, and that afternoon, he took Du Qingqing and drove the flying car back to Beijing.

The world's first flying car developed by Ruida Automobile Factory has passed the tests of relevant departments and obtained 3C certification and marketing license. The first batch of flying cars is being produced at full speed and will be officially put on the market after the spring press conference. The flying car driven by Qiao Ruida has been replaced with a mass-produced version and has a green license plate that is accepted nationwide. Without reporting the route in advance, you can fly in most airspaces across the country and enter the non-restricted airspace of most cities. However, the traffic control and air traffic control departments only open low-altitude airspace between the ground and 1000 meters to flying cars. Going higher will conflict with civil airliners. Regarding the traffic rules for flying cars, the traffic control department has also come up with a temporary version, which is still relatively rough. It needs to wait until the number of flying cars increases in the future, and then manage and explore modifications.

In the flying car returning to Beijing, Du Qingqing looked out the window at the mountains and rivers below and the white clouds floating by her side. She was in a particularly good mood. "Honey, I heard from the marketing department that this flying car will be on the market soon. Is it true?"

Qiao Ruida, who had just had a great time driving at high speed, turned on the automatic driving mode of the car computer, freed his hands, put his arms around Du Qingqing's slender waist, and looked at the scenery with her.

"Yes, it will be officially released to the public at the new car launch conference in the spring after the new year. The first model is the sports car we are driving now. In order to avoid the noise caused by supersonic flight, the maximum flight speed is limited to below the speed of sound, that is, below 1000 kilometers per hour."

"That's fast enough. A car running on the ground can't reach this speed even if you step on the accelerator and press the fuel tank. What about the price? How much do you plan to sell a flying car for?" Du Qingqing majored in management in her undergraduate studies, but most of her research topics in graduate school were related to economics and finance. Therefore, she is very sensitive to numbers. While asking about the price of a flying car, she was already thinking about the relationship between the price and sales volume of a flying car.

"The specific price is determined by the marketing department, so I'm not sure, but it's probably around 500 million. As the world's first flying car, it is positioned as a high-end mass-produced model, and its target customers are the super-rich, businessmen, and top stars. They are not sensitive to price, but they are very concerned about speed, safety, and style. Flying cars are their only choice to enjoy fast transportation, show their status, and show off their wealth in a low-key manner."

When the marketing department submitted the initial price of 500 million yuan for the flying car, Qiao Ruida clearly opposed it. He originally developed the flying car with the help of a golden finger in order to deal with the increasingly serious traffic jams in big cities, provide the people with a new and convenient way of travel, and completely change the current domestic traffic situation. If the price of the flying car reaches 500 million yuan, or even higher, it will be completely out of reach for ordinary people and salaried workers, and will only become a toy for the top rich and first-class stars, which seriously violates the original intention of the development of the flying car.

However, Ruida Group is not a one-man show, and Qiao Ruida is not a person who insists on his own way. At the company's internal pricing discussion, several eloquent sales managers in the marketing department quickly convinced him by presenting facts and reasoning. In their words, the first batch of flying cars on the market are a brand-new product that has never appeared on the market. Their pricing will affect the positioning of flying cars in people's minds. Only by selling at a high enough price can flying cars be labeled as high-end and high-tech products in the public's cognition, laying a good foundation for the subsequent sales of flying cars.

Of course, only the first flying car is priced so high. In the next few years, Ruida Automobile Company will continue to launch mid-range and entry-level flying cars, and popularize the flying car product in series. The goal set by Qiao Ruida for them is to reduce the sales price of entry-level flying cars to less than 200,000 within ten years, so that flying cars can be affordable for ordinary people. At the same time, Ruida Automobile also plans to open up flying car-related patents in a year, sell anti-gravity engines to the outside world, and support some domestic automobile factories with ideas and strength to design and produce flying cars of other brands to avoid possible antitrust investigations. (End of this chapter)