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Chapter 1535: If you want to carry the crown, you must bear its weight (Second update, please subscribe)
What is a routine?

For Li Yian, who came from the "freebie era", he knows very well how deep the so-called "free" tricks of those Internet companies in the 21st century are.

Li Yian said while recalling the so-called free tricks of those Internet companies in another world.

“GPS charges mainly include equipment costs and service costs.”

"This equipment cost refers to the cost of purchasing GPS equipment and related accessories, including the purchase price of the GPS equipment itself, installation costs and subsequent maintenance costs. The price of the equipment will be affected by the brand, model and the richness of its functions. In the early days, it was possible to make profits through equipment through authorized production and other methods. This market is still very broad."

How can it not be broad?
There are many industries that require navigation and positioning work, including land geodesy, fishing boats, private yachts, tankers, cargo ships, aircraft, surface ships, submarines, offshore drilling equipment, oil exploration ships, ocean survey ships, hydrographic survey ships, and mobile buoys.

That’s it, and it doesn’t include cars or mobile phones.

Why are countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia willing to invest billions to participate in the network deployment of the global satellite positioning system? It is because this is a market that can be seen with the naked eye. The authorized production of positioning systems alone can bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in returns every year.

Of course, they would definitely want to charge monthly, so that the revenue would definitely be higher. However, Li Yian had no intention of adopting this charging method at all. After all, the big Internet companies in the 21st century taught him a truth through reality.

Free ones are not only the fastest to promote, but also the most expensive.

Free things are the most expensive. No one has realized this problem yet. Even in the era of free things, many people thought that free things were a way to get something for free. They didn’t think that free things were a disadvantage.

Although the US Transit Global Navigation System was primitive, GPS technology was almost 20 years ahead of it.

However, in order to monopolize the market as much as possible, free promotion as a gimmick is the best choice. After all, when the Beidou Navigation System appeared, the United States had realized the backwardness of their Transit Global Navigation System, and the US military had proposed a similar plan. In terms of their technical level, they will definitely catch up in the future.

Therefore, it is necessary to completely seize the market before the Americans enter this market, and use the first-mover advantage to occupy and monopolize the market. This is the key to staying far ahead.

"I understand this. According to calculations, it will take us eight years to complete the global network deployment of GDS. Although we can earn more than $8 million in profits every year, satellites have a lifespan. In order to provide good services, we need to continuously launch new satellites."

After expressing his agreement, Yuan Jialiu said:

"The reason why the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa are willing to join is that they see the huge potential application market."

As a long-established maritime power, they are well aware of the profits in the navigation market, so there is almost no need for explanation; they understand how huge the market is.

“More than just potential!”

Li Yian waved his hand and said:

"It's a real market. We can provide basic satellite positioning services for free. As long as they buy positioning equipment, they can use it for free. In addition to this basic service, we can also provide further membership services, that is, VIP services!"

Yuan Jialiu couldn't help but open his eyes wide and said:

"VIP service?"

As a member of the country club, he certainly knew what a VIP was, but he had never imagined that there could be VIPs in space services.

"Yes, it's VIP service!"

Li Yian explained:

"This VIP service means that there is a certain degree of difference in the use of GPS services. Ordinary users have limited accuracy and can only meet basic positioning needs through certain interference, while VIP services have higher positioning accuracy. The size of these fees mainly depends on the frequency and scope of user use, as well as the quality and stability of the service."

By setting up VIP customers to provide differentiated services, Another World is simply too normal, from the simplest network disk download speed, to the VIP membership of major video websites, and later even VIP p membership. Not only that, there is even VIP p membership.

In a word, in order to reap the benefits of being a “leek”, capital will rack its brains and come up with all kinds of tricks, and the freeloaders will easily become “leeks” if they are not careful.

However, the capital also gave Li Yian enough experience to use the global positioning system to harvest leeks all over the world.

No, it should mean providing high-quality services worldwide. Of course, this kind of service comes at a price.

Listening to you talking about differentiated services and differentiated charges, Yuan Jialiu was completely stunned.

Obviously he was stunned by this epoch-making business model.

However, Li Yian did not notice his dumbfounded look, but said proudly:

"…So, monopoly, as long as we monopolize the market, we can use various means and methods to get as much return as possible, and then making money… will be easy."

What will be the only obstacle to making money by then?
That is your own conscience.

Hearing this "management method" that was ahead of its time, Yuan Jialiu was shocked. He looked at his old friend in front of him for a long time before speaking.

"Alas, perhaps, not continuing in business is a great blessing for all mankind."

Ok?
Li Yian was stunned by the sudden comment, and then he laughed. "Haha, capitalism, from the day it came into the world, has been permeated with sin in every pore."

In other words, only old friends can joke like this. Now that we have a profit-making routine, we can convince those partners when we provide free services in the future.

After discussing this issue, Yuan Jialiu asked Li Yian what he was busy with recently.

"We are working for peace. The situation in Saigon is very tense right now."

Li Yian looked exhausted for the sake of peace. Waiting is always hard. Can't the United States move faster?

The United States needs to quickly increase its strength over there so that we can seize the opportunity here and take off where we are!

"It's really tense. When I was in London, the newspapers there were full of news about Saigon. Are you worried that Hanoi will further expand the war with the support of the Allies?"

Although he doesn't care much about politics, Yuan Jialiu still expressed the same concern. After all, some things are always inevitable.

"That's not the case. Since the United States has intervened in Saigon, the situation there will not deteriorate beyond a certain range! They will control Hanoi's expansion within the Saigon area."

Li Yian is very sure about this.

From a military perspective, the United States never lost from beginning to end. According to the U.S. military itself, they won every battle. But this is the most bizarre thing about this quagmire. Although they won every battle, it did not prevent the United States from being in a losing position.

In fact, the reason is very simple. No country can win this kind of war.

Whether it was the United States in Vietnam, the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, or the US military in Afghanistan later, to put it bluntly, fighting in such garbage areas is essentially consuming one's own strength and wasting wealth in a garbage dump.

The simplest example is that next year, the US military began to intensify its operations in Vietnam and launched "Operation Rolling Thunder."

"Operation Rolling Thunder" lasted a full 43 months. Before implementing the plan, McNamara and his staff were so foolish and naive that they believed that Hanoi would soon surrender once it was bombed, or its economy would collapse.

Think that's possible?

What if the economy collapses?

Where are the two big brothers behind?

During Operation Rolling Thunder, American planes dropped 643000 tons of bombs on the North, more than they had dropped in the entire Pacific War. These bombs did destroy three-fifths of Hanoi's power plants and more than half of its main bridges, but they did not achieve any strategic objectives.

Because like Saigon in the south, Hanoi itself is a backward agricultural country. All its weapons and ammunition are provided by the Soviet Union and Dong Da. The production bases are not in Hanoi at all. Even the airports used to intercept US troops are north of the border. No matter how busy the Americans are, they cannot damage any weapons and ammunition production capacity. At most, they can only interfere with the transportation lines.

Operation Rolling Thunder later became a huge burden on the U.S. economy. The Americans themselves calculated that in order to cause one dollar of loss to Vietnam, the United States had to throw in nearly ten dollars. No matter how you calculate it, this was a deal that could not be lost any more.

The big country behind it, which plays a strong role as a backer, has a much higher tolerance level than the United States. Anyway, the worst case scenario is not that bad. If there is no war, there will be coarse grains and pickles. In the end, it is nothing more than tightening the belt.

What are you afraid of? Just fight!

This is not the case with the United States. In order to continue this war, the United States has to over-issue currency and increase military spending, and all of this will ultimately have to be borne by the Americans.

The consequences are obvious. During the Vietnam War, the United States invested 250 billion US dollars in military expenditures, and the cumulative related expenditures exceeded 550 billion US dollars, and some even said it exceeded 1 trillion US dollars!
With such huge expenditure, it would be strange if the economy did not have problems.

If the United States had not accumulated unprecedented wealth and national strength after World War II, and its European brothers had not become disloyal, and if the Soviet Union had not fallen into a quagmire and collapsed on the spot, it would be hard to say who would win or lose the Cold War.

"That's true. With the United States involved, it shouldn't spread to other places!"

Yuan Jialiu's attitude represents the world's attitude and views towards the United States in this era.

As a superpower, the United States has an extremely transcendent international status. It sent troops to a small country like Saigon and struck a heavy blow. In everyone's eyes, winning was a simple matter.

Because of this, the United States suffered a great loss of face in this war, in which no one was surprised when it won but its allies were surprised when it lost.

Winning is normal, but losing is like being the big brother, is that ok?
People’s hearts are in chaos, and it’s difficult to lead the team!
It is also for this reason that when the United States was showing off its martial virtues in Vietnam and suffered a disgraceful defeat, it had no way to leave with dignity. When Big Brother was showing off its martial virtues in Afghanistan, it was also troubled by the same dilemma.

This is the burden of a great country. If you want to carry the crown, you must bear its weight.

There are some prices they have to pay.

Now, at a time when the United States is full of martial virtues, Li Yian must adjust his response carefully. At this point in time, he also has to assist Britain in dealing with the independence of the East African Federation.

In fact, from the perspective of Britain, the most important thing is to get rid of the worthless colonies and let them fend for themselves, while maintaining the sphere of influence that is related to national security and economic interests.

And Britain has been doing this. In the past few years, they have been constantly abandoning those worthless colonies, but East Africa is different - it is now a dairy cow!

How could I give up?
(End of this chapter)