Break out of the courtyard

Xie Jia visited Shenzhen Heping Hospital several times and gradually figured out Zhang Heping's attitude towards the hospital's patients.

Simply put, if the hospital doesn't have any difficult or complicated cases that require Zhang Heping's help, or if he doesn't have any acquaintances who can persuade him to go, he won't go to the hospital and will leave the work entirely to the medical staff below.

Zhang Heping is too busy with research projects to have time to cultivate relationships at the hospital, which is understandable.

However, Zhang Zhaodi and Zhang Pandi, who clearly wanted promotions, did not try to build connections at the inpatient department of Shenzhen Heping Hospital, which puzzled Xie Jia for a while.

It wasn't until someone in the capital suggested transferring Zhang Zhaodi back to the capital to organize the nationwide distribution of the Shouyuan 120 drug that Xie Jia realized the Zhang family's logic for promotion was somewhat like "using their achievements to enhance their own status"!
Saturday, October 5.

Xie Jia returned to Shenzhen and successfully entered the World Advanced Technology Research Institute.

Because they had come so many times, and because Xie Jia and He Fang wouldn't let Zhang Heping's family pick them up at the airport, only Xie Wan and Xie Ting went to pick up their parents.

"Isn't the school holding any activities for Youth Day today?" Xie Jia looked at the empty campus and only saw a dozen or so students.

Xie Wan, dragging a suitcase, replied, "We have a 7-day holiday for Labor Day here, and most students have gone home."

Xie Ting added from the side: "In the first half of the year, they can only go home during the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and May Day holidays. They need to go to factories, companies and laboratories for internships during the summer vacation."

"I won't be able to go home until the start of the next semester, and the only time I can go is during the National Day holiday in October."

He Fang asked doubtfully, "Is a 7-day holiday enough for those out-of-town students to travel back and forth?"

Xie Ting took her mother He Fang's right arm and explained with a smile, "The college can help them buy cheap round-trip tickets."

Hearing about cheap airfares, He Fang couldn't help but think of the recent flights she and her husband had taken, all of which were purchased by their two daughters at a 1% discount.

"How cheap?" Xie Jia asked casually, but he was actually testing the waters.

The two daughters told Xie Jia and He Fang that the tickets were 1% off, but the couple had always been suspicious.

Xie Ting smiled and said, "Most of them are 1% off. Only remote airports in the Northwest and Southwest are a bit more expensive, but they won't exceed 3% off."

"Dad, you're not still doubting that we bought you expensive plane tickets, are you?" Xie Wan said, turning her head to look at her father on the left. "We've shown you the payment information on your phones!"

"It's not that I don't trust you!" Xie Jia explained with a smile, "It's just that neither your mother nor I get discounted airfares at our workplaces, so we're a bit envious of the benefits here!"

"By the way, are Xiaolong and Xiaohu still busy with the moon construction?"

"I saw on the news that the first phase of the underground project at the Guanghan Palace base has been successfully completed. When will the second phase of the energy project begin?"

"Dad!" Xie Wan suddenly said seriously, "I finally understand why Uncle Zhang only gave you Level 1 temporary access!"

"You've all signed six confidentiality agreements, yet you still haven't realized that the lunar base construction project is a key classified project in the near future!"

Xie Ting chimed in, "Dad, we haven't dared to ask about the lunar base lately, so you'd better not ask either."

“I have a feeling that what Uncle Zhang and his group are working on this time is very important! Keep asking around, and given how often you and Mom have been coming over recently, I’m really afraid you’ll be asked to come in for questioning!”

"You brat!" He Fang raised her left hand and pressed her index finger against Xie Ting's forehead. "Your dad just asked casually, and you couldn't say anything, so you said it was a secret and couldn't be discussed. Now you've turned this into an investigation!"

“It was my oversight!” Xie Jia frowned and said, “I saw it reported in the news and thought the matter had been declassified, so I asked casually.”

……

A space-based computing center is located deep within a mountain on the Dapeng Peninsula.

"Teacher Zhang, according to the analysis of the probe data, the probability of the moon encountering a meteorite in the next 3 months is 13%, and the probability of the Guanghan Palace base encountering a meteorite is 1%!"

"Although the probability is small, there is a risk of directly destroying the underground project. The Pangu intelligent model suggests that a pulse particle acceleration cannon be deployed on the ground of the Guanghan Palace base in advance for defense!"

After listening to the report from the head of the space-based computing center, Zhang Heping did not respond immediately. Instead, he stared at the lunar and meteorite movement data on the large screen and silently verified the collision trajectory.

After a while, Zhang Heping said in a deep voice: "Notify the Lunar Engineering Department, the Rocket Launch Command Center, the Northwest Space Exploration Base, and the Space Administration to recall all lunar landers within 72 hours."

"Received!" the head of the space-based computing center replied, and immediately called out the names of those present, instructing them to issue the notification immediately.

Although Zhang Heping did not answer whether to deploy the pulse particle accelerator cannon, his recall of all lunar landers suggests that the next lunar lander launch mission is not far off!
Upon receiving the notification, the Lunar Engineering Department immediately dispatched 10 problematic engineering robots, a large number of replaced defective parts, as well as lunar soil and rocks, to the lunar landers.

After receiving the notification, the rocket launch command center began to deploy small maintenance robots from the lunar landers to assess the condition of each lunar lander.

After receiving the notification, the Northwest Space Exploration Base and the National Space Administration began to assess the weather for the next 72 hours, determine the best landing site for the lunar lander, and make personnel arrangements for the recovery of the lunar lander.

This recall involves 156 lunar landers, each containing valuable space exploration experience that can provide practical data for future lunar lander upgrades, spacecraft construction, and more.

The sight of engineering robots suddenly appearing in the lunar base area, transporting supplies into lunar landers, was quickly captured by Omega's spy satellites.

After the first lunar module took off and headed towards Earth, foreign media began to make wild claims, such as that the lunar modules would disintegrate in the atmosphere or that they would bring back deadly viruses from the moon.

These are all just dissenting reports designed to grab attention; they shouldn't be taken seriously at all!

The media outlets under Peace Media Company also reported on this, but the content was consistent, roughly stating that the first phase of the underground project of the Guanghan Palace base has been initially completed, and the second phase of the energy project will begin this month!
Despite the sensationalist hype from foreign media, the various space agencies in OMA are being quite honest, with more frequent calls, faxes, and visits seeking cooperation than before.

At the same time, those foreign space agencies once again demonstrated their sincerity, raising the minimum sponsorship to 5000 million US dollars and the maximum sponsorship to 3.5 million US dollars proposed by the US space agency.

Zhang Heping remained unmoved by this!

Not to mention that Peace Space Corporation's rocket launch costs are low, even the costs of lunar landers, engineering robots, and some supporting construction equipment are not high.

If Zhang Heping is willing to use an unmanned factory for production, he will also be able to cut the largest expense: labor costs.

The reason for this is that they don't invest much in research funding, and the cost of trial and error is very low!

So, while foreign space agencies were eagerly seeking lunar cooperation, Zhang Heping was busy with matters related to the 8th Nobel Peace Prize, ignoring the external troubles.

Cape Carrar Launch Complex, one of the components of the US space launch center, is quite famous and has achieved many firsts in the US space field.

For example, it launched the United States' first satellite and achieved the first unmanned lunar landing.

This launch site has carried out launches of Apollo spacecraft, Skylab, and other missions, and now it bears the heavy responsibility of the United States' return to the moon!

Although the US space agency offered the highest sponsorship fee to the Chinese space agency, they also imposed the most conditions, and the payment was not a one-time payment, but rather based on the progress of the lunar base construction.

So, let alone Zhang Heping looking down on that little bit of money, many people in China, upon hearing this, laughed at the American for being stingy, but he was dreaming.

It's said that the Americans are quite generous with their investments in their own lunar base project, with a special R&D fund of 59 billion US dollars added this year.

Sure enough, Little Ke, the chief steward, had just finished his pile of messy business when he couldn't wait to come to Cape Carrar Launch Complex to watch the first launch mission of the restarted Apollo program.

From 1961 to 1972, the United States spent more than 20 billion US dollars, pooling the resources of 20,000 companies, more than 200 universities, and more than 80 research institutions, to achieve the feat of unmanned and manned lunar landings by the Apollo spacecraft.

Now, the Chinese space agency is openly building a base on the moon and not even including the US space agency. This is truly intolerable!
In order to dispel the online lie that the Apollo spacecraft did not land on the moon, and in order to maintain the United States' status as a world leader, President John Clark made a huge investment in March of this year, approving a lunar base construction project with a budget of hundreds of billions of US dollars.

The first year's budget of 59 billion US dollars was a bit small, but Little K's requirements were not high either. He wanted to quickly send a few mobile remote-controlled robots to the moon to cause trouble at the Moon Palace base!
Little Ke's thinking was simple: as long as their American remote-controlled robots could successfully enter the underground engineering of the Guanghan Palace base, it would be a major success!
Their logic is that if the US's remote-controlled robots can freely film the underground engineering works at the Moon Palace base, that would naturally be the best outcome.

If mainland China's engineering robots damage the US's remote-controlled robots, or if they destroy their remote-controlled robots with some weapon, it will play right into the hands of the US, and an international dispute will be inevitable.

However, to Xiao Ke's utter surprise, he arrived full of scheming and expectations, only to be met with a fireworks display!

To outsiders, the Saturn V rocket exploded in mid-air less than two minutes after liftoff!

Inside, which few people know, the expensive replica of the Apollo spacecraft, along with the two solar-powered lunar rovers and two robots, is actually just a facade.

This is the same principle as burning down the finance office. Send it into the air to blow up those fake, so-called spent money, and it ends up in the pockets of certain people.

Don't ask why some people at NASA would falsify data; it's simply because at its peak, the Apollo program had 30 people contributing their brains and labor.

As a result, the plan was abruptly halted!

So many people lost their jobs because the program was discontinued, and many experts and technicians had to switch to other jobs.

More than 20 years later, these guys, including Little K, thought that with the money in place, they could easily restart the Apollo program without considering the personnel changes involved.

Moreover, they only gave NASA two months to send the results into space. Isn't that asking the impossible?

……

After news of the US rocket and fireworks display reached Shenzhen, Zhang Heping immediately made two phone calls.

Launch Phase 2 Energy Project at Guanghan Palace Base!
Hold a press conference!
As mentioned before, only a superficial overview of the Guanghan Palace base's first and second phases has been provided to the public.

Otherwise, the Americans wouldn't have been so enthusiastic about following the lunar base plan.

It's worth noting that the lunar and Mars exploration plans were proposed as early as four years ago.

The Americans didn't invest in this area initially because they thought the mainland was spreading false information, like the US's Star Wars program, so they only followed the Tiangong space station program.

Furthermore, because the Tiangong space station could be opened to sponsoring countries such as Europe and the United States, Europe and the United States halted their space station construction plan.

Now that the Moon Palace Base project has been launched, Peace Space has sent more than a hundred lunar landers to the moon at once, demonstrating its strength. It has also sent so many engineering robots to the lunar subsurface to carry out infrastructure construction. The Americans are really in a hurry!

Welcome to the World Advanced Technology Research Institute!

"I'll only say two things about the Phase II energy project at the Guanghan Palace base today!"

"First, we will conduct our first test of the controlled nuclear fusion power device we developed at the Moon Palace base!"

"Secondly, this controlled nuclear fusion power device will power the gravity system, defense system, survival system and other equipment of the lunar base!"

The reporters summoned by Zhang Heping arrived very quickly, because there were only reporters from Hong Kong, Macau, and Shenzhen.

However, the two points Zhang Heping made spread rapidly around the world!
The first experimental controlled nuclear fusion power device!

This news sent shockwaves through the global tech world!

If this news is true, then the global energy landscape will be disrupted, and existing energy giants will become truly heavily indebted!
Crucially, Zhang Heping also mentioned gravity systems, defense systems, and survival systems!
Gravity systems are the most fundamental equipment in space stations, bases, and spacecraft!

It can be said that if humanity cannot solve the gravity system, it will never be able to achieve interstellar exploration and interstellar colonization.

Because humans grow up in a gravity environment, it would be difficult for humans to survive in space for a long time without a gravity system.

For example, existing astronauts who stay in space for more than six months will face the prospect of lifelong medication and recuperation after returning to Earth!

Conversely, if space stations, bases, and spacecraft have gravity systems, they can maintain the internal balance of the human body, making it feel as if the human body is still living on Earth.

Of course, the gravity system still needs to be tested!
What really shocked foreign media was that Zhang Heping also mentioned a "defense system"!
Having defenses means having weapons!
Foreign media previously hyped up the idea that building a lunar base was impossible due to numerous issues!
Even if a base is built on the mainland, it will be attacked by meteorites, making it impossible to guarantee the long-term operation of the base. It would be a pure waste of money!

Now that the defense system is out, foreign media outlets have started coming up with all sorts of conspiracy theories.

Especially online, netizens from all over the world flocked to the World Internet Forum to leave messages, making the World Internet Forum earn a huge amount of advertising revenue.

As for the survival system mentioned by Zhang Heping, it is rarely mentioned, probably because the Northwest Space Exploration Base has long been researching space plant cultivation technology... (End of this chapter)