What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 700: Look, a UFO!

As is well known, Hans's cutting-edge technology surpasses modern technology.

Especially in aerospace technology, what is a mere V2? Rao Xi has UFOs, you know!
Tang Wen still remembers the book "Unsolved Mysteries of the World" that he borrowed from a bookstore when he was a child. It vividly described how Hans had started researching UFOs before World War II. It completely fascinated him when he was a junior high school student. For the next few years, he firmly believed that flying saucers were actually a black technology created by Hans and lost.

It was only after he became interested in aircraft in high school and, as he learned more about them, that he gradually realized it was all nonsense.

Later he learned that the editors of books like "Unsolved Mysteries of the World" were simply making things up from the ground up, using their imaginations to create stories just to make the books interesting and sell them. They didn't care about the authenticity of the stories; all they wanted was a sensationalism!

But this also shows the deceptive power of false information on non-professionals, which is the basis for the existence of the Lost Empire.

In today's world, people's views on the lost empire are mainly divided into two categories: either they believe it should be eradicated, or they only have a vague impression and are just watching the spectacle. There are even humanitarian organizations calling for a piece of land in Africa to be allocated to the lost empire so that it can no longer watch polar bears baring their teeth in Antarctica.

Now, the Lost Empire is about to take another step forward.

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Beijing, Shunyi District
On weekends, the east bank of the Chaobai River in the outskirts of Beijing is often frequented by people fishing and children playing. However, starting last week, an area has been fenced off, and bulldozers have been brought in to level the ground near the riverbank.

At the opening in the fence stood a large wooden sign:

Beijing Aerospace Sports Flight Field

Although Goose City took the lead in opening an airfield in conjunction with the sports department, Beijing was not to be outdone. Several schools under the Space Administration thought it was a good idea and joined forces to lease a piece of land and start doing the same.

The airspace over Beijing is indeed quite sensitive, but at that time there were still many undeveloped areas around it, and given the size of the aerospace industry, the approval was easily granted in the end.

The Qingfeng No. 1 has an extremely simple structure and is quick to produce. The airfield, which has only been open for half a month, already has 15 aircraft. Furthermore, it has tentatively opened up academy places to employees' family members and children, who only need to pay half of the fuel cost as tuition, with the other half subsidized by the bureau.

As for the instructors' fees? The instructors we've found are all retired pilots, so a couple hundred yuan is enough as a token amount.

Another reason is that the Qingfeng-1's qualifications as a training aircraft and the school qualifications of the airfield have not yet been approved, so they are embarrassed to accept too many.

As a result, the number of people who signed up exceeded a thousand as soon as the airfield opened, so they had to accept only 100 people on a first-come, first-served basis and rotate them for practice.

It's only the second weekend, and the area outside the airfield is packed with onlookers. Inside, a small plane is undergoing pre-flight checks.

Qian Lin'an enjoyed seeing such scenes, but to avoid being surrounded, he would hide in the shade of the shed and help out in his spare time—such as adjusting the radio.

Across from him was a somewhat inexperienced young man who appeared very nervous upon seeing Professor Qian, sweating profusely as he said:

"This radio station frequency keeps jumping around randomly, I'll go switch to another one."

"It's okay, let me see."

Qian Lin'an observed for a while and then began to adjust the knob of the portable radio to test its function. He could hear the sounds of nearby airports or radio stations in the headphones, and sometimes he could even hear foreign signals, speaking German... German?
Long-forgotten memories were awakened in Qian Lin'an's mind, and he quickly switched back to the channel he had just been listening to, listening carefully:
Yes, the UFO technology of Area 51 actually comes from the UFOs stolen from Peenemünde. It is the cutting-edge technology that our Hans scientists have worked hard to develop.

The UFO news you see is real, but those are failed attempts by the Empire to replicate them, and they often crash. Real flying saucers are capable of space travel.

Here I must expose a hoax: the astronauts of the six Apollo missions did indeed land on the moon, but there was no one on the Saturn V rocket. After the rocket left Earth, it entered space, and Armstrong and Aldrin arrived on the moon in a flying saucer.

The parts about the spaceship in the released documentary are all fake; it's a hoax to create the illusion of arriving aboard the Apollo spacecraft!

I know many people don't believe it, but can NASA do another moon landing and another live broadcast from the moon? Don't talk nonsense. Current technology can't even do real-time broadcasts. Those rely on UFOs to go to the moon to film and then bring back footage to be broadcast on television!

The Empire only stole one intact flying saucer from Peenemünde, which was destroyed after being disassembled and copied, making it impossible to restore. This led to the death of Dr. Wernher von Braun, and their subsequent replicas could never reach the moon, making further lunar landings impossible!

We are exposing this hoax today because they don't know that UFOs belong to the Mayan civilization. The real Mayan civilization created UFOs and left Earth in 3114 BC. What remained on the surface of South America were only a group of navigators responsible for maintaining space beacons. The prophecy of 2012 is precisely the time when the main Mayan civilization's spaceship will return.

Destroying the UFO would disrupt the quantum signal, causing the main civilization's UFO to return to Earth prematurely. The Mayan civilization would then retaliate against all of humanity for the sake of the navigator race!

Fortunately, beneath the surface of the moon lies a Mayan Sentinel weapon, which, once activated, could destroy the Mayan spaceships.

Before Dr. Wernher von Braun was murdered, we replaced his body and moved him out. We also successfully cracked the UFO manufacturing technology and were able to go to the moon, but we lacked the key to activate the generation spaceship. This key was stored in the brain computer of the UFO dismantling ship in Area 51.

We urge the Empire to repent and hand over the key to activate the lunar sentinels, or all of humanity will perish! If you remain obstinate, the Lost Empire will provide support to the global anti-empire alliance until you are annihilated!

In order to prove our truth to all mankind, Dr. Wernher von Braun's flying saucer will be publicly test-flown in any region of the world at an opportune time in the near future!

UFO theorists worldwide, unite! Destroy the empire, destroy the Mayan civilization, protect the Earth, and protect human civilization!

"..."

The noise of the airfield outside and the shaded area seemed to be two different worlds. Qian Lin'an was unable to recover for a long time after listening.

What is this guy saying?
Is this some kind of radio station where foreigners tell stories? How can they make up such outrageous tales?

Wernher von Braun did die young, but that was because of intestinal cancer in 77... It seems that it was indeed only a few years after the moon landing.

However, UFOs are too far-fetched... No, the Cold War has just ended, and people still believe that there must be some strange things in the homes of the three permanent members of the UN Security Council. UFOs and aliens cannot be completely ruled out.

But the Mayan civilization is too far-fetched, how could it be possible—Qian Lin'an suddenly thought of the unusual behavior of the lost empire Pan in Nanmei. And the Mayan civilization did indeed achieve great things in astronomy and calendar systems; many murals were once rumored to depict rockets and spaceships. But how could a primitive civilization possibly have that? However, the radio said that those left on the ground were merely navigators guarding beacons. If they were truly a small group separated from the main civilization, it's quite possible that their technology was lost and the civilization collapsed. Later generations wouldn't understand advanced technology and space navigation, only studying it as a means of divination or to please the gods… No, no, what am I thinking?

Qian Lin'an banished these strange thoughts from his mind, but his mind remained restless until a crackling sound came from the radio—the radio station was indeed broken, and the frequency was adjusting itself.

However, when we switched to a certain frequency, English started playing, and upon closer listening, the content was still the same story!
Broadcasters are repeating the same language over and over on channels around the world—that's the Lost Empire! Only they have the ability to do that!
hiss--

Wait, there's another organization that might be able to do that too.

Qian Lin'an pondered deeply, and suddenly remembered someone who also loved telling science fiction stories:

Tang Wen had previously imagined a civilization existing in the Proxima Centauri Alpha Triad system, constantly iterating through destruction, with bodies that could absorb and dehydrate like sponges; there were also Dark Forest, Carbon-based Federation, God Civilization, and Bubble World Civilization, his imagination leaving him in awe.

This Mayan civilization's approach sounds kind of interesting!

As he pondered, the young man beside him cautiously asked:
"Professor Qian, that radio station..."

"Oh, you can have it."

Qian Lin'an stood up and said to the guard:

"Let's go, we've got work to do."

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Goose City
"Hello, the all-powerful Tang."

Taylor Paulson landed in Shanghai and immediately transferred to Goose City. Without even having time to rest, he found Tang Wen.

Strictly speaking, he was invited by the latter and should have been welcomed, but Taylor didn't want to delay for even a moment.

As the younger brother of the head of Goldman Sachs Capital, his personal involvement signifies the highest level of importance attached to the matter.

"Hello."

Tang Wen also sized up Taylor. He had to admit that Taylor was indeed a high-level executive of a large conglomerate. Just by standing there, he exuded the aura of a Grandmaster at the peak of the Capital Realm. Just by looking at his face, you could tell that he was a true elite.

After McDonnell Douglas brought back the "Paradise City" with a real estate operation model, the entire Empire's financial world was excited. According to Tang Wen's two PPTs, the land on the ship was conservatively valued at $50 billion to $60 billion, and if managed properly, it could even reach $100 billion!
Then Tang Wen humbly relayed the message through Robert, saying directly on the phone:
"Such a huge amount of financing has exceeded the capabilities of Dongda Financial. The Paradise City is the first practice of mankind's vision of a next-generation city. I believe that only the elite of the empire can operate it perfectly."

This statement delighted the entire Wall Street community, and Goldman Sachs and Berkshire Hathaway quickly joined forces to help Geigin manage and operate the Paradise City project.

Berkshire Hathaway may be unfamiliar to many, but its chairman is Warren Buffett.

With two major giants stepping forward to take charge, other smaller conglomerates and banks will naturally follow suit and reap the rewards. On the same day that Tang Wen extended an invitation to them, Disney urgently released a message to recruit ship designers to design amusement facilities that can be used at sea.

"Tang, using finance to leverage physical shipbuilding... We admire your creativity, but before that, I still want to know if this crazy plan can win people's trust enough, trust is the foundation of finance."

“I understand these concerns very well.”

One major reason why outsiders believe that the "million-ton cruise ship" is pure hype is its enormous construction difficulty. Although Geyser Shipyard can build battleships, the challenges of building a million-ton ship are too numerous, and it is almost a completely new field, so it is not surprising that it is suspected.

However, Tang Wen had a reason for inviting Taylor to Goose City: he took him directly to the LV1 dock at the Grand Bay Shipyard.

Because this dock is relatively small, it mainly builds Dongjiang-class fishing boats or some small items. It is also separated from the LV2 shipyard, so there are no safety inspections.

Taylor was somewhat disappointed by the rudimentary surroundings when he entered Great Bay Village, especially by the small LV1 dock, but once inside, he was immediately drawn to what was lying there:

Two enormous propellers were positioned almost perfectly on either side of the dock, their surfaces displaying the unique shimmering golden hue of bronze.

Tang Wen pointed at the propeller and smiled:
"A 9.8-meter diameter, 7-bladed large propeller—no more than 10 shipyards in the world can manufacture it. Tokyo University didn't have it before, but now we do... Does this prove our strength?"

Taylor had obviously done his homework before coming, and he knew very well how difficult it was to make such a giant propeller. Looking at the beautiful curves on the two propeller blades in the dock... it was definitely not just for show.

Tang Wen: "You came in a rather rushed manner. Afterwards, these two propellers can be used as samples for other experts to evaluate. In fact, Gaijin is also capable of manufacturing larger propellers, but he just hasn't had time recently."

As he spoke, he pointed to the much larger LV2 shipyard in the distance, which was once again surrounded by dense barriers:
"Our second shipyard will expand its dry dock to 600 meters long, where these two propellers will be produced. However, it will be inconvenient to visit during the renovation process, but it will be completed and open to the public soon."

Taylor suddenly realized that such a large propeller could only be cast and machined in a large factory, and it was placed here to demonstrate their strength.

As for forgery... impossible. There are only a handful of factories in the world capable of building such a massive object, which is easy to verify. Moreover, even for those large factories, building a propeller like this would take a lot of time and effort, which suggests that the concept of the Paradise City may have existed for a long time.

Next, Tang Wen took him to the archives to look at the sketches of the Paradise City. Although the overall design was not yet finalized, the hull was already taking shape, including several key specifications:
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The ship has an outward-flaring hull and an angled deck runway with a length of no less than 500 meters and a width of no less than 85 meters, designed to accommodate aircraft up to 70 tons in size (designed to be compatible with transport aircraft for airlift resupply).
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The multi-level dock design at the stern can accommodate a large number of vessels, from motorboats to 200-ton yachts. A lift can be used to store and maintain the vessels carried on board.
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The maximum power generation capacity needs to reach 400 megawatts to support the power consumption of seawater desalination equipment and numerous other facilities.

Regardless of the final cruise ship plan, these three key indicators must be met to fulfill the basic requirements of the mobile city concept.

As for mobile hotels and theme parks, those are superstructures. We can decide on them after the ship is repaired. Judging from the current sketches, the Paradise City is already record-breaking enough.

(End of this chapter)