Homo sapiens

Noon, 12:30.

After eating in the canteen of the Space City in Medan, Li Qingye came to the ground command center.

Jose, Antonio and others are busy.

He did not interrupt, but sat down in a VIP room and quietly looked at the big screen outside. Through the big screen, you could see the Ape-eating Eagle No. 1 on the launch tower.

The launch tower is 4.5 kilometers away from the command center.

At this time, the sky is cloudless, which is very suitable for space launches.

As the debut of the Ape-eating Eagle-class launch vehicle, the one officially launched is a brand new body, not the one used in previous tests, because that test rocket has been reused six times.

Preparations for the launch were soon completed, and everyone in the command center performed their duties and began the countdown.

Li Qingye, who was in the VIP room, also saw the countdown on the big screen beating.

[10...]

[5...]

drop……

boom! The four sturdy methane liquid oxygen engines and two auxiliary solid rocket boosters of the Ape-eating Eagle 1 spewed out light blue hot flames.

Sizzle... In the cooling pool at the bottom of the tower, a large amount of cooling water was instantly evaporated by the high temperature, and dense white mist emerged.

The auxiliary brackets of the launch tower quickly bounced to both sides.

The Ape-eating Eagle 1 soared into the sky, with a thrust of up to 4,500 tons, pushing the rocket towards outer space.

"Start adjusting your flying posture."

The engine nozzle adjusted its direction slightly, and then the Ape-eating Eagle-class No. 1 tilted a little eastward. This was to use the earth's angular velocity to allow the launch vehicle to fly out of the atmosphere more effortlessly.

Everyone in the ground command center was staring at their computers.

Although after six previous test firings, there would be basically no problems with the Ape-eating Eagle No. 1, they still couldn't help but become nervous when the incident came.

Li Qingye was not too nervous, after all, Homo sapiens company could afford to fail.

You know, after large-scale mass production of the Ape-eating Eagle-class launch vehicle, the average cost is only about 6.37 million gold yuan.

If the resources, manpower, and technology invested by Homo Sapiens in the aerospace field are converted into gold dollars, it will be about 253.4 billion gold dollars in 23 years.

This investment is almost dozens of times that of NASA, and the financial efficiency of both parties is different.

Inside the Homo sapiens company, every penny is really used for practical purposes.

NASA is no longer the NASA of the last century. Now they have lost their ability to develop and manufacture spacecraft and need to engage in aerospace through bidding.

This means that the money spent by NASA needs to hand over a large part of the profits to contractors such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, General Electric, Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

Will private companies treat themselves badly and help America develop aerospace?

Stop dreaming, they won’t engage in aerospace without profits.

The pursuit of profits is an insurmountable nature of all private enterprises before they develop into giant companies.

Even if the Council of the City on the Hill comes forward to ask major companies to reduce some of the inflated prices, the profits that should be retained must still be retained.

After all, this is the foundation of America. When capital is operating, it must always pursue profits. If it does not pursue profits, it will not be in line with America's values.

Of course, due to the rise and squeeze of Homo sapiens Corporation, the Council of the City on the Hill now has to make changes and no longer continue to engage in new freedoms. In fact, it cannot continue.

In order to fight against the fierce competition from Homo sapiens companies, big capital families such as Morgan, Rockefeller, Cleveland, DuPont and Mellon also took the lead in paying taxes, while forcing the middle class, small wealthy and emerging wealthy in North America to pay taxes.

For example, Musk, Buffett and others have been charged a large amount of taxes.

Now the comprehensive tax in North America has increased to about 63% of their personal income.

The Council of the City on the Hill has no choice.

Thomas Morgan, who leads the Wall Street financial group, after looking around the world, quietly convened the talkers from other big families and decided to increase the intensity of harvesting within North America.

The reason why Thomas Morgan made such a decision was very simple, because he found that America could no longer cut meat from other areas.

The Europa Commonwealth has just been cut off by them once, and now only a skeleton is left.

Lucia was severely damaged by the harvest in the 1990s and has not recovered yet.

Japan and South Korea are not strong enough, and their blood cannot feed America.

The only health pack that can resurrect America with full health is another slippery old chess player.

As for the other peripheral areas of West Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin America, there is not much meat to cut.

In addition, the Homo sapiens company is now eyeing it. Once America harvests too hard, it may force the opponent to the homo sapiens company's side.

It seemed that Thomas Morgan could only turn his attention to their parasitic North America.

To be precise, it is looking at the middle class, the small rich and the emerging rich.

In fact, Thomas Morgan was very envious and jealous of the Homo sapiens company model.

The current predicament of North America is that it is rich in wealth, but not completely rich.

The major capital families, the rich, and the small rich occupy about 80% of the asset wealth in North America. Under this situation, they have automatically formed groups such as Wall Street financial groups, military-industrial complexes, and emerging technology companies.

Then it can be further subdivided according to concepts, regions, races, and industries.

This has led to the formation of hundreds of groups (more influential groups), large and small, in North America. They grow wildly in the free land of North America.

However, resources are limited after all. When they find that they cannot satisfy the interests of various internal groups by plundering the outside, it means that fierce fighting will break out within them.

Although there was no overt war in this kind of fighting, it was even more brutal.

Now Thomas Morgan feels that the mechanism of the Council limits the strength of North America, and many resources are consumed in unnecessary internal friction and waste.

Homo sapiens can do three things for one penny.

America gets what she needs for three cents.

The current aerospace field is a typical example.

If America wants to achieve the same aerospace industry output as Homo sapiens, it will need to invest at least US$5 trillion in the aerospace field.

5 trillion U.S. dollars, this is simply an astronomical figure.

Unless a Morgan family is sacrificed every year, there is no way to get this money.

Thomas could only look helplessly at the huge resources in North America, but it was difficult to mobilize these resources.

He even wanted to set up a Morgan company similar to the Homo sapiens company. However, the existence of other large families made it difficult for him to transform America into a Morgan company.

In fact, other big families also have similar ideas.

It's just their internal mutual pull that makes it difficult for the City on the Hill council system to be changed in a short period of time.

This bloated system can only be patched and used.

Now Thomas and the others are just restoring the historical version, using the old version's model to improve the overall internal efficiency.

However, the underlying logic of some systems is a congenital problem. Unless it is overturned and restarted, it can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

The development of things always has two sides.

America's global hegemony is declining, and external plunderable resources have been greatly reduced. They should have collapsed directly.

But because of the emergence of Homo sapiens company, they were forced to join forces to deal with the threat of Homo sapiens.

It was precisely because of the overwhelming external pressure that America was not shattered into pieces.

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