The construction of the space elevator is in full swing.
Maintaining the pace of one rocket a day, Starlink Trading's Aerospace Science and Technology Center has turned aerospace projects into daily activities, launching 24 tons of objects into outer space every day. The engines produced by industrial-grade 3D printers are transported to the rocket launch site for assembly almost as soon as they come off the production line.
Employees at the Aerospace Science and Technology Center even joked in interviews with the media, "We have successfully turned the aerospace industry into an assembly line."
The cost of the Halo series rockets is lower than that of the Falcon 9, with a construction cost of only US$10 million. Since the Halo rocket series uses a two-stage propulsion mode and the first-stage rocket can be recycled and reused, the cost of a single launch is only US$4 million. That is, two-thirds of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
It is precisely because of this that Star Ring Trade can afford to burn this money.
However, when Kerwin sent the first-phase budget application materials to Jiang Chen's desk, Jiang Chen couldn't help but sigh.
4 million a day is 1.46 billion a year!
Just the cost of transporting materials to outer space for this space elevator is terrifyingly expensive.
However, it is a bit expensive, but the money spent is still worth it. At the beginning of the year, Jiang Chen had already allocated 50 billion US dollars to Star Ring Trading, and there will still be a balance of more than 40 billion US dollars after the research and development of the space elevator is completed. Futureman Bank took out a loan of 20 billion, and Jiang Chen borrowed another 30 billion through Boston Bank and Morgan Bank, using shares of Futureman Group as collateral, with a repayment period of 5 years and an annual interest of 6%.
It has to be said that the shares of Futureman Group are still quite attractive to American consortiums. When Jiang Chen and Luo Qi discussed the loan at the beginning, the old fox was still hesitant, saying that the amount was too large and difficult to handle. But when he heard that Jiang Chen was willing to use the shares of the Future People Group as collateral, all the troubles were gone. Rocky just wanted to lend more to Jiang Chen. When Jiang Chen couldn't afford it, he could become the number one of the Future People Group. Major shareholder.
However, after hesitating for a while, Jiang Chen finally did not do so.
After all, the two families were allies, so Jiang Chen felt a little sorry that they had been screwed so badly.
Therefore, after finding the Boston consortium, Jiang Chen then found another major shareholder of the Federal Reserve, the "leader" of the AS consortium - Morgan Stanley.
When Jiang Chen found Morgan Bank, he followed the same pattern and used shares as bait. As he expected, after the other party expressed the need for a meeting to discuss, he took the initiative to contact Jiang Chen the next day and said that the 30 billion loan was no problem at all.
The reason why Morgan Bank and First Boston Bank were so attentive was entirely because they did not believe that Jiang Chen could afford to pay back the money. Through various aspects of intelligence research, the Future Man Group has wasted a large amount of money on aerospace projects.
Analysts from Morgan Bank and First Boston Bank agreed that these tens of billions of dollars in loans are likely to be invested in aerospace projects.
As we all know, the aerospace project is a bottomless pit.
Even for this outstanding private aviation company, more than half of its profitability is due to orders from NASA and the US Department of Defense. It is impossible to support an aerospace company just by relying on commercial activities to launch projects!
Although New Zealand's economy is growing rapidly, it is still a small country. How much of its annual fiscal budget can be invested in aerospace projects? Just relying on the International Space Station supply project outsourced by Russia, you can only make ends meet. If it was really that profitable, would Russia do it for you
Therefore, Morgan Bank and First Boston Bank unanimously believe that it is absolutely impossible for Futureman Group to recover its investment costs within five years, and Jiang Chen will only be able to use equity to repay debts by then.
But will Jiang Chen let them get their wish
When the space elevator is completed, it will be the time for the Future Group to attack the US dollar.
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It has been almost two weeks since Natasha moved into the villa. After two weeks of getting along with her, Jiang Chen has almost gotten used to this Russian girl who eats and drinks all the time.
If there is anything I'm not used to, it's probably that I can't go home after get off work and have sex with the lovely Ayesha in the gym, bathroom, balcony or other places. When I go back to the end of the world to visit Sun Jiao, Yao Yao and the others, I have to lock the bedroom door tightly before going.
But there are still opportunities. After all, Natasha can't stay at home all the time. She works as a security guard at the embassy, unlike Jiang Chen who works for her, who can work according to her mood and weather. Even if there is a typhoon on Coro Island, she still has to go out to Embassy Street at seven o'clock every day.
On June 6, the Kremlin finally received news that it had agreed to Jiang Chen's proposal of "people exchange for intelligence."
Since the Alternative for Germany came to power, Germany, as Russia's largest economic partner in Europe, immediately changed its original soft attitude towards Russia and became a staunch supporter of the "Southern Corridor" plan-that is, expanding natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe. Investment in pipelines seeks new sources of natural gas from the Caspian Sea south to the Middle East.
If the "Southern Corridor" plan succeeds, it will leverage the European energy landscape and completely change the EU's situation of being constrained by Russia on energy issues. This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to Russia.
Merkel, whose whereabouts are unknown, is in danger, while former Deputy Prime Minister Evelin has become Russia's hope. Evelin himself and his party, the Christian Democratic Union, are also one of the top pro-Russian political parties in Europe. This can be clearly seen from Merkel's series of speeches in favor of lifting sanctions against Russia and recognizing Crimea's belonging to Russia.
Compared with the new country tens of thousands of miles away, Moscow, which is closer to Europe, can indeed provide better support to Evelin.
So Jiang Chen made the right bet on this point. Evelin is indeed a very important bargaining chip for Russia.
On the other hand, the increasingly tense situation in Turkey has really stimulated Russia's nerves. From the Vili Order in the Ukrainian civil war to the Freemasons personally intervening in the Turkish coup, the Kremlin finally realized the danger of this organization.
Russia needed allies in the matter of Freemasonry.
It is undoubtedly a good choice to jointly face the new country facing the threat from Freemasonry!
"A total of 34.7G of data, recording all the information on the KGB's investigation of Freemasonry from World War II to the present day, are all in this USB flash drive." Natasha shook the USB flash drive in her hand at Jiang Chen and leaned against her with a smile. On the sofa, "Do you have to say something as a thank you to me?"
"All you can drink vodka? Although I feel like you've never been polite when you rummaged through my refrigerator." Jiang Chen complained and reached out to take the USB drive in Natasha's hand.
"How is the situation in the Philippines? I heard that the Freemasons sent Colonel Moritz from Europe to serve as a military adviser to the Philippine Army. That guy is a ruthless character." Natasha said with a smile.
"Really?" Jiang Chen smiled noncommittally and put the USB flash drive into his pocket, "It's the same to me."
"I appreciate your confidence, but you must not underestimate the enemy." Natasha warned, "Also, I heard that you are very close to the people of the American AS Consortium, but I have to remind you, Don't think of yourself as their ally. They may hate the Jews, but they don't like anyone other than the Anglo-Saxons."
After hearing these words, Jiang Chen suddenly laughed out loud.
Do you still need to remind me
Where can there be true allies in international relations
The bottle of vodka you drank last Christmas was a gift from the Rothschild family, the head of the Freemasonry. (.)