The technological empire begins with polymer materials

Whoosh~

The ANA flight from Fuso landed in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, in the evening.

Mitsuhiko Inoue and Shigeru Ohta walked out of the airport, looked at this strange and hot land, and couldn't help but let out a deep sigh.

As we all know, Takahara started his career in materials science, and Mitsuhiko Inoue and Shigeru Ohta both worked in Japan's famous materials science group, so they were severely suppressed.

Mitsubishi Chemical simply couldn't survive and declared bankruptcy and dissolution at the beginning of this year.

After all, it is a super chaebol that is famous all over the world. Even without Mitsubishi Chemical, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and Mitsubishi Bank, it will not have a big impact on the entire Mitsubishi Corporation. It is just that young people like Inoue Mitsuhiko are suffering from unemployment after only a few years of employment. Laid off.

After Mitsuhiko Inoue received a severance package, he felt sad and silently left the company.

It happened that Mitsui Chemicals, where Shigeru Ohta worked, was also laying off employees to survive. Shigeru Ohta was unlucky because he had a bad relationship with the minister and was included in the list of dismissed personnel.

So, the two brothers held each other's hands and cried in the izakaya.

There is no way to continue like this. Together, the two of them said that I originally studied materials chemistry. Now, almost half of Neon's materials chemistry talents are unemployed. It is difficult to find a job. It is better to take the severance pay and go to Laos to develop.

The reason why they come to Laos is not because they like it here, but because Laos’ recent economic situation is very good and there are many opportunities for development.

Laos is one of China's allies. Many technological products that cannot be bought in Japan are very common in Laos. Inoue and the others set out from the airport and deliberately spent an extra sum of money to take a flying car.

Taxi drivers who drive flying cars are used to seeing country bumpkins from all over the world. It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain a visa to China, so many Westerners resort to the next best thing and go to Laos or Khmer to experience China's latest technology.

"Neon doesn't have this kind of flying car, does it?" the driver asked proudly.

Inoue frowned, "No, but we have Toyota and Honda, Nissan and Mitsubishi. They are all large companies with global reputations."

The driver chuckled, shrugged nonchalantly and said, "Whatever, as long as you are happy."

What the hell!

The driver's attitude made Inoue Mitsuhiko furious.

Taxi drivers didn’t invent the saying that you should be happy. The first person to say this was Gao Yuan. He often expressed his indifference to the West in his live broadcasts. Later, this argument became like a virus, infecting the entire world. China.

Inoue Mitsuhiko clearly remembers that once a foreign media reporter asked the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about something about the broken island. The spokesperson said very impatiently, "Anyway, the island is there, and it won't run away on its own. As for the island, Whoever is on it can do whatever they want, as long as they are happy."

These are actually the words of the spokesperson. Isn’t it too unserious?

Anyway, now that things have happened, similar arguments are being made everywhere in China. It’s up to you whether you like it or not.

The Chinese people only had this kind of tone, but now even a Lao taxi driver actually spoke in this tone. Inoue Mitsuhiko couldn't help but get angry. If it weren't for the mature and steady Ohta Shigeru on the side, he would have lost his temper.

The taxi driver muttered, "Times have changed. We did have a lot of Toyotas and Hondas here in the past, but now they are dominated by BYD and Changan."

Inoue and Ohta suddenly felt sad, but they had to admit that China's new energy system was powerful.

The flying taxi is extremely fast and reaches its destination in a blink of an eye.

"Why is it cash? Don't you have Alipay?" the driver asked, reaching for his wallet with a look of disdain on his face. "It's very troublesome to find change. It's so convenient to pay with your mobile phone. You neon people are really ignorant. "

Ota Shigeru had a dark look on his face. He is a careful person. He checked the information before departure and knew that Laos likes to use Thai baht and Chinese yuan because of its proximity to Thailand and China. As for the national currency Kip, due to the unstable currency value, it is very difficult to use it. Not popular with the public.

So Shigeru Ohta specially exchanged Thai baht and Chinese dollars at Mitsui Bank. Unexpectedly, the world is changing so fast. Online information has long been outdated. Nowadays, mobile payment is more popular in Laos.

After getting off the flying taxi, I looked around and saw Chinese characters everywhere on the streets.

The hotel that Datian and Inoue booked had a Chinese plaque hanging on it. At the bar by the Mekong River, the store had a Chinese menu, and the waiter who received them spoke fluent Chinese. It wasn't until Inoue said that he was not Chinese that he hurriedly changed to English.

After putting down their luggage, the two went to the Mekong River to order grilled fish and beer.

"Just be content." Ota Shige said to the annoyed Inoue Mitsuhiko: "At least we have not abolished Chinese characters. Although we can't read the streets and shops here, at least we can understand them. This is actually an advantage for us."

"The most unlucky ones are Annan and Keqi. They used to use Chinese characters, but later abolished them. They spent a lot of effort to eliminate Chinese characters from their territories. To this day, if you go to their historical monuments, they still have Chinese characters on them. , even their emperor’s edict begins with the words “inherited by heaven.”

"The people who advocated the abolition of Chinese characters at the beginning would never have thought that in the near future they would have to learn all over again how to throw away and how to pick them up. This back and forth has wasted a lot of time and money."

Inoue Mitsuhiko was noncommittal. He was still a little unconvinced. However, his trip to Laos for several days gradually overturned his three views.

The economy of Laos, which was originally barren and backward, is improving at a speed visible to the naked eye. Its cities and villages are beginning to show signs of modernization, and its people are prosperous and healthy.

There is only one reason for all of this, and that is to follow the right brother.

In the past, at every ten-nation ASEAN meeting, when anti-China countries wanted to introduce policies that were unfavorable to China, Laos and Khmer stood up to fight against them.

Today, China has not forgotten the benefits of these two small countries and has taken great care of them.

In recent years, under the subtle influence of the plateau, the Chinese people have gradually realized that people who are not our race must have different minds. It is almost impossible to educate the Angsa people. Moreover, they are too far away and are not that important to us.

Instead of wasting energy on talking nonsense with a bunch of white-skinned people, it is better to look around and solve the problems around the territory first.

As the old saying goes, to fight against foreign aggression, you must first pacify yourself at home. As the country with the most neighbors on the planet, stability and unity in the surrounding areas is by no means a bad thing for China.

It would be more troublesome if all the surrounding neighboring countries barked like Asan Annan.

It's not that China is afraid that they will cause trouble, but it really doesn't want to waste energy.

Conflict with them is like blowing up a toilet with firecrackers. It's as disgusting as you want.

…

One week after the last live broadcast, Shendou powder and small red fruits were launched in batches in China, and the supply was sufficient.

For a time, consumers across the country enthusiastically bought it, and 1.4 billion people ate the small red fruit together, which is unprecedented.

In the afternoon, Liang Shaojie suddenly came to Gao Yuan with a laptop under his arm that was obviously not a civilian device.

Gao Yuan knew that it was a rugged notebook customized by the military. It could be turned on and used more than a hundred meters underwater, and its performance was very good.

The disadvantage is probably that the notebook is relatively large and not suitable for girls.

"What confidential information are you trying to show me? Is it related to the Kunlun Zenith laser transmitter? Or is it a new type of long-range submarine?"

Gao Yuan and Liang Shaojie were very familiar with each other, so they naturally joked that the military's encrypted computers must be filled with encrypted data. Even Gao Yuan did not often have the opportunity to see them, so he was very interested in them.

Liang Shaojie shook his head and said seriously: "It's not us, but something happened in North America. Come and take a look."

Hearing this, Gao Yuan was suddenly startled.

North America has indeed been suspiciously quiet recently. China has been advancing rapidly and continuously enlarging its moves, but North America has barely responded, which is really uncharacteristic.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. The Western Technology Alliance has long been established. With their strength, they should not be so low-key.

Gao Yuan walked to Liang Shaojie, and Liang Shaojie turned on the computer and showed Gao Yuan some satellite pictures.

"This is the Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida, North America."

"This is NASA's large rocket SLS."

"And this one is Musk's low-cost large rocket, the Falcon Heavy."

"The SLS and Falcon Heavy are North America's biggest weapons in the aerospace field, with carrying capacities of more than 100 tons. We have also launched the Long March 9 and are preparing to compete with North America. These are all well-known things."

At this point, Liang Shaojie suddenly changed the topic and said in a hoarse voice: "But just yesterday, our satellite accidentally photographed this thing."

Liang Shaojie released another high-altitude bird's-eye view photo of the rocket, and then compared this rocket with several other large rockets on a fixed scale.

The comparison results shocked Gao Yuan. In the end, the size of the rocket was significantly larger than the SLS, which is currently the largest on earth. It was much larger, so much so that the SLS looked like a child next to this behemoth.

"What type of rocket is this?" Gao Yuan asked confused.

Liang Shaojie shook his head slightly, "I don't know. We didn't discover this behemoth until it was transported to Cape Canaveral."

"What did the people over there say about the aerospace industry?" Gao Yuan asked again.

"They did preliminary simulations and calculated that the thrust of this rocket is likely to exceed one thousand tons." Liang Shaojie said.

A thousand tons! ?

Gao Yuan jumped up from his seat, his eyes widened.

You know, the top rockets in North America and China are only a little over one hundred tons. This has already made Maozi and Europe jealous because they can't produce a rocket with a load capacity of one hundred tons.

The rocket in the photo can actually reach the kiloton level! ?

This is too crazy!

If this rocket is successfully launched, it means that North America will have space delivery capabilities! Send a huge interstellar spacecraft directly from the earth to space!

Space stations, starships, space mining, moon bases, Mars bases…

The plateau was short of breath, and I no longer dared to continue thinking about it. The kiloton-class rocket and the 100-ton-class rocket were completely different. There was a huge gap in quality.

"If there is any latest news, please inform me as soon as possible." When Liang Shaojie left, Gao Yuan said to him very seriously.

Liang Shaojie nodded in agreement.

After he left, Gao Yuan paced back and forth in his office, fidgeting and falling into deep anxiety.

Obviously, after Musk became the helm of Western technology, he pushed the focus of competition from the ground to space, using the advantages accumulated by the West in the space field over the years to open up a second battlefield and avoid the edge of the plateau.

This strategy seems to be successful now. At least Starlink is successful. Even Plateau is using it. Whenever he sneaks out of the country on the Phantom shuttle, he will need uninterrupted network service, so he created an account anonymously.

"correct!"

"Phantom!"

Gao Yuan slapped his thigh suddenly. Whether it is a kiloton super rocket or not, you will find out if you go to Cape Canaveral and see for yourself.

At present, Plateau simply tidied up and arranged for the administrative department not to disturb him.

When night fell, Gao Yuan quietly came to the tarmac outside the office and pointed toward the sky with his hand.

Huh~

The Phantom shuttle landed silently and then de-cloaked.

Gao Yuan opened the hatch and jumped in directly.

"Let's go to Florida!"