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Volume 4: Walking in the Solar System Chapter 2: New Monetary System (1)

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    Mei Yifan only said at first that studying gold was his hobby, and most people in the company didn't take it seriously.  Although there is a lot of gold on the earth, it is far from meeting the needs of the earth's economic operation.  The "Alchemy Furnace" is a joint project of multiple research institutes in the company. Its purpose is to maximize the level of technology, not alchemy.

    Currency and wealth cannot be equated. The giant material warehouses that can be seen everywhere in Wilson State show that the wealth created by United Technologies every year is far more than that expressed in other currencies. Only the electronic currency used in the company's financial system can know the details.  Some resources can be stored for long periods of time at an acceptable cost.

    Weizhou is the state with the most advanced energy technology in Australia. All available energy facilities can be found here, including nuclear fusion power plants, concentrated solar power plants, clean coal-fired power plants, automatically maintained hydrogen fuel cell power plants, countless wind power stations, high-voltage  DC transmission systems and high-efficiency converter stations.

    The population living here was originally negligible, and the large number of deserts and national parks made the area of ??available arable land seem very small.  Even including Western Australia, it only accounts for 10% of Australia's total, mainly due to water source issues.  Mining is the main industry here.  After the rise of United Technologies Corporation, the population increased significantly.  Including company employees, the total population has increased to 10 million, accounting for one-third of Australia, and the output value accounts for 60% of Australia.

    The extensive use of robots has doubled the difficulty of desert transformation. The crazy environmental transformation group has reduced the area of ????the Great Sand Desert by three-quarters in just four years.  The Pilbara iron ore area is home to large companies, and the issue of interest is very complicated. Fortunately, the giant United Technologies Corporation is entrenched nearby, so everyone can still save face and avoid causing more trouble.  Secret fighting is inevitable, but businessmen value peace so that things won't get out of hand.

    The Large Company Size Limitation Act, also known as the Wesson Act, has an impact on these companies. However, United Technologies is a large purchaser. Although the energy consumption of the same output value is low, it cannot support the staggering output. Most of these products are used for threats.  Construction within the state.  Although Australia is rich in resources, not all resources are available. These groups make a lot of money from the company and often make tip-offs.

    After Citigroup announced the realization of controllable deuterium and tritium fusion, it only announced the successful operation of the deuterium and helium tritium fusion experimental reactor two years later.  Deuterium is not expensive, but tritium is very expensive. It has a half-life of 12.26 years and will transform into stable helium-3.  The amount of helium-3 on the earth is very small due to the obstruction of the atmosphere. According to the detection of intelligent robots, the reserves on the moon are several times higher than originally expected. This means that building an intelligent refining factory on the moon is a hugely profitable thing.  , not to mention other by-products.

    The development of artificial intelligence and space technology has made space assembly easier. All major aerospace countries have this strength, but energy and power are big problems.  Traditional chemical rockets are expensive and slow. Advanced nuclear fission rockets are unique to Citi. Other forces are not sure they can develop similar products in the short term.

    Li Zhuang asked the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute to desperately reduce the size of the speaker-level intelligent brain. In addition to developing B-level intelligent robots, the goal is to serve as the control brain for future aerospace planes and spacecrafts.  Xinzhi Nao belongs to the miniaturized product of the speaker family. Because of its use, it is named al-level, which is the flying speaker level.

    Citigroup has a similar plan. According to a report from the Overseas Investigation Bureau, NASA has issued development orders to several large companies.  With Citi's technical level, it is not difficult to reduce it to a level suitable for installation on a space aircraft, although the "future" class brain is 20% heavier than the speaker class.

    There is no doubt that the lunar base must be supervised by someone, and the brain cannot be allowed to toss on it. This approach is very dangerous and does not comply with the requirements of the Tokyo Agreement.  Among several major space powers, only Citigroup has the conditions to establish a lunar base in the short term, and no other organization can.

    The alliance between asa and rsa is now close to disintegration. The honeymoon period between the two major groups has passed. cnsa has too much time to take care of itself. jaxa is still far away.  This situation means that within five years after NASA establishes a complete lunar base, other forces may not be able to successfully complete the construction of the lunar base.

    If Citigroup obtains resources on the moon, its hegemony will last for a long time, but this is not the reason why the golden storm will definitely happen.  It is still unclear which force is involved in this.  United Technologies' "Alchemy Furnace" is a comprehensive research project. Artificial gold is just a by-product. It is not intended to create gold. Even if it were to be created, it would not be put on the table so clearly for hundreds of thousands of people to see.

    The artificial gold involved in the company¡¯s ¡°Alchemy Furnace¡± comprehensive research project has progressed beyond Li Zhuang¡¯s imagination after investing huge sums of money, which gave the management other ideas.  The Institute of Nanotechnology has gradually reduced the thickness of nanometer mercury flakes. The Institute of Theoretical Physics has developed a super bucky ball that accelerates atomic decay, which can quickly eliminate the radioactivity of artificial gold. Mineral and mineral research.The institute and the Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Industry have been upgrading equipment and solvents for separating different metals.

    The Australian military wants a nuclear bomb and has significantly relaxed its monitoring of nuclear reactor research. Research on fast neutron reactors is currently the responsibility of Xavier's Institute of Nuclear Physics.

    Spallation neutron source, reactor neutron source and isotope neutron source are three common neutron sources. They are necessary equipment for neutron physics experiments such as neutron nuclear reactions and neutron diffraction.  The Institute of Theoretical Physics has developed high-flux research reactor neutron sources and isotope neutron sources for different purposes, but the main force is the spallation neutron source.  This was what He Xiuwen repeatedly requested after understanding it.

    When the computer expert learned that he had been deceived by the Institute of Theoretical Physics, he became angry and started fighting.  Xavier was no match for him. Durand could run faster than a rabbit. He was afraid of Telekin's body and decided to give up.

    It is cost-effective to produce artificial gold based on the spallation neutron source SNS. It has high flux, low investment, saves water, and does not need to consider nuclear waste disposal. The effective neutron flux is 10 to 100 times higher than that of the reactor neutron source.

    The Institute of Theoretical Physics has manufactured the first batch of ten sets of spallation neutron sources, which have been divided up by major research institutes, which can be regarded as the first income.  Institute of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Cell Research, Institute of Nanotechnology, Institute of Materials Theory, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Institute of Space Physics, Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Institute of New Energy Theory and Research Institute of Military Industry respectively.  A set of spallation neutron sources named wsns100 was built.

    Two SNSs with megawatt-level beams have been completed, mainly used by the Institute of Theoretical Physics. Other institutes cannot use this level of equipment for the time being.

    The cost of gold produced by a complete set of artificial gold equipment based on wsns100 is only three times that of natural gold.  The more produced, the lower the cost per ton of gold.

    Artificial gold, which was originally a by-product, turned out to be the core of the entire research plan. Before the gold storm occurred, the team members reached 2,000, with an investment of nearly 300 billion Australian dollars, and about 40,000 researchers supporting the entire project.

    The Finance Department couldn¡¯t understand this kind of investment, so Li Zhuang said, ¡°The purpose of establishing our group is to conduct research, and we only make money because we need to live.¡±

    More and more precise control, more and more in-depth theoretical research, more and more advanced radioactive elimination and metal separation, more and more durable equipment and instruments, but the closer to the target, the more difficult it is, and the cost ends up being thousands of cents.  One's speed is declining.

    With huge investments in frantic research, the list of available by-products is astoundingly long, accelerating the company¡¯s expansion into other areas.  The small isotope battery, which was originally only a prototype, was finally developed. Although the size is different from similar Japanese products, the power can already meet the needs of robots.

    The Institute of Theoretical Physics and the Institute of Nanotechnology, including the Energy Research Institute, which later joined, have developed a new type of super rechargeable battery. Although the cost is high, it is easy to produce. It is a combination of nano-battery, high chemical bond energy battery, and super-rechargeable battery.  The composite battery combines the advantages of conductive batteries, and its specific capacity, specific power, specific volume and safety are very satisfactory.

    Every year, United Technologies uses a large amount of gold to offset taxes to the federal Treasury, on the condition that the gold can only stay in Australia and cannot be sent to Citigroup.  No one dislikes gold. This metal is the hardest hard currency on earth. It is rampant and no group can resist its charm.  Gold has been slowly appreciating, and the Ministry of Finance accepts it calmly.

    This eccentric group, United Technologies Corporation, is keen on collecting industrial waste, mainly electronic and electrical waste and industrial waste. The city of Warrer Downs has built a fully automated industrial waste treatment plant covering an area of ??100 square kilometers.  The town where this factory is located was jokingly called "Garbage Town" by the Australian media, and its official name is Lage Town.

    Laj Town is the essence of United Technologies Corporation's technology. The entire system embodies the efforts of tens of thousands of researchers. It adds hundreds of millions of tons of materials to the company's warehouse, including gold, platinum, palladium, silver, copper, nickel, cadmium and  Lead and other metals.  After being processed and strictly tested, the refined waste residue is spread into the desert, adding fertile nutrients to the barren desert.

    The moistened plants are lush and green. Many people have objections to this treatment method, but Canberra was convinced by the data from the Desert Transformation Laboratory.  Technology is technology, but ordinary people have always been unable to accept it, just like treated wastewater can be drunk but not many people dare to drink it.

    ?????????????????Few people can imagine that the annual profit generated by the Raj Town waste treatment plant is higher than that of the Sunway Materials Steel Plant, which has invested hugely.  This treatment plant itself is a big profit maker, unlike some people imagine that the company's leadership is out of their minds.

    In the international market, companies are keen to buy gold, and a large amount of gold has been transferred to Australia from other countries. Since the passage of the Wilson Act, gold from different channels has amounted to as much as 3,000.??.  In the third year after Wesson Technology arrived in Australia, some media said that United Technologies had the largest gold reserves in the world, estimated to be no less than 10,000 tons, and increasing at a rate of at least 1,000 tons every year.  Australia¡¯s annual local gold production, including that of Weizhou, is nearly 400 tons, all of which enters the three-proof basement of Wilson Bank.

    The company's behavior is unique in an environment where credit money is prevalent in the world. The "Alchemy Furnace" is a comprehensive project listed on the company's directory. Hundreds of thousands of people know about it and cannot keep it secret.

    When some media interviewed Zhou Qisen and asked whether United Technologies was working on an artificial gold project, he asked, "Do you like gold?"

    The reporter nodded, and Zhou Qisen said, "My wife likes gold very much, and I also like it, so this research project is named the Alchemy Furnace. It has nothing to do with artificial gold. Besides, everyone knows how difficult it is to make artificial gold. We will not do this kind of laborious task."  Something to please.¡±

    The R&D strength of United Technologies Corporation is obvious to all in the technology community, but Zhou Qisen¡¯s refutation of the rumors caused panic.  The media, both large and small, swarmed in, forcing the management to go into hiding for a few days.  This is normal behavior that makes everyone think that United Technologies must have a plan to create artificial gold, and maybe it can produce gold at low cost.

    The gold price market fell in response. This was not a small fight by a certain scientist, but a super group with millions of researchers. It seemed that there was nothing that could not be done. Besides, the United Technologies Corporation Mining Group was looking for gold all over the world.  This has become an industry joke, often ridiculed in newspapers.

    Opinions in the media are flying all over the place, some are skeptical, some are sarcastic, and some are convinced. It was not until a certain media interviewed experts who have studied this type of research and listed a detailed cost list that the situation calmed down.  In less than a month, scientists with different views listed the possibilities and the current technological progress, saying that it is entirely possible to produce gold at low cost.  If the water content of the banknotes is taken into account, it may not be impossible to maintain a flat currency.

    As for the lower cost asked by the reporter, the scientist said that at the current level, it can only be close, but it is impossible to go below the cost.  Technology is advancing and the cost of mining natural gold is also decreasing. It is only because everyone does not trust paper money now that gold is going higher.

    This news suddenly stirred up a hornet's nest. Experts analyzed his data in detail and expressed its credibility. The atmosphere around the world became solemn. Even Citigroup's announcement of the success of controlled nuclear fusion did not receive much attention.

    Some groups expressed their hope to restore the gold standard, while others retorted, saying that the gold standard cannot solve the problem. At the current rate of development of the world economy, there is not so much gold needed to maintain development.

    The father-in-law said that the father-in-law was right, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was right. Both sides held their own opinions.  The complexity of economics is no less than cutting-edge research in the scientific field.  Although we can see it every day, as long as it involves the macro field, we can't always get a proper solution.  Even central banks and financial forces are ships in the sea of ??economics and cannot control everything.

    "Li Zhuang is stubborn and doesn't care about anything. He lets the Financial Division continue to collect gold, no matter how the gold price fluctuates.  If there is a force that pushes up the price of gold, the financial division will sell it. If the price of gold is suppressed, it will continue to buy and will not give up until the goal is achieved.

    United Technologies¡¯ attitude has left many speculators dumbfounded and they don¡¯t know how to deal with it.  The international gold market is priced in U.S. dollars, and the simultaneous appreciation or depreciation of the U.S. dollar and gold frequently occurs, rather than being primarily interactive as before.

    In the ultra-tightly secured underground vault of Wilson Bank, gold bricks are stacked on top of each other.  An internal visit channel is opened here.  The charm of gold is unstoppable, and there are very few people in the company who have not visited here.  As soon as they see the gold, employees no longer worry about the company's financial problems.  They can understand the company's purpose of storing gold, because the actual output value created by Wisconsin each year far exceeds Australia's money injection.  Too rapid expansion can easily arouse resistance from other forces, eventually turning the company into a public enemy.

    The company¡¯s internal system is different from economic theory. Even the experts from the Economic Research Center of the Financial Division don¡¯t know how to evaluate this system.  With sufficient cash flow, each department operates independently, a bit like anarchism, a bit like a planned economy, but it is also a market economy to the outside world.  The network and financial analysis and processing system densely distributed in Weizhou will automatically withdraw or transfer money related to the value of goods from the accounts of employees or departments, using internal electronic currency.  External settlement is through Wilson Banking Group, which converts directly into Australian dollars or other currencies.

    This dual-track system is theoretically inefficient, but due to the special structure of United Technologies, it is actually quite efficient.  Each group and department has different preferences. For example, the Materials Group is keen on storing various metals, so several research institutes have invested a lot of research in the field of metal corrosion prevention.  Every piece of metal that comes into the warehouse is spray-coated with theProtective films, such equipment and sprays later became popular on the market.

    Mercury used in the production of artificial gold is an important industrial raw material, used in daily life and industrial production, and is an essential product in the military industry.  The Joint Purchasing Center has business relationships with all heavyweight mercury suppliers in the world, and the company's mining group itself is a major mercury producer.

    The Business Intelligence Center of the company's marketing department received news from a supervisor at BHP Billiton, saying that the mercury factory affiliated to the company has been experiencing booming sales recently, and the delivery date for the goods the company needs may have to be extended.

    When the director of the Business Intelligence Center heard the report, his first reaction was whether there were other forces planning to create artificial gold.  The Yankees were too domineering. Although on the surface everyone had no choice but to surrender, even Washington himself knew that not only his own country, but also John Bull did not agree with them.

    Zhou Qisen received the report and ran to Li Zhuang anxiously to tell him about the matter.  The computer expert thought about it and said, "Haha, there are no like-minded people, right?"

    "We don't have convulsions, but I'm afraid that others will think that we are capable of doing this, and they won't listen even if we explain. The trust between groups is very low, and we might be in big trouble now," the CEO said with some distress.  .

    "If soldiers come to block it, if water comes and soil comes to cover it, maybe we can become the savior, haha," Li Zhuang said with a smile.

    "You still have the heart to joke. If this kind of thing happens, who knows how long it will last. The world war will not end in one or two years," Zhou Qisen said.

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