Chapter 950: You are a respectable opponent (1/4)

Beside the booth somewhere in the exhibition hall, a silver-white giant egg was located there.
The space-x life-sustaining unit x-2 is said to be an improvement on the original life-sustaining unit.
After the Ares plan failed, space-x's cooperation with Blue Origin ended, and after dumping all the pot to Amazon-controlled Blue Origin, Musk quickly found an aerospace located in Tanegashima, Japan. The technology company is the new partner, and this x-2 type designed for the lunar environment was born.
No doubt this is a very wise decision.
After the Ares plan goes bankrupt, new Mars colonization will not be possible in the short term.
Even if Congress may sign the budget, the "New Virginia" Accident Investigation Commission will repeatedly trouble them on safety issues.
Therefore, Huaguo is currently the only customer who may pay for their technology, because only Huaguo currently seems to have the need to send people to the moon.
The Pan-Asian High-tech Innovation and Investment Summit does not exclude North American companies. After obtaining the summit's participation permit, Musk asked space-x people to move this silver "round egg" and even gave it a The Chinese name, Tang Yuan, hopes to win the favor of the Chinese people.
After deleting the key technology, the x-2 life support unit, which is only an experience version, has only a limited number of functions, and the area is reduced by 50. However, although the sparrow is small and complete, it is not a problem just for display purposes. The open hatch can even climb in to see what it feels like to sleep in the astronaut's bed.
Unfortunately, although this silvery-white round shape has indeed attracted a lot of onlookers, it seems that no one has stepped forward to study it, and it seems that no one has penetrated into the open hatch to look at it. impulse.
After all, the Ares plan just failed last year. It was only by the rescue of the Chinese spacecraft that it barely rescued people. It also smashed the large basket of Mars bacteria and said it was high-tech. There is no doubt ...
But I always feel a little lack of convincing in security.
This is the inherent impression of people.
Once a product is labeled as a failure, whether or not the failure is due to them, people will subconsciously treat them as inferior.
Leaning next to the booth of Mencoro Bird, he casually sent a few reporters who were attracted by him and wandered over. Musk held his arms and looked at the crowds who were not interested in stopping in front of his own company's booth. The voice said to the white man standing next to him.
"Do you know? Beavis, the last thing I regret in my life is that at the Los Angeles Materials Science Conference a few years ago, I didn't work harder and left Professor Lu in Los Angeles ..."
The man named Beavis is the number two in Tesla Group.
Although he has nothing to do with space-x, he is the general manager of the Huaguo District recently appointed by Musk, and is a confidant. Regardless of the Tesla factory in Shanghai or other projects, Musk trusted him to take care of him, and he did not live up to ceo's expectations and organized things in an orderly manner.
Hearing the boss talking to himself, Beavis looked away from the exhibition center and glanced at the boss doubtfully.
"Professor Lu at that time ... have already studied spaceflight?"
Musk shook his head. "No. At that time, what he researched was the nano-ball of lithium cathode material. That technology is exactly what Tesla needs ... To be precise, it is needed by new energy companies around the world. So I got in touch with him and threw an olive branch at him. "
Beavis casually asked, "How many annual salary do you pay him?"
Musk shook his head with a smile. "His value is not measurable by annual salary. Even I was able to see it at the time. I invited him to be my collaborator to build a new era of pure electric vehicle industry ... but very Unfortunately, he rejected this great plan. "
This sentence, without Musk, also knows Beavis.
After all, this Professor Lu has become a character who loves and hates all the pure electric vehicle industry. Love is naturally fond of the lithium-sulfur battery positive and negative electrode materials that he developed, as much as hate ...
Naturally, the patent is in his hands.
Looking at the boss with a lonely expression, Beavis comforted and said, "This kind of thing can't be helped. He knows his value, and he is different from those nerdy nerds."
"But I think anything can be talked about," Musk shrugged. "At the time, he was just a Princeton professor. Maybe he saw the importance of those patents, but I don't believe he could see five It ’s so far away now. Maybe I was willing to take out more Tesla and even space-x shares. Maybe it ’s us who stand on the moon and wait for others to please.

"I don't disagree with you, but to be honest, I don't like the word you please ... We did not please the Chinese, we are just normal business cooperation," Beavis opened his mouth, and his right index finger gestured, "These are based on mutual benefit."
Musk waved his hand and interrupted Beavis' words, "I know, but sometimes I still can't help thinking that, if I can be born again ten years ago--"
However, before this sentence was finished, a sound that was not familiar but seemed to have been heard, floated over from the side and interrupted half of what was said.
"This is an interesting idea, but I don't think you are whimsical. Even if you give me the entire company of space-x, I will still go home eventually."
Turning back suddenly, watching the two people walking to the booth ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Musk's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Lu Zhou?"
As for the person next to Lu Zhou, it should be President Gong of the Asian Investment Bank. Although he is not familiar, he has met a few times.
"Yes, Mr. Musk, I'm glad we met again ... this is probably the second time." Looking at Musk with a somewhat surprised expression, Lu Zhou stretched out his right hand with a smile.
Musk, who had returned to God, immediately smiled on his face, holding the right hand stretched out by Lu Zhou and shaking it.
"... Yeah, it's been a long time. I actually wanted to visit you and told you personally that you are a respectable opponent."
"Everyone, you are also a respectable opponent to me," glanced at the silver dome behind Musk, Lu Zhou said with nostalgia, "To be honest, you are radical on the Mars plan The action really frightened me. Even if our astronauts are ready to sacrifice at any time, we have never considered sending them tens of millions of kilometers away in the event that their lives cannot be guaranteed Up Mars. "
After hearing the first half of the sentence, Musk's heart was still very comfortable, but when he heard the latter words, his expression suddenly became awkward.
"Are you here to ridicule me?"
Lu Zhou "No, I just passed by."
Musk "..."
That look of honesty did not seem to be a joke.
Like Lu Zhou said, he was just passing by.
However, it is precisely for this reason that this feeling of being not placed on the position of a competitor at all by his own rivals makes Musk's heart burst into flames.
Fack!
If not at the conference center!
If this is not in China!
He really wanted to punch this nasty face.
But obviously ...
This is impossible.
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