Two days later, the General Technical Office released the overall introduction and basic technical documents of the "Taishang" large-scale fusion device, officially established a project team, and began to solicit partners around the world.

According to the overall principle requirements, the cooperation seats are divided into four levels: A, B, C and D according to the technical confidentiality level. Among them, Class A is limited to the participation of strategic partners including Mao Xiong. From the following seats, the following Class B will be subject to public bidding in a similar manner to "bidding".

As soon as the news came out, the entire international public opinion suddenly became rumored.

The authenticity of this technology is unquestionable. Judging from the basic technical documents released by Huaxia, they are not only directive plans, but also subdivided theoretical achievements for each plan. Once they win the bid, the only thing the partner needs to do is to invest sufficient resources and bring these theoretical achievements into reality within the specified time.

Based on the specific contributions to the results, Huaxia will allocate the equipment usage rights in proportion after the fusion equipment is implemented and granted corresponding patents to ensure that the cooperation can recover the cost in a short period of time.

This is a business that can make money without losing money. It can even be said that this is the biggest pie that humans have ever seen since entering the 21st century.

Needless to say, a big country is, if it is a small country, if it is willing to bet on its own national destiny and take out enough resources to participate in the project, it is likely to allocate huge benefits after the project is completed, thereby achieving overtaking on the curve.

----Although the so-called "overtaking" has been greatly reduced under the trend of integration, no country with a sense of crisis will refuse the opportunity to make itself stronger.

The world may be peaceful or one, but people will always have differences.

In this context, the bidding letter of intent flew to the mailbox of the General Technical Office like a snowflake. Since this was not a formal bid, some countries even sent the same email dozens of times, with the purpose of making themselves more eye-catching.

Ye Zhou, who personally handled the emails, couldn't smile bitterly. For the first time, he felt that in some matters, the leader of a country was actually not as rational and mature as he imagined.

But at the same time, he also noticed another intriguing detail:

Among these letters of intent, some countries are absent.

And these countries are all members of the previous "Consciousness Upload Alliance".

Ye Zhou vaguely felt that the so-called "Consciousness Upload Alliance" had gradually separated from the event-driven temporary alliance and began to transform into something like the "Alliance Group" in the past.

They no longer have a clear technical direction, but have begun to turn to a more obvious, political direction.

This is worthy of warning.

After thinking for a while, Ye Zhou reported the news to his superiors. If the situation really develops as he guessed, then in this large-scale bidding event, Huaxia must be prepared for the possible actions of the alliance.

.........

At this moment, the Italian capital, Abigail, the Italian Prime Minister of the Allied Powers, is having a serious discussion with his technical staff.

"...... So, you think we should strive for this cooperation opportunity? But why?"

The staff opposite spread his hands and replied:

“If I answer from a technical point of view, you might say ‘this is giving me a headache’, then I’ll give you the easiest reason: All countries are participating.”

"When everyone tries every means to strive for it, it proves that it must be profitable. This is the simplest criterion for judgment."

"If we don't participate, the benefits will be distributed to those participating countries. As one rises and the other falls, our strength will decline rapidly---of course, I'm talking about a relative decline."

Abigail nodded and said:

"I know the logic you are talking about, but what I want to express is not this."

"Alfred, you are a technical official and may not know the economy, but you should also know that this so-called 'tender' is actually an economic behavior in essence - it is an investment, right?"

Before the other party could answer, she continued:

"Investing requires principal. Judging from the other party's publicity, even the lowest-level seats, we need to invest more than 60 billion yuan in the next five years, and the returns will be reflected at least 8 years."

"This is still an optimistic estimate. According to pessimistic situation, since lower-level seats do not have priority allocation rights, our fund recycling cycle may even be extended to 10 years."

"Alfred, do you know what the concept of ten years is?"

Alfred shook his head and replied:

“I don’t know what the concept of ten years is.”

"I only know that there is an island country in Africa called Mauritius. They release news that they will mobilize more than 70% of the country's fiscal revenue to win lower-level seats and focus on the control software field that they are relatively good at."

"A small country with a population of more than one million has such courage. Do we have to watch the opportunity slip away instead?"

Looking at Alfred, who revealed his deep reluctance in his eyes, Abigail explained:

"No, this is not the same thing."

"The pillar industry of Mauritius is tourism, but in recent years, this industry has been severely impacted. They have to seek transformation and have to take a gamble."

"But we are different, we are not without a way out..."

"We just have no way out!"

Alfred interrupted without waiting for her to finish speaking, and then asked angrily:

"Abigail, are you still treating this as a purely technical cooperation? I tell you, this is not!"

"This is a boat ticket to the New World. There are only so many cabins. If we don't buy them, we will be left behind and watch them go away!"

"You should know what the consequences are, it's like when the steam era comes you rejected the steam engine, and when the electric era comes you rejected the power station!"

"We're not just going to fall behind, we're going to die!"

"You misunderstood what I mean."

Abigail stood up, patted Alfred on the shoulder comfortably, then walked to the side and brought a cup of coffee that had been already cold and placed in front of the other side.

"Take a sip, I feel that you are a little uneasy enough today."

"But I can understand."

"After all, for a technician like you, the temptation of nuclear fusion is too great."

"This is not a temptation, this is..."

"I know, I know."

Abigail interrupted him gently, sat down again, looked straight into the other person's eyes and said:

"I understand what you said -- I mean, I understand everything."

"But, haven't you discovered that there is a fatal loophole in your logic."

Hearing this, Alfred was subconsciously stunned and asked:

"What loophole?"

Abigail took a deep breath and replied:

"The cabin of this so-called big ship may be more."

"I mean, if this is the ark to save humanity, then, should its seats be sold in this way?"

“No, it should be free.”
Chapter completed!