Chapter 1,036 The Price of Flying to the Sky
The moon belongs to all mankind, who belongs to all mankind?
In 1967, the Outer Space Treaty was signed, and in 1969, Neil Armstrong planted the Stars and Stripes on the surface of the moon.
The so-called United Nations resolutions are just a piece of paper, just like the United Nations itself. It's even more nonsense that it belongs to all mankind. The lunar territory belongs to countries that have the ability to land on the moon. Whoever occupies it belongs to whoever can't get there, and whoever can't get there has no share.
On the surface, Jiang Chen is opening up channels for investors from other countries to develop lunar resources. In this century, he is just tying international capital to the chariot of the Star Ring trade to expand territory on the moon for him.
No matter how those investors develop lunar resources, they are doing so on the basis of recognizing the ownership of Guanghan City. What they are expanding is the territory of Guanghan City, and it is impossible to create a new New York or a new Moscow. Come.
Taking ten thousand steps back, if someone really dares to stir up independence, Jiang Chen will cut off water, electricity and air for him to see how many days he can make trouble on the moon. Controllable nuclear fusion power generation technology is the threshold for interstellar colonization. In a few decades, when other countries figure out how to generate helium-3 power generation, the moon will already be covered with factories for the star ring trade.
…
After the flight from Star Ring City to Guanghan City was established, Star Ring Trading opened a ticket sales channel on the official website, issuing 500 tickets per day at a ticket price of 10,000 Singapore dollars.
With a range of nearly 400,000 kilometers and a maximum flight speed of nearly ten kilometers per second, it can reach the lunar synchronous orbit in half a day. The ticket price of 100,000 Singapore dollars may be unaffordable for ordinary people, but there will never be a shortage of rich people in this world.
For those rich people who have a lot of money and no place to spend it, no matter whether there is anything worth seeing on the moon, it is a very honorable thing to go for a walk on it. At least when attending high-level gatherings in the future, when meeting old business friends, you can say a few words when clinking glasses - "Hey, look at the moon in the sky, I've been there too. The scenery above is probably the best in my life." The most beautiful scenery I have ever seen, I recommend you to go up and have a look..."
There is only one Seagull now, and the transportation resources from Star Ring City to Guanghan City are quite precious. In addition to people, some goods from Earth will also be brought there. The most critical thing is that Guanghan City can only accommodate a maximum of 10,000 tourists now, and it is not yet time to develop the mid- to low-end tourism market.
In fact, Jiang Chen still underestimated the appeal of lunar tourism to wealthy people. On the first day the flight ticket sales channel was opened, all tickets for seven flights in a week were sold out in almost one second. If it weren't for the fact that you can only book tickets for a week at most, I'm afraid the entire month's tickets will be sold out in just a few seconds.
The boss of a real estate company has foreseen that there may be a rush to buy.
So he had the foresight to order his secretary to find more than a hundred famous people from his company to squat in front of the computer to help him grab tickets. Just when he thought he had a chance to win, he didn't expect that he would lose to those few milliseconds of delay. Looking at the secretary standing in front of him with an uneasy look on his face, he couldn't help but slap the table and cursed angrily.
"A bunch of trash! They spend all day playing with the screen of their mobile phone, and you can't even get me a ticket if I ask you to help me!"
The secretary looked sad and explained: "Boss, you can't blame us. These ship tickets are not train tickets. There are only hundreds of them in the world. And I suspect that someone must be using software to rob them!"
Upon hearing this, the boss immediately became angry: "Others use software to rob, why don't you know how to use software? I asked you to find someone to help me rob tickets, and you found one or two hundred migrant workers from the construction site? What the hell? Might as well do it yourself!”
"Yes, but we don't have software..."
"There are so many programmers in the company, you wouldn't hire two young men to write one yourself! I'll let you find people at will, but I'll let you use your brain to find them!"
The secretary simply stopped talking. He knew that the boss was angry now and just wanted to find someone to scold him. At this moment, lowering his head and being scolded honestly was more effective than any excuse.
Just then, the company manager rushed in,
"Boss! It's available on the black market."
The boss was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately asked: "How much does one cost?"
"Three days later, one million...dollars."
After hearing this, the boss immediately cursed in his heart, Damn, this is as big as a house. But then I thought about it, it was just a house. He was in real estate and had many houses. So he calmed down and said while holding back the pain.
"Hurry up and place an order, buy it for me... buy ten of them!"
Originally, he only planned to buy three pieces and just take his wife and son to check them out. But then he thought about it, the ticket price might have to go up. If he bought a few more tickets and sold them, wouldn't he get the money back?
Therefore, in the face of a hungry market, with the help of a large group of interested people, the ticket price on the black market was directly increased by more than ten times, and the highest price was even more than 10 million US dollars.
Another interesting phenomenon is that the closer the time is to the first flight, the higher the price of the tickets for the seats in the front, especially the ticket for seat 001 on the first day of the flight. It is said that it was sold for US$15 million. A wealthy man from the Middle East bought it.
Although 1,012 people have walked on the moon, everyone wants to be the 1,013th one. Even if history won’t remember the name of the 1,013th man to land on the moon, it’s still something worth bragging about. Jiang Chen admitted that he had underestimated the curiosity of those rich people who were looking for novelties. The hot ticket prices had seriously affected the normal operation of Seagull flights.
Ever since, forgetting what was already sold, starting from the next day, the sales of boat tickets began to be linked to identity information. Ticket holders must hold the same visa and passport as the ticket purchaser in order to board the ship. As soon as this measure was introduced, the scalpers who had just tasted the sweetness were strangled in the cradle.
In the ground command center, looking at the green dot marking the Seagull on the radar, Kerwin smacked his lips and couldn't help but say.
"I think our tickets are still cheap. They have sold for 10 million US dollars each on the black market. We can definitely price a ticket at 200,000 Singapore dollars. At the current price, a flight will make at least less money. Fifty million."
The Seagull's power system uses a nuclear fusion generator function, and the total value of the helium-3 batteries and cesium metal blocks consumed for one flight is less than S$1 million. Even including the maintenance and labor costs of the ship, the cost of flying to the moon is only S$2 million.
At current fares, this flight to the moon is a huge profit!
The lunar colony, which had been burning money for almost a whole year, finally made a profit through tourism after balancing its books by selling electricity and mining rare earths! Two days before the flight started, Kerwin was so excited that he burst into tears. Now he started complaining about the low fares.
No one can turn around this quickly.
"The fares will come down sooner or later. The rich people's enthusiasm for traveling alone can't sustain it for long. What's more, we have a mountain of gold behind us. Are you still thinking about the few coins in the workers' pockets for taking the bus?" Jiang Chen joked with a smile.
"Isn't there a saying in China? No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat." Kerwin shook his head and said regretfully.
"There is also a saying in China that those who achieve great things don't care about petty gains."
With a haha laugh, Jiang Chen patted Kerwin on the shoulder, leaving him with a confused look on his face, and turned around and walked away.
Standing beside the route map for a long time, Kerwin frowned, thinking about what Jiang Chen had just said.
After a while, he finally managed to hold back a sentence with a serious look on his face.
"...How do I remember that the correct grammar of that saying should be, he who achieves great things does not stick to trivial matters?" (To be continued.) Launch a new website