Chapter 738 Century Project

The completion of Penglai City was filmed as a video, which went viral on YouTube and other major video sites. People's initial reaction was to suspect that it was a special effect of a movie, but they didn't realize it until other onlookers uploaded their own videos one after another.

This isn't a movie, it's real!

At the beginning, many brick-builders called beasts threatened that this thing was impossible to build, and even if it was built, it would not be able to float to the surface of the sea. If it floated to the surface of the sea after retreating 10,000 steps, it would be torn apart by a few waves. Even on the day before the completion ceremony of Penglai City, a certain professor of nautical science stood up to show his presence.

"Let me tell you, it's impossible for this thing to float! How did we build the island? Although this is knowledge in the field of architecture, as a professor, I still have a little bit of superficial knowledge. Generally speaking, we You have to encircle the sea first, then blow the sand to fill the reefs, and build an island directly on the bottom of the sea and then float up? There is no end to the nonsense! I bet, if this island does not sink, I will eat a catty of it!"

However, the next day, Penglai City successfully floated up, and the faces of countless brick and beasts were swollen.

When everyone pulled the professor out and asked him when he was going to start eating, he suddenly stopped talking.

The breakthrough in material science will bring about a series of chain reactions, which will be disruptive to the changes in the construction industry and manufacturing industry. The tidal force that ordinary steel cannot bear is not difficult in front of the tougher graphene material.

At the same time, the advantage of using graphene instead of metal materials as a stable structure is that there is no need to worry about seawater corrosion. As long as you don't die while sailing on the Pacific Rim volcanic belt, and just happen to encounter an eruption of a submarine volcano, you basically don't have to worry about the graphene cable being broken.

With the completion of Penglai City, the flow of people on Koro Island suddenly increased several times. Many hotels and rental houses are so full that some people simply bought tents and set up floor coverings on the side of the road. The National Congress of New Zealand had to urgently discuss the Urban Management Act, which regulates the phenomenon of setting up tents anywhere. This phenomenon was curbed.

At present, the flight between Penglai City and Keluo City has been established, and a special line has been set up next to the passenger port to provide pick-up and drop-off services for tourists who land on and leave the island. At the same time, the island itself has yacht garages and berths on the edge for tourists to dock their own yachts or even sailboats and cruise ships.

However, these access to the island are temporarily closed. As for the reason, it is naturally because the cleaning work has not been completed.

But although the Future People Group explained the reason, people's curiosity and enthusiasm for Penglai City still caused a dark crowd to gather in front of the passenger port.

"Let me go up! I bought a house on it, why don't you let me go up!" A man wearing a brand-name suit,

The man who looked like a local tyrant was spitting stars and asked why he couldn't go to the island yet.

"Sir, please wait patiently for the opening of Penglai City. The final seaweed cleaning and desalination work is in progress now. Compared with a semi-finished product, we hope to present the most beautiful Penglai City in front of your eyes." The front desk lady smiled and said The tourist explained, she had repeated the rhetoric countless times.

Whether or not such rhetoric satisfies the impatient tourists, the Future Group will not let anyone in until the month-long cleanup is complete. In addition to cleaning work, safety inspections will also be carried out simultaneously.

For example, is there a leak? Is the power unit getting algae? Are the graphene cables cracked? These are major issues that concern the lives and safety of more than one million people, and there is no room for carelessness. If it sinks again after everyone has come up, it will be completely out of play.

According to the statistics given by Xia Shiyu, in order to build this Penglai City, the Future Group spent a total of 31.7 billion US dollars, which is almost equivalent to the total amount of funds invested by Huaguo's "real estate speculators" in overseas real estate in 15 years!

From this we can see how much working capital the Future Group has been occupied by this Century Project. If the Penglai City is not completed, maybe Jiang Chen can only seek help from the Rothschild Bank, or a listed subsidiary to ease the financial pressure.

Corresponding to the high investment and high risk, the return on investment brought by the completion of Penglai City is quite amazing.

As early as the end of last year, Wall Street analysts estimated the value of Penglai City, and the final valuation was as high as a terrifying 400 billion US dollars!

Hey, what is the concept of 400 billion US dollars?

However, Buffett, a world-renowned investor and known as the stock god, said directly.

"I can't estimate the market value of Penglai, just like I can't give a price for Los Angeles or Chicago, because that is not something that can be measured by money. It is a city, and as long as it exists, it will continue to create value. Compared with Penglai City, I am more willing to give a valuation to the creator of this spectacle, Future Heavy Industry. If this spectacle can be replicated, then there is no doubt that it will become the most profitable company in this century. Jiang Chen has never It is probably the biggest regret of this century.”

As if he felt that his statement was not impactful enough, Buffett paused, and then added a sentence facing the camera of the media.

"Yeah, I mean, even more profitable than the money printing guys at the Fed."

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Just when everyone couldn't wait to go to Penglai City to find out, except for the staff of the Future Group, only Jiang Chen and others had a taste.

However, just as the Future People Group explained to the public, there is nothing to see in Penglai City at this time.

The streets are filled with the smell of the sea, and lumps of salt can be seen everywhere on the road walls. These salts are not simply sodium chloride, but also contain ionized compounds of potassium, magnesium, calcium and other elements. As soon as the sun shines, these things crystallize out of the sea water.

In order to wash away these unsightly residues, Jiang Chen transferred a seawater desalination platform with a daily processing capacity of 4 million tons from Future Heavy Industries, and deployed two ocean current generators on the seabed to provide power for the seawater desalination platform.

Now, ten days have passed since the island floated. During the Chinese New Year, Jiang Chen planned to go back to the end of the world. The expeditionary army seemed to have encountered some problems in Yizhou Island, so he planned to go there himself. After all, this is related to the space elevator and the business route of NAC going south.

This visit can range from a few days to as many as two months. If he didn't take advantage of this time to go to the island, he wouldn't be the first to eat crabs when Penglai City opened to the outside world in March.

In this way, Jiang Chen took Aisha, Xia Shiyu, and Natasha who had the cheek to follow, and the four boarded the island together by helicopter, and landed on the square in front of the Central Building, a building in the center of Penglai. .

"I think if these things are turned into salted fish, it will definitely be a lot of money." Standing at the entrance of the central building, Jiang Chen looked at the dead fish lying on the steps, and sighed helplessly.

I don't know when these salted fish will be cleaned up.

"I heard that the World Environmental Protection Organization is planning to trouble you?" Standing next to Jiang Chen, Natasha teased.

"Since the blue seagulls, our troubles have never stopped. It can only be said that they unintentionally brought the wave rhythm, and now those defenders of Mother Earth are eyeing us. But will I care?" Jiang Chen smiled. Said, while kicking the salted fish aside.

"Just like this salted fish." (To be continued.)