Chapter 941 Space Theme Hotel

The entire outer space summit lasted for two days, but Jiang Chen stayed in Canberra for a whole week. Half of the day was spent in meetings, four days were spent discussing business, and the remaining two days were spent wandering around Canberra with Aisha to appreciate the customs and customs of Australia.

However, there is nothing to do shopping recently. Many shops in Canberra have temporarily closed because of this high-level summit.

The harvest of this summit was quite astonishing, and it could even be said that in a certain sense, it exceeded Jiang Chen's expectations. Originally, he thought that not many people would cooperate with him when he proposed such a harsh cooperation framework without seeing any profit point, but this was not the case.

The first one to express willingness to cooperate was Moro Kingdom, after all, the number one younger brother of Xin Kingdom. But what Jiang Chen doubted was whether Santos knew what a space elevator was. In addition, Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand, Madagascar, the United States and some small African countries have all accepted the cooperation framework proposed by Star Ring Trading.

After a period of research, Hua Guo and Russia also expressed their willingness to accept the cooperation framework proposed by Star Ring Trading.

The representative of Huaguo proposed to build a microgravity laboratory for the Institute of Mechanics of Huaguo Academy of Sciences in the non-gravity section of the Star Ring City, which will be used to carry out two-phase flow, microgravity combustion, gas phase epitaxy, metal alloy nucleation and supercooling, etc. A total of 51 experiments of national scientific research projects, with a quotation of 1.57 billion Singapore dollars.

The conditions for building a microgravity laboratory on the ground are quite difficult, and the United States has been trying its best to prevent Huaguo from participating in the International Space Station project, so Huaguo's microgravity experiments can only find a way out on the surface. After all, it is too expensive to maintain a large space station alone. Too expensive.

In order to simulate the zero-gravity environment in the experiment, Huaguo's solution was to design a very tall tower to simulate the microgravity environment through free fall. In the National Microgravity Laboratory officially approved in 1995, the design of the 100-meter drop tower, in which the microgravity time of the drop-off system has reached 3.5s, and the microgravity time of the drop-pipe system is 3.26s, has been recognized worldwide. Belongs to the top level.

This achievement is enough to be proud of, but also very frustrating, because everything is forced out.

After the summit, the first thing Hua Guo representatives did when they approached Jiang Chen was to propose to build a microgravity laboratory on the Star Ring City, and offered an offer of 1.07 billion Singapore dollars. Converted into RMB, this is a huge sum of more than seven billion yuan. But compared to the huge cost of tens of billions of dollars to build a space station alone, and the unimaginable maintenance costs, this money is nothing at all.

Since Huaguo was the first country to reach cooperation with Xinghuan Trading on space elevators, the microgravity laboratory cooperation document signed with Hua has also become the blueprint for subsequent negotiations with other parties.

Subsequently, Russia also reached an agreement with Star Ring Trade,

Investing S$950 million to build a relatively small microgravity laboratory in the non-gravity section of the Star Ring City, it has replaced the original plan to expand the Russian area of ​​the International Space Station.

However, the bulk of the income is not just these, it is the private company that came to Jiang Chen who really made a lot of money.

It turns out that space is still out of reach for ordinary people. If you are not a rich man, you may have the opportunity to realize your dream of spaceflight only if you sign the "deed of sale" of the spaceX Mars program and get on a one-way spacecraft to Mars.

But now, things seem to be turning around.

Star Ring Trading announced the ticket price of the space elevator on the official website, and the pre-tax basic price of the adult ticket price is only SGD 1,500! Converted into Ruanmei coins, it is just over 10,000 yuan, which is even cheaper than a plane ticket from Shanghai International Airport to New York during the peak season!

It's crazy!

As if overnight, space tourism, which only the rich can afford with an investment of more than 10 million yuan, has become a general overseas trip that even ordinary people can afford.

After SpaceX, the second company that approached Jiang Chen was not a space company, and its business had nothing to do with spaceflight, but a hotel chain.

The company that approached Jiang Chen was the famous Hilton Group. As early as the beginning of the development of the Xinguo tourism project, the two parties established a good cooperative relationship, aiming at the tourism prospect brought by the space elevator.

Almost immediately after the UN summit ended, Hilton Group President Christopher Nassetta approached Jiang Chen and offered a cooperation invitation straight to the point.

"Mr. Jiang Chen, we are quite optimistic about the tourism prospects of space elevators. We have studied the information about space elevators announced by you, and we hope to be able to lease the total area in the zero-gravity section, low-gravity section, and surface gravity section of Star Ring City. In a space-themed hotel with an area of ​​24,000-30,000 square meters."

The reason why the cost of the space station is expensive is largely due to the expensive freight. After the space elevator is completed, the price of synchronous orbit construction is no longer the same. Take the International Space Station, which costs 50 billion U.S. dollars, as an example. If Starlink Trade wants to build an identical one, the cost may be less than one percent. If you want to expand the same living area in Star Ring City, the cost can even be reduced to less than 100 million US dollars.

Xinghuan City is located in a synchronous orbit, and its developable area is only much larger than that of Penglai City. If it was a year ago, Hilton Hotel wanted to build a space-themed hotel with a living area of ​​more than 10,000 square meters on a synchronous orbit, and they would not be able to afford that price if they sold them all.

But now, for a price of only S$1.3 billion, they can win the project.

But before signing the contract, there is still a problem that needs to be clarified.

That is the opinion of the US government.

The Hilton Group is an American company, but the United States has not yet made any statement on whether to accept the cooperation framework of Transwarp Trade. Jiang Chen has no objection to the Hilton Hotel's intention to settle in Xinghuan City, but if the U.S. Department of Commerce makes things difficult, he has some ties to the Hilton Group.

After listening to Jiang Chen's concerns, Mr. Nasetta laughed and said indifferently: "Mr. Jiang is too worried. We are also a multinational company. Even the White House can't stop us from making money. We have a company registered in Koro Island." As a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Hilton Group, the laws of the United States can only govern as far as Hawaii, and have no impact on our cooperation."

After hearing these words, Jiang Chen also smiled and stretched out his right hand.

"I wish us a happy cooperation."

As soon as he grasped Jiang Chen's right hand, Mr. Nasetta shook it vigorously.

"Happy cooperation!"

The signing date of the contract was set on the day before Jiang Chen returned to Xinguo.

Early in the morning, Nassetta brought his secretary to the door and delivered the contract to Jiang Chen himself.

Jiang Chen has already received the electronic version of the contract and sent it back to Xinghuan Trading Headquarters, where a professional lawyer team has conducted three rounds of review. After getting the paper contract, Jiang Chen just scanned it with his watch, compared it to confirm that it was the same as the electronic contract, and then picked up a pen to sign his name.

After the contract was signed, Christopher Nassetta warmly invited Jiang Chen to have a meal together, and Jiang Chen readily accepted his invitation.

Having just signed an investment project worth more than one billion dollars, Nassetta is naturally extremely enthusiastic. Favor is a thing that can be enjoyed anywhere, especially for the president of a large group like him. To a large extent, it is not pure ability that can determine him to continue to sit in this position, but more importantly, the network resources he has mastered .

"Super high-quality customers" like Jiang Chen are naturally the ones he tries his best to make friends with.

After the dinner, Christopher Nassetta gave Jiang Chen a black diamond card.

According to Nassetta, this kind of black diamond card is more noble than the diamond card, and it is not issued to the public at all. Only important customers of Hilton Hotel can get one. Customers holding this black diamond card can enjoy the treatment of swiping the card at the counter and directly checking into the presidential suite at any Hilton hotel in the world. Even if there is no listing, they will find a way to arrange it for you. As for the free three meals, afternoon tea and so on, there is no need to mention it.

Accepting the black diamond card with pleasure, Jiang Chen said goodbye to Nassetta and returned to the hotel where he was staying.

After taking a shower, I lay on the bed, clicked on the holographic screen of the watch, and browsed the webpage.

Tomorrow I will board the plane back to the new country.

Just when he yawned and was about to go to bed early, a video with a weekly hit that surpassed the sky caught his attention. The video was uploaded a week ago, and the timing happened to be the first opening ceremony of the passenger track of the space elevator... (To be continued.) Activate the new URL