It has only been half a month since the buyers of airship materials got the goods.

Currently, in the field of airships, General Electric is second only to Iron Sheet Company in professionalism, and its research on rigid airships is still in the demonstration stage.

The third brother suddenly created a complete Zeppelin at a speed that was astonishing.

However, Xu Fei knew the inside story.

In the past two years, the third brother has had some minor conflicts with himself, especially the appearance of the plateau tank-Grizzly Bear, which has given him a strong sense of crisis.

There are also many opinions on German companies investing in the East.

The airship was originally a product that was not taken seriously. On the day that the Iron Sheet Company announced the restoration of the Zeppelin, the third brother expressed his disdain.

And claimed: Not only do we have mature technology, we can also mass-produce suitable skins. What is a small airship?

This has greatly increased its international status.

It almost became a technological powerhouse.

Later, the Iron Sheet Company built the Kirov airship, then put it into passenger and freight transportation, and sold raw materials to the public.

The third brother found out about the hot prospect of airships and was immediately embarrassed.

Immediately I felt a little panicked.

There are grizzly chariots on the land in the east and Kirovs in the air. The country is stronger than our own. If we get angry, we may be driven into the hinterland again.

Fortunately, the Iron Sheet Company is a German company.

The third brother quickly sent people to Germany to find the general manager and the parliament.

In the end, for the benefit of the State of Berlin, Speaker Foreman decided to give the third brother a set of high-imitation Zeppelin technology reversely derived from Kirov for a licensing fee of US$200 million, regardless of past grievances.

The two parties signed a confidentiality agreement, and the third brother purchased a package of low-grade materials.

All in all, the third brother was anxious to build an airship out of a crisis.

It's fine now, three hundred meters above the ground, blasting in the air.

After the accident, the iron sheet company was affected to a certain extent.

The quality of nylon fiber, the composition of nylon fiber, the production process of nylon fiber, and the quality of carbon fiber skeleton, etc., are all questioned.

The questioning party did not really question it, but just forced the iron sheet company to disclose the technology.

When Xu Fei saw the news, he put his schedule on hold and immediately dispatched engineers and researchers to form an investigation team, preparing to personally lead the team to investigate.

However, the third brother did not know whether he was guilty of his status as a great power or worried about leaking the technology he had spent 200 million US dollars to buy back. In just ten minutes, he announced the specific cause of the accident.

The efficiency is astonishingly fast.

In fact, there is no need to investigate the cause of the accident at all.

Because everyone knows that the third brother fills the airship with hydrogen.

Considering the high temperature environment of the third brother, the frequent fires caused by the third brother, coupled with the third brother's bullshit skills, and the third brother's lack of plan to eliminate static electricity, it would be strange not to explode.

As for why helium is not used...

Although helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen, due to the density of its parent star, it cannot be retained in the atmosphere solely by the gravity of the parent star.

Therefore, helium in the air is less than 1%, it is a non-renewable resource and cannot be synthesized artificially.

Currently, the only way to obtain helium is to purify natural gas through condensation.

And this technology is not available in many countries.

Especially for 99.999% pure helium, only North America and Woolly Bear have the conditions.

Countries that produce helium all list helium as a strategic resource and are used in nuclear fusion, aerospace industry, weapons industry, low-temperature superconductivity and other fields.

This has caused the price of helium to remain high.

Nowadays, airship technology has reappeared, and helium has been defined as a "gas chip" and "gas gold", and the price has climbed to US$80,000/ton.

Taking the manufacture of a Kirov as an example, 1 ton of lift requires 897m of helium.

A carrying capacity of 1,000 tons + a dead weight of 150 tons requires approximately 1.03 million m of helium.

The mass of 1m helium is about 1.1kg.

X1.03 million m, requiring 1133 tons of filling.

It's worth approximately $90 million.

For such expensive consumables, countries and companies on the home planet are not willing to use helium in the experimental stage, and they are probably not willing to fill it with helium even if they build an airship and put it into operation.

Especially if you are willing to spend money, you may not be able to buy it.

"Director Xu, how does your factory solve the problem of helium demand?"

"Mr. Xu, does the Kirov airship use helium?"

"Mr. Xu, how do airship passengers buy insurance? If something goes wrong, how do they compensate?"

In the No. 1 office building of Daze Power, hundreds of reporters took turns asking questions.

Xu Fei sat on the rostrum, happily nodding around him frequently.

Business is coming again.

Although it does not have the equipment to produce helium, the airport's manufacturing plant has its own refining device for the construction and subsequent maintenance of Kirov airships.

The extraction method adopts the 'ore separation method'. The rare earth ore containing helium is roasted to separate the gas, and then chemical methods are used to remove impurities such as water vapor, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide to obtain superfluid helium II. Helium I is obtained by heating.

"It is said that the moon is full of helium III, so maybe we need to speed up."

Xu Fei raised his right hand and pressed down to signal for silence, "First question, Tiepi Company has undertaken the TEP energy project. It has natural gas purification technology and can produce helium. However, the current output is low, and it is only available to purchasers.

Love Airship and customers who purchase airship materials provide one-to-one service at a preferential price of US$70,000/ton.”

"Second question, the Kirov airship must use helium, and it is 99.9999% helium!"

"The third question is that our Kirov airship is unlikely to cause an accident unless the passengers jump out on their own initiative. If they jump off on their own initiative, we will certainly not provide compensation."

"Any more questions?"

"Mr. Xu, during the Olympic Games, your ticket sales revenue exceeded the organizer's, which caused Australia to be very dissatisfied with you. How do you plan to respond?"

"Everyone makes money based on their own skills. I am also very dissatisfied with their attitude. I decided to increase the price of each other individually. The prices of airship materials and helium increased by 200%, and all the parking of Kirov Sky Garden in Australia were cancelled.

point."

"Does Mr. Foreman consent to this?"

"You have to ask our chairman about this question. I'm just a part-time worker, responsible for production and operations."

"Mr. Xu, I heard that Italy will give you 20 million euros and Sino-Ocean Group has just opened a berth in San Marino. Is this true?"

"It's nonsense, it's slander, and the rumour-mongers must be prosecuted!"

Director Xu left the meeting angrily.

Not long after the interview ended, the third brother placed another order for high-end materials worth US$1.5 billion and purchased helium worth US$200 million.

At this point, the airship blasting incident that shocked the world came to an end for the time being.

………

noon.

Xu Fei got into the modified version of Dahongqi and continued to travel overland to Hazara.

October 1st is not only the National Day, but also the Mid-Autumn Festival and the corn harvest season.

The motorcade drove out of the brightly red Daze Industrial Park. As it headed west, the scenery along the way gradually returned to 'reality'.

There are bumpy asphalt roads, small alleys full of withered corn stalks, various shabby villages...

Except for the dense canopy of roadside trees, everything indicates that this is the millennium.

But many places have not changed.

The number of farm machinery is gradually increasing.

Daze summer workwear, I don’t know when it became fashionable.

Everyone in their youth wears camouflage, and products from supply and marketing cooperatives can be seen everywhere.

When I lowered the window, I could hear the sound of corn threshers in the distance.

Looking into the distance, you can vaguely see the figure of Daze Union Seeder.

Passing through a certain town, a football match was being held in the playground in the backyard of the supply and marketing cooperative. In the small square in front of the door, there were many teenagers holding mechanical toys and having a brawl.

The girls coming and going are getting more and more beautifully dressed, but the young and old men are all addicted to CS and can't help themselves, and have no time to come out and enjoy it...

Xu Fei put on his sunglasses, got out of the car and took a walk, then returned to the car, "Maybe when I go to the countryside again, the changes will be even greater."

The convoy disguised as a project inspection team started slowly, passed through Ze City, and entered Nanhe. By the next morning, there was finally no trace of Daze Industry.

"Now we have no shortage of red money in our pockets. Let the military division speed up the purchase plan of supply and marketing cooperatives in Shaanxi, Xishan, and Ganzhou. It doesn't matter even if we pay more money."

The secretary carefully wrote down, "Where is Beihu?"
To be continued...