You promised to build cars, so why did you go into the military industry?

Chapter 72 Entering the Heavenly Palace

After the New Year, time seemed to speed up.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the Joint Long March 1 Y9 carrier rocket successfully delivered the 8.6-ton Tiangong-2 space station to its designated orbit.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the Joint Long March 1 Y10 carrier rocket successfully delivered the 8.5-ton Biosphere 4 module to its designated orbit.

On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Tiangong-2 successfully docked with the combined spacecraft.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Biosphere 4 module successfully docked.

With this, a space station with an internal free space of approximately 102 cubic meters was officially completed.

Excluding the budgets for Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2, the additional cost to the nation for the entire space station was less than 2 billion yuan in fiat currency.

The cost is so small it couldn't be smaller.

After all, from the end of 2011 to 2012, the central bank cut interest rates twice and the reserve requirement ratio three times, while also expanding the downward floating range of loan interest rates.

This resulted in a total of 8.2 trillion yuan in new credit money loans in 2012.

In 2014, it even set a new record of 9.78 trillion.

20 billion? It can vanish without a trace, not even making a splash.

Why did the government lend United Industries 500 billion yuan without hesitation last year?

Are those patented technologies really worth that much money?

Aren't you worried that United Industries might not be able to repay such a large sum of money?

To be honest, I'm not afraid at all; I could even say that United Industries doesn't have to pay back the money.

This 500 billion yuan in credit money loans may seem like a lot, but it's really not a problem at all if you want to borrow it.

Moreover, this money is not being invested in the currently booming real estate market.

The vast majority of it was invested in heavy industry!

Develop real industries! Then we have even less to fear!

They even felt it wasn't enough, that it was too little.

When heavy industry receives a large influx of capital, the added value brought about by the upgrading of the industrial chain alone cannot be estimated by fiat currency.

In short, nearly one million households in the upstream and downstream industrial chains centered around United Industries have benefited from this industrial chain upgrade.

The 500 billion yuan in credit currency has brought about social prosperity and stability through the upgrading of the heavy industry supply chain and the enrichment of millions of households. The profits are immense.

In the past, massive monetary easing was often jokingly referred to as "flooding the market with liquidity."

Because massive monetary easing can easily create a situation where the real economy is starving while the financial system is bloated with wealth.

While massive monetary easing can quickly quell market panic, stabilize asset prices, and boost investor and consumer confidence, it is not the only effective way to achieve this.

However, this over-issued credit money often flows into the stock market, real estate, and other financial pools first, driving up their asset prices.

This leads to a passive increase in the wealth of the rich who own assets, while ordinary people who rely on labor income feel more exploited.

There will also be a large amount of credit flowing into inefficient infrastructure projects and industries with overcapacity.

However, high-tech industries and small and medium-sized enterprises that truly need funding still face difficulties in obtaining financing.

Excessive money supply often leads to excess liquidity, which reduces the actual purchasing power of the currency, resulting in a large-scale capital outflow under the pressure of currency depreciation.

God knows how happy the leaders in charge of approval were after these 500 billion yuan of credit currency entered the heavy industry sector.

United Industries did not disappoint with the 500 billion.

Within a year of receiving the loan, United Industries mastered rocket recovery technology.

By the end of the year, rocket recovery technology will be mature, and the United One rocket will be able to deliver five to six tons of supplies into space every seven days on average.

Furthermore, it assisted CNSA in completing the construction of China's first and the world's second existing space station.

The leader who was originally in charge of approvals used to regret it so much every time he saw the live broadcast of the launch of the United Satellite Launch Center that he would slap his thigh in regret. Now his thigh is bruised from slapping.

I suffered from insomnia several times late at night, sitting on the edge of the bed, smoking one cigarette after another.

You, in conjunction with the industrial sector, are so aloof and arrogant! You're unwilling to borrow more money.

But which of those real estate and finance companies doesn't ask for exorbitant prices?

Since so much money is going to be lent out anyway, it doesn't matter who it's lent to.

If you don't lend more to the industry, that money will be divided up by those in the real estate and finance sectors!

The real estate and financial sectors cannot be allowed to overheat and expand. What would happen if an economy of 13 billion people were to explode?

Are we really going to just stand by and watch our own people repeat the mistakes they made thirty years ago?

"Wait a minute! Real estate? Why can't a space station be considered real estate? Who says real estate can only be on the Earth's surface? Can't it be on the moon?"

Having formed an idea, the leader forcefully stubbed out his cigarette and went to sleep.

Late at night, the large screen at the aerospace flight control center displayed images transmitted from inside the space station. Director Qi Kaifeng, who was usually stern and unsmiling in front of his subordinates, watched with a broad smile, attracting frequent glances from numerous staff members.

Data from several laboratory mice all indicated that the mice were healthy.

In a little while, astronauts will be able to successfully move into the Tiangong space station.

The 102-cubic-meter space station is large enough to comfortably support three astronauts for long-term stays.

With the assistance of four biosphere modules, resupply does not need to be very frequent.

Within a year, apart from the portion carried by the Shenzhou spacecraft during the astronauts' ascent, only one additional resupply is needed, which will be sufficient.

Before we knew it, the east was gradually turning white.

After a long and arduous day, Director Qi Kaifeng quickly washed his face and drove to the astronaut training base.

After finding the person in charge and retrieving Kong Lingcheng's recent training data and assessment records, Director Qi Kaifeng nodded as he looked at them: "The Tiangong combined structure has been completed and is now operating stably. We are preparing to send astronauts in the near future."

I heard that Kong Lingcheng has experience living in the "Biosphere" section for a long time?

There will be an assessment in a few days. If he passes, we'll give him more responsibilities.

March 21th, the second day of the second lunar month, is the day the dragon raises its head.

After a year and a half of silence, China's manned space program has finally resumed after the completion of the Tiangong space station.

At 11:23 a.m., Shenzhou-11, carrying a small robotic arm with seven degrees of freedom, successfully launched into space. Four hours later, the Shenzhou spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, successfully achieved a rigid connection with the Tiangong space station through an autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking procedure.

Soon after, the aerospace flight control center confirmed that the docking and locking were completed and the combined spacecraft was in normal flight status.

Immediately afterwards, the hatch balance valve opened, and the manned environment was established.

The commander, wearing a heavy intravehicular activity suit, unfastened his restraints, reached out and pulled open the reentry capsule hatch, pushed open the front hatch of the orbital module, and then floated into the orbital module.

"Shenzhou-11 reporting: The leak detector in the orbital module is powered on. Leak detection has begun. Over."

"clear."

After about 10 seconds, the leak detection was completed and everything was normal. 01 reported to the ground: "Shenzhou-11 reports: The power to the orbital module leak detector has been turned off. The leak detection of the docking channel is complete. The result is normal. The leak rate is 2.71. Over."

"Understood, manual control command 'Open Negative Pressure Valve' has been sent."

With the instructions from the ground, the three astronauts removed their heavy intravehicular activity suits and secured them inside the Shenzhou spacecraft, which was filled with cargo, and changed into work clothes.

Then, following the assigned numbers, they entered the orbital module through the return capsule hatch, and then covered and secured the front hatch of the orbital module and the return capsule hatch with protective covers.

As the balance valve of the front hatch of the Tiangong-0 node module opened, the instruments showed that the pressure difference between the orbital module and the node module quickly returned to zero.

When the 03 astronaut reports "the pressure difference between the two modules is 0", the next step is for the 01 commander to open the front hatch of the node module with a key and then enter the space station.

At this moment, Kong Lingcheng, the 02 astronaut who was going into space for the first time, held the in-cabin camera firmly and aimed it at the 01 commander, ready to record this exciting moment in its entirety.

He nervously glanced down at the instruction manual floating in front of him to confirm that the steps were correct.

The balance valve was closed, and the ratchet wrench was inserted into the lock and rotated 720° clockwise to unlock it. The front hatch of the Tiangong-2 node module was successfully pushed open by the 01 commander, and then the protective cover was put on and secured.

The same process was then repeated once again. The balance valve of the two-way pressure chamber door of the Tiangong-2 core module was opened by Commander 01, and the pressure difference between the node module and the core module quickly returned to zero.

As the command "Open the two-way pressure compartment door of the core module and enter the core module" came from the ground, Commander 01 closed the balance valve, took out the ratchet wrench he had just used, inserted it into the lock, and rotated it 720° clockwise to unlock it.

Then, the commander of 01 took a deep breath and gently pushed, and the 2.8-meter-diameter double-sided pressure chamber door was easily opened.

Commander 01 leaned out halfway to cover the hatch with a protective cover and secure it.

Then, Commander 01 used both hands to forcefully push himself into the core module.

On the large screen of the aerospace flight control center, precious footage of Commander 01 saluting during flight was captured by the core module's directional camera A.

Soon, under the watchful eyes of the world, astronauts 02 and 03 flew into the core module through the hatch.

The three secured themselves in an open area using foot restraints, and then tidied each other's appearance.

"Shenzhou-11 reporting: Our crew has successfully entered our space home, the core module of Tiangong-2. Thank you for the support of the people of the whole country and for the hard work of the vast number of scientific and technological workers. Salute."

The three men moved in unison, saluting the camera.

After the ceremony, Commander 01 removed his headset and issued the command.

"Alright, let's begin the work."

A relaxed astronaut, Kong Lingcheng, laughed and said, "Commander, you just slipped up in your excitement."

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"Is there?"

"Yes, you mispronounced eleven as 'one'." The astronaut nodded.

"what?"

"Shenzhou-11, ground report: Commander 01 did indeed slip up just now."

With a second confirmation coming from the ground, Commander 01 scratched his head awkwardly: "Oh no, I'm definitely going to get teased by those comrades who didn't make it back up."

"Hahaha----"

With the successful arrival of the astronauts, the Tiangong space station has officially begun its new life.