Reborn in 2000 as a scholar

"This is the Zhurong space station we are designing, and its location is near the lunar orbit." Lin Jinqi is explaining at the internal meeting of Xuanwu Group at this time, "Different from Tiangong base and Guanghangong base, Zhurong space station will be the world's first A space industrial base. Whether it is Tiangong or Guanghan Palace, our purpose is to be used for space immigration and alien colonization, so they are designed towards the purpose of an integrated space station.

But when designing, someone once asked, since we can design a comprehensive space station, why not try to design a specialized space station?In fact, the specialized space station is our original space station, but the space station at that time was mainly specialized in scientific research.But ours is mainly used for industrial purposes, to be precise, for smelting.

Everyone must know that there is a platinum-rich asteroid that will be the closest to the earth next year.What if we could capture this planet to make it a satellite of Earth, or simply mine it?Of course, I personally should never push this asteroid too far into Earth orbit. After all, we have to worry about whether it is in danger of hitting the Earth in case our control of this asteroid fails. "

Lin Jinqi showed everyone the space telescope photos of this platinum-rich asteroid, and also calculated the corresponding orbital data. "In fact, our lunar mining development company has already carried out large-scale mining and metal refining on the moon. But the difference between Zhurong and Guanghan Palace is that the Zhurong space station is basically managed autonomously through robots and artificial intelligence. Our Astronauts only need to make regular rounds.

From a technical point of view, there is no problem, because we have already achieved the results of experiments on the moon with such closed mining and refining equipment, and now we only need to place such a device in space orbit.The Zhurong space station has both disassembly and reassembly functions, and the individual devices after disassembly have their own drives, which can be reassembled elsewhere.

In fact, it is a bit similar to our mining platforms on the sea. When needed, we can just move to a certain place to extract oil.But the question now is, how much platinum are we going to mine?At the same time, with the mining of platinum metal, the price of platinum on the earth along with other precious metals is bound to fluctuate. How should we deal with this situation? "

"I won't say much about the applicability of platinum. Its stability alone is enough for many jobs. Especially at present, the main platinum producing area in the world is in South Africa, which monopolizes 80% of the world's production, but the actual figures are It is only a few hundred tons, so everyone knows that platinum is indeed a typical precious metal that is rare and precious." Professor He got up and added, "If we suddenly mine tens of thousands of tons, it will be [-] tons. When millions of tons of platinum come out, the international platinum price will definitely collapse.

At the same time, our country also holds a lot of platinum, which is used as a precious metal currency for storage; and the non-corrosion characteristics of platinum make it and diamonds one of the most favorite precious metals when Chinese people get married.Therefore, the state and the people actually hold a lot of platinum. Once we cause the price of platinum to collapse, the loss of the state and the people will be very heavy.How to recycle these platinum and minimize the loss of the country and the people is also something we must consider.We need to report this matter to the Senate and follow the unified arrangements of the country. "

"No problem, before there is no final order from the country, I will only conduct feasibility experiments here. But I must say, this asteroid should really not be wasted. The application of platinum in the laboratory, electronics industry and medical industry It is quite extensive, and it is a pity that certain equipment or treatment methods cannot be promoted on a large scale because of the high price of platinum."

Lin Jinqi added a little bit.Platinum has high corrosion resistance because of its high stability, so it is widely used in laboratories.Just by using it on storage equipment, it can solve the problem of many compounds that are not resistant to storage.Platinum has excellent electrical conductivity, so platinum is also very much in demand in the electronics industry.

Even in medicine, the application range of platinum is not small.For example, in dentistry, due to the firmness of teeth and the corrosiveness of oral saliva, platinum dental equipment is promising.It's just that the price of platinum means that this kind of dental equipment can only be used in those high-end dental hospitals, and most ordinary people can't afford it.Moreover, the platinum compound "cis-dichlorodiammine platinum (II)" (commonly known as "cisplatin") is a kind of therapeutic effect on small cell lung cancer, lymphoma, ovarian cancer, germ cell cancer and other malignant tumors. drug.At the same time, the success of cisplatin in the field of anti-cancer has also led medical scientists to turn their attention to other platinum compounds, such as carboplatin, oxaliplatin, and daplatin.

The report of the Xuanwu Group was quickly submitted to the desks of the elders, and the elders naturally began to think after reading it.The importance of platinum was mentioned in the report, so the elders felt that mining was very necessary.But how to reduce the loss of the country and the people is a headache for everyone. On the one hand, to preserve the value of platinum in the hands of ordinary people, it is best for the state to recycle it at a specified price for a limited time; It is very inconsistent with the laws of the market economy, and the country must also keep secrets about "space mining platinum", so this kind of recycling will definitely cause controversy at home and abroad.

Especially now that Rabbit and Eagle Sauce are having disputes in international trade, once this matter is caught by Eagle Sauce and made a big fuss, then the rumor that Eagle Sauce accused Rabbit of being a "non-market system economy" may really be believed by most people.

"In fact, except for a small amount of platinum used for jewelry or decorations, most of the platinum in the hands of ordinary people is 'paper platinum' issued by banks. Of course, there is also a small amount of real platinum that is indeed held by ordinary people, but most of it is still held by banks, It is held by financial or investment institutions." The veteran in charge of the economy said, "For state-owned banks, state-owned financial or investment institutions, we can directly request to repurchase platinum and ship it in the international market. But for non-state-owned institutions and ordinary people We don’t have a good solution. Of course, we can mobilize, but there is no guarantee of how good the effect will be.”

"Let's find a solution for the state-owned institutions, but leave the rest to Xuanwu Group." The chief veteran said with a smile, "I'm afraid you know that Xiao Linzi has a Horizon Investment Fund, which is known as the private equity fund with the highest rate of return in the world. The company. He used this company to help the Xuanwu Group obtain a lot of valuable resources, and the Xuanwu Group does have a lot of expenditures that are not easy to disclose, and it is also through this fund company. Therefore, we turned a blind eye to this company. And he only hangs around in overseas markets. If you want to take the market-oriented route on platinum recycling this time, let him have a headache.”

"So, this matter turned around and came back to me?" Lin Jinqi saw the approval document of the Senate in General Wang's office.

After Lin Jinqi read the detailed content, he thought that luckily the country took care of the state-owned part by itself, so the remaining things were not too many.Huaxia has many restrictions on financial investment. Even for precious metal investments such as gold and platinum, most banks issue "paper precious metals."To put it bluntly, this is similar to the nature of currency, except that this kind of paper precious metal has the "possibility" of exchanging it with precious metals.

Of course, this is also a possibility.As long as it is not a real precious metal, it is not very difficult for the country to protect its value.The difficult part is that the country has recently opened up small-scale investment in real precious metals, but fortunately, the common people love gold more because of Chinese customs. The real platinum holdings in the private sector are not particularly large, and it can still be recovered with a little more effort. of.But how to maintain and appreciate the value of this batch of platinum is what really makes Lin Jinqi a headache.

After all, it is impossible for the Xuanwu Group to lose money to buy platinum. The budget of the Xuanwu Group is very tight, and even a lot of expenses are balanced through some non-public channels.Fortunately, there are some explanations in the instructions, which is equivalent to giving Lin Jinqi and Xuanwu Group a great authorization.

Lin Jinqi left the acquisition plan to his think tank for analysis. After all, Xuanwu Group now has two important projects, one is the development of outer space, and the other is the design of new computers.The development of outer space is relatively smooth. Whether it is the Tiangong base or the Guanghangong base, they are currently operating very safely and smoothly.

Especially the Guanghan Palace Base, due to the mineral deposits on the moon and the attraction on the moon, the Huaxia Space Administration has decided to build a space transfer station on the moon.In the future, large-scale and super-large spacecraft will be launched on the moon. After all, the moon’s mining development company and Wu Gang’s industrial cabin can produce most of the equipment and devices, so there is no need to transfer these things back to the earth, but can directly Assembled on the moon.

But another problem lies in the new computer. Lin Jinqi originally planned to go directly to the quantum computer, but this road has not made much progress.So Lin Jinqi had to go another way, that is to upgrade the existing computer, that is, "very large scale integrated circuit computer".After all, with the fourth-generation lithography machine, there is still the possibility of upgrading the integrated circuit computer.Therefore, Xuanwu Group has divided a "Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit Computer" research and development center on the basis of the quantum computer research center.

According to international practice, VLSI computers are classified as fourth-generation computers, while fifth-generation computers are considered computers with artificial intelligence.Therefore, Lin Jinqi had no choice but to call this VLSI computer a 4.5-generation computer, which was regarded as an excessive product.However, according to Xiao Hei's evaluation, the 4.5th generation computer can actually load a rudimentary artificial intelligence.

After all, Xuanwu Group's Nüwa Intelligence cannot be carried by a personal computer or personal terminal, and many artificial intelligences are not only far less intelligent than Nüwa Intelligence, but also need to allow terminal devices to enter the network, through The data centers of the network share the computing needs of intelligence.Although the 4.5-generation computer planned by Lin Jinqi also needs a network environment to share computing needs, compared with most of the current artificial intelligence, the 4.5-generation computer can provide a personal terminal that runs independently.

The strategic goal of the 4.5th generation computer is to break the monopoly of English on computers, realize the goal of Chinese entering the computer language, and the localization of computers should be more than 95%.Since Lin Jinqi's Horizon Electronics has been driving the progress of the functional electronics industry and the semiconductor industry, the issue of localization is not too much trouble, but what kind of intelligent system to equip this new computer is Lin Jinqi's headache.