Chapter 1023 - The Groundbreaking Transportation Method (2/2)

“It looks quite good; I will buy one some time.”

His hand clutching onto the armrest finally loosened, and Jiang Chen made a pertinent evaluation.

On automatic cruise mode, the speed of the car reached a daunting one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour. The scenery outside the window quickly disappeared. It was hard to imagine they were in the city center. After leaving the urban area, Xia Shiyu turned off automatic cruise and drove the car into the buffer lane, slowing down and slowly descending.

The wheels and the road connected then the vehicle sank onto the road, and Jiang Chen’s heartbeat also relaxed. He knew the EML had finally returned to the ground.

“The financial report of fiscal 2019 first quarter came out.” Xia Shiyu skillfully switched to the road driving mode then spoke casually.

“Oh.”

“You’re not curious about which department’s financial report was the most eye-catching?” Xia Shiyu glanced at him curiously.

“Do I need to guess? The first was Future Technology, and the second was Future Heavy Industries.” Jiang Chen shrugged.

Since the establishment of the New Reserve, he started to feel less and less astonished by the long astronomical figures in the financial reports. In particular, the last time he looked at the news, New Xin Dollars was the only settlement currency for space trade and swept 943.1 billion US Dollars in the foreign exchange market. For Future Group, more money was just a figure.

Of course, that wasn’t to say that money was useless, but his goal wasn’t just earning more money. The lunar colony had only just begun to turn a profit this year, and the rate of return was less than one-tenth of Future Technology’s virtual reality project, but he was willing to burn money on the moon colony project.

“On the contrary, Future Heavy Industries was first, and Future Technology was second.” Xia Shiyu’s lips curved up.

“Oh? Manufacturing was more profitable than technology? Wait… I might know why.” Jiang Chen was intrigued for a second before he realized.

After Celestial Trade promulgated “Celestial Trade Outer Space Resources Development Plan of 2019”, nine asteroids were contracted to various countries for mining, which led to a large number of foreign enterprises flocking to Celestial City. This led to a snowballing amount of orders sent to Future Heavy Industries for external space stations.

The price of a space station was between one billion to ten billion USD. Although many space station custom companies were in Silicon Valley, Cambridge and Singapore also accepted orders, but neither their quality nor reputation matched Future Heavy Industries. They could only share the markets left behind.

Jiang Chen also forgot about the record profits of the production of space stations. Not only did Future Heavy Industries surpass Future Technology in first quarter profits, but the division was likely to completely leave Future Technology in the dust.

“Right, there’s still one more thing. There are visitors from Hua.”

“Let me guess—are they here to ask about outer space weapons?”

“You guessed wrong again.” Xia Shiyu blinked. This playful gesture on her was cute because of the sharp contrast. “The Minister of Transportation and the CEO of First Automobile are visiting.”

“Oh? Are they interested in magnetic levitation vehicles?” Jiang Chen showed interest.

“They heard about the concept of magnetic levitation vehicles and three-dimensional traffic.” Xia Shiyu, proud of the fact, continued. “Especially after learning that magnetic levitation vehicles can effectively alleviate urban traffic congestion.”