Chapter 1035 - Ticket Price Going to the Moon (1/2)

The Moon belongs to all of mankind, who represents all of mankind?

In 1967, the Outer Space Treaty was signed. In 1969, Neil Armstrong placed the Star-Spangled flag on the surface of the Moon.

The so-called United Nations resolution was just a piece of paper, just like the United Nations itself. The Moon belonging to all of mankind was also nonsense, it would belong to the people capable of landing there.

On the surface, Jiang Chen was open for investment of Moon resources to investors in other countries. But in reality, he just wanted to tie the international capitals with him to develop the Moon for him.

No matter how much money the investors invest in the Moon, it would be on the basis that they recognize the legitimacy of Lunar City. Any expansion would be within the boundary of Lunar City and not New New York or New Moscow.

Taking a thousand steps back, if someone dared to declare independence, Jiang Chen would shut down their water, electricity and air. The controllable nuclear fusion power generation technology was the threshold of interstellar colonization. After several decades when other countries make a breakthrough in power generation, the moon would already be covered in Celestial Trade factories.

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After the flight from Lunar City and Celestial Trade was established, Celestial Trade opened the ticket sales channel on its official website and issued 500 tickets per day for a price of 100,000 XND.

A journey 400,000-kilometer in distance, the maximum flight speed was close to 10 kilometers per second. It would take half a day to arrive at the Moon’s orbit. The 100,000 XND may be an unaffordable price for most people, but the world never lacked rich people.

For those wealthy people without a place to spend their money, no matter if the Moon was worth it to go, it was a prestigious opportunity for a visit. At least at some high-level gatherings in the future, they could bloat about their trip when they meet their business friends. “Hey, look at the Moon in the sky, I have been up there. It is probably the most beautiful place I have seen in my life. I highly recommend you to go take a look…”

With only one Seagull-class transportation ship (TS Seagull), the transportation capacity from Celestial City to Lunar City was quite valuable. In addition to people, TS Seagull also transported goods from the Earth. The most important restraint was that Lunar City could only accept 10,000 tourists and it was not the right time to develop the mass public market.

In fact, Jiang Chen still underestimated the attraction of Moon tourism to the billionaires and millionaires. On the first day of ticket sales, the tickets for the seven flights within one week were sold out in almost one second. If it were not the for the fact the ticket only sold seven days in advance, most likely the entire month’s tickets would be wiped clean in a few seconds.

The boss of a real estate company had foreseen the frenzy, so he ordered his assistant with foresight and tasked more than one hundred employees to purchase a ticket for him. Just when he thought victory was within his grasp, the few milliseconds of defeat snatched the ticket from the jaws of victory. He stared at the anxious assistant in front of him and slapped the table.

“Fools! You guys play with your phone all day long. Now you can’t even buy a ticket for me!”

The assistant sobbed. “Boss, you can’t blame us. This is not a flight or train ticket. There are only hundreds of tickets around the world. And I suspect, someone is definitely using a software!”

When the boss heard his, he was even more furious. “Other people can use software, why can’t you use it. I asked you to find people to buy the ticket for me, did you find a bunch of construction workers? I could have done this myself!”

“But, but we don’t have the software…”

“With so many programmers in the company, why didn’t you just get a few people to write one! I asked you to find people, but you need to use your brain!”

The secretary stopped speaking. He knew that the boss was angry and just wanted to vent his anger at someone. It was better to keep his head down rather than defend himself.

Just then, the company manager rushed in,

“Boss! The ticket is being sold on the black market.”

The boss heard the news and immediately asked, “How much is it?”