As the Tang Empire announced that it would complete the manned moon landing plan within ten years, the whole world was shocked, and the United States and the Soviet Union immediately launched relevant moon landing plans, and the space race between the Tang, the United States and the Soviet Union began.

As early as 1950, under the promotion of Zhang Meng, the Tang Empire took the lead in launching the first human satellite x1 into space. Although x1 is just a radio satellite, playing Chinese songs to the world 24 hours a day to promote the power and superiority of the Tang Empire. Its space stagnation lasted only three months, and then crashed into the atmosphere due to the exhaustion of battery power, the shock to the whole world was that the Tang Empire had already entered outer space.

Since then, the United States and the Soviet Union have begun to develop their own satellite systems. The United States successfully launched its first satellite two years later, and the Soviet Union did not send its satellites to space until the third year.

Now, the United States and the Soviet Union have just made small progress in the satellite field, and the Tang Empire has launched a manned moon landing plan, which has made the United States and the Soviet Union a little unbearable, but they have to bite the bullet and follow the Tang Dynasty's pace.

In particular, astronomers from the United States and the Soviet Union also discovered unusual impacts from the back of the moon. They were worried that something unusual would arrive on the moon, so they did not want to be monopolized by the Tang Empire, so they had to invest a lot of money, manpower and material resources in this huge space race.

In the late 1950s, the Tang Empire's indicators of all powers exceeded all countries in the world, with a total economic output of 1,100 billion Tang Yuan, ranking first in the world. The Tang Yuan also became a global currency, and all countries were hoarding it. The United States ranked second in the world with a total economic output of 520 billion Tang Yuan, and the Soviet Union's GDP was estimated to be around 230 billion Tang Yuan. Because the Soviet Union has been strictly keeping their economic data secret, the Tang and the United States have speculated for a full half century.

The Tang Empire was able to achieve such brilliant economic achievements, in addition to making great money from the Tang Empire during World War II. Domestic industry turned losses into profits. After the war, the Tang Empire relied on its leading position in technology, with its absolute say in electronic computers, biomedicine, wireless communications, atomic energy, electricity, space science, etc., and led the world into the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

At the same time, the population base of the Tang Empire doubled, and human resources finally kept up with the pace of industrial development. There is also a global market, especially the Asian market, with a huge population accounting for more than half of the world. The consumption capacity is huge.

Moreover, the Tang Empire controlled the Middle East, the main producer of oil energy, while the Western world was in opposition to the Soviet Union, and Europe could not get the Soviet oil and natural gas supply. Although the United States also had a lot of energy, unfortunately, the global strategic channels and key positions were all occupied by the Tang Empire, which made the United States unable to compete with the Tang Empire in the field of energy supply. In the end, the Tang Empire controlled 90% of the energy supply in Asia and Europe, monopolized prices, and made a fortune.

Another very important aspect is that the world has entered the electrical era and the era of radio communications, and the use of alternating current and radio has increased dramatically. With its strong military strength, the Tang Empire unilaterally abolished Tesla's statement on the free use of alternating current patent rights and re-issued a patent fee of 1 Tangyuan per kilowatt-hour from AC pantograph power generation companies around the world.

The Tang Empire chose a very good time, just when World War II just ended. When the Tang Empire had nuclear weapons and other countries did not have nuclear weapons, the Tang Empire blackmailed the whole world, forcing countries around the world to sign an alternating power use agreement and pay the patent fee for the use of alternating power to the Tang Empire.

This is a huge sum of money. The wealth of the Tang Empire began to surge from that day. You should know that alternating current has become a key energy source for countries around the world. Even if the Tang Empire had to charge 1 Tangyuan patent fee for each kilowatt-hour of electricity, they thought it was much more cost-effective than DC power and coal.

In the first few years, the Tang Empire plundered 50 billion Tang yuan of patent fees from countries around the world in terms of alternating current patent fees. As countries gradually completed huge power revolutions, the patent fees for alternating current have become a huge trade deficit for each country. Soon, the United States and the Soviet Union gradually possessed nuclear weapons and began to say no to the Tang Empire. However, because they were still far behind the Tang Empire in terms of military strength, they did not dare to break up with the Tang Empire, but they launched public opinion and political pressure around the world.

In the end, the Tang Empire faced public opinion and political pressure from all countries around the world that unanimously condemned the free AC power, and announced that if Tesla died, it would stop collecting AC power patent fees.

Tesla was 100 years old at that time, and governments from various countries did not want to break up with the Tang Empire. They believed that Tesla would die soon, so they agreed to the conditions of the Tang Empire.

However, what caused the countries to collapse was that the Tang Empire extended Tesla's life at great cost, and eventually allowed Tesla to live to 106 years old, which severely damaged countries around the world, because in those six years, the world's new AC power patent usage fee was as high as 500 billion Tang yuan. The Tang Empire was almost like robbing money directly from central banks of countries around the world, which made governments almost collapsed.

This is just an alternating current. The world has entered the era of wireless communications, and Tesla's radio patent has been restored by the United States. At that time, the US government and countries around the world did not want to pay Marconi's radio patent royalties, so they unanimously supported the US government's announcement of abolishing Marconi's patent rights in radio and returning the patent rights to Tesla. At that time, the United States and the whole world believed that Tesla was dead, so they were about to be happy.

As a result, the Tang Empire quickly announced the news that Tesla was still alive. Countries around the world were as sad as being slapped by the Tang Empire. From then on, they began to pay radio patent usage fees to Tesla, and eventually they all flowed into the Tang Empire's pocket.

In addition, because of the guidance of Zhang Meng, the time traveler, the Tang Empire has registered almost 90% of the world's patent rights in key areas in the future, especially in the high-tech field. The annual patent fee alone is equivalent to the total GDP of a European middle-aged country in a year.

In addition, the post-war global financial system designated the Tang Yuan globalization system with the Tang Empire as the center. The Tang Yuan was based on gold reserves, and all countries had their own currencies linked to the Tang Yuan. This also made the Tang Empire continue to issue Tang Yuan, making the Tang Empire the highest welfare in national medical care, insurance, pension, housing, etc., and half of the funds seemed to be paid together by people all over the world.

Someone has done a statistics showing that if the average daily consumption per person in the world is 5 Tang Yuan, then 1 Tang Yuan will fall into the pocket of the Tang Empire.
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