Luo Jia tells you about the mergers and acquisitions in the agricultural field in recent years. First, Sinochem Group's acquisition of Swiss Syngenta, which was the beginning of the competition among giants. Dow's acquisition of DuPont and Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto was a response to China's strong entry into the agricultural field.

So, without realizing it, global agriculture has formed three giant companies, Sinochem Syngenta Group, which represents China's power, Dow DuPont Group, which represents North America, and Bayer Monsanto Group, which represents European power.

Luo Jia frowned and said, "The three major agricultural giants together account for more than 80% of the global market share of pesticides and seeds. This situation has never happened in the long history of the earth."

"In this highly monopoly market, we have reason to worry about agricultural security, but this is not the most important thing. What is important is that we have started the space program, and from now on, all departments of the company will serve the space program, including the Department of Life Sciences, including the Agricultural Program."

“We want to serve the space program, too?”

"No, the space program still needs agricultural assistance?" Luo Jia's words aroused everyone's doubts.

Nodding gently, Luo Jia said with a smile: "Space plan certainly requires agriculture. For example, we plan to set up permanent colonial bases or space stations in synchronous orbits on the moon and Mars. How can the colonial base solve the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation when far away from the parent planet? It takes an average of two hundred days of long voyage from Earth to Mars. It is obviously uneconomic and unrealistic to transport food by spacecraft."

"If we master artificial meat technology and can use cell division to make large quantities of fresh meat, it will greatly improve the quality of life of colonial employees."

"For example, if one day we go further, walk out of the solar system and enter far deep space, we must master two key technologies, one is human freezing and the other is space agriculture, which are branches of the field of life sciences."

"If this is not enough to convince you, I can give a third example. As we all know, Mars and most of the planets in the universe are not suitable for human survival. Assume that in the distant future, we can master the technology of cultivating super space plants and allow plants to adapt to survival in harsh environments. This will bring unimaginable help to our interstellar colony transformation work."

Luo Jia talked and drew huge blueprints, which made everyone crazy.

Although agriculture is not of high quality, if the word space is added to it, it would be another matter if it becomes space agriculture.

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After finishing his speech, Luo Jia left the Department of Life Sciences, did not assign tasks to everyone, nor did he point out the key points of research and development.

After all, he is not omnipotent. So far, the golden dome has not brought Luo Jia any data on life sciences. Simply put, Luo Jia does not understand life sciences.

Luo Jia just told the Wen brothers to follow the path he designed to implement, and at the same time started two projects of cosmetics and artificial meat. The former was to make money and transfusions of blood to the space program, while the latter was to ensure agricultural safety and ensure that there was meat to eat on the tables of people across the country.

Although he was not old, Luo Jia loved to read history. From history, he saw too much hunger and too much suffering that brought to the Chinese nation due to hunger.

As a descendant of a farmer who has been facing the loess and facing the sky for generations, it is natural for Luo Jia to attach importance to agriculture. He stubbornly believes that the problem of eating is the biggest problem in the world. None of them. Now that he just has the chance, he must first solve the problem of agriculture.

After returning from the Department of Life Sciences, Luo Jia continued to invest in research on heavy launch vehicles, focusing on rocket engine technology.

As the saying goes, there is no airtight wall in the world. Star Technology is preparing to study the 550-ton thrust engine, which soon spread, attracting attention from the global scientific community, and then the large-scale rocket competition began.

There is no one that only has one engine installed, but it is all multi-engine linkage and a single-engine thrust of 550 tons. From the perspective of design and parameters, it is already very amazing.

As we all know, Musk designed four models of rockets for his space plan, arranged from small to large, namely Falcon Nine, Heavy Falcon, Large Falcon, and Super Falcon.

Among them, the Super Falcon Rocket, which has the highest performance, is equipped with an engine called Raptor. The single-machine thrust of the Raptor engine is not high, but it can achieve large-scale team operations. Twenty or even twenty-four or twenty-eight Raptors cooperates, which can provide extraordinary driving force for the Super Raptor.

Of course, Star Technology's rocket engine can also work in teams, but its thrust is nearly three times higher than Musk's Raptor, which is obviously a rhythm of causing trouble.

Others have engines of 200 tons and 300 tons at the top of the sky, and Star Technology directly reaches 550 tons, which is definitely not the result that the West wants to see.

"Here is here! It's really here!"

As July was about to enter, the hottest season of the year, An Ran suddenly rushed into Luo Jia's office excitedly, and without saying a word, she put the tablet in front of Luo Jia.

"You guessed it right. They all fell into the trap!" An Ran said.

them?

Luo Jia was suspicious, "In addition to North America, there are others who jumped out?"

"Actually, it's not surprising. They are the Russians. Their personalities have always been like this. North America hasn't moved yet, so they can't hold back." An Ran shrugged and replied.

Russians want to make trouble?

Luo Jia was suspicious and looked at the tablet computer that An Ran gave him. The news source was Russia's largest news media. Today, Russia is in the country of Mao Bear, and today's Russia's status is equivalent to that of Xinhua News Agency, with extremely high hierarchy and credibility.

The news content is like this.

Russia and Russia have recently tested the world's largest rocket engine, the rd-171mv.

The rd-171mv engine weighs 10.3 tons and has a thrust of more than 800 tons, ranking first in the world. It is more powerful and smaller than the F-1 engine installed on Saturn 5 in North America, and can be reused for about 10 times.

When this engine is running, the combustion chamber can generate 27 million kilowatts of thermal power, which is equivalent to the power of a large hydropower station. In addition, the engine turbo pump power will reach 180,000 kilowatts, which is equivalent to the power of three nuclear power units of a large nuclear-powered icebreaker.

Russians are awesome!

This is a god-like assist!

Luo Jia was so excited that he almost shouted out directly. He couldn't help but be excited because the Russian rocket engine, which had abnormal parameters, was not in the manufacturing stage, nor in the design stage, but had been tested!

"It's amazing!" Luo Jia shouted: "When did the Russians do this big guy? The single-machine thrust is 800 tons!? Is this thing existed when the frigate was shot into the sky??"

An Ran said excitedly: "More than that, Russians have always been unexpected in their work. If you continue to look down, there will be surprises."

Any surprises?

Luo Jia was suspicious and continued to read, only to see that the end of the news was written like this.

"It is reported that the Yenise Heavy Launch Vehicle is also under development. It may consist of 12 boosters equipped with rd-171 engines and core stages equipped with many rd-180 engines. If nothing unexpected happens, there will be no launch vehicle in the world that can be qualified to become Yenise's opponent within ten years."

Luo Jia was simply shocked. The 12 rd-171 engines alone had 9,600 tons of thrust. If the number of unknown rd-180 engines was added, the Yenise Rockets were definitely a 10,000 tons super rocket!

He is worthy of being a Russian, this guy is crazy and even beats himself!

What is the concept of thrust exceeding 10,000 tons?

So far, the rocket with the largest thrust has been made by humans, Nasa's Saturn V, with a thrust of 3,400 tons. The Russians are so good at playing with it, and they have directly refreshed the world record several times!

Although the thrust of Star Technology's Rockets, Musk's Rockets, and even Boeing's SLS Rockets must be higher than that of Saturn V, these Rockets have not officially debuted yet, and the second is not that much higher. The Russians directly hit the bottom line of the Rockets' competition to 10,000 tons! This is too exciting for the whole world.
Chapter completed!