Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#826 - Great Power Game

This prince from the Middle East is undoubtedly a tycoon on Earth. Blessed with good fortune, his family owns mines rich in high-quality oil resources, often referred to as the "blood" of industrial society.

Until this resource is completely replaced by other new energy sources, their fossil fuel can continuously generate wealth, allowing them to occupy a pivotal position in the international community.

Most international exchanges and trade cannot ignore the existence of these Middle Eastern tycoons.

Of course, wealth alone, without matching strength, is certainly not enough. Although the Earth is small, the overt and covert struggles between countries are plentiful.

The Americans, relying solely on small pieces of paper that can be infinitely printed from printing plants, exchange them for massive amounts of tangible wealth and resources. Oil, this black gold, also requires the US dollar as an intermediary for international trade.

Because behind this, is the American military power, strong enough to roam the world, providing support.

However, now that times have changed and they have arrived on Xandar, all these rules are facing a transformation.

Yesterday, the US dollar, which was still considered the world's currency, has begun to lose its value here.

The military force that likes to flaunt and intimidate with aircraft carrier fleets is even more of a joke here.

Many rules and games must be overturned and restarted~

Now, those fifty or so people who came to Xandar from Earth with Liang Yue are spending their days touring, exploring, and recording with an excited attitude, as well as consulting materials in the virtual world and bartering for various scientific technologies.

Most of the time, they are almost always huddled in the small, dilapidated building, busy doing this.

Establishing new rules!

This time, only the prince from the tycoon country in the entire Middle East came.

Perhaps because he was still a bit ignorant beforehand and lacked sufficient consideration in all aspects, he did not bring any national strategic materials such as gold reserves when boarding the ship.

Therefore, besides the 100,000 Star Yuan of basic activity funds that Liang Yue gave him, Aziz is basically penniless.

It is quite difficult to use the only 100,000 Star Yuan in his hand to choose a commodity that can obtain sufficient benefits for the country behind him...

After all, the opportunity is rare, and they may not have the chance to come to Xandar for tourism again next time.

Especially, after this month-long trip is over and everyone returns to Earth, when everyone displays the treasures they have found and the inferior technologies that the aliens have already eliminated, the quota to come to Xandar again will definitely become more sought-after and difficult to obtain.

Such an opportunity may not be anything to countries like the US, UK, and China, but it may not be the same for other countries.

Don't you see, even the people from the 毛熊 (lit. Hairy Bear, referring to Russia) were almost tripped up and missed the deadline for boarding the ship.

If Liang Yue hadn't personally intervened later, the group of four from 大毛 (lit. Big Hair, also referring to Russia) would have been blocked outside the gate.

Of course, what allowed Prince Aziz to make a desperate bet, confidently spending most of the funds in his hand to purchase a valid planting license and a mere hundred seeds of an alien energy plant...

What allowed him to make such a worry-free decision, without having to worry about others reneging later, secretly repurchasing, and then engaging in vicious competition in the same field after returning to Earth...

This has to be attributed to the so-called "rules" that this group of people is currently discussing in the small, dilapidated building~

In the end~ that set of rules is actually roughly similar to the implementation of patents and copyright protection laws on Earth.

However, the patents and copyrights on Earth protect the scientific, technological, and standard system processes that Earthlings themselves have created.

The validity period of the commodity, technology, and patent will be adjusted at their discretion depending on the value and actual effectiveness of what they purchased.

Generally, this period will be defaulted to twenty years~

The energy plant species, Burning Crystal Grass, purchased by Prince Aziz, belongs to civilian-type energy and is basically impossible to apply to the military field, and it is even a bit difficult to apply to the industrial field.

In addition, this thing has excellent characteristics such as environmental protection, greenness, and stability, which are in line with the current development concepts and consensus of human society on Earth for the future...

In short, in order to take care of this tycoon prince and the country behind him, the representatives of several major countries decided after discussion to grant him the full effective protection period and grant him the right of first refusal for renewal...

In fact, the main reason is that this Burning Crystal Grass does not pose any threat to the interests of major countries.

With the current development trend and technological level of Earth, oil is about to be eliminated.

Since the appearance of Stark's Arc Reactor, and its spread due to the Ivan Vanko incident, this trend has become increasingly obvious.

Later, after the New York battle with the Chitauri and the alien sea battle near Honolulu, Hawaii, technical samples in all aspects have been basically complete.

At least in the field of future energy, the mainstream development direction of mankind has been determined, that is, clean electrical energy based on nuclear fusion!

In this case, a plant that can absorb natural gas and combustible gas and condense into crystals, although relatively precious and profitable, cannot affect the general direction of human development.

At this stage, the representatives of many major countries who have come to Xandar, especially China, the United States, Britain, and Russia, have basically focused their competition and game on the field of space exploration.

In addition, the virtual technology field represented by the virtual world, and the scientific research results in the direction of gene therapy, are also the focus of their attention.

However, the funds in everyone's hands are seriously insufficient.

Even in the direction of space exploration, which serves as a basic means of transportation, they must unite and work together in one field while competing and playing games.

In this way, the smooth advancement of mankind in the direction of space exploration can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.

Space exploration is a major direction, and its complexity has strict requirements on the technical accumulation of related technology fields that ordinary people cannot imagine.

It is definitely not an area where you can hold a few alien spaceships in your hand, or get a few parts of the spaceship, and samples of key parts, and then move forward smoothly and make rapid strides.

With the current technological level of mankind, it is a luxury to want to manufacture safe and reliable spacecraft for space travel within at least ten years.

Even if China, which has received additional funding from Liang Yue, will hardly achieve this goal within at least five or six years.

Unless they just want to engage in borrowing a ship to go to sea, or use the existing alien spaceship wreckage and parts to piece together one or two crude spaceships for testing.

But such things can also be achieved with the help of the several spaceships that Liang Yue lent them before.

Efforts to consolidate the foundation and earnestly engage in technical accumulation are the urgent but necessary path for major countries to seriously practice.

Therefore, things like Prince Aziz using a little bit of money in his hand to find one or two rare items in the Xandar's used market cannot have any impact on the existing overall situation.

Or to put it bluntly, countries that are unable to establish scientific research outposts on Xandar by taking advantage of this and the next few travel opportunities will almost lag behind others in the future.

In this case, it is the right thing for those in the small, dilapidated building to formulate a set of rules to ensure their own long-term interests by using their first-mover advantage.

In short, their current principle is to recognize the legitimacy of these technical products purchased with Star Yuan and other currency resources, in order to guarantee the interests of themselves and various emerging capitals.

On this basis, try to set rules for latecomers as much as possible to ensure the legitimacy of their own interests.

Seemingly guaranteeing the rights and interests of everyone, in fact, it is blocking the development prospects of competitors in advance based on the existing conditions.

If others want to continue to develop in the future, they will inevitably face various technical barriers like on Earth.

If you are in a good mood, throw out a few authorizations, and if you are in a bad mood, announce sanctions~

Some people who dare to break the rules...

This routine is not new. Major powers have done similar things many times on Earth, so they are now doing it with ease.

Prince Aziz bought the formal copyright of this Burning Crystal Grass this time and regarded it as a life-saving straw. In fact, it was just a product of helplessness.

Without enough capital in their hands, they can't afford such a great power game.

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