"Cheers!"

Gao Yuanyuan shouted, and everyone clinked glasses.

Maotai is placed on the small dining table, along with Japanese dishes such as Wagyu sukiyaki, king crab meat sashimi, and prawn tempura.

"Yuanyuan, Ah Fei, you two have been together for so many years." Gao Mu looked left and right, "Don't be so nervous. I don't mean to rush you to get married, but..."

Lu Fei blinked and heard her implicitly mention the child.

Gao Yuanyuan looked at Lu Fei subconsciously, her expression of disappointment fleeting, and she coughed repeatedly: "Mom, what are you talking about!"

"You see, your dad and I have retired in the past two years..."

There was a hint of longing in Gao's mother's tone.

"Stop it, Mom."

Gao Yuanyuan stopped hastily, "If you really have time, you should first care about my brother and find a sister-in-law for me and A Fei.

Oh my god, what are you doing to me?

Gao Tuan, who was breaking off the crab legs, was stunned for a moment, and rolled his eyes at his sister resentfully, "Hey, I don't have any conditions."

Gao Yuanyuan nudged Lu Fei with her elbow, "Did you see that my brother's marriage has been delayed? He is still a bachelor at the age of 30. Is your company responsible?"

Lu Fei wiped his mouth with a towel, "I originally planned to discuss this matter after the year, but it's okay to do it now. If nothing else happens, he will soon be promoted to COO of Caifubao and transferred back to Yanjing."

"Really?"

Gao Yuanyuan, Gao Mu and others looked at each other.

"Of course, now that Caifubao has received attention and support from above, it has entered a new stage of rapid development. At this stage, you are indispensable to cooperate with Sister Xin and Zhang Lei. As for the Asian cross-border payment market, there will be others to take over.

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Lu Fei raised his glass to the group, "Congratulations."

"I...I...thank you Mr. Lu!"

Takada was excited. Being in the midst of it, he knew very well that Caifubao would become a terrifying financial giant in the future.

"How many times have I told you."

Lu Fei smiled and said: "We only call our duties in public."

"Yes, yes, land plant."

Gao Yuanyuan teased in a joking tone.

Father Gao and Mother Gao looked at each other and smiled from ear to ear.

"Hey, Mom, I have no excuse now. If you want to have a grandson, you can go find him. We are not in a hurry." Gao Yuanyuan put the tempura into Lu Fei's bowl.

Gao's mother wanted to open her mouth, but Gao's father interrupted, "Let the children worry about their own affairs. Come, let's have a drink."

There was a "ding" sound, and five porcelain cups collided with each other with a crisp sound.

The annual Red and White Song Contest was played on TV, with singers such as Hamasaki Ayumi, Nakajima Mika, Koda Kumi and other singers taking turns to perform.

AKB48 also debuted on the stage for the first time.

One song after another, the program also paid special tribute to Izumi Sakai, who passed away this year, and connected with the band who was holding a memorial concert in Osaka for a live broadcast.

From the speakers, the melody of "Swaying Dreams" came out:

"The swaying dreams, the emotions in the heart are swaying,

I want to continue walking with you, in your dreams..."

Gao Yuanyuan stared at the screen and sang along softly.

Lu Fei stared at her. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Father Gao pouring him wine. He immediately raised the glass with both hands and heard him say kindly:

"Don't put any psychological burden on you two about what your aunt just said. She just wanted to do something when she was free."

"What about you?"

"Me? I'm also thinking about finding something to do."

"Do you still want to continue building rockets?"

"Build a rocket?!"

There was a glint in Father Gao's eyes.

Facing everyone's surprised looks, Lu Fei smiled and said:

"I met a guy in the United States before who founded a private rocket company called SpaceX. Accompanied by him, I visited the headquarters in El Segundo."

"I don't know about SpaceX, but I do know that the United States has always supported the development of private rockets." Gao's father took a breath of air, "What, you also want to launch private rockets into space?"

Lu Fei smiled and nodded, "Originally I didn't think too much about this. No one has the skills or qualifications to do it. But it's different now. You are an aerospace engineer and you happen to be retired at home. Uncle, if you are interested, do you want to do it?"

Let’s set up a private company to build a small rocket?”

Father Gao couldn't help but feel moved, but he quickly shook his head and laughed.

Rockets are not something you can just build. From satellites to rockets to manned spaceflight, looking around the world, there are only a handful of countries that can completely master aerospace technology independently.

Not to mention, private rocket companies.

The cost and risk of rocket launch alone are not something that ordinary private enterprises can bear. Once the launch fails, hundreds of millions of funds will be wasted. What is the purpose of launching a rocket into the sky?

"If we can find a way to significantly reduce the cost of rocket launches through technical means, for example, if liquid fuel rockets can be reused, we can undertake commercial aerospace orders and even government aerospace orders, but this is just one of them."

Lu Fei smiled and said: "What if we build a satellite Internet?"

"Hiss~"

Father Gao looked at his prospective son-in-law, Ah Fei, are you serious?

"Providing Internet services directly via satellite."

Lu Fei raised his neck and drank the wine in one gulp.

Generally speaking, terrestrial network communications mainly rely on base stations.

Satellite Internet is based on satellite access to the Internet, which is like moving base stations on the ground to space.

Each satellite is a mobile base station.

In fact, this kind of satellite plan is not new for a long time. Motorola launched the Yixing plan, launching 77 near-Earth satellites to form a constellation, allowing users to make calls anywhere in the world.

Musk’s Starlink is just a copy of Yixing.

Of course, this is only for civilian use, and it is another matter during wartime.

"Theoretically it's possible."

Father Gao thought for a while. "Low-orbit satellites have the advantages of small transmission delay, low link loss, flexible launch, and low overall manufacturing cost. They are indeed the first choice for satellite Internet networking. However, they also have fatal problems. Low-orbit satellites

The life cycle is very short, only 3 to 7 years, with an average life span of 5 years. The moment the network is established, the satellites in the sky begin to depreciate."

"So we must find a commercial space path!"

Lu Fei rubbed his hands, "It has spawned a new aerospace pattern and aerospace resource allocation. As long as there are cheap repetitive rockets, ultra-low transportation costs, satellite communication networks, space biopharmaceuticals, and space breeding technologies, China can deploy them."

Even if the space economic industry fails and becomes cannon fodder, it has not only cultivated talents, but it will be worthwhile to cultivate more astronauts for the country."

"You really think so?"

Father Gao confirmed again and again that after all, private rockets are not a small project, and hundreds of millions of dollars are invested in them.

"I am not interested in money. I don't like money. I like to use money to do things that interest me. If you are willing, I will invest 100 million first. I have already thought of the name of the company."

Lu Fei named it "Star Ring", which is the Trisolaran Vader Star Ring Company. Naturally, the Heavenly Plan is also called the "Ladder Plan".

"If you really think about it, I can discuss it with my old friends. Many people will definitely agree!"

Seeing Gao's father's excitement, Gao Yuanyuan held her cheeks in her hands and cast a playful look at Lu Fei.

"What's wrong? I didn't wipe my face clean?"

Lu Fei picked up a towel and wiped his face.

"The towels are dirty after being left there for so long."

Gao Yuanyuan tugged on his sleeve, "How about we go to the outdoor hot springs, just the two of us, how about taking a bath or not?"

Lu Fei raised his eyebrows: "Cannon!"

Outside the hotel, it is covered with winter snow.

The surrounding mountains are covered with snow, but the hot springs are still steaming, filled with smoke, and the stars are reflected on the water.

Gao Yuanyuan cuddled up to Lu Fei, and the two of them soaked in the spring water.

"Tell me! Have you planned it a long time ago and asked my father to help you build rockets? Well, he finally retired and took care of himself..."

"It's time for old people to find something to do when they retire. Instead of studying aerospace and aviation all their lives, it's better to continue researching. Why don't universities talk about hiring instead? We should establish industry-university-research cooperation with universities and combine practice and theory to bring out a group of aerospace talents.

Isn’t that good?”

Lu Fei shrugged.
To be continued...