43: Chapter 43 Not Short of Money, Alarming Ningcheng Officials

Su Fan thought for a moment before speaking, "The state will fund the purchase of 100 Ternary Food Synthesizers, and the state will be responsible for food production."

"Super God Logistics will be established with funding from Super God Group, responsible for delivering food from production workshops to thousands of households."

"This way, it can absorb those who lost their jobs due to the impact of synthetic food and the trade war, while also reducing the burden on national finances."

"It's a win-win situation."

"What do you think of this?" Su Fan said with a smile.

The Second Elder looked closely at Su Fan and only spoke after a long while, "Xia Country Post has over 900,000 employees, but even they cannot handle such a massive volume of material distribution."

"If Super God Logistics wants to cover the entire country, the number of employees recruited must reach several million to meet such a huge volume of material mobilization."

"With several million employees, the annual salary alone would require hundreds of billions."

The corners of Su Fan's mouth curled up slightly. "Just a few hundred billion; our Super God Group is not short of money."

"Take those 100 Controlled Nuclear Fusion power stations, for example. Selling them to the state for 30 billion each brings in 3 trillion. After removing labor and material costs, we still make a bit of a profit."

Su Fan didn't say how much he made, but in fact, he made at least 28 billion per nuclear power plant.

Of course, the state wasn't losing out either. One must know that to build an ordinary nuclear fission power plant before, the state had to invest at least 30 to 40 billion, and the electricity generated was only one million kWh per year.

Compared to the nuclear power plant built by Su Fan with an annual power generation of one trillion kWh, they weren't even in the same order of magnitude; the gap was one million times.

What kind of concept is this?

It means the state would have to build one million nuclear fission power plants with an annual generation of one million kWh to reach an annual generation of one trillion kWh.

Even at 30 billion each, one million plants would require 30,000,000,000,000,000—a terrifying number.

(The number is too big; I don't know how to read it.)

The price Su Fan gave was so attractive that the state directly allocated 3 trillion, with the full amount arriving in the account.

100 nuclear power plants generate 100 trillion kWh of electricity annually. Even according to Su Fan's requirement of one cent per kWh, selling electricity alone would bring in 1 trillion a year, recouping the cost in three years.

Even if each nuclear power plant needs to pay Super God Group 3 billion in maintenance fees, that's only 300 billion in maintenance fees a year.

Adding the cost of deuterium fuel and labor, the 100 nuclear power plants together would cost about 200 billion.

Adding and subtracting, the annual net profit is 500 billion!

In this deal, both Super God Group and the Xia Country officials felt they had gained.

Super God Group made a net profit of 2.8 trillion, with an additional 300 billion in annual maintenance fees.

Therefore, when Su Fan said he wasn't short of money, he really wasn't short of money!

"Indeed, Super God Group is not short of money," the Second Elder lamented, because Su Fan hadn't even mentioned another golden egg-laying business, Super God Battery, whose profits were also terrifying.

The reason he knew was not because he knew Super God Group's operating costs, but because before coming, he had looked at the financial data and bank account balances of Super God Group and Su Fan; the balance after paying taxes had a long string of zeros.

"In that case, I need to go back and discuss it with the members of the leadership team."

"Wait for my call." After the Second Elder finished speaking, he stood up and prepared to leave.

"Don't be in a hurry, I have a gift for you," Su Fan said with a smile.

"No need, I've received your kind intentions, but a gift isn't necessary. I'm not lacking anything right now," the Second Elder said with a smile and a wave of his hand.

"I had some time recently and made a bottle of gene optimization fluid, you see..." Su Fan winked.

Hearing this, the Second Elder's breath hitched, and a smile instantly appeared on his face.

"Su Fan, oh Su Fan!"

"Then I'll push tomorrow's agenda to the day after tomorrow."

"Alright, come with me!"

Su Fan was all smiles; one might not lack other things, but no one thinks they have too much lifespan.

...

"The Second Elder has come to Super God Group."

This news finally arrived belatedly, reaching the Ningcheng officials that evening; this was an earth-shattering event.

Before long, led by the Secretary, the members of the Ningcheng leadership team hurried to Super God Group.

At this time, the Second Elder was undergoing the transformation from the gene optimization fluid; how could he possibly receive them?

Su Fan had no choice but to receive them personally; it just so happened he had some matters he needed help with from the Ningcheng officials.

Both parties took their seats in the meeting room, and after some brief pleasantries, Su Fan went straight to the point.

"Secretary, Super God Group's Nanshan Base is currently too small. I want to expand development and need more land. You see, this land..." Su Fan said with a smile.

In fact, Su Fan's theoretical official rank was not low now.

Super God Energy is now 33% directly controlled by the state, so it can be considered a Central Enterprise, and he is the Chairman of Super God Energy.

The Chairman of a Central Enterprise has a rank that is at least Department-level at the lowest, and can reach Ministerial-level at the highest.

Of course, Super God Energy is not a wholly state-owned enterprise, so he doesn't have an administrative rank, but he is still considered half of their own people.

Furthermore, since Su Fan now has direct access to the highest levels of government, the Ningcheng officials kept their posture very low.

"Chairman Su, just tell us which piece of land you want, and we'll allocate it to you. If you want the land where the City Government is, our City Government personnel will move out overnight," the Ningcheng Secretary said very enthusiastically.

"Cough, cough, I don't need the City Government land. That stretch of mountain land in the southern mountainous area of Kirin County will do," Su Fan said, feeling a bit awkward; the Ningcheng Secretary was too enthusiastic.

"Good, I'll arrange for people to do it immediately. If President Su has any other needs, feel free to mention them!"

"None for the time being."

"You all go back first; the Second Elder has no time for now."

The dozen or so Ningcheng officials all took their leave.

...

At noon the next day.

The Second Elder woke up, having changed from a person in his 70s to looking like he was in his 30s.

Looking at himself in the mirror, his expression was extremely shocked. Feeling the vitality and sense of power coursing through his entire body, he couldn't help but lament, "Su Fan, I really want to open your head right now to see what kind of magical technology is inside."

Su Fan laughed heartily. "I reckon you wouldn't be able to bring yourself to do it. There are still higher grades of gene optimization fluid coming later; if you open my head, there'll be nothing left."

"By the way, you can't go out looking like this right now. Some adjustments need to be made. Your influence is too great; such a massive change in appearance would lead to bad suspicions."

The Second Elder nodded; Su Fan had already told him this in advance.

Next, Su Fan used a Scientific Disguise Technology he had later exchanged from the system to adjust the Second Elder's face.

Zhao Jianguo and the other two figures of great influence also underwent facial adjustments afterward.

For now, the gene optimization fluid still cannot be made public.

Su Fan planned to announce the gene optimization fluid only after the Quantum Supercomputer, Quantum Communication, Miniature Quantum Communicator, Quantum Compatibility, and the kunpeng no. 1 spaceship were all settled.

By then, with the Moon's resources, plus the social monitoring provided by Quantum Supercomputers and Quantum Communication, and the basic food security provided by the Ternary Food Synthesizer, Xia Country's society would definitely not experience major turmoil.

An hour later, everything was settled, and the Second Elder thanked Su Fan sincerely.

"Second Elder, give me a lift when you leave in a bit. It just so happens I have some matters to attend to in Kyoto," Su Fan said with a smile.

"Alright! You are warmly welcome!"

"What matters are you handling in Kyoto?" the Second Elder asked with some curiosity.

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