"Speaker of the council."

Lu Yongchang greeted Councilor Li respectfully.

"Yongchang, you've finally arrived."

Upon seeing Lü Yongchang, Councilor Li breathed a slight sigh of relief.

You should know the outcome of yesterday's meeting, right?

Upon hearing Councilor Li's question, Lü Yongchang nodded slightly.

It passed unanimously.

To be honest, he wasn't surprised at all by this result.

Faced with such rigorous deduction steps and accurate predictions, Lü Yongchang did not believe that anyone would doubt his words.

"What should we... Xia Kingdom do next?"

After a moment of silence, the councilor slowly asked the question.

A glint flashed in Lü Yongchang's eyes as he replied, word by word, "Speaker, in my view, only the universe is the true way out!"

"Only by leaving the solar system can we truly protect the Xia Kingdom!"

The speaker of parliament fell silent.

Leaving the solar system?

Can human technology really achieve this?

The councilor's voice was somewhat hoarse: "Why not immigrate to Mars?"

The proposal to colonize Mars was actually made to him personally by Academician Yang Jianchuan after the meeting last night.

Lu Yongchang slowly shook his head, rejecting the councilor's proposal.

"I'm afraid that won't work."

"At the moment of the solar helium flash, even Mars is not safe."

"The only safe zone is perhaps outside the solar system."

The councilor closed his eyes in anguish.

After a long silence, he spoke again, his voice increasingly hoarse: "According to your plan, how many people in Xia Kingdom... can survive?"

Upon hearing the Speaker's question, Lü Yongchang was momentarily stunned.

How many people survived?

That is indeed a problem...

Lü Yongchang fell into deep thought.

Based on the current population growth rate of Xia Kingdom...

Um……

Seeing that Lü Yongchang had fallen silent, the councilor gave a bitter smile: "Can there be ten thousand people?"

Lü Yongchang: "???"

"As expected, there aren't even ten thousand people..."

Seeing Lu Yongchang's strange look, the councilor's eyes grew even more pained.

With 1.5 billion people in the Xia Kingdom, how could they not even protect 10,000 people?

"Ahem... Speaker, you may have misunderstood."

Lu Yongchang said with a strange expression, "According to my plan, after excluding some elderly and sick people who are not suitable for interstellar travel, and taking into account the natural growth rate over the next fifteen years... about 1 billion people in Xia Kingdom should be able to escape smoothly."

"..."

Silence fell over the office.

“Yongchang…do you know what you’re saying?” The councilor looked at Lü Yongchang with a strange expression.

"A billion people traveling through space?"

Are you telling me a science fiction story?

Lu Yongchang looked directly at the Speaker of the Council and said with a serious expression, "Speaker of the Council, you should know that I have done everything I said I would do in the research and development of controlled nuclear fusion."

The councilor looked somewhat moved, and then he nodded slightly, acknowledging Lü Yongchang's words.

"Speaker, perhaps my plan is a bit crazy, but for the future of the people of Xia, I hope you can completely trust me!"

The councilor's deep gaze was fixed on Lü Yongchang's eyes.

a long time.

He took a deep breath.

"good!"

"I trust you!"

...

"According to our news station, effective immediately, the Xia Kingdom will establish a Space Agency, with Lu Yongchang, the father of controlled nuclear fusion, serving as its first director."

"NASA's primary mission is..."

In the evening, a major news story broke on Xia Kingdom's news channel!

In just half an hour, the phrase "Space Agency" soared to the top of Weibo's trending topics list!

"Holy crap?! NASA?? Is China going to venture into space?"

"I think now is a good opportunity to venture into space. After all, the United States is suffering from the devastation of solar storms and is too busy taking care of itself right now!"

"Haha, that makes sense!"

"No, am I the only one who noticed that the first director was Lu Yongchang? If I remember correctly, he was only twenty years old, right?"

"...If we count age by the traditional Chinese age reckoning, I should be twenty-one years old now."

"Hiss! Terrifying!"

"He's 21 and the director of NASA. I'm 21 and I dropped out of college."

"So, can any experts tell me what powers NASA actually has? Is it just a promise made in words?"

"Don't say that... If what the news in Xia Country says is true, the power of this Space Agency can be described in eight words: second only to the emperor, above all others!"

"WTF?!!"

...

The next day, at noon.

The Great Hall of Xia was packed to capacity.

Every one of you here is one of the top scientists in the Xia Kingdom.

Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Biology...

It can be said that the Xia Kingdom's Grand Hall at this moment is a gathering place for the Xia Kingdom's most outstanding wisdom!

Lu Yongchang, dressed in a well-fitting high-end suit, straightened his expression and slowly walked onto the stage.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Lü Yongchang, the first director of the Space Administration."

"Next, I will explain NASA's plans for the next three years."

As he spoke, Lü Yongchang lightly clicked the mouse.

A PowerPoint presentation is displayed to everyone through a projector and projection screen.

Project Lunar Palace

In an instant, a murmur of whispers arose in the Xia Kingdom's Grand Hall.

Ignoring the murmurs from the audience, Lü Yongchang cleared his throat and explained to himself, "Project Lunar Palace, officially known as the Automated Mining Project on the Lunar Surface."

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