At the edge of Jinling High-Tech Industrial Park stood the Space Shuttle Assembly Center.
This factory, guarded by the military, could be said to be the safest and most highly classified place in the entire industrial park.
From the Auspicious to the Queqiao spacecraft, ninety percent of the spacecraft traveling within the Earth-Moon System underwent their final assembly here before being sent to the nearby launch center and placed into Low Earth Orbit.
If Jinling had gradually become the heart of Hua Nation's space industry due to the presence of Starry Sky Technology, Aerospace Science, the Aerospace Group, and a series of other aerospace companies, then this place was the marrow that produced its blood.
Standing at the entrance to Workshop No. 1 of the assembly center, two engineers in hard hats watched workers and machinery unloading cargo nearby as they chatted idly.
"Quite a few big tigers have fallen recently. Yesterday at dinner, I heard Old Wang and the others bragging that even the deputy district chief of the Jinling High-Tech Industrial Park development zone was under investigation."
"That District Chief Sun?"
"Who else could it be? They say when the criminal police went to his house, they found two suitcases full of gold bars."
The younger engineer clicked his tongue, finding it hard to imagine.
How much gold could two suitcases hold?
No matter what, converted into RMB, it was already more than he could earn in a lifetime at his post.
"Damn, even a district chief could rake in that much?"
"That's only what they found at his house. They say his case is pretty serious—not just ordinary bribery. He was even connected to foreign forces."
As he spoke, the older engineer sighed and shook his head.
"Who would've thought there was something like that? Good thing