Chapter Nine Thirty Three: Painstakingly

As a congressman's assistant, McAleese has been really busy these days.

He has never been this busy except when the MP was running for election.

No, he was never this busy even when he was running for office.

As a young man with a little passion in his heart, he always complains to his girlfriend in a low voice about the corruption and procrastination in this country after get off work.

After becoming a congressman's assistant, he did nothing to change the country. Instead, he was busy all day with all kinds of meaningless paperwork and red tape.

But in the past two days, he suddenly discovered that the efficiency of the entire council was so high that it was about to explode.

Not only the parliament, but even the staff of the government seemed to be chasing a mad cow behind their backs, walking at a trot.

He saw that Mrs. Lawrence at the front desk had almost lost her voice, and the little turtle she raised was dying of hunger.

He also saw the intern who always sneaked out to parties. He seemed to have no bones. He lay on the sofa and took a nap, and then ran to copy documents in a disheveled state.

Document after document flowed from his hands and passed.

He just signed it mechanically - there is no way, there are too many documents that need to be signed by the congressman, he has to do it for him, who knows if they will be thrown into prison for forging signatures later.

And forged the signature of a very influential congressman.

He was busy until 12 o'clock in the morning before he finished processing the last document, and told the low-level assistant who had already had puffy eyes to hand over these documents to the NASA staff who had been waiting outside the door.

Then he knocked on the door of the office next door, and Congressman Wilson was yelling into the phone: "Don't worry about where I got the news from! I know this is confidential information, don't you doubt my rank? I ..." He took a deep breath, suppressed the hoarseness coming from the depths of his throat, and waved his fist fiercely: "I only know that now Lanshen Technology has started to develop recoverable rocket technology, you Have you really learned about Lanshen Technology? Do you know how short their R&D cycle is?"

"My people got a copy of the internal technical blueprint of Lanshen Technology. Do you know what their goal is? It's Mars! Mars! If you continue to delay because of these red tapes, do you know what will happen?"

Congressman Wilson slammed the phone in his hand, then took a deep breath, and said: "It's done, NASA will announce the 'Earth Trebuchet' plan to the public tomorrow... What is this?"

Congressman Wilson was taken aback when he saw the document handed over by his assistant.

"It's a tender." McAleese said, he didn't even know who put the tender in front of him.

And he was sure he wasn't the only one who had received the bid, which was being circulated all over Capitol Hill, blatantly.

"Asshole!" Congressman Wilson threw the bid to the side of the table, where seven or eight documents had already been lost, and each bid came from a different source, including old friends, staff, and even cleaning the office cleaners.

The "Earth Catapult" plan has not been officially announced, and it is already known to everyone, and the bidding has not yet been called for, and these bidding documents that almost know the details to the extreme have already been sent. And this group of bureaucrats even held a meeting overnight to announce to the public?

"Let's put it here..." Wilson rubbed his brow weakly, "Go back and rest quickly, I will drive back by myself."

McAleese stood up straight and said, "You must pay attention to rest, sir, we are all proud of you, sir!"

McAleese walked out lightly and closed the door. Wilson looked at the closed door and smiled silently, proud?

As the main promoter of the "Earth Trebuchet" project, he didn't know if he was worthy of pride.

If the earth trebuchet is really successful, it will be a great achievement in the present and benefit in the future, and his name will also be recorded in the annals of history. Even the prestige and popularity he has accumulated may be able to compete for the presidency.

But is it really good to use the power of Lanshen Technology to promote this project?

Lao Ma told Qin Yafei that the "Earth Catapult" project was a big game played by Nanming.

In fact, this is not entirely the case. Nan Ming just complained that the flight in the atmosphere is too slow. Even if you take the Silence, it will take a long time to travel from China to the United States.

Then Nanming slowly developed the idea of ​​developing aerospace technology.

At that time, Nanming was just an idea, but when Nanming appeared in Changxi, Wilson thought of advancing such a plan.

Wilson was once instigated by Miss Abby, and with the help of Miss Abby, he really climbed to his current position, possessing such power and influence.

But he always knew that in this world, there was something stronger than power, and that was authority.

After Miss Abby disappeared and the others vacillated and gradually left their circle due to selfish desires and ambitions, Wilson did not waver and remained in the circle maintained by the old horse. Not only did he not waver, but he became more firm.

And he is also very sure that Nan Ming has no intention of dominating the world or anything, he is just moving forward at his own pace.

To be lazier, live more comfortably, or change the world with a very laid back attitude.

Wilson is very sure of one thing, that is, whoever can closely follow Nan Ming will benefit from this step-by-step development.

Before that, it was the country far in the east that benefited, but in his opinion, his colleagues from other countries were too stupid, they didn't hold Nan Ming's thigh tightly, but kept renunciation.

Wilson didn't understand the thinking of these people very much, but he felt that this was an opportunity for the United States.

Wilson considers himself a patriot, and he doesn't want his country to fall behind in the next round of development, because he is sure that whatever Nanming develops, the next hot spot will be.

If Nan Ming wants to develop the aerospace industry in the next step, then he must ensure that the United States will also shift its focus to the aerospace industry, and then find a way to cooperate with Nan Ming.

As for whether Nan Ming is willing to cooperate? He felt that Nan Ming was not a person with narrow national limitations, and his eyes had long been detached from the present.

Even if Nan Ming is unwilling to cooperate—after all, in front of Nan Ming, he is just an ordinary member of parliament who can be replaced at any time, and has no qualifications to cooperate with Nan Ming—but at least spending money on aerospace is better than the so-called The Flying Mothership, Mecha Fighting Alliance and the like are much more reliable.

And he believed that as long as he was sincere enough, he would be able to convince Nan Ming.

Congressman Wilson is one of the few people who is not hostile to Nan Ming after the "White Bird" incident and "Zumwalt" incident, so he is not affected by Nan Ming's authority. What a stupid thing to go to the "Mech Fighting League".

Fortunately, the U.S. government is always bloated and slow. Before this project actually started, the various preparations did not know how long it would take, so he still had the opportunity to recruit real talents to a more advanced team before this so-called mech fighting project. Go to a promising and more meaningful project.

That's why he will go all out to promote this project, even at the expense of lying and threatening...

But now, there is a rare opportunity in front of him.

It turned out that he could cooperate with Lanshen Technology without going through Nanming.

The arrival of the three of Qin Yafei gave him hope. From the many bids on his desk, he found the one jointly delivered by "Lazy God Yafei" and "Heqing Creation".

In any case, at tomorrow's meeting, he will do his best to ensure that the lazy god Yafei and Heqing create an important bid for this project.

He took a deep breath, rubbed his temples again, walked to the window, looked down, the light outside the window was dim.

It is absolutely not easy for Lazy God Yafei to get this project, because Lazy God Yafei and Heqing Chuangchuang are both Chinese companies.

When will the projects that the United States has devoted all of its national power be completed by Chinese projects?

Isn't this a slap in the face of the United States?

It is conceivable that the resistance will be very high, but only if the lazy god Yafei and He Qingchuang are involved, it is possible for Nanming to cooperate with them.

For this reason, I am afraid that he will bear a lot of infamy, but whether he is right or wrong in doing so is left to future generations to judge.

After making up his mind, he lowered his head and took a sudden breath.

In NASA's plan and the upcoming tender, the budget for the first phase of the project is listed, which is 34.2 billion US dollars, and the construction period is 4 years and 2 months.

The first phase of the project will build an earth-orbit projectile device to verify the theory of the "earth catapult" and have a primary throughput.

Some of these funds are allocated by Congress, some are funded by the military, and some are invested by social funds-basically, they are the benefits of several large defense contractors.

Then the second phase of the project will be expanded on the basis of the first phase of the project to increase throughput and improve the quality of projection.

In the future, we will slowly increase the project funds. After the first phase of investment sees results, we will be able to get follow-up funds.

However, the project plan jointly submitted by "Lazy God Yafei" and "Heqing Creation" was as high as 90 billion U.S. dollars!

Is this dying, or is it dying?

Even if he is a god, it is impossible to persuade the Congress to pass such a plan and distribute the project to "Lazy God Yafei" and "Heqing Creation"!

Wilson suddenly felt that his task was too heavy, so heavy that he couldn't breathe.

What the hell is lazy god Yafei doing?

...

At this very moment, another plane roared down at Changxi Airport.

Not long after, Zhang Quanzhen and Aunt Chu came out with the flow of people. At the exit, Zhang Quanzhen suddenly grabbed Aunt Chu: "I saw my brother!"

He has been married to Aunt Chu for almost 20 years. In the past 20 years, every time he saw her elder brother Chu Kun, Zhang Quanzhen felt breathless.

Because often the first sentence starts with questioning and contempt that makes him unable to lift his head.

So when he saw Chu Kun, his blood pressure rose and his legs felt weak.

"Don't be afraid, my brother won't eat you." Aunt Chu stroked her husband's hand, then dragged him forward, "Didn't you get promoted?"

Zhang Quanzhen smiled wryly, he was promoted, but he was just a director of investment promotion, and he still looked at his daughter's face.

China Merchants Bureau is actually a very hard-working department, running around all day to serve businessmen from all over the world to invest, that is, in the past half a year, his life has been easier.

Because he didn't have to go out to attract investment at all. After the battery factory of the lazy god system and the automobile factory in cooperation with BYB settled in Wenji, countless upstream and downstream supporting facilities manufacturers lined up to build factories in Wenji. In the office, one miracle after another has been created.

But no matter what, he is just a director of the investment promotion bureau, a small department-level cadre, and there is still a long way to go from his elder brother, a veteran department-level cadre.

Step by step, he and Aunt Chu came to Chu Kun's side, Zhang Quanzhen showed a smile uglier than crying, and called out: "Brother..."

"It's coming!" Chu Kun showed a gentle smile, then reached out to shake Zhang Quanzhen's hand, and said, "Let's go, the family is waiting impatiently, if it wasn't for my car being unable to drive, they might all come with me." Already!"

"Thanks to you for taking care of Feilin these two days." Aunt Chu stepped forward and took her elder brother's hand, trying to change the topic so that her husband would not be questioned by her elder brother again.

Zhang Quanzhen consciously took two steps behind and followed behind, talking less to Chu Kun if he could.

A young man came out from the slanting stab next to him, bowed deeply to him, and said, "Uncle!"

Then he snatched the luggage from his hands.

"Who are you……"

"Uncle, I'm Chu Liangcai!" The young man hurriedly said, "Uncle, you have worked hard from afar, and I will carry your luggage for you!"

"Oh... a good talent?" Zhang Quanzhen stared at the young man in front of him with wide eyes, unlike Zhang Feilin who still thought of his cousin as humble and gentle not long ago, the last time Zhang Feilin's grandfather fell ill, Zhang Quanzhen and his wife came to visit At that time, what I saw was a domineering dude.

"Liangcai, what's wrong with your face?" Zhang Quanzhen asked suspiciously looking at the obvious slap mark on Chu Liangcai's face.

"Oh... When I was driving two days ago, I accidentally rubbed against a tree..."

What tree is so magical? Can slap marks on the face? Is it chayote?

Zhang Quanzhen was puzzled, but it was not easy for him to ask.

"Uncle, please, please!" Chu Liangcai nodded and bowed very courteously, leading Zhang Quanzhen to move forward.

And Chu Kun over there actually stopped, waiting for him to follow.

Zhang Quanzhen groaned secretly in his heart, he didn't want to chat with Chu Kun! Get scolded as soon as you chat!

Unexpectedly, Chu Kun said with a pleasant face: "Quanzhen, I heard that you are doing a good job now!"

"I'm sorry, brother, I... huh?" Zhang Quanzhen apologized habitually, but suddenly felt wrong before he finished speaking.

"It just so happens that I have come to Zhao County this time, and I have to ask you for advice." Chu Kun said, "The members of our county party committee are all ready, please, a capable person, give us Zhao County the pulse, and see our Zhao County. How to develop the economy and how to find a breakthrough!"

Huh? Isn't that right?

Zhang Quanzhen couldn't wait to reach out and touch Chu Kun's head. Could it be that his eldest brother was also hit by chayote? (To be continued.)