The passionate years starting from the college entrance examination

Chapter 515, Fighter Interception
January 1, 1998, New Year in the West and New Year’s Day in the East.

On this day, the White House office in Washington did not take a holiday, but instead held a meeting together because they could not believe what they heard and saw.

What happened was that everyone was on vacation, but then Margaret, a beautiful and wealthy woman, suddenly launched a big satellite.

Well, even if Margaret wanted to go to the moon and participate in the interstellar travel program of the University of Tokyo, it was nothing. After all, it was just her own freedom.

But the result was not like this, because many netizens in North America were broken.

Let’s just say that Margaret has more than 50 million fans on social media platforms, of which at least 40 million are in North America.

This is just quantitative data. No one knows how many fans she actually has or how many people are following her.

As a result, this time, because of the news that Margaret wanted to participate in the Tokyo University interstellar travel project and successfully paid 500 million US dollars, her fans were collectively shocked.

More than 10 million fans commented on her personal social media platform, and many people showed up to march in New York, Washington and other places, with the sole purpose of preventing Margaret from participating in this travel project.

However, although there are many opponents, there are also many supporters, especially the group that supports women's independence. The number of people is countless. In short, it is very exaggerated.

So, the two sides started quarreling and swearing at each other online, and then the situation developed offline, which was quite serious.

Some people took the opportunity to start zero-dollar shopping and cause trouble on New York's busiest streets.

too crazy.

chaos!
Not only New York is in chaos, but many big cities like Washington, Los Angeles, etc. have become messy.

Logically speaking, this situation should not happen. After all, Margaret is just an ordinary wealthy person. Even if she has 50 million fans on social platforms, she should not have such an influence.

But that's the fact, some people want to commit suicide, some people want to take the opportunity to cause trouble, this is normal.

After all, this is free America, and anything can happen.

Therefore, George Walker, who was on vacation, had to call back Sillibrand, Solis Gaynor, Andrew Baram, Hassan Norton Parker, Will Dennis and others.

In particular, Robert Pickering, director of the Aviation Industry Bureau, had to come back for a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

Since Dongda has already launched a big attack close to them, how can they remain indifferent?
"What we need to do now is to get Margaret to terminate her contract with the University of the East. This is the first thing we need to do. Secondly, we in Washington must also launch our new space program, such as landing on Mars."

"Although the interstellar travel plan is good, it is impractical. I think we should be able to travel in space, so Robert, your Space Industry Bureau needs to prepare relevant plans."

At the beginning of the meeting, Deputy Class Leader Andrew Baram directly put forward several suggestions, all of which were relatively useful plans.

Faced with the aggressive Tokyo University, they in North America naturally can no longer sit idly by and wait for death. They must fight back, and fight back hard.

Robert Pickering's face turned black when he heard this.

What does it mean that we can travel into space?

Bullshit! Why don’t you take the position of director of the Aerospace Industry Bureau?

Before he could open his mouth to refute Andrew, Will Dennis spoke first:
"Gentlemen, I think it's time to increase the budget for the aerospace sector. Otherwise, we may continue to encounter similar things in the future. We can't just watch those rich people chase after the University of Tokyo every time, right?"

"Margaret is not an isolated case. Not to mention the wealthy, even everyone here would have wanted to go to the moon, right? The problem is that we can't go to the moon on our Apollo spacecraft, right? Anyway, I definitely can't handle it with my body."

"From the information disclosed in the press conference of Dongda and Margaret, Dongda is definitely capable of sending ordinary people to the moon and returning to Earth smoothly. Otherwise, with Margaret's shrewdness and intelligence, she would never spend the money to take the risk."

After these words were spoken, everyone in the office fell into deep thought.

This is indeed true. Although no one present has ever met Margaret, the fact that she has been able to fight her way out of a Wall Street full of wolves and remain standing is enough to prove her strength.

Although Tokyo University is very powerful, it is impossible for it to fool Margaret.

Therefore, there is only one truth, that is, Tokyo University’s interstellar travel project is indeed unique in the world and can enable ordinary people to complete interstellar travel.

Although people like Will Dennis didn't know what technology the University of East China had, the fact that they dared to hold a press conference and accept Margaret's 500 million US dollars proved that their aerospace capabilities were indeed unique.

How to do?
How to deal with it?
George Walker looked at Robert Pickering and asked:

"Robert, when will we be able to achieve this level of technology?"

Apparently, George Walker also had some thoughts about interstellar travel.

Who doesn’t have a vision of reaching out to the stars and the sea?
You know, before George Walker became the governor of Texas, he was just an ordinary second-generation.

Because compared to his second brother Jeb Walker, George Walker is indeed very ordinary.

When he was a child, George Walker was a spirited young man who often went against his father Herbert Walker. He even punched his father once, which made Herbert Walker so angry that he said he would send him to serve in the civil war in Haizhou City.

Of course, in the end Herbert Walker was reluctant to send him to the battlefield, after all, going to the battlefield meant death.

Even if Herbert Walker had several sons, no matter how rebellious George Walker was, he could not be allowed to die.

Before he became the governor of Texas from a spirited young man, and even before he announced his candidacy for governor, Herbert Walker had not seen the potential in him at all and was very pessimistic about him.

In fact, when Herbert Walker was running for class monitor, George Walker did put in a lot of effort, but Herbert Walker, his father, was like a blind man. He only saw the good of Jeb Walker, the second son, but could not see the good of George Walker.

After all, Jeb Walker has always been the one in the Walker family who is most like Herbert Walker, and he is very outstanding.

However, ever since George Walker successfully campaigned and defeated the old lady, the former governor of Texas, Herbert Walker began to look at him differently.

It was a pity that Herbert Walker did not live to see George Walker elected class president.

Today, the Walker family still has to rely on George Walker, the spirited young man who once was a member of the family, to keep up appearances.

So, as a spiritual young man, George Walker would say that he didn't want to go to space for a trip, and God didn't believe it either.

However, if he wants to travel in space, he can only take a spacecraft from North America, and it is absolutely impossible for him to take a spacecraft from the University of Tokyo.

"Sir, we are not yet able to reach this level of technology."

Robert Pickering shook his head and said, "Our R&D budget is too small, not even a fraction of that of the University of Tokyo. The current University of Tokyo has made rapid progress in the field of aerospace. It is appropriate to describe it as changing with each passing day." "If we don't want to continue to see scenes like Margaret, we should really increase our budget investment."

Hassan Norton Parker, who had been silent all this time, opened his mouth and asked at this time:
"Robert, I know your budget is small, but your budget was quite large before, especially when the Moscow Union was still there. Your annual budget was definitely the most sufficient. I want to ask, why didn't you realize the technology of interstellar travel back then?"

This is really heartbreaking!

Robert Pickering had no choice but to pass the blame to the former director. It was not his fault anyway, he was just the one who took over.

This immediately caused dissatisfaction among other people. Passing the buck is not a good behavior.

When George Walker saw this, he immediately got a headache. How the hell could he solve the problem?

Why don’t you take a holiday during the New Year to rest at home and spend more time with your family? Am I here to listen to your nonsense?
shit!

Giving Andrew Baram a look, George Walker closed his eyes with a grim face.

After a while, they finally calmed down and continued to discuss solutions.

After spending nearly two hours, George Walker and his team finally came up with a solution, but the first point, getting Margaret to terminate her contract with the University of Eastern, ran into trouble right from the start.

Because Margaret herself could not be contacted, she had already left the North American continent on a private plane, and her destination happened to be Dongda Capital.

Upon hearing the news, George Walker, who had already returned to his farm in Texas, said coldly to the other end of the phone:

"Send a supersonic fighter and bring the person back to me!"

Oh my god, this is too crazy.
Above the Pacific Ocean, above the blue sky and white clouds not far from Tokyo, Margaret, who was looking forward to interstellar travel, was reading relevant information. She needed to know more about space.

She didn't want to have to use this common sense one day, because if such a day really came, it would mean that she would be in big trouble in space.

Knowing this common sense is nothing more than her own self-protection ideas and preparations.

But at this moment, the global satellite phone rang, pulling her back to the real world from the ocean of knowledge.

"Charles, what's going on?"

If it wasn't an emergency, Charles would not have used the global satellite phone to contact her at this time, because it also meant that something very urgent had happened.

"Margaret, I have some very urgent bad news. According to the news my friend in the White House just learned, they asked you to terminate your contract with Dongda Aerospace Group and have sent fighter jets to intercept your private plane."

"Fuck, how could those bastards do this?"

Margaret was suddenly anxious and angry. She knew that this interstellar journey of the University of East China would not be so smooth. She did not expect that she would be targeted as soon as she left the North American continent.

Those people sitting in the White House office are selfish idiots. They don't care whether others are living a good life. They only think about their own self-interest, that's all.

Now the fighter jets had taken off, speeding towards her private plane, even though she was now almost above Tokyo.

However, they do have military bases in Tokyo and the peninsula.

So at this time, if we take off directly from the military base, we can send her back to North American airspace in minutes.

How to do?
She immediately ended the conversation with Charles, and then personally contacted Padreson, the capital tycoon on Wall Street, hoping that he could help.

After receiving the call, Padreson frowned and declined.

Because this matter involves a huge range of issues, he certainly doesn't want to be involved in it. What if the other party doesn't give him this face, wouldn't it be embarrassing?

After all, he is a man who cares about his reputation, so it is unlikely that he would speak up for Margaret.

However, Margaret could only think of him at the moment, so she kept begging him for help.

"Five hundred million dollars. As long as you are willing to pay five hundred million dollars, I will be happy to save my reputation for you and solve your problem. How do you think?"

After a moment's silence, Padreson opened his mouth and directly proposed a consulting fee of 500 million US dollars.

The capital tycoons on Wall Street are all extremely greedy. Margaret also expected that once the other party agreed, they would definitely ask for kickbacks, but she didn't expect it to be so blatant.

Moreover, Padreson is a well-known capital tycoon on Wall Street. He is a senior tycoon on par with Lannister Morgan, David Rockefeller and others.

Margaret on the other end of the phone was so angry that she gritted her teeth. She said she needed to think about it and then hung up.

After ending the call, she was so angry that she threw the phone away.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, this is too much!"

She was indeed very angry, because she wanted to travel, which was her freedom, but George Walker and other selfish fat pigs actually disagreed?

Absolutely absurd!

However, now that they are in power, what can she do?

"Damn it, isn't this an election year? When I come back, I will call on the voters not to vote for you, fuck George."

Margaret was furious and swore fiercely.

This really pissed her off, and she was so angry that her chest was heaving and hurting terribly!

After a while, she gradually calmed down, then suddenly remembered something, quickly looked for the satellite phone, then found the address book, and dialed.

On the other side, Cao Xueming didn't expect that his cell phone would ring.

His mobile phone supports satellite calls and has a full signal.

There's no other way. He is the head of the interstellar travel department of the aerospace group, and he must be contactable anytime and anywhere.

"Ms. Margaret, what can I do for you?"

(End of this chapter)