The passionate years starting from the college entrance examination

Chapter 517: No End in sight

January 1998, Chicago, Illinois.

"A good LUZI brand bag, one hundred dollars each!"

"Is it really that cheap? Is it fake?"

On a busy street in Chicago, a black man set up a stall on the ground with more than a dozen brand-name bags on it.

These bags are either from MUJI, Dior, Hermès, etc. In short, they are all worth thousands of dollars and are so beautiful.

So many women passing by had their eyes light up when they saw this scene.

But because it looks too real, and coupled with the zero-yuan purchase incident some time ago, many people thought that these black guys went directly to the mall to buy the goods for free, so they felt a sense of alienation.

Seeing that there was business coming, the black guy gave a kind smile, tried his best to explain things clearly, and even allowed the other party to check at will.

“Can you issue a ticket then?”

The young white lady was very excited and immediately asked another question.

This confused the black guy. Are you kidding me? What kind of ticket are you issuing?

This is a no-cost business for him, yet they ask him to issue invoices?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
"If you can't issue an invoice, then these must be fakes. Let me take a look first. Hey, the place of origin is not made in China? Made in PRC? What country is this?"

The white girl doesn't know what the PRC is, and the black guy doesn't know either. They are just a bunch of idiots.

In fact, it is quite normal, because when capital letters of the English language are connected together, who knows what it means?

Given the level of knowledge of these native North American residents, it is undoubtedly impossible to ask them to think of the abbreviations of more than 190 countries and regions around the world.

If it weren't for the previous mention on the Internet that products made in China should not be used, they wouldn't even know what China is.

So they don’t understand what PRC is, and they don’t need to know. As long as it’s not made in China, it’s fine.

So the white girl readily paid a hundred dollars and bought a Donkey brand bag that would cost at least three thousand dollars in a store.

Seeing her happily leaving with the Donkey brand bag, the black guy was also excited. If he could sell the bags on the ground quickly, he could go and have some fun with his old lover.

Carrying a Donkey brand bag, Michelle, a white girl, came to a nearby coffee shop and met her best friend Mary. The two sat down and chatted very intimately, and soon they talked about bags.

There was no way. The Donkey brand bag Michelle was carrying was so conspicuous that Mary couldn't help but notice it.

After being teased by Michelle for a while, Mary felt a little embarrassed and thought about saving her face in other ways.

But Mary never had that opportunity.

The two sat and chatted for half an hour, and then decided to go shopping.

After visiting a clothing brand store for a while, Michelle paid special attention to the origin of the clothes. It turned out to be PRC. She asked the clerk in surprise.

The clerk didn't know what PRC was either, and Mary said something smart.

"What else could the PRC be? It must be the Pacific Rim Countries. It must be the countries around the Pacific Ocean. How could you not know that?"

Forehead!
This clever explanation really made Michelle and the store clerk suddenly realize what was going on.

You know what, it actually makes sense.

Michelle didn't get too hung up on the specific country though, as long as it wasn't made in China, it was fine.

There are so many people like Michelle in North America.

They had no idea what the PRC specifically referred to, and it was impossible that it was the Pacific Rim countries that Mary, who was so smart, was referring to.

You know, these products must be labeled with where they are produced. It is impossible to give an unspecific origin. Otherwise, how can customs allow these products to enter the North American market?
There are smart people every year, but this year there are especially many.

Ever since George Walker's government introduced a ban on products made in China, the export companies at Dongda University have been suffering. But unexpectedly, the companies at Dongda University have changed their appearance and made a comeback.

This is America, the world's largest economy. There is no company in the world that does not want to enter this market.

Especially after the fall of the polar bear that spanned the Eurasian continent, there was only one superpower in the world, and North America became even more famous.

But well, it's actually more notorious.

Not to mention Dongda's manufacturing companies that have entered the North American market, just talk about Dongda's export companies in Southeast Asia, all of them hate North America, the culprit.

why?
Last year's Asian financial crisis started in Siam in Southeast Asia and swept across almost the entire Southeast Asia and East Asia, including many countries including the Garden City, Sumatra, Mindanao, the Malay Peninsula, Seoul, Korea, Tokyo, etc. All of them were attacked and suffered heavy losses.

All the major companies in Tokyo that had cooperative relations with these countries and regions were badly affected, and many of them went bankrupt.

After all, they have no way to get orders from overseas markets such as Southeast Asia. What else can they do but go bankrupt?
Domestic sales are impossible. The domestic market in 1997 was even more competitive, far exceeding the original time and space.

So whether it is the Made in China ban or the Asian financial crisis, North America has played the role of a vulture.

In fact, Soros of Quantum Fund, as well as a number of international financial institutions such as Wall Street, London and Frankfurt, are actually complaining.

Especially the Quantum Fund, they have borne the unparalleled infamy and eternal infamy, but the profits they have gained are far less than those of the wolves of Wall Street.

In the media, we can actually see Soros often suing financial institutions such as the Wolf of Wall Street, but no one believes it.

Because these companies were deregistered in a short period of time, and no one knew where the funds went.

What Soros criticized was just a shell company that has gone bankrupt. Who would believe it?

There are actually many smart people like Michelle and Mary throughout North America.

Just after Michelle finished buying clothes and continued shopping with Mary, Michelle was casually browsing her phone and saw that her idol Margaret had updated a message on the social platform.

"Ahhh, my idol is finally going to land on the moon. I'm so envious." Michelle is the most loyal fan of the female billionaire Margaret, because Margaret's life experience is like a cheat code, her luck is amazing, and she has a fortune of more than 3 billion US dollars. She has always been the female representative of the American dream.

Then some time ago, Margaret, the beacon of America, was stabbed in the back by George Walker and others.

Then Margaret launched a series of "heavy blows" on social platforms, causing many fans to riot offline, making people like George Walker very passive and extremely anxious.

The show can no longer go on. Margaret's fans are too powerful, and coupled with the words spoken by the bigwigs on Wall Street, George Walker and his men can't handle the pressure and can only acquiesce to let Margaret go to the University of the East.

So, Margaret didn't waste even a minute. After getting the accurate information, she immediately contacted a private plane and rushed to the airport to go to Tokyo University.

Following Margaret's social media post, well-known media around the world reprinted and reported the incident.

For a time, she was pushed to the top of the hot search list, and related information about the moon landing and interstellar travel also entered the hot search list.

In Beijing, at Capital International Airport, Cao Xueming came to pick up Margaret in person and expressed his importance to her.

The interstellar travel project actually began the moment Margaret took off from the New York airport, and it successfully attracted the attention of the world.

With such fanfare and such intense heat, any slight problem with Margaret's trip to the moon would be magnified by the foreign media and then attacked.

At this time, Gu Baishun and the others were actually quite worried. After all, the heat was too high and it was not suitable.

But Chen Guohua was not worried at all.

The astronauts in charge of this interstellar travel project are Yang Zhengsi and Li Youzhang, who have just returned to Earth for less than two months. They are veterans and there will be absolutely no problem.

At this time, the two of them were meeting with Chen Guohua in the office, but what they were talking about had nothing to do with this interstellar journey, but was instead about the Lunar Base No. 2.

"Director Chen, you don't know, we have endured so much hardship, working in Base No. 1 every day. We can't say this, and we don't like that. It's so different from Base No. 2."

Yang Zhengsi said miserably with a bitter face, and Li Youzhang next to him was not in much better condition either.

Ever since Chen Guohua took the three of them to visit Base No. 2 last time, their three perspectives have been reshaped.

If there is no Base No. 2, then Base No. 1 would definitely be an extremely powerful existence.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing.

Chen Guohua is worthy of being the founder of Zhenhua Research Institute. His scientific research and innovation capabilities have always been at their peak, and now have reached an incredible level.

We were able to build a Base No. 2 on the moon without anyone noticing, and all the facilities in the entire Base No. 2 are close to perfection.

Compared with Base No. 2 which has become a luxurious manor villa, Base No. 1 is more like a construction site under construction, with nothing going right.

It is also because of this that Yang Zhengsi, Li Youzhang and Lin Dongfeng are so tormented.

"I have to endure it. The existence of Base No. 2 is top secret. If I didn't trust you, you wouldn't know about the existence of Base No. 2."

Chen Guohua warned them and patted them on the shoulders:

"Don't think about it. Just pretend that Base No. 2 doesn't exist. Right now, you need to deal with Margaret's interstellar travel plan. Everything else is fake. Do you understand?"

"Understood!"

Although the two were unwilling, there was nothing they could do since Chen Guohua was the leader.

They admired Chen Guohua very much and knew that Chen Guohua would not agree to let them leak the information, so they would definitely not leak it.

Unless Chen Guohua leaked the information himself, it would be impossible for the outside world to learn about Base No. 2 from them.

Every astronaut who is selected to enter the lunar base is a carefully selected and tempered soldier. They are the best and most lovely people.

"Well, the Overlord space transport ship is the main means of transportation for this trip, and it will also be the main means of transportation for future interstellar travel projects. Before interstellar travel projects become popular, the status of the Overlord space transport ship will not change."

Looking at Yang Zhengsi and Li Youzhang, Chen Guohua began to explain to them:

"So in the next few years, or even more than ten years, interstellar travel projects will only target the world's wealthy, and ordinary people are unlikely to participate in this project for the time being."

"Then the Overlord space transport spacecraft's status as a means of transportation will not change. It can be said to be a public bus between our Earth and the Moon."

"In the future, our country will need to train more bus drivers like this to serve interstellar travel projects."

"Don't think this project is unimportant. It is even more important than your No. 1 base, or even No. 2 base, because this project is equivalent to a treasure chest."

There is no way. Space projects are too expensive nowadays. Even if there are more wealthy people like Margaret, it will take a very long time to make back the cost. As for profit?
That is even further away!
Unless controlled nuclear fusion with unlimited energy is developed someday, it is unlikely that interstellar travel projects will be open to ordinary people in the short term.

Of course, as time goes by, the cost of tickets to interstellar travel projects will certainly not remain so expensive.

In Chen Guohua's view, after entering the millennium, the ticket fee to enter the Nantianmen Space Station will be reduced from 250 million US dollars to 50 million US dollars, or even 30 million US dollars.

The price will slowly come down as time goes by. There is no way it can come down now.

Yang Zhengsi and Li Youzhang were immediately excited when they heard this.

Interstellar bus driver!
If you take these words separately, there is nothing special about them. But when you put them together, even though they sound a bit low-brow, to be honest, they are quite impressive.

Looking around the world, which country has such a position?
A week later, at the Northwest Launch Center, the interstellar travel project officially started. Margaret, wearing a space suit, stepped forward under the spotlight.

She didn't undergo any rigorous training because it wasn't necessary.

Although the Overlord space transport spacecraft was produced more than ten years ago, it is undoubtedly a groundbreaking product. Moreover, the cabin where the astronauts are located has been modified, so there will naturally be no severe weightlessness or overweight situations like before.

Otherwise, Chen Guohua would not have been able to launch this interstellar travel project.

After all, the physical fitness of the rich is actually, to some extent, worse than that of the poor, because the rich eat better, which may lead to more diseases of affluence.

(End of this chapter)