The passionate years starting from the college entrance examination

On October 1, 1999, National Day, there was a military parade.

This day is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, so of course there will be a military parade, and it must be held.

Chen Guohua brought Yu Moli to attend the military parade. The little guy Chen Le should have been brought along as well, but his father rejected it.

"Compared to the last time in 1959, we no longer need to fly again. This prosperous era is just as you wish."

Looking up at the fighter jets flying in the sky, Gu Baishun was so excited that his eyes turned red. He said something, and Yao Zhengru and others nodded in agreement.

Several people present had all experienced the 10th anniversary military parade that year and of course still remembered the situation at that time.

This is especially true for Chen Guohua, who remembers it vividly, as if it happened yesterday.

But in fact, now it feels like a lifetime ago.

He can't go back to 1959, which was forty years ago. He is fifty-eight years old now, no longer the eighteen years old he was back then.

"Back then, there were a hundred Jinggangshan brand cars and Jingcheng brand luxury cars passing slowly in front of the Tiananmen Gate Tower. In the blink of an eye, it was already 40 years ago."

Sun Shubo suddenly asked, "Old Chen, I remember you were eighteen years old back then, right? Where did you watch the military parade?"

"At that time, I..." Chen Guohua looked thoughtful. At that time, he was with Yu Moli, Chen Xiaomin and other four people, together with other people, watching the military parade on the street.

While they were chatting and reminiscing about the past, other fighter jets appeared in the sky.

There are many fighter jets of various types at the University of Tokyo today. Although not all of them are on display, just the fighter jets that appeared in today's parade are enough to shock people.

In the White House Office, George Walker and others were also watching the parade, mainly watching the big trucks and fighter jets.

Because the big truck is carrying Dongfeng Express, and the fighter jet represents the current power of Dongfeng University in the sky.

"How is it? Can you see anything?"

Hearing George Walker's question, Andrew Baram and others frowned and remained silent.

This matter should naturally be left to professionals to answer.

Matters concerning the University of Tokyo have become their most frequent topic of discussion over the past six months.

From Margaret's successful return from the moon, to the emergence of the euro and the US dollar interest rate hike, to the second batch of wealthy people participating in interstellar travel, and then to the current military parade.

It can be said that Andrew Baram and his group of people are very tired and hard-working because the University of Tokyo has caused so many problems.

It's simply a trouble-making machine and extremely unfriendly to people like them.

Take the case of the eight wealthy people last time. Although five of them were from Europe, after they came back, they were secretly brought to North America and were asked to tell every detail of their entire travel process.

It can even be said that they were interrogated several times and revealed a lot of key information.

George Walker and other White House office staff all know one thing, that is, the lunar base of the Eastern University is really awesome.

Todai has become the world's number one in lunar development and has been leading the world for many, many years.

Anyway, North America cannot achieve this in a short period of time.

Robert Pickering, director of the North American Space Administration, has asserted that if North America does not make changes and increase funding for its many scientific research projects, then it would be a blessing not to be surpassed by its European rivals, let alone catch up with the University of Tokyo.

Because Europe has already started to develop the euro, the entire European continent is about to come together. As they come together and share what they have, the business environment will become extremely good. In the future, Europe will be the world's second largest economy, and it is even possible that it will become the first economy.

So European countries are very rich, and they have enough funds to support the development of aerospace technology.

In addition to the European brothers, there seemed to be some accidents in Moscow. A young man named Vladimirovich became a dark horse.

This dark horse in the political arena immediately attracted a lot of people's attention. He seemed to be Nikolayevich's most promising successor.

Of course, this can only be said to be a small matter. The real big thing is that Moscow’s aerospace technology strength should not be underestimated.

Through the International Space Station project, George Walker and others also knew that Moscow was indeed powerful.

Although the alliance has fallen and no longer exists, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse.

Right now, they face too many challenges in North America.

Seeing that no one said anything, George Walker felt tired, but he still had to concentrate on pushing forward today's meeting.

"Why not send some of our subordinates to cause trouble so that they can't concentrate on development? Secondly, we should introduce more restrictive policies on trade."

Will Dennis still spoke up and proposed two more useful strategies.

Although it may sound like a rehash of the past, this strategy is currently working best for them in North America.

After these words were spoken, everyone couldn't help but take them seriously, because compared to last year, Will Dennis's words now carried more weight.

Last time, Will Dennis was only the eighth-ranked leader in the White House Office, but now he has become the third.

The number three person is not a simple person, so how can we not pay attention to his opinions?
"I agree with Will, maybe that's what we should do"

So suggestions came out one after another, and soon a relatively complete strategy was formed.

The think tank members began to improve these strategies at the detailed level, and after the plans were perfected, they were handed over to George Walker and others for approval.

Once approved, implementation can begin.

A few days later, in New York, Manhattan, in Margaret's high-rise mansion, a mermaid was swimming in the luxurious large swimming pool.

Margaret was swimming leisurely. She knew how to enjoy herself and how to enjoy life.

She works so hard to make money, isn't it just to make herself live a better life?

When she got tired of swimming, she stood up and went to a lounge chair to bask in the sun. After a while, her secretary came over.

"Boss, this is a call from Williams, the second son of the Morgan family,"

Margaret couldn't help but frown when she heard this. This Williams always came to harass her, which was annoying, but the other party was from the Morgan family, and Margaret was helpless.

So she could only let the phone ring and not answer it.

Because she was disturbed, Margaret could no longer continue to sunbathe quietly.

Opening her tablet, Margaret began surfing the Internet.

As a result, she soon saw a piece of news: photos from the Havas News Agency. It was a set of nine photos, and all of these nine photos were very shocking, and the names were even more exciting.

The dawn of empire!
There is a filter called the hell filter, and there is a rhetoric called the China economic collapse theory.

There is a man named Wilson. When talking about the creative intention of "Nineteen Eighty-Four", he once said: My intention is not to attack Moscow and the British Labour Party, but to reveal the possible consequences of a highly centralized economic system. I don’t think the society I describe will definitely come, but I think something similar may happen.

This was a creation that demonized Moscow, which led to the book being banned by Moscow, and it was also not allowed to appear in other Warsaw Pact regions.

Today, Havas News Agency seems to be returning to the same old path and is pointing its gun at the University of Tokyo.

Under the lens of the Havas News Agency, with a hell filter, the visual differences caused by the shooting angle and the plane or three-dimensionality formed by the light and dark contrast of colors make the photos of the 50th anniversary military parade of the University of Tokyo have an extraordinary aura.

For example, the photo of two rows of soldiers standing face to face with an officer-looking person in the middle makes one's blood boil and one's scalp tingles.

Even a wealthy person like Margaret got goose bumps and was shocked when she saw it for the first time.

"It really is."

Margaret didn't know what mood or words to use to express her feelings.

After being stunned, she suddenly reacted, opened her friend list, found Chen Guohua, Li Youzhang, Cao Xueming, Yang Zhengsi and others, and then sent all the photos and texts to them.

There was no other intention. Margaret just wanted to let Chen Guohua and others know that the Havas News Agency was causing trouble.

In the Wenjin Street office in Beijing, Chen Guohua was already sitting in a chair, listening to the speeches of Gu Baishun and others.

They were not discussing Dawn of Empire, but were talking about the US dollar interest rate hike.

Simply put, a US dollar interest rate hike actually means that ordinary people will receive more interest when they deposit US dollars in North American banks. If the interest rate is cut, the interest will be reduced. The word "interest" in "interest rate hike" actually means interest.

Simple matters like trivial matters should not need to be discussed, but what is the reality?
This involves the US dollar itself, which represents global wealth, behind the interest rate hike.

As the global currency and the currency used for more than 90% of transactions in the world, the impact of the US dollar interest rate hike will be huge worldwide.

The current situation is that the US dollar has been raising interest rates continuously over the past six months, and the US dollar benchmark interest rate has increased from the original 4.75% to the current 5.85%.

It increased by 1.1 percentage point, which is really exaggerated!
And according to financial analysts' predictions, this wave of US dollar interest rate hikes will continue instead of stopping here.

After Gu Baishun and the others finished speaking, Chen Guohua expressed his own opinion:

"Don't even think that the US dollar will cut interest rates. In the short term, we all have to tighten our belts."

"On the other hand, we have to continue to advance our interstellar travel projects, accelerate the launch of the third round of projects, and make preparations for the fourth round."

"According to me, we can increase the number of participants starting from the fourth round, and start lowering the price when we reach the tenth round."

According to Chen Guohua, the global economy will probably become very difficult in the next year or so.

In fact, this is foreseeable, because after the US dollar interest rate hike, a large amount of funds will flow into North America.

After all, if you save money you can get an interest rate of 5.85%. Wow, where can you find such a good investment channel?
Real estate investment, infrastructure projects, etc., are not as good as their 5.85% interest rate.

We are not fools, and most of the funds will still flow back to North America.

Judging from past historical experience, the pros and cons of raising US interest rates are obvious.

The first time the Federal Reserve raised interest rates was from March 8.5 to August 11.5. The US dollar benchmark interest rate rose from 13.5% to %, and the inflation rate was as high as %, which was terrifying.

The second round of interest rate hikes was from March 6.5 to May 9.8125, from % to %. This time it was to prevent inflation after the stock market crash.

The next one was the one in 1994. This interest rate hike directly triggered the Asian financial crisis.

But no matter what, whether to raise or lower interest rates is up to the Federal Reserve, and other countries can only watch.

After Chen Guohua finished speaking, he did not make any further comments. At this time, he happened to receive the message sent by Margaret and immediately grinned.

Dawn of Empire?
Haha, this Havas News Agency is really interesting, they are so good at taking photos!
It's just that they want to stir up trouble through such propaganda, but they are really thinking too much. They don't understand Chinese culture at all.

"Margaret, thank you for your kindness, but this is a good thing, haha!"

Margaret was very surprised when she received Chen Guohua's reply, but after seeing the message, she was completely stunned.

Why is this still a good thing?

It was clearly the Havas News Agency that was smearing Southeast University, but why was Chen Guohua so happy?

In fact, this is really the case, because when everyone saw these pictures on the Internet of Dongda University, they were all surprised:
"I sat up in shock from my dying illness, and found myself to be one of the great powers!"

"It seems that I don't hate the great powers, but I hate myself for not being a great power."

"If Gaul had been occupied by Germany for less than a day, this effect would not have been achieved."

"Change the name. It should be called Glory of the Republic or Fury of the Red Dragon!"

The comments on the Internet were overwhelmingly positive, and Margaret was even more shocked by the news she received from her good friend at the University of Tokyo.

She couldn't understand what was going on.

Li Youzhang, who was far away at the Tianhe Moon Base, happened to have some time. After seeing Margaret's confusion, he explained to her:
"There is a saying that what is poison to others may be honey to me. If you understand the history of China, you will not be so confused."

In Chinese culture, there is the story of Yu the Great controlling floods, the allusion of "where the hair will fall if the skin is gone", the great unification of Qin Shihuang and the strength of the Qin army, the prosperous Tang Dynasty when all nations came to pay tribute, and the Ming Dynasty when the emperor guarded the country's borders and the king died for the country, so it is just sweet for us to portray our soldiers as so powerful in "Dawn of Empire".

The former great powers actually think that we are the "great powers" now? (End of this chapter)