The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

The finance minister said very seriously, "China is now the most stable cash-generating machine in the world, sir. Our fiscal deficit is already very large. Without China's support, you would not be able to realize your great dream of universal healthcare."

Xiao Hei is in a dilemma. As the president of the "Brain Beauty" regime, it would be unprofessional not to target us, but if he does, his presidential career is over. He doesn't know what to do.

After much deliberation, Xiao Hui prioritized the tasks he needed to complete. First and foremost, he wanted to realize his ideal and ambition: to achieve universal healthcare when he became president. This was his top priority.

Secondly, he needs to fight his organization's rivals, as this is in his own interest; this is his second priority.

Finally, the only way to curb China's growth is to stop it; if they don't do it, someone else will.

In general, prioritizing one's own interests over those of the nation is the mindset of American capitalists.

The Finance Minister then told Xiao Hei, "China is actively exploring other markets. They feel that relying entirely on us for the bulk of their imports and exports is a very risky strategy, especially after the recent financial crisis, which cost them a lot of money. So we must appease China, otherwise our financial situation will be in a very difficult position."

In order to realize his grand ambitions, Xiao Hei quickly visited the Chinese people and appeased them, so that a steady stream of money could flow into the pockets of the great Americans.

Although we have signed some trade and economic cooperation agreements, our determination to expand the market is unstoppable. During Xiao Heidu's tenure, we gradually developed two Silk Roads.

This is an open conspiracy. The Americans are anxious about it, so they can only cause trouble in secret. They don't have any legitimate measures.

Most world leaders are well aware that following us means reaping the rewards, while following the Americans means starving for three days straight. The choice is obvious.

Xiao Hei's efforts to promote universal healthcare in his own country haven't been smooth sailing. After all, ordinary people don't have that kind of money, so he has to use national tax revenue. But national tax revenue is finite, so he can only ask the rich for money.

The wealthy are not to be trifled with, and they will definitely try to trip up Xiao Hei, so Xiao Hei's plan has been progressing with many setbacks.

Later, when their economy recovered, Xiao Hei started trying to trip us up and incite our neighbors to cause us trouble.

It's a pity that no matter how high the little ant jumps, it can't cause much trouble for the giant. If these neighbors were really useful, wouldn't they have been useful long ago?
The US has been watching our economy, technology, and military explode step by step, while we are still mired in the quagmire of the Middle East and have to send huge sums of money there every year.

As one gains at the expense of the other, the gap between the two gradually becomes negligible.

In 2015, Liu Hua's company launched a quantum communication satellite, and in the same year, Tsinghua University, in conjunction with many other departments, launched our quantum supercomputer.

Suddenly, the cutting-edge field of computer science created a technological gap that suppressed the minds of scientists. The Americans wanted to make a move, but unfortunately, they couldn't find anyone in the country who was of useful use.

Zhou Tianxingdou Company has developed a rocket engine with a thrust of 500 tons. The core module of our country's space station has been modified again and again. Originally, we thought that a rocket engine with a thrust of 200 tons could send the core module to a heavy load. Now that it has reached 500 tons, we can be even more audacious.

At the beginning of 2016, Liu Hua's spaceship design was finally completed.

The spacecraft is equipped with three engines. The first engine is a spiral detonation engine that flies within the atmosphere. The second engine uses six rocket engines with a thrust of 500 tons each, which are reusable.

Once they leave the atmosphere, they will use ion thrusters. This ion thruster was specially obtained by Liu Hua from his cheat code. While all of humanity's ion thrusters were still hovering between millinewtons and Newtons, this thruster was already capable of propelling something weighing one kilogram on the ground.

On the second day of the second lunar month in 2016, the day the dragon raises its head, all sorts of important figures gathered in a vast, open mountain area on the western outskirts of Jincheng.

Liu Hua is about to conduct the first flight test of their spacecraft, which is absolutely a groundbreaking moment in human history, hence the gathering of many important figures.

Because everyone knows that once this project succeeds, the benefits it will bring us will be immeasurable, even more epoch-making than when Columbus discovered the New World.

The area within a ten-kilometer radius has been completely cleared. All staff and visitors are currently in the underground bunker, which is designed to withstand nuclear explosions. "Academician Liu, are you nervous?" the leader asked with a smile. "I don't know if you're nervous or not, but I'm very nervous. I guess the on-site commanders felt the same way when our first mushroom bomb exploded?"

Liu Hua said with a smile, "I'm not nervous now. I feel confident of victory."

"Okay, if you succeed, you will be the greatest person of our time."

The test flight should have been unmanned, but when the astronauts from the China National Space Administration learned about it, they were so eager to participate that they practically wrote petitions in blood.

After careful discussion and meticulous experiments by Liu Hua and the leaders of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, it was determined that the possibility of failure was extremely small, and only then was a test flight approved.

As the countdown ended, our space shuttle taxied on the runway and then soared into the sky. The powerful propulsion of the spiral detonation engine propelled the spacecraft to an altitude of nearly 30 kilometers. Then, the rocket engine ignited, and the space shuttle broke through the Kármán line.

The people in the underground command center were stunned by the radar displays.

Ma Shan, a retired man, asked in surprise, "It's already out of the atmosphere? It's faster than our airplanes."

After exiting the atmosphere, the rocket engine stopped working, the electromagnetic thrusters were activated, and it began to fly along the Earth's outer perimeter.

They flew so openly, unafraid of being seen by the enemy, but the American reconnaissance satellites detected them immediately.

That evening, the news broadcast featured a full five minutes of news about the Kunpeng space shuttle taking off directly from the ground.

Of course, there are also unmentioned features. This spacecraft has the latest generation of thorium-based molten salt reactors, which are sufficient to support the use of ion thrusters to fly to the moon.

The Nasdaq index in the US fell accordingly, and the world's attention turned to us.

The new spacecraft is under construction at a rapid pace, and it has conducted twelve test flights in two months. The last one brought our space station's core module into orbit.

Upon seeing the space station enter orbit, the leader of the space agency smiled and said, "I feel like with the space shuttle, we don't even need to build a space station."

Liu Hua smiled but remained silent.

The US retaliated immediately, announcing a high-tech isolation of our country, prohibiting the import and export of high-tech equipment such as chips and lithography machines to China.

Hetu Rune immediately pulled out his 3D printing equipment and announced to the world that they had achieved the process of 3D printing chips, and that the level of precision they had reached was even higher than that of lithography machines, reaching the 3nm level.

The US still wants to launch a trade investigation against us, but unfortunately, it has fallen on hard times, and with our spacecraft constantly soaring in space, the US's efforts have been completely neutralized.

As one thing rises and the other falls, in 2020, Taiyi New Energy announced that its controlled nuclear fusion reactor had officially entered the commercial power generation stage, and our electricity bills dropped directly to the level of cents.

The whole world knows now that it's time for all nations to pay tribute. The center of the world is no longer on the North American continent; it has returned to the era of five or six hundred years ago.

Under Liu Hua's leadership, our country has established a 3D printing factory on the moon, the kind of factory that can print out a spaceship simply by inputting blueprints. We have officially entered the era of interstellar colonization.

On his deathbed, 115-year-old Liu Hua handed over a quantum storage card to the nation. This card represented advanced technology he had acquired over the years by using up all his accumulated points, pointing the way for our future interstellar voyages. (End of Chapter)