I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

"NACA wants communication voice records?"

Academician She, who was still in Qiongzhou, was a little surprised, but quickly figured out something.

It was Robot 14. It found the wreckage of Artemis 2 the fastest, and the ground staff also communicated with Christina through it, which may have made the other party suspicious.

Maybe Koch would tell NACA that there was a stranger's voice on the moon?

Of course, Academician She is not afraid of the other party's suspicion. Moreover, the space agency has no obligation to cooperate with NACA's accident investigation and can completely refuse.

But doing this seems like there might be something uproar, so you still have to cooperate a little bit.

"Xiao Zhang, go find Fang Lin and re-record the audio, replace that audio and send it to NACA.

After that, they don’t need to reply to anything. We just need to keep an attitude of ignoring them. Do you understand? "

Xiao Zhang was the ground staff member who responded that day. He thought for a while and asked:

"Mr. She, I think there should be recordings in Koch and Victor's spacesuits. Could this be..."

"The discrepancy in the sound recording is their problem. We just need to give an attitude. How to interpret it is their own business."

"yes!"

…

presidential palace.

John looked at the open office door with a straight face and waited for a few minutes before seeing Jack Sullivan walk in.

Although Sullivan's political views were completely opposite to his before, John has become more and more dependent on him for decision-making due to the outstanding abilities of the latter, or the team represented by the latter.

At this time, he saw Sullivan as if an old man who couldn't operate a smart TV saw the TV installer. He said eagerly before the other party could stand firm:

“Is there any way to stop those damn media from reporting on the Chinese and Arbor’s moon landings? Look at the latest cover of Time. It’s actually an Arbor astronaut!

How many dollars did they charge to be so despicable? Even Ami hero Victor didn't get this treatment! "

Sullivan still looked as expected and responded calmly:

"Sir, the media is free. We cannot ask them to ban reporting on such a well-known matter. On the contrary, you should pay more attention to current issues, such as salary increases."

When he heard the sensitive word "salary", John, who came from a large businessman family, immediately turned his mind and started flipping through the documents John had brought.

After the "Industrial Bill" and the "Consumer Bill" were officially announced at the end of last month, restrictions on overseas imported industrial products suddenly increased, and Congress is still brewing new bills targeting capital outflows, which immediately boosted the confidence of the local manufacturing industry.

General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and other giants immediately announced the news of adding several assembly plants, and then the automobile sector stocks also experienced a rise that had not been seen in many years. Both businessmen and the public were applauding.

But what followed was protests in various places demanding that car companies continue to increase basic wages. Although average wages have been rising year after year compared to history, inflation must be taken into account. The cost of living in Aramco is not low.

For example, food delivery drivers who can be seen everywhere charge at least two dollars for each order, and ordering a KFC family bucket also costs forty dollars, so even though a monthly salary of three thousand dollars is enough to live quite comfortably in China based on the exchange rate , but in terms of prices, it’s really not much different from the domestic salary of 3,000 or 4,000.

The fees charged for any work involving human labor are extremely high, and only meat and a few industrial products are slightly cost-effective.

In the past, Aramco would try its best to maintain the exchange rate of the US dollar in order to achieve the purpose of purchasing large quantities of foreign goods at low prices; now, on the contrary, appropriate release of water is more conducive to the development of manufacturing.

This level of bloodletting also facilitates the flow of funds to the bottom, which is an act that makes society function more normally in any country.

So John made his decision without much hesitation:

"Tell the Automobile Alliance to increase the basic salary by at least 10...15 points. We have given them so many subsidies, and spitting out this will not affect anything.

Not just them, but also any other...especially aerospace-related companies, this is the case. "

Sullivan: "No problem, one more thing:

The Federal Reserve has made preparations to issue US$450 billion in treasury bonds in the next three months and is preparing to raise interest rates and adjust the federal funds rate to about 4.5% within half a year. "

John: “What’s our national debt right now?”

Sullivan: “The March data was exactly 20 trillion, and China held 1.18 trillion, but they began to reduce their holdings in May and have now dumped 11 billion.

According to last year's total GDP of 19.6 trillion, Aramco's national debt is now 102% of GDP, exceeding the 90% warning line, which is a relatively high risk.

But the fiscal deficit is a bit ugly, because the Artemis plan's federal deficit in 2016 was 940 billion yuan, accounting for about 4.8% of GDP, and it is foreseeable that it will continue to rise in the next ten years, and we must curb it. "

John nodded with deep understanding. The national debt can still rely on transferring risks to the outside world. It is okay to release some water. However, the fiscal deficit truly reflects the stability of the federal government. A small deficit can better promote economic development, but it is not a good thing to exceed it.

"Then we will start raising taxes in the second half of the year. We have reached the point where we have to increase taxes on the rich."

…

On August 9, Nakayama Koji officially took over and set a date for Kishimotozu's funeral.

While cleaning up the mess, he finally met with representatives from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JAXA: Seiji Izumizawa and Shinichiro Sakai.

During this period, the entire island country's aerospace community was very unstable. Due to India's lack of cooperation, the abortion of "Asia Star" was a foregone conclusion. The newly appointed Nakayama Jiujiu would either continue to support JAXA's independent research and development, or he would choose give up.

Although he strongly encouraged the independent development of aerospace when he was a member of the House of Representatives, who can say clearly about politics?

After procrastinating until now, Nakayama Jiuer finally decided to give an answer.

He first carefully read the JAXA research results summarized by Shinichiro Sakai and couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

Although the "H-X" rocket prepared for Asia Star has not yet entered the prototype manufacturing stage, with the support of funds, the preliminary research has been relatively complete, especially the high tensile strength rocket body, which is a must for moving towards a large rocket. technology.

"Sakai-kun, you did a very good job, thank you for your hard work.

I would like to ask a question first. With the power of JAXA, can people be sent into space? "

"this……"

Shinichiro Sakai hesitated, but still told the truth:

"If US$5 billion in funding can be approved, we can try it out within five years, which will be enough to create a usable spacecraft."

five billion? Zhongshan Jiuer automatically multiplied this number by two, and then a look of confusion appeared on his face:

"Gentlemen, given our ability, it is difficult for us to undertake this project alone. Moreover, Mi Zhu's suppression is well known. Although I want to support it, I have no choice but to be hindered everywhere. I am afraid it will be very difficult to achieve my wish."

"So you are planning to give up the manned flight project?"

"Of course not. I have always believed that JAXA will vigorously develop the astronaut exploration program. Whether it is space or the moon, it will be our goal."

Shinichiro Sakai had just relaxed when he heard Kuji Nakayama say:

"John is about to invite me to Washington, ready to accept us into the Artemis program and the Ares program, and promise to send our pilots to the moon within two years.

On the phone, he promised that after JAXA participates, it will also participate in the construction of the moon and can share many technologies. "

Shinichiro Sakai and Tsuji Izumi Kiyosawa were shocked when they heard this, showing expressions of disbelief.

Did this come out of the mouth of Congressman Zhongshan? Didn't he clearly oppose Ami before?