Chapter 1490: War Reparations
The deterioration of the Xin-UA relations.h.i.+p had indeed impacted Xin enterprises in North America, but the impact on Future Group was quite limited.
In the absence of alternatives, all the people who boycotted the products of Xin, especially the products of the Future Group, selectively ignored the Phantom helmet, Future 1.0 mobile phone system, and the Future phone with holographic projection function…
However, if those people boycotting ignored these products, then the boycott itself was meaningless.
Because those lines of business accounted for 80% of Future Group’s revenue in North America.
As for medical and logistics drones?
Drones were mainly sold to enterprises, and ordinary people didn’t purchase them. Fortunately, those patriots in North America were still sensible, while they protested, they didn’t throw stones or other things at those drones, otherwise… Future Group would certainly laugh out loud.
There were three main purposes for Jiang Chen’s trip to North America. The first was to discuss matters concerning war reparations and the UA’s accession to the alliance. The main goal of Sugar Cube Diplomacy or the subsequent Xin-UA War was simple, to bring North American into the Earth Defense Alliance led by Celestial Trade.
On the second day after Jiang Chen arrived in the UA, Jiang Chen met Trump in the presidential suite of the Hilton Hotel. Although Trump had spared no effort to invite Jiang Chen to stay at Trump Hotel, but considering that this social media lunatic would definitely take the opportunity to post on social media, Jiang Chen refused his invitation.
Not to mention…
Jiang Chen was still a Diamond Member of Hilton Hotel.
“Please sit down, Mr. President, what would you like to drink?”
Jiang Chen sat on the sofa in the living room, smiled, and gestured.
“Thank you, water will do,” Trump said.
“Then coffee for me.”
Jiang Chen glanced at the female a.s.sistant at the door. The latter walked into the kitchen, then quickly walked out with a gla.s.s of water and a cup of Blue Mountain coffee, and gently placed them on the coffee table between the two.
“I’m envious of you young people.”
“Do you regret it?” Jiang Chen threw two sugar cubes into the coffee, then smiled.
“Regret? There is nothing to regret. I have enjoyed everything that should be enjoyed. I am not bragging. At your age, the women I have slept with can form a football team.” Trump sipped his water, snorted, slanted his eyes, and glanced enviously at Jiang Chen who put some cream into his coffee and continued to rant, “Of course, I mean, even now I have the ability to do that. ”
If it was not for his doctor’s reminder to pay attention to his body, he would not avoid caffeine and sugar. And even after he started to pay attention to his diet, he had to take cholesterol-lowering drugs and small doses of aspirin every day.
As he told Jiang Chen on that island, he was no longer young.
Jiang Chen smiled and did not say anything. He took out a thumb-sized gla.s.s bottle from his pocket and gently placed it on the table between the two.
“What is this?”
“Something that can make you live longer.”
Trump raised an eyebrow, as he didn’t understand what Jiang Chen meant.
“You only need to take one bottle a day, once a week, for three months,” Jiang Chen smiled, before he continued, “Then you will find that you are a lot younger than you are now.”
Different from the drugs taken by the members of the Earth Defense Alliance, thanks to the samples provided by Sun Jiao’s blood, the NAC’s Pharmaceutical Research Department had now gained more progress on DNA telomere extension agents.
For example, the bottle of medicament placed between the two could extend the life of a person to 150 years old, repair the organs and metabolic levels damaged by aging in the human body, and did not change one’s appearance.
Trump was now seventy-four years old, and his seventy-fifth birthday was three months later. The effect of DNA telomere extension agents was weakened for aging that already happened, but as long as the medicament was taken regularly, he could easily live to be 120 years old.
Trump took a moment to process the information, and clearly, he didn’t believe what Jiang Chen had just said, so he leaned back and laughed jokingly.
“This joke is too lame.”
“I’m serious.” Jiang Chen shook his head and said in a serious tone, “We hope you will work for eight years in your term, and then smoothly transition the regime to the next candidate we like.”
At this point, Jiang Chen paused, and then said, “Of course, if you are not at ease with our bioengineering technology, then that’s fine by me. I don’t need to force an elderly person to accept new things. I’m just offering for the sake of a cooperative relations.h.i.+p, to provide you with a better choice. You know, I don’t need to lie to you.”
Jiang Chen’s tone made Trump a little uncertain.
After Trump hesitated for a while, he finally chose to believe what Jiang Chen had said, picked up the small gla.s.s bottle and stuffed it into his pocket.
Although, his common sense told him it was nonsense to believe this.
“Okay, putting these small things aside. You can choose a comfortable position to lie down in after you go home, remember to sleep after taking the medicament, and then ask your personal doctor to test your metabolism and blood sugar. I can bet that the expression on his face would be interesting.” After Jiang Chen put down the coffee in his hand, he sat up straight, crossed his fingers on one of his knees, and smiled at Trump, “Now, let’s talk about the reparation and the Earth Defense Alliance, which one would you like to talk about first?”
“…Let’s start with the saddest thing first,” Trump shrugged and said helplessly.
“As you wish,” Jiang Chen smiled and nodded. He took out a doc.u.ment from the briefcase next to him and put it on the coffee table. “The war reparations total is 80 billion Xin New dollars, including the funds used to eliminate the impact on the surrounding environment by the Trident missiles, and the compensation for the loss of equipment in this war… Considering the current exchange rate situation of your country, I ask you to pay in gold.”
80 billion Xin New dollars, based on the current market price, was equivalent to 200 million ounces of gold. The gold stored in the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank was exactly 200 million ounces and accounted for about a quarter of the total global gold reserves.
Based on the current exchange rate between the Xin New dollar and the UA dollar, 80 billion Xin New dollars was close to the UA’s military expenditure last year. After the First World War, Germany paid compensation to the Allies. However, Germany paid in installments, and it was not until 2010 that the remaining balance along with interest was fully paid off. Celestial Trade required the UA to make a lump-sum payment with its gold reserves. This requirement really pained the shareholders of the Federal Reserve.
“Sh*t, you are here for the Fed’s gold, right?”
Trump smacked his lips in surprise when he saw the doc.u.ment, but he did not look too surprised.
The gold buried under Manhattan Island was already under the control of Celestial Trade, and he didn’t expect this guy to spit out the meat already in his mouth.
Anyway, he didn’t sign the surrender agreement. He was now cleaning up the mess left by Mike Pence. What was more, since the government did not have that much gold to pay, it would have to continue to issue treasury bonds, and in the end, it would be the shareholders of the Federal Reserve that footed the bill.
What?
Refuse to pay?
Go to the military base on Manhattan Island to protest.
Trump picked up the pen without much hesitation and signed his name at the end of the agreement…