Chapter 375: Solar Prominence Man Yingxue [Request for full order]
Lewis snorted and said, “Don’t make excuses with him!”
"He obviously doesn't take me seriously!"
Anderson quickly shook his head and said, "No, no! That's absolutely not the case."
"Mr. Stepan is afraid that you are too upright. If he discusses the deal directly with you, he is worried that you will scold him and there will be no room for maneuver."
"So, he would use me to discuss this with you in a tactful way and let you know a little bit."
Lewis then nodded and said, “Forget it, I’ll forgive him first.”
"You ask him to come over! We have to talk in depth."
"After all, we want to maintain a long-term cooperative relationship!"
In fact, Lewis knew he was about to step down.
Because, the Eagle King will arrive in two years at most.
Lewis needs to think more about himself.
By the time the Eagle King comes down, it will not be easy to make big money again.
Boeing is actually the big boss behind the Eagle King. When this Eagle King ran for election, Boeing also made a lot of efforts.
Then, it can get more orders.
Of course, Boeing has never been an independent business.
There are also giant chaebols behind it.
Stepan is just a wage earner.
Stepan soon came over to meet Lewis.
The two chatted happily.
Stepan promised that not only would he give benefits now, but also that when Lewis stepped down in the future, he could become an independent director at Boeing and earn several million or tens of millions of dollars a year.
This is the legendary revolving door.
Stepan was very satisfied and immediately signed an agreement with Boeing to purchase 1000 new air defense missiles.
Each one is worth 400 million dollars. This is a 40 billion dollar contract.
He can get a lot of benefits from it.
Some people may say, since Stepan is so blatant, isn’t he afraid of being found out and thrown into jail?
This is called not understanding the nature of the giant eagle.
On Giant Eagle's side, basically everything that is illegal is made legal through the law.
Revolving door, open and aboveboard.
When you were in office, when did you get the benefits and rewards for the big contracts you were awarded?
I'll give it to you after you come down!
Letting you be an independent director, receiving a salary of several million per year and doing nothing, isn't that a form of giving back?
In addition, if you develop some artistic hobbies, such as painting and graffiti, people will offer tens or even millions for any of your paintings. Isn't that a good thing?
Sleepy Joe's son became a famous painter when his father was Eagle King. Each of his paintings can be sold for at least $10, and he can earn tens of millions a year by selling paintings.
But after Sleepy Joe left, no one was interested in his son's paintings anymore.
Can you understand what it means?
In addition, after each generation of Eagle Kings passes away, they publish books and give speeches everywhere, and can earn 100 to 200 million yuan a year. Isn’t that a return?
Do you really think their speeches are worth $50?
It’s all just business.
In Giant Eagle, the most outrageous minor official was a woman. She was the mayor of a city of tens of thousands of people, but she actually transferred all of the city's financial revenue to her own personal account. During her term of office, she made tens of millions.
There are so many things like this, it's really outrageous.
Lewis was very happy after he reached an agreement with Stepan.
Because, a large sum of money will be put into your pocket again.
Lewis immediately began to deploy the operation.
He is still quite fast.
Just five days later, he arranged an event to test a new type of missile by launching a high-altitude balloon.
This event was also heavily publicized.
Of course, those singing praises are basically Giant Eagle’s own traditional media.
Newspapers, television stations, and even outdoors are all promoting this event.
They exaggerated the newly developed anti-aircraft missile, Giant Eagle, to be extremely miraculous.
They claim that Giant Eagle has independently developed the most advanced chips.
Moreover, their own new missiles use self-developed chips.
They boasted that the missile had extremely strong defensive capabilities that could extend directly into outer space, and could easily destroy a satellite.
Moreover, the strike range of this missile is also very large, from 100 meters to kilometers, so there is no problem at all.
However, Giant Eagle's traditional media hype has no impact on the Internet.
The Internet is basically full of ridicule for the bragging of these traditional media.
There are also many self-media outlets that are revealing the secrets.
Most of the revealed contents are about Giant Eagle blocking Pangu technology products on the surface.
But in reality, they are secretly imported through third-party intermediaries.
Even their military is importing it.
Some people also revealed that the workers at Boeing are now full of drunkards and drug addicts.
The so-called new missile developed by Boeing this time is actually a patchwork.
Moreover, Boeing has not even conducted live-fire tests, yet it dares to boast that it is the strongest in the world.
"Guys, be careful! Be careful, this missile may get out of control!"
"I'm really worried now that it's going to fly around."
"I hope it won't cause any too much harm to innocent people like us."
Some people also revealed that the so-called new missile, Giant Eagle, is very expensive, with one missile costing as much as 400 million dollars!
But in reality, it probably only costs a few tens of thousands of dollars.
"They are desperately sucking blood. Through this one order, they have made dozens of elites rich!"
"We should really feel sad! These guys, they never considered the Giant Eagle!"
"They just make up excuses for themselves!"
"To be honest, each of us should feel sad about this!"
Giant Eagle’s traditional media naturally also has accounts on Weibo.
They tried to increase their volume and help Giant Eagle turn the tide on the Internet.
However, their promotional copy has basically no traffic and does not get much distribution.
Even the fans who follow them can’t see their content.
This makes the media very confused.
The Eagle King is naturally unwilling to lose its position on the Internet.
He instructed some departments to start trying to bribe the big Vs on Weibo with money.
Let these big Vs speak for you.
However, the big Vs have discovered a problem: as long as they post these things on behalf of Giant Eagle, they will be restricted in minutes, and the Weibo posts they post cannot be seen by outsiders at all, only themselves can see them.
Moreover, the influencers will be warned: "If you continue to accept this kind of false propaganda, you will be punished."
"The penalties include, but are not limited to: loss of data traffic subsidies within 30 days!"
Obviously, the Internet public opinion platform of the Giant Dragon family will basically not be used by the Giant Eagle.
This made the Eagle King feel helpless.
This day, it was time for Giant Eagle to test the new missile.
When Eagle King woke up early in the morning, he felt his right eyelid twitching.
However, his spirit is quite good.
After breakfast, he returned to the office to deal with some urgent matters.
Then came Hudson and Lewis.
These two people will accompany him to observe today's new missile launch mission.
"Mr. Lewis, have you invited a lot of media to today's test?" asked the Eagle King.
Lewis hurriedly said: “Yes, Your Majesty, there will be quite a few media on the scene.”
"Yes! Our national TV station will also broadcast it live."
"It is said that people all over the country are eagerly awaiting this test launch."
"No one wants the last high-altitude balloon incident to happen again."
The Eagle King nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good! I certainly don't want the last incident to happen again!"
"Our situation is very difficult now!" "We must do something to cheer people up."
"This missile test must be a perfect success! No accidents are allowed to happen!"
"Only if we succeed this time can we regain our prestige."
Lewis was a little nervous at the moment.
Because he has no idea!
Who knows if there will be any accidents.
After all, this new missile was actually tested for the first time today.
"Your Majesty, we will definitely succeed!"
"do not worry!"
Lewis said firmly.
Hudson watched Lewis from the side.
He noticed that there was a hint of uneasiness in Lewis' eyes.
Hydeson naturally knew that the military was also secretly importing chips from the Julong family.
Moreover, the missile developed by Boeing this time had not undergone any actual testing before.
Missiles are something that require a very difficult performance right from the start.
Moreover, so many media were invited to witness it.
If this happened somewhere else, it might mean that the person is confident.
But, that’s not necessarily the case here in Giant Eagle!
Every one of the people here at Giant Eagle are masters of showmanship!
They crave exposure and they love to brag about themselves.
No matter what they do, they all hope to achieve great success and win thunderous praise.
The successful manned lunar landing that year brought Giant Eagle huge dividends.
To this day, they are still enjoying the glory of being the world's first successful manned lunar landing.
Therefore, subsequent successors also wanted to follow suit.
This year's Eagle King is a former Hollywood actor. Although he served as a state governor for eight years, he still cannot get rid of his bad habit of showing off.
Star Wars was hyped up a lot before. At that time, a lot of their publicity was shots from Hollywood science fiction movies, with particle cannons, laser cannons, and annihilation cannons.
At the beginning, the giant bear was really scared and quickly invested huge amounts of money to follow suit.
However, after the subsequent popular science explanation by the dragon, the truth about Star Wars was revealed and it is basically impossible to deceive people anymore.
The Eagle King waved his hand and said, "Let's go! Let's take a plane to the scene now."
A group of people surrounded Eagle King and walked towards the helicopter pad outside.
Eagle King will take a helicopter directly to the test site.
The shooting range was located on the outskirts of Huashengtun.
As they walked out, Hydson walked in front with Eagle King.
"Your Majesty, I always feel a little uneasy."
"You should know that today's launch was their first real live-fire test."
"No matter what, there will be some dangers."
"You'd better not observe this launch in the field yourself."
"For your own safety, it might be more appropriate that you observe from a sturdy bunker."
The Eagle King frowned slightly. Actually, there was nothing wrong with observing in the bunker.
He himself also felt that today was a bit of an ominous omen.
"Lewis, what do you think?" The Eagle King turned and asked Lewis beside him.
Lewis said: "Your Majesty, Boeing has given assurances. They said there will be absolutely no problems."
"but……"
Hydeson shook his head and said, "There is absolutely no such thing as absolute in this world."
"Your Majesty's safety is the most important thing."
Lewis nodded and said, "I agree with this statement."
"Therefore, I also suggest that Your Majesty should personally command today's launch from a solid underground command post."
The Eagle King nodded and said, "Since you all said so, I will follow your advice."
"But I still have to show up in public during the ceremony. After all, I have to give a speech!"
The Eagle King would not miss any opportunity to show his face.
With so many reporters coming today, he was also scheduled to deliver an important speech.
Of course he couldn't miss it.
Both Hudson and Lewis agreed.
The Eagle King boarded the helicopter, and his entourage and staff also boarded.
Soon, the plane arrived at a base of the Eagle Army.
The base is located in the suburbs of Huashengtun.
There is a large shooting range here.
The test firing was carried out at the shooting range.
The missile launcher is ready.
Eagle King went to take a look. He had seen quite a few missile launchers.
There's nothing special about this one.
There are two anti-aircraft missiles on this missile launcher, both of which are ready to be launched.
Lewis introduced to Eagle King: This launch vehicle is equipped with the latest phased array fire control radar.
This radar can detect targets within a radius of 100 kilometers.
Even stealth fighters cannot escape its search.
"Even a high-altitude balloon can be easily locked."
"Moreover, once the target is locked, the missile can be automatically launched quickly."
"The missile has a maximum speed of Mach 3.8. Once a normal fighter jet is locked on it, it will be unable to escape."
Lewis' introduction made Eagle King nod repeatedly.
The Eagle King said: "This is exactly the weapon we urgently need now!"
"So, have the high-altitude balloons been released?"
Lewis nodded and said, “Your Majesty, he has been released.”
"You can use a high-powered telescope to observe the balloon hanging high in the sky not far away."
Eagle King took the telescope handed to him by Lewis, put it in front of his eyes and began to look in the direction Lewis pointed.
Sure enough, he saw the high-altitude balloon in the sky that served as the target.
This balloon looks really big and flies very high.
But without a telescope, you can't see it at all.
The Eagle King nodded and said with satisfaction: "Mr. Lewis, you did a very good job."
“Let’s hope we succeed!”
At this moment, many reporters have arrived at the scene.
In addition to reporters, many spectators were stopped two or three kilometers away.
These spectators from two or three kilometers away are all elite middle class.
Because there are people secretly collecting entrance fees.
A ticket costs over a thousand dollars.
More than 3,000 people came to watch the test firing.
This can also make a little money.
The Eagle King began to speak.
Of course, because it was broadcast live on TV, the Eagle King's speech was full of intonation and enthusiasm.
He has infinitely magnified the significance of this test launch, saying that it is a great victory and that the Giant Eagle is about to win.
The Eagle King was speaking with saliva flying all over the place, and there were hundreds of people listening to him.
No one noticed that the warning light on the missile launcher was on, and at the same time, the radar screen on the missile launcher also lit up. (End of this chapter)