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Chapter 345 Beneath the Surface! (Third Update!)

Navarro's plan opened Dmitri's eyes. He put down his coffee cup, gave Navarro a thumbs-up, and said in a strange tone:
"You really know how to handle people! The president promoted you to this position back then, and this is how you repay him?"

"Everyone calls me Dmitri a beast, but you're no less so!"

"That would be a good idea, but if we get caught, we'll be in big trouble."

In response to Dmitri's sarcastic remarks, Navarro smiled slightly and said, "That's called fulfilling one's duties in one's position!"

"As for the President, America's constitution stipulates that a president can only serve two terms."

"However, if an emergency war situation occurs during the president's term, he can be urgently appointed to continue serving as president."

"I think our President will not refuse such an opportunity."

Almost the instant Navarro finished speaking, Dmitri understood what Navarro was trying to do.

The CIA has initiated wars more than once or twice, but the problem is that those wars were all localized.

They were all small-scale wars, fought in small countries.

It cannot even be called a war; it can only be called a regional conflict.

But judging from what he's saying now, he clearly wants to let things drift and then slowly provoke a war.

This dragged America and even several other major powers into the mess.

It's 2010 now. If things are handled well, the bomb can be detonated just as the president is about to leave office.

The only problem with his operation is that if the president dislikes him, he might remove him from the position of CIA director.

Then all his plans would fall through...

No, if the president removes him from office, he could easily detonate the bomb prematurely.

They used more public opinion to their advantage and clashed with the president.

Thinking of this, Dmitry broke out in a cold sweat. He felt he was already being inhuman enough, but he never expected that his seemingly unassuming partner was even more inhuman than him.

The thought that the other party was originally a politician made Dmitry break out in a cold sweat even faster.

He raised his right thumb again and exclaimed sincerely, "You are human!"

"You flatter me! This is a politician's proper manners!"

"You're not going to tell me you still want to be president, are you?"

"Men are boys until they die. What's wrong with me wanting to be President America?"

"Nothing much, it's just that I feel the Americans will live in dire straits."

"You're wrong about that. If I become president, I definitely won't do these things. I'll make you the director of the CIA and have you do these things, haha."

"you are human!"

"I am over-flattered!"

Just as the two were praising each other, the phone on Navarro's desk rang. Upon seeing the number, he immediately stood at attention, raised his right index finger in a shushing gesture, then quickly adjusted his posture and voice before answering the call.

"Your Excellency, Mr. President, your servant is at your service. What do you need me to do?"

After his humble words, President Becquerel's voice came through:

“Navarro, Price has conveyed your entire plan to me.”

"After careful consideration, I am now formally issuing you the order."

“I have selected the first and third plans provided by Dmitry. You will be responsible for executing the third plan, and I will have others take charge of the first plan.”

"Harrison is in charge of NASA."

"I need to see the results as soon as possible!"

After explaining the task to Navarro, the call was immediately disconnected. Listening to the voice on the other end, Navarro smiled and turned around.

"Our president, after careful consideration, has decided to adopt your first and third plans."

"Then what's next?"

"I'll be in charge of implementing the third plan, and you'll be in charge of sabotaging it behind the scenes."

"Assignments complete! Let's get to work!"

Navarro said, tossing the phone on the table, turning and walking out of the office to get busy.

Dmitry followed him out of the office, not going to the operations department, but returning to his own office.

Instead of using his own personnel in East Asia, he chose to find new people.

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Paris, France.

Inside the European Space Agency building, the once quiet building was now in complete chaos, with everyone busy but no one knowing what they were busy with.

very messy.

The Galileo satellite navigation system project is overseen by three departments. The European Commission is responsible for ensuring Galileo meets EU civilian needs and coordinating the interests of member states.

The European Global Navigation Satellite System Agency (EADS) is responsible for managing Galileo's day-to-day operations and user services.

The European Space Agency is responsible for system design, satellite development, launch missions, and ground control.

After the European Commission called for accountability, the European Commission first absolved itself of all responsibility, and then the European Global Navigation Satellite System Authority also absolved itself of responsibility by citing the failure to deliver the satellite.

At this point, only one space agency remained of the three departments responsible for the plan.

Only they were left, and naturally, the blame fell on their heads.

In an attempt to shift the blame, a group of people were arguing fiercely in the director's office.

"The funding comes from the European Commission itself, and they have detailed records of how the funds are used. Isn't it obvious that they are shirking their responsibility by pretending to be silent at this time?"

"They're just shirking responsibility, what can you do? The public opinion is now directed at us, announcing to the world that the European Space Agency is incompetent and has delayed the development progress."

"Those damn idiots, they believe whatever others tell them. If others tell them to die, why don't they just die?"

"They really do!"

"Stop arguing. Let's come up with a solution. We can't let this blame fall on us. If it does, we're finished. They'll find all sorts of excuses to block any funding we need in the future."

"This solution is actually very simple. We have relevant accounts, which we will publish directly. We also have invoices that can be traced back to their source. Nobody can do anything to us."

A sudden remark silenced the noisy conference room, and everyone turned to look at the speaker.

Under everyone's gaze, the person who proposed the idea scratched their head and belatedly asked, "Is there a problem with my idea?"

His rhetorical question caused those who were looking at him to turn their heads away, cough awkwardly, and begin to try to cover it up:
"No problem, no problem!"

"This plan is excellent!" "The plan is good, but the problem is that if it angers the committee, it might be difficult to get funding in the future."

"Sigh, so for the sake of the future, let's hold our breath and find another way."

Just as a group of people were arguing heatedly, there was a knock on the door of the conference room.

The person near the door opened it, only to find the secretary of Sofia, the rotating president of the European Commission, standing outside. As soon as the door opened, the secretary spoke:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is an order from Chairwoman Sofia."

"The European Space Agency has been closed off for too long; it needs to go out and see the outside world and see other ideas."

"I'm giving you all a chance to redeem yourselves."

"You can hold an exchange meeting, invite global aerospace experts and manufacturers related to aerospace equipment manufacturing, to discuss the technology face-to-face, and let these experts and manufacturers communicate to see where the money actually went."

"The relevant funds will be transferred to your account after the review is completed."

"If you still can't figure out where your money went after this exchange, then I'm sorry, the European Space Agency may need to streamline its operations."

After saying all this with a stern face, Sofia's secretary ignored the space agency's desperate attempts to persuade her to stay, turned around, and left just as quickly as she had come.

It wasn't until the person disappeared into the elevator that the group from the space agency belatedly realized what had happened.

"Is Ms. Sofia helping us?"

"probably?"

"But if she wanted to help us, she didn't need to do all this messy stuff!"

"I think her idea is to bring together people with aerospace capabilities from all over the world, so that Europeans can see what level everyone is at. With this horizontal comparison, we can get through this crisis easily."

"This should be!"

"Then what do we do now?"

"What to do? First, use our website and our media to send congratulatory messages to Xiaomi Heavy Industry, and then invite space agencies from various countries, as well as relevant aerospace component manufacturers, to come over. It's that simple."

"OK, now that we have a direction, let's quickly develop a plan based on that direction, approve the budget, set up the exhibition venue, produce invitations, and arrange accommodations."

When money was mentioned, the group fell silent again.

After much deliberation, a large group of people at the space agency decided to approve the budget and invite people to participate in this exchange meeting, so that the whole world would know that the European Space Agency is not so incompetent.

Their primary target for invitation was the Korea Space Agency.

As for Xiaomi Heavy Industry, it was not invited at all.

After all, no one would deliberately seek out thrills for themselves.

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"Let's turn our attention to Europe next."

"Exploring the stars and looking to the future, the European Space Agency announced yesterday at 10:8 AM local time that it will hold a space exhibition and exchange meeting in Paris, France on August 1st."

"The aim is to exchange ideas with aerospace experts and aerospace equipment manufacturers worldwide, promote mutual understanding, further reduce the cost of space launches, and promote human exploration of space."

According to AFP, the list of invitees includes the Russian Space Agency, the American Space Agency, the Korean Space Agency, the Indian Space Research Institute, the Pakistan Space Agency, the China National Space Administration, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and others.

In front of the TV, with each name announced by the host, Ji Shuangshuang's expectations dwindled. When the last name was announced and she didn't hear the one she wanted to hear, she waved the remote control in her hand, wanting to smash the TV, but then suddenly remembered that the TV was quite expensive.

He simply withdrew his hand and hit himself on the head with the remote control.

The sound of the remote control's plastic casing hitting her head echoed in Lin Yi's room. Lin Yi, who was playing a game, turned around and, seeing her like this, couldn't help but ask:

Are you out of your mind?

Why aren't our names on the list?

"what?"

"I'm saying, why isn't our name mentioned at this space exchange conference organized by the European Space Agency?"

"Why should our names be included?"

"Professor Lu Jingchen said that our company's satellite design capabilities are almost unmatched globally. If he organizes such an exchange meeting and doesn't include us, isn't that looking down on us?"

Lin Yi shook his head: "No, no, no, it is precisely because we are not invited that we show you respect."

While he was talking, he exited the game and searched online, finding a news report from AFP that had been previously reprinted by domestic news media.

The European Commission has questioned the space agency regarding the Galileo satellite navigation program, stating it will review the accounts from 2000 to 2010.

After showing the news to Ji Shuangshuang, Lin Yi continued:
"The European Space Agency's main goal this time is to divert attention."

"Although we have not disclosed the relevant details, everyone is smart enough to deduce from some details that our costs are not high."

"Otherwise, we wouldn't have made such a big fuss."

"At this point, if you want to shift your focus, do you choose to find a few people who are roughly at your level, or do you choose someone who is much stronger than you, so much stronger that you can hardly even see their back?"

"I understand!" Ji Shuangshuang nodded thoughtfully. There must be something wrong with the space agency's accounts, otherwise they wouldn't have suddenly organized such an exchange meeting.

Holding an exchange meeting can actually be considered a way to balance things out.

After all, with so many people coming, there are venues to arrange, accommodations to arrange, and receptions to arrange; money will be spent like water.

There are also many items that are difficult to describe, and you can even just fill in the numbers with your eyes closed.

perfect!

In this situation, it is indeed difficult to invite such a good student over.

Even though she understood, she still rolled her eyes and sat down next to Lin Yi: "I'm still annoyed. Why weren't we invited?"

"Alright, go to sleep early!" Lin Yi opened the game again, and just as he logged into his account, he suddenly remembered something and turned around to ask:
Have you compiled a breakdown of the costs associated with this rocket launch?

"Huh?" The sudden words startled Ji Shuangshuang. After figuring out what Lin Yi had said, she began shaking her head frantically.
"What did you say? I didn't hear you clearly. Um... oh, right, how did I get here?"

"This is not my room!"

Shaking her head, Ji Shuangshuang grabbed a pillow from the side and ran out of the room as if her life depended on it.

He pulled the door shut behind him, then pressed his hand to his chest, catching his breath.
"That was fucking dangerous; I almost had to work overtime again."

After catching her breath, Ji Shuangshuang returned to her room. She glanced at the time on the wall and realized it was too late, so she immediately abandoned the idea of ​​calling the staff below.

I climbed back into bed, picked up my phone, and sent a message to my best friend:
[So bored, let's chat!]

After sending the message, my best friend replied very quickly:
Is this person talking about you guys?

There is a link following the message.

(End of this chapter)