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Bao Liuqing stayed in Las Vegas for less than half a day before leaving for Sierra Leone. The www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" was that she had no direct flight to Freetown, so she got a transfer in Morocco.

Two days later, Liu Wei received a message from Bao Liuqing from Sierra Leone.

Dian Bin had already sent someone to target the three Mi5 spies, and he was more cautious. Following his election as President of Sierra Leone, Srehom will visit several key member states of the African Union, and will later visit several major countries, including the mainland, to sponsor Sierra Leone.

These are small things, but the important thing is to get things done at the camp as soon as possible.

Bao Liuqing did not disappoint Liu Wei, and a week later she found a suitable location in a valley in the interior of Sierra Leone. It was originally a camp for a warlord, but it was abandoned after the Civil War. The infrastructure of the camp was damaged, but the underground warehouses used to store ammunition and supplies remained intact. It only needs to send some necessary equipment to it, and it can become a modern genetic modification experimental base.

The rest of the matter, there is nothing to worry about.

In order to avoid getting into trouble, Liu Wei is also much more low-key than usual, usually staying in Las Vegas, and going to Reno to live for a few days when needed. Most of the time, he spent his time with books and television, and like those small accomplished businessmen, he began to care about current affairs.

Liu Wei is not concerned about current affairs, but about the movements on Scott's side.

After his successful election, Scott spent nearly two months, as is customary, touring the United States to thank voters who had supported him.

During this time, Scott formalized the cabinet candidates.

Upon his return to Washington, Scott, as president-elect, attended a dinner hosted by Cronin, during which he met with several leading members of Congress.

What the two talked about was mainly the connection between the two political axes.

Although the Russian-Russian conflict has had a very far-reaching impact on the strategic planning of the United States, for example, in the US decision-making circles, the debate on whether to fight Iran or North Korea has not stopped, and some people who believe that Iran should be attacked have changed their views and feel that North Korea is more important. But none of this had much impact on the domestic construction of the United States, especially the reconstruction efforts surrounding Manhattan.

Before the U.S. authorities made war decisions, domestic reconstruction became the top priority of the federal political axe.

To this end, before the election, Cronin did a lot for Scott, such as lobbying Congress to pass a special budget worth nearly two trillion dollars so that he could get enough financial allocations for the next fiscal year. It's just that how to spend this money can't be decided by Cronin, because according to the U.S. fiscal and tax system, Cronin has to make a political axe spending plan for the next fiscal year before leaving office, and this will inevitably have an impact on Scott. In this way, the two must agree on how to spend the money as soon as possible.

This scene is very similar to that of Norris after he was elected president.

It doesn't matter what the two talked about, it's just that the current situation in the United States really doesn't make people happy.

More than half a year has passed since the Manhattan attacks, and the far-reaching effects are gradually being felt.

The first to react was not other major powers, but the world's largest energy organization: OPEC.

When the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and other major oil-producing countries, as well as oil-rich countries, had not yet reached an agreement on the theft of gold reserves, OPEC took action and announced that the oil sold would no longer be denominated in the US dollar as a single denominated currency, but would use the weighted average of the US dollar, the euro, the yuan and other influential currencies to calculate the price.

This news dealt a devastating blow to the position of the United States in international trade.

You must know that among the bulk commodities, oil has the largest share, and bulk commodities are the most important trade materials, and their impact on international trade cannot be underestimated.

For the United States, the most immediate consequence is the return of a large number of dollars.

What kind of impact it has, Americans know best.

Before Scott came to power, inflation in the United States was as high as 7 percent, the highest since the oil crisis in the 70s. After Scott's election, inflation did not come down, but intensified as international investors feared a sharp decline in dollar assets. If this situation continues, inflation in the United States will sooner or later exceed 10 percent, and for Americans who do not have much savings, or are not very accustomed to savings, they will either go bankrupt or tighten their belts.

Even the U.S. federal political axe is not very good.

The return of the US dollar will inevitably lead to the shrinkage of US assets, which will lower the credit rating of the more than 10 trillion yuan of Treasury bonds owed by the United States, and the US federal political axe will need to pay tens of billions of dollars more in interest every month for this. As a result, when the federal axe in the United States needs it most, it has the least money. In order to complete the reconstruction and to finance the upcoming war, the Federal Axe of the United States can only issue more bonds, and the Federal Reserve Bank will issue more dollars to buy Treasury bonds, so that the domestic currency of the United States will continue to increase.

Obviously, this is a cycle of bad surnames.

If this problem cannot be solved, either the federal government of the United States will go bankrupt, or the middle class, which accounts for more than 70 percent of the total population of the United States, will go bankrupt.

The problem is that the only way to solve this problem is to restore the position of the dollar in international trade.

Unfortunately, having lost all its strategic reserves and failing to reach an agreement in negotiations with other countries, it is difficult for the United States to get other countries to accept the dollar.

It's both Cronin's and Scott's.

Before taking office, Scott faced a difficult test.

On his own, Scott certainly couldn't solve this problem. To put it more bluntly, the ability of the federal axe alone will certainly not solve the problem. To put it more seriously, even if the Skull and Bones Party intervenes and causes more losses for the company, it is unlikely to change the situation.

For the United States, there is only one solution: to readjust the industrial structure.

Although the United States, as the sole superpower, has extremely strong industrial capital and a strength in many fields, especially in the crucial high-tech fields, which is difficult for other countries to match, the industrial structure of the United States is incomplete, and it is overly dependent on imports and foreign plunder.

In the case of sufficient credibility of the dollar, this problem is not yet prominent.

In a sense, the United States has made the vast majority of Americans live a life completely disproportionate to their real income, or actual creative capacity, by issuing dollars incrementally and plundering the interests of other countries, including those close allies with the United States, in a bloodless way.

For the sake of 300 million Americans, at least 3 billion people are starving.

When the dollar loses its value, the good fortune of the Americans comes to an end.

If the United States does not adjust its industrial structure in a timely manner, reduce its dependence on imports, and increase its share of exports in international trade, that is, exchange more things for fewer goods, the United States will not be able to get out of this crisis at all, and this means that more Americans will have to tighten their belts.

Will the United States do that? Or will American voters support the political axe?

Personally, no American is willing to work more and get so much less than ever. However, proceeding from the reality of the situation, unless the United States expands abroad on a large scale and replaces the bloodless plunder with bloody plunder, it will have to accept the reality.

In fact, this is precisely the difficult choice faced by the US authorities.

Internally, the United States will have to retrench strategically and devote more of its forces at home rather than spending a high cost to maintain its hegemony. Starting from the outside, the United States will have to carry out strategic expansion, continue to increase military spending, and even fight several large-scale local wars.

Although the former is the cure, not many Americans will support the political axe in the short term.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

For Americans who are accustomed to living a comfortable life, even if the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already made them taste the bitterness, not many people are willing to take the initiative to give up their superior life and choose a difficult and simple development path, and not many even think that they must do so.

The only thing left is external expansion.

It's just that on the issue of expansion, there are still many contradictions within the United States.

The key point is whether we should focus on those major powers that may pose a threat to US hegemony and may even replace the United States in the near future, or whether we should focus on immediate interests.

You know, among the many issues, the first consideration of the US authorities is definitely energy.

Although the United States is less than 40 percent dependent on overseas energy and imports less than half of its oil, the price of oil could double as long as there is a 5 percent energy shortfall. Energy is related to all walks of life, to the domestic economic adjustment of the United States, and even more to the life and work of every American, so the United States needs to spend a lot of effort to maintain its hegemony in the energy market.

In this case, it is certainly much better to aim the gun at Iran than at North Korea.

Unfortunately, in the long run, even if the hegemony in the Middle East is consolidated by attacking Iran and the oil-rich countries that already do not trust the United States are honest, the United States will lose the next war, because those powerful powers will definitely take this opportunity to subvert the global hegemony of the United States.

Aim the gun at North Korea, and the problem is much simpler.

Although North Korea has few resources, let alone the energy resources that the United States needs, by fighting a local war related to the great powers and ultimately winning, the United States can rebuild its prestige, make other countries that are ready to move honest, and let those rich countries see the strength of the United States.

As a result, Scott made this point of view clear when he approached the leading members of Congress.

This is also mainly to gain the support of Congress and let his nominee for the cabinet pass smoothly.

(To be continued)