In the end, Lin Youde and Marie Belle reached a cooperation intention and prepared to work with the United States on the construction of the Tower of Babylon. Even Lin Youde, who has accumulated countless negotiation experience over the years, is completely inferior to those professional guys in entanglement with the details of the treaty.

Now that the intention of cooperation has been confirmed, the talks between Lin Youde and Marie Belle can be over, so the two got up and shook hands and said goodbye after talking for a while about inconsequential household words.

As soon as she left the White House, Viola asked Lin Youde in the car: "Is it okay to cooperate with the Americans like this?" ”

"Of course, there is a problem, and it is more reliable for us to build our own elevators. But, dear wife, I will soon be sixty years old, and I would like to see humans colonize Mars. ”

After Lin Youde finished speaking, Viola immediately showed an expression of understanding.

"I see, indeed, to speed up the process, the effect of pulling the United States in is the best." Viola sighed, then changed the subject, "What's next?" I can't remember what's on the schedule. ”

"Go see an old friend." Lin Youde said and reached out to hug Viola, "You are so much younger than me, and your memory is starting to fail." ”

"I'm pretending to be like this to take care of your feelings, okay, don't be ignorant." Viola elbowed Lin Youde, and then the two laughed together.

**

Charlotte Roosevelt's house is on the outskirts of Washington, next to a cherry grove.

The house looks like an all-wood structure, and from a distance you can feel a back-to-basics atmosphere, and it doesn't look like the residence of the former president and the powerful god of war.

When Lin Youde and his convoy stopped in front of the wooden house, Charlotte pushed open the screen door and came out of the room.

"You're still engaged in such a big battle, do you need to bring so much solemnity to visit a retired former president?" Charlotte said in a tone that she couldn't tell if it was a joke or serious, and then without waiting for Lin Youde to walk up the steps of the wooden house, she turned back to the house. However, she didn't bring the screen door, so she expressed her welcome to Lin Youde in this way.

Lin Youde and Viola entered the wooden house one after another, and after entering the door, it was directly the living room, and the whole room was neatly furnished. Charlotte was busy in the kitchen connected to the living room, and could smell the aroma of borscht wafting through the air.

"It's the first time I've heard that you're no longer president, and I've become interested in cooking." Lin Youde said as he walked through the living room to the kitchen.

The American kitchen is set up with the dining room, as is Charlotte's cabin. Lin Youde sat down at the kitchen table, looking at Charlotte who was busy in front of the stove, to be honest, this scene made Lin Youde feel quite novel.

Viola followed Lin Youde to the table and sat down, while Xiaolu was holding Alulu's hand and accompanying her sister to observe the American primitive tribe-style decorations in the living room of the wooden house.

"What are these fancy things, sister?" Alulu asked, puzzled.

"This is one of the gods believed by the Mayans and Aztecs, called Quetzalcoatl, a god who symbolizes a good harvest and also rules over death and rebirth."

While Xiaolu was explaining, Charlotte picked up the pot on the stove and brought a pot of borscht to the table. Then she began to put the dishes and chopsticks on the table, and said as she did: "You have to find something to do in retirement, don't you, I'm different from you, my successor is very powerful, so I don't have to worry about anything now." The United States of America can run efficiently without me, unlike someone who is older than me but still has to work. ”

Lin Youde smiled.

"I think that some people obviously want to exert their residual heat, but they are squeezed back by capable juniors, and they have no choice but to ridicule those who are still exerting their residual heat."

Charlotte gave Lin Youde a bowl of borscht, and put a little effort in front of Lin Youde.

"You've talked to Marie Belle?" Unlike Lin Youde's expectation, Charlotte went straight to business without warning.

"Not only have we talked about it, but we have also determined our intention to cooperate." Lin Youde stirred the borscht with a spoon and replied slowly, "The Tower of Babylon project will become the world's largest transnational cooperation project." ”

"It seems that Marie Belle is determined to clean up the internal political system of the United States."

"Why?"

Lin Youde looked at Charlotte, who replied while continuing to serve soup: "With the character of American capitalists, the investment value of rail elevators, which cannot generate income in a short period of time, is infinitely close to zero. They don't get a share of the money that Congress spends, and it's clear what they're going to do at a time, and Marie Belle will either step down from office or get a no-confidence motion from Congress, and eventually step down. ”

"On this point, Mademoiselle Marie Belle says that she is employing some unconventional means to get the capitalists into ......"

"The mafia's intimidation tactics may be effective at first, but soon the capitalists will have to get involved with the FBI, and the FBI will sweep up the mafia, and Marie Belley's strategy will fail." Charlotte finally finished the soup, sat down in her chair, and continued, "I don't think she's going to be tied up, and the end result is probably what you'd be more than happy to see, and that's the outbreak of civil war in the United States." Damn it, the racist sentiments that are gradually rising in the country are enough of a headache, and it is simply unimaginable that there will be a civil war again. ”

It was the late 1960s, and the upsurge of the civil rights movement in the United States had been postponed later because McCarthyism and the Non-American Commission had existed longer than the other. But a closer look at American society reveals that there are seeds of unease hidden in a bright picture, and racial tensions are indeed slowly intensifying, and it is clear that Charlotte has seen this.

In another time and space, the end of the sixties was the time when racial contradictions were most acute, and some science fiction writers even thought that racial wars were inevitable, so they created a series of soft science fiction stories. And history is always similar, the contradiction between blacks and whites in this time and space has not disappeared, but it has not yet reached the time of total explosion.

Lin Youde understood Charlotte's concern, he took a sip of borscht, and then asked, "If Miss Marie Belle messed up, would you come forward to clean up the mess?" ”

"I don't think so. The defeat in the war has caused me to lose a lot of popularity, and now I am actually more powerless than you think. Charlotte pointed to the coffee table in the living room, "Have you seen the book on the coffee table, my memoirs are not easy to sell now, this is your responsibility, my old rival." ”