168: Chapter 168 Guo Fan Calls: A New System Task!

In the Courtyard House, Wang Qian held up her phone to show Xu Hao the news.

"Hahaha... I never expected that one day, I would actually be sanctioned by the USA!"

Upon seeing the content of the news, Xu Hao was stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter.

He truly didn't expect it.

One day, he would actually make it onto the USA's sanctions list.

A superpower was actually imposing sanctions on the chairman of his small heavy industry enterprise.

Isn't this enough to make people laugh their heads off!

After laughing, Xu Hao's expression remained calm and indifferent.

He didn't care about the USA's sanctions at all.

Anyway, he didn't have any assets in the USA, so he wouldn't be constrained by it.

As for being restricted from traveling to the USA?

Heh...

Free America, gunfights every day.

This saying wasn't a joke.

Whoever wants to go can go; he certainly didn't want to!

And regarding Xu's Heavy Industry being restricted from conducting international trade, that was even more absurd.

Because Xu's Heavy Industry didn't directly participate in trade at all.

Nowadays, the military sales of the castrated version of the powered exoskeleton were mainly handled by President Tang Minghui's Tangs Heavy Industry Group.

Xu Hao was more of a hands-off boss, just sitting back and waiting to collect money.

On the contrary.

By doing this, the USA was actually showing its own weakness.

It had no other choice, so it resorted to this desperate measure to sanction Xu Hao and Xu's Heavy Industry.

"Chairman Xu, what should we do?" Wang Qian asked with concern.

Although she understood the stakes, she always felt a bit worried when she thought about the USA starting to target Xu Hao.

"Don't pay any attention to it. The USA is just raging in its incompetence!"

Xu Hao sneered and shook his head lightly.

"We just need to continue doing our own research work properly. As for these other matters of great power confrontation, the country will step in to handle them."

"They are more professional!"

Indeed.

The USA doing this was nothing more than applying pressure on the Dragon Country.

The USA thought, "I will use the power of the state to target an individual and an enterprise of your Dragon Country."

If the Dragon Country official didn't step in to solve it, the Dragon Country Government would lose its credibility in front of the public.

If the Dragon Country did step in, it would undoubtedly confirm the title of Xu's Heavy Industry as a military enterprise.

Whether they stepped in or not, the Dragon Country Government was in a tough spot.

But clearly, since the Dragon Country top leadership chose to announce the news of the H-20 Strategic Stealth Bomber and specifically named that Xu's Heavy Industry participated in the self-research, they had already made plans to decide to confront the Western powers led by the USA.

The Dragon Country official wanted to tell the USA:

"That's right, no more pretending, I'm showing my hand. Xu's Heavy Industry is indeed a military enterprise of my Dragon Country. What can you do about it?"

Just as Xu Hao had anticipated.

One hour after the USA announced sanctions on Xu Hao and Xu's Heavy Industry, the Dragon Country official responded.

"Regarding the baseless sanctions by The White House of the USA on Mr. Xu Hao and Xu's Heavy Industry, the Dragon Country side expresses disappointment and strongly condemns them."

"We urge The White House to abide by the international trade market order and do what a country should do."

"At the same time, the Dragon Country official will implement reciprocal sanctions, imposing sanctions on three officials and one company from the USA..."

Although the Dragon Country official knew that this kind of sanction from the USA was harmless to Xu Hao, they also understood that the Dragon Country had to take a stand, take Xu Hao's side, and safeguard the interests and rights that Xu Hao should have.

The USA wanted to pick a fight with Academician Xu Hao? Where would that leave the face of the Dragon Country!

The matter of the USA sanctioning Xu Hao and Xu's Heavy Industry caused quite a stir, and netizens were naturally very concerned.

Xu Hao had just been on the trending list a few days ago.

Unexpectedly, after just a few days, he rushed to the trending topics again.

Netizens saw that Xu Hao was sanctioned by the USA and were immediately amused by the USA's actions.

"Hahaha... Engineer Xu was actually sanctioned by the USA?"

"The USA is chickening out. They have no other choice. Engineer Xu doesn't even pay attention to you. What's the use of sanctions?"

"They won't even let Engineer Xu go to the USA, as if Engineer Xu would want to go."

"A superpower is actually imposing sanctions on an individual and an enterprise of the Dragon Country. Doesn't this mean the USA is afraid of the strength of Engineer Xu and Xu's Heavy Industry?"

"As everyone knows, the individuals and enterprises sanctioned by the USA are all powerful, with very strong backbones!"

"Xu's Heavy Industry has received official certification from the USA!"

"..."

Netizens didn't take the USA's sanctions on Xu Hao to heart at all.

Because they all knew that Xu's Heavy Industry was a non-listed state-owned enterprise.

The USA's sanctions were more of a verbal threat and couldn't have any impact on Xu Hao and Xu's Heavy Industry at all.

However, in other words, the USA doing this was equivalent to telling the Dragon Country:

"We have already noticed Xu's Heavy Industry and will be paying close attention. Dragon Country, be careful."

The White House side indeed thought so.

They demanded that the CIIA, regardless of the funds used, must keep an eye on the movements of Xu's Heavy Industry at all times.

As long as there was any news, they must immediately report it to The White House.

Xu Hao didn't know the movements on the USA side, and even if he did, he wouldn't care.

His current work focus was to lead the scientific researchers to build the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier as soon as possible.

And to develop more high-end technological products.

...

The day after The White House announced the sanctions, Director Guo Fan, who hadn't been in touch for a long time, called.

"Chairman Xu, it's been a long time."

Director Guo Fan's familiar voice came from the phone.

Xu Hao smiled slightly, "Yes, it has been a long time."

He and Director Guo Fan had indeed not been in touch for a while.

During this period, Director Guo Fan only sent him a message once, saying that The Wandering Earth had a huge box office and was completely popular.

Xu Hao expressed his congratulations on this.

Director Guo Fan called mainly because he saw that Xu Hao had won many of the country's highest awards, so he called to congratulate him.

"Chairman Xu, congratulations. You swept so many awards by yourself. You are too strong!"

Director Guo Fan congratulated him sincerely.

"Haha, it's not worth mentioning."

Xu Hao didn't have much feeling about these awards; it was nothing more than a few dozen medals and certificates, tens of millions in prize money, plus billions in research funding that Old Dragon specially applied for from the Ministry of Finance.

It's just a drop in the bucket...

Hearing Xu Hao's humble-brag response, Director Guo Fan was immediately choked up and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Fortunately, Xu Hao asked next:

"Director Guo, what have you been busy with lately?"

Director Guo Fan came back to his senses and said:

"The official side came to me and asked me to film a military-themed movie."

Xu Hao was slightly stunned.

According to the plot direction of his previous life, after the first part of The Wandering Earth became a big hit, Director Guo Fan promised the audience that he would immediately prepare for the second part.

Unexpectedly, there was a slight deviation now.

Director Guo Fan was actually going to cooperate with the official side to film a military-themed movie?

This made Xu Hao quite surprised.

"Oh? It seems that Director Guo's strength has been recognized by the official side!"

Xu Hao teased.

After all, to be personally invited by the Dragon Country official to customize a military-themed movie, to a certain extent, Director Guo Fan's directing ability had been affirmed by the official side.

"Hahaha... I suppose so!"

Director Guo Fan was not modest at all, laughed out loud, and then a thought crossed his mind, and he said half-jokingly:

"Chairman Xu, my movie might start filming soon. I don't know if I can still cooperate with you and have you make movie props for me?"

What he said was entirely a joke; he never thought that Xu's Heavy Industry could make movie props for him.

What a joke!

Was Xu's Heavy Industry now something he could climb up to?

They had not only become a state-owned enterprise but also a very awesome military enterprise.

Could they make small movie props for him?

Hearing what Director Guo Fan said, Xu Hao hesitated for a moment.

Just as he was about to decline, the system's voice suddenly sounded in his mind:

"Ding!"

"Random task triggered!!"