Old Te still wanted to pay after the goods were delivered.
However, Jiang Siming ignored him completely. He simply said that if Old Te refused to pay, he would cooperate with other countries instead.
Terrified, Old Te hurriedly produced the money. He pleaded with the finance minister for the funds, but the minister saw that Old Te was about to step down and refused his request for an allocation.
Old Te was furious and ranted loudly.
The next day, Old Te held a press conference and announced that the finance minister was a fake minister. He fired him.
Only after replacing him with one of his own did he get nearly eighty billion U.S. dollars approved, which was paid in full and transferred to Jiang Siming.
Even so, Old Te was cursed out viciously, because American citizens felt that spending so much money on a game was the height of incompetence.
It was even more outrageous and absurd than the two hundred billion dollars he had spent building the U.S.-Mexico border wall back then.
The U.S.-Mexico border wall had been built at enormous expense, even at the cost of military funding. Yet Mexicans could easily climb over it with a twenty-yuan steel ladder made in China.
This had also become one of the world's favorite jokes about Old Te. Everyone said he was incredibly good at managing the household—using cannons to swat mosquitoes, only to miss. That was the most ridiculous part.
Now Old Te had spent four times as much as the U.S.-Mexico border wall had cost to buy a pile of gaming equipment.
He even said he would promote it throughout the entire military region and make every soldier play the game every day.
This made Old Te the target of even more furious criticism from the entire