Chapter 699: This is a little familiar
Seeing Fang Chen fall into deep thought, Clinton's eyes flashed with an inexplicable light.
To be honest, he has always been curious about Fang Chen.
Well, that's right, curious.
I wonder why Fang Chen can earn such a huge family business at such a young age in a place like China and Russia, where the business atmosphere is almost exhausted.
If Fang Chen was the same as Albert and Bill next to him, he would have a big background, but Fang Chen didn't have these, which was very strange.
Such business wizards usually only appear in the United States.
No, such business wizards will not appear in the United States, Bill and Jobs, who are already considered representatives of young people getting rich in the United States, but compared with Fang Chen, the gap is probably farther than running from the East Coast to the West Coast.
The other was curious as to why Fang Chen chose to invest money in him, and it was still a huge amount of money like 10 million US dollars.
He asked Mikas to go to Fang Chen, the main purpose was actually not to want the Hilton family to offend Fang Chen so inexplicably, especially when Hilton was now ready to invest heavily in a new star economy like China and Russia.
In essence, he didn't expect Fang Chen to agree to raise donations for him.
even felt that even if Fang Chen agreed to raise donations, it would only be hundreds of thousands of dollars at most, how could he have thought that Fang Chen would directly rank first in his fundraising activity as soon as he made a move.
To tell the truth, since he is willing to pay such a large sum of money, even if Fang Chen goes to Bush, he can still enjoy the treatment of a guest.
So why invest in him?
This is what he is most curious about and most puzzled.
The remaining curiosity is, since Fang Chen has made such a big bet on him, what exactly is his intention?
After a few breaths, Fang Chen looked at the somewhat nervous Clinton and Xi Lary, and smiled slightly, "Actually, my investment in Clinton is similar to Bill's investment in you, which is to be optimistic about the two plans you put forward about the information superhighway and the digital earth, as well as the attraction of these two to voters, as a technology company, this is the biggest return." ”
Speaking of this, Fang Chen really sighed inexplicably in his heart, in his previous life, Ma Yun, Ma Huateng, Li Yanhong, that is, the birth of BAT, all of which are inevitably related to Clinton's information superhighway.
After all, without this plan, there would be no Internet, and naturally there would be no so-called BAT.
And it is this plan that has led to the rapid development of the information industry, so that the network has changed from a local area network to the Internet, from the original 56K telephone line dial-up to a 100 megabit, gigabit optical fiber network, and communication enterprises are also in this rapid expansion process, making a lot of money.
Hearing this, Clinton and Clinton couldn't help but be overjoyed, and what Fang Chen said about the attraction to the people was not a hint that he could win the election.
"In addition, I want to cooperate with some scientific research institutions in the United States, or even acquire them, and the products of my companies will also enter the United States for sale, and I don't want to be interfered with by the government at that time. Fang Chen said slowly.
This is the most important purpose of his investment in Clinton.
In the future, game consoles, VCDs, and even his communication products, such as base stations, mobile phones, etc., will inevitably enter the American market.
In previous lives, there were too many cases in which the United States interfered in the technological cooperation between Huaxia and American scientific research institutions and prevented Huaxia enterprises from acquiring technology companies.
And the most shameless thing is that the United States also claims what long-arm jurisdiction is, and uses this as an excuse to interfere with the acquisition of Huaxia Hujian Hongxin Fund, the famous German semiconductor equipment supplier, the Aixtron company, and the acquisition of the German mechanical tool company Lefeld and so on.
Such cases are not uncommon.
As for the United States' suppression of Huawei, it is needless to say that it can only be described by the word shameless.
It has fully demonstrated what it means to be a so-called free, democratic, and market economy in the face of US interests, just a mess of garbage that can be trampled on and trampled on.
Therefore, Fang Chen wants to find a patron to resist the oppression from the government level for him, and this person is naturally none other than Clinton, the future president of the United States.
And he remembers that in his previous life, just after the millennium, Cisco went to the court to sue Huawei once, and it was a lot of trouble at that time.
However, Huawei can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, because Cisco has done this, and the world has discovered that there is a communication company called Huawei in this world, and it is doing well, otherwise how could it be targeted by Cisco.
Fang Chen predicts that according to his plan, if the development of Qingtian Communications goes well, Cisco is likely to make a move on him before the millennium.
Therefore, investing in Clinton can be regarded as being prepared.
And in this regard, the credibility of the US president is still quite good, and he will definitely do things when he receives money.
For example, there are frequent shootings in the United States, and it stands to reason that guns should have been banned a long time ago, and some researchers have even calculated that because of the shootings, the average life expectancy of Americans has dropped by 2.5 years.
It can even be said that shootings are an important reason why the average life expectancy of Americans is at the bottom of the developed world.
But it can't be banned, no matter who comes to power.
The reason is also very simple, not only did the President of the United States receive money from the Rifle Association during the election campaign, but the Rifle Association also funded a large number of retired congressmen, ministers, diplomats and other lobbying teams in the United States.
Clinton and Albert were stunned for a moment, looking at Fang Chen in disbelief, they never thought that Fang Chen had made such an incredible, unbelievable, and even ridiculous request after making such a big bet.
Or can this kind of thing count as a requirement?
Yes, they admit that the United States will adopt a strategy of suppression against some countries that threaten them in science and technology, after all, everyone knows that the hegemony of the United States is built on the hegemony of science and technology, financial hegemony, and military hegemony, the most important of which is scientific and technological hegemony.
Therefore, the United States' technological leadership cannot be challenged by other countries, and even in the United States, there is a widely circulated saying, 'If our technology cannot be 20 years ahead of other countries, we will be terrified and will not be able to sleep.'" ’
But the key question is, is it possible for China to challenge the US hegemony in science and technology?
In terms of overall science and technology, the United States now has an advantage over China for more than 50 years.
If it is replaced by the East Wa, or the Soviets are about the same.
This is also the reason why the United States was so ruthless in attacking the Soviets and the East in the previous period, especially against the East and the East, and the East has already touched the scientific and technological hegemony of the United States.
And last year, the per capita GDP of the East was twice that of the United States, and the East Japanese goods were even more popular in the world, almost everyone liked the high-quality and inexpensive East Japanese goods, and even those damn East Japanese merchants waved the green Franklin, clamoring to buy the Statue of Liberty.
But the key problem is that now that the Soviets have been dismembered by the United States, and the forced increase in the exchange rate according to the signing of the Plaza Accord has led to the collapse of the entire country's finance and real estate last year, it can be said that the world will return to a free, equal, and open atmosphere, and it will still be dominated by the United States.
In such an atmosphere, the US Government may deal with another technology company, especially a technology company in China, and Clinton can guarantee that this kind of thinking and possibility will never be in the minds of any congressmen and cabinet members of the two associations.
It's a fantasy.
"Fang, do you really ask for such a little bit? It's okay, we are friends, if you need my help, just mention it. Clinton smiled heartily and even said with some flattery.
However, there is a premise for this, and he will become president first.
It is really just a small problem that he can become president, and if he can't, everything will be over.
And now, he still hopes that Fang Chen can continue to support him, so now Fang Chen has any request, he can agree.
Fang Chen looked at Clinton's pretended generous smile, as well as a trace of nervousness and flattery in his eyes, and couldn't help but feel full of emotion in his heart, this is capitalism, capital is everything, capital is God!
Seeing such a cautious attitude of the future US president, Fang Chen felt that his $10 million was not spent in vain.
It can be said that although the United States claims to have one person, one vote, in fact it is one dollar and one vote, but the current US presidential campaign has not yet reached the level where three or four billion dollars of campaign funds will be dropped after 2010.
As Senator Mark Hannah, who helped Republican William McKinley win back-to-back U.S. presidential elections in 1896 and 1900, said, "Two things are important to American politics: money is the first, and money is the second." ”
At this time, according to the announcement of the Bush campaign committee, Bush received the largest amount of fund-raising funds among all presidential candidates, but it did not exceed $200 million, so Fang Chen's $10 million is really not a small amount, and it is completely worthy of Clinton's attitude toward Fang Chen.
Fang Chen shook his head slightly, "Clinton, this is all I ask of you. ”
In fact, he wanted to shout two more slogans, "For freedom, or the slogan of the Lord", but after thinking about it, it really didn't mean much.
"Fang, you are really a good person, what you said is all on me, and even if you have a scientific research institution that you want to cooperate with, I can help you contact you when the time comes, and when I become president, I will definitely claim to be the youth of the whole United States to learn from you!" Clinton said with some excitement as he shook Fang Chen's hand.
Thinking like Fang Chen, who doesn't talk much, asks for much, and invests a lot of money, isn't it the perfect big money owner he dreamed of before?
At this time, Fang Chen was a little stunned, how could he feel that this sentence was a little familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere.
A thought flashed, and Fang Chen's heart suddenly became a little weird, he had heard it, he had indeed heard it.
In his previous life, a Chinese man was also called on by Clinton to let young Americans learn from him.
And this person is Li Xiaohua.
It's just 1996.
But on second thought, it became clear that 1996 was the time for Clinton to run for a second term.
In other words, Li Xiaohua did exactly the same thing as him in 1996 and invested money for Clinton's campaign, which is why Clinton said such things.
After a few more conversations, Bill Gates took the opportunity to put forward that the Digital Earth project is a bit too big and should be scaled back a little bit, and more funds, manpower, and material resources should be invested in the information superhighway.
Originally, Clinton still had some doubts, but Fang Chen interjected next to him, saying that he also agreed with Bill Gates' idea.
Seeing this, Clinton immediately agreed.
After all, what is planned or not is a matter for him after he becomes president, and whether he can get the support of Fang Chen and Bill Gates, the two big donors, but now the matter in front of him, which is more important, he naturally knows.
And he also thinks that what Fang Chen and Bill Gates said makes sense, he should focus on projects that can be realized as soon as possible, so that Americans can benefit as soon as possible and improve the economic situation of the United States.
Last year, an organization conducted a survey on Bush's approval rating, and almost 91 percent of Americans supported Bush, but only 49 percent were satisfied with Bush's economic behavior.
Therefore, the economic card is the only possibility that he can come up with and defeat Bush.
After all, in addition to Fang Chen and Bill Gates, he also had to talk to some small financiers, congressmen, cabinet ministers, diplomats, and so on.
Rejecting Bill Gates' invitation to visit Microsoft and his high-tech mansion in Washington State, Fang Chen went upstairs and went back to his room.
He has a problem with his brain, so he will go to Washington State, Washington is the political center of the United States, it can be said that there is no technology company that can come up with a hand except Microsoft, and he is going to California, and Silicon Valley is in Santa Clara, California.
It seems that because she hasn't seen her since she came to Arkansas, Mengmeng saw Fang Chen coming, and immediately threw herself into Fang Chen's arms, humming and chirping, gurgling in her throat.
Fang Chen pushed her a few times, but he didn't get out of his arms, so he shook his head helplessly, dispelling this thought.
Seeing this, Wu Maocai took the opportunity to say: "Mengmeng, I stayed in the cage in the cargo hold for a whole day today, and I was really suffocated." ”
Fang Chen raised Meng Meng and glanced at it twice, it was indeed a little wilted, not as lively as usual.
"But there is no way, the airline can't allow a cat to move in the cabin, even if we are willing to buy a first-class ticket for Mengmeng, and ensure that Mengmeng will not make trouble. Fang Chen said with some regret.
Hearing this, Wu Maocai was overjoyed and felt that something big was about to happen.
But he didn't say it directly, but asked Fang Chen what happened at the dinner.
That kind of occasion was not suitable for him to follow, so after arranging for Huiming to guard outside, he took care of Mengmeng upstairs in the banquet hall.
However, after listening to Fang Chen's general explanation of what happened at the dinner, Wu Maocai suddenly fell into an inexplicable silence.