The plane from Rongcheng transferred in the capital, the journey was long, and there was a feeling of eardrum pressure caused by high air pressure in the rear distance, and Cheng Ran woke up halfway and saw Cheng Feiyang covering himself with a blanket sideways.

After a journey of more than 20 hours, the plane arrived at Dulles Airport, which he vaguely remembered as the filming location of "Die Hard 2", and he didn't know if there was a movie in this life.

When the plane stopped and Cheng Ran stood up to pick up his luggage, the blood in his whole body seemed to have finally begun to circulate, which was called a sore back and sadistic, and in the future, he felt that he still didn't act in such a business group with Cheng Feiyang, Cheng Feiyang didn't take a special first class, and he couldn't run to upgrade, otherwise Lao Tzu was hard and simple, and what happened to his son's domineering president, so this journey was still quite a bit offended.

Thinking about it, Cheng Ran has not experienced the situation of taking the green train for a day and a night to study or just starting his career, and he can only sigh that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and from luxury to thrift.

However, his father, like in his previous life, is still his role model, after sitting like this for more than 20 hours, he still has back disease and cervical spondylosis, but he can't see the slightest tiredness, he is still energetic, and his back is straight when he walks off the plane.

There were a lot of people on this plane with them, and this trip to the United States was in the name of the Chengdu Enterprise Association, so it also brought together some foreign trade enterprises in Chengdu.

Because there are a large number of people in their group, and they are obviously not tourists or business attire, when they got off the plane to pick up their luggage and gathered, Cheng Ran also saw many people looking at them, including a few Peugeot American girls and mixed-race beauties.

Later, Cheng Ran found that people didn't come to see a little brother like him at all, but from the pick-up gate, you could see a female reporter in a ponytail suit, a media person carrying a camera and a camera around her neck, and there were about five or six media, which seemed to be picking up an inspection group from China, and they seemed to be able to match up with their group of people, and they just paid attention to it politely.

Cheng Feiyang also felt strange that the group from Rongcheng to Washington was very low-key, and there would be local cooperative companies to contact him, but he didn't say in advance that there was such an arrangement. It should be someone else.

When I got closer, I saw that there was a pick-up sign in Chinese and English in front of this wave of media people, which said "Chang'an will be economic and trade".

Fu Long greeted Sun Guangzhen in Santa Clara outside, and after shaking hands with Cheng Feiyang and his entourage eagerly, a long-planned warm atmosphere broke out in the pick-up hall that followed, and the reporters who had been in the pick-up hall quickly became active, and another group of economic and trade teams from China appeared on the other side of the channel, with very high specifications and high levels, and flashing lights came and went, and these reporters from the American media had already greeted them.

In comparison, the group from their Chengdu side is much more inconspicuous, but they have to keep a low profile when they go to the United States, ignoring the hustle and bustle in the hall, Sun Guangzhen led Rongcheng and his party to the outside of the airport, and the two buses that had been prepared drove the Rongcheng group to Washington City, which was more than 40 kilometers away.

In the Fulong group of the first bus, Sun Guangzhen said to everyone, "Our hotel is near this K street, which is commonly known as K Street, Washington's street naming has a certain rule, the east-west direction is generally named in alphabetical order, the north-south direction is mostly identified with numbers, and the diagonal street that is neither east-west nor north-south is named after the state name of the United States." K Street runs from west to east, running north of Washington, J Street to the south and L Street to the north. ”

"The world knows Wall Street, but in fact, the impact of the low-key street on international politics on K Street is only as good as the impact of Wall Street on the financial market. The American media often like to say that if you don't know K Street, you don't know Washington, and you don't know American politics. ”

"You can look around, it's full of lobbying firms, big and small. Of course, the real headquarters of these lobbying firms may not be here, but they will have to have an office here. ”

Cheng Ran followed Sun Guangzhen's words and saw that K Street did not look good from the outside, and the office buildings were not high, and they all had some cold cement walls and gray glass window styles, and there were indeed many dense signboards on these office buildings, all of which were words such as public relations consulting. He also noticed that banks were everywhere and high-end restaurants lined up. Beneath the understated exterior, there is a faint sense of incomparable prosperity beneath this street.

Zhao Qing smiled, "This is American-style politics, money games. ”

Cheng Feiyang glanced at him and said, "We're about to enter." ”

Cheng Ran looked through the car window at this place, known as the fourth power center of the United States, this street is concentrated with a large number of think tanks, lobby groups, public relations firms, civil organizations, international headquarters, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, etc., and a large number of lobby groups and politicians and parliamentarians interact every day, trading politics and power.

Lobbyists in suits and leather shoes lobbied on Capitol Hill for their corporate clients, and many of the policies that favored big American corporations were actually lobbied in the process. The interests of many groups are also finalized in this way, and even representatives from countries around the world will participate in huge lobbying activities here for their own interests, hoping that the United States will formulate a policy direction that is more favorable to them.

The Israel lobby is a model of foreign lobbying for the United States, and the Israel lobby has directly influenced the formulation of U.S. policy toward the Middle East through its infiltration of the U.S. Congress and its congressmen through political donations, and the only principle of this policy is: Israel first. This bloc's position on the U.S. Capitol Hill is almost unchallengeable.

If Cheng Feiyang wants to introduce technology in the United States, then he will have to face all kinds of foreign censorship and hostility from the United States, especially the "Red China" embankment and hostility, in this case, it is simply impossible to rely on the layout of Fulong Company in the United States, let alone participate in the acquisition of companies, even if it is to invest in technology and technology enterprises, it is difficult to pass, and the Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) will not be able to pass this hurdle.

The core of Fulong's strategy is to compete for the 3G highland, so Cheng Feiyang wants to obtain the WCDMA chip technology cooperation that the United States has the advantage of, the core and non-core, which must be grinding with the United States, which can be researched, shared technology, and cooperated, and which cannot cooperate, then make a purchase, nothing more than more money and less money, this set of cooperation in the field of high-tech, if Fulong simply comes over and wants to engage in a set of exchanges with this side, it is just whimsical, and it is inevitable to eat behind closed doors.

But if these deals are brokered through K Street lobbying, the impossible will become possible.

Cheng Ran went to the United States with Cheng Feiyang this time, although he just made 80 million on hand and still had a surplus in his savings, but he did not consider coming to the United States to invest in technology companies, such as Google, as soon as he was a foreigner, he wanted to cut a piece of his bowl on this, so there were countless American companies that also wanted to buy shares, and beat him down in various ways. It's too easy to suppress, and if you directly find out where he came from, you can suppress the funds from "Red China" through administrative force.

Secondly, the one who has not become famous but is optimistic about the future is not stable, because he has no power in the United States and cannot be supervised, so it is easy to happen later that after multiple rounds of financing, his shares in start-ups will be coveted and carveed up and expelled from the game.

On another level, this is also a weakness of human nature, you are not a reputation like Son Masayoshi and need startups to rely on, and second, you don't have local resources to provide, just because you invested a part of the money at the beginning, you have a lot of shares, and this makes the entrepreneurs who are trying to grow the company and make the cake bigger What do entrepreneurs think? Why can't you kick you out? As soon as this kind of thinking moves, no matter how honest the entrepreneur and the actual controller of the company, they will give birth to thoughts, and once this kind of thinking is together, then it will evolve into an internal power war, and there have been countless such cases in reality.

One of the companies that Frong lobbied on K Street was called LB, and the founder, Robert, ran this very small company on K Street, and among the more than 3,000 registered companies on K Street, the first 2,000 may not be ranked, but in Washington, a city with a population of about 1 million, there are about 40,000 or 50,000 registered lobbyists. One can imagine how many lobbyists a parliamentarian often faces, and how many of them can really influence parliamentarians?

"Many people think that lobbying is the domain of large corporations, and small businesses will eventually fail, because small businesses cannot afford to hire representatives based in Washington all year round, and whether they have the financial resources to make political contributions to the congressional campaign to attract the attention of congressmen, but in fact, this is a misconception, and small lobbying firms like Robert are more likely to succeed if they are done properly. Sun Guangzhen privately introduced them to Robert's background as a representative of the Fulong lobby.

He dropped out of college, interned on Capitol Hill, founded a political job search site, and then moved to California to work as a public relations officer for an arms dealer accused of smuggling weapons to Libya, helping clients sell everything from flashlights to missile guidance software to the government, and then found his way in Washington. When he was forty-eight years old, he made that phone call to Clinton. From then on, a new world opened up before his eyes. ”

Sun Guangzhen said, "If we want to reach an agreement, such a person who has dual connections with the White House and even Capitol Hill, and Fu Long maintains a long-term relationship with him, maybe it will work wonders." ”