Henry immediately sent someone to contact DEC, but it would take a while to talk about it. However, the acquisition of Hughes Aerospace and Communications was proposed by General Motors, and it soon became apparent.

General Motors specializes in selling cars, and he owns Hughes Aerospace & Communications mostly for investment. Of course, some technology is also needed. If someone makes the right bid, they don't mind selling the company. After five rounds of negotiations, SpaceX and General Motors finally acquired Hughes Aerospace & Communications for $6 billion, including Hughes Labs!

SpaceX could have bought Hughes Aerospace & Communications for $5 billion and co-owned Hughes Labs with General Motors. But in order to take full control of the Hughes lab, SpaceX added an additional $1 billion!

Just as "Weased Studios" is the core asset of Lockheed, Hughes Labs is also the core asset of Hughes Corporation, where countless advanced technologies were born. And the most outstanding and largest talents in the entire company are all gathered in Hughes Labs.

For high-tech companies, talent and technology are the vitality of the company!

Henry attaches great importance to Hughes Laboratory, which not only has advanced aerospace technology, but also is the earliest research and strongest technology institution in the field of lasers!

Think about it, install a laser weapon on the satellite, and give it to anyone who is unhappy, at this speed of light, who can stop it?

Build 1,800 satellites, each with 10 laser weapons, and the whole world will be afraid!

The ICBM wanted to hit it, but it was destroyed by laser weapons halfway through.

The most effective way to deal with the side with laser weapons is to return the favor with the other, yes, to fight lasers with lasers!

Henry developed laser technology just in case. Maybe it will be used in the future, and in his lifetime, maybe it will open the age of interstellar exploration, one more weapon, one more security.

In "Independence Day", the White House was used by aliens with laser weapons. All of a sudden, it's gone......

That power is terrifying!

Now, there are four highest-tech institutions or companies under Henry's name: WilliamsX Labs, Weasel Studios, SpaceX, and Hughes Labs.

Before he knew it, Henry was obsessed with acquiring high-tech labs or studios, and the acquisition of world-class labs or studios would have the strongest technology.

Henry looked into the distance, and there was a Bell Lab in the distant state of New Jersey......

Bell Labs is a company of transistors, lasers, solar cells, light-emitting diodes, digital switches, communication satellites, electronic digital computers, cellular mobile communication devices, long-distance television transmission, analog languages, sound films, and stereo recordings. and the birthplace of many major inventions such as communication networks, and has obtained more than 25,000 patents.

Originally, Bell Labs was founded by ATamp; amp; amp; amp; amp; T and Western Electronics jointly owned, and it was not easy to acquire it. But soon, in 1996, at ATamp; amp; amp; amp; amp; On the basis of T and Western Electronics, a new company will be established - Lucent, and Bell Labs belongs to Lucent. As long as Lucent acquires it, it is equivalent to owning Bell Labs!

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At 5:46 a.m. on January 17, 1995. A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Kobe, Japan!

News of the earthquake soon spread around the world, and Henry heard the news. It was immediately realized that this was the famous Great Hanshin Earthquake in Japan, which killed more than 5,400 people, injured more than 34,000 people, collapsed and damaged more than 190,000 houses, and caused direct economic losses of $100 billion. For example, in Kobe's Nagata Ward, all the wooden houses were burned down, which was the biggest disaster in Japan after World War II!

Because of this incident, it even led to the collapse of the British Bank of Baring! Due to the earthquake, the Nikkei index plummeted, and the Bank of Baring bought a lot of money. As a result, billions of dollars were lost!

Henry has seen some photos of the Hanshin earthquake, and it's terrible!

A week later, Japan released the casualty data and various losses in the earthquake, which immediately shocked the world!

Many countries, companies, institutions or individuals have made donations, and Henry expressed his most sincere condolences to the Japanese victims in his heart, but the donation is free, as the world's super-richest man, he has donated less, others have to say, and the more he donated, the Japanese government has cheaper. It is not easy to make money, and money does not come from the wind, so how can it be said that it will be donated! Moreover, isn't the Japanese government very rich, and it still needs others to donate money? However, Henry does not donate at all. Henry asked his Japanese company to donate some money a little more interestingly. After all, the company has grown big, and it is a Japanese company, if you don't donate any money, after the earthquake, others are not allowed to gossip and spit on it?

If the reputation is too bad, the Japanese company will not be able to mix......

Japan's economy is just recovering after the 1990 real estate stock market crash. However, the Great Hanshin Earthquake dealt a heavy blow to Japan and set Japan's economy back for several years! And in the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Japan suffered another severe blow!

Henry thought about it and felt that Japan was a little terrifying, and the successive blows could not stop its development speed, and its economic and technological strength were also very strong!

Henry muttered to himself: "It seems that during the Asian financial crisis in 1997, we had to be ruthless against Japan......

As a result of this disaster, only about 200 companies in Japan went out of business. Most of these companies are retail stores, supermarkets, or production factories or whatever, but the impact on technology companies is very small, and the scope of the attack is not wide enough. And it doesn't make much sense for Henry to reach out and buy those companies.

As time passed, the Hanshin earthquake faded into obscurity.

On January 26, 1995, Karina invited Henry to China to spend the Chinese New Year with her parents, effectively meeting them.

Henry thought about it and agreed. He and Karina have long been in a relationship, but for many years, Henry has never met Karina's parents. First, Henry was a little timid about meeting his parents, and second, Karina's parents had moved to live in Beijing, and it was not easy to see each other. This time, although Karina invited herself, it was most likely her parents who forced her to ask herself to meet. Since that's the case, it's not a big deal to meet each other. Henry thought to himself that he hadn't been back to China for a long time, this time to Beijing, and then to his hometown in his previous life......

Henry had never dared to send someone to investigate whether there was another self in his hometown in his previous life, he was afraid of the changes that would occur because of the butterfly effect! He would rather not know than hear the news that disappointed him. He is now alone, without parents, without relatives, and even though he has hundreds of billions of dollars, he still often feels extremely lonely at night. He sometimes looks at the starry sky in a daze, tears streaming down his eyes, and sometimes he is desperate to fly to China, to see that land with his own eyes, to find his relatives in his past life!

At this moment, Henry felt that he could no longer escape!

(To be continued.) )