Many people have the impression that California's major high-tech industries seem to be located in the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, because the famous Silicon Valley is located there.

Los Angeles, which relies on Hollywood, seems to be just a media capital, with music, film and television exploding, while high-tech industry seems lackluster.

But in fact, these are just stereotypes that have been inculcated after the end of the Cold War.

In the seventies and eighties, the area around Los Angeles had as many industrial layouts as Silicon Valley. The aerospace and aviation industries are very developed, and electronics, optics, and guidance have also made considerable achievements.

USC's current electrical engineering department is now far more famous than its acting department.

All of this depends on San Diego, not far south of Los Angeles and near the U.S.-Mexico border, where the headquarters of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet is located.

Because of the Cold War, McDonnell Douglas, which has always had an excellent historical order performance in the US Naval Aviation, is now developing and providing a new generation of cost-effective carrier-based aircraft F/A-18 for HNA. McDonnell Douglas is located between Los Angeles and San Diego in Southern California.

With the pressure of the Soviets there, the US Department of Defense has an extremely large budget, and it is not stingy to support high-tech suppliers.

Since the time of Secretary McNamara, after being played by Boeing, the US Air Force and the Navy have tried their best to prevent Boeing from becoming a dominant party, so as not to take advantage of its own skills.

Even if Douglas's DC-10 in the 60s lost more than a billion dollars in repeated research and development expenses because of the patented submarine drug scheme of the Boeing 747's wide-body passenger aircraft, the Air Force and Hainan Airlines were willing to take orders to give McDonnell Douglas a blood transfusion to continue its life, so that it could continue to eat dog with Boeing.

This state of affairs was maintained until the fall of the Soviet Union in the 90s, when the U.S. Department of Defense could not afford to keep McDonnell Douglas because of its lack of rivals and its budget plummeted, and it was finally acquired by Boeing during Clinton's presidency.

With McDonnell Douglas as the core, plus Thor and Hughes, a bunch of high-tech companies that rely on the Pacific Fleet for food are clustered up.

After Thor's force feedback sensor and gyroscope, and Hughes's TV guidance technology were gradually eliminated by the military, they spread to a bunch of photographic equipment technology companies in Los Angeles, giving full play to the secondary civilian residual heat.

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The full 16-hour transoceanic flight, the first time I took a Boeing 747, flying over the vast Pacific Ocean, brought a huge shock to Xiao Sui.

After landing in Los Angeles, she was even more dazzled. The cognition that had just been refreshed in Xiangjiang collapsed again.

After opening up the joint in Xiangjiang, now Gu Biao and her are already official partners of Shaw Brothers Pictures, and they have come to Hollywood to make big purchases.

Sir Shao even provided several studio equipment companies with which he had a pleasant cooperation.

And before leaving, Sir Shao told Gu Biao a good news and a bad news very frankly:

When the good news is that the American who is about to contact him has the authority to approve which equipment can be exported to foreign countries, as long as it is done in one stop, Gu Biao's task will be successful.

And the bad news is that the guy who needs to do it in one stop may have the identity of the CIA and the Batumi assistant investigator, so let Gu Biao be careful, don't hurt Sir Shao if he wants to purchase high-precision equipment in the future, and his reputation will be ruined.

"Hey, it's Sir Shao's friend Mr. Gu, please come here. Introduce yourself, Turazinsky, Sunkist Photographic Equipment Company, it's a pleasure to meet the big guy from across the ocean!"

As soon as he came out of the airport terminal, Gu Biao was stopped by several Americans, and the leader greeted him in American slang, which seemed to be rude and easy-going, but it seemed to be intentional.

"Jews, Russians?" Gu Biao subconsciously asked.

Whatever Zinsky heard in the United States, it must have been the Jews of Eastern Europe, and the vast majority of them were descendants of the down-and-out aristocrats or intellectuals who fled from the Soviet Union when Tsarist Russia was destroyed.

And these people are often shrewd and hateful to the Eastern world, after all, the hatred of the country and the family are all occupied.

I have to admit that the United States is a place that can always poach the intellectuals of that country when there is a song in another country. This was true for the USSR, and later for Germany.

"Aha, it seems that Mr. Gu knows the United States quite well, and he is indeed highly educated. Turazinsky smiled sheepishly.

"It's just a theory, but you still have to look at it to know. Actually, I wanted to see the development of the United States for a long time, but the opportunity always has to wait. Gu Biao complained appropriately.

Turazinsky did not see the flaws on the surface, so he very enthusiastically invited Gu Biao to get into the car.

Obviously, during his time in the United States, he is unlikely to have free time for business negotiations, and all the official trips are handled by this agency.

At most, when you go out in private, you can have a little private itinerary.

However, Gu Biao also knew this, and also helped him save costs.

It is estimated that the other party will be included in the cost of the order, or recorded on Sir Shao's head, and the next time Sir Shao comes to purchase equipment, he will come back together.

The car sent by the US side was a Cadillac, a total of two, one for Turazinsky and his party, and the other for Gu Biao and Xiao Sui. However, because they had just met, there were many details to discuss, so Turazinsky deigned to sit in the passenger seat of Gu Biao's car and let his subordinates sit in another car.

Turazinski pretended to light a cigar and then stretched his hand holding the cigarette out of the window slightly. In fact, he took the opportunity to turn his head sideways and observe Gu Ao's expression from the rearview mirror.

He is professionally trained to tell roughly whether a person is lying or insincere by his facial expressions. But this technique is not precise and reliable, and if the other party has also been trained in a special anti-lie detector and can control the knee-jerk muscle twitches, it is likely that Mogao Yizhang will still deceive him.

And the best way to deal with this kind of lie detector is the horse-style self-chicken soup method, that is, the lie is constantly psychologically hinted before lying, so that the liar himself believes that what he says is true, and the other party will not be able to see it.

In fact, we just provided Mr. Shao with some high-end studio equipment in the first half of the year, which was the second set of such high-end equipment in Asia, and the other set was in Tokyo. ”

So in the face of this kind of questioning, Gu Biao said very proudly: "How can it be enough to be second in Asia? I heard that Sir Shao spent a total of 2 million US dollars to set up a new studio, right?

If you want me to say, Sir Shao is just old, and he has no courage and no momentum! 2 million yuan has been spent, and he has rushed to the second place in Asia, so why not spend hundreds of thousands more, and become the first in Asia in one go? What is there to brag about buying the same equipment as Toho Pictures?

It's better than the best in Dongbao! This is a publicity gimmick! When the time comes, there is no need to spend money on advertising, just by revealing this gimmick to newspapers and other radio stations, they will broadcast the news, and the advertising effect will be more valuable than using these equipment to buy traffic directly!"

"But Toho Pictures asked us that the photographic equipment we imported was already the highest! There was no better style!" said Turazinsky slyly.

Gu Biao rudely interrupted the other party's defense: "The United States' technological iteration ability is so weak? It's been a year or two since Dongbao Pictures' order, right? It's been more than half a year since Sir Shao's order, right? You don't have new technology? Even if you don't, can't I customize it if I spend money?"

For example, just change a few components to get higher precision and more cutting-edge sensors. I want the best publicity effect in Asia! Otherwise, it would be very shameless for me to co-produce a film with Sir Shao. ”

Turazinsky was a little out of tune.

Asian guests in this era are generally more reserved. (To be exact, it is a guest of the East Asian cultural circle, and the big dog in the Middle East is not subtle)

But Gu Biao's performance is like a big dog who wants to rank and rank after the outbreak.

Turazinsky couldn't help but wonder: Is it really the wrong person? After the nouveau riche attribute is inflated, it can cover up the elegance and introversion of the East Asians themselves? Hmm...... Perhaps, looking at this person's information, he once did some unlegal secret business in the Middle East, maybe it was this temper that led to President Hussein's favor......

"Okay, then let's take a visit, I will take you to see all the brands that my company represents. First of all, we will help you to see if you can customize the force feedback sensor and gyroscope with higher accuracy. But do you want to go to the hotel to drop off your luggage and make arrangements for a rest?"

"No need, I slept on the plane for more than ten hours, and the jet lag was reversed. Gu Biao's statement is also a frank performance, after all, he is not in a hurry to throw away all the luggage and lock it, but put it in the car prepared by the other party, so it is absolutely impossible to bring sensitive goods, and there is no information that is afraid that people will know.

Although Gu Biao knew that even if he stayed in the hotel first, as long as the hotel was arranged by the other party, it would not be like entering a no-man's land while he left the room in the end.

Gu Biao began a whole day of continuous inspection work.

As the main target, the latest manufacturer of the mobile camera for shooting field scenes, the latest Standicon manufacturer, let Gu Biao have a short visit and expressed the possibility of customization.

However, the specific ones were cleverly stopped by Turazinsky, which shows that those technical companies are willing to export, but they are only to be reviewed by Turazinsky, a secret assistant investigator in Batumi.

Then Gu Biao looked at several more, but he was not interested. But as long as the other party tentatively says "this thing is better than the best in Dongbao Pictures at present", then Gu Biao has to pretend to want to buy it - otherwise it would be too much to buy only those things that may be diverted as military industry reverse.

After all, before buying "Wagley" and coming back to become a gambling boat, you have to really run a small gambling boat to make people believe that you are really running a gambling boat. Otherwise, it would be strange to only stare at the empty shell of the aircraft carrier and not doubt it.

But looking at these money, which is likely to be unreimbursable, Gu Biao is very heartbroken.

It wasn't until the afternoon that he went to a company that made long-range wireless monitors for camera fleets, listened to some reports, and found something that was interesting.

"This thing seems to be the television guidance equipment of the 'Young Animal' missile, and after the fire control computer was removed, the remaining components were changed, right? It is no wonder that the Americans feel that the 'Young Animal' has been in service for eight years and is a bit backward, and the all-weather and anti-jamming capabilities of such a thing as television guidance are too poor.

In addition, the US military has absolute air supremacy, and it is not worried that the carrier aircraft of the ground-to-surface missile will not be safe enough if it stays in the air over the target for too long...... It's kind of interesting. ”

Gu Biao was secretly happy in his heart, but he remained silent on the surface, and secretly added this thing to his inspection list.

Anyway, this has never been exported, and Gu Biao bought it back, which can also be said to be the goodwill of Sir Shao's production company to win the first hardware conditions in Asia.