Li Xuan hung up the phone, but the smile on the corner of his mouth had not yet disappeared. He had just received a phone call from US Vice President George H.W. Bush from Washington, D.C., on the other side of the Pacific.

In addition to expressing New Year's greetings to Li Xuan and his family, Bush Sr. also expressed the hope that the Eastern Group will continue to increase its investment in the United States and contribute to the development of the US information technology industry.

Behind these seemingly formulaic official terms, there is actually a lot of information hidden that only the two of them can understand. As early as more than four months ago, Li Xuan made a proposal to Bush Sr. He hoped that the elder Bush would come forward to promote the development of the Internet, computers, and other high-tech industries in the United States, and tailor-made an "information superhighway" plan for the other side.

At that time, the elder Bush did not rush to express his position, but said that he needed some time to think. The elder Bush thought about this for four months, during which Li Xuan never asked Mr. Vice President for an answer as if he had never mentioned this matter at all.

On the first day of the New Year in 1987, Bush Sr. gave Li Xuan the best New Year's Day gift. His phone call today was actually hinting to Li Xuan that he had accepted those suggestions from a few months ago.

In fact, Li Xuan had already expected this, and in the midterm elections that just ended not long ago, the Republican Party lost 8 and 5 seats in the Senate and House of Representatives re-elections respectively. The Senate, which had been controlled by Republicans for six years, was retaken by the Democrats.

Coupled with the fact that the House of Representatives, which has been controlled by the Democrats for 40 years, both houses of Congress are now under the control of the Democrats. This makes Republican President Reagan likely to be a lame duck in the remaining two years of his term, and he is bound to be greatly constrained by the Democratic Party.

The midterm elections are a test for the ruling party in the United States, and the Republican Party's results this time are obviously not ideal. Among them, the most affected are the hardest. Naturally, there is a good chance that Bush Sr. will represent the Republican Party in running for the next president in two years.

Li Xuan has been paying attention to Bush Sr.'s movements recently, and it is not difficult to collect the vice president's itinerary. Li Xuan has long been keenly aware that in the past few months, Mr. Vice President has begun to communicate with people in the financial and technology circles more frequently.

Obviously, Li Xuan's long conversation at the Bush Jr. estate in Texas did have a great impact on Bush Sr. The U.S. economy will soon have problems. And the best way to save the future is to cultivate a new economic growth point for the United States. The information technology industry is the best choice among them, and this is the point that Li Xuan has been trying to instill in Mr. President!

On Christmas Eve, George H.W. Bush Sr. visited the San Francisco Bay Area as vice president. During a visit to Hewlett-Packard in Silicon Valley, he publicly stated that technological innovation is the most important core competitiveness of the United States. The emerging economic model, represented by Silicon Valley, is an important support for the United States to continue to maintain a strong future in the future.

A reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle, who was present at the interview, suddenly asked him if he had seen a movie that was recently released in the United States and how the U.S. government would change its backwardness in the field of new technologies such as the Internet.

And the movie that the reporter refers to is "Sleepless in Hong Kong", when Bush Sr. came to California. It just won its second award in the United States, winning the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Best Foreign Language Film.

The film was originally only going to appear in the entertainment news, but because the screenwriter was Li Xuan, the advanced Hong Kong Internet that had appeared in the movie made it one of the biggest hot news in the American technology industry at the end of 1986.

And Universal Pictures, the film's distributor, has clearly become the big winner. After many hot hypes, "Sleepless Nights in Hong Kong" is an Asian romance film. Success has garnered huge attention across the United States. Universal Pictures took the opportunity to increase the scale of the film's broadcast from 120 screens when it was first released. Quickly increased to 300 screens.

And the box office of "Sleepless in Hong Kong" in the United States also quickly exceeded 12 million US dollars. You must know that Universal Pictures bought out the North American distribution rights of "Sleepless Nights in Hong Kong" at a price of only $1.2 million from Asian Entertainment, and their deal can be described as a big profit.

Of course, Li Xuan actually did not suffer, because regardless of whether "Sleepless in Hong Kong" can be nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film next. His true purpose had been achieved ahead of schedule.

At that time, the elder Bush replied to the reporter of the "San Francisco Chronicle" in this way: Although he had not seen the Hong Kong movie recommended by the other party, he never thought that the United States had lagged behind in the field of the Internet.

The Internet originated from the US military's ARPANET, and the NSFNet network, funded by the National Science Foundation (NFS), is still the most important backbone of the global Internet. The United States is now lagging behind in the commercialization of the Internet. However, the networked government is aware of this problem and will soon introduce appropriate guidance policies at the national level, and it is believed that it will soon catch up.

Naturally, Bush Sr.'s remarks have greatly encouraged the US high-tech industrial circles. The US media also found from the words of Bush Sr. that he was not ignorant of the relevant fields, but had been prepared for a long time, and this pragmatic attitude was unanimously recognized.

As soon as George H.W. Bush left San Francisco, a fundraising office affiliated with his campaign team was quietly established in San Francisco. In fact, Bush Sr.'s partner, President Ronald Reagan, still prepared a good hand for him. After Reagan entered the White House, in order to drag down the Soviet economy, a Star Wars plan was thrown.

The United States did not really implement all the unrealistic ideas in the Star Wars program. However, the high-tech industry in the United States still benefits greatly from this strategic deception.

Throughout the Reagan administration, a large number of projects in the fields of Internet, software, and semiconductor technology were heavily supported by the Defense Advanced Program Agency (ARPA). Moreover, Reagan's "small government, low tax rate" proposition has also greatly reduced the burden on all American companies in the United States, including Silicon Valley companies.

It can be said that the Republican administration of the Reagan era has the full support of the high-tech industry in the United States, led by Silicon Valley. What Bush Sr. needs now is to take over the solid foundation that Reagan laid and continue to build a beautiful house on it.

It is a pity that the elder Bush in another time and space put all his energy into the Gulf War after becoming the president of the United States. As a result, he won the war, but lost the election. Let Clinton, who came to power later, pick up a bargain!

Now, because of the deliberate guidance of Li Xuan, the butterfly, the elder Bush has at least begun to gradually realize the important role of developing high-tech industries for him after he enters the White House.

The establishment of a fundraising office in San Francisco by George H.W. Bush is a clear signal. Because as long as he takes the donation from Silicon Valley, it means that he is tied to the chariot of supporting the high-tech industry, and he must bring corresponding returns to the funders!

Of course. The reason why Li Xuan is so active in promoting the development of the US Internet industry in advance is that only under the administration of George H.W. Bush can the Oriental Bloc, an outsider, gain enough say in the next wave of the Internet in the United States.

His investment in the Bush family over the past few years has made the relationship between him and the Bush family deeply entangled. Once Bush Sr. becomes the new president of the United States, he is bound to become Li Xuan's biggest protective umbrella in the United States, so that the Eastern Bloc can compete more calmly in the United States.

For example, the Oriental Research Institute has just released the World Wide Web, and if a new technology wants to become a standard, the easiest way is to get support at the national level! In fact, the Oriental Research Institute was first announced on the World Wide Web. I began to negotiate with the White House to build an official website for the US federal government on a World Wide Web server!

But the White House's response to this proposal has been very lukewarm. On the phone just now, Li Xuan also took the opportunity to hope that Lao Bu would come forward to promote this work! In another time and space, the reason why the World Wide Web can become the mainstream of the Internet is actually a lot of coincidences.

For example, the World Wide Web was developed as early as 1991, but it continued to develop until the end of 1992. There are only 26 World Wide Web servers in the world. But one of the 26 servers happens to be built there. National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Later, Netscape's founder, Mark Anderson, was a graduate student at the University of Champaign at the time, and he happened to work at NCSA in his spare time to earn tuition.

So he proposed to his supervisor that he want to write a graphical browser for information retrieval for the NCSA's World Wide Web server. Anderson's suggestion was immediately adopted by the supervisor. So he set up a group and soon developed a graphical browser called Mosaic.

The emergence of "mosaic" gave ordinary computer users the first tool to enter the World Wide Web to browse information. Later, after graduating from the University of Champaign, Mark Anderson founded Netscape in Silicon Valley. Developed the world's first commercial graphical browser, Navigator.

It took only about two years for the World Wide Web to soar from 0.5 percent in early 1993 to 25 percent in early 1995, and it soon established its dominant position on the Internet.

In fact, in the early days of the Internet, the Gopher protocol launched by the University of Minnesota in the United States was also very popular for a time. However, just as WWW announced that it would be free forever, the University of Minnesota announced that it would charge a fee for Gopher. As a result, a large number of Gopher server users moved to the WWW server, which also indirectly promoted the rapid rise of the World Wide Web.

However, Li Xuan is not prepared now, and let the World Wide Web develop step by step along the original history. Rather, it is intended to establish the WWW as the standard for global Internet information transmission protocols from the very beginning.

The World Wide Web has its own distinctive technical advantages, such as its huge inclusiveness, in addition to transmitting plain text files, it can also transmit pictures, sounds, videos and other content, which can make the Internet vivid and colorful.

These are the reasons why Li Xuan is convinced that the World Wide Web can become the mainstream of the Internet as in another time and space. And in order to promote the World Wide Web, Li Xuan is also ready to take the road of free technology like Tim Berners Lee in another time and space.

But even with the advent of the World Wide Web, computer users still can't get information from the Internet out of thin air, and they have to go through a variety of clients. For example, the email client allows users to send and receive emails, while the BBS client allows users to log in to BBS forums.

And the most important tool for information surfing on the World Wide Web is naturally the graphical browser. All information stored on the Internet in the form of hypertext can be retrieved with a graphical browser.

The graphics browser will be another epoch-making software after the computer operating system. Computer operating systems allow users to interact with their computers, while graphical browsers allow users to communicate with the Internet.

It is precisely because the graphical browser is a switch that connects the computer to the Internet that it will become a battleground for Bill Gates in another time and space! Microsoft finally succeeded in blocking Netscape's Navigator browser by bundling the Internet Explorer browser to the Windows system for free and coercing computer manufacturers to reject Netscape's products!

The graphics browser can be an important boost to strengthen Dongfang System Software Company and continue to maintain its hegemony in the field of operating systems, but Li Xuan did not let it participate in the research and development this time. However, before the advent of the World Wide Web, Li Xuan had already set up a new R&D team in the Hong Kong R&D Center of the Oriental Research Institute to start the commercial development of the graphics browser.

At present, Oriental System Software Company is not fully controlled by Oriental Group. In particular, after the cooperation agreement between Dongfang Group and Deyi, Deyi exchanged dozens of patents in the fields of semiconductor fabrication and DSP, as well as 160 million US dollars in cash, for a 20% stake in Dongfang System Software.

After the completion of this reduction, Li Xuan's equity in Dongfang System Software Company is less than 55%. Dongfang System Software will soon prepare to go public in the United States, and his stake will be further diluted.

Li Xuan was naturally reluctant to share the huge value of the graphical browser with other shareholders of Dongfang System Software Company for nothing. He could have waited for the Internet era to reach its climax and the value of the graphics browser was fully realized, and then sold it to Dongfang System Software.

When the time comes, Li Xuan can ask Dongfang System Software Company to acquire it by way of equity exchange, so as to increase his equity proportion in Dongfang System Software Company again!

After Li Xuan answered the phone call from Bush Sr., he sat quietly at the desk for a while, and re-explored the layout of the Oriental Group in the next Internet tide before walking out of the study!

Because there is a time difference of more than 10 hours between Hong Kong and the eastern part of the United States, Li Xuan actually received a phone call from Bush Sr. on the morning of New Year's Day! Although New Year's Day is not a traditional Chinese festival, the Li family still got together as a family and had the first family banquet of the new year! (To be continued......