After nearly four and a half hours of flight from New York to San Francisco, Stengel changed his sitting posture and chatted with Zhang Chen for more than an hour.

From a Chinese teenager who has never been to the United States, to a billionaire now, and now sitting on a business jet and talking and laughing with himself, this teenager has done all this in just one year, is this the magic of the Internet, or the magic of this young man?

Stangel noticed that the young stewardess who was in good shape often scratched Zhang Chen's head when she was delivering fruit and pouring coffee, and even pressed a small note under the napkin and handed it to Zhang Chen.

Stangel shook his head, this is the attraction of young rich people, money and power are like the strongest aphrodisiacs, so that countless girls who want to rely on their posture to flatter one after another, it seems that they can fight with these young rich people, and their lives have been sublimated.

Stangel was very interested in how Zhang Chen faced these temptations.

From an ordinary Chinese teenager to a billion-dollar billionaire in a short period of time, how did Zhang Chen adapt to the huge changes in his life?

Stengel began to feel that if he used this teenager as a topic and made a special report, even if it was not in Time magazine, it should be a good topic to go to Business Week.

As a first-rate writer, Stengel not only contributed to Time magazine, but also occasionally compiled articles for other weekly magazines, including BusinessWeek.

"So, what do you think are the current bottlenecks of the Internet, and what are the constraints on the development and popularization of the Internet?" Stengel asked, as he pondered.

Zhang Chen cut the chicken breast poured with black pepper juice, "The popularity of the Internet is only closely related to two factors, these two factors are the operator's charges and the popularity of computers. ”

"There are now more than 50 million computers in the United States, of course, including a large number of office computers, but there are only 30 million Internet users. Take AOL as an example, the dial-up Internet service provided by AOL is already the most cost-effective one, but as you just said, each household must pay at least $200 or more to enjoy the basic service for a limited time. If you want faster and more stable speeds, you often have to shell out $120 a month, which is not a small amount. ”

"Of course, the cost of Internet access is a secondary issue compared to the penetration of personal computers. There are now just over 40 million personal computers in the United States, and the combined number of personal computers in the world is less than 100 million. I believe that the true impact of the Internet will only be revealed when the number of PC users worldwide reaches 200 million. ”

Stangel frowned: "Now everywhere I go, I seem to be able to see computers, is the penetration rate still not high enough?"

Zhang Chen shook his head: "Of course it is not high enough, now the penetration rate of personal computers in developing countries, which account for two-thirds of the world's population, is not even 1%, there is no doubt that as one of the infrastructure of the Internet, the penetration rate of personal computers has seriously affected the rapid development of the Internet." Therefore, now there is a need for a personal computer product that can really be popularized in thousands of households, just like the Macintosh more than ten years ago, a revolutionary product to increase the popularity of personal computers. ”

Stengel was interested: "Do you think there will be such a product?"

Zhang Chen nodded without hesitation: "Of course, and there will be a product launch conference in May, and you are welcome to participate then." ”

Stengel smirked, "You're going to launch a personal computer?"

Zhang Chen wiped the black pepper juice from the corner of his mouth, "Yes, I established a company called Matrix some time ago, and I will launch a revolutionary personal computer in the near future, I believe it can contribute to the popularization of personal computers." ”

Stargel is really surprised, if Zhang Chen's previous ICQ and Amazon, just borrowed the current capital market on the concept of the Internet and successfully made a fortune, then the establishment of a personal computer manufacturing company, involved in industry, is to enter the real economy, these are completely two fields, this young man is too easy to succeed, began to heat up in the brain?

Zhang Chen saw Stangel's thoughts, and just smiled: "May 16th, Parkview Green Art Center, if you want to come, I can ask someone to give you an invitation." ”

Stargar nodded in agreement, and he really wanted to see what kind of product the young man could come up with.

Due to the early departure, it was not yet four o'clock in the afternoon when he flew to Fremont to land, Zhang Chen asked Stagel to send him to the hotel, and he and Tang Miaomiao took Su Zhuoyuan's car back to Palo Alto.

As soon as he got off the plane, Zhang Chen received a call from Wu Ying, and he talked about it for a long time, but Wu Ying didn't say what he meant, and finally couldn't hold back: "Brother, have you heard? Lao Hua has been missing for more than half a month, and his daughter-in-law is going crazy." ”

Zhang Chen remained silent: "Oh, what's going on?"

Wu Ying lowered the volume on the phone: "About half a month ago, not long after you asked me about Lao Hua's situation, his daughter-in-law came back from Europe and found that he was not there, and he couldn't be contacted, Lao Hua had this experience before, so Xiao Ding was not in a hurry." But after three or four days, there was still no news at all, and his daughter-in-law couldn't sit still, so she reported the case. In the end, the police found out that Lao Hua was finally opened in a five-star hotel in Los Angeles and a small star in China. found this little star, and the little star said that he didn't know anything. After taking a shower that day, I found that the old flower was gone, and I thought that the old flower had released her pigeon. The police investigated the hotel's surveillance and found that the hotel's surveillance was missing for half an hour that day, and no one saw how the old flowers disappeared from the hotel, do you think this is strange?"

Zhang Chen said lightly: "Is this little star jumping for the immortals set up by the old history? Or has he returned to China?"

Wu Ying snorted: "Impossible, the police haven't found the entry and exit records at all, and now Lao Hua has been included in the missing population, by the way, it wasn't long before you called me last time to ask about Lao Hua's situation, and he disappeared." ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "You don't suspect that his disappearance has something to do with me, right?"

Wu Ying categorically denied: "No, no, I just think this thing is strange, such a big living person, disappeared in a flash, as if he had never existed in this world, no one knows where he went, do you think there will be any accidents for him?"

Zhang Chen laughed and said: "That's not good, have you watched the movie that Arnold acted in last year?

Wu Ying cut off: "Where did you get so many movie plots, I guess, maybe the old boy is spending it now, let's not talk about it, I still have something to do here, let's talk about it." ”

Wu Ying hung up the phone, her heart pounding. Lu Hongliang asked beside him, "How is it?

Wu Ying froze, "No, he doesn't know where the old flowers went." ”

"This dead ghost must have run away with the money. ”

Lu Hongliang let out a disappointed sigh.

"This dead ghost must have run away with the money. Ding Wei on the side cried so much, Shi Manqing took more than 20 million US dollars from her before and said that it was for financial management and house speculation, she didn't think much about it, so she handed over the money to Shi Manqing to take care of, Shi Manqing's disappearance, Ding Wei naturally thought that Shi Manqing had swept away her assets.

Lu Hongliang comforted on the side: "Brother and sister, you think too much, even if Lao Shi really wants to take the money away, it is impossible to be so sudden, and the entry and exit can always be checked." ”

Ding Wei burst into tears: "Then you say, where can he go?"

Wu Ying laughed dryly: "Sister-in-law, don't be too sad, I'll go out and smoke a cigarette first." ”

Wu Ying walked outside the door, lit a cigarette, his hand kept shaking,, it must have something to do with this kid, otherwise he wouldn't have just called himself to learn about Lao Hua, who disappeared in two days. In addition, this kid's reaction was inevitably too calm, and he showed such a strong interest in Lao Hua before, but now he didn't ask at all. And just now Zhang Chen mentioned the evaporation secret order and the secret organization, Lao Hua has joined the CIA, and he has heard him drink a lot, and he didn't take it seriously, and now it seems that Lao Hua is really more than lucky.

(End of chapter)