For people in small towns in the Midwest, visitors from the metropolises in the east and west are "rich people who pretend to be forced". Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Fortunately, Utah is not Idaho, and the acceptance of outsiders is still very strong. The latter is a mecca for Christians, with forty percent of Protestants and three percent of Eschatologists making up most of the state, and only one-tenth of atheists. One can imagine what would happen if non-Christian students were to pass by accident.

Utah is located in northeastern California, separated by Nevada, and motorists can choose whether to go around Las Vegas on their way to and from the West Coast. Surrounded by the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado Plateau, and the Great Salt Lake Desert, 80 percent of the population of more than 2 million people is concentrated in the capital city of Salt Lake City.

At the foot of the Akre Mountains in the Rocky Mountains, there is a small city called Lakun, with a total population of only 3,000, and mining is the main source of income, and sixty percent of the city's male labor force is engaged in this occupation. Of course, in the salt lake desert some distance from Lakun, there are also many military bases, rocket engine factories and even uranium mines built during World War II, but that has nothing to do with them.

Alice-Wang's family made their way to the city, and their own heavy helicopter was pulled out of Boeing's cargo hold and immediately carried them into the sky. At the foot of the vast forest and mountain range, the small city stood alone on the plateau, and there was a rare abundant water system around it, but countless complex reasons piled up together, so that the small city did not embark on the road of expansion for many years.

Naturally, the arrival of the family was warmly welcomed by the mayor, but also by a handful of entrepreneurs. As shown in the collected data, nine out of ten of these entrepreneurs are large mine owners, and it is remarkable that some municipal officials have introduced representatives of waterworks and power plants. Without even having to peruse their financial statements, at the dinner table, Sophie lightly scratched a number on Alice's lap, which was the maximum amount to buy the entire town.

"Our group has a lot of experience in the operation of Changguan electric power and water conservancy companies. Alice smiled: "I personally occupy a very high stake in the Hong Kong Electric Company, which is responsible for the operation of the entire Hong Kong electric power, and of course the water conservancy company is not a problem." As long as I take over, I will definitely be able to expand the infrastructure construction of Laken City by more than five times as quickly as possible. In one construction period, this gentleman, I will be able to give the power plant the capacity to provide electricity to 100,000 inhabitants instead of the current 3,000. ”

When talking about business with the landlord, the most important thing to avoid is to completely take away his property. The reason why many such people hold on to one acre and three points of land, and are reluctant to go into the big city no matter how much money they make, is because of the local concept. So at this time, they are often not impressed by a huge acquisition fee, they want to see whether the outsiders do practical things for the locals.

"So Miss Wang is hoping that we will quickly develop into a big city. The mayor said unhurriedly: "But the increase in the number of people is closely related to the economy and employment, and the main industry in our city of Laken is mining, so you don't want to create tens of thousands of mining workers in an instant, right? That will attract protests from the environmental protection department, haha." ”

"When it comes to mining, of course, you have to do what you can, unless you're going to set up a large multinational company, hehe, but that's not about the local population. Alice said, "Mayor, and everyone, you all know where my main abilities are. So my plan is to make our Laquin a high-tech city in the interior, with a population that doesn't need to be too big, but everybody is a well-known intellectual, what do you think?"

As early as the time they received the letter from Alice Tower, everyone in the city hall of Laeken could guess Alice's idea, but of course only partially. The concept of an inland tech city is clear to Silicon Valley people, but it is too difficult for a group of industrial and mining owners at the foot of the mountain to understand.

"The Internet is developing at a very fast pace, right? Like Microsoft, it's just a pure technology company in Redmond with seven or eight buildings and no factories, but its products can be distributed all over the world, and it has nothing to do with the local transportation capacity. This is the case with technology-based companies, which are built on the increasingly developed Internet and can easily ship their products to the world, regardless of local traffic conditions. ”

"The geographical location of Lakun City is very bad, you all know this better than me, you are all locals, why the city has been dominated by mining for many years, I believe there is no need for me to talk about anything. Eighty percent of Utah's residents are in Salt Lake City, and you're backed by the Acre Mountains, which is a rare area with lush greenery and abundant water, but only a small amount of livestock and aquaculture can be developed, and the economy must rely mainly on mining. ”

"So, that's the problem. There are so many local mineral deposits, unless you don't think about people's livelihood and employment in the next few decades, and you insist on digging everything out in one go, otherwise the local population can only be so much. Even if a few of you grow the business to a larger scale, as we said, you can only go to other places to look for mines, and it has nothing to do with the locals. ”

"So, Mayor. If we really want to develop the economy on a large scale and increase the urban population in the geographically constrained city of Laken, the high-tech route is almost the only way. With the Internet, customers don't care where the registered address of the merchant is, like my Cisco company headquarters in San Jose, but the processing plants are all over the world, and San Jose's logistics and transportation capacity has a gross relationship?"

With the Silicon Valley upstart from the West Coast coming to invest, and it's hard to describe what the locals have in mind. Instinctively, it should be full of suspicion and contempt, but Alice is not a lucky person who just broke out with stocks yesterday, and her ability has long been proven by the world.

Therefore, this banquet and meeting ended in a good atmosphere. Of course, Alice has no intention of impacting the local original industry, although there will be shareholdings, but it will not directly seize the management rights of the original business owner, and her main territory is in the technology area.

The investment plan is simple.

First of all, since all the purpose is actually for the "hive", the power plant and the water conservancy company must still be fully acquired, but fortunately, this is all in the municipal field, and it is not difficult to talk about it.

It is also because there will be a hive underground, and there must be an umbrella industry on the ground, so a hospital with a part-time scientific research function is indispensable. The hospital itself is to serve the residents and win goodwill, and what institutions like scientific research institutes need most is not convenient transportation, but a good research environment.

Replicating a second Silicon Valley is completely redundant, and considering the materials that the hive will need in the future, the production of technology hardware is even more important. So here, what she needs is for Draken to invest in a high-tech industrial processing plant, Cisco, Intel, NVIDIA, HP, IBM, or the umbrella of its own electronic product subsidiary, which is produced and used nearby, and the product source and production channels are trustworthy and easy to control, and it also contributes to the economic development of the local town.

Therefore, it is precisely in consideration of the need to establish an Internet-based company that promises to the mayor and others in order to win the trust of the people. In fact, this is really simple, to be reasonable, although Silicon Valley is the mecca of the IT industry, but this type of enterprise is really everywhere in the United States, after all, everything can be run by the Internet. As long as Alice's related companies settle down, are you afraid that there will be no programmers to come to find jobs or invest in entrepreneurship?

"Mom, get ready, let's take a stake in Kingston. ”

Alice said to Sophie: "It just so happens that the two founders are both Chinese, so they must be easy to talk to." It's time to expand its product line, so it's also in need of more processing plants, all of which are essential hardware for computers, so they can't go to Laeken to join in the fun. ”

"In terms of the added value of computer hardware...... Indeed, even if it is transported by airplane, it is worth it, not to mention that when the economy develops, it is possible to build an intercontinental highway directly to Salt Lake City. It's my daughter, and she has a really good head. ”

"Of course~"