The minutes revealed a detail in which Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin gave a brief remarks to Lawrence Summers to elaborate on more detail about Mexico's economic crisis and to suggest assistance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lawrence Summers believes that at least 25 billion is needed for aid funds.

Before Bill Clinton could speak, one of his political ~ political advisers took over and asked Lawrence Summers - do you mean 25 million?

Again, Lawrence Summers said that he meant 25 billion.

The room fell silent until another political adviser said, Mr. President, if you give this money to Mexico, not only will you not get it back before 1996, but you won't get it back even after 1996.

The subtext of this naturally refers to the fact that if Bill Clinton uses huge sums of money to aid Mexico, which is in economic crisis, it may become a big reason for his opponents to attack when he runs for re-election.

Still, Bill Clinton decided to work with Lawrence Summers to develop a plan to aid Mexico and seek congressional approval.

It is not difficult to see from this that Bill Clinton is determined to make a move.

The main content of the Mexico Debt Disclosure Act of 1995 first emphasizes that Mexico is an important neighbor and trading partner of the United States, and is of great importance to the export of American products; Then it is proposed to allocate a sum of money from the U.S. Foreign Exchange Stabilization Fund, that is, to use the money of U.S. taxpayers to help the Mexican government~government stabilize the Mexican peso.

However, in terms of the exact amount, Bill Clinton did not fully adopt Lawrence Summers's $25 billion, but $20 billion.

As for the shortfall, Bill Clinton has found help: $17.8 billion from the International Monetary Fund, $10 billion from the Bank for International Settlements, $1 billion from Latin American countries, and $1 billion from Canada.

All told, Bill Clinton has led the raising of $50 billion in aid.

Of course, if the Mexican government~ wants to get help, it must make all kinds of reforms according to the will of the United States, and also deposit the income of Mexican oil in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

In short, although Mexico is a little miserable, it finally has big thick legs to hold.

In Tang Huan's view, even if there is opposition in Congress, it is not a problem to pass the "1995 Mexico Debt Disclosure Act", and the political~political, economic, and other risks caused by the mess in Mexico are becoming more and more obvious, and the United States is also afraid.

"With so many powerful pick-up heroes, you can really rest assured." Looking at the figure of 50 billion US dollars, Tang Huan couldn't help but smile slightly.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and the little cousin Meng Jing walked in, "Brother, your old man's masterpiece - "The Road to the Future", all matters have been arranged, this is a check for $3.2 million prepaid by the publisher. ”

Tang Huan ordered without looking at it, "You can just donate it to the National Education Association." ”

Meng Jing nodded in agreement, and then added: "The Road to the Future was printed in the first batch of 1 million copies, and the distributor has also formulated a $1 million luxury marketing plan. When the time comes, you have to cooperate with the publicity. ”

"I had long since guessed that this would happen." Tang Huan put down the document and said with a slight bow: "Reply to them, I will try my best to cooperate." ”

Meng Jing's bright eyes swept over the documents, and she couldn't help but ask curiously, "Brother, how did you get such important information?" ”

"I have my own way." Tang Huan smiled dumbly, "If you want to see it, you can watch it quickly, and ask why you are doing so much." ”

Meng Jing sniffed the ink on the document, turned her gaze from the printer to the computer, and said with a sudden realization: "I guessed what the way is - it's the mail door." ”

Tang Huan was dragging the mouse's hand, trembling for a moment, and then he scolded angrily: "Little girl, don't be crazy; If you don't read them, throw them in the shredder. ”

Meng Jing stuck out her tongue, took out her well-behaved appearance, stood in front of the paper shredder, quickly skimmed through the two documents, and then exclaimed, "50 billion US dollars, Mexico's treatment, I don't know how many times stronger than Russia." ”

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As a superior, Tang Huan has basically completed his task, and he will not touch the rest of the "hard work" and "tiring work", as for earning hundreds of millions of dollars, or billions of dollars, he doesn't have to worry about it himself - the structure has long been mature, if you do it yourself, find a piece of tofu and kill it.

The richest man put aside those "mundane affairs" for the time being, and began to run for the elegant matter of publishing a book.

Tang Wenhao's industriousness is absolutely appropriate to describe as tireless in writing - basically every year, on average, he has a book on computer technology published, many of which have even become university textbooks.

In contrast, Tang Wenhao's popular works are much less - so far, there are mainly three.

The first is "The Rise of a Great Power" in 1980, when Tang Huan was 25 years old, which expounded the significance of science and technology to national strength to show how important his Fangyuan computer is.

The second is 1985, when Tang Huan was 30 years old, "The Fantasy Journey of Zen Martial Arts".

The third is 1995, that is, this year, when Tang Huan is 40 years old, "The Road to the Future".

This book belongs to the richest man in the year of not being confused, looking back on his more than ten years of experience in the IT field, looking forward to the prospects of the Internet, and pushing out a work with richer practical significance, it is not an exaggeration.

The publishing industry is quite optimistic about "The Road to the Future", otherwise it would not have made a $1 million marketing plan.

The appeal of Tang Huan's products is really extraordinary.

As Newsweek predicted – the most luxurious clever promotion ever, coupled with Don's signature, it is believed that "The Road Ahead" will grab the number one spot on all the bestseller lists.

As soon as "The Road to the Future" was released, it rushed directly to the New York Times bestseller list, like the previous "Rise of a Great Power" and "Zen Wu Boys' Fantasy Journey", and stayed in the first position for a longer time, reaching 11 consecutive weeks, and sales exceeded 3.5 million copies.

As a result, publishers continued to print more and launch hardcovers, and quickly turned their attention to markets outside the United States.

The reason why the confidence is so full is naturally due to the fact that the sales volume is extremely satisfactory and the reputation is also very good.

For example, the New York Times commented that we can be sure that "The Road to the Future", which is very interesting to read, has not been censored by companies such as Fang Yuan, Zheru, and EA for commercial interests. This book is a very good review of the personal computer revolution over the past decade or so, giving us a comprehensive picture of how the product has impacted the entire era, and it brings an immersive picture of fierce competition.

Another example is Time magazine's preaching that every aspiring billionaire is transforming society in his own way, in the most ideal and beautiful direction. "The Road to the Future" embraces the Internet while also letting dreams fly, exploring its impact on all aspects of human society.

The Los Angeles Times also pointed out that although "The Road to the Future" was denied by Tang and was not an autobiography, some of its contents still reflected how he led the development of the personal computer and even microcomputer industries since the early 1980s, creating a business empire spanning hardware, software, and entertainment. Looking back on the past gains and losses, looking forward to the future opportunities to grasp, these two gains alone are worth buying and savoring for all those who are looking forward to success. If you're lucky, a hardcover copy of "The Road Ahead" signed by Don himself would be a pretty good collector's item.

The first stop of the influence of "Road to the Future" from North America was naturally the United Kingdom across the Atlantic. It was only a little bit behind the book that it got – after all, there was no language barrier.

Unaffected by the feud between its boss Murdoch and Tang Huan, the Sunday Times enthusiastically praised - after a busy day, you only need to read a few pages of "The Road Ahead" before going to bed to learn all the authoritative information about the hottest IT industry at the moment.

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Tang Huan did specifically point out that "The Road to the Future" is not an autobiography, let alone chicken soup for the soul, but those who are thirsty ~ hoping for success still analyzed the book in a utilitarian way, and even summed up a lot of so-called incisive sentences, which were spread so loudly that "The Road to the Future" was a little feverish.

It is undeniable that the reason why "Road to the Future", which has been reprinted again and again, has a lot to do with the powerful promotional activities that are very skillful.

In line with the publisher's publicity plan, Mr. The Richest Man has traveled to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Orlando, Atlanta, New York, Huashengdun, Boston, Chicago and other major cities in the United States, as well as London and Paris in Europe, and is also in the next itinerary.

Even, such as ABC's "Nightline", NBC's "Today Show", CBS's "David Letterman Evening Show", Music Television Network, American Radio's "Fresh_Air", and American Public Radio's "PBS News Hour", which have been disliked by Tang Huan in recent years, are verbose and too contrived, and Mr. The richest man has patiently walked through them.

This hard-working and relentless attitude was considered by Tang Huan's competitors to be a fancy promotion of Zheru Software before it went public.

However, no matter how much they despised it, they all bought a copy of "The Road to the Future" and read it carefully, hoping to deeply understand Tang Huan's thoughts and find opportunities in their favor.

Not surprisingly, Gates is one of them - the book "The Road to the Future" has been turned over and crumpled, and it is estimated that if there is a photo of Tang Huan on the cover, it will also be graffitied.

The best-selling of "The Road to the Future" has invisibly made all concepts about the Internet further heat up in a way that can be directly felt.

I don't know that Gates, who has read "The Road to the Future" several times, is getting more and more afraid in his heart.

Previously, Microsoft was too obsessed with the battle over operating systems, and even though it noticed the rise of the Internet, it still failed to grasp the essence of it.

Now, the development results of Windows have given Gates full confidence to compete, but he suddenly realized that he had missed one of the most important links.

In Windows, you have to have a browser product that can fully keep up with the trend, and the sooner it is in service, the better.

Thinking of this, Gates was extremely anxious, and immediately called Jim Alchin over and asked about the progress of the browser's development.

"This year, we will be able to complete a version with basic functions and add it to the Windows patch upgrade package." Jim Alchin replied.

"In this way, even if the development goes well, we will be left farther and farther away in space and time." Gates muttered to himself in disappointment.

"There's no way around it." Jim Alchin shrugged, "Now, the specification of the troika of World Wide Web implementation technologies – HTML, CSS, and PascalScript – has been upgraded to the official version 2.0. The power of the function naturally comes with the increase in the complexity of development. ”

"Text, images, animations, audio, video, and other elements need a powerful renderer to be accurately positioned and perfectly presented on the screen in the correct format. The dynamic page effects brought about by the scripting language also require a PascalScript interpreter with excellent performance. ”

"That's just the browser side of the foreground; If you want to form your own product ecosystem, the backend website server is more important. ”

"In terms of the performance of the host website server, the consumer-level Windows_95 can't have too high expectations due to architectural reasons, and can only let the Windows_NT take on the heavy responsibility."

"In this case, the workload of developing Windows_NT_4.0 is even more onerous."

As he spoke, Steve Ballmer returned from Silicon Valley. "I'm sure Netscape has no interest in the takeover—Jim Clark is playing with us," he said, grimly. ”

"Why?" Gates' brow furrowed even tighter, "They're not happy with the terms of the acquisition?" ”

Steve Ballmer replied sullenly: "Jim Clark said he didn't trust us and was worried that Netscape would become the next Novell—and after the trade secrets were taken away, it ended up in vain." ”

Gates suddenly opened his mouth wide in terms of reasoning, and just as his eyes swept over the content on the page of "The Road to the Future" - politicians must have morality, writers must have a bottom line, scientists must have humanity, and entrepreneurs must have credit.

As if his heart had been stabbed with an awl, Gates could no longer control his emotions, slammed the table hard, and roared: "Microsoft is going to have a working browser now!" You say, "What shall I do?" ”