The plane landed at San Francisco International Airport in the United States.

Guan Fei set foot on American territory for the first time since crossing the country, and he was very interested in this place.

People naively think that in the interstellar age, there will be no more concept of a state, and all mankind will be united under the same government flag, but in fact, this is just a beautiful imagination of people.

Just as the differences in distribution created classes, so the needs of different interests led mankind to have tribes and develop into nations.

The great abundance of material resources will not be taken by all, those who have the resources will always be at the top of the food chain, and those who have nothing can only sell their physical strength, ingenuity, and even their lives in exchange for the needs necessary for survival - in other words, money!

However, there is an advantage of the interstellar age, that is, the vast universe is so big that if you want to, you can completely live with people from another country.

When humans entered the universe, in addition to the limited number of early colonized planets, there were also some conflicts. Later, after the development of long-range interstellar fast navigation capabilities, the friction and disputes between various countries were reduced day by day.

In the past, several major powers on the earth: the United States, China, Russia, and Europe, each chose a direction to expand their own territories and exploit resources. All countries are desperately expanding space in the universe, and if anyone still stubbornly stumbles with each other and entangles to the end, it will only lead to a continuous decline in their own strength, and they will be eaten by the opponents who have grown stronger!

In Guan Fei's memory, the American Interstellar Federation is just a noun, and there are not many people and things associated with it, so it doesn't mean much to him.

However, in this era, although it has reached the end of its development, the United States and the Soviet Union are still in the Cold War, the international situation is still tense, and there is a danger of all-out war breaking out at any time.

In particular, the United States has consumed its national strength through a series of wars such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War, but it has not achieved the goal of obliterating the global communist movement and squeezing the living space of its competitors. Over the decades, however, the Soviet Union grew in power and attempted to further expand its power around the world.

The war in Afghanistan is a case in point, as is Vietnam's growing war against Cambodia recently.

In the face of the Soviet Union's growing muscles and ferocious aggressive intentions, both China and the United States felt a real threat, and the two sides began to move closer together.

In order to win over China, the United States even did not hesitate to withdraw US troops stationed in Taiwan.

According to memory, at the end of this year, the two countries will formally sign the "Sino-US Joint Communique on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations," ending the confrontation between the two countries for several decades, and economic, trade, scientific, technological, and cultural exchanges between the two sides will also become more frequent.

Perhaps due to this factor, Guan Fei and others were subject to very lenient entry inspections, and the airport guards in charge of the inspections were all smiling and polite to them.

Coming out of the entry gate, they met the pick-up staff of the San Francisco branch of Suteng Commerce, who came to greet them.

Jiang Zeshui and Yu Dehai are both veterans in the business field, and they have already started the preliminary work after signing the conditions for joining the head office. Yu Dehai has a sales network in San Francisco, and he chose the address of the store early, and after getting the check for one million from the head office, he immediately rented the space and began to renovate the mall with great fanfare.

As a holding franchisee, the global Suteng store logo and store signs are all the same design, and they are uniformly called Suteng to the outside world.

Among them, 30% of the space on the left side of the store is exclusively occupied by Suteng head office.

This part of the decoration is also a global style, with a separate entrance and unified shelves. Among them, it is divided into three groups by the first two and the back, the first two exhibition areas are the Toy City, the home appliance city, and the latter exhibition area is the display area of several arcade machines.

These are also the three development directions set by Guan Fei for the future foreign economic development of the military sub-region.

To sum it up, culture (toys, games) and electronics!

He never tried to introduce the Eastern culture to the West, the two sides are not a system, appreciate it, but accept it, it is difficult to ......accept it.

Culture is a kind of soft power, the penetration of a strong civilization into a weak civilization.

In this era, the Eastern civilization is a weak civilization, and there is nothing to deny about it. And this weakness stems from the gap between the country's overall strength and the West, and its influence on the world's political map.

How can such a civilization make arrogant Westerners look at it squarely, if they have to worry about their own fights at any time, and all the products they use are developed and manufactured by themselves, and the only thing to be proud of is the past thousands of years ago.

So whether it's toys or games, he will also do what he likes and sell the types that Westerners like. Of course, it will also try to output a little bit of products with oriental elements, not seeking to make money, but only hoping that through a long period of subtlety, the other party will know how to appreciate it, and cultivate some lovers of oriental culture in a small amount, which is enough.

This time, Guan Fei came on the same plane, as well as Zeng Shuxian, Wang Yihong and others from Hongtai Advertising, and randomly brought a shooting team of more than a dozen people.

Guan Fei did not seek good reception conditions, so he rented a hotel in Chinatown. Although the living environment is a little narrower, he is satisfied with every meal when there is Chinese food.

The store rented by Jiang Zeshui and others is located at the right end of Markit Street, which is at the intersection of Chinatown. Market Street is the city's busiest area, stretching diagonally from the city centre to the northeast, close to the Golden Gate Road, lined with high-rise buildings.

The store is adjacent to Marquette Street, and 100 meters away on the right is the entrance of Financial Street.

Li Qing, the guard who came with Guan Fei, was simply stunned.

After he followed Guan Fei to Hong Kong, although he also saw some buildings, he did not feel that there was anything remarkable compared to the 12-story small high-rise buildings in the new city community of the military sub-district, and he always felt that as long as the military sub-district was given enough time, it would not be so difficult to build a more prosperous city than Hong Kong.

But when he saw the countless high-rise buildings here in San Francisco, including dozens of skyscrapers with dozens of stories high, his confidence was somewhat shaken.

Skyscrapers are not only a sense of momentum, but also a symbol of wealth. The cost of building ten seven-story buildings is less than a fraction of the cost of building a 70-story skyscraper. A city can have one or two skyscrapers to be a landmark, but in San Francisco, such buildings abound!

This is the architectural marvel that can only be accomplished by the richest country on earth in this era!

And the citizens of such a country, after going out, even if they see the same prosperous cities in other countries, at most they will nod and say "not bad", and more often point fingers and laugh at the poverty of the other country.

This is their national pride!

Unlike the arrogance after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dominance of the United States, although the Americans of this era were full of confidence in their own country, they did not dare to be arrogant in the face of a strong enemy that was not weaker than themselves, and after experiencing foreign wars such as Korea and Vietnam with heavy casualties. The country's elites are not fools, they know better that the United States at this time is in great need of more helpers, and in TV and newspaper media, the news about China is basically positive, and the introduction of Chinese people is mostly positive, full of goodwill towards China and its people.

This also made Guan Fei and others' activities in San Francisco smoother, and the Americans they met, as long as they knew that they were from Chinese mainland, were full of a sense of curiosity without malice, and they were often pulled to ask if they could really see the Great Wall in space.

And to receive a benefit, that is, the arcade machine of Taiyu Technology, it was easy to land in the United States, and there was no difficulty.

In the early stage, because of the piracy lawsuit, because the lawyer group also selected some small pirates, several lawsuits were also fought smoothly, and there were basically no twists and turns, and Taiyu was sentenced to win.

Of course, the lawsuit was won, but the compensation was not much.

It is one thing for the United States to need China, but it is not customary to use its own money to curry favor with outsiders. Admitting that you invented this thing is already extra generosity for the United States, and you want to make a fortune from various pirates, dream about it!

But Guan Fei doesn't care.

Everyone is an empty glove white wolf, the cost is basically the same, who is afraid of who!

His request was simple: you admit that this thing is mine, not stolen from you, and don't not only blackmail me without royalties, but also in turn, which is very good.

As for the blatant piracy of arcade machines by several large companies, which are sold all over the United States, then piracy goes. My production capacity is so high, I can't digest the market, who is not given, just enter the market and pay the entrance fee.

His attitude of pretending to be confused also satisfied with American businessmen.

If one of them invented this kind of game, in order to monopolize the market, they might be bitten all over the body with other companies. But since it was someone else who first developed it, and the R&D person is still so open-minded, this business is doing well, everyone is making money in harmony, and each makes money with capacity, quality and cost, how good!

It's not that there is no big company that wants to say that "Space Invaders" was developed by itself, and take this hot business into its arms. However, with the popularity of arcade machines, the world knows that this is the first research and development of Hong Kong Taiyu Technology Company, and it has long been famous. And other big companies also have ideas, you have an exclusive monopoly, so who do I steal, do you want me to pay you the copyright?

It's better to take it in the hands of Taiyu Technology, everyone can make a fortune with it.

As a result, under the constraints of all parties, Taiyu Technology's patent application in the United States also went unusually smoothly, almost giving the green light all the way.

Over the past year, as "Space Invaders" has been marketed around the world, various manufacturers have been working at full speed, and the market has gradually become saturated.

By the beginning of the year, the arcade machine was a little unsellable.

It's not that the players are tired of this game, but that the owners of the entertainment venues who should buy it have bought it. There are about two or three million units in the global market, but due to the loose copyright restrictions, many manufacturers swallowed up together, and soon met the market demand in various places.

Therefore, no one paid more attention to Taiyu Technology's patent application, and the applied arcade style patents, keyboard patents and other design patents were all obtained.

Under this experience, various patents such as portable tape recorders and walkmans have also been recognized in Europe and the United States with the tacit consent of many manufacturing predators, and no one has come out to find trouble. Everyone is waiting to see if Taiyu Technology's attempt at civilian electronics can set off a global sales wave again.

Guan Fei spent a few days inspecting the construction of the San Francisco store of Suteng Commerce, learning about the latest patent application, and also welcomed Columbia Records, which flew in from New York, and their Michael Band.