Chapter 90: All the Way South

Jester was sleeping at the time of the New York demo and the U.S. premiere of the electronic pet machine, and by the time he received the news of the demo and the starter, it was already the next day.

At this time, he had just arrived in Shanghai, after all, the investment location he announced this time was Shanghai or Shenzhen, and the content of his meeting with the head of the Ministry of Electronics Industry has not yet been disclosed.

Originally, the Shenzhen Town wanted Jester to go to them first, and when they thought about it, as long as Jester saw their conditions, he would definitely not have any thoughts about Shanghu. But Jester politely refused on the pretext that he wanted to visit the mountains and rivers of his motherland by the way.

The route set is to go to Shanghai, Fuzhou, and finally Shenzhen, and then take a flight back to the United States from Hong Kong.

When Jester arrived in Shanghai, the mayor and secretary of the municipal party committee in Shanghai greeted him at the same time, after all, they all knew that Jester was the biggest tyrant in the Chinese investment group this time, and their identities were not ordinary, especially Wang someone, who naturally also knew about Jester's meeting with Minister Jiang from other channels.

So they're all very enthusiastic.

Jester also knew about the deeds of this Wang in later generations, although not much, but also a little bit of it, his father was the late veteran of the League, and the negotiation between the two sides of the strait and Gu Zhenfu in 92 was known in history as the 92 consensus.

The current Shanghai is naturally far inferior to that of later generations, and it does not have the atmosphere of the most prosperous city in the Far East thirty years later.

In later generations, there are not a few cars on the busy Jingnan Road, and now Shanghai is still the center of the domestic textile industry, and it is also the commercial center of the country.

In recent years, Shanghai's largest investment has been in Baosteel. The total value of this investment is tens of billions of yuan, which is far from being comparable to Jester. In addition, it was also the first steel plant in Japan with an annual output of one million tons, which was exchanged from Japan by the second generation with valuable oil.

Since the establishment of the project in 77 years, the ground breaking in 78 years, and the completion of the first phase of the project in 85 years, the total investment is close to 12.8 billion yuan, and the current official renminbi and the US dollar are 1:1.5, that is to say, the total investment amount is as high as more than 8 billion US dollars, this figure may not look big in later generations, and in 30 years, a more developed prefecture-level city can get it, but you must know that in the current mainland, the annual fiscal revenue is only a few tens of billions.

It can be said that this steel plant can only be built by the people of the whole country under the condition of saving food and clothing, and it also carries the expectations of the people of the whole country for a modern steel plant. Everyone who knows what steel means to a country, just like the American steel magnate Andrew Carnegie said, every piece of steel contains the secret of the country's strength.

Jester was invited to visit Baosteel, where the first phase of the project was almost completed, and when he looked down from a high vantage point on this huge complex of buildings made entirely of steel, Jester had the shocking feeling of watching a city made entirely of steel.

It's really, very, very spectacular.

The accompanying personnel on the side also introduced the steel production that Baosteel will have after the completion of the first phase of the project, how important it will be for the mainland that is now being reopened, and still said regretfully, Jester came one step late, if he came a month earlier, then he would have the opportunity to have a meeting with Mr. Yoshihiro Inayama, the head of Nippon Steel.

Nippon Steel is the new Nippon Steel, the predecessor of this company was the famous Yawata Steel during World War II, and it is also the Japanese representative of the Baosteel oil exchange equipment program, the largest steel company in Asia, and it is also one of the few huge steel empires in the world, and it is the core of the Mitsui Nigi Society.

Because it would completely shatter the dreams of this escort.

In his view, Baosteel's plan has been unstoppable so far, and although the Japanese have set traps in the construction of Baosteel, it is actually irrelevant, and if you want to build a world-class steel enterprise, the high price must be paid.

However, this price is too heavy.

The reason is that the smelting equipment given by Japan is too advanced, although this is only something they plan to eliminate, but it is still too advanced for the equipment that the domestic process level is only the level of Europe and the United States in the forties and fifties.

This batch of equipment was originally used by Nippon Steel to smelt Brazil's Australian rich ore equipment, but the domestic iron ore is poor iron ore, steel smelting is a very fine industrial project, what kind of equipment smelting what kind of ore is certain, smelting Brazil's rich iron ore equipment can not be used to smelt poor iron ore.

But importing bonanzas costs a huge amount of foreign exchange.

The problem is that the current domestic oil has been discovered in the past ten years, and the new oil exploration has stalled, and it was originally planned that Daqing would be able to produce 100 million tons of oil annually in the 80s, that is, 750 million barrels, but now the annual output of Daqing is only 50 million tons.

In addition, the current global economy is stagflation due to the high price of oil, the price of oil is also booming and declining, the world economy is like a roller coaster, the global economic development is stagnant and the demand for oil plummets, at this time Japan is no longer as urgent as in 1978 and has to demand the domestic oil, and due to the decline in prices, production can not grow, at that time Yan zhòng relied on the export of resources in exchange for foreign exchange in the domestic shortage of foreign exchange.

The most critical reason is this, in the case of insufficient foreign exchange in China, and do not want to shut down the world-class steel mills that have been built with great difficulty, we must use the scarce precious foreign exchange to buy high-quality iron ore in Australia and Brazil.

It was because Baosteel swallowed countless precious foreign exchange that he didn't know how many projects that were urgently needed at that time were launched, how many enterprises had to stop their technological transformation, and how many important technical positions needed to go abroad for further study had to stop.

Is this qiē worth it? Just like the second generation said, it is true that Baosteel has improved the level of the domestic steel industry for 20 years. But herein lies the problem; the mainland carried out 156 heavy projects in the 50s, and in the 70s, it spent a total of more than $4 billion to introduce the 43 program, and the 13 large-scale fertilizer factories that solved the problem of 800 million Chinese starving did not need to spend money to buy lessons.

This also made Jester sigh, this is a problem.

After visiting Baosteel, Jester's mood has not been very good, Shanghai side thought that it was his poor hospitality, but only Jester knew that this was not the case, he wanted to keep up with Shanghai Baosteel to explain that there may be a trap in this, but he knew that he did it was not pleasing to both sides.

The general trend of Baosteel has been achieved, and it is not at all something that can be changed by itself, a small Chinese American.

In other words, the amount of his investment this time will not exceed 100 million US dollars at most, so why point fingers at a heavy industry project that has placed the expectations of the entire country and invested more than 8 billion US dollars.

Moreover, the Baosteel plan was personally instructed by the second generation, and I don't know how many people want to make political achievements from it.

I can't do it, I can't do it, I can't do it.

As for those in later generations who said that the Baogang project was not deceived by the Japanese, Jester scoffed, if it wasn't for the Japanese ruthlessly, the mainland would have directly and unilaterally tore up the second phase of the Baosteel agreement? You must know that the equipment in the first phase of the agreement is basically built by emptying Nippon Steel's Oita Steel, and even the paint and welding rods must be made in Japan. And most importantly, tearing up the Baosteel Phase II agreement requires losing money.

After a hurried trip to Shanghai, Jester went all the way south to Fuzhou.

When I arrived in Fuzhou, Jester began to inquire about the Smoky Mountain Software again, and after several turnovers, I learned that the current Smoky Mountain Software had not yet been established, but Jester saw the all-in-one Atari cassette made by Fu Zan on the market, which he saw on a VCS2600 game console in the Fuzhou Children's Palace.

Taking this as an introduction, Jester asked to meet the author of the all-in-one cassette that made Zuò.

Naturally, Fuzhou's escort did not have the slightest problem, and that afternoon, Jester met Fu Zhan, who was just twenty-four years old, at the Fuzhou guest house where he was staying.

"You did this?" The conversation was simple, with Jester opening with a very straightforward question.

Hearing Jester's words, Fu Zan nodded a little embarrassedly and admitted, "It's me, it's very rough." ”

After listening to his answer, Jester smiled, shook his head and said, "No, you did a good job, especially this idea of combining, by the way, when did you come into contact with the Atari 2600 game console?" ”

After chatting a few words, Fu Zan saw that the American tyrant in front of him, who was much younger than himself, had no, and he was also easy to speak, plus he was a talkative person, so he spoke much smoother: "I came into contact with this game console when I helped an electronics institute test Atari's game console, and I thought this thing was very interesting, so I took it apart and looked at it, and found that this thing was quite simple, so I changed the game myself, but in fact, I only made a few cassettes." ”

Then Jester asked tentatively: "Then do you have the idea of making a game by yourself, not to change the game that others have already made, but to make a game with all the content yourself." ”

"Yes!" Unexpectedly, as soon as Fu Zan heard Jester's words, he immediately slapped his thigh, and his tone became excited, "I recently planned to propose to the school to set up a computer service department, I stayed up late to write a music software manual, which is a set of computer music arranging and performance software developed for the 'Fu Tangerine' (FO) Apple compatible machine of Fuzhou Microcomputer Factory, but I am really interested in making games like Atari's "Canal Wars". ”

As he spoke, he also smiled, "But it is definitely impossible to agree to make games for the school, and now the school is engaged in these school-run enterprises to make money, and now there are only a few people with Atari game machines, all of Fuzhou, you may not be able to find a hundred units, who will make games for?" ”

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