December 9, Houston, Hilton.

"Mr. Shen, are you up?"

"Get up." Shen Chong opened the door and let Qiu Siyu, who was wearing sportswear, in, pointed to the sofa and said, "You sit for a while, I'll wash my face." ”

After a group fight in Beijing during the Spring Festival last year, Li Kaiyuan forced Shen Chong to exercise for at least an hour a day, supervised by her at home and by his secretary outside, so no matter where he was on a business trip, someone would urge him to go for a morning run every morning - Shen Chong was too busy to exercise in the morning, and he was a lazy and sick guy, unwilling to move without supervision.

Before entering the bathroom, Shen Chong casually turned on the TV in the suite with the remote control, and the moment the screen lit up, a piece of news reached his ears.

"At around 10:49 p.m. last night, at the door of the Duckett Building in Manhattan, New York, John Lennon was shot five times in a row by a fan, two of them in the back, two in the shoulder, and one in the air......"

I'll go!

What should have happened or did it happen......

Shen Chong's heart was filled with a sense of regret and helplessness, this is the second heavyweight cultural superstar to fall after Zhao Dan, and the death of these two, he has no choice, Zhao Dan is because of cancer, which cannot be saved by manpower, and Lennon was shot, which cannot be stopped by outsiders......

John Lennon and Yoko Ono also live in Manhattan, as a time-traveling party who likes vassal elegance, Shen Chong has made a special trip to visit, but in his previous life, he paid much more attention to movies than music, and he didn't know much about the knowledge and gossip of the Western music circle, only knew that Lennon was shot and killed, but he didn't know when it happened, and he didn't know who the murderer was, so he couldn't prevent the tragedy from happening - Lennon is an international superstar who has attracted worldwide attention, as a stranger, Shen Chong can't keep him in a safe house for a long time, It is impossible to send someone to protect him 24 hours a day, except to advise him to pay more attention to safety, there is really no other way to think of it.

"Vivien must be sad right now, Lennon is her favorite singer."

Shen Chong nodded silently, his two secretaries are distinct, Qiu Siyu comes from the bottom of the society, grew up in Hong Kong, and has no sense of European and American pop culture, while Gu Liwei comes from a middle-class family, has studied abroad since childhood, loves European and American pop culture, especially the Beatles, when I heard that Shen Chong was going to visit Lennon, he specially flew from Hong Kong to New York to be a small follower, and after getting Lennon's signed group photo, he was excited like a seven or eight-year-old child, and the usual rational and intellectual image is like two people.

"Mr. Shen, it was said on TV that this person was a fan of Lennon, why did he do this?"

"Who knows, maybe it's a psychopath." Shen Chong sighed, looking at the video of Lennon playing with the song of "Letitbe" on the TV, several celebrities who had died before he crossed flashed in his mind, and couldn't help but say to himself: "In the future, we must be more proactive and take precautions." ”

"What?"

"Nothing." Shen Chong waved his hand, went to the bathroom to calm down with the help of washing, and when he came out again, he saw Qiu Siyu standing in front of the telephone talking to people, listening to the tone of comfort, so he asked softly, "Is it Vivian?" ”

Qiu Siyu shook her head, put down the microphone after a few polite words, and reported: "It was Hughes Company who called, and they said that the engineers in the laboratory are all fans of the Beatles, and they are not in the mood to work today, and they want us to change the date of the visit to tomorrow." ”

"Okay, you go talk to Professor Wang."

Before 2000, 40 percent of the world's artificial satellites were manufactured by this company, and Shen Chong came to Houston to inspect communication satellites.

On October 4, 1957, after the Soviet Union launched the first artificial earth satellite, countries around the world have developed a variety of satellites for different purposes, in December 1958, NASA launched the "Skoll" broadcast test satellite, becoming the world's first communication satellite, but can only transmit tape recordings, in November 1962, the United States Radio Corporation launched the "Relay No. 1" low-orbit communication satellite, the first time to achieve trans-Pacific television transmission between the United States and Japan, But this kind of low-orbit satellite will rotate around the earth at a speed of several hours, when it goes around the other side of the earth, the signal will be interrupted, so it is not suitable for television, in July 1963, NASA launched the "Xinkang 2" high-orbit communication satellite, this kind of satellite over the equator around the earth at the same speed as the earth's autobiographical circle, so it is called a geosynchronous satellite, with this satellite, stable long-distance communication is possible, the 1964 Tokyo Olympics is used for global broadcasting.

In August 1964, 11 countries formed a temporary organization of commercial satellites, and in 1973 it was reorganized into the International Satellite Communications Organization, marking the beginning of the maturity of communication satellite technology, and also marking the possibility of transmitting television signals with satellites, the Intelsat series of satellites launched by the International Satellite Communications Organization has the function of relaying TV signals, but it is very weak, and the most advanced Intelsat V satellite in the early 80s can only relay 2 color TV channels. It is completely incomparable with the hundreds of channels in later generations.

Satellite TV covers a large area, the transmission distance is long, not affected by the terrain environment, three synchronous satellites can cover the whole world, and do not need relay station forwarding, high signal quality, small distortion, strong anti-interference ability, can be described as a very ideal TV transmission tool, but until 1984, there is no TV company in the world to tinker with satellite TV, the reason is nothing more than the following three concerns:

One is that the cost is too high, the satellite belongs to the high-tech of the high-tech, and the cost is extremely expensive, and the rocket that launched it is also high-tech and expensive.

One is that the risk is too great, the satellite is running in space, it cannot be repaired, and once it fails, it will be lost.

One is that the income is too low, the satellite can only forward two channels, the audience may not be willing to buy receivers for such a small number of channels, it is very troublesome to promote, if the number of users can not go up, losses are inevitable, after all, the life of the satellite is very short, and it will be scrapped after staying in the sky for more than ten years.

But for the big tyrant Shen Chong, the above three concerns are not a matter at all, because money is not money at all, influence is what he needs, the signal of a synchronous satellite can cover the whole of China, and the mainland absolutely does not allow private TV stations, but the mainland may allow the signal of foreign private TV stations to be transmitted in China, you must know that the executive order prohibiting domestic people from buying satellite TV receivers in the previous life only appeared in 1993, and it was because of a certain loser messing around......

All in all,If it is operated properly,Satellite is the only magic weapon for Jiayi TV to enter the mainland,We must take precautions and lay out in advance......

After Shen Chong finished his workout at the gym attached to the hotel, he went back to the house to take a shower, changed his clothes and was just about to go out for breakfast, when four old men in tunics broke in—they were aerospace experts sent from the mainland to the United States for exchange and study.

"Hey, Xiao Shen, I heard that a singer died in the United States, and everyone in Hughes Company stopped working, what the hell is going on?"

After decades of hard work in China, there is no soil for the survival of pop culture, and these people are all fifty or sixty years old, and they are engaged in science and engineering, it is normal to not understand, Shen Chong took a lot of time to introduce Lennon's status and influence in European and American pop culture, and seeing that they still couldn't understand it, he used an inappropriate analogy to forcibly explain: "After Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu spontaneously commemorated him, and Lennon is like Qu Yuan of Westerners, so Americans have no intention of going to work today." ”

"I see, I thought he was just an ordinary singer."

"Fortunately, Xiao Shen is here, otherwise Lao Wang will make an international joke again, he has been shouting just now that the Americans deliberately made excuses to prevent us from visiting in order to block technology, and said that he would go to protest."

Shen Chong smiled and said nothing.

In the past two years, he has spent money in the mainland, tossed around, and made a lot of friends, using all kinds of information provided by these friends, combined with the memories of his past life in his mind, he can make a lot of seemingly crazy but reasonable plans.

For example, satellite TV, inspired by the information provided by ****** Wu Ziming, the Wu family is very influential in the aerospace system, he told Shen Chong, aerospace science and technology is very money-burning, the country has no money to burn now, but this thing is related to national defense, and it can't help but burn money, so the mainland set up a Great Wall company in October, specializing in space technology services and other aerospace products of foreign economic and foreign trade business, to support scientific research with business - aerospace science and technology is one of the few high value-added products in China. The profit from launching a rocket is probably more than exporting tens of millions of pairs of socks.

In the mid-80s, when U.S. Secretary of Defense Weinberg visited China, the Great Wall Company was sick and went to the hospital, so he simply opened the Xichang Satellite Launch Center to him and asked people to help advertise and promote in the United States, which shows the embarrassment of the form at that time.

If a contract for the launch of a satellite can be delivered in the early 80s, when it is most difficult, then it should not be a problem to put a little strings attached to the contract......