Chapter Eighty-Eight: Apple Computer
With the economic development of the Principality of Nord, the Principality of Nord is one of the few countries in Europe that does not lack jobs, not only is there no shortage but salaries are still at the mid-range level of Europe at this time.
It was already June, halfway through 1982, and during that half-year period, Joseph had rarely been involved in state affairs, and unless something important had to be decided by him, the cabinet was in charge of everything.
The Nord Royal House of Commons, the Cabinet Government, and the Nord Royal House of Lords, who represent the Nord citizens, the Nord administrators, and Joseph himself, although they are not really a separation of powers, but they are also mutually contained.
In half a year, there are more than 20,000 NORD citizens, most of whom are government officials, shop owners, and important managers of private and state-owned enterprises. It's not that the Nord Principality discriminates against its citizens, if you have the ability, even if you are not a citizen of the Nord Principality, these private and state-owned enterprises will still hire, but ......
As mentioned earlier, Nord is a meritocracy country, with more than 30 percent of its 20,000 citizens graduating from college, and the rest are all high school and university crash course graduates.
The Minister of the Interior of Nord has left Nord for Italy, this time with a large number of commercial teams, the purpose of which is naturally the Bugatti Veyron company, but there are other premeditated plans, but whether it can be completed depends on chance and luck.
Due to the overall situation in Europe, the Falklands War ended on June 15, the Argentine garrison in the Malvinas Islands surrendered to the British, and the truly decisive meeting of the European Union began to be planned in Paris.
It had been a busy month for the Principality of Nord to rush to Paris when it got the news, at least for the Prime Minister of the Nord Cabinet, James Arms.
At the beginning of July, James arrived in Paris with the presidents and heads of state of Western Europe, and the decisive meeting of the European Union officially began.
The training ground of the Nord Palace
"It's been a while since you practiced the basic exercises, and you've been pretty proficient in the routines, but this is just the beginning, and you may not be able to use these things in the future, but I still hope you can stick to it."
This is the conclusion of the basic class of the grandmaster of the natural gate, Joseph naturally will not say anything, he has known the hardships of the national art from the beginning, but since he decided to study at the beginning, he must have been prepared.
"Now I'm going to teach you the first routine, the natural door is a variety of beasts to prey, prey movements, including fierce tigers, lions, bears, eagles, but there are also relatively weak rabbits, monkeys, chickens, but thousands of moves don't think that monkey boxing and the like are not as good as tiger boxing."
In fact, there is no need for the teacher to say that Joseph also understands this truth, after all, some martial arts movies in the previous life were not watched in vain, and since the tiger and crane twin forms can be compared, then it is natural to say that their power is not far apart.
Needless to say, the specific content of the professor is the pain Joseph knows that in fact, the basic exercise is the most bitter in comparison, boring, boring, tired, and these negative states together are also the reason why there are fewer and fewer masters of Chinese national arts.
In the new century, people began to enjoy life, and there are still very few people who are willing to put their energy into such tiring things after all, at least in the eyes of Abner's people, Joseph has guards and a good life, why should he learn these tiring and hard things? For example, isn't it good to study literature and music?
Time passed slowly, James had not yet returned from France, and Smith's commercial team was still negotiating, and August was quietly approaching.
Compared with July and August, the EU has reached the last moment of its formation, and now the negotiations are all about some detailed matters, which must not be sloppy, and it is difficult for the heads of state to sign directly if they cannot be sorted out.
In August, the world media reported again about the Nord principality and Audi, and the Bugatti Veyron officially became the first high-end sports car brand under Audi.
Bugatti Veyron went bankrupt, but there is still no problem with their technology, and if the new models and some new concepts of the Nord Principality are adopted, it is believed that there is no problem in occupying 70% of the market in the field of supercars.
Compared with the arrival of the Nord Principality a few years ago, the Nord Principality at this time is completely different, the new city has been built, and the new city covers an area of 26 square kilometers, which is the area of the entire Nord Principality three years ago.
In the center of the city is the Nord Royal Square, with the Royal Square as the center, the whole Nord has a total of three streets and four avenues, a habitable population of 150,000, hospitals, schools, and shops with complete supporting facilities.
The most attractive thing is that the whole Nord Principality seems to be a green country, this is completely a garden-like city, the streets are scattered with cherry blossoms, fruit trees are lined with both sides of the road, and some trees that live in hot and temperate zones are also left in the Nord Principality with special technology.
Large LANs have already begun to be built, and in a few years there will be free Wi-Fi on benches on both sides of the street, which of course requires the mobile phones of the time to have this function.
At this time, the Apple Group did not have a mobile phone business, and their full name was Apple Computer Company, but their rival company was very powerful, it was the computer giant IBM, so their development space was not very strong at this time. Especially after the cooperation between the large NORD LAN R&D center and IBM, Apple's current situation is almost difficult.
When Apple went public in December 1980, Joseph didn't have time to buy stocks because he had just adapted to the world, but when James visited the United States for the second time in 1981, he asked James to help him buy $300,000 in stocks, which had grown to more than $400,000 last year......
After IBM cooperated with Nord's large-scale LAN and personal computer R&D centers, the stock of more than $400,000 has fallen back to $300,000, and even now it continues to fall.
No one wants to lose money, but if there is a great opportunity behind this loss, then I believe that who will want to jump as happy as Joseph is now.
"I'm buying Apple Computer!"
If someone said this in a previous life, then they would definitely be regarded as crazy. Of course, although people will not be regarded as crazy now, they will be regarded as fools, especially since this sentence was said by the Grand Duke of the Duchy of Nord.
"It's just a small company, Your Highness!"
"I love the name, Apple!"
"But Your Highness, you don't like apples very much!"
Joseph didn't expect that when talking to Abner, Joanna would actually tear down her own stage and glare at him fiercely, and then Joseph looked at Abner with a determined face.