"In those years, we did lose too much talent."

Chen Weidong had a wry smile on his face, unable to justify this matter at all.

Employ people facing forward, not people facing backwards.

If it weren't for the fact that a large number of our talents went overseas, which led to technological faults in many industries, it would not have been so difficult to catch up in the following decades.

"Mr. Ma, have you ever considered returning to China and continuing to contribute to the country, now that the country has opened up and adopted a market-oriented economy, it is completely different." Li Yun's throat slid a few times, and finally mustered up the courage to take a step forward and asked.

"Hehe, I'm used to being here...."

Ma Jiancheng shook his head slightly, and his expression seemed to be smiling, which made Li Yun not know how to continue his words at all.

"Mr. Ma, can you show us around your office? We wanted to learn more about Silicon Valley. Chen Weidong saw that he didn't want to talk about this, so he could only change the topic.

"Absolutely." Ma Jiancheng nodded and led them into the distance.

Through a short exchange, he has already seen that Chen Weidong and the others are most likely not ordinary people, and they can't find any nameplates on the clothes they are wearing, and they are very decent, most likely hand-made, and they are worth a lot of money.

Including the three people who followed them alike, that calm and fierce temperament made him feel faintly familiar.

About a dozen years ago, when he was working in a research unit in China, he once met a high-level leader, followed by two similar bodyguards.

Well, a lot of things, it goes without saying.

Chen Weidong didn't know that their identities had been guessed by the other party, and he looked at the environment along the way with interest.

According to Ma Jiancheng's introduction, the area they saw in front of them was home to more than 300 small companies.

Moreover, many companies are semi-open, so as to facilitate investors to visit, acquaintances visit each other, and it is also very common for acquaintances to visit each other to discuss some technical issues.

Although it is full of start-ups, most of them do not live longer than five years on average.

However, as long as a company can be based in Silicon Valley for a long time, no matter how small, it must have something to offer.

They all have their own way of survival.

Maybe it's relying on the licensing fee of a certain patented technology, or maybe it's owning a mature commercial product.

Here, you will most often hear about a small company that is sought after by venture capital for developing a new technology or new product.

Then, through a series of capital operations, it was successfully listed on the NASDAQ and became a hot darling in the financial market.

And the company's founder, shareholder, has also become a wealthy man.

After walking for a while, turn around a corner.

They finally arrived at Ma Jiancheng's residence and office space.

A detached chalet.

Excluding the garage next to it, it looks like it has an area of only 100 square meters from the outside.

The exterior walls of the house are painted with white paint, probably some years ago, and they have begun to turn slightly yellow, and with the gray pointed roof, it is a very common architectural style in the United States.

"Why are there so many wooden houses in California, will the quality be very poor...."Chen Jie looked around and found that almost all of them were this kind of houses, and couldn't help but mutter.

Compared with the reinforced concrete buildings that can be seen everywhere in New York, this California is too shabby, and it feels inferior to the red brick houses in China.

Chen Weidong almost laughed, and before he could explain to him, Ma Jiancheng said: "Ahem, actually, in many parts of North America, there are large fast-growing poplar forests, which provide people with sufficient timber. ”

"Since the beginning of the last century, the United States has built a complete industrial chain from logging to housing construction."

"A lot of the technical issues have matured, which makes it much cheaper to build a house in the United States, and even people who are not wealthy can own a nice cottage."

"Wouldn't there be serious safety and quality problems when building a house out of wood?" Chen Jie immediately thought of the key point.

When he was in Xiangjiang, he used to engage in real estate, and knew that even if it was a commercial house built of reinforced concrete, although according to the design standards, it could theoretically be used for 50-80 years.

However, in reality, the situation of cutting corners in commercial housing is serious.

Many houses will be dilapidated in less than 50 years.

In order to save costs, most houses are less than 30 years old, and they will start to breed various problems, such as aging pipes, aging wiring, wall alkali and so on.

Only self-built houses are willing to spend real materials, and the service life will be longer.

Especially in some high-rise residential buildings, you can clearly feel that the quality of the house has declined dramatically after only living in it for more than ten years.

How long can you live in a wooden house like the United States?

This can't be maintained and renovated at two ends in three days?

"There are indeed some problems, but they are not as serious as you think, and it can be said that they are unfounded."

"Let's not care about the American house, but look at so many buildings in our Forbidden City, all of them are wooden, and they have been preserved to this day."

"In fact, many of the wood-framed villas in the United States are very well preserved."

"There are still a lot of second-hand houses in California in the 20s of the last century, all of which are wooden structures, and now they are good, and the people of the United States are not stupid, if the house is easy to break, no one wants to buy it, and those poor people have long been sleeping on the streets because of real estate problems." Ma Jiancheng smiled and patiently explained to Chen Jie.

"But now that we're in the 21st century, why do builders in the United States still use wood as a building material, not reinforced concrete?"

Chen Jie still didn't give up, and threw out another question.

"The reason for this is more complicated."

"I just said the problem of cost, the construction of wood itself is lower than that of reinforced concrete, and there is an advantage that the construction of wood houses is simple, the time is fast, and the technology is mature."

"You may not know that labor costs in the United States are very expensive, and the wages of workers on construction sites are not of the same order of magnitude as those of Chinese migrant workers, and American workers strike to defend their rights whenever they are unhappy, which is completely difficult to manage."

"If there's one or two blacks among them, then a lot of things aren't about employment rights, and if you're not careful, the racist hat will be buttoned up and the builders won't be able to eat and walk around, so, you know?"

Ma Jiancheng said as he took Chen Weidong and them into the villa, where the living room is very small, and it can even be said that there is no living room.

There was only a large coffee-colored old-fashioned sofa and a small glass coffee table.

The rest of the space has been converted into workbenches and shelves, stacked with countless electronic components and memory modules, most of which are covered in dust.

The whole living room is similar to a small warehouse.

However, to Chen Weidong's surprise, in a small room on the right, there was a small computer produced by IBM!

Several of these interfaces are connected to five personal computers with different numbers.

On the expansion shelf on the wall, the yellow signal light flashes at a high frequency, indicating that a data stream is passing through, and it should be carrying out a certain project computing activity.

Ma Jiancheng was busy for a while, and made a cup of hot coffee for all six of them, and then said a little embarrassedly: "Let me make you laugh, I usually work here, and I have a friend who teaches at Stanford University, and occasionally comes over, the two big men are not so particular, so they are a little messy...."

Chen Weidong and the others nodded again and again, expressing understanding.

Men are like this, they don't care about these little things when they're busy, and only when they can't stand it anymore will they take the time to clean it up.

Only some women, who have lost a few hairs on the floor and left a footprint, have to babble for a long time.

This is also an important reason why many scientific research workers have never married in their lives.

It's really troublesome.