When it comes to the scientific and technological innovation regions of the United States, the most famous is naturally Silicon Valley. Back then, Steve Jobs founded Apple here, and Bill Gates founded Microsoft here. As a result, Silicon Valley has also become a "holy place" in the hearts of many entrepreneurs.

In fact, Silicon Valley is just one of the representatives of America's innovation highlands.

After the success of Silicon Valley, there are many other places in the United States that are trying to replicate the success of Silicon Valley.

After all, a small area gathers almost 1/3 or even 1/2 of the GDP of the entire California, provides a large number of high-paying jobs, and raises the living standards of the entire region by several levels.

This kind of good thing, of course, people in power in any region want to have.

On the Texas side, George Kozmeski, dean of the University of Texas Business School and one of the founders of the "Taylor Deen Telegraph" a few years ago, proposed to create a Silicon Valley in Texas that belongs to Texans.

The professor chose Austin, the capital of Texas.

In fact, judging from the overall situation of Texas, Austin is indeed the most suitable to serve as the "Silicon Valley" of Texas.

Because almost all of Texas' colleges and universities are around Austin. As we all know, Silicon Valley has been able to succeed, and a series of San Francisco-area universities, led by Stanford University, have provided tremendous help.

The first batch of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley were almost all elites from Stanford University and other schools.

And before that, Austin had also successfully cultivated a high-tech company.

Dell, Dell computers were born in Austin.

So if you look at it from that perspective, Austin is definitely the best place in Texas to play the role of "Silicon Valley".

And now, as the prince of Texas as a local prince.

Abel stepped forward, before Austin had yet to assume the responsibility of "Silicon Valley".

He persuaded others within the Texas consortium -

In fact, it is not convincing, because other arms chiefs have little interest in this aspect.

They thought that Abel wanted to toss, as long as Abel could bring them to make money, then it would be good to toss with Abel.

Whether it's Austin or Fort Worth, Tarrant County, which Abel picks, they don't care.

So under the leadership of Abel, George Kozmeski's choice of Austin has become a thing of the past.

Now, it doesn't matter if it's the state capital of Texas or the local capital of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. Under the influence of Abel, it was determined that Fort Worth was the mainstay, and a series of regulations and tax reduction policies were formulated to assist and support the local development of high-tech innovative enterprises.

Companies in Texas do not need to pay personal or corporate income tax in the first place, and there are no state taxes, only federal taxes and sales taxes. Even in Texas, businesses are tax-free if they don't make more than $1.1m in sales.

Only sales of more than $1.1 million are subject to franchise tax.

In the beginning, this policy was actually intended for small and medium-sized local farmers.

Nowadays, these policies can be said to be naturally in line with the entrepreneurship of high-tech innovative enterprises.

It can be said that if those companies in Silicon Valley are open here. Until a company is profitable, there is little need to think about taxation......

These regulations are inherently suitable for the entrepreneurship of high-tech enterprises.

Now Fort Worth and Tarrant County have introduced better laws and conditions under Abel's influence.

A special fund has also been set up to support start-ups that have been established locally.

From the perspective of policy and support alone, as a high-tech start-up, Fort Worth has now surpassed any city in the United States.

However, there are policies, but they may not be able to attract enterprises and talents.

After all, Silicon Valley has been famous for a long time, and it also has an accumulation of almost 100 years - before it became the famous Silicon Valley, it was actually the most developed place in the United States electronics industry.

Fort Worth is inferior to Austin in this regard.

Policies and rules alone cannot really attract enterprises and talents to start businesses.

In this regard, when Alexander was still the magistrate of Tarrant, Abel had already begun to prepare.

At his request, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Cisco and other high-tech companies have successively set up branches here in the past two years.

This is not difficult to do, because Abel controls a large number of shares in these companies, and there are indeed a lot of preferential policies and support in the local area.

The establishment of a research branch or other branch here is also beneficial to the high-tech companies themselves.

It can save taxes while avoiding corporate expenses and reducing corporate expenses.

The two sides hit it off, and Jobs on Apple's side even directly built the R&D center for mobile phones that had not yet been announced to the public.

And Abel came here today, mainly to inspect Texas Instruments and AMD, which have begun to merge work, and to inspect the semiconductor chip factory under construction in the local area.

Once completed, the facility will be one of the largest semiconductor chip factories in the United States, with the potential to provide approximately 11,000 high-quality local jobs.

"Imagine, 10 years at most. This will become the "Silicon Valley" of Texas. How many people will miss you at that time, because the Silicon Valley of Texas was built under your tenure. ”

Abel pointed to the still busy construction site and painted cakes for Dwayne and Drucker:

"A 2,000-plus-square-foot house on the outskirts of Santa Clara County is selling for more than $1.5 million. What about Fort Worth? As far as I know, the most expensive houses in downtown are rarely more than $500,000. I believe that when Fort Worth's "Silicon Mound" is developed, it will become the second Santa Clara County! ”

Fort Worth is predominantly hilly, similar to Austin. If it can really develop here in the future, it will most likely be called "Silicon Mound".

Believe it or not, Dwayne and Drucker are nodding their heads in praise now that Abel is painting cakes like this, as if the Silicon Hill that belongs to Texas tomorrow has really been established.

This kind of thing is only good for them, and there is no harm in it.

If you succeed in building the Texas Silicon Mound.

That will also be of great help to their future path.

In addition to the semiconductor chip crystal production plant, under Abel's personal will.

Technology companies such as Qualcomm and Tesla have also begun to build factories here.

At the same time, Abel plans to establish a new university in the local area in his private name and in conjunction with several other members of the Texas consortium.

Setting up a university in the U.S. is actually very simple, as long as you have the money. The top universities in the U.S. are almost all private.

Abel's purpose in establishing his own university is very clear, one is to cultivate talents to prepare for the development of Silicon Hill.

Another purpose is also to cultivate talents, but it is to prepare for the Lone Star Empire he envisions.

The location of the school is also temporarily selected in Tarrant County, and the name of the school is tentatively named Smith University, which is still in preparation.

For the basic market of Texas, it can be said that since he took control of the Texas consortium, he has continued to deepen his personal influence, and is ready for development for a long time to come.

This time Abel was in Texas and stayed for a long time.

He didn't leave until the end of January.

In addition to spending time with little Laura and his eldest daughter, he spends his time running around Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth and El Paso.

He's planning these cities.

Houston itself is the space center of the United States, with a well-developed aviation manufacturing and financial industry, and it is also the largest city in Texas and the headquarters of the Texas consortium.

Dallas is the second most developed city, and its economy is based on the oil industry and telecommunications.

Neither of these places has to worry about Abel, the rest of the Texas consortium will take care of them.

Abel focused on his planned high-tech center, Fort Worth, the future medical center of San Antonio, and El Paso, the industrial and manufacturing district.

The latter took on this task because 83 percent of El Paso's residents are Hispanic or Latinos.

Most of the old inks who came over the line chose El Paso as their foothold because of the language.

In other words, there are cheaper workers in Texas, many of whom are first-generation or recent from Mexico.

These people have not yet become real "Americans", and they are relatively hard-working and easy to tame.

With proper guidance, they can be trained to become low-level industrial workers in Texas and provide locally produced industrial goods for Texas.

This is Abel's plan for the "Lone Star Country" he envisions for the time being.

The empire has at least twenty years to rely on.

He wasn't in a hurry to get the Lone Star Nation out right away.

These plans are basically just a framework, a long-term plan to raise his base.

It wasn't until early February that Abel returned to New York.

If Texas is the basic plate he envisions, then New York is the hub where Abel brings out the power of the basic market.

New York, John F. Kennedy International Airport.

When Abel disembarked from the Smith, he was greeted by Kayla Wilson, who had returned from California last month and was almost three months pregnant.

The convoy drove into Manhattan, and tall buildings were everywhere.

These steel jungles, like steep mountain peaks, are full of transparent glass, like crystal palaces. Colorful street lamps flicker, far and near, high and low, appearing and disappearing.

The car is like a dragon in the wind, speeding by, and the taillights on the car are like countless red ribbons constantly extending into the distance.

In the carriage, Abel gently hugged Kayla who was lying in his arms, looking at the night scene outside the car window, Christmas and New Year have passed, and the street has lost the crowded holiday shopping atmosphere of the past.

As the night wore on, even in Manhattan, there were a lot of homeless people pouring out of the streets. They are under bright shop windows, dotted with the bustling night view of Manhattan.

"Honey, what are you thinking?"

Hearing Kayla's question in his arms, Abel stroked her back and squinted slightly out of the car window, "Look at those people." Some of them may have been Wall Street executives, some of them may be famous editors of Media Street, or some other successful person. But when they fail, living on the streets is their only fate. ”

Kayla got up from Abel's arms a little lazily, looked at Abel with some confusion, looked out the car window, and also saw the homeless people that Abel said.

is different from Abel's soul after all, born in China.

The princess of California has about no empathy for the bottom.

"It's all because they're failing, or they're not trying. will be reduced to this. ”

Natural selection, this is originally the national concept that the Ansars believe in, and of course Kayla will not have such feelings as Abel.

Abel smiled and didn't talk much, and his empathy and compassion for these people were almost gone.

Corrupted by wealth and power, he found himself more and more like the Ansar he had imagined.

When I returned to my home on the large flat on the top floor of the Smith Building.

It was already twelve o'clock, and Kayla was a little lazy because of her pregnancy, and she had already begun to yawn.

So Abel didn't bother her, although she couldn't communicate with Kayla normally, but, after all, all roads lead to Rome, and one door is closed, and there are two doors to knock on......

Whoop –

In the bathroom, Abel first got up from the bathtub, watched Kayla's smooth and beautiful skin, and became more and more proud in the water, reached out to pull up the lazy Kayla, helped her dry the water droplets, wrapped it in a bath towel, hugged her sideways in her coquettish laughter, and walked out.

"Isn't it getting heavier?" Kai asked with a smile as he put his arm around Abel's neck.

"How is that possible! It's a bit light, you still have to supplement more nutrients, after all, it's two people who are absorbing nutrients now. ”

Unless she is stupid, Abel will honestly admit that Kayla is blessed, even if he lies to her, he can't make her unhappy.

"Giggles, you're a liar......"

"God testifies, I didn't lie to you, it's really light, but the child's future grain warehouse seems to have grown up a little, tsk, this is my favorite. I hope you don't blame me and my children for grabbing something to eat in the future. ”

"Giggles, nasty...... All right. Don't mess around, then you'll be uncomfortable and I'll be uncomfortable. ”

Seeing that Abel was about to explode, she smiled and said, "The doctor said that I haven't passed the peace period yet, so ...... You've got so many kids, I think you get the idea. ”

"Of course I do." Abel shrugged.

"So......" Kayla smiled again, "I give you special permission to let Lydia and Amanda stay here in the future." I think they'll be happy. Also unbelievable, I didn't expect you to eat Lydia by now! That's a bit out of your style! ”

Abel shrugged again, smiling and not speaking.

For him now, a woman's appearance and appearance are secondary. is beautiful and has a good figure, which can only be said to be the condition and threshold for him to get started.

After passing the two things of appearance and figure.

A woman's "characteristics" or "characteristics" are important factors in his decision whether to buy or even collect.

Lydia is passable in appearance and figure, and her relationship with Amanda's cousin is a trait that attracts him.

And she is pure on the outside and conservative on the inside, but on the inside she is actually a little crazy like Amanda, and there are some stuffy sao, these are her characteristics.

Abel was enjoying her characteristics, and he could even play with tuning, so he didn't rush to eat her. Anyway, it's the contents of the bowl, and you can't run away if you want to.

"Sleep. I'll be with you tonight. Just sleep. ”

After all, she is the "concubine" in her own woman system, and she is still the link between her future and the California consortium.

For Kayla, Abel has a bit of respect and deliberately cultivates feelings.

"Hmmm......"

Kayla enjoyed his warmth, and was obediently carried by him, and slept together on the huge Simmons.

Even if she knew that after tomorrow, this guy would definitely sleep with other women in her arms.