The next morning, I woke up at 7 o'clock.

After washing, I made a cup of coffee and watched the TV news in my room.

After a while, Ligang also came over and waited for Alexander with me.

I waited until 9 o'clock, but there was still no news.

Ligang couldn't sit still a little and asked me if I wanted to call to urge me?

I said no, people who are engaged in technology may like to stay up late, and it is normal to get up late.

Take things as they come.

When it was almost 10 o'clock, Ligang's mobile phone finally rang, it was Alexander.

“Hello！”

Li Gang immediately connected the phone.

"LG, I'm in the lobby, where are you?" Alexander asked on the phone.

"Alexander, wait a minute, I'll come down and pick you up."

Li Gang said and hurriedly got up and prepared to go downstairs.

"Let's meet at the executive floor restaurant."

I said to him, and Ligang nodded and went out the door.

I cleaned up and headed to the restaurant on the top floor of the hotel.

About ten minutes later, Ligang appeared at the door of the restaurant with a tall, tall white man, and I stood up and waved to them.

Ligang led Alexander to the table where I was sitting.

I reached out and said in English, "Good morning, Alexander!"

Li Gang also introduced at this time:

"Alexander, this is Xiyuan Zeng, founder and chairman of Kuang-Chi Technology."

“ Good Morning，Mr. Zeng，nice to meet you !”

Alexander shook my hand hard.

I invited the two of them to take a seat, and the waiter came up and asked if we wanted coffee or tea, and we both asked for coffee.

Alexander looked like he was in his forties, with black hair and brown eyes looking at me alarmingly, with a beard, a brown leather jacket, and blue jeans.

When we first met, he was observing me.

I smiled and said, "Alexander, I'm glad to finally meet you!" ”

Ligang tacitly made my translation.

"I'm very happy too, Mr. Zeng. I'm sorry I can't go to California, but I've been doing a lot of things lately. ”

Alexander replied politely.

"It's okay, you can't come to California, so we're in Boston. We have a story of "three visits to thatched houses" in China, and this is the first time we have come. ”

I said with a smile.

Ligang explained to Alexander the allusion of "three visits to the thatched house".

Alexander was happy when he heard this, and laughed: "I'm not as powerful as your Zhuge Liang. ”

"Alexander, you know that our company has just started, and there is not yet a professional rocket design talent. You are now more important to us than Zhuge Liang. ”

I said sincerely.

"But...... Mr. Zeng, building rockets is not so simple, not only to have talents, but also to have technology and capital, rockets to build but also to have markets and customers, what conditions are you ready now? ”

"We have a few people now, and we have some money ready. But we have more dreams and determination. ”

I looked at Alexander with firm eyes and said, "Alexander, I know it's not easy to build rockets. I don't know about technology, but I've built mobile phones, TVs, and electric cars in China. My company is now worth over $30 billion. ”

Alexander's eyes showed some interest.

I went on to say, "Even though I've been successful and making a lot of money so far, I still feel empty! Especially as I get older, the more I feel the preciousness of life, and I want to do something more meaningful and greater. That's what I did with the Guangqi Project: to make a little effort for the future of humanity, whether it succeeds or fails, I think it is meaningful. ”

Alexander stared at me and listened to me, silent for a moment.

Then he asked, "What do you want me to do?" ”

"There's a play!"

I was overjoyed.

"I would like to invite you to be the chief designer of the rocket project of Guangqi Company." I put it bluntly: "We've looked at your background in detail and feel that your background and experience are perfectly suited for the role." ”

"Then you should know that I was just investigated by the NSA."

Alexander raised his eyebrows and asked me in a tentative and provocative tone:

"You're not afraid I'll cause trouble for your project?"

"Of course we know, as far as we know, the investigation into you is over, and it's all the Wolf clause." I said, "We don't think that's a problem. What we want to do is good for all mankind, and we want to communicate and cooperate with our counterparts in the United States, Russia, Europe, and other countries, and to hell with narrow political conspiracy theories. ”

"Hahaha!" Alexander laughed happily when he heard this: "Mr. Zeng, I like your ideas and attitude!" I think I'm getting a little interested in your project! ”

"That's great!" I happily said, "Let's have a bite to eat first, let's talk while eating, if you have any other questions and requests, just ask me!" ”

A month later, Alexander flew to San Francisco, and I asked Ligang to go to the airport and take him to the town of Attu.

Alexander is a bachelor, and I arranged for Alexander to live in Villa 17 for the time being, with Ligang.

That evening, Ligang, Ligang, and Li Hua were at a Chinese restaurant in town called "PekingDuck" to pick up Alexander.

Alexander was in a good mood when he saw that there was such a beautiful woman as Li Hua in our team, and he drank a lot of beers.

The roast duck made by this BJ roast duck restaurant without Quanjude's authorization tastes good, and Alexander eats it with relish and praises the delicious Chinese food.

The four of us drank a case of Tsingtao beer, and we were all a little drunk, and the atmosphere of the team came out.

Finally, let's raise a glass together to announce that the founding team of Guangqi Company has assembled in place and will officially start construction tomorrow!

Respect and development space is the most attractive, especially for people with experience and ideas like Alexander.

In fact, salary and stock options are often not so critical.

Alexander didn't even make any special demands on me in terms of salary.

After a humiliating investigation at Planet Origins, and having to spend time at home, he also needed a new stage to showcase his abilities and talents.

And we urgently need a qualified technical leader to join the team to officially start the company's product research and development work.

Alexander and we can say that we need each other, and Ligang really found the right person.

At 9 a.m. the next morning, all four of us arrived at the Kuang-Chi office in the Stanford Industrial Park.

With Alexander's joining, our team officially has a CTO and chief designer, and can discuss the design and planning of the company's rocket products.

Kuang-Chi's long-term goal is to build reusable interstellar spacecraft to provide interstellar exploration and travel services for humans on Earth in the future.

We still have a long way to go from the current four people to the ability to design and build recyclable space vehicles.

After discussion, we determined that Kuang-Chi's first R&D project was a light launch vehicle with a carrying capacity of 1-3 tons.

Launch vehicles are the basic means of transportation, the first step to fly out of the earth and into space.

As a start-up company, it is undoubtedly a more prudent and feasible path to accumulate experience, run in the team, and integrate resources from a light launch vehicle with low technical difficulty.

The main component systems of the launch vehicle include the rocket body structure, propulsion system, control system, flight measurement system, safety system and other additional systems.

The specific R&D process needs to go through the overall demonstration of the scheme, the overall design of the rocket and the design of the subsystem, simulation tests and tests, and then it can enter the actual test launch stage.

This requires us to establish a complete design and R&D team.

My goal is to complete the construction of the core R&D team within three months, with Alexander in charge and Ligang assisting.

I asked them to find the leaders of each major technical department first, preferably one by one, and make a backup reserve of key talents.

Li Hua is responsible for recruiting other core personnel in marketing, project management, supply chain management, and administrative and logistics departments.

Ligang and Alexander cooperate very well, relying on MIT's alumni network and Alexander's network resources accumulated in the industry for more than ten years, there is an endless stream of people who come to the company for interviews and inspections.

In order to enhance the company's image, Li Hua hired a blonde beauty Meggie as an administrative assistant and front desk.

Meggie, an Irish native, graduated from university for more than two years and previously worked as an administrative assistant at a law firm in San Francisco.

She is blonde and blue-eyed, cheerful and sunny by nature, and has received rigorous professional introductory training in law firms, and has won their favor with her thoughtful and meticulous reception of those who come to interview.

The attractiveness of Kuang-Chi has increased a lot.

After arranging talent acquisition and team building, I shifted my focus to making money.

In the past year, I have silently sold some shares of Ambition Technology in multiple batches, cashing out billions of yuan.

Through some intermediaries, I have tried various ways to transfer about 100 million US dollars to my multiple offshore accounts in Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands.

But the money came and went quickly, I bought eight villas in Attu Town in the United States and spent 50 or 60 million yuan, and later spent several million yuan on renovating three villas, renting an office, buying a car, and setting up a company in the early stage, and now I still have more than 30 million US dollars, all of which have been transferred to the account of Guangqi Company as investment funds.

With Alexander's official arrival, the recruitment of the team suddenly accelerated, and the number of people in the office gradually increased.

Monthly salary costs, R&D equipment investment, and various office expenses have also risen rapidly.

If the core technology R&D team and auxiliary department personnel are recruited within three months as planned, the company's employees will be estimated to exceed 60 immediately, and the monthly salary will cost more than one million US dollars.

Combined with the operating expenses of various other companies, as well as the fact that more than 10 million yuan will be invested in the purchase of various computers, software, materials, instruments, and equipment necessary for rocket research and development, it is estimated that the money in the account can only last for about half a year.

Of course, I can continue to transfer money from China, Yan Ni and I have more than 100 million yuan in cash deposits in our domestic accounts, and another 800 million yuan in my sister's account.

However, due to exchange controls, it is more troublesome to transfer money from China to the United States.

Moreover, the amount of funds required for the Kuang-Chi project is huge, and it is too risky for me to invest alone.

I would like to use the remaining funds in my country as a reserve and use them again in an emergency.

I now need to make capital layout and financing planning for the Kuang-Chi project in advance, and it is best to find a few strategic investors with resources in the aerospace industry.

Just when I was about to start the external financing of Guangqi Company, there was a problem with the Yewang smart car sector.