My Age of Investment

  Chapter 312 Xanadu 2.0

  Time comes to March.

  Xia Jingxing chatted with Andrew, who had just returned from China, and asked about the due diligence of Frame Media and Tudou.

  Just halfway through the conversation, I heard a knock on the door.

   "Please come in!"

  The little dog opened the door and walked in, happily dancing like a child: "Good news! Good news!"

  Xia Jingxing didn’t know what happened, which made Little Dog happy.

   Andrew didn't even know, and Xia Jingxing looked at each other.

  The little dog gradually recovered his calm, and said with a smile: "Does someone want to invite us to dinner?"

   "We?" Xia Jingxing asked.

   "Yes, you and me, and Christina." The dog replied.

  "Why don't you invite me?" Andrew gagged.

   "I said, invite the three founders of Facebook and YouTube, you have no share!"

  Andrew shrugged, “Oh, that’s terrible. Even today’s dinner hasn’t settled yet.”

  Xia Jingxing was a little impatient and said, "Hurry up and say, who is the inviter?"

   "Bill Gates!"

  The little dog reported the other party's name one by one, and also gave Andrew a smile, winked, and deliberately stared at the other party.

  "Why would he invite you? In what name?"

  Andrew questioned, "Did you ask you to pay? Did you meet a liar?"

  The little dog shook his head, “It’s definitely not a liar, the real Bill, his assistant called and asked if we have time, saying that Mr. Gates is also a user of oil pipe, and he likes this website very much and wants to talk to us...”

  "Bill Gates also plays tubing?" Andrew asked suspiciously.

   "It should be!" The little dog is not particularly sure.

   "That's him, it should be correct."

  The two didn't quite understand what Xia Jing acted so swearingly.

  Xia Jingxing remembered that Bill Gates had invited the founder of YouTube to dinner in his previous life, but it seemed that it was 2006, and with them, it was a full year ahead of schedule.

  And Bill Gates is also a real YouTube user and a video blogger with millions of fans.

  It’s just that there are not so many fans yet, and he has not disclosed his account identity on the platform.

   Andrew muttered to the side: "What is he talking to you? Get him some fans? Put his video on top?"

  "Stop guessing, you'll know when you meet."

  Xia Jingxing didn’t know what Bill Gates wanted to talk about with them, so he only talked about the tubing? I'm afraid not necessarily.

  It was useless to think more, so Xia Jingxing asked the little dog to inform the foreign girl, and asked her to quickly clean up and get ready to go home and eat.

  Andrew also wanted to see the famous mansion of Bill Gates, but he was not invited, so he could only watch Xia Jingxing three people get in the car and head straight for the airport.

  Yes, Bill Gates does not live in Silicon Valley, but lives near Seattle, and he has to fly away to get a meal.

  The three people got off the plane at Seattle Airport, got in the car sent by Bill Gates to pick them up, and headed for Medina on the east coast of Lake Washington.

  Bill Gates’ famous mansion "Xanadu 2.0" is located in Medina, the smallest city in the United States, close to the big city of Seattle and Redmond, where Microsoft’s headquarters is located, both 15 minutes’ drive away.

  Xanadu 2.0, the English name Xanadu2.0, also known as Xanadu, Marco Polo called Kublai’s palace in his travel notes is this word, also translated as Yuanshangdu, Xinggong.

  After passing a road lined with native alder, maple and Douglas fir, the car stopped steadily.

  The driver got out of the car and pulled the door, and the three of them walked out one by one.

  Although the three people talked about Bill Gates' mansion along the way, and saw it in newspapers and media, it was still a bit shocking to see the real thing in front of you.

  The front of the mansion overlooks the misty Lake Washington, and a hill deep into the east bank of the lake at the back is a “earth-covered building”, like a fortress.

According to the newspaper, this mansion is more than 6000 square meters. The house is made of all-wood structure, all made of 500-year-old Douglas cold mountain wood. It took 300 workers 7 years to dig half a mountain to complete the construction. The total construction cost is as high as US$97 million.

  In addition to being expensive, there are also various high-tech products and smart homes in the mansion.

  Ordinary people who want to visit can participate in the charity auction of the Gates Foundation. Someone once bought a ticket for a visit at a price of 35,000 US dollars.

  The three people looked around like a hillbilly, and Gates’ assistant waited quietly on the side. It was no surprise for a long time.

  It was Xia Jingxing who was the first to recover, and asked the assistant to lead them in.

  At the gate, the security guard stopped three people, entered their fingerprints and other visitor information, and sent them a brooch, which was actually a locator.

  If you break in without this thing, it will immediately trigger the alarm system in the mansion.

   Passing through the door with a weather sensor that can transmit information to the control room to adjust the temperature and ventilation, the three people followed the assistant into a huge living room.

  The living room is like an aquarium. There is a huge shadow in the glass house dozens of meters long and wide, and a few large fish are wandering around the shadow.

  Suddenly, the shadow moved, and everyone saw it clearly. It was a whale shark nearly ten meters long.

   "Oh, buy it!"

  The foreign girl covered her mouth. Poverty really limited her imagination.

  The little dog was so scared that he flashed back and almost fell and squatted.

  Xia Jingxing was also a little shocked, he was inhumane!

  Following the assistant, the three of them looked like Grandma Liu in the Grand View Garden, seeing everything fresh.

  Especially the assistant leading the way. Every time he walked to a glass door, the door opened automatically without seeing him move.

  In addition to the door, the lights and sound will also be turned on automatically when people approach.

  After the person leaves, the door, lights, and sound will all be closed automatically, as if they have wisdom.

  Little dogs and foreign girls are completely eye-opening, and they mutter in a low voice.

   "This is too smart, right?"

   "At least ten years ahead of the outside world."

  ……

  Xia Jingxing did not participate in the discussion. At present, these technologies in the Gates mansion are still new things, black technologies.

  But in another ten years, the concept of smart home will be completely popular.

  But Gates did enjoy a blessing. He moved into this mansion in 1997 and enjoyed a life that 99.99% of the people in the world have not enjoyed.

  It is understood that 80 kilometers of cables are laid in the entire mansion, which connects various sensors, receivers, and central computers in series to make the bathroom, air-conditioning, audio and lighting become particularly obedient.

  Even the fourth generation was invited to visit the mansion, and couldn’t help asking: “You don’t need a housekeeper, right?”

  The assistant led the three people through rooms and buildings to a dome-like library.

  A tall bookcase wall is full of books. It looks like a library, but it's just Gates' study room.

  A little gray-haired old man in his fifties, wearing a gray sweater and a pair of black-framed glasses, is sitting on the sofa and reading quietly.

  Noting that someone is coming, he looked up and found that it was an assistant and three young people.

  Bill Gates closed the book, put it on the coffee table, and walked over with a smile.

   "Hello, welcome to my house as a guest!"

  Bill Gates did not have any pretensions, smiled and greeted the three of them, and shook hands respectively.

  While shaking hands, Xia Jingxing and the three also introduced themselves.

  The little dog who shook hands at the end was like meeting an idol, holding Gates' hand tightly, and introducing himself a bit incoherently.

  Xia Jingxing also understands that, after all, this little old man has been the world's richest man for ten years from 1995 to the present, and it is normal to be blown up as a god-like figure.

  When he was studying in China, his partners and classmates often mentioned: Which do you think you are? Bill Gates?

   has become a mantra and adjective!

  The fame of the old man in the world, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is more famous than some of the leaders in the United States.

   Gates walked out of the study, accompanied by his assistant, and brought three people to the living room.

  The living room is half hidden underground. It is very spacious and can accommodate two hundred people for dining and parties.

  The front door is built with a large limestone fireplace, and 24 40-inch TV screens are lined up on the other wall.

  Gates did not choose to host three people here, but took them to the third floor of this building, which has a banquet hall that can accommodate 24 people.

  Through the glass wall of the banquet hall, you can overlook the beautiful lake and mountains.

  Although the area here is smaller, Xia Jingxing knows that this is the reception standard for senior guests.

  The old man is so courteous, I'm afraid it has something to do, right? He thought to himself.

  (End of this chapter)